Step Away From The BlackBerry, Sir…

If he was in high school he’d be the guy posting the keg party pics on MySpace.

http://twitter.com/osamabinladen
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Yep. I guess.

The question is when are they going to smack him upside his friggin head. Imma pull a K Tizzle right now. “Imagine if a Democrat would have done that” Freeper and Red State would be calling for the guy to be thrown out of Congress and tortured.

I’m forced to admit that the Internet feels different than real life and I routinely type things that I wouldn’t say in person (usually in the direction of being ruder)
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But that’s just plain STUPID

Once again proving the Republicans really understand the term National Security. I bet there’s some US command officers in Iraq more than just a little disjointed over this major lapse in security. After all it’s their troop’s lives on the line protecting this idiot from himself.

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Pete Hoekstra is a wingnut with a big mouth…

On November 3, 2006, The New York Times reported that a website created at the request of Hoekstra and Senator Pat Roberts was found to contain detailed information that could be helpful to anyone seeking to produce nuclear weapons….

…September 17, 2007, major news outlets [were] reporting that the Congressional committee he oversees is creating “erroneous” and “misleading” reports about Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

…and an overinflated sense of importance, both of which make him pull some terribly stupid stunts. Now he’s thinking of running for governor of Michigan with support of the Amway Republicans from the west side of the state. God help us all if he wins.

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Seriously, someone should think about getting him off of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence since he just loves to shoot his mouth off…
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Want to know how to get your message out? Telegraph, telephone, tell-a-Hoekstra.

Is Geraldo Rivera traveling with them?

Good to know that JoeK’s BFF is such a smart guy.
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Perhaps he thought his message would get stuck in the intertubes for a couple of days?

The twiterers Osamabinladen is following are pretty funny.

Ill bet Joe The Plumber is gonna be PISSED!! LOL

Is it possible Hoekstra thought it was going an RNC account? They lose millions of emails all the time. He’s the former chairman of the Intelligence committee and breaks security so blatantly…suddenly a couple of democrats “forgetting” to pay their taxes seems so much more plausible.

OT, but sure would be nice if some journalists out there decided to cover this: The RNC begs for help on right wing talk radio.
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Just a thought.

wvng-”Doctor” Laura still has a show? Who knew?

I’m more convinced than ever that Republicans TRY to be malfeasant.

They are trying to make the stimulus less effective, yes. They are literally trying to make the recession worse in order to improve their electoral prospects. It’s Kristol’s health care letter all over again. If the Democrats can recover from the clusterf___ of 6 years of Republican “policy”making, then it’ll be decades in the wilderness for the Republicans.

Agree with wvng. A blog like this would be a great place for a serious journalist to investigate the RNC’s unashamed alliance with such hatemongers as Bob Grant and Michael Savageweiner, and convicted criminals like G Gordon Liddy.

I just wish Liberace would’ve had one and twittered “I like dudes,” b/c I did not see that coming.

pourmecoffee: Liberace was a stunner. When I heard that, all the feathers fell out of my boa.

[...] he is still doing it! CQ politics writes (according to Swampland) that ‘a member of the House Intelligence Committee wrote a Twitter about a trip to Iraq, [...]

What an irresponsibe moron!

Orin Hatch gave Osama Hoekstra’s twitter address.

A suggestion for KT, who is careful about what she says in this uncertain economic environment for her chosen career. You clearly have the soul of a blogger, how about doubling down with the High Sheriffs and tell them that Time needs a blogger named K-Tum who is unconstrained by concern over stepping on toes and simply letting the chips fall where they may.
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Ex-TPMer Greg Sargent is doing that at the Post, and is getting lots of hits and is schooling his bosses in the process. For example, this excellent post: On The Origins And Meaning Of The Term, “The Villagers”.

words fail me. (acceptable, printable words)

kathy, it’s just us here. And if you write in a white font we won’t be able to read what you wrote. So go ahead, tell us what you really think.

wvng – thanks wvng, guess I will. Here goes:

Oh, and also:

kathy, thanks for speaking up.

Hoekstra is something of a Twitter twits, apparently. You can take an old dog to water, but you can’t teach him tricks.

wvng, Thanks for the link to Greg Sargent. I followed him from The Horse’s Mouth, but kind of lost him in the TPM brand. When he left he gave his e-mail address, but I never followed up.
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As to Hoekstra, unbridled ego or just dumb?

We need a few Democrats in Congress to step into High Dudgeon mode and call for Hoekstra to be thrown off the “intelligence” committee! Eh.. why am I dreaming. Democrats fight fair.

Totally OT, but – 2 Cows Economics.
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Who wants to add items for the republicans and the “centrists” who are so pleased with themselves today for taking the stimulus out of the stimulus package?

wvng, the other day we talked about NPR and how it has veered right for some time. Did you hear WESAT this morning when SS interviewed Joe Scarborough on the stimulus and the latest Washington news? Yikes!
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On the web page the segment is identified as a Republican point of view or something like that. In my e-mail to the program I linked to the interview with Brezenshi (sp) where he pointed out JS’s lack of expertise on much of anything. And, of course, the very serious economic thinker Juan Williams had already weighed in.

Sheesh. If any of us lesser mortals did this, it would be bye-bye security clearance. At the very least he should be off the panel.

Imagine what would have happened if within the span of 2 days, the Democrats compared themselves to the Taliban and gave out secret info regarding the movement of important officials in the ME. It would be 24/7 non stop, head shaking pundit nonsense. It’s too bad Time doesn’t employ a media critic to comment on stuff like that.

I think this would be a bigger story if anyone cared what Repubs do or think. They’re doing everything they can (like breach national security, destroy our economy, mutilate public education, etc.) to not disappear into utter irrelevance. They are so desperate for attention and news coverage, they will likely go Amy Winehouse and just trash themselves so the world will at least be watching them.
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ivb, it’s not ego nor stupidity, it’s that girl in a junior high dance who can’t stand not having every eye on her all the time. Adolescent insecurity with a PAC.
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cincy. Yep a media critic blogger would be even better and more immediate.
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ivb, I thankfuly missed that episode. I think it is important for NPR to give unfettered access to the bat$hit insane to peddle anything that they chose to say -otherwise their widdle self esteem might be harmed.
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It is truly sad. I remember when NPR could be depended on, as Maddow said last night, “to take the radical step of privileging correct information over incorrect information.” That they no longer care about the truth saddens me, an NPR listener for my entire adult life, beyond belief. Here’s Rachel:
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/29062335#29062335

By the way of topic and back to the economic stimulus, I just want to point out that we are getting hosed right now for one reason and one reason only. Because we have a milque toast as a majority leader. Right now we should be hearing the Rethug bloviators try to speechify their way through a filibuster which would without a doubt fail. Instead my Tee Vee is stuffed with people still saying the deal isn’t bi partisan even though we took 100 billion of needed stimulus out just to accomodate 3 Rethug ass holes. How in the phuck can we get a new Majority Leader because if the only way is if Harry Reid is defeated in 2010 then I am going to do my dammdest to help whoever runs against him in the primary and or the general. And I am dammed serious

sgw – -I’ll help.

The Washington Post has an ombudsperson; does Time?

Excellent link, wvng, thank you so much.

This breach in security is doubly bad news for Hoekstra. Not only do the terrorists know his whereabouts, but at this present moment I am seducing his wife Diane.
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Should I be twitting this?

acidj, you should have posted in a white font.

Can’t wait for the Hoekster to opine regarding the insufficient experience of Leon Panetta. He and Vitter may prove conclusively the Goppers have no shame.

OT, but highly satifying: Vitter gets pantsed by Durbin on ACORN.

But if you don’t get to draw PR attention to a PR trip, what is the use?

Want to know the price of bipartisanship? 600,000 jobs
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http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_02/016796.php
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According to Krugman
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Now the centrists have shaved off $86 billion in spending — much of it among the most effective and most needed parts of the plan. In particular, aid to state governments, which are in desperate straits, is both fast — because it prevents spending cuts rather than having to start up new projects — and effective, because it would in fact be spent; plus state and local governments are cutting back on essentials, so the social value of this spending would be high. But in the name of mighty centrism, $40 billion of that aid has been cut out.
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My first cut says that the changes to the Senate bill will ensure that we have at least 600,000 fewer Americans employed over the next two years.

The guy should lose his security clearance. He obviously is mentally challenged and can’t be trusted. Send him back to the sandbox.

May I point out for the record that Ben Nelson, Susan Collins et al are functional morons. Some of the cuts are just plain stupid. Greening federal buildings will pay for itself and then some. They always made nice even cuts too. It wasn’t like they were cutting $40,355,348.64 from a program, but $40,000,000 even. This is democracy by stupid people whom David Broder will pay homage to, because he is their leader.
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The money for energy grants was slashed a billion. Why? I would like to put Claire McCaskill in a room, under hot lights and demand her to take a basic math test. Lieberman of course joined the group, guaranteeing, it would be asinine.
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oh, cutting the federal car fleet upgrade to energy efficient cars in half was another brilliant move. These people need to be tarred and feathered. Chevy has the Volt coming out this year. It’s supposed to be a great car. 8 gallon gas tank that never gets used unless you drive over 80 miles in a day. It would be nice for something like that to succeed, have the fuel usage taken out of the system, help a struggling economy, the workers there, etc.
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I hate our stupid leaders.

Wasn’t our stupid leaders, it was our stupid Republicans…

Pearlstein suggests sending the morons to school, in an appropriately unsparing Post op-ed:
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As long as we’re about to spend gazillions to stimulate the economy, I’d like to suggest we throw in another $53.5 million for a cause dear to all business journalists: economic literacy. And what better place to start than right here in Washington.
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My modest proposal is that lawmakers be authorized to hire personal economic trainers over the coming year to sit by their sides as they fashion the government’s response to the economic crisis and prevent them from uttering the kind of nonsense that has characterized the debate over the stimulus bill during the last two weeks.

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No it WAS our stupid leaders. The Republicans should be in the midst of their second day of filibusting the original bill right now period. There was no need to strip anything from the bill. Bill Clinton got his budget through without a single Republican vote and the country prospered because of it. Sometimes those who forget history are doomed to not repeat it.
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wvng
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Jillian over at Sadly, No beat the brakes off of Newsweek over their new “We are all socialists now” cover.
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http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/16988.html
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Great stuff

wvng Says:
” .. As long as we’re about to spend gazillions to stimulate the economy, I’d like to suggest we throw in another ..” $10 billion to provide safe, clean drinking water to almost all of our god’s children on earth.

After all, didn’t we read a few days ago that GWB#43 hastily threw away $72 billion just before he left office?
How about the over $20 billion dollars wasted – not on the efficient and prosperous producers in the auto industry but – on inefficient, failing auto companies run by incompetent, acquisitive, hedonistic goofballs?
How about the $700 billion given to the worthless financial industry of bloated financial buffoons [who then 'award' themselves by going on expensive vacations and buying expensive, top-of-the-line corporate jets ...] ?

Wouldn’t the moral Americans feel more fulfilled if a tenth (‘tithe’?) of that wastage was spent doing good in god’s world – other than pandering to, and titillating, anti-social low-achievers among us?

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[By the way, who would notice it if we slipped $20 billion dollars into a $1,000 billion dollar package? After all we slip in that kind of money on top of our budget every year for Israel - and our rascist KKK and our hard-working, very hard-working hillibillies of the Appalachia hardly notice it ..]

[Ahem. If we (and our 'hateful ideology' embraced by the likes of supremacist, christian KKK and hillbillies) don't DO good ('sins of omission'?), then are we more worthy of 'heaven' than those we lambaste - such as the 'Islamists' (of the 'hateful ideology' prominently hated by BHO)?]

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