Posting History for tjlabs
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| Omigod!...we missed it! | tjlabs | 02/24/2005 | 4 | - | 1 | - |
| McCain and the War Some thoughts on what drives John McCain. |
tjlabs | 05/28/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Closing the book.... Why Barack will win... |
tjlabs | 06/15/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Queering the Deal.... When McCain & Co. realized that Hillary was not going to be the Democrat they would be running against but rather Barack Obama, they found themselves in a bit of a quandary. With reams and reams of ... |
tjlabs | 07/31/2008 | 8 | - | 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 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| McCain's POWerful Campaign.... From www.politico.com
John McCain came very close Tuesday morning to ... |
tjlabs | 08/27/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Signed, sealed, and delivered.... David Frum , in one single paragraph, sums up the state and future of the Republican party. And it ain't good.
... |
tjlabs | 03/06/2009 | 4 | - | - | 9 |
| Sticks and Stones...And Torture, War, Death & Destruction.... From www.politico.com
A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an ... |
tjlabs | 05/13/2009 | 3 | - | - | 3 |
| Of Meese and Men... Two biographical notes about Edwin Meese III :
As Reagan's chief of staff, Meese was instrumental in the decision to crack down ... |
tjlabs | 01/11/2010 | 11 | - | - | 30 |
| It's not just the Senate that's "broken".... There are probably some truly noble-minded citizens in this country who have considered or will consider running for elective office on the municipal, state, or federal level with the sole purpose ... |
tjlabs | 03/03/2010 | 5 | - | - | 31 |
| Spare change.... From www.politicsdaily.com
"Change you can believe in" on education, ... |
tjlabs | 04/24/2010 | 4 | - | - | 44 |
| An Era of Good Feeling.... Call me a Pollyanna if you wish. (I've been called much worse.) But I think the Pooh-Bahs of Punditry and various other political prognosticators are missing the full import of the psychological ... |
tjlabs | 05/03/2011 | 2 | - | - | 16 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Don we now our gay apparel: How Dickens' made me gay.... Ever since I was a kid I have been seasonally obsessed with the viewing of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Way back in the 1950's in New York City, one of the local TV stations, WPIX, had a ... |
tjlabs | 12/18/2008 | 8 | 1 | - | 7 |
| Suspended Animation.... Since late Friday afternoon, the country has been in a sort of twilight sleep...not fully awake and not fully asleep. It is that moment when we awaken in the middle of the night, groggy, disoriented, |
tjlabs | 01/18/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 |
| The No-Nothing Party.... Deep within the bowels of Congress, there is a heavily fortified area reserved exclusively for the use of Republican senators and congresspersons. Built with secret funds during the Bush/Cheney reign, |
tjlabs | 02/17/2009 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 |
| The Republican trap.... We've seen this scenario before.
From www.politico.com
Some Republicans are calling for Timothy Geithner’s ... |
tjlabs | 03/19/2009 | 5 | 1 | - | - |
| Punditmania!!!...... Starting around 9:00PM last night, the pooh bahs and pashas of the media's punditocracy went into overdrive. Oddly enough, the pundits on the left saw the election outcome differently from their ... |
tjlabs | 11/04/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 100 |
| The Great (Mental) Depression of '09.... From politicalwire.com
November 11, 2009
Pessimism Grows Among Americans
A ... |
tjlabs | 11/11/2009 | 3 | 1 | - | 103 |
| Always go for the quick and easy.... | tjlabs | 01/20/2010 | 1 | 1 | - | 13 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |