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Published 8/11/2006 02:50:00 PM
Friday, August 11, 2006
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Good afternoon Dark Wraith:
I used to have a favorite t-shirt that was retired in tatters, it was dedicated to Bush peŕe and was titled "Son Of Reaganstein"
my favorite little section billed "With Dick Nixon as 'Hap'" I give Joe L. a week and half to two weeks before he comes out of the shock of losing something he thought was his birthright and runs out of money. Reality will come down around his head and he'll start thinking about that cruise to florida or a lame duck cabinet appointment from the bushies.
Airports today suck out loud. Thank god for laptops and hot spots.
Snort. The credits are especially good.
Evening to you dark sir.
Yeah! Damned good.
Excellent graphic, Wraith! Too funny.
I love your new entry to the Dark Wraith Dictionary: neoconnie. Great definition, and spot on!
Ahh DW,
"Put the candle back."
LOL gotta love it.
Good evening, Dark Wraith.
The Republican Party as The Brain.
Heh! That was my favorite part:)
Thank you, good friends, for the kind words on the graphic, which is obviously rather unkind to Joe.
The Dark Wraith hopes Joe gets to see it.
[Actually, the Dark Wraith hopes Ned gets to see it.]
That is a fabulous graphic, oh Dark One of my dreams. Do send it to Lamont's campaign and Lieberman's too. WTH.
When I was losing my mind at JFK yesterday morning, I frequently reiterated to anyone near me, that they are being inconvenienced simply because Lieberman lost the primary in Connecticut and to please direct their rage to him personally and of course Dick Cheney. :)
Good Afternoon Dark One,
Kudos for the poster, the man is such a gut-wrenching whiner. I'm hoping against hope that he will drop out, but I fear that he will drag on to the end. He's counting on the CT republicans to put him in office this time.
Last night when I got home, the news must have had three of his commercials in the 15 minutes that I watched. Hubby thinks that everyone around here is tired of the election, and just wants a break for vacation and such. He doesn't think old RapeGurneyJoe is too smart to be flooding the media with his smarmy face and whining voice right now.
Though, even with several thousand republicans re-registering to game our primary, he couldn't win it.
(is there any way to find out how many of those who re-registered were indys, and how many were repubs? [and why the heck isn't that illegal?])
I just can't wait till he gets his pink slip.
The power of Sean Hannity may be able to kill Lieberstein.
Hannity is now recommending to his flock that they DON'T vote for Lieberstein.
So much for their great friendship...
Poor Joe, stupid enough to trust Republican Wingnuts and embrace them as "friends".
Now they are going to push him out like a bowel movement in a bloated buffalo.
I guess Republicans feel branding Lamont as "The Al Qaeda Candidate" will be enough to get the Republican Candidate a victory. They don't need Joe anymore..
Nah, the republican candidate is severely flawed, won't quit, and only has 5% support. That may change....
Now, where is this Dark Wraith Dictionary???
Beautiful.
Love the credits.
Beautiful, simply beautiful! "Rove as Igor" just killed me. The only thing missing is "Bush as the Bride of..."
[Actually, the Dark Wraith hopes Ned gets to see it.]
Could happen.
Good afternoon, Dark Wraith.
After reading your quote:
Quoth the Dark Wraith
PT Barnum Revised:
There's a story about terrorism born every minute...
and two Bush Administration officials to take advantage of it.
I find myself nodding my head in agreement!
Dear Dark Wraith,
I've added you graphic to my already hypergraphic/video/auralishes award winning blog (I award myself)with an audio of Gene Wilder exclaiming: Alive.. It's ALive... it's alive! and of course, a link back to you and thanks for the logo image, helps the sidebar sparkle!!!
Best wishes for a wildly successful movie career. Hope you'll always consider doing a cameo role.
meEE dba Michael Emmanuel
Good afternoon.
While I am working on several projects, one of which is a Pulp Economics article, I thought I would pass along the link to an article at the People's Daily Online, which serves as a semi-official organ of the Chinese Communist Party. The title of the article is "Merciless reality and remnant falsehood." If you've never read the English version of People's Daily, you might be surprised by how well the articles are written in English (generally better than those in many foreign publications with English translations). The tone of the article is surprisingly measured, as well; but be forewarned that this isn't merely some writer's opinion: it is a signal of position by a very large country that is sitting as a very interested observer in the wings of the U.S. fiasco in Iraq.
You might notice that, even though the very first paragraph of the editorial addresses the Lieberman/Lamont contest, the article assiduously (in fact, almost masterfully) avoids any hint of approval of Ned Lamont.
But there's no doubt at all that the contest is being watched not just by interested observers here in the United States, but also in other places, too.
The Dark Wraith thinks this election season is going to be fun.
Nice Poster--can't wait for the special edition DVD to come out in November.
What else can we all say about Holy Joe Lieberman--the guy's a sore loser! He first ran on a pro-Iraq war platform at a time when the American public has been consistently souring on the war in Iraq. All he had to do was look at the poll numbers to realize that supporting the Iraq war was bad news and perhaps Holy Joe needed to distance himself away from his original opinions. Holy Joe's second big problem was that he had gotten too cozy with President Bush--not just on the war in Iraq, but also the Great War on Terror, or even NSA domestic spying--Lieberman was either supporting the Bush administration's view, or he was trying to hold off the mounting Democratic Party's anger against President Bush and the Republicans. Either way, he tried to stake a position out that was right of center (is there really a political center now?) in a political landscape that is become increasingly polarized. Ned Lamont saw a chance, ran against Lieberman, and beat Lieberman's pants off.
Now Lieberman is calling foul against the Democratic constituents who booted him out of office this November, while at the same time trying to run as both an independent and anti-establishment candidate! You have got to marvel at Lieberman's hypocrisy and his self-centerness. He believes himself to be the true savior of the Democratic Party--a party that has been captured by anti-war extremists. The problem is that Lieberman is so ignorant at how both the American public has turned against the Iraq war, and at how he will be used by the Republicans to not just split the Democratic vote, but also to hopefully allow Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger to squeak by with a win in Connecticut.
Good Morning Dark Wraith:
Excellent Quoth The Dark Wraith this morning. I was instantly suspicious of the confession merely because it was produced in custody in Thailand. Corporal punishment, for infractions, real and imagined, is not unusual there, with beating the soles of the feet being among the favorites for obtaining swift total confessions from people who don't speak thai. Also, it's clearly obvious that this guy is totally disturbed, probably heavily medicated also.
Good afternoon Dark Wraith,
Eric - you have LIEberman down to a tee - but what is it about the republican candidate's 8% that people don't understand? What with the gambling problems that he was sued for, and the gambling under aliases at the casinos, the man's toast! It's betwen Lamont and Lieberman now, and who knows what'll happen -
SB Gypsy: I don't know what it is about Schlesinger's 8 percent support that keeps him into the race--especially considering the reports on his gambling debts. Maybe the 8 percent of Connecticut's population is so brain-dead that they are willing to support Schlesinger.
Watching the dynamics of the Connecticut race play out, it appears that the Republicans are abandoning Schlesinger in support for Lieberman. In other words, Lieberman has become the unofficial "Republican" candidate for the Connecticut Senate race. That is the reason why President Bush, Tony Snow, and even Ken Mehlman have refused to publicly endorse the Republican Party's own candidate Schlesinger, while at the same time attacking the Democrats for choosing Lamont over Lieberman. I would say that the Republicans know that Schlesinger doesn't have a snowball's chance in winning, so they are flocking over to Lieberman. If Lieberman gets elected, they at least get their pro-Iraq war Bush lite senator, over that of an anti-Iraq war candidate Lamont. The Republicans are trying to play the lesser of two evils here--in this case keeping conservative pro-Bush independent Lieberman in office, over that of anti-Bush Lamont.
The more I think about this, the more it makes sense as to why Lieberman chose to run as an independent after Lamont beat him in the Democratic primary. Lieberman may have either realized, or was seduced into believing, that there was enough Republican and conservative support to make his independent run. I wouldn't be surprised if Karl Rove himself enticed Lieberman to continue running after the election. Did the Republican Party try to subvert the Democratic Party's primary process by convincing Joe Lieberman to continue running as an independent--either before or after the Connecticut primary? This whole mess is just playing right into the Republican Party's dirty hands and their desire to win at all costs.
This whole mess is just playing right into the Republican Party's dirty hands and their desire to win at all costs.
That reminds me of something Palast wrote a while back in one of his columns. On being asked what the point of voting is if the GOP (through caging, roll scrubbing, IDs, hinky election regulations, corrupt officials, propped-up third parties, suspect voting machines, and God knows what else) is going to steal the election, his reply:
That’s the point: Make them STEAL it. Make them know they can’t win UNLESS they steal it.
The problem with the Republican strategy of winning at all costs is how much more wins can you steal before the opposition starts to gang up on you? How much more power can you accumulate before those who you have oppressed will turn against you? How much more goodies can you give to your benefactors before those who have nothing left to lose will pick up their own weapons to destroy you--and they will destroy you because they have nothing to lose, while you have everything to lose?
Power corrupts. The more power you have, the more power you lust for. That is the corrupting influence of power. Over time, the corrupting influence of power will destroy you, your ideology, your political party, your nation. You cannot maintain complete, absolute power forever, for power has a tendency to diffuse either through internal corruption, or external threats.
The Republican Party of today has certainly been weakened by its own internal corruption, its desire to win at all costs and accumulate more power, and its desire to give all benefits to its corporate, and rich elites. It has so far maintained that power through its "southern strategy" of enticing White Anglo-Saxon Protestant voters with racism and fear (the Evangelical Christians are the latest group to be courted). It is a strategy the Republicans cannot use forever--not when the WASPs are becoming a minority group. The Republicans can only use election fraud and Diebold machines for so long before the results become so skewered that the Hispanic and African-American communities will realize that they have been screwed by the Republican Party. The Republicans can only give so much of the U.S. Treasury to their corporate and rich elites, before the rest of us--who have nothing left--will form our own revolt against the elites.
It is just a matter of time.
The more I think about this, the more it makes sense as to why Lieberman chose to run as an independent after Lamont beat him in the Democratic primary. Lieberman may have either realized, or was seduced into believing, that there was enough Republican and conservative support to make his independent run.
Well sure. That was plain from the polling. It's been stated for some time (months before the primary election) that in a three way race Lieberman won with 56% of the sample (Lamont being second and well behind Lieberman and What's-His-Name WAY behind the other two). Given that and the way things were trending among the CT Dems., of course Lieberman opted to circulate the petitions necessary to get him on the ballot as an independent (at least, "of course" if his goal was to be senator, Democrat or not). For myself, I don't see a reason to involved Rove as a seducer in this one. I don't doubt he's involved himself in the CT Repubs. and how they're handling this, but that's a separate matter.
- oddjob (who will be returning to regular commenting in about one week's time)
What will be interesting to see with Lieberman is, if he wins in Nov with a majority of the vote (incl GOP), but Lamont's got a majority of the Dem vote, will he still be allowed to sit with the Dem caucus?
(I'll pass on the question of whether he'd try to, as he's proven he's got the sheer gall to try)
Good Morning Dark Wraith,
And, hey Oddjob, welcome back, you were missed!
Did the Republican Party try to subvert the Democratic Party's primary process by convincing Joe Lieberman to continue running as an independent--either before or after the Connecticut primary?
What I'd like to know is just WHO decided to schedule the Dem primary BEFORE the cutoff date to submit petitions to run independent??????
This is the FIRST TIME the CT Dem primary was before the cut off date. Did the CT Dems do it expressly to let LIEberman have a do over? WTF, couldn't they see that one coming a mile away?
I would dearly love to see the national Democratic Party strip that looser of all his Dem committees and seniority.
That's excellent! I see a cross-post in the future!