ANOTHER DOUBLE DOUBLE REVERSE SPECIA
ANOTHER DOUBLE DOUBLE REVERSE SPECIAL
ITEMS IN THE NEWS 2.13.’06 (off Drudge)
FIRST:
Gay male prostitute for the Texas House
Ridin’ Bush’s coattails. “Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other” sings Willie Nelson. “What do you think those saddles and boots were about?”
Feb. 17, 2006, 3:44AM
House candidate admits former work as prostitute
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Dallas Democrat seeking election to the Texas House of Representatives has acknowledged that he once worked as a prostitute.
Tom Malin, a salesman and actor, said he no longer works as a prostitute but conceded that his previous life could cost him the nomination in the March 7 Democratic primary.
"I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior," Malin told The Dallas Morning News for its
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NEXT
Senator Harry Reid nixes bid by strong, anti-Republican anti-war Iraq vet Paul Hackett for the Democrat’s Ohio House of Representatives seat. Showing Dems won’t fight against the war-makers, even when a viable, strong candidate is available.
http://motherjones.com/news/update/2006/02/hackett_drops_out.html
****
Backroom Battles
NEWS: Economic sabotage, whisper campaigns, and threats: How the Democrats took Paul Hackett out.
By David Goodman
February 16, 2006
Democratic Senate candidate and Marine Corps Major Paul Hackett is accustomed to waging quixotic battles and taking his hits. He just didn’t expect the lowest—and fatal—blows to come from his own party.
In an announcement that stunned many in Washington and even some in his campaign staff, Hackett declared on February 13, 2006, that he was dropping his bid for U.S. Senate in Ohio, ending his 11 month political career. “I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind-the-scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign,” he said, only hinting at what had gone down. The day after his withdrawal from the race, he told me about the backroom battles that forced him out.
Hackett was running against seven-term Akron Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown in a May primary, with the winner going on to face two-term Republican Sen. Mike DeWine in November (assuming DeWine wins his own primary against a longshot Republican challenger). DeWine is considered one of the most vulnerable incumbent Republicans, and the national Democratic Party is pulling out the stops to defeat him.
But first, the Democrats had to get Hackett out of the way. The weapons used in the rubout included economic sabotage, whisper campaigns, and threats.
Hackett, an Iraq War combat veteran, was hailed last summer as just the kind of “fighting Democrat” the party needed to reinvigorate its base and end its years in the congressional wilderness. After narrowly losing a race for Congress in a lopsidedly Republican district outside Cincinnati last August, the telegenic veteran—famous for dissing President Bush as a “chickenhawk” and “sonuvabitch” while on the stump—was courted heavily by Democratic leaders, including Sens. Charles Schumer and Harry Reid, to take on DeWine. But no sooner did Hackett enter the Senate race last October than Brown announced his candidacy for Senate, reversing an earlier decision he had made to stay out of the race.
With Brown, a party insider, on board, the Democratic establishment quickly began pulling away from the fiery Hackett. Schumer, after having wooed him in August, called again in October. “Schumer didn’t tell me anything definitive,” Hackett told me at the time. “But I’m not a dumb ass, and I know what he wanted me to do.” Hackett, a maverick who relishes the fight, decided to buck the Beltway insiders, and stay in the race.
Hackett’s scorching rhetoric earned him notoriety and cash on the campaign trail. He declared that people who opposed gay marriage were “un-American.” He said the Republican party had been hijacked by religious extremists who he said “aren’t a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden.” Bloggers loved him, donors ponied up, while Democratic Party insiders grumbled that he wasn’t "senatorial."
Swift boats soon appeared on the horizon. A whisper campaign started: Hackett committed war crimes in Iraq—and there were photos. “The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago,” Dave Lane, chair of the Clermont County Democratic Party, told me the day after Hackett pulled out of the race. “I heard it more than once that someone was distributing photos of Paul in Iraq with Iraqi war casualties with captions or suggestions that Paul had committed some sort of atrocities. Who did it? I have no idea. It sounds like a Republican M.O. to me, but I have no proof of that. But if it was someone on my side of the fence, I have a real problem with that. I have a hard time believing that a Democrat would do that to another Democrat.”
In late November, Hackett got a call from Sen. Harry Reid. “I hear there’s a photo of you mistreating bodies in Iraq. Is it true?” demanded the Senate minority leader. “No sir,” replied Hackett. To drive home his point, Hackett traveled to Washington to show Reid’s staff the photo in question. Hackett declined to send me the photo, but he insists that it shows another Marine—not Hackett—unloading a sealed body bag from a truck. “There was nothing disrespectful or unprofessional,” he insists. “That was a photo of a Marine doing his job. If you don’t like what they’re doing, don’t send Marines into war.”
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Hackett had demonstrated his ability to shake money from donors during a January fundraising roadshow in California and New York. But he soon discovered that top Democrats were attempting to cut off his money. The hosts of a Beverly Hills fundraiser for Hackett received an e-mail from the political action committee of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) that concluded, “I hope you will re-consider your efforts on behalf of Hackett and give your support to Sherrod.” Waxman’s chief of staff, Phil Schiliro, said the e-mail was only sent to a handful of people and that “it probably came from a suggestion from the Sherrod Brown campaign.”
Next (and last)
Eric Baldwin in
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/will-they-go-to-court_b_15875.html
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. Who ever thought Harry Whittington would be the answer to America's prayers. Finally, someone who might get that lying, thieving Cheney into a courtroom to answer some direct questions.
POLITICAL CONNECTIONS THROUGH FANTASY LINKS
-The first two items illustrate how the two parties have switched sides on:
One: the homosexual rights issue (cf. Allan Simpson for gay-right wing Republican support; also, the LogCabineers – why not an ex-Guckert buddy in the Texas House?) (the homosexuality in German fascism under Hitler; tending toward sadistic perversions)
Two: Marine Corp Major Hackett is one of ‘their’ true off-spring, veteran of the hellwar started by the military-industrial-political establishment in Iraq. He has been there, first-hand, and is willing to come back and confront the ones responsible in their own terms, putting the war and its warriors down as wrong in principle. As the opposing political party should. But to do this is equivalent to desecrating the bodies in the bags they filled. So what does he get charged with doing? Inappropriate handling of dead soldier’s remains in body bags. Allusions to necrolepsy.
If these things could be shouted ….
Although it stretches the mind to do so, seeing these two items together against the background of Vice President Dick Cheney’s misfire on the Texas prairie explains Eric Baldwin’s claim.
The connection is through the symbolism of good-bad guy/sportsman-sniper/family protector-killer – the union of opposites, in Jung’s terms. If the VP is not condemned, he must be supported. As an inner act, this support amounts to tacit approval of having oneself shot in the face in similar circumstances. Perhaps one says “I would need be such an idiot as Wittington, coming up on his blindside like that.” Perhaps not. But those whose fire is friendly may have off days, too, so it is a vote for pre-emptive blasting.
It is with this perspective that Eric Baldwin’s remark aligns. The twisted ones, gay prostitues like Guckert who helped the Republicans win the ’04 election by whipping up hatred of gays, will probably will approval, while a manly, mature candidate in Ohio is waxed by Abu Graib democrats. This is already double double reverse special. Past that across the Darth Vadar/Cheney symbolism – the dark one is really doing it for the kid’s sake, to show him what it takes to be a man …
It is indeed hard to put all these together, even seeing their symbolic connections. “These are the terrorists”, one voice of that generation does it with.
ITEMS IN THE NEWS 2.13.’06 (off Drudge)
FIRST:
Gay male prostitute for the Texas House
Ridin’ Bush’s coattails. “Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other” sings Willie Nelson. “What do you think those saddles and boots were about?”
Feb. 17, 2006, 3:44AM
House candidate admits former work as prostitute
Associated Press
DALLAS — A Dallas Democrat seeking election to the Texas House of Representatives has acknowledged that he once worked as a prostitute.
Tom Malin, a salesman and actor, said he no longer works as a prostitute but conceded that his previous life could cost him the nomination in the March 7 Democratic primary.
"I've made mistakes in my life, and I've stood before my creator and I've accepted responsibility for my behavior," Malin told The Dallas Morning News for its
***
NEXT
Senator Harry Reid nixes bid by strong, anti-Republican anti-war Iraq vet Paul Hackett for the Democrat’s Ohio House of Representatives seat. Showing Dems won’t fight against the war-makers, even when a viable, strong candidate is available.
http://motherjones.com/news/update/2006/02/hackett_drops_out.html
****
Backroom Battles
NEWS: Economic sabotage, whisper campaigns, and threats: How the Democrats took Paul Hackett out.
By David Goodman
February 16, 2006
Democratic Senate candidate and Marine Corps Major Paul Hackett is accustomed to waging quixotic battles and taking his hits. He just didn’t expect the lowest—and fatal—blows to come from his own party.
In an announcement that stunned many in Washington and even some in his campaign staff, Hackett declared on February 13, 2006, that he was dropping his bid for U.S. Senate in Ohio, ending his 11 month political career. “I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind-the-scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign,” he said, only hinting at what had gone down. The day after his withdrawal from the race, he told me about the backroom battles that forced him out.
Hackett was running against seven-term Akron Democrat Rep. Sherrod Brown in a May primary, with the winner going on to face two-term Republican Sen. Mike DeWine in November (assuming DeWine wins his own primary against a longshot Republican challenger). DeWine is considered one of the most vulnerable incumbent Republicans, and the national Democratic Party is pulling out the stops to defeat him.
But first, the Democrats had to get Hackett out of the way. The weapons used in the rubout included economic sabotage, whisper campaigns, and threats.
Hackett, an Iraq War combat veteran, was hailed last summer as just the kind of “fighting Democrat” the party needed to reinvigorate its base and end its years in the congressional wilderness. After narrowly losing a race for Congress in a lopsidedly Republican district outside Cincinnati last August, the telegenic veteran—famous for dissing President Bush as a “chickenhawk” and “sonuvabitch” while on the stump—was courted heavily by Democratic leaders, including Sens. Charles Schumer and Harry Reid, to take on DeWine. But no sooner did Hackett enter the Senate race last October than Brown announced his candidacy for Senate, reversing an earlier decision he had made to stay out of the race.
With Brown, a party insider, on board, the Democratic establishment quickly began pulling away from the fiery Hackett. Schumer, after having wooed him in August, called again in October. “Schumer didn’t tell me anything definitive,” Hackett told me at the time. “But I’m not a dumb ass, and I know what he wanted me to do.” Hackett, a maverick who relishes the fight, decided to buck the Beltway insiders, and stay in the race.
Hackett’s scorching rhetoric earned him notoriety and cash on the campaign trail. He declared that people who opposed gay marriage were “un-American.” He said the Republican party had been hijacked by religious extremists who he said “aren’t a whole lot different than Osama bin Laden.” Bloggers loved him, donors ponied up, while Democratic Party insiders grumbled that he wasn’t "senatorial."
Swift boats soon appeared on the horizon. A whisper campaign started: Hackett committed war crimes in Iraq—and there were photos. “The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago,” Dave Lane, chair of the Clermont County Democratic Party, told me the day after Hackett pulled out of the race. “I heard it more than once that someone was distributing photos of Paul in Iraq with Iraqi war casualties with captions or suggestions that Paul had committed some sort of atrocities. Who did it? I have no idea. It sounds like a Republican M.O. to me, but I have no proof of that. But if it was someone on my side of the fence, I have a real problem with that. I have a hard time believing that a Democrat would do that to another Democrat.”
In late November, Hackett got a call from Sen. Harry Reid. “I hear there’s a photo of you mistreating bodies in Iraq. Is it true?” demanded the Senate minority leader. “No sir,” replied Hackett. To drive home his point, Hackett traveled to Washington to show Reid’s staff the photo in question. Hackett declined to send me the photo, but he insists that it shows another Marine—not Hackett—unloading a sealed body bag from a truck. “There was nothing disrespectful or unprofessional,” he insists. “That was a photo of a Marine doing his job. If you don’t like what they’re doing, don’t send Marines into war.”
***/
Hackett had demonstrated his ability to shake money from donors during a January fundraising roadshow in California and New York. But he soon discovered that top Democrats were attempting to cut off his money. The hosts of a Beverly Hills fundraiser for Hackett received an e-mail from the political action committee of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) that concluded, “I hope you will re-consider your efforts on behalf of Hackett and give your support to Sherrod.” Waxman’s chief of staff, Phil Schiliro, said the e-mail was only sent to a handful of people and that “it probably came from a suggestion from the Sherrod Brown campaign.”
Next (and last)
Eric Baldwin in
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/will-they-go-to-court_b_15875.html
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. Who ever thought Harry Whittington would be the answer to America's prayers. Finally, someone who might get that lying, thieving Cheney into a courtroom to answer some direct questions.
POLITICAL CONNECTIONS THROUGH FANTASY LINKS
-The first two items illustrate how the two parties have switched sides on:
One: the homosexual rights issue (cf. Allan Simpson for gay-right wing Republican support; also, the LogCabineers – why not an ex-Guckert buddy in the Texas House?) (the homosexuality in German fascism under Hitler; tending toward sadistic perversions)
Two: Marine Corp Major Hackett is one of ‘their’ true off-spring, veteran of the hellwar started by the military-industrial-political establishment in Iraq. He has been there, first-hand, and is willing to come back and confront the ones responsible in their own terms, putting the war and its warriors down as wrong in principle. As the opposing political party should. But to do this is equivalent to desecrating the bodies in the bags they filled. So what does he get charged with doing? Inappropriate handling of dead soldier’s remains in body bags. Allusions to necrolepsy.
If these things could be shouted ….
Although it stretches the mind to do so, seeing these two items together against the background of Vice President Dick Cheney’s misfire on the Texas prairie explains Eric Baldwin’s claim.
The connection is through the symbolism of good-bad guy/sportsman-sniper/family protector-killer – the union of opposites, in Jung’s terms. If the VP is not condemned, he must be supported. As an inner act, this support amounts to tacit approval of having oneself shot in the face in similar circumstances. Perhaps one says “I would need be such an idiot as Wittington, coming up on his blindside like that.” Perhaps not. But those whose fire is friendly may have off days, too, so it is a vote for pre-emptive blasting.
It is with this perspective that Eric Baldwin’s remark aligns. The twisted ones, gay prostitues like Guckert who helped the Republicans win the ’04 election by whipping up hatred of gays, will probably will approval, while a manly, mature candidate in Ohio is waxed by Abu Graib democrats. This is already double double reverse special. Past that across the Darth Vadar/Cheney symbolism – the dark one is really doing it for the kid’s sake, to show him what it takes to be a man …
It is indeed hard to put all these together, even seeing their symbolic connections. “These are the terrorists”, one voice of that generation does it with.
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