Either party, the house wins…

    

Arthur Silber is up with a new post:

And some of the progressive bloggers actually seem to still believe that the Democrats will end the occupation of Iraq.

Stupid, and not paying attention. As I explained in detail before:

WE ARE NOT LEAVING.

And the progressive bloggers, just like the Democrats they service so slavishly, primarily think about the elections of 2008. Try, please try, to get a fucking clue. After we attack Iran — and read the earlier piece and the numerous other essays linked there — the world will be changed in countless ways, major and minor. I think the elections will go forward, and the major functions of our now loathsome government will continue as “normal” — except that none of it will mean anything. And since we may be concluding the first six or eight months of a genuine and spreading world war, it’s more than likely than the Republicans will keep the White House, and perhaps even take back one or both houses of Congress.

The Democrats try to convince us that their dicks are just as big as the Republicans’ (an especially neat trick for Hillary, but then she is so special), but given how this game is played at present, the Democrats’ problem is that they always come too late, and not enough. The Republicans will always win this game, and they may well win it again after some nukes go off around the globe and people are dying in the millions.

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Fugitive fundraiser and the crumbling Ponzi schemes... (thanks to Revisionist for mentioning the LAT piece):

In 1992, Hsu agreed to serve three years, although that term could be modified if he makes full restitution, estimated at $1 million.

Only a week ago Hsu was in San Francisco raising money for Democratic politicians. But all that ended this week when the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times raised questions about his fundraising activities and his past.

Hsu appeared at the San Mateo County courthouse before 8 a.m., more than 45 minutes early. Having suddenly found himself front-page news, he has retained attorney James Brosnahan of the blue-chip San Francisco law firm Morrison & Foerster and the Los Angeles-based public relations firm headed by Michael Sitrick.

As Hsu waited in the hallway for the hearing to begin, he huddled with an attorney and spokesman Jason Booth. They declined to comment. Hsu spoke on his cellphone and chewed his fingernails.

Prosecutors have described Hsu’s case as a classic Ponzi scheme in which he sought investors to purchase and resell latex gloves. Hsu never purchased the gloves and had no contract to sell them, authorities say.

Almost sweet in its simplicity.  Until, of course, it is not sweet:

In 1990, Hsu was kidnapped by Chinese gang members in San Francisco and rescued when police in suburban Foster City stopped their car for running a red light.

Police speculated that the abductors intended to extort money from Hsu, but a lawyer’s filing in Hsu’s personal bankruptcy said Hsu had been kidnapped “allegedly by individuals who are creditors of the debtor.”

Starting in 2003, Hsu became a major donor to Democratic politicians, giving $255,000 directly to Democrats running for federal office and hundreds of thousands more to state and local politicians, from California to New York.

Ah well.  They have others.

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The ever erudite and succinct IOZ.  No exerpt, small and pointed, has to be read there… 😉

I don’t mean to pile on (tho as the patient goes critical who gives a fuck), but I did criticise Digby early on, linking to a post of hers during the Kerry “I can phone in a filibuster from Davos” mess during Alito… Digby said it was dangerous for us mere citizens and voters to presume to think we know more than the electeds.  And she did not mean President Hoover nor Coolidge…  She meant rank and file should not presume to know more than elected Dem leadership:

Others see it differently…

I hope some of the comments I’m reading around the blogosphere aren’t reflections of of a knee jerk cynicism on the part of Democrats who have fallen in love with their assessment that they are superior to their elected leaders.

This is a very dangerous state of mind.

 Unacceptable.

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There is another elegant and lovely Foodie Friday at IOZ, as well.  Calamari.  And then some…

Meanwhile, prepare your squids. Remove the little beak from the head. Cut off the tentacles and reserve. Grasp the head firmly at the eyes and give it a quick tug. Most of the internal organs will come out. Use your finger to pull out the rest. Rinse out the inside to get rid of the ink. Pull out the pin bone–a piece of translucent cartilege that runs down the back. Peel off the skin. You’ll be left with a little pocket of pure white squid meat that looks, lord strike me dead if I’m lyin’, like a little flaccid uncircumcised dick. Cut it into rings

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Thanks to wozzle, previous thread, who linked to this at TPM:

Late Update: Reid’s spokesman responds to our query about his remarks, leaving little doubt that he’s open to the possibility of funding the war this fall without withdrawal timelines. —gs

My old line, all the great battles came, the ones foreseen since Reagan.  And there was no battle, no opposition.  None.

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UPDATE, 1:29 pm

Revisionist has a diary at PFF, on Hillary and her “Cash Cow Carnival”, with updates thru Hsu, Paw family donations and tidbits on who is defending Hsu… other than his PR guy and his atty (both with him this am).

Check it out…

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