Comments on: Karen Hughes Resigns With Legacy Of Unambitious, Misguided State Department Projects http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:37:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: HipHopHustler http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4141600 HipHopHustler Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:26:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4141600 I read this on GlobalGrind.com.....the Bush administration is dropping like flies and I can't say I'm sad to see them go! I read this on GlobalGrind.com…..the Bush administration is dropping like flies and I can’t say I’m sad to see them go!

]]> By: Robt http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140907 Robt Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:48:39 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140907 Karen Hughes is leaving the State Dept because she doesn't want to serve in Iraq as a diplomat. Condi Rice has stated all State Dept personel will be subject to serve in Iraq. And Karen Hughes leaves. Serving her country isn't so fun when she might put her own lufe at risk for country. If she had to serve in Iraq... Karen Hughes is leaving the State Dept because she doesn’t want to serve in Iraq as a diplomat. Condi Rice has stated all State Dept personel will be subject to serve in Iraq.

And Karen Hughes leaves. Serving her country isn’t so fun when she might put her own lufe at risk for country. If she had to serve in Iraq…

]]> By: pbg http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140798 pbg Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:43:27 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140798 The thing that always fascinates me about these College Young Republican trolls is their hatred for 'bum welfare.' They have this thing about 'MY Tax dollars' and "EARNING my money." They've never lived off their earnings, let alone met a payroll, but they know all about virtue and vice, leeches and parasites. I've worked for my folks,worked for large companies, worked for small companies, freelanced, run my own business and failed at starting up another--not necessarily in that order. And if I had gotten paid for every project I worked on I could retire. About a half a dozen times I've been cheated out of middle-five-figure fees by that piece of corporate welfare, corporate bankruptcy. Work for a publisher,get the 'what, you didn't get the check?" story, go down to the offices and find padlocks on the doors. And the officers of the company get to keep their beachhouses and bank accounts. I'm out $75,000 out of which I was going to meet the aforementioned payroll, but can I get it from the wealth the officers pulled out of the company? Nope. It's made me hard as nails about getting paid--but, knowing how thin the ice is out there, I have never passed judgement on somebody getting welfare. The fact of the matter is that an entry level job in most major cities won't pay the rent on a studio apartment these days. And you're just as likely to be let go in a 'rightsizing' as climb that corporate ladder. And go to work for a small startup and grow with the company? How can you do that if they don't offer benefits? If this were a country where working hard and improving yourself would guarantee you a decent life, then it might be different talking about 'welfare bums.' But if it ever was (may have been once, for white people) it certainly isn't now. But these little snots, still in love with the first 15 pages of their Econ 101 textbook and all of the Fountainhead, justsimply have no idea. The thing that always fascinates me about these College Young Republican trolls is their hatred for ‘bum welfare.’ They have this thing about ‘MY Tax dollars’ and “EARNING my money.”
They’ve never lived off their earnings, let alone met a payroll, but they know all about virtue and vice, leeches and parasites.
I’ve worked for my folks,worked for large companies, worked for small companies, freelanced, run my own business and failed at starting up another–not necessarily in that order. And if I had gotten paid for every project I worked on I could retire.
About a half a dozen times I’ve been cheated out of middle-five-figure fees by that piece of corporate welfare, corporate bankruptcy. Work for a publisher,get the ‘what, you didn’t get the check?” story, go down to the offices and find padlocks on the doors. And the officers of the company get to keep their beachhouses and bank accounts. I’m out $75,000 out of which I was going to meet the aforementioned payroll, but can I get it from the wealth the officers pulled out of the company? Nope.

It’s made me hard as nails about getting paid–but, knowing how thin the ice is out there, I have never passed judgement on somebody getting welfare.

The fact of the matter is that an entry level job in most major cities won’t pay the rent on a studio apartment these days. And you’re just as likely to be let go in a ‘rightsizing’ as climb that corporate ladder. And go to work for a small startup and grow with the company? How can you do that if they don’t offer benefits?

If this were a country where working hard and improving yourself would guarantee you a decent life, then it might be different talking about ‘welfare bums.’ But if it ever was (may have been once, for white people) it certainly isn’t now.

But these little snots, still in love with the first 15 pages of their Econ 101 textbook and all of the Fountainhead, justsimply have no idea.

]]> By: questioneverything http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140795 questioneverything Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:40:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140795 Another good example of a Bush appointee, this one confirmed by default. Heckuvajob, Karen. Have nice time. Another good example of a Bush appointee, this one confirmed by default. Heckuvajob, Karen. Have nice time.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140747 pete Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:10:31 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140747 <em>James Madison doesn’t get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy.</em> Comment by Marie — October 31, 2007 @ 9:09 pm Jinx! James Madison doesn’t get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy.

Comment by Marie — October 31, 2007 @ 9:09 pm

Jinx!

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140746 pete Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:09:52 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140746 Hi all. I found a few minutes. It's really me. Not a smelly troll. While I don't believe that Mr. Pus attends James Madison, or any other institute of learning, I would heartily recommend that all Americans today should read up on our 4th President. Much of the WikiQuote entry is prophetic. We sure could use a James Madison today. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison Hi all. I found a few minutes. It’s really me. Not a smelly troll.

While I don’t believe that Mr. Pus attends James Madison, or any other institute of learning, I would heartily recommend that all Americans today should read up on our 4th President. Much of the WikiQuote entry is prophetic. We sure could use a James Madison today.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140745 Marie Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:09:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140745 James Madison doesn't get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy. James Madison doesn’t get enough credit. He foresaw the threat that something like Bush&Co could do to a democracy.

]]> By: barfly http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140704 barfly Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:34:06 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140704 "We don’t obsess over the name of the school, either." Comment by Newsflash Doing that would only demonstrate how little you jerks understand history, or the Founding Fathers. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt. “We don’t obsess over the name of the school, either.”

Comment by Newsflash

Doing that would only demonstrate how little you jerks understand history, or the Founding Fathers. Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt.

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140678 katy Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:03:00 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140678 the dude in the picture above reminded me of something else i heard on rachel maddow, yesterday: <em>The only heavy metal band in Iraq is fleeing. Now you know things are really bad. http://www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5com The Syrian government is threatening to send Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.</em> check out their story... karen hughes should've been helping these guys out... not? . the dude in the picture above reminded me of something else i heard on
rachel maddow, yesterday:

The only heavy metal band in Iraq is fleeing. Now you know things are really bad.
http://www.myspace.com/wwwacrassicaudas5com
The Syrian government is threatening to send Iraqi refugees back to Iraq.

check out their story…

karen hughes should’ve been helping these guys out… not?
.

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140663 katy Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:48:06 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140663 republicans hate facts... ah, that's more like it... however, i appears you and "newsflash" have hijacked this thread... not only that, but it's almost as if you are arguing with YOUR namejacker... who could very well be the esteemed mr.p... check this out, from the FAST thread: <em>...I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM AN ADMITTED DOCTORAL CANDIDATE ... Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 12:42 pm</em> who knows... but it's too bad some are so obsessed to hack into a blog... ... republicans hate facts… ah, that’s more like it…

however, i appears you and “newsflash” have hijacked this thread…
not only that, but it’s almost as if you are arguing with YOUR namejacker…
who could very well be the esteemed mr.p…
check this out, from the FAST thread:

…I, ON THE OTHER HAND, AM AN ADMITTED DOCTORAL CANDIDATE …
Comment by republicans hate facts — October 31, 2007 @ 12:42 pm

who knows…
but it’s too bad some are so obsessed to hack into a blog…
…

]]> By: bluestatedon http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140649 bluestatedon Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:34:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140649 Hughes is the perfect embodiment of the Bush Administration: the reliance on PR and Marketing (and incompetent PR and Marketing, needless to say) as the answer to all policy questions. Actual expertise and experience in a given field is dismissed as useless, if not dangerous. What's important, above all, is the ability to hold a microphone and gush mindless platitudes about George Bush and his $upporters, ad nauseum, ad infinitum. Of course, all the PR and Marketing in the world can't keep reality out forever, and Hughes has just reached the limit of her ability to spin horseshit into gold. I smell another book coming... Hughes is the perfect embodiment of the Bush Administration: the reliance on PR and Marketing (and incompetent PR and Marketing, needless to say) as the answer to all policy questions. Actual expertise and experience in a given field is dismissed as useless, if not dangerous.

What’s important, above all, is the ability to hold a microphone and gush mindless platitudes about George Bush and his $upporters, ad nauseum, ad infinitum.

Of course, all the PR and Marketing in the world can’t keep reality out forever, and Hughes has just reached the limit of her ability to spin horseshit into gold. I smell another book coming…

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140648 katy Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:33:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140648 steve clemons on rachel maddow earlier commented that the one good thing he could think of, as far as any good karen hughes, and even karl rove, did, was keep dubby in some kind of line... ugh... that's how i took what i think i heard... heh... ... steve clemons on rachel maddow earlier commented that the one good thing he could think of, as far as any good karen hughes, and even karl rove, did, was keep dubby in some kind of line…

ugh…

that’s how i took what i think i heard… heh…
…

]]> By: Lefty Patriot http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-3/#comment-4140647 Lefty Patriot Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:33:49 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140647 James Madison University is not a religious school, little girl. Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm It's not even a real school. It's a storage bin for morons, just look at the "student" here, for example. James Madison University is not a religious school, little girl.

Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 7:13 pm

It’s not even a real school. It’s a storage bin for morons, just look at the “student” here, for example.

]]> By: TexasVietVet http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140628 TexasVietVet Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:22:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140628 karen did what? As a bu$h toadie, she has probably done NOTHING productive and GOT PAID QUIET A BIT TO DO IT. Conservanazi republikans are subly racist and overtly anti-feminist. Other than hating gays and everyone not with them, I guess you could say that are champion a..holes. "When Fascism comes to American, it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross". Sinclair Lewis Buck fush karen did what? As a bu$h toadie, she has probably done NOTHING productive and GOT PAID QUIET A BIT TO DO IT.

Conservanazi republikans are subly racist and overtly anti-feminist. Other than hating gays and everyone not with them, I guess you could say that are champion a..holes.

“When Fascism comes to American, it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross”. Sinclair Lewis

Buck fush

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140620 pete Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:16:52 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140620 Well, I don't remember when I've enjoyed troll bashing so much. Alas, I hae other things to do. Please note that any posts in my name, till sometime tomorrow, are cases of name jacking. G'night humans. And you too Mr. Pus. Well, I don’t remember when I’ve enjoyed troll bashing so much. Alas, I hae other things to do. Please note that any posts in my name, till sometime tomorrow, are cases of name jacking. G’night humans.

And you too Mr. Pus.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140612 pete Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:11:30 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140612 A fat head full of ugly thoughts. A fat head full of ugly thoughts.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140604 pete Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:05:53 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140604 Actually, it's mister Pus, the fluid that drains from infected wounds. I rather like cats and puss. I don't think that studying is "one of it's things". It keeps burning the books that don't support it's preconceptions. It's down to the Bible and the Young Republicans Handbook. Handjobbook? Whatever. It's a very limited reading list. Actually, it’s mister Pus, the fluid that drains from infected wounds. I rather like cats and puss.

I don’t think that studying is “one of it’s things”. It keeps burning the books that don’t support it’s preconceptions. It’s down to the Bible and the Young Republicans Handbook. Handjobbook? Whatever. It’s a very limited reading list.

]]> By: Lefty Patriot http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140595 Lefty Patriot Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:59:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140595 Out there in the real world, lefty, do you think labeling someone “fat” and “ugly” is any different than using a racial slur? Someone’s weight or facial contour fits in the same category as race — physical features. Just sayin’… Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:55 pm You should pay more attention. Fat and ugly are personal responsibilities, not that you'd know anything about that. Stupid, on the other hand, is the way you were born, so you may have an excuse for your remarkable ignorance, although, it's probably just the typical laziness of the wingnut. Out there in the real world, lefty, do you think labeling someone “fat” and “ugly” is any different than using a racial slur? Someone’s weight or facial contour fits in the same category as race — physical features.

Just sayin’…

Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:55 pm

You should pay more attention. Fat and ugly are personal responsibilities, not that you’d know anything about that. Stupid, on the other hand, is the way you were born, so you may have an excuse for your remarkable ignorance, although, it’s probably just the typical laziness of the wingnut.

]]> By: gummitch http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140585 gummitch Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:54:26 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140585 <em>And you’ve yet to return to the government all those funds that pay for your housing, where you’d be in mommy’s basement if you didn’t have them. Apparently, you have no final say on the issue. You’re tripping over yourself, lefty… Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm</em> Mom's not back with the meds, I guess. I pay for my housing by having an actual JOB, Pee. And my mom doesn't even have a basement, sorry. And you’ve yet to return to the government all those funds that pay for your housing, where you’d be in mommy’s basement if you didn’t have them.

Apparently, you have no final say on the issue. You’re tripping over yourself, lefty…

Comment by Newsflash — October 31, 2007 @ 6:52 pm

Mom’s not back with the meds, I guess.

I pay for my housing by having an actual JOB, Pee. And my mom doesn’t even have a basement, sorry.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/comment-page-2/#comment-4140578 pete Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:49:57 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/31/hughes-legacy/#comment-4140578 When it was young, Mr. Pus could fill it's days, in rapturous bliss, with Mommy. Now that it is fat and ugly, and it's adult republican personality is forming, it has turned to young boys for affection. When it was young, Mr. Pus could fill it’s days, in rapturous bliss, with Mommy. Now that it is fat and ugly, and it’s adult republican personality is forming, it has turned to young boys for affection.

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