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"A recent example of those unsuccessful efforts was Freedom's Watch, a group operated by former Bush administration aides, which sought to be a major player in the 2008 campaign cycle but failed to make a significant impact. It also faced financial and organizational difficulties and closed its doors after the 2008 elections."
No grass roots effort is going to take off if its leadership is derived from the Bush Administration.
You are joking right? The grassroots won't get anywhere near that bunch of insiders.
People like Sarah Palin, teaparty people, and outside the beltway types are who the grassroots folks like, not these "suits".
Another grass roots GOP organization? Is this a repudiation of the tea partiers, or what?
You know I hate to say this but, I wouldn't vote for another Republican again for anything in this world. I think the last 2 terms of "Bushism" may just kill us all. Here was a man that got us into a war without the proof of: "The weapons of mass distruction." And, how stupid can one be to give the "rich" back the federal surplus left by Clinton and at the end of his 2nd term simply climb into a US helicopter, waive off like nothing ever happened, smile and leave an unbelievable debt that would choke a horse. What a mess we are in!
I watched the Republican "babies" reaction during Mr. Obama's speech and I absolutely was appalled. If anything, they need to realize…The man is the President! Show some respect and if they don't like what he is saying or doing; make a few suggestions. Everytime I see a Replublican being interviewed they cannot answer any questions and they sit back with a smug looking smile. Either they (republicans) have nothing to offer or they just do not want to be held accountable. Little late for that one!
I also believe the GOP party is antiquated in their thinking and need to get a grip. I am sick of their slanderous commercials regarding a "womans rights" and "gay rights." These people do not have rights! But, I get it. After all; Mr. Bush got elected by acting like he was a Godly man! The US has always stood for the rights for all but here we are in Y2K and the only progress we seemed to have made is: "sitting in judgement over the rights of others."
If I hear that 40% of the US population are not paying taxes "one more time" I am going to scream. But, like all GOP communication it is merely a comment without the detail. But, the 51% that followed Bush to the wall continue to believe the "it is so" because a radical republican stated it was so. Do your homework! Did you know that the majority of the 40% they are referring to is either slightly above the proverty line, below the proverty line or on social security? Come on you 51% have a little common sense and question things or do your research.
You know what I believe? I believe the government wants to keep the citizens poor. Why? Well, we are taxed to the max, retirement savings are controlled, the majority of Americans barely make enough money to live off of while the "fat cats" get it all at the top and the insult to us all is NAFTA. Let's use child labor to make products overseas, ship it back to the US, charge us ridiculous prices and close down all the manufacturing plants in the US. Guess we didn't see that one coming? Oh well, just more money for the "fat cats."
The one I love the best is health insurance. There is not one person I know that is happy with their health care service. Here's why: They never pay claims on time, large deductables, 20-30% yearly premium increases, poor customer service and unhappy doctors. I could go on by saying we just recently resolved a two year old MRI claim that was preauthorized by our carrier. Our premium for all this great services: $14k yearly with a $6k in hospital deductible and a $500 per person medical deductible. That beats our monthly mortgage. Thank you Obama for the 65% cobra assistance as my partner has been unemployed well over a year!
The US is quickly becoming a 3rd world, capitalistic country selling out its' debt to the highest bidder. Is this what our troups are fighting for? I believe the President is correct. The government needs to stop fighting each bill as if it were an election day and realize the "American People" need help. We need to stop and help people in need with health insurance and food, assist our seniors, feed our children, close our borders, provide jobs that can pay a decent wage and support the American Dream which includes having a house to live in!
Wake up and good luck on the new "Nat'l Council for a New America!"
"Either they (republicans) have nothing to offer or they just do not want to be held accountable. Little late for that one!"
Isn't this the exact same approach the democrats took over the Iraq War and the Bailout. I could have said the exact same thing 4 years and just changed out the word republicans for democrats. If you want to talk about the debt don't forget that the democrats held control of congress over the last two years of the Bush Administration, thats more important than whoever they put on TV to read their speeches = The President. The Democrats main campaign logos of change, hope have obviously only become more of the same as the war overseas is expanding more and the debt and spending is increasing. Plus, thats how it works nothing every really gets done because both sides really cant agree or work together because the ideals are so different. The Democrats and Republicans are both to blame because politically the play the same game all they need to do is criticize whoever is calling the plays after they get sacked. The problem is politics. The american people need to demand complete change and REAL change in Washington or this will only get worse and our pockets will continue to get picked and they will keep expanding their empire. The only way to do this is to start voting for 3rd parties once they see Ron Paul getting 30% of the vote they might start listening to us and serving us rather than themselves.
An interesting quote from the NYT Op-Ed -Saturday , Jan. 30,2010 :
Lost in Translation -
"H.L. Mencken once famously opined, "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." I take exception to that. But if you change "intelligence" to "attention span," I agree wholeheartedly.
Republicans know this well. Obama knows it not."
H. L. Mencken quotes :
" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
" Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right."
The American Action Network should be a big winner with Carl Rove leading the way. Are you guys sure you can't get some of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to join you, to provide…you know…integrity?
They've had their 'foolin' time. NEVER AGAIN will a BUSH or a DICK be allowed near U.S. again.
No mention of George H W Bush being on Reverend Moon of Washington Time ownership fame's payroll for MILLIONS in "consultation fees" or Jeb's extremely criminal participation in the mortgage meltdown (he allowed hundreds of FELONS to obtain mortgage broker licenses – and yes – he KNEW ABOUT THEM because many were his pals)
These are the facts – these people – every ONE of them listed in this article has committed some crime against our country or against humanity.
They are the Mayberry Mafia.
They are the evil of this time.
Prove me wrong.
Guess the aren't going to the Tea Party!
What? They formed a new political group and did not invite Mrs. Palin, THE real-Amerikkan, gun-totin', illiterate sweetheart of the Republican and teabag Party?
Oh Mr. Malek, how could you dump her under the bus?
And no invite to tonight's Alfalfa dinner this year?
The coming back of Coleman and Carl Rove, Bushes, is an indication that what ever happened during the Bushes presidency is legitimate. Their coming back and being active in spotlight indicates they have the power to come back, will shadow their illegal actions during his presidency.
They could call their group "The GOPER Group that doesn't get its head handed to it by Barack Obama".
Oh, that's right, that group doesn't exist.
BTW, I've been re-reading Al Franken's book "Lies and the Lying Liars…"
I think this "newspaper" is everything Al said it was AND MUCH MORE….
Sounds like a motley crew of retreads. Same old discredited ideas from a bunch of has beens.
Meet the new group, same as the old group?
And what about this Council for a New America?
Where's Michael Steele's stellar input?
Something about the named participants forecasts doom from the very start. They must have brainstormed this during a conference call. Can't wait to see them in "Action"
You're kidding. Norm Coleman is a Republican party LEADER? Bush, Rove, Malek, Barbour, Gillespie… yes. Definitely. But Norm Coleman?
I have been a lifelong democrat and my party bears an equal amount of blame for our dysfunctional government. I have no answer as to the fix and feel frustrated and angry at both sides. Where do we begin? How did we, the people, allow this to happen in the first place?
Great! Now Rove and Jeb are together to give the third iteration of the Bush family. Of course they will still have no new ideas. It will be more of the same cut taxes and borrow money from the Chinese to fight wars.
The president's answer to the GOP on CSPAN:
"The fact of the matter is, is that when we came into office, the deficit was $1.3 trillion. — $1.3 [trillion.] So when you say that suddenly I've got a monthly budget that is higher than the — a monthly deficit that's higher than the annual deficit left by the Republicans, that's factually just not true, and you know it's not true.
And what is true is that we came in already with a $1.3 trillion deficit before I had passed any law. What is true is we came in with $8 trillion worth of debt over the next decade — had nothing to do with anything that we had done. It had to do with the fact that in 2000 when there was a budget surplus of $200 billion, you had a Republican administration and a Republican Congress, and we had two tax cuts that weren't paid for.
You had a prescription drug plan — the biggest entitlement plan, by the way, in several decades — that was passed without it being paid for. You had two wars that were done through supplementals. And then you had $3 trillion projected because of the lost revenue of this recession. That's $8 trillion.
Now, we increased it by a trillion dollars because of the spending that we had to make on the stimulus. I am happy to have any independent fact-checker out there take a look at your presentation versus mine in terms of the accuracy of what I just said."
Read it and weep!
How is this a new group? A yes man (Coleman), a hit man (Barbour), a confidence man (Rove), a good public face man (Jeb Bush) and a supporting cast. Until some new ideas come out, it won't matter; they can get money out of their people anyway, although perhaps this is a way to get it stop Palin's draw.
The rest of the world will pass us up even further if this county doesn't start acting soon
A den of thieves if there ever was one.
The GOP now has fully morphed into The American Taliban Party.
Well, we rounded up members of the Fourth REICH and found then of the same mind and we will take back the nation and bring back complete Fascism to the nation so we can make this nation again safe for the wealthy. The headquarters will be Palm Beach in two of the empty rooms at Limbaugh's Estate, located at 1495 N. Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach, fl 33480
I hope they will invite President Obama to a Q/A session sometime soon.
If the democrats had done their constitutional duty and prosecuted Karl Rove , at least he would not had his hands in these types of actions.
If the democrats had done their constitutional duty and prosecuted Karl Rove , at least he would not had his hands in these types of actions.
It seems we have three parties today, Democrats, Republicans and the Tea Party, and the Republicans are in third place. They will go the way of the Whigs and shortly.
They should call it the Chicken hawks that got us into this mess and now are unemployed PAC.
Hummm, shouldn't Alito be in this group too?
Talk about a bunch of political creeps. They're already in a group of their own. Looks like another 4 years of Flip Flop Barack.
The usual suspects.
Before Norm Coleman lost to comedian Al Franken her lost to pro-wrestler Jesse Ventura. I'm trying to figure out what use a self-proclaimed "Wellstone Democrat" like Norm Coleman could be to a Republican Group. He's only won one election as a Republican and that's because his opponent died in a plane crash a couple days before the election.
This stupid ass people
American Action Network….. I though PNAC already changed it's name
If Norm Coleman is involved, it's crooked amd filthy.
republicans just wory and about their job security what ever happen to country first get the work done and fix our economy
When it was convenient, Norm Coleman was a Democrat.
When it was more convenient, he morphed into a Republican.
How convenient, then, that he runs from that brand too.
He's the poster child for what's wrong with politics these days: He has a constituency of one.
Norm Coleman! Why don't they call it the Chiclet Crusaders.
It's already a failure. By using the buzzword "grassroots" in a sentence you just about scream corporate marketing. Trust me – when a new party forms it won't need slogans and buzzwords.
OMG…Perfect place for flopping Joe Lieberman
What a collection of scum bags.
I heard Jeb and Daddy stopped by the White House this morning for a brief chat with Obama. Were they re-measuring the drapes?
All the ' best ' people brought to you by the ' it's legal if we say it is ' adminstration. Where is Superman when you have a Army of Lex Luthers in control?
I would just say to these GOP rascals: "Boys, you can come up with all the clever names and associations under the sun…but you still have nothing to say except We Don't Like The President….and that just won't cut it for you."
I wouldn't vote republican if they told me the world was going to explode and I can't stand Michael Steel…
The Red Coats are coming
Look at them boys. This'all is an OOOOOLD party, son. Nothing new about it.
Isn't "The American Action Network" an ironic name for a group that has been impeding change?
Oh wow Carl Rove and Jeb Bush huh? A new day is dawning for the neo-conservative movement… *ROTHFLMAO*
That which we call a Republican by any other name would still be the "Party of NO".
The GOP message to the American public basically has been that the problems of America are too great for Washington to tackle, we shouldn't invest in our country, just let nature take its course and maintain the status quo, and by the way, tell that uppity black man to stop lecturing us about what needs to be done.
The party leadership correctly recognized that the GOP's chances of success in the next two election cycles are inversely proportional to the success of the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress with respect to improving the national economy and getting substantive health care reform legislation passed.
To that end, the Republican Party has made obstructionism their number one priority during Obama's presidency, buying into the Limbaugh mantra of "I hope he fails", even at the detriment of the nation as a whole.
"Republican Leaders Forming New Political Group"
Yeah, good luck with that.
Especially after yesterday's Bash In Baltimore.
Is their moniker a white hood? Or a Swashtika? There's some change, huh?
Thanks for the warning.
And will their sage leader, then, be "El-Rushbo?"
Has anyone ever noticed that the comments section is totally void of GOP talking points on the weekend?
Can't think of a better example to prove the point that there are actually GOP organizations out there (probably funded by the same crooks founding this joke of an organization) who pay people to troll political articles across the internet.
Why is the GOP so afraid of what American's are actually thinking?
What will they call it? The ALLIANCE OF EVIL????
corporate fascist party usa
No, the AXIS of Evil.
Karl Rove, Jeb Bush and Haley Barbour? Seriously- that is who they want people to turn to- a bunch of rich corporate sellouts?
Well at least they've included someone cne who's qaulified to get them coffee and take luch orders. Go Norm!
Ugh! What a "rogues' gallery.
Note to PaulB: I'm sure you already know the answer to your question. The GOP isn't interested in what Americans are thinking because it's usually so at odds with what the party is thinking. They're more interested in telling Americans what to think.
They can rebrand and put new paint on cracked plaster if they want to. All the republican leadership needs is new ideas that don't just sound good but actually work. Cooperating with the democrats a little bit now and then wouldn't hurt either. sitting on your hands and refusing to do anything is the perview of spoiled children having tantrums in the isle at the supermarket. They need to do less of that.
PNAC Junior (PNAC II)
No Thanks
This is a group of leaders?
What? To lead us further into debt? To lead us into more phony wars for their profiteering friends?
How about the Dissing Obama Letting Teabaggers Slide as a name for their new group? You know, D.O.L.T.S.
How's that FBI bribery investigation coming along Norm?
Now this is a scary group. Run for the hills people.
This is probably a good idea . . Maybe some new ideas to go with their new organization might help?
Leaders of what? This past summer a local Minneapolis TV station did an interview with Coleman who had admitted he had re-financed his not-so-impressive home in St. Paul several times in the last ten years. This is what we want in "leadership" . We got too much of this kind of "leadership" from Bush, Greenspan, the SEC and The Bansters on Wall Street.
BTW, I disagree with Fedup above. We are a 3rd World country now. This came from a Right Wing philosophy to put inept, stupid people (like Bush) in positions of power in the government so they could get away with as much as possible. Well, you got what you wanted. Now Coleman, Rove and his buddies will try to perpetuate this and continue to destroy a once great Republic.
Please Wikipedia this creep Malek the money behind the Repub. group. This guy would still be in jail in he was not wealthy, connected, and right wing.
Since this group contains the usual suspects, I expect more of the same.
We really need a smart, modern Republican Party providing good sensible alternatives to Democratic proposals.
But, looks like we must wait some more for that.
You can put as many coats of paint on the can as you like, but the garbage inside will still stink.
Hey ozmo, I don't know how to Wikipedia something but someone's already done the work.
As Betsy Sundquist noted here the other day, former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman is purportedly going to work for America's Action Network, a still-on-the-drawing-boards conservative think tank bankrolled by a claque of Texas Republicans. The GOP heavyweight in that group–and presumably, in some sense, Norm's boss–is Fred Malek (pictured), a longtime GOP operative-turned-eminence with serious clout and a long, checkered political pedigree.
Yeh its called the American Nazi Party
These people could care less about the American people. They want an oligarchy in which they can rule and enslave the rest. They along with the democrats have destroyed a once great nation. There are to many people scared of their own shadows and have no idea what it means to be a Patriot.
Dog, the other white meat.
One of the men arrested in the incident, in which a dog was killed, skinned, gutted and barbecued on a spit, was Frederick V. Malek, 22, of Berwyn, Ill.
Usual suspects; forget them Sarah P. is the leader, period.
Rush L is the conscience of this movement and the Tea Party are the tropps, either these clowns align themselves or then can look forward to work outside government.
Not very Tea Party Friendly.
Malek, by the way, has a fairly notorious Minnesota connection as well. He was one of the power suits in Al Checchi and Gary Wilson's debt-loaded acquisition of Northwest Airlines, which eventually brought the carrier to the verge of bankruptcy and led to a state bailout and multiple rounds of concessions from its unions.
Wow! Talk about retreads who want to turn back the clock on America! Only Rick Santorum is missing to make this list complete!
The Post reported that in 1971 Malek had ordered the FBI to conduct an investigation of then-veteran CBS correspondent and Nixon critic Daniel Schorr.
Small potatoes, though – it's just that dirty hippie NPR guy who goes on and on during my Saturday morning trip to the garbage dump. You know what really "should be off-limits from the political and partisan battlefield"? Witch hunts for Jews. Yeah, I'm thinking witch hunting Jews is an even bigger partisan no-no than talking about cancer:
It was also in 1971, The Post reported, that Malek was given a patently anti-Semitic order from a paranoid Richard Nixon to count the Jews in high-ranking posts in the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Instead of refusing, Malek set about compiling a list of 13 of 35 top BLS employees who, he believed, were Jewish. Less than two months later, two senior BLS officials who were Jewish were moved out of their jobs to less visible posts. Malek acknowledges carrying out the disgusting hunt for Jews, but he denies having anything to do with the transfers.
Funny he is now hanging out with fellow toadie in training Norm Coleman.
The SEC instituted administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against Malek, his company, Thayer Capital Partners, and two Thayer affiliates, TS Equity Partners IV L.L.C, and TC Management Partners IV L.L.C. The SEC charged that in 1998 the Connecticut treasurer, Paul J. Silvester, used state pension investments in Malek's company to reward a friend and political supporter, William DiBella, former majority leader of the Connecticut Senate.
The SEC charged that Malek, who was seeking state money for investment in one of Thayer's funds, hired DiBella and paid him a percentage of the state pension fund's total investment with Malek's company, "even though DiBella had no prior involvement with the transaction and ultimately performed no meaningful work related to the investment." DiBella understood from Silvester that he didn't have to do any work for Malek or his company and that Silvester even increased the amount of the pension fund's investment with Malek "by at least $25 million (to a total of $75 million) solely to secure a larger fee for DiBella," according to the SEC News Digest.
Wow a Republican formed organization which includes karl Rove and haley barbour and most assuredly some former Bush aides and the likes of Dick Armey, etc. Expect some nasty, dirty politics coming out of that bunch. Limbaugh must be in 7th heaven, these are his kind of people. Tea baggers will be encouraged to support their candidates but once these people get who they want in office the tea baggers will be dropped kicked to the door. Wow, the Supreme Court made it's decision to allow big corporations to fill the coffers of politicians who can deliver what the corporations want just in time to help these Republicans out big time. Kiss your a– good bye people, within four years voters won't stand a fat chance of having any say in any elections. Elections will bought by Corporations and insurance companies who will fill these right wing coffers. No wonder John McCain isn't so concerned about campaign reform any more and no wonder Sarah Palin is trying to make sure she is sitting right in the middle of the tea bag and the old guard republican crowd so she can help pull the strings and get them together and earn her share of the big bucks.
Norm Coleman : surely you jest. I didn't think I would ever have to be reminded of him again but I thought Palin would disappear too.
Should have started that 10 years ago. That would have been the appropriate time.
As a gay centrist Republican Log Cabin voter, I am thrilled that some of the most prominent politicans in our party are forming a new coalition. Our Democracy is in trouble. True Democracy is debate. We have a one sided system currently. Obama has accrued over a trillion dollars in deficit in one year with no stop in sight. I am encouraging all gay voters to look for centrist Republican leadership. Please vote in the Nov. elections. Moderate Republicans are welcoming us to their party with open arms. Our country is headed for a bankrupt train wreck.
Hey people, don't fool yourseves regarding tea baggers and Palin. She is supporting McCain in his bid for re=election and will go to the tea party convention to convince them they will be stronger by joining the Republican party and voting for their candidates. Her purpose for the benefit of herself and these Republicans is to bring the tea baggers into the party for them. Watch and Listen, this Lady is a schill, her mission, seduce the tea baggers to join the party in it's efforts and not fight it. Her script will be that the tea baggers will be stronger if they and the these Republicans all stick together. Once she sucks them in, they're toast as far as she is concerned.
I'm going to need a ruling here. Are dogs Kosher?
Fred Malek: Jew counter. Dog barbecuer.
None of these people except Rove are real Republicans.
We need HARD CORE skull-busting Conservatism. The soft-core Conservatism of McCain and Palin are what the voters rejected.
Get back on track.
Get stone-cold GOP candidates up there and stomp the demrats into a bloody pulp – and then put away Iran and Yemen
In the U.S. attorneys scandal, all eyes are on Karl Rove as the presumed architect. But, long before Karl Rove began plying his trade, Fred Malek wrote the manual for politicizing the Justice Department. Malek, a little known but influential Republican operative and "hatchet man," devised the strategies used to remove Democrats and whistleblowers from the civil service and to turn the federal government into a Republican Party headquarters. Malek's connections with President Bush may explain why the U.S. Attorney's office discontinued investigation of wrongdoing at Fannie Mae, where Malek was then a board member and was one of several individuals named in a civil suit. Rather than face criminal penalties, Fannie Mae settled with the SEC and OFHEO for a $400 million civil penalty.
They should call themselves the GOPCC
Greedy Ornery Prejudiced Career Criminals
Rove is no political evil genius, Malek is the master.
" No written communications from the White House to the Departments — all information about the program would be transmitted verbally . . . documents prepared would not indicate White House involvement in any way."
– March 17, 1972, Malek memo to Haldeman.
Scary read. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×1060189
Typical – neocon way or the highway. Losers.
This is more than dirty dealing, this is an assault on the two party system and our fundamental democratic system. This is treason, and this is the guy who wrote the playbook.
By "responsiveness," Malek did not mean responsive to the public, whose taxes fund agencies supposedly for nonpartisan services. Rather, it referred to the willingness of agency officials, including career or "Schedule C" employees, supposedly protected from political pressures, to further the campaign goals of the Republican Party. As the investigating committee indicated, this applied to the Justice Department, where even legal authorities were viewed as mere political machinery.
Clearly this can come to no good end.
Something stinks bad, Norms very sad, deep in the heart of Texas…..
In the lawsuit Paul McKim, the former CEO of an oil-rig servicing company in Houston, alleges he was coerced by 50% shareholder Iranian-born Nasser Kaseminy, a Norm Coleman friend and major political contributor, to funnel payments to Norm Coleman's wife through her employer Hays Companies in Saint Paul Minnesota.
Funny thing is this new think tank is bankrolled by Texas Oilmen.
Until I saw who was involved in the creation of this "new" group, I hoped that maybe some of the Republican leadership was actually trying to define policies that had Americans in mind. Now it looks like the only thing these people have in mind for Americans is to use them as ingredients for their meat grinder. For every one of the people mentioned, the hoi polloi are just raw material to be used for the benefit of the "best people (Dan Quayle)."
Norm Coleman is a Republican leader?
Astroturf is as bad for politics as it is for knees ad ankles.
These seem like the kind of Republicans that destroyed the conservative brand. They are not the new leadership the Tea Party is looking for, they are not real conservatives.
Well, nice collection – I wouldn't follow any of them into a bathroom carrying my wallet . . . if this is the new direction of the Republican Party, it really looks like the teabaggers may be on to something . . .
Wow, I had to look twice to see that this is the WSJ. Rupert must be out of country to allow this many comments about the "Party of No".
Astro-turfers not working out?
They totally don't understand what grass roots means. It doesn't mean being set up by leaders.
I can't believe it! The very people who took the GOP into the mire want to rise from the slop like phoenixes?
I don't think many groups will be truly "grassroots" after the recent Supreme Court decision.
I wouldn't consider any of the people named "Republican leaders" except perhaps Karl Rove. Coleman was ousted, Bush is no longer in office, Barbour is unknown, Rove is just a talking head now, and I've never heard of the last two people.
If the new group wants any clout, they're going to need people like Romney, Palin, McCain, maybe even Beck… you know, people who are still in the news.
Including Karl Rove is a sure-fire way to NOT be taken seriously…
I thought the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Republican Studies (L.I.A.R.S.) was the official Republican arm…he's definitely their revered spokesperson.
Thanks for the warning.
Speaking of "tired old white guys," this group is made up of mostly establishment neocons, not conservatives. No thank you! Karl Rove is smart but his day is over. Look where we ended up.
They should stand aside and allow principled conservatives to lead our party.
They might have some competition! http://www.eraofchange.org
Aren't these the same people who tarnished the Republican image in the first place?
Another group. More organizing. They should really try governing. One good way to win elections is to grow some authenticity so that, when they debate or need to defend their positions, they can articulate sensibly and not have to just spin and lie. Another way is for those who are already in elected office to work on behalf of the people and to participate in government, no matter who "is in power", a familiar refrain since that is all elected office means to them. Unfortunately, and for the past 20+ years, when they manage to "get the power", they are incompetent, corrupt, and just plain make messes. Twenty years later, they still quote Reagan, who would be the first to tell them, if he could, that they are behind the times and need to adapt, adjust, and flex to meet today's new world. Pitiful. They rely on "personalities" and "personas" and crude behavior.
That the Republican leadership is organizing a grassroots fundraising group flies in the face of logic. By definition this can not be a grassroots group, it's a group organized by the Republican leadership.
Watch every election – especially "special" elections – when they're close, and the GOP wins – COUNT EVERY VOTE BY HAND. It's a re-run of Bush v Gore. Re-run of Coleman v. Franken. These people cheat, lie and steal as easily as they breathe. They don't win elections – the GOP steals elections (or tries to – Minnesota kicked Norm back to where he belonged)
Rove. Now there is an honest man. NOT.
obviously a band of crooks
Gimmick, gimmick, gimmick. I guess neocon Colman figures he can dupe all us "dumb goyim" back into favoring their "World War IV" against Islam, as if we can still afford it after the Bush's favorite "entrepreneurs" ran the economy into the ground and collected tax dollars by the truck full so long as he has Rove on his team. I siggest they go for MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE instead of vituperating monologue.
I have a feeling Mr. Steele isn't going to like this.
The biggest bunch of corporate, fascist crooks this country has ever seen.
DE Teodoru, We get it, the Jews are responsible – now go back into your bunker and do as your Fuhrer did.
Just an FYI, if rich white guys who hold political office are organizing things, it can't be called "grass roots". Thanks! Perhaps, support bulls*it fertilized?
There is a formidable sector of GOP leaders and constituents that are not intent on not heralding in the assimilation of nonwhite Americans. Be they first, second third or 10th generatiion in this country. The perceived loss of power of the white majority of the past is seemingly seeping through the fingers of status quo Republicans Americans. That is not to say that there aren't white Democrat Americans that aren't suffering the growing pains as well. At the core of this new found organization by the GOP is the core of familair faces and names. The calculated damage that the Conservative movement has done to America over the years pales to the onslaught of the extreme purity new GOP that is starting its cleansing of its Moderates in the next election cycles. Racism is a matter of degrees and it is also ill intent with civility; but its still racism. It appears that the racist closet is about to bust open as the GOP consolidates towards a time when they will publically and proudly affirm that they represent white American interests primarily; and believe that power should remain in their hands.
I can't help love the irony with which Republican name their projects.
Freedom Watch, a name on a par with Bush's policy on atmospheric air pollution, Clear Skies.
Yes, delicious irony.
Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Republican Studies (LIARS) ………now that's FUNNY! LOL LOL LOL LOL
Looks like they're changing the color of lipstick on the pig…..
It's got to be a challenge to form a "grass roots" movement when the grand objective is to amass power and wealth at the expense of the common man. Good luck with that one.
The day the Bush administration took over from President Bill Clinton in 2001, America enjoyed a $236 billion budget surplus — with a projected 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. When the Bush administration left office, it handed President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit — and projected shortfalls of $8 trillion for the next decade. During eight years in office, the Bush administration passed two major tax cuts skewed to the wealthiest Americans, enacted a costly Medicare prescription-drug benefit and waged two wars, without paying for any of it. The Rich Are Richer, The Poor Are Poorer, The Middle Class is Collapsing — without a middle class there is NO democracy!
Great, the people who gave our country the financial meltdown, Guantanamo, nullified the votes of millions of Americans in 2 elections and the bogus Iraq War are coming back to help the American people once more.
Not sure whether folks realize that Obama already has TRIPLED whatever debt was left by George Bush. Obama's war spending is bigger than that of Bush. Unemployment has risen dramatically under Obama, and NOT because of Bush, but rather because of his own failed Stimulus Bill and looming threats of radical healthcare and cap-and-trade disasters.
the white stuff on chicken sht is still sht.
Obama did not triple anything, Republican throughout this Republic history has been responsible for all spike in the National Debt. The Democrat have historically reduced the size of Government. So get your facts right! Bush lied people died, Maybe anonymous would find it better to read history books instead of mouthing non factual rhetoric you dirty pot belly smelly inbred!
If America re elects a republican to the presidency or gives the majority to either house after these pass nine years of being screwed by those same people, then I guess it is true what the rest of the world is saying. 'that Americans are too stupid to know better and deserve exactly what they get). Stupid is as stupid does…
Its not the economy stupid its the stupid, stupid! or politely put dis-intelligent.
boy>>>am I glad I moved to France and let you nitwits get on with it. people in the US don't know their a## from their elbow. dumber than a box of rocks. If the repub's get back into the frame they WILL destroy the US
As an individual trying to become informed and politically astute, I was wondering if you might enlighten me with the meaning and siginificance of – the 501(c)3 and a 501(c)4 component. In simpler terms, a 501(c)3 can advocate on policy matters while a 501(c)4 is an election arm. Thanking you in advance for your time and expertise.
So, will they, like, zip across the Potomac to meet in Pizza Parlors in Arlington?
Oh, wait. They tried that already last year.
Just another Republican fake movement FAIL.
Interesting group; note their diversity!
The "group" that are involved in this are all suspect for one reason or another, but all important.
Coleman just dragged Minnesotians thru mud last year with his court case for the Franken/Coleman Campaign. It was fine to do it with the close race, but after they was no obvious misdeeds, he continued to try and drum up more that was not there. I watched this lin the court myself with the understanding that there may be a problem, but he offered nothing and although the judges gave his team every opportunity, there just was nothing going on. He and his comrads just continued to waste Minnesotians time and energy on the court case, and it wsa clear to everyone watching that it was a game or at the very least, very unaware and inexperienced individuals. Not a person to trust this Coleman. Not of either party. Once a democrate, the a republican. Minnesota doesn't trust him. Not republicans, not any party.
The political idiots keep playing musical chairs while Rome burns.
Good! Where's Palin?
Any organization with Jeb Bush in it ,has to be alarming for Americans. I lived in Florida during his reign as governor. He was a dictator with no reagards for the citizens. He locked the Democrats out of most meetings held in the state's capitol. He showed total disregard for the average person's problems and behaved like an arrogant despot. He was about to destroy the purification of water and feed the folks polluted H2O. I was hoping I would never have to hear the mention of his name again.
He makes his brother seem like a real compassionate Republican, and you know how untrue that was.
Given the players involved, I predict that the most substantive change will be to change their operative slogan fronm "No" to "Not in your lifetime."
Yup, Cheney influence through Rove door. It will be more "tax cuts and less regulation" standard repub "solutions" to anything and everything, but with a new label, for it's the packaging that counts, not the contents!
"Republicans stand poised to make further gains in the 2010 elections."
Don't let, you know, a year of governing remaining and oh, a campaign and that little nuisance called "voting" inconvenience your breathless assertions.
This is great, but I think they are one clown short of a circus. Where's Palin?
The monster is raising its ugly head again. And with the same players that espouse the same corporate republican ideology as previously. Jeb Bush will no doubt run for president. Anyone ready for another 8 years of the Bush crime family?
Funny thing about grassroots, they are started by the grassroots, not by principle-less hacks. They are trying to replicate the Ron Paul Revolution movement, which was not started by Ron Paul, but by his message of freedom, liberty, Constitutional limited-government, individual civil liberties, and a non-interventionalist foreign policy. Things these hacks clearly know nothing about. This is not build it and they will come. People who believe in central planning and top down organizations, such as these big government, socialist RINOs, will never understand grassroots, or the free market for that matter.
Eeech… same old same old same old parasites.
You can polish a tvrd, but in the end, it will still be a tvrd.
Wonderful idea. I hope it leads to a third party that will split the Republican vote.
They can form all the groups they want but as long as they continue with their elitist attitude,immorality and corruption, they won't have changed at all. They're hypocrites plain and simple and always figure the rich don't have enough money and the poor have too much.
It's nice to see that Norm Coleman has found something to do, something that meets his low level of talent and skills.
January 31st, 2010
6:53 am
after eight years in complete control, what did the gop ever do about health care reform to cover more people, implement consumer protections and bring down the cost other than the unfunded 2003 medicare modernization act which has contributed to the excessive profits for the health insurance industry?
after eight years of near complete control, what did the gop do to increase jobs and strengthen the middle class other than the gwb tax cuts to the wealthy, which even if left to expire on schedule, will have cost our government $3.7 trillion while at the same time the middle class experienced the slowest job and income growth in the post war period?
after eight years of near complete control, what did the gop do for our national security other than start an unnecessary war that has killed over 4000 americans (this after nie \"bin laden determined to strike in the u.s. killing 3000 innocent americans) and cost our country over $1 billion a month?
what did the gop ever do for our country but whose administration brought us torture, black sites, extraordinary renditions, gitmo and lost respect around the world?
and for all this, the fear mongering, disingenuous, divisive party of nope is on a come back?
Great, let's usurp a grassroots political movement (Teapartiers) and ruin it with RINO principals. Sarah don't go anywhere near these scoundrels.
And here is why. It doesn't matter how many ideas (however wishy wasy and generalized) Republicans present, they usally say no when it comes to the crunch–when voting time comes. This has happened repeatedly. They have even voted repeated against Bills they they co-sponsored, making it clear that their saying no is a matter of political strategy. In the Senate, we cannot forget the end result of the work of the "gang of six." None of the three Republicans in that group voted for the final product in the full Senate even though Democrats accepted most of their ideas which were incorated into the Senate Bill. It is simply a shell game–and Democrats, and especially the President, must continue to point this out to them and to the American people at large. Some ideas? Yes. But moving thing forward? They always say no! They have done this repeatedly. Finally, they say they oppose things on principle. Don't Democrats have a right to push forward, on principle, what they believe in? Afterall, they won big and had the people's mandate. Yet, they have tried to compromise–without getting a single Republican vote on any of the gig, crtical issues facing the country. Republicans say they have better ideas. That's just not true. Just look at which administrations have racked up the biggest deficits while in power: Reagan by far more than Obama; Bush I & II more than any Democrat. They don't have a record of fiscal responsibility, and always want to talk that resonsibility when a Democratic administration is in power. It is all an eye wash.
CORRECTIONS, please!
And here is why. It doesn't matter how many ideas (however wishy-washy and generalized) Republicans present, they usually say no when it comes to the crunch–when voting time comes. This has happened repeatedly. They have even voted repeatedly against Bills that they co-sponsored, making it clear that their saying no is a matter of political strategy. In the Senate, we cannot forget the end result of the work of the "gang of six." None of the three Republicans in the Finance Committee in that group voted for the final product in the full Senate even though Democrats accepted most of their ideas which were incorporated into the final Bill. It is simply a shell game that Republicans are playing—and Democrats, especially the President, must continue to point this out. Do Republicans have some ideas? Yes. But what kind? How well-baked? And what happens when it comes to moving thing forward? They always say no, always! Finally, Republicans say they oppose on principle. Don't Democrats have the same right? And didn't Democrats have a huge mandate for their ideas? They won big, didn't they? Yet, they have tried to compromise—without getting a single Republican vote on any of the big, critical issues facing the country. Republicans say they have "better ideas." That's just not true. Just look at which administrations have racked up the biggest deficits while in power: Reagan (so far the biggest); Bush I & II more than any Democrat. Republicans don't have a record of fiscal responsibility to run on. They only "talk" responsibility when they are not in power. It's all an eye wash.
These leaders have the fresh ideas that will pull our nation out of the Obama slump and bring greatness back to our American way of life. The best and the brightest have put their efforts behind this fantastic new action committee and we can only benefit from their actions.
Just Neo-Cons trying to re-invent theirselves ! FAIL !!
These guys individually helped give Republicans and the U.S. a bad name throughout the world for eight years. See http://www.coleman4senate.com
Spawning wars justified with non-existent WMDs, cutting taxes for the rich subsidized by the poor, failing in New Orleans, driving the economy into failure and chaos. "Good job, guys. What would we do without you?"
And Norm Colemna, you've been beaten in Minnesota by a professional wrestler and professional comedian. The only reason you got elected to the Senate was Paul Wellstone's unexpected and unexplained death three weeks before the election – you were on your way to being soundly defeated. Please, stay out of politics in Minnesota – if you must run, go back to New York.
Republicans do have some great ideas. As congresswoman Marsha Blackman pointed out to president Obama. The only problem is that when they had control of both houses and the presidency they some
how forget to bring it up. It is only when the democrats wants to do something about it, then they come
with some great ideas. Only to move the can continuously and even reject the things that
they are for. By-partisanship is not only one way. The minority party can not expect 100%.
If that was the case, then every political party would loose elections on purpose.
Well Norm Coleman is back after his long absence and long recount defeat. Why won't these people realize that we don't need or want them around clouding up the nation's business? Go away Norm and take Joey Boy Lieberman with you. Please!!!!!
The GOP just doesn't seem to get it. A rose by any other name still smells the same; or should I say "stinks".
If they put some fiscally conservative, anti military complex people on that board like republican Ron Paul; I might begin to take them serious.
I hope they come up with a great name for themselves like the teabaggers did.
If the republicans would abandon the social conservatives, I'd consider their fiscal platform. Until then…Blue down the ticket.
red faced same old same old
Way to put all of your super evil eggs in one scary basket Republicans
Here's an idea… it's called "moderate libertarianism". I don't care if people get abortions and I wish we did MORE stem cell research. And most importantly, LET ME KEEP MY MONEY!!!!!! That's a ticket I would get up and vote for. If the tea party doesn't become a major party, I'm taking my money and moving to Hong Kong.
I have a name. How about "The Whigs"?
The GOP needs to be a big tent party instead of an ideological minority.
As I once read in another context, "Different tree. Same monkeys."
The mere addition of "Karl Rove" to the list immediately destroyed any credibility WSJ could have been presumed to have in representing this group of thieves as a "NEW" political group.
So, the GOP establishment has put together an organization to keep the grassroots in line? That's what the Republican Party has been trying to do forever. There is a real grassroots movement out there and following the establishment isn't what they have in mind, but nice try.
Reading these posts reminds me of what it was like living in Boston….hell on earth. Republicans or Democrats? Who cares?
Really folks, we all got the Cass Sunstein memo. Enough. No one reading the Journal can possible think any of you are subscribers.
This PAC is horrible and the Tea Party movement is proving to be susceptible to organized manipulation by the GOP.
But let's be honest. You're clearly pro-Obama and anti-nonliberaldemocrat. Instead of congratulating how people have used the internet to self-organize and take on Beltway interests, you're using the Saul Alinsky playbook and decided to demonize them with names like Teabaggers. It says a lot about your politics, your agenda on this post, and everything about what's wrong with our political system. I hope the OFA are paying you well. You shouldn't sell your souls on the cheap.
Why is the traitor Karl Rove walking around free? It is well known that he outed a standing CIA agent, which is treason. Why hasn't he been arrested and punished?
I smell tax cuts!
Norm Coleman was elected as a democratic but when the republicans looked to be a better bet, Norm became a republican. When the "Bush Tarnish " was hurting republican candidates in 2006, Norm was
not to be found, he gave no help to his fellow candidates or the party. Even after a sexual embarassing event in his family, he jumped on the Larry Craig scandal because it was an oppurtunity.
Norm raised money for the recount argument even though citizens could watch every bit of it on their computers. His arguments weren't valid, and it cost contributors and the state millions.
Now his political career is dim and his personal finances extremely dismal someone sees oppurtunity, and
within that company, it may not be Norm. I have often wondered how Cheney could find such morally bankrupt people. Stay tuned.
RastaMoses…. I along w/ thousands of other patriotic Americans do not think of ourselves as Teabaggers. That is a label given to us by the elitists in the liberal MSM. Get off your buttocks and start fighting for your country instead of calling us names.
The writer should fact check on the 501(c)3. This is an IRS designation and it identifies tax exempt charitable organizations that are prohibited from lobbying. Non-profit and charitable are not the same thing in the IRS rulebook. 501(c)4 is the designation that applies to a chamber of commerce and permits lobbying activities.
HAHAhahahah!!! Karl Rove and the Bush Family wants in on the anti-state movement? F*** THAT!!! Every name on that list was a TARGET of the people's frustration!! How can Jeb Bush want to be anti-state when he was all for the state getting involved with Teri Schiavo? This is utter and complete plotical Sophistry. The only person who could possibly even be considered to be the leader of this effort – and it's even a HUGE stretch to call him the leader – is RON PAUL.
The American Action Network will be nothing but one more hurdle to overcome in order to return to Liberty.
Tu Ne Cede Malis
This looks like the Dream Team: for losing elections.
What loser is going to vote for a Bush ever again? EVER??? Bush failed at EVERY. SINGLE. THING. he tried. So did his daddy. Who is going to trust the next heir to this Dynasty of Clowns?
BEAM THOSE PILGRYMMES UP, SKOTTy
Something must change…the right is sick of RINOs.
thoughtful and insightful, but radioactive.
Keep waiting for a scott brown republican group. Keep the radioactive folks away from it. Try reading goldwater again and again until you "get it."Conservative and moderate meet at low government iinterference, constitutional adherence, and thoughtful bean-counting real compassion.
The folks who set up the NLRB were careful to protect labor from business and viceversa, so both could prosper. Moderate republicans must remember this.
Some common sense training in economic, taxes and capitalism would be a good place to start. Also a Constitution handbook for dummies for republicans abd democrats alike. In the mix you could create a modern day english version of the Federalist papers. The last two items would be good in schools and the general public.
NLRB was set up by non-Marxist capitalists/union representatives who respected the need for unions AND healthy private sector. Congress should remember them; both parties.
I'll vote for any party or candidate that adheres to the traditional fiscal conservative values of limited government, less spending, less taxes and more freedoms for the individual. If a party or candidate represents these values and is a social moderate, they will have a garaunteed victory.
Dear Lucy,
I loved your comment: "Where Do We Begin?" It is actually quite simple. "Take our country back!" Which would mean: close the borders, stop NAFTA, bring our military home and allow each country to handle their own issues, effective immediately all our military will be placed around the borders of the US, put the US farmers back to work because I hate eating food that comes out of a container from a 3rd world country that isn't inspected (they do sampling only), begin to help US citizens to understand the differences of others , work with (this would be the governments job) the financial institutions and determine what went wrong with the economy and begin full prosecution pending results, last and certainly not least: pay our debts off to China, Japan and Germany. This would take the US out of the Iran issue and give it to China, Japany, Germany and the Mid East, deal with the energy issues with as much clean green as possible and begin the elimination of oil dependency. This does not mean we have to drill every where in the US we simply have to get smarter, tell Congress the American people are sick of the BS so get to work like your job is important, stop talking about religion, gay people and family issues that are not in your home. Aren't we sick of everything being a political issue? I am!
Jane Swiderski,
Please vote especially since you are a female. Females often do not go to the polls. Please go to http://www.emilyslist.org and refresh you views.
I believe if we had another party it would certainly make things worse. What would happen if we had "no party" and congress was elected through voting power and they merely went to work just like everyone else. Would it make a difference?
American Action Network is now running ads in WA. No mention of who they are or who it is meant to promote, just the usual smear ad. Classic Karl Rove…
The problem with government is not the two party system, but the lobbying. It's a legal form of bribery and the root of most issues we have in the country. No politician really wants to do anything about it, as lobbying gets them more money than the tax payer paying their salary. It's American Action Network and the ilk are causing all the problems. I do not expect the government to work for the tax payer, when the lobbyist is paying ALL politicians more then the tax payer could ever afford. Guess where their priority lies?
Yo Bla…you say:
"American Action Network is now running ads in WA. No mention of who they are or who it is meant to promote, just the usual smear ad. Classic Karl Rove…"
I say:
So, Bla…llook at it this way… it's just a chapter out of the Democrat party playbook that MoveOn and other "progessive" groups have been puking up for the past 10 years now. You know, pal, what comes around goes around. So get used to it…we ain't gonna be silent anymore and we are taking this country back from you socialists.
It would be great if organizations such as this would stay out of the politics within states. Let the people of each state decide who should represent them. It shoould not be money or lobies from outside the state. I have seen the adds in Washington State and they do not express the truth at all. Senators and Representatives are elected to represent the people of the state, not special interest groups or the rich fat cats.
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By: Chef Emerald Coleman
1. Combine shrimp, 1/4 cup lemon juice, reserved lemon halves, parsley sprigs, whole peppercorns, sugar, and 1 teaspoon salt with 2 cups cold water in medium saucepan.
2. Place saucepan over medium heat and cook shrimp, stirring several times, until pink, firm to touch, and centers are no longer translucent, 8 to 10 minutes (water should be just bubbling around edge of pan and register 165 degrees on instant-read thermometer). Remove pan from heat, cover, and let shrimp sit in broth for 2 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, fill medium bowl with ice water. Drain shrimp into colander, discard lemon halves, herbs, and spices. Immediately transfer shrimp to ice water to stop cooking and chill thoroughly, about 3 minutes. Remove shrimp from ice water and pat dry with paper towels.
4. Whisk together mayonnaise, shallot, radishes, orange, avocado, remaining tablespoon lemon juice, and minced mint in medium bowl. Cut shrimp in half lengthwise and then each half into thirds; add shrimp to mayonnaise mixture and toss to combine. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper and serve.

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All postseason long, the Bruins have been waiting to get something, anything, from their third line. Rich Peverley, Chris Kelly and Jaromir Jagr never clicked in the first round. Putting Tyler Seguin with Peverley and Kelly didn't spark anything either. When Gregory Campbell went down with a broken leg in the Pittsburgh series, Kelly moved to fourth-line center and Kaspars Daugavins joined Peverley and Seguin. Still nothing.
Another change came Saturday night, in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final. The Blackhawks badly outplayed the Bruins in the first period, and even though the Bruins only trailed 1-0 (thanks entirely to Tuukka Rask), Claude Julien knew he needed to shake things up. If the game continued the way it was going, the Blackhawks would've cruised to a 2-0 series lead.
So before the second period, Julien put Kelly and Daniel Paille with Seguin on what became the new third line, based on ice time. Daugavins and Peverley wound up with Shawn Thornton, the only remaining member of the Bruins' original fourth line.
The move paid off with a little more than five minutes left in the second period. After Andrew Ference kept the puck in the zone with a well-timed pinch, Seguin forced a turnover behind the net, Paille picked up the loose puck and took it the front, and Kelly followed up to bury the rebound and tie the game at 1-1. It marked Kelly's first goal in 24 games.
"I think he's been snakebitten for a while," Julien said of Kelly. "When you don't score, eventually you get scored on and the minuses start creeping up. That was certainly something that bothered him. I thought he played well tonight. He's played well in some games. He hasn't been able to produce.
"So tonight is a good night for him, a good time to obviously have a great game. His effort and his will to be a better player was always there. You're just waiting and hoping for that moment. Tonight was a great night for that to happen."
Paille, Kelly and Seguin continued to put together strong shifts for the remainder of the game. In overtime, they nearly ended it twice. A little more than five minutes in, Seguin set up Kelly for a one-timer from about 20 feet out, but Corey Crawford made the save. Then with less than nine minutes to go in the extra period, Kelly collected a loose puck in the slot and fired a shot that Crawford just got his stick on.
The trio kept pressuring, though, and with 6:12 left in overtime, they finally did end it, sending the series back to Boston tied 1-1. Once again, it started with a good pinch at the blue line, this time from Adam McQuaid. From there, Seguin made a great pass over to Paille, who fired a wrister off the post and in.
"The bottom six have all played together at certain times," Kelly said. "If it wasn't this year, it was last year or even the year before. We're all familiar with one another. I think Claude is just trying to find different chemistry with different guys, who's going on any given night. Claude has a pretty good feel for his players. I think our line got thrown together end of the first, beginning of the second. I thought we went out there and played well."
If Paille, Kelly and Seguin can continue to produce, it would be a huge boost for the Bruins' chances to win the Stanley Cup. Their first line of Milan Lucic, David Krejci and Nathan Horton has been great all postseason, and the second line of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and Jaromir has been very good since Game 7 against Toronto.
The Bruins have been fortunate to get plenty of scoring from their defense, whether it's been Johnny Boychuk, Torey Krug or Zdeno Chara. And the Paille-Campbell-Thornton line had a great series against New York. But all along, the Bruins still needed something from their third line, whoever was on it.
Not only was the line not scoring, but it wasn't even generating chances or swinging momentum. It was getting pinned in its own end way too much, and its members were too often finishing games with a dash in the plus/minus column.
Earlier in the playoffs, it was easy to say they still had time to figure things out. But as the playoffs went on, and as the Stanley Cup Final got underway, it seemed like the Bruins would have to resign themselves to not getting anything from the bottom six forwards, and just hope the top two lines continued to dominate.
As we learned in the Toronto series, though, no one on this Bruins team is going to give up. Kelly had been struggling through one of the worst stretches of his career, but he was going to keep battling. Seguin had been criticized all playoffs for his lack of scoring, but he wasn't going to stop trying.
On Saturday night, Julien's line juggling and the third line's hard work paid huge dividends. Perhaps the Bruins have finally found the solution to their third-line woes.


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Home-style Italian dishes made fresh every day to enjoy in our casual and inviting dining room or delivered to your front door.
One peek inside Vittorio's and there is no doubt you will find our trattoria both casual and inviting. At Vittorio's we take our 'family style' seriously, whether everyone at your table serves themselves from shared platters in the middle of the table or indulging in separate tastes in our fresh Italian dishes, we welcome you to join our family. We have an extensive wine list, a daily happy hour, a great take-out menu and an inviting event room.
Tucked away in the corner of Torrey Highlands shopping plaza off Camino Del Sur, Vittorio's is an ideal place to bring your hungry team, to meet up for happy hour, or host your party in our banquet room.
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Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 10:51 • by Zylon
Technically speaking (which we bloody well should be), FTP isn't "the web".
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 11:41 • by xorsyst
Maybe they "should", for "normal" users, but I know that when I'm browsing, I don't want them to. If I want a new tab/window, I'll tell the browser I want one, thank you very much. I'd be perfectly happy if I could configure my browser to ignore target.
As I said in a previous post, the thing that really bugs me is when javascript it used for this in a way that means that me opening a link in a new window doesn't actually work, and I have to normal-click it instead. That's just brain dead implementation.
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 11:53 • by blowhole (unregistered)
Would have liked XXX-Backside-Service even more.
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 12:05 • by Mathew (unregistered)
Oviously you don't know always beforehand know whether it makes sense to open a page in a new tab. This is why the target-attribute is important.
And yes, browsers should provide an option to ignore it. Just like you can disable js, images, css.
Even better they should allow you to configure rules which pages to open in a new tab and which not - taking presedence over the authors target suggestion (just like user/author css).
The reason this doesn't exist yet, maybe is due that most people like having external links in new tabs.
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 15:06 • by Mr Anon (unregistered)
I'd love to believe that, but I doubt it somehow. Our current codebase is full of this thanks to former VB6 developers learning C# who've been lead to believe that including a try-catch counts as "error checking", even if they haven't actually done anything with it.
And, as others have pointed out, throw ex will mess up the stack trace info so even if you really needed to put a breakpoint there (instead of just breaking on exception) you ought to rethrow the original exception properly.
I have a whole slew of WTFs from the same developers that I really ought to submit at some point....
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-15 15:25 • by dogmatic (unregistered)
Validation could be a client requirement, it has been for me on a few projects. Perhaps HTML Strict is TRWTF, but it's also possible that the project was inherited with that doctype already set. Without context we can't really know if this is a WTF or not. I do know one thing, it's definitely no big deal, not like some monstrosities I've seen, like CC numbers that pass over http and are stored unencrypted in a db. Or perhaps the nice Flex "Framework" that I had to work with one time that had it's own broken way of parsing xml, even though e4x had been around for years already. When I suggested we just use e4x instead of debugging their crap, I was met with angry silence. That's months of hard work gone to waste dontchyaknow!
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2012-05-15 15:44 • by Meep (unregistered)
You assume he's counting 83 lines by hand instead of copy and pipe the pasteboard into wc -l? You FAIL, FAIL, FAIL.
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2012-05-15 19:39 • by me solve (unregistered)
Yes, that's right, users shouldn't have to right click. Instead, each time they select a link we should prompt them "Would you like to open a new tab for this window or replace the page you're viewing". Much more friendly for the morons.
MS made the mistake of trying to cater for idiot users, and only succeeded in creating more idiotic users.
Idiots will always find a way to make their own life inconvenient. Write GUI's for competent (not necessarily expert) users. Users will (out of necessity) either become competent or fall by the wayside.
Writing GUI's to support idiots only makes a cumbersome interface for everyone else, and (if anything) turns otherwise competent users into morons.
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2012-05-16 01:42 • by L. (unregistered)
Are you absolutely sure you can't use an iframe for that ?
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2012-05-16 01:48 • by L. (unregistered)
few and far between. like every single download link. or every time you don't want to implement your own tabbing system - which is exactly what you described for gmail - and exactly what I do for webapps.
Holding a grudge against _blank just because your porn sites spammed you isn't very smart either.
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2012-05-16 01:59 • by L. (unregistered)
You may be living in the past.
My webapps are single page and your back button is both useless and not supported.
What I mean there, is that there are much better ways to navigate than simply back and forward (that scheme only handles one path by the way), like a recent list adapted to your application for example.
IMHO, any application DIRECTLY supporting the back button is a WTF in this day and age, there is only bad consequences to that kind of stuff.
And any application supporting it INDIRECTLY is so missing the point because for the same work, one could simply put a better navigation scheme in place than ol' stupid backforward reload everything except some is cached but some is not ...
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2012-05-16 02:02 • by L. (unregistered)
Actually you have so much more control AND interaction possibilities with a popup div that using the OS windows would be the worst approach, hitting popup blockers as well.
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2012-05-16 02:09 • by L. (unregistered)
And this is why you shouldn't trust anyone's GUID code to be correct.
By the way, do you know if the source for SQL Server GUID uses hashes ?
Cuz if it's the case, you've got hidden collision potential ;)
Oh and, even java's GUID function is broken, so I doubt you'll find a perfect implementation in microsoft land ;)
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-16 10:42 • by Neil (unregistered)
You don't need to read it via RSS to see that the third <BLOCKQUOTE> in the source should be </BLOCKQUOTE>.
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2012-05-16 10:57 • by Zylon
IMHO, you're a troll and/or utterly clueless.
Do users understand the browser back button?
Also, fuck you Akismet. Let's see how much blather I have to tack on here before your incompetent heuristics decide this isn't spam.
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2012-05-16 12:24 • by L. (unregistered)
Interesting study, but that makes no goddamn difference.
I'm talking about web applications, not websites or blogs or whatever.
I'm talking about an application that has much easier ways to handle nav than back or forward.
The fact that people using the web as it is today, i.e. ever so retarded and still in dire need of back forward nav due to its mainly folder file tree design, require a back button has absolutely no relevance when you design an application.
Do you have a back button in Outlook ? calc ? notepad ?
No, there are only back buttons where it makes sense, explorer, winamp and vlc.
So quit using your failed rethoric on how websites should remain in the dark ages of folder-based html and join us in 2012, it's great here.
"Folder-based HTML"?
Hooooo boy, this thread is really bringing out the moonbats.
I don't fail often.
But when I do, I FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL!
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2012-05-16 15:15 • by Cricket (unregistered)
Fucking racist.
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2012-05-16 18:24 • by Fred (unregistered)
Maybe I just don't get what you're saying (or maybe you a troll), but I would think supporting the back button is important irrespective of the paths you intend to support in your page - if it exists in the browser, user will (try to) use it - if you circumvent their ability to use the back button as they believe it will work then you are merely pissing off potential clients. You don't have to believe the back button is necessarily a good idea, but you have to understand that users expect certain behaviours in browsers where it's present (which I think is all of them at the mo)
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2012-05-16 18:43 • by Fred (unregistered)
Now I'm even more confused.
"I'm not talking about Websites, I'm talking about web apps, which is why Websites shouldn't support a back button". So...Websites are old fashioned are they? I notice the likes of google, yahoo and facebook are still banking on them pretty heavily.
When they start trying to get out of them at a rate of knots, I might start to worry...
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2012-05-16 18:47 • by Ladel (unregistered)
Trolled by a classic troll:
1) Say something that on the surface sounds cromulent, but with some thought implies crazy
2) wait
3) Get angry at any opposition and accuse them of being so last year
Captcha: appellatio - oh dear....I've never enjoyed fruit so much
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2012-05-16 19:59 • by Zylon
The problem is Poe's Law, as applied to UX wonks. We may never know whether he's trolling or not. It's impossible to determine from observable data.
Fortunately, calling him an idiot is applicable either way.
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2012-05-17 04:55 • by iMalc (unregistered)
So if you FAIL at FAILing, have you succeeded?
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2012-05-17 05:11 • by L. (unregistered)
Yes, it's also called an URL.
Who the fuck wants every screen to have its own URL ????
The only reason people are attached to that is because in the past it was the only way, using static webpages that were files located in folders, thus the "folder-based" term referring to the directory structure of the old web.
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2012-05-17 05:14 • by L. (unregistered)
No. You will press the back button if you want to go back, that's true for all users.
Now what does that mean when there's no "back" ? nothing. And it will not even cross your mind to press mouse4 because you don't want to go "back".
I am talking about APPLICATIONS, not friggin websites OR random users OR potential clients.
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2012-05-17 05:15 • by L. (unregistered)
Nobody's talking about websites here.
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2012-05-17 10:59 • by Zylon
Everyone except you is talking about websites here.
You're just off in the corner being the spittle-spewing crazy guy.
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2012-05-17 16:53 • by JJ (unregistered)
Yes. It's not there by default, but you can add it to the tool bar. And it'll let you navigate back through the folders you've been clicking on.
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2012-05-17 17:11 • by JJ (unregistered)
I question both of these statements. I ran the following SQL script:
DECLARE @myid uniqueidentifier, @cnt int
SET @cnt = 0
WHILE @cnt < 20
SET @myid = NEWID()
PRINT 'Value of @myid is: '+ CONVERT(varchar(255), @myid)
SET @cnt = @cnt + 1
And got these results:
Value of @myid is: 21026332-881C-4B45-B4AB-44B7408FC5FA
Value of @myid is: 0523D6C4-ABAE-4B48-B607-116CA558895A
Value of @myid is: CED0DDA9-E7A7-460C-9827-C7B1C554AD20
Value of @myid is: 8D4D8151-D419-4E3E-AC41-03E308B405D9
Value of @myid is: 1A0AA5A2-D4AE-465C-B990-3DCA04B34666
Value of @myid is: 339A9289-EEC0-4ABA-B1F7-D22612FC2226
Value of @myid is: D312DE2F-FE20-4111-A22F-07B46FA6F5F1
Value of @myid is: 212C0D21-22E0-428E-A9CA-18C06EDA9FF2
Value of @myid is: 67FB1BB5-9CE5-4E41-AA3C-893F454979B9
Value of @myid is: 9B7EA234-4A61-483F-AC6A-3508E57083A6
Value of @myid is: D9ABDC99-F0E9-4A32-99FF-D91B39DED459
Value of @myid is: B9F71A1B-C538-44F5-8B99-BB52F4A7ED13
Value of @myid is: 1EBC1EF9-8920-4252-9784-E1FB20C2EB87
Value of @myid is: 0BF2BEF7-D1FB-49AC-A2CA-7C7FA2B876D6
Value of @myid is: 52BAD120-D769-4374-84BF-372FAE59B915
Value of @myid is: 7B176EB3-E043-48AC-94A1-077F98D83106
Value of @myid is: F3A73B9A-BB1F-46B0-BCEA-752FE18AD971
Value of @myid is: 471F65F4-999F-4283-9BD9-74440FC9E6D1
Value of @myid is: 0DA978A1-2264-439C-ACAB-6795FBA9CA9D
Value of @myid is: B2F775DD-1DC4-4F50-855F-EB0E3AE28EE7
Can someone please explain the words "sequential" and "monotonic" as they relate to these results? Because I can't see how they do.
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2012-05-18 04:32 • by Toettoe (unregistered)
Regarding GUIDs see:
Addition: The shown code as a "WTF" looks like VBScript, which has no built-in GUID-class or GUID-methods, so the function shown as a "WTF" is a good idea.
Re: FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL,FAIL FAIL and More
2012-05-18 10:52 • by JJ (unregistered)
That was my thought while reading the article, but a quick Google search before I posted showed a way to generate GUIDs in VBScript without the need for an external system like a database, so I declined to mention that part in my reply.
Yes, you still need to instantiate an object that is outside of the base VBScript object model, but the DLL that provides this object is part of Windows. http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2005/02/21/how-can-i-create-a-guid-using-a-script.aspx
Wow. My first brush with Akismet being retarded....
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2012-05-21 09:49 • by Artem Chachanidze (unregistered)
It's NEWSEQUENTIALID() that returns sequential GUID, not NEWID().
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2012-07-03 15:09 • by jasmine2501
That is exactly how it got there.
First... this probably made the front page because I used the VS extension, and I will agree it's not a really horrible WTF.
However, it is a useless function that does nothing but push the stack. It causes a compiler warning (which the vendor says is "ok, it's just a warning, nothing important") because it can never return a value, but it does build. The SaveMeeting() function is the very next block in the code file, and it's not implementing an "ISaveAble" interface or something. All it does is push the stack, eat the exception, and return null. I don't buy the debugging argument, because you can just as easily put your breakpoint in the SaveMeeting function, or its exception handler (which does the same thing as this one... nothing).
2012-08-01 02:45 • by burberry outlet (unregistered)
Well, the content of the bh, let me see the also want to see a few times more, content directly highlighted a theme, let the subject becomes more bright, and theme and then in line with the be fond of, it is too good, I'll focus on.
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For any startup or fast-growing business that wants to start telling its story, a marketing strategy provides an important roadmap, as well as clear guidelines on what needs to be done.
So, what are the steps that need to be taken to create a marketing strategy?
1. Being clear about your goals and objectives. It means knowing what needs to be achieved, and the benchmarks and metrics to measure progress and success. The goals can range from brand awareness and media coverage to leads and sales.
2. Identify your core customers and target audiences. Who's going to buy your products? Who are the other people you want to reach such as partners, suppliers, investors, the media or employees?
3. Figure out how your product different or unique. What gives your company and product a competitive edge or a window of opportunity? How to you articulate it?
4. Carry out a competitive analysis. Identify direct competitors; the companies that you'll battle head-to-head. As important, dig into your indirect competitors – the products people use to solve the problems you're addressing.
5. Know where your target audiences get information about the kind of products you're selling. Where do they go to identify, research and learn? How do they behave when they start the sales cycle?
6. Pick the channels where your product story can resonate, and can deliver the most bang for the buck. It could be social media, a blog, white papers or a great Website – whatever the channel, it's important it deliver value and drive consumers down the sales funnel.
7. Create a tactical implementation plan, including in-depth details about what needs to happen to drive execution.
8. Align your goals and marketing opportunities with your budget and resources. It makes more sense to do a few things well rather than many things in a mediocre way.
9. Create a dashboard to assess how your marketing efforts are performing, and measure on a regular basis to make any adjustments or tactical shifts in direction.
10. Be flexible and agile to account for new opportunities and moves by the competition. It is important to see marketing strategies as being fluid and dynamic as opposed to written in stone.


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Thorki imagine is back in business! We've been on hiatus for TOOOOOOO long!
Wow we haven't posted one of these in forever, we PROMISE we will get to some, especially as Thor 2 draws nearer. We will we will!
Anonymous said: Hi, I was wondering if I could use a few of these imagines as prompts for fanfictions? It's okay if you say no, just wanted to ask...
hell yes you can!
what if people didn't have bodies and they were actually just heads with butts and little stubs for arms
update, I drew a picture of it and my friends mom found it.
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Denham to Present Modesto VA Clinic with Transport Vans in Key Ceremony
MODESTO, Calif. — On Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at 11 a.m., U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) will participate in the presentation of keys to two Veteran Transport Vans for use by the Modesto VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC).
"These two vans will provide much-needed support for our veteran community in Modesto," said Rep. Denham. "Working to meet the needs of those who bravely served our country is one of my top priorities."
Working with local veterans, community leaders and the VA Palo Alto Volunteer Services, Rep. Denham helped to secure the vans in an effort to assist veterans who have special needs or transportation restrictions, often making them unable to travel to their medical appointments on their own.
Rep. Denham will be joined at the presentation by Elizabeth (Lisa) Joyce Freeman, director of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System.
"These vans are critically important in our efforts to improve access to VA care for veterans," said Director Freeman. "Congressman Denham's efforts have improved our ability to care for hundreds of veterans with restricted mobility who cannot drive themselves to their appointments."
Rep. Denham, an Air Force Veteran and the only member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee from the Valley, appreciates the hard work, patience and diligent efforts of community members who worked to make this a success.
WHAT: Modesto VA CBOC Shuttle Van Presentation
WHEN: 11 a.m. PDT, Tuesday, July 2, 2013
WHERE: Modesto VA Clinic, 1225 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95350