Bush supporters' aftermath thread

D'oh! That's 2 softballs in a single thread!

And Walter contributed to the entertainment with his unique comma placement in his last post. :wink:

Ticomaya wrote:

And Walter contributed to the entertainment with his unique comma placement in his last post. :wink:

The A2K weekend edition usually has a bigger entertainment supplement.

fox

You do get that donations are not the problem, rather any quid pro quo legislative favors delivered in return...the first being the way things work, the second being criminal?

Fox prolly doesn't understand what this investigation is all about. Ignorance is devine!

There is a vast difference between a lobbyist who may or may not be Republican lobbying Republicans and a person who is lobbying on behalf of the Republican party. The media gives the impression that the latter is the case. It isn't.

The NYT fronts an internal Pentagon report concluding that 80 percent of marines who died from upper-torso wounds in Iraq could have been saved by larger body armor. The Marine Corps has known this since last June, yet did not place an order for the armor until September.

Quote:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-06-hill-poll_x.htm

Foxfyre wrote:

There is a vast difference between a lobbyist who may or may not be Republican lobbying Republicans and a person who is lobbying on behalf of the Republican party. The media gives the impression that the latter is the case. It isn't.

Jesus. Your ability to deny anything you aren't comfortable hearing or thinking about reaches levels I've never encountered before.

Jack Abramoff:

- Bush Pioneer
- College Republican National Committee (CRNC) National Chairman from 1981-85
- one of Tom DeLay's "closest and dearest friends"
- Director of the National Center for Policy Research
- financial support overwhelmingly to Republican politicians
- joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, whose website described him as "directly involved in the Republican party and political conservative movement leadership structures and is one of the leading fund raisers for the party and its congressional candidates."
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- And then there is the identity of the people involved. For 25 years Abramoff has been a key figure in the conservative movement that led to the 1994 Republican Revolution, which once promised "to drain the swamp" in Washington, D.C. Abramoff is mentor and close friend to the prominent activist Grover Norquist, and to Ralph Reed, founder of the Christian Coalition, highly successful political operative, and self-advertised adviser to the Bush White House. Both Reed and Norquist, in fact, lead organizations that were recipients of the tribes' generosity, through Abramoff's intercession. (the Weekly Standard)

And a HELL of a lot more, not least being the K Street Project.

blatham wrote:

fox

You do get that donations are not the problem, rather any quid pro quo legislative favors delivered in return...the first being the way things work, the second being criminal?

cicerone wrote:

Fox prolly doesn't understand what this investigation is all about. Ignorance is devine!

blatham- Being from Canada, you may not have grown up with Merrie Meolodies and Loonie Toons, but being from Canada, you probably did - in as much as they were cultural icons of the US.

In any case, one of my favorite Warner Bros cartoon involved a pair of dogs: One was a real tough nut, usually a bull dog, and occasionally wearing a bowler with a rakish tilt. Whether bulldog or other breed, his name was always "Spike." The other pooch was a small and generally non-plain mutt, whose name (if it ever was revealed) wasn't memorable. What was memorable was the way the small mutt would bounce around the strutting and self-confident Spike, with his tongue lagging and his eyes bulging, desperately trying to kiss up to his hero:

"You really kicked that cat's ass! Right Spike?"

"Boy that cat took a real beating. Right Spike?"

"That cat prolly doesn't understand what this investigation is all about. Right Spike?"

"Ignorance is devine, and that cat is deevine! Right Spike?"

At some point, Spike grunts "Shaadupp!" and smacks the little pooch in the kisser.

We're waiting Spike.

blatham, Isn't it interesting that righties tell cartoon jokes after they have knowledge that our marines were under-equipped and killed unnecessarily - continuing to make excuses for this incompetent administration that continues their rhetoric about "to protect the American people." They just want to save the big bucks for tax breaks for the rich, and phuck the marines.

That kind of attitude is about the most outrageous, and they don't even understand anything.

cicerone imposter wrote:

blatham, Isn't it interesting that righties tell cartoon jokes after they have knowledge that our marines were under-equipped and killed unnecessarily - continuing to make excuses for this incompetent administration that continues their rhetoric about "to protect the American people." They just want to save the big bucks for tax breaks for the rich, and phuck the marines.

That kind of attitude is about the most outrageous, and they don't even understand anything.

Perfect timing - thanks.