"the sleeper issues"...

It's misty and foggy...

Who won't agree we have a right to remain alive. gads.

No get slaughtered by the terrorist or the 'savage' gop mentality. Repudiate Romney's creepy wormy wiggle wee woo.

A child song sings we can all do the wiggly woo.

Just shake your head back and forth, pounce your feet, wag the head back and forth No!

A child would have enough common sense to keep denouncing the creepy neocons views!

John Ray the idiom guy said the early bird who prepares a Sunday blog well has put in effort and deserves the early bird

blog award. A fishing worn nightcrawler.

(1670). apologies for stretching the truth.

~ Don't forget to buy used books for gifts.

~ The British king arrived early and died?

~ Myopic monarchs views screws me~you bad.

~ Meet The Press may make people depressed.

Is that brill-cream you use or Breck hair spray? Glenn. Ya's best knock this off the blog or you'll be accused of having readers with harpy pony tails that smell like bonfire smoke.

You don't want to give right-wing [s]thinkers a creepy holiday bad mood.

Maybe he was influenced by what he saw when his father led the CIA, FBI and MI6.

The refusal to even answer these questions (by Giuliani, Thompson and Huckabee) brought this admonishment from Ron Paul:

“What are they trying to hide?.... Why are they embarrassed to answer the questions?”

I think we know the answer to that: they all explicitly embrace the theories of an all-powerful executive expounded by Bush, Cheney, Addington and Yoo.

Considering his answers, another question that comes to mind is this: why wasn’t Mitt Romney embarrassed to answer the questions?

Does he regret that he did? Wouldn’t he have been better off hiding his true positions on these issues like those who refused to answer them?

Here I am, up early with a cold...just cruising around, looking for anything at all to read. Whaddya know? GG has something new!

I think everyone else at Salon has put their outrage on hold for the holidays. But Glennzilla never rests!

Good thing, too. Or is it? All this Greenwald this year, while enlightening, has me all stressed. What are we to do in the face of such insanity in our national politics? The republic is morbidly sick, and nobody seems to care much.

It's a nice, warm holiday thought.

All of the leading Democrats -- Edwards, Dodd, Biden, Clinton, Richardson and Obama -- submitted responses, as did Mitt Romney, John McCain and Ron Paul. Refusing to respond to the questions were -- revealingly -- Giuliani, Thompson and Huckabee. Significantly, if not surprisingly, all of the candidates who did respond, with the exception of Romney, repudiated most of the key doctrines of the Bush/Cheney/Addington/Yoo theories of executive omnipotence, at least for purposes of this questionnaire.

To smear Ron Paul and promote Zionist neocon Democrats!!

Charlie Savage is a Mossad agent!

BUSTED! SO-CALLED WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP EXPOSED AS ISRAELI PROPAGANDA OPERATION!

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/whitesupremicistisisraelishill.php

Considering his answers, another question that comes to mind is this: why wasn’t Mitt Romney embarrassed to answer the questions?

Nothing embarrasses him. He'll say or do anything, no matter how shameless, to satisfy his ambition -- "double Guantanamo" -- and he thinks, proabably accurately, that the GOP base wants to hear this.

From the Concord Monitor Editorial today, entitled "Mitt Romney Should not be the Next President" --

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071222/OPINION/712230301

If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core. . . .

In the 2008 campaign for president, there are numerous issues on which Romney has no record, and so voters must take him at his word. On these issues, those words are often chilling. While other candidates of both parties speak of restoring America's moral leadership in the world, Romney has said he'd like to "double" the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, where inmates have been held for years without formal charge or access to the courts. He dodges the issue of torture - unable to say, simply, that waterboarding is torture and America won't do it.

When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no.

This sounds simplistic, but it is pretty simple.

Mitt Romney is talking like an MBA candidate, just like the soon to be retired first MBA president in history.

If George W. Bush has broken the mold of an American presidency operating under the rule of law, it is in large measure because he operates like any CEO who thinks everyone around him is just there to carry out his wishes, including Mildred the secretary; because he is, like all of our top echelon business types, a "strategic thinker." Such a man is a visionary. He is omniscient. He picks up what others miss because he sees around corners. The bottom line is the bottom line. Once that's established, everything else is secondary, other opinions merely advisory.

In addition, in Bush's case, given his pedigree, everyone, including the lawyers, is , merely, "the help."

Why should anyone be surprised?

I mentioned the other day, based on recall of a recent story in Connecticut, that Chris Dodd, whose father was a key participant in the Nuremberg trials, seemed to acknowledge a need to measure up to his dad's legacy.

This could explain Dodd's choice to stand up in the Senate on principle and force a halt, at least for now, to debate on telecom amnesty within the larger FISA bill. But you'd have to ask Dr. Phil about that.

What explains Bush's lunge into Iraq after his father, as president, committed American forces to Iraq ten years before, to push Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, only to leave Saddam in power and Baghdad intact?

Good question.

George Romney sold little cars, but he was a big American CEO of post-World War II vintage. He looked like the man in the gray flannel suit, a character out of Ayn Rand. He had a steely gaze and was focused. He looked like a dad who meant business, seeming to peer over the horizon. He damn sure looked like a man a son would want to please, desperately, even perhaps at the expense of his own identity.

Let's face it. This is not that unusual in the American World of Guys, especially among Big Guys who know how to get things done.

Mitt Romney uses the language of a business leader, one of the thousands of elite executives who think they can sell a dog off a bone. And nothing else matters but the sale. Close. Close. Close. Rack up the quotas. Get a vacation in Florida.

It's not far-fetched to say that the power of the CEO - the salesman - expressed through the near monopoly control of American commercial media, and embodied by everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Romney to Robert Kraft - is changing the way we talk to each other as participants in the democracy.

We'll probably get more more globaloney, more "global English," from Mitt; and the White House lawyers under a President Romney will wash out the language in legal briefs to match that already peddled by Bush White House lawyers, which has led us to the place where our rights have been leached of meaning.

Here's one key example. Is Mitt saying a citizen's right to use habeas corpus under his leadership as president will be evaluated, based on his or her "performance"? How will that be evaluated under the Constitution? Or, will the Constitution matter? Will we all have a glossy brochure to go by instead?

Replace one empty suit with another. Sell. Sell. Sell.

Willie Loman on steroids.