Former Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work.
Former Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work.
The Wall Street Journal reports today that “for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush, [f]inding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected”:
Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-time jobs have succeeded, estimated Eric Vautour, a Washington recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. That “is much, much worse” than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House, he said. At least half those presidents’ senior staffers landed employment within a month after the administration ended, Mr. Vautour recalled.
Carlos Gutierrez, Commerce secretary under President Bush, blamed the struggling economy. “This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees,” he said. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales feels the same way, but his successor, Michael Mukasey, didn’t seem to have any problem landing a job. (HT: Atrios)
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February 21st, 2009 at 5:01 pmIt doesn’t look good on your resume that your last job was to destroy the country.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:08 pmCompanies are using those bucks for lobbyists. Lobbying firms aren’t hiring reds with lap dog reputations. They’re investing in blue boys, thus the rapid growth of The Podesta Group.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:16 pmKarma be a tough taskmaster (or mistress!)
February 21st, 2009 at 5:18 pmLobbying data tells part of the story:
http://thehill.com/business–lobby/lobbying-revenue—chart-2009-01-22.html
February 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pmHere’s sincerely hoping most of them lose their homes and wind up penniless on the streets. Karma, y’know.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:19 pmIt might seem like justice or karma, but I;d rather these people do something productive and redemptive—like working on a chain-gang in service of some public benefit.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:21 pmBreaks my heart.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:22 pm5th Estate Says:
It might seem like justice or karma, but I;d rather these people do something productive and redemptive—like working on a chain-gang in service of some public benefit.
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Cleaning sewers? They plugged ‘em up w/ all their BS… so now mebbe they can unplug ‘em.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:25 pmPerhaps they can find suitable positions making license plates for 9 cents an hr.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pm“This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees,” he said.
“This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, especially numerous former political appointees who demonstrated a profound disrespect for the law and the Constitution,” he said.
There, I fixed it for ya, Mr. Gutierrez.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pmHeart bleeds.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:28 pmHmm. Some of the former members of the Bush gangster regime have not be able to find gainful employment out in the “real world” in 2009? Oh dear, aren’t there enough right-wing stink-tanks to keep them out of the breadlines? I guess that putting torture experience or war criminal experience or electronic election theft experince on your resume is not a great selling point these days, in the Time of Obama, huh?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:29 pmHow many belong in jail?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:30 pmEmloyed or jailed, hmmmmm.
If they are jailed then we still have to pay for them, however most have socked away funds to last a long time with a job.
Okay, tough decision but I say jail them.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pmI’d love to see them reduced to paying for stupid seminars on resume writing, dressing for success, and how to have a winning interview before they get a job working 65 hours a week for low pay and crap benefits for a micromanaging, totalitarian ideologue of a boss who is about to drive a business that should be profitable into the ground.
Repeat.
MBA hell.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pmDarn that should be Employed or jailed.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pmaquarius2 Says:
Okay, tough decision but I say jail them.
If you jail them, they won’t be able to enjoy their ill-gotten gains. I wouldn’t mind paying a little more in taxes if it means making their lives more uncomfortable.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:34 pmthey worked so hard to create wealth for those who wanted it. this really is a tragedy. i am glad that these hard working companies are working on their recoveries by getting their taxes back so they can hire up these wonderful officials. working for george w. bush is the best addition to a resume i can possibly think of.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pmwiley Says:
I’d love to see them reduced to paying for stupid seminars on resume writing, dressing for success, and how to have a winning interview before they get a job working 65 hours a week for low pay and crap benefits for a micromanaging, totalitarian ideologue of a boss who is about to drive a business that should be profitable into the ground.
Repeat.
MBA hell.
>>>>>>>>>>do you hate freedom wiley. i cant believe i thought good of you back on that other post.
who is … WHAT IS IT OF YOURS TO TELL A COMPANUY HOW IT SHOULD RUN ITS EXISTENCE?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:36 pmTRoS @#9, I’d be fine with that as long as they were restricted to using their hands and tongue.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:42 pmCG,
The problem I have with people who think like you do is: 1) you don’t think very much; and, 2) you ignore all the liberal policies that made getting as wealthy as you dream of being some day possible in this country.
If conservatives had their way in this country, every function of our government would be privatized. And your ability to depend on your government when times were tough would be nil, because people like you do not see a profit in helping people when they’re down.
Roads would go unpaved because spending money fixing roads takes away from profits.
Water would be undrinkable because cleaning and filtering it takes away from profits.
The air would be unbreathable because preventing toxins from getting out of plants would take away from profits.
Life expectancy would go down because caring for older, sicker people would take away from profits.
National literacy rates would go down because taking the time to make sure kids learn things would take away from profits.
Sorry, CG, but your vision of America is a very, very bleak one, and not one that most Americans would support. (That’s why McCain is not the president now.)
February 21st, 2009 at 5:42 pmYes, CG. That’s it. I hate freedom.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:44 pmMe? I love freedom. It’s greed I find unworthy of respect.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pmLike in the old days when folks used to get their own graves before the old gunslinger whacked them…EXCEPT, this time they could be put to useful work building their own holding cells before they get transferred to the Hague !!
February 21st, 2009 at 5:46 pmhonesty.
integrity.
decency.
they can’t put
that on their resumé.
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February 21st, 2009 at 5:47 pmcry me a river.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:48 pmwhy cant the individual do all of those things wayne. us devices from the private companies like brita for clean water. neighbors can huddle up and design a new road project and contribute checks to companies they need to build it. no restrictions other than no taking private property. its wrong to guarantee health and success because it takes away from my income. i am a man with a lot of autonomy.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:52 pmlet me get this straight. the new stereotypical welfare queens are unemployed repukies? bwahahahahhahahahahahahahaahahh
February 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pmlook at vice president dick cheney. he recieves good care. all you have to do is go where he goes and get the same good care. its choice.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:53 pmWayne @ #22 you just described Reaganomics.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:54 pmNo thanks. I couldn’t take the nightly sessions at the Borg recharging station.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:56 pmCG Says:
i am a man with a lot of autonomy.
No more autonomy than the rest of us. So, under your plan, neighbors would fix their own roads. Who would fix the roads that do not run through neighborhoods? Who would fix the interstate highway system that Republican president Eisenhower began? Under your plan, the poor would just keep getting poorer by comparison, and probably die in greater numbers due to the inability of emergency service workers to get to them (assuming there are any emergency service workers left under your plan.) Sounds like you would like to see all poor people die.
One more time: Greed is NOT good, it’s detrimental to society.
Man, if there is one thing I am proud of, it’s that I’m not like you.
February 21st, 2009 at 5:58 pmCG,
What about clean air? Do you want factories (I left that word out of myprevious list) and power plants to be allowed to spew whatever dangerous toxins they want into the air? Who would clean that up?
February 21st, 2009 at 5:59 pmThey should all go to work at the Bush Library!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pmI am waiting for:
Karl Rove Deposition Still On for Monday, Feb. 23
Perhaps something will begin to unravel with the deposition and jobs will not be needed as some will be in jail…. where they should be.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:01 pmEveryone remotely associated with Bush and his administration is “damaged goods”. They’re all tainted and will never reinstate their reputations for the rest of their lives.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pmBush was offered a job as a greeter at a local store in Dallas. There are jobs out there if one is willing to take it, at least in Dallas.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pmthey will have better luck if they say they have been in prison for the past 8 years
February 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pmi hear there’s a healthy black market for organs such as kidnies. perhaps these unemployed wastes of flesh should look ito that.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pmi’m out of here. i am not changing my views for anybody.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:16 pmDidn’t these Bush officials participate in the big lie that the economy fundentals were in great shape trying to sell Bush to the public, as the real thing?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:19 pmNow they are feeling the heat themselves,something millions of Americans were feeling and still are, for sometime.
RUCerious Says:
TRoS @#9… I’d be fine with that as long as they were restricted to using their hands and tongue.
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Father: And, er, what job do you do?
Shabby: I clean out public lavatories.
Father: Is there promotion involved?
Shabby: Oh yeah, yeah. (produces handkerchief and clean throat horribly into it) After five years they give me a brush … eurggha eurgh … I’m sorry squire, I’ve gobbed on your carpet…
February 21st, 2009 at 6:25 pmCG Says:
i am a man with a lot of autonomy.
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Yet you still “need a strong leader”…
February 21st, 2009 at 6:28 pmCG Says:
i’m out of here. i am not changing my views for anybody.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:16 pm
You’re not defending your views very well here, either.
Good luck living in a right-wing dictatorship.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pmCG, I thought you had a meeting with your financial adivsors? were’nt they going to show you many profitable new products? I myself have to go milk my unicorn herd but I would like to continue our discussion about comapssion and capitalism.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:36 pmHe needs his daddy. Obviously, he has done the same thing to his children that his father did to him. It’s all very sad, but quite common for authoritarians. Unfortunately, they pass down their neurosis from generation to generation.
Go ahead and run CG. You can’t run far enough to escape your past.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:38 pmIt’s been a looooong time since Ken Shabby made an appearance on a TP thread.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:38 pmWho is this “CG” character?
The less-educated cousin of Tim Vacuous, perhaps?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pmTRoS, is it possible that CG is one of those homeschooled teenagers whose dad beats Jesus into?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pmThis sounds to me like CG was concerned that if he spent too much time here, his views would start to change.
Good thing he scarpered. Growth is scaaaaaary.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:41 pmNo, if he was not acting then growth would not be a possibility. The outcome would be more along the lines of his head exploding.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:43 pmRalph, he won’t change his diapers for anybody either.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:43 pmBobwurst Says:
TRoS, is it possible that CG is one of those homeschooled teenagers whose dad beats Jesus into?
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Hard to say… strange one, there. At times I almost had the feeling someone was trying to prank us. It was almost too arch.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:47 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
It’s been a looooong time since Ken Shabby made an appearance on a TP thread.
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Well… then I guess it was about time, eh Gov?
Cough… cough… errgh… patoooey…
Ooooo… look it that one… looks like a map ‘o the British Iles, eh?
February 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pmThere’s a big ‘ol coal ash sludge spill that I think needs a few extra hands…plus they’ll get to see their deregulation and lax oversight close-up.
…close enough to taste the radioactive lead, arsenic and thallium. Yum!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:50 pmI HATE it when I miss the debut of a really spectacular troll.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:51 pmThis “working on Saturday” sheee-it is cramping my troll-whacking style.
hanshiro Says:
…close enough to taste the radioactive lead, arsenic and thallium. Yum!
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After WW II, the Allies made the Germans who lived next to the concentration camps go in and help clean them out, which required moving many, many dead bodies around, by hand.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pmWelfare Queen now equals Board Room King
February 21st, 2009 at 6:52 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
I HATE it when I miss the debut of a really spectacular troll.
This “working on Saturday” sheee-it is cramping my troll-whacking style.
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Awww, geez. ralph… we gave ‘im a couple for you too.
“And this one… ***swift boot to the groin*** … is fer tha chatty ungulant…. see?”
February 21st, 2009 at 6:54 pm(ralph wipes tears of appreciation from his eyes)
Thanks, TRoS… I knew I could count on you.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:55 pmActually it’s a double whammy: they can’t find work, and they can’t unload their Washington-area homes, if they find work in another city.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:55 pmDon’t know if the State of California is hiring, but we can always use more people picking up trash along our freeways. Orange hardhat and vest provided.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:56 pmDallasNE Says:
Bush was offered a job as a greeter at a local store in Dallas. There are jobs out there if one is willing to take it
They can always pick fruit, too. Or Work at McDonalds….
February 21st, 2009 at 6:57 pm58.The Republic of Stupidity Says: After WW II, the Allies made the Germans who lived next to the concentration camps go in and help clean them out, which required moving many, many dead bodies around, by hand.
Would that bush & co. could swab out Abu Ghraib and Bagram. By hand…
Then down to N’awlins to rebuild.
February 21st, 2009 at 6:59 pmCG left?
The U.S. ranks low in healthcare, education, life expectancy and high in infant mortality compared to the rest of the industrialized (and some not) world. We are so low because of our unbridled belief in the free market economy.
It has taken hold of the republican party and has destroyed us. It has taken the rest of the world down with it.
By the way, the countries that rate higher than us in standard of living as well as most everything else are, wait for it, wait, wait,
socialist!!! Auuuugghhhh!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 6:59 pmCan someone chase down CG? Tell him I’ll give him a dollar if he’ll come back and throw some batting practice for me. He can even throw heat. I just want a couple of whacks.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Thanks, TRoS… I knew I could count on you.
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Hey… what are friends for?
(TRoS hugs ralph, and unbeknownst to the grateful, teary llama, secretly sticks a “Kick me” sign to his back…)
Heh… I know you’d do the same for me…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:03 pmhanshiro Says:
Would that bush & co. could swab out Abu Ghraib and Bagram. By hand…
Then down to N’awlins to rebuild.
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And then off to the beach, w/ board in hand… and if not the beach, at least an adequate amount of rope and water…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:04 pmGosh… you guys are THE BEST!
(hanshiro sneaks up and boots ralph in the kiester)
Hey — what the…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:05 pmwho cares let them suffer, they deserved it.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:06 pm70. ralph the wonder llama Says: (hanshiro sneaks up and boots ralph in the kiester)
“I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove anything….”
February 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pmyoutube Says:
who cares let them suffer, they deserved it.
If you meant they brought it upon themselves, then, yeah.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pmI was just looking at the previous thread and read much of what CG wrote. I’ve often wondered what it would be like to log onto a site like this and just post the stupidest sh*t I could possibly think of.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pmIs anyone sure CG is a real person and not just someone playing a prank. No one can seriously believe the stuff he writes, can they?
Rich H Says:
Is anyone sure CG is a real person and not just someone playing a prank. No one can seriously believe the stuff he writes, can they?
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That was my take…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:12 pmEconomy’s tough all over, huh guys?
Lemme know how well you can sleep in that bed you made…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pmhanshiro Says:
“I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can’t prove anything….”
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Okay you guys…
***TRoS stealthily putting on joy buzzer…***
Time to shake hands and put all this petty bickering aside.
Our country needs us…
Who wants to shake first?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pm3000 Bush people are looking for a job.
The situation is so bad for them, because Fox,and CNN netowrks can only take few of them.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pmI don’t think R.Limbuagh is hiring..
Limbaugh will not allow another talker in his radio studio.
I don’t care if CG was a parody troll. I been workin’ all day n’ ah wants ta take mah cuts…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:13 pmyoutube Says:
who cares let them suffer, they deserved it.
They kick holes in the little republican dingy, and wail because they’re treading water?
Davy Jones take’em.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:14 pmHey… we are not gratuitously cruel here at TP…
We are only cruel when the situation merits it…
And if the cruelty is deserved… it’s deserved!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
I been workin’ all day n’ ah wants ta take mah cuts…
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Okay… okay… who wants to put on this BillO mask and be a troll for ralph’s sake?
Any takers?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:16 pmbarfly Says:
They kick holes in the little republican dingy, and wail because they’re treading water?
Davy Jones take’em.
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Mubbly peg in a life boat?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:17 pmOkay, okay, I’ll shake on it…
ZZZZZZAP!
Oh darn! Ya got me! I feel like George frickin’ McFly here today!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:18 pm***shabby, disheveled looking troll who bears a strange resemblance to Bill O’Reilly stumbles onto the thread. Greasy matted hair and beard, breath reeking of kerosene, the troll is dressed in a stained, threadbare trench coat…***
God damned F-in’ Libs… yer nuttin’ but a bunch of pansies.
You’ve wrecked the country and smeared George W Bush, one of our finest Presidents.
I hope ya spill yer lattes in yer laps and blister yer own balls…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:21 pmI been workin’ all day n’ ah wants ta take mah cuts…
Former Bush officials? That’s nothing. Former Obama officials will be hunted in the streets with ballbats. F’n Commies!
Something like that?
It’s more like t-ball, but go ahead.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:23 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Oh darn! Ya got me! I feel like George frickin’ McFly here today!
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It was Hanshiro idea… and barfly gave me the buzzer…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:23 pm79. ralph the wonder llama Says: I don’t care if CG was a parody troll. I been workin’ all day n’ ah wants ta take mah cuts…
Lordy, just ask Faiz to post Buchanan’s meltdown or bush’s moving in to his whites-only (er, I mean used to be) neighborhood. Sure to bring ‘em outta the woodwork.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:23 pm(ralph’s not buyin’ it… he spies the familiar pajamas of TRoS peeking out from beneath the troll costume…
Still, he figures ‘what the heck”, grabs a wiffle ball bat and…)
Take THAT you nasty troll! and THAT AND THAT AND THAT!
(ralph calmly wipes the wiffle ball bat and deposits it in the equipment rack)
Ahh! That feels better!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:25 pm87. The Republic of Stupidity Says: It was Hanshiro idea… and barfly gave me the buzzer…
Not me, I had the *whoopie cushion…*
(hope this works…)
February 21st, 2009 at 7:27 pmThe 3000 officials can apply to be GOP cheerleaders..
February 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmVery nice, hanshiro!
I’m gonna hafta remember that trick.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmWe could have a wingnut contest, to see who can design a post that sounds the most toxic, incorporating as many debunked talking points as possible. To keep it simple, it should be limited to three — no, make that four, sentences, and be grammatically incorrect, in creative fashion. No run-ons.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmSince there’s no open mic, er fink thast….
February 21st, 2009 at 7:29 pmHere’s a tidbit from MSN…
Official: Obama wants to halve budget deficit
Under consideration is scaling back war spending, raising taxes on wealthy
how about a link, you ask?
Obama article
February 21st, 2009 at 7:30 pmand barfly, I assume using any punctuation, capitalization, etc is verboten?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pmBarfly,
That sounds like fun, but I’m just taking short breaks between work.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:31 pm92. ralph the wonder llama Says: Very nice, hanshiro! I’m gonna hafta remember that trick.
I also have this fright mask here…(WARNING-Not for the faint-hearted)
February 21st, 2009 at 7:33 pmRUCerious Says:
and barfly, I assume using any punctuation, capitalization, etc is verboten?
Unless used inappropriately, yes.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:33 pmThat sounds like fun, but I’m just taking short breaks between work.
Well, that would make you the perfect judge.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pm93. barfly Says: We could have a wingnut contest, to see who can design a post that sounds the most toxic, incorporating as many debunked talking points as possible. To keep it simple, it should be limited to three — no, make that four, sentences, and be grammatically incorrect, in creative fashion. No run-ons.
No hot-linking to the Onion either…however closely it parallels real republican philosophy…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:35 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Ahh! That feels better!
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(The now-woozy troll staggers back onto the thread… pulling off the BillO mask, it’s TRoS… whatta mess… it’s like someone, or somellama, took a baseball bat to him)
Geez, ralfie… it’s just a game… and… and…
HEY!!! Who swapped out the wiffle ball bat for a real one?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:37 pmWho cares about these losers. They have ruined Millions of lives.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:37 pmDang…
I actually have to be somewhere soon.
That contest sounds like a corker.
I’ll come back later and check it out.
Just make sure you treat the winner the same way you treat me…
***TRoS turns and stares at ralph…***
Later all! Mebbe some real trolls will show up…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:38 pmbarfly Says:
Well, that would make you the perfect judge.
_________
Only if he’s drinking on those breaks, and flipping thru some cheap Spanish porn…
February 21st, 2009 at 7:39 pm(ralph chuckles, realling the humiliation of a “kick me” sign deposited surreptitiously on his back, and the sting of an industrial-strength joy buzzer, then assumes an innocent expression)
I — I have no idea.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:41 pmSample:
“The fake stimulous packeg will be the reason we reinstitute the forced relocations of the 1940’s – because America won’t want liberals to run loose, and do even more damage to the country.”
February 21st, 2009 at 7:43 pmCaptain mantastics myspace
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58448593
February 21st, 2009 at 7:43 pmNot bad, barfly.
Not bad at all.
I suppose it’s cheating if we just go and copy verbatim one of Tim Vaculik’s posts, eh?
February 21st, 2009 at 7:44 pmFred, that was disturbing.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:47 pmFunny to find out that tros was right about the bow tie and the bolton stach….
February 21st, 2009 at 7:48 pmand the disco……dang it was disturbing. I’m not feeling well…..
February 21st, 2009 at 7:50 pmFred, just a moment’s glance and it reminded me so much of the SNL skit, “Ladies Man”!!!
Here’s my entry in the fauxtrollblather exercise:
“big Os ekenomik stingulus plan will cunvert our beluved kuntry into a sosialist estate. We cantlet that happen, so sine up and call Rush to promot a recall of this guvermint.”
February 21st, 2009 at 7:53 pmManny’s page made me slightly ill. Being even that close to such a self-idolizing poser should come with a warning.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:54 pm“Ever harken back to those black-n-white days when America was a real church-going close-knit nation and diversity was something most folks thought was a school in communest Russia? God intended for Americans to settle here for the very purpose of creating this great country and both the indians and the slaves should be grateful that they played such a vital roll. Did He not give us Maanifest Destiny???!”
(Howzat?)
February 21st, 2009 at 7:57 pmGood one, RU.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:59 pmFred Says:
Funny to find out that tros was right about the bow tie and the bolton stach….
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HAH!!!
I tole ya so… mebbe from now on, you’ll listen to yer Unka TRoS…
***TRoS slips behind ralph and puts chewing gum on his chair…***
Later!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pmOkay, I’ll give it a try (the contest):
if you want proof obamas a commie, just look at how few tax cuts there are in teh plan. wear do you libs think the jobs are gonna come from, sanata claus? its businessess that create the JOBS in this country, not the government. you people reeally do need to be rounded up and put in camps.
How did I do?
February 21st, 2009 at 8:07 pmGlad to see ya, Wayne!
Have a chair.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pmGeez, who is this “Wayne A. Schneider” idiot? Sounds like a complete moron.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:12 pm“All I see when i com here is hatehatehate! You america-hatrs all love to hate ameriac and want us to be liek switserland, like socialist. Yuo stupid libs got taken by The Messiah! Hes won of us! Haha!”
(Too much?)
February 21st, 2009 at 8:13 pmmia:
backup.
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wonder why?
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February 21st, 2009 at 8:22 pmGood one, ralph. :)
February 21st, 2009 at 8:22 pmYour all winners, is that possible. I got some nice laughs and have thought of some great posts while working – but no time. I’ve got to go.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:25 pmHere’s a real, authentic one, fresh from Redstate:
I know that for BHO and his string-pullers it is maily about their sense of superiority over EVERYONE of any political orientation. They are communists at heart and some are communists in the mind as well, others are your usual squishy limousine liberal, and most are simply opportunists. And I pretty much use Right for anyone who isn’t one of them but who is engaged in politics.
Just for reference, mind you. Some are downright chilling…
February 21st, 2009 at 8:28 pmI don’t know, hanshiro. I don’t think any of us can beat that.
The typos, the delusion the convoluted brain function… a devastating combo.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:31 pm“Former Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work.”
It’s hard out there for a pimp.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:31 pmDamn good one Wayne, I almost fell off the chair reading that!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:33 pmralph,
You know that part of your brain that tells you, “Stop. Wait. Don’t say that. It’s incredibly stupid and ignorant.”? The folks at RedState are missing that part of their brains. The Editors there, too, judging by the alarming e-mails I get from them. (Gotta keep up with what the competition is doing. I get them from Newsmax, too. Someday I might get adventurous and sign up for more right-wing hate mail.)
February 21st, 2009 at 8:36 pmIt’s a loose tie, but economically related:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090120/NEWS-US-OBAMA/
Obama’s talking about cutting the deficit in half by 2013. If he could convince people it’s really possible, it would go a long way towards dispelling the Republican attempts to attack budgetary discipline.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:36 pmYou’re a braver man than I, Wayne A. Schneider.
God bless.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pmWow, what’s a “squishy limousing liberal”? Okay, my turn:
You people are all atheeist commies, wait until your muslim messiah forces you loosers to bow down to alla! Ha! You will all burn in the hell of the RIGHTUS GOD, JESUS SAYS SO!!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:41 pmJeez, my head almost exploded typing that.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:42 pmOh damn, Jane! You kicked my ass!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:42 pmFormer Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work.
Brother, can you spare a cost-plus, no-bid contract?
February 21st, 2009 at 8:43 pmNot that it matters much to me, but I outed my own myspace. Fred doesn’t have the google capability.
Fred, taking credit for someone else’s work sounds like a Republican bragging about the stimulus bill.
You can do better.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:48 pmChanneling troll~
Mah pissy pants is chafin’. I hate you libs!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:49 pmSorry, that’s all I’ve got. Kinda tired today.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:51 pmObama is making the clinton ressession worser by giving my tax dollars to the gays and the mexiacns instead of to real americans like me. If the government would just get out of the way and keep the coloreds out of my neighborhood america would be like it was back when we were tolarant.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:51 pmI’m looking forward to more of the Ralph & TRoS show, featuring special guest, hanshiro.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:53 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
Oh damn, Jane! You kicked my ass!
February 21st, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Nah, yours and Trajan’s are better.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:54 pmWhy aren’t all you people in jail, where you should be? The thought of so many BDS sufferers in one place, makes me think this is some sort of therapy website, for brain addled morons.
Get a job that doesn’t involve thinking, ’cause you guys suck at it.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:55 pmBobwurst, good one, you worked in the ‘blame Clinton’ line in, too.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pmHey! hey! [shrugs shoulders in gyrating fashion] whadda ya’ say?
Top ten, at least.
February 21st, 2009 at 8:56 pmBarfly, you’re punkctuation’s to good. ;)
February 21st, 2009 at 9:00 pmI like this contest. We’re showing that we can just tell the trolls to go away, we can do what they’re doing better than they can. :)
February 21st, 2009 at 9:00 pm142. Zooey Says: I’m looking forward to more of the Ralph & TRoS show, featuring special guest, hanshiro.
I’m here via CNN hologram….
“Help me Obi-wan”…oops, wrong hologram…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:01 pmMy thought exactly, Jane.
Work on that, would ya, barfly?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pmAh, hell.
Content good, form, off.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:03 pmI was doing an Exley.
He spelled ok, but his logic was disjointed – like simultaneously saying you should be in jail, and therapy.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:06 pmhanshiro Says:
142. Zooey Says: I’m looking forward to more of the Ralph & TRoS show, featuring special guest, hanshiro.
I’m here via CNN hologram….
“Help me Obi-wan”…oops, wrong hologram…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:01 pm
CNN hologram…?
Please tell me you made that up.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:07 pmOkay, I see where ya comin’ from.
Thinking outside the box.
I like it.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:08 pmIf I may try…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
barfly Says:
I was doing an Exley.
Oh, in that case, it was perfect!
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CNN hologram…?
Please tell me you made that up.
Zooey, don’t you remember their election coverage? It was hysterical! Didn’t you have a TV machine then?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm153. Zooey Says: CNN hologram…?
Please tell me you made that up.
I couldn’t make this stuff up….
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pmSaint Augustine: good, succinct, to the point.
Insightful use of capitals.
I give it a thumbs-up.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:14 pmJane E. Schneider Says:
Zooey, don’t you remember their election coverage? It was hysterical! Didn’t you have a TV machine then?
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I did, but I haven’t watched CNN in years. I’m glad I missed the hologram — sounds cheesy.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:14 pmMust go now…have craving for sushi before store closes.
Unagi power! Unagi!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:16 pmhanshiro Says:
153. Zooey Says: CNN hologram…?
Please tell me you made that up.
I couldn’t make this stuff up….
February 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm
OMFG…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:17 pmThat’s great news. When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. May they never work again, unless it is in the most menial low wage job. You know, the kind they wanted the rest of us to have. AND NO HEALTH CARE.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:23 pmZooey Says: OMFG…
Yup. I believe that Keith had fun with that.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:25 pmFormer Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work.
That’s because a partisan Supreme Court ruling doesn’t enter into personnel decisions for privately owned companies …….
February 21st, 2009 at 9:26 pmJane, I completely missed it.
I’m so embarrassed for CNN now. I remember cruising by CNN after the “debates,” and thought it ridiculous that they had 50 people squeezed around a small desk, each with their own laptop — now holograms. Oy…
February 21st, 2009 at 9:28 pmok, for you new to the thread, we’re posting like trolls for fun. This isn’t me – but it’s very much like a conversation I had with someone prior to the election.
Now youer boy Hussien won yu’ll have to get ussed to lving in commie land. you know hes a commie. IT’s just wat the comunists did in china befor htey took over. It’s goin te happen here if you vote for him. Just watch it will. communists comming, there comming i tell ya. better watch out, anybody but obama! beter figur out a way to git rid of him. communists goin to take over the world. dont let it happen here. commies are coming!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:39 pmI have to say that, after catching up on a couple of the other threads, none of us can hold a candle to that CG troll.
Nice one, Rich H!
February 21st, 2009 at 9:41 pmThanks Jane. He wen’t further but I don’t think I can bear to relate it.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:43 pmWhoops, “relay” it.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:46 pmActually, Rich, ‘relate’ was just fine. I’m sorry that you had to listen to more of that kind of ignorant, hateful screed.
February 21st, 2009 at 9:55 pmOn the topic of this thread:
Boo frickin’ hoo.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pmSouthern CA is full of more rednecks and republicans than you can possibly imagine.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pmSo is northern CA, and Idaho. :-D
February 21st, 2009 at 10:20 pmWell, I’m stuck in SC, and the people I know from norhtern CA are pretty liberal. Idaho, I don’t know, I’ll take your word for it.
Also, I guess the thread could be:
Bush officials who should be in jail can’t find jobs in the meantime.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:27 pmThe thing I don’t understand about the rednecks in the PNW is, where did they get the southern accent? Bizarre…
February 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pmRepublicans should be put into camps.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:30 pmOJ Smokes Says:
Republicans should be put into camps.
Summer camps. With gay camp counselors.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pmOJ, that’s good for some laughs. How true however. Or, they could just start their own little country, import some slave labor and run it into the ground. That way they wouldn’t have to take the rest of the innocent world with them.
Zooey, I’ve had the worst redneck neighbors you could possibly imagine in (of all places) Venice, CA. Accents and all, I think it’s like a badge of honor.
I imagine their grandparents came west during the depression (like the Joads) and settled down. The Joads however, had a much higher moral standing.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:34 pmThere’s a Cesspool Party at TheZoo!
February 21st, 2009 at 10:35 pmthey could all join
the service and fight
in iraq.
*
just a thought.
*
February 21st, 2009 at 11:04 pmJoe, yours is a much better idea.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:05 pmIs CG a new troll, or have I just not been blogging on TP long enough? When I read the first post, I was cackling because I HONESTLY thought it was a joke.
Then I read a couple more.
CG makes Darryl, Proud, Tim Vacuous, and Ltdan seem almost bearable by comparison; at least they usually write coherent sentences, even if their ideas keep on missing the mark.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:41 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
CG Says:
i am a man with a lot of autonomy.
____________
Yet you still “need a strong leader”…
CG needs a strong enema.
And I now need an Alka-Seltzer: e. coli seems benign by comparison to what that troll excretes.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:44 pmshoeless Says:
Go ahead and run CG. You can’t run far enough to escape your past.
Nor can he run fast enough to suit me! “Turd” would be a compliment.
February 21st, 2009 at 11:45 pmThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
***shabby, disheveled looking troll who bears a strange resemblance to Bill O’Reilly stumbles onto the thread. Greasy matted hair and beard, breath reeking of kerosene, the troll is dressed in a stained, threadbare trench coat…***
God damned F-in’ Libs… yer nuttin’ but a bunch of pansies.
You’ve wrecked the country and smeared George W Bush, one of our finest Presidents.
I hope ya spill yer lattes in yer laps and blister yer own balls…
Telestai2, choking and trembling with emotion, humbly bows down before TRoS. Ah, the gifts laid at the altar of friendship! The sweet self-sacrifice! The pure nobility! I KNEW there was a reason to keep on living. . .
February 21st, 2009 at 11:55 pmbarfly Says:
Sample:
“The fake stimulous packeg will be the reason we reinstitute the forced relocations of the 1940’s – because America won’t want liberals to run loose, and do even more damage to the country.”
Too many big words, barfly, and only a couple of misspellings. The sentence makes sense grammatically–another no-no. Plus, you have an actual FACT in there: the forced relocations. But it’s a good first attempt!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:02 amHere’s one for ya, barfly:
Bloggers. If yewd reed yer bibal. If yewd reed the blessad HOLYBIBLEKINGJAMESAUTHORIZEDVERSION. If yewd jest reed yer skripturz. The Gospel According to Saint Rush, Row 6, Seat 12, sez all males wer created in thee imuj of GAWD. so thay shud rule thee wurld. And the onlee too partys in the HOLYBIBLEKINGJAMESAUTHORIZZZEDVERSHUH wuz the fariseez and thu Publikans. So sinse fariseez are evul, Publicans are gud. All males shud be pubkilans.
But in the Book of Second Opinions. THEWORDOFGAWD sez that wimmin was jest made from a thowaway part of a male. Wimmin ain’t made in GAWDS imuj. Thay shud serv males. And bee greatfull thet HOLYGAWD let them do that. and thay shudnet vote nor triy too take jobs uhway frum males. they shud jest stay to hom like GAWD ment. Pulbikanz no this. Vote pulkiban.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 amMy goodness, Fred!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 amSaint Augustine Says:
If I may try…
Thiers nothing funny about you’re stupid liberal LIES because your all LIARS and will ROT in HELL.
Not bad atall!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:16 amWe live in a CHRISTIAN NATION! A god fearing HOLY SEPULCHRE of Sprit!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 amWe should not punish the successful capitilists who succeed in our grate system, by taxing them at all.
Then they could hire more libs like you idjits to be drivers and mades.
ralph the wonder llama Says:
“All I see when i com here is hatehatehate! You america-hatrs all love to hate ameriac and want us to be liek switserland, like socialist. Yuo stupid libs got taken by The Messiah! Hes won of us! Haha!”
(Too much?)
SCARY.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 amtelestai, kudos! Obviously spent some time in KY.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 amThis is why the Koran is superior to the Bible. No one mocks Islam or the Koran. Even Kuffars respect it. No one believes or rrspect the Jewish-Christian crap!
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 am((()))
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/—-\
Hey #193 OJ Smokes, guess what that is…Its my depiction of ALlah, should I be killed now????
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:56 am(())
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Hey #193 OJ Smokes, Here is Muhammed. SHould I die now?
Religion is STUPID PERIOD. It nothing except those that have figured out how to keep themselves in power by leveraging the knowledge of the worst in people.
Every time great power comes, also comes religion. That is why the same story of Jesus has reappeared thoughout the ages. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com
Humanity is being played over the millenia by the preists, no matter the religion.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:00 amtelestai2,
Can Gawd create something so large that he could not lift it?
If man has free will, then there is something Gawd does not control, so then he is not all powerful. If he is all powerful, then we truly do not have free will, and he is a liar.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 amAlecto,
Were you aware that we were having fun with a “fake troll comment” contest? Go back further and you can see where we started and many of us regulars took a stab at it.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:29 amWere I them I wouldn’t worry too long. A year from now many of the loyal Bushies will, and rightly so, be wards of the state where they’ll get free clothing (albeit striped), free housing (albeit cramped 8×10 cells) and free food three times a day. They wont be able to have breakfast lunch and dinner in posh restaurants near the White House; they’ll have to get used to it being more “family style” and served on metal trays.
I can’t wait either!
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 amGood, let them stay unemployed.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:03 amWhy would lobbyists have any use for old Bushie war criminals when they’re having so much success controlling Obama with Dem insiders?
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:44 amMorning Everyone! Have my coffee and reading your funny “troll” comments:) You guys forget about “Rapture Ready”? THAT one was really crazy!
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:04 amSure would like to see some of these bushies show up in the unemployment line with all the folks they helped in losing their jobs. It would be interesting to see how many of them make it out of the building.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 amMeet the Putz with David Gregory is interviewing all Republicans this morning.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:10 amDavid Gregory is nothing but a mouth piece for repug talking points. Welcome to the new Meet the Mess.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:16 amIt’s been clearly established that the Bushistas picked staffers on the basis of personal loyalty to the Dear Leader. So when the Dear Leader is out of power, his lackeys and bootlickers are out of work.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 amMaybe the Dear Leader can employ some of them clearing brush down on the ranch. Oh wait, they wouldn’t be qualified.
February 22nd, 2009 at 9:48 amDavid Gregory has totally bought into the erroneous belief that a political talk show has to have “balance”, that you have to hear from one side for and from one side against AND (and this is where they get the whole thing wrong) you have to present them as having equal validity.
And, of course, when the conservatives try to present their side, they usually lie or distort the truth. Then they use a tactic where they kill what limited time is available for their appearance squabbling over meaningless crap, and the public ends up learning nothing useful. The liberal side doesn’t normally try to do that, but the conservative side always does, because they have to. Because they have nothing. If they told the truth, they would lose every time.
Today, Gregory is having a Republican governor who said he would take the stimulus money (Charlie Crist, R-FL) and a Republican governor who has said he won’t (Bobby Jindal, R-LA). Jindal is simply maneuvering for 2012. His state legislature can force him to take the money anyway, so this is posturing. I would be surprised if Gregory forces either of these guys to say something or admnit something that they don’t want to.
That’s why I stopped watching MTP years ago. (Russert did the same “balance” act, instead of an objective approach.)
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 amJohn Kerry,
Why do you hate Jimmy Carter so much? Is it because he was the one your hero, Ronald Reagan (who’s dead BTW) defeated in 1980? Is that why he is so “evil” in your mind?
And, really, JK, you present the stupidest comments of most trolls. You are actually trying to claim that “our economy is in the shape it’s in thanks to the likes of Jimmah Carter and BJ Clinton’s programs and Gay Boy Barney and Dodd’s help.” Would you care to back that claim up with facts? You needn’t bother answering because you can’t do it. It’s not true. It’s just another idiotic statement from an American conservative too stupid to do his own research, and who relies on right-wing talking points (otherwise known as lies) for his education.
Do you honewstly think Bush’s irrresponsible tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans had nothing to do withour staggering deficits? Why did the rich need a tax cut? They didn’t. If tax cuts would have helped the economic situation, then, logically, the tax cuts Bush gave the wealthy should have prevented this economic crisis. The tax cuts would have been creating the jobs that conservatives always claim they do. But that didn’t happen, did it? Why? Apparently the wealthy kept the money for themselves, which they always do, because the idea that tax cuts for the wealthy creates jobs is a myth.
You know, JK, if you could come even remotely close to presenting a verifiable argument to support your claims, you might actually be welcome here. But you never do. You just come here and spew invective, and rail against people you hate without connecting your comments to reality.
Do us a favor and go away permanently. Go post your factless comments at Free Republic or Red State, where the truth doesn’t matter to them. As you can see from the fun we had last night, we can do a better job of trolling than you ever could.
You’ve been flagged. Black-flagged, if you will. Go immediately to Pit Road and park your car. Just don’t bother pulling back out onto this racetrack. Your car’s just not up to speed.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 amYou feeling all right, JK?
You’re a little more verbose than usual this morning.
I’m betting your stamina hasn’t improved, however, nor your willingness to engage in actual conversation.
And you’re just the idiot to do it.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:54 amOMG! TROLL JK RESPONDED!
Not with any coherence, mind you — nothing but some undercooked GOP lying points, but still… maybe Troll JK has turned a new leaf and decided he wants to discuss things. Let’s try him out:
One question, JK… exactly what powers did either Barney Frank or Chris Dodd have at their disposal in 2003, when Republicans dominated both houses of Congress as well as the White House?
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 amralph,
He’s all yours. For him to claim that the tax cuts for the wealthy had nothing to do with our staggering deficits, and that it was ridiculous that they were given a tax cut they didn’t need (even Bush, when signing the second one, questioned his aides about it) just shows he can’t debate honestly. And I don’t care to waste my time on a troll who argues with disproven and debunked right-wing talking points.
Park your car, John Kerry, and get off the racetrack.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:31 amIt’s hard to believe that you have absolutely no idea what Jimmah and BJ contributed to our problem but let me just give you a hint!
That republicans supported the Clinton plan? With votes?
Jk’s too easy.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:57 amRUCerious Says:
telestai, kudos! Obviously spent some time in KY.
Close! Spent 20 years at a university in TN and actually HAD students who believed that the KJV was the only “real” version of the Bible. Teaching literature, especially Chaucer and American Lit, gave me a chance to disabuse people of that notion.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:03 pmMan, I’ve tried, but it is so hard to compete with the real wingnuts. I don’t know how anybody could make that sh!t up.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pmWow, just catching up. This JK is a looooon! What coherence did you find? I couldn’t find any. Maybe the next time I want to post I can use the name Ronald Reagan and post some material that makes sense. That would really confuse the hell out of him.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:06 pmWhy is it that no matter how many times I bring up Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Commodity Futures Modernization Act and Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Securities Modernization Act, wingnuts like JK have still never heard of them?
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:08 pmshoeless Says:
Why is it that no matter how many times I bring up Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Commodity Futures Modernization Act and Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Securities Modernization Act, wingnuts like JK have still never heard of them?
Simple. That’s because those things happened in our reality, the one that matches the real world. In JK’s Fantasy Land, a Democrat was responsible for those things. Remember, if it hurts the economy, it must be the “Democrat Party’s” (sic) fault. Republicans are “fiscally responsible,” so they couldn’t possibly do anything that would hurt the economy. Not in their minds, anyway.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:34 pmhere’s the windup and the pitch….. You lillylibberd barry luvvin commies make me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’z not even a american citesen! Korsi put it in his book!!!! why are all ya ragging on Russ n Beck, n hannatitty, n the gratest presadent in histery? he was much better than that depresson causing FDR. or thet fornukator Clinton, hell he coud not even inhale like a real man!!! I am glad you all are supporting those gayboyz and wantin to make homo marriage legal!!!!!!! then y’all will all turn gay and not pump out more commy basturds to spew yer heathen filth all over the grate nation us rightminded patriots hold so deer. wen we take back our cuntry we will sweep y’all into camps where we can treet you like you did our grate nation!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am diskusted and I am leevin!!!!
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:24 pmNice one, Geezer. :-D
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmJK you are a liar and a fool. YOu are an ignorant cowardly punk. You toss out already long ago debunked talkig points because you are stupid. No one takes you seriously you are an ignorant troll. Spewing the idiocy you have been brainwashed with. NO ONE cares about what Rush has told you to believe.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:27 pmOh, Troll JK, you loquacious cupcake, you…
even with all of those words (and typed in BOLD, too) you weren’t able to describe what Chriss Dodd and Barney Frank were able to do in 2003 — why don’t we go to your own words for this part, hjm?
Barney and Dodd’s part is all too obvious and if you don’t know this I just don’t have the time to go into it BUT you can start with his 2003 testimony at the House Financial Services Committee on the solvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
We can start there, if you want, but it doesn’t seem like there’s anything from which to start. Apparently, you couldn’t find anything, either, because you quickly shot up to 2006. I’m betting you can’t find anything specific, any bill or regulation passed by Democrats that caused the great meltdown that started later that year.
Kudos, though, for working ACORN and Janet reno into your diatribe. I’d have thought those would be tough threads to tie into the mortagage meltdown, but I guess it makes it easier when you don’t constrain yourself to arguments that make sense.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm“John Kerry”,
shoeless Says:
Why is it that no matter how many times I bring up Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Commodity Futures Modernization Act and Phil Gramm’s (R-TX) Securities Modernization Act, wingnuts like JK have still never heard of them?
What have you to say about Phil Gramm’s contribution to the problem?
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:57 pmJohn Kerry Says:
OK, now back to the Bush admin. people having trouble finding jobs! All of those 3000 that the author of the piece claims can’t get jobs implying of course the reason is that they were associated with George Bush!! I think I’ve dispelled that theory!
You did? When? Because all I’ve seen are your usual rants against Jimmy Carter and Democrats in general. When did you dispel the theory that most former Bush Administration employees are having a hard time finding work because of their association with Bush?
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 pmHe also managed to throw “gay boy” in there to boot. JK, throw in the unions and you’ve manufactured a masterpiece!
I like your posts, JK. I have my computer read them to me in a Rick Moranis voice circa Ghostbusters.
It really adds that extra element that puts the whole thing over the top.
You are the keymaster in this household… w/ a smidge of Dark Helmet thrown in for the fun of it.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:16 pmDon’t you guys love the way trolls like JK claim that they’ve proven their point or, more hilariously, that we have proven their point, but they never say how that is?
It’s like they live in this magical world where all they have to do is say something and it is magically true.
I tell ya, if I lived in that world, I wouldn’t be discussing politics on a blog. I’d be vacationing in Hawaii with Scarlett Johansson.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:17 pmNow THERE’s an idea, alpuz.
Rick Moranis… Troll JK… I can just picture Troll JK locking himself out of his apartment constantly.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:18 pmralph,
You’re right. When did he prove that the author was mistaken about why so many former Bush emplyees can’t find work now? One of his comments might have been deleted (I can’t seem to find the one I responded to, but I might have overlooked it), but none of the other ones address the topic of the thread, let alone dispel it.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pmlol.
I know, ralph. I Can’t remember exactly when his posts reminded me of a frazzled Rick Moranis charecter, but since then, that’s how I read them.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:23 pmWayne, I don’t think that Troll JK has to prove it objectively in order for it to be as good as proven to his own mind, thus giving him the justification to claim that it’s “proven”.
It’s a tissue-paper thin premise, but if the troll has the tenacity to keep unrolling more squares of the paper (and it seems JK does) then he can keep himself comfortably blanketed in cottony-soft delusion ’til the cows come home.
Let’s just hope for his sake that he doesn’t get wet.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm“John Kerry”,
Would you please tell us why you constantly make reference to Barney Frank’s sexual orientation? Does it have anything to do with the point you are attempting to make? Or do you just love gay-bashing?
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pmHe buggered off.
Well, John Kerry, the next time we meet, please answer shoeless’ questions about Phil Gramm, and explain the constant gay-bashing. Thank you.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:37 pmdoh! *character* … sigh.
Careful, Wayne. You may just open this thread up to another 400 posts full of trolls side stepping their infatuation w/ gay sex.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:38 pmalpuz3,
I’m still waiting for one of them to give me a rational reason why allowing the small percentage of gay people to continue living as they do would be bad. I’ve heard Biblical arguments (which are not rational), and I’ve heard arguments based on disgust of homosexuality (again, not rational).
To hear them talk, you’d think that if gay marriage were made legal across the US, there would be no more heterosexuals.
February 22nd, 2009 at 7:55 pmI hear ya, Wayne… I hear ya. I think it’s going to be one hell of a wait. Good luck on your adventure.
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:06 pmWayne A. Schneider Says:
To hear them talk, you’d think that if gay marriage were made legal across the US, there would be no more heterosexuals.
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Good Lord, Wayne… you’ve hit the nail on the head completely.
The very, very few straight Republican males out there would NEVER get laid again. No wonder they’re so terrified.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:40 amJK troll
You have never educated anyone in your LIFE. YOU are too stupid to educate yourself. You dont KNOW anything. You are a liar and a fool and ignorant beyond human comprehension. You regurgitate the idiocy you were brainwashed with. You are a moron. Too stupid to even KNOW that the ignorant tripe you spew has been debunked dozens of times. Just go away. You are too stupid to actually contribute. You know it, I know it, the birds and bees know it and your mother knows it. She should have drowned you at birth as your stupidity will never add anything useful to the world.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 amEveryone associated with the last eight years of Bush should be waterboarded till they confess that the whole Rethuglican Party is really an subsidiary of Halliburtan.
Then all their earthly possessions should be confiscated due to their organized crime participation.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:54 amGeez . . . even the republican business types don’t trust these cronies.
But that’s okay. I hear some member states of the European Economic Union are currently engaged in rigorous negotiations regarding the legality of their using “extraordinary rendition” to bring all these thugs who used to hang around the White House before the bar of justice in the Hague. Seems to be connected with the way they permitted so-called
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 am“American” “capitalists” to destroy the world’s economy
GOOD!!!!
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 amThanks Zooey, I needed an hour long shower and serious cocktail therapy after writing it.
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:13 pmFormer Bush officials are having problems finding work because their reputations have been harmed by having worked for Bush—the worst president ever.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY” BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
ONLINE, ANTI-BUSH, EDUCATIONAL, SCHOLASTIC RESEARCH: LISTING OF MAJOR ISSUES
http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2009/01/online-anti-bush-educational-scholastic.html
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