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and tipping point # 1001. Well, one can hope. It sure is proving to be hard to tip this one over though. It's got to be the sturdiest house of cards I've ever seen.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." --Samuel Johnson
by joanneleon on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 11:56:34 AM PDT
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...a Friedman unit. No matter how many times we think the whole house of cards will fall, they seemingly rollerskate their way out of it. (You know, by preventing the DOJ from investigating, or classifying documents, or claiming privilege, or...)
Sorry to be such a pessimist on this thread.
Only Democrats need to "pay for" any of their proposals; it's just understood that Republicans are "fiscal conservatives." - Atrios
by Johnny Gentle Famous Crooner on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:02:53 PM PDT
We understand.
[-6.25, -5.59] "The love you take is equal to the love you make." - J. Lennon, P. McCartney
by Phil N DeBlanc on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:09:44 PM PDT
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having"
by Mensor on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:43:52 PM PDT
I've given up predicting what it will take. From what I know of history I find it hard to avoid the conclusion that an impeachable offense is whatever half of the House and two-thirds of the Senate says it is.
by liberal atheist on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:13:43 PM PDT
How many corruption scandals/illegal acts have to be associated with this administration before there are actual investigations of this administration?
And I'm not talking about round-about investigations, I'm talking a full blown press conference listing names, dates and places, special prosecutors and the like and listing the White House as the target.
Hello Congress, rule of law anyone? Hello?
Contact Pelosi about impeachment: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
by Pescadero Bill on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 02:41:59 PM PDT
I'm still an idealist, I still have hope, but I have been watching and observing these last several years. The teflon-coated hubris of this administration has remained unscathed.
Oh, definitely, public opinion has plummetted, but what does this administration care about public opinion?
BTW, even if this administration were to tumble, I would be relieved but hardly joyful. This last 6 years has been a travesty, with lives many lives lost unnecessarily (remember the troops, Mr. President?), many careers destroyed, and much faith in government lost. Not my idea of a celebration opportunity.
But I too fear that this administration will continue to slime its way to the end.
July 9, 2008 -- I watched helplessly while Congress destroyed my Constitution. R.I.P.
by bleeding heart on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 12:27:13 PM PDT
Thats a given . How far to the end , not a given .
"The fussy armchair jackboots"
by indycam on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:23:22 PM PDT
The slimy Reagan sold weapons to a "terrorist supporting state" (Iran), then used the proceeds to fund an illegal insurgency in Nicaragua, then when he finally slips into his long overdue final rest, the RWW and RWCM act like some great person has passed away!
Same treatment will be served up for the slime twins, bush and cheney. Absolutely disgusting.
All the more reason to eliminate the war-mongers in the primaries, just say no to any war-monger, that means Hillary, McCain, Giuliani, and almost all repubs.
by MD patriot on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:24:07 PM PDT
I wonder.
I know.
Duct tape. It's got to be duct tape.
My ex used duct tape all the time, for every imaginable construction or repair purpose. And he was a lot like Bush.
by joanneleon on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:10:33 PM PDT
The ability and willingness to take advantage of the damage done to journalism by its corporate centralization. Granted, Diogenes wouldn't look twice at Dems, but Repubs have gone all out to manipulate public opinion, facts be damned.
"All progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
by Bearpaw on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:24:11 PM PDT
that maybe this one is going to play differently in Peoria. For one thing, the media after a slow start, is finally onboard with this. It's the kind of investigative reporting that shot Woodward/Bernstein to rock stardom in the journalist world. Yesterday, GS on This Week asked his panel--Will, Brazile, Carney and Shipman--who thought Gonzales would still be AG in another month. Nobody raised their hand. Also, Americans are paying attention. Over fifty percent think it stinks. And at least three of these D.A.'s firings leave trails to obstruction of justice charges.
But the biggest point in our favor is that the Dems are heading up the panels. When Congress evades its responsibility to watchdog the executive and the judiciary branches, corruption runs rampant. There's a new sheriff in twon.
by txdemfem on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:18:07 PM PDT
It's one thing to parade the Big Lie, send us to war with random brown people, waste unimaginable trillions, and get all fascist on our liberties, but focus on one scandal of payola-buying a boat for $140,000?
Folks know what they could do with $140,000.
"To such thinking you have only to say 'the land you loved is doomed' to excuse any treachery, indeed to glorify it." -Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, 1938.
by Yamara on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:32:31 PM PDT
Today I heard Tony Snow yammering about the things attached to the spending bill, including a ten million dollar item for something or other. I almost wondered why he'd bother to complain, given the billions and trillions this administration is responsible for squandering. It's getting very easy to hear the word billion, and as you imply, people just can't picture billions. But put things in terms that they can relate to, and perhaps the message comes through more clearly. I've always been big on translating those billions into equivalents -- what else could we have purchased with that ten billion dollars, etc. We should do that more often.
by joanneleon on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 01:57:30 PM PDT
Oreo budgeting. Brought to you by Ben Cohen and true majority. There's an "Operation: Cure the Cabinet" game, where one surgically removes the likes of KKKarl and also a nuke stockpile game. Enjoy.
Hands off my Social Security, John McCain.
by emmasnacker on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 08:01:00 PM PDT
...I'll let you know what happens... ... ... Holy crap! At 33 inches per pace, 140,000 steps is about 73 miles! That's a lot!
-6.13/-6.31
by count on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 02:29:53 PM PDT
Let's make it easy for them:
by Pescadero Bill on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 03:25:50 PM PDT
Iran, Russia, Saudia Arabia, and Norway will no longer be oil exporters by 2030. Link
by aztecraingod on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 04:48:05 PM PDT
a constant?
by joanneleon on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 07:44:09 PM PDT
by aztecraingod on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 07:55:11 PM PDT
(x) Cheney's = (a) scandals/ Friedman
Where x = number of Cheney's a = number of scandals within a Friedman unit
Given a number, a, solve for x.
Currently, Cheney ratio would be three. a = 3 (Libby conviction, this, and something we don't know yet but can be sure is going on).
by gottschee on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 09:59:24 AM PDT
Find dC/df.
find d2C/df2.
by aztecraingod on Tue Mar 20, 2007 at 01:16:07 PM PDT
more like slime in the way that this stuff just seems to ooze off of them. First we thought that the failure to fine WMD would cripple them, then the Plame-Wilson leak and the Fitzgerald thing, but even thought everyone knows they are culpable, they still stay on to infect the planet. I just shake my head in shock and awe at the way that the Republican enablers just rationalize the administration's slimey deeds as positive events. They are literally without shame or conscience.
And it feels like I'm livin'in the wasteland of the free ~ Iris DeMent, 1996
by MrJersey on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 02:40:43 PM PDT
but they don't fall down. However, once you get them into the trash compactor there's not really much left of them.
Every time this crew out unitaries itself it seems like this one might be the one, and never is. Well, it looks like more and more Republicans are starting to see that Lam-as-Cox is actually reality rather than hyperbole. And truly, that's what really matters. What will make this a perfect storm scandal is seventeen Republican Senators willing to vote to convict on impeachment, and nothing less.
Honestly, I think we're inching closer every day. Some of them understand that anything less, even resignation, will leave their brand so thoroughly stained as to be unsuitable for wear for generations.
The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Shelley
by justme on Mon Mar 19, 2007 at 06:24:25 PM PDT
wide narrow
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