James Carville has the scariest face I've ever seen

in case you can't tell, i've got WAY too much time on my hands...



but, seriously, folks... am i right...?

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"You Lie"

Well, it looks like we finally found out really caused Joe Wilson's outburst.

For those that missed it, SNL has the scoop.

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HRC has run a textbook DLC campaign – center-right messaging to gain the nomination of her center-left party

and maybe she's goin' down... that would be just hunky-dory with me... i've gone from a mere distaste for hrc to a solid loathing as she has revealed more and more of her true colors... i suppose it's good news that, this early in the campaign, people are getting a clue...

In polls that coursed through the professional community of political consultants in Washington last week, it now appears that Senator Clinton’s presidential candidacy may be buckling under the weight of the burden of messaging against her base.

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There is no doubt that Senator Clinton’s top campaign staff believe they are now out of control of their presidential campaign which has assumed a new and unwanted dynamic. Now some of Senator Clinton’s top staff believe that they are in a dangerous and potentially lethal tailspin.

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Last week, the Clinton campaign made the conscious decision to go ‘negative.’ In this particular case, this is a last ditch attempt to hold her faltering candidacy together. If their desperate measure is not successful, Senator Hillary Clinton’s bold attempt to become the first woman president of the United States of America will collapse.

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At this point in the arc of history, the American public is fed up with the excesses of Republican neoconservativism led by Cheney, Bush, Bolton, Ledeen, Abrams, Pipes, Hadley, Libby and Rice and its stealth faction in the DLC led by Senator Clinton and her husband aided by their merry band of neocons clustered around Al From, Howard Wolfson, Stanley Greenberg and James Carville, all of whom supported the ill-fated wars of the Bush Era. In 2002, encouraged by her husband and their minions in the DLC, Senator Clinton led the charge against Iraq, and she has been at the forefront of the pack calling for another surge of jingoistic bellicosity against Iran.

michael carmichael, the author of this post on global research, and occasional blogger on his own site, planetary movement, i believe, hits the nail on the head... the american public is indeed increasingly fed up, altho' not to the extent i believe they SHOULD be... it's not just the excesses of neoconservatism and its enablers in the dlc that is behind our rapid descent into the the second ring of suburbs of a police state...

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Begging for money to defend Scooter

jeralyn received a letter from mary matalin (PDF) soliciting money for scooter's legal defense fund... break out the tissues... bottom line...?



what i'd like to know is what happened to her hubby...?



seems to me if carville can sign the letter of support for scooter (PDF), he can also sign the fund-raising letter...

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Bob Novak wants us to know it's HIS CLASS who's calling the shots

slanted, dishonest, irresponsible journalism... would we expect anything less...?

A Contender's Worn-Out Welcome

By Robert D. Novak
Thursday, June 7, 2007; Page A27

The dynamic performance by John Edwards in Sunday's Democratic presidential debate, assailing his competitors for the nomination, got high marks from political reporters, Republican politicians and left-wing activists. But not from the Democratic establishment. Once their great hope for the future, Edwards now is massively unpopular among party regulars, who neither like nor trust him.

"massively unpopular"...? "massively"...?? where the hell are you getting your information, you twit...?

Democrats are surprisingly candid about him. Mark Siegel, a 35-year party insider, told me: "He came to Washington as a 'New Democrat,' but he's not that kind of Democrat anymore. He's into class warfare."

Edwards has not worn well with party colleagues. Campaign consultant Bob Shrum was enthusiastic about Edwards after working on his 1998 Senate victory in North Carolina and unsuccessfully advised Gore to make him his 2000 running mate. But Shrum chose Kerry over Edwards as his 2004 presidential client. In his newly published memoir, "No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner," Shrum explains: "I was coming to believe he wasn't ready; he was a Clinton who hadn't read the books."

During the 2004 primaries, Democratic activist James Carville was enchanted when Edwards shifted his centrist posture to a populist depiction of "Two Americas." Carville told me -- and then repeated it on CNN -- that Edwards was the best stump speaker he ever had seen. When I asked him this week whether he still thought that was true, Carville replied: "Maybe he's not as good now."

oh, ok... i've got it now... edwards is "massively unpopular" with the democratic LEADERSHIP, the INSIDERS like siegel, carville, and shrum, three people who certainly don't speak for me, and certainly not, in my opinion, for most grassroots liberals and progressives... and that bit about "class warfare"... feeling threatened, are ya, bob...?

then, in keeping with the unbelievably shallow attacks that have become a staple of the traditional media, novak goes on to babble about edwards' "haircut," his speaking honorarium, and his hedge fund salary...

but it's in the last paragraph that he fully reveals his hand...

Iowa Democrats in 2004 pulled back from catastrophe at the 11th hour and abandoned Howard Dean when they contemplated the impact of a Dean victory. Party leaders hope Iowans will take a similarly hard look at John Edwards.

you see, it's all about the PARTY LEADERSHIP, and has nothing to do with folks like US who actually CAST THE VOTES... novak's making the case that it's HIS CLASS, the INSIDER CLASS, who needs to call the shots... god forbid it should be US COMMONERS, or, as they would call us in shakespeare's day, GROUNDLINGS...

it's also very telling that novak should bring up howard dean, the "catastrophe" in novak's twisted world view... howard dean was a phenomenon created and led by the grassroots, a movement that struck such fear into the hearts of the insiders that they had no choice but to destroy both it and dean along with it... and, ironically, horrified as i was by what i was seeing with the bush regime, it was howard dean who brought me out of my shell and into the world of political activism for the first time...

p.s. i am certainly not declaring myself as an edwards supporter... there's way too much time between now and november 2008 for me to be jumping on any candidate's bandwagon... but i simply can't and won't tolerate naked efforts to destroy a candidate on bogus grounds, and that's precisely what novak is attempting to do... of COURSE, he would be more comfortable with hillary (or, should i say, mark penn) and obama too, for that matter... after all, they both support the war, which, by extension, means they support the power structure that keeps a shill like bob novak in good standing with his fellow elites...

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No, it's not a "funny thing," nor is it in the least bit surprising

while paul krugman is absolutely correct (behind the nyt firewall) in his appraisal, i'm surprised at his surprise...

[A] funny thing has happened on the Democratic side: the party’s base seems to be more in touch with the mood of the country than many of the party’s leaders. And the result is peculiar: on key issues, reluctant Democratic politicians are being dragged by their base into taking highly popular positions.

the democratic leadership (including many dems who aren't) is part and parcel of the same military-industrial, super-rich, take the money and run (and the ordinary joes be damned) gang that's been running things in the u.s. for years... there's zero incentive (read: $$) to take the national common good into account, none, and the only reason they're doing it now is to preserve the appearances of being at least minimally responsive to the national mood... the dems have perpetuated the myth of being the "people's party" and it would look more than a little suspicious if they flipped us off entirely... and, if you want to hear how they REALLY feel about being pushed this hard, you only have to turn to their paid lackeys and enablers, folks like james carville and terry mcauliffe, who make no secret of their disdain for what the "average" american thinks and continue to peddle hawkish, out-of-touch drivel...

(thanks to mcjoan at daily kos...)

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The spouse of Hillary's top campaign aide sounds off

National Journal’s Hotline reports that a recent fundraising letter issued by Scooter Libby’s Legal Defense Trust includes the following quote from former Cheney aide Mary Matalin:

This loyal soldier in the War on Terror doesn’t have to go at it alone.

let's not forget the top hillary campaign aide that mary-mary-quite-contrary is mary-ed to...

(thanks to think progress via atrios...)

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"I hope she continues to get grilled on it. She deserves nothing less."

i've already posted my thoughts on this, and especially on that loathsome hillary apologist, james carville... now i see that markos has taken his own stand on hillary's "iraq problem..."

I have no interest in giving a pass to those Democrats who aided and abetted Bush's mistakes, and I especially have no interest in giving a pass to those who demonstrate Bushian inability to offer self-reflection and admit that mistake. It's not a question of offering an "apology". I want acknowledgment of past mistakes.

These Democrats didn't just enable Bush's war, they sat by and let the Right Wing smear machine attack those of us who waged our lonely battles to prevent this disaster from happening. And while most of the candidates in the field have come around, Hillary remains the notable exception.

Those who have admitted their mistakes are now free to train their sights on the GOP. It doesn't absolve them from their terrible judgment, but it mitigates it. While it's best to not make a mistake in the first place, it's even worse to compound that mistake by refusing to come to terms with it.

Clinton doesn't have that. And what's worse, she has pretty much lost the window of opportunity to do so. After resisting for so long, she finds herself in the thick of the presidential primary (yes, even a year out) with no room to maneuver. If she suddenly reverses course and decides that yes, she'll take personal responsibility for her vote, it'll feed into the strongest anti-Hillary narrative -- that she's a panderer and will say what is most politically expedient at the moment.

It's a sad state of affairs, but Hillary has made her bed. And while her advisors may cringe that voters demand she account for Iraq at every campaign stop, I hope she continues to get grilled on it. She deserves nothing less.

what can i say but, yeah, you bet...

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Let Hillary dig her own grave, it's fine with me

hillary clinton...

As a senator from New York, I lived through 9/11 and am still dealing with the aftereffects.

arianna huffington...

Clinton voted for the war, even though other senators who had been given the same faulty intel she had, voted against it.

james carville...

"But they weren't from New York," he said. "Their state wasn't hit. They didn't have to deal with the grief of these 3,000 people."

john aravosis...

Invoking September 11 when asked about Iraq is unconscionable. It is pure Dick Cheney, and an outright lie. It is not what a Democrat says, and hell, it isn't even what a sane moderate Republican says.

profmarcus...

both hillary and carville can go directly to hell...

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