Posting History for chumley
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| RESOLVED: Joe Lieberman should be kicked out of the Democratic caucus. (Please vote) Connecticut-for-Lieberman party member Joe Lieberman has once again slimed the Democratic candidate for President, Barack Obama.
Lieberman, who has thrown his full support behind George W. ... |
chumley | 06/10/2008 | 607 | 957 | 25 | 64 |
| Chicago Tribune investigates Hillary's "experience" The Chicago Tribune has done a pretty thorough investigation of Senator Clinton's claims of "experience," particularly in the foreign policy and crisis management arenas.
I'd say the short take on ... |
chumley | 03/07/2008 | 397 | 472 | 20 | 72 |
| Another silly criticism of Obama put to rest. This statement is from Hillary Clinton's campaign website, part of a charming list titled "Just Embellished Words: ... |
chumley | 03/28/2008 | 476 | 436 | 20 | 72 |
| Clinton still pissed. Big Dawg to Mouse: "This Ain't Over" | chumley | 09/11/2006 | 509 | 522 | 19 | 108 |
| Mittens Romney and Tim Pawlenty ENRAGED by McCain's VP pick. Dear ladies and gentlemen of the traditional media:
I now expect you -- no, REQUIRE you -- to run 24/7 stories about Republicans being in severe, angry disarray going into their convention next week. |
chumley | 08/29/2008 | 877 | 1208 | 19 | 272 |
| Hillary delivered. The phony drama MUST stop now. Ladies and gentlemen, I was among the many of us who criticized Hillary during the primaries. (FYI, I also criticized Obama, Edwards, and just about everyone else....)
And the traditional media ... |
chumley | 08/26/2008 | 887 | 935 | 17 | 74 |
| [UPDATE: Cliff Schecter weighs in below] Democrats: if you're going on TV, learn how to "debate!" UPDATE: Cliff Schecter himself weighs in , way down in comments.
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I was struck ... |
chumley | 05/23/2009 | 440 | 510 | 17 | 66 |
| Why is McCain a delicate flower who needs constant a*skissing? I'll be blunt, here.
Just how much ass-kissing does John McCain think he is owed?
Barack Obama has constantly, consistently and repeatedly said he honors John McCain military ... |
chumley | 07/01/2008 | 367 | 572 | 15 | 51 |
| William F. Buckley: Iraq war is lost; GOP nearly dead. [UPDATED] I am not a great fan of William F. Buckley, one of the fathers of modern conservatism. But his obvious intelligence and willingness to live in reality (more so as Mr. Buckley has gotten older) make ... |
chumley | 04/30/2007 | 303 | 349 | 14 | 102 |
| Howard Dean just on Ed Schultz show | chumley | 09/08/2005 | 172 | 194 | 9 | 8 |
| Kudos to Joe Klein. (Yes, Joe Klein!) American politics has proven that many people can find some kind of redemption. I've not been a fan of Joe Klein over the years -- especially the past decade -- but lately he's been sounding more ... |
chumley | 07/29/2008 | 240 | 385 | 9 | 44 |
| McCain says: it's Obama's fault that I went negative. Ah, John McCain. The maverick. ...Excuse me, the Maverick, capital "M."
He really wanted this to be a clean election. He really, really wanted this to be a campaign about the issues facing ... |
chumley | 08/07/2008 | 305 | 359 | 7 | 44 |
| What's YOUR stand on Impeachment? Please vote. Like many people at Daily Kos, I'm pleased to see that the idea of impeachment for the Bush gang is getting serious discussion here lately.
I'd like to do a poll to see what kind of support the ... |
chumley | 06/25/2007 | 462 | 295 | 6 | 26 |
| Notes on another crappy, ridiculous Obama hit piece. I'm a marginal Edwards supporter, and I wrote a diary about it a little while back . It's my only bona fide "candidate diary." |
chumley | 01/03/2008 | 312 | 283 | 6 | 30 |
| GBCW. GBCW.
~ or ~
G OT B ABY, C AN'T W RITE.
Dear ... |
chumley | 07/02/2007 | 214 | 234 | 5 | 31 |
| Hillary Clinton surrenders "terror" issue to GOP. (Temporary blogging hiatus interrupted, again. Because I am apparently a junkie, and this story made steam come out of my ears. Which hurts.)
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Ladies and ... |
chumley | 08/24/2007 | 730 | 368 | 5 | 82 |
| Alito Believes in Strip-Searching Ten Year Old Girls [UPDATED] | chumley | 10/31/2005 | 485 | 217 | 4 | 415 |
| Nobel Prize winners are all scum, says Charles Krauthammer. Charles Krauthammer, the ethics-free psychiatrist who regularly diagnoses his political opponents as insane , says that Al Gore winning a Nobel Prize puts him in the deserved company of ... |
chumley | 10/15/2007 | 291 | 224 | 4 | 27 |
| Congrats to all who smacked down the hostage conspiracy diary. It's deleted.
That disgusting, reeking piece of dookie which accused Hillary Clinton's campaign of staging the hostage situation is gone.
And ladies and gentlemen, YOU made it possible. (applause.) |
chumley | 11/30/2007 | 281 | 104 | 4 | 7 |
| John Cleese of Monty Python laughs at Sarah Palin I'm a great fan of John Cleese of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers . |
chumley | 10/14/2008 | 46 | 63 | 4 | 97 |
| Republican talk host Michael Smerconish endorses Obama Philadelphia-based Republican talk show host Michael Smerconish has now endorsed Barack Obama. He will have an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer to that effect soon, and he read excerpts of it ... |
chumley | 10/18/2008 | 49 | 42 | 4 | 84 |
| Brilliant new anti-McCain ad from MoveOn.org! This will be a short diary, especially given that I usually have trouble keeping mine down to a reasonable length. But I mostly wanted to get this MoveOn ad out there, and hope that some friendly ... |
chumley | 04/10/2008 | 57 | 59 | 3 | 13 |
| OK, time for another round of Vice-President sweepstakes! Who will be Obama's running mate?
Though I'd like to believe that this is a totally original topic for a diary, I suspect that -- just possibly -- there might be roughly 7000 previous diaries on ... |
chumley | 05/26/2008 | 122 | 8 | 3 | 35 |
| A Message from New Orleans' French Quarter | chumley | 09/05/2005 | 9 | 23 | 2 | - |
| My Meeting with the Bush Family | chumley | 09/09/2005 | 24 | 19 | 2 | - |
| Rep. Patrick McHenry insults U.S. soldier serving in Iraq. Patrick McHenry, Republican member of the house of Representatives, is a notorious chickenhawk. He didn't serve in the U.S. military, despite being a vocal cheerleader for the Iraq occupation at ... |
chumley | 04/04/2008 | 43 | 44 | 2 | 38 |
| So we really can't impeach? What, then? Ladies and gentlemen,
As you probably know, Sen. Jay Rockefeller's "Phase II" report on the pre-war Iraq intelligence was finally released today... four full years after the first ... |
chumley | 06/05/2008 | 53 | 27 | 2 | 22 |
| No more free passes for RELIGION! | chumley | 04/17/2005 | 411 | 274 | 1 | 16 |
| BLOWBACK: Why I welcome Disney to air PT 9-11 | chumley | 09/09/2006 | 93 | 20 | 1 | - |
| Real-life "The Office"! Must-see video of corporate dumbness. Some things are beyond parody.
Exhibit A: this clip from a corporate brainwashing session held by Bank of America, which recently merged with corporate credit card creeps MBNA -- Joe Biden's pals, |
chumley | 12/13/2006 | 13 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Another Republic Party wanker -- LITERALLY. Oh, those sexually twisted Republicans. What sexual depravity haven't they been caught at yet?
Today's Republic Party sexual pervert is a septugenarian ex-Congressman from ... |
chumley | 02/16/2007 | 44 | 20 | 1 | - |
| I stole my neighbor's car last week. [UPDATED] Last week my Honda Accord was in the shop for a few days, and it really bugged me. I had places to go; people to see.
Then I happened to look in the driveway next door to my house, and saw that ... |
chumley | 03/28/2007 | 74 | 22 | 1 | 5 |
| What "Freedom of Speech" is. And isn't. Yup, another Imus-related diary. Please walk on if you're done with that. No offense taken, I promise. More power to you.
And The Imus Affair is only a jumping-off point, as you'll ... |
chumley | 04/12/2007 | 124 | 28 | 1 | 8 |
| Vote on immunity for Monica Goodling to be held TOMORROW Monica Goodling -- everyone's favorite Regent University grad, and taker of the Fifth Amendent -- may be offered immunity for testifying before the Judiciary Committee.
There has been speculation ... |
chumley | 04/17/2007 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 4 |
| Help me debunk a wingnut email sent by my... Mommy [UPDATED] Don't get me wrong. My mother's a lovely person in many ways. She's in her early 70s, loves her grandchildren (including my daughter) beyond words, and she's quite a gentle soul.
Yet deep ... |
chumley | 04/21/2007 | 79 | 19 | 1 | 20 |
| Impeach Gonzales now. Seriously. Last week Alberto Gonzales achieved the impossible, and managed to embarrass some truly shameless rightwing Republicans.
Gonzales' performance testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee ... |
chumley | 04/23/2007 | 44 | 32 | 1 | 15 |
| REJECTED: Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy Wall Street Journal Rapacious rightwing enabler Rupert Murdoch has been shot out of the saddle, for once. His bid to aquire the Wall Street ... |
chumley | 05/02/2007 | 25 | 18 | 1 | 9 |
| Truth about 2004 Repub National Convention mini-police state to come out? I wasn't there, but I know some of you here on Daily Kos were. And a friend of mine wound up arrested for a very innocuous protest which never should have landed her in a jail cell.
So ... |
chumley | 05/05/2007 | 35 | 26 | 1 | 4 |
| Calm the Hysteria: it's not the worst diary ever The "George W. Bush is not the worst president ever" diary below is definitely a lousy diary. No doubt about that. It is among the worst. But there is really no basis to conclude that it is THE ... |
chumley | 05/07/2007 | 86 | 20 | 1 | 8 |
| I saw Jon Stewart live last night. I am a lucky bastard.
My wife and I got to see Jon Stewart perform live last night here in Minneapolis, at the Orpheum Theater downtown. It's a beautiful, classic old theater, where he performed ... |
chumley | 05/19/2007 | 44 | 24 | 1 | 6 |
| Republicans LOVE Hollywood phonies. Have you folks heard about the amazing Fred Thompson yet?
Have you heard what a great salt of the earth, plain-spoken kinda feller Thompson is? How he tells it just like it is, ... |
chumley | 06/12/2007 | 41 | 24 | 1 | 4 |
| The following people must leave the USA immediately. O.K. folks, move in a little closer. Can you hear me? Good.
I know most of you were dragged here against your will, but...it's nice to see you. In a way. Given the occasion.
Ahem. Let me ... |
chumley | 06/20/2007 | 126 | 38 | 1 | - |
| My spirited defense of Gen. David Petraeus. You probably haven't heard, but apparently -- rumor has it -- the rightwingers in this country are unhappy with the recent MoveOn.org ad which asked the question "General Petraeus or General Betrayus? |
chumley | 09/25/2007 | 45 | 31 | 1 | 3 |
| Michael Medved says slavery wasn't THAT bad. Mustachioed Gene Shalit-wannabe Michael Medved , who ran into the loving arms of the rightwing movement years ago after years of doing the thumbs-up, thumbs-down thing as a Hollywood ... |
chumley | 09/28/2007 | 103 | 38 | 1 | 143 |
| Democrat creeps exploit a child's tragedy. [ Come with me into an alternate universe, where Democratic President George W. Bush is running for reelection in 2004...
But where Karl Rove and his media partners (Limbaugh, ... |
chumley | 10/09/2007 | 28 | 22 | 1 | 13 |
| I've made my decision: John Edwards for President. Yes, as the title says, as of today I've decided to support John Edwards for the Democratic nomination for President of the U.S.A .
You don't care what I've decided? I support that ... |
chumley | 10/31/2007 | 99 | 55 | 1 | 14 |
| Dana Perino is really dumb. Well, she is. I'm sorry if that makes me a rabid lamb, but sometimes you have to call things what they are.
Dana Perino is a complete dumbbell.
First, the proof:
She didn't know what ... |
chumley | 12/10/2007 | 115 | 23 | 1 | 25 |
| Sean Hannity gets slapped around by Charles Grodin. Actor, author, former talk show host and all-around strange fellow Charles Grodin gave Sean Hannity a shellacking on his show the other night.
I've always liked Grodin as an actor, ... |
chumley | 12/18/2007 | 47 | 31 | 1 | 4 |
| Bill Clinton is embarrassing himself. The Big Dawg is embarrassing himself. It's not pretty.
When he was running for President back in 1992, Bill Clinton was accused of having a thin resume, lacking proper experience, and being ... |
chumley | 01/07/2008 | 51 | 21 | 1 | 6 |
| It's time for John Edwards to endorse Obama. First of all, congratulations to Hillary Clinton and her supporters here on this site. She had a great night, and revitalized her campaign.
Second -- I'm aware that the title is presumptuous. ... |
chumley | 03/05/2008 | 69 | 14 | 1 | 9 |
| Obama does NOT have a "lifetime of experience!" "I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. |
chumley | 03/06/2008 | 40 | 30 | 1 | 35 |
| To every Republican calling on Spitzer to resign. It was rough for many of us, being a Democrat yesterday. We saw one of the more dynamic members of our party, NY governor Elliot Spitzer, revealed as someone who likes to frequent expensive ... |
chumley | 03/11/2008 | 26 | 17 | 1 | 7 |
| Before this war, some heroes stood up. In the five years since the United States invaded and occupied Iraq, history has been revised by many interested parties. The myths usually involve some variation on a theme:
"Saddam Hussein was a ... |
chumley | 03/19/2008 | 20 | 30 | 1 | 299 |
| It is over for me unless I apologize very soon. Damn, I've gone and supported Obama. And Hillary is not happy with me.
Man. I really should apologize.
Yeah, I should apologize up and down to Hillary. She's been such a great national leader ... |
chumley | 04/11/2008 | 26 | 15 | 1 | 8 |
| Hillary uses Grover Norquist and Ed Rollins to bash Obama According to John Cole , Hillary's campaign sent out an email today that contained the following Obama-is-doomed messages:
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chumley | 04/12/2008 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| McCain again proves his ignorance in military matters. If you take all the statements that John McCain has made about military and foreign affairs over the last few years and really examined them, it paints a portrait of a absolutely clueless man.
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chumley | 04/15/2008 | 23 | 14 | 1 | - |
| Sorry, no. Hillary Clinton IS a racist. There's a diary on the Rec list right now by teacherken , someone whose writings I admire, especially in ... |
chumley | 05/09/2008 | 89 | 43 | 1 | 20 |
| WVWV strikes again! Somebody call Lamont Williams! It seems that "Women's Voices, Women's Votes" is screwing around again.
This time, it's West Virginia. |
chumley | 05/10/2008 | 54 | 60 | 1 | 9 |
| Please spare me the lectures about "unity." A united Democratic party, ready to take on McCain? I'm all for it. Let's rally around the nominee, and take on the Republicans. Can't wait.
But as of this night of Sunday June 2nd, there is ... |
chumley | 06/01/2008 | 97 | 34 | 1 | 17 |
| A quick reminder of McCain's dishonesty re: IRAQ. John McCain has decided to put himself forward as the guy who has REALLY been around the block -- the steady old hand that we need, as opposed to the big-talking rube he's running against.
And ... |
chumley | 06/06/2008 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 26 |
| I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush. ...Thus spake John McCain, three years ago, on NBC's Sunday morning political show, MEET THE TIM RUSSERT. Yeah, it's not a very good sentence, grammar-wise, but... the idea is clear.
And more to ... |
chumley | 06/12/2008 | 14 | 28 | 1 | 46 |
| John McCain has no core principles. Or honor. Or decency. John McCain's latest shameless, disgusting lie accusing Obama of having no time for the troops should make clear to anyone with a brainstem that McCain is a man without honor .
He's ... |
chumley | 07/27/2008 | 29 | 21 | 1 | 22 |
| McCain promises to keep lying, like his buddy Karl Rove. This is from Markos' front page story right now "McCain camp admits ad was false:"
McCain's advisers said they ... |
chumley | 07/30/2008 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 6 |
| OK, McCain: time to bring your KEATING FIVE scandal back. Confronted with his own ridiculous statement about not knowing how many houses he owns, John McCain resorted today to what every pampered elitist Republican does when faced with his own Washington, ... |
chumley | 08/21/2008 | 57 | 28 | 1 | 27 |
| Sarah Palin, the Welfare Queen Governor. Republicans like John McCain and Sarah Palin love to rail against taxes and government spending. It's the standard Republican script, and we saw from Palin's heroes, big spenders George W. Bush ... |
chumley | 09/09/2008 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 7 |
| McCain and Palin babble and whine - together! [VIDEO] So John McCain is trying to pretend that Barack Obama has actually given up tactical information to the terrorists by Obama's general statement that if there was reliable intelligence about ... |
chumley | 09/29/2008 | 30 | 26 | 1 | 16 |
| McCain going negative? Let's have Keating Five scandal 24/7. The flop sweat has been showing for some time, but lately it's been ankle-deep. John McCain is losing, and losing big. We know it, he knows it, everyone knows it. By every quantifiable measure, |
chumley | 10/04/2008 | 48 | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| Sean Hannity's pal: "Exterminate Jew Power." Sean Hannity is a Fox News star.
Fox News is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. No serious, sane person believes otherwise.
Sean Hannity is an anti-Semite ... |
chumley | 10/05/2008 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 11 |
| General Petraeus: against torture; FOR closing Gitmo What will the Republicans do now?
The man that they declared over and over was above criticism, General David Petraeus , has now gone on ... |
chumley | 05/26/2009 | 35 | 41 | 1 | 91 |
| Protest yesterday's outrage: STOP USING MEDICARE! Dear Republicans Who Are Outraged by the Healthcare Bill:
I share your pain. What happened yesterday was an outrage. It was the destruction of this proud country as we know it. We must ... |
chumley | 03/22/2010 | 16 | 24 | 1 | 38 |
| I agree with Rand Paul! He's got it right!
Ladies and gentlemen, Rand Paul wants to show us what a Libertarian-Republican paradise would look like! Let's give him some assistance, shall we?
Here's how you ... |
chumley | 05/21/2010 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 28 |
| Newt Gingrich: sociopath. In a diary currently on the Rec List, we learn of a group of brave religious ... |
chumley | 08/13/2010 | 55 | 27 | 1 | 95 |
| Dean Should Dog Bush's Social Security Roadshow | chumley | 03/07/2005 | 22 | 15 | - | 2 |
| Former Republican Senator Denounces Current GOP | chumley | 03/10/2005 | 72 | 99 | - | 8 |
| Wolcott slaps around Kristof, and other Bogus Voices of Moderation | chumley | 03/15/2005 | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| A speech for Harry Reid (no charge, sir!) | chumley | 04/28/2005 | 2 | 3 | - | - |
| "Bobo" Brooks Shills for Bolton. Shocking!! | chumley | 05/12/2005 | 13 | 7 | - | - |
| THREATEN THE GOP: You'll Reap What You Sow | chumley | 05/18/2005 | 9 | 7 | - | - |
| My letter to Gorgeous George Galloway | chumley | 05/18/2005 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| Spread it: THE GOP THINKS YOU'RE STUPID | chumley | 05/29/2005 | 21 | 7 | - | - |
| Repeat: BUSH is a VERY UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT | chumley | 05/30/2005 | 31 | 21 | - | 4 |
| HELP OUR SOLIDERS AND EXPOSE THE GOP: A Proposal | chumley | 06/01/2005 | 8 | 3 | - | - |
| As a Democrat, I'm embarrassed. FIGHT, damn it! (w/ poll) | chumley | 06/09/2005 | 16 | 4 | - | - |
| Fox News in public places -- make 'em turn it OFF! | chumley | 06/10/2005 | 20 | 12 | - | 2 |
| The Myths of Centrism and Civility: Boxer, Reid, Conyers, and WELLSTONE | chumley | 06/11/2005 | 28 | 14 | - | - |
| Rightwingers: get your fat asses over to Iraq, NOW. And take your kids with you. | chumley | 06/13/2005 | 15 | 10 | - | - |
| Michael Kinsley is a fucking tool | chumley | 06/13/2005 | 18 | 8 | - | 5 |
| Bush to Iraqi people: OUR LIVES ARE WORTH MORE THAN YOURS | chumley | 06/19/2005 | 9 | 4 | - | - |
| Proof that David Brooks will spin ANYTHING as pro-GOP propaganda (poll!) | chumley | 06/20/2005 | 12 | 4 | - | - |
| LTE RAGE over Bush's rah-rah war speech | chumley | 06/30/2005 | 9 | 5 | - | - |
| Why it's GOOD that Bush and GOP won in Nov. '04 (with poll) | chumley | 07/04/2005 | 61 | 13 | - | - |
| Nicholas Kristof, Inexcusable Hack | chumley | 07/04/2005 | 22 | 6 | - | 9 |
| Proof positive: rightwing SCOTUS judges are the real ACTIVISTS | chumley | 07/05/2005 | 15 | 14 | - | 13 |
| A bit of fun for this very serious day... | chumley | 07/20/2005 | 3 | - | - | 9 |
| I recommend you Recommend... | chumley | 07/22/2005 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Help! My dear mother is sending me GOP propaganda! | chumley | 07/24/2005 | 52 | 5 | - | - |
| Four Years Ago Today: August 6, 2001 | chumley | 08/06/2005 | 7 | 11 | - | 14 |
| Chuck Colson says: We Must Obey Our Jihadist Masters! | chumley | 08/08/2005 | 7 | 6 | - | - |
| I smacked George Will around. It was fun. | chumley | 08/12/2005 | 28 | 9 | - | - |
| Bush getting destroyed in AOL poll | chumley | 08/15/2005 | 17 | 8 | - | - |