I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Delay, delay delay.
And I ain't talkin' Gen. McClellan!
frist?
Fuck Bush with the Pope's head.
Oh my. I'm shocked...SHOCKED.
Also first to fuck bush with the pope's nose!
And unless I'm very much mistaken, this is, like, totally bad 'n stuff.
These people are criminals.
What's the question? And why should there even be one?
This is nothing out of the unusual! Move along, people, nothing to see here...
SO WHAT? CLINTON GOT A BLOWJOB.
He'll get away with it.
These guys always do. Even when caught red-handed.
Americans don't care. What will it take for them to begin to care? This is the question I've asked myself incessantly for the past 4 years.
Whoops! Must be a commie conspeerasee.
Hahahahaha. Shit. Hahhahahah.
Being a corrupt sleazebag is only bad if yo're a Democrat.
Americans don't care. What will it take for them to begin to care?
Media that's not totally in the right wing's pocket would probably help...
Americans don't care. What will it take for them to begin to care? This is the question I've asked myself incessantly for the past 4 years.
A blow job. Also no gasoline for their truck or car. That's about it.
SNL is doing a show called Monkeys Throwing Poop at Celebrities. This would be sooooo much more fun than mere pies.
I mean they found blueprints of the Iraqi fucking oilfields as part of the investigation into Cheney's 2001 energy plan.
Did anyone care?
No. So I just don't see why they'd care here.
There is the Chimp himself on tape admitting that he used marijuana.
Did anyone care? Were there any "I did not inhale" jokes? If so, I didn't hear 'em. I'm just tired of getting my hopes up.
Monkeys Throwing Poop
Bush has his own show now?
all these cummulative leaks mean that BUSH™ is taking down DeLay from the inside.
why?
its not just that he's an embarressement or a liability. there's something more to it.
I bet I know what Al Swearengen would say.
House ethics rules bar lawmakers
Ah, that's it, then. We'd better just change those rules, retroactively...
Bush has his own show now?
The Old Man From Scene 24
Stop insulting the monkeys.
Hi Eli.
Gotta crash, but just wanted to nudge you a bit for old time's sake.
Funny. I would have assumed God Himself would have paid for the junket of His Most Faithful Servant.
Evening, cliquebats!
DeLay is certainly not the first Congressman to gobble up illicit perks and goodies like a starving hog at a trough.
However, I can recall none who have been so careless and arrogant about it. Fits right in with his "l'etat, c'est moi" theory of government. 600 years ago and a continent away, he would have been known as King Thomas the Wicked or some such moniker.
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Righto. I shall consider myself nudged and take appropriate action.
Um, whatever that is.
"When he heard the word 'ethics' he reached for his dictionary, and when he heard the clink of ready cash he reached for the rulebook and threw it away..."
Douglas Adams
I bet I know what Al Swearengen would say.
bootdw
"I like that fucking black Darjeeling?"
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Americans don't care. What will it take for them to begin to care?
Media that's not totally in the right wing's pocket would probably help...
Eli
What will it take? Well, what's happening with the economy might wake Americans up. (shudder) Real income dropped .3% in March and inflation rose .4% for a combined loss of purchasing power of .7% for the month. If this continues for a year, it's an 8.4% drop. If it continues to 2008, Americans will see a 25% drop in purchasing power.
Bushco is not only vile, it's inept and dangerously close to destroying the middle class. The wealthy in this country think they can continue this "blood from a stone" economy to their benefit.....HA. The top of their own wealth will be gone as well.
If their customers are broke, they're not going to make any money. Period.
China and India have taken our cheese. Bushco will care when the Bastille is stormed. They're too arrogant to see it as it happens.
Righto. I shall consider myself nudged and take appropriate action.
Um, whatever that is.
Eli
I think you're supposed to share the blankets.
The longer that Delay hangs on, the more the life will be squeezed out of him.
As much as I despise him and everything that he stands for, his slow, painfull and public demise will be sweet justice.
Go get'em guys. But try not to bring me up in the process. I'll be hiding in Puerto Rico. I got a lobbyist to pay my way.
DeLay, like Wsquito, has accepted Jeebus as his personal savior. That's about it for the people who support him.
There's simply no way to argue with this illogic, and no way that a GOP congress will defy a beloved gerrymenderer with a rep for vengeance.
That's why I disagree with Tena and others about how to get rid of the GOP. Only an economic meltdown will do, and they're well on their way.
I took the cheese, sorry
I think you're supposed to share the blankets.
But... they're *my* blankets!
Hey Ms. Pelosi,
Next time someone pays for a trip, go somewhere nice.
The Moral Majority has no morals. Take Jeebus as your savior and you will be as Teflon.
I'm with the conspiracy theorists, this seems like an inside job...No one is bold enough to stand up to Delay, so they are pulling the rug out from under him with the reciepts thing
The average American's life is getting worse. 1500 Americans are dead storming Iraq looking for fictitous WMDs. The mad bugman illicit behavior of years past is becoming known, but those two paragons of print virture, Howell Raines and Len Downie can't be bothered to interupt the latest Georgetown diner party to report. After all, it doesn't involve a busted land deal in Arkansas or (ghasp!) a blow job featuring consenting adults.
DeLay is a bad case of the clap that just won't go away. Maybe he'll spread to the entire GOP.
RCB -- but people can't see an 8% drop, and as long as they think their taxes are the problem and people talk to them about taxestaxestaxes, they'll continue to support policies that help rich people. They compensate for their decreased purchasing power by buying the cheapest products they can find (WalMart), which further exacerbates the economic problems of their diminshing purchasing power, as far as it relates to offshoring manufacturing jobs and weakening collective bargaining.
I think they're less likely to storm the Bastille than to hate the liberals who are trying to interfere in the nation's race to the bottom economically.
Funny how ever time this comes up, a troll appears to mention Pelosi's trip to PR. I don;t know anything about Pelosi's trip to PR, but I'm betting the facts are nothing like the troll presents them.
And hey, ya know what? "She did it too" didn't work in kindergarden, and it won't help Delay, either. So FOAD.
MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING COCKSUKERS!
That's why I disagree with Tena and others about how to get rid of the GOP. Only an economic meltdown will do, and they're well on their way.
Draco
I agree with this. My problem is, my boat is going to sink, too.
cock-SUCK-ah!
Virginia, you ARE a goddess. The Bastille storming would have to come much later than 2008, heads are way down deep in the sand even now.
Virginia makes sense. It's hard to see how a totally bamboozled people are going to be able to see things clearly, suddenly. They're certainly not going to get any help from the MSM in that endeavor, either.
If liberals did not exist, it would be high time to invent them, I can tell you that. Occupying much the same space as the Jew in '30's Germany, as they do...
Pelosi trip: The truth is out there.
why do so many people keep buying houses they can't afford, charge things they can't pay for, drive too expensive cars that get sh***y gas mileage, and then say the economy is doing well? i don't understand consumer confidence. it is almost like a self fulfilling profecy, if i think the economy is bad it will be. can't tax someone fairly that makes $20 million a year, cause heck i'll be rich some day to.
don't understand consumer confidence. it is almost like a self fulfilling profecy, if i think the economy is bad it will be. can't tax someone fairly that makes $20 million a year, cause heck i'll be rich some day to.
capt sparky
Someone on Morning Sedition mentioned his opinion that being a Rethug is a lifestyle-identification choice. They think Rethugs are for rich people, and being in league with them associates them with status. I would pity these poor fools if they weren't helping to create a fascist state in my freaking country.
"why do so many people keep buying houses they can't afford, charge things they can't pay for, drive too expensive cars that get sh***y gas mileage...:
Have you not heard about the American Dream?
why do so many people keep buying houses they can't afford, charge things they can't pay for, drive too expensive cars that get sh***y gas mileage, and then say the economy is doing well? i don't underst...cause heck i'll be rich some day to.
capt sparky
Because Americans are too stupid to study history, because many Americans are too terrified to develop core beliefs outside of a few self-verifying Bible passages, because our educational system has been scuttled.....
do I have to finish this list (which would take all night) to help you out cap'n?
They think Rethugs are for rich people, and being in league with them associates them with status.
I think thats it. The GOP is the political equivalent of the TV evangelists that promise great wealth.
Oh, and to risk stepping on some toes here, spiritual bankruptcy.
Um....did they make spiritual bankruptcy obsolete, too?
Let's all incorporate ourselves like Dickhead Cheney and make ourselves immune to the new bankruptcy law?
Hey, if I go to an abortion protest and get arrested, I'll be able to declare bankruptcy under the new loophole. Anyone want to join in?
Oooohhhh. The Hearingsd will be as good as the inevitable DeLay/ Abrahoff/Buckham perp walk...
I can't pop enough popcorn. Just thinking about all those Neo-Con Representatives who stood by their man... Not to mention Bill Frist throwing himself on the lee breakers of TheoFascist doom-- less than 12 hours from now... Like so many dandilion fluff's on the wind: Puff, and they were gone.
I think we just might be hearing the Great Pendulum screech to a stop... soon.
One of my old friends, a public school teacher no less, whom I once thought had his head on, is part of the Bush cult. But then, he also believes that car leases are "the way to go" and is a devotee of "prosperity thinking." The last time I talked to him he had used up his lease miles so his SUV was parked in the garage and he was looking at a 2000 penalty when he turns it in next September.
"He has also said he had no way of knowing that any lobbyist might have financially supported the trip, either directly or through reimbursements to the nonprofit organization."
I had no way of knowing the gun I was carrying could kill people. I just thought it was a nose-picking gadget so if you see me stick the barrel of the gun up into your nostrel, don't take it as a sign of hostile intent, just wiggle your nose a bit till it's cleaned out.
But in a more serious note Mr. Delay you could have asked? "Hey?! Who's paying for this jaunt?!" With your power and authority I'm sure enough people would have jumped up to find out for you.
Jeesh!
A member of congress and he can't even ask a simple question!
MYOB'
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The Preston Gates & Ellis lobbying firm that employed Abramoff is the lobbbying branch of a fine old Seattle Law Firm. The Gates of Preston Gates & Ellis is William Gates II, Bill's dad (yes, that Bill Gates). What are responsible people who know better doing getting into bed with slime balls like Abramoff and Delay?
Don’t miss Michelle Malkin’s post on all the Clintons’ bagmen. She does a nice roundup of all the recent developments on the Clinton scandal front. My favorite line is from Daily Pundit on this scandal getting bigtime media attention:
“You kidding me? A scandal that tarnishes Hillary Clinton will receive “intense media attention?” In what universe?”
The only way a Clinton scandal gets bigtime media attention is if someone else (Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, etc.) can be the villain in the story and the Clintons can be the victims.
I would not be surprised to see that pattern repeated here. It is a formula that has worked quite well for both Bill and Hillary – heck, it helped get her a Senate seat. The only exception I can recall is the coverage of the last minute pardons prior to leaving the White House. Those got some attention and it was not positive, but it only took a few weeks of staying out of the spotlight to make that one go away. Imagine if Clinton had gotten the full Delay treatment over that one.
Hey bozo! If we spent $51,000,000+ (like Starr and the R's spent investigating Clinton) investigating Tom Delay you bet we would do a damn site better than one measily conviction of Webster Hubbell for overbilling.
ELLIS.
now, isn't that a bush name?
as in J Ellis Bush?
so, is preston, gates and ellis a bushit entity?
just asking.
Delay is done. Stick a fork in him.
i wants to know about the delay man. who is dis man? is he a man of the god? or is the demon incarnate...a lucid lucifer who seeks the cash, the mammon, the fluge, the cheese, the ALMIGHTY CHEESE
The republic is deader than the pope. It's high-water mark was probably the liberation of Paris - which, ironically, is French. No wonder that meme was so easy for the repugs to mine. Such ungrateful descendants they are!
Coulda done any fucking thing. Everyone everywhere loved you - even in the communist east, for a time. We could've been standing out in our backyards tonight (well, a couple of weeks ago at least), looking up at the sky and seeing lights on the Moon.
Well, the capitalist corps went straight to work on that little problem, didn't they. In about a decade or so they had their sweet little military-industrial complex up and running.
Maybe a new religion is in order, as foretold by the prophet Ike. The Republic is dead. Will there be a Second Republic?
Sgt Schultz defense doesn't count...
"I know nothing, I know noth-ing!"
"They think Rethugs are for rich people, and being in league with them associates them with status."
Truer than you may realize. My wife is a Recreational Republican (she joined the party just to see what they send members, not because she believes in anything they advocate).
Every year she receives in the mail what we jokingly call a "Republicard." It looks like a credit card with a "member since" date, GOP logos on it, etc. but it doesn't do a damn thing. It even has that strip on the back that you're supposed to sign, but IT DOESN'T DO A DAMN THING. Well, except let you show it to other marks so that they'll think you're important, I guess. Oh, the Republicard she just got is GOLD! That'll really impress the rubes down at the gas station, huh?
She's never donated a single dollar to the party but she gets these letters from them, thanking her for her "assistance" and so forth about every two weeks or so. Not to mention the annual updated Republicard.
Meanwhile, I'm a registered Democrat and I've never gotten so much as a soiled Kleenex from them. The Democrats have a long way to go in terms of marketing.
Before dashing off to donate to Richard Morrison, all good progressives need to see:
http://richardmorrison.blogspot.com
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puppets:
You've been told before, assmunch. When your shitheaded brownshirt opinions are wanted, they will be beaten out of you with a Louisville slugger.
"You go on junkets with the moneymen you have, not the moneymen you want to have."
De Lay could be a serial killer and it would not matter to millions of fools. As long as he is a Republican and gets washed by the blood of Jesus for his sins, it's OK for millions of sheeple. After all, nobody gave De Lay a Blow Job and after all, lying about a blow job is the only reason one can be removed from elective office.
Will the Bastille be stormed? sadly, the answer to that is a big NO. Millions of fools have been brainwashed by Jesus TV and they are convinced that right now, Jesus is at the Alpha Centauri rest stop, eating at Howard Johnson's with his pal Michael Landon. As soon as JC finishes his scoop of pepermint stick ice cream, well, Mike and JC are gonna get back into JC's SUV and head for Earth and rapture their true believer white Republicans pals. Why they believe that Republicans are gonna get pulled out of their clothes and float in the air with JC as he takes them back to heaven with him. The worse it gets, the more ecstatic these fools will be in their anticipation that JC is gonna get them.
I've heard the same shit from my family for the past 20 years. They keep telling me that Jesus is coming in a week or 2 and the signs are all there for his return. well, you know this gets tiring after you hear it over 500 times as I have. Things keep getting worse and worse for my family, their response, "JESUS IS TESTING ME" and they get deeper into bible studies...
The only way I see the sheeple waking up from their Jesus obsession is if somthing happens to wipe Israel off the map. If Sharon is stupid enough to drop nukes on Iran and he gets nuked in return, well that will throw a mankey wrench into these end-timers if Jerusalem is gonna be radioactive for a couple centuries.
As for America, sadly, this country is lost, it's been in decline since the first Arab oil embargo in 1973. But, I never expected America to fall so far so fast, but then again, seeing the assholes who are running the show now, they're handing China all the rope needed to hang us.
China is the future. They're gonna get to the Moon, build a moonbase and head to Mars. And US? We're too busy reading our Bibles to notice that we've become a third world country...
It appears that the last Syrian troops in Lebanon will leave tomorrow. It isn't clear how reliable these reports are, but the withdrawal evidently includes Syrian intelligence.
This is a remarkable development that must be attributed, at least in part, to the neocons' conviction that bringing liberty to the Middle East would pay dividends in ways that we can't predict. Congratulations to President Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, and the many others who had the courage to gamble on freedom, against what the liberals said were overwhelming odds. And congratulations above all to the people of Lebanon who saw the opportunity to restore their independence, and took it.
"De Lay could be a serial killer and it would not matter to millions of fools. As long as he is a Republican and gets washed by the blood of Jesus for his sins, it's OK for millions of sheeple. After all, nobody gave De Lay a Blow Job and after all, lying about a blow job is the only reason one can be removed from elective office."
I heard a rather stunning example of this on the Ed Schultz show. A duhlay supporter called in to say that having these trips paid for by lobbyists bothered him not. In fact, he said, it was preferable that these trips were paid for by lobbyists and not taxpayers. Can't argue with logic like that.
Puppet: "Congratulations to President Bush..."
Having brought democracy to Iraq and independence to Lebanon, do you think that the neocons can now bring democracy to Israel and independence to the Palestinians?
Iwish that I wasn't forced to agree that all the signs are that the Republic is headed into the dumper. But that's what the signs show.
However, I do plan to fight this trend with everything I have. I'm terrified of answering the question in 15 years from my grandchildren: "Papa, you are smart and we know that you saw this coming. Why didn't you do anything?"
All this Delay and Bolton material belongs on the back page where it won't upset the sheeple. Thankfully my local paper does this service for its readers. Page A26 is where the real news starts. The front page is reserved for NFL Draft news and celebrity gossip.
If only DeLay, the former exterminator, had even the SLIGHTEST sense of self-irony regarding his current self-inflicted misfortunes .... (after all, EVERYTHING about this is about "self"...)
"Toes" is right: We have to stop the dismantling of our country.
This is a remarkable development that must be attributed, at least in part, to the neocons' conviction that bringing liberty to the Middle East would pay dividends in ways that we can't predict.
You understand that Lebanon has been holding elections for a long time now, right? Under military occupation, right? And in the neocons' view, even an election held under military occupation is legitimate (see: Iraq), right?
Not to mention that a moderately pro-Syria leader has been approved by the pro-independence politicians. Either they sold out or decided they'd achieved their aims.
Bush did sweet fuck all in Lebanon, Hizbullah is still a political force, and when will Israel remove *it's* military forces and illegal settlements from Palestinian land, anyway?
Juan Cole would like to have a word with you, assuming you wouldn't just jam your fingers in your ears and start singing "BUSH AND JESUS LOVE ME! BUSH AND JESUS LOVE ME! THEY'LL SMITE THE TRAITORS!"
puppets -- re your post on the "Clinton scandals" -- WTF are you talking about?
I was going to write more, but I'll just say that you're a fucking moron and leave it at that.
Hey, they ought to check out the charges and who paid for the hotel where Bush and Kathryn Harris had adjoining rooms in New Hampshire in 2000.
Good Lord! A politican not being honest? What IS the world coming to?
Why should congressmen be allowed to get free trips from non-profits, anyway? This seems to be an obvious way to launder bribes.
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