I hope he is exonerated, I've always liked the guy. Besides it just isn't governance if Bill Richardson isn't in on the dealio.
Meanwhile let the record show that Former US Senator Max Cleland is tanned, rested and ready and his post senate experience on the Board of the Import-Export Bank of the United States seems like a good start on the sinecure.
Juuuu-st sayin' thass all.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
Citizen's Energy is losing it's oil subsidy from Venezuela....
and thus will have to cut back it's free heating oil for the poor program 20% this winter.
State GOP spokesman Barney Keller (the son of whiny libertarian Jon Keller) fairly gloats over the prospect of proverty driven hypothermia in Massachusetts with this quote:
"Maybe now, instead of acting as propaganda tool of socialist dictator Hugo Chávez, Joe Kennedy can focus on simply helping those who couldn't afford to question the real cost behind his heating oil,"
As opposed to those oil-rich dictator's the Massachusetts' GOP approves of like the House of Saud and the Emir Kuwait (Do women have the right to ride bicycles yet in Kuwait?)....why couldn't Joe Kennedy got to those nice market oriented despots for charitable donations???
State GOP spokesman Barney Keller (the son of whiny libertarian Jon Keller) fairly gloats over the prospect of proverty driven hypothermia in Massachusetts with this quote:
"Maybe now, instead of acting as propaganda tool of socialist dictator Hugo Chávez, Joe Kennedy can focus on simply helping those who couldn't afford to question the real cost behind his heating oil,"
As opposed to those oil-rich dictator's the Massachusetts' GOP approves of like the House of Saud and the Emir Kuwait (Do women have the right to ride bicycles yet in Kuwait?)....why couldn't Joe Kennedy got to those nice market oriented despots for charitable donations???
Too early for
congrats to Al Franken but the democratic senatorial candidate has taken a giant leap towards assuming office...someday soon.
And if Norm Coleman is at long last out of a job, well it couldn't happen to a nicer guy short of seeing Saxby Chambliss finally getting the political punch in the nose he richly deserves.
Both these jerks are charter members of the infamous GOP class of 2002 a veritable schoolyard bully senatorial caucus devoted to the cause of their patron, President Bush. They said no to very little when at all and we have suffered daily because of it.
Coleman of course, had the "good fortune" to have his then opponent Paul Wellstone die in a plane crash late in the campaign, he managed to beat replacement candidate Fritz Mondale but only after using every Rovean trick in the book up to and including politicizing Wellstone's damn memorial service.
Class all the way.
Lackey's can be grimly amusing to watch in politics (think Scary Kerry Healey and her gubernatorial run in '06) unless they claw their way into any sort of power in which case they become insufferable and haughty. Well, as I always say, win ugly, govern ugly...and now it looks like Coleman is about to lose ugly.
Anyway, good luck to Franken, I hope he can hang tough.
And if Norm Coleman is at long last out of a job, well it couldn't happen to a nicer guy short of seeing Saxby Chambliss finally getting the political punch in the nose he richly deserves.
Both these jerks are charter members of the infamous GOP class of 2002 a veritable schoolyard bully senatorial caucus devoted to the cause of their patron, President Bush. They said no to very little when at all and we have suffered daily because of it.
Coleman of course, had the "good fortune" to have his then opponent Paul Wellstone die in a plane crash late in the campaign, he managed to beat replacement candidate Fritz Mondale but only after using every Rovean trick in the book up to and including politicizing Wellstone's damn memorial service.
Class all the way.
Lackey's can be grimly amusing to watch in politics (think Scary Kerry Healey and her gubernatorial run in '06) unless they claw their way into any sort of power in which case they become insufferable and haughty. Well, as I always say, win ugly, govern ugly...and now it looks like Coleman is about to lose ugly.
Anyway, good luck to Franken, I hope he can hang tough.
Monday, January 05, 2009
Oooh thass gotta hurt...
AFTER you've stolen your way into the White House
AFTER you started a superfluous war to efface your own manhood issues
AFTER you staffed the government with horse-pimps and greedy sky grifters....
AFTER you let New Orleans DROWN
AFTER your corruption and ineptitude touched off a global depression...
Then it just has to hurt GWB in a very tender and bruised spot that his own father still thinks his older brother Jeb would make a fine US President.Why it's enough to make Bush wanna lock himself in the White House situation room with a fifth of Jack Daniels and the nuclear "football".
Lets hope it doesn't come to that eh?
AS for Jeb, don't turn your back on him is all I can say, like all Bush's he has a nasty sense of entitlement when it comes to high office and a stupid malevolent sense of grievance against the whole nation. Moreover let us not forget his miserable and greedy wife or his half hearted attempts to scream up some mob rule when Terry Schiavo lay dying in the hospice...yes Jeb really is that best La Famiglia Arbusto has to offer and that may frenz ought to send chills down yer spine.
AFTER you started a superfluous war to efface your own manhood issues
AFTER you staffed the government with horse-pimps and greedy sky grifters....
AFTER you let New Orleans DROWN
AFTER your corruption and ineptitude touched off a global depression...
Then it just has to hurt GWB in a very tender and bruised spot that his own father still thinks his older brother Jeb would make a fine US President.Why it's enough to make Bush wanna lock himself in the White House situation room with a fifth of Jack Daniels and the nuclear "football".
Lets hope it doesn't come to that eh?
AS for Jeb, don't turn your back on him is all I can say, like all Bush's he has a nasty sense of entitlement when it comes to high office and a stupid malevolent sense of grievance against the whole nation. Moreover let us not forget his miserable and greedy wife or his half hearted attempts to scream up some mob rule when Terry Schiavo lay dying in the hospice...yes Jeb really is that best La Famiglia Arbusto has to offer and that may frenz ought to send chills down yer spine.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Mitchell McConnell recovers his will-to-obstruct
Suddenly he and the rest of the White House lackey's caucus wanna make sure every penny of the pending stimulus bill is carefully vetted and well spent.
these would be the same skinflints who gave George Bush an epic eight year financial bender...one that pushed the country right off the economic cliff.
After November's beat down it seems the bruises have healed and the lumps gone down and soon enough this tattered and discredited remnant will be Claghorning it up for a capital gains tax cut and privatizing the oxygen supply.
Watch for it....no ideas not a one, these guys have served a thoughtless President for so long it has robbed them all of the ability to think creatively.
these would be the same skinflints who gave George Bush an epic eight year financial bender...one that pushed the country right off the economic cliff.
After November's beat down it seems the bruises have healed and the lumps gone down and soon enough this tattered and discredited remnant will be Claghorning it up for a capital gains tax cut and privatizing the oxygen supply.
Watch for it....no ideas not a one, these guys have served a thoughtless President for so long it has robbed them all of the ability to think creatively.
Friday, January 02, 2009
The GOP clears out of DC
just as President Elect Obama arrives for the inaugural.
What better way to duck responsibility for their foreign and domestic catastrophes than to fly off to Las Vegas or Mustique to wallow in whiskey and football?
These dingbats never change do they?
The rest of the country wonders if they'll still have a job in sixth months and the GOP can think of nothing except ordering up another plate of jumbo shrimp.
What better way to duck responsibility for their foreign and domestic catastrophes than to fly off to Las Vegas or Mustique to wallow in whiskey and football?
These dingbats never change do they?
The rest of the country wonders if they'll still have a job in sixth months and the GOP can think of nothing except ordering up another plate of jumbo shrimp.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Blago Slago....
Once he was exposed as putting a vacancy in the US Senate up for auction, the value of the appointment to Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich drropped almost hourly. Faced with a looming impeachment or more likely a resignation, Blagojevich had to make an appointment soonest or else lose all over the intermediate term. Therefore a sort of "bully economics" comes into play, what is the maximum damage he can inflict on his hated rival Barack Obama before vanishing into obscurity?
Short of appointing himself or the remains of Lavrenty Beria to the job, Blagojevich went with Roland Burris Illinois elderly former Attorney General a weathered democrat to whom no scandal yet clings.
The fact that Burris is African American is the icing on the cake for Blagojevich as well as a last futile kick at the national party. The sad part is, Burris might've been a good appointment if an honest democrat was Governor in Illinois, but tainted by Blagojevich's lust of vengeance the man faces long odds as a US Senator.
I strongly suspect the appointment is legal and will withstand any challenges in the Senate and the Courts. no precedent exists for deposing a US Senator on grounds that the whole of the senate finds the governor who appointed him odious.
Well that is where we stand, just goes to show ya how much depends on finding honest people to serve in public life.
Short of appointing himself or the remains of Lavrenty Beria to the job, Blagojevich went with Roland Burris Illinois elderly former Attorney General a weathered democrat to whom no scandal yet clings.
The fact that Burris is African American is the icing on the cake for Blagojevich as well as a last futile kick at the national party. The sad part is, Burris might've been a good appointment if an honest democrat was Governor in Illinois, but tainted by Blagojevich's lust of vengeance the man faces long odds as a US Senator.
I strongly suspect the appointment is legal and will withstand any challenges in the Senate and the Courts. no precedent exists for deposing a US Senator on grounds that the whole of the senate finds the governor who appointed him odious.
Well that is where we stand, just goes to show ya how much depends on finding honest people to serve in public life.
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