Mission Creep II
By Mitch Berg
Zack at MNPublius writes:
Norm Coleman said he would allow the press to photograph his “cramped” apartment in Washington, D.C. in order to prove that he’s not getting favorable treatment. But now Norm is backtracking on that promise…
He goes on to say (emphasis added by me):
But yesterday a DC staffer said no photos would be made available. The reason? Security.
“We consulted with the Capitol Police who advised that taking photos could pose a security risk,” said LeRoy Coleman, Coleman’s press secretary.
Zack then replays last month’s “controversial” Coleman spot:
Again, I’m either a cop nor a lawyer, but assuming it’s really Norm’s Twin Cities house in the TV spot, it might have something to do with the Capitol Police having no jurisdiction in Saint Paul.
Let me know what I’ve missed.
APOLOGIES: I inadvertently deleted the first version of this post. I know the original had at least one comment. I apologize. More or less.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Huh, somehow you deleted Angryclown’s comment mocking the credulity with which you accepted Coleman’s story.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Actually, I deleted the whole post, inadvertently.
The comment went down with the ship, as it were.
July 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
As it were.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
So anywho, you’re thinking the Capitol Police ordered him not let the CAMERAS OF TERROR! into his D.C. pad? But damn it, they can’t tell him what to do back in St. Paul. They don’t have jurisdiction!
Oops.
“Additionally, we are responsible for protecting Members of Congress, Officers of the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and their families. We serve these individuals throughout the entire United States, its territories and possessions, and throughout the District of Columbia.”
That’s from the U.S. Capitol Police home page. I’d post a link, but fear that might lead to further…%^^&%*^&%^$$#$ CARRIER LOST
July 11th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I have no idea where that last bit came from.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Inadvertent. Truly.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Oh, OK. But you did practically ask for it.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Wasn’t it Mark Dayton who closed his Senate office a few years ago for fear of anthrax? Now Coleman’s scared that al Qaeda may find out what kind of sofa he’s got?
Not for nothing, but Minnesota senators are huge pussies.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Lessee….Dayton shuts down his office on his own, Coleman listens to the Capitol police, Angryclown fails to see the qualitative difference.
No surprise there.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Bike Butthead, you are one silly fscktard. Coleman’s story is transparently ridiculous. Usually Mitch is smarter than the rest of you droogs. But this time his bullshit detector must be in the shop for the weekend.
So you, you credulous little wingnut, actually believe that Coleman was all set to let the photogs into his house, until he picked up the phone and called the Capitol Police?
“That’s right Lieutenant. I’m thinking of having a press photographer take a picture of my kitchen. Is there any way that could advance the cause of global terror?”
July 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
And New York senators are narcissistic snobs.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Not for nothing, but Minnesota senators are huge pussies.
MOt Amy Klobuchar. That broad’s got balls!
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July 11th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Look out, guys. Here’s a home photo the Capitol Police somehow failed to prevent!!!
http://snipurl.com/2x0jt
July 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Home photos OF TERROR VOL. 2: Peter Hitchens, Britnut, in front of Barack Obama’s Chicago home, plays right into the hands of al Qaeda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
http://snipurl.com/2x0mb
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Hey wingnuts, I posted links to photos of the White House and Barack Obama’s home. ACCIDENTALLY HELPING AL QAEDA! Looks like Mitch “inadvertently” fixed the links so no one can see them, so no harm done.
The Capitol Police are grateful, Mitch!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
AC is making my “cranky from the heroin jones” theory more credible with his comments today.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Just for that, I’m going to give al Qaeda a swatch from your sofa, Terry.
July 11th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Had to switch to the cheap malt likker, Clown?
July 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I don’t have a horse in this race, AC. My two senators are Dan “one armed bandit” Inouye and Daniel “Wake me up when it’s time to vote” Akaka.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Peev, get out of mangy clown’s body RIGHT NOW!!!!
July 11th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I hear the NSA has Clownie’s interweb connection bugged, but they are getting bored.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Uh, last I checked none of AC’s posts exceeded 20K words — that’s still the clown we know and mock, not the peeve even though the (lack of) comprehension is gravitating towards peevish levels. (BTW, your url points to an error page.)
July 11th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I hear the NSA has Clownie’s interweb connection bugged, but they are getting bored.
Talk to some of the folks who actually have to listen to bugged conversations sometimes. None of them like to do them. They HAVE to do them, but none of them LIKE to do them. Imagine the inane conversations they have to listen to, especially when you’re talking about gangbangers talking to their “b*tches.” I don’t think there’s a better brake on asking for wiretaps than making law enforcement listen to them.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:17 am
I think this whole kerfuffle is preposterously silly, but I also don’t accept the notion that showing the inside of a cramped apartment is somehow some sort of security risk.
That said, the idea that the Capitol police might be clueless enough to think otherwise is not obviously impossible.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:06 am
You may well be right, joelr, that someone with the Capitol Police – not exactly the Secret Service, but much more sophisticated than the D.C. Metro Police – may well have answered, “Uh, well I guess so, sir,” when a panicked Coleman called to as:
“Um, a bunch of photographers taking pictures of a senators home – that could be a possible security risk, right? RIGHT??!!”
Ask yourselves how much apartment $600 gets you in the Mini-Apple. It isn’t any cheaper in D.C.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:11 am
It is hilariously funny, by the way, when Mitch uses his precious blog space to rag somebody out, based on mistaken facts. Then when some level-headed character like Angryclown, Flash or Peev proves him wrong eleven ways to Sunday and even you kooks realize you have no arguments, you pretend the whole thing is “preposterously silly.”
S’OK. Angryclown will just etch another wingnut on the driver’s side of his Klown Kar. Running out of space, though…
July 12th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The Minneapolis Red Star-Tribune has a new article by a reporter who was shown through Coleman’s digs. It bursts the libs’ bubble. http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/24554484.html?location_refer=Homepage:latestNews:4
July 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Mitch uses his precious blog space
Actually, for me it’s pretty much unlimited.
Rank has its privileges.
And I did read the Strib piece. Look for the libs to switch to “Look, he got a 30%-off deal!” mode. Stop the presses.
Funny thing is, in Minnesota, it will.
July 12th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Well your blog is pretty rank sometimes. Never more so, of course, than when you’re defending a senator’s corruption as only worth a few thou a year. But I guess after Jack Abramoff, it’s pretty hard for to impress you wingnuts with petty thievery.
The Strib piece certainly proved Coleman is a candidate for a visit from the Queer Eye guys. But it doesn’t say anything about how much of a discount he’s getting. (On Capitol Hill? Best guess is market rate is more than twice what he’s paying.)
But then, as you say, “stop the presses,” eh? You wingnuts would vote for Capone if the party told you to.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Before you accuse any senator of ‘corruption’, clown, you otta take a look at the history of the Jones Act & the role Dan Inouye plays in keeping the Jones Act on the books. It costs every resident in the state of Hawaii $1000. It’s a regressive tax that hits the poor the worst but helps out Inouye’s friends and political contributors in the shipping industry.
Corruption follows power, Your guys are in charge of congress now. Wonder how long the media will keep covering for them.
July 13th, 2008 at 12:16 am
…some level-headed character like Angryclown…
Your seltzer is running.
July 13th, 2008 at 6:44 am
But I guess after Jack Abramoff, it’s pretty hard for to impress you wingnuts with petty thievery.
Before, during and after William Jefferson, it’s hard to get you liberals to recognize it at all.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Terry: Fascinating. You might want to comment in response to Mitch’s next post on the Jones Act or Daniel K. Inouye. (Leaving aside your comically inept summary of the Jones Act, you don’t even claim Inouye is taking any personal benefit. And you kooks criticize Peev for going off-topic!)
Mitch: Really? Clinton got a blowjob and lied under oath. He should have resigned or been removed from office for that. It’s what the constitution means by “high crimes and misdemeanors.” But this thread is about taking personal payoffs from supporters. Must have missed that. I’m guessing Vince Foster was the bag man?
By the way, aren’t you afraid that by linking to the Strib story, you’re aiding Global Terror?
“Mitch Berg has solved our problems, Mustafa. The infidel Coleman has a refrigerator!”
Don’t drink that Zima, Senator!!!!!!
July 13th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
angryclown said:
“S’OK. Angryclown will just etch another wingnut on the driver’s side of his Klown Kar. Running out of space, though…”
Did you sing “I wanna be like Swiftee” to yourself when you wrote this, angryclown?
July 13th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
angryclown wrote:
“lied under oath”
Isn’t that called perjury? Is that a serious offense, or is it some small thing? I ask because you seem to make light of it…
July 13th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Christ on a frikken cracker, you dumb son of a bastage, Troy. Yeah, that’s perjury. Lying under oath. A crime. An impeachable offense. Ya know, like I said. Any chance you could impose a literacy test on your Mitchketeers, Mitch? Cause Troy’s got a serious case of the stupid.
July 13th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
So, all I have to do it compare you to Swiftee to really get under your skin, eh angryclown? 😉
July 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
whatawasteofbytes – who cares about Coleman’s discount – meaningless.
It is reminiscent of impeaching Clinton for lying under oath – the Soviet technique of investigating until you find a lie (Ken Starr must have been a student of the Politburo – undoubtably where he got his incriminating way of answering, when he himself was even close to being scrutinized: “maybe I stated that inartfully”
Hah, what gems of hypocrisy – pure “what is the meaning of is”)
Cheney/Bush’s figured it out by simply refusing to be put under
oath. The Chavez and Mugabe approach: Hey- I’m the one in power!!! They are both more cynical than Clinton ever was, and they also realize they are technically bigger criminals (Cheney realizes it, Bush – well, its a 3 syllable word…)
The question fir Coleman is – how does he deal with the chapping of his fingers when he licks them 24/7 to put them in the wind?
Angryclown – why disparage Troy so visciously? He is obviously trying, and the others gived him so little help.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:51 am
” . . . you don’t even claim Inouye is taking any personal benefit.”
Actually, AC, I was responding to your innocent belief that political corruption is a GOP problem rather than a problem with all politicians.
If you’re an expert on the Jones Act, AC, please explain to me why it should apply equally to states with access to interstate commerce via rail, highway, and harbor, as it does to a state with access to commerce by harbors alone. The Jones Act was passed in 1920, when there were only the contiguous 48.
If you like the Jones Act, AC, I suggest you work very hard to have it imposed on the NE coast of the US. Nothing comes in or out, via highway or rail. Only union controlled US flagged ships supply you with food, dry goods, and the fuel to drive your transport & heat your home.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Coldeye: Stupidity gets under Angryclown’s skin. And Troy is leading the race for Mayor of Stupidtown, quite an accomplishment in this company.
Terry: Again, your grasp of twisted, irrelevant detail is impressive. Seems to me Mitch raised the issue of whether your hometown senator is on the take from a supporter and if so, to what extent. The impact of the Jones Act on our 50th state might be a little off topic.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:15 am
It was angryclown, and not I, that put “blowjob” and “lied under oath” side by side. I am well aware that angryclown _should_ think perjury is a serious crime, but his name is ‘angryclown’. *shrug*
That and angryclown can rest assured that I will not be running for mayor in his hometown.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
AC, you suggested that people who vote GOP don’t care about corruption in public office (“But I guess after Jack Abramoff, it’s pretty hard for to impress you wingnuts with petty thievery.” “You wingnuts would vote for Capone if the party told you to.”). It’s perfectly reasonable to respond with examples of corrupt D politicians who have been returned to office over and over and over again by people who vote democrat.
You should know better than to argue that GOP pols are somehow more corrupt then the democrats who run big cities or represent urban congressional districts.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Troy: Um, cause that’s what he lied about. Or “perjured himself” about, if you prefer big words you clearly don’t quite understand. You really are not shy about showing how dumb you are.
Terry: Even so, you’re off-topic. We’re discussing a Senator taking a private benefit from a supporter. You give an example of a Senator you claim is supporting bad policy to please political supporters. You want to make the lame-ass tit-for-tat-a-Democrat-did-it-so-it’s-OK-for-all-Republicans argument, at least trot out Louisiana’s Congressman Jefferson and his bricks of cash in the freezer. He sure carries a lot of rhetorical weight with you silly wingnuts!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Now you remind me of Redd Foxx, angryclown.
Dummy!
Do I have you rocked back on your heels now, angryclown? Yeah, me neither. *shrug*
July 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Clown, Inoye is one of those fellows (like Bill Clinton) who started from modest means, never really had a lucrative job, and ended up as a multimillionaire after a life of “public service”.
Inouye got his money by being offered real estate deals that he only got because he was a Senator. He only got to be a senator because the ILWU endorsed him. The ILWU endorsed him because he supports the Jones Act. There is no bright line between public/private corruption.
“You want to make the lame-ass tit-for-tat-a-Democrat-did-it-so-it’s-OK-for-all-Republicans argument”
No, I want to make the argument that corruption and politics go together. Government is a necessary evil, not an engine of ‘social progress’, however you define it. Government, unlike the free market, rules by fiat. There is infinitely more capacity for government to do evil than any other human institution. Liberal fascists (like yourself & both the Dem & GOP presidential candidates this year) love government and want more of it. Freedom loving conservatives want less of it.
And if you plan on blathering about how I want to do away with streetlights or hospitals or some other government funded facility, forget about it. Conservatism isn’t anarchy. Liberals, however, can see no end to the power of government.
July 15th, 2008 at 6:01 am
You “freedom-loving conservatives” also seem to like unchecked domestic surveillance, laws preventing ladies from getting abortions, corporate welfare and non-stop war. So shut your pie-hole. And I say that with all due respect.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:35 am
angryclown recited:
“unchecked domestic surveillance”
“laws preventing ladies from getting abortions”
“corporate welfare”
“non-stop war”
Spent time in the DU lately angryclown? Clue: repeating fairy tales does not make them true, no matter how much you want to believe them.
July 15th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Troy, I’m talking to Terry. He may be the most evil of you wingnuts, owing to his volcano lair and the plate in his head. But he’s pretty intelligent. You? Not so much.
July 15th, 2008 at 9:58 am
angryclown said:
“Troy, I’m talking to Terry.”
Actually, angryclown, whether you realize it or not, you are posting to a publicly accessible blog comment section.
“But he’s pretty intelligent. You? Not so much.”
Oh, angryclown has insulted my intelligence. Substitute for argument noted.