Stevens:

"I did not ask for any of those things... they were just given to me... they are not mine!"

Palin:

"Yeah... same here!" "By the way... I'm a maverick!"

Charity? Heh I can imagine the ebay listing now:

Dior handbag worn by Sarah Palin.
Current bid: US $32.57
Ships to: Worldwide
Item location: Alaska, US
History: 4 bids
High bidder: PatBuchanan( 6 )

Maverick was one of the crappiest car ever foisted on the American market.

Along with the Pinto, and Chevy Vega.

Maverick, Palin. Yeah. Pinto Palin just the same.

Hey, maybe First Dude will win the ebay auction on those clothes so he won't have to part with any big bucks.

Josh Marshall...sometimes you look for explanations to prevent you from coming to conclusions too quickly...to which I recommend you start reading driftglass.com (which not only supplies brilliant pictures in his archives but you end up on the same page sooner or later with his insight). Just recently from driftglass:

"...“Until eight years ago…”?

Bwahahahahaha!

You know, “independent” probably used to mean something once upon a time, but for the last few decades, “independent” has been nothing more than a smelly little grotto carved out of thin air by Cokie Roberts, David Broder, Joe Klein and a hundred others for the comfort of smug, gutless, closet Conservatives who wanted to play “Maverick – The Home Game” in public and masturbate to Rush Limbaugh in private.

An intellectual sniper’s nest for the craven and the clueless knocked together with little pundit hammers, bangbangbanging away morning, noon and night that both sides are equally wrong about everything all the time.

Actually, in a strange way, I almost of sympathize with the “Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager radio crowd” contempt for people like Larry.

For 30 years the Party of God has been winning elections by pandering to the scum of America, and they have always been

Absolutely

Unambiguously

Crystal-Fucking-Clear

what their objectives were.

Some of them want Jesusland. Some want “The Handmaid’s Tale”.

Some are sitting on an arsenal and a year's supply of pemmican, praying for a race-war.

Some want the Rapture.

And some just want a nice, tidy, White Christian feudal state.

And we crazy, Socialist, America-haters?

We want our country – our beautiful, tolerant, raucous, vigorous, flawed democracy – back.

That’s what the Culture Wars have been about, Larry, or weren’t you paying attention?

Of course, as long as the Pig People were helping Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich win, “independents” like Larry were perfectly content to warm their little hands on the bonfires onto which their culture and country were being tossed. But now that its all going to shit, and the “independents” want to get off the merry-go-round, the devil wants his due.

Of course, the Larrys of the world couldn’t be bothered to read the fine print on the infernal contract they were signing because…

First Atwater came for Reagan's "welfare queens"
- but I was not a welfare queen so I did not speak out.

Then Gingrich came for the Liberals and the Unions,
- but I was taught to call everyone who disagreed with me a traitor, so I did not speak out.

Then Falwell and Robertson came for the gays,
- but gays are icky, so I did not speak out.

Then Limbaugh came for the Feminazis
- but strong, smart women terrify me, so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, I had the fucking nerve to pretend to be Shocked!Shocked! that my Party was being run by degenerate lunatics.

Sorry Larry(Gellem), but the 40 million of us who have spent a considerable fraction of our lives trying to warn people like you this day would come will never be the slightest bit interested in your outrage or your regrets until you start beginning every sentence with "I am so fucking sorry that I had my head up my ass for the last 30 years."

Or, to quote Rick Blaine from “Casablanca:

“I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.”..."

Josh Marshall...sometimes you look for explanations to prevent you from coming to conclusions too quickly...to which I recommend you start reading driftglass.com (which not only supplies brilliant pictures in his archives but you end up on the same page sooner or later with his insight). Just recently from driftglass:

"...“Until eight years ago…”?

Bwahahahahaha!

You know, “independent” probably used to mean something once upon a time, but for the last few decades, “independent” has been nothing more than a smelly little grotto carved out of thin air by Cokie Roberts, David Broder, Joe Klein and a hundred others for the comfort of smug, gutless, closet Conservatives who wanted to play “Maverick – The Home Game” in public and masturbate to Rush Limbaugh in private.

An intellectual sniper’s nest for the craven and the clueless knocked together with little pundit hammers, bangbangbanging away morning, noon and night that both sides are equally wrong about everything all the time.

Actually, in a strange way, I almost of sympathize with the “Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager radio crowd” contempt for people like Larry.

For 30 years the Party of God has been winning elections by pandering to the scum of America, and they have always been

Absolutely

Unambiguously

Crystal-Fucking-Clear

what their objectives were.

Some of them want Jesusland. Some want “The Handmaid’s Tale”.

Some are sitting on an arsenal and a year's supply of pemmican, praying for a race-war.

Some want the Rapture.

And some just want a nice, tidy, White Christian feudal state.

And we crazy, Socialist, America-haters?

We want our country – our beautiful, tolerant, raucous, vigorous, flawed democracy – back.

That’s what the Culture Wars have been about, Larry, or weren’t you paying attention?

Of course, as long as the Pig People were helping Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich win, “independents” like Larry were perfectly content to warm their little hands on the bonfires onto which their culture and country were being tossed. But now that its all going to shit, and the “independents” want to get off the merry-go-round, the devil wants his due.

Of course, the Larrys of the world couldn’t be bothered to read the fine print on the infernal contract they were signing because…

First Atwater came for Reagan's "welfare queens"
- but I was not a welfare queen so I did not speak out.

Then Gingrich came for the Liberals and the Unions,
- but I was taught to call everyone who disagreed with me a traitor, so I did not speak out.

Then Falwell and Robertson came for the gays,
- but gays are icky, so I did not speak out.

Then Limbaugh came for the Feminazis
- but strong, smart women terrify me, so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, I had the fucking nerve to pretend to be Shocked!Shocked! that my Party was being run by degenerate lunatics.

Sorry Larry(Gellem), but the 40 million of us who have spent a considerable fraction of our lives trying to warn people like you this day would come will never be the slightest bit interested in your outrage or your regrets until you start beginning every sentence with "I am so fucking sorry that I had my head up my ass for the last 30 years."

Or, to quote Rick Blaine from “Casablanca:

“I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.”..."

sorry for the double post but I got a message after the first time I hit submit that said "there are no nodes available for your request"...what ever the hell that meant. But WTF...since I'm already here here's a further sample of Sunday show round-ups to incite you to driftgalss:
"...Scarbrorough: It is a Conservative country. Doesn’t matter that we’re looking at massive Democratic majorities in the Congress and a Democratic president, the voices in my head tell me that this is a nation of right wing fellow travelers who won’t stand for fucking Socialism!

Brooks: I might have been afraid that the Left would nationalize the banks, but we’ve already done that.

No word on whether or not Scarbrorough beat the crap out of David Fucking Brooks with a copy of "The Fountainhead" in the parking lot after the show.

“Fox News Sunday” forgot to pack its “Fair And Balanced” panties and goes a whole half hour with Cranky John and Plumber Joe.

Wallace: Aren’t you losing?

McSame Nooooo! (elaborated on for many, many minutes without pesky “journalismish” interruptions.)

McSame First time since Watergate that a candidate has raised a lot of money. Lot of “strange things” going on in this campaign, my friends.

Wallace: Is the scary Negro buying this election?

McSame What’s going to happen in future elections if someone – especially some incumbent – raises a ton of money!? Huh?

Funny how I don’t remember McSame’s shrieking in pain when he was campaigning hell for leather to get Dubya re-elected and this was the headline:

Bush dwarfs Democrats in fund raising

Friday, February 20, 2004 Posted: 3:07 PM EST (2007 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The re-election campaign of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney raised $12.8 million in January, far outpacing the amount raised by the top two Democratic presidential candidates, according to numbers released by campaign staffs.

Friday was the deadline for candidates' monthly fund-raising reports to the Federal Election Commission.

The Bush-Cheney '04 election campaign has raised $143.5 million since it began last May, said campaign press secretary Scott Stanzel.
...

And this:

Final Analysis of Bush-Kerry Fundraising Shows Heavy Reliance on Small Number of People Who Bundle Contributions

Special Interests With Large Stake in Federal Government Raised Enormous Sums for Bush, www.WhiteHouseForSale.org Analysis Shows

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The enormous sums bundled to boost the campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry accentuate the ability of well-financed special interests to dominate the financing of presidential campaigns and underscore the need for reform, according to an analysis Public Citizen released today.

Bush’s re-election campaign raised $262 million in the primary elections. At least 29 percent of the money Bush raised during the 2004 primaries – $76.5 million – came from only 548 bundlers, according to the analysis, available here. (Public Citizen estimates that this number is closer to 40 percent, based on news reports quoting many bundlers as having far exceeded the minimum they pledged to raise.)
…

Wallace: Are you suggesting that there is something illegal or scandalous going on?

McSame Raising lots of money always leads to scandal! This is the first time since Watergate that this has happened!

WTF?

Wallace: What about that your plumber dude?

McSame What is happening in America where someone gets savaged for just askin’ a candidate a question?

Wallace: But you mentioned him 21 times.

McSame: Fuck you. It was the media that did that, I tell’s ya! The filthy, Lefty media!

Wallace: Is the scary Negro also a smutty Socialist?

McSame: He’s a Liberal Lefty! He wants to redistribute wealth.

Wallace: But Senator, you just voted to spend 700 billion dollars to nationalize our banks.

McSame: When Republicans do stuff, it doesn’t count. Besides, uh, y’know, the Depression. ACORN! And stuff!

Wallace: About those Robocalls. (Plays one. It is just as despicable and inflammatory as you’d imagine. “You should know…” Ayers. Domestic terrorist. Bombed and killed Americans. And so forth.)

McSame: That is all absolutely true!

Wallace: But in 2000 you were the victim of just such a campaign. You swore you would never do such a thing. Now you’re running these ads, using the same people who fucked you over in 2000.

McSame: When Republicans do stuff, it doesn’t count. Also ACORN. Ayers. Sooooocialism. Joe The Plumber.

Wallace: Once these filthy Socialists take over, how will they ruin America?

McSame: Taxes. Protectionism. Condoms on babies. Shooting plumbers from helicopters and raising their orphaned children to be Muslim queers.

Wallace: Obama wants to give tax credits to poor people. You call it welfare. You’re health care plan gives tax credits to the same people. Why isn’t that welfare too?

McSame: When Republicans do stuff, it doesn’t count.

Wallace: But if Democrats take even more power in the Congress, and you say their agenda is radically evil and far Left, how are you – even with all you Sekrit Maverick Powers -- plan to work with those fucking Marxist haters who want to destroy America?

McSame: Hey, Reagan worked with Democrats. So, y’know, like that.

So…the McSame plan is to…reanimate the mortal remains of Tip O’Neill and St. Ronnie?

Hop in the Wayback Machine and go back a quarter of a century before Conservative ideas had proven beyond all doubt to be such complete and abject failures?

Wallace: Isn’t Caribou Barbie now a drag on you ticket?

McSame: No, her magnificent ass makes me feel alive again! she is a direct rebuttal to the radical feminist agenda for America.

And the beat-down goes on...

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