Loathsome then; loathsome now. Any buddy of Cheney’s has already told me all I need to know about him.

This analogy is NOT FOR CHILDREN OR THE TENDER OF STOMACH. I’m not even sure why it occurs to me; none the less, it seems unshakably apropos: I remember a girl friend of mine telling me about a hamster she had that was taken ill. For days she nursed it, encouraged at length by the faint motion indicating that it was hanging on. For another day or two, she waited, then worked up the courage to try to pick it up. That was when she found that the entirety of the animal hidden in the folds of its blanket was gone to maggots, who were the true source of the movement. The hamster had been dead for days. The whole vignette seems to me to sum up the present Republican party. I doubt that it merits a decent burial; but do let’s get it out of the house and into the ground.

Not exactly the kind of slug I think of when I consider Sanders.

This particular alum doesn’t speak at all well for the law school at Dartmouth. I’m sure, however, they don’t feel that way.

That tweet up top isn’t real is it? Is it?

Two words: Soweto, necklace. Give them something to cry about.

Does this loathsome invertebrate now have so much hardware implanted that he can’t die? What a depressing thought.

You make my mouth water…

Would like to know A) What the proximity of gas drilling operations are to any of Cheney’s property.
B) How much of his drinking water has been fouled by frakking.

Scum.

Obama’s true constituency, the bankers, won’t be terribly troubled by this. In fact, they’re probably having a good chortle over it right about now. No matter who loses, they win. “We’re there, boys; the promised land!”

Can anyone cite a study that attempts to explain the psychological compartmentalization enabling the pathological hypocrisy of these people? Try as I might, I just don’t get it.

Spot on. Whose kid is this mewling brat, anyway. The Palin slobbering by itself would have cast him into obscurity if there was a fleck of sanity among these lunatics.

I watched it, but can’t say that I would have continued to. Seemed to me nothing so much as a bald, pricey attempt to clone the success of Mad Men. Ashes to Ashes, yadda yadda.

Hi Christopher; Thank you for this. Daniel Lazare, some years ago in “The Frozen Republic” advocated for a new constitutional convention, and made a good case for it, I thought. That was in the late ’90s, then 9/11 happened, and I still can’t stop wondering what we would have wound up with if a constitutional convention had happened in, oh, say, Spring to 2012. I’m still nervous about it, minus an electorate considerably more informed than the one we have now. I realize this is one of the aims of Constitution Cafe, but how could we ensure that a new convention wouldn’t be commandeered by the likes of Bachmann, Ryan, Paul and West, with an able assist from such as Boehner and McConnell?

YOWZA!

Tell me if I’m missing something here, but it seems that with the momentum this occupation/protest is taking on, it would be a grave error to pull up stakes and move to D. C. October 6th. Not to downplay or minimize D. C. October 6th, but with the attention finally beginning to collect and support beginning to assemble, wouldn’t leaving Liberty Park be somewhat equivalent to the Afghanistan/Iraq fiasco? A decent contingent should remain at Liberty Park.

If we could just sabotage forty or fifty million cable tv hookups, we’d have this thing cinched.

On 9-11 I was living in Peekskill, NY, 40 miles up the Hudson Valley from Manhattan, and as I fired up the computer for the morning and read the headline in tiny type on my Excite home page “World Trade Center Destroyed,” it took me about equal time to learn that it was not a Cessna but two jetliners that had brought down the towers, and to realize that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, the whole scummy pack had just had their entire agenda handed to them on a silver plate. Like Sarah Vowel, it was the poverty of my pessimistic imagination in realizing the harm this gang of thugs would do to the country that I found particularly dispiriting (Vowel: I thought he’d just wreck the economy and dirty the drinking water”), but to see them weighing in on the decennial is almost as bad. If Bin Laden really knew the caliber of people he was empowering (which I doubt), he was one of the most brilliant tacticians in history. Anyone who thinks Bin Laden’s gambit was any less than a roaring success hasn’t been paying attention. And every day that Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and Condoleeza Rice walk free is just further proof.