Tweety Is Acting Like A Hardcore DEM Today?

[stopbush]

Ripped the bushbot and is now reaming Cheney a new one "this guy's always WRONG, yet the
media treats him like he's the prophet. Why?" Questions to Jane Harman. She let Chris carry
the water for the Dems.

Of course, it's tweety, so it can all change by the end of the program...

[villager]

1. "The Media," Tweety?

And who, exactly, would "The Media" be, hmmnnn?

[Downtown Hound]

5. Don't you love it when pundits talk about the media

as if it's some far away all powerful organization of which they are in no way a part of? I remember in'04 after the Swift Boat liars had come out, and I was watching one of those round table circle jerk shows where everyone couldn't stop talking about why the story wouldn't die if it wasn't true. They sat there the entire show talking about it, wondering why it wouldn't die.

[villager]

7. "The Circle Jerks" -- not a punk band, the name of a cable TV "news" show!

Or at least, it should be.

Yeah, it's like Republicans running "against Washington," etc...

[americanstranger]

22. The same way senators and congressmen

talk about 'politicians in Washington' - like they're excluded from that particular group.

Infuriating.

- as

[Kutjara]

2. I think he has a stack of underpants with alternating...

"D" and "R" labels on them. Depending on which one he puts on in the morning, that's his political persuasion of the day.

[AIJ Alom]

6. Yup. Red and Blue undies, but underneath it all is yellow. The pee

stains a metaphor for cowardice.

[tridim]

3. Did he lick his thumb and stick it up in the air?

[LSparkle]

4. I'm pleasantly surprised by him today -- I think he knows POLITICS when

he sees it, and he's realizing this entire "Clinton didn't do enough" b.s. is for political purposes only (ANOTHER pre-election example of Dems being soft on national security). Even Tweety is tiring of the same old Karla Rove tactics ... get some NEW tricks, honey!!!

[MADem]

12. Maybe Tip O'Neill haunted him last night--he had a nightmare with

Tip coming at him, calling him a miserable, ungrateful baaaaaaaaaaaaaaastid!!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

17. ONeill was a SKUNK. chief saboteur of the Carter admin's forward-looking

agenda, whose two main features were these seminal issues: campaign finance reform and energy independence.

read his energy speech of April, 77, which set out his goals, and it will make you weep for its prescience, and for the almost complete lack of enactment, thanks, mostly to congressional DEMS, who had a decent majority in the house and a 61-39 Senate majority when he took office!




Ten Principles of Carter's Energy Policy

The first principle is that we can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.

The second principle is that healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

The third principle is that we must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems -- wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.

The fourth principle is that we must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.

The fifth principle is that we must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.

The sixth principle, and the cornerstone of our policy, is to reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.

The seventh principle is that prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.

The eighth principle is that government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.

The ninth principle is that we must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.

The tenth principle is that we must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_energy.html

[MADem]

23. Well, I have to disagree with you

He was my neighbor, and he and Millie were good people. He took good care of the people of Massachusetts, and we remember him fondly.

So let's just leave it at that.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. There are days when he sounds like a sane man. n/t

[LSparkle]

9. Now I hear he's having RFK Jr. on later ... WTF?

Is Tweety getting his ass handed to him by K.O. in the ratings and is he now trying to reclaim his throne as king of MSNBC? Given he usually puts his finger in the wind before taking stands, this may mean even he senses the tide has turned (and it's time for him to shift left).

[Holly_Hobby]

10. Two questions

Why is he called Tweety?

Why does he insist on calling Cheney "Cheeny"?

[lisa58]

15. Tweety refers to the cartoon character because...

..he dyes his hair yellow.

I can't explain the "Cheeny" thing.

[hashibabba]

18. When Cheney was running for VP, one of the media

asked about the pronunciation of his name. Apparently it's really pronounced Cheeney, but he said he didn't mind being known as Chaney. I thought it was strange that we continued to call him Chaney, but then who cares what he's called?

[butterfly77]

20. I feel like slapping him in the mouth every time he does that..

Cheeney bull. He was saying something about that last year (the pronounciation) and then he started saying it. It irritates me everytime he says it while he is spitting and slobbering all over the place.

[MADem]

11. Did he take his medicine? Has Kathleen threatened to leave him?

Could it be he can actually read the handwriting on the wall?

How's his fucking GOP brother polling in the LT GOV race in PA?

[VOX]

13. Jeez. He's like the whacky family uncle: He's got his good days...

...and for sure, his bad days.

However, I do recall with utter clarity how Tweety carried *'s water during those first four long miserable years. Remarks like "I like how this guy looks," "he looks presidential," etc. *still* make me sick. :puke:

[lisa58]

14. I find he leans left on Monday & Tuesday...

Wednesday is a toss-up and Thursday and Friday he goes "right".

[sandnsea]

19. Yeah, something like that

Maybe that's his way of being "fair and balanced". Just plain telling the truth every day is too radical a concept. :eyes:

[kstewart33]

16. Ah, the prevailing wind must have changed direction.

But as soon as he detects another shift, he'll change course. So predictable.

[politicasista]

21. He'll go back to drinking the spin tomorrow n/t