Posting History for tjlabs
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| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 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 | - | - |
| Kristol's Contempt for Barack Obama.... In today's NY Times (sorry, Larry Craig Rule: No linking to assholes), William Kristol exhibits his utter contempt and disdain for the new President-Elect, Barack Obama. His contempt is so great ... |
tjlabs | 11/10/2008 | 45 | 10 | 1 | 21 |
| Lieberman's Farewell FU to the Democratic Party.... From www.courant.com
Lieberman A Possible Running Mate For McCain
The NRA gave him an F. ... |
tjlabs | 08/20/2008 | 36 | 7 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Life inside the Republican bunker.... Dan Bolt writing in today's Washington Post:
How much more can the Republicans take? |
tjlabs | 04/29/2009 | 79 | 15 | - | 22 |
| 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 |
| Losing It: Questioning McCain's Mental State..... As anyone who is kind enough to read the diaries that I post here at Daily Kos knows, I have written twice before about the state of John McCain's mental acuity and ability. I raise the issue not ... |
tjlabs | 09/19/2008 | 48 | 18 | 1 | 15 |
| McCain and Ayers: "This Isn't Politics....It's Personal"..... There is a scene in the original The Godfather movie, when Sonny Corleone questions his younger brother Michael's desire to avenge the assassination attempt on their father. Sonny accuses Michael of ... |
tjlabs | 10/04/2008 | 42 | 15 | 2 | - |
| McCain and the War Some thoughts on what drives John McCain. |
tjlabs | 05/28/2008 | 4 | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| McCain's POW Well Is Running Dry.... From tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com
Pundits And Writers Start ... |
tjlabs | 08/24/2008 | 25 | 2 | - | 8 |
| McCain's POWerful Campaign.... From www.politico.com
John McCain came very close Tuesday morning to ... |
tjlabs | 08/27/2008 | 1 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| McCain, the "Gambler", has gone all in.... From www.huffingtonpost.com
McCain Planning 'Fiercely' Negative
Campaign In Final ... |
tjlabs | 10/05/2008 | 14 | 6 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Miss USA Loser Joins Oldest Profession.... From www.google.com:
Miss California to campaign against gay marriage
NEW ... |
tjlabs | 04/30/2009 | 91 | 9 | - | 30 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| No more Abu Gharib-style scapegoating.... This time around, we should go right to the top.
From www.washingtonpost.... |
tjlabs | 04/17/2009 | 2 | 6 | - | 2 |
| Noonan Nipping at the Nog..... From online.wsj.com
At a sparkling Christmas gathering of mostly Republicans, there was warmth, laughter and a ... |
tjlabs | 12/05/2008 | 27 | 8 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Obama and the Generals...Be Warned.... Be afraid. Be very afraid.
From digbysblog.blogspot.com
CENTCOM commander Gen. ... |
tjlabs | 02/03/2009 | 43 | 17 | 1 | 89 |
| Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...Update.... On February 3, I wrote this diary "Obama and the Generals...Be Warned...." In that piece I once again raised the specter of ... |
tjlabs | 03/01/2009 | 33 | 25 | - | 25 |
| Obama had Specter at "I love you"....(Updated) I found it singularly amusing watching the big talking heads on CNN and MSNBC last night offering their positively correct analysis of why Arlen Specter went down in defeat to Joe Sestak. I was ... |
tjlabs | 05/19/2010 | 125 | 32 | - | 58 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Omigod!...we missed it! | tjlabs | 02/24/2005 | 4 | - | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Palin really is crazy.... From www.heraldsun.com.au
Sarah Palin creates word controversy, compares herself to Shakespeare
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin defended her newly-created word today, then ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2010 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 37 |
| Palin's New Life: It's Not Just About Money.... From www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Sarah Palin, says David Frum, "quit to cash in. Her admirers can excuse anything, but to the much larger audience of non-admirers, Palin will look a ... |
tjlabs | 07/09/2009 | 28 | 14 | 1 | 30 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Presidential Elections For Dummies..... From the washingtonpost.com :
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John ... |
tjlabs | 09/08/2008 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Prop 8: "By Their Fruits Shall You Know Them".... From www.nytimes.com
Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage
SACRAMENTO &... |
tjlabs | 11/15/2008 | 10 | 7 | 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 |
| 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 | - |
| Racism in 21st century America unmasked.... From tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
Obama-Haters Becoming
... |
tjlabs | 07/28/2009 | 28 | 9 | - | 19 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Richard Cohen doesn't get it.... From www.washingtonpost.com
The Folly of Hate-Crime Laws
By Richard Cohen
... |
tjlabs | 08/04/2009 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 35 |
| 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 | - |
| Sarah Palin and Jake, My Labrador Retreiver...... Ask any of my friends and acquaintances, and they will tell you that I will talk about our two Labs, Jake and Kara, at the drop of a hat. I am a certifiably, 100%, a total dog person. There has not ... |
tjlabs | 10/03/2008 | 13 | 9 | 1 | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| Sarah Palin Begins 2012 Campaign for President.... From www.politico.com
Palin allies report rising campaign tension
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin ... |
tjlabs | 10/25/2008 | 58 | 9 | 1 | 24 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| Sarah Palin: The Madame Defarge of the Right Wing.... For those of you who have never read Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities or have never seen any of the movies versions, one of the central characters in the book is the bitter, vengeful woman, ... |
tjlabs | 11/02/2009 | 29 | 15 | - | 105 |
| 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 |
| Senate Republicans' Scorched Earth Policy.... Over the next few days and weeks you will hear many explanations by the Senate Republicans for why they decided to torpedo the Big Three auto makers bail-out plan. They will include pieties and ... |
tjlabs | 12/12/2008 | 6 | 6 | - | 7 |
| 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 | - | - |
| Senator McCain's short term memory problems.... Perhaps Senator McCain needs to increase his vitamin B intake which some believe helps slow memory loss in the aged. |
tjlabs | 02/25/2009 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| So what?.... David Brooks: The man who puts the PUB* in rePUBlican....
(Ed. Note: *...Pure Unadulterated Bullshit.) |
tjlabs | 06/25/2008 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| 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 | - |
| Spare change.... From www.politicsdaily.com
"Change you can believe in" on education, ... |
tjlabs | 04/24/2010 | 4 | - | - | 44 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| Stonewall and me...forty years on.... From www.politico.com
Obama called out on gay rights
During the ... |
tjlabs | 06/28/2009 | 9 | 24 | 1 | 197 |
| Suicide is painless.... Let's look at Barry Goldwater's comment from a different angle.
From www.politico.com
GOP base rejects calls to ... |
tjlabs | 04/26/2009 | 10 | 10 | - | - |
| 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 | - | - | - | - |
| 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 |
| TAGG's Diary Epidemic Alert... |
tjlabs | 06/01/2008 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 |
| 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 | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | - |
| 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 Days of Whine and Poses.... From politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
McCain predicts 'spectacular' terror ... |
tjlabs | 07/19/2008 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| The Down Side to the Denial of the Down Low.... From www.nytimes.com
Last month, Proposition 8 passed, making gay marriage illegal in California, and the ... |
tjlabs | 12/07/2008 | 48 | 5 | - | 5 |
| 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 | - | - |
| The fastest rising belief system in America: None.... The issues and questions these numbers raise challenge the very basis of the christianists claim of America as being "One nation, under God". |
tjlabs | 03/10/2009 | 48 | 10 | - | 16 |
| The Ghost of a Chance: Bush's Failed Presidency.... We see every day now the almost-gone president and the soon-to-be president crossing our TV screens and I am struck by the starkness of their images. Bush's presidency began amidst controversy and ... |
tjlabs | 11/25/2008 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 15 |
| The GOP's Fatal Addiction.... They just don't get it.
From www.huffingtonpost.com
The White House hit back at Newt ... |
tjlabs | 05/28/2009 | 32 | 37 | 1 | 167 |
| 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 |
| The GOP: "The Grifters' Own Party".... Anyone we know?
" A confidence trick or confidence game (also known as a bunko, con, flim flam, gaffle, grift, hustle, scam, ... |
tjlabs | 01/17/2010 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |