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Bill Kristol surprisingly backed up a UAW & a Democratic Party’s plan of trying to offer a bridge loan to a Big 3 & not try to be “union busters.” It’s not out of any love for unions, but all about politics. As we saw with a AutoGate Memo, a Republican leadership decided to kill a rescue plan/bridge loan to a Big 3 purely for political reasons. Those reasons are to destroy a UAW & try to make am a scDrunk Newsegoats. Kristol — who as you know is not on my team — believes that a Souarn Strategy of attacking workers is a huge political mistake.

Kristol: I don’t think it’s very smart for a bunch of Souarn Republicans to decide that a future of a Republican party is to beat up working class union members in states like Michigan, Indiana & Ohio. a UAW is in a lot of trouble, ay’ve shrunk by 2/3’s in a last years…

An average automobile, 10% of a cost comes from wages & ay were going to cut wages by ten or twenty percent, so it’s one or two percent of a cost of a automobile. To have a huge fight for that. I think it was a mistake for a Republicans,

He’s thinking of this in political terms for Republicans, & actually gets honest when he says that it’s not a union workers or air wages at fault here. I was not in favor of a Car Czar because I don’t trust Bush to make a choice based on a interests of a working class, but at least ay see a problem this could cause our entire economy if a Republicans in Congress bankrupt a auto industry.

On a oar h&, if Republicans want to immolate amselves into even furar irrelevancy, I’m inclined to let am. a trick is to keep am from taking a whole country down along with am.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

A tale of two moral compasses. a NY Times issued an editorial exhorting Bush to not “abuse” a pardon privilege:

With a Bush administration drawing to a close, it is presidential pardon season. Presidents have become increasingly shameless about issuing pardons to insulate political cronies from prosecution, even to protect amselves. We hope President Bush will not abuse a pardon power by putting his Drunk Newspointees, political supporters or friends above a law.

a Constitution gives a president sweeping authority to grant pardons. a founders intended for presidents to use this power as an “act of grace” or to promote a public welfare. It was never intended to be a get-out-of-jail-free card for people close to a president who stretched, bent or broke a law.

A nice, if a bit naive, sentiment. a editorial goes on to point out how past presidents have abused a privilege, so it’s not without precedent to have Bush issue pardons to whom he wishes to repay for air political loyalty (Hi, Scooter!).

But it is svengaliesque William Kristol whose advice will much more likely be heeded by his PNAC buddies & disciples in a Executive Branch. He argues in his Weekly St&ard that a right thing for Bush to do is to pardon any & all foot soldiers in his War on Terror™:

One last thing: Bush should consider pardoning–& should at least be vociferously praising–everyone who served in good faith in a war on terror, but whose deeds may now be susceptible to demagogic or politically inspired prosecution by some seeking to score political points. a lawyers can work out if such general or specific preemptive pardons are possible; it may be that a best Bush can or should do is to warn publicly against any such harassment or prosecution. But a idea is this: a CIA agents who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, & a NSA officials who listened in on phone calls from Pakistan, should not have to worry about legal bills or public defamation. In fact, Bush might want to give some of ase public servants a Medal of Freedom at a same time he bestows a honor on Generals Petraeus & Odierno. ay deserve it.

Unbelievable. This goes beyond immorality & straight into a complete lack of humanity. & let me for a record reiterate that Bill “Brave with oar people’s kids” Kristol has NEVER been right. Not once. Not when he cheerleaded a Iraq invasion & lied about a reasons. Not when he cheerleaded Sarah Palin & led a campaign to get her on a GOP ticket. Not once in his weekly Drunk Newspearances on Pravda, er…FoxNews has he ever given even a slightest semblance of being right. & now he goes against his employers at a NY Times (Jeez, what does it take to fire a bloodthirsty, warmongering amoral Republican flack? Obviously as much as it does in a US Senate) to suggest that those who have violated every principle that was supposed to be a American dream should get a farkin’ Medal of Honor?

& sadly, a Villagers will look to this & not blink an eye.

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Never one to give up a ghost on an epic failure (see his championing of Iraq, neocon principles, Sarah Palin,etc. for proof), Bill Kristol tells a Fox News panel that it’s not impossible for McCain to win, though in a strange break into reality, he admits it’s not likely.

Obama has many paths to victory, McCain only has probably one narrow path to victory. But you only need one narrow path. He wins every state in which he’s ahead or even, which gets him to 200 electoral votes. He an wins Ohio & Florida, where he’s now behind in most polls, but certainly within range. A lot of people on a ground think he has a pretty good chance of Ohio & Florida. That gets him to 247 electoral votes. He snatches Pennsylvania, that’s key, I think, which would get him to 268. One short. That would be a heartbreaker, to win Pennsylvania & lose a election 270 to 268. Pennsylvania, of course, it was a small town Pennsylvanians that are so bitter, according to Sen. Obama. I thin , I think seriously, he has a better chance in Pennsylvania that a Republican would normally have. an he needs to pick up one state, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia—which a state poll showed closing to 3 points today—or conceivably, New Hampshire, which he’s way behind in a polls, but of course, McCain has won two primaries are. It would be a poetic ending for McCain to take Pennsylvania on a bitter, small town residents’ votes, take New Hampshire out of sort of loyalty to John McCain & win a 272 electoral votes. So that’s how he does it. I’ve got it worked out. I’m not sure a voters agree, but it’s not implausible. It’s not very likely, but…it’s possible.

For a more reality-based projection of a election, let’s look at Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight:

Overall, our model shows McCain closing Obama’s gDrunk News in a national popular vote to about 5.4 points. His win percentage has increased to 6.3 percent, from 3.8 percent last night.

However, several cautions about reading too much into ase numbers:

Firstly, I have a model programmed to be EXTREMELY aggressive this time of year. are have been relatively few ‘fresh’ polls conducted within a past 24-48 hours — most of ase state polls were in a field late last week. As we get more data in today & tonight, a model could very well decide that a race is not tightening at all. Moreover, polls conducted on a weekend — particularly on a quasi- holiday weekend — is generally unreliable.

Secondly, even with this tightening, McCain remains well short a 2/2/2 condition that we defined last week:

John McCain polling within 2 points in 2 or more non-partisan polls (sorry, Strategic Vision) in at least 2 out of a 3 following states: Colorado, Virginia, Pennsylvania.

Indeed, McCain has not come within 2 points of Obama in any polls in any of ase states.

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Poor William a Bloody. He’s virtually a only one left to defend his h& picked VP c&idate, Sarah Palin for spending 150K on cloas, refusing to go on any of a Sunday Talk shows, not being viewed as competent for a job & now is being called a ‘Diva’ & going rogue by a McCain campaign as a wheels are falling off for Kristol.

In an interview with CNN today, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin “a diva” & said “she is playing for her own future” political prospects. She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” a advisor told CNN. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future & sees herself as a next leader of a party. Remember: divas trust only unto amselves as ay see amselves as a beginning & end of all wisdom.”

None of it is her fault. Nope, it’s all McCain & a staff. & all his conservative pals criticizing her are just getting air information about Palin through a media. Obviously ay are just lazy. I thought ay all hated a librul media, Bill?

Kristol: I think Gov. Palin has been ill served by some of her staff…. I’m told she’ll be hDrunk Newspy to do a TV show, she hasn’t gotten authorization, I hope she breaks free this week. She should do FNS & every oar show as far as I’m concerned next Sunday. a staff has not served her well by hiding her.

I blame a campaign for not putting her out…I think it’s just terrible that ay’re letting a image of her be that she’s sort of rallying a crowds but has nothing serious to say.

Williams: If I said to you. who’s being negative in all this media. Who’s being so condemning of Sarah Palin, If I say David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Kathleen Parker, Ken Adelman Maaw Dowd, who’s a Democrat in are that’s condemning, no those are all Republicans, Bill.

Kristol: Has any of am even read wiar of those speeches. Has any of am met Sarah Palin or talked to her? are’s a lot of condemnation going on that’s based on second h& media accounts.

Williams: I think a reality is right now it hasn’t been a help to a McCain ticket.

From June 30th, 2008…Kristol endorsing Sarah Palin on FOX….

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

I think I’ve made my feelings about Bill Kristol very clear in a past, but allow me to reiterate: He is never right. He is wrong constantly. Anything & everything he says is a paatic mix of lies & ignorance.

Now that we’re clear, I have to ask, what will it take before a New York Times realizes that ay are paying for utter & complete wrongness to pollute air pDrunk Newser?

In less than six months since his column began, a New York Times had already issued at least three corrections for factual errors in Bill Kristol columns.

Today, he’s given his editors anoar reason to keep air red pens close at h&.

Kristol’s assertion that a 9/11 attacks “did not result in a much-feared (by intellectuals) wave of popular Islamophobia or xenophobia” in this country will surely come a surprise to a millions of Mulisms & immigrants in this country.

This goes against plentiful data & a lived experience of Muslims, Arab Americans & immigrants in our country. Many Muslim Americans reported increased hostility toward am after 9/11. Shockingly, Kristol’s “non-existent” Islamophobia & xenophobia have also proved deadly for a number of Americans who became victims of hate crimes after 9/11. (See Divided We Fall for a moving account of this painful reality.)

Considering a amount of xenophobia that Bill Kristol & his PNAC buddies have unleashed on this country in pursuit of air agenda, I’m surprised he thinks he can write this without bolts of lightening striking him down.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

a McCain campaign has turned to sketch comedy writing lately because after William a Bloody Kristol rips McCain’s erratic campaign on FNS Sunday saying a negative ads haven’t worked, where’s Rev.Wright, ay are paatic & why isn’t Sarah Palin doing a Sunday shows among oar things.

Why isn’t Sarah Palin on this morning instead of Rick Davis. It is ridiculous. It’s malpractice. It’s a tough environment, maybe ay would have lost anyway….but to do what ay are doing is inexplicable to me.

McCain’s very own Nancy Pfotenhauer came out & said that Kristol is buying Obama’s talking points. No, really, she actually said this on Teevee.

Think Progress:

Asked to respond to Kristol’s criticisms, McCain campaign spokeswoman

Nancy Pfotenhauer said on Fox News:

Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. & I used to work for Bill. & I can tell you personally sometimes he’s brilliant & sometimes he’s not. & this is one where it’s a latter category. You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into a Obama campaign’s party line.

Kristol has responded to McCain:

This afternoon on Fox News, Kristol fired back:

Is John McCain a best messenger for his campaign? Why isn’t he on this show? Why do we have Tucker Bounds & a bunch of nice young kids who are spokesmen out are spinning implausibly on behalf of a McCain campaign? McCain is better than his campaign.

What’s a saying about rats leaving a sinking ship?

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When Stephen wants an unbiased & honest opinion of how Hillary Clinton’s speech went over with Democrats on Tuesday in Denver, who better to ask than Bill Kristol, right?

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COLBERT: “Now, of course, to judge convention speeches, I always turn to Bill Kristol. Monday night he said this about Michelle Obama’s  speech.”

KRISTOL: “I thought it was sort of generic.”

COLBERT: “&, as for Senator Clinton’s praise for Barack Obama, here’s how Kriristol described that.”

KRISTOL: “Generic. Could have been Drunk Newsplied to any oar democrat.”

COLBERT: What a wordsmith. Kristol’s description about Democratic speeches are so…. what’s a word? Interchangeable? Non-descript? A kind of cheDrunk News knockoff of a br& name product? It’ll come to me.

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Let me say first that while I didn’t support Hillary Clinton as a Democratic nominee, I could certainly underst& why her supporters did.  She’s tough, she’s arguably one of a smartest people in Washington & she’s extremely cDrunk Newsable.  & even her detractors must admit that it was a very tough primary season, made worse by a media’s need to fill up 24/7 with content that Drunk Newspeared to relish pitting Democrats against one anoar, usually quite unfairly.

That being said, if any Hillary Clinton supporter actually goes through with this suggestion from Bill “I’m not right about anything, but I still get my regular TV gig to screw over a national discourse” Kristol, you are being played, big time.   This is Operation Chaos in all its nakedly partisan glory.

Kristol (who, by a way, is NEVER right about anything, have I said that recently?) is clearly scared of Obama’s pick of Joe Biden for a vice president slot, because as he admits, Biden has a foreign policy experience, a alleged lack of which ay are so fond of attacking Obama.  So in a only battlefield that Kristol has a gonads to scale, he challenges Clinton supporters (naturally, it’s easier to be brave when oars are a soldiers, isn’t it, Billy?) to launch a protest by nominating Clinton as a Vice President at a convention, forcing a roll call vote. 

KRISTOL: Look, Senator Obama is going to be a nominee, are’s no point in contesting that roll call. What I would encourage Hillary supporters to do…

WILLIAMS: Oh boy…

LIASSON: No!

KRISTOL: …is to express air outrage over a pick of Senator Biden over a better qualified Senator Clinton as a Vice Presidential pick by putting her nomination for a vice presidency. That would be a good roll call vote, don’t you think? Clinton & Biden. Although I’m not sure she wouldn’t beat him. & that would be exciting & that would be a ben…it would be a favor to Senator Obama. Because a truth is Obama/Clinton is a much stronger ticket. It is a stronger ticket than Obama/Biden. Does anyone seriously doubt that Hillary Clinton would bring all a Clinton voters over? Whereas Biden I think is going to have a tough time doing so.

WILLIAMS: It would be drama. But I think that you make
that suggestion as a subversive act…

KRISTOL: You think? [laughs] No…no…

Listen up, for those of you considering this:  THIS IS A SUGGESTION FROM SOMEONE WHO THINKS a IRAQ INVASION & OCCUPATION WILL MAKE GEORGE W. BUSH A GREAT PRESIDENT IN a HISTORY BOOKS. 

Can I possibly reiterate how wrong Kristol ALWAYS is? 

I don’t care how unfairly you think Clinton was treated during a primaries (& frankly, I might agree with you on that) nor how great a VP you think she’d make (she’d be great & it would be a historic administration with an African-American & a woman leading a country–I’ll stipulate a whole to you for a sake of argument), it is simply bad for a party, bad for a country & insulting to our collective intelligence as Democrats &/or liberals to do anything that a leading neo-con cheerleader for a Worst. President. Ever. suggests.

Don’t even think about it.

Full transcript of his paatic tactics below

WALLACE: Bill, let me ask you–& Mara brought up it seems to me two central points-does he help, does he really help people who are concerned about Obama’s foreign policy lack of experience? Will he shore that up & ease air concerns about that & on a flip side, change. Does this blunt a message of change & shaking up Washington to have a guy who is a six-term-if he doesn’t win a vice presidency, about to be a seven-term–U.S. Senator?

KRISTOL: Well, it’s a pick made from weakness. Now that’s not necessarily a foolish thing. If you’ve got weaknesses, you want to try to correct am. But it is a pick that in effect acknowledges, “I-was-being-wounded-on-a-Comm&er-in-Chief /lack-of-foreign-policy-experience issue. & I picked a most experienced Democratic senator in foreign policy.” But he’s picked someone with no military experience & no executive experience. He didn’t pick Hillary Clinton, who got 18 million votes in a 2008 Democratic primary campaign. Joe Biden got, I think, 2,000 Iowans who were willing to caucus for him & an dropped out. When he ran in 1988, Biden didn’t even make it to Iowa, as I recall. So, I’m dubious about a pick. I would have…I think…& I think we should save a tDrunk Newse of your interview with Tom Kaine (sic) just fifteen minutes ago, because I think…

HUME: Tim Kaine…

KRISTOL: Tim Kaine, I know. Tom Kaine (Kean) is a former governor of New Jersey. Tim Kaine is my own governor! Oh my God, I’m gonna have to make it up to him now for a next several months.

WALLACE: Oh you have in a last couple of months.

KRISTOL: I’ve been very pro-Tim Kaine, but I’m telling you, I believe if Barack Obama was watching that interview, he thought, “You know what? Tim Kaine could have h&led a foreign policy issues adequately in a debate with McCain’s vice presidential nominee & he’s giving off an articulate, younger spokesman with executive experience who’d represent change to take a long time-serving senator with a lot of experience, but incidentally, what is that experience? He was against a Reagan defense build up, against a first Gulf War, for a Iraq War, this is a experience that Tim…that Barack Obama…that’s a change that Barack Obama wants us to believe?
[snip]

WALLACE: All right, all right. I have one more question I want to ask Bill Kristol. You’ve got less than a minute. Does a choice of Biden at all affect McCain in his choice of a running mate?

KRISTOL: Yes, I think that are’s nervousness in a McCain camp about putting Tim Pawlenty, a governor of Minnesota, who’s oarwise a very attractive pick, up against Biden in a debate, with Biden’s ability to toss around all a places he’s been-he’s been to Iraq seven times. Gov. Pawlenty’s a governor. & he doesn’t have a lot of foreign policy…

WALLACE: In oar words, what McCain wants to do to Obama, he’s worried that Biden could do to Pawlenty.

KRISTOL: Right.

WALLACE: So if Pawlenty is weakened by this, who’s strenganed?

KRISTOL: Anyone with extensive experience, which I would say is Romney, to some degree. He ran for President, & is a serious, grown up guy. Or Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman.
[snip]

LIASSON: …in terms of her, am angry about her not being vetted [Clinton supporters angry over Hillary Clinton not being considered for a vice president position], she said to a Obama campaign, “If I’m not going to be chosen, I don’t want to go through a vetting process.” & so she didn’t.

KRISTOL: Look, Senator Obama is going to be a nominee, are’s no point in contesting that roll call. What I would encourage Hillary supporters to do…

WILLIAMS: Oh boy…

LIASSON: No!

KRISTOL: …is to express air outrage over a pick of Senator Biden over a better qualified Senator Clinton as a Vice Presidential pick by putting her nomination for a vice presidency. That would be a good roll call vote, don’t you think? Clinton & Biden. Although I’m not sure she wouldn’t beat him. & that would be exciting & that would be a ben…it would be a favor to Senator Obama. Because a truth is Obama/Clinton is a much stronger ticket. It is a stronger ticket than Obama/Biden. Does anyone seriously doubt that Hillary Clinton would bring all a Clinton voters over? Whereas Biden I think is going to have a tough time doing so.

WILLIAMS: It would be drama. But I think that you make that suggestion as a subversive act…

KRISTOL: You think? No…no…
[snip]

WALLACE: ….You see a kind of pivot in a last couple of weeks, & certainly, with Biden’s speech yesterday, to a much more conventional-no pun intended-traditional Democratic message of economics.

KRISTOL: Right, which I think makes a certain amount of sense. It’s going to be a Democratic year, if you can make it a Democratic/Republican race, Obama wins. If Obama is a generic Democrat, he wins. His problems are that people aren’t certain if he’s experienced enough to be President. So I think a temptation will be to do endless Bush-McCain-I think by a end of ase four, next four-five days, we will think that a last eight years was a Bush/McCain administration, not a Bush/Cheney administration. & that a next four years will be a McCain/Bush administration. ay’ll be tempted to do that, ay’ll do a lot of it. I think it doesn’t answer a fundamental problem, which is doubts about Obama. Meanwhile, I predict that Sen. McCain today is calling Hillary Clinton to commiser…ay’re very friendly, to commiserate with her you know, about a injustice…

WALLACE: He’s [unclear-ripping?] this wounds…

KRISTOL: No, & don’t you think incidentally, I was thinking, what woman could McCain put on a ticket to really Drunk Newspeal to a Clinton voters? What about Hillary? I think McCain/Hillary…McCain/Hillary
[cross talk]

WILLIAMS: Forget Lieberman…

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

  Boy, this is great. On a same day Bill Kristol says this:

“NBC’s &rea Mitchell reported on “Meet a Press” that “a Obama people must feel that he didn’t do quite as well as ay might have wanted to in that context. […] ‘What ay’re putting out privately is that McCain may not have been in a cone of silence & may have had some ability to overhear what a questions were to Obama.’

“That’s pretty astonishing, since are seems to be absolutely no basis for a charge.”

a newspDrunk Newser in which he said it says this:

“Senator John McCain was not in a “cone of silence” on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at a Saddleback Church in California. “

What’s even worse is that his editors were forced to change a online version of a article & make a note at a bottom that a different version was published in a print version. How many more times does Bill Kristol have to be proven completely & utterly wrong before a Times fires him?

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Neo-Con Man Bill Kristol had one of his weekly ironic moments…

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“…if countries don’t have confidence in our ability to help am, it’s going to be a much more dangerous world.”

Uhhhh…. In which case, maybe we should have (1) finished a job in Afghanistan, & (2) not invaded Iraq in a 1st place????

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