Granny put me to work yesterday, so now I can’t sit and type for long. Therefore (and in honor of the holiday weekend), I’ll just be cutting and pasting today….
Press the Meat:
CBN’s David Brody, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, PBS’s Gwen Ifill, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post and Jon Meacham of Newsweek magazine
Plus, a look back at the life and legacy of former Carter White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, who died Tuesday at the age of 63.
Faze the Nation:
Howard Wolfson, Director of Communications, Clinton Campaign Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R) South Carolina Sen. Dick Durbin, (D) Illinois
Fux News Sunday:
Terry McAuliffe, Clinton campaign chairman
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
• Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee
And the Fuxheads.
This Weak with George Snufalufagus:
David Axelrod, senior advisor to the Obama campaign, Karl Rove, on the “Roundtable,” Vanity Fair’s Dee Dee Myers, The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd, and ABC News’ George :jerk: Will.
CNN Late Emission:
Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, Rep. Jane Harman: (D) California, Rep. David Dreier: (R) California,
Gene Sperling: Clinton Economic Adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin: McCain Economic Adviser, Robert Reich: Obama Supporter, Mary Tillman: Pat Tillman’s mother.
Have a good one.
A cautionary tale for you lonely-heart, online daters.
99-1/2 Repaired link
Country Joe and the Fish do the Vietnam Rag (plus pictures).
Comment by Sue P — May 25, 2008 @ 4:07 am
Good work but today you must be a little drooP
Good morning Vernon. It was nice to wake up in the wee morning hours and find you and Druid. I did finally get back to sleep and slept late enough to avoid being Droopy Soupy. :banana:
Today is a great gift. It is Sunday #1. Sunday #2 comes tomorrow. I’m really ready for summer vacation though I think our wandering ways will be sharply curtailed by the price of gas, this year.
Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign is in a troubled stretch, hindered by resignations of staff members, a lagging effort to build a national campaign organization and questions over whether he has taken full advantage of Democratic turmoil to present a case for his candidacy, Republicans say.
In interviews, some party leaders said they were worried about signs of disorder in his campaign, and if the focus in the last several weeks on the prominent role of lobbyists in Mr. McCain’s inner circle might undercut the heart of his general election message: that he is a reformer taking on special interests in Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/us/politics/25mccain.html?em&ex=1211860800&en=b211689262399c22&ei=5087
McInsane the reformer, will reform us by doing MORE of the same. Surely that wll work.
From Kevin Phillips’ new book, which is reviewed on DKos:
Money is “bad,” in the historical sense, when a leading world economic power passing its zenith—before the United States, think Hapsburg Spain, the maritime Dutch Republic (when New York was New Amsterdam), and imperial Britain just before World War I—lets itself luxuriate in finance at the expense of harvesting, manufacturing, or transporting things. Doing so has marked each nation’s global decline. To institutionalize the dominance of minimally regulated finance at this stage of U.S. history is a bad idea.
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… prior eminence of the United States in petroleum matters has left not only an outdated infrastructure but a spectrum of disabilities, unwarranted smugness, vested interests, and booby traps. These range from currency vulnerabilities and lack of a serious national energy strategy to apparent policy inertia in Washington, where many officeholders seem unable to understand how much has changed for the United States over the last decade.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/25/901/95457/528/522204
Tea Cheers and I need to make more EEK 😮 My Computer said No! for a few days or whatever 🙄 ….. I don’t trust TC (No :no: not Top Cat but The Computer) :billcat: but Buffy :reaper: 8) is on … and she is sad :knit2: but comes back with a vengeance. :rofl2: 8)
… :fist: A!I!V! :fist:
Vernon, thanks for posting the Dick Martin obit last night. Sad news, but not unexpected as he had been having respiratory problems for some time.
Laugh-In was my favorite show as a kid, at least the stuff I understood enough to get. I’m sure some of it went flying merrily over my ten-year-old head at the time. To this day, whenever I watch Boston Legal and Henry Gibson’s judge character is on, I want to hear a poem. 😀
And do I still have the hots for Ruth Buzzi? You bet your sweet bippy. :hubba:
Maybe one good memory I have of 1968 was going to the student union building @ KU and watching “Laugh-In”- (they had a color tv) ….,that is before some cretin burned it down. 😡
morning folks.
got a day off! love it.
Race relations
George Stephanopoulos talked with Karl Rove about his role in the prosecution of Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. Rove repeated the claim that he learned about the prosecution in the newspaper but refused to deny that he had contacted the Justice Department to discuss the prosecution.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Rove_refuses_to_deny_contacting_DOJ_0525.html
vern “I get a kick out of you” :rofl2:
Did rove say he was going to appear before congress?
Rove said Congress had ways to get his testimony (off the record, unsworn, no transcript). He also said he expected the prez to assert executive privilege.
I thought his attorney had said he would appear under testimony. Not that I’m surprised. 🙄
Afternoon all,
I’m off today and tomorrow which means I can get some gardening done and clean the house. Wooppeee! Stopped by hollywood video and picked up a copy of National Treasure 2 and Reptilicus. Does the fun ever stop at my house!?
Since it wasn’t in with the Boobleheads, I’ll mention the premiere of Recount tonight at 9 PM EDT on HBO. They’re rerunning it a gazillion times this week if you have plans tonight.
Having lived through that mess eight years ago, I’m sure I’ll want to throw stuff at my TV several times during the movie. But the thought of Laura Dern as Cruella is too good to pass up.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to Recount, too. I’ll have to go get some medicine so I can sit down and watch it. :40:
Great minds think alike. I was just on the way to pick up some refreshments myself.
:40: :40: :40:
The Libertarian Party Sunday picked former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia as its presidential candidate, a move that could attract some conservatives turned off by the Republican Party.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/38518.html
Christ, this ‘Recount’ is fucking tough to watch. I’m ready to kick my teevee screen in. The only saving grace is Laura Dern.
‘Tis very tough to watch.
Lieberman is the same turncoat he has always been.
The Rethugs (and Lieberman) have always been what they are. It was just so hard to imagine that they are so crass.
Lieberman is such a piece of shit. Reminds me of that Lou Reed song, Dirt:
You’re a pig of a person, if there’s a justice in this world
Hey, how about that
Your lack of conscience and your lack of morality
Well, more and more people know all about it
[…]
We sat around the other night, me and the guys
Trying to find the right word
That would best fit and describe
You people like that
That no principle has touched, no principle’s baptized
How about that
They’d eat shit and say it tasted good
If there was some money in it for them
[…]
You’re just dirt
You’re just dirt, the only word for you is dirt
That’s the only word that –
– hurt, you’re just dirt
That’s all you’re worth – cheap, cheap dirt
You know they call it –
Cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
You’re just – cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
You’re just dirt – nothing but – cheap uptown dirt
That’s all you’re worth – it’s just – cheap, cheap, uptown dirt
That’s all you’re worth now (cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, uptown dirt)
You’re just dirt (cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap uptown dirt)
Hey, I just realized that the guy playing James Baker is the guy who played Ben Franklin in John Adams.
Just finished watching it on tivo. It was a complicated dry subject made into a fairly interesting movie. If the sheeple were just not such simpletons, we’d have taken more of an interest in the details because the 👿 is in the details.