Witch Hunt

Hamsher is on a witch hunt for Rahm Emanuel's head. So much so, she's enlisted the help of Grover Norquist. Here's an excerpt of the letter they sent to the AG:




Now today, on FDL's front page, is Denis Kucinch, announcing he'll investigate the Treasury department's decision to approve the $800 billion commitment to Fannie/Freddie.

This is about transparency and oversight? I think not. It's about an attention monger who has picked up the cause of a blogger who has proclaimed herself a leader of the progressive movement and sided with the likes of Grover Norquist. Unfortunately, Kucinich doesn't realize he's being used.

Norquist is smart. He's picked two of the most popular members of the far left and has used them to lead the charge to take out the Chief of Staff. And he's got many people here signing on. Well played Grover, well played.

Let's spend tens of millions of dollars on another Whitewater investigation that will uncover nothing and instead impede legislative and policy progress. Yes, this is anything but progressive. It's down right destructive. And it's exactly what the GOP wants.

Probably because of Rahm. But, eh, I really don't give a shit about it or your angst against it

but it's not the kind she wanted.

Slow news day? There must be something else to whine about!

and Kucinich's investigation.

Which we now have thanks to you.

Give it a rest, maybe one day?

manipulative skills necessary to bend the wills of people like Hamsher and Kucinich to his ends.

Shame on Jane Hamsher for licking those boots.

You can only hammer your base for so many weeks before their purple bruises piss them off.

Grover Norquist gives scum a bad name. What does it mean that liberals are teaming up with him?

More than one thing but mostly, that they feel cut out of the process and that was unnecessary.

his selection of Rahm as Chief of Staff as some here suggest is the case. Related, certainly, but not wholly dependent upon.

If Jane Hamsher feels cut out of the process I would ask her why she's the one holding the scissors.

If it wasn't her, imho, it'd be someone else.

Rahm needs to learn how to interact with all the contingents in our party and he needs to stop slamming the left. That doesn't mean giving the left anything but he has to pretend to respect us.

We certainly did not hear the righteous Ms. Hamsher calling for repeated investigations of Andy Card, despite his extremely questionable connections and holdings. We heard damn few peeps about "transparency" during the Bush administration from Hamsher, or if we did, it was the mildest of yoo-hoos compared with the ferocity of her assault here.

Shame on her. She ought to know better, and probably does, but her narcissism is expansive and likely incurable.

of such abuses in the Bush administration.

with Norquist on that.

Too many are letting her beat them over their heads, while bowing down to her BS.

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"My personal favorite moment came when Fitzgerald began questioning Libby about the declassification of the NIE, which Libby claimed the President could do simply by waving a magic wand. Fitzgerald comes off as something of a boy scout and you could tell it just did not sit well with him that something so sensitive as the NIE (which was also under review at the time for declassification by Tenet, Rice, Hadley and Andrew Card) was breezily declassified simply to leak to a journalist for PR purposes. His misgivings were seemingly compounded by the fact that nobody bothered to tell anyone about the declassification, and when he asked Libby if this was common practice he sounded like he was gazing on some grubby little urchin making mud pies in the sandbox with Mom's fine china. Libby was squirming -- even he knew this was making him sound like a complete bonehead. As the NYT notes today, "It may be that kind of cross-examination from Mr. Fitzgerald that the defense hopes to avoid if it keeps Mr. Libby off the stand." Ya think?"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/scooter-agonistes_b_40604.html

anyone on the right. Hmmm.

All talk then, action now.

Seriously.

hissy-fit she's throwing against the Obama administration.

This is a woman, EFerrari, who in effect threatened to primary Bernie Sanders, the most left-leaning member of ANY U.S. Congress.

Now that's completely unstable. Admit it. She's a shrieking narcissist who can't impose her limitations onto the real world landscape and so she's licking Grover Norquist's boots to draw attention to herself. She's driving toward the edge of the cliff and with Norquist, she's definitely flooring it.

And that fool Kucinich is riding right along.

And frankly, Rahm should have expected blowback after his casual, systematic abuse of the left.

will be twisted onto the person who is the target of the witch hunt.

Yes Bill was having sex with Monica. Did that warrant a $25 million investigation?

But no one can claim that Rahm didn't set himself and his boss up for this. :shrug:

Cause I don't see how he's brought this kind of witch hunt upon himself.

with no consequence?

That road goes both ways.

And I can certainly point you to the left's hatred of Rahm before the administration was in power, before Rahm supposedly started "bashing the left".

Oh, but I'm not talkin' 'bout Rahm, sistah.

notoriety to generate conflict because the Obama administration is not sufficiently left enough for her. She acts out of spite, not noble idealism. If she acted for pure motive she'd act alone without the toxic alliance.

She has become a toxic presence now, having visited the lair of the beast, and brings back lethal germs to kill off the village peasantry.

As for setting tone, it does not appear that Hamsher / Norquist / Kucinich are our go-to leaders on this one.

No, it doesn't go both ways. Politicians are accountable to us, not the other way around.

If he had come out after the disclosure about Monica and said, "Yeah, So what?" instead of playing the victimized innocent no investigation would have been necessary.

How many more threads do we need on this?

it? If you don't care, then why do anything?

I think all the Rahm haters are on the same talking point now though. Good job.

Which is worthy of contempt and little else.

Have a happy and reflective New Year.

better watch that blood pressure!

Your obsession with Jane Hamsher-who had breast cancer and that's why the health care bill is so important to her is, well, weird. She never crowned herself the head of the progressive movement. That's something you and others made up because you hate her because she dares to take on Obama and his right hand Rove, Rahm.

Daily Kos, The Huffington post and Howard Dean are much more popular. I don't really necessarily agree with her on Norquist. But she believes what she is doing. All you and people like you EVER do is defend Obama. He sold us out on health care not Jane Hamsher. He has power. He is the president. He's not some barely known blogger. I would have never heard of her it it wasn't for DU.

And then to top it all off-we are FAR LEFT. Yeah, buddy people that want an open government and try to tell the truth like Kucinich-one of very few in congress are the enemy of YOU. Absurd again. I am not FAR LEFT. Nor is Hamsher or Kucinich or Dean or any of the others that Obama and Rahm and now you-some poor guy with a family with health problems is attacking.

And Rahm is as corrupt as the come. So what does that say about Obama? What the GOP wants are you kidding? Not the tea baggers and the Palins of the world-but the real power makers have everything they want with Obama and Rahm.


But nothing for you and your family.

I have two children both who have a chronic disease. HCR is as important to me as it is to her or anyone else, so go take your righteous indignation and shove it where the sun don't shine.

She has appointed herself as a progressive leader and she shines a spotlight on herself when she enlists teabaggers in her cause, goes on Fox News and joins hands with Grover Norquist in a witch hunt against the Administration.

If you believe she is on a valiant quest, you are sadly fooled my friend, and fooled once again by the very people you despise. Obama has not abandoned anything. He's been pushing Congress to do their job. Could he have pushed harder? I think so, but I also am not privy to what's going on in all the negoations. The bottom line is you'll never convince Lieberman to go with a PO, let alone Single Payer. So the Democrats have done what they can, get as close to a PO as they can without calling it that.

But go ahead down this destructive path. You'll find out how fast you can reach... nothing.

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The sooner that piece of shit gets taken down, the better for the country.

Jane Hamsher
FiredogLake.com

Grover Norquist
Americans for Tax Reform

'nuf said

That duo just about wraps it up for me, too.

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Anything Rahm does is great. Anyone speaking out against Rahm is the enemy and must be brought down.

Your posts are nothing if not predictable and amusing.

Why don't you go read my journal. You'll see I'm neither a Rahm lover, nor predictable. But go ahead and tell people what they are. That works really well when you don't have a substantive argument.

Do you feel like a big man now- slapping down that "noob" for daring to speak to you? You truly are laughable.

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I think you are taking internet chat a little to seriously, Bernie. It's New Years, have a drink of champagne and relax a little!