Posting History for tjlabs
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| Joe Lieberman....He's a what? | tjlabs | 02/03/2005 | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| CNN....canned news network | tjlabs | 02/15/2005 | 10 | 3 | - | - |
| What if Whittington didn't mis-speak | tjlabs | 02/20/2006 | 12 | 3 | - | 18 |
| 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 | - | - |
| McCain and the War Some thoughts on what drives John McCain. |
tjlabs | 05/28/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| TAGG's Diary Epidemic Alert... |
tjlabs | 06/01/2008 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Closing the book.... Why Barack will win... |
tjlabs | 06/15/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 9/11, the Flag, and me.... A new post... |
tjlabs | 06/19/2008 | 12 | 1 | - | - |
| God and the Republicans... Charlie Black, Senator McSame's most senior advisor...
Senator McCain and his presidential campaign are publicly rejecting a statement by one of his top aides, Charles Black, that the ... |
tjlabs | 06/24/2008 | 9 | 6 | - | - |
| So what?.... David Brooks: The man who puts the PUB* in rePUBlican....
(Ed. Note: *...Pure Unadulterated Bullshit.) |
tjlabs | 06/25/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| James Dobson, amateur God expert..... By now, most Americans have heard the name James Dobson. |
tjlabs | 06/26/2008 | 44 | 12 | - | 16 |
| America's other Cold War.... "Kerry with a tan." |
tjlabs | 06/28/2008 | 4 | 3 | - | 4 |
| The extinction of the Fourth Estate....How we went from Edward R. Murrow to Bill O'Reilly.... "The term Fourth Estate refers to the press, both in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues."
It can be argued that Charles Dickens was the ... |
tjlabs | 06/30/2008 | 9 | 7 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| It's time to play "Get the Gays"!..... From the New York Times interview with John McCain:
Q: President Bush believes that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt children. Do you agree with that?
Mr. McCain: I think ... |
tjlabs | 07/16/2008 | 21 | 7 | - | 2 |
| 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 | - | - |
| The Days of Whine and Poses.... From politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
McCain predicts 'spectacular' terror ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| An Open Letter to Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.... Dear Markos,
While I am addressing this letter to you, it is also intended for John Amato, Arianna Huffington, Digby, John Aravosis and all the other powerhouse players in the Netroots Nation.
We ... |
tjlabs | 07/20/2008 | 33 | 17 | - | 32 |
| Minding ones's place.... Having attended Catholic parochial school as a child, I and my classmates were constantly reminded by the good Sisters of St. Dominic to "mind our place". Translation: Remember where you are in the ... |
tjlabs | 07/21/2008 | 1 | - | - | 7 |
| It's my party and I can whine if I want to.... It is truly a pathetic sight to see Senator McSame being reduced to a mewling whine in response to the events surrounding Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank God that his health insurance ... |
tjlabs | 07/22/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| UPDATE: Obama-Troops Controversy.... Yesterday, Josh Marshall at TPM Election Central posted the following...
"We ... |
tjlabs | 07/26/2008 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Good times...Bush's fond memories.... From today's New York Times:
Execution by Military Is Approved by President
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Published: ... |
tjlabs | 07/29/2008 | 4 | - | - | 2 |
| Vice Squad.... One can only hope that sometime in the not too distant future that both Obama and McSame will announce their respective choices for vice-president. I say "hope" when what I actually mean is for ... |
tjlabs | 07/30/2008 | 3 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Summer Reruns - Political Version Well, here we are once again about to begin the dog days of summer. How I long for the summers of my youth when we had a summer house on Long Island right on the edge of the Atlantic. Every day from ... |
tjlabs | 08/02/2008 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Speaking the Unspoken: McCain's Mental Acuity.... Almost as volatile as the "race" issue in this year's election is the issue of age. It is as equally impossible to ignore the reality of McCain's age as it is to ignore Obama's being black. The ... |
tjlabs | 08/08/2008 | 20 | 12 | - | 25 |
| Racism: Alive & Well & Living Everywhere.... I thought I would share a slice of American life in 2008 with you. My partner and I live in a fairly affluent upscale suburb of New York in northern New Jersey. We're about 22 miles from midtown ... |
tjlabs | 08/12/2008 | 26 | 5 | - | - |
| "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 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 |
| 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 |
| Kristol Gets It Wrong...Again.... In today's collection of inane and fallacial ramblings he calls his column, William Kristol, aka Billy Blood, decides that he has achieved the goal that philosophers and theologians have been ... |
tjlabs | 08/18/2008 | 8 | - | - | 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| McCain: Out of Touch or Out of It?.... By now most Americans have heard about John McCain's inability to answer a question about how many homes he and his wife own. (Obamans say eight, McCainiacs say four). The overall response ... |
tjlabs | 08/22/2008 | 12 | 7 | - | 6 |
| 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 |
| McCain's POW Well Is Running Dry.... From tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
Pundits And Writers Start ... |
tjlabs | 08/24/2008 | 25 | 2 | - | 8 |
| Kristol Clear Vice Advice.... From www.nytimes.com
He could select the person he would really like to have by his side in the White House...the independent Democratic senator from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman. |
tjlabs | 08/25/2008 | 12 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| McCain's POWerful Campaign.... From www.politico.com
John McCain came very close Tuesday morning to ... |
tjlabs | 08/27/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 "Audacity of Hope" vs. "The Balls Of Karl Rove".... To quote Barack Obama from his brilliant acceptance speech on Thursday night: "Eight is enough". The Bush administration can be summed up with the motto: "All politics, all the time". There has ... |
tjlabs | 08/30/2008 | 2 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Presidential Elections For Dummies..... From the washingtonpost.com :
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John ... |
tjlabs | 09/08/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Way back last week at the Republican Self-Abuse Caucus.... ....Remember how the huddled mass of old rich white folk would begin to chant on cue "USA...USA...USA" whenever there was a "disruption" in the hall or some of the sounds from the angry protesters ... |
tjlabs | 09/10/2008 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| The Only Ad Obama Needs To Run...Over & Over & Over.... From www.nytimes.... |
tjlabs | 09/12/2008 | 16 | 21 | - | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.... From www.politico.com
Biden hits McCain in Michigan speech
Saint Clair Shores, Mich. – As promised, Joe ... |
tjlabs | 09/16/2008 | 15 | 5 | - | - |
| Palin & McCain: The Mom & Pop of Populists.... Over the course of the last few weeks we have heard the MSM and the various Poo-Bahs of punditry make reference to the fact that McCain and Palin are running a "populist" campaign for the presidency. |
tjlabs | 09/17/2008 | 6 | 1 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin: The First Humanoid Robot Candidate.... A humanoid robot is an autonomous robot because it can adapt to changes in its environment or itself and continue to reach ... |
tjlabs | 09/20/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Lies, Deceit, and Turban Legends: McCain's Game Plan.... From www.politico.com
Despite the first black major party candidate for president, the discussion of race in this ... |
tjlabs | 09/21/2008 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
| Campaign to Nowhere...Thanks, But No Thanks.... The McCain/Palin campaign couldn't wait to see last week finally end. To say that it was not one of their best weeks is understatement. A week that began with hopes of continuing their domination of ... |
tjlabs | 09/22/2008 | 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 | - | - |
| What if the candidate's name was Sam Palin?.... Let's pretend that the Republican vice-presidential candidate is named Sam Palin, a heretofore little-known former mayor of a small Podunk town in Alaska and then through an incredible stroke of ... |
tjlabs | 09/24/2008 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Dear Bill, It would be quicker if you just wore a "Vote McCain/Palin" button... From www.politico.com
Bill: McCain not ‘afraid’ of Obama debate
Former President Bill Clinton ... |
tjlabs | 09/25/2008 | 41 | 19 | - | 14 |
| The Adventures of Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah!.... Our story so far....
Daddy Warhero and Little Morphin' Sarah have had a really busy week fighting villains who are trying to steal the government secrets that would ruin their attempt to save the ... |
tjlabs | 09/26/2008 | 5 | 5 | - | - |
| When McCain Says "My Friends",... Updated With Video It started with this.
Dear Senator Obama:
I would like to apologize to you for assuming that your ... |
tjlabs | 09/27/2008 | 20 | 5 | - | - |
| Palin May Be the Exception to the Rule...But.... From poligazette.com
Republicans Worry: Palin’s a Problem
Increasingly more ... |
tjlabs | 09/28/2008 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 |
| William Kristol: "Today, We Are All Palins".... Of the seven hundred odd (I use that term advisedly) words spewed out by William Kristol onto the Op-Ed pages ... |
tjlabs | 09/29/2008 | 21 | 5 | - | - |
| Petulant Pols: Me, first, then maybe the country....
Take a good look at these four shining examples of Republican leadership who rushed to the cameras to inform the nation ... |
tjlabs | 09/30/2008 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Tomorrow's Debate Is Too Little, Too Late for Palin.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
Jed Lewison
Why Sarah Palin Is A Better Debater Than ... |
tjlabs | 10/01/2008 | 10 | - | - | - |
| Tonight's Episode: "Little Morphin' Sarah and the Tower of Ifill".... When we last saw our heroine , her mentor Daddy Warhero was about to do battle mano a mano with their arch enemy the Great ... |
tjlabs | 10/02/2008 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| McCain, the "Gambler", has gone all in.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
McCain Planning 'Fiercely' Negative
Campaign In Final ... |
tjlabs | 10/05/2008 | 14 | 6 | - | - |
| GOP Men's Ultimate Wet Dream: Sarah Palin....In More Ways Than One From www.nytimes.com
Boss Is Not Amused After Columnist’s Humor ... |
tjlabs | 10/06/2008 | 15 | 1 | - | - |
| McCain's Latest Appellation...Coward.... So far we have seen John McCain the Naval aviator, John McCain the POW, John McCain the war hero, John McCain the maverick, John McCain the straight-talker. Now we can safely add one more ... |
tjlabs | 10/08/2008 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| It's 3 AM...A Play in One Act.... Somewhere on the campaign trail in the middle of middle America in the nearest big city with a Four Seasons Hotel which has a Presidential Suite, the Republican candidate for the presidency is ... |
tjlabs | 10/11/2008 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| JFK, MLK, RFK...Forgetting the Unforgettable.... Frank Rich in Sunday's NY Times:
"At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent ... |
tjlabs | 10/12/2008 | 17 | 5 | - | - |
| McCain is scared...but not about losing.... You see it in his face. The momentary flinching, The fleeting widening of his eyes. As he looks out over the huge crowds generated by his running mate, he seems at times to be a man trapped in an ... |
tjlabs | 10/14/2008 | 40 | 10 | - | 1 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Heightened Expectations..Heightened Fear.... I am sure some of my friends at Daily Kos will immediately label me just another "concern troll" but I'm betting they weren't around during the bloody sixties. If they were, they'd be "concern trolls" |
tjlabs | 10/16/2008 | - | - | - | - |
| NRO: Obama's Mom Would Have Chosen to Abort.... Wanna see just what sort of sewer scum writes for the NRO? When I first ran across this piece of garbage, I was dumbfounded. If you think you've seen or heard everything try this little item on for ... |
tjlabs | 10/17/2008 | 61 | 21 | - | 20 |
| 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 |
| Welcome to Palintown, USA.... The other day Sarah Palin opined how delighted she is to be able to visit the "pro-America" states. Let's take a closer look at Palin's America. Shall we? |
tjlabs | 10/20/2008 | 14 | 1 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| November 5th: The Day After.... For the last few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about what new country we will wake up to on November 5th. If all the polls and indicators hold true, we will be seeing the face of President-Elect ... |
tjlabs | 10/29/2008 | 8 | 6 | - | 1 |
| And on the Third Day....A Sunday Sermon Three days from now, at approximately 9:00 AM EST, America and the world will have awoken to find a new President-Elect of the United States. And if we are to believe what the majority of the polls ... |
tjlabs | 11/02/2008 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Today is Thanksgiving Day.... It's come a little early this year, but today I have so much to be thankful for. And what might some of those things be, you ask? I shall tell you. |
tjlabs | 11/04/2008 | 2 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Little Sarah's Next Move.... From www.politico.com
Palin’s tricky path back
Palin, who captivated Americans with her meteoric rise ... |
tjlabs | 11/07/2008 | 9 | - | - | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Our Grand National Pitstop... For the last two years , we have found ourselves careening across the political landscape of America on a wild ride not dissimilar to the one Mr. Toad took in the Wind in the Willows. It has been an ... |
tjlabs | 11/14/2008 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Billy and Sarah sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g.... From www.weeklystandard.com
Beyond Doom & Gloom
On the governors, Sarah Palin, and ... |
tjlabs | 11/19/2008 | 26 | 9 | - | - |
| Traumatic memory...November 22, 1963.... That's a psychological term that describes the ability to remember an event or incident from the past that was so intense and impactful that years later the memory traces of it are immediately ... |
tjlabs | 11/22/2008 | 16 | 12 | - | 2 |
| Chalabi...that's Arabic for man with biggest balls.... From www.nytimes.com
Thanks, but You Can Go Now
By AHMAD CHALABI
It ends five years too late and at ... |
tjlabs | 11/23/2008 | 23 | 16 | - | 34 |
| 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 | - | - |