I HATE THOSE MEESES TO PIECES
| Edwin Meese III |
Firedoglake informs us as of June 10, 2009 that the repubs are receiving a 34% approval rating among the American People. Now mind you, less than 25% of those polled call themselves repubs. But FDL goes on to say:
34% is lower than Americans rate many countries we're constantly told by wingnuts that we're about to go to war with any minute, including Putin's Russia, Chavez's Venezuela and Communist China.
But the silver lining for the GOP is they're still slightly more popular (34%-27%) than the Palestinian Authority. http://firedoglake.com/2009/06/10/new-gallup-poll-finds-republican-party-less-popular-than-russia-china-venezuela/
So what is a mother to do? This is the party that was going to stay in control for generations according to karl the rover.
Here rover, here rover, speak rover, lay down and die rover.
But now it appears that new geniuses have taken the reins of the new party of despair and desperation? Yes, new titans of politics that will firmly guide the propaganda machine for the capitalist oligarchy that either owns or controls everything, everywhere in this country. And new strategies for attacking the Party of the People; not just the same ole 'Democrat Party' rap.
Prey upon the underdog heartstrings of the voters.
John Stewart reported last night that:
Earlier this week Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) tweeted:
"Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House."
John Culberson (R-Tex.) did the same, referencing an appropriations bill debate:
"Oppressed minorities includeHouseRepubs: We are using social media to expose repression such as last night's D clampdown shutting off amends"
And David Dreier (R-Calif.) (who apparently doesn't know that Twitter is the place to make inappropriate analogies) said out loud:
"I wonder if there isn't more freedom on the streets of Tehran right now than we are seeing here." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/19/daily-show-mocks-republic_n_217833.html
Iran is a country of seventy million people living under the tyranny of a religious oligarchy with half that population relegated to a semi human status; most living in the most abject of poverty. Of course this status had a great deal to do with the actions of the West including the good ole USA. And tens of thousands of people are attempting to stand up to this oligarchy under threat of death.
And the repubs have decided to compare their minority status in both Houses of Congress to the plight of these freedom loving protesters.
Yeah that ought to work!!
When all else fails attack the media.
Huffpo reports:
Fox News has been full of complaints over ABC's plan to air a news special entitled "Questions for the President: Prescription for America," during which President Barack Obama will field questions on his plans for health care reform. Various Fox personalities have complained that the access ABC is getting is "unprecedented" and that "journalism is dead." But yesterday, objectively demonstrating the fatuousness and hypocrisy of Fox's claims was done so effortlessly and completely, that they'd have been well-advised to reconsider whining about it.
As Keith O. reported last night, karl the rover (here rover, here rover, jump through the hoop rover--oh and quit looking like your about to kiss me everytime you open that fascist mouth of yours) has set up the same type of exclusive interview at the White House for Fox when w the idiot reigned.
Send out the best spokesman you can find to represent your interests.
"I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor," he said. "I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind."
Government does not create wealth," Bush said. "The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
In a recent speech in Michigan, Bush defended his actions in office but did not reference the current administration's policy. I didn't like it when a former president criticized me, so therefore I am not going to criticize my successor," he said at the time. "I wish him all the best." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/18/bush-breaks-silence-goes_n_217271.html
That's right. They sent out their favorite son once again. The kid who burned down the barn, broke the irrigation system, spent all the reserved savings, killed the neighbor's dog and ran over the sheriff. Yeah, the people are thirsty for the tainted water that motherf....er is selling.
Make sure that the Party of Lincoln looks more and more like the Dixiecrats in the forties.
So who does the party of hope for Wall Street, Insurance
Companies and racists send out to attack the first Hispanic Nominee to the
United States Supreme Court?
In their battle against Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, Republicans in Congress have turned to an old hand. Ed Meese, the Reagan-era attorney general and conservative firebrand, has been playing a behind-the-scenes role in organizing GOP opposition to the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.
Meese was hired before Sotomayor was chosen. According to the Washington Post, which broke the story, he coordinated with Republican Senators on how best to plan for the nomination.
Policy tilted heavily conservative under Meese's influence as well. In January 1982, he helped guide the Reagan administration's decision to reverse a policy that removed tax exemptions from schools that discriminated on the basis of race. "We do not want IRS bureaucrats setting social policy," he reportedly said.
But Meese was known above all for his unbending belief that the conservative movement needed to change the culture of the Supreme Court. He famously declared in 1985 that judges should be "expected to resist any political effort to depart from the literal provisions of the Constitution." Later, he would suggest that it was within the power of the president to circumvent Supreme Court decisions.
"Such decisions," Meese
said, "do not of themselves establish the supreme law of the land, as that
phrase is known, that is binding on all persons and parts of government
henceforth and forever more. HuffPo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/19/ed-meese-far-right-reagan_n_217954.html
Another old white racist prick. That's who!!!
This new party of the wealthy and powerful has finally found its legs.
















Edwin, who?
June 19, 2009 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Only somewhat OT, but have you seen this interesting article at HuffPo? This Preposterous Week In Review: Michele Bachmann, Mel Gibson, And Chickens!
June 19, 2009 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ack!
The New York Times was out in front with this. As usual.
June 19, 2009 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
You ladies have me laughing tonite:
"To Ms. Morgan — whose other Rhode Island reds and hybrids are named Brunnhilde, Tosca, Carmen and Mimi — the zoning fight is a little baffling."
All zoning fights are baffling. ha
June 19, 2009 8:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
(cluckles)
Taking over the world, one backyard at a time.....
June 19, 2009 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Seashell. Thanks for the link. I heard something about some of these items on cable...
Hey I thought you would get a good laugh...I was washing my table and mouse and everything. Now my menu thingy is on the side.
I think you said you like it that way. It works pretty good actually.
I learned to be careful how to clean my mouse.
hahahahaha
June 19, 2009 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that's how my menu thingy got to the side, too, dd! With a widescreen monitor, it does free up some important real estate at the bottom of the screen, doesn't it? Try turning the mouse off before giving the next shampoo and fluff, maybe. :-)
Seriously though, it took about 3 months before I quit looking around in panic for my menu thingy. If you want yours back down, I'll come in and move it!
June 19, 2009 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know, the guy who put out the largest-selling porn collection of the Reagan era...
Oh, he was clever, though. He disguised it as a "commission report" to get it through.
June 20, 2009 7:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Tell it like it is, honey.
Rec'd.
June 19, 2009 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Incredible. I took a walk. Calmed down and just pieced together what I had been putting together all day LisB. The problem is that the same messages have been going out from these losers for thirty years, and they have a lot of victories....
Maybe we are in a new age.
June 19, 2009 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're not kidding about the 30 years, dd. Pat and Bay Buchanan & Co, including Marcus "Karate Chop" Epstein, are putting on a discussion about "Building the New Majority" tomorrow at the Ritz Carlton in D.C. But get this: they are using the electoral map of the 1984 Presidential election as the logo for the meeting. (Wikipedia's map of 1984 election.)
It's a known fact (amongst the clueless) that the best venue to discuss building a majority is to hold the meeting at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA. But I would have thought building a living majority, vs a majority of dead white guys, would be a no-brainer to the meeting's sponsors. Huh.
June 19, 2009 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I cannot let this go Seashell:
"It's a known fact (amongst the clueless) that the best venue to discuss building a majority is to hold the meeting at the Ritz Carlton in McLean, VA. But I would have thought building a living majority, vs a majority of dead white guys, would be a no-brainer to the meeting's sponsors. Huh."
Precious. I hereby award you the Knightly Line of the Day at this here TPMCafe site, given to all of you from all of me.
Just so they stay no brainers. ha
June 19, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you kindly, dd. It was your post that inspired me!
June 19, 2009 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stinkin' up the place.
June 19, 2009 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, bwak. And you know that the Ritz Carlton isn't going to put up with that for long.
:-)
June 19, 2009 10:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well ya do with what ya got I guess...
June 19, 2009 8:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, just so they keep on keepin on in the same direction, CL
June 19, 2009 8:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Are you just whistlin' Dixie, Pixie?
June 19, 2009 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Glaivester, hum a few bars.....
June 19, 2009 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Don't Jinx him. :)
June 19, 2009 11:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi Newton. I am meeting more and more friends from Dixie lately at TPMCafe. And they are becoming close friends. There are enclaves like in Atlanta, where the good fight is being made.
I do not know why I am bothering you with this. Ha!!
June 20, 2009 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
You're never a bother, d-day.
June 20, 2009 12:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the prize goes to new10, for getting the reference!
June 20, 2009 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, yes. It appears that we both sacrificed a portion of our youth to Mr. Hanna and Mr. Barbera.
June 20, 2009 12:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Grumpy old white men, the whole contemptible lot:)
Guess what Republican spokesperson said this:
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war"
June 19, 2009 8:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Abraham Lincoln? ha
June 19, 2009 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
yeah, you got it.
June 20, 2009 1:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Look how long it has taken me to get some of the taste of the Reps. out of my mouth - 30 years of people like Ed Meese - no wonder I have left to the left!!!!! Had a great discussion with a liberal friend tonight and we talked about the lies I have been believing so much of my life.
This was a great post for me to read and thank you DD.
June 19, 2009 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh how nice of you Maggie. You always have such fine words....
June 19, 2009 10:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry I missed it all DD. Was out enjoying lie music in a park tonight.
June 20, 2009 12:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
We were told that Grouch. Listened to Toussant via youtube tonite.
Hope you had a ball.
June 20, 2009 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome stuff. The guy's a walking encyclopedia of R & B and rock and roll history.
June 20, 2009 7:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
DD,
They are the tide, rust and entropy, they never sleep. I fear we will never win per se, but we can keep them at bay and push them back. We must be ever on the wall, spears and pitchforks at hand.
June 20, 2009 8:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Balilama. I already told you I love the avatar but the nickname is funnier when I think about it.
THEY NEVER SLEEP. You really got that right. I swear to God (blesses himself)it does give one
inspiration to keep fighting the good fight though, does it not?
June 20, 2009 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
It sure as hell does! I can see us all out there waving signs and finally our walkers. Let them try and keep the Boomers from questioning authority!
It does speak to a question I have. In the Viet Nam and civil rights days, people could get enrolled in a "struggle" or a "fight". I don't think that meme is enrolling enough to get people into the streets today. We have the internet instead of mimeograph machines and staple guns for getting the message out, but what gets people into the streets demonstrating for something, like FOR peace, justice, Universal Health care, etc.
The teabaggers [who seemed to be against all of the above] appeared to operate on anger- anger at people who they were told are the reason their lives don't work. Basically authoritarian followers who obey their leaders.
What conversation/question would fan the fires of righteous outrage and indignation about the injustice and inequity that is prevalent in our land? [there's a pompous sounding mouthful] What will get us off of our resigned asses and into the streets? We sit in our recliners and admire the Iranians protesting in the streets of Tehran and don't get that we need to express ourselves with that kind of courage.
June 21, 2009 9:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
What conversation/question would fan the fires of righteous outrage and indignation about the injustice and inequity that is prevalent in our land? [there's a pompous sounding mouthful] What will get us off of our resigned asses and into the streets?"
I do not know. But we affect the polls and the pols with our keyboards. We could just be fooling ourselves I suppose.
But when it was taken to the streets, the polls told the pols not to worry.
ON the other hand, to let Meese just walk into some hall and give a speech with a semblance of real protest.....
June 21, 2009 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good one Mr. Jinx. Pixie and Dixie say hello.
June 20, 2009 10:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is a poem in there somewhere Steve. We must work on this!!!
June 20, 2009 11:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
What's next, C. Everett Koop to spearhead health care reform?
June 20, 2009 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
hahahahaha. I still do not know who had the worst facial hair--Koop or Bork. hahahahaa
No need to worry, C. Everett is about 110 and sells depends or some such on the TV now.
June 20, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
DD, the gop is having to drag people out of storage to speak for its members. Think what that says about them. Meese looks like he hasn't seen the light of day for 30 year or so and he smells like mothballs. He must have been buried deep down in the party's hopechest.
June 20, 2009 2:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Something worse that mothballs I should think for a man who did everything in his power to thwart civil rights legislation.
What a pig.
June 20, 2009 3:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
uh yeah -- old, fat white men are SO oppressed! my heart is bleeding over here.
they equate themselves with people who are putting their lives on the line. and all because holding their breath and throwing a stomping fit didn't get them what they wanted in the biggest ol boy's club in the country.
remember how they _screamed_ back in 2007 when the Dems maintained the oppressive policies the REPUBS had put in place when THEY were in the majority? and the Dems only held onto them for 100 days. [WAY too short imnsho].
June 20, 2009 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh yes, I remember it well Icetree. You bet I do.
And the tv tapes and the other recordings remember also.
It is harder to lie these days and harder still to hide hypocrisy. ha
June 20, 2009 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink