anybody watching these hearings of Sotomayor?

What a bunch of hypocritical, lock stepping Repugs on that committee !

I LOL when Kyl said " 80% of your verdicts were overturned by the Supreme court"

SHE HAD A TOTAL OF 5 FREAKEN CASES THAT WENT ON TO THE SUPREME COURT !!! THREE of them got overturned ! Are there really stupid people out there listening to this, thinking somehow she has had a bunch of bad decisions in 17 years?????

Schumer or one of the Dems went on to explain the remark that was taken out of context about a Latino woman being wiser than some white males. I KNOW FOR a FACT that is true ! Listen to these idiot !
The Repugs are showing their obstruction again in these hearings. You go boys, I am taking notes!!!

I turned off the TV "news" shows this morning. All they're showing is a bunch of conceited Republican boneheads putting Sotomayor for being a Latina.
They act like anyone who doesn't think like their version of an Anglo male is biased.
The boneheads know they can't win this, but they are using this opportunity to strew doubt and innuendos about the Obama administration's ability to pick qualified personnel by attacking a qualified judge on bogus grounds.
The Republicans are once again showing themselves for the racist hypocrites they are.

Pam, the fact that she only had 5 cases out of nearly 300 reviewed, and only 3 were overturned means that her actual reversal rate is 0.16%, NOT "60%". The average overturn percentage for ALL other Judges over history is a little over 60%, so Sotomayor is doing better than most. Alito, BTW has an overturn rate of 100%.

And the Greedy Obstructionist Pedophiles hoping that their Ass in the Hole (or vice versa), that fireman case, will prove anything is just wishful thinking. The Ruling was made by a 3 Judge panel, and Sotomayor was only 1 of them.

Besides, that Ruling was exactly as it should have been; it upheld Standing Law, as they were required to do.

Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Scalia etal. were the ones who overturned Standing Law, thus making THEM "Activist Judges" because they legislated from the Bench.

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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo on July 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Exactly. But the Republicans are playing to the uninformed, and they won't let facts get in their way.

Good afternoon, all.

Boy, the line up in this photo must have the conservatives scared beyond anything Bin Lauden could throw at them.

Were they ever afraid of Al Queada? It seems to me that they just used him as a convenient means to an end in Iraq.

Here are the percentages of all the Justices proclivity for overturning Standing Law.

The Pugs are the MOST "Activist Judges" on the SCOTUS.

Thomas 65.63 %
Kennedy 64.06 %
Scalia 56.25 %
Rehnquist 46.88 %
O’Connor 46.77 %
Souter 42.19 %
Stevens 39.34 %
Ginsburg 39.06 %
Breyer 28.13 %

Judge Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing: Open Thread

Pam,

The old segregationists are playing to an audience that has mostly died off except in backwater areas of the South. They think they can keep the Confedarcy alive if only they can keep the flag waving over their Capitols.

As for the misinformation. The Rove-speak of the last eight years has fortified most Americans against the lies. Nobody trust a word a conservative says any longer in this country. They have proven that they will say and do anything to further their ambitions.

After the Republicans weakened our national security and military strength in Iraq and nearly destroying the middle class and our economy with their irresponsible outsourcing and deregulation, I figure the performance of Sessions and the rest of these incompetent senators will be the last nail in the coffin for the GOP.

"Give us segregation and discrimination or give us death."

If that's what they want in the 2010 elections, we shouldn't stand in their way as they commit suicide with the the ever-increasing numbers of women, minority, and younger voters.

Yes, they can.

In case anyone's wondering who these Republican assholes playing up to, go to:
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=375
where they have a really nice article on the profiling, abuse and discrimination of Hispanics in the South.
Once again the Republican are playing to their lowest denominator, the ignorant, the racist, and the KKK/NeoNazi.
No wonder they have had moderates and thinking Republicans leaving the party in droves!
Republicans, the party of hate!

Congressional Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman

Since the Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves send this to every red blooded American you know.

THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID
FOR OUR BOYS AND OUR COUNTRY.
REST IN PEACE

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

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SandyH on July 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM

The old segregationists may be dying off, but hate and hate groups are still strong, and trying to make a resurgence.
They are playing to people's fears of job loss, never mind that most job loss is caused by shipping the decent paying jobs to overseas sweat shops, and by people's ignorance which leads to fear of people outside their culture.
It's easier to get someone to believe a lie if they don't know any of the facts to start with. It's made even easier because of the Republican-caused recession, and the rising jobless rate. It's the old "Them illegals are taking our jobs" ploy which caused a lot of violence against Mexicans during the Depression, and are the roots of the Minute Men in Arizona and their anti-immigrant violence today.
One of the scary things is the number of racist group members who have been allowed into the military under Dubya's lowered recruiting standards.
These aren't the kind of people you want learning military tactics and weapons because they won't hesitate to use them on anyone they disagree with. There have already been incidents of violence and murder by these racists. With the right (or wrong) leader these racists could become a corps of domestic terrorists, who could make 9-11 look like a drop in the bucket. So far they have been fairly splintered, and engaged in territorial disputes about who's the "purest".
The Republicans are feeding their crap to these guys, who will spin it to suit their own ends, and the results won't be good.
I've posted his like before, but I think it bears repeating.
http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=384
These are the people the Republicans are playing up to.

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YoungPoet on July 13, 2009 at 12:56 PM

Granted Michael Jackson was a famous performer, and he was the product of a terrible abusive childhood that left him with mental scars for life, but the media circus not only went overboard on his death, but they blew off people who needed to be noticed and acknowledged.
The one who comes to my mind is the driver on the Metro train, who stayed at her post and kept the manual brakes applied when the automatic train control failed to slow and stop her train. Her action kept the death toll from the collision with the other train from being worse than it was.
But the media blew her off.
How many others were blown off as unimportant and either not reported or under reported in the 2 week media circus surrounding Jackson's death?
Maybe we need to re-examine our values.

Afternoon all Great Dems. I hope everyone is well today. I would like start a poll: Everyone here name his or her three (3) picks for most hypocritical republicans. My three are:
Newt (the Grinch) Gingrich
The Dick, Cheney
and
Mark "let's hike the Applachian Trail" Sanford!

I found this over on Think Progress:

Gingrich Begins A Twitter Feed In Spanish, ‘The Language Of Living In A Ghetto’
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is notorious for his active — and sometimes controversial — musings on Twitter. But not only does he have a Twitter feed in English, but he has also started one in Spanish.

He posted his first tweet in Spanish at 1:08 pm on July 9, noting that he would be on Neil Cavuto’s Fox show at 4:05 to discuss Pelosi’s $16 million “mouse” project. He also asked his readers what he should say about the subject. While some of his tweets on the Spanish-language feed are the same as on the English version, others are original content.

More importantly, why would Gingrich even want a Spanish-language Twitter feed? He has fiercely opposed bilingual education, even going so as far to call Spanish “the language of living in a ghetto“:

The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. … We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

More recently, Gingrich has gone after Latina Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor as a “Latina women racist.”

Wow - this is interesting:

Former Top Insurance Exec Blows The Whistle On Health Insurance Companies’ Plot Against Reform
In an interview with PBS’ Bill Moyers on Friday, former health insurance executive Wendell Potter revealed that health insurance companies had developed a concerted strategy to discredit Michael Moore’s movie SiCKO:

BILL MOYERS: And there was a political strategy. “Position Sicko as a threat to Democrats’ larger agenda.” What does that mean?

WENDELL POTTER: That means that part of the effort to discredit this film was to use lobbyists and their own staff to go onto Capitol Hill and say, “Look, you don’t want to believe this movie. You don’t want to talk about it. You don’t want to endorse it. And if you do, we can make things tough for you.”

BILL MOYERS: How?

WENDELL POTTER: By running ads, commercials in your home district when you’re running for reelection, not contributing to your campaigns again, or contributing to your competitor.

Potter, the former head of Corporate Communications at CIGNA, said he thought Moore “hit the nail on the head with his movie,” which advocated that the government-run systems of other western democracies produce better health care outcomes. The health insurance companies “don’t want you to think that it was a documentary that had some truth,” Potter said.

The companies “biggest concern” is that the United States might adopt “a broader program like our Medicare program” which “could potentially reduce the profits of these big companies.” He added that “we shouldn’t fear government involvement in our health care system. That there is an appropriate role for government, and it’s been proven in the countries that were in that movie.”

Potter said he was driven to speak out when “it became really clear to me that the industry is resorting to the same tactics they’ve used over the years, and particularly back in the early ’90s, when they were leading the effort to kill the Clinton plan.”

Freeman died on August 20, 2008 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[1] He was buried in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.

The email being sent around has had the date changed on his death to coincide with Michael Jackson of July 25, 2009 death, and to blame the media for not reporting Freeman death.

It reports at one Internet site in March or so that a Post Office building was named for him.

MelodicMetal on July 13, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Here's a tip for you:
When you are posting for the first time on any site, don't come in slamming the heck out of long time posters if you want to have any influence.
When you do that, as you did here today, we simply write you off as just another typical ignorant web troll who is trying to start something and ignore you.
If you had come in with something thoughtful or insightful on a specific issue, we might have been willing to engage in debate; but, instead, you came in with nothing but a bunch of stupid insults for people that you don't know and have never 'conversed' with. (That is if you really are a 'new' poster to this site and not one of the same old tired, stupid trolls who posts here regularly!)

Hence the following:
Send me to further posts as I will never, ever respond to you again! You are lower than pond scum to me and I want nothing to do with you! so, STFU and GO AWAY!!!!!!!

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YoungPoet on July 13, 2009 at 01:44 PM

I got that email too, through a fellow veteran, who forwards everything like that that he gets.
The irony is, that nobody had to lie about anything to show up the excesses of the media circus.
It only makes people with concerns about the excesses look phony.
Considering that it was some conservative group, who probably did it, it makes one wonder if they would rather phony the date on a white man's death, than use a real black woman hero who's death hit the news when the Jackson circus did.

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Butte on July 13, 2009 at 01:19 PM

Maybe we need to check our facts, I posted it from an email that in fact had the date changed to Michael Jackson's death. It turns out he dies last August.

As far as Michael Jackson, he did a lot of good in benefits, and he had talent. Some Judge him guilty when found innocent in a court of law, and find America innocent in Abu Ghraib pictures of abuse. Those that abuse others will find God's judgment, not a pit bull civilian.

It is strange that when one supposedly abuses another, it is a sin when someone of lower status does it, but approved when the government does it, requiring Cheney secrecy to Bush selected Congressional Tory members.

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Butte on July 13, 2009 at 01:57 PM

So sad that Cheney had Congress as lap dogs, while his pit bulls were mauling the Constitution. It seems that Cheney is what the Catholic Church was, the Inquisition of secrecy. I am Catholic, I want the Pope to say Abu Ghraib was wrong, just like the Holocaust.

You have Conservatives blasting Michael Jackson alleged black claims of abuse and then they give Cheney the Judeo-Christian white position of Crucifixion Justice images of torture. Where is the real voice of Jesus's religion, where is God's Biblical Scales of Justice upon His children.

I can see those Saved Born Again Christian Right Wing Conservatives with the excrement of their actions on their hands. Why Cheney gave those prisoners a Baptist baptismal water boarding screams of Judeo-Christian John Yoo bushwhacked law edict redefinition Inquisition into the dark Ages of American Justice.

Only American CorPoliticians can "At Will" redefine the Ten Commandments by a Patriot Act Executive Privilege right to plunder, pillage, and have those orgy extramarital love affairs using Blackwater coffers in prostituting themselves. Why they are lucky to obey one commandment for what LIES in Washington is almost Sodom and Gomorrah. It they had to take a lie detector to Heaven, Congress and the White House would be in hell, with the Supreme Court in purgatory.

Hi, marymac.

I'm exceedingly proud of my cultural heritage and the varying customs with which that entails. It's odd to me that some Americans feel uncomfortable with who they are and have to project their feelings of inadequacy on those of differing backgrounds.

America is the great melting pot, but you have to add a little spice and new ingredients from time to time to keep the recipe fresh and interesting. I look forward to the changes and possibilities that this combination provides. We should never be afraid of the unknown and let it stagnate us as a nation.

The rule of law allows us a background from which to stir the pot without having to be afraid that the pot will ever boil over.

Why are you so focused on Republicans when your party is supposed to be moving 'forward'?

18MelodicMetal on July 13, 2009 at 01:38 PM

gee now, Mel old boy, may I be so bold as to ask, are you posting this same crap on the RNC blog? On RedState and FreeRepublic Republican blogs? What did you tell Republicans during their reign of terror?

Have you SEEN any of the filth, the attacks, the racism, the homophobia, coming out of the last of the Republican party? I do not count the true Conservatives, who if not merely misguided, think they are looking for less gov, lower taxes, etc. I am talking the Raw Hatred being spewed out of Republicans!

So take your soap box and go over to their blogs, and tell them to Unite if they wish to make this country the Great Country it once was, before their party took ahold of it !

Sometimes payback is such a bitch, isn't it!!!

When you read the Cheney/Bush chapter of American Constitutional Freedom and Democracy, it is like a WMD horror show of prefabricated redefinitions of Katina responses with Abu Ghraib “At Will” image results of Holocaust Patriot Act secrecy that says the Liberals were at fault, much like Hitler blamed his non-combatants for his reign against terror. America needs its Nuremburg Trails, of Concrete Accountability to History’s Paramount Truth Scale of Justice, in order for the healing process to start uniting America again.

Government must have the ability to reinvent the Constitution of factual data.

Once Cheney had a apple, he gave it to Congress, and its core rotted away.

Cheney reminds me of FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, and his secret files that lined up Congress like a puppet. Cheney must be on level 32, along with Putin.

Save our Planet for our Grandchildren!!1 Call or email you Senators and tell them to support Barbara Boxer and Global Warming Bill!!!

Washington - If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.

She says there's a huge upside, however, if the Senate does act: millions of clean-energy jobs, reduced reliance on foreign oil and less pollution for the nation's children.

http://messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=181559&N=102&C=e5cedf15aa0be2c656f9aa698a4a3404&L=804

Butte on July 13, 2009 at 01:11 PM

Hi, Butte.

"These people" are the ones who have been abused the most by the Republican Party. It's becoming very hard for them to cling to a group of greedy, hypocritical incompetents who has shown them totally no respect.

I believe in karma. What goes around comes around. The Reagan Revolution and its failures is spurring a corresponding interest and a resurgence of progressive opportunities and justice for all.

This is even truer for the illiterate and disgruntled who have been left behind by the very conservatives principles that allowed them to be used and then discarded along with the rest of the middle class. The victims now know who is responsible and will never let them off the hook.
The Bush Legacy is set in stone.

Most of "these people" are in the same boat with the very people that the GOP once told them were responsible for their misery and unhappiness. They are now the people they have always despised...and they know who put them in this predicament.

How foolish these knuckleheads are that they think they can pass legislation to control the earth's temperature. They know it is silly but they just want the money.

WHAT money, you dumb jerk?

See, this is why you have zero idea of what it is all about ! You got that blind, ignorant nonsensical idea that somehow global warming is bad from Ann Coulter or some other reich wing idiot, and you think it is true!

HOW about your little fantasy gal friend, Missy Palin? SHE believes strongly in global warming ! Maybe you should go on her Twitter site, and tweet her that all she wants is the money! That she is stupid to think so! Whaddaya think?????

crazy old man.

(ps, I do not support my daughter nor grandchild. I don't have to. My daughter made more in one year, than you will ever make in your lifetime, making those tin cans, and selling used crap on Ebay!)

PS. All politicians suck. That's why we need a third party.....

And a third party is not made up of politicians?

And why are you bothering to post on an established political party blog if you love third parties, Sarah? Why did you run for vice president as a Republican when your heart belongs to the Alaskan Separatist Party?

You want to be part of the United States even as you want to be independent of it? You want the support of Republicans even as you speak out against the party infrastructure? You want to run for office but don't want to deal with the difficulties of the job after you have it?

You want it both ways...every which way. And you don’t want it at all. You are truly the typical conservative. You make no sense. You strive to acquire power that you have no idea how to use constructively. You fail at everything you try before you even get started.

You post on an opposition blog because you are not allowed to post what you want to say on your own blog. Nobody important answers your e-mails and nobody reads you Tweets except to see if you have said something incredibly stupid again.

You're pretty much out there by yourself and that makes the Republican Party happy as they could care less if you ever live up to your true potential...as if you ever had any.

Check the Karen Hughes propaganda news feed for your next instructions, slave.

Sarah, Sarah. You’re wasting your time on this blog and entertaining us Democrats grandly with your lunatic antics. I’m sure that’s not the impression you want to make but there you are. It’s the truth.

It looks like the negative, unConstrituional spotlight is back on Cheney again.

I guess that's what the "strategy" meeting down in Dallas was all about last month. Keeping the pressure of Darth, so Spunky can enjoy his retirement without any worries that his war crimes could come back to disturb his peace?

"Most of "these people" are in the same boat with the very people that the GOP once told them were responsible for their misery and unhappiness."
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SandyH on July 13, 2009 at 03:06 PM

Exactly, they are in the same boat, but the GOP has been oh so conveniently handing them a scapegoat to blame, so they don't have to look at the reality of their own lives, which is that they are being lead around by the nose by a political party which is in the pocket of the big corporate lobbies, and is only using them for their own purposes ie: cannon fodder, exploitable votes, and encouraging them to be anti-labor, anti-healthcare, and anti-whatever else the powers-that-pay want them to be against.

Fortunately, all but the densest and least aware of the Republican (former Republican) voters seem to have caught on to this cynical exploitation, and have abandoned the GOP for independence, if not Democratic voting, and have left the GOP with only the die-hard bottom of the barrel.

That doesn't mean that the Democratic Party is home free, however.
We must dialogue with these voters, lest we alienate these moderates, and swing them back away from the Democrats at the very time when this country most needs understanding and cooperation.
We also must keep our legislators on their toes so they don't fall in with the lobbyists and turn their backs on their constituents.

While they are at it they should pass a law outlawing rain on Holidays

This comming from someone who believes that noah put 2 kinds of amimals on an ark!They just pull the ring in your nose and put your blinders on and you follow.

Some areas of Alaska are warming....

Could it be because of all the hot air emanating from Wasilla?

Is there another silly conservative volcanic erruption about to blow from them parts? Bobby Jingles from Louisiana sure doesn’t want to waste any money monitoring that situation...and in the case of the lovely and talented Sarah he may have a point.

I think she thinks.....

I think neither of you think much about anything. You just keep talking and regurgitating whatever your conservative buddies put out there. Monkey see; monkey do?

Butte on July 13, 2009 at 03:42 PM

Butte,

I appreciate your concern. These conservative cockroaches are always evolving and come back.

However, most of the racists are getting pretty old and can only complain on the internet. The younger ones are so crazy on meth that they don't care about politics much less have the time to vote when they're running around in circles chasing their tails.

With 9.5% unemployment and his quadrupling of the national deficit in his first year in office what did you expect?....

Quadrupled? Using that funny math again?

Considering the Second Republican Great Depression started back in September of 2007, I'm surprised all the economic numbers haven't gone up a lot faster and more furious. Actually, most of our problems began the day after Bush assumed his throne and started crapping all over the middle class.

You want things to turn on a dime?

Go worship at the altar of Sarah. Now we all know that she and McLame could have made things a lot better by now. Riiiiiight. That is if she hadn't already quit...and McCain had been able to figure out how to get off that stage by now.

You want Superman? Look no further than Judge Sotomayer. She's achieved more than all of them in the short space of her life and continues to strive for excellence.

I just heard on MSNBC that Free Republic had a contest this weekend asking posters to come up with the vilest things they could think of as a caption for a photo of one of the President's daughters.

So this is what it's come down to in less than six months? The conservatives are sponsoring child pornography? Whose idea was that? Tom Foley, Larry Craig, or Rush Limbaugh?

And every prediction you have made in the last four years has come true? Don't make us laugh.

He is quadrupling Bush's deficit in his first year, he will double the national debt in 10 years

The difference is that bush spent his on the iraqs and Obama is spedinding it on AMERICANS!!! that is real patriotism.

He is quadrupling Bush's deficit in his first year, he will double the national debt in 10 years.

somehow, while in welding tin cans, you must have MISSED the part, where every Economist came on TV at one time or another, and said THE ONLY WAY OUT OF BUSH"S MESS, was to Spend more!

HE HAS TO---- YOU IDIOT ! Why don't you spend a little time researching some real sites for a change !

...The email being sent around has had the date changed on his death to coincide with Michael Jackson of July 25, 2009 death, and to blame the media for not reporting Freeman death...

?!

And what is your idea of the ideal feminine quality? A conservative wife who looks the other way when her husband has an affair with a staffer or his soulmate dancing partner?

If a woman distinguishes herself as a judge, she's mannish in you opinion?

You want 'em barefoot and pregnant with a rich father? I suppose all deadbeats do. When was the last time you paid your child support? Can't find a woman to support you?

There's still time to submit your caption in the Free Republic pornography contest. Based on some of the things you've posted here, I bet you could win walking away.

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peaceman on July 13, 2009 at 04:28 PM

The difference is that Chimpy NEVER put most of his IOUs on budget. Iraq, Afghanistan, a whole slew of his "nation building" free money for Halliburton, etc. were just handed out with zero accountability. President Obama put all of Chimpy's debts on the ledger in his first month, so the vast majority of the added debt is from CHIMPY leaving a pile of bills on the desk, and an empty check book next to it.

And President Obama's budget doesn't even start until October 1, 2010; the 10/1/09 budget he had the ability to tinker with, (such as increasing the Military budget by 13% because Chimpy broke the Army) but President Obama is basically stuck with the mess that that poo flinging alcoholic coke head ignored after turning a surplus into a debt in 2 years.

Good evening fellow Ameircans.

Independent’s Day

Obama doesn't want to look back, but Attorney General Eric Holder may probe Bush-era torture anyway.

It's the morning after Independence Day, and Eric Holder Jr. is feeling the weight of history. The night before, he'd stood on the roof of the White House alongside the president of the United States, leaning over a railing to watch fireworks burst over the Mall, the monuments to Lincoln and Washington aglow at either end. "I was so struck by the fact that for the first time in history an African-American was presiding over this celebration of what our nation is all about," he says. Now, sitting at his kitchen table in jeans and a gray polo shirt, as his 11-year-old son, Buddy, dashes in and out of the room, Holder is reflecting on his own role. He doesn't dwell on the fact that he's the country's first black attorney general. He is focused instead on the tension that the best of his predecessors have confronted: how does one faithfully serve both the law and the president?

Alone among cabinet officers, attorneys general are partisan appointees expected to rise above partisanship. All struggle to find a happy medium between loyalty and independence. Few succeed. At one extreme looms Alberto Gonzales, who allowed the Justice Department to be run like Tammany Hall. At the other is Janet Reno, whose righteousness and folksy eccentricities marginalized her within the Clinton administration. Lean too far one way and you corrupt the office, too far the other way and you render yourself impotent. Mindful of history, Holder is trying to get the balance right. "You have the responsibility of enforcing the nation's laws, and you have to be seen as neutral, detached, and nonpartisan in that effort," Holder says. "But the reality of being A.G. is that I'm also part of the president's team. I want the president to succeed; I campaigned for him. I share his world view and values."

These are not just the philosophical musings of a new attorney general. Holder, 58, may be on the verge of asserting his independence in a profound way. Four knowledgeable sources tell NEWSWEEK that he is now leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices, something the president has been reluctant to do. While no final decision has been made, an announcement could come in a matter of weeks, say these sources, who decline to be identified discussing a sensitive law-enforcement matter. Such a decision would roil the country, would likely plunge Washington into a new round of partisan warfare, and could even imperil Obama's domestic priorities, including health care and energy reform. Holder knows all this, and he has been wrestling with the question for months. "I hope that whatever decision I make would not have a negative impact on the president's agenda," he says. "But that can't be a part of my decision."...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/206300

AG Holder, it's about bloody time! I, too, was on the fence about prosecuting the Bush 43 Administration cronies for their alleged war crimes but, one of the statements I use here all the time keeps ringing true. We are a nation of law, not men. Appoint the Special Prosecutor with full subpoena power, Mr. Atty. General. At a minimum, the law demands such.

U.S., UBS in Talks to Settle Case on 52,000 Accounts (Update3)

July 13 (Bloomberg) -- UBS AG, the largest Swiss bank by assets, is in talks with the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit seeking the names of 52,000 American account holders suspected of using Swiss secrecy laws to evade taxes.

A judge in Miami today granted a postponement of an evidentiary hearing while the bank works with the U.S. and Swiss governments on a settlement. The U.S. sued UBS on Feb. 19, a day after the bank agreed to pay $780 million to defer prosecution for helping wealthy Americans evade taxes.

Under that agreement, UBS agreed to an unprecedented breach of Swiss secrecy laws by giving the Internal Revenue Service data on more than 250 accounts. Switzerland, which supports UBS in the case, said the U.S. push for data on 52,000 other accounts is a threat to its sovereignty and would force the bank to violate Swiss criminal laws protecting bank secrecy.

“Over the last week or so, there have been high-level officials from the two governments meeting, trying to narrow the issues and bring about a resolution,” Stuart Gibson, a Justice Department senior litigation counsel, told U.S. District Judge Alan Gold today at a hearing.

UBS attorney Eugene Stearns said the bank learned on July 11 about discussions between the Swiss and U.S. governments.

“We are anxious for the governments of these two democracies to resolve these issues,” said Stearns. “It’s a minefield trying to resolve these issues.”...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=atJfzDD_mNyA

It's real simple, Mr. Atty. General. Either UBS gives up the 52K anti-Americans hiding money in Switzerland or they can't do business with any U.S. company or entity. Furthermore, we ought to have legislation that states no U.S. citizen can bank outside of the U.S.. A real American would invest their money in an American bank.

Dr. Regina Benjamin is surgeon general choice

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/13/surgeon.general/index.html

I question her experience on a national level, but Congress can supply the medical experts to grill her potential. They can get doctors to supply their questions for her appointment. Congress can do their own Independent work away from White House dictations.

Saying this, I wish her well, but with health care they need someone who can also will those anticipated demands.

President Obama is still segregating Liberals, you know the ones that fight for Human and Civil Rights.

Anyone that says a Progressive is a Liberal. I want to sell them Enron Stock with Madoff Security backing. A lot of Progressives are Ponzi schemes of Tory Blackwater.

I wish President Obama got as much done as his photo ops. I wish we have real Democrats fo Declaration of Independence from the White House in Congress, it is like the President legislating from his supreme court. Devil advocate counter punch, needs to have images working and walking among America's needs, where he is not the center of attraction.

With the White House chosen Tory puppets of Accounting to Congress, our government has severed the Constitution. The White House must have a Congressional and Judicial oversight committees with at least 3 civilian lawyer/scholar Constitutional experts, where in separate and unified meeting they do our Homework Duty with Honor to "We the people" Concrete Accountability.

Cheney has show America what Ben Franklin warned US about that with Cheney National Security "We the people" lose ur Civil Liberties Liberty and the Security of our homes Freedom and Democracy, where our homes become eminent domains of CorPolitical edicts, like banning the right to write Free Speech inside our homes. Cheney National Security is mirrored after Chinese Military Tribunal Justice of "At Will" internments without due process of civilian federal Courts.

If you drink alcohol or use tobacco you have already had a tax increase whether you make over $250K or not.

This is what is called a 'tax of choice".
give them up if you don't like paying more for them!

Obama has Dropped taxes. Ask your little peers, Thomass how he likes that additional $50+ per month he gets in his payroll. Ask Dufus Dan how he spent his and his wife's SS $250 refund checks.

It is only guys like you, who do not pay any taxes outside of a measly town tax on your shack, who bitch the most !

whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....
OMG, it just gets funnier every day. How do you think the nation will like a bald, female President? Oh well, you have that Representative Virginia Fox of VA who the lights reflex off her bald head when they show her, so I guess a bald President would be just par for the course !

Sarah Palin Underweight, Anxious, Needed "Emergency Help" For Thinning Hair: New York Times

The New York Times has a lengthy story on Sarah Palin in Monday's edition, examining the personal and political pressures that may have driven her to resign her governorship.

The article, like many others before it, describes Palin's political operation as largely dysfunctional, to the point that prominent Republican adviser Fred Malek felt the need to personally urge her to have someone "set up a mechanism so you can return calls."

The piece describes Palin as obsessed with her critics, and under severe strain from souring relationships with Alaska legislators and encounters with the national media and paparazzi. Perhaps the strangest details of the story come from accounts from Palin's friends about her physical deterioration:

Friends worried that she appeared anxious and underweight. Her hair had thinned to the point where she needed emergency help from her hairdresser and close friend, Jessica Steele.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/sarah-palin-underweight-a_n_230435.html

toooo funny.

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BobVADemocratHawk on July 13, 2009 at 05:28 PM

With those secret Tory bank accounts they could supply health care. If they do not want to open those account then have the IRS give the Swiss the tax lien. and make them or the Conglomerate pay the bills. If they will not open up there accounts, then tax UBS, make them leave Switzerland to do business in the USA, make them have a closed door Swiss corporation, and require them to declare all holdings within the United States for taxing purposes.

EMAIL. Action needed........

Big news: Attorney General Holder may be on the verge of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate cases of torture from the Bush era.1

With new revelations coming to light regularly, it's critical that an impartial investigator has the power to find out exactly what happened and who was responsible.

And that investigation must hold the architects of the program accountable. It's the only way we'll be able to make sure it never happens again.

But there's enormous political pressure to bury the worst abuses. The Attorney General is sending signals that he may move forward despite the pressure—and he needs to hear from regular Americans who are standing with him and want the truth. Can you email Holder right now to ask him to appoint a special prosecutor who can hold the architects of the program accountable?

Attorney General Eric Holder
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

The chairman of the judiciary committee should tell bigoted republican assholes kyl, sessions, grassley and graham to GFT. Get some balls and pull a cheney.

The only women who will vote for these pukes will be their barefoot and pregnant wives. If these senators are homosexuals, all bets are off.

Email from J Street. If you are not familiar with this group, or do not help support it, you should.

"I just left an extraordinary meeting with President Barack Obama, which he called to meet with the leadership of the American Jewish community.

A dozen organizations - including J Street - were at the table.

It was made clear to the President and his team the strong support that exists among American Jews and the broader public for a strong push to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for a two-state solution, and for a regional and comprehensive approach to the peace process.

The President said such a resolution was in Israel's interests. In the interests of the Palestinian people. And clearly in the interests of the United States.

The President expressed his gratitude, as did many of his aides, afterward for our attendance.

You should feel great. After little more than a year - and through your online advocacy and donations - J Street has arrived. We are your political voice when it comes to Israel and the Middle East - representing you in Washington and in the national political debate.

In recent days, much has been made in Jewish media of supposed concerns and reservations in the Jewish community about President Obama and his approach to the Middle East.

And today I had the opportunity to take our message of support directly to the White House - that there's a big difference between the views expressed by a vocal minority on behalf of the Jewish community - and what that community really thinks and supports.

We'll be in touch,

Jeremy

Jeremy Ben-Ami
Executive Director
J Street
July 13, 2009

hannity had the asshole sessions on today. What a flaming asshole. Check out this from the Huff Post:

From an article in The New Republic from 2002 (which is worth reading in full, to understand Sessions' unique position on the committee), here is a list of statements attributed to Jeff Sessions during his confirmation battle:

•Sessions called the NAACP and the ACLU "un-American" and "Communist-inspired." Further said these groups had "forced civil rights down the throats of people."

•Sessions called a white civil rights lawyer "a disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases.

•During his confirmation hearing, called the Voting Rights Act of 1965 "a piece of intrusive legislation."

•Sessions told colleagues that he "used to think [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK," until he discovered some of them were "pot smokers," showing a rather strange set of priorities.

•A black former assistant U.S. Attorney who worked with Sessions said Sessions had called him "boy," and after hearing him chastise an assumably-white (the story doesn't say) secretary, Sessions told him to "be careful what you say to white folks."

•Sessions called Charles Pickering, a George W. Bush nominee who had in 1959 written a paper defending Mississippi's anti-miscegenation law, "a leader for racial harmony," and "courageous."

Sessions is a fascist pig. This is how they set up the Jews in Germany in the 1930's. They were blamed for everything including the resulting war. Then we had the holocaust.

Thom Hartman was saying today that Bob Ney (R-OH) was screwed by the bush administration. I didn't catch the time frame but Armadinnerjacket sent a letter Robert Ney who speaks Farsi. Armadinnerjacket said they would be willing to accept Israel and quit supporting Hamas is only the US government would take them off of cheney's hit list. Ney to it to bush and cheney and they said hell no and framed Ney and had him removed from the government. bush and cheney took Libya off their terror list but refused to take off Iran. What do you want to bet that it was all about oil. We need to depose Ney and get hold of the letter, prosecute bush and cheney for war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace and slap them in cheney's maximum security concentration camp in Wyoming.

Iran was even willing to allow the International Nuclear team into the country and open up all their facilities to examination.

Talk about obvious criminal activity on the part of bush and cheney. Holder had better add this to his list of crimes. The list is getting pretty long and we just can't let bush and cheney walk like raygun and bush the first walked on the Iran/Contra Scandal which was obviously a criminal conspiracy.

senator franken, senator franken, senator franken...i remember when bush got re-elected and al said on air america that he was thinking of running....i had no idea he would pull it off...

supreme court justice sotomayor, supreme court justice sotomayor, supreme court justice sotomayor....i used to do stuff in the south bronx back when i was working for the state....got to watch it fall apart and then start to rebuild, got to cruise up next to yankee stadium on warm summer mornings and peer through the open doors to the green fields and listen to the subway trains rattle along on the el over my head....supreme court justice sotomayor straight outa the bronx...somehow i don't think this would have come to pass had mcsame and sister lame gotten elected...but then they lost last novemeber in a landslide didn't they....

how sweet it is!

Madoff En Route to New Prison; Leaves New York for Carolina

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Madoff/story?id=8073491&page=1

It looks like Madoff got a Tory jail, had it been a poor indigent person they would have ended up in Sing Sing. It looks like the lobbyist did his job, why it has a private medical facility.

I would have sent Madoff to a maximum security prison in isolation, and used Cheney treatments (Just Kidding) until he gave up the money trail. Now Madoff will wait for a Presidential pardon because of Madoff health, were the wealth reaches deep pick pocket secret deals. I think other countries need to indite Madoff, so that if pardoned, he can be extradited.

where did this idea that i was once a substitute teacher come from?

good evening, everyone.

the carpenter just got a call from the NRA who informed him that the United Nations and President Obama are going to strip him of his guns and his hunting rights unless he donates right now!

the guy got an ear full of how we believe our Congressman and the President will protect our rights.

BobVADemocratHawk on July 13, 2009 at 05:28 PM

Bob,

Excellent comment.

I see JONAH flushed the "blog toilet". Well done, sir. As usual, our resident trolls did not have anything to say of consequence other that their standard Republican racist, sexist, and otherwise immoral rants.

How refreshing, the nerds and their inane comments are gone. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

SandyH on July 13, 2009 at 07:21 PM

Thank you, ma'am. The Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds. They can jump up and down waving their Chinese made American flags seemingly becoming offended when we discuss rational diplomatic relations with our enemies, as we did with the Soviet Union, yet, all of that false bravado disappears when it comes to dollars and cents or the hiding of same. Sadly, the Republican Party has become the best that money can buy.

Good night fellow Americans. Keep the Faith and keep the faith. Yes we can, yes we will, and yes we did!

P.S. You've got your sixty votes now, Sen. Reid (D-NV). Do something with them or get someone as Majority Leader who can.

BobVADemocratHawk on July 13, 2009 at 05:19 PM

Bob,

Thank you for pointing out that attorney generals must follow the law not their President. Let the depositions under oath begin if there is evidence that a crime was committed. And then turn it over to a Grand Jury to ask the really hard questions.

Under our system, everyday citizens hold the ultimate responsibility in making sure public officials comply with the Constitution. We were given that power by the Founders. The justice system assembles the evidence, but it is the grand jury that investigates any suggestion of abuse of power or breaking of the law by any public official.

The Founders knew that only ordinary citizens can be trusted to protect our freedom. If we are not allowed to conduct our responsibilities in the way prescribed in the Constitution, conflicts will someday end up being fought on the streets instead of in the courts. Chaos will ensue and our republic will die.

The government is us...not the people who serve us. No public official is above the law and they must be held to the same standards as the rest of us. Only a grand jury can handle this most important of duties.

If the Attorney General has evidence, he must act.

Esmeralda on July 13, 2009 at 07:18 PM

Hi, Essie.

I'm glad I wasn't a party to that telephone conversation.

So one woman judge and a black president have so much muscle that a bunch of people with guns are shaking in their boots? Would they be so concerned if they were both white men?

So the NRA is using guns to extort money from members these days?

I guess they can't depend on the Republicans to fund their activities any longer. And all their middle class members are too worried about funding their own families to contribute. So they're bringing out their big guns....telephone solicitors from India?

Did the Carpenter ask what city that guy was calling from?

•Sessions told colleagues that he "used to think [the Ku Klux Klan] were OK," until he discovered some of them were "pot smokers," showing a rather strange set of priorities....

Johne,

They're dinosaurs. All these old segregationists are breathing their last breaths.

In a country that has decided it no longer wants any part of such a useless sick ideology, these old men don't know how much they are segregating themselves from the rest of America. They live in a place that no one wants to even visit any longer.

I hope Sessions shows his full, flaming racist/sexist colors for the TV. Let's get some great sound bites for next year's political ads. I know Sessions can't help himself and won't let us down.

bbl. I want to watch the home run derby.

Wow!

Just, WOW!

The troll is so enamored with seeing his drivel on screen that he actually saves his posts so he can repost them later after his useless tripe has been zapped.

Talk about mentally ill, there he is. Exhibit 'A'.

Good evening, all.

The home run hitters put on a nice show tonight. Some of those guys are built like the Babe and proved that they had a distinct advantage. It must feel great to help donate so much money with just a swing of a bat.

Speaking of batty, Cheney thought he could get away with his own secret police?.......

The CIA's Secret Program: Why Wasn't Panetta Informed?

By BOBBY GHOSH / WASHINGTON Bobby Ghosh / Washington – Mon Jul 13

Did the CIA deliberately keep its own director in the dark about a secret program?

The latest storm to break over Langley emerged after the New York Times reported over the weekend that former Vice President Dick Cheney had ordered that the program be kept from Congress's oversight committees.

Apparently, CIA Director Leon Panetta was told of the program's existence on June 23, four months after he took over the agency. Within 24 hours, he had canceled it and briefed the congressional oversight committees of its existence.

Amid the uproar over how and why the agency kept Congress in the dark, one question that has escaped attention is, Why didn't CIA officials tell Panetta sooner?

The details and specific target of the program have yet to be made public. Some media reports, citing unnamed officials, say it was a plan to find and kill al-Qaeda leaders abroad. Two former CIA officials tell TIME there's another, somewhat less dramatic, possibility: a plan to conduct domestic surveillance.

Spying on Americans is outside the CIA's purview and would be highly controversial - good enough reason for Cheney to want it kept under wraps...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090713/us_time/08599191017900

Caught between llegal torture and secret police, is he? Cheney needs to be either talking to a special prosecutor or priest asking for divine forgiveness.

Obama challenges on health care

By ERICA WERNER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press Writers

WASHINGTON – Back in the White House after a week overseas, President Barack Obama pressed Democratic leaders to pass health care legislation in both houses of Congress before August and expressed confidence about the ultimate outcome for his top domestic priority.

"Don't bet against us. We are going to make this thing happen," a defiant president said, eager to impart fresh momentum after days of delays in the House and Senate.

Obama delivered his full-throated promise in a Rose Garden appearance to announce his surgeon general nominee and later met privately with Democratic congressional leaders crucial to his legislation. The leadership's ambitious timetable for floor votes this summer has slipped.

"There was a strong agreement by everyone in the room that we can get a bill done before the start of the August recess," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "Sen. Reid intends to take a bill to the floor as quickly as possible."...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090713/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul

It's about time someone cracked the whip. Reid certainly proving to be high maintenance.

Hello fine Dems.

at rasmussen 28 % strongly approve, 25% approve for a total approve of 53%. disapprove total is at 46%. strongly disapprove has been between 28 and 36% for some time now. this is the "palin" voters....you know the ones who lost the last election....i guess after four months in office obama will quit and say he can't take the pressure....hahahahaha.....guess again asshole and that train whistle you hear is national health care coming at you.....

and while the troll likes the right leaning rasmussen poll we must also consider two other polls done in the same time frame:

Gallup 7/10-12/09 1500 A 59% approve 33% disapprove

CBS News 7/9-12/09 944 A 57% approve 32% disapprove

which is not to say that obama's numbers haven't dropped a bit but then he is running a country devastated by right wing nut ball economic theory for the past eight years and he has to make real decisions unlike the dummy who just "let it all hang out". things will improve and numbers will get better but as they are he would be re-elected tomorrow against anyone the repelicans can put up in a landslide....nice try sally...not.

The CIA's Secret Program: Why Wasn't Panetta Informed?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090713/us_time/08599191017900

Wow, Cheney bypassed Congress, and the CIA Director, I wonder if Cheney bypassed the President, thinking he had no right and need to know.

This is the Mt. Everest of Constitutional abuse of Constitutional power that some in the CIA Agency were above the law of Constitutional Accountability. That the CIA was functioning without its appointed leader on its own Cheney clandestine covert actions that Cheney had the CIA "Lie" to Congress, under his direct orders.

I wonder how many of Cheney secret CIA army members are still loyal to Cheney, over President Obama? I think the agency needs a loyalty check with a lie detector test to its CIA Director, the President, and the law of the land. The Cheney Blackwater CIA must be expunged under the Patriot Act abuse of tyranical power.

Congress needs to make legislation ban association to all these secret CIA operatives. I think that the problem is do deeply embedded in the Cheney CIA loyalty. How deep does this go in our intelligence agencies?

It seems that for the need for (National) Security, we lost our Civil Liberty for Congress to oversee the White House, thus how we lost both Security and Liberty, like Ben Franklin warned us about?

good evening chicago.

Good evening Gregg.
good to see you and your entertaining wit.

The Most Powerful Generation in America
HuffingtonPost.com

Russell Simmons Russell Simmons
Jul 12

By Russell Simmons and Maya Enista

The vast majority of Americans, including many policymakers at the highest levels of government, are still unaware of one of the most pressing economic issues facing our country. Many may think that everything newsworthy has been covered amidst the media firestorm surrounding foreclosures, banks, bailouts, and the stimulus packages that have consumed news cycle after news cycle in the last several months.

Unfortunately, both in the media and among policy-makers, there is one group that has been unceremoniously overlooked...

The good news is that even as young people are being overlooked by the majority of policymakers, they are stepping up to the plate to take control of their own economic destinies. Millennials are on track to be the most civically and politically engaged generation ever....

Just recently Mobilize.org, the Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE), the Roosevelt Institution, and a number of other youth organizations formed the "80 Million Strong for Young American Jobs" coalition, representing the collective voices of millions of Millennials. Its purpose: to give young people the tools they need to engage substantively with policymakers and propose solutions to these problems...

The Millennial legislative agenda resulting from the summit will address several areas where Congress can act now to invest in young people. First, investing in "Mission Critical" jobs and training programs that will utilize new technologies ranging from the emerging green sector to increased online infrastructure and new frontiers in the healthcare industry.

Second, creating volunteer-to-career pathways that will provide grants to young people working in unpaid local, state, and federal internships, so that Millennials can gain the experience they need to gain employment while staying afloat financially.

And finally, funding programs to provide increased continuing education opportunities for new workers, and legislation that would provide an increased time frame for student loan repayments.

Hopefully, Congress takes heed of the rising chorus of Millennials calling for action in these increasingly important areas. It is time for our policymakers to invest in the generation that will define the future of our country, and in the process, help set America on the path to economic recovery.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20090713/cm_huffpost/230311

They will not be ignored.

The baby boomlet generation will be a bigger political force than the baby boomers ever were. They are progressive and organized where we were not. And they have a real incentive after the failures of the Reagan Revolution to push for what they want and need.

Look out conservatives. They are on to your game and don't want any part of it.

71SandyH on July 13, 2009 at 08:16 PM

Sandy
Rachel Maddow did a great job tonight highlighting Jeffy Sessions hipocrasy.

This stupid little racist dolt named Jeff Sessions couldn't get confirmed by a repubican dominated judiciary committee because of his extreme racial bias. And he is leading the charge for the repelicans to attack Sotomayor acusing her of being racist?

It just shows you how far the repelicans have slipped if he is the best they can do.

A man, a weasely littel twit of a man who was not qualified to get CONFIRMED by the judiciary panel, is now the ranking repelican ON that panel.

A sad state of affairs for the repelican party.

DPD,

And all those re-posts will be washed away later, too. So what's the point?

I guess it keeps him busy? I suppose he's afraid to think about how terribly wrong his dreams went when Bush screwed up so badly.

Everything went wrong. His ideology doesn't work. And everybody especially that large pool of young voters, women, and minorities know who to blame...their incompetent Republican masters of the last eight years.

Even if he doesn't want to admit it to himself, he becoming an endangered species. I can't imagine how it must feel like to identify with Sessions, Craig, Sanford, Palin, or Foley, but that's his universe.

nice to see the repelican senators trying not to gag while being nice to the lady from the south bronx-why does the troll not think this is where she is from?? why does the troll think i was a substitute teacher?? why does the troll not explain what the heck happened with that al franken election that the supreme court was going to overturn??

any how these and other fantastically important questions will have to wait for another day as it is late here in the socialist/commie/collectivist/godless east and i must get my rest so that tomorrow and can go about my rounds stealing from the rich and giving to the poor....be well chicago and sandy and poet...

Chicago on July 13, 2009 at 11:35 PM

Chicago,

It's that pathetic truth that must be giving the big money Republicans nightmares and heartburn. Well, that's what they deserve and then some.

Wait till they finally figure out that without a strong middle class driving the economy that their very existence is at stake, too.

"But Cheney and Newt promised us that outsourcing and dependence on foreign oil would keep us in the money for centuries. What was all that about? What going to happen to us greedy, irresponsible Capitalists now that the Communist Chinese have the upper hand?"

Well, it looks like the top English capitalist has figured it out and the troll was kind enough to make the point for me.

Thank you, stooge.

Frank Ricci is a white New Haven, Conn., firefighter, who is one of the GOP's showcase witnesses on Thursday. His reverse-discrimination suit against the city of New Haven was rejected by a three-judge appeals court panel that included Sotomayor.

...Ricci, who has dyslexia, got his firefighting job in New Haven "by claiming discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which protects Americans from discrimination over disabilities."...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl560

Why hadn't I heard a peep about this in the MSM till now? It's sort of a glaring omission, wouldn't you think?

So he got his job originally because he said he was a minority? But now he says he's the majority that was discriminated against? He feels someone is always picking on him? He has to be a conservative.

I get the feeling he might not really want to testify on national TV and appear as confused as McCain, Joe the Plumber, and Palin. But then it might also help Sotomayer's case, too, so why not.

I'd suggest letting him ramble on incoherently till he does himself more damage than good....for that next discrimination case that you just know he's going to take to court.

So is he a serial litigator who believes there should be more tort reform? Time will tell unless his testimony is anything like a Palin press conference. Nobody can figure out yet what she was talking about.

Prince Chucklehead a capitalist? I think not. He is a parasite....

And you think Paris Hilton, the Bushies, and T. Bone Pickens aren't parasites? When has any of their "hard work" created any real capital?

Funny how you can't see the forest for the trees. But then your pretty batty and live in a dark GOP bunker with Darth...and that creepy Larry Craig.

More predictions?

I hope DPD catalogues this one before Jonah wipes it away tomorrow.

I think this is a good place to call it a day.

Good night, everyone.

SCREW SESSIONS, KYL, CORNHOLE, GRASSLEY AND GRAHAM. They are toast in their next election.

Notice that they are mostly from southern states who are still fighting the Civil War. The only outcast is kyl who is from the fascist state of arizona.

These people are dyed in the wool fascist pigs who will lead a charge against hispanics just like Adolf Hitler did the Jews.

These people need to be short-sheeted and driven out of the Senate. They aren't fit to be pimps for cheney's daughter.

Good morning all good Dems,

Now that the troll has passed out, maybe we can have an intelligent debate.

Good morning, DEMS!

John, speaking of which, isn't Cheney's evil spawn doing a tryout / guest hosting gig for Joe Scumbucket on "Morning Schmo" today?

good morning, Dems......

SandyH, the old troll talks about parasites, but forgot that his midnight fantasy , Sarah Palin, milked the RNC for clothes and make-up, for herself and her entire family ! All those baby clothes, expensive clothes for herself, etc.

Now the normal person, with any sense of self pride, would have said they would take out a line of credit, and outfit their family, thank you very much, and be able to walk out there on stage in one's own clothes! But the Wasilla Hillbillies saw nothing wrong with begging and blood sucking all they could out of their masters!

How humiliating to the average family, but not to this group of slugs.

Morning DPD,

I hadn't heard. She is probably as arrogant and demented as her father. scumbucket had better watch out or she will shoot him in the face.

Morning Pam,

When are the wheels going to come off the repuke party? Every day they just become more depraved and brash. When is the next adulterer or the next toe-tapper going to be exposed, although it doesn't seem to bother their constituents who must be brain dead to put up with their lies and inuendos. Maybe they hate America too.

Now this is kind of funny. 3 slugs break out of the Indiana State Prison and go on the lam. Where do they pick to hide out and rest? Right next to Mayor Daley's summer house in Michigan, which is guarded by a private security company when he isn't there, but when he is his CPD security detail travels with him.

Guess what? He was there, and so were the cops.

Daley security guard captures escaped murderer

DPD,

That guard will have a job for life. Nobody said that criminals are very smart.

Off to work. The tennis court contractor was supposed to start repairing the cracks in two tennis courts yesterday. Instead he chose to rip up the asphalt in our other two tennis courts. When I called him he said "Oh Shit".

I gave him specific instructions to repair only the cracks in the first two tennis courts they screwed up last year.

This is what keeps me on my toes. The city manager took it in stride.

go to work, Thomasssss, the TORO line is waiting for you to come to your station, and put the wheels on ! You little pipsqeek. Still hurts, doesn't it!

YOU LOST

WE WON

SUCK IT THE HELL UP

go to work, Thomasssss, the TORO line is waiting for you to come to your station, and put the wheels on ! You little pipsqeek. Still hurts, doesn't it!

YOU LOST

WE WON

SUCK IT THE HELL UP

ahhhh, dufus Thomasss, most of the Obama's expenses, they pay for themselves!! Did you miss that????

I still remember Thomass bragging about some party they hosted, where he wore his 'smoking jacket". The picture of this arrogant wimp in a smoking jacket, has just stayed with me , and anytime I need a laugh, I dredge it up!! ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

This is where the trolls get "edumacated". This loony moron Beck obviously didn't watch a single minute of the Sotomayor proceedings yesterday, yet he feels free to pontificate on them for his mouth breathing, low IQ viewers.

Glenn Beck Slams Softball Questioning Of Sotomayor... But There Were No Questions Today (VIDEO)

Hey Pammy, remember when The One had his party's acceptance speech moved to the Denver stadium, away from the convention center?

and this was because so many of the American public were clamoring to SEE this historic event. It was certainly not some parasitic acceptance of personal clothing ! Like apples and oranges, but nice try there old fool, nice try.

uhhhhhmmmmm, in case you didn't notice, dipshit, you are no longer in the DNC archives, and then it was just a lying brag, because you DID say it !

Bon Jour, and Happy Bastille Day, Pam. Ignore the ignorant.

once again the troll predicts a conservative landslide is coming....this is so boring....and still the troll can't quite explain the failure of all it's other predictions....the troll is like those religious nuts who keep telling us THIS year the world will end....but then given it's refusal to accept the theory of evolution what could the troll be but a religious nut?

Yes, Poor Obama INHERITED the biggest mess in history !

Yikes, only 57%! what a shame, and that is because of this Inherited economy which took 8 years to dig us into, and will take years to dig us out !

Obama Approval Rating Slips to 57 Percent
CBS News Poll: President Loses Support Amid Concerns About Economy

The president's current approval rating, which is 57 percent, is still relatively high.

The driving issue behind the president’s decline in approval appears to be the economy.

duhhhhh, Thomasss, it is the MEMORY I dredge up.

If you can't keep up here, maybe you should be over on Redstate. They talk real simple there.

Bon Jour, Gregg. One of the troll's favorite climate change deniers appears to be a bit of a nut. But he's a right wing nut, so that makes it all just dandy.

Rob Gaudet, Key Climate Bill Opponent, Apparently Way Into Sasquatch

So let's recap: he doesn't think burning fossil fuels contributes to greenhouse garbage floating in the air, which can be measured; but he does believe in an 11 foot tall man/ape hybrid that NO ONE has ever seen, and he still denies evolution because his own brain has yet to develop past the lizard stage.

OK, got it.

Pam. I remember that "smoking jacket" line too. He was going out to a cocktail party / nice dinner.

I guess it was a joke which meant it was a run to the case and can store for a bottle of Muscatel and a Slim Jim.

But once again, ignore the ignorant trolls.

Good morning, all.

PamB on July 14, 2009 at 08:06 AM

A normal person wouldn't have accepted that nomination knowing her unwed daughter was pregnant and would be embarrassed.

As for the clothes, I felt that was the least the RNC could have done for those poor kids. Their mother had them dressed like the children's chorus from "Oliver" and the baby was used as a prop to hide the pregnancy. It was obvious that they hadn't even packed before leaving Alaska.

All they brought were with them were their guns and Sarah's high heels. They even forgot Levi.