Serial philanderer who repeatedly exploited 9/11 to consider running for governor of New York. Will once again bet everything on Florida.
In related news, Bernie Kerik will publish his memoir via Twitter, including a recounting of his affair with Judith Regan in 20 characters or less.
It seems that every now and then, Joe Lieberman (Idiot-Aetna) needs to pry his head out of John McCain’s ass to remind us all of what an authentic douchebag he is. Holy Joe’s first allegiance will always be the the corporate overlords who govern the criminal racket of the insurance industry, since they fluff his coffers as much as he fluffs the nihilists who now dominate the Republican party. But Lieberman clearly know when it’s time to return the favor, and he doesn’t stop with just a lick and a promise.
“I’m afraid we’ve got to think about putting a lot of that off until the economy’s out of recession,” said Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman. “There’s no reason we have to do it all now, but we do have to get started. And I think the place to start is cost health delivery reform and insurance market reforms.”
“I think it’s a real mistake to try to jam through the total health insurance reform, health care reform plan that the public is either opposed to or of very, very passionate mixed minds about,” Lieberman said.
As tparty at “My Left Nutmeg documents, Lieberman has a 15 year record of trying to kill health care reform. It makes you wonder if Lieberman felt the same way when the Bush administration was advocating for universal health care for Iraqis in 2004, all the while claiming that uninsured Americans were taken care of by virtue of the emergency room.
Just for the record, for many years I worked as a tracer for financial services companies, locating missing shareholders to whom these corporations were obligated to return money. There were stipulations that these companies first attempt due diligence to locate these people before hiring the firm I was with. They were almost always reluctant to use our services, but it was somewhat expected as a matter of the appearances, if not mandatory. And it was telling that it was often the case with the insurance companies, that they had made little or no effort to locate the policy holder or the heirs, whichever the case may have been. Often it was simply a matter of a few phone calls; sometimes as easy as looking in the phone book.
Case in fucking point! No matter what comes of reform, the fucking insurance companies will bleed us.
This is a must read article. Basically it states the now apparent fact that the Democrats are so preoccupied with appeasing Republicans that they can’t even muster the stones to risk epic FAIL, especially if it means standing up for the majority who voted for them.
For years, Ms. Morse and I discussed the possibility of moving to Canada. I exhibit there more frequently than in the US, many of our friends are there, and it’s a nice quality of life. When Obama was elected I had hope that finally we had reached a tipping point in this country, where finally the crazy had outlived its usefulness, and people would wake up to realize that what was in their best interest didn’t come from the FoxNewsHole. Apparently I was wrong.
If health care, health insurance, death panels; whatever the fuck you want to call it doesn’t pass with a public option, we probably will seriously consider moving above the 49th parallel. I watched Rachel Maddow’s take on this, and found it more authentic than anything else in the media, mainstream or otherwise. We gave the Democrats a majority, and they are now teabagging the insurance industry. Corporatism will always be the bottom line in our political system.
Heh.
If you’re all-star twitter quitter Sarah Palin, you tell them nothing and just once again strap them on as a human shield.
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Sure. Tell that to the wolves that were brutally gunned down from low flying planes during your incomplete first term as Alaska’s chief spokesmodel. This is exactly the kind of inflammatory bullshit that will result in one of Glenn Beck’s fans fanatics walking into a town hall meeting with a weapon. After all, Beck has already set the tone by his deranged attempts to incite violence by trying to mask it as humor.
But the real punchline in Caribou Barbie’s screed comes a few paragraphs down when she cites Michele Bachmann (R-Jeebus Bunny) as being a source of inspiration for opposing health care reform.
Rep. Michele Bachmann highlighted the Orwellian thinking of the president’s health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the brother of the White House chief of staff, in a floor speech to the House of Representatives. I commend her for being a voice for the most precious members of our society, our children and our seniors.
Eric Kleefield at TPM wonders if this could be “a trial balloon for a Palin/Bachmann ticket in 2012″. That would be like watching a remake of Heathers set in Jesus Camp.
Our Lady of the Shrill, Michelle Malkin (who doesn’t have to worry about unemployment benefits running out because she’s paid to flaunt her stupidity), thinks that government cheese rations and saltine crumbs are keeping Americans from seeking jobs, because we’re now all deadbeat muslims who can’t afford to buy her latest work of pulp fiction, which of course would be the first thing Malkin would recommend you buy, if you would only get off your lazy ass and help her build some internment camps.
Of course, no matter how hard she tries to climb the ladder of media whoredom, Malkin will never be able to surpass this moment.
Karma is a bitch.
It’s a fucking overhyped beer for fuck’s sake, but it Blitzer looks as though he was 12 and just caught a glimpse of the sexy neighbor next door getting undressed. The beard has officially replaced the moustache as the symbol of porn.
Goddamn, what has this country come to? On second thought, don’t answer that.
I guess this is supposed to be about blogging, but maybe she’s positioning herself to be Palin’s running mate. After all, tits, ass and various forms of pump-ups are the only platform the conservative base has left.
Speaking of Caribou Barbie, it looks like Limpball’s network took a pass on her. I can only imagine what she’d be like as an on-air personality. Something comes to mind……oh, here it is.
I have become obsessed with making something of this shade garden, which turns out to have more sun than we had anticipated. Anyway, here are some shots from yesterday.
And the small garden by the street.
Witness a new level of incompetence.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say “My kid could do that”, but surely TIME has some resources to hire a qualified professional. And I don’t mean just for the graphics.
In light of the passing of Walter Cronkite, it is relevant to note that this is what now passes for journalism. Halperin’s degree of “the stoopid” takes up all the oxygen in the room.
And needing to label this moronic piece of asshattery as a “photo illustration”? Thanks for the heads up, asshole.
Someone please shove a needle through Giuliani’s nose because he really needs a moral compass.
Froomkin in his final column for the Washington Post:
How did the media cover it all? Not well. Reading pretty much everything that was written about Bush on a daily basis, as I did, one could certainly see the major themes emerging. But by and large, mainstream-media journalism missed the real Bush story for way too long. The handful of people who did exceptional investigative reporting during this era really deserve our gratitude: People such as Ron Suskind, Seymour Hersh, Jane Mayer, Murray Waas, Michael Massing, Mark Danner, Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau (better late than never), Dana Priest, Walter Pincus, Charlie Savage and Philippe Sands; there was also some fine investigative blogging over at Talking Points Memo and by Marcy Wheeler. Notably not on this list: The likes of Bob Woodward and Tim Russert. Hopefully, the next time the nation faces a grave national security crisis, we will listen to the people who were right, not the people who were wrong, and heed those who reported the truth, not those who served as stenographers to liars.
If anyone is interested in my other life, I have a new website here. Some of the videos take a little time to load, so your patience is appreciated.
I was at a dinner party last night, and the question of Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor came up, as well as his plan to run for a 3rd term. Personally, I think that Bloomberg has set in motion policies that have degraded the quality of life in this city. His obsession with mayoral control of the school system has completely shut out parental involvement, and attempted to re-make the public school system using a corporate model as a template. His approach to development has given unchecked license to developers, who ravage neighborhoods and build without any consideration of infrastructure or residential displacement. And his focus on Manhattan has enraged and alienated many residents of the other 4 boroughs. And apparently, he’s increasingly testy about being questioned as to whether he deserves a third term, even to the point of telling the reporter who asked the question that he was “a disgrace”.
I only hope that the members of the local media here keep asking him that question, because not only would I like to know his true motivation for seeking a third term, but the emergence of his inner Giuliani might give William Thompson a fighting chance to unseat this asshat.
Update: Pissed in NYC reminds me of the trampling of civil rights perpetuated by Bloomberg during the Republican National Convention in 2004. Yeah, with Mayor Mike, it’s all about the fucking money.
So I’m having a fine day planting lots of poisonous plants in the garden and photoshopping some unwanted elements out of a video clip, when Tengrain decides to send me a link to a steaming pile of skull-fuckery that eclipses even the most semi-rational argument that Michelle Malkin could conjure, because DavidFuckingBroder at least has the capability to sound reasoned. So let’s begin, shall we?
That was a rare and splendid moment when the president of the United States and the former vice president offered their sharply contrasting views on maintaining national security in back-to-back televised addresses last week.
Yes, fucking splendid! Because just when you thought the proctologist had finished with the cavity search, he takes a sip of his dry martini and shoves his finger even deeper into your ass, because he insists the cancer is there, even if all the tests have indicated otherwise. Because he knows, okay? How dare you question authority, even if he no longer has a license to practice.
I found myself thinking about how much more satisfying and enlightening this impromptu exchange was than the presidential or vice presidential debates in which the same two men participated when they were running for office. The strict time limits imposed in those encounters, and the consequent reliance on sound-bite answers, prevented the kind of sustained argument that we saw from both.
Splendid, satisfying and impromptu! It’s a Camel cigarette ad wrapped up in a soft-core swingers party, except that Broder neglected to mention that one of the participants has been leaving availability flyers on every signpost for the last 12 days, and pimping out his daughter as a bonus. This may be the first ever book tour that took place before even the first ghost writer was waterboarded and forced to scrawl on sackcloth with his own blood.
I thought Cheney’s strongest point was his assertion that Obama had “no plan” for handling the 240 occupants of the Guantanamo Bay prison when he announced, soon after taking office, that the facility would be closed within a year.
That announcement, fulfilling an explicit campaign pledge, symbolized a sharp break from the previous Republican administration and won Obama praise from European allies and many of his core supporters here at home.
But by placing an easy gesture ahead of a thought-out strategy, Obama left himself vulnerable to the backlash we have seen — and allowed critics such as Cheney to question his seriousness in handling sensitive security questions.
Because you can’t be serious about addressing serious policy matters as long as you’re mired in legal issues, such as whether the previous administration violated international law. Anyway, it helps if you’re part man, part machine, willing to shoot anyone in the face first, and submit to questions later, as long as it’s a closed session with no official transcript. You also reserve the right to tell the committee chair to go fuck himself.
Cheney, too, is scornful of the simplistic formulas that politicians tend to favor — one reason he was never a big hit on the campaign circuit. But he is as serious about governing as Obama is, and as confident in his own judgments.
Broder’s on a roll here. Nothing reflects confidence in one’s own judgment more than having Google Earth images of your residence obscured, and scrambling now to avoid prosecution for having a couple of guys waterboarded 266 times in the space of 2 months. It wasn’t enough to get whatever information you could acquire through torture. You had to hear it over and over to be sure. Cheney claims that the information saved thousands of American lives, but there is no hard data to back up his assertion. But facts demonstrate that nearly 3000 lives were lost on September 11, while he was so “serious about governing”. For all his reference to 9/11, that is conveniently overlooked.
But maybe that’s okay with DavidFuckingBoder, as long as some remnant of the Bush administration is still there for him to take comfort in.
Dude should just stick to twittering.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” suffered its lowest ratings since David Gregory became moderator last week, dipping below the 3 million viewer mark for the first time since August 19, 2007*.
Let’s review, shall we…..
