October 26, 2008
Happy birthday, Hillary
The Most Hated Woman in the World celebrates her birthday today.
This reporter hopes it is a happy one.
Hillary Clinton
(10/26/1947 – )
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.”
“I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard. ”
“I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
“I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
“If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.”
October 25, 2008
LDF Secures Voting Rights That Protect Foreclosure Victims
NAACP working against rigged elections BEFORE election day!
NEW YORK, Oct 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — Today, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (“LDF”) settled the lawsuit it filed just two days ago in Indiana state court to ensure that eligible voters with property subject to foreclosure proceedings or evictions cannot have their right to vote challenged during the upcoming November 4th election. In settling the case, the Plaintiffs and Defendants, Marion County Election Board, and non-parties Marion County Democratic and Republican parties, agreed that such challenges are not permitted under Indiana law.
“Foreclosure has no bearing on one’s eligibility to vote. Today’s settlement ensures that the current foreclosure crisis gripping the nation will not be exploited to strip the right to vote away from those who are among the financially vulnerable among us. Challenges based on foreclosure are the kind of voter suppression tactic that threaten our efforts to move towards an open and equal Democracy,” said John Payton, LDF President and Director Counsel.
Happy Birthday, James Carville
“As with mosquitoes, horseflies, and most bloodsucking parasites, Kenneth Starr was spawned in stagnant water.”
James Carville
(10/25/1944 – )
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October 24, 2008
The Tattlesnake – The Worms Turn On the Wormy Edition
Plus: Palin Prop Blames the Hired Help, the Rove-Rezko Connection, and the GOP Fear of Michael Moore
Well, you know it’s really hit the fan when all McCain can do is babble on vacuously about Joe the Plumber while Sarah the Terror veers off the reservation with an eye to her own future political career and the Backstage Crew, Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis’ crack squad of Rove-inspired GOP intelligentsia who have managed to mount one of the worst and most negative political campaigns in modern history, are eviscerating each other anonymously in the pages of The New York Times magazine. The End is Near, but not in Palin’s ecumenical concept of that notion, as the Solons of Scat have realized they simply can’t chisel and cheat enough and in a sufficient number of states to overwhelm the Obama juggernaut. With a dozen days to go and the Dem ahead by as much as 10 points in rock-ribbed Republican Indiana, the game is up. Expect resumes to be sailing out of McCain’s HQ any day now, if they haven’t been already. Meantime, The Tattler will stick to his earlier prediction: If Indiana goes to Obama, the rest of the Rust Belt Midwest, from Iowa to PA, will follow and it will be an early night and a landslide of over 300 electoral votes for BHO.
The barely mentioned saving grace this time around is that Rove’s nasty tactics aren’t working for McPalin, just as they didn’t work in 2006, nor in the subsequent special Congressional elections in GOP districts in Illinois, Louisiana and Mississippi, all won by Dems.
Thankfully, we are seeing the final death of this horrific negative-campaign monster — created by Nixon’s dirty tricksters, perfected by Lee Atwater, and adopted with a few new kinks by Rove — played out in the Palin-McCain fiasco, a proof of that Euripides quote: “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” Is there any doubt that what is destroying McPalin at this point is their own insanity?
When asked by David Shuster on MSNBC, Oct. 23, 2008, to explain ‘non-elitist’ regular-gal Sarah Palin’s expensive taste in clothes and accessories, ‘Republican Strategist’ Jennifer Millerwise-Dyck fell back on the time-tested and threadbare GOP excuse – blame the underlings. She basically said that Caribou-Slayer Mom was too busy herding her kids and mucking-up campaign appearances to do her own shopping, so it was all the fault of her clueless staff forcing her to wear those pricey duds from Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman-Marcus. Yes, Sarah really wanted to go to ‘Tar-Zhey’ but her damn staff fouled up! Do you laugh at the ludicrous flop-sweat desperation or moan at the pathetic lack of imagination? The Palin-McCain crack-up is like watching a limbo contest – how low will they go?
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RIP, Rosa Parks
“My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.”
Rosa Parks
(02/04/1906 – 10/24/2005)
US activist
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October 23, 2008
Twelve Days Remaining
On the twelfth day remaining the candidate gave to me
A Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the eleventh day remaining the candidate gave to me
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the tenth day remaining the candidate gave to me
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the ninth day remaining the candidate gave to me
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the eighth day remaining the candidate gave to me
Five different reasons for a Palin nominee
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the seventh day remaining the candidate gave to me
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin Nominee
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the sixth day remaining the candidate gave to me
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin nominee
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the fifth day remaining the candidate gave to
Eight spinners spinning today’s McCain insanity
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin nominee
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the fourth day remaining the candidate gave to me
Nine reminder s of Democratic losses
Eight spinners spinning today’s McCain insanity
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin nominee
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the third day remaining the candidate gave to me
Ten reasons why he wouldn’t talk to me or my bosses
Nine reminders of Democratic losses
Eight spinners spinning today’s McCain insanity
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin candidacy
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two different economic plans
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the second day remaining the candidate gave to me
Eleven Rev. Wright ads on network TV
Ten reasons why he wouldn’t talk to me or my bosses
Nine reminders of Democratic losses
Eight spinners spinning today’s McCain insanity
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin candidacy
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
On the last day remaining the candidate gave to me
Twelve communications announcing an Obama presidency
Eleven Rev. Wright ads on network TV
Ten reasons why he wouldn’t talk to me or my bosses
Nine reminders of Democratic losses
Eight spinners spinning today’s McCain insanity
Seven snarls regarding the Palin candidacy
Six reasons why he has lost his dignity
Five different reasons for a Palin candidacy
Four hours of nonstop robo call attacks
Three necons drooling over bombing Iran and Iraq
Two economic plans to benefit the wealthy
And a Neiman Marcus shopping spree
McCAIN’S MOOSEMAMA BARBIE!!!
Palin Outfits Cost RNC* $150K
McCain opted for public financing. Now all the poor Republicans can see where their tax dollars are going.
* Public financing means that all tax payers Democrats and Republicans contributed to Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, jewelry, hair and makeup as well as for Mr. Mom Dude and baby!
By Juliet Eilperin
The Republican National Committee has spent more than $150,000 on clothing, accessories and makeup for GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her relatives since John McCain selected her as his running mate, according to federal election records.
October 22, 2008
The Tattlesnake – Lipstick on a Pygmalion Edition
Plus a Ray of Light on McCain’s Silly Phillie Charge and Other Diversions
“If your actions speak louder than words, you’re not yelling loud enough.”
– Stephen Colbert, October 20, 2008.
What’s up with God’s Own Hockey Mom, that plain small-town Wasilla girl we’ve all grown to know and love, dropping $150,000 bucks of RNC cash on clothes and jewelry from such snooty elitist shops as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman-Marcus? Say it ain’t so, Joe – has Alaska’s neo-secessionist pitbull become a pampered poodle, corrupted by her trip to the lower 48? (Perhaps it was associating with all those liberal socialists on Saturday Night Live is what did it, the same way as Obama meeting Bill Ayers turned him into a 1960s domestic terrorist by osmosis.) Jeepers, next we’ll find out she doesn’t know what the Vice President’s job is, according to the Constitution.
Speaking of Mrs. Bent Mooseburger, why isn’t the following a bigger story among the Big Media bobbleheadery? McCain’s Bullwinkle-Killer spent Alaska taxpayer money to drag the whole fam damily along with her to various events, paying out $21,000 for daughters Piper, Willow and Bristol to travel and hotel in luxury at the public’s expense. Worse, she lied when she claimed that the kid’s were invited to these events and, worst of all, altered the expense accounts after the fact. Alaska law is clear: Gov. Palin’s expense account is to be used only for official state business, period. This used to be the kind of Enormous No-No that got state executives and those playing executives on TV fired, yet the BM has hardly peeped about it. C’mon, Beemers, step up to the plate here.
Speaking of stepping up to the plate (in the head), Cap’n McCrash is indulging in yet another head-scratcher by using Obama’s innocuous political hat-tip to both World Series contenders, The Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays, as some kind of example of BHO’s horrible hypocrisy. This is interesting since the Ol’ Straight-Talker himself, appearing on Pittsburgh TV station KDKA last July, recited his usual anecdote about telling his North Vietnamese captors way-back-when that some of the officers in his squadron were the starting offensive line of the Green Bay Packers, but for purposes of political pandering, changed the Packers to the defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers, even though the story was in his friggin’ book!
“When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, physical pressures on me, I named the starting lineup, defensive line of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron mates.”
– John McCain on KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 2008.
“Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron.”
– John McCain, from his book, “Faith of My Fathers” (1999).
“Imagine if Al Gore or John Kerry had changed the facts of a story they told forever in order to appeal to whatever swing state they were speaking in? … Also, the famous Steelers defensive line that McCain was trying to refer to (Mean Joe, L.C. etc.) didn’t become famous until after McCain was out of Vietnam.”
– Chuck Todd and Domenico Montanaro, MSNBC First Read, July 11, 2008.
Keep digging, Johnny!
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Poll Junkie
I will fully admit that at this point in any campaign I follow I am a complete junkie for daily polling numbers. Given the real or imagined fluctuations in polls, our current presidential run between Obama and McCain has been particularly hard on a poll addict like myself.
To begin with there are far too many polls tracking the elections. To make it a little more digestible, but no less addictive, some Internet sites have begun compiling daily poll results and posting a daily average. Real Clear Politics is a site that for one has done a good job of keeping me completely hooked on polls by keeping the partisan ones out so as not to skew the polls and therefore pissing me off. I check daily to see the spread and each day its just a little bit different.
Another issue is the averages. If you check the polls used to compile averages there always seems to be one that doesn’t seem to fit and skews the numbers. One such poll right now is today’s Associated Press-GfK poll that shows Obama and McCain running basically even. Problem with the AP poll is no one else on the planet shows the race that way. Today’s Washington Post-ABC News poll showed Obama up by 9 percentage points, while a poll by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center had Obama leading by 14. Many others show Obama up by at least four points.
So what gives? Why does the AP poll show something completely different. My junkie mind cant rap around it and it causes me a day of anxiety until the next polls numbers show up. What gives me comfort is the fact that most of the polls I have digested that have come after the last debate show McCain gained a tiny bit of ground then promptly lost it.
Wait….wait… a new poll is out. Sorry got to go.
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October 21, 2008
Get a Life!! It’s over, man!
Subject: are you still pissed?
If you’re still pissed off about the 2000 elections, GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!
Its over man.
Sharon
Sharon, you say, “It’s over?”
I’ll tell you what’s over.
The World Trade Centers are over, because Bush ignored the warnings.
The lives of 4128 soldiers are over because Bush lied.
The health of 60,000 soldiers is over because Bush lied.
The Fourth Amendment is over, and the Sixth Amendment, and Bush set up
“Free Speech Zones” so I guess the First Amendment is over, too.
The integrity of the Justice Department is ancient history.
Diplomacy died an early death with this president.
Valerie Plame’s career as a CIA spy is over and we don’t know how many
CIA contacts died because Bush-Cheney wanted to punish the truth tellers.
North Korea’s estrangement from making nukes is over.
New Orleans as a livable city – that’s probably over.
The meters on Iraq’s oil pumps – gone – so Halliburton can steal at will.
Our right to privacy is over – Bush can read our mail, read our e-mails, bug our
phones, check into our bank accounts and the library books we check out.
Bidding on government contracts is over – it all goes to Bush’s friends and
they can now sell the military millions of gallons of gasoline for $10 a pop.
Non-partisan Supreme Court judges – that’s a thing of the past.
The 911 Commission? That’s over and they didn’t blame anybody for anything.
How about our friendships with other countries – that’s over
Science is over with this religiously-insane president.
He says God told him “Science is bad,” so we avoid science at all costs.
The Rule of Law is over – Bush says no laws apply to him since he bungled 9-11.
A ready-to-fight military? That’s definitely over.
The health of the 9-11 first responders – gone – thanks to Bush.
A stable economy? Bush destroyed that, too – it’s gone for a long time.
Of course, Clinton’s surpluses are loooong gone.
Mining safety laws? They were gone soon after Bush took office.
Stem cell research is gone – who needs their health when God is Risen?
Clear skies and healthy forests? Gone, and gone.
Pat Tillman, his life is over – I wonder why Bush covered up his death?
The dream that things will be better for our kids – that’s over, too.
Your home being the best retirement plan? That’s certainly over.
The Bush name in American politics? That’s deader than Francisco Franco.
100,000 White House e-mails? Illegally destroyed – to cover up what?
The separation of Church & State – that’s over.
Bush is taking MY TAXES and giving it to superstitious
handjobs who support him.
Congressional oversight is dead – (but you can blame the Democrats for that.)
Medal of Freedom integrity is gone, too. Bush gave medals to Tommy Franks,
George Tenet, and Paul Bremer “for all their great work in Iraq.”
Our votes being counted – that’s gone, too
Oil companies paying taxes? That’s gone like T-Rex.
Bush’s attendence records in the Nat Guard – over or never existed?
Statue of Liberty? Still there, but meaningless in a torture-is-fun America.
Of course, some things are NOT over, like Bush’s war in Iraq, Bush’s war
in Afghanistan and the hostility from soon-to-be nuke-happy Iran.
And the torture – that’s not over – the torture never stops under
this president. Borrowing from the Saudis to finance tax cuts for
the super rich – that’s not over.
As you can tell, this list could go on for a few more hours.
But you were right – “IT” is over, for most Americans.
The Tattlesnake – Campaigning on the Bizarre B-Side Edition
Was Ashley Todd’s Imaginary Attack a Desperate Rovian Dirty Trick?
Not to be callous, but your slow-on-the-draw Tattler admits that when he first heard, partially awake, on the radio that someone named Ashley Todd was assaulted by a tall black man in Pittsburgh because she had a McCain sticker on her car, and the added fillip that the alleged attacker had ‘carved a B on her cheek,’ I thought the announcer was talking about the insect, as in, ‘he inscribed a BEE on her cheek,’ and a surreal mental scenario followed that featured an angry tattoo artist yelling, “Hey, c’mon you, hold still while I finish this wing!”
The story seemed a little suspicious from the git-go and Thom Hartmann noted on his radio show Friday that the ‘B’ was backwards, the way someone not-too-bright and looking in a mirror would sketch a ‘B’ on her cheek.
Later in the day, after John McCain and Sarah Palin had rushed to the phones to offer their condolences to the 20-year-old Texas Republican, Ashley confessed that she had invented the whole lurid tale – it was a tasteless hoax, apparently designed to make Obama supporters, and particularly those of the large black male variety, look bad.
Aside from the hideous Susan Smith aspect to the false charge, and the chance that the Pittsburgh police might have commenced a wholesale harassment of black men to find the nonexistent perpetrator, McCain and Palin’s haste to involve themselves in the incident bespeaks two things: a.) They were trying to make political hay out of this young woman’s misfortune, which calls into question their judgment or b.) The McCain campaign was somehow in on the deal, which paints them as over-the-edge con artists.
Todd had worked for the College Republican National Committee in New York, and recently moved to Pennsylvania to act as a full-time McCain-Palin volunteer on behalf of the group. (The College Republicans are the same organization that spawned such upstanding GOP choirboys as Jack Abramoff, Karl Rove and Ralph Reed.)
As yet, there is no evidence that the McCain campaign was directly involved, but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine the impact that the ugly tableau of a fiendish black male sexually attacking a young white lady might have on rural Caucasians in Pennsylvania, a state McCain must win in order to have any shot at the presidency. Joe the Plumber move over, here comes the Scary Obama-Supporting Black Sexual Predator.
Under-the-radar rumors of creepy McCainiacs trying to goad Obama voters into violence while media cameras are present have been floating around recently, the invective particularly aimed at inciting dark-skinned Obamaites, but not much has come of it up to now except some of the demented Starboard Side of the Blogosphere typically and perversely whining about those mean lefties trying to smack down Republicans who wave around McCain-Palin signs in public. (Yep – from the same crowd that counts among its ‘base’ tolerant sophisticates who shout “Kill him!” and “Traitor!” at McPalin academic retreats.)
As the always effervescent-with-bile Michelle Malkin elucidates: “The Obamedia diaper-wetters are gripped with fear over a few over-the-line catcalls at McCain-Palin rallies.”
Uh, it’s not just a ‘few over-the-line catcalls’ at the downhome Bund affairs; it’s a river of right-wing effluvium oozing endlessly from the TV screen, computer monitor and radio speaker, as well. (And Michelle herself could use a mirror.)
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