Well folks, the news is bad
what more can Humble Elias tell you that you haven't already heard?

Our friend, our wise counselor Edward Maximus faces a uncertain future. It had to happen sooner or later though...one last challenge. However you don't last forty six years in state and national politics without serious guts in extremis, this Our Senior Senator has in abundance.

There are a lot of eulogies out there already, some sincere some from crude gloating scumbags.All I can say is, it isn't over yet, there is still a grand fight to be made and there is time enough to lose all hope at the wake.

Labels: Senator Edward Moore Kennedy

- posted by Elias @ 7:15 AM

 
"Ryan's Take" now links to this,
The Little Blog that Cried....go here for the latest from his blog.
- posted by Elias @ 7:31 AM

 
Oh No Ogo!
He hasn't yet collected enoguh signatures to get on the GOP senatorial primary ballot this fall.
This quote seems significant and may prove a harbinger of future events:
An attorney representing Beatty's campaign has already notified the state's election office that it will challenge Ogonowski's candidacy based on irregularities in the nomination papers. When contacted yesterday, a spokesman for Beatty's campaign said the staff would "cross that bridge when we come to it."

So we have that spectacle to look forward as well.

Y'know collecting signatures is just a basic political skill, you get a few volunteers to stake out the local Stop-n-Shop and in a few weeks yer on the ballot as a bona fide candidate, it is a no brainer. So if Ogonowski can't coerce or simply pay for the foot soldiery to get his signatures free and clear, it is a damning indictment of basic competence as an aspirant for public office.

Labels: Jeff Beatty Jim Ogonowski

- posted by Elias @ 7:13 AM

 
Just a quick Shout Out to Edward Maximus over at
MGH, Humble Elias hopes he is feeling better and back on the job real soon.

Labels: Edward M. Kennedy

- posted by Elias @ 11:11 AM

 
Jeff Jacoby
abruptly drops his "guilt by association" meme against Barack Obama in yesterday's column. No...Jeff immediatetely formed up ranks with the rest of the praetorians and brayed long and loud to the effect that "negotiation is appeasement", the very halfwitted notion their dingbatted President advanced before the Israeli Knesset last week.
Yup the whole of conservative civilization was in full cry last week, all except John McCain who has gone on record back in 2006 as advocating negotiations with Hamas.
It is all there on video kids, and by the way McCain looks terrible and that clip is two years old!
As for Jeff I wonder how he feels to be cut down by his own candidate like that? For that fact his Dear Leader can't find an audience that'll listen to him anywhere inside the continental USA, maybe it really is time for the Globe's Laughing Young Senescence to pack up and decamp for the caves.

Labels: Jeff Jacoby - John McCain - President Bush

- posted by Elias @ 7:17 AM

 
John McCain and the fabulous futuristic world of 2013....
Senator McCain has rather clumsily flip flopped this week...did anyone notice? A few short months ago he was bellowing that we'd stay in Iraq for "one hundred years" if that is what it took. Now he sez we can wrap up our job in Iraq by 2013...a reduction in task-time of ninety-five years!
Wow!
At this rate McCain will have us out by December!
Of course that "one hundred years" bushwah was blood-curdling nonsense served up for the delectation of the GOP's praetorians during the primaries...so does that now mean the closer we get to November the more McCain coos like a old wrinkly dove?
Probably not, 2108 or 2013, the dates don't really matter anymore, the army is already broken from the stress of an unpopular occupation, falling enlistments and indifferent tactics dreamed up by a bunch of giddy wowsers in the White House Situation Room.
Anyone unwilling to face those facts, is naught but a fantasist thus John McCain can bellow and snarl all he likes about war and honor and victory but he is still chasing a will o' th' wisp.
Let us hope people wake up to that soonest.

Labels: Senator John McCain

- posted by Elias @ 7:23 AM

 
For the past eight years
citizens of good will have looked to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter to protect their constitutional rights in this age of terrorism and extreme rendition. The results of his lonely watch on the battlements of freedom are clear and obvious; the American people now totter on the brink of becoming Czarist peonage.
On almost any critical issue of civil liberties you care to name, Arlen Specter roared his defiance in front of the press corps and proceeded to get beaten like a red headed step child by the Bush White House.
With both eyes blackened, his nose broken and two big boot prints on the seat of his pants, Specter would go whimpering and snarling back into the senate cloak room like a local jobber who just got whipped by a WWE headliner.
And this went on for years, Guantanamo Bay, secret CIA torture facilities overseas, extensive Federal use of wire-tapping, the de factor suspension of the right of habeas corpus, the right of counsel to those accused of terrorism, military tribunals...and every time Arlen got jacked up and beat down.
So the notion that somehow now, Arlen Specter is gonna investigate the Patriots' alleged spying on a rival team's signals, is nothing short of grimly hilarious.
With Arlen Specter on the job we can look forward to the Patriots to the use of clubs and bicycle chains out on the field sans reproof.
Honestly, the NFL can breath a sigh of relief and look forward to fresh outrages, Arlen Specter could quite simply screw up a two car funeral....they have nothing to fear from him.

Labels: Arlen Specter

- posted by Elias @ 7:09 AM