Billmon:
Mr. Howards should consider himself lucky he didn’t get a shotgun blast in the face.
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October 5, 2006
WB: Mistaken Identity
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This morning on CSPAN, Mike Allen commented that this was simply a case of someone rushing up unexpectedly to the VP and the Secret Service were only doing their job. He said this was his little ‘Hint from Heloise’ service for the day: Don’t approach the leaders without permission.
Posted by: garyb50 | Oct 5 2006 15:14 utc | 1
Between Foley the sex-crazed kiddie-loving GOPer and this implementation of lese-majeste, the current administration is growingly looking like Tiberius court. I’m wondering if it means we’ll get Caligula elected in 2008.
This kind of things always reminds me of Chateaubriand writing (maybe bogus made-up stuff for European readers who wouldn’t have any way of knowing it) that there were huge differences between free US and the aging and out of touch European monarchies – including the Restoration ones -, because any free man could just walk up to president Washington’s house and have tea with him.
Posted by: CluelessJoe | Oct 5 2006 15:30 utc | 2
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Oh, well, it was fun while it lasted, but you can’t expect to run a government when any citizen can just walk up to their elected officials and complain, can you? What on earth were Washington, Madison, Franklin, and the others thinking? That you can actually entrust power to the people?
When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come?
Posted by: Aigin | Oct 5 2006 15:38 utc | 3
Billmon and others,
To be fair to Dick, much of the country doesn’t think this is a free country either. Did you know for instance you are now advised only to speak in English in airports?
Check this one
p.s. I am a native Tamil speaker. So, if I am missing, you know what happened to me.
Posted by: bvb09 | Oct 5 2006 15:43 utc | 5
“Scarface” Cheney
LOL. “Say ‘ello to mah leeetle friend!”
Posted by: billmon | Oct 5 2006 15:48 utc | 6
oh my gawd, cloned poster. ROTFLMFAO. need to replace my keyboard now.
Posted by: b real | Oct 5 2006 15:51 utc | 7
transcript of amy goodman’s interview w/ steven howards on today’s democracynow
Posted by: b real | Oct 5 2006 16:21 utc | 8
@ cj – “I’m wondering if it means we’ll get Caligula elected in 2008.”
We’ve got one waiting in the wings.
Posted by: beq | Oct 5 2006 18:36 utc | 9
You got to be kidding. “misdemeanor harassment charges”. If Americans let this stand then its all over, Red Rover.
Posted by: DM | Oct 6 2006 10:07 utc | 13
There was an old Soviet era joke about hte fellow who got eleven years for calling Brezhnev an idiot.
“Wasn’t that a rather stiff sentence?” asks one comrade.
“He got one year for insulting Soviet authority and ten years for revealing a government secret!” replied another.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Oct 6 2006 12:52 utc | 14
Ha. Probably there’s a whole bunch of old Soviet jokes just ripe for recycling.
Anyway, seems like this guy can look after hisself even if noone else gits all riled up. Link
Posted by: DM | Oct 6 2006 13:44 utc | 15
cp
still laughing
cheney/scarface
& at the republicans rhetorical ruin exemplified by the post modern habit of asking themselves the question & answering it
am i good? yes am i best? self evidently could i be better? of course
rumsfield must take remedial rhetorics classes with hassert, snow et al
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Oct 6 2006 13:52 utc | 16
maybe it’s just an effect from the tinfoil leeching into my system, or reading too many stories on manufacturing propaganda, but RMN’s editorial choice of selecting that picture of howards in DM’s link purposely conveys to the audience that the guy is an animated loon and they can ignore the story. every picture tells a story.
Posted by: b real | Oct 6 2006 14:48 utc | 17