My teevee has been filled up all day long with one Republican after another talking about how the GOP is going to resurrect itself, because you know there’s a lot of opportunity here.
I think back to only a few weeks ago when Jim Pinkerton was asking me when the Democrats would ever learn to stop nominating far lefties like Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and Barack Obama because the country just keeps rejecting them.
You know if Obama lost, today we’d all be hearing about how the party was just way too far to the left of the country and was risking irrelevance, and needed to stop worrying about all those poor people and cut capital gains taxes.
Instead, we’ve got Amanda Carpenter, Matt Lewis and other right wing bloggers — who are suddenly legitimate opinionators, despite the fact that there was just a wholesale rejection of their ideology — talking about how the Republican party has to get back to its conservative roots.
You can draw a straight line through the campaigns of Howard Dean, Ned Lamont and Barack Obama and see how liberal blogging created the culture and the architecture of modern campaigns that has forever changed the way that elections will be run, and how many liberal bloggers do you see on televison?
Zero.
Instead, we’ve got Marsha Blackburn saying that Libruls and the Lefty Democrats need to lay out their policies and plans and Conservatives and Republicans do theirs and let’s have a debate on the policies.
Uh, Marsha? We just did that. Your side got their asses handed to them.





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Can we say that Marsha Blackburn is clueless?
Why yes. Yes we can.
And Mika seemed to be doing a very serious suck-up job there as well.
During the primaries, Barack Obama’s positions may have been consistent with the Netroots.
But during the general election, when he voted for the FISA bill and the bailout bill, he wasn’t listening to the Netroots.
America clearly showed that America is a center right nation by nominating the man who all conservatives labeled as the most liberal Senator ever to be nominated to lead the Democratic ticket.
More Rush! More Rove! More Coulter!
-G
Your phone should be ringing off the hook, Jane! *g*
On second thought, even during the primaries, Obama was against single-payer health care and against reducing the military budget (in contrast to what most liberal bloggers probably want.)
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http://www.antiwar.com/orig/be…..leid=11453
August 16, 2007
In fact, when asked recently in Cedar Rapids if he would cut the military budget, he responded: “Actually, you’ll probably see an initial bump in military spending in an Obama administration.” He went on to explain that those resources would be used to “reset” forces worn out by war in Iraq and to cover adding as many as 80,000 soldiers and Marines to the U.S. military.
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The 50 state strategy was probably the biggest Netroots position used by the Obama campaign.
Will someone pleeeeeeeezzzzze make blackburn disappear from the TV landscape…..forever?
Did ya see teh mika filling in gregory’s slot tonight? Am I totally off-base in remembering that she was supposed to be a *foil* to scar? Her defense of palin for being a poor picked-upon woman is so far past disgusting you couldn’t get there from here; don’t listen to that pair often (or long) but I’ve yet to hear mika make any evaluation of her gooper quality knowledge base. And then she adopts palin’s hairdo…..they’re both air-heads!
Cable news will look like the wingnut Easter Parade so long as media moguls love their corporate tax breaks (courtesy of the GOP) and freedom from the Fairness Doctrine more than they do good ratings.
I am not grinning about that question….color me major pissed that Rachel hasn’t had our two Ladies of the Lake on for extended interviews. :-((((
I mean, really! **sniffs in disgust**
Joe Lieberman, Democrat. REALLY?
I agree, but, she did just have Steve Benen on…!
Who should lead the GOP? Is that a new reality show kind of like the “Rock of Love” or “Flava Flav”. Will they hang a giant clock around the next leader of the GOP after several episodes of eliminations?
“Less regulation”?
“The Republican Party has a deep bench”?
I think Marsha been using more-than-medicinal amounts of marijuana.
Uh, Marsha?…
oh, there are so many ways I want to add an appropriate end to that one….
pretty soon I may come up with one that won’t leave me in double-secret, stand-in-the-corner probation, an extended time-out, mod-smashed like a thousand angry nuns all simultaneously whacking me with rulers…
I really don’t like Marsha very much.
Why are there even negotiations here? Harry Reid should just say, “You can stay in the caucus, but you’re losing your committee chairmanship. As a gesture of goodwill, we’re making you the chairman (and sole member) of the Subcommittee on Dogshit. And you have to wear a pink tu-tu whenever you’re on the floor of the Senate. Take it or leave it. You can try to get a better deal from the Republicans, but I’m guessing they just want their thirty pieces of silver back.”
Jane:
I don’t know if it has been addressed, but why do wing-nut keep getting on TV? I haven’t seen young Ezra on Hardball in a while. I’ve never seen you on KO or Maddow(much less something like Hardball). Do the wingnuts have better connections with the bookers for Tweety? Hell, Markos is never on TV. There is no you, Markos, Josh Marshall, Atrios. I could go on. Do we need to stage sit-ins at MSNBC or other places to make it happen?
Just about fell off the chair in hysterics when she pulled that one out of her “you know where”. Yeah, marsha, baby……….where the spit was *that* bench when y’all picked palin for VP?
Dear Marsha,
Your side just lost North Carolina today. When you’re a Republican and you manage to lose North Carolina, Indiana and a total of 364 electoral votes despite all of the radical gerrymandering you’ve done over the last two decades, the debate you want may be categorically stated to be over. We wish you luck in the wilderness.
1. Ran against an endorsed Democrat for the Senate seat.
2. Obstructed and stonewalled hearings about the Katrina debacle.
3. Collaborated in a campaign of lies and smear against the endorsed Democratic candidate for President.
Baseball rules.
FYI -
Y’all might want to keep an eye on Susan over at Kiss My Big Blue Butt in the coming days……she’s gonna have some real doozy stories about election season down in the Fort Bend area of Texas.
jane, while volunteering at the local obama office, (i am still recovering) i was amazed how many supposed ‘informed’ dems had never heard of firedoglake. they are now informed.there was one who is well aware.he gave me a site he uses to provoke repubs.with facts.
one really wired into the campaign said her intellectual husband read tpm. oh. i started to explain how certain blogs work together, then backed off because she then she made a joke about fdl because i had been encouraging people to come here and because she had no idea what it is.
can’t fight ‘teh stupid’, jane, can only inform. anytime i try to tell people about this place it is hard to synopsize, what you all do is too big to describe in one minute. so, now, i am focusing on the community aspect.
thanks for what you do.
her email is
rachel@msnbc.com
All these Wingnuts are still in a circular firing squad position and opening up with AK47’s. They are just showing us jerks we always knew they were! Great
POST Jane!!
OT Here is a link to todays update on our Home Solar system installation!!
Jane, I received your e-mail about firing Joe Lieberman as Homeland Security Committee chair as a consequence of his traitorous conduct. I was happy to sign the petition. Here is what I told the Democratic Steering Committee:
“Joe Lieberman is no Democrat. He should not have any of the privileges to which Democrats are entitled by virtue of being Democrats. We’ve had enough of Joe’s shenanigans. Cut him loose, now.”
OK, it’s only ‘mainstream’ in the Bay Area, and they’re not really bloggers, but this was on the SF public radio call-in program today:
Dugg
Will do…..tried an address someone at the Lake gave me for Keef and it got sent back. I did so want them to mock up a padded room and unfurl a “Mission Accomplished” banner. *G*
4. endorsed the Republican candidate for president
5. served as a keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, during which speech you effectively renounced your own party and endorsed the other side
Speaking of wanting their thirty pieces of silver back, I read that they’ve dispatched a lawyer to Alaska to retrieve the Wasilla Hillbillies’ fancy togs. I hope the Neiman Marcus return policy is “store credit only.”
Baseball rules = 3 strikes, y’er out.
Has this been posted already?
No charges for Spitzer.
Why am I not surprised? At least his replacement as Governor is a good guy…iirc.
FunnyDiva
Wow, how many panels are there? What’s the anticipated wattage?
It was all about neutering him, not convicting him.
try the spotlight function right below the post above, address this post to whomever, type in a new letter, then on preview, delete the post leaving your letter and then send.
is a way to send letters using spotlight.
Center right, center right, center right……
-G
What they say might get lost in all the Rethug whining everywhere else. I’d let ‘em whine for a while and when the appointees start being named that will bump the whiners outta the way somewhat and then we strike. People will get tire of listening to the losers trying to become changelings when they can’t tie their fucking shoelaces.
loosehead prop did a post earlier, worth a read.
1,817 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
Since I come from a Scandanavian background that includes bland food and apprehension of anything that resembles fun, I want to express caution to my brothers and sisters here at FDL in takin’ too much delight in the disintegration of the fascist ruling structure. The outgoin’ administration has left the entire institutional governing structure of the country hollowed out and bankrupt while embedding virus-like “bots” deep in the civil service and professional pool. So what this allows is for an attack on the new administration from inside as long as there is access to a microphone in the corporate media. This also means that the fascist forces can go thru the terrible rending and tearing of the “transformation” process while bein’ protected by a media structure that will keep the elected power on the defensive…witness the attempts by right wing bimbos and talkin heads to advance Palin and Palinism as a legitimate force in the “new” Republican party while, at the same time, advancin’ the myth that the country is still “center-left” (whatever the fuck that means).
So I agree with you , Citizen Hamsher, nothing has changed in the corporate myth-making media and though right now that media structure is all that remains of the old fascist ruling machine, it is all that they need to keep the virus of fascism alive until the economic crash brings down the elected government.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THE NEXT BATTLE HAS BEGUN…IT’S ALL ABOUT THE STRUGGLE!!
I prefer the Jim Garrison refrain, “Back… and to the left.”
love her.
nahant–yeah!!
Agenda…whay are we supporting?
1. Sustainable energy policy…passing a carbon tax…then we can get venture capital investors to fund solar thermal, wind, wave and more.
2. Rebuilding infrastucture…roads, electrical grid, water and wastewater.
3. Bailing out state and local government so they can keep providing the services that keep us going.
4. Universal single payer medical service.
These are major challenges for the Obama administration that we need to push hard for. Commenting on TV talking heads advances our agenda how?
Love and kisses hugs pats for your pets…Peace Love and Joy
First and foremost stop the killing resource wars.
P.S. I mean “center-RIGHT” (whatever that means)
What did Ana Marie Cox do to get so much attention?
Because the MSM has a well-known liberal bias? Nope that don’t seem to work.
Because the MSM is all about “entertainment” and no circus is worth seeing without the clowns? Getting warmer.
Because the MSM is by definition anti-intellectual, backward-looking, and incapable of being predictive or prescient? Even warmer.
wonkette
yeah but this is JoeLie we’re talking about here. he cheats
LOL!!!
a) That just seems tacky to me.
b) I almost feel bad for the lawyer here–they spent a lot of money to go to law school, and now they’re being shipped off to Wasilla, Alaska, to pick up some dry-cleaning. I hope they don’t have to fly coach.
an excellent point about the gerrymandering.
I got deep in to the House and Senate Races, but especially the House, finding myself clocking a lot of ‘em, even those not on my hit list (sadly Lil Miss Pignose ‘88 uptop won) anyhoo, playing with widgets like at Big Orange, one got up close and personal with where the districts are and how they are cut – dear gawd, so much of it tragically obvious. and wildly coincidental that the mother of all clusterfucks are in Texas and Florida
all for naught . . .enjoy the wilderness
the media helps focus the agenda…..unless we line it up, that agenda won’t be heard.
Based on what little I already know of her, I’m quite certain that I don’t want to know the answer to this question.
Hopefully the lawyer is billing by the hour.
word is, it’s not all accounted for. money/clothes. inventory time.
another rumor is that they are ‘debriefing her’…..or whatever you want to call it. i can think of many things they are saying to her.
Hey CT the will be 56 panels in all and will generate 11 KW. Should be enough to run the meter backwards most of the day(:>)) I can see the bucks being saved already!
They told me this is one of the largest residential systems they have installed in the Bay Area.
How much you wanna bet the Palins stole the towels from every hotel they stayed at?
Because the MSM is by definition anti-intellectual, backward-looking, and incapable of being predictive or prescient? Even warmer.
because the “News” media is judged on its success by profit rather than by accuracy, investigation or innovation?
Face it – they were deeply in the bag for the Repub tax-cutting, profit-generating (for them) policies.
Why should we expect anything better now that the bottom line is threatened by a new Obama tax policy?
I would more expect to see a doubling down, screw-the-Democrats at every possible turn than I expect to see any increase in reality-based reporting.
Is Jack Welch dead yet? (I mean physically, not just morally)
ah-yup.
Here’s to cleaning up the DOJ. SOON.
FunnyD
Is asking the cost a fair question? And how long is it guaranteed to work? Is it an established company or relatively new?
thanks. Will read later. I heart LHP. And everyone at FDL.
FunnyD
Good question…….I’ve been thinkin’ the same at this end of the line. What’s the background story on her? Have heard the name in the past but no progressive evaluation.
Hysterical…since they picked her, now they have to spend time with her. Perfect. Looks like they’re still talking to her.
Well, they have to have something to furnish the trailer.
Florida has relied on housing growth and tourism to fuel its economy. The developers built all these high end gated communities and tracts which drew more Rethugs than Dems. Since the state has been pretty much Rethug forever it was easy to gerrymander with all the new development.
Wonkette was established in January 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Its founding editor was Ana Marie Cox, a former editor at suck.com. Under her tenure, Wonkette became known for its sharp, sarcastic, intelligent voice, and for its mixture of heady political discourse with repeated references to gin and anal sex.[2]
Cox rapidly established a large reading audience and media notice for the site. The blog gained further national media attention after Cox publicized the story of Jessica Cutler aka “Washingtonienne”, a former Hill staffer who blogged about her affair with a member of former Senator Mike DeWine’s staff.[3]
Cox announced her retirement as Wonkette’s editor on January 5, 2006 in order to promote her book, “Dog Days”. After the publication of “Dog Days,” Cox began blogging at her personal website. The site includes biographical information about Cox as well as information about her novel but also includes her off-the-cuff blog entries, written in much the same style as she used at Wonkette.com. She occasionally contributed to Wonkette.com until she joined the staff of Time magazine to contribute a D.C. feature in the magazine and write for Time’s blog.
i am still in shock that hamilton county in ohio, cincinnati, went blue….
i had just told someone that i would fall over dead if they went obama. no kidding.no way.home of bill cunningham, wlw, bastion of right wing radio.the same guy who warmed up the crowd at a rally saying barack hussein obama that mccain had to chastise on national press time.created quite a mess for him.
AND, rep. steve chabot voted out,
never in a million years thought that would ever happen.
boehner territory, entire corner of the state.all republican, lost hamilton county, i am in shock.
but vic wulsin lost just north next door, to jean schmidt, i was told because of a third candidate.
I hear you. That was how the likes of Rove and Delay wanted to achieve the permanent Republican majority, right? By getting their governors to gerrymander the heck out of electoral map. I think they just discovered that even rotten boroughs don’t work when your party’s leaders are malicious canker sores.
She’s put on a little weight in the last year, must be that big$$.
i bet the list is long of the things they have that they thought they were entitled to.
Ian is upstairs.
About this gerrymandering business……..don’t remember it being talked about as an important reason (like SC) for capturing the WH but all the blog education I’ve absorbed in recent years seems to point to the need for undoing some of the idiotic districts in 2010. Am I on target with that supposition?
Someone at the Lake made a wonderful snark about putting padlocks on those forkin’ gates and letting them starve…..best idea I’ve heard in a long time.
not that i heard, he was on tv not too long ago.
or like me, medication.
you are right on the money, jane. good call. the advent of conservative talk radio, (a ripe medium for those on the right,) acted as a major headstart for those goofs who listened to and followed the snakeoil salesmen that were/are: rush limbaugh, dr laura, savage, and later o’reilly, hannity and the rest of the buffoons. consequently i think they actually tended to win the water cooler wars in those days especially among the average joe, er, tom, dick or harry, who perhaps was not entirely informed or dedicated to being so. since al franken and thom hartmann and others have countered on the radio airwaves and with the help of fdl, daily kos, tpm, etc., the left has been much better recently at getting the right message and spreading it, not so much from a concerted effort but more organically because right makes might. (that my two pennys.)
I watched the returns via BBC1 here in Spain, and they spent the night with their usual crew plus a rotating panel of “interesting” American political personalities. Apparently, one of the chairs on the panel was reserved for the intergalactic wing of the Republican Party. I saw John Bolton in it, followed by Wee Willie Kristol (who is looking more like somebody who ought to be put away for their own safety every time I see him). Then I fell asleep. Talk about your parade of wing nuts . . . !
- SL
The company is Solar City and it is one of the largest here in California. This is being done on a lease program which includes all repairs and a guarantee on the actual output of the system over the term of the lease. Here they have program with nothing down and you don’t start paying until the system is up and running. The payment we will have to pay will give us a savings of about $100. a month even paying the electric bill. To outright purchase a system would cost aroung 460k which doesn’t include maintenance. after I did my homework these guys were a no brainer to go with. We have been very happy with the way things are going.
You can read some of my reasons here: http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/250
right.
I rest my case.
Ha, I get moderated on one thread and not on another, get you act together in there.
yep. they adopted a puppy and it’s biting the relatives.
keep it or put it down?
Write a book? Would that get some attention?
Seriously, from what I understand the liberal bloggers out number the wingnuts, by a wide margin. What’s up?
Got another happy shock story for ya……..Gilford County, NC was where palin rolled out one of her most egregious attacks (can’t remember which one) but it went presidential blue! hehehhe
Now all we gotta do is swing SC and GA and we’ll own the east coast…….uhhhh, that one might take a while longer.
that’s hysterical, but they live in a big house, built by tahd and his buddies, who also got the contracts for supplies and construction for the rec center in wasilla.sweet.
and there’s a cabin.
She *was* the blogger at Wonkette…
oh that so makes me smile, thanks my old friend.
i sure missed this place while i was gone.
soon back to writing letters–record?
almost 300.
used ’spotlight’ to do more at a time. the way i described upthread.
that was 300 in one day.
waiting for someone to take on the gauntlet.
that’s funny.
so funny.
: )
every person i know that moved to florida is republican, and they like the pay as you go tax instead of state taxes.
and they all have ‘money’ so were probably turned off by the 250,000 cut off for federal taxes.
and all of them are self-made, so, the small business propaganda probably reached them. and the gun scare.
and i ‘accidentally’ sent ‘reply to all’ responses to their offensive emails about obama. oops.
They should mark your moderated posts so everyone will know how much authority they have.
Your comment is awaiting moderator approval
Shorter GOP: “This election was good news for Republicans.”
Media ownership. Until the excessive consolidation of media ownership is addressed, we’re going to continue to see a plethora of right-wing hacks masquerading as vox populi (that’s really what blogs are to them, not actual blogging, but a tool to which they can point and say, “Look, the people say…”).
As long as a single political ideology has control of the majority of media outlets, the Easter Parade of morons will continue.
I wonder how long it will be before the Gorilla from Wasilla has her own blog, and how long again it will be from the time she launches her blog to the first television show where they quiz her about blogging. Starting my stop watch…