KOEB Meeting: 04/07/09 -- Obama Stumbles on Wiretapping Edition

[Patsy Stone]

:hi:, you all!

Spinal Tap's in da house!

[Patsy Stone]

1. #5 This is Wiretap

LOL! Nice crossover captions, there.

[Patsy Stone]

2. I'll just talk to myself, then; shall I?

Jonathan, I have to agree with you. This is a bad move on the administration's part. I konw Fineman thinks it was to make the CIA happy, but that's just a really sucky reason. For the first time, the prez has bummed me out. :(

[Berry Cool]

4. I am in the same place as you as far as being bummed out.

:-( Very much so.

You know, like I said, I really wanted Keith to take time off, but now, after hearing this news, I want to lash him to his damn chair. We NEED him.

In fact, I think this calls for a Special Comment.

[Patsy Stone]

5. I'm ready to write a special comment to the WH.

:mad:

:hi:

It's nice to see him, and I still can't get over how together he appears.

[Berry Cool]

8. Same here, on both counts.

I think change.gov needs to hear from me.

And I just look at Keith and think...dear God, I hope you don't pay for this later.

[Berry Cool]

3. No, I'm here.

:hi: And of course, his "Hello Cleveland!" ref was a shout-out to me. :loveya:

[Patsy Stone]

7. I knew that. :) nt

[WolverineDG]

6. Turn it up to 11

:rofl:

:hi:

dg

[Berry Cool]

9. Hey, Wolvie.

:hi: Keith loves me. And I love Keith. I just don't know how he's doing this.

[WolverineDG]

10. Probably helps keep his mind off things

I know that's what worked for me.

dg

[Berry Cool]

12. Yeah, it works. Up to a point.

I hope he doesn't overdo it.

[Patsy Stone]

13. "I think I could work in a shop... like, maybe, a haberdashery."

:hi:

[SharonRB]

11. Hey, everyone

:hi:

The thread is so short this far into the show!

Sorry I haven't been around much. When I get home, I wind up having a lot of computer stuff to do for the show.

[Patsy Stone]

14. I was all alone in the dark for a while.

Nice to see you! Happy Passover eve.

[SharonRB]

18. Thanks, you too.

Although I'm not doing anything for Passover for the second year in a row.

[Patsy Stone]

19. Me, either.

:( I'm just going to hang out here and eat bread.

[SharonRB]

24. LOL

I did buy Matzah. I might be meeting Nancy for a drink, though. So much to go over and never any time to talk. She's so busy!

[Berry Cool]

15. We're glad you're here.

:hi: The end of the show should be fun. At least less depressing than the beginning.

I refuse to be an Obama pessimist, but if he's going to go only for putting the programs he wants in place and forfeit principle, he's going to hear from me. I thought the programs were based ON his principles.

[SharonRB]

16. Heads- up for Nancy's show tomorrow

Jane Hamsher will be on at the top of the show to talk about this: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/04/bailed-out-bank-jp-morgan-dooming-chrysler/#more-3894

Chase wants Chrysler to fail and there's a big grassroots effort starting to get people in Michigan to close their Chase accounts. Wish I had one to close. Nancy has three. I talked to Jane and she's going to write a diary and promote the heck out of this one.

[WolverineDG]

20. open one just to close it

:evilgrin:

dg

[Patsy Stone]

23. That's a great idea.

Make the first deposit $50 in loose pennies.

[SharonRB]

25. I thought of that, but na gonna do it.

[WolverineDG]

40. party pooper

:P

dg

[ralps]

17. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

21. Hi, ralps and Crook!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

22. Mary Jo Kilroy

So sorry you had to get stuck in the middle of the Republican's kindergarten BS.

[CBHagman]

26. Wasn't Virginia Foxx...

...the one who bad-mouthed government employees in general, implying that public service was undesirable, even illegitimate? I just went searching for the quote but couldn't quite find it...

Anyway, the whole thing stinks like GOP hell.

[Berry Cool]

28. Hi ralps and CB!

:hi: Mary Jo Kilroy makes me proud to be from Ohio. That's Buckeye class right there.

[CBHagman]

31. Hey, Berry!

Three cheers for the Buckeyes!

[Berry Cool]

43. New license plate slogan

"Ohio...We're Not All Suckasses Like John Boehner."

[CBHagman]

49. I love it!

:rofl:

"Ohio...We're Not All Suckasses Like John Boehner."

That one is definitely going to my buddy in Madison, OH.

[ralps]

35. Hi Berry Cool,

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Patsy Stone]

33. I didn't find that either...

But here are two of her greatest hits:

The tar baby remark: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/04/rep_virginia_foxx_r-nc_a.html

Likens Nancy Pelosi to Marie Antoinette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzvTg2YTvZI

:hi:

[Botany]

27. M.J.K. is my Fav.

She knows me and I worked for her campaign too.
She is my neighbor and as good as it gets.

I just saw the tail end of the spot ..... were the repugs trying shit?

Please give me 5 minutes w/ them. BTW KIlroy is nobody's fool.

[Berry Cool]

30. I would be proud to have her for my congresscritter.

I can only hope Marcia Fudge isn't putting up with this crap.

And yes, the Repugs are trying shit. Using the veterans' knowledge of the rules to fluster freshmen and talk over them and take back their own time on the floor so they can't get a word in edgewise. Bullies.

[Patsy Stone]

36. They so were.

:hi:

[Botany]

44. The so were what?

If they were trying to "trip up" Mary Jo they picked the wrong EDV.

She is or has been a lawyer, been on the school board, county commissioner,
helped run a non profit, worked for the human society (saved thousands of dogs),
been on the board of directors of some businesses, and wants me to landscape
her house.

Berry saw her the same day she became BFFs w/ Jennifer Brunner.

[Patsy Stone]

46. You asked:

"were the repugs trying shit?"

She was very cool and offered KO her condolences on his mom's passing. Very classy.

[Botany]

48. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

Thanx ..... she is classy.

I was at a rally to protest starting the 7th year of the Iraq war a vet w/
real emotional problems broke down crying in my arms ..... he needed
help and wasn't getting any .... I saw Mary Jo and asked if she could
help him. She listened to his problems and then got his # ... later on
Mary Jo told me she got him into the V.A. system ..... she wasn't in
Congress @ the time and the guy was from 50 miles away but she
helped him.

[CBHagman]

29. Ian Richardson's birthday as lead-in to Oddball.

I love it that Keith gave a shout-out to the late Ian Richardson, the brilliant actor who had an absolute field day playing the deliciously evil British politician Francis Urquhart (Note those initials!) in the House of Cards trilogy.


His credits, as per IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007183/

[SeattleGirl]

32. Hi everyone! Better late than never.......

Just in time to hear Keith thank people for their response to his mom's passing.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

37. And the musical entertainment, too

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

39. Exactly!

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

45. Hi SG

:hi: Sorry I missed you.

[ralps]

34. Today's worst person in the world is Glenn Beck!!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

38. I've been tempted to get tickets to see them when they come to Miami

I guess I have to get on the stick and do it already.

[ralps]

41. Here's their website

http://unwigged.com/ Thanks to Jon Fox at the HORN Chatroom!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[Berry Cool]

42. And Rachel loves me too!

She did the "Hello Cleveland!" too!!

:loveya: Love ya back, Rachel! :hug:

[Berry Cool]

47. I will have to see if I can still get tickets for them at the State.

That's assuming they actually DO the show and don't get lost somewhere in the basement trying to find the stage door.