Spitzer: Operation Corner Office









Within only a few minutes hundreds of white-collared CEOs were dragged through gold-encrusted corporate lobbies into the streets and hoarded into waiting police vans, to much of the excitement of local panhandlers.
Caught red-handed, they didn't even deny their dubious activities, such as, speaking over the intercoms, using calculators, and running complex profit-generating software. Now they pathetically hung on to their briefcases, cell phones, and crumpled Wall Street Journal pages, jeered by nearby crowds of idle Union workers who happened to be in the area with a giant inflatable rat, to picket a building management company that refused to pay $100/hr wages to garbage collectors.

"It will save time and a lot of taxpayers' money if Attorney General simply rounds up every suit on Wall Street instead of spending tedious legal man-hours firing off subpoenas," agrees Spitzer's political campaign manager. "This show of fiscal responsibility can benefit Mr. Spitzer's run for Governor in November."

Escape From New York: Wall Street CEOs land on New Jersey shore

"We must clean our streets from the rich corporate scum that's been infesting them. Nobody earning over a hundred thousand a year is innocent. Let's all work together to make our city safe again for the homeless to frolic without the fear of being offended by tactless display of prosperity," he finished to a standing ovation from an audience of mainstream media reporters.
Some retrogrades would call Spitzer an "extortionist" who threatens a corporation with a phony lawsuit that would cost them millions in legal fees and damage control. They "appease the beast" with a settlement hoping he would go away.
But every corporate payoff makes the beast stronger and his appetite bigger. He then threatens their neighbor, and then the next neighbor - until the entire block on Wall Street is paying ransom, and then the next block, and so on. He learned it from the Unions who in their turn learned it from the Sicilian Mafia. If this continues, many New Yorkers fear they may have to vote for Spitzer in November just to "appease the beast."

About time H&R Block was penalized for helping the poor enter the capitalist system! These people have no business saving their own money! Who do they think they are? So what if H&R Block lost money dealing with low income accounts? They were stealing from the Lottery! That is the real retirement plan for the poor. Elliot is my man! More to follow!



Eliot during the day and at night!


CLARIFICATION: This is not a joke - it's a real ad by RCA Records, believe it or not. The studio's joke is in title of the new single, "The Real Thing." It's a sort of an inside joke, though. Spitzer had sued the industry for allegedly practicing payola (fake ratings), so they "strike back" with a song which Attorney General had supposedly investigated and approved as "The Real Thing." R&R is a trade newsletter for the music industry, and the recipients are expected to find this ad hilarious.







Classic...

The Dick List




He has labored hard as a Governor to level the field and open opportunities to the toiling masses of sex workers. His proposition to have "unsafe sex," however, is an indication of moral rot that has taken over the Governor's soul and may serve as a legitimate ground to demand his resignation.
Following this unseemly episode of endangering safety of a sex toiler at the workplace, it is recommended that a nation-wide Safe Sex Awareness Week be instituted every year on this day of March 10th, immediately following the progressive UN-sanctioned International Women's Day on March 8th.
Comrade Tatiana

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the great gilbert


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/10/161553/502/194/473722 (H/T to the hate mongers at LGF!) To be fair, not all the Kidz agree with blogger Swan's take on this but the attitude is not uncommon in Prog circles.


SURVIVAL OF THE SLICKEST
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=845
Red Square
In today's evolutionary struggle we liberals are the fittest species. Conservatives are so easy - accuse them of committing a sin and they resign and disappear from public sight forever. We in the progressive community are much smarter - we don't believe in sin. It makes us invulnerable to criticism. That's why we're taking over this stupid country. However crazy, irresponsible, and outright criminal our behavior is, you can't call us sinful because that would be forcing your values on us. You can't call us hypocrites because we never said we were perfect. You can't say we've lost shame because we can't lose what we don't have. Human imperfection is our standard, our goal, or breeding ground, our primordial soup if you will. We stand for nothing and have no values except those that may hypothetically exist in a distant socialist utopia that may or may not happen.

Red Square
However crazy, irresponsible, and outright criminal our behavior is, you can't call us sinful because that would be forcing your values on us. You can't call us hypocrites because we never said we were perfect. You can't say we've lost shame because we can't lose what we don't have. Human imperfection is our standard, our goal, or breeding ground, our primordial soup if you will.*sniff* that is so beautiful *sniff*


$80,000?
No wonder the price of fresh meat has gone up.
Ah ha! ha!

His Excellency President for Life, Field Marshall Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC [‘Victorious Cross’], DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, and Professor of Geography.



Red Square
In today's evolutionary struggle we liberals are the fittest species. Conservatives are so easy - accuse them of committing a sin and they resign and disappear from public sight forever. We in the progressive community are much smarter - we don't believe in sin. It makes us invulnerable to criticism. That's why we're taking over this stupid country. However crazy, irresponsible, and outright criminal our behavior is, you can't call us sinful because that would be forcing your values on us. You can't call us hypocrites because we never said we were perfect. You can't say we've lost shame because we can't lose what we don't have. Human imperfection is our standard, our goal, or breeding ground, our primordial soup if you will. We stand for nothing and have no values except those that may hypothetically exist in a distant socialist utopia that may or may not happen.I will say that at least a few Republicans (Vitter, Craig) have learned from this playbook. Interesting to note however, that neither of them got the full-on apologia the Spitzer is getting or that past Heroes Of The People (Clinton, any Kennedy, William Jefferson, et al) have gotten. The Gerry Studds vs. Mark Foley comparison is still a perfect example of the duplicity we see in the coverage of these situations and in their outcomes. Foley resigned in disgrace and his party lost his house seat because he got drunk and made lewd comments to a 17(?) year old "child" in an IM session. Studds took a teen of approximately the same age out of the country, got him drunk and had sex with him, yet after a "harsh scolding" from Congress in 1983, went on to serve with distinction for another 14 years.
A brief comment on Red Square's post quoted above. The money line "We stand for nothing and have no values except those that might hypothetically exist in a distant socialist utopia that may or may not happen" could be shortened to "We stand for nothing and have no values except those which advance our consolidation of power." There is no sin too great to be forgiven if one is a member of The Party, except the sin of impeding The Party.
The problem here too is that, while sexual impropriety is not confined to one party, neither are any other failings. And yet again, Democrats usually get a more sympathetic hearing from our "unbiased, not-Liberal" media. Even if we accept the moronic claim that Democrats can't be judged by the same standards as Republicans in matters of sexual conduct, what about other forms of corruption? Remember the constant cries about the Republican "culture of corruption" back in 2006? Notice how Reid's land deals and Pelosi's Amgen ties both fail to gain any traction? What happened to concerns about the appearance of impropriety? I also enjoy noting that in the time Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was being investigated for taking bribes, CA Congressman Randy Cunningham was investigated, indicted, convicted and jailed for the same thing! In fact, Jefferson continues to hold his seat (although without his committee appointment) even after being indicted.


We enlightened Progressives, on the other hand, need not take any responsibility for our actions, as evidenced by Mr. Spitzer's press conference, where he held himself up nobly, chin held high, mater-of-factly announcing that he had already apologized to his family for "violating" his "obligations" in this "private matter," and will "now dedicate some time to regain the trust of my family." Good enough for me. If his wife can forgive him for violating his obligations, who am I to demand more from him?
And he apologized to me too, anyway. What a great progressive leader:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer stated, rather than
I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas, the public good and doing what is best for the State of New York.That's right - it's not about his dealings in his personal life, it's about what's best for the common good. All those other people were breaking the law and creating disorder. Gov. Spitzer only made an error in judgment in a personal matter.





sovietskayakaputnik
After a few months in the rehabilitation camps, Comrade Spitzer will emerge with new vigor to promote our glorious Revolutionary Cause.And he will succeed!!! Why? Because he will be
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Laika the Space Dog
We must change the subject quickly!Larry Craig!
See how easy it is to change the frequency?
<Adjusting_tinfoil_hat>
Ah yes! Much better.
Too bad Larry is not a Democrat. That way we could rally to his defense, and warmly embrace him as a victim of the homophobic culture perpetuated by the RethugliKKKans.
Instead, we have to destroy him for being a hypocrite, and for sexually assaulting someone in the mens room, and for being a child molester, and for taking welfare money away from the unwashed masses, and for being cruel and mean spirited in general, and anything else we care to make up and smear him with. It's a good thing that our P.R. Dept. (ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS, the NY Times, The Washington
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