Just heard on CNN: pugs to call for DEMS' sworn testimony on Foley!

[Gabi Hayes]

the repellent Kyra Phillips (is that right?) and Andrea Koppel were waxing SO enthusiastic about pug plans to force DEMS to testify under oath WRT the Foley fiasco, and smarming about their great new strategy to stop playing defense on this, and turn the tables on those nasty, conspiratorial dems.

had to be seen to be believed

do they really think this is going to work?

if CNN and the rest of the M$M start pushing this aspect of the story the same way they worked the Swiftboat, I guess anything is possible

sure hope the horse is too far out of the barn, though.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. It will backfire if the Dems go Clinton/Wallass on their asses. nt

[Marr]

45. Exactly- the Democrats can turn this into a GOP-destroying spectacle

if they will simply put on a bit of righteous indignation. Get pissed, and let it SHOW.

[No Exit]

62. If republicans testified, it would be called "The Rectum Monologues"

[joemurphy]

2. Sheesh...what idiots. I guess this will get to the roots of this

"partisan" conspiracy.

[Marnieworld]

50. They think they can still spin their way out of this

I think we may have truly reached the "No SPin Zone!"

:P

[Virginia Dare]

3. Which Dems?

or are they going to haul every single one of them up there? The Democratic member of the page committee has already said she was out of the loop, who else is there to implicate?

[Gabi Hayes]

9. she mentioned Pelosi, among some other leadership names

you should have seen the lipsmacking, pre-orgasmic look on Kyra's face as she heard all this swell dish from Koppel

[ProgressiveEconomist]

25. kick

[radfringe]

4. and what are dems going to say?

"Yeah, I told Denny-boy all about it and he said he would take care of it..."

"first I heard of it was on Friday....same day as Denny...."

"I'm a member of the Democratic Party, the Page program is the Republican's responsibility..."

[lumberjack_jeff]

47. Yes your honor, it's true. This man has no dick.

Apologies to Ghostbusters fans.

[Supersedeas]

5. CNN is in Rove Facs Machine Election Cycle Mode

[MidwestTransplant]

6. Great defense. It's the Dems. fault a predator was caught. We could have

gone on with business as usual if he hadn't been.

That will play well in Peoria.

[Ganja Ninja]

23. Exactly. They should all stand up and claim responsibility.

The GOP is trying to make it sound like it's a bad thing this pervert was outed. They could at least say something like "I didn't know but if I did I damn well would have said something to stop this Republican sexual predator."

[Jack from Charlotte]

28. Yes. If not for truthful Dems we could have continued concealing this deal

nfm

[hijinx87]

yeah, so?

we aren't the child molesters, the rethugs are.

[BOSSHOG]

7. "Conservatives" think it is a novelty for someone to tell the truth

If I am ever again asked to swear to tell the truth I will decline and site the president and the vice president of the United States.

The republican party of the 21st century is the most repugnant group of humanity on the face of the earth.

[Stand and Fight]

8. Then I think it's time for the fucking gloves to come off...

Knock the bloody shit out of the Republicans. They want to fuck around? Then we need to show them that you don't fuck with Democrats. Period.

There is an easy solution to this problem... Simply point out the fact that Mark Foley has admitted to having sent and received these messages. After that Democrats have only to say that the Republicans are smearing them because they have been caught red-handed covering up for a child sex predator. Next point out the fact that Republicans seem to want to have kept the matter hidden from the public, and that we Democrats wish we had known about his actions because we would have put a stop to them YEARS ago. The Republicans seem to want the fiasco of a child sexual predator stalking the halls of Congress to continue...

I guarantee you all that the American people will agree with the Democrats on this. The Republicans really need to just cry mercy. There is no untangling themselves from this.

[hpot]

18. We should use talking points

-Foley is a pedophile.
-Repub congress members like Hastert are pedophile enablers by protecting perverts like Foley.
-Republican pedophiles and enablers are playing the "blame game". Foley wants to blame his whiskey, Hastert wants to blame Democrats, and Repub congress wants to blame Clinton.



Did I mention Republican pedophiles? Republican pedophiles, Republican pedophiles , Republican pedophiles ,Republican pedophiles ,Republican pedophiles .....

[Marr]

51. Oops-mispost

[matcom]

10. glad the Repukes are REALLY concerned about the children

and can rise above politics :eyes:

[KharmaTrain]

11. "We're Gonna Out A Democrat"...

Is this greymail or outright blackmail? Yep...they're gonna try to scare any Democrat who had a relationship with Foley into stopping this. Who are they gonna out? Barney Frank?

As I had thought the other day, the game here is to change the focus from pedophile to gay and see if the Repugnican base will rally around some good old gay bashing...and if they can get Democrats to join in, the more the merrier.

[Gabi Hayes]

15. Clearly the dems should JUMP at the opportunity to get their testimony

ON THE RECORD, then tear the hell out of the pukes for not doing so themselves

unless dems have something to hide on this, they should be deliriously happy about this turn of events

if they do, then any of them who are on the hook deserve to get what the pugs do

that said, is this going to be left up to the media again?

if that's the case, I might begin to worry, cause you know where they stand on this, or any other issue

[KharmaTrain]

32. Homophobia...Their Own Trick

Sounds like someone wants to find out whose Foley's boyfriends are or some other trick. Again, the only way the Repugnicans can get out from under this thing is if they can either find a slimier Democrat or get this to become a Beltway gay witch hunt.

What do you expect from a bunch of thugs who've operated like gangsters? They're still scared of more pages coming forward or more Repugnicans being named.

I'm with you, if there's a Democrat whose acting simmilarly, then let's out him/her...except for one small detail. Democrats didn't start this scandal, we have no subpoena power and it's not one of ours stuck in this mess. But I like them dragging it on as the longer they try to stonewall investigations the bigger a hole they dig themselves.

Cheers...

[Hugin]

16. You mean Barney is gay?!?!?!

Cripes!

Who knew!

[Warren DeMontague]

20. Maybe they're gonna out him as straight? nt

[Marr]

53. I say please do. If there are more pedophiles in Congress, they

should be dealt with- not covered up for political gamesmanship. If I'm not mistaken, that's what their ridiculous "investigation" is supposed to be about anyway, so that threat seems more like an admission of guilt than anything else.

If they're just talking about outing some closeted gay Democrat, well... I thought that was reprehensible, and beside the point. As usual, it's hypocrisy squared.

[KharmaTrain]

54. Call It "Gay By Association"

Yep...the right wing hate radio types have been drawing a direct line of pedophile=gay, thus if someone is found out to be gay and were hiding it, thus they must be a pedophile as well...and if they can find a Democrat they can snare in that hypocritical game, you bet they will...especially if its someone who is high profile and one that no one suspected. It won't mean squat to us, but it will become a 24 hour media circus and all that matters for these goons now is who controls the "news cycle".

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. And if they knew nothing because the GOPers kept it quiet?

[triguy46]

13. Uh, so Foley didn't send the IMs? Its all a trick? nt

[Epiphany4z]

14. now they want to swear somebody in

BIG OIL? no Bush/Chenny? nope....condi? nope....gonzo? no....dems? hell yea!!!!!

[Judi Lynn]

17. Ha, ha, haaaaaa. The Democratic Congressfolks should insist on going

to testify in twos, just like _Bush and Cheney did, so everyone could have the benefit of seeing their "body language." (Remember THAT garbage?)

I think the Republicans probably need someone from the Democratic Party to show them a model of how people look when they are telling THE TRUTH, so they'll have something to shoot for themselves.

Poor, sick bastards.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. All right! Lets get all the testimony, under oath, BEFORE THE ELECTION!

From Both Parties.

I say do it.

[spanone]

21. I saw that story. These folks are truly dangerous criminals.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. Sure lets all go under oath.

While we're at it lets ask any questions we want and include Bush, Cheney, Condi, Rummy & Rove

[Hugin]

24. I've got a few 'oaths' I'd like to share with those people...

:grr:

[warrens]

26. I hope they try this

I'm pretty sure David Dreier and Lindsay Graham and a buttload of other Repukes would be overjoyed to testify under oath. Bring it on, nazis.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. latest turn in the page, as it were:

CNN just ran a quote from the family of the boy who got the emails, not the IMs

they are begging to be left alone

tell that to Julia Hiatt Steele, you poor, ambitious creeps. why did you send your son to Washington in the first place, if you didn't set your sights on this little jugen having a career in the swamp, huh? guess he got his first lesson in what a hellhole that place is a little sooner than he thought

sorry for being cold, but I have little sympathy for them. what are the odds that they're a solid republican family, and that they'd have SCREAMED holy hell if Foley were a dem? wait a minute...according to Fox and AP, he IS!

so it appears that CNN is dripping this out in segments, trying to put the damper on the story, and both things I've seen today were very heavily slanted in favor of the party in power.

[spanone]

29. What happened to Reynolds, have they disappeared him?

He's the one who told Hastert way back.

[BootinUp]

30. What did you know and when did you know it

DEM1: Yes that was the first I heard about the Republican coverup.

[truthisfreedom]

31. the titanic is under water, so naturally they're very enthusiastic when

anything bouyant comes floating by, even this toothpick.

[janx]

33. They are USED to playing offense.

So naturally, they try to position themselves that way. They want to get out of defensive mode at all costs.

The horse is not only out of the barn--it's miles away. Too late.

[samsingh]

34. what do the dems have to do with this?

are they saying that we should be managing their people?

[Gabi Hayes]

36. the two twitettes were bubbling over the possibility that the pugs

were going to be able to continue floating that this story was a cleverly timed outing of Foley, and that the DEMS were the ones who had the emails initially, and held on to them for maximum effect

they were creaming at the prospect of having the pugs once again being able to put the dems on the defensive when it is the pugs who are the ones who have ALL for which to answer

just like everything else that's happened on the pugs' watch, another instance of dems being put on the defensive, with ample M$M assistance is JUST what the doctor ordered for these two little dollie props

[janx]

39. Won't work.

Too late.

[Blackhatjack]

35. Line 'em up --alternate one DEM and one Repub till they all have testified

...Let's get all the Repubs under oath, and get it all out in the open. I suspect that even if there are DEM secrets out there, the Repubs will massively outnumber DEMS in the indiscretions department.

Start with Pelosi and Hastert. MUST SEE TV !!!

[Gabi Hayes]

37. did you hear the press conference with the four reps who are in charge

of this so-called investo?

I didn't hear anything about the timing

like the Senate report on WH use of intel, I'm sure it'll come out sometime in the next decade.....

would be nice if something broke in the next three weeks, though

not holding breath

[Rambis]

40. The pugs haven't reached across the isle in 6 years

how would we have known about Foley they don't tell us anything. Where would the dems have gotten the talking points memo about not talking about Foley?
Total BS

[Gabi Hayes]

43. couldn't agree more. they didn't even tell the one member of the

page board who was a dem

media is only too happy to keep this aspect alive, though

[spanone]

38. Talking about republicans 'going on the offense', questioning

what the democrats knew and when they knew it.

Phillips and Koppel seemed to be cheerleading this on, it was strange.

[Gabi Hayes]

44. not strange in the least....it's what they're PAID to do

they are highly paid republican operatives, in effect

Phillips is especially nauseating

[uppityperson]

41. and This is a threat? "tell us all the bad things we did"!

too funny. Hey Dems! beware! You are going to have to say that either you knew nothing about it, or that the Repubs were taking care of it! OMG! :rofl:

[Rex]

42. Dems have NO POWER, not in the last 6 years!

Unfuckingreal! SO, are they going to blame Iraq on Dems? 911? Katrina? I wonder what world I live on and what country this is.

Yes, blame the party that has ZERO power in all three branches of government. And have the M$M go along with it, just because they love to kick a guy when he's down (from being mugged by Repukes).

Assssssholes.

[Gabi Hayes]

46. you're right, of course, but it's worked pretty damned well so far,

hasn't it?

remember last year, when the M$M very effectively turned the Katrina story around, against Blanco and the NO Mayor?

RW hate radio led the way, and the corpomedia was only too happy to repeat their talking points (what happened to all the buses?)

OK...time for a step back.....getting VERY VERY mad again

but wait! beaking news!

see next post

[Rex]

57. I've been mad for 6 years.

Actually, I think I am more pissed off now then Dec 2000. Far more. I mean it ain't like RW 'pundits' have called Dems terrorists or anything like...oh wait...okay well no actual Republican politician has...oh...hmmm.

Why just look at all the Repukes jumping on the bandwagon and helping Dems fight that evil Mr. Cheney. :sarcasm: They sure did stop the suspension of habeas corpus or fought tooth and nail for a full investigation into 911. Surly they did.

[Marnieworld]

48. Wow! Bring it on.

I can't imagine how this would help them. The repugs have had all of the power it's clear no one told any Dems so how in the world would they have anything to hide?

[Gabi Hayes]

49. BREAKING! Live! Reporter in Lousiana is standing there with a new

story on the Foley fiasco!

Wait a minute. I'm wrong, he's doing the same update I mentioned awhile back, including the EXACT SAME visual onscreen: same quote from the boy's family as they repeated before

that was it. only difference was that it was a different reporter, standing there in the kid's town, I guess, to lend authority to his canned report

not too predictable

[Marr]

52. Foley asked for a spot on a child-focussed committee, and the

Republican leadership gave it to him, even though they knew he was a pedophile.

They fed him children and he gave them another Republican vote.

[Gabi Hayes]

55. Damn! have to give CNN a break here: they have a kid named

Hall who said he's had contacts with Foley, going back to his time as a page in 2004.

he's trying to save the page program, and didn't appear to have any pug spin, in the bit that I saw

he was PISSED about Foley, though, and said that neither he, nor any others he knew, were ever warned about ANY congresscritters

[hsher]

56. Are we suddenly in Central Europe?

I never thought I would see this. Our American government has disintegrated to the kind of knee-jerking, ideological circus you see in Europe between Fascists and Communists. The GOP is acting like the Fascist Party of Italy! There are no Communists to battle here - wtf is their problem? Have they just lost their collective minds? Anyone remember right-wingers calling us "commies" and "pinkos" again starting about 2001-2002? I was jaw-dropped reading that stuff...

As a Socialist, I have to say, if the right keeps coming at the left swinging, and pushing us back into the corner, we're going to inch deeper and deeper left, hit flashpoint, and then something really bad is going to happen. Right-wingers like to scoff about how armed and how bad*ss they are, but when the left becomes Radical Left and fights back, things get ugly on a scale they're never prepared for. Gorilla level ugly. Google "Ipatiev House" and see what you find there.

This Republican "demand for sworn testimony" is grotesque, paranoid and like something out of Gli Politti della Fascistas or something. The Democrats have nothing to do with it, and they should say "this is your problem, pederasts" and turn their backs on it.

Also: the Democratic Party should not allow the Republicans to spin this to the media and the public as "a Dems vs. Republicans issue". They're desperate, and that's their keystone strategy. Remove the keystone and wreck this dam of swamp bilge by keeping this issue firmly what it is: the morality of the American people vs. Republican immorality. Period. Remind the media every chance you get.

www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com
A Daily Show comic

[Gabi Hayes]

59. Socialist? Socialist?

you don't count anymore; you have to be a terrorist.

but, then, you're probably both

aren't you?

nice blog, btw....adding it to my favorites list:

[hsher]

61. Heck YEAH I'm a terr'rist!

"And see, it's my job... to connect the terror.
It's my job to go out and catapult the propaganda.
It's work. It's hard work.
It's hard work doin' my job.
My job is to do hard work.
Your job is t'... t', um... your job is t'be Americans.
And do the terror."


Thanks very much for the favorite! :hug: I'm adding another strip shortly. (So many punchlines coming out of the woodwork, so little time...)

www.yourmorningleibowitz.blogspot.com
Yer Daily... hey, is that that Jon Stewart asshole? He's a terr'rist. A lil... lil midget terr'rist.
Daily Show ain't nothin' but terr'rist propaganda.
Heh heh. Makes me laugh how he talks like me like that.
He makes me sound real funny.

[Akoto]

58. I could be mistaken, but ...

Didn't I read a report in LBN that qutoed ABC News as saying their source was a Republican?

Why would they want Democrats under oath?

Ah well. If they want it, they should get it. The Democrats should go under oath as saying 'We did want Foley brought to justice, and we want the same for any other predator in Congress, party regardless.'

[DisgustedTX]

60. Foley(R): Child f'ing pedophile

Seems simple.

[Poiuyt]

63. Has anyone said anything about Repubs testifying under oath or only Dems?