The ‘Get ‘er Done’ defense of escalation.
By on Feb 15th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
The ‘Get ‘er Done’ defense of escalation.
During today’s Iraq debate, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) explained her support for sending tens of thousands of U.S. forces to Iraq by quoting that “wonderful saying” — “Get ‘er done.”
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/02/geter.320.240.flv]
In the South, we have a wonderful saying and it goes like this: Get ‘er done. Our soldiers want to get it done and come home, and our President wants the same thing, and this Congress should demand the exact same thing. Let’s get out there and get ‘er done.
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Be silent, twit.
Here’s yer sign….
February 15th, 2007 at 11:12 pmFrigging moron! It’s sad to see the degree of unprofessionalism involved when they discuss such a serious issue.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:15 pmThe stuff of shrieking idiots.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:15 pmmore ambiguous b.s. pop culture slogans. great.
p.s.—if the bush admin had defined “er” in the beginning of this mess, this debate might have been avoided.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:17 pmHoly Shit!!!
February 15th, 2007 at 11:17 pmYet another reason Larry the Cable Guy is a moron.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:19 pmYEPPER, WES SURE IN TROUBLE OVERHERE IN THE GOODOLE SO CALLED USOFA, EH?
February 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pmOh, tough lady. Put your ass in the next Washington-Baghdad plane.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:22 pmLarry the Cable Guy is from Nebraska. Not exactly the South.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pmI thought we GOT ‘er done. Isn’t that what “Mission Accomplished” means? Or did somebody lie to me again? /sarcasm
February 15th, 2007 at 11:27 pmGet ‘er done!
Moronic bitch.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:31 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_the_Cable_Guy
“Larry’s trademarks are Redneck-style humor delivered in an affected thick Southern dialect, recounting bizarre stories about his “family,” and using the phrase “Git-R-Done!”"
Down, TZ, down.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:34 pmHere’s yer sign….
Comment by Mistress Z
I kinda think he’s funny, in a dorky/cute way.
I also dig the puppy dog eyes.
I actually admitted that I like Bill Engvall.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:34 pmWow. – I feel so much better.
Uh, that’s “GIT R DUN.”
Damn Yankees.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:36 pmThat’s not a southern saying, it’s a catchphrase. I’ve lived in the south my whole life, and the first time I heard that saying was when that Larry guy started making a living out of saying it on national tv. And that’s just one of the ways what she said is stupid.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:36 pmIt’s sad what the Republic party has come to, and it’s sad to think of the kind of people they think they’re pandering to when they say stupid things like that. It doesn’t just smell of desperation. It smells of stale, weak, feeble desperation.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:49 pmWe’ll be getting her done along with the rest of the Republic Party come the next election. What a collective bunch of brainless stooges.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pmIt is hard to avoid making sweeping generalizations about the rather challenged level of mentality that is prevalent in that part of the country. I went to high-school in Tampa, which compared to the district that this women represents — is quite diverse and sophisticated. Key word being “compared.”
February 15th, 2007 at 11:54 pm3 of the saddest sites I have witnessed in the last 20 years.
1) Iraq War – Both Editions
2) The fact that Anna Nicole Smith commands more airtime than anything else “really” important in life or to most people.
3) The fact that we, as a people, ourselves, have become complacent enough to allow this all to happen.
February 15th, 2007 at 11:57 pm“Larry the cable guy” isn’t even southern! He’s from Nebraska, where he attended private school, and his name is Dan Whitney.
The most telling aspect is that all these inbred rednecks, including apparently Ginny Brown-Waite, think he’s ‘one of them’ (or perhaps one o’ ‘em).
Priceless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VROn7ZvVoW8
February 16th, 2007 at 12:00 amAs to post 18-
3 of the saddest sites
Needs to read *sights.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:04 am3 of the saddest sites I have witnessed in the last 20 years….
Comment by rachel
#4: You pretending to be a normal poster, and ‘pitching a fit’ (in keeping with the Southern thing) because I wouldn’t let you past my spamblocker.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:07 am#5: Seeing you here every day pushing your same sad story.
Get er’ dumb is more like it.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:14 amGet er’ dumb is more like it.
Comment by kelso
Sad to say, but I believe he has spawned recently.
[ick]
February 16th, 2007 at 12:16 amWe’ve moved from “Bring ‘em on” to “Git ‘er done”.
The United States of Moronica.
-GSD
February 16th, 2007 at 12:18 amComment by rachel
Dude,change your name,or you don’t have a chance.
On topic-”Get ‘er done”;
February 16th, 2007 at 12:22 amHaven’t we had 4 years to do just that?
No one [Repub.Congress] put any restrictions on Bush to do just that.
Can we please have another civil war?
February 16th, 2007 at 12:24 amAnd like Carlos Mencia says- deet dee dee.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:25 amWell Ginney lady > get your butt over to Iraq with a rifle in your hand or shut-up your damn GOPer yapper. Troops want to come home alive, in one piece, not stay there to “Get er Done” for criminal Bush Regime.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:32 amOh, boy.
An elected official using a comedian’s catchphrase to support the occupation of Iraq? A comedian who makes a living making fun of Southeners, no less?
Republicans are really a pitiful lot nowadays. I almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:37 amDid any of these so-called leaders of the American people step up to the plate and say “Now wait a minute, the ISG said ‘nope not really a good idea’, the generals said ‘nope not a good idea’ and the populace (if as Michael on the Al Gore thread says are ‘clear-thinking’) and they say ‘nope not a good idea’ and someone esle fesses up that the reason for doing it is ‘political’ to boot – maybe I should vote that this is not a good idea” Or is it all ‘our commander in chief this that and the other’? If it is the latter, then fascism has a deep hold on this country.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:37 amRepulsivescum Bushite TRAITORS don’t want to debate…
…they want to obfuscate, stall for time, run interference…
…hoping that something miraculous will materialize…
…and save their gods Bushiva and L’il Dick’s legacy…
…while making a buck in the meantime…
…there have NEVER in American history been more…
…vile, odious, pernicious, treacherous, corrupt, incompetent, sinister, and downright anti-American TRAITORS…
…than Bush-worshipping Repulsivescum cultists…
What’s even more disgusting and disheartening is fact that…
…they are your family members, your friends, neighbors, co-workers, and casual acquaintences
February 16th, 2007 at 12:57 amIt’s all verbal semantics.
Yesterday’s “cut and run” is today’s “git’r'done”.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:19 amI’d like Miss Ginny to explain exactly what it is that she wants ‘em to git done. Sadaam is history, no WMD were found, is she demanding that democracy be spread by the butt of a rifle, now? How about getting ol’ Osama? Hint: he ain’t in Iraq
February 16th, 2007 at 1:21 amSixth time is the charm?
Another redneck effort to repeat failure until success? Smart people learn from their mistakes, conservatives repeat mistakes until someone stops them. Fools…
February 16th, 2007 at 1:28 am“get ‘er done” is not a southern phrase. It’s Larry the Cable Guy’s phrase.
How out of touch is the Republican party? Wow!
We have had 5 yrs to get er done, whatever that is! Its changed so many times!
February 16th, 2007 at 3:09 amHaving lived in the south for the last 26 years (or, my entire life) I have never heard that expression from anyone I were to take seriously. No, we do not talk like that down here and frankly I find the implication insulting.
Since when was Florida the South anyway? Since when was being “plainspoken” celebrated by an educated people? Asinine through and through.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:15 amIt really is a shame that a “Southern” broad would think that “get ‘er done” is in any form or fashion a Southern phrase. (For starters, it would be “git”–not “get”.) I’ve never heard it in the 30+ years I’ve lived in Alabama (I have heard “git it done”, but that’s not just a “Southern” phrase).
February 16th, 2007 at 3:48 amIf this woman needs to rediscover real and uniquely Southern phrases, I’d suggest she go pick up books by Fannie Flagg and the late Lewis Grizzard. It just seems so depressing when you consider we’ve gone from Grizzard’s absolutely dead-on Southern humor (which could somehow manage to insult Southerners while instilling Southern pride) to Jeff Foxworthy’s “redneck” humor (which proved successful largely due to its ease in translation; the standard “redneck” doesn’t differ that much from “trailer trash”) to Larry the Cable Guy’s essential Floridian-ness (he’s not a native, merely a transplant, and doesn’t know much about being a real Southerner, except the stereotypes that he now projects).
You would fools like these GOP would be able to learn from Bush’s “Wanted Dead or Live!” declaration but I guess that is why they are fools.
February 16th, 2007 at 5:28 amI agree with Senator Joseph Biden on the issue of re-visiting the authorization resolution passed in 2002 to start the war.
Biden said that he will try to have a resolution to end the authorization of 2002 because as he said it was not intended to be an open ended one.
It is because the reasons of
1. WMDS danger to USA are no longer exist in Iraq
2. Saddam and his regime are no longer exist, also.
This should close the file. The resolution did not talk about rebuilding Iraq,airbases in Iraq, and democracy in Iraq.
The resolution did not give authorization to change the whole Middle East,as Neocons plans are now advocating.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:25 amGet. What. Done?
Please elucidate and inform.
Oh you can’t can you.
If you can’t even in plain language tell us what “er” is and why it needs to be “done” than you are a bloviating moron.
And that’s all I got to say about that.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:30 am#40…Brian > Agree with you . That was my thinking too…..Get what…?!! describe it, define it for us, tell us what is that you want it done,lady.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:42 amLead by example! Get your ass over there, or send your kids first, and then you’ll have the right to say ‘get ‘er done.’ And if you don’t want to do that, sit down and shut up.
February 16th, 2007 at 6:55 am& nancy reagan had this “wonderful saying”, “just say no”
& arnold drummond had this “wonderful saying”, “whatchoo talkin bout, Willis?”
& there was this tshirt in the 70s with a “wonderful saying”, “I’M WITH STUPID”
February 16th, 2007 at 7:04 amlol
February 16th, 2007 at 7:43 amSend the reps local newspaper a letter
http://www.hernandotoday.com/lettertotheeditor.htm
I did:
While watching the debate on the Iraq escalation I heard Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida invoke the phrase “Git ‘er done” as a justification for continuing the war and supporting the escalation. Rep Brown-Waite called “Git ‘er done” an old southern saying. It isn’t. It is the copywrited catch phrase of a stand up comedian from Nebraska who makes his living mocking working class southerns and goes by the name Larry the Cable Guy.
I find it hard to believe that a member of the US House of Representatives didn’t know this. Of course it doesn’t rise to the level of republican lawmaker, Rep. Dan Young (Alaska) using a bogus Lincoln quote on the house floor as justification for stifling debate.
Regards,
Kyde
I like this letter writing thing
February 16th, 2007 at 7:59 amShe makes me feel bad to live in Florida. And in response to post #8, Larry the Cable Guy’s alter ego lives in Florida. He is, in real life, nowhere near that stupid, and for her to emulate him does nothing but show how stupid she REALLY is.
We in Central Florida have been listening to her drivel for way too long, and I for one, apologize for having you subjected to her idiocy.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:09 amWell, hop right on down to the recruiting office and sign up Ginny, you should’nt have much trouble getting in with the relaxed competency standards…
February 16th, 2007 at 8:29 am….Git ‘er done…..
send this brainless woman to iraq
February 16th, 2007 at 8:45 amIt’s amazing… the Republics and the Democrats both want to “git er done” and bring the troops home. The difference is in the understanding of what “git er done” means. To the Democrats, Iraq is a failed policy and a civil war and our troops need to begin returning now. To the Republics, well, there is no definition except to “Stay the course”.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:50 amThat’s my representative for you! The repuglicans have a stangle hold on my county & Ginny is an excellent lap dog for the GOP. She really “got-r-done” bringing home our dead from France, remember that ridiculus demand.
She always states that she’s a strong defender of veterans rights. I guess she figures more soldiers = more veterans (if they survive!!) Lord, I hate this woman!!
February 16th, 2007 at 8:52 amgiv’r, and get’r done!!
what we say up here
February 16th, 2007 at 8:54 ampgw – yeah, Bush still can’t defind “er”.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:55 amwell, it’s not just the south… unless southern illinois counts…
and sometimes it surely does, sad to say…
oh, and she’s obviously clueless – it’s “git”…
February 16th, 2007 at 8:57 am….you only have to go across the Michigan/Indiana border and all of a sudden you’re “git’in all kinds o’ grit”
February 16th, 2007 at 9:00 amIt’s the git-r-done morons that re-elected Bush in the first place. *cue beverly hillbillies theme music*
February 16th, 2007 at 9:04 amStuck with Ginny… the Democrats can break the Republic stangle hold in your county. You need to organize and start at the grassroots level. Where I live, the Republics thought they owned the voters in the countryside. This has since changed. The Democrats have become organized on a grassroots level. We have managed to have “house parties” where we invite local politicians to come and speak with their constituents. We invite “double D” households and Independents. An amazing thing has happened, we have the attention of national politicians. Senate and House candidates now stop by the “house parties”. We organized and we work the polls and the Republic stangle hold has loosened. Democrats are winning in former Republic areas. So don’t give up hope. You can get rid of Ginny. You need a strong candidate and then you have to help with your “feet on the street”.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:11 amOops… #52 – meant to post “Bush still can’t define “er”.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:13 amI guess she thought she was being “cute”,cause in any sense of the word, it doesn’t describe her at all!
February 16th, 2007 at 9:27 amFor those who have seen the movie Cars…
New nickname for Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite:
Mater.
As in, Tuh-Mater but without the “tuh.”
February 16th, 2007 at 9:33 amPrevious comments:
I’ve lived in the south my whole life, and the first time I heard that saying was when that Larry guy started making a living out of saying it on national tv.
Having lived in the south for the last 26 years (or, my entire life) I have never heard that expression from anyone I were to take seriously.
I’ve never heard it in the 30+ years I’ve lived in Alabama (I have heard “git it doneâ€, but that’s not just a “Southern†phrase).
Add me to the list. 40+ years in the South (Southwest VA and Northeast TN) and I haven’t heard the saying, either.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:39 amthe troops have been trying to “git ‘er done” for four years…
with inadequate troop numbers (”go to war with the army you got, not the army you want”)
with insufficient body armour (remember families buying Kevlar on eBay and shipping it because the Bushies weren’t supplying them with the proper gear AND THEN they had the balls to create a law / rule stating “if a soldier dies or is injured while wearing home-supplied armour, the DoD will deny death benefits”)
with inadequate armour for Humvees
while the Bushies and the Repugs in Congress continued to cut Veterans’ benefits, post-service training job placement and transitional counseling / services, and deny post-traumatic stress syndrome benefits / claims…
the list goes on and on and on… while the troops continue to “git ‘er done”, dip-shit neonuts like this twit have been clearly NOT supporting the troops.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:41 amIt’s truly amazing to me that in dealing with these these Bush Republicans, everything they hold dear and believe in can be summed up in a pop culture motto they hear on a comedy special or a cartoon or a joke they cut and paste from a right wing whacko website.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:11 am3,100+ are already done. How many more of our troops are you willing to see “done”?!
WE THE PEOPLE want our people home, not “done”.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:12 amGet ‘er Done, congresswoman? Then go to Iraq and get ‘er done yourself.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:25 amthanks, Kyle at 45 – called her office, too:
202 – 225 – 1002 — ask em, “Get ‘Er Done?
Dear Editor:
It has come to my attention that Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida offered the comment, “Git ‘er done†regarding her support for the troop escalation in Iraq.
This is a repulsive comment to make during a serious debate about life and death matters for thousands of human beings whose fate lies in the hands of the decision makers in the United States Congress.
This is a national debate and Representative Ginny Brown-Waite’s comments are embarrassing to all Americans. We urge her to raise her consciousness to the level required to participate in making decisions about life and death matters. If she’s not capable of raising the level of her rhetoric then we suggest she confine her debates to the likes of Larry the Cable Guy.
Sincerely,
February 16th, 2007 at 10:35 amPaul W. Miller
Ah, yes, the party of slogans. Nothing more — just slogans.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:36 amYes, the south likes to SAY git-er-done, but they don’t actually get much done down there, do they?
Maybe I’m just snobbish because me and my liberal friends are building innovative computing machines that drive the economy in this country, and yet we NEVER say git-er-done.
February 16th, 2007 at 10:47 amYup, Larry the Cable Guy is an act. Hence he wear the same damn shit all the time and calls himself “Larry the Cable Guy” instead of his real name, Dan Whitney. He has made millions off appealing to the worst in the lowest common donimators in the south, who are apparently too stupid to search his name in Wikipedia to find out he’s not one of them, just making a living off of “them.” It’s surreal when catch phrases become so widely popular that people think the phrase came from them. “Don’t have a cow man.” “Did I do that??” “Whoaaaa.”
February 16th, 2007 at 10:50 amA note to the voters watching how your Congress person votes. A vote as “PRESENT” is the same as a vote FOR a “TROOP ESCALATION”.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:00 am“Git in that trailer an’ brush yer tooth girl. Git er done. And don’t touch that possum pie till ah puts yer viddles on the table.”
February 16th, 2007 at 11:06 am‘get er’ done’ ? that is a euphemism for finishing screwing a woman?
if your bored, get er’ done
if you want to get back to football, ger er’ done
her values seem to be in question. is she begging for someone to slip her something?
February 16th, 2007 at 11:12 amWow. And I thought Rep Marsha Blackburn using comic book marketing slogan “Whose side are you on?” was bad.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:13 amSo what’s next? “Where’s the beef?” “All your base are belong to us?” “Ask Mikey, he likes it?”
Argumentum Ad Comedia is really not an argument.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:35 amShe could have been talking about her hair.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:39 amI heard a snowplow driver in Cleveland say it on NPR the other day. “We’ll get ‘er done.”
February 16th, 2007 at 11:40 amGinny, have you done lunch with Babs Bush and compared fettered wombs, lately? Yuh, I thought so. Back under your rock, skank.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:10 pmCan you imagine Larry the Cable Guy as the GOP nominee in 2008? Don’t laugh, they may just try it.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:24 pmIsn’t the “get-r-done” attitude what got us into this in the first place?
Or “bring ‘em on.”
Pretty much any macho phrase used by people who are not in the line of fire.
February 16th, 2007 at 12:31 pmI’ve lived my whole life in the South and I’d never heard “Git R Done” until Larry the Cable Guy, either.
We do have a phrase for Rep. Brown-Waite that’s appropriate:
“Dang, she’s as crazy as a sprayed roach!”
February 16th, 2007 at 12:36 pm[...] convinced. Permalink [...]
February 16th, 2007 at 12:46 pmWow, a woman has more balls than 60% of those in congress.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:03 pmHere’s another tried and true Southern expression
“SooooooooooooooEEEEEEEEEEy”
February 16th, 2007 at 1:24 pmGet (R) Dumb.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pmto all the spineless “join the US army” comments: JOIN THE TALIBAN
February 16th, 2007 at 1:54 pmSouthern phrase for the pile-on: “Succeed in Iraq? We got about as much chance at that as a kerosene cat in hell with tissue paper pants on.”
Thank you, thank you! Try the shrimp!
February 16th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThe world is going down the shitter and all that cunt can do is quote some fat redneck comedian. Wonderful.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:09 pmI called this fat bi*ch’s office…
…asked if she had any children in Iraq…
…the person who answered said, “No, I don’t believe so.”
…typical hypocritical, cowardly Repulsivescum who*e…
…do as I say not as I do…
February 16th, 2007 at 4:19 pm“Get ‘er done” can also mean “TO DISPOSE OF HER”–I use this meaning and apply it to the repugnant-repub Ginny Brown-Waite.. “DO IN THIS HATCHET-FACED HARRIDAN…GET ‘ER DONE!”
February 16th, 2007 at 4:59 pmPuleeze! The expression is “Git ‘R Dun”!, and is most commonly used by yelling it out loud in a crowd as an exhortation to greater effort, usually by by rednecks or occassionaly those immitating rednecks.
February 16th, 2007 at 8:52 pmI bet Larry the Cable Guy is actually a diehard liberal and is laughing at all the hillbillies that quote him. I know Ron White is laughing. That is one funny guy.
February 16th, 2007 at 11:21 pmShe’s really out of touch with reality isn’t she? Or she’s Satan’s spawn.
February 17th, 2007 at 1:19 am“Get ‘er done!” T’is America that’s “done” in Iraq, hick.
February 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pm