LiveBlog for Thursday, August 6, 2009
• Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ) calls in at 6:06am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian Will Durst calls in at 6:30am Pacific to do a little bipartisan bashing and to promote his upcoming gigs in Washington, DC.
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to give us even more info about the Birthers.
• Rep. Chris Murphy (D-CT) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Judge Sonia Sotomayor is expected to easily win Senate confirmation today as two more Republicans, Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri and Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, announced their support for the country’s first Hispanic high court pick.
• President Obama announced yesterday that the federal government will provide $2.4 billion in grants for the development of more fuel-efficient, battery-powered automobiles. Obama’s announcement was the latest in a series of administration initiatives designed to accelerate a nationwide transition to a “green economy.”
• Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana was convicted yesterday on 11 of the 16 corruption charges against him in a case that included the discovery of $90,000 in his freezer. A federal court jury convicted Jefferson on four bribery counts, three counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud, and one count of racketeering.
Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Murphy, Eric Boehlert, Judd Gregg, Kit Bond, Media Matters for America, Robert Andrews, Sonia Sotomayor, Will Durst, William Jefferson
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Good morning, everyone. I’m listening to AOL Radio – Movie Scores as I await the show. The track playing is the music behind the President Whitmore’s speech in Independence Day:
Yeah, I know, it’s a corny movie. But, I find power in those words to celebrate what’s best about this country: it’s compassion, it’s creativity, and (although you couldn’t tell it from some) it’s tolerance. Today, we celebrate the confirmation of first Hispanic high court nominee. It’s a good thing.
it’s = its (time to wake up!)
Applause for Kit Bond and Judd Gregg. I wish this meant that more Repubs will start standing up to the right wing bullies that run their party. But, probably not.
I hope William Jefferson has some more money stashed away somewhere. He’s going to need it to bride his cellmate not to rape him.
#4 “bride his cellmate” Freudian slip much, LHS? I suppose if Jefferson paid his cellmate enough, he could make him his bitch.
1: yes it was cornier than the soles on a scarecrow’s feet. an amazingly incongruous character. – i actually wondered later on, if that was a test to see how somebody as lightweight as a carrot top or a JEB would play as a presidential nominee. lo and behold, they went with arbusto, vindicating the wise words of jane wagner, as spoken in the lily tomlin play “the search for intelligent life….”, no matter how cynical you are, it’s never enuff to keep up.
1: a kudos upon bill gates thoe. the apparent sole advantage of windows over linux: linux, even now, does not include a translation program that allows hacking into the controls of proprietarily held extraterrestrial spacecraft from a laptop.
3: “kit bond” ? really ? – pretty cool that somebody gets to lug david hasselhoff around, while sprting a name as eccentric as “kit bond 2000-007″. almost makes up for that guy they cott being named “warrick dunn”. i still say that mcgeorge bundy…. and heck, i’ll even throw in yo yo ma (the guy henry gates wanted to talk to on the porch), ott be entitled to pelt this person with pita bread for sporting such a bephuckified name.
It looks like Judge Sotomayor will be confirmed with over 70 votes.
#4 “bride his cellmate” Freudian slip much, LHS? I suppose if Jefferson paid his cellmate enough, he could make him his bitch.
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Freud must have struck again. Although, marrying his cellmate would mean he wouldn’t get raped, I guess.
Good Morning All!
Good morning, Danielle. How are you this fine Thursday?
I like Eli Manning, but he doesn’t deserve to be the highest paid QB in the league.
5: of course, there are some things money cant buy. – rush limbaugh famously failed to “score” in tijuana, where row after row of otherwise easily commercially available women looked the guy over, then looked over the money rush could offer, and laffed in his face, the more genteel ones offerring the explanation, “you’re not my type”. – - – and so to haiti, where chloroform and a fine cognac can in some cases combine to suffice as an afro-disiacs. alas, not enuff. – - – and rush has been quite candid about feeling the pressure. this last ditch attempt at a yahtzee, (manly is out of range, but maybe “weight proportionate to height” is still an option.) thru medically supervised dieting has rush, i’m glad to say, feeling a glimmer of hope. i like it when people like that feel a glimmer of hope; it makes the process even funnier to watch. johnny knoxville needed a day off anyway.
Wild Thang
10: famed american misogynist james thurber admittedly wasnt good for much, but at least he did leave us these wise words: “there’s no safety in numbers (nor in anything else).” – if you suppose that marriage would preclude rape by your spouse, then you’ve not yet witnessed the unleashed libidinous fury of the fuly unabridged “jeffersons” fans in action. dont be a meathead. stay in the bunker. they will issue an edith to run over their arch enemies like a lionel train. they never relent before feeling wheezy.
Walking on Stephie Sunshine
It’s Miller Time, y’alls!
WISDOM (SATCHEL PAIGE):
“work like you dont need the money;
dance like nobody’s watching;
love like you’ve never been hurt.”
WALKENIZED WISDOM:
“make love like everybody is watching (hi, grandma !);
dance like you dont need the goddamn forty dollars
from fatboy slim; work like an egyptian.”
“guess what. ive got a fever. and the only pescription is more truth.”
Jim, Four of the constituent states of the United States officially designate themselves Commonwealths: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_(U.S._state)
mark levin has already exposed the fact that the AARP is supporting this push to kill off old people. DONT LAFF. AFTER THE AARP KILLS OFF THE OLD PEOPLE, YOU’RE NEXT.
Steph’s Mom is an idiot!
the most important thing about astroturfers, is that they are obvious enuff to get cott. that says it all. they are not saints; they are merely gannonized.
is it “astroturfers”, or do the astroturds prefer to be called “astro-americans” ?
Sorry Shaf… stepped away to make some breakfast… I’m good, and a bit less hung over than yesterday… and how might you be this morning?
#26 Good. I seemed to have gotten over the bug.
Oily Taint
Morning all, coffee cake on the table help yourself.
max ehrmann’s mellow screed wasnt bad.
eww.. I had a nasty little one last week as well… glad to hear you’re feelin’ better in time for the weekend!
29: sorry about what i did to the bundt cake last time. i misunderstood.
Cloned Aussies? Bonzar!
The burden of proof is on you, Oily.
We could not have picked a better mole to discredit birtherism than Whirly Tights.
31: you had a nasty little one? please tell us it wasnt gary coleman.
31: …. beetlejuice ?
32- it was the shape that threw you off, eh?
We should be worried about the big floaty Orly-head!
Someone wrote about Orly Taint that by looking at her you just KNOW that she owns a poodle with nail polish on its claws.
I really hate to change the subject.
In light of the bad behavior of the republicans as of late I feel it is time to remember that TOAY is the 8th ANNIVERSARY of GW getting his presidential daily briefing (PDB) on August 6th 2001, “BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO ATTACK IN U.S.”.
They had a whole month to figure this out or at least look into the threat, and possibly prevent 9/11, but did nothing.
OBVIOUSLY!
36… LOL… nasty cold… and see I refrained from telling you to go to the penalty box after the bundt cake comment…. I sware… you give an inch… LOLOLOLOLOLO
Obama’s a lizard. Somebody needs to peel away his phony face.
#40, her mind finally cracked when her husband took her away from Manhattan and resettled her in Green Acres.
What Up, Y’All???!!!!! A rather dreary day here in the D to the C (weather-wise, anyway).
38: truthfully, it was the vanilla swirliness. oh, so swirly ! with oily taint reading poetry on “radioscreed AM 1295″ who could resist? – “FERST WE GET MOUSSE, AND THEN SWIRRELL !”
Family Tree of Vincent Van Gogh:
His dizzy aunt —— ———————————– Verti Gogh
The brother who ate prunes——————————- Gotta Gogh
The brother who worked at a convenience store —— Stop N Gogh
The grandfather from Yugoslavia —————————- U Gogh
His magician uncle ——————————- Where-diddy Gogh
His Mexican cousin ————————————– A Mee Gogh
The Mexican cousin’s American half-brother ——- —– Gring Gogh
The nephew who drove a stage coach ————— Wells-far Gogh
The constipated uncle ———————————– Can’t Gogh
The ballroom dancing aunt ——————————– Tang Gogh
The bird lover uncle ———————————– Flamin Gogh
The fruit-loving cousin ———————————– Man Gogh
An aunt who taught positive thinking —————– – Way-to-Gogh
The little bouncy nephew ———————————- Poe Gogh
A sister who loved disco ———————————– Go Gogh
And his niece who travels the country in an RV — Winnie Bay Gogh
flom… you’re extra spunky today! I love it!
41: beautiful, as change-of-subjects go ! you are a beautiful cictizen for bringing it. AND, i think ita was will durst (not certain) who illustrated the subsequent query with condi thusly:
“…and wht was the name of that august sixth memo ?”
“it was entitled OSAMA BIN LADEN IS STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU”
I suppose I’m the only person in the world lonely enough of find oily taint attractive.
like in Dr. Strangelove, when he peels off his mask and underneath…
Oh, his feces does come out… his mouth!
Marissa Tomei
43: Actually, I thought he was a member of the Slitheen clan from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius
#54, that explains the flatulence.
Oh, how I wish all you bog buddies were in Florida… having a party tomorrow and it would be so much more fun with some fellow steph addicts… sigh…
#55, oh, I thought we were still talking about Dick Morris!
56 bog = blog…
Still can’t shake the sound of Clown (from Spawn) when I hear Morris rant:
http://home.bellsouth.net/coDataImages/p/Groups/141/141946/folders/90328/603678clown1.jpg
42: oh yeah, that. yes, but in other ways, i’m TWICE the man that hedwig had become.
#58, well, you are Drunk and Irish; a bog’s gotta fit in there somewhere as well.
60… wow, was that an angry inch reference… how obscure…
44: just the memories of the nail-polished poodle climbing the telephone pole to chat with lassie has me grinning.
61… only if it’s a whiskey bog…
If you really do want to double the speed of your multi-core computer for playing games then here you go:
http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=88&Itemid=93
It’s free and all it does is automate something which is built into the OS since WinNT anyway.
one thing is sure: grover norquist will never be small enough to get into his bathtub.
58: oh, crap. i was halfway there to join you. false alarm.
morning all
hope your doing well
to early to tell on this end
Flombaye, thanks for your acknowledgement.
It is already forgotten, the 6th August 2001 PDB, as almost everything else this past administration has imposed on us.
However we are continuing to live with the consequences of GW’s choices.
The trillion dollar deficite that Obama inherited, and now being blamed for.
And now Bill Clinton is getting slammed for being a diplomat and stepping up to the plate and helping those reporters return home SAFE!
What would GW do, if anything?
Bomb first ask question second.
let’s all convene at danielle’s tomorrow.
Dick Morris has a built-in caviter (sp).
RWNJs = Confederates in the closet
none of these things is getting any traction, 69.
66: wasnt he the guy with “lovelady” and “el greco” who got into the tub with harold fine ?
give that man a cigar already.
we should make august 6 a holiday to celebrate the PDB
Cash for clunkers:
http://community.thomhartmann.com/_CARS-Program-Who-Benefits/blog/495312/93519.html
69: it is sad. unavoidably, because of the title of “president” and the public exposure, there will eventually be a biographical movie, for which they will simply re-edit the credits from “being there”. nobody will much discern the difference. – or care.
Men are also allowed to cry when Spock dies.
[news item]
Lynnette ‘Squeaky’ Fromm [formerly Mary Ann Summers aka Dorthy
Gale aka Judy Garland] will be paroled from The Island this
summer…
briefing day. in between man on the moon day, when we all dress up like Andy Kaufmann, and Woodstock Week, when we all strip naked and dance to Santana channeling Tito Puente.
It won’t be long before Rush starts offering “Club North Korea” swag on his website.
men will cry at the tragic tweezing of a nose hair.
78. The history books have not yet been written. Give it time.
As a teacher, I can not wait to share the truth.
Evil Dick Cheney and his little punk [and I mean that in
the jailhouse sense of the word] George W. Bush destroyed
America. They just kept bending it back and forth until
it broke right off. It’s gone. Un Rec On Iz Able. History.
I used to care. I used to be all torqued up about the
things that were going on. There was so much around
us that was just Wrong, it made my blood boil. But
no longer. The ground has changed beneath my feet,
and I don’t worry about it anymore. Evil has flourished
on this old mortal coil for a long, long time and it will
continue to flourish. There is nothing I can do to stop it.
No, what I can do is only so much. I can attack it every
chance I get, and I do. You eat the elephant one bite at
a time.
#79 Also when the Enterprise was destroyed in ST: III.
Hi All,
#1—Independance Day is a corny movie and Bill Pullman was not the strongest presidential figure they could have cast, he was a bit young, but I also like that movie. I also like the idea that truly the only thing that might unite warring factions to save the planet together would be the threat of annihilation from outside forces.
Do you think Obama will ever tell us the truth about Area 51?
you can only manage rage and hatred for a limited period of time before you go mad. Even in 1984, they only had a two-minute hate.
#82 Maybe Rush will plan an unannounced vaca to N. Korea. When he is arrested for espionage, we can ‘conveniently’ forget to have the State Department contact Pyongyang.
87…if he did, 50% of republicans would say he’s lying..
#69—-Bush would leave the reporters there to punish the press. That would make sense to Dubya.
#89, he won’t be arrested. He’ll be harpooned.
Blubber is an excellent energy source for starving people.
#87 The truth about Area 51? It’s the spawning grounds for GOPers, who were raised from eggs left by a malevolent alien species.
republicans are just mad that we didn’t send Dick Cheney to save the prisoners.
90… and the other half will be hiding in their trailers wearing tin-foil hats, positioning multitudes of TV antennas, and screaming something like “They’re coming to get me!”
#93, those aren’t eggs. They’re alien dingleberries.
92… they would keee Him alive as an uniterupted supply of hot air
85. You are so right. As hitler and the nazis were the shadow of our humanity in the early mid 20th century, gw and the republicans were the shadow of our humanity at the turn of the 21st century.
Evil and the shadow will always exist. I live to share the truth to those who want to know.
85—-you’re in Ground Zero there in Detroit. I’m in kinda nuclear fallout area here in CA. But they are getting 2.4 billion for electric cars. That’s something.
Re: Man hug between Bill and Al. Awwwww.
Dang lightning keeps interrupting my audio link!! I’ve missed the last 30 minutes.
94—oh man! We missed a great opportunity for a trade with N. Korea! One Cheney for two reporters. Yes!
#99, I’m still hoping I’ll be in a position to buy a Volt when they FINALLY come out.
101..Cheney could never get within 100 miles of Dear Leader; similar poles repel..
88 that’s a good way of putting it. And I think Evil Dick
and his minions count on the rage being unsustainable.
89 Rush needs to be shunned. Rush and all his fecaloid ilk,
Hannity, O’Riley, Savage, Beck… I am walling them out of
my reality tunnel, they no longer exist for me. Life is too
short, and I don’t have the psychic energy required to hate
them as they should be hated. They are consigned to the lower
and fouler left bowel of hell, beneath the cacking stool of
Persephone, a vile, hideous little oubliette just as
nasty as they are, where I will never think of them again.
And good riddance.
Men are also allowed to cry when Spock dies.
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I weep every time I watch “Dark Victory”.
I’ve provided the tactical gameplan of the Astroturfers, and sound countermeasures to them in blog on Kos.
94—oh man! We missed a great opportunity for a trade with N. Korea! One Cheney for two reporters. Yes!
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Whitney Houston for two reporters. Yes!
Yep, every party needs a pooper. That’s why we have the GOP.
It’s going to say that’s there’s a peaceful way to resolve it… it’s called diplomacy!
I heard yesterday on NPR that Hillary was going to debrief Bill. YEEHAW!!!
108.. they’re the poopers and the poo!
Yeah, the next dictator who grabs Americans might not be satisfied with an awkward photo-op with a former president.
He might want a signed 8.5″x11″ glossy publicity still as well!
Have you people considered that?
#107 Liberal Hussein Smurf:
Dick Morris for two North Korean hogs and some Kymchi!
THE NEXT TIME????
I hope we send cheney, rice, rummy, pearl, gw….pick one…send them and leave them there.
102—I’ve heard the Volt is going to cost $40K.
If “negotiating” with terrorists means having a buffet. Then let’s eat.
Seeing that shot of Clinton sitting next to KtotheJ I can’t help but wonder what a bobblehead doll of Dear Leader would look like . . . maybe a softball on the end of a pencil?
And yeah, I think KtotheJ has it in his contract that he has to be photographed in soft-focus a la Doris Day or Loretta Young.
110—-Is that a way to say “thanks honey”?
I think he’s going to steal women’s underwear again.
by then, all cars will cost 40K
#107 Liberal Hussein Smurf:
Can we throw in the Gang of Six for some North Korean beer?
It’s not like Obama sold them weapons and then funneled the money to support insurgents in Central America….
117—those pictures must have been simply hell for Clinton to take—-to have to sit and play nice with that slimeball. I hope it’s a comfort to Bill that a 4-year-old girl will thank him for the rest of her life.
Wild Thang 2
#107 Liberal Hussein Smurf:
Can we throw in the Gang of Six for some North Korean beer?
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Absolutely!!!
Bill deserves all of our thanks. His foundation needs donations and I think his birthday is this week…
#107 Liberal Hussein Smurf:
Can we throw in the Gang of Six for some North Korean beer?
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Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
98 your shadow analogy is good, reminds me of
‘In the TV show Lexx, the fictional character
His Divine Shadow (also known simply as His Shadow)
is the absolute ruler of the Divine Order and
the League of 20,000 Planets.’
There is a stench of sulfur and a shadow over
this poor world, it’s the Greedheads and their
toadies at work. The rest of us can only fight
for goodness, truth, beauty, love, nature, and
all the silly little innocent things like a kooky
long-coated chihuahua who is sitting up on his
haunches talking to me cause he wants some
breakfast kibbles
#123: You got that right! That little girl was hanging on to Mommy for dear life! She was soooo happy!
I heard yesterday on NPR that Hillary was going to debrief Bill. YEEHAW!!!
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Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
When Bill Clinton was ordering the bombings in Yugoslavia and Iraq who killed 1000’s was he the hero?
Now he got his chance to save two people
Is Michael “Wiener” Savage available for kids’ parties?
This is too much puffed up affair – you all concentrating on a part of it which is a human story – but the republicans and neutral-thinking people are right: send a president to save two people? what happens if two other people are getting arrested again? and why pole in their right minds enter N Korea in the first place of all!????
Is it just me or is Laura Ling a hot mom?
For that matter her sister Lisa is too, as
is their mom
o’course my heart still belongs to Steph
go to hell Bill Clinton
132 – Yes, and bar mitzvahs.
All those jackboot thugs on Fox are going to hear is: “grateful that the North Korean Government granted amnesty! I can just picture Hannity using that sound byte, and then launching into a baleful Jeremiad about how Bill shouldn’t have gone to North Korea!
135 – He might have, he’s been to Michigan a few times.
Chuck Norris deserves a boot-to-the-head . . . ya, ya.
139… only if you’re wearing action jeans while doing it!
The bombings in yugoslavia were a nato operation. Bill Clinton didn’t order anything.
#135—Ooops. Looks like a troll really wanted a war out of the N. Korea thing. Sorry. We’ve had enough of useless wars. I think we want brains in charge now.
141…and were instrumental in curbing GENOCIDE…if one is against the NATO actions in KOSOVO, then they must be FOR Genocide…just saying..
60% of people on private insurance are satisfied with it.
But 59% have never had to use it.
Boot-to-the-head by Tae-Kwon-Leap:
http://www3.pair.com/mtfaco/fun-taekwanleap.html
our side needs a chant that we can use at the town halls to drown out the crazies…
Perhaps “If this health care plan ain’t so great, then why are you scared of an honest debate?”
We should spread something like this so when the birthers start disrupting with chants and screams, all the lefties can chant back until they shut up and let us debate the facts…
#145, a true classic.
142 N. Korea must serve China’s interests in some twisted
way, otherwise China could effect a change there this week.
N. Korea has been earning some serious coin lately, spreading
missile and nuke technology around the world, they are not
quite as destitute and they were in the 90s
146… too looooonnnnggggg… What about: Singel Payer NOW!
We can add the creator of the damn quietess commercial to our “trading for Korean Beer” list!
oops *single*
149… I agree on the length, but I think it would be helpful to include something that captures “If the plan’s bad, what is there to fear about debating it… the people won’t want it anyway.” (Which is both too long and lacking in catchiness)
nato was instrumental in preventing genocide of moslems. the republicans will never forgive that. hitler hated moslems too.
gpo6 We stopped a war in Kosovo! And how many people did Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević kill? And I’m not just talking about Albanian Kosovars? What about Croats? What about Bosnians. Hell gpo6? It was already there!
I think the righties will fall for any challenge like that… they are stupid enough to get pissed about being called chicken and will have no other choice but to let the debate continue…
I could be grasping for straws on this one, but it just feels like it would work!
yeah, a shouting match is the solution.
Even if the plan sucks donkey dick
would you rather be broke and sick?
‘Throughout the series, Stephanie Miller’s heightened
libido is constantly frustrated. She is madly in love
with Chris, but he cannot return her feelings because
he is gay. Hal worships her, but does not have a body.
Jim also frequently comes on to her, but even with her
heightened libido, she still finds him repulsive.
Stephanie propositions many of the men she meets
throughout the series, but circumstances usually lead
to their violent deaths before she can get anywhere
with them.’
– with apologies to the writers of Lexx
48 year-old placenta? Great breakfast image, ProducerChris!
156 I’ll go with that chant. Can we put something bout
and oily taint in there too?
156… it would likely lead to that… sigh… but we need to find some way to get the facts out… In my little leftie fantasy world, it would leave them no other option but to shut up and let the grown ups talk for a while…
the reason nato moved into kosovo was because the war was starting to spread outside yugoslavian borders into macedonia and greece. It threatened to plunge the balkan peninsula into war, and at that point there would be no stopping its spread because of the many divided loyalties in the area. Serbs and Russians, for example, consider themselves a single people. NATO moved in to stop a war in progress. I’m sure some innocents were killed when NATO bombed serbia. Millions of innocents were at risk. War should be avoided at all costs because that is the kind of hellish math it involves.
Bones and joints breaking in D.C.? It’s the fluoridation of our drinking water, Jim. It’s contaminating our Purity of Essence.
good morning from camp luna linda
What about:
Health Care is
Right to Life
“when i get older, i will be stronger, they call me freedom, just like a waving flag” K’naan ( means traveler in somalian ) guest on DENOW this morning aug 6
This country was built by hard work, and taking risks…and slaves and indentured servants.
164… or Pro-Life means Pro-Health-care
The mini mobs are fascists. They are trying to stop anyone who disagrees with them from speaking. The Republican leadership and their dropout allies Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck are responsible for encouraging the breakdown of order at town hall meetings across America. It’s unpatriotic and its fascism.
167… that is good slogan for signs…
the answer is: YES unless the Insurance Co. recinds you…
162 ‘I don’t avoid Men, Mandrake, er Jim, but I do deny
them my Essence.’
‘Is that what you’re calling it nowadays, Steph?’
‘They sense my power. Their nostrils flare when I enter the room’
‘Maybe Massengil would help’
i’m up for chatting in the room — had to open 2 SM pages
Steph’s mom is 86 and gave birth to a Gen-Xer? Wow.
#166 — that’s a good one
What about the chant: “Stop the hate, let us debate”
can you get K’naan to sing live for your NY audience?
show on jones beach coming up soon
“We have nothing to fear but your right wing smears” ??????
I think the goverment is great at spending money. Maybe too good…
Good Morning blogtrotters!
#112: “He might want a signed 8.5″x11″ glossy publicity still as well!” – not only that, he’ll want it in a metric size and containing only environmentally sustainable chemicals. We cannot allow ourselves to be blackmailed this way!
Use the money more effeciently…ok cut out the 1.3 Billion paid to Bill McGuire and the multi-millions paid to other Insurance Execs..
It’s funny that Republicans like to talk about how wasteful government spending is, but the only examples of inefficiency and waste they can cite are from their beloved Pentagon!
Next time you call, here’s a thought… have a point.
FEMA works great when it’s run by first responders with a knowledge of community safety. When it’s run by political buddies that fake their emergency credentials? Not so much.
People who dispise government should not be in charge of Government..
Use the money already in the system more efficiently? How about moving from a private for-profit system with a <70% medical loss rate to a public system with a 97% medical loss rate? That’s decreasing waste by a factor of 10.
Cash for clunkers a failure
Based on the numbers in Washington Post article there is an average 9.6 mpg increase. Americans drive an average of 1,000 miles a month, for 157,000 vehicles that is 157,000,000 miles per month. The 9.6 mpg increase results in over 16,000,000 gallons of gasoline saved.
Refiners produce about 19.5 gallons of gas from a barrel of oil, thus a savings of 838,000 barrels of oil per month.
At $70/barrel, that is almost a $60,000,000 per month reduction in Oil Imports; just for the $664M spent to date.
Now, extrapolate that out for a $3 Billion program; that would result in $265M per month savings in oil imports; $3.2 B/year (a little bit more than the cost of the program) that will NOT be going into the coffers of countries who support terrorism
#182 It makes it so much interesting for the listener!
Florida? That’s only 90 miles from Cuba!
#187 Correction: It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!
Didn’t John Edwards run on the “Patient Bill of Rights Act” in 2000? Pretty sure it was a Democratic iniative.
..oh, CARS is a failure, since there is 3.2B/year NOT going to BIG OIL…
that’s good — on the radio hannity endorsed himself yestrerday “i have a fox news show” –
Ron Wyden, our affordable health care obstructionist here in Oregon, doesn’t seem to be having any townhalls.
I wanted to go.
#190 that’s right — i miss that JOHN EDWARDS lingo?
#130: “I heard yesterday on NPR that Hillary was going to debrief Bill. YEEHAW!!!”
That’s called checking for evidence. Lupe Velez used to do that to Gary Cooper.
Baloney… substitute the B
Caloney?
Daloney?
Faloney?
Galoney?
Haloney?
Jaloney?
Kaloney?
Maloney? Okay, this is an Irish name. Also Dem, NY-14.
Naloney?
Paloney?
Qaloney?
Raloney?
Saloney? Like it belongs on Salon.com?
Taloney?
Valoney?
Waloney
Xaloney?
Zaloney?
Yeah, still confused.
Thank you.
And many Republicans still believe Saddam had WMDs and was behind 911.
OK, so they are stupid. I can accept that.
But how did it happen that we have to tailor all our important reforms to appease these dullards?
Cash for clunkers was an incentive to get those people that the administration knew where out there with good credit and cash they were keeping in their pockets until the economy started turning around which is exactly what it did.
You stop the Republicans from bum rushing the town hall meetings by holding them in black and latino neighborhoods. The Republicans won’t show up there and this is where a public option can do the most good.
Steph/Chris – Patient’s Rights Act of 1996 “This Act aims to establish the rights of every person whe requests medical care or who is in receipt of medical care, and to protect his dignity and privacy.”
http://waml.haifa.ac.il/index/reference/legislation/israel/israel1.htm
Don’t know wtf point the caller was trying to make…
#185 The Repugs think protecting the American people from being killed by invading armies or terrorists is easily worth 1/2 trillion per year. In fact it’s the greatest idea EVER and they’d double the amount if they could.
But ask them to spend 100 billion per year to save the same Americans from death and suffering caused by illness and suddenly it’s an outrageous financial burden!
Thanks Google! It was a 2001 McCain-Edwards-Kennedy bill. So bi-partisian, I suppose. Not sure what the caller was talking about, but the Republican Bill is either poorly named or hes quite confused…
200… REALLY GREAT IDEA!!! They’re all afraid of the brown people… I’ve got an apartment in the ghetto I’d be willing to use as a meeting place!
it is weird responding to a # comment — i’m not hooked on “live blog” — until i submit this comment i only see my last comment –
Creekers – we share a brain. Also, apparently, a nerdy recall of legislation.
205… just hit refresh once in a while…
#202 Actually referring back to #181.
Patient’s bill of rights was set up to allow insurance holders to file claims against the insurance compaines if they felt they were being unfairly denied along with other rights like disclosure, privacy, etc… The problem is a sick person shouldn’t have to fight or wait for a ‘review’ of their greivances.It only provides for access to emergency care.
….F5….(on pc’s)
Here’s my prediction: Congress will pass a “Health Care Reform” bill that is so watered down by Republican-inserted amendments that it is meaningless. Not a single (R) will vote for it, and Obama will veto it, sending it back to Congress, who will then ram through Single Payer.
. . .hey, I can dream, can’t I???
Anyone else wonder if the “tea bag protests” where a dry-run for these flashmob nitwit protests?
I have a feeling these mobs-for-hire are going to be a reoccurring tool of the GOP to shut-down public debate.
211..here is an idea, if a Republican who proposes a ammendment that is included, then, unless that person votes for the whole bill, the ammendment is automatically stripped from the final version..
#207 okay — still have to scroll it down — is there an option to have the last comment top the page? — i’ll look for one
No, Jim. Still too sad.
the way republicans see it, this will cause a flood of people across the border to take part in our free health care. They see elderly mexican grandmothers getting facelifts and gangstas in low-riders getting penile implants bigger than Alan King’s.
Hello!
1. Beck to nutjobs: “It is not time to blow anything up”, “You are too stupid to really understand”
NPR hosted JOHN BOLTON too!! –
rural radio leaves a slew of misinformation
Here is my simplified healthcare bill:
HR1: All residents of America are enrolled in Medicare.
It will be funded by
a 15% reduction in the military budget with the remaining costs funded by an asset tax on anyone worth more than $20,000,000.
Morning, all. Hey, you know how the right wing nuts are saying cash for clunkers is bad? Well, the program is likely to add 0.5 percent to GDP growth for the quarter. Last quarter, the economy contracted at a one percent rate. So, if nothing else changes, that means the economy will contract at a 0.5 percent rate.
But a lot is changing. We are seeing companies start to replenish their inventory and the stimulus will start to kick in. I think that the cash for clunkers program will be the piece that gets it over the top and back to growth.
If McCain had been elected, what are odds that we would have bombed or invaded someone by now?
instead of clicking “Newer Comments>>” right click on the page and select “refresh” from the popup menu. That will refresh the page and take you right back to the point in the page where you were when you selected “refresh”
Dear Dick Morris,
When even O’Lielly calls you on something, you’re a bleeping douchebag. Now go suck on a toe or something.
Good morning, fine MookenBloggenators! I’m really late, and have to go to doctor soon, so I’m mostly Read Only today.
When I hear Dick Morris nowadays, I think he’s O.D.’d on toe jam.
from dailykos:
“President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.”
So says former president of France, Jacques Chirac. This has been reported and discussed in France in multiple publications, according to James Haught. (Excerpt below the fold.)
It’s much, much weirder than you thought
bobhuntsman — YEAH — business will NOT be as usual –
when HR 676 (i call it the MEDICAL BILL) –
becomes the law –
If the “Don’t tazer me bro” guy was Tasered simply for hogging the mic, how come these nitwit-mobs aren’t being Tasered?
I wonder what a prostitute toe tastes like.
Was that the sound of coffee mug and two spoons on the desktop that Dick Morris pounded?
220..NOT medicare as it stands but a Single Payer..medicare would be a subset of coverage with lower co-pays that Standard…
Comprehensive Plan
Peeing in the shower … one more way to stay single.
Mama – Sash-squat.
223..if find f5.. quicker…
228… great point!
That sicko from PA that shot up the gym reminds me of Dick Morris.
10 to 1 Morris has a diary and writes stuff like, Bill hasn’t called me yet, why oh why doesn’t he care what I think anymore?
Dick Morris is an horrible human being, however it’s a reflection on Bill Clinton’s judgment that Morris was ever hired into his administration in the first place. Dick was just an failed Republican strategist before Clinton catapulted him to prominence, and how’s that been workin’ out?
Awwww, c’mon. . .it’s the only time a girl gets to pee standing up!!!
I’m all faklempht!
232… But who do you think is in there with her to tickle her butt?
during the iran-iraq war I was often reminded of the gog-magog war prophesied in revelation. it iran-iraq/gog-magog sounded like the hitler/hister shift in nostradamus. Maybe the prophet does his best to transcribe the exact words, but if you were given two names you’d never heard before in the midst of a bunch of dictation and needed to transcribe it later as St. John did, I can easily imagine him making up a couple of names to fill in the space, intending to try harder to remember it later. A modern writer would have written “TK” and then done a search later to fix those gaps. Maybe something happened to St. John before he could search his manuscript and when he got back to it, gog-magog was all he could come up with, the iran-iraq issue having long been abraded.
Question…how does one add an avitar on the live blog..
#222 Most likely. And it would still be another year until Palin resigns because she’s not a quitter.
Will Obama be a better Republican president than Bill Clinton?
Well we’ll just wait and see../
Steph, when you’re peeing in the shower it’s more usual to
actually be In the shower, taking a shower, not aiming from
across the bathroom. Just sayin’.
Steph doesn’t poop in the shower, she saves that
for the yard… skates
Can you hear that? Can you hear it?
[Q***t*ss commercial]
246… LOLOLOLOL… it’s funnier because it’s true…
Ruh roh. Bloomberg is reporting that twitter is down.
247…guess I’m lucky, don’t get the ringing ear comercials while streaming KPOJ…
clinton was haunted by bipartisanship. I hoped obama would see that it doesn’t work and abandon it early. But we’re still early in his first term and he might just realize that he’s makign no headway or–is it possible?–actually find a way to make it succeed. If I were Obama, I would spend about half of my time in the home districts of republican leaders meeting people face to face to undermine the support for boehner, etc. When their numbers inevitably drop, they will begin to pay attention. They have to protect their phony-baloney jobs.
*oops ment WCPT in chicago…
what about masturbation in the shower?
Steph’s neighbor’s gardener reports he’s not responsible for
the dead hydrangeas… some kind of large animal…
whut about when you get stung by a jellyfish?
http://en.gravatar.com/ for gravators
Chris is being stick up the butt about peeing in the shower.
We’re not talking golden showers, Chris!
#253 no more than three times a day.
ProducerChris, if ur pein on ursalf, ur doin it rong (feel free to ask Jazz for a translation).
Chris, I know you think it’s gross, but believe it or not when a woman gets a piercing in a particular area they are told their pee is acting as a natural disinfected… kinda gross, but very true…
disinfected = disinfectant
Chris! Shower Sanitize on Floor Four of the Compound! STAT!
Change the channel first, Momma’s got to watch her stories…
Morning all! Randi Rhodes said they should check ID at the door of the town meetings to make sure that people live in the district or at least in the state.
Miss Danielle, how would you be knowing about piercings in certain places?
… tell us more
Urine is essentially a sterile liquid and is not to be feared, Lavort!
Speaking of Bloomberg, do they only hire anchors with great cheekbones?
258 Combat medicine class, urine is sterile, if you don’t
contaminate it. It works very well as a disinfectant. So
next time you cut your finger…
soldiers in the field who come across a wounded comrade are advised to pee on it to cleanse the wound because (unless you have a urinary tract infection) pee is totally sterile. Also, if you want to convince someone that it’s raining, peeing down his back is the way to do it.
Urine is actually germ free.
…hey Arizona was not a state when Barry Goldwater was born…so he was not a “natural born” citizen..
#258 And many doctors recommend women peeing shortly after sex to reduce the chances of urinary tract infections.
Gross I know, but I’m not the one that brought up the pee topic.
Hey Chris…go step on a sea urchin and see how quickly
you’ll enjoy peeing on your feet.
I guess that the late Lyndon Johnson would describe Chris the same way that he once did George H. W. Bush as “the sort of man who steps out of the shower to take a piss”…
Speaking of Bloomberg, am I the only one here who doesn’t give a ripe sh*t about Bloomberg?
Hey Chris!
Urine is sterile! You could drink it and survive if you needed to, so peeing in the shower is nothing to be afraid of! Sheesh! You act like our pee goes spraying all over the place just because we don’t have a “hose” like guys do. Gravity works the same in the shower as it does in the toilet.
261…the shoud be required to present their “long form” birth certificate…
post apocalyptic amusement parks are a sign of the apocalypse.
all they need to do is ask these nutjobs “How many of you have diabetes?” (because you know their doughy behinds have all manner of health problems) “how many of you have been diagnosed with heart disease? How many of you are over the age of 60? How many of you have $500k sitting around to pay for one round of hospitalization? Are you prepared to give up your retirement, should you live another 20 years, to keep paying for the health care you presently have? If any of you raised your hands and you are here to argue against health care reform, you need to know that you’re being pimped by the health care industry to keep things just as they are. You want to cry about grandma being killed off? What do you think the insurance company is doing by denying you coverage when you need it?”
They need to do this with a huge banner hanging behind them saying “$500,000+”.
Walmart keeps finding new and exciting ways to put the evil in “evil corporation”. Now they’re creating their own versions of the most popular Girl Scout cookies, which will hurt the Scouts next cookie sale.
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/08/06/wal-mart-cookie-thief.aspx
are you gonna invite thom hartmann to chat live with SM?
posters on navy ships advise male sailors to urinate after having sex with a prostitute to prevent urinary tract infection.
270… same goes with jelly fish and man-o-war… it’s the most effective way to stop the burning pain…
Republicans want to leave no insurance company behind.
But regular Americans? Screw ‘em.
#271 “He’s a real gentleman, I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.” from Steel Magnolias
LOL… did anyone else notice the blog was dead until the pee topic came up… always funny what gets us into a tiff!
I wouldn’t be praising urine so much – remember that the human body eliminates most of its toxics in urine. In an emergency, however, urine is useful for washing a wound.
i was denied my facebook wall post several times this morning
do not tweet while drinking, do not drink while tweeting.
Wow, what’s happening to the interwebs? Gawker sites (including Defamer) were down for a good chunk of the weekend, now Twitter’s DoS attack? It’s Armageddon, I tells ‘ya!
222: i believe the details are narrated in a book called “revelation” chapters 9 thru 13.
So does Steph drink in the shower and then just stay there when she has to pee? I’m confused.
trojan!
Paula Abduhl – little spoiled brat – its not like shes getting any younger either – maybe she needs to be a bag lady
I mean SPARTA
Was that Oprah’s Volgon poetry?
I just googled it — American idol earns $15 million an hour in ad revenues.
http://tinyurl.com/dbcr5l
It’s obscene, I know, but Paula is probably worth $20 million a season.
Urine probably isn’t sterile if you have a urinary tract or kidney infection.
289… is there a place Steph doesn’t drink??? And to be fair, there’s been more than one time I’ve had an alcoholic beverage in the shower…
SPARTA!!!
237: WALKENIZED APHORISM:
“horrible times never last. horrible people always do.”
SPARTA?
Sparta y’alls!
ok, perhaps a little sparta now??
shaf, praises for thee! We reveal our inner selves to you.
We could try peeing on the teabaggers
I committed to a phone bank for two days to call people and inform them of the health care facts. Considering I live in THE retirement state, how many people do you think will tell me to keep the government away their Medicare?
Hilarious! See Lily Tomlin at work on health care reform: http://www.californiaonecare.org/
K- I think that’s the best idea yet!
Why isn’t Karl Rove in jail, trading anal sex for cigarettes?
263/267: actually there is a net functional harmlessness to humans, due to the massively powerful antibodies, particularly in male urine.
I’m starting to get the GOP strategy now — fake bully-mobs and a “the tide has turned against reform” narrative.
Obama needs to counter with HUGE public rallies.
We see a tiny stimulus of our package by right wing hostesses on Fox..
#304 I’d guess 100% of retirees who identify themselves as Republican’ts, and sadly, 40% of retirees who identify as Dems.
Monica Crowley needs to check the air pressure in her head.
peeing in the hot tub, now that’s another thing. Entirely.
Is nobody going to congratulate Shaf?
Maybe this SPARTA thing has run it’s course.
Well, congrats Shaf!
call it them SAGES OF MISINFORMATION
Throwing a Baby Ruth candy bar into a hot tub is considered gauche.
Congrats on Sparta, Shaf! Don’t you-know-what in the cup!
This damn tinnitus ad is as bad as the head on, apply directly to the forehead ad. I want to reach through the computer and smack the crap out of whatever tech put the ad on.
Feelgood cat story of the day(*):
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Plymouth-Kittybus-prefer-Furst/article-1202762-detail/article.html
(* not this day but sometime last week)
shaf — i’m retired — remember the independents!!
307: the vast majority of thugs who inhabit the penitentiaries, while perhaps not obsessively fastidious about hygeine, do draw the line at allowing karl rove to pollute their butt cracks with that vile tongue. maybe karl could get together with oily taint and the nail-polished poodle.
304. Good on you and good luck! That should be a challenge, especially now that you have tinnitus like the rest of us.
#316 no more so than Spaulding eating it.
310: do they have several homologous spokesbarbies, or just one ?
Like spackle or paste in our ear canals..
And be sure to repeat the goddam phone number FOUR times!! That’s
1-800-Kiss-My-A$$
Accomplished Spartans like Shaf are expected to consistently dominate their rivals.
312:…and run the risk of getting mocked by mccain.
It is probably the North Koreans. They were behind the last attacks.
Flombaye, you’re probably right. Rove is so vile that he wouldn’t be allowed to toss anyone’s salad.
314: well, yes the sparta thing did run its course, months ago. a few folks didnt notice…. and yes, in fact i WAS going to congratulate shaf, but only because i’ve seen his strip tease.
**irrestible urge to squeeze Hannity’s hairy little helmet until his eyes bulge and he pops like the human zit the little bastard is**
Raucous my .. foot.
316: doing the argentine tango with babe ruth in a crowde fire, now that’s gauche.
330…Sparta will survive as long as there are any of us left who enjoy the little silly contest… besides, it provides motivation to post, post, post!
Fox News is an amazing act of desperation..
323: swimming to cambodia must have been horrible. just think of the cumulative calories.
flombaye,
I guess it was a delayed congratulation this time. Maybe the show was interesting.
The show ran it’s course a long time ago — I quit listening and now only chat!
330. is there video?
The problem is many older people are racists and find it easy to believe that a black man would want to kill them off, especially elderly people in the south.
My mom grew up in FL, had black housekeepers and doesn’t like Obama. She is constantly talking like she thinks he and Tiger Woods are uppity. I asked her, what if Tiger was your kid, wouldn’t you be proud of hard he works and how well he does and she said she would never have a black baby. UGHHHH!!!! My dad, on the other hand, grew up in Cleveland and likes Obama.
#320 Fair enough. I’d guess maybe 25% of retired Independents (the right and libertarian-leaning ones) would respond that way (“keep government away from my Medicare”).
329: reminds me of that alton brown episode where karl had to be schooled in the best techniques for opening the crackerjack box.
Bill-O made a funny – according to his love muffin Dennis Miller..
Polyester suits are ironically cool here in Portland.
SAGES OF MISINFORMATION –
You know, it is insane…O’Lielly is starting to become like the voice of reason for the right wing nuts.
As for cash for crappy suits, I’d be for that. Give me $100 for every crappy suit I have, and I’d buy a new one.
Cash for polyester suits? I don’t get it.
Almost was funny as “Cash for Izods”.
the rightie jokes remind me of the annoying drunk guy who’s at every club / party who is determined to tell you some great story or joke but can’t quite make the correct point..
cash for spandex anyone?
As the GOPers complain about cash-for-clunker, I just keep thinking about their own “cash for the insanely rich” program which they loved so much.
will the “tickle me dennis miller” doll be as easy to laffify as elmo ?
347… spandex is a privlidge… not a right…
i’ll just stay here under molly ringwald’s desk while you guys describe the ruckus.
well, tis that time.. have a great day all!
Jim should turn the talking points into a film strip.
350 and it should require a permit
RIP Budd Schulberg:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090806/ap_en_mo/us_obit_schulberg
Yes, he named names.
354… AGREED!
None fair railroading??? like the Iraq war?? They just hate the code pink ladies
350: are you criticizing lavort’s newest lederhosen ?
C’ mom- that polyester was kind of funny. I made a joke about cash for dental abcesses as I stood in line for some antibiotics yesterday. I was in pain!
PS the pharmacy, upon finding I had no insurance, cut the oost by two thirds the cost!
And the dentist, too- was running a 100 dollar emergency ad for patients without insurance, thx Gd- this has been a 9 month old issue- staved off by herbs, but ran out of time to keep making the herbal treatments! in slavery America!
Hasta manana, amigas y amigos!
Don’t you ever change.
L.
Bye all! Off to the shower!
TONY — i suspect those tinnitus ads are subliminal message covers –
who knows what we heard under that screech??
Have a great day, everyone!
Okay, folks, have a good one. I sure as hell hope it clears up around here or I will not be able to go on my bike ride!
off to thom hartmann chat room –
thank-you for your consideration –
GRATEFULLY EVERYTHING CHANGES –
so many options
362: oily taint grins.