John Edwards, Ed Schultz and Eric Bolling in Hall of Shame
I’d like to propose three items to include in the file labeled “Wrong is wrong,” and you have to pay the consequences.
First, from the WSJ:
“WASHINGTON — Justice Department prosecutors and lawyers for former Sen. John Edwards are in last-ditch plea agreement talks that could avert felony charges over alleged campaign-finance violations, people familiar with the matter said.
If the talks fail Wednesday, Justice Department prosecutors are expected to seek a grand-jury indictment against Mr. Edwards, these people say….
Prosecutors have been examining whether donors to various political entities affiliated with Mr. Edwards funneled money to a woman with whom Mr. Edwards had an extramarital affair and with whom he fathered a child, these people said. More than $1 million was allegedly paid to the mistress and to an Edwards aide who Mr. Edwards initially said was the child’s father. The money was allegedly aimed at keeping the affair quiet and avoiding problems for Mr. Edwards’s 2008 campaign.”
Edwards has been trying to squirm and wriggle his way out of accountability for this lurid mess for several years now. The gig’s up, dude. Time to face the music, although whatever the law hands out in penalties can’t fully square accounts.
And in less important but still notable matters, MSNBC host Ed Schultz and Fox Business News host Eric Bolling are both in hot water — and deservedly so — for their rhetorical excesses. In a rant on his radio show, Schultz called conservative talk-radio host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut” and a “talk-show slut.” On Twitter, Bolling condemned President Obama for being in Ireland “chugging 40s” instead of returning home to deal with the tragedy in Joplin. (Bolling is also the genius who accused Obama of spending $200 million a day on his trip to India, telling people that he wasn’t making up that fact because he found it on the Internet.)
I don’t know what’s going to happen to either man, and in a larger sense it almost doesn’t matter. What matters is that we live in a culture where there is a market for such viciousness.
– Jay Bookman
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Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:40 pm
In the 2004 Dem primary, HD?
No, I honestly don’t remember. I’d have to look at the list of the candidates still in the race when the Ga. primary was held.
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
6:41 pm
Phew…guess I’m off the hook on the unsweetened part.
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:42 pm
He had the surface-level answers down pat, Dave R. But when you started to ask him WHY he thought that way, he began to founder quickly.
Thulsa Doom
May 25th, 2011
6:42 pm
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:21 pm
I don’t know, Thulsa. Do you consider accuracy an adequate defense?
More seriously: No, I don’t think they’re comparable.
I hear ya Jay. So that whole plethora of nasty adjectives that Cynthia used to describe Newt isn’t as bad as the Fox commentator saying Obama was chugging 40s? Also the fox commentator may have believed those large mugs or whatever size glasses those were contained much more than 16- 20 ounces mugs over here. When i eat Mexican I definitely get one of those near 40 ounce big dos equis mega mugs Not sure if they’re 40 ouncers but that’s why I call them. I think they’re actually 30-36 ounces but whose counting?
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
Jay
Fair enough. I’ve always been blessed/cursed with a good memory.
Joe Mama
May 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
Dave — “Joe, that was the glorious Lesley Dove . . . ”
Thank you! I thought someone would remember.
I’m out, wife needs attention. You have to maintain them frequently or else they can get petulant and rusty.
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
6:43 pm
Kerry, Edwards, Sharpton, Dean, Kucinich, Lieberman, Clark, Mosley-Braun, & Gephardt all got votes.
You’re welcome
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
6:45 pm
JOE
Okay…,maybe you are from round here…are you registered with the civil authorities of The People’s Democratic Republic of the South?
Speaking of goat…now that’s some good stuff if you get it from somebody who knows what they’re doing…there’s a place out on Buford Hwy (can’t remember the name right now) that flat knows how to…a dive joint, but, hey, that’s where you get it…
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
I have not been so blessed/cursed, HD.
I sometimes forget the names of people I know well. Bothers the hell out of me.
Joe Mama
May 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
Josef — “Speaking of goat…now that’s some good stuff if you get it from somebody who knows what they’re doing…there’s a place out on Buford Hwy (can’t remember the name right now) that flat knows how to…a dive joint, but, hey, that’s where you get it…”
Spanish markets often have it.
There was a barbecue shack in Tifton years ago, just off I-75, that served all the standards plus BBQ goat ribs.
Doggone/GA
May 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
“I sometimes forget the names of people I know well. Bothers the hell out of me”
By any chance, do you also have some form of dyslexia? Forgetting names can be a symptom of dyslexia.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
But when you started to ask him WHY he thought that way, he began to founder quickly.
That doesn’t surprise me. In my lifetime, I can only remember one or two candidates that actually had a vision. Whether anybody agreed with that vision or not, depended on perspective. For the vast majority of candidates, the vision is to be President. If they happen to win, they’ve achieved their goal and they’re sort of like the dog who chases the car…….what do you do when you catch it?
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:46 pm
I was probably a Kerry guy, RW.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
6:47 pm
Jay @ 6:46
I wouldn’t worry about it. The memory thing ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. With Hillbillies in my neck of the woods, everything goes to the grave, and often beyond. That ain’t necessarily a good thing.
Thulsa Doom
May 25th, 2011
6:47 pm
Story published in 2010. So tax years in question were 2006-2009.
Yup, Obama’s fault.- Jay
Ha. Ya got me there Jay! Bravo!. Of course Obama was potus in 08 and 09.
AmVet
May 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
I saw John Edwards speak here, when he was on the campaign trail (my girlfriend dragged me along).
It was like going to a rock show.
The guy had that kind of charisma.
I got a kick out of it, but it left me a bit more disillusioned than ever, seeing how easily people can be manipulated with some flowery, albeit empty, words…
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
RW
Not to worry…your papers are in order!
JAY
So, do you drink ice or iced tea and is it sweetened or unsweetened….?
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
Sorry, still wrong, Thulsa.
My memory’s still good enough to recall he didn’t take the oath until January 2009.
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
Ummmm, I can’t recall?
Unsweetened iced, Josef.
But then, you knew that.
Soothsayer
May 25th, 2011
6:49 pm
“I sometimes forget the names of people I know well. Bothers the hell out of me.”
At my age I suffer from CRS! Can’t Remember Shyte!
Billybob
May 25th, 2011
6:52 pm
many people were fooled by Edwards, my mother included…….More and more when someone starts to answer a question as if they are a lawyer, people are understanding and learning to wade through all of the BS flowinng like crap out of their mouth…..it’s funny how the mainstream media crowns hussein the best orator ever at the same time Letterman is having an ‘uh’ count of how may time obama uses that word in an interview…….jay, who says the ‘uh’ word more obama or vick? Be honest…..
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
6:53 pm
“I sometimes forget the names of people I know well. Bothers the hell out of me.”
Comes from being born in 1956, Jay! I know the affliction all too well.
Oh, and try having that problem when running for office. . .
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
6:54 pm
“I sometimes forget the names of people I know well. Bothers the hell out of me.”
I do, too, but it don’t bother me a’tall…now if I could just forget the people the names are attached to…
JAY
Well, yes, but I did need confirmation…don’t want to go making assumptions…
Soothsayer
May 25th, 2011
6:54 pm
By the way, I’m an Ed-o-maniac! THANK GOD for people like Ed Schultz! So what if he called Laura Ingraham a slut! Maybe she is, how should I know?
I know one thing’s for sure, Ed cuts through the BS and tells it like it is.
Thulsa Doom
May 25th, 2011
6:54 pm
There is nothing illegal about all this. Google’s income shifting is tax avoidance, not tax evasion. But it is hugely disappointing news and suggests a serious level of hypocrisy in Google’s high command. Google’s leaders are ostensibly committed to the proposition that higher taxes are needed to pay for crucial national investments. CEO Eric Schmidt campaigned for Barack Obama, who pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy, and both he and cofounder Larry Page contributed generously to Obama’s inaugural committee. And as Drucker points out, Google and its founders have benefitted from government spending: “The U.S. National Science Foundation funded the mid-1990s research at Stanford University that helped lead to Google’s creation. Taxpayers also paid for a scholarship for the company’s cofounder, Sergey Brin, while he worked on that research.”
Hmmm. More DemoRAT special interest corporations not paying taxes. DemoRAT hypocrisy at play again. Do as I say- not as I do.
Revelations about Google’s foreign tax avoidance underscore the need for the Obama Administration to more aggressively push its crackdown on U.S. corporations engaged in offshore shell games. The Administration announced this effort amid much fanfare in May 2009, saying that closing tax loopholes on foreign profits could return $190 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the next decade. But that proposal disappeared into Congress and not much came of it.
Hmmm. Disappeared into Congress? Wonder who controlled Congress in 2009?
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:55 pm
Billybob, uh, I never, uh, counted.
Had better things to do, I suppose.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
6:56 pm
now if I could just forget the people the names are attached to…
You could do like I did once when a protagonist was lecturing me on how I should “forgive and forget” towards them. I said, “You can ask Jesus to forgive you and I’ll forget you”.
Thulsa Doom
May 25th, 2011
6:57 pm
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:48 pm
Sorry, still wrong, Thulsa.
My memory’s still good enough to recall he didn’t take the oath until January 2009.
Jay- I’m getting like Obama where everything is 2008. Ever since he signed that log the other day in Ireland saying May 24,2008 I keep thinking he came into office in 2008. Even he thinks it.
So what happened to the big initative in 09 to start closing the loopholes on this?
AmVet
May 25th, 2011
6:57 pm
The best orator ever?
No one is even within rifle range of the Master Thespian.
Ronnie could talk for hours and say nothing!
But lots and lots of people sure thought he was the cat’s meow…
kayaker 71
May 25th, 2011
6:57 pm
We haven’t seen a thread on how Bibi handed Bozo his hat in the recent tif at the WH. Just to watch Bozo’s arrogance float to the top….. why the audacity of this Jew coming to my White House and lecturing me on how to conduct foreign policy. The 67 borders…. Bozo sounded like Sarah Palin. Bibi received about the biggest ovation and approval rating that Congress has given a foreign head of state and all Bozo could do was go to Ireland. Someone really screwed up on the staff to let him get into this kind of position where he looked like a sophomore college student being lectured to by a professional. Photo ops at his great-great-great grandfather’s birth place. Give me a friggin’ break. No mention of all of this Bookman, or is it too embarrassing?
M
May 25th, 2011
6:58 pm
I do so enjoy being able to spot the people who came in here to yell at Jay no matter what the post was about.
Almost as fun as spying the ones who immediately try to change the topic when they realize there’s no arguing the one at hand.
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
6:58 pm
I was probably a Kerry guy, RW.
Frontrunner!
j/k
But with your ties to the little pares in Western Mass it would seem like Kerry would be your guy in that mix. Probably would have been Dean before the scream I;m guessing though.
stands for decibels
May 25th, 2011
6:59 pm
I hadn’t heard about Ed Schultz’ comments about Ingraham, so…
Here’s a link…
HD thanks. Kind of funny to have to read about this particular incivility in a piece that calls the offender “Liberal Hate Talker”…
Anyway, from the 53 second clip I heard, yeah, it was pretty stupid, and he should apologize, unless he went on to make some bigger point about what “slut” was supposed to mean in this context.
(that said…part of me is extremely suspicious that the three audio links I’ve found online are edited to end at the same point…)
Jay
May 25th, 2011
6:59 pm
Thulsa, I’d suspect it fell afoul of the no-new-taxes-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever-ever crowd.
Schrodinger's cat
May 25th, 2011
7:00 pm
I’m impressed Jay !
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:01 pm
“By the way, I’m an Ed-o-maniac!”
You can’t make this stuff up . . . .
Jay
May 25th, 2011
7:02 pm
Dean? No, I don’t think so. He was interesting, but I never thought of him as stable enough politically. You could sense he got in over his head too quickly and knew it.
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:04 pm
Once again, Jay proves he’s the cut-and-paste King!
(poke, poke)
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:05 pm
sfd
I just googled Schultz-Ingraham and the first link I went to had that. I didn’t even pay any attention to what the site was. If it’s print I usually will but when it’s audio or video, it usually is what it is, no matter where it’s posted. As far as explaining the context, if I were Ed, I think I’d just cut my losses and let it fade away. No sense digging a deeper hole.
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:07 pm
JAY
There is a book in it…you just got the wrong year. 1954. I was born halfway between Brown v Board and Dien Bien Phu…two events worlds away which determined a generation…I’ve often thought about the book that could be in that…and, K’chak and Doggone could ignore it since everything is not about me!
And Dean? Well, I personally liked him for my own off the wall reasons…when he made the comment about making the Democrat Party big tent big enough to include the rebel flag-pick up folks, he was on to something…then he got sheep hooked stage left…had an interesting correspondence with him on that one…he impressed me with the depth of what he had to say on that subject…
Dusty
May 25th, 2011
7:07 pm
Well, I have lost a friend. RW drinks ice tea from CALIFORNIA. Probably likes Chicgo hotdogs. Puts shrimp into grits instead of country ham. Eats chimichongers instead of Brunswick stew.
Is there no justice? I lay down my fried chicken in disgust. Give me grease and give me PeptoBisMol!! Or else… the chicken will rise in revolt!!
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
7:08 pm
How did “papers” turn into “pares”
geez….
(IHB)
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:10 pm
“K’chak and Doggone could ignore it since everything is not about me! ”
Wait . . .
. . . it’s NOT all about you?
AmVet
May 25th, 2011
7:11 pm
I find Laura Ingraham rather innocuous. Yes, I disagree with her politics, but she’s smart, funny and reasonable. And though still misguided on the topic, she’s ameliorated the worst of her homophobia. (Cuz her bro is gay.)
She certainly doesn’t deserve to be called the s word.
Now Ann Coulter. That one probably deserves whatever invective is returned to her! (karma)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NcfDOL71o&feature=related
stands for decibels
May 25th, 2011
7:12 pm
I just googled Schultz-Ingraham and the first link I went to had that. I didn’t even pay any attention to what the site was.
well interestingly, the HuffPost had the same clip.
As for cutting his losses, yeah, I don’t think there’s much of anything Ed should do except say “it was boneheaded, I know Laura, she didn’t deserve this…”
Jay
May 25th, 2011
7:12 pm
You write your own damn book, Nix, and I’ll write mine!
‘56 RULES!
GT
May 25th, 2011
7:13 pm
How can someone who uses that language stand in judgement of anyone. It says more about the speaker than the “talk-show slut.” What I like about CT is she defends a large group of people and in their defense and not her own, she makes people mad. She does it with fact, I can never remember her using a 200 million dollar a day figure or hate language. Lesser people try to egg her on and become hot when she is above this. These talk show host are like the drunks in the stands that thinks he can say anything he wants to the player on the court or field. Most of us feel uncomfortable with these people but few of us confront them. Their argument is denial they ever sayed it or just bullying any persons manhood who throws it back on them. What I cannot understand is how this group got the credentials of being religious. I know we are all sinners but because of that sin most of us have found humility in our lives. Not these guys and why not? I truly wish they did have the answers, and not be so obviously lost. We as a country could use the help.
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:14 pm
kayaker
Two separate points…why nothing about g-g-g-g-grandfather’s birthplace…well, to get him from there to here requires having to deal with a certain period of history and “sides” which would run afoul of Yankee Sharia…
But as for Bibi and Obama…I disagree with you on that one…I don’t see anything approaching a rift in relations…Obama merely stated that US policy would continue as previously, and Bibi had to play to an audience (and electorate) back home…the deals made under the table and in the back room will be apparant in the days to come…
Schrodinger's cat
May 25th, 2011
7:14 pm
That said…It sucks to be human….not defending anyone….just sayin’
stands for decibels
May 25th, 2011
7:15 pm
oh, and the only reason I tune in to MSNBC at all is Rachel; not much interest in the rest of their shows, although I guess Cenk’s ok (never watching at 6pm).
I’ve stumbled upon Ed Schultz on the radio, like some other people have said, he literally sounds a lot like Rush and that’s who I thought I was listening to at first.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
‘56 RULES!
Whippersnapper!!!
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
IMAM
Didn’t yore Mama teach you to respect your elders? Uppity lil whippersnapper…
Jay
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
Codgers!
I’ll play on your lawn if I want to!
Jay
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
Schultz will apologize on air and then be suspended without pay for a week.
Bolling will be given a primetime show on Fox News.
(Just kidding about the Bolling part … I hope).
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
Dusty,
A Chicago dog goes quite well with my California ice tea, but I don’t let my shrimp anywhere near my grits, country ham will do just fine thankyouverymuch and I’m a big fan of Brunswick stew.
Midori
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
TPM reporting Ed Shultz has been suspended from MSNBC for a week.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/msnbcs-ed-schultz-calls-radio-host-laura-ingraham-a-right-wing-slut.php?ref=fpb
stands for decibels
May 25th, 2011
7:16 pm
It’d be nice if they let Sam Seder sub for Ed the week he’s suspended.
@@
May 25th, 2011
7:18 pm
In which of his “two worlds” will Edwards end up? Probably a country club prison where the only thing denied him is hairspray.
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 25th, 2011
7:20 pm
GOP “Ryan” budget plan goes down in Senate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/on-heels-of-republican-special-election-defeat-senate-rejects-gop-budget-plan-that-would-overhaul-medicare/2011/05/25/AGacUTBH_blog.html?hpid=z1
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:21 pm
“56 RULES!
What Jay said!
And “I’ll play on your lawn” is the polite version . . .
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:22 pm
Hillbilly
@ 7:16
Josef
@ 7:16
Now maybe the IT folks can tell us who was first…could have been you, but mine came out top of the page, so there!
DAVE
If the universe is infinite, the every part is equidistant from me, therefore I AM the center of the universe and it IS all about me…
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:23 pm
Hillbilly
Hell, now you’re not only first to say it, you’re top of the page, too…
I feel so persecuted….
RW-(the original)
May 25th, 2011
7:24 pm
I think I finally hit the ad rotation Jay B was talking about yesterday. Hat tip to the sales weasels for landing the ideeli account.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:24 pm
josef @ 7:22
Mine is at the top of the page on my screen, at least for now. And I’ve been flagged for posting too fast about a dozen times tonight. In the real world, nobody has ever accused me of doing anything too fast, except driving or getting mad.
AmVet
May 25th, 2011
7:24 pm
If the universe is infinite, the every part is equidistant from me, therefore I AM the center of the universe and it IS all about me…
Reminds me of the Big Bang and the red shift. Which may explain why Republicans keep moving farther and farther out there!
1956?
Is there an Eagles song titled, “Ol’ 56″?
Nosiree, there is not…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1_pJL5GfG0
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:25 pm
I always thought so, josef, but when you had the earlier quote I thought you had had a brain . . . cramp.
Mary Elizabeth
May 25th, 2011
7:25 pm
From Jay’s post this week, entitled, “The Year the World Changed, and No One Noticed”:
“The later Clinton years, in fact, can be seen in retrospect as the last gasp of the pre-’74 America, a period in which the old economic order seemed to reassert itself, if all too briefly.”
==================================
About Jay’s forthcoming column or book, please consider the possibility that instead of Clinton’s tenure being a “gasp” of the old order that reasserted itself, “if all too briefly,” that – projecting into the future – the second Bush years will have been, in fact, that “gasp” of the old order reasserting itself, if all too briefly, before the coming new age of common global economic interests and a common global egalitarian spirit.
(President Obama’s speech before the British Parliament, today, alluded to those possibilties being forthcoming in the remainder of the 21st century. It was an excellent speech. I recommend that all read it or view it in full.)
Mighy Righty
May 25th, 2011
7:26 pm
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 25th, 2011
7:20 pm
GOP “Ryan” budget plan goes down in Senate.
I am so glad! Now maybe the Democrats will come up with a plan.
John Doe
May 25th, 2011
7:27 pm
I also saw this on http://news.google.com
kayaker 71
May 25th, 2011
7:27 pm
Joseph,
If you didn’t see the obvious, I won’t bore you with a rebuff. Better men than Bozo have tried and failed to resolve the ME disputes. He plays to his Muslim friends, if he has any left after OBL, when he advocates a Palistinian state. He has a vision for the ME which is not in line with reality. Israel will survive and people like Bibi will make it so. The 67 borders statement was a mistake but Bozo doesn’t have the vision to realize it. The essential thing in this whole debate….. if you had to put your trust in either Bibi or Bozo to protect what you have, who would you chose? The answer is painfully obvious.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:28 pm
If the universe is infinite, then every part is equidistant from me,
Now see, that’s why science makes no sense to me. Most anybody knows that you’re closer to Mississippi than you are to Mongolia, no matter what the scientists say. (Can you tell I spend all my time in science class, arguing with the teacher?)
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:28 pm
LWM, not a surprise there.
What was a surprise was what followed: “Immediately after the vote on the Ryan budget, the Senate unanimously rejected President Obama’s 2012 budget proposal. The Obama budget did not secure the support of a single lawmaker, with all 97 senators present voting “no.”
Just damn!
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:29 pm
On the Medicare bill……
(Three senators – Republicans Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Pat Roberts of Kansas and Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York – declined to vote.)
Interesting that those 3 chose not to vote.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=senate+vote+on+house+medicare+bill&src=IE-SearchBox&FORM=IE8SRC
I think if they don’t vote, we ought to dock ‘em a day’s pay. As a friend of mine’s Daddy used to tell us, “Do something, even if it’s wrong”.
F. Sinkwich
May 25th, 2011
7:29 pm
Them, so a few RINO’s voted against it. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
I love how well the demos have demonized Ryan’s plan so well without proposing any plan of their own regarding how to save the program.
I guess O’Bozo sucking out $500 billion out of it for Obamacare is cool with them.
Why don’t they run on that?
Themistocles (a.k.a. Left Wing Mgmt)
May 25th, 2011
7:30 pm
Paul Ryan: meets failure. Chin up, kid. They say you learn more from your failures than your successes (at least, that’s what Henry Ford said), so don’t get down. But you gotta stop whining first. Accusing the other side of “demagoguery” when you’re side gave us “death panels”, ain’t gonna cut it kid.
Dave R. : I got no problem with the Senate sticking its finger in the president’s eye. I got no problem with anybody sticking their finger in the president’s eye. I think we ought to have presidents who routinely walk around with eye patches. That’s only fittin.
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:30 pm
“I feel so persecuted….”
But of course you do!
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:33 pm
Sorry, Mary Elizabeth, but Hope & Punt ™ and his ilk (I thought I’d throw out the “ilk” card tonight) are what are the “last gasp”, due to the policies that have bankrupted this nation and (if you believe the doomsday-ers) put this entire planet’s economic future in jeopardy.
If his day isn’t over in 2013, it will be in 2017, and hopefully we will never see the likes of him again.
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:33 pm
Hillbilly
Been getting that flag a lot tonight myself…
Closer to Mississippi, eh, there are those who’ll claim I’m still there and, time being relative, 150 years ago,,,
DAVE
My brain hurts…
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:34 pm
I feel so persecuted….
You’re safe in our country, Scotland or Ireland.
Mighy Righty
May 25th, 2011
7:36 pm
Just remember the “New World Order” Obama spoke of today will confiscate all of the worlds wealth and redistribute that wealth equally among all of us. I believe it will come to less than $100 per person. There will be free health care if you can walk to he village.
Don't Forget
May 25th, 2011
7:36 pm
Correction: Schultz will apologize then be suspended (go fishing) for a week.
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:39 pm
Hillbilly
@ 7:34
But what would the MAJOR historians say about that?
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:41 pm
Mighty Righty
Is Obama’s “New World Order” newer than Bush’s “New World Order…”
Union
May 25th, 2011
7:41 pm
Three less idiots.. we should be so lucky
Dusty
May 25th, 2011
7:42 pm
Well, I’m just an outlier here (or a plain ol’ liar) but RW…I forgive you. After all, you were born in some foreign northern place. Pennsylvania, wasn’t it? You, sir, are not to blame for that mishap…
Just wondering Can we get special cards here to prove that we are not “blog speeding”? I haven’t gotten a speeding ticket since I hit a long stretch in west Texas. Nice Ranger. Still have his picture.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:43 pm
Give me control of a nations money supply, and I care not who makes it’s laws. Mater Amschel Rothschild
Don’t know if that’s an accurate quote or not, it’s widely attributed to be, but it’s something to think about, in the rush to a “New World Order”.
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:44 pm
I’ll bet Jay never gets “You’re posting too quickly”.
And how can a two-fingered, hunt-and-peck typist like me ever get that message?
Soothsayer
May 25th, 2011
7:44 pm
Republicans stick to plan to privatize Medicare
Reuters) – Republicans on Wednesday stuck by their plan to privatize the Medicare federal health insurance program for the elderly despite a rebuke from voters in a special congressional election in New York state.
“We can no longer let politicians in Washington deny the danger to Medicare — the danger is all too real, and the health of our nation’s seniors is far too important,” Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee, said in an Internet video.
he Senate, on the offensive, planned to force a vote later on Wednesday on the Ryan plan, which was passed last month by the House.
Yet Republicans ratcheted up efforts to build support for the Ryan plan, warning that bold action is needed to save Medicare from financial ruin.
“We aren’t going to abandon this,” a senior Republican aide said. “We want to save Medicare, while Democrats would let it die. Those must be the first words out of our mouths from now on: ‘We want to save Medicare.’”
YES! by all means stick by your guns! Never, ever abandon a lost cause no matter what the cost. This just gets better and better!
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:45 pm
“Is Obama’s “New World Order” newer than Bush’s “New World Order…”
NewER World Order – now with enhanced MELANIN!
Soothsayer
May 25th, 2011
7:46 pm
Repugs, here’s your 2012 campaign in a nutshell!
Mighy Righty
May 25th, 2011
7:47 pm
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:49 pm
The first President I remember pushing the “New World Order” stuff was George H W Bush. I thought it was a mistake then and I still do.
Actually dates back to Woodrow Wilson. Jimmy carter was a big proponent.
Don't Forget
May 25th, 2011
7:47 pm
kayaker 71
May 25th, 2011
7:27 pm
Joseph,
If you didn’t see the obvious, I won’t bore you with a rebuff. Better men than Bozo have tried and failed to resolve the ME disputes. He plays to his Muslim friends, if he has any left after OBL, when he advocates a Palistinian state. He has a vision for the ME which is not in line with reality. Israel will survive and people like Bibi will make it so. The 67 borders statement was a mistake but Bozo doesn’t have the vision to realize it.
He didn’t realize it because it was nothing new.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W73v4p6Yyg
Brosephus
May 25th, 2011
7:47 pm
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
5:20 pm
Jay, I believe it is brotha Brosephus who always claims that “Jackassery knows no political boundaries”.
And if he didn’t say it, he should have!
I guess I’m gonna have to start writing that as Jackassery knows no political boundaries™ from now on.
Honestly though, Dave, I could not have said it better. It’s time out for all this crap. Edwards needs to have his ass indicted on as many charges as possible. The only way to stop this crap is to start slapping charges and prison time on these jackasses. I don’t care if they’re Dem/GOP, Black/White, or young/old. If you’re gonna put yourself in a position of public trust, I want to at least be able to trust half of what’s coming out of your mouth. Any regular Joe pull the kind of shenanigans that Congresspeople get away with, and ol’ Joe would have a prison ward named in his honor for living there so long.
As far as the talking dipsh*ts, easiest way to silence them is to quit watching them.
Hillbilly Deluxe
May 25th, 2011
7:49 pm
The first President I remember pushing the “New World Order” stuff was George H W Bush. I thought it was a mistake then and I still do.
wet wiccan
May 25th, 2011
7:49 pm
Josef
I am also a 1954 vintage. A very good year! BTW I always suspected you were going to write a book about this blog!
Dave R.
May 25th, 2011
7:50 pm
OK, Brosephus. Spit take for me at 7:47.
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:56 pm
DAVE
“NewER World Order – now with enhanced MELANIN”
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Wiccan
“BTW I always suspected you were going to write a book about this blog!”
A work in progress (no joke,,,comments on comments) but unfortunately I’d have to strike a deal with the Imam and the AJC to ever get it published…and I’d get the raw end of any deal with them!
Brosephus
May 25th, 2011
7:59 pm
Just remember the “New World Order” Obama spoke of today will confiscate all of the worlds wealth and redistribute that wealth equally among all of us.
Brother, you’re not ready for the nWo. When you’re nWo, you’re nWo 4 Life!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ShM-y4lWxk
Mighy Righty
May 25th, 2011
7:59 pm
josef nix
May 25th, 2011
7:41 pm
Mighty Righty
Is Obama’s “New World Order” newer than Bush’s “New World Order…”
trols
George Soros is the current pusher. George controls just about all of the media, NBC,ABC,CBS,CNN,MSnbc,N.Y. Times, Washington Post, etc. He controls the Democrat Party and most of the Unions. He controls Barack Obama.
Mary Elizabeth
May 25th, 2011
8:03 pm
Dave R @ 7:33
I agree with you that the election of 2012 will be a pivotal one in determining America’s future direction and budding consciousness, as well as the world’s future direction. I hope that you will take the time to read, or better yet, view and listen to President Obama’s British Parliament speech in full, if available to you. His words are quite exceptional and visionary, and I believe the world will move in the direction that he foresees. Here are my words, earlier this week on this blog (5/24/11 at 9:22 a.m.):
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“There are, IMHO, two worldviews pulling at the heart of the American soul, and it goes beyond the immigration issue. One worldview will supersede the other for the remainder of the 21st century in America. Those different worldviews can be presented as a question. Are we all interconnected, one with the other, or are we totally self-sufficient as individuals? The world will move in the direction of interconnected and egalitarianism. The proof of my assertion is shown through an emerging global economy and global warming, as well as in the spontaneous risings in Middle Eastern countries of that egalitarian spirit and need for individual freedom of expression.
America’s and Georgia’s citizens will choose to move with the future – and also with what is morally right above simply the law (as in the Civil Rights Era) – or they will attempt, futilely, to remain in the past and, thereby fail for themselves and others, both economically and morally.”
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Some may be interested in reading my entire post under the “immigration” post; and from the assessment I have offered above, the year of demarcation would have been 1954, as josef mentioned, not 1974, in that the Civil Rights law was decided that year, and that egalitarian spirit changed not only in our nation but throughout the world, i.e., in South Africa, and in India even earlier. In my post I gave video proof that during the 1970s, the far right deliberately tried to turn back the coming tide, and they have been successful since then, stealthily, until now. However, the world’s consciousness is now moving in a direction that cannot be stopped. It is the future. It is destined by a force larger than any of us.