Ryan, bless your little heart, of all these comments, yours is just the cutest. Your shout-outs to Mrs. Cheney at the bottom of this list almost make me want to cry. Sweetie, I hate to break this to you, but go check out Bill O’Retardly’s website…. amidst his hypergushing over Mrs. Cheney’s ridiculous and embarrassing rant towards a reporter actually asking HER of all people a POLITICAL question, he offers her some for-the-camera sympathy for having to hear ~bad things~ in the news about her criminal husband. She puts his fears to rest by informing him– I’m not making this up– that she doesn’t really read the news… she just quickly glances at the headlines and decides if the following story will be something that she will like. Can’t you just see it? “Let’s see…. what’s in today’s news…. ‘Puppies Are Nice, Experts Say’.. Oooh, yes! I’ll read THAT! *I* like puppies!!! Yes, yes, they ARE nice!!!.. what’s this next one say… ‘Thousands Dead In Iraq as Civil War Continues’ OOOH, GROSS!! What unappreciative JERKS! I don’t want to read those bad words! You bad newspaper, you go bye-bye now!” So Ryan, considering the comments on this webpage start out by strongly pointing out Lynne’s brainlessness and how grossly inappropriate her toddler-esque outburst toward Wolf was, I doubt even if she WERE to take time out from her esteemed writing career to read this site, rest assured she did not get far before climbing back into her hole of ignorance with her hands over her eyes, chanting, “I did not see that… I did not see that….. They like me. They like my husband. I like Valium. Everything is OK.” Can’t you just see our poor first lady living the same kind of existance? “Everything’s fine… everything’s fine… don’t let the facts and polls and rising unrest get to you…. my husband has not caused thousands of deaths in order to get richer…. he is not a moderately retarded imbecile… he is not an amoral monster who has ceased representing the people and headed us all down a long spiral of misery on the whims of his own paranoia and hate and intolerance and lunacy…. oh, and he mispronounces 40% of all common words just as a little joke… yes, that’s it… as a little joke… why, that’s actually kind of CUTE, in that light! yes, everything is FINE…..”

And by the way, I agree with the poster above who noted Wolf’s “getting better lately.” He certainly is. He is restoring my faith in the media.

He then goes on to quote Dem talking points. What a Scum Bag!

As for Sean, what are you talking about? He projected some fantasies and spun some stillborn speculations that didn’t merit comment. That you don’t point out anything in his burblings in particular as of value suggests either that you can’t find one or don’t care to so long as you can carp.

Well played either way!

Here, I’ll show you. S is terribly proud of his fantasy that GWB nominated Meiers (whose name S can’t spell – shocking for such a hypereducated mensch, dyt?) as a stalking horse, to bleed the hysterical lib’ral invective out of the Congress before putting up Alito (which S also can’t spell), his ‘real’ choice.

So, S believes that GWB deliberately nominated someone HE thought was unqualified, as a political trick, putting all of us at risk if she – the unqualified – were affirmed. And S believes staff and advisors all went along with such dereliction. Haven’t we passed into absurdity with that?

Never mind. Suppose they all thought it was a great idea. Then Mr Bush threw his unqualified friend and colleague of 20-odd years into a vetting process that was sure to take her apart. A process which would give her nothing but pain, embarrassment, and certain humiliation (unless, somehow, she were actually confirmed, remember). Now, does she know this going in, or does the White House, knowing that she’s a poor actor, too, keep the clever secret from her? It’s one or the other. She either chose to be the pawn in a lie that would gain her nothing, or she was used in the part by everyone on staff who had reviewed the plan, were they for it or not.

Hard to draw the line from those alternatives to the present, where Ms Meiers is still working at the White House, in the same job. Would you do that, even at the White House, after you’d been offered up for a public and official bitchslapping, whether you were in on it or not?

OK, maybe you would. I don’t know you. But here’s the telling point, I think. No one can lead by throwing their friends and allies under the wheels for traction, for the simple reason that, once you do, every one of your friends and allies steps back from you a step, or at least those prudent enough to act for their own preservation. The thing is, once your boss hangs the guy in the next cubicle, there’s no way to conclude it won’t happen to you. In fact, it is proof that you are a candidate for that at least, and – who knows? – maybe worse.

So, even if Ms Meiers was fine with the tar and feathers, to deliberately do that to her rebuffed the loyalty of everyone else on the team. The smart ones know it, and they told the rest to watch out.

These are the real world concerns such a silly plan would beach itself upon. And no one with leadership experience is going to make such an inept call. You lose the trust and loyalty of your people, you might as well start packing.

Now that I’ve disposed of this doodad, I do want to say that I understand its appeal, however ridiculous. To conceive of the Meiers nomination as concealing secret craft – of whatever description – is the antithesis of the only alternative explanation:

That he meant it. That he is that wrong. That dim.

It must be hard to take such a stark view, if you’ve been hopeful for six years, that it would all somehow turn out right with these guys. So, rather than face their bottomless incompetence and one’s own bottomless error, it could be easier to believe they would eat their own, and cleverly. You know, “at least I wasn’t fooled by stupid people for six years!”

But take heart from this. If he really is so stupid that he wanted Meiers on the Court, then he was also that stupid when he invaded Iraq, and is that stupid today. So, at least he’s throwing our young men and women under the wheels for traction. He is at least clever enough to do it over there.

Of course, he doesn’t know those kids. Must make it different somehow.

So, what about S, you silly, silly nazi? He didn’t say anything any more grounded than that, did he?

And, by the way, when I suggest Mr Bush is stupid, I don’t mean necessarily that he lacks intelligence. Intelligence is only a potential, a capacity. It has to be trained. We all know smart people who are just stupid, one way or another. I mean, look at S.

Should a terrorist be allowed to legally live in this country????

I think the real question is Can Todd form a complete sentence? And a follow-up question would be If Todd were ever able to form a complete sentence, would it ever be worth paying any attention to?

Sean keeps ripping the public schools because they’re dens of disorder and a lot of students are not learning anything there. Or haven’t you read the news, listened to the news or watched the news for the past 20 years?

Why the hell can’t you liberals ever stick to the point instead of smearing people like John Kerry just did the President on TV trying to get backpeddle his way out of his blatant insult to the brave soldiers in Iraq?

You people need to have happen to you what happened to Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange, in your case, aversion therapy to liberal lies.

This spells out freedom, it means nothing to me…
…as long as there’s a PMRC!

Shove your hand right up my shirt, and pull the strings that make me work.
Jaws apart, the hooks fall out, like a fish, with hook in a mouth!

Many thanks to Dave Mustaine for writing those lyrics. Lest we forget that they were written with people like Lynne Cheney (and Tipper Gore unfortunately) specifically in mind.

How ironic that we sit here and they’re applicable today for many other things…

I have a guess. He keeps ripping the public schools, apropos of nothing. (Yes, I spelled it apropos! Look it up!) Do you suppose some P.S. 1 toughs stalked him in his prep school blazer, shorts, & garters all his boyhood, turning him upside down and shaking him to empty his pockets for cigarette money? Taking his violin apart with their pocketknives? Pantsing him in the girls’ school playground?

Nah, that’s not it. Because Sean never went to prep school. Maybe not even to college. If he had, he would know, for one thing, the difference between ‘affect’ and ‘effect.’ He doesn’t. All his desperate pretension – could it be compensation for the shallows under his turbid posturing?

Stupide est comme stupide fait, ne l’est pas?

This really proves that your planet is east of Pluto. ANYONE of ANY political stripe who can POSSIBLY mistake CNN for a conservative news channel proves that they NEVER listen to that pompous blowhard, Rush Limbaugh, or the very pleased with himself, Bill O’Really (yes I actually spelled it like that – it’s for affect). I listen to Rush occasionally, only to learn what new reason is being touted by Big Oil for rising prices – and I watch Bill to watch him glower at the camera.

From what I’ve seen here, folks like Zooey, barfly, shield and TakeAmericaBack have absolutely no concept of reality, no concept of history, a lousy sense of quid pro quo, while your combined senses of humor is of the mos basic, cruel kind. The kinds of people who may chuckle of someone slips on a banana, but falls down in hysterics if there’s a compound fracture.

You’re cruel. You condescend. You ignore what you know is true but can’t bare to admit. I have yet to have someone mention the cleverness of Bush to get Alioto confirmed by sending in Miers as a stalking horse (look it up).

So thank you very much for 24 hours of juvenile, insulting, nasty, mostly childish and certainly undereducated and unlettered blather masquerading as archly acute wit.

“Wit, not so, you never had an atom. And as for letters, you need but three to write you down. A – S – S … ass.”
— Cyrano de Bergerac – Act 1 Scene 1. Look it up.

Comment by Zooey — October 30, 2006 @ 3:15 pm

I think Zooey – the name of a fictional character as Robin of Locksley back earlier in this blog was told, so he deserved to be attacked – is expecting me to find Franny and mutally pleasure themselves while ripping out pages of JD Salinger.

Zooey, you’re just a cancer. You and all the hyper libs who never see beyond your navals. I want you to know, however, that I’m very glad that you and the others have each other during the long nights. It’s only scary that you and other public school propagandized membes of the Margaret Sanger generation claim to vote.

Love and kisses, Zooey. God – pardon, your prefer god – knows you need all you can get.

So, Mr. Blitzer, the rhetoric coming out of the White House and its many sycophants (Coulter, Limbaugh, Savage, et al) didn’t faze you before because it didn’t affect you personally, even as the patriotism of many of your countrymen was being questioned.

Their allegiance to their country, as well as their commitment to what the US stands for was put on trial in the vilest of ways. Any dissenter was subjected to the cruelest of smears because they were opposed to the expansion of presidential powers, imprisoning of people without a trial, and subjecting said prisoners to “enhanced interrogation techniques” aka torture. And you, Mr. Blitzer, stood by all this time and said nothing.

Welcome to what the rest of us has had to live with for the past four years.

I hope you’ve learnt your lesson and speak up before it’s too late next time -even though I am afraid we are not as lucky as to have a next time.