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radiowxman
March 19th, 2009
4:35 pm
It’s funny because it’s true!
I do wonder if this was made up by a GOP group.
If it is, then kudos. They’re finally starting to learn the lessons the dems have known for years.
Observer
March 19th, 2009
4:46 pm
Obviously, those of us on the right will find this more enjoyable than our left-leaning counterparts on this board, but either way, you have to admit the entire premise of this blog is really funny.
Paul
March 19th, 2009
4:49 pm
Clever. Creative. And, sure to tick some people off.
Somehow, I think Pres Obama would look at it and chuckle.
Midori
March 19th, 2009
4:54 pm
OMG JAY!!!!
Where did you get that???
TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS!!!!!!
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
4:57 pm
Jay – I know you talk to or see Luckovich. I dare you to ask him to draw my cartoon below. He has my permission …… free of charge !!
CARTOON:
“President Obama is sitting at supper with his wife and kids in the private living quarters on the second floor of the White House. They are faving a typical conversation about school, what went on that day, etc. Around his neck is a portable “mini-telepromter” device which allows him to properly converse with his family.”
Paul
March 19th, 2009
5:01 pm
Hi Midori
Don’t want to leave you with any false impressions – I was reading an article about Hurricane Katrina evacuees who’d settled in Houston, who’d started businesses and wanted to stay. One of them was about a father and sons who started a turducken mail order meal company. Got great reviews. I decided to help support their company and bought some of their product. It was -La Boucherie, I believe.
So I didn’t make the duck breast in a chicken breast in a turkey breast with wild rice pecan stuffing. Just cooked it. And ate it! It was quite differently good.
I’d done the whole duck in a chicken in a turkey (each with stuffing) on a Thanksgiving. Amazing thing is, it’s all deboned (except for the turkey wings and, I think, part of the drumstick) but the skin is intact. That was an impressive sight.
Paul
March 19th, 2009
5:03 pm
Corporal
I believe I saw it reference here, some time back, that Mr. Luckovich doesn’t draw anything he doesn’t think up himself. Has said he’s gotten some pretty good ideas from readers but that’s just how he does things.
@@
March 19th, 2009
5:04 pm
Very creative! Plastic still rules.
Down for the Dow
Really, jay…..you’ve been lax in your duties. Good thing I was able to find a minute.
Jay
March 19th, 2009
5:04 pm
Corporal, the best way to ensure that Luckovich never draws a particular cartoon is to suggest that cartoon to him. He takes great pride in generating his own ideas.
Taxpayer
March 19th, 2009
5:05 pm
Tout au contraire, Observer. I found it quite amusing. Besides, it’s a much better distraction than talk of lynch mobs and pals of terrorists and other such stuff. Who knows, there may even be a spot on SNL or Cobert or, dare I say it, Jim Cramer, if he doesn’t corrupt his bits and bytes.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:05 pm
Paul:
You are right I am sure but that’s also the problem. If he ever thought this one up himself …. he wouldn’t draw it.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:10 pm
ASSORTED HEADLINES:
1) HEADLINE: Guantanamo Detainees May Be Released in USA … (I hope they all settle on the same streets as my liberal friends out there. Be sure and invite them to the July 4th BBQ this year but be also be sure to duck when the fireworks start).
2) HEADLINE: “Stock rally fades as investors assess Fed moves …”
3) HEADLINE: “House passes bill to tax employee bonuses at AIG, other companies with big bailouts …”
I think the last one could be challenged in court as being unconstitutional. Anyone want to research that?
Paul
March 19th, 2009
5:11 pm
Corporal
The guy’s an editorial cartoonist. He’s admittedly liberal, but it’s his job to point out foibles and inconsistencies and to get people to think. He’s lampooned liberals regularly. Not as much as a conservative editorial cartoonist like Ramirez over at Investors Business Daily, to be sure, but then again, Ramirez probably didn’t do Bush/McCain as often as Luckovich, either.
But if he comes up with something really good, even if it makes the Pres look silly, he’ll do it. He’s a pro. You don’t get Pulitzers for being safely predictable. Or that other award he just got that I referenced yesterday, give, to paraphrase, for “making people all across the political spectrum really, really unhappy.”
Midori
March 19th, 2009
5:11 pm
Paul,
I definitely need to try one of those!! sounds yummy!!!
You’re such a gentleman – you don’t take credit for things you shouldn’t take credit for.
Too bad you can’t rub off on some on this blog.
Taxpayer
March 19th, 2009
5:15 pm
Corporal,
Here’s another one for you. The teleprompter generates its own 3D image of Obama and projects it behind the podium. You conservatives (Republicans) just don’t know how humor is done. Lay down your weapons and enjoy life for a change.
@@
March 19th, 2009
5:18 pm
I’m afraid this 90% tax on bonuses is just one of many instances where this congress has overreached.
And of course, rolling this ex post tax out at the same time the Fed and Treasury are trying to encourage private investors to partner up with the government to get the credit markets moving again is insane.
Unintended consequences to follow.
Midori
March 19th, 2009
5:23 pm
Lay down your weapons and enjoy life for a change.
stomach………..hurts………from………laughing……….so……….hard………….:lol:
professional skeptic
March 19th, 2009
5:30 pm
Amusing blog! If President Obama believes in using a teleprompter in order to avoid the embarrassing speech blunders that made his predecessor the laughingstock of English speakers worldwide, then more power to him.
(By the way, just Google the term “speech blunders”.)
Paul
March 19th, 2009
5:31 pm
Midori
Got Underworld. Going to watch it tonight. Thanks in advance -
Taxpayer
March 19th, 2009
5:31 pm
Here’s something else that I found to be humorous. That’s quite a few Republicans siding with the Dems on this highly contentious and public issue. I think we may just have found a starting point for some common grounds. Why don’t we do a little more pallin around on other hot topics and see where it takes us.The House overwhelmingly passed legislation on Thursday to tax bonuses paid out by AIG and other bailed-out firms at a rate of 90 percent. “The bill passed well beyond the two-thirds margin necessary,” said Kristie Greco, spokesperson for House Majority Whip James Clyburn. (In all, 243 Democrats and 85 Republicans voted “yes” on the bill. It was opposed by six Democrats and 87 Republicans.)
I Report/ You Whine
March 19th, 2009
5:34 pm
You won’t be getting a biscuit for this one.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:37 pm
Paul:
Agree to disagree. Bias is bias. If we added them up over the years …. no comparison.
Taxpayer”
YOU sir have hit on something !!! The USSS would love this … he’s there but he’s “not” there! What a security improvement that would be …….. If you invent that, you will get the “Medal of Something” !
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:38 pm
Midori:
Why……is……that……funny…….?
I carry a weapon because a cop is too heavy.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:39 pm
Seriously folks:
What about my 5:10. I think there is a provision in the Constitution that prohibits going “back” like that to pick on a “specific” group.
Someone help me with this …………
I Report/ You Whine
March 19th, 2009
5:40 pm
luckovich generating his own ideas, bwahahahahahahahahahahaha, now that one was good!
Paul
March 19th, 2009
5:42 pm
Taxpayer
We still have to contend with Article 1, Section 9 (Limits on Congress), Clause 3.
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed . ”
[[The prohibition embodied in this clause is not to be strictly and narrowly construed in the context of traditional forms but is to be interpreted in accordance with the designs of the framers so as to preclude trial by legislature, a violation of the separation of powers concept. 1703 The clause thus prohibits all legislative acts, ''no matter what their form, that apply either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial. . . .'' 1704 That the Court has applied the clause dynamically is revealed by a consideration of the three cases in which acts of Congress have been struck down as violating it. 1705 In Ex parte Garland, 1706 the Court struck down a statute that required attorneys to take an oath that they had taken no part in the Confederate rebellion against the United States before they could practice in federal courts. The statute, and a state constitutional amendment requiring a similar oath of per sons before they could practice certain professions, 1707 were struck down as legislative acts inflicting punishment on a specific group the members of which had taken part in the rebellion and therefore could not truthfully take the oath. The clause then lay unused until 1946 when the Court utilized it to strike down a rider to an appropriations bill forbidding the use of money appropriated therein to pay the salaries of three named persons whom the House of Representatives wished discharged because they were deemed to be ''subversive.'']]
It was opposed by 6 Dems and 87 Reps? So I suppose 87 Reps have read the Constitution while…
But I still like your idea -
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:46 pm
Here it is. What say ye Constitutional scholars? Are the Dems. about to violate the Constitution?
Article 1 Section 9
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”
“In the context of the Constitution, a Bill of Attainder is meant to mean a bill that has a negative effect on a single person or group.”
Pogo
March 19th, 2009
5:48 pm
Yawwwwn.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:55 pm
Pogo:
Come on. Get in the fight.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
5:57 pm
HEADLINE: “7.9-MAG QUAKE STRIKES OFF TONGA … TSUNAMI WARNING…”
Now …. say “Tonga Tsunami” ten times as fast as you can.
@@
March 19th, 2009
5:58 pm
To expand — A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
Last time I looked, being paid for work performed was not a crime. If, on the oft chance, there was a crime committed (NOT) they’re entitled to their day in court.
Another stupid move by this administration.
Taxpayer
March 19th, 2009
6:03 pm
Corporal,
It’s called a holographic projection. Someone beat me to the patent office, darn it.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:04 pm
Damn! I’m gonna have to give Charlie Rangel credit here.
Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which writes the tax code, said that the approach was inappropriate.
“It’s difficult for me to think of the code as a political weapon,” said Rangel, who spoke to a handful of reporters outside his office.
Of course, Charlie does have his own tax problems but I think he’s on the up and up with this one.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
6:04 pm
To @@:
I hear you but it also says “no ex post facto Law” ???
A new “Law” now (after the fact) making them return something that was legally in their contract would seem to be a problem …..
But then unfortunately, Supreme Court justices have a habit of making the Constitution say what they want it to say rather than what it really means.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:06 pm
This is the point where libs can be asked where they stand……on or with The Constitution?
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
6:06 pm
Taxpayer:
Yep. What a shame. You could have easily been one of those evil, wicked, selfish rich people. Oh, well …………..
Paul
March 19th, 2009
6:06 pm
@@
I’ll offer Rep Rangel thought of it in political terms.
In Constitutional terms, it’s violation of separation of powers with the Legislative encroaching on the Judicial.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
6:07 pm
Jay
Loved it Thanks!
ACtually, Telly, comes to our O of O meetings. Like Paul, he has trouble with the secret handshake, but we accept them both.
I’ve only had one problem with Telly.
He keeps trying to get us to let all or part of Dick Cheney in our super secret primo cool O of O meetings. Telly claims it’s only fair since the former Vice President put all the words in former Presidents mouth. Some days he wants to bring the brain in a jar, others just the right hand. Telly has a rather stiff sense of humor.
He can do the robot like nobody’s business, projects a good image and serves our President well. Helluva guy.
ALways brings food for the buffet, never eats. Best darn designated driver you ever met.
Now really, I would suggest that if folks want to be taken seriously,
poking at the President for the ethical and efficacious use of modern technology hits the Epic Fail button. It’s like watching my dad try the internet for the first time, tried to find Army Air Corp stuff got some
“T & A” site and had the cutest conniption fit I ever saw.
Teleprompter Indeed.
I Report/ You Whine
March 19th, 2009
6:10 pm
Hehehehehehe-
The lesson from AIG is that the entire premise of the Obama administration — we know better — is fundamentally flawed. The Obama team can’t effectively manage a single troubled company without getting itself and the whole country tied up in knots. The notion that we should invest the federal government with authority to control vast swatches of the economy can now be seen for what it is: madness. We should consider ourselves lucky that the public is getting a glimpse of its government in action on a (relatively speaking) low-dollar item of limited consequences.-Commentary
Yeah and these bozos want to tackle the “environment” and health care.
I pray for you America.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:12 pm
Corporal:
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
This is bad policy! I expect the Supreme Court to step up to the plate here…..no ifs, ands or buts. Obama may be lookin’ a lot like Chavez, but THIS IS NOT VENEZUELA! Not yet anyway.
I Report/ You Whine
March 19th, 2009
6:14 pm
Aahhh, yes, a cut throat living in your neighborhood, excellent-
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners.-WSJ
Wonderful.
Dusty
March 19th, 2009
6:15 pm
Paul, 5:11
So, as you said, Luckovich prides himself on making people all across the political spectrum very very unhappy.
I would say he is partially successful at that. He is for me. But I would guess that he makes about 90% of Democrats happy. I remember the Statue of Liberty with a tear—very good.
I’m thinking..I’m thinking…but that is all that comes to mind that shows any support for our country. I think he let his anti-war sentiments guide his “inspirations” during war time.
Sure it was shocking. Got attention! Like an unruly child screaming in a restaurant gets attention. Not endearment.
I’m sorry you are so diplomatic that you excuse the use of talent for anything. Talent, like every other gift we are given, should not be used against that which is good. You see, I think our country is the best in the world. Like our families, we think the best we can and do not capitalize on their faults. I do not think the USA is perfect, just the best that is!
Luckovich concentrates on faults, not superlatives. I do not like his drawings or his philosophy. I do not waste time on them. Call it a closed mind but I’d rather it be closed to his kind of thinking and drawing than think and betray like he does.
Sam
March 19th, 2009
6:16 pm
OK, so let me get this straight: First Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress rams thru in less than 48 hrs a $700 billion package to bail out these “too big to fail” companies. Dodd modifies (at the behest of Obama’s admin) the bill so AIG employees would get the bonuses. The Senators and Congressman who voted “aye” either: didn’t bother to read the bill or worse yet, hoped that nobody noticed. And now after the fact, they’re scrambling to cover their arses for not doing their due deligence, have the temerity to grandstand in front of the cameras. And now they pass this bill that voids the contract that THEY approved?
The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.”
“Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. … The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less-informed part of the community.” James Madison, Federalist Number 44, 1788.
I’ve been wrong all along….Obama has brought CHANGE to our government: he’s changed it into a banana republic…..good grief.
RW-(the original)
March 19th, 2009
6:18 pm
I Report/ You Whine linked to this at 12:06 and it goes up as it’s own post at 4:30 with no hat tip?
Poor form, Jay B, poor form.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:18 pm
Paul:
You’re probably right, but in this instance, at least……so is Rangel.
It’s not right!
It’s not right!
It’s not right!
Bad precedence!
Bad!
Bad!
Bad!
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
6:19 pm
I see most of our elected representatives stood up today and
“ex post facto’d some plebes” and you can quote me.
Yep, it’s probably unconstitutional. However, it feels so damn good.
Today the Congress of the United States of America (mostly), stood up and stood together and uttered the words of the people. Very cool.
Thanks my fellow Americans, you made that possible.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:28 pm
Mrs. G:
I don’t know how you can say it feels good in knowing that:
1) Our representatives in Congress are ignorant of constitutional law or…
2) They’re placating the public with empty gestures knowing full-well they’re operating outside the constitution.
I personally feel like the country is flying on auto pilot through a flock of bird brains like you.
Harsh, I know….
getalife
March 19th, 2009
6:32 pm
Pretty funny but not as funny as the House vote today.
First, the gop voted no on taking back the bonuses.
Then they ran back for their political lives and voted yes.
Hilarious.
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:35 pm
The latest on the Obama administration’s plans for Afghanistan:
A full-scale counterinsurgency push in the violent south and east of Afghanistan with a scaling back of American forces? He’s looking to put 400,000 troops in (comprised of ?) and expanding the drone attacks into Balukistan? It’s being said that Gates is not keen on the idea.
I Report/ You Whine
March 19th, 2009
6:38 pm
RW- Bookman, as does luckovich, “generates” his own blog ideas, bwahahahahaha.
Puh-leeze.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
6:39 pm
Perhaps, @@, you feel like the country is on auto pilot because you are.
You really do see the glass half empty.
I see most of our elected officials standing up and saying as a group
that the American people are grassroots ticked. A bunch of Jefferson Smiths.
Call me bird brain will you!@#$@@%$%$
Well, double dog pond scum on you! With anchovies!
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
6:41 pm
And @@, I suspect POTUS is looking at more plans for the Middle East as a whole than any of us can imagine. Kick the can around awhile….
Paul
March 19th, 2009
6:42 pm
Dusty
I said he got that award the other day for making people unhappy. I also said he has a liberal political view who will skewer liberal politicians when he so chooses. I’ve read a couple of his interviews. I don’t think there’s any doubt he cares deeply for our country; however, he points out the flaws that need correcting. Or the behavior that doesn’t quite meet the ideals.
I put him in a different category than Donohue, who was on Hannity last night (okay, someone here said he’d be on and I recorded it and watched the segment). Hannity pointed out,several times, that Donohue comes across as all negative and wondered why he doesn’t reference anything good. I never heard an answer. That is a different attitude than what we see in the political cartoons.
BTW – I also recorded Leno last night as Keith Olbermann was on. They were discussing AIG and Leno asked Olbermann “doesn’t Congress bear any responsibility?” O spoke of something else and Leno repeated the question. Olbermann answered by saying we should investigate AIG executives.
He just could not bring himself to say anything about a Democratic Congress. That is much more in the mold, I think, of what you are describing.
Don’t forget, tonight Pres Obama’s on Leno.
Admit it… you do like Ramirez, right?
@@
Even the libs on the Court would find that one unconstitutional. Another embarrassment for the Dems, I think -
Paul
March 19th, 2009
6:45 pm
@@
[[It’s being said that Gates is not keen on the idea.]]
That, I think, is an understatement –
Mrs. Godzilla
[[I suspect POTUS is looking at more plans for the Middle East as a whole than any of us can imagine. Kick the can around awhile….]]
That’s what has some of us mightily concerned….
@@
March 19th, 2009
6:52 pm
Mrs. G:
I’m so glad it’s you and not me that’s sitting behind the “first-class bulkhead”.
Paul:
I don’t see how they cannot.
ConservativeAnchor
March 19th, 2009
6:52 pm
Yes.
>>UPDATE: GOP-led House defeats resolution honoring Obama
1:45 pm March 19, 2009, by Aaron Gould Sheinin
UPDATE: The Georgia House has voted 68-70 not to approve a resolution honoring President Barack Obama and making him an honorary member of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus.
The vote on HR 673 came after two days of negotiations between Democrats who saw the resolution as similar to many they’ve approved honoring Republicans over the years, and Republicans who wanted no part of celebrating Obama’s “vision.”
RW-(the original)
March 19th, 2009
6:53 pm
Paul,
You may or may not have any idea what I’m talking about, but Jim Rome recently completed a streak of interviewing somebody named Rex for twenty straight shows. Is Leno on an “O” streak?
RW-(the original)
March 19th, 2009
6:55 pm
The US Constitution sure went from sacrosanct to “meaningless restraints on the will of the mob” around here.
RW-(the original)
March 19th, 2009
6:57 pm
I Report/ You Whine,
Anybody that thinks ml generates his own cartoon ideas sure didn’t pay much attention when his blog was still among the living. Perhaps that’s why it’s dead.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
7:00 pm
To @@: I agree!
To I Report/You Whine:
As I said, I hope they move into a house on the same street as some of our liberal friends here.
To Mrs. Godzilla:
While Congress demeans the Constitution, those words from Washington just keep coming back:
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:01 pm
RW:
Doesn’t your nekkid friend, Sonya live on Tonga?
Paul
March 19th, 2009
7:02 pm
RW-(the original)
[[Is Leno on an “O” streak?]]
Oh, I don’t know… soon he’ll be over the O’s…. and soon he’ll start the alphabet again… Biden! Yes! We need some comic relief! He’s a guy who’s funny WITH a teleprompter. Or even a cue card when he’s swearing someone in… or… or… heck, he’s good for a laugh anytime.
Told ya’ this Administration has some eerie similarities to the previous Administration.
I think @@ nailed it with the Constitution being used as a prop. But I also have to agree with Mrs. G – it does feel good!
Sam
March 19th, 2009
7:04 pm
well said RW. Since Mrs. Godzilla is willing to pick and choose which part of the Constitution she favors, then I guess Bush did nothing wrong in his handling of enemy combatants, right?
BTW, the lawsuits that will be filed by the AIG employees and the cost to defend the governments unteneble position due to their lack of due deligence will cost far more than the $160 million in payouts…..Does that make you feel better Mrs. Godzilla.
As far as I’m concerned, any Congressman that voted for the bailout bill (Democrats or Republicans) should have their wages garnished for the rest of their term. Obama’s salary should be garnished as well since he or his team put this provision in the first place.
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:09 pm
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has dismantled a network of Web sites planning a soft coup, Iranian state-run news agency Press TV reported March 19.
I’d share what the IRGC had to say but they’re unreliable, at best.
Turkey is on the rise.
Gotta go check it out.
Been watching and waiting.
RW-(the original)
March 19th, 2009
7:13 pm
@@,
My nekkid friend Sonya never real did live in Tonga, but she made up a new fake place to live a couple years ago.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
7:16 pm
Paul:
It would have made me feel “good” to violate some criminal’s rights but ………. the law is the law.
To RW(the original):
I am an “originalist”. It means what it says and says what it means.
Orginal intent until Amended.
Taxpayer
March 19th, 2009
7:18 pm
Sometimes, you have to let certain things run their course before you can even begin to appreciate its impact or even it potential. There are many different ways of viewing things. Over eighty Republicans saw at least two of those ways today. Like I said, it’s quite humorous. Images of the little light bulbs flickering on and off.
AmVet
March 19th, 2009
7:21 pm
@@, I remember reading some time ago about a young “progressive” quasi-western movement in Iran. And that our best bet was to foster this discontent as opposed to saber rattling.
Is it alive and well or do the mullahs still rule with an iron fist?
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:21 pm
Awwhhh, RW, she’s just playing hard to get. She wants you, he really, really wants you.
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:21 pm
Whoops! sorry, RW, I dropped an “s”. (ISH)
getalife
March 19th, 2009
7:25 pm
Sonya is a fat man that lives in Canada.
Ewwww.
Dusty
March 19th, 2009
7:32 pm
Dear Paul,
You are talking with someone who does not watch much TV. The only “news” and commentary show I watch is Lehrer News Hour and a few locals now and then. Nothing during the day and very lttle after eleven o’clock. Sometimes I catch Gwen Iffel on Sunday mornings. The rest don’t interest me too much.
Yes I like Ramirez because RW(’s blog) showed us some Ramirez cartoons (also the viking kitties which are my favorites). Ramirez was not throwing off on the President or the country. Better drawing ability also.
Well, sounds like Congress has gone off the deep end trying to clean up a mess. With all the lawyers up there you would think one of them might remember something they learned about “law”, the Constitution and things like that. Do you think the cherry blossoms are putting out brain-banish pollen?
Gone to watch Jim Lehrer.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
7:33 pm
To @@:
And ….. Israel is on the verge of doing something also as they know President “Did I do that” Urkel just doesn’t have the juice. I can feel it in my bones.
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:33 pm
Getalife:
Sonya is a fat man that lives in Canada.
and you used to hang around him just so you could look at his nudes.
Don’t deny it! I @@ you over there.
AmVet:
Some of the more moderate candidates are pulling out of the presidential race to consolidate their supporters behind one moderate candidate to go up against Ahmadenijad. The problem is the candidate that’s moving to the front of the pack has a questionable past. Could be he’s gotten older and wiser.
The younger generation may have to take their progress in incremental steps.
@@
March 19th, 2009
7:36 pm
Well Corporal, I was gonna say something about Netanyahu’s bones but thought better of it.
So I didn’t….
Bumpkin from Lumpkin
March 19th, 2009
7:40 pm
Funny site, Jay, and thanks. Been reading it off an on today, and get a laugh every time.
Bumpkin from Lumpkin
March 19th, 2009
7:44 pm
Is it me, or does anyone else have a feeling that our representatives arrive to work each day on a short yellow bus?
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
7:47 pm
@@
You know it’s coming ………..
Private Parts/Corporal Punishment
March 19th, 2009
7:52 pm
Civilian/Private/Corporal struggles to express himself with:
I am an “originalist”. It means what it says and says what it means.
let me help him with this pathetic thought: jesus wrote the bible and the constitution. that is why we have no say-so in anything other than doing exactly what the bible and the constitution say – exactly what they say!
OOOh ‘ and please reference Urkel again. so topical, current, and ………funnnnny.
your pal,
pvt. parts
DB, Gwinnettian
March 19th, 2009
7:53 pm
The teleprompter blog, eh.
I guess I don’ t know if this is a parody of stupidity, or just stupidity. whatever.
DB, Gwinnettian
March 19th, 2009
7:55 pm
About the AIG bonuses–I never quite knew how to express my combination “it’s small change so who really gives a crap” / “why doesn’t anyone seem to care that these types of bonuses are standard issue stuff in corporate America?
Saw this, figured I’d link it, because it says it better than I can. Excerpt follows.
What happened at AIGFP is standard practice throughout corporate America. America’s corporate titans like to talk endlessly about performance-based pay and how capitalism rewards risk, but in real life compensation packages are almost always constructed to avoid as much risk as possible. If you work in a growing industry, your bonus depends on raw growth rates. If you work in a declining industry, your bonus is linked to relative growth rates. If the market is up, your bonus is paid in stock. If it’s not, suddenly deferred comp and increased pension contributions are the order of the day. Heads you win, tails you win.
The AIG traders who got this sweetheart deal are nothing special. Management probably didn’t even think twice about it. Of course you switch from performance bonuses to retention bonuses when the market looks stormy. What else would you do?
I don’t, frankly, care all that much about the AIG bonuses. The only reason AIG isn’t in Chapter 11 is technical (they’re too big to fail!), so morally I don’t see any reason not to treat them as if they were in Chapter 11 like any other failed company. That means employees stand in line for their bonuses along with all the other creditors. On the other hand, this whole thing really is small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, and Tim Geithner and the United States Congress have better things to worry about.
But the culture that brought this on? That deserves to be dismantled brick by brick. I may not care much about AIG, but if it’s the spark that finally gets Americans to take the executive comensation racket seriously, then hallelujah. If it’s not, then it’s just a carnival sideshow.
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March 19th, 2009
8:07 pm
You know it’s coming ………..
Really! Netanyahu?
I’d better go slip into something long and slinky then.
J/K, not really, no really, J/K.
I’ll go do a little reading up on Israel’s latest moves. I’ve been more focused on Turkey. Fascinating possibilities there. They find themselves on the rise in the Middle East to thwart Iranian influence. I see them somewhere between Russia and the U.S.
They’re out exit door out of Iraq but also an access door for Russian expansion. The Europeans have been waiting to see what we’re willing to concede to Russia. Turkey is the key. I don’t think the Europeans are gonna like what we’ll have to deliver via Turkish negotiations, which, in turn complicates our need for more allied troops in Afghanistan.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
8:09 pm
DB
Brick by brick…..Hot Damn!
@@
March 19th, 2009
8:16 pm
Dang! That was supposed to be “our” exit door but then RW already knew that.
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
8:24 pm
Hey Mrs. Godzilla:
What about this …. seriously:
While Congress demeans the Constitution, those words from Washington just keep coming back:
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
Civilian/Private/Corporal
March 19th, 2009
8:26 pm
Private Parts/Corporal Punishment:
You know you really are quite humorous. I mean that in a nice way.
However, debate is also a lot of fun.
Yes, I said I was an “originalist”. Here is what that means. What are your thoughts?
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.” George Washington
G
March 19th, 2009
8:31 pm
What a hoot! I love it!
@@
March 19th, 2009
8:32 pm
Here’s a poll from Rasmussen that I haven’t seen, jay. Is it one you missed too?
Support for the Democratic Congressional candidates fell to a new low over the past week, allowing the GOP to move slightly head for the first time in recent years in the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 41% said they would vote for their district’s Republican candidate while 39% would choose the Democrat.
mike
March 19th, 2009
8:39 pm
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Jay only cites polls that reinforce his views. You should know that.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
8:45 pm
James,
The thing is…..I don’t think the Congress demeaned the big “C” at all!!!
In fact I think they were the personification of “WE THE PEOPLE”.
It was a proud thing, a good thing.
No ex-post-facto, plebe-ish rhetoric between us.
I believe the people have spoken….amend away.
OBTW
u⋅sur⋅pa⋅tion /ˌyusərˈpeɪʃən, -zər-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [yoo-ser-pey-shuhn, -zer-] Show IPA
–noun 1. an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.
2. illegal seizure and occupation of a throne.
I haven’t seen much of that kinda’ thing, just seen some fine Americans standing up to very dangerous nonsense.
We have a very different perspective.
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March 19th, 2009
8:53 pm
I think we gave Mrs. G —more credit that she was due.— Is it any wonder she’s an Obama supporter?
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
8:57 pm
Somebody mentioned this earlier and I am ashamed I didn’t comment.
Today is the 6th anniversary of our invasion in Iraq. I was reading a piece at TPM….
My thoughts and prayers for all.
Midori
March 19th, 2009
8:58 pm
Mrs. G,
wonder why the usual suspects are so quiet about the anniversary?
Mike: like you don’t?
Midori
March 19th, 2009
9:01 pm
Mrs. G —
on an aside, Rachel Maddow is showing Bush’s tv appearance right before the bombs started falling.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
9:03 pm
Midori
Watchin’ Ms. Info now.
We should all be a little ashamed of ourselves though…..
Midori
March 19th, 2009
9:05 pm
agreed, Mrs. G.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 19th, 2009
9:06 pm
Mike,
Nice to meet you!
Please site polls that do not reinforce your views.
G
March 19th, 2009
9:21 pm
Boy, Keith Olbermann was really angry tonight! He lit into ‘em big time!
Put KO in charge and dump the Wall Street moles.
“Class economic rape!” – KO
It was glorious watching Speaker Pelosi forcing half of the House Rushpublicants into a sphincter moment today by making them approve of a 90% tax increase. It’s great to see the Rushpublicants buckle like a belt for once. Grover Norquist must be balling his eyes out over the fact that half the cult of Rushpublicants voted for the largest percentage tax rate hike in history.
Well played, Ms. Pelosi, well played.
G
March 19th, 2009
9:26 pm
It passed overwhelmingly by Democrats and 85 Yea and 87 Nay for House Rushpublicants.
I love it because it shows how fractured the Rushpublicant party is right now.
Sam
March 19th, 2009
9:27 pm
OK, now Obama’s on Leno saying he was “shocked” about the bonuses to AIG. So here are my potential explanations about how this all played out:
1. Obama’s lying (I doubt it)
2. Obama’s turned the other way and ignored it (maybe too busy filling out the NCAA brackets)
3. Geitner’s lying (very possible)
4. Some rogue authority speaking at the behest of Obama within his own administration
5. Dodd’s lying—almost a certainty to some extent–hell he’s already admitted to it yesterday
In any case, I have two words for all of them: INDEPENDANT COUNSEL!!!
Question to ponder: just where does Obama and Congress get off ramming a $700 billion bailout bill with less than 48 hrs for review to pick up on these shenanigans. Do you realize that with a stroke of Obama’s pen, they have indebted $2333 to every man, woman, and child in this country.
Is this governmental transparency that Barry is so proud of extolling the virtues of his administration?
And yes, Bush did the exact same thing last fall and it’s not right either….So where is Barry’s “Change”