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"May, June, July, August, September, October,
November, December - no hurricanes. Thank God."
-- Florida Governor
Charlie Crist, blaming God for destroying New Orleans, Link
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Bipartisanship
is for suckers
by Joe Conason
Excerpt:
From the earliest moments of Obama's presidency,
the most perplexing question was how he would fulfill
his promise to change Washington's partisan standoff
– and whether that promise was ever more than a rhetorical
and political campaign gambit. More than once,
observers have suggested that he always knew he couldn't rely on
Republicans to act in good faith, to negotiate
reasonable compromises, or even to speak honestly in debate.
According to that theory, Obama's commitment
to bipartisan solutions was and is theater aimed at persuading
independent or centrist voters to trust him.
But if seeking consensus is still his strategy,
as he and his advisors insist, it may be time for a rethink. All the months
of bipartisanship in talk and tactics from the
White House have neither brought congressional Republicans closer to
supporting Obama's objectives nor preserved Obama's
early support among moderate voters. What they have done
is encourage the most outrageous conduct by his
opponents – including those who themselves claim the bipartisan
mantle – and make the president look weak.
The simple truth is that there is nobody on the
Republican side who wants to negotiate with Obama. They are no longer
afraid of him, and they unanimously want to ruin
his presidency, regardless of the consequences. They are in thrall to the
stupid extremism that questions the president's
citizenship and suspects that he is driving the country toward a socialist
dictatorship – while simultaneously demanding
angrily that the government be stopped from interfering with Medicare.
I hate to ask, but is Obama "pulling a John
Kerry" on health care?
He's just standing there while his opponents destroy him.
Why does he refuse to fight back?
Why didn't he learn anything from watching Kerry get swift-boated?
We're all hoping Obama's got some fabulous rope-a-dope thing going,
but it's more likely that what we're seeing is actually happening.
Barack, are you really going to stand there and do nothing?
In 1995, health care was "too big to fix because it was 1/7 of the economy."
Now it's 1/6 of the economy and if you continue to let them beat you
up
it's going to be 1/4 of the economy when Chelsea Clinton tries again
in 2024.
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Marty's Entertainment Page
Marty always has good stuff.
Quotes
"Harry Reid is on the ropes. Either Republican
Danny Tarkanian or Sue Lowden would knock out Reid
in a general election according to
a new Mason-Dixon poll. Nevadans favored Tarkanian over Reid,
49% to 38%, and Lowden over Reid, 45%
to 40%."
-- Political Wire, Link
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Subject: Has Krugman been reading Bartcop?
Bart, Krugman wrote:
"Obama has wasted months trying to appease
people who can’t be appeased, and who take every concession
as a sign that he can be rolled. Indeed,
no sooner were there reports that the administration might accept co-ops
as an alternative to the public option
than GOP leaders announced that co-ops, too, were unacceptable."
Joanne
At some point Obama is going to have to get real.
I wish it was sooner rather than later but it's already later.
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Subject: Time to go Nuclear on Filibuster
Since the Democrats took control of the Senate
the Republicans have used the filibuster to block almost everything.
The filibuster is just a Senate rule and not
part of the Constitution and is supposed to only be used in extreme cases
rather than all the time. The Democrats
can get rid of the filibuster doing a procedure called "the nuclear option"
to get the Senate back to a 51 vote majority
rather than this artificial 60 vote threshold.
America voted and we won and it's time for us
to rule.
So I'm asking the Dems in the Senate to go nuclear
and get rid of the filibuster.
Marc Perkel
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Internet helps Amnesia Victim
He woke up in a park in Seattle with $600 in his socks and no memory.
I've always thought it would be fun to try to help a victim of amnesia.
For instance,
What color uniform should a football team wear?
(Red & black = Atlanta, Green and gold = Green Bay)
Did you ever take the subway?
Do you put snow tires on your car for the winter?
How hot does it get in the summer?
(If he says 65, he's from Carmel, 99 all summer means he from Tulsa
or Dallas)
What time does David Letterman come on?
(He comes on 10:30 in the Midwest, 11:30 on each coast)
What's your favorite kind of pizza?
(If he says Ray's on Sixth, he's from New York. Imo's in
is St Louis,
Razorback Pizza is in Arkansas)
Does he "take" a shave?
Does he stand in line, online or in queue?
His accent would tell a lot. People from Mississippi talk
different than Okies.
Is St Louis, you use a knife and a fark and a cowboy rides a harse.
How many square feet does your home have?
If it's 800, he lives near New York, if it's 3,000 he's from the Midwest.
Do you pay a toll going to work?
How tall is a tall building?
Ever been to Vegas?
What color are police cars?
Do you have a big back yard?
What's your favorite beer?
(I was in a bar in Madison in 1983 and ordered a Budweiser.
The guy looked at me like I was from another planet.
In Madison, you order Labatt's and nothing else.)
How much does a movie cost?
(Movies are $2 cheaper in the midwest)
If he cooperated, I think I could "break" him in an hour.
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Does Obama have the guts?
Excerpt:
Could Hillary Clinton have been right about Barack
Obama?
Could she have been right when she said that he
was the candidate of lofty promises -- 'the skies will open,
the light will come down, celestial choirs
will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing
and the world will be perfect' -- and
not the candidate of real leadership?
"In her former life as a presidential candidate,
Clinton warned voters that Obama would let them down.
She warned them that when the going got tough,
he would fold up.
"She said it was not just a matter of Obama lacking
experience -- that was the least of it -- but that he lacked
the strength, the toughness, the will to get
the job done...
And we are now going to see how he governs when
it comes to meaningful health care reform.
He knows what it takes for such reform. He knows
that a public option - a government-run health care
program like Medicare - has the best chance of
competing with the insurance industry...
How Obama acts right now on health care reform
could tell us how he will act for the rest of his presidency.
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Subject: NetRoots Nation
Bart,
Sorry you didn't catch NN '09 in PittsburgH.
Would've been fun to finally meet you.
The H.O.R.N. broadcast a bunch of the panels
and plenary sessions live.
We also delivered what's being called one of
the most profound panels in NetRoots Nation's
four year history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK-E4p0aneU&feature=related
So here's the heads-up a year in advance: NetRoots
Nation '10 will be in Vegas next summer.
Hope to hoist a nice dram of tequila with you!
Bob
Bob, thanks for that.
Maybe The Big Dog was there talking to the bloggers ...and I know he was asking everybody,
"Where's Bartcop? He's had my back since
waaaaaaay before '98 when I needed him.
Ol' Bart was defending me loooooong
before KOS-hates-me or wehateclintons.com
attacked me,
and I'd like to buy him a shot of Sammy
Hagar's Cabo Uno with him if the occasion ever permits."
Yeah, I wouldn't mind sharing shots of mas-fina tequila with
you and Bill Clinton.
BTW, I hear Vegas is lovely in July.
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Quotes
"The administration is finally realizing -
although they should have realized it long ago - that they’re
not going to make a deal with Republicans.
They’re not going to get any Republican votes.
-- Rep Jerry Nadler, Link
You could've asked me last year what was going to happen.
How can a sharp guy like Obama not see the obvious?
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Subject: Boom Goes the Dynamite
Hi Bart,
If Barack starts looking like he has a pair his
popularity will go way up.
People just think it's all bullshit now when they
don't see Reid or Pelosi
standing up and backing Barack, he has to grease
down NOW.
I wish he would listen to you.
joe in Toledo
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Quotes
"Is Obama bending over backwards, to achieve
bipartisanship...so he can SAY he bent over backwards
to achieve bipartisanship.?...Does
he really think he's going to get Republican votes on this thing??
I can't believe Obama's that naive."
-- Badger, Link
I hope, in a month or two, I'm forced to write,
"Obama is a genius - how could we have doubted him?"
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I have a question: The right-wing says everybody has health care
because emergency rooms are always open.
My question?
Why do Rethugs pay for insurance
if the ERs are such a great deal?
Subject: Survival trip to Denver
Bart,
One of my favorite things to do is to skip your
issues for a few days
and then spend one night enjoying myself getting
caught up!
What is this survival trip to Denver?
I keep looking and I can't find any more information
but the fact it exists. Link me, please?
Sincerly,
Roon
Donations have fallen to a dangerous level.
I've been invited to Denver for two days to discuss "options."
I am determined to survive.
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Are you on it?
All we ask is you put ours on yours.
When a Rethug comes in to the ER,
how hard do the nurses try to save him?
Health Care
Fiasco
by Michael Hammerschlag, currently in Kiev
Excerpt:
Well, Universal Health Care as we know
and wanted it seems to be crumbling - oh it might be near universal,
but if the public option is really gone, so expensive
that America’s financial health will be permanently destroyed.
Obama simply did not go for victory- but invited
the foxes into the chicken coops to divide up 80% between them
- the remaining 20% will be additional
benefits for the public- too little, too crooked, too costly. Obama’s
obsession
with compromise and bi-partisanship is dooming
his initiatives and maybe Presidency - he simply doesn’t
plan and mobilize for victory, but includes his
deadly opponents. The idea that the totally prostituted Repubs
(and a third the Dems) could be catered to and
brought in to contribute on this was always crazy- they needed
to be sidelined, marginalized, and overrun with
a multi-pronged attack.
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Subject: District 9
I disagree with your review, but I do understand your frustration...
It was similar to Shawshank, Schindler's List
and Papillon in that it was depressing and pessimistic.
But, like those movies it was very well done.
And, unlike Lord of the Rings, Independence Day,
etc., not at all escapist.
If you thought that D9 was escapist, then, yes,
I'd be ultrapissed, too.
But I had read early reviews and known that it
was very gritty and a big downer. Hey, sometimes despair
in cinema is entertaining (see: Moore, Michael).
So I knew that it wasn't going to be "THE SLAM-BANG
ACTION RIDE OF THE SUMMER THAT WILL KEEP YOU
ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT
AND CHEERING FOR MORE!"
See you at the Movies,
Badger in Tulsa
So why did the trailer make us think it was going to be a slam-bang
action ride?
Why didn't they show the Uglies eating trash in the previews?
We can disagree about the film but they purposely misled us.
Peter Jackson, thy name is whore.
Subject: District 9
Bart, you were expecting a shoot-'em-up sci-fi film? This wasn't intended to be that.
I was expecting what the previews suggested.
The previews showed a sizzling steak, but we
were served baloney after we paid our money.
The director and writer came from South Africa,
and were around at the time when that was an openly racist country.
Part of the film is about that racism - the "prawns"
were obviously treated like blacks. And that "garbage can" was an actual
Johannesburg ghetto.
Also, the big oppressive military force was a corporation, just like Blackwater, making money off that racism.
I get that, it just wasn't fun to watch.
It's been a long time since science fiction films
actually asked the audience to use its brain.
I, for one, am sick of all those Rubber Insect
Monster Of The Week movies.
I wouldn't call District 9 a great film, but it's
a smart film. It shows you can make a movie at a fraction
of a Transformers or GI Joe budget and actually
say something besides "The guy with the biggest gun wins."
Yep, they saved money by having unknown actors play in a sewer for 2 hours.
You can catch my longer review at http://www.cartoongeeks.com
if you want.
Tom
Subject: District 9
Bart, you are such a pussy.
George M
Meaning what?
If I was a real man I'd enjoy two hours in the ugly slums?
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Cash for
Clunkers ending
They sold 457,000 cars with $1.9 billion in rebates
Excerpt:
The $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program will
shut down on Monday, the government said Thursday.
Officials decided to wind down the program, which
Congress passed to spur flagging auto sales,
after determining that it would soon run out
of money.
The program proved wildly popular, running through
its initial $1 billion in its first week
and leading lawmakers to approve an additional
$2 billion in funding on Aug. 7.
So why are we ending it - is this another Democratic laydown?
The right-wing liars have been screaming about
the cost of this program which
may end up saving Detroit, but it also saved
tens of thousands of jobs in the car
industry as well as glass plants, electronics,
the tire and rubber industry, leather seats,
plastics and steel and the list goes on and on.
So it's a little expensive, but we should ask, "Compared to what?"
Bush gave Colgate $300M and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave his crooked Enron friends $772M and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave Ford $5.5 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave GE $5.3 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave IBM $2.5 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave Microsteal $7.2 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave the crroks at WorldCom $4 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
Bush gave those corporate robbers $25.5 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!
But when Obama gives a half a million families new, fuel-efficient
cars while saving tens of thousands of jobs
for $3
billion the right-wing loons go crazy and
make the president out to be some socialist big spender.
Why won't somebody list the damn facts?
I'm putting this section on it's own page.
PLEASE forward this to people.
Maybe we can get somebody to look at the facts.
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Subject: Barney Frank vs the Wingnuts
Excerpt:
What was really shocking was to see these wingnut ignoramuses staunchly
defending the insurance companies,
the rich and the medical establishment!
I would wager my paycheck that not one wingnut in that crowd
(1) made over $350K a year, (2) owned or was
a major stock holder in a health insurance company, or
(3) had a secret UBS bank account. But
they were defending to the death the rich bastards who victimize THEM.
Great point.
The poor, red-faced and hysterical, fighting
hard to give the super-rich even more.
How do Rethugs get poor people to act against
their own interests?
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Twitter - still dead
I guess nobody knows anything about Twitter?
How can something so big be so broke?
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If YOUR ad was here, people would
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Hate Glenn Beck
Scumbag to soon be slurring Obama for free
Excerpt:
Glenn Beck (R-Douche) returns to Fox News today
after a vacation with fewer companies willing to advertise
on his Fascist hate show than when he left, part
of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.
A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that
their commercials not air on Beck's show, according
to the companies and ColorofChange.org, a group that
promotes political action among blacks and launched
a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him.
That's more than a dozen more than were identified
a week ago.
While it's unclear what effect, if any, this will
ultimately have on Fox and Beck, it is already making
advertisers skittish about hawking their wares
within the most opinionated cable TV shows.
"Shop at
Wal-Mart for everyday low prices."
You're right - it doesn't work.
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Subject: Tom Ridge admitted...
In regards to Tom Ridge saying the Bush Cabal
wanted to raise the terror level artificially before the 2004 election,
this is in violation of an article in the Patriot
Act that makes it illegal to terrorize (scare) the citizens with false
propaganda
in order to sway public opinion.
Again another example of who the chief terrorists really are (especially as long as they walk free).
These criminals stole from us, laughed and lied
to us with BS manifested from torturing.
They murdered 1,000,000 in Iraq in our name (not
100,000) and had the gall to call themselves righteous patriots.
When will the people see the truth. Tower 7 WTF?
Crede
As I've said for years, if the sheriff does nothing when you rob the bank, rob it every day.
If the Dems do nothing when the GOP commits a crime, they'll continue with their crime spree.
Is Eric Holder still on vacation?
Why doesn't he do his job?
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Subject: blogs failing
Bart, your financial woes are practically a guarantee that you're on the side of the angels.
I wouldn't blame you if you went over to the Dark
Side.
No money = No power to change your life for the
better.
God Bless you and Mrs. Bart.
slothrop.
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violating campaign finance law is now
a celebrity. He ought to be running
for prom queen in San Quentin or some place."
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