Saturday, February 25, 2006
National Security, Nicknames, and the ACLU
All the cagey lefty blogs and shows have been pointing out for 24 hours or so that Rasmussen has a poll out that shows that people favor the democrats over Bush in matters of national security 43% to 41%.
Right now if I were a voter I would be favoring democrats over Bush in matters concerning integral calculus, interpretive dance, tying my shoes, you name it.
But the Karl Roves of the Republican Party must be turning a little green. You officially have nothing to run on, W, not even the illusion of security, not even a brave face towards all of the ineffable destruction that six years of you has wrought.
You’re a corporate shill, Drinky, and the people knows it. I heard Laura Ingraham saying it! As I love to repeat, that’s your bigoted base, Mr. President.
I need a nickname for Ingraham, who I have determined is simply disconnected from reality. A liberal attourney called up and very conversationally contradicted Laura. Laura’s bizarre response was simply to say “Oooooooh, you’re an attourney. Big deal. What you are is a liberal attourney who disagrees with George Bush.”
The attourney went on about Justice Scalia’s “integrity problems.”
Laura interrupted. “What integrity problems? Name three!”
“Well, there was the duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney, several times when he refused to recuse himself, inappropriate gifts-”
“All that was just nothing. But go on to your second false point.”
This is just paraphrasing, but you get the idea. Simple dementia. Dismissing an assertion as “just nothing” and considering it refuted. Endless interruptions. Childish taunts (“Oooooooh”). A combination of childishness and an utter lack of awareness of the conversation you are currently in…of course. A kid with ADD! That leaves two nicknames for Ingraham: Ritalin Girl and Attention Deficit. Attention Deficit it is!
Whew, I feel so much better. Let’s think up a nickname for Medved, shall we?
Hmmm…Medved is really unabashedly bigoted, nationalistic…but he likes to take calls from people who disagree with him. He also sounds like a congested 15-year-old geek. Let’s see, a bigoted, nationalist geek…a young republican? No, that’s too innocuous: his nationalism is truly violent…the young militia member? More like the accountant for the Minutemen…or the Militia’s publicist…we’ll have to wait on Medved.
I’m tired of republicans like Orifice saying that this is an opportunity for dems to “seem” more hawkish on national security than the president. Ridiculous: a chimpanzee could have done a better job shoring up national security over the past five years than Drinky. Media matters has a good story here.
Retards like Russert do the cagey political analysis but they will always sound like dimwits when their base presupposition is that both parties are equally cynical political posturers. That’s like doing an analysis of Presidents Ford and Nixon and assuming that both were equally manipulative. The dems don’t have to “seem” more hawkish on national security, Russert, they are, you little shit bird. A little less talking head “analyassis” and a little more homework might be in order.
The same Rasmussen poll shows that only 17% of people are in favor of the U.A.E. controlling the ports. That number might change but Jesus is that a loser for Drinky.
More losers for Drinky: usually I ignore evidence of routine corruption in both parties, because it is too common and small-time to take time discussing. But this one piece by thinkprogress is a real winner, because it shows you who Drinky’s money guys are.
Just go down the list at Thinkprogress. It’s a winner. TIA is going strong.
The ACLU has long been a favorite organization of mine, both because of their radical dedication to the freedoms of all individuals and the fact that they drive conservatives nuts, which makes no sense, because the ACLU is the paragon of a libertarian organization. Recently the ACLU has publicized info about the abusive interrogation techniques that were “endorsed” by top Defense Department people, techniques that the FBI, the U.N., Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have all characterized as torture. Mother Jones has the story here.
This story is an old one, but until now there has been a fog of uncertainty about who authorized what. Some evidence was public about the DoD and its effort to redefine torture, but this is truly a big addition to what we know.
Sadly enough, stories like this have no legs, as a plurality or even a majority of people in this country don’t mind torturing foreigners who might be terrorists. Polls have shown this for a couple of years now since the Gitmo and Abu Ghraib stories first broke. ‘Mericans are all about torture.
One more thinkprogress: this is the story that was typical during the Reagan years, and has become typical during the Bush years: your average joe gets screwed. It’s not as sexy as torture or wiretapping, but while conservatives preach about supply-side economics let us never forget that the result is always record profits for Exxon and a slap in the face for the plebes.
Right now if I were a voter I would be favoring democrats over Bush in matters concerning integral calculus, interpretive dance, tying my shoes, you name it.
But the Karl Roves of the Republican Party must be turning a little green. You officially have nothing to run on, W, not even the illusion of security, not even a brave face towards all of the ineffable destruction that six years of you has wrought.
You’re a corporate shill, Drinky, and the people knows it. I heard Laura Ingraham saying it! As I love to repeat, that’s your bigoted base, Mr. President.
I need a nickname for Ingraham, who I have determined is simply disconnected from reality. A liberal attourney called up and very conversationally contradicted Laura. Laura’s bizarre response was simply to say “Oooooooh, you’re an attourney. Big deal. What you are is a liberal attourney who disagrees with George Bush.”
The attourney went on about Justice Scalia’s “integrity problems.”
Laura interrupted. “What integrity problems? Name three!”
“Well, there was the duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney, several times when he refused to recuse himself, inappropriate gifts-”
“All that was just nothing. But go on to your second false point.”
This is just paraphrasing, but you get the idea. Simple dementia. Dismissing an assertion as “just nothing” and considering it refuted. Endless interruptions. Childish taunts (“Oooooooh”). A combination of childishness and an utter lack of awareness of the conversation you are currently in…of course. A kid with ADD! That leaves two nicknames for Ingraham: Ritalin Girl and Attention Deficit. Attention Deficit it is!
Whew, I feel so much better. Let’s think up a nickname for Medved, shall we?
Hmmm…Medved is really unabashedly bigoted, nationalistic…but he likes to take calls from people who disagree with him. He also sounds like a congested 15-year-old geek. Let’s see, a bigoted, nationalist geek…a young republican? No, that’s too innocuous: his nationalism is truly violent…the young militia member? More like the accountant for the Minutemen…or the Militia’s publicist…we’ll have to wait on Medved.
I’m tired of republicans like Orifice saying that this is an opportunity for dems to “seem” more hawkish on national security than the president. Ridiculous: a chimpanzee could have done a better job shoring up national security over the past five years than Drinky. Media matters has a good story here.
Retards like Russert do the cagey political analysis but they will always sound like dimwits when their base presupposition is that both parties are equally cynical political posturers. That’s like doing an analysis of Presidents Ford and Nixon and assuming that both were equally manipulative. The dems don’t have to “seem” more hawkish on national security, Russert, they are, you little shit bird. A little less talking head “analyassis” and a little more homework might be in order.
The same Rasmussen poll shows that only 17% of people are in favor of the U.A.E. controlling the ports. That number might change but Jesus is that a loser for Drinky.
More losers for Drinky: usually I ignore evidence of routine corruption in both parties, because it is too common and small-time to take time discussing. But this one piece by thinkprogress is a real winner, because it shows you who Drinky’s money guys are.
Just go down the list at Thinkprogress. It’s a winner. TIA is going strong.
The ACLU has long been a favorite organization of mine, both because of their radical dedication to the freedoms of all individuals and the fact that they drive conservatives nuts, which makes no sense, because the ACLU is the paragon of a libertarian organization. Recently the ACLU has publicized info about the abusive interrogation techniques that were “endorsed” by top Defense Department people, techniques that the FBI, the U.N., Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch have all characterized as torture. Mother Jones has the story here.
This story is an old one, but until now there has been a fog of uncertainty about who authorized what. Some evidence was public about the DoD and its effort to redefine torture, but this is truly a big addition to what we know.
Sadly enough, stories like this have no legs, as a plurality or even a majority of people in this country don’t mind torturing foreigners who might be terrorists. Polls have shown this for a couple of years now since the Gitmo and Abu Ghraib stories first broke. ‘Mericans are all about torture.
One more thinkprogress: this is the story that was typical during the Reagan years, and has become typical during the Bush years: your average joe gets screwed. It’s not as sexy as torture or wiretapping, but while conservatives preach about supply-side economics let us never forget that the result is always record profits for Exxon and a slap in the face for the plebes.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 10:04 AM 
