Saturday… 13 December 2008
Posted by marisacat in Afghanistan War, Beirut, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, India, Iran, Iraq War, Israel/AIPAC, Pakistan, WAR!.trackback
April 5 2008: Competitive streak. Not to be outdone by two aides who each did a pair of pull-ups, Obama does three before stepping out to address the crowd at the University of Montana [ Callie Shell/Aurora for Time]
Some sweet nothings from the likes of Odierno and Gates:
BALAD, Iraq (AP) — Despite a summer deadline to pull American combat troops from urban areas, thousands will stay in cities to support and train Iraqis, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday.
Even with the mandate in the recently approved U.S.-Iraq security agreement, there have been suggestions some troops would not leave urban areas.
But Gen. Raymond Odierno was the first military leader to acknowledge some forces would remain at local security stations, as training and mentoring teams.
“We believe we should still be inside those after the summer,” he said the sprawling U.S. base in Balad, north of Baghdad before welcoming Defense Secretary Robert Gates on a brief visit.
Iraq’s prime minister upbraided his top government spokesman for saying some U.S. soldiers might need to remain in the country for many more years. “What was announced about the Iraqi forces needing 10 years in order to be ready is only his personal point of view and it doesn’t represent the opinion of the Iraqi government,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office said in a written statement Saturday.
It’s been clear since brigades and divisions of troops were reclassified from “combat” to “training” that we will die fully engaged, in a hail of shrapnel and fussilage, fully dressed for combat but called “trainers” and ”advisors”.
He [Odierno] added, “We don’t want to take a step backward because we’ve made so much progress here.”
Gates in Manama, Bahrain before he moved on to an unannounced stop at Balad:
“I can assure you that a change in administration does not alter our fundamental interests, especially in the Middle East.”
He said a few other things too… Not that any of it is news. I am reminded of how “managed” our presidents are. Even Eisenhower. From the version I have read, the reason he did not deliver his speech using his own preferred words, ”Military Industrial Congressional Complex” is that “senior Republican aides” removed the offending word.
The “aides” were senators and interested parties, would be my guess. And, Eisenhower, whatever one thought of him, came to the job with military experience, a general of the European campaign and VE day.
Merry merry…
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Commander in sort-of Chief, I guess.
You’re Either With Us Or Against Us
LOL ABC just said that Yeshiva U cannot even figure out how much of their endowment was tied up with Madoff. He was their Treasurer. And I am guessing they were very proud of that, for however long he suckered them.
Woo hooo.
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Commands the manger. When MO lets him.. LOL.
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But why isn’t the Michigan elected and the various legations from the auto industry making that point, in big bright red neon letters (right now they are busy thanking Bush Baby). And Gettlefinger is useless.. I am convinced people just tune him out. It gets mentioned in passing, as sub text.
From what I hear, too many people had transmissions and other major parts of American cars fail at under 100K miles. People moved on. Which is not to denigrate the workers in the US auto industry. But the system.
9 Is Not 11 By Arundhati Roy
ugh. I jsut checked in with the FP of the NYT … this rides at the top of the column, as the quick blurb:
An unpublished federal history of the U.S.-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts the effort as crippled by poor planning, waste and deception, leading to a $100 billion failure
Well, we all knew it, reconstruction, ws and would be a fiction. Jon Lee Anderson in the New Yorker reported that the month before AG broke.
I cannot bear to look any farther.
5 – the only people I’ve seen making that point have been Olbermann and Maddow, and I think I’ve read an article or two, but that’s it.
$1 Trillion Stimulus Plan?
I just finished reading The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. It was engaging.
Now that I have all of my books out again, I can catch up a bit.
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That’s a bizarre Obama pic. Kind of a reverse kilroy.
Interestingly the NYT seems scarcely to touch the Madoff story. Two FP lightweight articles yesterday and today if you go to t he business page… you have to scan over to the wire feed for an AP story..
LOL. So… how red are the hands and faces of the NYT board? I am just guessing….
They do have a big puff piece on how Schumer is god daddy of Wall St.
Oh I am so relieved. They will be crooks too. And they know it.
Blago Mulls Resignation, Could Make Decision By Monday
MajorFlaw’s identity will be further revealed at my website davefromqueens.com this Wednesday, 7 p.m. It is a lengthy 14 page article.
MajorFlaw is connected to certain New York City politicians by the hip.
i find it very disconcerting. the partial flag so out of place, the wrinkles in the seemingly empty suit, the illogical “riz”, the malignant industrial color.
its as if he’s levitating in a dungeon with rack and garrotes.
MajorFlaw is connected to certain New York City politicians by the hip.
Well as long as it is not by the heart, guts or liver. LOL
Yes I found the photo bizarre. Loved that it occurred as result of feeling competitive.
We are so blessed.
Actually the whole series (campaign shots, Ob and his) at Telegraph Photo Galleries was odd. Off kilter, and I suppose meant to be. WIll put the link up.
Telegraph Photo Gallery: Path to the White House
A new book, President Obama: The Path to the White House (David & Charles / TIME £9.99), showcases the photographs of Callie Shell, who began covering Obama for Time Magazine in 2006 when his travelling party numbered just three people in a van: the driver, Obama and Shell. Her photographs reveal Obama’s private, unguarded side, his repose with his family, and capture the awe and excitement his campaign generated
Picture: Callie Shell/Aurora for Time
Major Flaw is a political operative? I’m shocked!, I tell ya! Shocked!
haha
(And it takes 14 pages to spell that out? Somebody needs to google “synopsis”.)
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if you’re going to expose poor behavoir within the democratic party you better order up a few dozen more lifetimes cause you’ve got a long row to hoe. from marisa’s link above.
what exactly is the difference between schumer and Gov. Blagojevich? isn’t it only a difference in degree? is it the fact schumer didn’t solicit outright? or the fact the money he was given didn’t appear within his personal bank account?
or is it the absence of a wiretap?
LOL I thought the piece on Schumer was an open advertisement that the shit is getting deeper still.
So much trouble. More to come.
He said what??!
One of the leading lights in Milwaukee city gov’t.
Oh this just sounds too familiar. LOL Meanwhile the days drag on, Rahm decomposes in public or in hiding, alleging death threats… and Ob cannot get whatever ”revelations” there are out there and done with. He’s letting the media tell the story. LOL.
the whole thing is pretty funny…
Snowflakes as you’ve never seen them before
Why they’re paid the big bucks
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oh the comment to Scriptoids made me laugh.. what a hoot. Good line up from Grace
Trent Reznor Upset His Music Used To Torture Prisoners, Dude From Drowning Pool Not So Much
Dotheboys Hall, B. Obama, Headmaster
Klein, a corporate lawyer, was put in charge of New York City’s schools by that Napoleonic poison toad Mike Bloomberg. The two of them share a religious commitment to standardized testing as the Holy Grail of education.
Yes and who else was a volunteer in that managed horror? Otherwise known as corporatised school reform….
Caroline.
Rahm Emanuel talked with governor’s office about who should fill Obama’s Senate seat
Steve Clemons:
I am plowing thru the NYT article on Schumer. link to the one page version. landed on this quote:
In fact there’s an almost complete elite consensus viewing education as a kind of industrial operation
Yes. But we all know that Obama’s mentor on the philosophy of education is Bill Ayers. That’s what Michelle Malkin told me. And Bill Ayers reads like warmed over Emerson channeled through bad Alan Ginsberg.
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/improving-learning-environments-ayers-google-search
I urge teachers to start with a faith that every child comes to you as a whole and multidimensional being, much like yourself. Every human being, no matter who, is a gooey biological wonder, pulsing with the breath and beat of life itself, eating, sleeping, pissing and shitting, prodded by sexual urges, evolved and evolving, shaped by genetics, twisted and gnarled by the unique experiences of living—just like you. Every human being has as well a complex set of circumstances that makes his or her life understandable and sensible, bearable or unbearable; each is unique, each walks a singular path across the earth, each has a mother and a father, each with a distinct mark to be made, each is somehow sacred. This recognition asks us to reject any action that treats anyone as an object, any gesture that thingifies other human beings. It demands that we embrace the humanity of every student—that we take their side. Easy enough to say, excruciatingly difficult to enact in the daily lives of schools.
Grieder
There’s no “if” about it.
clemons said
that piece has been up far longer than is usual. intentional bit of disinformation kept up intentionally i’m sure :::waving at meteor blades::::. purpose to firmly cement whack beliefs.
or at least nail said beliefs to the floor so they cant get away.
so much for reality based.
So, what happened to Major Flaw? Was he booted from dkos or something?
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Obama and Ayers along with others who served on the board that distributed the Annenberg Challenge Fund for Chicago (well over 100 million finally, original challenge, matching funds and more millions over that) admitted at the close in their own report that they accomplished…..
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. NOTHING.
One of the standard MOs around is conservative R or Winger money that channels thru non profit orgs peopled with the Obamas and Ayers… and the money is life style retention or enhancement and is meant to accomplish…
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“The problem we have is that we don’t have many moderate Republicans,” Reid explained. In the new Congress there will be even fewer.
This is actually pretty funny. Reid is saying he’ll have less power because the Democrats have a bigger majority.
admitted at the close in their own report that they accomplished…..
Well I’m trying to think how you would practically tranform the public education system from one that sees “education as a kind of industrial operation” to one that respects every child as a “a gooey biological wonder, pulsing with the breath and beat of life itself, eating, sleeping, pissing and shitting, prodded by sexual urges, evolved and evolving, shaped by genetics, twisted and gnarled by the unique experiences of living”.
Even if Obama wanted to appoint someone better than Klein, who would that be?
So, what happened to Major Flaw? Was he booted from dkos or something?
LOL No way to get it straight or keep it straight. I don’t even know who it is.. moniker or RL version. (Thankfully)
LOL No way to get it straight or keep it straight. I don’t even know who it is.. moniker or RL version.
Dave’s going to reveal the name of some NYC Democratic hack to people who don’t even know who Christine Quinn is.
Anti-climatic.
He’s done a pretty good job of documenting the abuses at the Daily Kos. But he needs to get that harpoon into the white whale before he’s done.
From Hell’s heart, I stab at thee; For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
My gooey biological 16 year old self had to read that book in high school.
Even if Obama wanted to appoint someone better than Klein, who would that be?
Well not like it is up to Ob. It’s up to Bloomberg and the ptb in NYC and the watchful eyes on public ed. Charlie Rose seems to like Klein a lot, I’m sure he plays well in corporate board rooms and various drawing rooms in the City.
Which (education), to be realistic, gets talked about a lot to keep in semi touch with the population that has children at the mercy of the state in public ed. But which is not much of the federal budget. Nor do they care. Much at all. They dump i ton the states and the states keep a fixed reality going by tying it to the local tax base.
re Obama chin-up pic by mcat,
catnip’s Ob that it is reverse Kilroy
I’m still goin with “Laughin Me Ass Off”
how it was sold in the Time Piece Cont’d in italics}Yeh there’s ALWAYS a Flag right in the foreground by the weightroom when horseplay and impromptu chin up contest ensues at the Gym ensues among the guys…Obama…. the gush went, ACTUALLY BESTED the younger ones…
And a Bigelow on the floor.
Air Force Flunks Another Nuke Inspection?
40 – wow, that was a book?
I thought that was from Wrath of Khan
/product of American edumication system>
/product of American edumication system>
I almost feel as if I got the worst parts of Joel Klein and the worst parts of Bill Ayers.
I got the standard industrialized factory high school education designed to teach me to sit in a row and obey orders along with some superficial radialism (I had to read Malcom X and Richard Wright).
The very WORST classes I had were college English classes. If I remember them correctly, they were all about how literature had to be formal and detached from history, class, reality.
The very best classes I’ve ever taken were classes where I actually had to produce something (acting classes, creative writing classes).
34 Bayprarie on dailykos fake Rahm call piece, Clemons regurge
that piece has been up far longer than is usual. intentional bit of disinformation kept up intentionally i’m sure :::waving at meteor blades::::. purpose to firmly cement whack beliefs.
Bingo.
I hope IB’s doing okay after that ice storm.
Even Workers Surprised by Success of Factory Sit-In
Sounds to me like he bought the company and then drove it into the ground.
40 – wow, that was a book?
But actually it’s about Dave from Queens.
It even made Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#Ahab
Dave ultimately dooms the crew at Free Speech Zone (save for Noom) to death by his obsession with Major Flaw. During the final chase, Dave hurls his final harpoon while yelling his now-famous revenge line:
… to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
The harpoon becomes lodged in Flaws flesh and Dave, caught in his own harpoon’s rope and unable to free himself, is dragged into the cold oblivion of the sea with the injured Flaw.
Only Noom survives. And he procedes to tell Dave’s story in a series of diaries to which only he responds.
Mr. Fish
workers in moderation
I hope IB’s doing okay after that ice storm. —catnip
I am guessing she is caught among the million or so without [power… so I hope loaded with provisions and candles.
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sorry! Just got it out……………………………. 8)
catnip mcat:
So, what happened to Major Flaw? Was he booted from dkos or something?
LOL No way to get it straight or keep it straight. I don’t even know who it is.. moniker or RL version. (Thankfully)
Well, in brief, if one holds an Adlerian point of view in examining the Individual’s identity, an exhaustive review of the case yields insight into za vackjob by examining the phenomena of “derbloggenposten”.. Let us begin with the first comment of Herr Flaw in 2005..
LOL.
The workers were not aware, for example, that Republic’s owners had quietly set up a new company, Echo Windows LLC, incorporated on Nov. 18, according to records with the Illinois secretary of state’s office. And Echo had bought a window and door manufacturing plant in Red Oak, Iowa.
No but they had an inkling. Some interviewed in the first couple of days mentioned that they came in one am and heavy equipment ws missing overnight. Managers would nto admit it ws gone nor talk about it.
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7 pm tomorrow. He (dfq) specifically gave 24 hours notice. Get the Mylanta in the house. Ipecac, kaopectate. And so on.
Really good review of “Milk” by Amanda Marcotte.
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/bamboo_reviews_milk/
56 – anonther sign that he bought the company to destroy it and make off w/ the pieces.
I saw “Milk” this afternoon. It really was quite wonderful.
Cartoon in Times Online. “Presidential Seal”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00437/cartoon385_437674a.jpg
It’s still pretty mind boggling that Dan White only got 5 years for killing two city politicians (including the mayor).
These days they send the secret service to grade schools to check on kids’ homework if they even mock the president.
55. Wait! I need to grab some hot chocolate and a warm blanket.
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Okay, I’m ready.
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The whole thing, and esp the trial, was dirty as hell.
I was ECSTATIC the day he committed suicide. But even tho I was at a connected law firm in the city, near City Hall, I noticed no one cared, or was interested. No one.
DiFi did get hs widow to leave town however. FWIW. And had tried to get them to relocate outside of SF after he was released.
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clemson’s a pro right? and he’s that naive? he BELIEVED THE SHIT, put up a post, got a friendly emai warning or twenty, and then took it down. LOL. at least he has a sense of humor and is open about egg on his face. at least he’s likeable.
one can’t take anything you read at dkos at face value. and the admin is completely untrustworthy. this isn’t news.
right mr blades?
a good review of milk is here
Out, Proud, and Fighting
by Sherry Wolf
amanda marcotte’s nothing but a democratic party stooge and blogmaid.
Well Clemons seems a mix to me. Gullible on some points, entranced by the righties (Dad was CIA, he grew up in the DC mentality), firmly interventionist Neo Liberal… and so on.
And, yes a professional insider. I had not seen the diary at Dkos but yeah, very convenient composition. IIRC exitenze (or whatever the spelling) seemed a favored child.
Talk about runnin a guy over then
throwin him under the bus bombing
From the NYT:
Oh just listen to the whispers…
LOL. Solow’s Lawyer, Drieier.
Yeh, HE,… he “might be” engaged in financial fraud…
Just call it JewGate and be done with it.
Whole lot of shit on him to be found elsewhere, him
ratfucking his tenants, ratucking other ratfuckers like himself in deals,etc. etc, this is the short and very skinny on him from Forbes:
stooge…blogmaid…95-10 promoter… and lets not even mention the fact her latext faux pas was “posting” on her blog about issues that concern women of color that she was LIFTING off other women’s spaces, claiming it as her own and collecting blog cred.
hell if i read her post, not that i will, i’m going to be googling to find out who she lifted it from.
another technique learned from her boyo mentors at kos i am sure.
From the MR magazine review of Milk:
A good thing to remember.. and that was 3 years before Milk won the seat on the Bd of Supes.
Mcat LOL– NO! It’s Wednesday at 7PM
4 Days Notice! like this Wednesday on ABC etc..
Like Charlie Gibson Interviewing Palin BIG, That’s how BIG.
This Wednesday on DFQ….
I am so confused. I read a comment of dfq’s at FSZ that said he was giving 24 hours notice. LOL I never bothered to closely check the engraved invite. Engraved invite via box comment (# 13, upthread).
and this part as well hits at the core
the democratic mobbed up “leadership” of the “movement” against 8 was afraid to mention the word CHILDREN in the media.
unapologetic
openly gay
mothers and mothers.
fathers and fathers.
lose the donks, they’re poison.
i hope IB is restoring her eyesight staring at snowfields far off in the distance while not looking at the screen. i also hope shes not standing round under trees, and has lanterns and an oil or gas furnace!
that goes double for you too catnip.
i hate to day it but down here right now at this moment the temp is 64 degrees and im wearing shorts and a t.
day it. = say it.
whatever
day oh!!!!
work all night on a drink of rum!
Solow’s Lawyer, Dreier “a son of a refugee who fled Poland and owned movie theaters, “…Harvard / Yale, etc, is lawyered up now with his own lawyer John Gotti’s old lawyer Gerry Shargel.
So many lawyers.
Please send for a Rabbi.
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
BERNARD L MADOFF INVEST SEC
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
05/09/2005 25000.00 25020223064
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
BERNARD L MADOFF INVESTMENTS
SCHUMER, CHARLES E
VIA FRIENDS OF SCHUMER
04/08/2002 1000.00 22020572030
04/08/2002 1000.00 22020572029
08/18/2004 1000.00 24020682387
08/18/2004 1000.00 24020682386
And on it goes
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In that sense, not a lot of change. There is still an elevated hierarchy of [mostly] wealthy or well compensated [mostly lawyers] minions leading the orgs. SF is quilty as hell.
It was so obvious the past summer… a campaign that did nto lecture (the worst I herd over and over came from straight white liberals, proud of the fact they endorsed SSM) but a campaign that showed gay married people, with their children or their families, mothers fathers and siblings. God knows there has been enough marital joy to photograph between 2004 and the past summer.
There also was a County Recorder over in the East Bay I thought should have been tapped if willing. 19 years recording marriages in some East Bay enclave and finally able to marry. Geesh get with the program!
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
BERNARD L MADOFF/CHAIRMAN
GEPHARDT, RICHARD A
VIA GEPHARDT FOR PRESIDENT INC.
09/23/2003 2000.00 23992120817
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
BERNARD MADOFF INC
OBEY, DAVID R
VIA A LOT OF PEOPLE FOR DAVE OBEY
03/10/2000 1000.00 20035482353
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
BERNARD MADOFF INVESTMENT SEC
FOSSELLA, VITO
VIA COMMITTEE TO RE-ELECT VITO FOSSELLA
04/20/2000 1000.00 20035843717
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
MADOFF INVESTMENTS
MARKEY, EDWARD J MR.
VIA MARKEY COMMITTEE, THE
05/15/1998 1000.00 98033264489
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
MADOFF INVESTMENTS/CHAIRMAN
MARKEY, EDWARD J MR.
VIA MARKEY COMMITTEE, THE
06/17/2004 2000.00 24961871421
06/17/2004 2000.00 24961871421
MADOFF, BERNARD L
NEW YORK, NY 10021
SELF-EMPLOYED
D’AMATO, ALFONSE M
VIA FRIENDS OF SENATOR D’AMATO (1998 COMMITTEE)
09/21/1998 1000.00 98020221244
MADOFF, BERNARD
NEW YORK, NY 10021
MADOFF SECURITIES
CORZINE, JON S
VIA CORZINE 2000 INC
08/24/1999 1000.00 20020031614
MADOFF, BERNARD
NEW YORK, NY 10022
CHAIRMAN
CLINTON, HILLARY RODHAM
VIA HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON FOR US SENATE COMMITTEE INC
01/13/2000 1000.00 20020140293
74. that goes double for you too catnip.
I’m okay, thanks. Staying as warm as possible. As it turns out, I’m a bit stuck. I waited to see how much of the new snow the complex’s maintenance guy would clear away today and it turns out that he doesn’t do the walk or stairs – just driveways. I checked out the garage – no shovel. (She just bought this place in the spring.) So, I’ve been trying to figure out what to use to clear the drifts out there (one’s right up against the door). I may just have to meet some of the neigbours and go shovel-begging.
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I read he spread the wealth, to R as well. But no details… so…
I love how people assume things will get better. Be healed. The seas will recede. Poverty will be cured.
I just heard Ob’s Saturday slobber, that Donovan the HUD scud under Bloomberg, is tapped to solve the housing crisis (HUD in DC). He is one more urban adept with Fed and State monies. I have not even bothered to look up the RE project of his, that they all point to, that used :creative financing:.
thanks… I’ll pass on being a rube.
Maybe Schumer’s Major Flaw. lol
OR my betrothed could come and shovel his way in to rescue me. haha
Rahmbo and Chuck Schmuck Fucked.
Madoff funneled money to
SECURITIES INDUSTRY AND FINANCIAL MARKETS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE
Si-a-a-fe, Ma!PAC?
Party: No Associated Party {NO SHIT!}
Who then dished it to :
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 04/30/2007 5000.00 27990077765
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 06/18/2007 5000.00 27930979743
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 01/14/2008 5000.00 28930609233
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 03/05/2008 5000.00 28931225036
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 03/26/2008 5000.00 28931225041
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 03/06/2007 5000.00 27990017170
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 04/30/2007 5000.00 27990077765
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 06/18/2007 5000.00 27930979743
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 01/14/2008 5000.00 28930609234
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 03/06/2008 5000.00 28931225038
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 03/26/2008 5000.00 28931225041
DEMOCRATS WIN SEATS (DWS PAC) 07/26/2007 5000.00 27931123097
DEMOCRATS WIN SEATS (DWS PAC) 06/27/2008 3000.00 28991496527
DEMOCRATS WIN SEATS (DWS PAC) 09/18/2008 2000.00 28992691885
DODD, CHRISTOPHER J
VIA FRIENDS OF CHRIS DODD 06/26/2008 1000.00 28991496523
DODD, CHRISTOPHER J
VIA FRIENDS OF CHRIS DODD 09/18/2008 4000.00 28992691887
Oh he did, spread it around, through the Sec Indy PAC , Boehner got money, Cantor etc,
But he lathered, just lathered Shumer
Ben Smith expertly extrudes the party line on Donovan and Carrion (he got Office of Urban Policy, inside the WH) former Bronx borough.
Here is the last choking graf:
[C]arrion has been a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, which captures some of philosophy, though he and Bloomberg are situated to its left on taxes and spending. Donovan is well-liked by affordable housing advocates because he shares their goals and has worked with them, including the recently controversial Acorn, and he sounded early cautions about the subprime lending bubble; but he also prefers to work through the private housing market, not around it, and has argued that low-income home-ownership isn’t a panacea.
Obama’s choice affirms Bloomberg as a model mayor and New York as the font of an expansive urban policy, as Giuliani’s — far more conservative — New York was in the Clinton administration. It also establishes Carrion as the standard-bearer for Bloomberg’s philosophy, and a frontrunner to be elected the city’s mayor at some point in the next decade.
it’s a slick read — unless you disagree…
What a fuckin Yamulke
The parties are money launderers. Jay Cost at RCP has said so in his political analyses… and I can’t be alone on the so called left thinking the same, for a long time.
It is one of the few answers that makes any sense, has ever made any sense..
Madoff was def a money launderer. Plus whatever else.
LOL. donkeytale on FSZ
Secret Agent MAMZ
hmm the thread to the Pandagon/Marcotte Milk review is an odd mix.
As much as it pains me to tell you this, BHHM, I’m afraid I’m going to have to call off the spring nuptials because I’ve found another – with more hair and a shovel. It’s been swell, fella.
gnu thred…
LINK
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how awesome is it that a pol is named carrion? beautiful.