I am guest blogging this week on one of my favorite blogs, Jesus’ General, and I can’t tell you what an honor it is to serve my country under the command of the inimitable Gen. JC Christian, Patriot.
And so I proudly direct you to my first post on The General’s site, regarding Judge Samuel Alito’s Amazon customer review of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
It’s Nice to See David CLOWNstein being someone else’s Guest CLOWN!
This is great. This nomination is one of the reasons why Bush won by 4 million votes. To all the donks who want to filibuster this judge I say these three words “BRING IT ON”!!!!!
Ah…another smoking gun or “goldy fact” which has disappeared where it was supposed to be. Do you really believe that Amazon or anyone else would go out and delete those things quickly ? And for what…
I would say, you made it up (wouldn’t be the first time) and now pretend the big bad corporation has deleted. To bad Bezos isn’t here on this blog…he would laugh in your face and boy, this guy has a very loud laugh.
Pathetic
This is great. This nomination is one of the reasons why Bush won by 4 million votes. To all the donks who want to filibuster this judge I say these three words “BRING IT ON”!!!!! -Comment by RUFUS— 11/1/05 @ 10:40 pm
Now, now, RUFUS, the little fruitcake fringies get all atwitter when we say things like “BRING IT ON!!!!!” … our “false bavado” (one nutburger called it) upsets their “not fair” small mindset and makes them choke on their Koolaid!
Um… I think if you all took your heads out of your asses for just a moment, and wiped the shit off your eyeballs… you might have actually noticed that Jesus’ General is a satirical site.
I look at it this way, Goldy: Having their clueless comments to read here is like bonus funny!
Why would we bother to notice anything about any recommendation made here? Why would we believe you? You may have be overvaluing your importance to us based on your fruitcake fringie following…
Being a fruitcake fringie guru is surely a heady experience – I can see why you’d mistakenly think you’d have an impact upon non-fruitcakes, non- fringies and non-nutburgers! :P
Their ignorance and stupidity is truly a wonder. The scary part is that they think they’re , ” winning the debate”. They think people come to this site and are impressed with what they believe to be their bright and witty remarks. I , for one , am just appalled at the depth of their stupidity and lack of insight and am slightly depressed by the fact that approximately one-half the population is exactly like them.
A dull-witted rich boy who through some twist of simple fate ended up our “President” and who RAN from active military service in his own generation’s war stands behind the thickest protection any individual on this planet has and says,”Bring it on!”
What a disgusting and sorry spectacle this clown ,Geo. W. Bush, is! His own father, the former head of the CIA, is using his old position at the CIA to reduce his own son to an impeachable , sorry ass clown. Why? Because even Geo. H.W. Bush realizes what a soryy and dangerous travesty his not-so-bright son’s “Presidency” is.
Gosh harry, tell me again – which party is in power nationally?
Which President is naming judges??
But don’t you worry harry, you have “where’s the camera” Chuckie, Screamin Dean, Teddy the Sot and Gigolo Kerry
In case you’ve forgotten – it was one year ago… I beleive I read that Goldy was a tad depressed that particular night.
Goldy,
Please tell us if you’ve read the complete text of ANY of Judge Alito’s opinions and the arguments of the judges that disagreed.
Or are you just basing your comments on third-hand suppositions, “gut feelings” and the official Lefty Talking Points of the day?
Your posts about Judge Alito are nothing but scare tactics with no supporting analysis. Did you form your own opinion or are you just marching in
lockgoosestep with your Fearless-mongering Leaders?I don’t know enough about Judge Alito to form an opinion yet. If he is a Far Right zealot, I’ll be gravely disappointed. If he is merely a reasonable Constructionist or a Constitutional scholar like Roberts, I’ll be fine with him.
In other words, just because I think Roe v. Wade is badly-written law doesn’t mean I oppose abortion (within certain limits).
I care not what you think about the great , Howard Dean…. CBS screwed him and their own hero, Dan Rather. Rather, in case you didn’t know, was a live reporter in Vietnam. He was under fire many times. George W. “bring it on” Bush, is a deserter whose closest brush with danger was his own drunken, coke-fueled auto accidents. His own father , the former head of the CIA, is working behind the scenes to derail his slow,short-yellow bus son.
It’s a true American tragedy.
Mr. Cynical is a JERKOFF who never got near a highschool cheerleader ( I’M not talking about “W”) in highschool. He got the cheerleader after he got his CPA license and she’d already had two abortions and was lookin’ for the safe money and comfortable suburban life. It’s KNOWING this in his heart that makes Mr. Cynical the mean twat that he is.
Do you think Goldy reads the whole thing? Haah, just what he wants to and then he will create the rest from his own mind for the nutburgers and fruitcakes. ProudAss, I love those sweetcheeks comments, since most of them are that way ya know!
Poon, you finally did say sumthin correct. I do admire Dan for his Vietnam war coverage. I remember that when I was a wee’un in da 60s. But that doesn’t excuse him from telling lies with Bill Burkett.
But Harry, you and others love talking about those short yellow buses. Do you all have something against the handicapped? You and others these past few days seem to have a hard-on for kids without full or more than 46 chromosomes. Why is that LEFTIST PINHEADS? Because to me, when you pick on a minority, you pick on all minorities. So you racist assholes, you Enumclaw horse fucking lefties; yeah got that right from the dj book of screeches; you are denigrating God’s children you worthless pieces of shit. Don’t you think God records these stoopid saying by LEFTIST PINHEADS in your individual books of judgments?
Why is it lefties love to use worthless imagery to make a STOOPID point? Picking on handicapped people to make a fucking point. And you all talk about we on the right are perceived. This worthless diatribe will keep your side on the side lines. Keep talking like this LEFTIST PINHEADS. I taught my children to respect handicapped. I see Harry Poon and others like you, you didn’t!
Harry Poon, just be glad you are not one of those over 4 Million donks who were aborted between 1973 and 2000.
“Run and run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!” Mr. Cynical– you sorry little twat!
Puddy @ 18
harry and lucy and the rest all “respect” those they call differently-abled… in two (and only two) situations. First, when it is election season and they can take advantage of them. Second, when there is public funding (and Lefty/union pocket-lining) to be had.
re 19: What makes you think they were “Donks”? How is the cheerleader going to marry Mr. Cynical–the painfully white CPA— if she has her dusky love-child?
This is the real world, BOSCO!
I am smarter and more able than any Republican. I spit on you, you worthless Republican…
So with Alito, finally all is warm and happy again in the conservative camp. Alito will be sworn in as the next supreme court justice.
Even if Goldy claims Alito beat his mother!
Filibuster, na……advise and consent don’t MEAN shit if in the minority! President and both houses means MEGA shit in this situation!
So drop a couple of qualudes and it is easy to understand:
Clinton got his 2 liberal picks while he was in office with no filibuster’s.
Bush will get his 2 conservative picks while he is in office with no filibuster’s.
Hillary will get her chance to even out the court (Bill would be ecstatic about his new roll, as First-Laid-ee). She could true up the court to her liking (and his).
So chill out! It all works out!
Yeeeeeee Hawwwwwwww
Leftenant Goldy-
Kudos for your first incursion into enemy territory on mon General’s blog. The shrillness of rethug bleating in response to the intrepid research that unveiled the, um, literary side of Stripsearch Sammy indicates that your aim, as always, is true.
The General is just some queer with a hard on for young republicans.
Puddy, well said about how the liberals on this board hold no compunction about using the physically and intellectually challenged to make strange points. The “REAL” lib shows up and goes into “fruitcake” mode. Fruitcake – dense and deceptive.
Why does that make you all so gleeful to pick on the handicapped? Maybe harry poon, luucy and others were short bussers themselves so they speak from personal experience? Oh sorry harry, my bad!!!
Returning to the thread, you all see how the “prime time libs” all are atwitter over Alito. Did you see Chris Matthews? Even he went apopletic over the Italian “Mafia” smear charge of Alito activities back in 1988. Libs always use racism to SMEAR their opponents. Yeah you guys are such progressives!
This nomination is one of the reasons why Bush won by 4 million votes.
Bush didn’t win by 4 million votes.
Proud ASS @ 8, “You may have be overvaluing” Too bad you did not get past the 3rd grade English/Grammar class, but that happens to inbred rednecks. LMAO@U
wow, Pac o lies is back in the loop, must have gotten out of San Quentin…
Chump Pa-troll. What did PacMan say that was wrong? Nothing! Your pithy comment proves he is right. You worthless pile of shit straight from Goldy’s horsesass. San Quentin, you mean you have life experiences we’re just learning about. Do tell Chumpy, do tell…
GS
How is a Democrat going to “even out” the court? Those two “liberal picks” are the only two “liberal picks” sitting on the court right now. That’s right, the remainder were all appointed by Republican presidents. Have we all forgotten that? If we define the SCOTUS as “liberal” or “conservative” based on the presidents who appointed the justices (which, granted, isn’t a completely reliable indicator of how the court will eventually rule) then you’ve got a court with a conservative majority. What more do you want — a court that will move even further to the right?
ATJ: You are right. Stuckonstupiddon’s wikipedia says:
George W. Bush Republican(a) Texas 62,040,610 50.7%
John F. Kerry Democratic(b) Massachusetts 59,028,111 48.3%
He won by 3 Million+ votes. If your side didn’t abort all those unborn in-bred donks, you may have had Al Gore as President in 2004 and he could have been re-elected. Thank goodness God works in his mysterious ways. “Give the donks what they want God says. They’ll never know what hit them in 30 years.” Well, it looks like the birds came home to roost in 2000 and 2004. Keep those donk abortion mills humming. Oops… hummer – GBS’s favorite free love act!
Dr E. That’s what elections are for. If Stiffman could have made his case correctly and pulled the donkocrats from anti-military to military lovers, you may have had President Stiffman. But alas, he didn’t and we’re better off without him. Remember he voted for before voting against.
Poonster–
No doubt around these parts that your CLOWNNESS is dragging you deeper & deeper into the pooper. CLOWNS do ofetn have great difficulty stringing coherent words together. CLOWNS like to just look at you. There are lots of reasons to hate CLOWNS like you Harry Poon. I’ll share a few:
A clown wrote the original music and lyrics to (you guessed it) “Macarena.”
They are different than the rest of us.
They rhyme with frowns.
They have big feet.
See: The Seinfeld episode where George meets “Eddie” the clown.
They have a phobia named after them. (coulrophobia, more commonly known as clownophobia)
Jack Handy “Deep Thought”: To me, clowns aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kind of scary. I’ve wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.
Read the Stephen King book, “It”.
You know what they say, “Once a clown, always a clown.”
I sang a sad song about them (needs REAL player).
See: The Animaniacs episode where Wakko meets the Jerry Lewis-like clown.
A clown stole my dad’s job.
I bet Paul Newman never played a clown character. (You gotta like Paul Newman)
A clown ate the dog that ate my homework. (And my professor wouldn’t believe me!)
See: The Bill Murray movie, “Quick Change.”
They don’t follow vehicle safety rules (20 in a car can’t be legal).
A clown wouldn’t make a good superhero. Ex: “Never fear, Clown-Man is here!” (See, it’s an oxymoronic phrase…not that I’m scared of clowns, mind you.)
See: Any episode of the Simpson’s featuring Krusty the Clown. (One word: seedy)
Clowns stink.
See: Any episode of In Living Color featuring Homey D. Clown. (One word: militant)
Clowns have to smile all the time. Repressing all their non-happy feelings can’t be good for them.
I have never seen a clown help an old lady across the street.
Another Jack Handy “Deep Thought”: You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he’s real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
Goldy, you shouldn’t have tipped the nitwits off re: Jesus’ General, he could have used their stuff for a month and taken a vacation. The General ain’t gonna be happy when I report you for this Frenchy. ; )
PacMan– the most deluded and docile Negro ever
Mr. Cynical= JERKOFF
Puddybud= sub-saharan JERKOFF
But ParrotGreesey: When has goldy engaged brain first? He likes to trumpet himself as the great and womderful one…
Josef for elections that only Republicans can win
Harry Poon – Penis fetish. Do you need more Vaseline Intensive Care? We’ll take a collection so you can continue to stroke your brain without getting it raw. You posts are lacking depth.
Harry Poon: Never met a handicapped person he couldn’t use to denigrate.
Harry Poon: Proves once again, when a liberal can’t beat you on ideas enter LEFTIST PINHEAD FRUITCAKE CLOWN mode. Call them names!
John @ 25,
“The General is just some queer with a hard on for young republicans.”
Really, John? You know that from personal experience with the General, do you?
Can’t wait for this battle of the heavyweights:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9883851/site/newsweek/
“Nov. 1, 2005 – “Commander in Chief” is one of the biggest hits of the fall TV season, but not with President George W. Bush, who today challenged its star, Geena Davis, to a nationally televised debate.”
Mr. Cynical and Puddybud = JEKOFFS
“Puddybud”, Jesus bleeding Christ, could you possibly be more dense? I’m not on your “side”.
(Someone who suffers fools with more grace than I, is going to have to handle explaining this to you further.)
Before I depart forever, this apparent insane asylum, I have a question about another one of the geniuses that post here.
This was a response by Pacman to a comment I made on another thread at this site: …”Are you greasy so no one can catch you when you tell still lies?” Since I see he posts comments here with some frequency, can any of you more sentient “regulars”, explain to me his meaning?
Greesey: I suppose a parrot is on the move every so often. So being “still” to tell your lies before flying off and being greasy so no one can “catch” you maybe?
I know you are not on “our” side. We don’t want your kind on our side, thank you very much
Harry Poon, needing a hard cock to quench his penis fetish. Contact rugrat602 Harry. I’m sure he has Vaseline Intensive Care too.
Greesyparrot: Don’t tell PacMan he’s an idiot. He’ll accuse you of being a racist.
PacMan…you’re not that pathetic defensive back for the TN Titans that can’t tackle, are you?
Well, your arguments are about as direct and right on as that PacMan’s angles of pursuit, while your ability to hit is about equal to that pathetic footballers ability to make a tackle on a wide receiver breaking free on the sideline.
It’s called wrapping up asshole…give it a try.
Wow Goldy. How did we get here? Oh… satire!
Puddybud. You’re so smart I’ll just give you the punchline: “It’s a good hiding place , isn’t it?”
Mr. Cynical @1
Posting with your usual vacuity, I see. Keep up the good work, Cyn — you’re doing God’s work. (Sardonic smile)
I am smarter and more able than any Republican. I spit on you, you worthless Republican…
Comment by harry poon— 11/2/05 @ 12:48 am
Harry poon take soom good advice, keep your spit in your mouth, this is not the late 60’s or early 70’s. You could be spitting on one of our soliders, and this time you will find your lips rip off your face. It is pay back for a by gone era who didn’t support us then nor now.
@2
OK, we will — we’ll make the corrupt, thieving, lying GOPers in the U.S. Senate nuke us … so that, when we’re back in power, we have an excuse to do it to them.
Someday, in the not-too-distant future, a Democratic president and a Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate is going to come up with a Supreme Court nominee you fucks can’t stand and shove her right up your ass!
And when you fucks complain about it, we’ll just yawn and say, “So? You bastards did it to us. Payback time.”
So … Doofus … you and Bush and your wingnut friends … go right ahead, make our day.
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
It’s a true American tragedy.
Comment by harry poon— 11/2/05 @ 12:11 am
The real true American tragedy today is that the Democrate party abandon the true Demcorate base for a bunch of pink left wing Socialist. The high jacking of this party is the worst thing that happen this century. Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy, and that Clown in holywood you know what his name? Moore? is all that represents the Party. not that funny Wabbit, nor headless lucy.
@3
I just did a search on Amazon for this book review by Samuel Alito or S. Alito, and any other reviews by Samuel Alito or S. Alito, and came up with no matches.
So, “rabbitwho,” did Goldy or the General make up that purported review of “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Alito?
Either they’re full of shit, or you are, and I don’t think they are.
@5
Oh yes … yes yes yes … BRING IT ON!!!! … you Nazi fucks.
ARE YOU READY TO RUMMMBLE?!!!
rabbit, your “celebration” appears to be a bit premature…or just plain delusional.
The dims are NOT back in power…
The math says it’s nearly impossible to regain the House…
The red state recent voting history of the Senate seats up for relection say it’s nearly impossible to regain the seate…
Your national party has tantrum not ideas, they are fractioned by warring interest groups, they talk, talk, talk but never actually move forward and their hypocrisy is monumental… racists playing the race card, the wealthiest members decrying and insulting the middle class taxpayers, those “good religious” public figures slapping the faithful… America pays attention and they are fed up with liberal parlor tricks.
So keep celebrating bunny butt, enjoy your delusions.
Roger @ 54
Forgot your meds again this morning, huh? Or are you simply loaded to the gills with wacky tabacky?
Do everyone here a favor and either contribute something substantive or go into lurk mode. Your rantings are merely the mental m*st*rbat**n of the party not in power. No filibuster. No rule change. Just a bunch of shock and awwwwwwwww… It won’t be 78 up votes, but more like 60 or 65.
Your lack of understanding about these things seems to indicate that the only bar you were a member of was Moe’s Tavern. So, Barney, either add something of value to the conversation or go throw up somewhere else.
Roger @ 55: “So, ‘rabbitwho,’ did Goldy or the General make up that purported review of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Alito?
Either they’re full of shit, or you are, and I don’t think they are.”
Oh, Confused One… It must suck to be off your dementia meds. Goldy has admitted the review was fake (see Goldy @ 6). That goes double for Mr. X @ 25.
58, 59
Ha ha, do you two fucks really think the GOP majorities in Congress can survive all the lying, stealing, warmongering, and treason of the last 5 years? You guys must not be reading the polls. Your party’s approval rating is below 40%, and 2/3rds of the public is dissatisfied with the direction the country is headed. That shaking under your feet isn’t the Seattle Fault Line, it’s the political fault line.
@60
Why shouldn’t Goldy make up a book review? You guys make shit up every day. You made up WMDs. You made up lies about Kerry’s (honorable) war service. You fucks even made up a phony story about Kerry having sex with an intern and phony photos of Kerry posing in front of a Viet Cong flag and Kerry on a speaker’s podium with Jane Fonda. Why should you scumbugs have a monopoly on lying?
Frankly, you’ve got it coming. You’ve smeared so many Democrats for so long, that you bastards and your favorite politicians and SCOTUS nominees are deserving of all the smears we can heap on them.
Do you like it, dickheads? I hope so, because you’ve been doing it to us, and it’s payback time.
So … Ass and Mark … fuck you, and fuck the armadillos you rode in on, too.
Rgoer @ 61
Timing is everything. And the Dems total lack of vision or ideas isn’t helping the party’s case, either. Maybe your perpetual effluent works to rile up your party faithful, but it won’t sway swing voters — especially if the economy keeps improving and Iraq gets their elected government.
Might you pick up a few seats in the mid-terms? Perhaps. But you won’t get the majority back. Bush has 2 years to rehabilitate his presidency and even if he fails, the Dems will fail again in ’08 if they can’t come up with someone better than Hillary (or if the GOP nominates the Right Wing equivalent of Krazy Kucinich or morose Kerry).
Even you must realize a poll is but a mere snapshot of a given moment in time…
And, by the way, those “NYAH, NYAH, NYAH, OMG HORRIBLE POLL NUMBERS” that are the clear fodder for your wet dreams… higher than Carter’s Clinton’s or any other of the last 7 presidents at their lowest…
But are Bush’s numbers really that bad? His current Real Clear Politics average stands at 41.7% approval. That is at or about the low point in nearly five years in office. How does it compare to other presidents’ lowest poll ratings? Actually, it’s not bad. Here are the low approval ratings for the last seven presidents:
*Johnson: 35%
*Nixon: 24%
*Ford: 37%
*Carter: 28%
*Reagan: 35%
*Bush I: 29%
*Clinton: 37%
Nice try…. what flavor Koolaid did you get with your talking points today?
Roger @ 62: “fuck you, and fuck the armadillos”
You oughta stop popping the 1itt1e b1ue pi11s without something to stick it in. This is becoming an obsession for you.
You know, you and your posts remind me of a monkey flinging poo at the zoo. Its just sad that you don’t know any better.
Me @ 63
That should properly read “…or UNLESS the GOP nominates…”
Um… I think if you all took your heads out of your asses for just a moment, and wiped the shit off your eyeballs… you might have actually noticed that Jesus’ General is a satirical site.
Comment by Goldy— 11/1/05 @ 11:04 pm
I don’t know who said it first, but it bears repeating: Their reality has lapped our satire.
I hope we nominate Newt… get to really see some nitwit apoplexy from the fruitcake fringies!
And bunny butt… regarding those polls you love…. you may want to check a few out today… approval rating is creeping back UP, sweetcheeks.
@63
“And the Dems total lack of vision or ideas isn’t helping the party’s case,”
Where did you get this line? From Rush’s Hate Radio? From the RNC playbook? From the GOP Official Propaganda Manual?
The GOP is, and always has been, the party of “no.” No workers’ rights. No minimum wage. No energy policy. No living wage jobs. No unemployment insurance. No injured workers benefits. No Social Security or Medicaid. No student financial aid. No aid for the poor. No health coverage. No responsibility. No accountability.
You’re just spewing bullshit. The Democrats built this country, made America what it is, and fought its wars while right-wing loudmouths took deferments.
Democrats gave us:
Workplace safety regulations
Child labor laws
Public education
Overtime pay
40-hour work week
Collective bargaining rights
Food and drug laws
Anti-pollution laws
Social Security and Medicare
Consumer rights
Civil rights laws
Voting rights laws
What defines conservatives is their opposition to every social advance our country has ever made. What defines conservatives is their greed and selfishness. What defines conservatives is their ready willingness to exploit and abuse their fellow man. What defines conservatives is their deadly militarism — and their phony patriotism. What defines conservatives is their lying, stealing, and warmongering.
The Republican Party is the anti-people party.
@69
Creeping is right … creeping is what you groundhuggers are good at.
@64
Rationalize all you want, HeadUpAss, the neocons are in for a drubbing in next year’s elections — unless your GOP goons manage to rig the voting machines.
creeping is what you groundhuggers are good at. -Comment by Roger Rabbit— 11/2/05 @ 9:26 am
…said the guy who defended the right of a President to have a daughter-aged intern creeping around his pants…
something I’ve said many, many timess…. But I just read it again, and its said so well here.
(stolen from main and central, original reference to McLellan & De Rita)
“Both mouthpieces, of course, are following the fundamental assumption of their bosses: Simply saying something makes it true–whether it’s true or not. These folks truly seem to believe they can spin reality from thin air.”
That’s the rightie trolls in a nutshell.
“Both mouthpieces, of course, are following the fundamental assumption of their bosses: Simply saying something makes it true–whether it’s true or not. These folks truly seem to believe they can spin reality from thin air.”
That’s the rightie trolls in a nutshell. -Comment by windie— 11/2/05 @ 9:31 am
Learned well at the knees of the camera whore Chuckie, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy Hitlary, John the Gigolo, Harry the Fart, Ouch! My Face is Frozen Pelosi and Soggy the Sot.
windie @ 73
While that may be correct for “rightie trolls,” it also very accurately describes almost every Lefty in the blogosphere and a vast majority of those who call themselves Liberal. For a bunch that chants “Question Authority,” you seem awfully willing to take whatever your leadership and most vocal members say as absolute truth with little or no proof.
Comment by HowCanYouBePROUDtobeAnASS— 11/2/05 @ 9:07 am
The Apoplexy will be at hand if Stevens, Ginsburg or Bryer leaves the Supreme Court and a conservative Republican is President. The current Democratic response will pale in comparison to the Apoplexy.
Has anyone else noticed that ProudToBeADumbAss has learned a new word and is using her new word at every opportunity?
“apoplexy”
Boring!
Sort of like when a 6 year old learns an new “big kids” word, know what I mean?
Grow up.
I love seeing the right wing go into a frenzy. Harry Reid has masterfully out maneuvered the republican’s in Washington and refocused the media attentio from the Alito nomination and the pandemic bird flu scare squarely on the fabrication of the reasons to going to war in Iraq.
Beautiful!
Harry Reid has gotten more done on phase II of the prewar intelligence in 2 hours than the lying republicans have done in 20 months.
Isn’t it interesting that the republicans wanted wait until AFTER the elections to look into this matter? Now, one year after the elections, the sheer arrogance of the right that they could continue foot-dragging on this critical issue just got a foot planted right in their asses. There is nothing more serious than the contemplation of war and the republicans have side stepped the issue for the last time.
The timing was so sweet. Reid recommends “Quag Meirs” to Bush. He buys it and nominates her right before Fitzpatrick’s Grand Jury expires. Libby gets indicted last Friday, “Quag Meirs” pulls her nomination on Monday because the Republicans refuse to give the president the courtesy of an UP OR DOWN vote. (Which nullifies that bullshit from the right, brilliant Harry) Bush overreacts and nominates a judge he knows will create a fight in DC to satisfy his base that is fracturing, then Bush tries to redirect attention by fear mongering the Bird Flu pandemic (saying pandemic 76 times in one speech), then Harry Reid drops the bombshell on Frist. Closed Senate — Bammmm!
It was great to see Bill “under criminal investigation” Frist almost in tears afterwards in his whiny ass voice “it was an affront to me.”
Wahhhhhhh, you frickin’ baby. Get a hockey mask boys, we’ve dropped the gloves and its go time.
Fitzpatrick
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
@ 79
You’re absolutely right. I’ve got family with that name so it keeps flowing out of my fingertips. My mistake.
It’s Fitzgerald, Patrick Fitzgerald.
@64:
One thing you should recognize about those low poll numbers, is that in every subsequent presidential election except one (when the clueless Dukakis ran), the other party won the presidency.
Shut down the Senate to demand action? What the lefties still do not understand is that most on the right cheers when Congress shuts down. Getting nothing done is generally much better that the alternative.
I propose that the dems shut down the Senate 1-2 times per week, and make it for the whole day. Anyone for a vigil?
@72
“…said the guy who defended the right of a President to have a daughter-aged intern creeping around his pants…”
Ass, you’ve earned your name — in addition to being an ignorant anti-American fascist fuck, you’re a liar. I NEVER defended Clinton’s Oval Office misbehavior. In fact, I’ve repeatedly posted on HA that I didn’t vote for Clinton — I voted for Perot in 1992 and for Dole in 1996 — but you can’t read, can you?
Sorry, Ass, but if you want to bash the bunny, you’ll have to find another issue … because this one’s bogus. Like you — you’re bogus, through and through.
Post #74 is all the proof we need of post #73.
@ 82
that’s a sad commentary on how the Republicans are running the country, isn’t it?
Time for a changing of the guards.
Hey Ass — yoohoo — fyi — just because you say something doesn’t make it true. In fact, if YOU say something, it’s automatically untrue.
64
While you’re right that a poll provides a “snapshot” in time, what is more informative is to look at longer term trends. This president’s approval rating have trended downwards for some time, since 2001, specifically. But then, it’s a bit unfair to expect a president to keep approval ratings in the 70th or 80th percentile (especially since 9/11 had a lot to do with those approval ratings), but the trend, say, from the 50s to the 40s to the 30s is pretty clear.
What is also informative about such polls is the demographic breakdowns. The ones that I have seen tend to confirm the opinions I read right here (and hear elsewhere) which is that Bush’s approval ratings remain high with repubs and low with dems, with the change occurring most notably among independents.
This, by the way, also indicates that people tend to see what they want to see in this president and his policies. That’s what I find rather disturbing: that, even given the ample evidence available that the president and his administration broke the law vis à vis Iraq (and I’m not just talking about international law), the majority of republicans polled simply refuse to see it. Instead, they roll out their overused list of quotes of dems and officials of the Clinton administration, as though it were an actual defense. We saw Kip Holden do it again yesterday. Now, if you’re a repub. politician, you probably have a vested interest to deflect such attention away from yourself, and if you’re a Bush administration official, your political (and personal) future probably depends on it. But as a private citizen, I really don’t see a valid reason for refusing to consider the possibility, let alone the reality, of malfeasance at the highest levels of government.
Let me sum that thought up by saying that malfeasance this appears to me to be a legal problem, and that supercedes the political aspect of the issue.
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“most on the right cheers when Congress shuts down”
Then what are you GOPers waiting for? You’ve got the votes — shut ‘her down!!! No Senate is better than a GOP Senate.
GOP = party of criminals
DeLay – indicted
Libby – indicted
Frist – under investigation
Rove – under investigation
Roger Rabbit @ 83
I can see voting for Perot, but you actually voted for Dole?
What was the thought process behind supporting Dole?
I don’t want to make the bunny mad, but I’m going to have to snicker a little bit at the whole Dole thing (ha ha ho ho) so don’t rip my guts out. OK?
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“Let me sum that thought up by saying that malfeasance this appears to me to be a legal problem, and that supercedes the political aspect of the issue.”
I say we give ’em a fair trial before we hang ’em.
Comment by GBS— 11/2/05 @ 10:30 am
Glad you can see the Dems are focused on symbolism instead of substance. As long as they keep that up there’s no way they’ll win back the House or Senate in 2006.
CF @ 91
The truth will ALWAYS be subtance. It’s when people like you confuse the two issues do you find yourselves on the outside looking in.
Admit it, some of the republican talking heads have, Harry Reid was brilliant bringing the rules of the Senate to bear on the truth.
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“I can see voting for Perot, but you actually voted for Dole?”
These obviously were protest votes, as neither Perot nor Dole had a ghost’s chance of winning.
“What was the thought process behind supporting Dole?”
The bunny is a Vietnam vet, and feels more comfortable voting for war heroes than draft dodgers. Comprende?
Kennedy — war hero
McGovern — war hero
Carter — Navy veteran
Dole — war hero
Kerry — war hero
Stockdale (Perot’s running mate) — Medal of Honor winner
Reagan — draft avoider
Clinton — draft dodger
George W. Bush — draft dodger and deserter
Just about every member of George W. Bush’s administration and nearly every GOP congressman and senator — draft dodger
A fair trial is all I ask for. If Republicans have respect for the rule of law, they should be asking the same. There’s already more than enough evidence to ring them up for conspiracy to defraud the United States. (It’s a good read, and yes, I did paraphrase her conclusion.)
Humor the bunny, GBS. The bunny thinks that, in retrospect, Clinton was a pretty good president despite his terrible personal character. The GOPers have nothing to crow about — George W. Bush is a terrible president with a terrible personal character. If it were between Clinton and G. W. Bush, I wouldn’t even have to think about it. Hell, if it were between a zoo monkey and G. W. Bush, I’d go with the monkey instead of the chimp, hands-down. However, I’ll offer this consolation to our righty friends: G. W. Bush isn’t as bad as Hitler, Stalin, or Mao — yet.
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GOP substance:
Ignored terrorism warnings, 2,800+ dead
Invaded wrong country, 2,000+ Americans dead
Postwar alliances wrecked
America’s good name dragged through the mud
Record deficits
Millions of jobs gone
Millions more living in poverty
45 million+ Americans with no health care
Inflation up
Wages stagnant or falling
Unprecedented corporate corruption
Millions of retirees cheated out of their pensions
Billions of dollars stolen by energy crooks
America more divided than any time since Civil War
Yep, that’s the substance of the GOP’s politics of hate and division: War, torture, killing, corruption, lying, stealing, treason — a list of substantive felonies too long to print.
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Give ’em a fair trial, then hang ’em.
Roger Rabbit @ 93
“Capisco”
Just curious, and of course I’ll humor the bunny just to keep my guts inside if nothing else. (LOL)
One thing about us independent free thinkers is that we can ask questions of each other without it being a sign of weakness.
Whereas, conservatives, once you’re out of lockstep — Der Fuhrer gitz sooooo an-gry!!
Left and right are labels, people, nonsense words that have as much meaning as Democrat and Republican. Dr. Heinlein said it best:
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
I want more comfortable neighbors. I side with my fellow Democrats because the Republican Party, of which I was once a member, has become completely subordinate to the Religious Reconstructionists. Why is this a bad thing? Shadia B. Drury explains in the essay Why Biblical Religions Are an Obstacle to Freedom
If you believe that God will punish you collectively for the private vices of some of the members of the community-by using hurricanes, floods, famines, earthquakes, or terrorists-you will naturally take a lively interest in the private affairs of others. The notion of collective guilt promotes a meddlesome style of politics that is an obstacle to a free society. Freedom requires a private domain of conduct that is of no concern to others-a domain that does not threaten the interests of others or their equal freedom. But fundamentalists-Jewish, Christian, and Islamic alike-deny the existence of this domain of freedom, and that explains their aversion to secular liberal society. If they had their druthers, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Samuel Alito would create a ministry for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice akin to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
This is what happens when you actually do the research before writing smartass blog posts and fake book reviews. From the Christian Science Monitor, a highly-respected publication considered by most professional journalists to be among the least biased:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/.....-usju.html
On abortion, a nuanced stand: In 3 of 4 cases, Supreme Court nominee Alito voted on the side of abortion rights.
But, hey, who are the Lefties to let facts get in the way of vitriol and good ol’ partisan GOP-bashing??
I thought our Declaration of Independence written by people MUCH SMARTER than you Sergeant Ogg said: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Amendment I – Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
We were founded on Christian principles. The AUnCLU is destroying this from the American Fabric. People are reacting to this. Removing Christmas from schools, malls, public places is untenable and people are reacting against it.
Ogg-ie Doggie @ 98: “The notion of collective guilt promotes a meddlesome style of politics that is an obstacle to a free society.”
Hmmm… Sounds like an indictment of most Left Wing social policies. If you’re against faith-based social engineering, what about secular social engineering?
Puddybud @ 100
Surely, you know the significant differences between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Where is it established in either document that the Creator refers to or means the God of Israel? or Jesus?
Mark, you still don’t get it. What secular social engineering? Who has been fired for the crime of being a Christian? What church has been closed by the government? When was the last time that an Atheist such as my self tried to force a believer to convert? Convert to what? If you want to worship your invisible cloud being, fine. But just because you find something offensive does not give you the right to ban it, not under our form of government.
The Constitutional government that I defended for 20 years, what my Brit brothers called “government by the mob”, involves risk. If you truly value the right to be free, to be left alone, yes, some people will abuse the privilege. Allow adult entertainment, and maybe your kids will watch it on TV because you did not set the parental lock. Allow liquor, and yes, some brain dead morons will drink and drive. Refuse to criminalize sex between consenting adults, and yes, some super studs and studlings will get a social disease (or get a girl pregnant like a certain Senator or Preacher) because they are irresponsible. But that is the price of freedom.
But if a society is to be free, it must have some tolerance for private vice-vice that does not involve harming others. Religious fundamentalists — Jewish, Christian, and Islamic — have zero tolerance for private vice. They prefer a society in which virtue, not freedom, is the supreme value.
Politics is about how different people with different conceptions of virtue and different beliefs about ultimate truth can live together peacefully. But biblical religions are singular and autocratic when it comes to virtue, and this is the second reason that they present an obstacle to freedom.
In the words of Billy Joel, I would rather laugh with the sinner’s then cry with the saints. The sinners are a lot more fun.
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Refuse to criminalize sex between consenting adults, and yes, some super studs and studlings will get a social disease (or get a girl pregnant like a certain Senator or Preacher) because they are irresponsible. But that is the price of freedom.
C O @ 106
I’m not sure of your political leanings, but I will say your opinions stated in your post are well founded and well understood at its source. Which is to say from the perspective of our Founding Fathers whom were either Deist, or Christians, but in either case did not want religion and government intertwined whatsoever.
It’s refreshing to see someone else who is a Constituionalist and understans what it means. Instead of how some political hacks on the right hi-jacking the terms for their SCOTUS appointments.
Comment by Roger Rabbit— 11/2/05 @ 11:14 am
Comment by GBS— 11/2/05 @ 11:11 am
“The truth will ALWAYS be subtance. It’s when people like you confuse the two issues do you find yourselves on the outside looking in. ”
What truth was revealed by Harry Reid invoking Rule 21 and having a behind closed doors session of the Senate? Do you mean this?
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ss.....cs/3432491
“Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the closed session was unnecessary because his committee already planned to rush the report.
Roberts said the report was unfinished in part because of disagreements with Democrats and the unwillingness of some Department of Defense officials to cooperate with the panel.
However, Roberts said the committee may be able to complete its work before the Nov. 14 progress report to the leaders.
He said the report will concur with the findings of weapons inspectors that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the invasion.
Roberts, however, said the investigation has not uncovered evidence that intelligence was manipulated. None of the 250 analysts interviewed said they were pressured to alter their findings, he said.” (my emphasis)
Comment by Roger Rabbit— 11/2/05 @ 11:14 am
“Reagan – draft avoider”
Reagan served during WW II, albiet not in combat. So I’m not sure how he is included in the “draft avoider” category. He certainly doesn’t fall in the “war hero” category either.
You left off LBJ. Johnson received a Silver Star in WW II. I assume that being a decorated veteran makes one a “war hero”.
“Just about every member of George W. Bush’s administration nearly every GOP congressman and senator – draft dodger”
Your hyperbolic rhetoric is laughable.
Why do you Bushies ALWAYS forget this quote DIRECTLY from the Constitution:
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This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
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This isn’t a part of the Declaration of Independence nor is it from the Amendments. It was PURPOSELY put into the Constitution to SAY “The United States of America has NO OFFICIAL RELIGION and NONE SHALL EVER BE IMPOSED”.
So please stop HIDING behind the Document and LYING about how it is written.
Show a little integrity and admit that you HATE the Constitution and would love nothing more than to see it Burned in order set up a Religous Tyranny?
CO @ 106
Read my post again. I never said anything about Lefties’ issues with religion, persecution of Christians, etc. I was merely talking about social engineering.
You said, “The notion of collective guilt promotes a meddlesome style of politics that is an obstacle to a free society.”
I say that collective guilt, from a secular perspective, is what drives much of Lefty social policy. If you disagree with government driven by faith-based morality, why is it that Lefties support social engineering based on secular “collective guilt?”
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Somebody’s lying **cough,(roberts)cough**.
Look for the May 17, 2005 record to come to light, bub. It’s been classified by the rethuglicans, but contains no classified info, just the stalling tactics that prove our point. The Dems are pushing for it’s release.
Now, we’ll see who’s pulling political stunts.
Hahahahahahaha
okay…i read it. where does it say that alito wrote it? because i couldn’t find it. maybe i am missing it….or maybe, just maybe, it was totally made up. it wouldn’t be the first time at all, would it?
and as far as him being an avid reader….OHMYGOD….we should execute him right away. a “reader”…..appalling……
harry poon is the survivor of an abortion you can tell by his dipshit post.
Democrats = the evolution of racism. They aren’t too interested in individuals. more intersted in framing their racial victims with their own bile.
Gosh John, I’m gonna have to tell my wife that I can’t be a Democrat anymore. You sure told me.