Another week, we are 282 days (and counting!) away from January 20, 2009. While working on this week’s rewind, I had a helluva time finding things to Applaud… so if you notice a decidedly heckle-heavy tone this week, it’s not just you…
NOTE: this is a Cheney GlassesGate-free zone… easily the MOST overblown story of this adminsitration
Applaud: to things from the past that might come back to haunt McCain and hurt his chances at the presidency. From the book The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, via Raw Story; “Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*n*.” McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. (Wow… we all know McCain has a temper and is likely to pop at any given moment, but to say that to the woman he says he loves, that’s just bad…)
Heckle: to making matters worse. Can someone please tell President Clinton to STFU? After the issue about Bosnia and ‘misspeaking’ had died down, Bill Clinton has to go and bring it all up again and mouthing off about the Bosnia landing and snipers story. (Keep in mind that I voted for him twice – I would have voted for him a third time if we were constitutionally allowed – but now is the time for Mr. Clinton to leave the campaign trail. I’m sure he scares the hell out of Hillary’s campaign whenever he opens his mouth, but he’s also tarnishing his legacy by sounding, more often than not, like a raving lunatic. If she gets the nomination, bring him back… but for now, I think it’s time for him to gracefully leave the stage…)
Applaud: to polls that show maybe people ARE paying attention. The Carpetbagger Report rounds up polling on how voters feel about Sen. McCain's advanced age. About time…
Heckle: to same crap, different year. After the appearance of Crocker and Petraues, “President” Bush gave a speech this past Thursday where he claimed the US has made a lot of progress in Iraq but we can't leave yet… unremarkably, its the same speech he made in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 but this time I’m sure things will be different… like he said in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007...
Applaud: to the Senate (did I just type that? Wow, I did) for approving a housing relief bill that will provide tax breaks and credits to home builders and buyers in addition to $150 million for counseling borrowers and another $4 billion for local governments to buy foreclosed properties… naturally, because it helps the little guy, the White House is opposed to the bill… but were it aimed at helping large money corporations, then it wouldn’t be BIG enough…
Heckle: to sad and sobering news. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that a majority of Americans believe that, in the past five years, they “haven’t moved forward in life (25%) or have fallen backwards (31%), marking the most downbeat short-term assessment of personal progress in nearly half a century of polling… (sad and pathetic. The next president, regardless of party, has one helluva job ahead of them…)
Applaud: to delicious apologies. After Ambassador Crocker told Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) that the US was “no longer involved in the physical reconstruction business” in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was forced to apologize to the good Senator for the “confusion” over Iraqi reconstruction money… because the day Crocker said that, Levin received a letter from the Pentagon about “a coming shift of $600 million to pay for Iraqi reconstruction”… oops…
Heckle: to mindless conservatives… Rep. Chris Shays (r-CT) voted for the Iraq invasion and then admitted that he never read the pre-war National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq… years later, and he STILL hasn’t read it, saying; “No, I didn’t, thank you. I did not read it. .. I did not read it. But I could still read it, and I probably should.” (Yes, you probably should. But it probably would have been better had you read it before you voted for the war… I’m just sayin’…)
Applaud: to case closed. A federal investigation has concluded that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site (HAH!) the day before Connecticut’s Aug. 8 Democratic primary. The findings negate the stance of campaign spokesman Dan Gerstein who a few months after the outage said that the campaign had been attacked by supporters of challenger Ned Lamont…
Heckle: to going further down the drain, which is pretty hard to do when you’re as low as Fox “News” already is, but then they add Dr. Laura Schlessinger to their network and, well, further down the pit they go...
Applaud: to the Pentagon (did I just write that? Wow, I did) to stopping another case of republican stupidity. Last week Rep. Patrick McHenry (r-NC) posted a video on his website from his March 22nd trip to Iraq. During the clip he gestures to a “building behind him” and names two other places that had recently been hit by rocket attacks. VoteVets.org sharply criticized McHenry and said that the information in his video could be used by terrorists to “kill Americans in the Green Zone.” The Pentagon agreed and told McHenry that he cannot re-air the video… (Not mentioned in the linked articles were the facts that McHenry was surprised they had electricity and ‘tee-vee’ over there)
Heckle: to immaturity; Congressional style. Earlier this week Jackie Speier was sworn in as Congress’s newest Democratic member from California (she was succeeding the deceased Tom Lantos) and while giving her opening speech she was loudly booed by House conservatives after making mention of Iraq. I always knew conservatives were immature brats, I just didn’t know they were this immature… stay classy fellas
Applaud: to the U.S. House of Representatives for overwhelmingly passing a resolution this week that called on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for "nonviolent" demonstrations. The vote was 413-1... heckle within the applaud to the lone dissenter, Ron Paul, the man that's nuttier than a squirrel's cheeks in October voted against the measure and offered up NO reasons why… like he needs reasons when he’s nuttier than a squirrel’s cheeks in October…
Heckle: to more gloom and doom… A new Wall Street Journal forecasting survey shows that economists, by a 3-to-1 ratio, believe the “economy is in a recession” and it has yet to hit bottom… so we have that to look forward to… which is horrifying. But remember, the administration says we’re not in a recession yet, and that the economy will bounce back as soon as everyone gets their stimulus checks… and if you believe that, then you’re voting for McCain in November and probably shouldn’t be reading this site…
Applaud: to NBC Nightly News correspondent Richard Engel. Not only for NOT drinking the Bush Kool-Aid, but for calling bullshit on the testimony of Crocker and Petraeus, saying that they keep changing the ‘rules of the game’ in Iraq... Then again, that's how this administration works…
Heckle: to even more gloom and doom. A new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that the percentage of workers who said they were very confident about having enough money for retirement dramatically dropped from 27% in 2007 to 18% this year, the largest one-year drop in 18 years. (we at TBWA are really throwing down the sunshine this week ain’t we?)
Applaud: to delicious irony mixed in with a tasty dollup of Karma. Sen. David Vitter (r-LA) may be called to testify on behalf of Deborah Palfrey, AKA, the DC Madam that was “accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution service.” (about time something came of this…)
Heckle: to comments that send a shiver up my spine. After endorsing Gen. Petraues’s “indefinite suspension” of troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer, “President” Bush said; “I’ve told him he’ll have all the time he needs.” (Great… just great…)
Applaud: to saying what everyone who believes in the Constitution already knew… Earlier this week AG Mukasey said that the Fourth Amendment “applies across the board, regardless of whether we’re in wartime or in peacetime”, directly disagreeing with the famous John Yoo memo... (I’m amazed it took this long to decide this…)
Heckle: to news that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone… assuming you’re not a drone who thinks the economy is still basically strong. Americans’ confidence in the economy fell to a new low in the latest RBC Cash Index,, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices. Marking the “fourth month in a row” that has seen confidence fall to an all-time low… but remember, those checks we get will turn it right back around… you’ll see…
Heckle: to turning a blind eye towards suspect business practices. The DOJ has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years, therefore allowing the companies to “avoid(ed) the cost and stigma of defending themselves against criminal charges.” (I’m not surprised either…)
Heckle: to not understanding the message. After “President” Bush and Russian President Putin met for the last Sunday, Bush hailed the conversation as “a significant breakthrough” on the contentious issue of missile defense. But Putin said the results of the conversation “does not provide any breakthrough.” (so once again, Bush looks like an idiot in front of the world… way to go Dubya…)
Heckle: to grossly misplaced accusations. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has been defending himself against claims that it was his management of the U.S. economy that sowed “the seeds of today’s financial crisis.” Personally, I think it’s a mouthpiece of the Bush(whacked) Administration throwing Greenspan under the bus while trying to protect the president and current chairman Bernake…
Heckle: to congressional stupidity on BOTH sides of the aisle. Lawmakers are saying that Attorney General Michael Mukasey has failed to live up to his pre-confirmation promise that there wouldn’t be “any stonewalling” over congressional requests… (wow, who could have seen THAT coming… oh wait, ANYONE with a brain) Turns out, despite “repeated congressional requests, that some key legal opinions and other department documents remain under wraps, prompting Democrats to accuse the Bush administration of trying to run out the clock… (Well duhhhhhh. Are you telling me that our elected officials didn’t think this would happen? Of course the administration is trying to run out the clock… and so far it’s working…)
Heckle: to circumventing the rules. Despite Congress adopting strict ethics rules last year that require members to disclose when they steered federal money to pet projects, lawmakers are still relying on “soft earmarks,” in which they direct “billions of dollars to favored organizations by making vague requests rather than issuing explicit instructions to government agencies in committee reports and spending bills.” (and Congress wonders why their approval ratings suck and thought to be dishonest… perhaps they should look in the mirror and see themselves…)
And this week’s conservative tool of the week is a man who perpetuates hate on a daily basis. On his radio show earlier this week conservative radio host Neal Boortz claimed that he would “make a lousy Mexican” because he doesn’t know how to use a floor buffer. Hearing hatred like that, I don’t think anything else needs to be said… So for the vitriol that IS Neal Boortz, he wins this week’s Tool… of the Week.
NOTE: this is a Cheney GlassesGate-free zone… easily the MOST overblown story of this adminsitration
Applaud: to things from the past that might come back to haunt McCain and hurt his chances at the presidency. From the book The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter, via Raw Story; “Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, “At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c*n*.” McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days. (Wow… we all know McCain has a temper and is likely to pop at any given moment, but to say that to the woman he says he loves, that’s just bad…)
Heckle: to making matters worse. Can someone please tell President Clinton to STFU? After the issue about Bosnia and ‘misspeaking’ had died down, Bill Clinton has to go and bring it all up again and mouthing off about the Bosnia landing and snipers story. (Keep in mind that I voted for him twice – I would have voted for him a third time if we were constitutionally allowed – but now is the time for Mr. Clinton to leave the campaign trail. I’m sure he scares the hell out of Hillary’s campaign whenever he opens his mouth, but he’s also tarnishing his legacy by sounding, more often than not, like a raving lunatic. If she gets the nomination, bring him back… but for now, I think it’s time for him to gracefully leave the stage…)
Applaud: to polls that show maybe people ARE paying attention. The Carpetbagger Report rounds up polling on how voters feel about Sen. McCain's advanced age. About time…
Heckle: to same crap, different year. After the appearance of Crocker and Petraues, “President” Bush gave a speech this past Thursday where he claimed the US has made a lot of progress in Iraq but we can't leave yet… unremarkably, its the same speech he made in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 but this time I’m sure things will be different… like he said in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007...
Applaud: to the Senate (did I just type that? Wow, I did) for approving a housing relief bill that will provide tax breaks and credits to home builders and buyers in addition to $150 million for counseling borrowers and another $4 billion for local governments to buy foreclosed properties… naturally, because it helps the little guy, the White House is opposed to the bill… but were it aimed at helping large money corporations, then it wouldn’t be BIG enough…
Heckle: to sad and sobering news. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that a majority of Americans believe that, in the past five years, they “haven’t moved forward in life (25%) or have fallen backwards (31%), marking the most downbeat short-term assessment of personal progress in nearly half a century of polling… (sad and pathetic. The next president, regardless of party, has one helluva job ahead of them…)
Applaud: to delicious apologies. After Ambassador Crocker told Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) that the US was “no longer involved in the physical reconstruction business” in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was forced to apologize to the good Senator for the “confusion” over Iraqi reconstruction money… because the day Crocker said that, Levin received a letter from the Pentagon about “a coming shift of $600 million to pay for Iraqi reconstruction”… oops…
Heckle: to mindless conservatives… Rep. Chris Shays (r-CT) voted for the Iraq invasion and then admitted that he never read the pre-war National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq… years later, and he STILL hasn’t read it, saying; “No, I didn’t, thank you. I did not read it. .. I did not read it. But I could still read it, and I probably should.” (Yes, you probably should. But it probably would have been better had you read it before you voted for the war… I’m just sayin’…)
Applaud: to case closed. A federal investigation has concluded that Sen. Joe Lieberman’s 2006 re-election campaign was to blame for the crash of its Web site (HAH!) the day before Connecticut’s Aug. 8 Democratic primary. The findings negate the stance of campaign spokesman Dan Gerstein who a few months after the outage said that the campaign had been attacked by supporters of challenger Ned Lamont…
Heckle: to going further down the drain, which is pretty hard to do when you’re as low as Fox “News” already is, but then they add Dr. Laura Schlessinger to their network and, well, further down the pit they go...
Applaud: to the Pentagon (did I just write that? Wow, I did) to stopping another case of republican stupidity. Last week Rep. Patrick McHenry (r-NC) posted a video on his website from his March 22nd trip to Iraq. During the clip he gestures to a “building behind him” and names two other places that had recently been hit by rocket attacks. VoteVets.org sharply criticized McHenry and said that the information in his video could be used by terrorists to “kill Americans in the Green Zone.” The Pentagon agreed and told McHenry that he cannot re-air the video… (Not mentioned in the linked articles were the facts that McHenry was surprised they had electricity and ‘tee-vee’ over there)
Heckle: to immaturity; Congressional style. Earlier this week Jackie Speier was sworn in as Congress’s newest Democratic member from California (she was succeeding the deceased Tom Lantos) and while giving her opening speech she was loudly booed by House conservatives after making mention of Iraq. I always knew conservatives were immature brats, I just didn’t know they were this immature… stay classy fellas
Applaud: to the U.S. House of Representatives for overwhelmingly passing a resolution this week that called on China to end its crackdown on Tibet and release Tibetans imprisoned for "nonviolent" demonstrations. The vote was 413-1... heckle within the applaud to the lone dissenter, Ron Paul, the man that's nuttier than a squirrel's cheeks in October voted against the measure and offered up NO reasons why… like he needs reasons when he’s nuttier than a squirrel’s cheeks in October…
Heckle: to more gloom and doom… A new Wall Street Journal forecasting survey shows that economists, by a 3-to-1 ratio, believe the “economy is in a recession” and it has yet to hit bottom… so we have that to look forward to… which is horrifying. But remember, the administration says we’re not in a recession yet, and that the economy will bounce back as soon as everyone gets their stimulus checks… and if you believe that, then you’re voting for McCain in November and probably shouldn’t be reading this site…
Applaud: to NBC Nightly News correspondent Richard Engel. Not only for NOT drinking the Bush Kool-Aid, but for calling bullshit on the testimony of Crocker and Petraeus, saying that they keep changing the ‘rules of the game’ in Iraq... Then again, that's how this administration works…
Heckle: to even more gloom and doom. A new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that the percentage of workers who said they were very confident about having enough money for retirement dramatically dropped from 27% in 2007 to 18% this year, the largest one-year drop in 18 years. (we at TBWA are really throwing down the sunshine this week ain’t we?)
Applaud: to delicious irony mixed in with a tasty dollup of Karma. Sen. David Vitter (r-LA) may be called to testify on behalf of Deborah Palfrey, AKA, the DC Madam that was “accused of running an upscale Washington prostitution service.” (about time something came of this…)
Heckle: to comments that send a shiver up my spine. After endorsing Gen. Petraues’s “indefinite suspension” of troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer, “President” Bush said; “I’ve told him he’ll have all the time he needs.” (Great… just great…)
Applaud: to saying what everyone who believes in the Constitution already knew… Earlier this week AG Mukasey said that the Fourth Amendment “applies across the board, regardless of whether we’re in wartime or in peacetime”, directly disagreeing with the famous John Yoo memo... (I’m amazed it took this long to decide this…)
Heckle: to news that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone… assuming you’re not a drone who thinks the economy is still basically strong. Americans’ confidence in the economy fell to a new low in the latest RBC Cash Index,, dragged down by worries about mounting job losses, record-high home foreclosures and zooming energy prices. Marking the “fourth month in a row” that has seen confidence fall to an all-time low… but remember, those checks we get will turn it right back around… you’ll see…
Heckle: to turning a blind eye towards suspect business practices. The DOJ has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years, therefore allowing the companies to “avoid(ed) the cost and stigma of defending themselves against criminal charges.” (I’m not surprised either…)
Heckle: to not understanding the message. After “President” Bush and Russian President Putin met for the last Sunday, Bush hailed the conversation as “a significant breakthrough” on the contentious issue of missile defense. But Putin said the results of the conversation “does not provide any breakthrough.” (so once again, Bush looks like an idiot in front of the world… way to go Dubya…)
Heckle: to grossly misplaced accusations. In interviews with the Wall Street Journal, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has been defending himself against claims that it was his management of the U.S. economy that sowed “the seeds of today’s financial crisis.” Personally, I think it’s a mouthpiece of the Bush(whacked) Administration throwing Greenspan under the bus while trying to protect the president and current chairman Bernake…
Heckle: to congressional stupidity on BOTH sides of the aisle. Lawmakers are saying that Attorney General Michael Mukasey has failed to live up to his pre-confirmation promise that there wouldn’t be “any stonewalling” over congressional requests… (wow, who could have seen THAT coming… oh wait, ANYONE with a brain) Turns out, despite “repeated congressional requests, that some key legal opinions and other department documents remain under wraps, prompting Democrats to accuse the Bush administration of trying to run out the clock… (Well duhhhhhh. Are you telling me that our elected officials didn’t think this would happen? Of course the administration is trying to run out the clock… and so far it’s working…)
Heckle: to circumventing the rules. Despite Congress adopting strict ethics rules last year that require members to disclose when they steered federal money to pet projects, lawmakers are still relying on “soft earmarks,” in which they direct “billions of dollars to favored organizations by making vague requests rather than issuing explicit instructions to government agencies in committee reports and spending bills.” (and Congress wonders why their approval ratings suck and thought to be dishonest… perhaps they should look in the mirror and see themselves…)
And this week’s conservative tool of the week is a man who perpetuates hate on a daily basis. On his radio show earlier this week conservative radio host Neal Boortz claimed that he would “make a lousy Mexican” because he doesn’t know how to use a floor buffer. Hearing hatred like that, I don’t think anything else needs to be said… So for the vitriol that IS Neal Boortz, he wins this week’s Tool… of the Week.
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