Evolution of a Republican Talking Point

[The Mutt]

"We do not torture."

"Okay, but that isn't torture, that's frat party stuff."

"Okay, but any torture that went on was the work of a few bad apples."

"Okay, we authorized it, but it wasn't really torture."

"Okay, but the torture worked to stop terror plots."

"Okay, but the only reason we tortured was to save America."

"Okay, but if it was so bad, why didn't Nancy Pelosi stop us?"

"Why hasn't Obama ended the Pelosi Torture Programs?"

 

[pointless]

brilliant.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I thought Republicans didn't believe in evolution.

They've come around!

 

[mypoliticalalt]

Having to watch Pelosi on the news is torture enough.

 

[The Mutt]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u51/The_Mutt_pics/poster54422238.jpg

 

[IrezumiKiss]

"We do not torture."

"Okay, but that isn't torture, that's frat party stuff."

"Okay, but any torture that went on was the work of a few bad apples."

"Okay, we authorized it, but it wasn't really torture."

"Okay, but the torture worked to stop terror plots."

"Okay, but the only reason we tortured was to save America."

"Okay, but if it was so bad, why didn't Nancy Pelosi stop us?"

"Why hasn't Obama ended the Pelosi Torture Programs?"

Pitch perfect. This ought to be a sticky.

 

[JohnnySavage]

It's really funny to listen to C-Span all day, then come to the lit and read the partisans. It's like coming to Opposite World!

 

[koalabear]

It's really funny to listen to C-Span all day, then come to the lit and read the partisans. It's like coming to Opposite World!

Ignorance is bliss, they are happy campers.

 

[The Mutt]

Pitch perfect. This ought to be a sticky.

Thanks, but really all credit must go to Karl and Dick.

 

[Powertone]

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u51/The_Mutt_pics/poster54422238.jpg

it's still Bush's fault and that's the DEM talking point till 2012

 

[The Mutt]

it's still Bush's fault and that's the DEM talking point till 2012

And beyond. The stuff that is Bush's fault will always be Bush's fault. Well, Cheney's fault, actually.

The Dems inherited the mess. They didn't inherit the blame.

 

[unregistered]

 

[hogjack]

Torture is the only thing holding the clothes pin industry together.

 

[phrodeau]

Torture is the only thing holding the clothes pin industry together.

It'll come back when people can't afford to run their dryers any more.

Wood or plastic - that's the main clothes pin dilemma.

 

[TurdFergeson]

They haven't claimed the CIA tricked them?

 

[Ham Murabi]

Here's an evolutionary talking point in progress too. The President as a Dangerous Dummy, quadrupling the deficits of George Bush and then coming out in the pubic to say this shit:

Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’ (Update2)

By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols

May 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”

Earlier this week, the Obama administration revised its own budget estimates and raised the projected deficit for this year to a record $1.84 trillion, up 5 percent from the February estimate. The revision for the 2010 fiscal year estimated the deficit at $1.26 trillion, up 7.4 percent from the February figure. The White House Office of Management and Budget also projected next year’s budget will end up at $3.59 trillion, compared with the $3.55 trillion it estimated previously.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg&refer=worldwide

I believe that's referred to as "a new era in fiscal responsibility."

 

[The Mutt]

I believe that's referred to as "a new era in fiscal responsibility."

I believe that's referred to as "dodging the issue because you don't have a leg to stand on."

 

[bill-pix-trade]

"We do not torture."

"Okay, but that isn't torture, that's frat party stuff."

"Okay, but any torture that went on was the work of a few bad apples."

"Okay, we authorized it, but it wasn't really torture."

"Okay, but the torture worked to stop terror plots."

"Okay, but the only reason we tortured was to save America."

"Okay, but if it was so bad, why didn't Nancy Pelosi stop us?"

"Why hasn't Obama ended the Pelosi Torture Programs?"

Sounds like they all knew and no one did anything about it. They all suck.

 

[fgarvb1]

ZZZZZ.

Al them fuckers were in on it too.

 

[The Mutt]

Sounds like they all knew and no one did anything about it. They all suck.

You're just going to dismiss it like that, are you? Seriously?

It's not the same thing.

Knowing and doing are not the same.

Starting something and not stopping something are not the same thing.

Being evil and failing to stop evil are not the same thing.

Don't dismiss this like it's bribes for pothole repair contracts.

This is about America being the good guys.

 

[bill-pix-trade]

You're just going to dismiss it like that, are you? Seriously?

It's not the same thing.

Knowing and doing are not the same.

Starting something and not stopping something are not the same thing.

Being evil and failing to stop evil are not the same thing.

Don't dismiss this like it's bribes for pothole repair contracts.

This is about America being the good guys.

I am not.

I am saying you are nieve to think they were not informed, and by shutting up about it they are guilty too. No not as guilty, but guilty none the less. The dems and the rep are the same people, it you tink anything different you are nieve as hell.

 

[The Mutt]

I am not.

I am saying you are nieve to think they were not informed, and by shutting up about it they are guilty too. No not as guilty, but guilty none the less. The dems and the rep are the same people, it you tink anything different you are nieve as hell.

Yes, you are. You just did. Right up there. ^

 

[Ham Murabi]

You're just going to dismiss it like that, are you? Seriously?

It's not the same thing.

Knowing and doing are not the same.

Starting something and not stopping something are not the same thing.

Being evil and failing to stop evil are not the same thing.

Don't dismiss this like it's bribes for pothole repair contracts.

This is about America being the good guys.

So knowing, like Pelosi and a bunch of other Democrats knew back in 2002, and failing to "stop evil" then makes it brave for them to speak up now? It seems to me that if charges are going to be filed, Pelosi will be hiring a lawyer.

 

[The Mutt]

So knowing, like Pelosi and a bunch of other Democrats knew back in 2002, and failing to "stop evil" then makes it brave for them to speak up now? It seems to me that if charges are going to be filed, Pelosi will be hiring a lawyer.

Did I say that? Did I say anything remotely like that? Or about that?

You are changing the subject to Pelosi = Torture.

Just as I predicted in my first post.



It's not that I'm a genius, it's that you dittiheads are as predictable as the sunset.

 

[tinylittlegnat]

i dont care what party you are in. if you knew you should go to jail. the normal kind like pelican bay not the nice ones.