Queen ann's OTHER horse. The one she rode in on.

The OTHER dancing horse. The two-legged one.

One sweet revenge dream - one of those kids is inspired to get into politics as a grown-up

and wins the Presidency someday...

And maybe THIS incident is exactly what makes that happen.

... and short-sighted, and just like their saint reagan. Penny-wise and pound OBSCENELY foolish.

NICE! Sure love that family photo!

We have lots of birdies outside! I leave a cupful of black oil sunflower seeds outside on one of the flagstones, and they go for it like crazy! A squirrel or two, too!

Sometimes when I go outside in the morning, I see a bunch of them perched on the power wires along our street, waiting for me. (Or so it seems.) So cool!

And oh Dear God we can't lose our precious ACCESS!!!!

Well FUCK it!!! If they close you down and won't give you access , then HELL, THAT becomes the story!!!!!!!!!

What on earth were they thinking????? Answer, they were NOT thinking. Just fucking LAZY.

If they had lost access to contradicta or rummy or wolfie or dickie or whoever became a regular on "Meet the Press", there were literally THOUSANDS of other sources, voices, talking heads, experts, activists, researchers, and more - and the entire population of available and informed liberals who were there, eager, willing, and READY - hell, ANXIOUS to testify and speak the truth!!!

But our side was totally shut out. Frozen out. Still seems to be true to some extent. Every time some lazy-ass booker speed dials john mccain to come back on for the 675,842nd time, that's another Dem/liberal/progressive voice that is frozen out once again.

THIS^^^^

I doubt they've learned much of anything. The GOP message machine still leads them around by their lazy unquestioning gullible "give 'em the benefit of the doubt" noses.

I suspect they felt that they were too tough

on Clinton during the whole sordid Monica mess. They woke up to their ridiculous prurient obsession that they sucked straight out of the GOP elephant teat. So they probably figured "well, we'll go easier with the next President."

And so bush/cheney got the easy-breezy "see no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil" treatment. Then they woke up and decided "well, guess we better tighten up and not let the next President get away with anything..." And so they then bore down hard on Barack Obama, AGAIN sucking off the GOP elephant teat.

If, Heaven forbid, we have another CON in the White House next time - watch 'em "get religion" and decide that since they guess they might have been a little too derelict in their bloodthirsty coverage of this President, they guess they better start going a little easier on the next President...

And so it goes. Assuming that, I'm even more ardently hoping the White House stays in friendly hands in 2016. Maybe that idiot news-coverage cycle will work in our favor next time.

Take 'em OUT!!!!

Take 'em out one-by-one! Drain the swamp!

I'd love to see a whole garbage-truckload of these rich CONtributors tied up in court having to exhaust a lot of their wealth on bail, defense attorneys, and attempts at "rehabilitative" PR. They might have that much less money to splurge on buying CON candidates.

Totally!!! Stealing it!!

Too Excellent!!!

Lieabetes!!!! A disease often proving fatal to presidential wannabe makeovers!

That was a LANDMARK film.

Showed you a little bit of how the sausage is made (in the big-city newsroom, that is). I loved it. Also shows you what I found fascinating and really rather validating - the uncertainty when a reporter thinks he/she MAY be onto something but doesn't know what, couldn't guess (or doesn't dare), and isn't sure where to go - to get to where he has no idea he might wind up.

It can be scary when you've reported something and you're the only one who has it, and all the other reputable people don't so you become WAY insecure and jittery about it. Always with the second-guessing. I had a friend who stuck his neck out on key angle to a big local story and hung it on one really good source he'd been developing for some time. It was awhile before the rest of his colleagues started catching up. He told me he was seriously nervous, like he'd never been before, in his life.