Morning all — gorgeous day here. Hope yours is as well.

Morning Christy. I emailed you this AM. Please consider taking action on it.

Haven’t seen it yet — been rather busy here this morning already. Will see once I get a chnce to catch up on e-mail…

Christy: I have to go, but I just want to say that I am disappointed that FDL put information about a health care event that nobody took time to confirm was actually not a health care event. It does not help FDL, the Progressive Movement, or certainly our relationship with Congresswoman Gwen Moore to cause a problem at a non-political event where people are coming to deal with their housing/foreclosure challenges. That event is for a specific purpose and FDL may have caused them a problem by misinforming the entire internet that it was something it is not.

I’m not working with that project, but I’ll pass that along to folks who are.

Morning Christy, Harry Reid needs to be replaced. This bipartisanship charade needs to be buried. It is nothing more than capitulation to the rethugs.

The current vote appears to be 63 to 31 with 6 uncommitted. I guess we have to allow the bloviating to continue. Seems that many of the rethugs have decided that advise and consent really means advise and control.

Thing is Poncho, the teabaggers don’t care if it’s a health care event or not. If they know a Democratic legislator will be there, they will swarm the event and try to shut it down.

Sun is out after several days of grey. Tomatoes finally coming on.

Thanks for all you do

If only Orrin Hatch supported the constitution and held the Bush administration accountable for their many serious crimes. We know Hatch was concerned about lies under oath about bj’s

and he has the nerve to lecture someone about the constitution..what hypocrisy

Mornin’ Christy and Firedogs,

Right On PW – they were thwarted at a Mike Ross/Vic Snider event yesterday (security presence and so-called ‘overflow’ rooms for the crazies)- but were clearly prepared to reek havoc at a Childrens Hospital fer goodness sakes.

omg – “wreak”

I continue to see many of the issues that burn here as not so much a failure of leadership, although there is plenty of that, but as a systemic problem that reults from the intial undemocratic construct of the Senate and the awful procedural rules the Senate adopted long ago.

Both the construct and rules were adopted to protect America’s original sin: slavery. The “saucer” metaphor is a Jefferson/Madison euphemism for this.

I kinda liked “reek”.

jmo.

The Senate is broken.
It needs to be scraped and start from square one and rebuild it.
It’s completely and totally disfunctional.
And a broken senate is crippling our government.
AND GET THE HELL RID OF REID!

We are hot and cloudy here again today. I’m hoping it “burns off” so we can get in some lake time this afternoon!
We are under the total stress of 3 bored dogs.
Thanks for asking, Christy.

When will they be allowed to vote to rid themselves of Harry Reid? The man is a republican now, if he wasn’t always. He has enabled everything Bush wanted, and now he is fighting everything his own party wants.

We have no government, tis’ clear. We have no leaders, also quite clear. We have no future if we have no one willing to act when the world comes to it’s terminal orbit with the sun. The religious idiots are happy. They have done all they can to move us to the end of life on this planet as we know it. It burns. It burns

Piss me off. Gerard Lynch must be confirmed immediately and without delay – which i guess is sorta the same thing, no? We went to the same high school so he must be of impeccable character. Right?

hmm.

shot a blank there at 18

anyway, @ 18 I just said that Judge Lynch must be confirmed without delay for the simple, but compelling, reason that we went to the same high school

The continued lack of political will on rule of law issues is unacceptable. Period.

agreed.
g’morning christy and everyone.
i dearly miss having dawn johnsen at olc.

OT: i just was online over at jon stewart’s place and watched what they had on from the show from last night. at the end was a clip i wish i’d never seen: dick morris saying the journalists freed from n. korea should have just lived with the consequences of their actions. this was the first time i’ve seen dick morris. may the rest of my days be free from anyone ever having to listen to him on public airwaves again.

Frighteningly this fits right in with the following diary at http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6987.

I have suggested term limits for a quarter century so that we can get rid of dead wood.

We should also dump the seniority system and have it a merit based no senator left behind kinda thing where they need to take a test on history and procedure.

Emptywheel has a new post up awaiting our attention: “On PDB Day, a New Direction against Terrorism? John Brennan’s Coming Out Party?”

That was an excellent, if disconcerting article, Sufilizard2.
Kudo’s for a great and thought provoking effort.
Scared the hell outa me. Here I thought we were working our way OUT of the parking lot with the election of dems.
*sigh*

I agree totally with all of your comments, SanderO.
Further, I think We The People should have at least SOME say if not the final word in who leads both houses of Congress.
Look what we get otherwise!

We all knew that the USAs under Bush had been dangerously politicized. What gets me is how slow Holder has been to replace those who were the most involved in political prosecutions, like those in Alabama.

Restoration of the DOJ does not seem to be a priority. Naming liberals to any position in the Obama Administration or to the federal courts is antithetical to Democrats. Obama promised change. Recruiting and pushing to confirmation nominees just isn’t that hard. Republicans could be dealt with in much the same way as Republicans dealt with Democrats. I keep coming back to the fact that Obama does what he wants. When he wants something he fights for it. The truth is that Obama is pretty much OK with a politicized conservative DOJ and judiciary.

Saved by this thread being front paged. I just woke up to a fantabulous clear and so far cool day in LA. Not something that happens in the dog days around here very often. It’s my day off, and I went swimming last night. Maybe why I slept in on my one day off this week.
And, I’m glad I came here first, because I’m putting off the errands I was going to run so that I can watch the vote. Hoping it’s televised.
I agree with Jayt that Reeks works just as well. The stupid not only burns, but it stinks to high heaven.

Jane has a new post up if we’re ready: “Bob Filner Takes the Pledge — 15 Down, 25 to Go”

The current count as to who supports and who opposes confirmation is 67 to 31. The two who have no listings as to support vs opposition are Sen Byrd and Sen Begich.

OT of this, but am cross-posting a comment from Jane’s current…because I told you I’d let you know.
Just got off the phone with a staffer at my rep’s office – Brad Sherman. He isn’t scheduling a town hall meeting for Health Care for August. He just had a TH at the end of June. But, the staffer told me of two events he will be attending and will be available to speak with constituents. (In the San Fernando Valley – Valley Concerts at the Warner Center, August 16th & 30th. I plan on attending.
He has not taken a stand on which bill he supports, but in the past has supported Universal Health Care.

Reid is the Worstest Majority Leader EVER!

This bumbling feeble minded guy is being held in place as cover by the very same Dogs that haunt any and all Senate progress. But he’s too gutless and deceitful to admit he lost all control of the Senate.

That started the day he and Schumer’s DSCC conspired to re-install Joe Lieberman.

Insider quid pro quo schemes rule the Senate now-on both sides.

Rally like that the new Senator Franken from Minnesota was able to announce the count

Whee hee 68/31