Tweety on MSNBC will not stop

[PCIntern]

talking about Carter replacing USA David Marston here in Philly. He does this for a variety of reasons:

1. Show's his Philly 'roots' - BS as far as I'm concerned

2. Show's Dems do the same thing - yeah, so what if they did - it was decades ago. (MS) More shit.

3. Show's his 'sense of history'. Piled higher and deeper. (Ph.D.)

[blm]

1. Or - shows his 'Shilly roots"

As in - will shill for BushInc whenever Bush is most threatened.

[PCIntern]

5. I like that!

We oughta get that to him...maybe he'll go inot crisis mode like he did the other day when he started toalking about how hot that female CNBC reporter was: "And she's 6 feet tall!!!" , embarassing himself terribly after that Alterman article following all the man-crush DU posts over the years.

Hoo sez we don't hold sway?

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. Oh I missed that, darnnit. Read the article though; it was great. ...n/t

[meegbear]

2. The question is ...

WHY was he replaced. I'll stick my neck out and venture that it probably wasn't because Marston wasn't investigating Democrats during elections.

[liberal N proud]

3. The right wing will use every mistake made by Democratic Presidents past to justify

all the crimes the bu$h regime is now throwing down at America feet.

They will never stop using the past to justify their corrupt future.

[napi21]

4. I don't remember anything about this Carter replacement. I was

pretty young then, and paid very little attention to politics. Do you remember any of the factsfrom back then? I always respected Carter...still do, and I find it very hard to believe he did that for "dark" reasons.

[PCIntern]

6. It was probably pretty nefarious...

there was...and is.. a lot going on here. But that has nothing to do with this crowd at all whatsoever.

[librechik]

7. Did Carter avoid congressional authorization for the nomination?

THAT is the real issue.

Of course the Prez can remove and nominate the USAs at will. Only since the Patriot Act 2 (approved in Dec. 2006) can he do so and avoid the checks and balances. Bush went right to work stacking the deck, as he must, becasue he cannot win without cheating.

[salin]

9. um... they have to go back nearly 30 years to find one case?

doesn't really make the argument that this is normal and okay. Not sure about the circumstances - but am pretty sure that it didn't involve changing law to allow the DOJ to appoint replacement without any future senate confirmation process...

[PCIntern]

10. of course it didn't but the R's don't care...

it's a shift and that's what they do best. When called on it, they have to shut up like Tweety, to his credit, did last night when that moran tried to swiftboat Kerry again on his show.

[Lint Head]

11. The last time I checked...

The last time I checked Jimmy Carter was NOT in office. GWB (Great White Bastard) was in office.

That's the problem with Re-Pubic-Rats. They long for the past. That's all they can refer to. They long for the days of slavery and the suppression of women.
:dem:

[UTUSN]

12. 4. Shows his backstabbing of his former boss.

CARTER had a nest of vipers at his breast: Tweety. Pat CADDEL, the erstwhile wunderkind credited for CARTER's victory, never to have another success again (think, "New Coke"). CADDELL has spent the past several years as a Dem-bad-mouther pundit. His supposed guise is that the Dems have abandoned his purer-Dem-values. And David RUBENSTEIN, a CARTER underling, who went on to co-found the Carlyle Group.

But here's a bon mot of RUBENSTEIN's regarding how the Carlyle Group dumped Shrub:

*******QUOTE*******

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3994.htm

.... In a column posted yesterday on Salon.com, Joe Conason writes: "Preferring to avoid public scrutiny for obvious reasons, executives at the Carlyle Group usually say nothing about their firm's connections with the Bush dynasty. But last April 23, Carlyle managing director David Rubenstein spoke quite frankly about the comfy sinecure he provided to George W. Bush more than a decade ago -- and how useless Bush turned out to be. Whether he knew it or not, Rubenstein's remarks to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association were recorded."

Rubenstein said, "We put (Bush) on the board and (he) spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that many clean ones. And after a while I kind of said to him, after about three years - you know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else. Because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.

Rubenstein continued: "He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out of this business anyway. And I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, thanks - didn't think I'd ever see him again. His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know. Anyway, I haven't been invited to the White House for any things." ....

********UNQUOTE*******

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

13. What A Great Line!

"His name is George W. Bush. He became President of the United States. So you know if you said to me, name 25 million people who would maybe be President of the United States, he wouldn't have been in that category."