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Re: Friday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:53:16 -0000

Chapter 4: (alternate title)

"I love you, Levi, also, also, ALSO!"

Re: RNC insurance plan covers abortion. Oops.

Angelar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:26:54 -0000

yeah, explain away...the garbage Michael Steele signed his life onto....garbage. big time.

Re: RNC insurance plan covers abortion. Oops.

GreenLadyHere — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:27:02 -0000

HEEEEY Admiral: ***BIG HUG***

HE CAIN'T!! :>)

Re: RNC insurance plan covers abortion. Oops.

Admiral_Komack — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:25:00 -0000

I just want to hear Michael Steele explain it...if he can.

Re: Thursday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:35:01 -0000

Hey, it worked for George W. Bush!
Just saying...

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

rikyrah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:57:19 -0000

My Pet Goat, Inc.

HILARIOUS

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:16:49 -0000

Rice And Hadley Look Set To Launch Consulting Firm

Two top Bush administration officials whose reputations for strategic acumen were badly damaged by the disasters of the Bush years may be about to market their expertise to private-sector clients.

In September, the RiceHadley Group LLC was registered as a business in California, under a San Francisco address. According to a source, the venture is to be a "strategic consulting" firm, headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, and will be launched imminently.

Neither Rice nor Hadley responded to TPMmuckraker's requests for comment.

A website at the URL "ricehadley.com" is said to be "under construction." According to internet records, the site was registered October 2. A woman with an Alexandria, Virginia mailing address -- who also did not respond to our attempts to contact her -- is listed as the administrative contact for the domain name.

Asked whether the Hoover Institution, where Rice is currently a senior fellow, was aware of plans for the firm, a spokeswoman replied that it was.

She added that Rice has not indicated she has any plans to leave Hoover, and that it's not unusual for fellows to have outside positions.

Rice and Hadley worked closely together during President Bush's first term, when Hadley served as Rice's deputy, while Rice was National Security Advisor.

Hadley is currently a senior advisor at the United States Institute for Peace.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/...

-My Pet Goat, Inc.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

rikyrah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:29:14 -0000

what understatement.

BWA HA HA HA HA

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:10:54 -0000

It sucks to be John Edwards.

Re: Wednesday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:06:20 -0000

Aw, go suck a teabag!

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:02:58 -0000

"They hate us for our freedumbs!"

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:56:44 -0000

"Aravosis made it abundantly clear over and over again that he's a racist and has lost his damned mind, just like Jane Hamscher."

-Fuck 'em both.

Re: CBS: 40,000 Troops to Afghanistan

Admiral_Komack — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:51:06 -0000

Good post.
I'll wait to hear about it from the President, thank you very much.

Re: Happy Barack Obama Day

AxelFoley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:28:42 -0000

You and me both.

Re: Happy Barack Obama Day

Shazza — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:41:04 -0000

Oh I'm sure Hannity will be whining about this tonight!

Re: Happy Barack Obama Day

Admiral_Komack — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:01:49 -0000

When they hear of this, the wingnuts will lose their minds!

I love it!

Re: Sunday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:19:44 -0000

Lawdy, lawdy, what are we gwine do?

Re: House of Representatives Passes Healthcare Reform Bill

Mirandalynn — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:21:55 -0000

LMAO!

Re: Sunday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:05:18 -0000

"The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."
-Montgomery Scott

Re: House of Representatives Passes Healthcare Reform Bill

Town — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:14:39 -0000

He's all familiar with Communism, he's a Viet-Kong!

(the stir fry and Viet-Kong comments were left on Cao's FB page...)

Re: House of Representatives Passes Healthcare Reform Bill

Admiral_Komack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:44:40 -0000

...him being one of them there illegals and all...

Re: House of Representatives Passes Healthcare Reform Bill

Admiral_Komack — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:39:24 -0000

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RIKYRAH!

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

djchefron — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:46:15 -0000

http://img81.imageshack.us/g/failurey.jpg/

Re: Afternoon Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:07:05 -0000

TPMMuckraker
Patriot Games: GOP Reps Pick Tea Party Rally Over National-Security Votes
Zachary Roth | November 6, 2009, 12:29PM

When it's a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what's a GOP lawmaker to do? We'll give you one guess...

Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post 9/11 era to attend Michele Bachmann's Tea Party rally against health-care reform.

Reps. Steve King of Iowa, Trent Franks of Arizona, Randy Forbes of Virginia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Louie Gohmert and Ted Poe of Texas all took time out yesterday for the "Super Bowl of Freedom," as Bachmann has called it. And all missed votes in the House Judiciary committee on Republican-sponsored amendments to the reauthorization of the Patriot Act -- measures that would have toughened the Act, but narrowly failed. Those votes took place, a committee staffer confirmed, between noon and two -- the very time when Republican lawmakers were rallying the Tea Party troops on the Capitol steps.

One measure, offered by Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the committee, failed to pass by a single vote, 15-15. Reps. King and Gohmert were absent.

Another, offered by Rep. Dan Lundgren (R-CA), failed by a vote of 11 to 8. Reps. King, Gohmert, Jordan, and Poe were all missing.

And a third, brought by Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), which would have bolstered the ability of local law enforcement to use a device that records phone numbers from a particular phone, failed by 12 to 10, with King, Gohmert, Jordan, Poe, and Franks all absent. (A subsequent amendment that did essentially the same thing later passed, it's worth noting.)

Several other members of both parties missed some of these votes as well, but there's no evidence they were Tea Partying.

To be sure, these amendments largely tinkered around the edges -- none would have been far-reaching enough to produce broad GOP support for the final bill, which was strongly backed by civil libertarians and liberal Democrats. But a Hill aide confirmed that all three Republican measures would have shifted the bill toward increasing the power of law enforcement to fight terror, and away from civil liberties -- an approach that Republicans have long argued is crucial to national security.

At the Bachmann event yesterday, King, of Iowa, sounded one of the more passionate calls to arms. "We own this hill. We're the American people," he told the Tea Partiers. "And you know what? We're not going to leave this hill until we kill this bill."

But a few hours later, the bill that King actually had a chance to help shape was voted out of committee by 16-10 -- with King, Gohmert, and Forbes, as well as three other Republicans, again absent for the final vote. Republicans on the panel blasted the legislation, saying it would hinder law enforcement and intelligence agencies in fighting terror. But had a few more of their own showed up to vote, instead of playing to the Tea Party crowd, perhaps they would have been able to fix some of what they didn't like about it.

None of the offices for King, Gohmert, Poe, Forbes, Franks or Jordan responded to requests for comment from TPMmuckraker.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/...

Re: Friday Open Thread

Admiral_Komack — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:25:39 -0000

You mean they had fucking tax cuts in the stimulus package?
I didn't get mine!
Arrr, it be hard out here for a player!