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February 01, 2006
Today at the Huffpo
Most of the posts concern the State of the Union speech delivered last night; Tom Gilroy sums up their attitude:
W basically got up there and said, 'I'm the same incompetent buffoon I was 6 years ago, and I'm staying the course. What're you gonna do about it?' He stared the country down and dared us to acknowledge the miles-long list of crimes and failures trailing behind him like a swatch of toilet paper stuck to the heel of an Alzheimer's patient shuffling out of a public restroom.
Cenk Uygur sums up ten things he learned from the Alito Filibuster battle:
5. Then comes my favorite step. Shove the poll in the Democrats face and tell them that they have no hope of winning and that the public is against them. Even more importantly, that they will lose their elections if they don't run to the "center" by supporting the Republican position instead. They will claim that the poll is definitive evidence that the public does not support their position so they better get on board with the Republicans otherwise they'll do to them what they did to Tom Daschle.
Exactly who does the shoving of the poll into Democrats (sic) face (sic) is not explained; presumably it is the corporatist media.
Cenk comes across as literate compared to James Boyce, who apparently functions as the Huffpo's designated "Irate about the Swift Boat Vets" blogger.
The Swift Boat Episode and recent chickenhawk neo-conservative attacks on Representative Jack Murtha show how effective it is to understand the complacency of the voting American.
Inside the Kerry Campaign, there was the belief that the Swift Boat attacks were sure to fail because of the facts - these guys didn't serve with John Kerry; these guys are changing their store (sic), they're financed by friends of Karl Rove's - this was a naively dangerous belief in a system that doesn't exist today and probably never did. In fact, much of current Democratic thinking is based upon a flawed truth: if we just tell people what is really going on, they will flock left in horror, shock and ultimately gratitude
Of course those who did pay attention to the Swift Boat Vets found out that while they obviously didn't like John Kerry they had done their homework, unlike the sages of the press, who showed such little interest in digging into Kerry's background that they were scooped by bloggers on topics like Christmas in Cambodia.
Posted by pat at February 1, 2006 02:53 PM
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The big story is ejecting a woman for wearing a tee shirt that says "Support the Troops", but no one wants to hear about that.
I guess the Representatives can't even have friends and family attend a function where the president shows up. What happened to seperation of powers?
Posted by: paul at February 1, 2006 04:31 PM
Paul,
What is so difficult to understand about "reasonable time, place or manner" restriction on speech" This was neither the time or the place for political demonstrations. It's the law no matter if you are pro or con.
Posted by: jreid at February 1, 2006 09:31 PM
Drudge posted a reminder that during the Clinton impeachment hearings, a man who was a guest of a legislator was ejected because he wore a t-shirt that said "Clinton doesn't inhale, he sucks." Stupid and tacky. Such a serious event deserves serious attention. I'm sure you would agree that he deserved to be tossed out on his rear. It was not the time or place for a protest. And so it goes with SOTU addresses. She had her little protest earlier in the evening...and there were no cameras. Poor thing...
Posted by: Pam at February 1, 2006 10:25 PM
Oh, and her shirt didn't say anything about supporting the troops, but said "2225 dead. How many more?" And charges were dropped today.
Posted by: Pam at February 1, 2006 10:29 PM
The woman's shirt said exactly what I said it did, Pam. You really need to get your facts right. Getting them wrong is a pattern for you.
Time, place, and manner restrictions have to do with safety, not with political considerations. That you think politicians should be able to restrict speech makes me wonder how you can consider yourself someone who believes in limited government.
Posted by: paul at February 1, 2006 11:41 PM
Are we talking about the same woman? I was talking about Cindy Sheehan. Who are you talking about?
Posted by: Pam at February 2, 2006 09:58 AM
He's talking about the Republican Florida representative whose wife was escorted out during the speech because she was wearing a T-shirt that said support the troops.
I think the capitol hill police were wrong in both instances actually. None of the women were being disruptive, and it was no different for them to wear those t-shirts than for the republicans who painted their fingers purple for the 2005 SOTU.
Posted by: Aaron at February 2, 2006 11:05 AM
...or wearing a colored ribbon...
Posted by: paul at February 2, 2006 01:05 PM