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He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.
Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.
This fight is for everything.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
Petty moves from a petty man.
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.
Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
When we show up, we win.
Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.
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cathyx
He just looks creepy too.
Suffern ACE
Yep. Yet no one who matters wants to get rid of him either.
Litlebritdifrnt
All I needed to hear today was Rush Limbaugh saying “even the liberal Lanny Davis said” and I was done.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I guess the appearance of “@corybooker”: was inevitable
I don’t for a moment think Cory LieBOOKERman (really, just trying to get past the filter) is finished in politics, but it would be sweet if Lanny Davis’s brand were forever tarnished. Poor lamb will have to get by with the millions to be made whoring for Wall St, multinationals and corrupt feign gov’ts.
Suffern ACE
@Litlebritdifrnt: I blame Clinton for that. Davis, Carville, Penn, Morris, Schoen. Those are his liberals. He owns them.
Chris
Everyone wants to “get back to the issues,” but no one seems to want to admit that the main “issue” with our system is the fact that it’s full of psychos tearing it apart one piece at a time.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Lanny is still bitter, he looks like he just sucked a lemon. Being a loser can do that to a person. It couldn’t have anything to do with his not getting some posh post under a Clinton administration, could it?
gaz
The third wayers can and should get fucked. with a broken bottle.
That includes bill clinton, lanny davis, and all the usual suspects. They set liberalism in this country back by at least 30 years.
Fucking neo-liberal apologists and fuckwads, the lot of them. I won’t begrudge the few things that some of them have accomplished (like some of Bill Clinton’s accomplishments) but I won’t ignore the fact that the bad shit (like neo-liberal economic policy, warmongering, and crap like NAFTA) outweighs it by a vast margin.
Hill Dweller
Lanny, the MSM and the Republicans are whining because the Obama attacks are working. Dismantle the notion that business experience makes one qualified to be President, and Willard has nothing but his time as governor, which he is loath to discuss.
I suspect Obama will keep the attacks coming, and tell the apologists(including his own party) to eat shit.
cathyx
I don’t even like the name Lanny.
Villago Delenda Est
@Suffern ACE:
Clinton was not a liberal. He was the best Rethuglican Preznit since Eisenhower.
EriktheRed
@Hill Dweller:
Problem is, the Obama campaign doesn’t seem to want to go there, either. Supposedly something to do with not wanting to give anyone the impression that R-money would be oh-so moderate.
Personally, I think they oughtta just dive right into it. Any perceived “moderation” would likely be outweighed by how sorry his one term as Guv was.
Lojasmo
@Villago Delenda Est:
Neoliberal writ large. Fuck bill Clinton.
Peter
Lanny married money, now he won’t go away
I might go so far as to say that I
I still hate Lanny
I still hate Lanny
I still hate Lanny anyway…
jrg
No one likes a whore, either. Until you have to pay to get your rocks off.
Marc McKenzie
@Hill Dweller:
“Dismantle the notion that business experience makes one qualified to be President…” that notion should have been buried after the Bush II fiasco, but since the MSM was more interested in calling Gore a liar, Bush’s horrific business years never came up (or were a brief burp).
slag
Haha! So true. Beyond which, if you don’t get the joke, either you’ve never heard of Lanny Davis or you are Lanny Davis.
Hill Dweller
@EriktheRed: Ezra Klein was pushing that theory this week, but I’m not buying it.
During his NATO press conference last Monday, Obama pointed out Romney is running from his record as governor. Axelrod and Cutter consistently hit Romney for his jobs record in Massachusetts.
They’re concentrating on Willard’s business experience now because that purportedly makes him uniquely qualified to be President. But it is likely just the first volley. I think the Obama campaign is going to systematically break Romney down.
Baud
I have to agree, Clinton’s people — all of them — have not aged well.
joes527
@Suffern ACE: Davis, Morris, Penn.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
Baud
@Hill Dweller:
Exactly. I hate hearing how Obama isn’t doing this or that. There is a lot of campaigning left to do — save the good stuff for the fall.
fourmorewars
Hi, please someone heed my cry for help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAztH_mkGwo&feature=related
This is an Alex Jones video. Please understand, I don’t want you to watch it. But I would love some help identifying a guy in it. See, since they include a clip of Kucinich (the video’s about the Fed), I’m thinking this other guy, whom you first see from 3:45-4:14, could for all I know be another liberal. Jones obviously wouldn’t care, since he’s putting Kucinich into a video featuring Ron Paul’s crazy brother. So I’d just like to know, basically it’s so I can confuse the dumbass right wing fb page that put the video up. The fact Kucinich is in it is a start toward discomfiting my antagonists, but I’d love to find out there’s another liberal in it, too. p.s. it’s not Bernie, I’d have recognized him, whattaya take me for?
WereBear
Well, he’s just asking for it. Eliminating any evaluation of his only foray into governance: check!
Avoiding his religious affiliation like a leprous in-law: check!
Offering his business expertise as a basis for running the country:.. .well, that’s asking for it.
What the heck else is left?
magurakurin
@Hill Dweller:
this for sure. As other’s have said they are taking a page from the Rove book and hitting him at his strongest point, which isn’t all that strong by the way. After they pound him for being a real life Gordon Gecko, they’ll wait for Romney to tact to his tenure as Gov: he’ll have no choice. Then they will pound his shit record there.
WaterGirl
The article at the link made me really happy. We haven’t lost a speechwriter for Obama, we’ve gained a great writer on the internet.
Edit: That article is why god created the words: “oh, snap!”
Baud
@magurakurin:
If a Democrat were on course to lose his home state by 20-30 points, it would be the story of the election 24-7.
WaterGirl
@magurakurin: I noticed President Obama has started referring to Mitt as Governor Romney. I like that, it appears to be a sign of respect, but it actually reminds everyone that he was a governor, and hey, maybe we should look at his record as governor.
David Koch
Such hate.
Leave to anti-Semitic progressives to lynch a job creator like Lanny.
Violet
I’ll never forget watching that meeting at the end of the 2008 primary season where the Obama and Clinton camps got together and Clinton’s camp had to admit that they’d lost. Lanny Davis was the biggest WATB I’d ever seen during that mess. He all but said she deserved to win so Obama should just let her win. I wanted to punch him through my TV.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Hill Dweller:
Smerk was subbing for Tweety and asked the rhetorical question if it was wise for the President to “act as his own surrogate” in going after (R)money. At least he didn’t follow that up with a yes but rather said that “time will tell”. Yes, heaven forbid a President would actually step up and call out his opposition instead of having some supporter do it.
I think it gives Obama the advantage of a better message impact; that people will pay more attention to what he says than they would to what some surrogate would.
Hill Dweller
@Baud:
The Romney campaign just claiming they would be competitive in Illinois dominated a couple of news cycles. In the real world, Romney is going to get his ass kicked in Massachusetts, but we hear nothing from the bought press.
Imagine the shit storm if Obama held a fundraiser with someone questioning Romney’s religion and/or place of birth.
It’s not a level playing field.
Baud
@Hill Dweller:
Imagine? Hell, it seems like just last week when the media spent days on the fainting couch because of off-handed gaffes by Hilary Rosen and Cory Boo’ker. Oh, wait…
Villago Delenda Est
@WaterGirl:
As I pointed out a few weeks back, in the Oregon Voter’s pamphlet (that is sent to every registered voting household in the state) Rmoney’s occupation was listed (by his own people, mind you) as “former Governor of Massachusetts”.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hill Dweller:
It cannot be level, if you’re to maintain the fictional MSM narrative of the horse race.
SiubhanDuinne
@Suffern ACE: You forgot Beckel.
Felinious Wench
OT, but the wingers have totally lost their shit over this SWATing” crap. WTF?
Yutsano
@Felinious Wench: The black helicopters have arrived. Warm up the reeducation camps and grab all the weapons from the people. The Obama takeover of the Empire has begun.
Ben Cisco
They got some weak-ass troll fu over there:
What the hell, I was bored:
Villago Delenda Est
@Yutsano:
Cue the Imperial March. Activate the Death Star. Send in the Imperial Stormtroopers who make precise blast points on Jawa sandcrawlers, but cannot hit the broad side of the Death Star if Han Solo is within a light year of it.
Yutsano
@Ben Cisco: It’s not the best thing for me to laugh right now Emissary, but I seriously LOLed at that.
@Villago Delenda Est: That too. I think you both are kinda bad for me right now. :)
Maude
Where’s Dick Morris?
Anoniminous
Who the hell is Lanny Davis and why should I give a fuck?
David Koch
@Maude: sucking some hooker’s toes.
AxelFoley
@Hill Dweller:
Death by a thousand cuts? Me likey.
AxelFoley
@WaterGirl:
It also tells me that’s how high RMoney’s gonna go–just a governor.
Suffern ACE
@David Koch: The last time he appeared he was shilling a childrens book he had written. I remember thinking it would best to let the civilization collapse and start over.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Suffern ACE: and Ed Rendell, another spotlight loving PUMA who spends his nights sipping scotch and thinking about the ambassadorship that should have been the crowning glory of his career.. About the only ex-Clintonite I have any use for is Begala. I hope if HRC does make a run in 2016, she starts at least fresher.
maven
I always figured Bill Clinton was a pig.
Now I realize he was much much worse.
double nickel
I thought you were talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_McDonald
and I was going to come over there and beat you.
Jay
One more reason to hate Davis:
he is VERY close to Joe Lieberman.
How close?
During the epic Lieberman/Lamont campaign of ’06. Davis paid a bunch of college – aged Republicans to swoop into Connecticut, flood Joe’s events, and make trouble at Lamont’s events.
Davis has a brown skidmark where his soul should be.
shortstop
@Violet: He was horrible. And Ickes was just as bad. God, what a circus they put on.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dee Dee Myers is all right.
xian
@Baud: true, Gore is still savaged for losing red Tennessee as if that was a mortal flaw in his electoral strategy but no one seems to feel that Mittingham should be expected to win blue Massachusetts.
kay
Loved this.
I think the pundit/lobbyist conflict is a real problem.
I’d like disclosure. I think a crawl at the bottom of the screen with the pundit’s employers scrolling by would work. It could just be a loop, so when Lanny Davis is on the screen you’d see Kaplan, University of Phoenix, etc.
When the next pundit appears you’d see THEIR sponsors.
Uncle Cosmo
From the link:
Truer words never posted.
kay
Lanny Davis could say “although I’m a paid advocate for privatizing public schools, and the finance sector is heavily involved in that effort, I honestly believe Obama should not talk about Bain, for other reasons”
Then we’d have context.