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...in the actual existence of Orbital Mind Control Lasers before this moment.

did he happen to shoot himself in the foot?

of an anvil. Who is advising this guy and why do they hate him so much?

Honestly did he not realize it was his extreme leftward tilt that turned off many in the middle?

Kerry is a fruitcake-I guess he is worried he is somwhere around 14'58"  on his 15 minutes and wants to make the most out of those last two seconds.

from Davos, Switzerland.

Reid: Hello, Harry Reid.

Kerry: Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Reid: Rove, is that you?

Kerry: No, it's John Kerry, reporting for duty!

Reid: Oh.

Kerry: We need to filibuster Alito.  The Swiss think he doesn't pass the global test.

Reid: Rove, is that you?

Karl Rove strikes again!!!!!!

Seems as though the ancient reptilian race from the lower forth dimension have wielded their powerful mind control device to contact one of their chief shape shifting agents John Kerry to activate their diabolical after the fact, non-filibuster, filibuster scheme.....  

it's more insidious than that. Karl has found a way to monkey with Bluetooth-equipped cellphones so that they constantly transmit mind control signals.

I'm expecting Kerry to unzip his false face and for special agent Flint to emerge.  That our best double agent could be Kerry... wow!  Could there be a better double agent ever?

Look!  There goes Kerry for the self destruct button at Soros' evil Swiss hideout!

This is too good to be true!

(Really though, as much as I despise Carville you have to believe that he's secretly desiring to take Kerry out.  Maybe he can get Teddy to drive Kerry somewhere to dinner...)

his Purple Heart and ticket punched home.

to anvils everywhere.

There is a rumor that the Massachusetts Democratic Party are planning to run an actual anvil in 2006. They figure if the electorate will keep voting for Kennedy that they'll surely vote for an anvil, and it requires far less upkeep --- you just put it in the corner and it will stay there.

that this will never get off the ground. It looks to me like he is positioning himself for his new political role, the next Ted Kennedy, the "liberal standard bearer" of the Democratic party. He is playing up to the Kos crowd.

Or he is just truly the dumbest politician on earth.

but he's hired Jack Bauer to kidnap Teresa Heinz and  threaten to "roundhouse kick her Chuck Norris-style" if Kerry tries to turn off his cellphone.

In other news, Kerry reportedly sent a fax to Minority Leader Harry Reid's office detailing how the 2004 election loss was "seared, seared into his memory" and he had concluded that he ought to remember to vote against Alito before he had the chance to vote for him this time, so the biased conservative media led by Rupert Murdoch and Karl Rove couldn't claim he was "flop-flipping" or "floop-flupping" or whatever that neocon-invented word was.  Reid could not be reached for comment.

to like Bluetooth.

That Karl, aka Dr Evil!

is whether Swiss leaders want Kerry to filibuster ALito

You rock, Fbomb!

An anvil would be a positive step forward.

Unless I'm missing a fact, it seems to me that one cannot yet assume that there are 60 votes for cloture, just because five Democrats have said they would vote for cloture.  The reason is that all 55 Republicans, to my knowledge, have NOT announced that they would vote for cloture.  I think some of the RINOs may well vote to sustain a filibuster--and thus the question becomes:  how many dependable votes for cloture are there on the Republican side.  Does anyone know?  I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing someone post the answer.

A giant slug tear-a**ing around Boston in a brand new Kerry suit...

What's happening on TV [peers over his desk toward his TV which is located 20 miles away, but can't see anything]

Is that the politics are almost all against the Dems. They looked bad during the hearings. Alito is reasonably popular. If they filibuster, they'll get nuked. The bet is that most Americans will think they deserved it. Alito gets confirmed anyway.

It's lose, lose, lose.

Kerry's just posturing for his new buddies over at the Daily Kos.

Snowe has specifically said "No," to the filibuster. Despite their infuriating RINO tendencies, Collins and Chafee have consistently voted for cloture, even when they voted against the nominee. Graham, DeWine, McCain and Specter have all pledged outright support for Alito.

 you'll make millions!!

Funniest and most entertaining thing I've heard despite years of Letterman and Leno.

Kerry is just the right character for Sellers to portray in a new, serial slapstick comedy.

No no, Aaron, you've got it all wrong about Theresa.  She's actually Karl's clone in a bad wig and botox and is the "mole" in the Heinz-Kerry household.  Of course, the Senator hasn't noticed...

... on the floor before the Dems take over at 6.00pm for their hour of "debate"

~Tom

What would really be funny is if everyone ignores Kerry, who is of course just repeating what he read in the New York Times this morning.  Of course, he can moan to Steph on Sunday after the fact...

Y'all win this round by TKO.

Enjoy the popcorn and show. It's my wife's birthday, I don't care about politics now anyway =)

...that Kerry is making a call for a filibuster from Europe of all places, my wife just raised another interesting point.

Kerry has a penchant for not actually spending much time doing his job; i.e., he misses important votes and doesn't put in the time required to be a strong or credible senatorial voice (this angle certainly got played up in the blogosphere last election cycle). That he is away from Washington when such an important thing like the nomination of a US Supreme Court Justice is up for a vote, while he postures and plays politics while on vacation in Europe (lets admit it, thats most likely the reason he is in Europe, regardless of whatever conference he is attending), is quite typical of his less than brilliant service as a career politician.

Vote Anvil in '08! Give Massachusetts some "weight" in the Senate.

..."leading" the filibuster effort.

Announcement due in a few minutes.

An anxious world yawns.

They've just announced she won't be speaking.

I guess she's still making up her mind.

would be for some Republicans to vote against cloture and trigger the Byrd option.  That would be funny.

Is that you Jean Jacques? Hi! I didn't recognize you in your balaclava. You ARE a noble savage on those skis.

What am I up to? Oh, this and that, leading a filibuster, condemning the Bush-led assault on our civil liberties, posting at Kos. Tu connais Kos? Vraiment, il est un homme tres forte. Drinks back at the chateau? Mais oui...a bien tot. Eh! Voici Kofi Anan! Allo, Kofi!

Come on...we have Karl Rove in full mind control of John Kerry, the D presidential nominee from the most recent election.  That is no TKO; it is a first round, on the mat, coma-inducing knock-out.  18 seconds after the bell.

Ba Da Boom.  

Crab People!!

...which is located in his derriere.

Have you ever seen Kos? He's more of a pomme than an homme.

Mais tres forte!

my root beer after I read that. Bravo!!

5*

According to CSPAN, they count Collins as a "yea."  Does anyone have a second source on that one?  That makes 52 Rs leaving Stevens, Chafee, and Snowe.

Sarbanes announced his opposition just now bringing the no vote to 32.

From "Unfit to Command", he got his last Purple Heart by throwing a grenade into a pile of rice, and not getting away fast enough, blowing rice into his derriere.

Since he has a pain in the *, he wants to be one for everyone else.

Lest we forget

Guys whose brains are in their backsides shouldn't try to get Purple Hearts by taking shrapnel there.

I guess I'm not familiar enough with arcane Senate rules, but doesn't a Senator have to physically BE in the Senate chamber to filibuster?

Can a Senator really filibuster in absentia, and from outside the United States?

Must there be 60 votes to invoke cloture, or only 60 percent of the Senators present? Quick...time for a quorum call!

...is that you not go to the restroom. He could phone it in from the ski slope as long as he doesn't duck behind a pine tree.

Sorry, I know you were asking a serious question. I couldn't resist.

Last I read, it looked like the cloture vote won't be until Monday thanks to Harry Reid stalling.  I'm pretty sure that everyone will be in DC when it comes time for the cloture vote, so I doubt it will matter whether it is 60% of those present or not, since all 100 will be present.

That would be hilarious.

Oh my gosh .. what if the Republicans filibuster Alito and then Frist calls for a vote and the GOP votes for the new motion.

Who needs Dems at all in this process?

Right now, it seems like a 95% chance that there won't be enough votes to stop cloture.  The only thing of real interest at this point is - will he actually get 60 yes votes?  Even that only matters to those of us trading the 60 vote contract on Tradesports.

That being said, my guess is that all of the Republicans will end up voting 'yea'.  With 3 dems saying they will vote 'yea', it will be interesting to see if 2 more dems will commit to a yea.  The ones that have a possible motivation to do so are: Conrad, Dorgan and Pryor since they are from red states, Lautenberg and Menendez (long shots, but I read an interesting article regarding some possible agreement because the prez may nominate a couple of NJ judges they like to lower courts) and Landrieu, because she is just plain wishy washy and may want to appear independent from her party.  Is it possible that 2 of them will vote 'yea'?

"We only have 44 Democrats. 44. Jeffords was a Republican and remains the most conservative "member" of our caucus. We never had him in play."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/26/183015/942

Sounding like a true insider, the great hero of Dem's grassroots movement to wake up the liberal agenda.

Five minutes later....

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/01/26/jeffords_says_
hell_vote_no_on_alito/

Jeffords announces his no vote!!

Behold John Forbes Kerry, my junior Senator, showing all the political accumen of a brick - again.

Priceless.  I mean, you simply cannot buy this sort of political idiocy from your opponents - and to phone-it in from Davos no less!

What a maroon.

How proud we are in Massachusetts to be represented in the World's Most Deliberately Arrogant Body by such mental giants as Splash and The Gigolo.  Proud, I say.

The Rove has to be behind this, somehow.

I know it -

we all know it -

it's time we admit it.

There are 55 confirmed votes for Alito, along with the 2 RINOs who will vote for Cloture (Chafee and Snowe-- I doubt they'll vote against him anyway)-- making 58. Landrieu, Pryor and Conrad have all said they will vote for Cloture as well-- even though they're all expected to vote against the nominee. That makes 61 confirmed cloture votes, 1 more than the republicans need. Senate Assistant Minority Leader Dick Durbin said earlier today that he's "counted and there isn't the support for a filibuster." There will be a vote at 11am on Tuesday.

"Maine Senator Susan Collins, one of three New England Republicans who support abortion rights, said she would support Alito."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=ar.0GvUwH2Es&re
fer=top_world_news

Good catch.

Leon,

How was Kerry's defeat crushing?

Other than Bush-Gore, Kerry-Bush was the closest election since 1976.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html

Tom

It was crushing enough.  I really hope he runs again.  It won't be that close next time.  Two Kerry defeats is like two parades for Vietnam Vets that they never got at the time.

There is an incredible reservoir of absolute hatred of John Kerry in this country.  It won't go away until, at the very least, everybody my age (58) is long dead.  He is easily the most polarizing figure in US politics, he makes Hillary look like the Republican candidate.

in terms of the electoral college it was the closest since 1916, except for 2000. no way was it even close to crushing.kerry is just kissing up to the liberals so he can run in 2008.he knows the fillibuster will fail.

Collins announced she is supporting Alito.  

It must be difficult living in a state where apparantly more than half the electorate thinks senate and house seats are life time appointments.

President Bush has been driving up the activist left's numbers.  Fortunately, Ds nominated someone who couldn't attract people in the middle.  That is the best case scenario for Rs in 2008.  Another northeastern, millionaire, social liberal.  Please.

Now that would be a dream ticket for the GOP to run against.

precisely because GWB could have - and perhaps with all the perceived problems vis-a-vis Iraq etc. should have - been beaten; because your side chose the candidate y'all thought was the most "electable" (which gives us all chuckles around here, by the way); because you had a full-court press from the old media, the "world community", and the the American "intelligencia" all saying that "BUSH MUST GO"; because you had a GOTV machine that secured the largest Democrat vote turnout in history; because you had, in short, every single thing going your way...

... and you still lost.

Hence, crushing.

But allow me to echo Adam's points above - please, by all means, I beg you, nominate this knucklehead again.  Please?  Pretty please?

Kerry accepting second fiddle to Hillary. And I can't see anyone accepting Hillary as the VP candidate --- they'd have to spend all day and night watching their back, not to mention there is no Whitehouse food taster :-)

Kerry wants a recount in Ohio.

surely this is news to the "King George" crowd. don't be surprised if the Gestapo takes you away for compromising national security.

that should be tagged to #71. man, I feel like a Kerry.

Not a crushing defeat?  Whatever.  You can try to rationalize it all you want.  Indicators suggested Bush should have a difficult election.  And if you want to rely on electoral college votes to call it, then that is your right.  But was the actual result of the election?

Bush was the first majority president (>50% of vote) since Reagan.

Bush captured more than 3 million more votes.

Republicans picked up seats in the Senate.

Republicans picked up seats in the House.

Republicans picked up governerships.

Republicans did well nationwide on the state level.

That is a clear Republican stomping at all levels of government.

Now you can say the electoral college vote is close, and you would be correct.  But to act as if that election was anything more than a complete devastation of Kerry and the Democratic party is strain credibility.

In other news, Kerry reportedly sent a fax to Minority Leader Harry Reid's office detailing how the 2004 election loss was "seared, seared into his memory"

If Kerry actually wrote the fax, it would say that the 2005 election loss was seared, seared into his memory, and the fax would have an origination number that he'd never been closer to than 50 miles

I think the 2008 campaign for the angry left began last week w/ Al Gore's NSA diatribe and Hillary Clinton's scurrilous plantation comments.

At one point the Senate rules were that cloture required only 66% of the Senators present (actually, at one point they required full unanimous consent, every single Senator had to vote for or abstain).  This rule was officially changed to 66% of the total Senators, and later it was officially lowered to 60 votes.

Sorry no sources, but when they were getting close to the constitutional option last summer I read up on the history of the cloture rule and I'm pretty sure that's correct.

~Big Tom

I don't think of it as a political risk. We hope (none / 0)

it succeeds, but if it fails, it can be turned around to a political success. Here's why, IMO.

If a filibuster occurs, it can have a successful outcome. Success

If a filibuster is broken by the Repugs going nuclear or if it fails, then the Democrats can argue when things go awry, that Repug policies don't work; right to choose was taken away by the Repugs; the working class is struggling because the Repug Supreme Court rules against the working class; etc. Success

This would have been particularly keen if all Dems voted no and then joined the filibuster. The Repugs could not then argue bipartisan support for Alito as they can now.

There's extra political gain if the Repugs do go nuclear, because it will show they have no respect for the Constitution or the Senate rules and traditions, are power-mad, and when they dig a hole for this country, continue digging deeper and faster. Success

There's no risk for trying. The above lays out a case against the Repugs long term.

Real Democrat/Real Democrat 2008 (Example: Clark, Dean, Gore, Boxer, Feingold)

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/1/26/192843/363/231#231

That'd make Voinovich cry.  :-)

It sounded like a bunch of the Republicans wanted to travel this weekend, so rather than be ready for a possible vote at any moment, this gives them the weekend off.

The only thing I wonder about is how much debate/discussion time is allowed after the cloture vote, or does it end there? If the latter, why schedule the vote for the next morning instead of Monday night?

He talked about how important it is to have a majority, so they'd rather have DINOs than any Republican. When it comes to thinking of folks like our RINOs, we need to remember that we're better off having them than a Democrat, regardless of how much they annoy us.

I wish I could make this kind of stuff up.

Go Kerry! Go!

"Clothing is wonderful, but let them go naked for a while, at least the kids..."

you think Theresa has a short possition and told John to fix?

...that anyone who still thinks John Kerry is smarter than Dubya now, well, I just can't speak it, help me out...

Should therapy be demanded of them as a condition of their continued freedom?

Should they be locked in a room tied to a chair and de-programmed like a Branch Davidian?

Chemical Sam has been the far end of the Spectrum, and Kerry and Kennedy are there, staring back at me.  Chilling.

Wasn't Kerry the one who lost Florida or something like that

Looks like the Northeastern Leftist Establishment is at it, as usual.  If it weren't for the fact that this elective body also wants to dictate to us how we should be fighting terrorists like Al Qaeda who have and will continue to target civilians exclusively, it would be worth quite a belly-laugh.  They just keep feeding the monsters that are MoveOn.org and Daily Kos and lending more weight to the conservative talkers' descriptions of them as being out of touch.

I kind of sympathize with conservative voters from the state of Massachusetts, having to deal with an overload of Leftist Democrats in my home state (Joe "Blow" Biden, D-Delaware).  No one should have to put up with this kind of political demagoguery.  Not even if they might agree with the basic point behind the actions.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/common/briefing/Standing_Rules_Senate.htm

Standing Rules of the Senate

Chapter 22 paragraph 2

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of rule II or rule IV or any other rule of the Senate, at any time a motion signed by sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, is presented to the Senate, the Presiding Officer, or clerk at the direction of the Presiding Officer, shall at once state the motion to the Senate, and one hour after the Senate meets on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the Senate and direct that the clerk call the roll, and upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the Presiding Officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question:

"Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn -- except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting -- then said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of.

Truer words have never been spoken.  Though, let me just say that many 30-somethings, such as myself, share your disdain.

Kerry is the stereotypical snake oil salesman.  However, IMHO, he and Rodham-Clinton are in a dead heat for the usedcarsalesmanoftheyear award.

What is very interesting to me, if I can stray off-topic, is the disdain, shared between my generation and your's, and even those younger than myself, for the current American politico.

I see it everywhere around me and can't help but think of the times, if only, for the most part, read about, of strong, forthright men and women of character and close-held belief.  I believe we are on our way back, having learned the hard way of the rough, if not impossible, road of slick rhetoric and empty, self-serving promises.    

Criminy! All these threads about who's gonna vote no and who's gonna vote yes. WHO CARES what some Dems are going to vote? Alito is going to be confirmed whether Ted Kennedy and John Kerry like it or not.

There will be no filibuster.

Kerry is still smarting over the presidential loss.

This is his way of picking a fight without the fear of getting knocked out.

He gets to look tuff, but the fight never occurs.

you really got to love Dick Durbin's comment:

"One of the first responsibilities of someone in Congress is to learn how to count."  that's a great line.

not Judge Alito, but rather one Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Why?

i) many year of watching that regrettably banal drama known as Politics in the Bay State has given me the unshakeable conviction that John Forbes Kerry never acts on principle, and that, as surely as night follows day, the junior senator possesses ulterior motives for all his actions;

ii) He knows he was born to reside at 1600 Pennsylvanna Avenue;

iii) He is equally aware that 2008 presents his last chance of accomplishing "ii";

iv) To get there Kerry (at a bare minimum) needs to stick it to Hillary (there's only room for one striving, megalomaniacal Northeastern senator in the '08 race for the White House);

v) He figures his best shot at doing her in is in becoming the liberal darling;

vi) He knows that, although Hillary is eager to cast a vote against Alito, she's hardly enthusiastic about the prospect of a freakin' filibuster against him (it simply wouldn't do to mess up the newly minted moderate/centrist image she's so carefully cultivated, and which she'll so strongy need if she is to prevail in a general election);

vii) And yet, Kerry also figures that this very discomfort with the idea of a fillibuster could well prove to be the final blow in shattering what remaining shred of credibility Hillary still possesses with the Santa Monica/Upper West Side/Liberal Punditacracy crowd that either tells liberal Democrats who to support or writes checks to presidential campaigns. And that's money and support that Kerry would like to have for his own purposes.

So, this, in short, is all about presidential politics, and specifically is tied up with the strategy of attacking Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions from the left.

about your views on politicos.  Several generations back Mark Twain noted:

 ". . .It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. . . "

And that was way before the Reids, Pelosis, Kennedys and Kerrys of the world. The 'political personality' is not unique to your/our generations. It comes with the political wallpaper.

According to Kerry documentary maker, Oliver Stone, all three Purple Heart wounds were caused by a single bullet.

Its not often one realizes that history is bound to repeat itself and find some sort of comfort.

and two kernels of rice.  I'm just saying.

John Kerry: "Hillary is a right-winger. Vote for me, the progressive centrist."

Al Gore: "Remember me?"

Hillary Clinton: "Dedicated to the people President Bill Clinton failed to pardon."

For me and mine, John Kerry is unique.  I lived through watching the [redacted] commit treason.  I watched him sit in a Senate hearing and lie about our soldiers and Marines.  I watched him defame a generation of men whose latrines he was, and is, not fit to clean.  

In the annals of my life, there is no second place to Kerry.  He is infinitely worse than Jane Fonda.  She was a twit movie star who used her "starlet" quality to advance her politics.  In the process, she pretty well killed her career.  

John Kerry built and advanced his political career by purposefully staining the reputations and honor of every soldier, sailor, airman and Marine who served in Vietnam.  He stained the memory of over 50,000 men who gave all.

For John Kerry, at least in my life, there is room for forgiveness.  There is no fate that fits his crime short of having his name removed from the history of the world, never to be spoken of again.

On the other hand, disdain for politicians is simply the practice of cynicism at a very high level.  You get to watch people sell their soul for the trappings of power.  That's Hillary.  She doesn't, and couldn't, hold a candle to John Kerry.  Neither could her husband, he's just an old fool (and probably the BEST politician of all time).

And, no we're not likely on our way back.  In reality, it's never been much different.  Politicians are people.  People are flawed, some just hide it better in the sunlight.

I think.

I am former military, Navy, to be exact.  And though I agree with you that Kerry's behavior is nothing short of treasonous on the most patriotic level, I have to say his behavior, in general, not only smacks of the worst kind of cowardice, unmistakingly revealing the self-serving actions of a soul where every-day character should lie, but a traitorous scoundrel, even to himself and to his own detriment.

Personal animus for Kerry aside, Rodham-Clinton reeks the same stench to average, red-blooded Americans.  There is not enough political savvy in the world to overcome the smell.

Kerry, who is of course just repeating what he read in the New York Times this morning.

You might have something there. Kerry has never seemed to pay much attention to his job as a Senator. Here's the big debate over a Supreme Court Justice, and he's over in Switzerland skiing and hanging out with Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

So he picks up the New York Times, sees that they're calling for a filibuster, and figures that he'll jump out in front of a bandwagon and pretend to be leading it.

Only it's not a bandwagon. It's a Mack truck.

"John Kerry's display of leadership fell on its butt yesterday when no followers showed up. The would-be leader of men and nations was carried away by the men in the white coats as he shrieked, 'Wait! I read it in the New York Times!'"

the bush (no pun intended) and say what you really think, we could probably be friends...

Bush is/was a tax-cutting wartime president supported by an absolutely unshakeable base and one of the best-organized political machines in American history, and his approval rating went as high as 91% in the aftermath of the greatest homeland attack in the history of this country. The notion that the Democratic Party (one widely perceived and portrayed as weak on national security) had the advantage in 2004 truly blows my mind.

Still on our payroll?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Boat_Veterans

if you intend to raise the signal-to-noise ratio here in the near future.

At least you're slightly more clever than most Moby's (that's not much of a compliment.

What are you talking about?

for the losing side of an ugly fight. The only explanation is that he is positioning himself to run for the Dem nomination again in '08.

He linked to Wikipedia... that's not much better than linking to CBS.

This happens to be a subject I know a little about. Off to The Pile™ with him, right now.

Whatever gets you through the night.  Thanks for at least not bringing Diebold into the discussion...

1967 Oldsmobiles

Who has been praying through Psalm 55:9(a)?

"9 Confuse my enemies, Lord!"

puts an end to unlimited debate, either by ending debate and demanding avote on the matter on the floor immediate after the Cloture vote or by limiting the amount of debate left after the Cloture vote is taken. Whether it's an immediate vote or a limit on debate must be specified in the Cloture Motion when presented to the chair. Frist limited debate after the motion by stating that the end of debate would happen Tuesday at 11am wherein a vote would take place.

Frist is basically just being nice and giving the dems all the time they need to orate on the floor and put in the record why they're voting against Alito. He's being nice by giving them another little bit of debate.

(by the way, all speeches made on the floor or on websites by Congressman, Senators, the executive office and Governors are all located on Project Vote Smart's website usually within a week of being posted at www.vote-smart.org. Fabulous organization).

"He gets to look tuff, but the fight never occurs."

Hey!  Kind of like his service in Vietnam!!!

Seriously though, that guy could never look anything more than a freaking idiot.

where can I send a contribution toward payroll.  It would be my honor to contribute toward paying the finest group of men this country has.

and will be among the first to say that prayer works, I'm really not sure we need to be bothering God about these particular folks.  Their biggest problem seems to be themselves.  I must admit, it's a joy to watch people who accuse the President of being "stupid" self destruct with antics even my big, blinld cat could figure out are not very bright.

It's also where he got the starch (rice) in his pants.

I said nothing about the electoral college.  My comparison was of the popular votes.