We need to bipartisanly and politely blow up the right wing mass media and all of the so called liberals that support them.

When I was a kid they used to have a slogan in the USA, “the best capitalist is a dead capitalist”. Make it so!

i hear they treated Nancy like nothing, like she represented no one, not one citizen, they never answered her calls, they made fun of and ignored her. Now the shoe’s on the other foot and the grovelling is painful to watch. But i doubt Nancy will completely discount the representatives of a large percentage of US citizens, because she seems to be a better calibre of person than that. Savvy, too.

BTW, John, that wasn’t me.

Ah, yes! Good ol’ Bob Elkhart!  As a UT student charter subscriber to The Teclas Spit-tater, Bub was un-parallelled in giving us the down-home truth in such beautiful prose without affectation.  He was one of the old school, never to be matched, but to serve as a beacon both political, grammatical, and dronk at Scholtzgarten!

Cute answer Rickinsf but its obvious you don’t understand the gravity of the situation.  The President of the United States of America is getting a blow job in the Oval Office while he is suppose to be doing the countries work and you think its basically ok…..appears to me neither party has representatives that have much in the way of morals.  BTW thanks for the blowjob!

Molly, you’re my shero!

Rarely does anyone combine humor and insightfulness as well as you.  And it is even more rare that I have to check my Merriam-Webster online, but you threw me a new one: fantods.  Excellent!

Looking forward to hearing you tonight. Enjoyed seeing you in your great black velvet hat at Judythe’s memorial.

No John, you’re not weird.

You sound like you need a blowjob.

Hope you find one.

“Newt Gingrich, the man who sat there and watched Congress impeach and try Bill Clinton for lying about having an extramarital affair while he, Newt Gingrich, was lying about having an extramarital affair.”

Molly, this is DEAD WRONG!
Newt Gingrich was the man who ENGINEERED all of the investigations and the impeachment of Bill Clinton.  He started it rolling and let the attack dogs do the heavy lifting. But he was always there to set it back on course when it bogged down.  He went after Gore too, clearly figuring he could get Gore to resign first, then Clinton with an impeachment threat—which would leave the Presidency to the Speaker of The House—One Newt Gingrich!  I’m sure Speaker Gingrich thought “President Gingrich” had only about a 25-30% chance, but he didn’t see a downside. OOOOPS!!!!
He found that downside.

Meanwhile, I, personally, think bipartisan is a fine thing and a necessary thing and should be promoted. 

There is no way Mad King George and Darth Cheney can be impeached successfully without bipartisan partisipation. It takes 67 Senatorial votes…So 16-17 must be gotten from the Republicans.

Remember: Peter Rodino and Sam Ervin used bipartisanship to successfully engineer the impeachement and ouster of Richard Nixon.  I know, I know, he wasn’t impeached.  But his resignation merely short-circuited impeachment AND Conviction!

If I were the alpha male of the Western Hemisphere and could not get a blow job in my office, what would be the point?

What transpired between President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office was wrong, period. And when the President looked into the cameras later on and flatly denied same, well, that was wrong too.

But unless Ms Lewinsky was, at the time of her Presidential tryst, an agent of the KGB/Al-Qaida/Whomever, what took place was not a matter which even -remotely- jeopardized our “National Security” in any way, shape or form. And for anyone to imply otherwise is to engage in a fatuous exercise of “pie-in-the-sky” non-think nonsense.

I voted for Bill Clinton, twice. And while I detest a liar, I do believe that what happened was a matter best left for the Clintons and the young intern to sort out.

The impeachment “dog and pony show” that was offered up at taxpayer’s expense was Republican payback, pure and simple for the 1974
forced resignation of Richard M. Nixon. That shifty-eyed, sweaty-upper-lipped criminal S.O.B. was in point of fact the only President in American history to ever leave office in complete and utter disgrace. Not exactly a shining, defining moment for the party of Abraham Lincoln, to be sure.

And so, many years later, the Republicans tried desperately to get their revenge on the cheap over a lousy BJ, which would be laughable on the face of it if it weren’t such a naked indictment of their craven and petty desire to “get even,” and the public good be damned…

by John on 11/14 at 10:32 am

>>I think an affair is an affair is an affair.  That being said I think a blow job in the Oval Office in the White House given to the President of the United States who was elected by the people of the United States, during the day when he should have been running the country is a tad more serious than most extra marital affairs.  I think there is a time and a place for everything but getting your cigar wet on a White House couch with a intern while you are the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is probably a little different than most affairs.  Guess I am weird <<

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As you said it , you are weird or a Christo/fascist member of the American branch of Hitler’s Youth.
Yes, it is alittle different then normal affairs but then again a lot of people that think that way have fathers who are also their granfathers or fathers who are also their uncles

Hey John, Give it up with Clinton will ya. I’d rather have the President f**k an intern than have the President f**k the country, like W has done.

I’ll say it again: what this government needs is a big B.M.  It is not in congress’ self-interest to administer the enema.  They’re anal retentive, and they like the feeling.  There are enough smart people in enough watchdog groups in this nation to inject the Fleet.  Why don’t they just go ahead and do it.  C’mon, we need you.  After the enema, have a look at term limits (elections don’t work), campaign reform, and move the wall just built on the southern border up to D.C. to keep out all the lobbyists. They and congress inflict far more unimaginable damage on our democracy than a million poor Mexicans working here to feed their kids.  Improvement in those three areas, alone, would make a positive difference.  Gawd!!

Revenge by the voters has already happened, thank you.  The mandate is already in and there is no need for being the “bigger man” here.  It won’t be difficult to do that, compared to those who are currently in charge.

The Repubs have had their fun running things into the ground.  It’s time for them to eat crow now, and for the rest of us to enjoy the show.

Well, I have to agree that Molly is the greatest. 

Still have to take her to task on one little detail.  Andy Jackson.  Andy was such a populist that he gave away the Cherokee Nation to the greedy people of Georgia (and North Carolina), who wanted their gold and land. His successor sent them packing down the Trail of Tears.

Andy was only a populist for White Man. Which in my book makes him the predecessor of those 20th century racists.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (Bill of Rights: Amendment I)For those government executives and personnel who never read these rights.
If you examine the laws passed by congress since 1913,i.e.(Federal Reserve Act) 1914 (IRS) and hundreds upon hundreds of violations to our Rights and Liberties, don’t worry stay happy, warm and fuzzy and make sure you congressmen and women work for bipartisianship.
I understand why you want to be bipartisianship, cause your secrets could lead to marches and campouts upon Washington, D.C.
Talk about Washington, D.C.; why do you Congressperson’s not talk about stateship for the citizens of D.C.? Could it have anything to do with the Constitution and the rights and Laws all states have to challenge the Federal Government? Hmmm!
Oh! Heaven help the CFR, Bush, Banks,CIA, and the real puppeters of this U.S. Congress puppets. Impeach Bush, Cheney, shoot we’d open a can of worms going back into history and would have to rewrite the text books.
Remember the 911 lie!!!!!!

Good Golly, I Love Miss Molly!

I had a thought… why does it always seem to be the Liberals have to:
play nice OR start investigations?
take the high road OR seek revenge?

Why can’t they do both? 

They can work within the system of rules and laws and sweet talk those rascally Repugs using bi-partisanship while at the same time use their subpeona power to call those uh… “gentlemen” into hearings and have a “little chat” with them UNDER OATH!!!

...just a thought.

Molly, Molly, I am in awe of your mind and your fingers that put it on paper - oops, screen.

Said by a Dem recently:  Republicans and Democrats are both flawed, but we’re more humane.

You live in the land of rodeos.  Does George remind you of the rodeo clown even down to the nearby barrel?

Hey, Everybody.    Molly Ivins has long had the ‘sand’ to hold up to needed scrutiny the corporate gangsters who are systematically destroying this living world, and to call to account the legions of media hacks and political thugs who do the daily dirty-work. And she doesn’t hesitate to remind ordinary people that their only chance in the face of such determined and well-oiled malevolence is in taking care of each other.  Those who continue to insist on just “looking out for #1” will go on being real easy pickings for the predator classes and their hired guns.                            As for the supposed electoral ‘sea change’ last week, a bunch of the labels are different now, sure ‘nough.  But the capacity for ruthlessness among our wannabe imperialist rulers is far from exhausted, and the technical means for “going forward” with their ‘global’ project remain well within their grasp. Look for another huge spike soon in the FEAR index, targeted specifically at masses of atomized “individuals” who’ve been purposely misled by their professional overseers into thinking only of their unitary (and totally artificial) selves. Organically functional human communities may have the integrity necessary to live through what’s virtually upon us already.  Split Adams and hollowed Eves won’t have a Ghostdancers’ chance, in the Hell-on-Earth engulfing the Middle East today and coming again soon to neighborhoods all across “the homeland” of the wageslave.  So, “C’mon people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another…..right now!”    Your Old Friend, OmaniSa

I think an affair is an affair is an affair.  That being said I think a blow job in the Oval Office in the White House given to the President of the United States who was elected by the people of the United States, during the day when he should have been running the country is a tad more serious than most extra marital affairs.  I think there is a time and a place for everything but getting your cigar wet on a White House couch with a intern while you are the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is probably a little different than most affairs.  Guess I am weird

Until Bush apologizes to every American who he called
“unpatriotic terrorists” for daring to question his policies I do not see why anyone should co-operate with him at all.
He crowed about his “political capital” after the last election and it would seem to me it is Democrats who now have the polical capital and ought to spend it investigating everything Bush has
done for the past five years starting with the continuing cover-up of the 9/11 attacks and the willful misrepresentation of WMD intelligence to invade Iraq.

woot! Molly mentioned an author all should read. Jim Hightower, he has many books and all of them are infuriating reads. Yes, they will anger if you have any sense of justice and a hope for America. Check him out!

Oh and bipartisan my ass…that’s only another Republican catch word. Mandate = we have control of congress, Bipartisan = we lost our majority now vote for our bills or suffer partisan attacks.

  B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

P.S. In case I didn’t make my point, go get a Jim Hightower book dammit!!

Oh I forgot, some of our best known founding fathers like, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were liberals !
So, DOWN WITH phony ‘republican-style’ conservatism !!

I love Molly Ivins.  I write only to complain about th3 proof reader who didn’t notice that Bob Eckhardt’s name was printed as if he had been named for a small town in Oklahoma.

You are so right; the stupid media and their ‘talking heads’ is at it again, spinning and spinning the election results in a way of ‘damage control’ for the GOP and at the same time always second- guessing the Dems on anything they plan to do.
Its time TO KICK ASS!!

Always a pleasure to read your thoughts and observations Molly! 

Yes, co-opt is the operative word here in regard to our corporate democracy.  And yes, even hate-filled bigots like Coughlin can claim the mantle of populist.  I, too, have noticed the MSM and its seemingly inability to fess-up to American audiences any semblance of accuracy in reporting the meaning of this recent election.  Populist is just their euphemism for liberal, as ever since the Reagan Era, the L word (an ideal that goes to the very founding of our nation) has become dreaded among the Federalist types in Washington.

Finally, I too would proffer that Newtty has no place at the bi-partisan table since he almost single handedly tainted our national political discourse by leaking crass terms into our political rhetoric for far too long. I say keep him at FOX where it seems he can benefit from their rehabilitation program: see any number of examples of indicted, charged, got off on a technicality, surly personalities FOX has on staff. -Kevo

I’ll give the right credit for chutzpah, anyway.  When you just got your hat handed to you, asking for bipartisan cooperation instead of investigations and prison is bold, indeed.

However, the Dems would do well to be the “bigger man” here, and at least try cooperation.  Anything perceived as revenge by the voters will backfire quickly.  Being honest, above board, and pushing a change agenda will serve everyone well.  Besides, implementing change is the best revenge of all.

In the words of the Dixie Chicks, “I’m not ready to play nice”, the Democratic congress had better bury every last one of those neocon Nazi republicans or we will not regain one shred of our integrity back in the world….....