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Grow some balls! Goddamn it.

Everyone is getting a little over their ski tips.

That actually IS a pretty elitist comment.

i think the kissy face he's making is basically an endorsement. right? RIGHT?

He was interviewed on NPR the other day and I was struck by what a total dickhead he was. Just lots of immature "ha ha, I got you reporter" type crap. I am not surprised he hasn't the balls to back what he said. Hillary won't need three anymore, so maybe she could lend him one.

He can go Rahm his Emanuel.

Hang on, hang on. Don't steam your monocles over this. It sounds like you've all gone ahead and put the boat trailer before the Bentley here. We're maintaining our position, as steady as a good valet, and we all know how hard it is to find a good staff these days.

@tunamelt: We're talking about the Democrats here.

Screw you Rahm, get on Barry's Hot Ass Express NOW Dammit!

"Everyone is getting a little over their ski tips"?? Who is this guy, Mr. Howell?

@Doglessliberal:
He's always been. He fought with Dean over the placement of his hand picked candidates during the 2006. All or most of them lost due to ineptness or poor campaigning. His brother is basically the agent from Entourage.

@DancyPants: Thurston Howell IV, I presume?

@Guppy06: I know, but one can hope®, right?

Hey! This elitist doesn't know what "ski tips" means.
(I thought it was some weird typo.)

@ManchuCandidate: He fought with Dean over the placement of his hand picked candidates during the 2006. All or most of them lost due to ineptness or poor campaigning.

Wait, didn't the Democrats sweep to power in 2006? That charge doesn't make sense.

Or is my monocle all steamed up from hanging over my ski tips?

"but something could happen that could effect that Barack could lose the nomination."

WIth this, and the dozens of "off the record" comments from staffers along the lines of "Hillary is not crazy, she knows what she's doing, we will have a nominee on June 13," etc, does anyone else get the feeling that Clinton, her staffers, and the democratic old guard/hollywood connection know something that we don't?

@illnoise: Yes, pretty much all the time.

At first I thought he meant "ski trips" and that people had jet lag ... but it's May.

It's gotta be code for something like a cheese heroin hangover or a baby roast.

@illnoise: I do think that sometimes. but then I wodner, why not yet? Does she still think she can beat him straight up?

I think if they had it it would have been leaked to Drudge long ago.

@MaineGay:
I should have elaborated more. Rahm's hand picked inept candidates were in vulnerable Repub districts and they lost to the incumbents despite money thrown at them from the DLC and other losers. Rahm demanded that his candidate losers get more money from Dean and get it from the all round more successful 50 state strategy.

@V572625694: how dated am i?

I wodner as I wander, wondering.

...with this many pussies in D.C. I think I know why Bill wants get back in the White House so bad! Fukking pick someone already!!!

@illnoise: yeah, if they know something, why hold off on it until she's pretty much lost? It seems much more likely that they're all just kookoopants.

That kind of elitism really wilts my watercress.

@AngryBlakGuy: He sold off all the furniture from 2000. Bill has a furniture fetish. He simply MUST get back into that White House.

He's so mean! Stringing HRC along like that... prick tease!

And today's "No Fucking Shit, Sherlock" award goes to Emanuel's spokesperson for this nugget: "He was stating the obvious."

It seems like HRC is packing the only three testicles in D.C.

I love that these people are supposed to be "leaders". Yes, you have to report to your district to get re-elected, but your job is to LEAD. This is why nothing happens in congress.

You know, if we had a state-by-state, spread-over-5-months presidential election, the American electorate would have had a chance to think twice about who they wanted to win, and we wouldn't have this bunch of dickheads in office that we do have now.

Just a random thought, is all I'm sayin'.

In funnier news:

"I just want to report that this morning I personally checked John McCain's bearings. He has not lost any of them. They are all in really great shape."

--Joe Lieberman

Settle down, now. Everyone's getting their cards a little too close to the Baccarat wheel. Tell the captain to put your Gulfstreams on autopilot until June, mkay?

I live in Rahm Emmanuel's district and I've supported him in the last two elections. I just sent him this message via his House website:

Mr. Emmanuel,

As a loyal constituent who has supported you in every election for the last eight years, I beg you to please "grow a set" and support Obama, very clearly and very publicly. Your single superdelegate vote would be big news and it would likely put an end to Clinton's embarrassing and damaging quest to destroy the Democratic Party from the inside.

I'm aware that you have relationships and obligations to both candidates, but it's time to use your considerable powers to stop the bleeding. Your friendship with the Clintons is surely important, and I respect that loyalty, but it's time to put an end to this primary. In this case, loyalty and history should not stand in the way of progress and success.

Nothing will reinforce your reputation as a "power broker" as much as making a firm decision now. Mrs. Clinton will forgive you, but Illinois voters may not.

@grad69: Lucky for my congressman, he endorsed already. Thus, I will vote for him again.

People are chopping their crudites a little too early for cocktail hour, no?

@FloraWay: and his tie rod ends and shock absorbers are fine, too.

relax everyone. Barack is campaigning against McCain now and Hillary is just going to run until W. VA where she will win then quit, saving Barack the embarassment of being the only candidate and still losing the toothless racist vote. If she refuses to leave then, the DNC will send the zombie Kerry to eat her brains.

Hold on, let's not prematurely decant that 18 year Laphroaig, folks. Hillary is still in this thing.

Some people have waffle-butt from sitting on the fence for so long. :p

@BaconCat: I bet Treebeard is vegetarian, though.

If I've learned anything from the Late Night Shots crowd, "ski trips" has to have something to do with cocaine.

@BaconCat: I like the way you think.

Rahm Emanuel = douchebag

@ManchuCandidate: OMG Ari and Rahm are brothers?!? Suddenly it all makes so much sense.

To expand on the "I am a Ford, not a Model T" quotation..........

Barry : 4 wheel drive prius xx
Hillary : Olds 98 xx
(Carville is just nutz)

Y'all can do one for the good Sen. from AZ.

en-j0yz ur weknd

"but something could happen"

beware of people using three names in their moniker:

1) John Wilkes Booth
2) Lee Harvey Oswald
3) Hillary Rodham Clinton

Just sayin...

When Rasmussen stops tracking you , dear Hillary, it is over.

@Dave J.: Why do you not have a little star next to your name on this site?

@TGY: Ahhhahahahaha. 'Who has disturbed my slumber?'

Robert Downey, Jr. will play Rahm Emanuel in the eventual movie someone will make about this whole horrible primary season.

I wish all these pansies (Rahm, John Edwards, etc.) would grow a pair and just say, "Bitch, go away. I love me some Barack." Is that so fucking hard to do!? I'll tell why the superdelegates haven't all endorsed Barack. One word: JEALOUSY. These guys are jealous of a black man stealing their thunder. Bill can't stand the fact that he really isn't black and John Edwards ego doesn't approve of a black man who's prettier than him. Where's Arnold to call out these girly men?

Rhammy's probs not going to be able to hug this one out w/ Mark Penn. As a matter of fact, I see something like this in his future:

+ Watch video

I know some of you think thi one's been done to death, but damn if it doesn't apply to Emanuel/Penn as much as the originals.

@audicityofhope: Correction: John *Edwards'*

@audicityofhope: You think by now they'd be able to point to The Math as their reason. Prior to now, ok, well, whatever, I can see the logic that somehow Hillary could have pulled this thing out and then gone all Hitlery on their asses. But now...there's really no chance she can win. I don't know what they are waiting for, honestly.

@Dave J.: Laphraoig doesn't retail at 18 years.

What?

Not sure if this applies to Rahm, but aren't certain Democratic party leaders (e.g. Howie Dean) forbidden from endorsing a candidate before the convention under silly DNC rules I only half understand?

Willary is in Oregon talking about "flying against the wind...you'll get there eventually", Total pander to the Wild Salmon demographic.

@jbd: "retail". Hilarious. That made saffron come out of my nose.

@jbd: This is a rare behind the scenes glimpse of a Dave J. comment. So I started off with "15 Year Macallan," then changed it to 18 because 15 is just trash, then changed it to Glenmorangie because Macallan is too mainstream, then changed it to Lagavulin because I'm actually not a Glenmorangie fan, then changed Lagavulin to Laphroaig because, shit, it's my fave, but neglected to change the 18 back to 15 because you can't buy a 18 year Laphroaig.

Sigh. All that to make the point that Rahm Emanuel's spokesman is elitist. Irony, that.

@PentagonBookkeeper: , = .

@SayItWithWookies: likewise with my melting tomato aspic! Chafing dishes, advance to the rear!!

@Dave J.: Smoky peat moss goodness.

@Dave J.: Aw, forget all that stuff. Pop the cork on a bottle of Cardhu and drink until you Raaahhm into your neighbor's flower beds.

@V572625694:

The snippy spokesperson must be the progeny of the fabulously wealthy John Beresford Tipton.

Which is as dated as a person can be--unless he is named John McCain in which case he has just lost his bearings (the new polite way of saying he is dementia-raddled old man)

@Dave J.: Laphroaig? I have a Ph.D. in evolutionary genetics and I drive a freakin' Prius and that is so elite I don't even know what it is. If you hadn't said it was aged and needed decanting, I would have guessed it was a breed of Poodle.

@MaineGay:

Oh yeah Emanuel was one of the primary architects of the 2006 takeover in the House. A few of Dean's like Nancy Boyda made it but Emanuel recruited and pretty much ran the campaigns for Arcuri in NY, Shuler in NC, both the Connecticut ones, Mitchell in AZ, and quite a few others.

@illnoise: seriously? you sent rahm a letter? how'd that go?

also, no the clinton's won't forgive them.

but does it matter if the Clintons don't forgive Rahm--or anyone else for that matter? They'll be out of the race and while they may hate everyone for not kowtowing to them again (why can't we get this bitter taste out of our mouths)
it doesn't matter because they aren't in power positions anymore. Someone else will be and they'll be on the outside looking in. And because of her campaign, no one will want to let them enter anymore.

I hope this doesn't make the Clinton supporters, bitter.

"Hillary can't win but something could happen that could effect that Barack could lose the nomination."

I don't think Joseph Heller could have come up with that chestnut.

Doc Daneeka: You see, Obama has won the nomination, but no one can say that he's won, because he can still lose it.

Capt. Yossarian: If he's already won, then how can he lose it?

Doc Daneeka: He can't, but we can't say that because it's not fair to tell Hillary she's lost.

Capt. Yossarian: When will it be okay to tell Hillary that she lost?

Doc Daneeka: When Obama wins.

Capt. Yossarian: But he's already won!

Doc Daneeka: But he could still lose.

Capt. Yossarian: To who!?

Doc Daneeka: To Hillary.

Maybe if Barack left out a piece of cheese as bait, Rahm would crawl out of his hole for a real endorsement.

@DancyPants: Me too. "Gilligan, if we could just get these two coconuts into orbit..."