World Bank reacts to Wolfowitz resignation:
“‘Everyone ran into the hallways and were clapping and hugging each other,’ one employee, who declined to be named, said.”
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Another crony bites the dust.
One more down, many more to go…
May 18th, 2007 at 12:23 amYeah, Wolfie, you really saved face.
Psychopath.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:24 amThank goodness Wolfie was able to save face…
May 18th, 2007 at 12:26 amAnother one bites the dust! I would have had a Wolfowitz resignation party and the drinks would’ve been on me! WOO HOO!
May 18th, 2007 at 12:27 amWow - this ending was almost as surprising as Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader!
May 18th, 2007 at 12:28 amIt seems that Wolf is as well loved abroad as he is here at home.
Next appointment? Envoy to Iran? You know Bush is going to get him connected somewhere cause the cronyism never stops.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:28 amWe’re dancin’, dancin in the street:
Come alive around the world
May 18th, 2007 at 12:35 amAre you ready for a brand new beat
‘Cause summer’s here and the time is right
For dancing in the street
They’re dancing in Chicago (dancing in the street)
Down in New Orleans now (dancing in the street)
In New York City (dancing in the street)
POLITICAL
PARASITES
SWINDLERS
HOODLUMS
TICKS
CHIGGARDS
ROACHES
SCUMBAGS
A BUNCH
OF
POLITICAL
May 18th, 2007 at 12:35 amCRIMINALS
AND
HOODLUMS
High fives all around, and let’s put a couple of nails in the door so when it hits his ass on the way out a lil message gets sent.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:40 amtalk about a golden parachute…dude architects the war a smidge better than brownie does the katrina response and bushie rewards him with a 400K (tax free) salary and he fucks it up. the funny thing is that this surprises no one, not even that hot girlfriend of his.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:45 amOne more down, many more to go…
Comment by Gregor Samsa
What? Was he hanged?
May 18th, 2007 at 12:50 amForgive my shallowness especially you ladies. The arrogance and lack of humility of this guy is beneath my capacity to comment but I must admit that I feel some rejoice in the fact that his fall and utter disgrace on the world stage was ultimately driven by a totally butt ugly lass. I really feel bad about that but I can not help but think it. It is one thing to be a total butthead but to have the world thinking “what the hell were you thinking?” Priceless. Sincere apologies to all the wonderful but less they asthetically pleasing women who I adore. Feel free to attack me as I acknowledge my weakness here.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:52 amThen again, he is seriously unattractive as well. Upon further reflection, I quess every pot has a lid
May 18th, 2007 at 12:54 amthis ending was almost as surprising as Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader!
Comment by toasterhead
WHAT?????
Heh.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:55 amSo his “severance package” includes another month’s pay, eh? Oh, well. Maybe he’ll use all that money and buy himself a new pair of socks with no holes in them.
This man should just STFU and go away. I’m sure he has enough money to never have to work for anyone again. I hope no one ever hires him for a job. In fact, I would say that everyone should boycott any business that hires this despicable man. Send a message: We won’t support businesses who employ people like Wolfowitz. Then again, any business that would hire him clearly doesn’t care about ethics, and probably even less about what people like you and me think.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:00 amComment by Juan C — May 18, 2007 @ 12:50 am
Unfortunately, and as it usually happens with the well-heeled, politically-connected white-collar criminals, Wolfowitz will walk away from this situation only mildly embarrassed in without as much as a slap on the wrist. His girlfriend will share the same consequence-free fate.
Meanwhile, she laments that she felt under attack. Boo hoo.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:01 amALL THESE POLITICAL
PARASITES
TERMITES
LEECHES
SCUMBAGS
SHOULD JUST GO HOME
AND
NEVER
RETURN
BACK TO WORK! ENOUGH TO MAKE EVERYONE
P
May 18th, 2007 at 1:06 amU
K
E
Ok, is anybody else seeing a pattern here? Like the rest of the world hates our administration? I have talked with alot of people over the net and well, most people overseas do not hate the American people just the repukians in charge in the White House.
Join the Ignore Valiantthemoron Club today !!! Win prizes, and know that you are helping TP by ignoring a total loser with no life that gets their jollies from punking other people
May 18th, 2007 at 1:07 amBuck Fush, not to mention ignoring a total loser that is happy her child is dead.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:11 amWorld Bank employees rejoice!
-GSD
May 18th, 2007 at 1:18 amI have talked with alot of people over the net and well, most people overseas do not hate the American people just the repukians in charge in the White House.
Comment by Buck Fush — May 18, 2007 @ 1:07 am
I was in Europe a few months ago, and I had the same experience.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:21 amI am glad that Wolfowitz has resigned from the World Bank, but he was allowed to cut a deal getting a golden parachute bonus of $$$.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:22 amHe does not leave till the end of June, which is the same time Tony Blair retires, so there could still be something fishy going on. What if Bush bombs Iran at end of May or beginning of June? Would Blair then refuse to leave and Wolfowitz as well? Will war on Iran save them?
It sounds like everyone was pretty upset…oh the humanity!
May 18th, 2007 at 1:28 ammongo, what do you know about humanity? Nothing? K, thanks.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:29 amWolfy this week.
Gonzo next week.
Don’t ever lt these SOBs take a breath without a big wiff of the crap they took upon our once great nation.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:33 am“mongo, what do you know about humanity? Nothing? K, thanks.
Comment by JPark”
ouch that stings
hehehe not really
May 18th, 2007 at 1:36 ami hope somebody kicks him right in his shriveled up little testicles on the way out the door !!!
POS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 18th, 2007 at 2:13 amGood riddance, dickhead.
May 18th, 2007 at 4:04 amWhat beats me is a) the thick skin these guys are having and b) their whining.
I am sure people like Mr Gonzales and Mr Wolfowitz really believe they did nothing wrong. There seems to be a genuine fault in their psychological make-up.
What is disturbing, however, is the fact that getting a career going is more and more subject to this kind of psychological make-up. I see it in the private sector as well. Skills are overridden by political prowess. A company fires a competent expert before they fire an incompetent crony of someone. That’s because the management are cronies, too.
And in the end, when things are falling apart, they don’t know what went wrong, they did everything right, didn’t they.
On topic: If I have to ask the ethics committee, if it was right to promote my girlfriend, I abuse the ethics committee. They are not there for covering asses.
May 18th, 2007 at 5:01 amDing, dong, that Wolfy’s gone,
Let’s all smoke a big fat bong,
Ding, dong, that Wolfowitz is GONE!!
May 18th, 2007 at 6:23 amThis is a preview of the party the world will throw when the Bushies are thrown out.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:24 amAfter his threats it was unwise in the extreme allowing him to remain in his post for another month. Absolutely foolish, IMO.
May 18th, 2007 at 6:59 amjust the tip of the iceberg-so much corruption-so little accountability
May 18th, 2007 at 7:05 amThey better lock-down his computer now!
May 18th, 2007 at 7:14 am“‘Everyone ran into the hallways and were clapping and hugging each other,’ Yeap…me too
May 18th, 2007 at 7:40 amI agree, Perry (30),
Think how good the country will feel after impeachment.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:40 amHe’ll sign multi-million dollar book deal.
Like Tenet, he’ll cry scapegoat and laugh all the way to the bank.
Wolfoshitz is just another one of the Bush Cabal. Another War Criminal.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:05 amAnother grey haired hopelessly out of touch WASP leaving with a complete severance package after being forced out by scandal. Being crooked pays. America needs better, and quick.
May 18th, 2007 at 8:51 amI wonder how many neocon wingnut-welfare queens are going to “win” multimillion-dollar contracts from the World Bank during Wolfie’s victory-lap month?
May 18th, 2007 at 9:06 am#30 #35 ~ Agreed.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:08 amCheck out Wolfie’s face at msnbc.com and click over to slate.com for Gonzo’s visage.
See anything similar?
May 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am“and utter disgrace on the world stage was ultimately driven by a totally butt ugly lass.”
Have you looked at Wolfie lately? He’s not exactly Mr. Handsome. The two of them deserve each other. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when his girlfriend read what he said about her (you know, it’s all her fault). If she is still with this loser, it speaks volumes about her.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:20 amWorld Bank lover Wolfie was sent home,to his girl.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:29 amEverybody at the bank is happy that this ‘Romeo & Shaha’ play is over.
(sung to the tune of Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead)
Dong, Dong, the Wolfie’s out
Cause he was a cheating lout
Ding, Dong, that asshole Wolfie’s out!!
May 18th, 2007 at 9:44 amWe’re going to miss Wolfie’s holey socks and his comb-licking technique. And his adulterous antics!!
May 18th, 2007 at 9:44 amI will not celebrate Wolfowitz’s resignation from the World Bank untill he actually walks out the door on June 30th. He has extorted the bank board, because they agreed to allow him to stay on for 6 more weeks and they are giving him a $400,000 bonus too. They should have fired him and forced him to leave immediately.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:50 amI heard Wolfie’s wife left him and also his whore left him too.
Poor Wolfie, all alone with his golden parachute.
Somebody call Wolfie a WAAAAAH-mbulance.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:00 am# 41 Kate,
I would never like to be a fly on the wall in any given exchange of the two…. yuck.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:33 amDoro (46),
Me neither. Too many other flies around, I’d imagine.
May 18th, 2007 at 11:04 am” … Ladies and Gentlemen … Sanjaya Wolfowitz has left the building … “
May 18th, 2007 at 11:49 am#17. Hey that wasn’t me, I just logged on, but I would have typed that anyway, so it’s ok by me !!! ;-)
Hating the Repukian Mafia Daily (#17 you forgot my sign off)
May 18th, 2007 at 11:56 am“Everyone ran into the hallways and were clapping and hugging each other.”
Huh. That’s about how we reacted in the dorms at Northern Arizona U when the D-backs won the World Series.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:39 pmDing dong, the ‘Witz is gone
May 18th, 2007 at 6:11 pmWhich old ‘Witz?
The Wolf-o-witz!
#50
That’s cold, Thad …. (Comment by Triumph, … a lifelong Yankee fan …)
But … celebrating the departure of Wolfowitz is worth the nasty 2001 World Series flashbacks !!! …
:-)
May 18th, 2007 at 9:41 pmWhy are you cheering? Bush puts in the replacement and it looks like Phony Blair. You think Wofowitz was bad?
May 19th, 2007 at 4:40 amWhy are you cheering? Bush puts in the next chief and it looks like Phony Blair. You think Wolfowitz is bad? Wait.
May 19th, 2007 at 4:42 amWolfowitz is not gone. He has been run out of the World Bank by European powers and World Bank staff which, by the way, should be applauded for hating Wolfie’s lying guts so much it lobbied tirelessly for his removal. But gone? No. He will reappear time and again as long as he lives to proselytize his litany of fascism, fear, war and greed. Will he open another hatemonger’s think tank like his old pal Dong Rumsot? We must start thinking in decades, not years, in planning our counterattacks against the insidious, monstrous idealogy espoused by Bush, Wolfowitz and their coterie of PNACers. We have to think in terms of encouraging new generations of liberal political candidates who are appalled at the fact that Pelosi, Reid and other pacifists are ignoring our calls for Bush-Cheney impeachment.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:05 amWe can express our satisfaction at people like HoleySock Comblicker’s resignation, but there will be yet another Bush appointee crony put in the position and the process will start again.
May 19th, 2007 at 10:09 amSometimes it seems so hopeless- the struggle to rid the world of deceptive people of authority who are more concerned about enriching their circle of cronies than they are with the welfare of humanity and the planet. Greed and power are their motivators. Death, destruction and profiteering are their mechanisms. Smearing opponents and creating fear while blaming others for their bungles are additional weapons in the arsenal.
He will hang on the Capitol steps if 9/11 proves to be an “inside job.”
May 21st, 2007 at 2:49 amWho’s next?
Gonzo. Then Turd Blossom. Then the impeachment of King Duffus and his side-kick, “Big Bag of Shit” Cheney.
Looks like a good plan.
Keep up the good work.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:54 am