WB: The Lavender Bund +++ – Moon of Alabama

October 6, 2006

WB: The Lavender Bund +++

Billmon:

Maybe they can get Allen to stuff a deer head in the kid’s mail box — just for old time’s sake.

IV. Civility

III. In the Wardrobe

II. Another Hirohito Moment

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[T]he longer this story goes on, and the more that comes to light about the delicate compromise that has allowed the bund and the American Taliban to coexist on Capitol Hill for going on three decades now, the more likely it is that the Republican Party, or the Christian fundamentalist movement, or both, will be turned into pillars of salt come November.

I. The Lavender Bund

Posted by b on October 6, 2006 at 03:47 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Stop me if you’ve heard this one..
Schine, Cohn and baba wa wa sitting in a hotub…
“…there are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.” ~Angels in America

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 6 2006 9:48 utc | 1

Fabulosa!
Julian and Sandy once had a similar extremist political programme here in the UK:

The Party’s flag is deepest puce
With fleurs-de-lys in pale chartreuse.
Both working om and nouveau riche
Will find our programme very chic.
We’ll do our best for young and old
Our party line is very bold.
Let’s mince together hand in hand
We’ll make Great Britain Fairy Land. (Barry Took, 1968)

Posted by: Dismal Science | Oct 6 2006 11:19 utc | 2

Sex and politics, wiht a touch of religion (the molsested altar boy syndrome) thrown in. This story has the staying power to last through all of October…

Posted by: ralphieboy | Oct 6 2006 12:57 utc | 3

Careful with that axe eugene…
Consider that a previous time it was CBS and Dan Rather that got bamboozled by faked documents. Now, it could be ABC’s turn. In that other case CBS had no backup, or chose not to go with it. End of Dan Rather. So, maybe Karl had heard some old rumors about Foley (afterall Karl has been rumored to hang in places known to be gay hangouts). So, he thinks this is a good one to try again. Figures he has the means to turn the scandal on it’s head and aim it back at the scandal-mongering Dems.
“Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.” I am a man, nothing human is alien to me.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 6 2006 13:04 utc | 4

I once tried to get a Democratic operative to discuss the possiblity of informing the evangelical sheep of the lifestyle choices of republican leaders. Lack of interest doesn’t come close.

Posted by: citizen k | Oct 6 2006 13:07 utc | 5

“Hastert: I Want a Good, Thorough Probe” headline at TPM Muckraker
Gannon: That’s $250.

Posted by: b | Oct 6 2006 13:08 utc | 6

Speaking of Gannon…
Gannon planning to write a book?
Comment:
A Gannon book? Surely that’s never gonna happen. When our Jeff says, “Ladies and gints, the bidding for my book is open,” surely what he means is the bidding for him NOT to write a book.
Electric Kool-Aide Acid 2.0?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 6 2006 13:25 utc | 7

Foley Fatigue? Yet? If not here some interesting news..
Foley goes Straight

You already know that former congressman Mark Foley was a closeted gay within the gay-unfriendly Republican party. You know about his fixation on underaged pages. You probably also know about Foley’s ties to Scientology, a cult founded by a man who declared that all homosexuals should be quarantined.
But you may not know that Foley has an even deeper connection with another cult notorious for its abuse of young people: Mel Sembler’s Straight — a network of alleged “anti-drug clinics” fashioned after the notorious SEED program, which was shut down in the 1970s.
Sembler is close to the Bush family, and seems to have thrived on his connections to high-level Republicans. W named Sembler the ambassador to Italy (despite his lack of qualifications for the task), in which capacity he is rumored to have had some involvement with the Niger forgeries.
In 1993, Straight received dismal publicity concerning its abusive treatment of young people.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 6 2006 13:43 utc | 8

From the pedofoleya smorgasbord at AlterNet (by Rudy):
“Did you know that during the annual House Republican Caucus Orgy, they take an occasional break to make sure they are all on the same page…”

Posted by: beq | Oct 6 2006 14:32 utc | 9

“Hastert: I Want a Good, Thorough Probe” headline at TPM Muckraker
Gannon: That’s $250.
ROFLMAO!

Posted by: billmon | Oct 6 2006 14:38 utc | 10

Re “Civility”: just remember, folks, it’s the left blogosphere that has all the “vituperative extremists.”
Broder said it, I believe it, that settles it. 😉

Posted by: RT | Oct 6 2006 15:00 utc | 11

This is definitely a Roy Cohney Island of the Mind Moment (apologies to Ferlinghetti)
My guess is that the country club Republicans have made a move because the God Squad has taken over their party.
…the god squad knows all about sacrificial lambs, and now the R-Closet gays seem to be really close to the spit.
I wonder if this undercuts Rove’s proclaimed “Oct. Surprise” — probably not, with the attention span of Amurikans. I cannot help but wonder if Bush Sr’s branch of the Rep. Party did not engineer this moment.

Posted by: fauxreal | Oct 6 2006 22:20 utc | 12

i doubt if gannon does thorough probes for $250. maybe a little prick, but for the thorough job it will probably set hassert back at least a grand. then the blackmail fees on top of that, might as well give him another press pass.

Posted by: annie | Oct 6 2006 22:35 utc | 13

it seems that foley has dissapeared from the newscycle – is that so?
they really are jackals

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Oct 6 2006 23:07 utc | 14

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