I love the smell of desperation in the morning...

[WilliamPitt]

You smell that? You smell that?

Scandal, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that.

I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

You know, one time we had an impeachment, for over a year, and when it was all over, I walked up.

They didn't find one of them, not one stinking broken law.

But that smell, you know, that desperation smell...the whole congress.

Smelled like...victory.

Someday this war's gonna end.

[H2O Man]

1. Bob Schieffer was on Imus

this morning. He said that when rats jump ship, they begin fighting witrh one another to try to find a safe place for themselves.

[aquart]

2. I like that man. Schieffer, not Imus.

[babylonsister]

5. I've read many opinions that Schieffer is just a wh toady; he sure

didn't sound like one this a.m.
And I'm heaving a sigh of relief; thank God there wasn't a (D) behind Foley's name. The smell of desperation is lovely, as long as it isn't ours.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I was shocked to hear Ed Rollins last night

Rollins is normally a GOP hack, but he was on with Lou Dobbs last night... I almost tuned out when they said, "and coming up after the break to discuss {the foley situation} is Ed Rollins..."

But, Rollins very calmly & very rationally just killed the Republican leadership in Congress. Basically said that they have no credibility due to their ever changing stories on who knew what and when they knew it. Then said this could very well be the straw that broke the camel's back when you add in Abramoff & other things.

[babylonsister]

14. Thanks for that, as I didn't hear him. Bay Buchanan also

voiced her anger on CNN yesterday; the conservatives are just as appalled as we are, as they should be. :thumbsup:

[NewJeffCT]

23. To close the segment

Lou Dobbs sarcastically said something like "I'm sure Congress will be all over that with reform legislation."

And Rollins said, "yes, they have banned former members from using the gym."

I'm honestly thinking, is this a "body snatchers" type of moment? Was that really Ed Rollins?

[H2O Man]

20. He has close, well-

documented ties to the Bush family. I think that he is an example of a conservative fellow with a good public personality, and I think he is probably pretty similar in his private life. I'd note that the things he said this morning were -- from what I saw -- directed towards the congress. (I didn't see the entire segment, and so I am not aware of his addressing concerns about the White House.)

One of the 12 books I have on order (from a wide range of publishers) is "The Broken Branch," by Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein. I think that the idea of a "broken" congress,including the Senate as well as the House, is what Schieffer was addressing. He said that this congress has done nothing of significance as far as advancing the quality of life for the public. Rather, they have focused on fund-raising for re-election.

We can list a wide range of important issues where the congress has failed us. None more important than the lack of oversight regarding the executive branch. But Schieffer was addressing the very offensive example of republican leaders looking the other way when they were aware that Foley was a sexual predator, using the power of his office to attempt to exploit potentially vulnerable teens. It's sad that the country needs such a repulsive example of the low moral character of the republican leadership in order to catch their attention. Every day, more American youth are killing and being killed in Iraq.

[SmokingJacket]

22. It couldn't have happened with a Dem, because the Republican

leadership wouldn't have covered it up! He'd have been ratted out instantly.

Not to say we haven't had our own scandals at other times, but these days....

[kmla]

3. I thought "Desperation" was Paris Hilton's new faux designer fragrance....

Guess I wasn't payin' much attention...

I'm always the last one to know. *sigh*






Does smell like victory, though, doesn't it?

[NC_Nurse]

4. Yes, the scandals are reaching critical mass.

It feels SO good to watch these pigs implode. Finally!

[Richardo]

7. Foley don't surf!!

Well done, Will. :rofl:

[WilliamPitt]

11. I watched ... a pedophile ... crawl along the edge ... of a straight razor

That's my dream.

That's my nightmare.

To be a pedophile.

Crawling, squirming, along the edge of a straight razor.

[EFerrari]

8. And the topic on Washington Journal this a.m. is

The Mark Foley investigation. :evilgrin:

[Jacobin]

9. Reminds me of the Bob Livingston days

That was so sweet, to have the hypocrisy aired out on the clothesline for all to see

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Yep I have had a grin on my face for a couple mornings now

I just love watching rats scramble when you turn on a light.

[acmavm]

12. What's so damn disgusting is that it is always S-E-X the brings

the house down around them, not dead Americans and Iraqis, lies about wars, stealing the treasury blind, STEALING ELECTIONS, and on and on and on and on.

Nooooooooo. It's aways got to involved somebody's crotch to get their attention. Not saying that this lech shouldn't be punished. Not saying the republican leadership shouldn't be run out of the nation's capital on a rail. Just saying, if it don't involved a penis or a vagina, ho hum.....

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. Buh Buh Buh Buh Buh But It's A Distraction I Tells Ya! Don't Fall For It!

:rofl:

[MoonRiver]

17. This has been one of the strangest arguments in the Foley fiasco.

WHO CARES if it's a distraction, as long as it takes them down!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. Damn Right! I Just Think Some Posters Like Hearing Themselves Talk.

Logic not required.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

21. I just think some posters are not Democrats.

And they'd rather not see us win so they can continue to malign us and talk about how much better off we'd be if the Greens or Socialists took over.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Like I said in 2004 -

. . .you know, when half the country thought it would be a good idea to stay the course with a shitbag that thinks more of the gum on his shoes than their needs, jobs, health or lives . . .




I'll believe it when I see it.

[City Lights]

16. I just watched Russert with Lauer on the Today Show.

They covered all the major points, and I was surprised to hear Matt tie in the $100,000 donation Foley made. :wow: Russert said puke he's been talking to said they are :scared: of this because if the public believes they put pages at risk simply to hold on to power, then they are finished. :evilgrin: The religious conservatives are supposedly in an uproar over this and the $64,000 question is whether they will put control of the House at risk by staying home in November.

[trotsky]

19. Not just any scandal... a SEX scandal.

You and I know that the Bushies have been doing this kind of evil for 6 years, but it has to involve SEX before the American public will tune in. Maybe now with their attention we can expose more people to the overall culture of corruption known as the GOP.