Posting History for tjlabs
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| CNN & MSNBC Merge....Now "The Gossip Channel".... Sometimes I seem to be a little slow on the uptake. I mean it's not like this started last year or last month or last week. But the obsession du jour on the so-called cable news networks reached ... |
tjlabs | 03/21/2009 | 10 | 5 | - | 9 |
| Jindal balls, Jindal balls, Jindal all the way.... What's the problem, pal?
From www.huffingtonpost.com
Bobby Jindal Book Deal: Denies ... |
tjlabs | 04/13/2009 | 22 | 5 | - | - |
| Does this sound familiar?...Think Florida 2000.... From www.politico.com
Town halls gone wild
Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, ... |
tjlabs | 07/31/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | - |
| "I'll take 'Mission Failure' for $1000, Alex".... From www.washingtonpost.com
McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission ... |
tjlabs | 09/21/2009 | 12 | 5 | - | 4 |
| Will Tyler Clementi's death change anything?.... Since the tragic suicide of college freshman Tyler Clementi after being publicly shamed and humiliated ... |
tjlabs | 10/09/2010 | 5 | 5 | - | 95 |
| The Law of Unintended Consequences..... For weeks now, Senator McSame & Co. have taken every opportunity to upbraid Senator Obama for his not having been to Iraq in over two years and of never having been to Afghanistan. The official ... |
tjlabs | 07/18/2008 | 2 | 4 | - | - |
| Kristol the Klown expands operations.... Kristol the Klown, aka Billy Blood, unveiled his new line of home-made whines today. Cleverly working them into his usual laugh-filled column in today's NY Times (No link. Sorry I have strict rules ... |
tjlabs | 07/28/2008 | 7 | 4 | - | - |
| Whatsamatter?....Can't Ya Take A Joke?.... "All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
-Adolf Hitler, |
tjlabs | 08/03/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Rove's First Principle of Political Campaigning.... For years, the Republican party has proven extremely adept at winning elections of every type from the local school boards to the presidency of the United States. The key to their winning ways has ... |
tjlabs | 08/11/2008 | 5 | 4 | 1 | - |
| The Republicans' Fifth Column.... Fifth Column:
The term originated with a 1936 radio address by Emilio Mola, a nationalist general during the 1936–39 ... |
tjlabs | 08/16/2008 | 20 | 4 | - | 4 |
| No Good In Pawlanty For The Republicans.... The talking heads, the poobahs of punditry and the Internets are positively buzzing this morning over whom John McCain has selected to be his running mate. They even managed to drag Bill Bennett ... |
tjlabs | 08/29/2008 | 13 | 4 | - | - |
| The latest neocon stooge in waiting...Sarah Palin.... Sarah Palin is just the latest show pony straight from the neocon stables of the Republican party. Bred not for agility or dexterity, she, like all the others before her, is merely for exhibition ... |
tjlabs | 09/07/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| Unleash the hounds!....The News Hounds.... For years now, the Republican party's Ministry of Propaganda headed by Karl Rove has managed to manipulate and control most of the U. S. media to such an extent that the flame of journalistic ... |
tjlabs | 09/13/2008 | 6 | 4 | - | 4 |
| McCain's Stockholm Syndrome.... From Wikipedia:
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the ... |
tjlabs | 10/10/2008 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Truth...But No Consequences.... Baby-boomers like myself who matured during the 1960's were the cause of, and witness to, a true cultural revolution. That period in our nation's history has proven over time to be second only to ... |
tjlabs | 11/09/2008 | 9 | 4 | - | 1 |
| And let's not forget this holiday tradition..... Depression.
After all the weeks of pre-Christmas hype and hoopla which I think now begins some time in August, we have entered the period twixt Christmas and New Year's Day when many of us find ... |
tjlabs | 12/28/2008 | 1 | 4 | - | 21 |
| Out of the mouths of knaves..... And what exactly does the following tell us?
From Josh Marshall:
Like you, I've been watching ... |
tjlabs | 03/16/2009 | 11 | 4 | - | 1 |
| I'm going to type very very slowly..... From www.weeklystandard.com
GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra is upping the stakes of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/08/2009 | 24 | 4 | 1 | - |
| William Donohue: Not so holier than Thou and Me.... From www.nytimes.com
William A. Donohue, the perennially indignant president of the ... |
tjlabs | 05/15/2009 | 15 | 4 | - | 3 |
| How dare Sonia Sotomayor make something of herself?.... From www.google.com
Debate over who Sotomayor is a sensitive one
By SHARON THEIMER – |
tjlabs | 05/29/2009 | 8 | 4 | - | - |
| Pop Quiz: What's wrong with this opening paragraph?.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Iran Unrest Reveals Split In U.S. ... |
tjlabs | 06/23/2009 | 22 | 4 | - | - |
| I Got Pawlenty of Nuthin'.... From www.politico.com
Tim Pawlenty foresees GOP surge if health plan is rejected
CHICAGO – Minnesota ... |
tjlabs | 08/15/2009 | 11 | 4 | - | 4 |
| The Bush Decade.... From www.washingtonpost.com
America's decade of dread
This decade began and ended in dread. It began with Wall Street -- the World Trade Center -- targeted for mass murder. It ... |
tjlabs | 12/16/2009 | 4 | 4 | - | 140 |
| Contortionists.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Congressional Republicans rallied Tea Party activists to oppose the health-care legislation on the verge of being approved by Congress even as party ... |
tjlabs | 03/22/2010 | 4 | 4 | - | 12 |
| CNN....canned news network | tjlabs | 02/15/2005 | 10 | 3 | - | - |
| What if Whittington didn't mis-speak | tjlabs | 02/20/2006 | 12 | 3 | - | 18 |
| America's other Cold War.... "Kerry with a tan." |
tjlabs | 06/28/2008 | 4 | 3 | - | 4 |
| Shame on you, John Mccain.... If you look at John McCain's campaign commercials, both his previous ads and his current ones, most of them feature some visual or text reference to his time as a POW during the Viet Nam war. |
tjlabs | 07/08/2008 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Fear and loathing.... The ferocity of attacks about to be unleashed on Barack Obama has many roots and many outlets. But I think a big part of it has to do with power, influence, control and the loss there of. |
tjlabs | 07/10/2008 | - | 3 | - | - |
| The Chernobyl of Presidential Campaigns.... There was another "Shock and Awe" attack in Iraq this week. But this time it was not the military might of the United States raining down upon the Iraqis but rather it was the political might of the ... |
tjlabs | 07/24/2008 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - |
| UPDATE: Obama-Troops Controversy.... Yesterday, Josh Marshall at TPM Election Central posted the following...
"We ... |
tjlabs | 07/26/2008 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| McCain's Mess of Porridge and Why Obama Will Lose.... The blood-letting has begun. It's just small cuts, abrasions, and bruises for the moment but we're only in the opening rounds. The important thing though is: first blood has been shed and it's ... |
tjlabs | 08/04/2008 | 25 | 3 | 1 | - |
| John McCain: The invisible man.... As usual, Frank Rich gets to the heart of the matter.
clipped from www.nytimes.com
The ... |
tjlabs | 08/17/2008 | 2 | 3 | - | 118 |
| We Dems Need A Wake-Up Call...Badly.... One of the favorite rhetorical devices that candidates running for the presidency like to use is to compare themselves to some former president, usually of the same party, in hopes that whatever ... |
tjlabs | 08/21/2008 | 6 | 3 | - | 2 |
| Hillary Kicks Off 2012 Presidential Campaign.... Hillary gets stiffed
By MIKE ALLEN |
8/22/08 4:27 PM EST
Updated: 8/22/08 4:27 PM EST
There’... |
tjlabs | 08/23/2008 | 35 | 3 | - | 12 |
| If it bleeds, it leads....Why I Can't Stand CNN, et al.... John Amato over at Crooks and Liars raises a good point.
... |
tjlabs | 08/28/2008 | 27 | 3 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin and The New Double Standard.... Yesterday, I posited the thought that St. John the Insane's "pick whatever's left on the shelf as long as it has breasts" choice to be his running mate, Sarah Palin, would turn out to be the start ... |
tjlabs | 09/01/2008 | 12 | 3 | - | - |
| BREAKING....First Clip of Interview With Palin....Updated This little snippet is enough to send shivers up and down your spine. Be afraid...be very afraid. |
tjlabs | 09/11/2008 | 68 | 3 | - | - |
| Staring defeat in the face, will McCain play the race card?.... Pick any analogy you like from sports ("It's the bottom of the ninth with two strikes, the count is 3 and 2 and they're losing by six runs") or history ("Into the valley of death rode the six hundred. |
tjlabs | 10/15/2008 | 18 | 3 | - | - |
| Helpful Hints To Spot The Losing Ticket.... When you study for the priesthood (RC), you learn that aside from one's role as dispenser of the sacraments, your second most important role is as counselor. And to that end, the seminarian is ... |
tjlabs | 10/21/2008 | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Three more states we won't be moving to.... In addition to the already thirty-odd states that currently discriminate in one form or another against gays and lesbians, as of last Tuesday we can add Arizona, Florida, and California. And Florida ... |
tjlabs | 11/06/2008 | 10 | 3 | - | - |
| Something else 'W' can be proud of.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
New government figures show that almost 700,000 children went hungry in the United States at some point in 2007, up more than 50 percent from the year ... |
tjlabs | 11/18/2008 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - |
| Sarah? About your plans for 2012?.... From the NY Times:
December 6, 2008
3 Palin Stylists Cost Campaign More Than $165,000
Senator John McCain&... |
tjlabs | 12/06/2008 | 15 | 3 | - | 11 |
| Mutual (Mental) Masturbation.... From www.politico.com
In scandal, risks for Obama
By BEN SMITH & JONATHAN MARTIN |
12/10/08 7:50 AM EST
At first blush, Barack Obama comes out of the ... |
tjlabs | 12/10/2008 | 10 | 3 | - | 3 |
| N.A.P. Time for Obama: Warren vs Money.... What began a few days ago as disgruntled murmuring among some Obama supporters upon learning of his decision to have Pastor Rick Warren give ... |
tjlabs | 12/19/2008 | 22 | 3 | - | - |
| If I had a magic wand.... I would wave it over the Republicans in Congress and turn their bullshit into gold. That would solve our nation's economic crisis in one fell swoop. There would be enough money for universal health ... |
tjlabs | 01/26/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| On (Political) Death and Dying.... From www.cbsnews.com
CBS Poll: Americans Optimistic About Obama
Seventy-Nine Percent Say ... |
tjlabs | 02/14/2009 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| Heard of Chicago Deep Dish Pizza? Well here's some Deep Sh*t Toast.... From www.washingtonpost.com
Burris Discloses Fundraising ... |
tjlabs | 02/15/2009 | 53 | 3 | - | 19 |
| Slum(ming) GOP Millionaires.... I just love it when the multi-millionaires in the Repugnant party lecture us little people on financial responsibility. Over the last few weeks, while hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens ... |
tjlabs | 02/23/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
| Bobby Jindal's To-Do List.... Just like that Jolly Old Elf, Santa Claus, Jindal, the 2012 presidential hopeful (you know that for a fact 'cause he told David Gregory on MTP that he absolutely positively without question intends ... |
tjlabs | 02/24/2009 | 21 | 3 | - | - |
| Frum the Right.... David Frum is persona non grata within his own party. Here's why.
From www.newsweek.com
Why Rush is Wrong
Limbaugh is ... |
tjlabs | 03/08/2009 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Newt & Huck: The New GOP God Squad Dynamic Duo.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
At an event in Virginia titled "Rediscovering God in ... |
tjlabs | 06/07/2009 | 27 | 3 | - | 10 |
| Sarah Palin: "I coulda been a contender".... From www.washingtonpost.com
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can ... |
tjlabs | 06/10/2009 | 30 | 3 | - | 8 |
| Best new summer show?...The Republican Follies.... Upset with being perceived by a vast majority of Americans as obstructionists and anti-people, the Republican party has apparently decided that in order to recapture the hearts and minds of the ... |
tjlabs | 07/05/2009 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| An Invitation to Senator John Thune of South Dakota.... From www.nytimes.com
On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on the latest assault on public safety in the name of gun ownership. Introduced as an amendment to the military&... |
tjlabs | 07/22/2009 | 12 | 3 | - | 120 |
| Dear Mr. President: No more Mr. Nice Guy.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
"Daily Kos" founder Markos Moulitsas warned President ... |
tjlabs | 09/09/2009 | 8 | 3 | - | 7 |
| Douthat again.... From www.nytimes.com
However serious his doubts about escalation, Obama seems boxed in — by the thoroughness of McChrystal’s assessment and the military’s united ... |
tjlabs | 09/28/2009 | 17 | 3 | - | 19 |
| The GOP: "Screwing America Since 1968".... From www.rollcall.com
Unable to mount a filibuster on their own and calculating that Democrats are on track to ... |
tjlabs | 10/19/2009 | 15 | 3 | - | 48 |
| Hell hath no fury like a Sarah scorned.... From open.salon.com
It does stand to reason that a woman with an ego as large as ... |
tjlabs | 11/20/2009 | 12 | 3 | - | 214 |
| Not with a bang, but a whimper.... From www.rollcall.com
Partisan Wars Erupt in Senate
Health Care Reform Races the Clock
As ... |
tjlabs | 12/17/2009 | 9 | 3 | - | 86 |
| The Comity of Eras.... "Fast away the old year passes" as the old carol goes. And it is at this time of the year that my thoughts turn to family and friends who have left us over the years and the memories of them and the ... |
tjlabs | 12/30/2009 | 5 | 3 | - | 47 |
| The Bully's Pulpit.... The Shirley Sherrod fracas is just the latest high-volume, over-blown, misinterpreted, misrepresented, totally fake media frenzy to occur since before and since Barack Obama ran for and was elected ... |
tjlabs | 07/23/2010 | 6 | 3 | - | 20 |
| Lieberman's short-lived smirk I think the senate Democrats who really and truly cannot abide the sanctimonious gut-churning Bush-loving pronouncements of Joe Lieberman have come to the following realization. They have read the ... |
tjlabs | 01/18/2007 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| TAGG's Diary Epidemic Alert... |
tjlabs | 06/01/2008 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 |
| So what?.... David Brooks: The man who puts the PUB* in rePUBlican....
(Ed. Note: *...Pure Unadulterated Bullshit.) |
tjlabs | 06/25/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Bread and Circuses.... Bob Herbert has a really terrific column in today's NY Times. I've quoted some of his central points but I would urge you to follow the link and read the whole piece. |
tjlabs | 07/05/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| The Days of Whine and Poses.... From politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
McCain predicts 'spectacular' terror ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The McCain Vapid Response Team.... It's been a tough week for the McCain Vapid Response Team. First they had the almost impossible task of getting their message heard above the din of the incredible press coverage of Barack Obama's ... |
tjlabs | 07/27/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| Past His Sell-By Date.... Maureen Dowd in today's NY Times:
Now John McCain is pea-green with envy. That’s the only explanation ... |
tjlabs | 08/06/2008 | 16 | 2 | - | - |
| Obama's Choice for Veep...the Un-McCain.... When I first began touting Barack Obama as the candidate to beat for the Democratic nomination sometime in 2007, my fellow political junkies thought I was nuts. They threw every argument at me they ... |
tjlabs | 08/19/2008 | 27 | 2 | - | - |
| McCain's POW Well Is Running Dry.... From tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
Pundits And Writers Start ... |
tjlabs | 08/24/2008 | 25 | 2 | - | 8 |
| Blinded By The Rage...We Don't Have Four More Years To Wait From www.salon.com
Quarter of Clinton supporters would vote McCain over Obama
Interesting result ... |
tjlabs | 08/26/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Mercy Killing...Why McCain Chose Palin.... With what is turning out to be the greatest political miscalculation in the history of presidential elections, John McCain has pretty much handed the presidency to Barack Obama. His unfathomable ... |
tjlabs | 08/31/2008 | 12 | 2 | - | - |
| Where There's a (George) Will...There's a Nay .... From www.washingtonpost.com
McCain Loses His Head
Under the pressure of the ... |
tjlabs | 09/23/2008 | 6 | 2 | - | - |
| Senator John "NoBalls" McCain.... From abcnews.go.com
Obama said that the McCain campaign is making personal attacks "the centerpiece of the discussion in the ... |
tjlabs | 10/09/2008 | 11 | 2 | - | - |
| Giving thanks.... No snark. No sarcasm. No jokes. No puns. And NO politics.
In my sixty some-odd years upon this earth, I don't think there has ever been a Thanksgiving Day so filled with hope and promise for the ... |
tjlabs | 11/27/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 |
| The Will Smith Factor.... As has been often noted by journalists, pundits, and politicians during this current election cycle. there has been a tsunami-size wave of newly registered young, first-time voters. There have been ... |
tjlabs | 10/22/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Bush to Receive 2008 Intrepid Freedom Award!.... Please swallow any liquids in your mouth before reading the following.
From www.newsday.... |
tjlabs | 11/11/2008 | 7 | 2 | - | 9 |
| Once again, Billy Blood lives up to his name.... From www.weeklystandard.com
Before He Goes
What President Bush could accomplish in his final days in office.
by William Kristol
...(H)e could tell various admirals to stop ... |
tjlabs | 11/29/2008 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| From those wonderful folks who brought us Abu Gharib & Guantanamo.... From www.nytimes.com
Rush to Enact a Safety Rule Obama Opposes
WASHINGTON — The Labor ... |
tjlabs | 11/30/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | 4 |
| "Post hoc ergo propter hoc".... From www.washingtontimes.com
MURCHISON: Homicidal maniacs at large
For two or three ... |
tjlabs | 12/04/2008 | 13 | 2 | - | 3 |
| 1/20/09...Time for popping corks and bubbles....(Revised) Richard Cohen in today's www.washingtonpost.com
How to Burst a Bubble
Obama ... |
tjlabs | 12/16/2008 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| Change is palpable.... I have been watching CNN for the last hour or so made less than usually unbearable by the presence of Anderson Cooper and Roland Martin.
What has struck me is the undertone of joyousness in their ... |
tjlabs | 01/17/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Brother, Can You Spare Some Hope?.... I was talking yesterday after Barack H. Obama became the 44th president of the United States with an elderly friend of mine. My friend, who will turn 86 in a few months, had spent the day with his ... |
tjlabs | 01/21/2009 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Boehner & Cantor...The Republicans' Batman & Robin.... Move over Barack and Michelle, there's another new power couple in Washington these days. |
tjlabs | 01/25/2009 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Why the Traditional Media are Whores...Chapter 47.... Having spent the previous eight years drinking the Bush KoolAid, wagging their little butts every time Bush & Co, gave them a pat on the head, and generally acting as stenographers for the most ... |
tjlabs | 02/04/2009 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Republicans' Viagra Stimulus Fantasy.... Democrats Try Trickle-Down Economics
By KARL ROVE
Democrats are betting that Americans now embrace ... |
tjlabs | 02/05/2009 | - | 2 | - | 1 |
| Byron York...Those slap-happy Repubs!.... Words (almost) fail me.
From www.dcexaminer.com
The ... |
tjlabs | 02/09/2009 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Republican view of America...through the looking glass.... Funny stuff.
From www.politico.com
Three days after Barack Obama became president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch ... |
tjlabs | 03/23/2009 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Hey pal, can you spare some change?.... The Republican "Loyal Opposition" might want to take note.
From www.swamppolitics.... |
tjlabs | 03/24/2009 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Mopey Dick...We need to find Cheney a job.... The former veep has been rather grumpy of late and stories like this only add to the rise in his grumpiness. It seems to me he needs to find some sort of work to occupy his time. |
tjlabs | 04/14/2009 | 29 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Reductio ad absurdum.... Dick Cheney and his merry band of fellow sociopaths are very busy these days proclaiming from the rooftops or rather Fox News how the torture that was used on suspected terrorists was not torture ... |
tjlabs | 04/22/2009 | 23 | 2 | - | 1 |
| Joe Lieberman....He's a what? | tjlabs | 02/03/2005 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| 9/11, the Flag, and me.... A new post... |
tjlabs | 06/19/2008 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| It's Going To Be A Long Hot Summer.... We know now that John McCain has successfully completed his transformation from the "maverick" to the "clone". I'll be honest. I've never really liked McCain and the reasons were amorphous. There ... |
tjlabs | 08/01/2008 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Poll Vaulting.... It would be a safe bet to say that by now, most of us have had polling up to our eye teeth. You can get whiplash from looking at them from day to day. The worst of the bunch are the daily tracking ... |
tjlabs | 08/07/2008 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| "Jumping the Shark" Didn't Save Happy Days Either... clipped from hotair.com
McCain: Lieberman and Graham are going to Georgia
posted at 7:31 pm on August 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
He’s (... |
tjlabs | 08/14/2008 | 11 | 1 | - | 2 |
| The Real John McCain?.... From today's NY Times editorial:
The Real John McCain
On Thursday, Mr. McCain said he would ... |
tjlabs | 09/05/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Presidential Elections For Dummies..... From the washingtonpost.com :
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John ... |
tjlabs | 09/08/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Dr. Rovenstein's Monster.... The creature that is now stalking the countryside, laying waste the political landscape and terrifying its citizens, we learn today, is the result of a horrific experiment in human cloning gone ... |
tjlabs | 09/14/2008 | 4 | 1 | - | 9 |