Please stay on topic. Please don't be asses.
So long, Hans. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
This has been a nice week.
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Fools.
Looks like the 2006 election meant something after all.
Woo. Hoo.
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Nice to have some good news!
Get this, Hans sez that the drawn-out nomination process has been terribly hard on his family and he doesn't have the financial resources to wait around.
Alas poor Hans.
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What's left of this so called administration is imploding. The country is now adrift. The rats are abandoning ship literally as in this case and figuratively in oh so many little ways.
It might feel good to win but there is terrible danger out there. The financial markets and the economy are teetering on the edge of a cliff. The news not reflecting the facts because of course the news is fake, and pretty much everyone knows it.
As the 'empire now' architects leave the scene and lose the power to 'create the new realities' things are likly to spin out of control.
power abhors a vacuum.
Boy, this has been one shitty week for Republicans, hasn't it? We need more weeks like this.
gf120581, you so right.
What I enjoy is that with each passing week, Bush remains a criminal but loses both influence and relevance. He's toxic, and doesn't possess the common sense to comprehend it.
The overwhelming message he's being given is, like Robert Loggia uttering the last line in the film, "Jagged Edge" -- Fuck him; he's trash:
On May 15th, the Senate cast a near-unanimous vote to reverse the Federal Communication Commission's December 2007 decision to let media companies own both a major TV or radio station and a major daily newspaper in the same city. (freepress.net)
Fuck You.
On May 16th... Bush used a private visit to King Abdullah’s ranch here Friday to make a second attempt to persuade the Saudi government to increase oil production and was rebuffed yet again. (NYT)
Fuck You.
The California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage on May 15th ... invalidat[ing] virtually any law that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. (LA Times)
Fuck You.
On May 14th, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding, voting 'present'... Democrats were able to increase their 'no' vote number on funding from 141 to 149; the bill failed...
Finally the GI bill passed with overwhelming margin of 256 votes in the House, including 32 Republicans... This might actually be the most remarkable piece of the votes today; conservative Democrats agreeing to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for educational benefits for veterans. (Matt Stoler)
Fuck You.
On May 16th, Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official who never had Democratic support to win confirmation, withdrew his nomination on Friday. Bush "reluctantly accepted" von Spakovsky's request, the White House said. (sfgate.com)
Hell of a week, huh, Bootsie? And there are thirty more to come.
Doesn't everybody know how this works by now? The replacement nominee will be a man of such character that nobody could possibly oppose the nomination. But in private he or she will already have made a blood oath to act the same way Hans would have acted. We'll probably find out later we were better off with the stalemate.
Good for Harry. Now he's 1 for 156.
If only the Liberals had a Liberal Noise Machine, and if only the Democrats believed in using Republican
methods; they would all be demanding to know if each and every Republican and each and every Conservative will disavow Huckabee and Huckabee's joke. And if not, why not?
And the Democrats too. Too bad the Democrats don't believe in using Republican methods against the Republicans. Too bad the Democrats don't believe in having a Noise Machine. Or a Boycott Machine. Or a Revenge Machine.
(Aww shoot! I meant that comment for the hardee har Huckabee thread.)
Saw some Repug on CSPAN today talking about how the Pelosi - Gingrich commercial about climate change is such a huge violation of campaign finance laws. Though there was a little tell as to the true purpose behind the 'outrage'... they are calling the "Gore Pelosi Gingrich" ad.
Maybe it actually does run afoul of the letter of the law. If so, it should stop airing during the election blackout periods. However, the kabuki outrage is a distraction and probably a setup to cobweb the FEC and relevant committees by insisting they investigate it to death.
BTW: 'Cobweb' is a great word. Picked it up from the Neal Stephenson - J. Frederick George book of the same name... which is a good read. While I'm on that, the book "Interface" by the said authors surprisingly relevant and insightful for the election year... give it a read... you'll love the frighteningly accurate portrayal of pollsters.
So the shrub threw the uber GOPER radical Hans Von vote stealer under the bus: Booo, Hooo, Hooo. Get real; The scum in the WH has another three more vote stealing GOPER's inline to pack the commission. Chump DEMS will congratulate themselves with one REPUG down and then let three other reactionaries in. Pathetic!!!!!!!!!Dems,: very, pathetic.
We won! Hans down!!!
Finally...
Speaking of blood oaths, I'd like someone to do some investigative reporting and find out what Hans' folks did in WWII. They have all the markings of being ex-Nazis, considering their resettlement with the rocket scientists down in Alabama in 1950.
Hmm. The President, whose grandpa Prescott Bush was stock broker for the Nazis during WWII, appoints the son of a pair of Nazis to a high position in the Justice Department.
Anyone see a trend here, and does anyone expect someone in the MSM to notice it at any time in the future?
OT:
Cheney received a two-day vacation and a book on duck calls from the Greenbriar Lodge of Carlisle, Ark., valued at $1,600. He also received an $801 gift package from the Fox television show "24," including director's chairs, coffee mugs and DVDs.
Actually, the game Bush is playing is rather clever. He dumps Spakovsky, replaces him with someone less obviously offensive, gets them all confirmed, and then the fully constituted FEC lets the McCain campaign off the hook.
Harry and co. are probably so happy about having "won one", that they will now confirm anybody else - just to make it all go away. This is the way they are.
Victory to McBush.
@rapier: "As the 'empire now' architects leave the scene and lose the power to 'create the new realities' things are likely to spin out of control."
Good insight, but I wonder how true it will turn out to be. Seems to me things are out of control already, precisely because the oh-so-clever architects of the new realities swallowed the mythology of their own awesomeness and convinced themselves that real Reality (which is indifferent to humankind, no matter how powerful we imagine ourselves to be) would not turn around and bite them in their collective ass.
One good way to keep toothmarks out of your buttocks is to face Reality, and it does look as if the Democratic party, in a small way, is doing this.
I think there will be dodgy times ahead, not least because so many voters will expect President Obama to Fix. Everything. NOW. -- and the remnants of the Republicans and probably the MSM will aid and abet that; his victory speech will be crucial in setting expectations at the outset, and I hope his writers are up to it.
To digress: the more I read gloomy warnings the more contrarianly hopeful I get. Can't say why, really. I suppose it's because every bad scenario has a counter, thus: IF the new president does X and Y and D through H, there's hope.
Don't forget the rest of the world, either: the relief will be palpable enough to make bricks with and the whole political-economic-diplomatic climate will change for the better. Your country's pariah status will begin to evaporate. People everywhere, if not their governments necessarily, will be wishing you well. There is power there, and Obama, if he is shrewd, will use it.
What's to prevent a recess appointment of Spakovsky?
Recent victories bad news for Democrats, says New York Times.
Until they stop airing the Pelosi-Gingrich add, make sure you do not have a TV on in the background while having sex.
what financial, pray tell, has von spazzkey and his family endure? he's been "employed" by the bush administration all the way through, hasn't he?
i hardly think his future employment picture is less than rosy. there are plenty of rightwing law firms/lobbyists/consultants who would be more than happy to hire him.
Like a lot of the commenters above, I still have faith in the Dems ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. What the Dems need to do now is send Bush a list of candidates which are acceptable to THEM. No resting on laurels, guys, and no high fives...not yet.
What's to prevent a recess appointment?
To avoid giving Bush the chance to make recess appointments the Dems have been holding Pro Forma sessions so the house never goes into recess.
Reid is better than 1 for 156. We also won on the FISA bill a couple of months ago. And there are others.
Still, look for the Repubs to try something to stack the deck.
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