Lindsay is destroying whatever reputation he once had:
https://twitter.com/norskladywolf/status/1156983444020310016?s=21
Paraphrasing Shakespeare:
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
‘T is mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Republican,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
Which if thou follow, this Senate Judiciary Committee
Must needs give sentence ‘gainst the children of asylum seekers there.
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Leningrad Lindsay long ago destroyed his reputation. He’s just now putting some fine tuning on it by demanding that children drink water out of a toilet for 100 days instead of 20 days.
Beautiful post, RD. Very effective use of one of one of the best speeches of all time.
This was recommended on another blog. I think Klobuchar makes more sense electorally than Biden, Harris or Warren. Any thoughts? I know she is polling at the bottom, but clearly Lawrence was impressed on her handling of the the CNN provocateurs. If the American people would listen to her, she is non threatening, plain vanilla with a productive record in the Senate and a self described street fighter who can take on the bullies.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/sen-klobuchar-on-election-security-legislation-taking-on-trump-at-debates-65122885810
Thanks for posting- I recommended it, but was unable to post- she was excellent, warm and articulate. Just being herself. I was impressed. She needs a few more contributions to qualify for September, I believe.
I agree 100%. I support Amy.
Lililam, just sent her some bucks. Upps had tweeted that if you like a lower tier candidate now is the time to contribute for them to qualify. I was in a rush, and forgot to give you attribution, sorry, Lililam! I would have missed that clip if you hadn’t mentioned it.
No problem- I have supported her for quite some time, but in some of her recent appearances she seemed to try to fit everything in at once since the media was giving her so little airtime. On Lawrence, she shined as she should. She has a broad and deep knowledge of governance and her goals and has clear respect for the country. I hope she engages more voters and hope the media goes to h..ll.
Good news, Amy got into the next debate. But so did Booker and Yang, so we may have a larger group than anticipated. I expect that Williamson and Gabbard will slip in there, too. I think that Klobuchar will gain some traction, as she is quite effective and knowledgeable on the debate stage. But she’s got a lot of people to pass, of course. I wouldn’t mind seeing Michael Bennett or Jay Inslee in there again as well, but that doesn’t seem likely. Without Inslee, climate change is likely to recede as a debate issue, as compared to criminal justice reform. I like when there are some respectable moderates on the stage to somewhat combat the more extreme policy proposals.
I wrote something about Klobuchar on the thread below. She might well make the best President out of all of our candidates, but apparently competence is not what people seem to gravitate to. Klobuchar is a better senator than Warren or Harris, or Booker, but doesn’t generate excitement among the base, which is a great shame. Many Democratic voters are too much about sound bites and exciting but currently unattainable policy ideas.
Agree 100%.
I think that her less bombastic demeanor may work on her favor.
At least is working for me…
Unfortunately, that famous speech of Portia comes from my least favorite Shakespeare play, but of course is eloquent without the context.
Apparently, Republicans have decided that the laws and the rules do not matter at all any longer. Just do what you have the power to do. This is not “close to fascism,” it is fascism. Graham did not allow amendments or discussion, and he broke Senate rules. All of the blathering the Republicans have ever done in the last forty years about Democrats this or that, was just doublespeak. They either figure that Democrats will never get power again, or that if they do, they will never use it so fascistically, or that the Republicans can do a complete about-face, and go back to attacking the Democrats for doing illegal and criminal things, and their pocket media will follow along. If there is any lesson here, it is that all the compromising that the Democrats have tried to do over the last ten years, did nothing other than simply give the Republicans everything they could get with the limited power they had. When they got more power, they stomped on the Democrats, and on democracy. They are totalitarians. I wish someone would get up in the Senate and say that. The “rules” about maintaining Senate comity ring as hollow as telling someone who keeps getting kicked in the teeth to stand up and shake hands. And I wish that the Democrats would call the Republicans fascists during this campaign, I don’t care whether the media throws up its hands in horror. Just say it, before it is too late. Not enough people understand what is going on.
Is it just me or is Joy Reid getting obsessive with her adoration of all things Obama? I understand the need to compare and contrast but she absolutely glows when she speaks of either of them. Noticed she takes shots at Bill Clinton now too. I used to really enjoy her show.
Cats, she adores Obama, she edited a book of Obama’s speeches. She is very racially attuned; I saw her for one minute the other day by mistake, and she said that Booker “was getting rave reviews” for his recent debate performance. She doesn’t like the Clintons, she virtually never said anything supportive or even defending of Hillary. She is not unintelligent, but she is doctrinaire, will never admit she is wrong about anything. From what I’ve read, she goes on and on about impeachment, and a “tipping point, because a thin majority of House Democrats support impeachment hearings, which gives us about 110 votes out of 435. I hope that she never gets her own show, but she may bully her way into it.
William, you saw more than I did! Joy has a two-hour morning show on Saturday and Sunday and subs for Rachel when she is off, unless you meant a weekly show. I don’t have a problem with being “racially attuned” but the extreme bias either way really bothers me, and as someone once said, Obama has gotten far too many cookies for his campaign and presidency. Enough is enough. She has a great personality, is very quick on her feet, is a critical thinker and very articulate. I may have misheard, but a few weekends ago i swear she said Bill Clinton “executed” a mentally incompetent man to let whites know he “had their back” when he was campaigning for prez (I think). It went by fast but it was something i had never heard before.
If she said that, it is obscene. Governors may have the power to commute a sentence in a state, but they are not the ones who commit someone to the death penalty. I don’t know what he did or didn’t do, but I never heard of this, either, so it didn’t get back to anyone. It is amazing how so many on MSNBC miss no opportunity to disparage the Clintons. There is this narrative, which has Obama as the hero. and everyone else vastly inferior. With all the discussion about the primaries and politics, do we ever see even one commentator mention Hillary’s unparalleled command of policy matters? She gets criticized for losing, for not being exciting, for not campaigning in Wisconsin, for not saying enough about Trump, for saying too much about Trump, for not appealing enough to White voters, for not appealing enough to Black voters, for not talking enough about policy (when she actually did it all the time, but the media chose never to talk about it).
William,
The media was NEVER going to find one good thing to say about Hillary. She could do nothing right…it was always too much or too little with those guys. Hillary said months after the election, “I should have known that they would never allow me to be president…” I can only imagine who the “they” she was referring to. It certainly felt like many dark forces were out to undermine Hillary and to make certain she was never President. The “why” is always the big question. Was it because she was the only candidate who was a threat to the power elite because they could not control her? I have no doubt the fact that Bush, Obama and trump could easily be controlled is how they got “elected”.
Kathleen, I think she meant the people who have been running this country for a long time, the ultra-rich right-wing people and corporations, and then their cadre of far-right troops; think tanks, propagandists, corrupt evildoers like Roger Stone and Larry Klaman. They are the ones, the “elves” as evildoer Ann Coulter referred to them, who set up the whole Lewinsky saga, from Linda Tripp and Lucienne Goldberg, to the people who picked Starr, who set up the questions intended to trap Clinton in testimony. The ones who made up all the lies about the Clintons running cocaine through Arkansas, murdering people, about Vince Foster. Their venomous hate could not defeat Bill Clinton or get him out of office, but they were going to do anything to stop Hillary. We may never find out all of what they did, but we know most of it, including selling out the country to an adversarial foreign power.
The only thing I would have wished, is that if she were indeed well aware of all those people, that she had taken better care to protect herself from them. Probably even she did not imagine that they would change votes. I wonder if she ever went to Obama during the campaign, and asked him to tell the country what Russia was doing in coordination with the Republicans. It is certainly true that the right-wing conspiracy which Hillary had talked about in the ’90’s, was what had gotten Reagan and both Bushes into office, and put up with Obama, or maybe even used him to take over the Congress. Obama did not fight them, Hillary would have, and they feared and hated her and her husband. They were convinced during the Reagan era that they owned the White House.
William,
I think what has been going on behind the scenes and has been going strong since the Reagan administration, is a concerted effort to implement fully the strong version of tue “Unitary Executive Theory”, which gives the president almost unlimited power over the executive branch, as well as over the other branches of government. Dick Cheney is a major advocate of the strong version of this theory and is why he was considered the most dangerous VP in history because he used this theory to co-opt executive power from the president, GW Bush. Fast forward to Bill Barr, who appears to be a carbon copy of Cheney, and what I see unfolding right before our eyes is another concerted effort to give the executive branch overwhelming power to the extent that we no longer have 3 co-equal branches of government. In other words, more like a dictatorship than a democratic republic. There is no president better than trump to push for this kind of unlimited power and Barr is taking full advantage of trump’s insanity.
I feel certain that Hillary would not be an advocate for this theory, although, ironically, the press, the republicans and even a lot of democrats have always painted HER as power hungry, which is just a smokescreen for the real culprits.
My theory is that the patriarchy wants to ensure power in perpetuity without fear of anyone, particularly women like a Hillary, Warren, Harris and Klobuchar from ever being elected and ending that “dream”once and for all. This is why we must do everything we can to break the male-centric control over all levels of government by putting more women in power and that includes the presidency, if we really want to stop these authoritarian men. History has shown how power affects the way men think and act and how they impose that power on the people they are supposed to serve. As Kamala Harris keeps saying, “we are better than this.” I hope so.
See the second para, it is possible that, in haste, Joy said executed when she meant attended the execution of a mentally challenged black man for (racist) political reasons:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-time-bill-clinton-and-i-killed-a-man/460869/
Wiki had a sad anecdote: at the man’s last meal, he saved his pecan pie “for later.” He was not aware he had no “later” and the pie was thrown out after he was executed.
Cats,
I feel the same way about Joy. I really like her show but have noticed that she has gone overboard with her praise for obama lately too!
She was angry at the dems criticizing obamacare during the debate. How dare they! Of course, she never thought to mention that the person primarily resonsible for getting obamacare passed in the house was a woman, Nancy Pelosi. No surprise there. Nancy rarely, if ever is given the credit for the major role she played in getting obamacare passed but the media always makes certain that obama does. No surprise there.
I have nothing against obama personally but I don’t think he deserves the excessive accolades he has continued to receive from the press while he ran for president, during his presidency and after. But, as you know, he was the media darling when he ran against Hillary and they must protect their baby at all costs! The media can never admit they were wrong, right?
We all know history is written by men, for men and that they will continue to praise obama as one of the best president of our generation even though, compared to Hillary, he was really a mediocre president on every level. It seems that making truth front and center is not the main goal when it comes to writing history. Preserving male superiority is. Obama ran on a cult of personality with very little substance and the media ate it up, just like they did with trump. When it comes to a woman of real substance place in history, they are left out.
I pray that either Harris, Klobuchar, Warren or Gillibrand will be given the chance to change the course of history in a positive way for the American people. We are due for someone who actually does their homework and will do the work necessary to be the kind of president this country is in dire need of. All of these women are infintely more qualified than obama was. I also know they will not be given the aid, support and comfort from the media that obama, trump, bush were/are given, but I know they will deliver. The majority of men will demand it.
El Paso shooting brings to mind this recent shooting in my state.