His aide was accused of carrying the SENATOR’S gun into the Senate, but the charges were dropped. Get YOUR story straight. Comment by Jake D. — September 19, 2007 @ 11:23 am

I know you’re long gone, back to your sandbox by now moron — but YOU’RE the one who’s not getting the story straight.

Read your own original post, idiot, and then compare it to what you said in your 11:23 post. You’ve proven my point — that Sen. Webb’s aide was the one carrying the gun, not the Senator himself.

Keep on trying, though — one day you might able to think your way out of that wet paper bag…but none of us are betting on it.

Oh, and no, I didn’t have a different name prior to registration; I’ve been the Dogfather for quite a while here, and elsewhere. But please do put me on your “ignore” list — and then put yourself on there too. Cretin.

Plain that R2 was never in the military and thinks the troops are scum, just like BushCo.

Congratulations Rogersquared, your hero is back in the twenties!

And as for congress:

CBS News Poll. Sept. 14-16, 2007. N=706 adults nationwide. MoE ± 4 (for all adults). LV = likely voters. RV = registered voters.

“Do you approve or disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job?”
Approve 27%
Disapprove 65%
Unsure 8%.

and

FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Sept. 11-12, 2007. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3. LV = likely voters. Except where noted, results below are among registered voters.

“Do you approve or disapprove of the job Congress is doing?”

Approve 32%
Disapprove 56%
Unsure 11%

So this is hilarious, Faux Snooze poll responders approve of congress better than CBS poll responders approve of the chymp.

Refutation, RogerSquared?

McCain can spew forth as much nonsense as he wishes, but it’s pretty obvious that his real objective is to keep as many boots on the ground as possible over there, for as long as possible, and work them until they all have PTSS.

As a former military man, he should know this isn’t a really smart idea.

Comment by Roger_Roger — September 19, 2007 @ 11:41 am

Sigh. Here we go again.

1) Please justify your 11% congressional approval figure. Latest CBS poll — 24%. Latest Fox poll — 32%. Latest AP poll — 26%.

http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm

2) Congress traditionally has lower approval ratings than the president no matter who is “controlling” Congress and no matter who is in the White House. Why? Because the White House is only one guy and people either like him or they don’t. Congress isn’t a person, it’s an entity. People tend to support their own Congressperson but condemn the rest. If the poll question was “do you approve of the job YOUR Congressperson is doing?”, the number would be quite different. Because this isn’t asked, any approval number is pretty meaningless.

3) A razor-thin majority of Democrats in both houses of Congress doesn’t even come close to a “Dem controlled government”. The Repubs still control the executive branch (including Cheney’s secret branch), the judicial branch, and they have enough votes in Congress to effectively stalemate any activity there. The only way to break the stalemate, since the Repubs don’t want to do anything but obstruct, is to elect enough Dems to create a veto-proof Congress. And the way the Repubs are tanking, this is likely to happen in 2008.

3) You can spin Bush’s approval ratings all you want, but the fact remains that a sizeable majority of the country does NOT approve of the job he’s doing. A turd is a turd, no matter how you dress it up.

the credit goes to Paul @ 9:32 am, in the FAST thread !!!

i called and talked to webb’s office… gave that information to the guy who answered, he promised to give it to webb, but he was on the floor at that time… he liked the idea, but wasn’t sure if it was too late to change it…
…

~Sean

Comment by Roger_Roger — September 19, 2007 @ 11:41 am

Why do you hate the military?

Do you believe troops should have time home between deployments for R&R, PTSD counseling, SRP packets, replacing broken equipment, and training?

Been on the road for a few days, so first look at new format.

Me Like!

I see Jake the Snake is still slithering around, but it looks peaceful & quiet, comparatively.

Katy, great comment! I would fully support your suggestions on re-naming Senator Webb’s proposal.

It’s interesting how the Righties are spinning this. Gates himself says we would ‘break’ our military by giving the equal time off for every tour of duty. If it’s that fragile, how can we NOT give them equal time off?

Nice. A republican senator would have a very hard time explaining why he voted against the “Support Our Troops” act.

Bring Our Troops Home to families Act

Support Our Troops Act

Respect Our Troops Act

Comment by Jake D. — September 19, 2007 @ 11:32 am

Irrational comment.

Comment by GregM — September 19, 2007 @ 11:30 am

One could say they use them as a front for Blackwater, and the mercs get paid many times more and have no oversight.

Jes’ gets uglier and uglier, don’t it?