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IMMENSE SPECULATION
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New Damfaudio - "Immense Speculation" - 2.1MB - 1:10

A jocular Bush spoke momentarily with reporters on Sunday, as he prepares for the trip to England in the wake of the latest tragic loss of life in Iraq. The President was heard to say, "Every time I go somewhere there's immense speculation."

Well, that's one way to label global outrage at his murderous policies and domestic worries that he will be targeted for attack. The "time table" has been set: a cosmetic "transfer" before next year's election. "Hat's off to Bill Kristol" and the rest of the PNAC warmongers.

Music samples: Albert King.

DAMFAUDIO FOR PEACE

Below are some audio wavs. Damfacrats also have instant audio and hidden audio throughout the blog. Most Damfaudios (see margin to the right with links to wavs and descriptions) are 30-90 seconds long and 1 to 4 MB, usually around 2 MB. Dial-up Damfaudio coming soon.

Peruse the audio section or jump to the LATEST BLOG POST.



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MIDNIGHT SCHUMER
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N.Y. Sen. Charles Schumer at about 11:50 p.m. On C-SPAN2. Highlight - "Make a motion to correct the website."

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Full version - 400K (recommended)
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SANTORUM ALREADY MELTING DOWN ON THE FLOOR
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Four hours in and Senator Man-on-Puppykicker is starting to lose it. Anybody else notice that the Republicans have all the power and yet they have the most difficulty controlling their anger?

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Bonus anger - 125K

Late Night Special - Zell at 2 a.m.- Clip - 480K
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Operation Iron Bib

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INSTANT AUDIO
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Trent Lott and the "nuclear option." -443K

trent Lott and the macro-legislative technique of scaring constiuencies into demanding dumb Petrolican-made solutions to problems that coincidentally seem to arise (read: Blackout) when the majority wants an obscene bill passed into law. -215K
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Vice President Cheney praises Sell-out Zell and then Hannity and Zell have a verbal fondling session. - 748K
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Bush recent Press Conf collage #1 - clip - 947K - 1:30
Bush recent Press Conf collage #2 - clip - 550K - :54
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Mary Landrieu helps summarize the judicial nominee debate-
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Petrolican hit parade. Discussing Rush and other topics. A Friday night Scarred-boroughs roll call:

Disgraced Reagan Atty. Gen. Ed Meese
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Disgraced Fanatic Roy Moore
The Venomous David Horowitz
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Sen. Zell Miller (''D''-Ga.)
The "Blacklisted" Bernard Goldberg
Arch Neo-Con James Woolsey
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Sen. Lindsay Graham (R - SC)
Stormin Norman

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Jim Pinkerton forces us to ask what the "opposite" would really mean about the Gipper:clip - 34K
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Non-political audio: free turkeys. -355K
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CNN planted question -225K
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AL GORE RIPS PETROLICANS ON DUE PROCESS
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Some days Damfacrats wish Al Gore would brush the low-grade candidates aside and run. Live on C-SPAN right now. Links to audio and video coming soon.

All less than 1 minute:

Audio Clip #1 - 346K
Audio Clip # 2 - 475K
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Audio Clip # 5 - 426K
Audio Clip # 6 - 500K

Here's a Daily Outrage from Little Red Cookbook to supplement this.
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THE HAMMER
(Reposted for Tom Delay charity scandal)

New Damfaudio - "The Hammer" -1.6MB

Word got out that Mayor Bloomberg put House Majority leader Tom Delay on his GOP "do-not-contribute to" list, which aides said was distributed to New Yorkers.

The Hammer (a/k/a the Exterminator) dispatched a fellow Texan, Rep. Joe Barton, to "guarantee ya that Tom Delay is a friend of New York." Of course, the GOP convention is in New York next year. If Delay and his Enron brethren get too friendly, especially with their secretive "Comprehensive" Energy Bill, New York can get set to enjoy blackouts, pollution and higher rates.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and cable news hosts accompany Barton on this newest Damfaudio.

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DON'T FORGET THE HIDDEN AUDIO

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BUZZFLASH LINKS TO DAMFACRATS

The rooky blog known as Damfacrats generated sudden massive and unexpected interest when the legendary progressive news portal known as Buzzflash posted a link in favor of Damfaudio:



Buzzflash has interviewed Paul Krugman, Paul Begala, Al Franken, Greg Palast, Molly Ivins and many more righteous heros of our day.

Thanks to Buzzflash, Blah3, the band and all the fellas.

DEFINITELY WORTH THE READ

Thanks to the embryonic iliketowrite blog for this beautifully slanted and unbelievably pithy article in the CSM.

Even Bush's planned meeting with the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq has turned into a public relations disaster.

The Scotsman reports that Reg Keys, the father of Lance Corporal Thomas Keys who died in Iraq, said the US president was just using "propaganda words."

The BBC reports that Mr. Keys, who has not been invited to meet the president but has been much quoted by the British press ahead of the visit, also said "I don't know how the man (Bush) has the nerve to show his face in his country after costing the lives of 53 British servicemen. They didn't die for a noble cause, they died for Bush's political reasons, they were just sacrificial lambs."

DAMFA: DEAN GOOD IN SACK BUT NOT MARRYING TYPE FOR DEMS

Congratulations to North Country Rat Dog Damfacrats. Another wedding of respected party members.

"SO THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO MISUNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF FOX OR ITS VIEWERS"

Thanks a million - no, 87 billion - to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo for linking us to this Wes Clark video that must be watched.

The word "distort" is used.

MORE DEAN REALITY

Tapped, the American Prospect blog, hits Dean, uh, the nail, on the head by sending us here.

MULTI-LAYERED

"Scary development down in Washington yesterday. A small plane entered White House airspace. It's always scary when that happens. President Bush was rushed to an undisclosed fundraiser." —David Letterman

Can't let the Frist thing go quite yet. Link to the DU if you don't get the cartoon. Actually link to it anyway it's the new Top Ten.

Grabbed from The Hamster's cage.

A PLACE IN THE SUN

The big scoop.

CONTEMPT

Instant Audio - No need to go to law school to understand contempt of Court. Just listen to Tony Faux.

- Clip - :15 - 156K

DEATH TOLL AT 422, OVER 2000 WOUNDED

Beyond unacceptable, as 17 die in helicopter attack.

FOR CAMP PENDLETON

Instant Audio - O' Really explains to an email-er why he can't be troubled with visiting Camp Pendleton but offers such a wonderful consolation shill.

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SHAPED SHADED EXAGGERATED IV

No evidence of weapons hidden in Syria. Dr. Congo Fever says that the US is "finding confirmation" that Saddam "intended to continue... programs." How alarming.

Bush will meet with the familes of a British soldier (although he hasn't met any American families, has he?), who intend to accuse Bush of lying about the war.

Mr Maddison and his wife, Julie, suspect that the spectre of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was raised to "frighten" the country into war, although they think it was right to topple Saddam. "We've gone to war for the wrong reasons," he said. "I'm still hoping that weapons of mass destruction will be discovered, but I'm beginning to think we were being lied to."

HIERARCHY OF VALUES SAYS NOMINATE CLARK

In returning finally to the issues raised by a patient and noble Atom Station and what must be quite a small audience indeed, Damfacrats will examine our hierarchy of values.

What do we value most and in what order?

1. The election of a different President with different federal governmental policies.

George Soros has seven billion dollars and he said that he would relinquish it all if it could guarantee regime change.
We share his fervor if not his wallet.

2. The election of the Democratic nominee that has the best chance of winning the election.

Although people seem to run around putting words like "electable" and "unelectable" in quotes as if it was some kind of sub-issue, it is the only issue. Some or much of this issue is based on unprovable assumptions but that is the way of politics.

As evidence that it was too close to call, Atom Station presented a poll where Clark did 1% better than Dean as against Bush. That poll was taken after Dean had spent X times more money and time than Clark. Some or many of these polls deliberately leave out the 'General' title because they know it will instantly raise Clark's numbers.

Damfacrats have presented poll information on many occasions, for example, in BUSH LOSES TO PIECE OF PAPER, August 25th, we noted that the blind-bio of Clark beat Bush by 9 points, before Clark had even declared his candidacy.

3. The most effective promulgation of communication that will convince the electorate to vote out Dubya.

The Atom-Damfa banter has basically focused on this third value. Is it appropriate for Damfacrats to use over-shaded and admittedly harsh rhetoric? Only if it serves the above three values.

This kind of involved post, and the Atom Station post that inspired it, are no way to reach the masses. Damfacrats present the hierarchy of sub-values to promote the primary value of effective political communication.

a) Brevity.

MoveOn.Org has that ad contest going. Thirty second time limit. The voters who will decide this election have a short attention span that must be accommodated.

Damfacrats try to present the quiddity (ok, essence) of an anti-Bush theme as quickly as possible. The "flag-metro" statement was an attempt to encapsulate these themes (grrr memes):

-flag issue,
-metrosexual issue,
-Dems are impatient and weakened with several choices,
-Dean is a manipulative politician like all the rest,
-Dean will alienate too many swing voters
-Dean is in danger of saying something that sinks him,
-Petrolicans will hang a sadly effective "gays-lover" sign on Dean

b) Convention.

As much as it is actually possible to do so in any diverse culture, look at candidates through the eyes of the conventional voting masses. This was the main point of the flag-metro statement and Protection from Dean week.

The only reliable evidence we have against speculation is what has previously occurred, thus we decide that the electability of New England Democrats is highly suspect.

The past also tells us that the class of young voters who frequent the internet with 20 dollars to donate to Dean will not play a critical role and will party or watch TV instead of voting. (Atom freak-out moment? >>> Not to slam anybody's mod buddies or anything).

The past tells us that people fear what they view as dramatic change (read: Bush to Dean).

c) Wit

The medicine goes down a lot better with a little choo-choo precursor. Getting Bush voters to admit error to themselves means we need to hurt their pride as little as possible. The truth about Dubya hurts. A lot. Too much for some to even believe it

Dean and his handlers have Clark beaten when it comes to humor. Dean is in danger of winning particularly because it is tempting to have the bliss of a Dean-Bush race where Dean takes his daily jabs . Resist this temptation. This value does not control the ones above it.

Damfacrats are no comedians but we try to present overtly ridiculous portrayals of the opposition while we bang the drumbeat to Peace.

d) Love.

This may sound unconventional but Damfacrats are convinced that the Love talking point is underrated. Americans have so much love and the Dems need to help them feel it because it's a good and real feeling that we don't believe Bush can use effectively.

Fear ("Terr-ah") and anger (at "big" government) is what drives Bush's popularity. In the June 17 speech that got me hooked, Clark said in reference to 9/11: "we need to forget about the fear. Forget about the anger." Damfacratic slogan: Tough Love.

4) Foregoing absolute integrity in order to win the election.

Wise and persuasive writers have blogged that we should not stoop to the Petrolican level of politics. Nonsense.

Fight fire with fire. Petrolican brownshirts slant everything. NPR should be more slanted, fuck it. If Damfacrats must chop up some audio and repeat it for successful propaganda effect, we will do so.

What does it sound like to an otherwise apathetic African-American voter, who the Dems need to romance, when a candidate says "white people" a half dozen times in 5 minutes? Who knows, but maybe it sounds like the "Mostly White Folks" Damfaudio.

Maybe listeners will get the message that Dean's mouth flirts with Democratic disaster. We certainly weren't implying that Dean was a racist, just that he might be perceived that way.

Conclusion

Based on the trends of brownshirt talking points, Damfacrats believe that the 2004 election will be an all out negative campaigning war. The primary theme: liberals hate America.

Seeing the Forest is absolutely right about the need to stand up to the attacks and return fire so Clark had better not pull an Al Gore. Dean has the return fire, that's true. He just doesn't have the armor.

Can you even imagine Bush cracking jokes about Clark and trying to paint him as an America-hater? In the end, it will sound like troop-bashing and Bush will have to stay away from ridiculing a squeaky clean General. Conversely, Bush will have a field day with Howard Dean.

Atom Station points us to a Petrolican attack on Dean and a Rush Limp-balls nickname but that is not indicative of what truly goes on in cable and AM radio news hell, where many, many more people are paying attention. Limp-balls had a daily smear campaign against Clark as soon as he announced, featuring the still-present lie that Clark is "Perot-type-crazy." We recently discovered that Gen. "Charc/Integ" Shelton has decided to back Edwards in a Petrolican stunt that reflects their fear of Clark.

Convention does not remotely resemble the blogosphere. Perception is everything. Facts mean little.

As Bill Clinton said at the Iowa steak fry, Dems can "fall in love" with whomever we want during the primaries but need to "fall in line" when it comes time to back the right person against George W. Bush. Damfacratic slogan: Be for Real.

DAMFACRATIC INSTANT AUDIO

Operation Iron Bib

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INSTANT AUDIO

Petrolican hit parade. Discussing Rush and other topics. A Friday night Scarred-boroughs roll call:

Disgraced Reagan Atty. Gen. Ed Meese
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Disgraced Fanatic Roy Moore

The Venomous David Horowitz
- Clip - 50K - :5

Sen. Zell Miller (R-Ga.)

The "Blacklisted" Bernard Goldberg

Arch Neo-Con James Woolsey
- Clip - 90K - :8

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R - SC)

Stormin Norman

PNAC ENDS THE WORLD
Catman

I searched for "PNAC Ends The World" (google) and the top result was this.

LEARN, GODDAMIT, LEARN

The internet is intellectual infinity. Thanks to Girl Hacker.

Damfacrats are pro-hemp and don't anyone forget it.

WHERE THE REAL WRITERS POST

Another gloomy November.

INCREDIBLY INTRICATE

It's overwhelming. In contrast is uggabugga, which referred us to the aforementioned and which always floors us with just a few lines and some kind of chart.

GET SERVED

Damfacrats got home and flipped on Faux News, only to discover a story we have been unable to find on the web thus far (last ten minutes).

Faux says that _____, a woman who complained of sexual misconduct by the new Governor of California, intends to sue him for libel. She made her accusations following the release of big L.A. Times article.

The incident occurred in 1991, so the statute of limitations has run, which is a sensible rule. However, her cause of action for libel is alive and well.

It seems that the Arnie campaign didn't like the piling on of accusations. His people responded to her claims by directing anyone who wanted to know about the woman's credibility to a particular website.

The website was run by a County and listed people's criminal convictions. It showed that this woman had many convictions, including something like sixteen for prostitution.

The problem? Same name, different woman. Now that's a blown smear job.

The woman is suing Arnold and MSNBC, who republished the statements about the convictions.

The Faux people say that her lawyer hopes to arrange the service of a summons and complaint - and this is the good part - during his inauguration. Unlikely to happen, but, wouldn't it be grand?

Faux played this story only to make MSNBC look bad.

UPDATE: Hmmm nothing about MSNBC in the Newsmax coverage.

"WILLIE THE PIMP" HATCH

Pandagon posted a link to a good floor debate breakdown, which includes a photo of Sen. Harkin with his "I'll be home watching The Bachelor" sign. Key reference: Captain Beefheart.


Related: Do the Mudshark, baby. Good stuff regarding "meme."

SEN. LANDRIEU 10:33 P.M.

RAVEN AMUSED AND INTRIGUED

Raven says: "I knew it would only be so long."

Subscribers will be able to monitor live television for specific words or phrases and receive e-mail updates whenever they are uttered. If you are so inclined, Tom Brokaw will never say "Bush" or "Iraq" on the air without your hearing about it.

Raven also says: "Senator Mike Crapo (ha!)" and reports as follows: "Sen. Sam 'brownshirt' Brownback preaches about prayer and the pledge LIVE."

Raven also asks the question: "Asshat for President?"

OF CONCERN
Catman

Here's some interesting Iraq/Vietnam comparisons.

Excerpt:

In 1966, Shoup, who had already warned both Kennedy and Johnson that the military had no business in Vietnam, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that most of the South Vietnamese people were fighting against "those crooks in Saigon", leaders whom the US had imposed upon them.

In one of his many speeches throughout the country, Shoup said, "If we had and would keep our dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. [A solution] that they design and want. That they fight and work for. [Not one] crammed down their throats by Americans."

(Cat's emphasis)

Unfortunately, we're now dealing with shit like the PNAC, which has me terrified...if you guys haven't checked it out ...

NITPICKER'S VOTER CATEGORIES

Nitpicker keeps after Colin Powell and suggests that voters come in three categories: "1) ignorant, 2) lazy or 3) both -ignorant and lazy." Backs it up well, so go check it.

Nitpicker is also for Wesley Clark and posted something groovy that Damfacrats hadn't seen:

I believe that the arts are very important to the future of our America. A country has a soul and we have to continually find and examine our own. Arts help us do this. So, I believe in restoring funding for the NEA. I haven't fixed any given level, except that I want to raise the prominence of the arts in our daily lives, and I want to reopen the idea of giving grants to individuals. We just have to create the right mechanism to find merit and promise.

- The General.

NOTHING LESS ATTRACTIVE

Is there?

NOTHING MORE ATTRACTIVE

Than a clever female who posts classic Clark video and kicks all the right memes.

REAL TIME MISCHIEF

From Rueters:

The online poll, a regular feature of Frist's site, normally generates limited interest. The previous day, a question about honoring veterans drew just 35 votes.

But the nominee question was spotted by a liberal weblogger, or online diarist, known as Atrios, who linked to Frist's site and asked his readers to weigh in. By early evening, over 9,000 people had responded, with some 60 percent voting "No."

That wasn't lost on Democrats, who took to the Senate floor to bait Republicans. "Even the majority leader's Web site indicates that what is going on here is absolutely wrong," said Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.

Ah, what could be better? Atrios is just that good. Damfacrats voted too, of course, it being a Dr. Frist week around here.

JUDGE ROY NO MOORE

Easy headline. Swing on over to Blah3 for the damning summary and the link. Thanks to same for the link to us, BTW.

EIGHT HUNDRED

Damfacrats are much obliged to Incoming Signals for directing folks to 800 Important Women Artists. We got through the "A"'s and decided this one was, in particular, something to see.

Incoming Signals also links to the complete Young Ones scripts. (Give me IT!)

ANYTHING BUT BORING

A lot of bloggers seem to be saying that the 30-hour debate is a big snoozefest. Damfacrats, respectfully, could not disagree more. Fascinating. Revealing. Historic. Unprecedented.

This is quite possibly the token Petrolican warm-up to "going nuclear" in the legislative sense, where the presiding officer simply announces that the fillibuster ends with a 51% vote. It will be the focal point of their talking point: "We tried for thirty hours to convince Democrats until, finally, we had no choice but to push the button."

INSTANT AUDIO

N.Y. Sen. Charles Schumer at about 11:50 p.m. On C-SPAN2. Highlight - "Make a motion to correct the website."

Short version - 71K
Full version - 400K (recommended)

BUSH NOT WELCOME
Catman



Bush needs 4 mil. pounds in security just to visit our closest ally...

SANTORUM ALREADY MELTING DOWN ON THE FLOOR

Four hours in and Senator Man-on-Puppykicker is starting to lose it. Anybody else notice that the Republicans have all the power and yet they have the most difficulty controlling their anger?

Clip - 560K

Bonus anger - 125K

Late Night Special - Zell at 2 a.m.- Clip - 480K

MEMORIES

When the Damfacratic stronghold was out west at Reed College, we voted for a Republican for the first and only time. Guess who that was?

Over the following decades, the Senate occasionally directed its sergeant at arms to arrest members. But the first openly physical act of compulsion did not occur until 1988. On February 24, 1988, in an attempt to establish a quorum on a campaign finance reform bill, Capitol police carried Oregon Republican Senator Robert Packwood into the chamber feet first at 1:17 a.m.

Thanks to The Sardonic Subversive.

OTTO

A different kind of "pure" blogger is the temporary blog champ.
By the way, The Atom Station deserves another response but Damfacrats are weary tonight. We promise not to cheese out.

RAVEN PHONES ONE IN

The Dead on Sixty Minutes II. Many shivers, chills and tingles.

SPECIAL POST FOR CATMAN

Worst album covers ever.

ANOTHER BLOGGER FOR CLARK

Pontificator "comes out."

Here's a good quote: "It's time to make the difficult choice." The key phrase here, for the fence-sitters and play-nicers, is "it's time."

PEN-ELAYNE

Another seriously badass blogger.

SOROS: WE WILL SPEND WHAT IS NECESSARY

Thankfully, some rich people are too rich to need George W.'s big-money policies:

"IT IS THE central focus of my life," Soros said, his blue eyes settled on an unseen target. The 2004 presidential race, he said in an interview, is "a matter of life and death."

Soros, who has financed efforts to promote open societies in more than 50 countries around the world, is bringing the fight home, he said. On Monday, he and a partner committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, a liberal activist group, bringing to $15.5 million the total of his personal contributions to oust Bush.

Overnight, Soros, 74, has become the major financial player of the left. He has elicited cries of foul play from the right. And with a tight nod, he pledged: "If necessary, I would give more money."

George Soros says that Dubya is a "danger to the world" who reminds him of Nazi Germany and is "leading the U.S. and the world toward a vicious circle of escalating violence."

Soros has 7 billion dollars and said he would give it all up if a Bush loss was guaranteed.

MORE COMPUTER VOTING FREAK-OUT MOMENTS

Thanks to Pandagon for reminding America to Always Get a Receipt.

40% OF NEW JOBS ARE PART-TIME

Damfacrats have been lookin for a solid and simple explanation of why the recent "Bush-economy success" is invalid. This, from Nathan Newman, should do it.

ORIN HATCH GUIDE TO LYING

It's the same thing over and over again. "We don't know why the Dems would do this." "It's just a simple up or down vote. That's all we ask."

It is so typical of the Petrolican way of fibbing.

Pretend that you don't understand why anyone would disagree. Never explain your opponent's argument and confront it.

At most, make up a phony opposition argument, make it as feeble as possible, then trash it.

Make sure your claims are completely hypocritical, i.e., if you are steamrolling everything through Congress you must feign outrage when the minority flexes any muscle whatsoever.

Take an extreme and irrelevant example and act like it represents the entire minority view.

Be sure to make unfounded accusations of unconstitutional behavior because it takes a law degree or a lawsuit to confirm or deny such a charge. Bill O' Reilly uses this effective "legal standard" tactic on a smaller scale, by deeming every opinion he dislikes "defamation."

FRIEND OF DAMFACRATS PASSES NY BAR

A great law school friend has passed the NY bar on his fifth attempt. Passed Jersey the first time. Yeah, man, welcome.

NOW, THIS IS "DEPRESSING"

Because it's true. Thanks to Chris Nelson.

CLAMPING DOWN LIKE SADDAM

The only solution to Iraq that Damfacrats have heard from Petrolicans and their water-carriers is to clamp down harder on the resistance. Michael Weiner said the US should clear everyone out of various towns and then level all that (and who) remains with bombs.

We know that no one is supposed to say this sort of thing and... no question Saddam was a hideous villain but... isn't it just like Saddam to go house to house, quashing the resistance and intimidating everyone into compliance?

Is that what it takes to "control" "Iraq" as it is understood as a "nation?"

DO YOU BELIEVE IN FATE?

We don't, but thought it worth mentioning that Damfacrats 2004 is #2004 today at the Truth Laid Bear. A Crawly Amphibean in the Ecosystem.

ATOM STATION BROADCASTS DIGNIFIED RESPONSE

Damfacrats will have to address this later, as if anyone was interested in our mini-macro dialogue, for we are in danger of being axed if don't get back to the office. Looks like we're actually going to have to discuss facts instead of Damfacratic propaganda. What a hassle.

FRIEDMAN SIDESWIPING ABUTMENTS

Thanks to He who has recently relegated Himself to the passenger seat in the primary demolition derby for directing us to a well-deserved and well-written punking of Tom "Flintstone" Friedman.

STRAIGHT OUT OBSTRUCTION

New Damfaudio - "Straight Out Obstruction"

Most people already know about Senate Majority Leader Dr. Bill Frist's youthful habit of finding homeless cats on which to perform ad hoc dissections, so Damfacrats will sleep instead of linking.



Santorum and Frist get charged up for the big floor show and do The Stray Cat Ob-struct for some reporters.

OLBERMAN'S STAFF VISITING?

Uh, don't think so. However, Countdown picked up Sunday's McWord story and the CNN Mac/PC plant story, and even defended Clark against the latest weak-ass attack.

IRAQ AIN'T NO GERMANY

Damfacrats are pleased that someone is not too depressed to deal with this particular issue.

ATRIOS WALKS AWAY

Yes, we ended that headline with a preposition but, hey, who cares, we don't have any responsibility, it's not like we are the King of Blogs or anything and, after all, it's just too depressing to try and write properly so, yes, we're writing a run-on sentence that smacks stupidly with sarcasm because, well, we just can't be troubled with that pandemic primary problem. (yes, we used cheeseball aliteration and we're not going to check how to spell "aliteration" either)

CNN PLANTS MAC/P.C. DEBATE QUESTION

Atrios noticed the story and Damfacrats have already posted the audio. Reposted below and right here.

POLITICAL DEBATE IN BOSTON

Each of the candidates had a thirty-second video that they played for the youngsters. NYC Walter recommends the Clark video.

Michael Weiner was apparently watching the debate on television as he did his radio show because Damfacrats heard him start to act disgusted by it. He let the audio play and the student inquirer said "I have a question..it's not quite boxers or briefs, but..."

Savage launched into a moralizing and degrading tirade about how repulsive it was that the candidates were being asked about their underwear.

As the actual debate unfolded, during the part Mike Savage didn't play, the girl continued and asked "... Mac or P.C.?"

A NEW WORD FOR DUBYA EVERY DAY UNTIL THE ELECTION

Pretty damn good idea from Screaming Points.

RAVEN'S REAGANS

Raven finds selected quotes from the Reagan movie in Media Life:

Dr. Loyal Davis (Nancy's step-dad) talking about Hollywood: "As far as I can tell, it's nothing but Communists and drug addicts."

Nancy: "It didn't used to be this bad, did it, Mother?"

Edith Davis: "Hell, no. When I was here it was just wall-to-wall Jews and queers."


Holmes Tuttle, about Reagan running for governor: "Reagan's not an actor, he's a movie star. Besides, it's good that he doesn't know anything about government. It makes him more of a man of the people."


Nancy, to Mike (Reagan's adopted son from his first marriage): "I'm not your mother. I don't have to want you. Go back to your real mother and your real father - whoever they were."


Patti, as a young adult hippie: "Gerry Ford is a real argument for birth control. Gerry Ford ... Richard Nixon ... not to mention my father. The pigs have taken over, you know?"


Patti: "Elvis is dead. He would have made a better president than Daddy."


Nancy, reciting what she wished she had said to Mrs. Gorbachev: "No wonder your husband always looks so bored -- because he's married to you, you Stalinist!"


A performer mimicking Nancy at the Gridiron Dinner (a roast for the president): "We're living like kings. So what if Ronnie's cutting back on welfare? I'll still wear a tiara in my coifed hair."

A SPOOKY TREND

Thanks to Bitter Shack of Resentment for noticing an awful coincidence...or worse?

ANOTHER JUDGE IS FAIR AND BALANCED

Damfacrats are strongly opposed to blanket criticism of the judiciary branch so we try to post things like this to remind everyone of how important all three branches are.

Props to The Hamster, once again.

ANOTHER JUDGE ENDORSES DEAN

After seeing this post at Eschaton, we just couldn't resist another over-the-top dig. Atrios does not endorse this headline.

FABULOUS

Our site tracker reveals that a web search on CNN's engine for "Karl Rove's Church" yields only one result: Damfacrats 2004.

DAMFACRATS CALLED 'MEAN AND DISHONEST'

While Damfacrats would not normally engage in the "response to blog criticism" process, we feel compelled to do so in this case. Over at The Atom Station, the writer had this to say about one of our "Protection from Dean Week" posts:

... since the whole Confederate flag flap, the smears seem to have heightened, especially against Dean. Exhibit A: This quote:

Let's stop screwing around with the Confederate flag pandering metrosexual who just can't cut it next year.

No, this didn't come from The Corner or Andrew Sullivan's blog. It came from a liberal Democratic blog that's come out for Clark. ***

There's a line between respectful criticism and being mean and dishonest. This kind of rhetoric is mean and dishonest.

The Atom Station went on to make several more accusations, ask several questions and make several suggestions. Damfacrats, according to the writer, are implied "assholes," guilty of "Republicanesque smearing."

Let us just begin by letting the writer know in what way we are in agreement. The first thing we said about the "flag" remark was "we know what Dean means," so we agree that Dean had the right idea with the wrong (read: outrageous anti-African-American blunder) words. He should have said "Nascar Dads." <<<----(audio link)------

Damfacrats voted Green in 2000, for many of the same reasons expressed by Atom Station. This fact was recorded on the Damfacratic blog long ago.

Damfacrats would also love to live in a society where we had a realistic electoral choice between Mrs. Progressive and Mr. Extra-Progressive. We would love to be able to pick candidates based on their core ideals and their love of humanity, fairness, truth and their love for love itself, which Damfacrats value over all.

Damfacrats, like our attacker, will cherish, support, defend and protect whomever the nominee is, EVEN Joe Lieberman (no chance), although we would retch along the way.

Such is not the case with everyone else in the USA. Damfacrats need not dissect all the tired arguments about Dean's electability. However, those arguments are the KEY to understanding what we are laying down around here: Be For Real.

Everything critical directed at Dean is based on one concept: America will reject him in the general election. Our criticism has nothing to do with his policies or personality.

For you see, Atom Station, as you would have seen had you looked around our blog sufficiently, DAMFACRATS LOVE DEAN! Atom Station misses the point entirely. We love Dean but we hate Dubya oh, so much more, and the time has come to Be For Real.

We will not "screw around" with ideals during the age of Petrolicanism. We will not worry about stances on VoteOffs and we will ignore charisma, passion and yes, even love. Damfacrats basically care about only one thing: who can beat Dubya

The election is happening right now and the future is being set - it's not just "everyone be nice and the best candidate will emerge." It's not up for grabs and so unpredictable that it is somehow a "smear" to accuse Kucinich of unelectability. As we have written on our blog several times, we love Dennis's ideas too, but it is pure fantasy to think he can win even the nomination, let alone the general election.

Yes, Atrios, Damfacrats are not oracles of Delphi but there are reasonable arguments to be made that Clark has a better shot at winning than Dr. Dean and every other candidate, for that matter. More than reasonable. Correct.

Just about every time we took a shot at Dr. Dean we apologized for it. It's kind of like having to quarentine a contagious family or shoot a rabid dog.

1. Metrosexual - Atom Station asks: What's wrong with being a "metrosexual"? Isn't that the enlightened attitude that we should be looking for in the Democratic nominee?

Nothing is wrong with being metrosexual but there is a big problem with saying so when you are trying to convince middle-America that you are an acceptable alternative to the incumbent. Everything a candidate says gets watered down into an idiotic and vague electoral impression, e.g. "trans-metro-what-now? I don' like the sound a' that I reckon I'll go with George W., he's a good Bible man."

Damfacrats figure that Dean was trying to be cute for his young supporters, probably because a young aide informed him of a hilarious South Park episode. As far as so-called metrosexuals being enlightened, we would point out that being in touch with one's feminine side is enlightened, but worshiping material items, clothing and one's own primped up reflection is not.

2. Republicanesque - "Does coming out for Clark entail using Republicanesque smears against Dean?"

As Damfacrats mentioned in a comment somewhere, the Petrolican strategy for smearing Dean is to say next to nothing. This is because they are praying for him to win the nomination with full confidence that he will lose. Meanwhile, Petrolicans have been sliming Clark with every hateful, twisted, cheap shot in the book, from day one.

Do we need to hit people over the head for them to understand all this? Apparently we do, thus, Protection From Dean Week.

3. "Why not focus on the things you like about your candidate?" Damfacrats have done plenty of that, for weeks, and we "came out" in August, generally leaving Dean alone. So have a lot of other folks, who have been reluctant to even endorse anyone specific.

Not good enough. Newsflash: negative campaigning works.

It is time to stop screwing around with Dean and make people understand what we believe to be gospel: Clark is "The One," (provided that, Goodness forbid, NeoCon spooks don't try to off him because of that fact).

4. The Suggestions: Atom Station wants us to "not burn bridges" and to think of whether we would say such things if we knew the guy was running against Bush next year.

Maybe Dean himself could follow that advice, a man who said great things about Clark until the first poll came out showing Clark leading around the nation. In any event, these kind of suggestions, and "flag" apologies, are just cleaning up the froth for a mad dog we need to be shooting.

Let's not forget that Damfacrats have been trying very hard to be humorous about all this tough love. But it is no joke, and, as we have posted a few times already, a vote for Dean is a vote for Bush.

In the end, we have much love for Atom Station and all our Democratic family but Damfacrats especially" heart" folks like Nakedfurniture, too, for "coming out" for "General Dark."

If the writer at Atom Station wants to be truly appalled, he can check out our Damfaudio - "Mostly White Folks." Now, that's what we call a good-old-fashioned everything-out-of-context unfair smear job. Maybe he will start a Republicanesque boycott.

DON'T FORGET THE HIDDEN AUDIO

ARMITAGE NOT AS LIKEABLE

Damfacrats used to think maybe Deputy Secretary of State Armitage was O.K. Sort of the way a lot of Americans went around thinking Powell was trustworthy, as some still do. Another Day in the Empire remedies a shallow impression.

THE TALLEST TREE

Seeing the Forest has been getting much love, which is much deserved.

CAVUTO SHOOTING FOR HIS OWN DAMFAUDIO

Maybe a cameo, if he's lucky. Here's some things he had to say about Paul Krugman:

And by the way, you sanctimonious twit, no one -- no one -- tells me what to say. I say it. And I write it. And no one lectures me on it. Save you, you pretentious charlatan.

That doesn't make me less of a journalist. But, Mr. Krugman, it does make you more of an ass. Here's the difference: You insinuated it, I just said it.

Thanks to Groupthink Central.

F. LEE BAILEY QUOTE

"Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee."

From Drunken Ravings, not to be confused with Drunken Ravens.

QUIZILLA CRAZE SWEEPING THE BLOG NATION

Frankly, we prefer Thumbzilla. However, Freeway Blogger deserves some attention.

BEST JESSICA LYNCH POST

Could be this one at Body and Soul.

DRUDGE COMMENT

Someone has probably already commented on this but isn't it strange that there is an "ancestor" ad at the top of the Drudge Report, as if visitors who are keenly interested in their racial or National purity predominate?

DEAN CLOSEOUT?

Protection From Dean week is wrapping up and Damfacrats want to thank Temple of Democracy for taking the whole matter as seriously as it should be taken.

DNC BLOG IS ALL OVER IT

More Petrolican stonewalling

The Bush White House, irritated by pesky questions from congressional Democrats about how the administration is using taxpayer money, has developed an efficient solution: It will not entertain any more questions from opposition lawmakers.

CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS REJECT BUSH

We don't know why he uses the "prodigal son" line twice but it's OK and, as Sell-Out Zell shows us, an attack from one's own does wonders.

This is not conservative leadership. Conservative presidents like the Great Communicator and Bush Sr., although often dishonest, at least responded to criticism. Bush Jr. just ignores it, repeating the same trite message with the same clueless smirk. It is antithetical to the small-government, freedom-loving ethos of the Republican Party that Bush continues to shroud his policies and positions in secrecy and incoherence, shielding them from accountability.

Thanks to Matt Yglesias.

GREAT PHOTOS AND BOGUS PSYOPS

Thanks to Talk Left for pointing us here, where there is an incredible gallery of photos from the anti-Dubya protests in former Damfatown, Portland, Oregon. Talk Left also got an exclusive (it seems) about an insider with the Jessica Lynch rescue film crew, conducting "psyops" against the American people.

AL GORE RIPS PETROLICANS ON DUE PROCESS

Some days Damfacrats wish Al Gore would brush the low-grade candidates aside and run. Live on C-SPAN right now. Links to audio and video coming soon.

All less than 1 minute:

Audio Clip #1
Audio Clip # 2
Audio Clip # 3
Audio Clip # 4
Audio Clip # 5
Audio Clip # 6

Here's a Daily Outrage from Little Red Cookbook to supplement this.

THE CULTURE WAR RAGES: BATTLE OVER THE MEANING OF WORDS AND OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY

McDonald's has a problem with a dictionary. Maybe they will sue.

It's apparently OK to say "queer" now. Listen to Jim Pinkerton's claim regarding the meaning of "gay basher." Wouldn't this mean that Reagan was "queer?"

What is a "war" and what is "Terror?" What does "mission" mean? What do the words "accomplished" and "imminent" and "life" mean? Who owns and defines the words "fair and balanced?"

Bush's popularity inevitably rests on his "leadership" and "character," while Shelton claims that Clark is unfit to be President, because of "integrity" and "character" issues. What they really mean is "personality."

It's not so much that the people don't understand politics. What really disappoints Damfacrats is that people don't even understand English anymore and are allowing the government to teach the class.

Freud was right about some things. For example, Republicans tend to stumble on their words when they lie or say something true that they don't want to have to say. This is called a "tell" in the con business.

If you want to know when a Republican is lying, just listen for the word "fact." If they say "as a matter of fact," "in fact," or "the fact is," as a warm-up, get ready for some bull.

UNSTICKER

New Damfaudio - "Unsticker"

This Damfaudio is somewhat overdue.

As Damfacrats discussed on October 12, the book on Saddam went from "has, in fact, reconsituted nuclear weapons" to "harbor ambitions to threaten ... clandestine attempts ...research on a possible ... confirmed" program.

NSA Dr. Congo Fever Rice should know that it's not possible to "remember forward," so there is no need to "remember back."

George W. chimes in with an assessment of her appearance and her role in the administration. It's a big week for doctors in Damfaworld, apparently.

HAMSTER WEARS 'PURE BLOG' CROWN LATELY

For example, The Hamster hears that little City Beat bangs a loud peace drum (although we question citing CounterDunce as a source).

THE REAL RONNY

From Buzzflash and Bartcop.

SENTOR HOLLINGS' CAMBODIAN MOMENT

Catman notifies us of yet another compelling link, to GNN, where they posted some of the Senator's floor remarks. It's a little difficult to tell what the Senator proposes that our country do at this point but this much is clear to him: Iraq is another Vietnam and Vietnam was a mistake "from the get-go."

Damfacrats should point out that his remarks were made on Monday, the 3rd, and they include quotes from H.W.'s book. The same quotes were used in a Damfaudio "Father's Advice" (with poor sound) the night before, so maybe Hollings also happened to catch Andy Rooney on Sunday night. Damfacrats think it unlikely that he caught the new Damfaudio.

FREE TURKEYS

RAVEN: RIGHT TO ATTORNEY THREATENED BY FEE

Governments squeezing for every dollar.

GOOD ADVICE FOR RUMMY
Catman

Catman directs us to this sound bit of advice and this good animation about factory farming: The Meatrix. Simultaneously recommended by D. Cuz.

IMPRESSIVE

Damfacrats feel a little guilty about beating up on Dean. Something nice instead, about Carol Mosely-Braun, candidate for President:

first African-American Democratic senator

first female African-American senator,

first female senator from Illinois.

GLOBAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION



New Damfaudio - "Global Democratic Revolution"

"And now I'm pleased to sign into law, the Iraq Afghan- Afghanistan Supplemental Appropriations Bill." Dubya couldn't even say that one right. Maybe he choked on his words like the lawmakers who cast secret votes on the bill.

BUZZFLASH RUNDOWN

Two more judges shitcan new abortion law.

Heartbreaking

More people following Damfa's lead, as set forth in July.

Independent Judiciary picks up the "Going Nuclear" Damfaball and runs with it.

DEM LAWMAKER SETS RECORD STRAIGHT

"Many Democrats disputed the Reagan record and urged CBS to cover what they view as the former president's failures.

U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) wrote an open letter to Moonves last week urging the network to include "some of my recollections of the Reagan years" in "the interest of historical accuracy."

Dingell's "recollections" of Reagan included "$640 Pentagon toilet seats; ketchup as a vegetable; union busting; firing striking air traffic controllers; Iran-Contra; selling arms to terrorist nations; trading arms for hostages" and "apartheid apologia; the savings and loan scandal; voodoo economics."

"I hope you find these facts useful in accurately depicting President Reagan's time in office," wrote Dingell in the conclusion of his Oct. 29 letter."

HOPE

Dems rule NY and NJ.

WHO WILL BE NEXT?

She went to Notre Dame for undergrad. Here is an email from an old law school friend:

Subject: Moving To Iraq

Hello Everyone,

I know that its been a while since I have been in contact with some of you,
but I will be deployed from Fort Lewis, Washington next week with my Army
unit to Iraq for a year in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. We will be
based somewhere near Kirkuk from what I understand.
My new email address is sarah----------@us.army.mil
Hopefully, I will be able to access it often- my address will be

CPT Sarah
---, --, ----
---, --, -----

Thanks and have a great holiday season!

Love,Sarah

DEAN APOLOGIZES, WINS BIG UNION VOTE

This is the kind of endorsement George W. loves for Dean to get.

GOING NUCLEAR

The Petrolicans have been steamrolling every outrageous bill through Congress to the point where they even called the cops on Democrats one day.

Damfacrats caught some of Sen. Trent Lott (R) on C-SPAN who, along with Bill Frist, personifies the methodology of the majority: if the Democrats in the Senate have too much power to stop their horrific agenda, they'll just change the Senate rules until they can do what they want.

The ultimate act of Congressional abuse will occur if Petrolicans decide to use what NY Sen. Schumer calls the "nuclear option."

A minority party judicial nominee fillibuster can only be stopped with 60 votes, unless someone "pushes the button" and asks the chair (VP or sub) to announce a new rule: only 51 votes needed to break the fillibuster. Trent Lott is all for "going nuclear."

At a cultural conference in the North Country last weekend, local Rat Dogs asked if the Democrats would help pass the so-called Healthy Forest bill. Trent explains what happened and also sums up the macro-legislative technique of scaring constiuencies into demanding dumb Petrolican-made solutions to problems that coincidentally seem to arise (read: Blackout) when the majority wants an obscene bill passed into law. At least the Senate's version is a little less so.

UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND OFFENSIVE

Looks like the abortion criminalizers don't know how to take "no" for an answer. The Consitution says that the government can't force a person to give birth when her health is threatened. Good audio at the link.

Doctor: You might die if you carry to term.
Woman: What can I do?
Doctor: Partial-Birth Abortion.
Woman: That's horrible. I'm not sure what I should do.
Doctor: It's your choice.
GOVERNMENT: It's not your choice. We're going to place this financial or actual gun to your head and you are going to remain pregnant and give birth even if it kills you.
CONSTITUTION: I don't think so. Leave her alone.
GOVERNMENT: Aw, shucks, those meddling judges. Those murdering baby-killer Democrats. Those rotton secularists. Anti-freedom jerks. Well, at least we got some Bible votes.

A "per se" violation is not a good thing: "In Lincoln, U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf issued a temporary restraining order, citing concerns that the law lacked any health exception. "It seems to me the law is highly suspect, if not a per se violation of the Constitution," Kopf said."

MOSTLY WHITE FOLKS

New Damfaudio - "Mostly White Folks"

Latest prescription from Dr. Damfa, featuring Dr. Dean and Doc Watson.

POLITICAL DEBATE IN BOSTON

Each of the candidates had a thirty-second video that they played for the youngsters. NYC Walter recommends the Clark video.

Michael Weiner was apparently watching the debate on television as he did his radio show because Damfacrats heard him start to act disgusted by it. He let the audio play and the student inquirer said "I have a question..it's not quite boxers or briefs, but..."

Savage launched into a moralizing and degrading tirade about how repulsive it was that the candidates were being asked about their underwear.
As the actual debate unfolded, during the part Mike Savage didn't play, the girl continued and asked "... Mac or P.C.?"

GOOD STRAW POLL

Everyone should participate over at George W. Bush Will You Please Go Now? It was, after all, election day. The Damfacratic levers behind the curtain at the schoolhouse lined up quite uniformly for the local good guys. Who needs Diebold?

PASS THE DRO

I just saw this live on CNN's "Rock the Vote" Debate. So I may not get it right.

Q. Ever get high?

Yes: Dean, Kerry, Edwards

No: Sharpton, Clark, Kucinich, Lieberman

Refuse to answer: Mosely-Braun

WOMEN UNITE FOR CLARK



Damfacrats assume that Dean's confederate flag truckers wouldn't support funding for these groups down in Sell-outTown, Georgia.

SELL-OUT ZELL

Cheney and Hannity get so excited about this Benedict Arnold that they nearly cream themselves with adulation. Listen how Hannity is so in awe that he can barely respond coherently to this backstabber during one of their fondling sessions, which followed the rolling of the Cheney clip.

Hannity ends with his heartfelt warning that Democrats will be marginalized if they don't all jump into bed and start rubbing themselves all over George Bush like Sell-out. This is similar to how O'Reilly drones on and on about how CBS is going to get hurt if they run the Reagan movie, as he did tonight, claiming that he is just "looking out for CBS."

The craziest thing at work here is a clear theme shared by the Dean and Zell stories. Southern conservative Democrats do not want the party defined by Dean, the internet and some American misperception of hyper-liberalism. So Dean tries to paint himself in the blue and gray and sounds like he is donning a pointy white hat.

Meanwhile, Wesley Clark falls in between the Zell bed-wetting and the Dean bed-sharing as the "Tough Dove" who will make the party strong and Bush obsolete. Damfacrats are loath to put out a contract on a fellow "Dr.," especially a good guy like Howard, but it's time.

AMERICA: HMMM ... HOWARD DEAN ...



Don't get the wrong idea. Damfacrats had hair as long as anyone. America is a different story and its time for Dean to step aside.

PROTECTION FROM DEAN WEEK

Dubyah inspires Damfacrats to invent a week. It's also "Bash Zell Miller" week.

WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?

Bush in a word.

Clark in a paragraph:

"Clark spent his sophomore year at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tenn. Classmate Rob Hosier remembers sleeping in Clark's dorm room one night and waking up Saturday at 5 a.m. to find him quietly working on a plaster of Paris model of a paramecium by the daylight filtering through the windows."

Clark in ten minutes: one of the best parts is when he says the words "Joe Lieberman" and can't keep from laughing.

One of the most popular bloggers in the world finally got around to endorsing Clark. Bout time. Let's stop screwing around with the Confederate flag pandering metrosexual who just can't cut it next year.

Bush in his element.

FATHER'S ADVICE

New Damfaudio - "Father's Advice"

Andy Rooney recites the speech he would write for President Bush, which would include quoting George H.W. Bush. Tim Russert quotes Sen. Zell Miller (turncoat) quoting Merle Haggard.

WORST CRAP OF THE DAY

Here is a true piece of crap from the Washington Times.

Mark Steyn and Republicans (read: Zell Miller (D - Ga.)) seem positively orgasmic over the so-called "boost" in the economy. When you are starting from well below zero, the first decent quarter is not the time to do a touchdown dance.

In typical "Brownshirt" style, Steyn phonies up a bunch of contradictons and claims they characterize the speaker as inconsistent, hypocritical and/or untrustworthy. The so-called "love letter" from Clark to Bush was carefully-worded and moderate support for the U.S. in a time of inevitable war from a former military leader. What's an anti-war General to do?

DuPONT STILL PUTTING PROFITS OVER PROGRESS

It wasn't that long ago that DuPont teamed up with Hearst to scare everyone into outlawing hemp. Now it seems that DuPont would rather hinder cancer research than let any of its precious OncoMouse money get away.

CORRECTION RETRACTION

Damfacrats have this love-hate thing going with Chris Matthews. Thanks to Atrios for allowing us to keep the love side going and for lending (some) credence to World Net Daily's confirmation of Damfacratic suspicions that Matthews is under a lot of pressure to not criticize Dubyah.

P.S. Not to worship at the alter of Atrios but he also alerted us to yet another blonde bee-atch.

PROTECT ME, GEORGE W.

Mary at Naked Furniture lets us know that we missed a special week invented by the President. She makes one of her keen observations, too.

BE FOR REAL

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," says Dean, and we know what he means. However, Clark is more clearly that candidate, which is precisely why he deserves the nomination. Damfacrats are down for Dr. Dean but let's Be For Real: he cannot beat President Bush so it's time to knock him down a few pegs. Sorry, Dean people.

ATTORNEY RECOVERING

I know people don't like their lawyers but...

SOMETHING INTERESTING, SOMETHING GROSS

Blog

Please

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Damfaudio 1998 - "Ill Angels"

A Homicide/Edgar Allen Poe Damfaudio from back in the day. Happy Halloween from the Damfaudio archives.

DON'T FORGET THE HIDDEN AUDIO

LOW RATINGS ZONE
Raven

Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" at 8 p.m. was down 30 percent to 1.86 million while 7 p.m.'s "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith" dipped 25 percent to 1.2 million since last October.

"I WOULD ASSUME THAT THEY'RE EITHER, OR, AND PROBABLY"

Damfacrats used to complain that Dubya never gave press conferences. On second thought, back to back days of Bush Q & A gets pretty demanding.

NORTH COUNTRY SUPPORTER SUBMITS QUICKTIME

Props A Gander- Rat Dodger

Clever. Troubling. True.

(Right-click, Save Target, and Play).

"AGAIN, I WILL REPEAT MYSELF"

Click-a-pic

BUZZFLASH RUNDOWN

From "One Citizen" to all of us:



Paul Wellstone was such a good guy and Rep. Jim McDermott still is. Damfacrats aren't so sure about Mara Liason.

Cher and Damfacrats have this much in common: they have both called C-SPAN and gotten on the air.

RAVEN & LIZA PONDER PAY RAISES; GARCIA STILL NEEDS NO DAY JOB

6,000 of our troops still need the high Kevlar vests in Iraq, and our economy is in turmoil. Why is a Congressional pay not linked to job performance and success as with the rest of the country?

Raven submits this analysis:

Members of the first Congress back in 1789 received $6 a day for their services. By 1855 they earned $3,000 a year and in 1865, the year the Civil War ended, they received $5,000.

Other salary landmarks:

1907-1925--------$7,500

1925-1932--------$10,000

1947-1955--------$12,500

1955-1965--------$22,500

1965-1969--------$30,000

1969-1975--------$42,500

1983-------------$69,800

1987-------------$89,500

1992-------------$129,500 (no honoraria allowed)
1993-------------$133,600

1999-------------$136,700

2000-------------$141,300

2001-------------$145,100

2002-------------$150,000

2003-------------$154,700

Only one House member - Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah - voiced objections to the congressional increase.

Damfa is not sure what "honoraria" means.

In other money news, Raven reports that Jerry Garcia is still among the top twenty deceased earners, at 5 million, and wonders what Jerry did with it all, after purchasing the $5 T-shirts he always wore.

CHRISTIANS FOR HATE

Over at GWB Will You Please Go Now they can pick a pic.

AN EARLY START

Hardball reports that Al Sharpton began preaching at age 4 and was an ordained minister by age 9.

POLITICAL DEBATE IN DETROIT
Damfa

Live Report:

Lieberman is being a cheap-shot lowlife attack artist who is getting booed and deserves it.

Damfacrats were suprised at how nice the Fox question panel was back at the Philadelphia debate. No surprises tonight.

The summer's unity is falling apart, even though it was a successful strategy. Now Dean, Lieb and Kerry are stabbing everyone in the back, such that we don't hear enough anti-Bush rhetoric. Unsuccessful.

"We gonna have the battle between the Christian Right and the right Christians." says Rev. Al Sharpton, to thunderous applause.

To Dean's claim that his lack of foreign policy experience can be remedied by having good advisors, Kerry notes how successful that was for Bush and says "we're electing a President of the United States not a staff." It's so cool how Dean deliberately mispronounces Jerry Falwell's name. It almost sounds like "foul well."

It's nice that John Edward speaks out so strongly against the problems with the Patriot Act. He voted for it.

Gwen Ifill from PBS joins in the "pretend not to understand and mischaracterize the record" abuse of General Clark. Did Fox put an envelope of compromising photographs under her door? Basically, if your ideas become too complex, they will appear inconsistent to those who cannot simultaneously hold in their minds two competing yet reasonable notions.

"If you wanna live like a Republican you gotta vote for the Democrats." Gephart likes this one, as he should.

Thanks Gwen, for pointing out that Edwards is a trial lawyer who is "supposed to be compromised by that." What kind of photos were they?

One panel member claimed in a question that Kucinich proposed "replacing" the DOD with a Department of Peace. He did not, although Damfacrats love his new Dept. of Peace idea.

Ifill correctly calls Lieb "Bush-Lite" and he tries to stick the label onto Clark. Will this guy please drop out today?

Clark is trying to follow his handler's advice too much. He seems uncertain and speaks poorly at times. His inexperience shows. He is in danger of seming a little whacko at times. He should probably stop smiling when he is attacked but he is wise not to return any attacks. He is the best candidate by far.

BUSH BROS CONTROL SPORTS?

Nah. But Texas won the NBA and Florida won MLB and NFL. Too bad for the Bushs, little Damfatown University knocked off U of Texas on the way to the NCAA men's basketball championship title.

BUZZFLASH RUNDOWN
Damfa

When it comes to computer voting, Damfacrats' motto is "Always Get a Receipt."

It was 40 years ago today that Bob Dylan premiered "The Times They are A Changin." Damfacrats wonder if Dylan would approve of Damfaudio.

A Bush-voter apologizes to the world in former Damfatown newspaper.

Fox News wanted to sue The Simpsons, a show on Fox, for using a parody news crawler. The Hamster has the full story.

Petrolican GirlZ GoNe WiLd

CAUSE A STINK

New Damfaudio - "Cause a Stink"



Bush Administration fights filtering with filtering. Including banning cameras from American air bases when a coffin returns from Iraq. Even the crack squad at Fox News Watch couldn't defend it.

Jim Pinkerton deserves to be taken out of context. Reagan speech writer Peggy Noonan gives her immediate review of this Damfaudio, which also happened to be her review of the CBS Reagan movie, which she hadn't seen or read: "basic, kinda dumb and vulgar idealogical propaganda."

Al Sharpton spoke at the peace march in Washington and so did the father of a lost soldier.

MAN-HANDS ANN TALKING DOLL

Damfacrats aren't sure how we missed this one. Thanks to Timshel and World O' Crap and TBogg for making sure we didn't.

FORMER DAMFATOWN WON'T BE STIFFED BY BUSH

Portland, Oregon sent a $116,000 bill to the Bush campaign for police overtime pay, which was incurred when the President stopped by to raise a million dollars in a couple of hours. Thanks Buzzflash.

HALLIBURTON GETS DINGED FOR 70 MILLION

Listen up. Lawsuits are GOOD.

THE HAMMER

New Damfaudio - "The Hammer"

Word got out that Mayor Bloomberg put House Majority leader Tom Delay on his GOP "do-not-contribute to" list, which aides said was distributed to New Yorkers.

The Hammer (a/k/a the Exterminator) dispatched a fellow Texan, Rep. Joe Barton, to "guarantee ya that Tom Delay is a friend of New York." Of course, the GOP convention is in New York next year. If Delay and his Enron brethren get too friendly, especially with their secretive "Comprehensive" Energy Bill, New York can get set to enjoy blackouts, pollution and higher rates.

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and cable news hosts accompany Barton on this newest Damfaudio.

PHONY CORRESPONDENCE TREND
Damfa

Thanks to A Cautious Man for pointing out a variation on the pre-fabricated "soldier letters to home town paper" scheme. The Official Bush blog includes a letter from an apparently random supporter, who turns out to be a Republican hack and a smooth dancer.

DON'T FORGET TO LOOK FOR HIDDEN AUDIO

FLASH AND AUDIO WORTH ABSORBING

The GNN presents this Ralph Nader remix and, although Damfacrats believe that a vote for Nader (read:Dean) is a vote for Bush, ya gotta love him.

Once again, Bush Flash presents the killer Flash. Check out the merciless Limbaugh slam and the sobering Take Back the Media dose of reality.

THE BULLYING

New Damfaudio - "The Bullying"



George W. spoke to the Ausie parliament and reminded everyone of the "rape rooms" in Iraq. He reminded everyone that the "Magna Carter" had skeptics. He reminded everyone that he can't let up being "offensive ... even a bit."

Fearless hecklers in the legislature were chastised by the House leader and the President professed love of free speech and demonstrated love of aliteration. Plus Laura Ingraham's Boykin and a "war" that will last for "generations."

GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ

This comes highly recommended.

RAVEN FLAPS ABOUT CLARK $ PLAN

The General spells it out in the WSJ. Damfacrats reported it with less detail back on September 24: "Clark Has The Right Money Plan."

DAMFACRATS MAKE "DAMFA.COM" ACQUISITION

Raven had this to say about the Damfacratic power grab: "great days in the history of freedom."

CRYBABY STILL AT IT
Raven

http://www.billoreilly.com/currentarticle

BUSH GREETED IN INDONESIA
Catman

GENE LYONS DISCUSSES CLARK WITH BUZZFLASH

"I want to be careful how I say this, but he has an almost feline presence -- and by that I don't mean "catty," as in bitchy. I mean like a big cat. ... Not somebody to fuck with, is another way of putting it.

Going all the way back to the summer of 2002, I got a sense of how strong his feelings about Iraq were. Long before it was clear that the administration was really going to sell a war on Iraq, when it was just a kind of a Republican talking point, early in the summer of 2002, Wesley Clark was very strongly opposed to it.

He thought it was definitely the wrong move. He conveyed that we'd be opening a Pandora's box that we might never get closed again. ... It was a Fourth of July party and a lot of journalists were there, and there were people listening to a small group of us talk. There wasn't an audience, there were just several people around.

There was no criticism I could make that he didn't sort of see me and raise me in poker terms. Probably because he knew a lot more about it than I did. And his experience is vast, and his concerns were deep."

A great and hopeful article.

RUMSFELD ON SLOGSPOTS
Damfa

In a memo not meant for the public's eyes, Rummy wrote that we "can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog." He wonders whether we are "winning or losing the War on Terror" and whether "the harder we work the behinder [sic] we get."x

He wrote that "the cost-benefit ratio is against us." This memo is wonderfully off-message and Damfacrats have just a one-word response: DUH.

Update: Raven and NPR say it was leaked intentionally so Rumsfeld can use public outcry to manipulate the Brass.

SAVAGE MAKES THREAT

Radio host Michael "Savage" Weiner pledged to sit out of the elections next year if Bush fires General Boykin for the General's incendiary religious remarks. It's a Damfacratic dream: the far-far-far-Right folks reject Bush for being too liberal and prop up their own candidate. Never happen.

CORRECTION

Damfacrats take back praise for Chris Matthews. He is an apologist for Ronny Reagan's neolithic social views and is almost ready to have his big head fitted for an Asshat.

BUSH CHARMS THEM AT 8:22 OF CABINET VIDEO

Don't forget the "P-R-ney"-cam on the same page.

WESLEY CLARK, FEBRUARY 2003

MR. RUSSERT: There is an article in The Washington Post today, General. It says that part of the reason that France and Russia and Germany and others are giving the United States such a hard time about Iraq is they disagree on the views but also it's a payback for the heavy-handed and bullying tactics of the last two years of the Bush foreign policy. Do you agree with that?

GEN. CLARK: I do agree with that. I think that's exactly what they've seen and felt in Europe from this administration. It's an administration which
really hasn't respected our allies. ***

And now, we're starting to see really the threat of al-Qaeda, and a lot of people are asking, "Could we have done more against al-Qaeda?"

And, you know, I find it hard to believe that we haven't put the full funding and resources of the United States government into Homeland Security. Early after 9/11, the administration made a decision to pursue offense, rather than defense, I support that decision, in principle.

But it's the balance that's important. And when you're contemplating a $100 billion resource expenditure against Iraq, but you can't put another $5 billion into Homeland Security to protect the American people, you have to ask: Which strategy best protects America? ***

GEN. CLARK: I think war is inevitable.

MR. RUSSERT: What should the administration have done differently? What other strategy could they have embarked on a year ago where we'd have a different result today?

GEN. CLARK: I think you have to go back really-let's start with 9/11; 3,000 dead in this country underscore the deadly threat of al-Qaeda. Somehow, we got that tied in with Iraq. From the beginning, people were saying Iraq must have been behind it. Well, they weren't behind it. ***

MR. RUSSERT: Would you run as a Democrat?

GEN. CLARK: ... it would be hard to conceive of running as a Republican, only because the administration's policy is what's causing me to have these concerns.

CHUCK HAGEL (R) BREAKS AWAY
Damfa

Republican Senator from Nebraska Chuck Hagel is saying that Congress gave Bush too much power:

"We probably have given this president more flexibility, more latitude, more range, unquestioned, than any president since Franklin Roosevelt -- probably too much. The Congress, in my opinion, really abrogated much of its responsibility."

"The great reservoir of pro-American good will that has existed in the world since World War II ... that reservoir is now down very low." Back in the summer, Chuck said the Uranium scam was "bigger, wider, deeper than just about one person."

By the way, both houses of Congress want some Iraq money to be a loan, which the President says he will veto. Congress also rejected the abolition of certain overtime pay and media conglomeration.

Maybe Congress is overwhelmed with complaints from their constituencies and have decided to show some backbone.

Democrats pork-barreled some good Vet money onto the Iraq money but Congress also passed the mid-term abortion ban without an exception for the health of the mother.

JEFF SESSIONS (R) IS A LYING JACKASS

The Senator from Alabama just said on the Senate floor that insurance companies have to pay for huge punitive damages verdicts, thus raising everyone's rates.

Insurance companies don't EVER pay punitive damages. It is against public policy to insure against acts so heinous that they yield punies.

I hope Bama's Sen. Richard Shelby, who showed some sense when he broke ranks to admit that the censored 9/11 Saudi report should be released, sets him straight.

Update: North Country leadership responds to Senator Sessions-

KNOW YOUR HAIRCUTS

With only a few exceptions, Damfacrats have noticed that all male Republican legislators have the same haircut. It's a part-on-the-side/rounded bangs sort of thing, shared by Dubyah himself.

If you see a brunette legislator, she will almost always have a (D) after her name, as will the shamelessly bald men.

MATINEE IDOL

New Damfaudio - "Matinee Idol"

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answers his own questions and hits a few wiffleballs thrown to him by John Kasich, host of "From the Heartland." Kasich also sits in for O'Reilly in the No Spine Zone.

While heaping praise on the Secretary with so-called analysts, the Faux stooge gets some guy's book title wrong and makes it worse when he tries to joke about it. America is only graced with "Heartland" on Saturday nights.

Double Bass composition and performance: Raven


WESLEY CLARK

New Damfaudio - "Wesley Clark"

Retro Damfaudio supplement to N.Y. Times article on Clark's pre-General military record as Dubyapocalypse. How do you abbreviate "Very Conservative?"


B-SIDE: NO SHORTAGE

New Damfaudio - "No Shortage"

For the 40th time, Panhandle Joe recites an actress' speech on his show and then decides to interview Gene Simmons of Kiss about the war in Iraq. No passport required and no shortage of smug Asshats.

HERO PROVES LACK OF SECURITY
Damfa

Pacifist Nathaniel Heatwole should not be punished.

Related: "Damfacratic Ally Falls in Battleground State," September 2.

TWO EXCERPTS FROM SUNDAY POST ARTICLE

Despite the official web site's promotion of this Washington Post article as mostly favorable, it is not. Someone at the NY Times is giving Clark a chance but Damfacrats find the AP and the Post to be rather hostile.

Below are two legitimately positive and new excerpts:

'In 1981, he told an interviewer that his pull toward military service was a "southern thing . . . a belief that this was the right thing to do, to be an Army officer. It was not romantic . . . West Point was simply a means to a end."'

"Dan Christman, a West Point friend and retired general, said that when he became very ill with spinal meningitis in the early 1980s -- before screening techniques for HIV-tainted blood were fully developed -- Clark doggedly canvassed their entire War College class to find a suitable blood donor for his friend, and he did."

THE NEW LABEL
Damfa

The Asshats have picked out a new hate label for us: The Secularists. In other words; Godless Communists.

CAN WE HEAR FROM THE SECULAR CONSERVATIVE LIBERTARIANS PLEASE???!?!?! As in, stop sitting by and tacitly supporting these religious nuts in the White House before its too late.

PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR THEM
Damfa

The Tort Reformists are at it again in the Senate. They want to squash the rights of regular people who band together and seek redress for mass grievances. They want to handcuff class action suits and stuff them into an already ridiculously clogged Federal Court system.

The idea is that evil trial lawyers are against the regular folks in America. Lawyers want to drum up phony litigation to extort corporations, who will pass on the cost of heightened insurance to consumers. This is BS of the highest order, for many reasons, not the least of which is that the vast majority of proposed class actions are never certified to continue.

No lawyer will take a case when ten dollars is on the line, which is another reason why class actions are vital. If 10 million people get scammed for ten dollars, the tort reformers would apparently prefer to see 10 million lawsuits, rather than one class action. This makes no sense, until you consider the reality: no one will sue and the coporate ripoffs will go unpunished.

The proposed "reform" is just another way for corporations to get a free pass. Why do Americans want to remove their own rights for the benefit of rich corporations?

The people who agree with this proposal are the same people who agree with repealing the so-called "Death" tax. The percentage of people who are affected by the tax on huge estates is so small that the Estate tax can only benefit the regular folks. No one will ever tax their estate but, somehow, people have been convinced that a Republican concept of "fairness" is more important than taxing 100 million dollar estates to our benefit.

People will learn their lesson one day, after tort reform, when they and all their neighbors get scammed by a company, and they have nowhere to go.

MATINEE IDOL

New Damfaudio - "Matinee Idol"

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answers his own questions and hits a few wiffleballs thrown to him by John Kasich, host of "From the Heartland." Kasich also sits in for O'Reilly in the No Spine Zone.

While heaping praise on the Secretary with so-called analysts, the Faux stooge gets some guy's book title wrong and makes it worse when he tries to joke about it. America is only graced with "Heartland" on Saturday nights.

Double Bass composition and performance: Raven

WHY DAVIS LOST

UPDATE: Raven claims that Bush never gave up drinking entirely? Can anyone verify this?

"I think (President) Bush, you know, might be drinking a little champagne tonight. But in the morning, we still gotta wake up to three million people unemployed," said Bob Mulholland, campaign adviser to California's Democratic Party.

Of course, Bush doesn't drink since his Jim Beam and DUI days. Supposedly. Damfacrats noticed Bush was toasting with Asian dignitaries this week, using what appeared to be champagne. Couldn't be...could it?

RAVEN CARRIES GOOD H.W./BARBIE AUDIO

Watermelon Cart

Thanks to The White Rose Society

Thanks Nakedfurniture.

BETHANY FINDS DANCING BUSH

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The Faithful
Posted on or about September 25

The LaRouchians turned out in force for the Democratic Presidential Candidates' Debate, aired on Fox. Unintelligible clips omitted.

Joe Lieberman: "...trusted by both parties-"
LaRouche Faithful #1: "Where's LaRouche? These debates are illegitimate. Where's LaRouche?"

JL: "...trusted by both parties."
LF #1: "Where's LaRouche? These debates are illegitimate. Where's LaRouche?"

Bob Graham: "... the weaponry-"
LF #3: "This debate is not legitimate. The real problem is Dick Cheney!""

Joe Lieberman: "...trusted by both parties-"
LF #1: "Where's LaRouche? These debates are illegitimate. Where's LaRouche?"

John Kerry: "...behind _____ -"
LF #4: "This debate is illegitimate without LaRouche. Impeach Cheney! LaRouche for President!"

JL: "... fiscal responsibility-"
LF #5: "Where's LaRouche? He's running for President. Why isn't he invited into the debate?"


A Free Society
Posted September 28.

C-SPAN covered Deputy Sec. of Defense Paul Wolfowitz's appearance in NYC, where he was interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg in front of a live audience. It was the worst heckling of which Damfacrats are aware and not all of it was for Lyndon L.

Audience members had to be dragged out of the theater and Wolfowitz was causing outright laughter with the malevolent absurdity of his statements. Damfacrats captured about 5% of the remarks and do not allege their truth.

JG: "Sir, thank you."
Irate Audience Member #1: "The question is: Are you going to plan another terrorist attack-"
JG: "Thanks"
IAM #1: "-to solidify your control of the country?"
JG: "Sir, thank you. Could we have a question?"
IAM #1: "That's the question."

Paul Wolfowitz: "And that's known as Neo-Conservatism." (x2) "Roughly 50 million Afghans and Iraqis are finally able to speak this way (laughter) without having their c***s -tongues - cut out."
IAM #2: "It's all lies!" "They're all lies!" (x2) (unintelligible)

PW:"It's a murky world where people try to hide these things." "They need to be eradicated." "It's a murky world where people try to hide these things."

JG: "You are widely considered to be the-"
IAM #3: "He's a war criminal! Does anybody owe for 9-11?"
PW: "Keep going we'll try to ________ continue."

Wesley Clark: "Fight for oil." (x3)

PW: "It is important that -"
IAM #4: "Sieg Heil you Nazi son-of-a-b****! You should be tried for treason! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! You - you murderer! F*** you, you Nazi motherf*****!"

IAM #5: "Uranium is killing the world!"

IAM #6: "We live in a free society and we're gonna continue livin' in a free society."