I guess CNN scrubbed the transcript:
March 31st, 2008
‘Cotton-pickin’
Going off on a storm trooper
There’s this idiot over at Control Congress named bb who back in November agreed to wager on which party would win in 2008. I’ve been working hard lately, so the blog world is pretty much dead to me. Never forgetting about an opportunity to take money from a fool, I check back in after a long hiatus to remind everyone…and being the little baby that he is, of course he’s backing out. A couple of comments were posted, and then tonight I think about ten pounds of stress was unloaded in the span of under 200 words…here’s a taste:
bb, you thought you knew something about the world, and like most of the ideas you and other right-wingers push in lockstep year after year, when it’s time to act, you either:
A) Go through with it and end up looking foolish
or
B) Back out and go off to talk some more shit about something else you know nothing about
The Iraq war is a fine example of right-wingers putting their money where their mouth is, and look how that turned out. At least you can recognize the fact that you’re not smart enough to predict how things are going to turn out before you push in all of your chips…that said, knowing the right-wing mentality, no amount of failure and disaster will ever convince you of the fact that your thoughts and ideas are wrong.
You meddle in areas of seriousness, where adults are discussing important things, and slip in a dick joke (read: “* adverb adjective Liberal *”) every now and then.
Your bullshit is of no consequence to me - besides the scientific thrill of conducting an experiment to see precisely how full of it you actually are - so you can wipe your ass with that greenback in my honor and then stick it in the collection plate for all I care. I didn’t mean for you to mistake my engaging you in a wager as anything more than the opportunity to make some money…sincerely, I’d rather cut off my own feet than toss treats at your stupid repetitive yap from now until November.
To prevent this retard from somehow finding his way over here, I’ll just point you to ‘Control Congress’ on my blogroll. Rest assured, he’s by far the dumbest you’ll find over there. Everyone else is great, and most of them have a healthy sense of humor.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Al Swearengen, Politics at 10:52 PM MDT
March 29th, 2008
Kenard on the radio
A couple of the child actors from The Wire…Omar’s killer and Michael’s little brother appear on radio show.
Posted by Al Swearengen as Video at 11:16 PM MDT
Idiots not named Bush
The war on under-age drinking is getting out of hand, now not only is is a crime to drink if you are under 21 some people would like to see drinking out of red cups that may contain alcohol turned into a crime.
Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.
The root-beer kegger was “to kind of make fun of the school,” he said. “They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn’t any alcohol.”
Of course the fact that they were drinking root-beer didn’t stop the police from searching the house and giving breath tests to 90 students. The best part is a police officer trying to justify his stupidity.
Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.
“It was a tremendous waste of time and manpower, but we still had a job to do, and our officers did it,” Joling said. “If one kid had come there, even hadn’t drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn’t the police check everybody out?”
Why not just give everyone in the country a breath test everyday. I pobably should not joke about that, somewhere their is proably some anti-drinking zealot trying to require breathalyzers on all vehicles sold in the US.
The entire article can be seen here
Posted by John Rove as Words at 10:49 AM MDT
The Clinton legacy
The carpetbagger report sums up the coverage of Hillary Clinton
Sometimes, you can see a meme coming, but you don’t quite know what to do about it. The meme is big and bad, and likely to do some harm, but there’s no real defense to soften the blow. I’m referring, of course, to the notion that Hillary Clinton is a serial exaggerator. We haven’t heard much about this, but I have a strong hunch it’ll soon be unavoidable. Consider the headlines from just the past few days. There’s this AP item from this morning about Clinton exaggerating her work in bringing peace to Northern Ireland…
”It’s crazy for Hillary to say she played a role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland…. She seems to be confusing her record with her husband’s,” said Robin Wilson, founder of a Northern Ireland think tank, Democratic Dialogue…and this item published in The Hill this morning about Clinton exaggerating her role in passing the Family and Medical Leave Act…The former congressman who shepherded the Family and Medical Leave Act through Congress sought Thursday to debunk Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) claim to the legislation, saying she “never had anything to do with it.”
Former Rep. William Lacy Clay, Sr. (D-Mo.) is circulating an email disputing Clinton’s claim that the law is one of her more meaningful domestic accomplishments.
…and this item in Newsweek about the ‘96 Bosnia trip…
Is it possible that Hillary Clinton really thought she risked her life disembarking from a plane and running for cover “under sniper fire” at the heavily fortified U.S. Air Force base at Tuzla? Clinton has been telling the story of her visit to Bosnia in 1996 for many years, gradually adding embellishment and changing details. Perhaps she may have actually come to believe it.
…and this item from the Boston Globe about Clinton and S-CHIP.
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children’s health insurance plan, had little to do with crafting the landmark legislation or ushering it through Congress, according to several lawmakers, staffers, and healthcare advocates involved in the issue. There seems to be a common thread here. In case this wasn’t awkward enough, the AP’s Ron Fournier, one of the more widely read and respected members of the media establishment, wrote a column about this the other day with a very unfriendly lede. Why wasn’t the truth good enough for Hillary Rodham Clinton? That’s a question worth considering as the former first lady tries to contain damage to her credibility after getting caught exaggerating the danger of her 1996 trip to Bosnia. […]
To be sure, Clinton is not the first American to pad a resume. She’s not even the only candidate for president to do so…. What makes Clinton’s situation unique — and the Bosnia embellishments so damaging — is the fact that the New York senator has built her candidacy on the illusion of experience. Any attack on her credentials is a potential Achilles heel. Complicating matters, Clinton’s claims about her work in Rwanda and Kosovo have also been subject to criticisms regarding possible exaggerations. I’m certain I’m not the first person to have noticed these examples and tie them together. The question is whether any of this will matter.
Al Gore didn’t have a record of exaggerations, but the media skewered him anyway. Rudy Giuliani had an actual record of exaggerations, but the media never picked up on it. It’s hard to know what kind of treatment Clinton is in for, but given the fact that there’s a “D” after her name, we can probably guess. I’m just not sure what the defense is going to be. The evidence suggests Clinton really has stretched the truth in some of her claims about her experience. With one or two examples, it’s embarrassing. With five or six, it’s starts to look like the kind of issue that might undermine her credibility and look like a general-election hindrance.
Hillary Clinton never really had to campaign before she ran for president. Her Senate runs were mostly uncontested, a seasoned politician probably would not have made the same mistakes that Hillary Clinton made. I think many people assumed the Hillary had Bill’s political skills she obviously does not. Now that the race seems almost over I find myself feeling sorry for Hillary, she was in over her head and it showed in many ways. If she had been anyone else she would have been forced to drop out after Iowa, but because of who she is and what she has met to the Democratic party people continued to give her financial support and encouragement. It was inevitable that someone with as little experience as Hillary Has, would eventually make a big mistake.
It seems like many people in the Democratic party are trying to figure out a way to give her a graceful exit, I hope she takes them up on the offer. If Hillary stays in the race until August one can only guess how bad the meme will get.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 1:20 AM MDT
March 28th, 2008
Gallup has Obama at 50% and Hillary at 42%
I got this via TPM I wonder if the Bosnian sniper fire claim is leading to some of this, in the end I think Hillary’s sniper claim was a major mistake because it was easy to disprove and made her look like a lier; plus it was easy to report on. Worse if she really believed that she was under fire in Bosnia one had to question her sanity.
also senator Leahy seems to be offering Hillary and Olive branch if she quits soon.
Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), an Obama supporter, was rather blunt on Vermont Public Radio this morning: “There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that’s a decision that only she can make frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate.”
It seems like things are starting to happen because of her Bosnian “misstatement”, I think most politicians can see what the GOP would do with that during the general election and they realize that Hillary is unelectable. My guess is that in the next few weeks Hillary will drop out of the race, if she doesn’t the super delagates will start pledging in mass to support Obama and force her to drop out. At least that is my prediction, of course I also thought the Patriots would win the super bowl.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 12:51 PM MDT
Religion makes everything better
The problem with religion is that it allows people to spout nonsense and no one challenges them, out of respect for their beliefs. This time it looks like respect for religion killed somebody.
Police are investigating an 11-year-old girl’s death from an undiagnosed, treatable form of diabetes after her parents chose to pray for her rather than take her to a doctor.
An autopsy showed Madeline Neumann died Sunday from diabetic ketoacidosis, a condition that left too little insulin in her body, Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said.
She had probably been ill for about a month, suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness, the chief said Wednesday, noting that he expects to complete the investigation by Friday and forward the results to the district attorney.
the entire can be seen here
Posted by John Rove as Words at 11:28 AM MDT
Karl Rove has some advice for Hillary
Karl Rove(no relation) has a some suggestions for Hillary Clinton on ways to smear Obama. Here is the deal, if Karl Rove thought it up, it is probably dishonest, sleazy and bad for the country. I wonder how long it will be before the Clinton campaign takes Rove’s advice. Hopefully Hillary has some standards left somewhere and will ignore Mr Rove, but I would not bet on it.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 1:24 AM MDT
March 27th, 2008
Obama’s speech on economics
Don Siegelman is being released!
I’ve written about this a few times, and have been checking out Scott Horton’s posts over at Harper’s...this 60 Minutes piece will bring you up to speed if you don’t know anything about this:
Posted by Al Swearengen as Justice at 10:33 PM MDT
Hillary asks for party unity
Given some of Hillary Clintons’ recent comments, especially when she talked glowingly of McCain carrying her over the commander and chief threshold, I wondered if she was going to endorse her vodka drinking buddy, John McCain, at least right now she is saying Democrats should unify behind the eventual nominee. Hopefully she will continue to preach party unity when she is not the nominee
Posted by John Rove as Words at 8:57 PM MDT
being a slacker is part of my religion
What a jackass:
A state appeals court upheld sanctions Tuesday against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn’t transfer her prescription elsewhere
Later in the story they try to paint the moron pharmacist as a victim becuase he can’t get a job.
Noesen said the discipline “critically devastated” his business as a traveling pharmacist because some pharmacies refused to hire him and he lost his liability insurance, court records said.
If you are apposed to doing your job, which in the case of a pharmacist is to dispense medication, you should get into a new line of work. It is interesting that this mans “morals” enabled him to do less work, seems like he using his religion as a an excuse to be lazy.
see the entire article here
Posted by John Rove as Words at 11:32 AM MDT
Buying super-delegates?
Some people do not seem to like the idea of the super delegates going along with the pledged delegates(after all the little people should not be allowed to decide elections)
Twenty top Hillary fundraisers and donors have sent a scathing private letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, chastising her for publicly saying that the super-delegates should support the winner of the pledged delegate count and demanding that she say that they should make an “independent” choice.
What kind of promises has Hillary Clinton made to these people that they are trying to blackmail the speaker of the house into helping Hillary get the nomination? Or, more to the point why are they trying to get cover so the super-delegates can overide the will of the a majority of people who voted in the primaries and caucus’s? Maybe they are hoping that for a “small” donation some of the super-delegates can be persuaded to vote for Hillary. Or maybe they figure just threatening to withhold funds in the future will be enough to get the super-delegates on their side.
This is politics at its worst, perhaps the most stunning thing about this letter is the sense of entitlement “we bought and paid for you, now you owe us” seems to be the tone of the letter. If tactics like this are allowed to succeed it proves all the things that people like Nader and all the cynics on the right have been saying, and will probably turn another generation off on politics and allow more self dealing people like Bush, McCain and Hillary to keep screwing the country for the benefit of a few rich donors.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 11:11 AM MDT
Those of which we do not speak
The college student who got a stinging brushback from Chelsea Clinton when he asked about the Monica Lewinsky scandal said Wednesday he’s a Clinton supporter who was trying to get her to show ”what makes Hillary so strong.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 1:18 AM MDT
March 26th, 2008
Hillary’s watershed moment?
The Bosnian episode is a watershed event, because it indelibly brings to mind so many examples of this tendency– from the White House years and, worse, from Hillary Clinton’s take-no-prisoners presidential campaign. Her record as a public person is replete with “misstatements” and elisions and retracted and redacted and revoked assertions…
When the facts surrounding such characteristic episodes finally get sorted out — usually long after they have been challenged — the mysteries and contradictions are often dealt with by Hillary Clinton and her apparat in a blizzard of footnotes, addenda, revision, and disingenuous re-explanation: as occurred in regard to the draconian secrecy she imposed on her health-care task force (and its failed efforts in 1993-94); explanations of what could have been dutifully acknowledged, and deserved to be dismissed as a minor conflict of interest — once and for all — in Whitewater; or her recent Michigan-Florida migration from acceptance of the DNC’s refusal to recognize those states’ convention delegations (when it looked like she had the nomination sewn up) to her re-evaluation of the matter as a grave denial of basic human rights, after she fell impossibly behind in the delegate count.
The latest episode — the sniper fire she so vividly remembered and described in chilling detail to buttress her claims of foreign policy “experience” — like the peace she didn’t bring to Northern Ireland, recalls another famous instance of faulty recollection during a crucial period in her odyssey.
Hillary Clinton seems to have spent a good deal of time forgetting about her failures while claiming credit for things she did not do. Sort of like Bush claiming to be a successful businessman. Her public life seems to be one mistake after another, much like George Bush’s life before he became president and since his election as well. The nation does not need four more years of incompetence.
Posted by John Rove as Words at 12:28 PM MDT