Chutzpah

JEEBUS, Joe! Is there anybody at this rag except KT who isn't going to pile on to what is now 3 or 4-day-old garbage? MS gets a billion hits, J N-S almost makes triple digits, and now you want a taste, huh?

WGAS

This isn't terribly important for you to weigh in on, Joe Klein.
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We've already done the work for you; there's no need to convince the country of anything.
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Why don't you comment on the President's Health Care Summit, instead?

"That seems--pace, my colleagues--entirely within the realm of creative politics to me."
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Well said. Thank you.
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"I'd be both amazed and rather worried if we had a President who didn't play the game a bit."
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Yes, Dems wouldn't get all riled up over electing Alan Colmes. You don't drive an agenda by being a shrinking violet.

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Great column by Klein.
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I like the fact he's pulling the Swampland out of the swamp that JNS and MS have sunk it to.
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BTW, where's the "Obambi" taunt now? They believed their own lies, and now are shocked and surprised he's whupping them so badly. The funny thing is, they still don't see it. Wait until 2010 comes, and they blow up in ANOTHER election.

Actually Joe, chutzpah would be you calling out your colleague Michael Scherer for yesterdays idiocy. I agree though, that this story is getting a little stale as far as topics of convo here. How about a post about Jon Stewart's spot on takedown of the condensed, industrial strength idiocy we call 'CNBC'?

"In any case, I'd be both amazed and rather worried if we had a President who didn't play the game a bit."
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Well, I'm sure that nobody has yet pointed out that Rush himself has stepped into the poltical arena. He may be a talk show host, "lighthearted" critic, or the intellectual(!) leader of the Republican party, but the moment he opened his mouth, he's become a legitimate target.
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And as Friar Tuck so aptly put it*, his cat is definitely gettting a good hearty flattening at the wheels of our new administration!
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*I'd sue you Friar, for causing me to almost choke with laughter, but besides the fact that I don't have a lawyer, you probably don't have a lot of money, and besides, I don't know how I could sue you out of existance unless I knew who you really were!

...and I meant call out BY NAME.

53_3, you have brightened my day immeasurably. Many thanks!

"Wait until 2010 comes, and they blow up in ANOTHER election."
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I wouldn't expect rapidly disappearing species to learn from the mistakes that brought about their mass extinction. Besides, it has been noted that often, impact events occur in clusters.
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It's noteworthy that Chixculub isn't the only crater that dates from the extinction of the dinosaurs. I say let nature take it's course...

"53_3, you have brightened my day immeasurably. Many thanks!"
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At least I did somthing good today. You is entwirely welcome!

Joe,
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Tell it to your very own, Mark Halperin, who told Charlie Rose last night that he thinks Obama and company are making a terrible mistake by tangling with Limbaugh and attempting to elevate the radio bloviator to the leader of the GOP.
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Of course, what Mark neglected to mention was his own elevation of Limbaugh into a leadership role by constantly touting Limbaugh's pronouncements on The Page.
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In other words...
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"It's okay for me to promote Limbaugh as spokesman for the GOP, but it is not okay for Democrats to do that, especially Obama."

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Joe, I know you are busy calling out the likes of Rove and Whener on their blatant hypocrisy, but you shouldn't bypass the guy who is probably sitting just a few cubes down from you in the newsroom.

"Joe, I know you are busy calling out the likes of Rove and Whener on their blatant hypocrisy, but you shouldn't bypass the guy who is probably sitting just a few cubes down from you in the newsroom."
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Hell! They're all veinerschieners!

Mr. Klein, thanks for providing some sane perspective to your colleagues. Unfortunately, they and a lot of pundits need to be reminded about the atrocity that was the Bush administration.

Unfortunately, you need to go farther and point out your/their complicity in that fiasco.

53_3,
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I should have used the plural, "guys."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96O2D380&show_article=1&catnum=-1

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Some change, those ones.

Move On indeed.

"Golly gosh Black Man, that was a close one!"

"Did you say close one, or The Once? Anyhoo, right wing you aren't, Rahm, but we must indeed quench the evil math that would require us and our 57 Blue State corporate whore media sycophants to divulge thrice and for all the rank & file failure of FDR's stupid socialist schemes, saved only by our friend Hitler and the president of Canada."

"You mean you aren't going to work on balancing the budget after all, Black Man?"

"Rahm, you know and I know and the Amer-Asian people know that I have little if any ability to add and subtract, other than PayPal Gaza receipts and Hawaiian ice cream cone sales. Therefore and forthwith, my little liberal lemming ballet buddy, we will invoke Screw The Math, Enjoy The Show as our mediocre market meltdown mantra, while the world burns and Michelle busses the kids to private skoo."

"Holy Jesse Helms, Black Man, do you think it will work?"

"It has to work, Rahm, or I'm going left into the 1-term ditch with the Jew bashing Carter and Vietnam war hero LBJ. Now on to the Blackmobile..."

"Uh, sorry Black Man, but the Blackmobile's still in the shop. GM's parts orders from Mexico have been held up by the drug mobs that you let loose when you told the DEA to stand down last week."

"Drat! I knew something was afoot south of Fresno! Well Rahm, we'll just have to obfuscate to Move On some other way. Is the Flyin Chittlin up and running?"

"Sorry, Black Man, but since you grounded all the small aircraft last week following the Frozone phuck ups from Newark, we've had to park our economic battle wing too. We do have the Black Bike and Black Soapbox Derby Cart available though. Can I ride in the back this time?"

"OK Rahm, that has given me a great idea, but I'll vett it by you and Iorgo Sorrows to see if it Meets Up with the Hoofington Post gold standard for liberal largess in a unionized tanking economy. What say we give billions if not trillions of unaccountable funds to our lobbyist friends on Wall Street and the rest of the old Clixon regime change, and see if anyone notices that no one knows where the Boob Rubin laundry money actually went? Then we'll blame some fat GOP radio guy for making us do it, declare victory, and vacation in Maui with Michael Phelps and Arsenio Hall."

"Great scotch Black Man, here comes typical white liar Goober Gibbs and his gang of noun raiders!"

"Quick Rahm, to the Code Pink Cave, and pass me that copyright release form!"

"You got it Black Man! Are we taking the Black Cadillac Escalade, Black Toyota Prius, or Black Bart Boat?"

"No time to argue, Rahm, just jump on the next fad you see, and hope that nobody notices the lack of change from the Nixon years in our internal tactics!"

"Right, Black Man, 10-4 roger that!"

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We will return to BLACK MAN VERSUS THE VOLCANO after these messages from The Blago-Burris Legal Defense Fund...

School must have let out.

Isn't it a bit absurd that the Republicans are complaining that we are installing him as their dumbbell-in-cheef?
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I mean, they already did!
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Maybe they're right. After all, we are giving them a rather hearty shove toward oblivion...

2 months in, and Obama's worse in the polls than either Bush, or even Clinton?

That IS change we can believe in!

= DOW 5000 ACCOMPLISHED =

"School must have let out."
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Did you notice that he really, really, really wants to drop the n-bomb?

BTW: Why hasn't Obama gotten Bin Laden yet, or ended the war in Iraq?

Can you say President MOOP, America?

palininatowel: Tell it to your very own, Mark Halperin, who told Charlie Rose last night that he thinks Obama and company are making a terrible mistake by tangling with Limbaugh
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Well, that is simply fascinating. Because a couple of days ago Halperin was on Morning Joe, positively giddy with delight about how perfectly (his words: "The democrats set a plan. It's working perfectly!") the Obama team was playing this. Perhaps the master called and forced him to change his story?
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Video of Halperin in this TPM compilation:

If you want 300+ hits then name names Joe....Scherer, Halperin.