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Bump in the road.

By Nico Pitney on Nov 9th, 2006 at 7:39 pm

Bump in the road.

The L.A. Times notes that prominent right-wing activist Grover Norquist views the 2006 election “as a bump on an otherwise smooth road to continued conservative dominance.”



115 Responses to “Bump in the road.”

  1. Tread says:

    I’d like to give ol’ Grover a bump on the head… with a sledgehammer.


  2. Wordsmith says:

    I wonder if ole’ Grover will think when he’s looking the bars on his jail cell.


  3. Mongo says:

    It’s called “whistling past the graveyard.”


  4. bobcat_grad says:

    Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure…..

    And up is down, left is right, and Bush is always correct.


  5. College Progressive says:

    I hope these guys continue to divorce themselves from reality; it’ll make it all the more easier to win in ‘08 and beyond.


  6. Jeff says:

    I agree with him. The Israel first/America second DLC Democrats are hunkering down and it will destroy the Democratic party hold on power again soon enough.


  7. TheToonGuy says:


    I agree with him. The Israel first/America second DLC Democrats are hunkering down and it will destroy the Democratic party hold on power again soon enough.

    Comment by Jeff

    Talk about being divorced from reality…


  8. Kevin says:

    I notice TP not reporting what Rangel said.

    “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.

    Nice.


  9. Dog_named_Boo says:

    This was about the Republican Party not behaving like Republicans,” Lessner said. “And the voters gave the party a timeout and said, ‘Go stand in the corner.’ “

    Acting LIKE?

    Ya think BEING the ‘Culture of Corruption’ may have had something to do with NOT BEING Conservatives?


  10. wallaby says:

    Divorced from reality? Isn’t he the guy who promotes the FAIRTax?

    It is very fair on those who make a few million or more a year.


  11. Dog_named_Boo says:

    “Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi?” Mr. Rangel said.

    Nice.

    Comment by Kevin

    I think he’s talking about the failure of Bush and Katrina.


  12. tom baker says:

    We should take that as a serious challenge – DeLay agrees with him.


  13. pgw says:

    sure grover. by the way, thanks for using that ‘taxpayers’ bill of rights’ to make colorado a blue state.


  14. Jeff says:

    Hoyer, the AIPAC DLC Dem Jew? Speaker for the people???


  15. Steve-O says:

    where, my friends, are the trolls? These comments aren’t the same without them.


  16. Jeff says:

    I’m a troll. The next speaker better be a Christian.


  17. Dog_named_Boo says:

    “What he’s [Norquist] managed to do is to chain the ideological conservatives together with the business guys [Lobbyists], who have money, and to put that money to work in the service of the [neo crazy] conservative [cough] movement,” says Roger Hickey

    Thats what Delay and Scanlon were doing, telling the Conservative wackos [their word not mine] anything they wanted to hear so they could slip complex legislation under the nose of the fundamental Conservatives!!!


  18. Republicans are the fear and smear party says:

    “It’s a bump in the road….a number….a comma, if you will.”


  19. tom baker says:

    I’d live in Mississippi – if they’d get rid of all the hateful, ignorant rednecks like Kev.


  20. dlet says:

    So now there is already talk about the restructuring of the Repub leadership. Mehlman may be going and replaced by Steele.

    They are changing from a gay man to a black man in their leadership. Neither one of these groups are welcomed in their folds unless they are willing to be paraded around and used for show. But I guess as long as you are paid well screw the others. After all these are the people from the “me” Reagen generation. Party before country…..self before others. Horrible way to lead.


  21. Jeff says:

  22. tom baker says:

    the goal should be to reduce norquist to a size at which he could fit in a bathtub – sure as hell couldn’t now…


  23. OxyCon says:

    Have you noticed that the same right wing gasbags that have said that there is no room in the Democratic party for Zell Miller and Joe Loserman because they are too conservative, are the same people who are now saying the Democrats won because they ran more conservative candidates?


  24. dlet says:

    Only one question to the trolls out there reading….so how did that Kerry slip up help you guys out? hahahaha Oh. That is probably the best thing. They had to hang all their hopes on a botched joke to cover for all the misdeeds and corruption that the Repubs are known for. They hung onto it so tightly and yet it slipped through their fingers like a puff of wind.


  25. Randy says:

    #16

    We are laying low, planning our strategy for 2008, just like you guys did after ‘04. Except, we are going to play fair and win the battle with actual ideas and have an agenda. Its easy to win after the number of scandals you guys pulled off in the last years. What are you going to do for an encore now that all of the bad guys are gone?


  26. SpudgeBoy says:

    Except, we are going to play fair and win the battle with actual ideas and have an agenda.

    Comment by Randy — November 9, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

    If you did that, you wouldn’t have any problem winning. Many of us are not die hard party loyalists like you are. If we see a party that has a good plan with no corruption, we will go there.

    Good luck. Let’s see how long you can go without attacking the people on this board. That’ll be a good test.


  27. ckerst says:

    These guys aren’t very bright. All the latest polls show 60% of the country doesn’t trust the republikins.


  28. Gregor Samsa says:

    Its easy to win after the number of scandals you guys pulled off in the last years.
    Comment by Randy — November 9, 2006 @ 8:52 pm

    What!? The Republicans’ personal hygiene problems are now someone else’s fault?

    Cunningham, Foley, Delay, Abramoff, Ney, Scanlon, Safavian, Libby, etc. only have themselves to blame for the own lack of ethics.

    I can’t believe you are trying to pin them on your opponents.


  29. ChuckLA says:

    Okay, okay, okay……

    Here is how I see the next few years playing out…….

    Now that Dems have some power again and actually have an agenda with the goal of making the world a better place for people other than oil millionaires……

    Shithead conservatives will find every little useless reason to bitch about how bad the Democrats are without one thing of substance to complain about.

    As long as we are moving in the right direction on real issues let the pomeranians yip at our heals all the want!!

    That includes you Grover boy…


  30. Zooey says:

    Is a “bump in the road’ sort of like a “comma?”


  31. carsick says:

    Who’s misunderestimating now?


  32. james k. sayre says:

    On a related note, On Fox News, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said the party’s vaunted turnout operation works only “in the very close races.”

    Reported on 11 9 06.

    Funny, their electronic vote rigging and election rigging seems to work under the same conditions…

    Unless we dump all electronic computerized voting machines before the 2008 elections, and replace them with the traditional hand-counted paper ballots, the GOP may electronically steal the 2008 Presidential Election, a la 2004…
    Cheers.


  33. Armando Gomez says:

    Here I wrote my last letter to the editorial dept of the Press Democrat newspaper. It should add something to the confusing state of mind of Grover Norquist. Like President Bush, Norquist is a die hard neoconservative, cold as ice and stupid to the bone. He knows that the neoconservatives are dying on the vine at the Beltway but like Bush he’ll try to convince you they aren’t fazed by the election. But that’s OK ‘cause in one of the oversights the Democratic Congress will pass he’ll be named and while he’s going to jail, he’ll still be shouting that he’ll be coming up like rose, like that other nutcase, Tom Delay. Now my last editorial:

    Heckuva Job, America

    November 8, 2006

    The front page article “POWER SHIFT: Shake-up in Congress” reveal a President Bush snapping to attention for the first time in six years. President Bush made his call weeks earlier that he wasn’t going to divert an inch and will “stay the course” come hell or high water. Americans called his bluff this November elections and the president folded. A new dawn rose today, casting aside the gloomy overcast that had over shadowed the future potential for this country. Ding dong the wicked Party’s down. Now a more conciliatory president and Republican Party are ready to meet the Democrats halfway. As far as President Bush is concern that’s a whole lot: the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, as peace offering. What’s more, President Bush is now in the mood to give the “Emissary to al-Qaeda,” Nancy Pelosi, all the consideration as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. Yes, this is a great day. So great that sending my emails, that voice in the wilderness, to your editorial department will no longer be required. This will be my last political email. Au Revoir.

    And to Grover Norquist and his soon-to-be bunkmate Tom DeLay in some federal pen: Au Revoir.


  34. Reich Wingers NightMare says:

    Dearest Grover Norquist,

    Please do keep shooting your mouth off. It will make locating you all that much easier when the subpoenas are handed down.

    And you can take THAT to the bank dear child.


  35. Isis says:

    “bump in the road” Norquest?? I’d call it a “the end of the road” myself.


  36. Reich Wingers NightMare says:

    I should add, dearest Grover, that if your nice we’ll let you share your cell with Bob “Texas Swiftboat” Perry. I’m sure you two would get along quite nicely.

    TTFN Little Grover…


  37. Isis says:

    Guess Grover’s hoping against hope that’s what it is … merely a bump in the road….it looks like a gaping ravine to me.


  38. ForTruth says:

    Melman to step down at end of year. Heh


  39. Jeff says:

    Rep. McCollum’s response to this smear has been exemplary – and indicative of a growing backlash against the Lobby. Her letter to AIPAC takes them out to the woodshed and gives them such a thrashing that the sound of it is reverberating throughout Washington. Averring that “During my nineteen years serving in elected office, including the past five years as a Member of Congress, never has my name and reputation been maligned or smeared as it was last week by a representative of AIPAC,” McCollum goes on to say in a letter to AIPAC President Howard Kohr that “until I receive a formal, written apology from your organization I must inform you that AIPAC representatives are not welcome in my offices or for meetings with my staff.”


  40. kat says:

    Did Grover make that statement from his jail cell??


  41. james risser says:

    grover norquist? huh…i thought he was in prison already…


  42. Zooey says:

    j,

    A lot of people ought to be in prison…it’s a goal.


  43. Josh P. says:

    Where’s the thread about Ken Mehlman stepping down at the end of the year? HAHahaha Gotta get those ‘gays’ out of the party for 2008 so they can go back to gay-bashing.


  44. Zooey says:

    Ok, I’m going to be upfront about this and tell everyone I intend to hijack this thread, because Grover Norquist simply isn’t that interesting.

    This election was a very important one all over this country. I’m interested to know what the voter turnout was for your county or state.

    My county turnout was 53.4% — which is shockingly low to me, but it seemed to please a lot of people.


  45. Zooey says:

    Oy.

    **crickets chirping**


  46. Zooey says:

    *talking to self*

    It’s either me or Norquist….

    Must be Norquist.


  47. Zooey says:

    *still talking to self*

    I’m definitely cuter than Norquist.

    Damn, everyone is cuter than Norquist…


  48. Zooey says:

    FINE!! Just….fine!

    **runs sobbing from the room**


  49. Wayne says:

    My county turnout was 53.4%
    –Zooey

    Saw a mention on one of the networks of 60-63%
    In a Democracy it should 100%, and would have been higher if not for all the Voter suppression going on. Racist bull as well. Suppressing minority votes.

    That stuff HAS TO STOP


  50. Wayne says:

  51. Zooey says:

    Oh Wayne, thank goodness! I thought I’d be talking to myself all night — here, too. :)


  52. Dog_named_Boo says:

    Guess Grover’s hoping against hope that’s what it is … merely a bump in the road….it looks like a gaping ravine to me.

    Comment by Isis

    Now, I wonder what in the bahjeebus is Manne Coulter doing lying face down across the freekin road.


  53. Wayne says:

    Just got off work, watching news and browsing my usual nightly reading =)


  54. Dog_named_Boo says:

    I have pimples on my behind that were more interesting than Grubby Whoretits


  55. QUALAR says:

    What will he call it when he goes to prison after the Abramoff scandal is completed? Crooked bastard.


  56. Zooey says:

    Wayne,

    It just shouldn’t be this hard to hijack a Grover Norquist thread. *sigh*


  57. Dog_named_Boo says:

    What will he call it when he goes to prison after the Abramoff scandal is completed?

    Getting his salad tossed!!


  58. Wayne says:

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Calling the political climate “too hot,” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Thursday a Democratically controlled Congress provides an “opportunity” for bipartisanship action that has long been absent in Washington.

    “The partisan temperature has gotten too hot here in Washington over a period of time and we do have an opportunity to return to a prior period where you still had big, vigorous disagreements, but at the end of the day you could still acknowledge that the people with whom you’re disagreeing are respectable, likable, good people,” Snow told reporters during the White House daily briefing.

    Yeah, it was hot Republicans have been calling anyone with a differing opinion “terrorist sympathisers”. People have been fired for there political affiliation, in NON Government and Government jobs.

    The list goes on and on and on and on…….

    The Republicans started the fire that made it hot.


  59. Wayne says:

    “It just shouldn’t be this hard to hijack a Grover Norquist thread. *sigh*” —-Zooey

    Seem to have made a good start of it /grin


  60. Paul in LA says:

    “Anything less than putting snipers on the roofs of Washington, D.C. would be an under-reaction by the liberals.” — Grover Norquist, traitor, 2004

    • Debra Bowen, new SecState of California will be BLOWING THE EVOTING BS NORQUIST COUNTS ON to smithereens. Have a nice day!

    • John Conyers, new Chair of the House Intelligence Committee will be overseeing the exposure of Norquist et al. NeoCon-man lies, conspiracy, and warcrimes. Looking at Norquist, I’d say he wears the XXXL orange jumpsuit. Would he like matching cuffs?

    • Henry Waxman, new Chair of the Government Reform Committee will be overseeing the incarceration of a great number of Norquist’s pals.

    And then, there’s Norquist’s Abramov involvement — up to his neck. Adios, Grover. You and your Young Rapepublicans are going into the slammer real real soon.


  61. Dog_named_Boo says:

    Saw a mention on one of the networks of 60-63%
    In a Democracy it should 100%, and would have been higher if not for all the Voter suppression going on. Racist bull as well. Suppressing minority votes.

    That stuff HAS TO STOP

    Comment by Wayne

    I think Saddam is the only person that has got 100% of the votein a long time, maybe george should fire Karl and hire Saddam.


  62. Marie says:

    De-emphasize – that’s the new watchword for Repugs.
    Iraq = a comma
    Deaths = minute
    Dead soldiers = just a number
    Political disaster = bump
    George Bush = turd


  63. Wayne says:

    #63

    That was percentage of the people that actually voted, Boo.
    hehe
    Estimated


  64. Paul in LA says:

    “We are laying low, planning our strategy for 2008″ –by Randy

    The ONLY way the Republican party could regain its former place in the nation’s hearts (ugh) would be to IMMEDIATELY CALL FOR THE IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH, CHENEY, and whatever major Rapepublican facilitators remain in the Congress.

    Get on it.

    Otherwise, prepare to be known as the Party that published Arabic plans for nuclear weapon manufacture on the ‘Internets’ for six months.

    You guys are going to LOVE the indictments coming out of the committees next year.


  65. Dog_named_Boo says:

    “The partisan temperature has gotten too hot here in Washington over a period of time and we do have an opportunity to return to a prior period where you still had big, vigorous disagreements, but at the end of the day you could still acknowledge that the people with whom you’re disagreeing are respectable, likable, good people,” Snow told reporters during the White House daily briefing.

    George was for being a Divider before he was for being a Uniter


  66. Zooey says:

    Seem to have made a good start of it /grin
    Comment by Wayne

    It was a good try. :)


  67. Dog_named_Boo says:

    That was percentage of the people that actually voted, Boo.
    hehe
    Estimated

    Comment by Wayne

    I used Kenny Boy accounting!!


  68. Dog_named_Boo says:

    “We are laying low, planning our strategy for 2008″ –by Randy

    How low do you have to be to crawl under a rock?


  69. Wayne says:

    “We are laying low, planning our strategy for 2008″ –by Randy

    If the Repugs get much lower, they will be campaining from China.
    You guys invented LOW.


  70. Juan C says:

    “as a bump on an otherwise smooth road to continued conservative dominance.”

    said the Klingon ambassador.


  71. Juan C says:

    What are you going to do for an encore now that all of the bad guys are gone?
    Comment by Randy

    Try them like Saddam.


  72. Think says:

    9/11 was an inside job.


  73. Krazny says:

    Norquist is a turd. He isn’t worth the typing to discuss him. Now the Britney Spears divorce…


  74. Zooey says:

    Now the Britney Spears divorce…
    Comment by Krazny

    Say it ain’t true! Not those two kooky kids…


  75. Krazny says:

    One would think, if you were a gigantor pop princess, and made the very level headed decision to marry one of your fine and upstanding back-up dancers, who then used your noteriety to forward his rather meager talent, that there would be no problems.

    Sadly it doesn’t appear to be the case.


  76. GSD says:

    The bump in the road was the carcass of the Republican Party. They lost the Reagan Democrats who returned home, they lost Blacks, Latinos, Jews, gays, soccer moms and single moms.

    Keep smoking the rightwing crack, we’ll be winning lots of elections that way.

    Besides, small government Norquist has made a living suck from the tit of big government for the last 20 years.

    -GSD


  77. Zooey says:

    Sadly it doesn’t appear to be the case.
    Comment by Krazny

    Marriage should be protected from people like that.


  78. stonehinge says:

    It might be better to take this as an opportunity to segue into some serious resistance against the Gates appointment. This Gates is one hell-spawn SOB.

    As a protégé of the infamous William Casey, and as both deputy director and director of the CIA, it goes without saying that Robert Gates was involved in every geopolitical crime and cover-up of the Reagan-Bush and George H.W. Bush era.

    The encyclopedic list includes Iran-Contra, CIA narcotics trafficking, criminal covert operations, the infamous October Surprise, and the Bank of Credit and Commerce (BCCI) scandal.

    More at Global Research


  79. Dee says:

    Grover should give a hand rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic so Bush can keep her afloat.


  80. Wayne says:

    Gates is real close to almost all the PNAC members. And was neck deep in Iran/contra and all the other Raygun scandals.

    JUst what we need, ***groan**

    I hope they block him.
    And air all that dirty laundry


  81. Wayne says:

  82. Wayne says:

    Marriage should be protected from people like that. —- Zooey

    I refuse to talk about Miss Britney “We should just trust President Bush”,the Bubblehead Spears

    Oh, darnit, I just did……..


  83. RUCerious says:

    Grover, are you related to the cop in Naked Gun?


  84. RUCerious says:

    #83 – There will be an AMPLE confirmation hearing to lay out all the dirt on the dude. I hear they’ve contracted 15 dump trucks…


  85. Wayne says:

    I hear they’ve contracted 15 dump trucks…
    Comment by RUCerious

    I want to see that.


  86. Juan C says:

    As a protégé of the infamous William Casey, and as both deputy director and director of the CIA, it goes without saying that Robert Gates was involved in every geopolitical crime and cover-up of the Reagan-Bush and George H.W. Bush era.
    Comment by stonehinge

    So, you are trying to tell me that a CIA director can be capable of such horrendous things? I would never have believed it. CIA = biggest terrorist organization ever.


  87. Dog_named_Boo says:

    “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years,” he says, “to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
    -Groper Whorekiss

    Groper Whorekiss was for small government before he was for big brother government


  88. Juan C says:

    Marriage should be protected from people like that.
    Comment by Zooey

    No, Zoo. They are entitled to suffer as anyone else. :)


  89. Wayne says:

    No, Zoo. They are entitled to suffer as anyone else. :)
    Comment by Juan C

    HAHAHAHAHA

    “My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years,” he says, “to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.”
    -Groper Whorekiss

    More like bleed it to death with a “slash of a thousand cuts”


  90. Wayne says:

    When you really think about it, Grover Norquist has been on a quest to “Drown in the bath tub” the Government. Which by that “peice of paper” the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is supposed to be of “We The People”.

    I would say that sounds alot like treason, to me.
    Working to undermine Our Government.


  91. german_in_switzerland says:

    If a bump in the road is big enough, the wheels come off your ride!

    Happened!

    ROTFLMAO


  92. Paul in LA says:

    Wayne, Norquist is a living ‘Aid and Comfort’ station for our enemies.

    Let’s have Norquist help put the MAX back in the word ‘Supermax.’


  93. Jericho says:

    Exactly what have conservatives managed to conserve the last years? Their integrity? No. Their innocence? No. Their democratic support? No. Their political dominance? No. Their reason? No. OUR country? No. OUR values? No. OUR treasury? No. OUR budget surplus? No. OUR civil rights? No. Well then, what have they conserved? OUR xenofobia? Yes! OUR political apathy? Yes! OUR confusion over who was behind 9/11? Yes! OUR poverty rate? Yes! OUR abuse of natural resources? Yes! OUR abuse of cheap third world workers? Yes! The total lack of international justice and rule of law? Yes! Thank God for Conservatives….not.


  94. koalablue says:

    Real Heck of a job American Voters
    Bout time GWB got a good kick in the nuts


  95. stonehinge says:

    Jericho, you are absolutely correct. The problem here is that the Republicans co-opted the conservative word to cover a program that was massively radical. This was first done during the Reagan Administration when stupendously radical measures were first taken under the name of conservatism. Traditional American institutions were ripped to pieces to provide financial opportunities for the rich and powerful. The truth of the matter is that the kinds of ideas put forward by those of us who call ourselves Progressive are much closer to genuine conservatism than anything the Republican groups have put forward since Vietnam. We are the ones who wish to hold-up traditional American values, not the Neo-Cons that have taken control of the Republican party. And this holds true for the Dominionist Evangelicals as well. There is nothing even remotely traditional in their practice of religion-based politics, that’s for sure.


  96. John Bolton says:

    After Grover’s “K” street project, the House and Senate investigating committees are gonna be drawing straws to see who indicts him first.


  97. Democrat Rising says:

    I’m really looking forward to 2008 and 2010 when we can clean out whats left of the Republican Corporatist/Monopolist Oil and War Profiteer party. In the meantime, our legistlative body needs to enforce Sherman anti-trust legislation and reenact the Fairness Doctorine so big defense contractors like GE don’t have total control of our mainstream media. Its time to put control of the news back in the hands of the American people, and out of the hands of the Rupert Murdoch’s and the Rush Limbaughs!


  98. beltman713 says:

    If Democrats can make some positive things happen that effect regular people’s lives, over the next 2 years, the republicans can kiss regaining control of congress bye bye.


  99. Heynow says:

    More “pig lipstick”


  100. Karim says:

    Norquist is a nonissue. What are we even worried about what this fool has to say?


  101. Lee says:

    Denial is not just a river in Egypt!


  102. nostrafarious says:

    Don’t underestimate the Repugs. Norquist is giving us a warning and some insight. Don’t dismiss it. This is a very dangerous time and Bush could if he wants create a situation where he has an excuse to declare martial law and that would be that. Also I’m by no means convinced that the Dems will do what they should do. Already we’re seeing them roll over on Leiberturd and impeaching Bush. Not good signs at all.


  103. Lee says:

    “This is a very dangerous time and Bush could if he wants create a situation where he has an excuse to declare martial law and that would be that.”

    If Bush dared to go that far (i.e., Rove suggest it to him, and Chimpy listens faithfully), I’m convinced Congress would establish a vote to impeach and remove him from office. If Cheney then took over (now that is a scary thought), he would undoubtedly tried to pursue the same goal. He would have to be impeached and removed from office as well. After that: Guess who becomes president? !!!!


  104. Anais says:

    The delusion continues, though some GOPers have gotten the message because they will be out of jobs come Dec. 31.


  105. EconAtheist says:

    I’m afraid that you are incorrect, CookieMonster Norquist.


  106. nostrafarious says:

    Remember, Bush has given himself total control through the war powers. Congress would be irrelevant if he wanted to go that far. All it would take is another orchestrated “terrorist attack” on American soil. In the event of martial law, Congress would not have the ability to impeach him or do anything else. Don’t think for a minute that the office of Total Information Awareness (no longer named that) has been idle. I venture to guess there is a file 10 feet high on every polititian out there that contains more than enough to blackmail them.


  107. Lee says:

    “Bush has given himself total control through the war powers. Congress would be irrelevant if he wanted to go that far.”

    Wow, dictatorship in our time! Imagine how popular he would be if he enacted that power! I would go on about how this so-called “war on terror” is nothing more than a smokescreen, but out of respect for the troops, I’ll stop here.


  108. DallasNE says:

    One of the big losers in the election was main stream media and they still don’t get it, witness this coming Sunday’s guest list for Meet The Press. The voters finally saw through the bullshit. Obviously Norquist thinks MSM will be slow learners and that the American people will again line up as sheeple.

    Compare and contrast the attention given to Kerry when he botched a joke by omitting the word “us” with the attention given to Bush when he make the following statement.

    “Fool me once, shame on…shame on you? Uh…fool me can’t get fooled again!”

    Bloggers jumped all over the Bush statement but MSM gave it play as Bush being a common man who sometimes messes up what he says, a double standard for sure. Those days are mostly behind us now as are people like Grover Norquist.


  109. Solitaire says:

    Grover Norquist? Isn’t he the fella who conspired with Abramoff to funnel church funds into political campaigns and rip off the Indian Tribes? Isn’t he in jail yet with his buddy? Well, well well. It would seem that the “bump in the road” will be more like the pits of hell for these christofascist thugs. May they suffer as traitors to the Constitution and the United States of America. Their coup has failed. They should be swinging from a tree somewhere rather than claiming they will try to overthrow this country’s government again.


  110. Mitiori says:

    Someone tell Tony Snow we’re not smoking the same stuff he is.


  111. WestCoast says:

    I know this is not the rite forum for my question…but i was wonderin where’s Condi Rice? I havent heard any news about her lately…


  112. Lora says:

    I remember Norquist saying on CNN right after the 2004 elections that the Democrats “are toast.” He was followed by Barbara Boxer, who had just won re-election by the highest amount of votes of any Senator in the US and wisely pointed out that although the Democrats had lost some seats, their Senate candidates across the country had actually garnered more votes in total (because they won in the more in the more populous states) than the Republicans.
    In any case, why does anyone still pay attention to people like Norquist and Delay? They are both toast as well as criminals.


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