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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:10 PM Original message |
This is Rove's "Night of the Long Kniives" |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. If Ken Mehlman gets the ax, I might believe you. |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Rove |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I don't think he cares about them personally, or their careers. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Question: is Mehlman "an insider player" or just another hack? |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Isn't bush's shadow government still in place? The one he formed |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Yes. |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Of course Mehlman has his own problems now, too. |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. Agreed. Even if they controlled the voting, why let this out before NOV? |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:10 AM Response to Reply #30 |
39. To keep the focus off the real issues. |
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ItsTheMediaStupid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 09:04 AM Response to Reply #39 |
68. These are the real issues to 25% or more of the population |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
73. We'll agree to disagree. I put nothing past the Repubs, but they'd much |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:07 AM Response to Reply #1 |
63. Isn't Melman another one who lives at home with Mommy? |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. A few days ago, I posted a thread to the same effect. |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. They might even frame a couple of Democrats to make it look 'right' |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:21 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. they've already started in on Barney Frank n/t |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:17 PM Response to Original message |
5. Interesting and plausible |
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Networks, |
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Erika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
6. I still want the fundie organizations to speak up about Foley |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. They wish..... |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. Thank you for your concern. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. When I say "the Democrats", I mean the elected politicians |
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Tellurian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. Excellent analogy.. |
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stopbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:22 PM Response to Original message |
13. Bay Buchanan threw the House leadership under the bus tonite on CNN. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Exactly. This is coordinated, like everything else in the corporarte media |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:46 AM Response to Reply #13 |
54. The enabling act has passed Congress |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
14. That Karl. Is there anything he can't do? |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:28 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I forgot - one more coincidence - this stomps on Woodward's book... |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. If you say so. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. keep whistling past the graveyard |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Sure thing. |
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rubberducky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
15. Can the repubs put just anybody they want to in |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:31 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. How soon we forget Hastert's maneuver in illegally seating Bilbray... |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
19. Also add in Gonzales' pep talk to the judges. |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-01-06 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
28. This thread is a perfect exercise in self-destructive, naive cycnicism. |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:34 AM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Well put. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:11 AM Response to Reply #32 |
40. You got bupkus. Your sound bites add nothing to this discussion. n/t |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:36 AM Response to Reply #40 |
46. Excuse me, I was thanking Jim Sagle. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:48 AM Response to Reply #46 |
56. I responded at length to Mr. Sable's intelligent comments... |
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tuvor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:52 AM Response to Reply #56 |
60. And yet you continue to respond to all of my posts. |
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Tellurian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 04:40 AM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Not Over Yet.. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:06 AM Response to Reply #28 |
38. Last I looked, the GOP had an absolute lock on the media... |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:02 PM Response to Reply #38 |
74. There IS a lock on the media. But it may not be the GOP that controls it. |
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Pacifist Patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:41 AM Response to Reply #28 |
51. Thank you |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
29. aha. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
31. You forget something |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:32 AM Response to Reply #31 |
45. I respect your opinion, but I think both are indispensible until... |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:01 AM Response to Reply #45 |
62. It's been that way for decades -- perhaps throughout American history |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
33. Strange that you say long knives |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:13 AM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Nice satire. Hope you don't believe it. n/t |
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LeftCoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:24 AM Response to Original message |
34. That would be like a bank robber shooting himself to distract attention |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:15 AM Response to Reply #34 |
43. More like the robber tossing some accomplices out of the getaway car... |
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MattP (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
35. Rove |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 05:46 AM Response to Reply #35 |
37. This story will fade as all the other scandals have done. |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:13 AM Response to Original message |
42. Rove, shmove. He's not behind this; you give him too much credit. |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:28 AM Response to Reply #42 |
44. At best, he is reacting instead of initiating... |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
47. I really wonder if blacks, hispanics and gays who are Republican are |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:41 AM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Careful, the nasty ones (GOPers) are the ones still in the closet. |
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The Backlash Cometh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:46 AM Response to Reply #50 |
53. Maybe you can say that about Republicans in general? |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:50 AM Response to Reply #53 |
58. That would be the ones who sell their souls for money and power... |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
48. Noo. Don't think so as |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:40 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. and furthermore this is a little close to election time for this |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:47 AM Response to Reply #49 |
55. How many fundie ministers have been caught w their pants down and... |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:49 AM Response to Reply #55 |
57. True that... |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:44 AM Response to Reply #48 |
52. To the true believers and the corporate media, Bush is untouchable |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:53 AM Response to Reply #52 |
61. I think that children are involved in this one |
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lostnfound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:59 AM Response to Reply #61 |
67. Is there any evidence or indications that.. |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 12:40 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. Not yet - but the level of sexual pressure in the IM |
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arendt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
59. LATE FOR WORK... BACK THIS EVENING n/t |
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rosesaylavee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:21 AM Response to Reply #59 |
65. Me too... |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
64. It's spooky |
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The Count (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
66. Shouldn't Rove commit harakiri by this rule? |
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Pale Blue Dot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
69. And once again... for the umpteenth time |
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Beetwasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
70. Yes! Rove Is A GOD AMONG MEN!! There Is NOTHING That is NOT a Rovian Plot! |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
72. Unless some other angle comes out of this story, this was uniformly |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
75. I hope you are wrong but nothing is beyond this bunch. |
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beaconess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
76. Bulldinky - you're giving Rove way too much credit |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-02-06 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
77. Even Rove is still out on Foley mess - too many players involved |
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lisainmilo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-03-06 01:05 AM Response to Original message |
78. Wiki-pedia says Roves father is a homosexual or was |
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