a new whining republicans thread

[rgraham666]

I read a great phrase today in one of my local newspapers.

"…the political ergotism presently infecting America…"

Too bloody true.

 

[sr71plt]

I read a great phrase today in one of my local newspapers.

"…the political ergotism presently infecting America…"

Too bloody true.

I wasn't aware that there was a plague of toxic grain fungus sweeping the nation's dinner tables--or that it was politically motitvated. Hmmmm. Hitting us from all directions, aren't they?

 

[sr71plt]

Obviously, we need a new sticker around here.

"OMG SR71 WTF?"

That's great. If I knew how to set up an avatar, maybe I'd use that.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Check the last line in my sig block. The 'conservatives' who took over the party aren't my idea of Republicans, at all.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Al Franken? The only impression he made was what a little whinny baby he is and I piety the people of Minnesota he doesn't represent.

John Stewart Mill said this, in a Letter to the Conservative MP, Sir John Pakington (March 1866)

Why the fuck do I care about some simpering asshole from England?

Oh...Canadian politics...what a waste of time.

 

[sr71plt]

Al Franken? The only impression he made was what a little whinny baby he is and I piety the people of Minnesota he doesn't represent.

You piety the people of Minnesota? For real? Will they all have to go to church now?

 

[DeeZire]

Here's a whiny Republican who has given up on the hypocrisy of the Far Right.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the-right.html

I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law.

I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt.

I cannot support a movement that so abandoned government's minimal and vital role to police markets and address natural disasters that it gave us Katrina and the financial meltdown of 2008.

I cannot support a movement that holds torture as a core value.

I cannot support a movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.

I cannot support a movement that is deeply homophobic, cynically deploys fear of homosexuals to win votes, and gives off such a racist vibe that its share of the minority vote remains pitiful.

I cannot support a movement which has no real respect for the institutions of government and is prepared to use any tactic and any means to fight political warfare rather than conduct a political conversation.

I cannot support a movement that sees permanent war as compatible with liberal democratic norms and limited government.

I cannot support a movement that criminalizes private behavior in the war on drugs.

I cannot support a movement that would back a vice-presidential candidate manifestly unqualified and duplicitous because of identity politics and electoral cynicism.

I cannot support a movement that regards gay people as threats to their own families.

I cannot support a movement that does not accept evolution as a fact.

I cannot support a movement that sees climate change as a hoax and offers domestic oil exploration as the core plank of an energy policy.

I cannot support a movement that refuses ever to raise taxes, while proposing no meaningful reductions in government spending.

I cannot support a movement that refuses to distance itself from a demagogue like Rush Limbaugh or a nutjob like Glenn Beck.

I cannot support a movement that believes that the United States should be the sole global power, should sustain a permanent war machine to police the entire planet, and sees violence as the core tool for international relations.

Does this make me a "radical leftist" as Michelle Malkin would say? Emphatically not. But it sure disqualifies me from the current American right.

To paraphrase Reagan, I didn't leave the conservative movement. It left me.
And increasingly, I'm not alone.

 

[cloudy]

Al Franken? The only impression he made was what a little whinny baby he is and I piety the people of Minnesota he doesn't represent.

I've never heard Al Franken whinny. You obviously know him better than you let on if you've heard something like that.

Why the fuck do I care about some simpering asshole from England?

Oh...Canadian politics...what a waste of time.

Your small mind and red neck are completely on display. You might want to zip that up, so we all don't have to see something so ugly.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Here's a whiny Republican who has given up on the hypocrisy of the Far Right.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the-right.html

He's got that right!

 

[Huckleman2000]

I read a great phrase today in one of my local newspapers.

"…the political ergotism presently infecting America…"

Too bloody true.

HA! At first I thought you'd misspelled "egotism", but then sr71 made me remember ergot, which led to:

Ergotism

Ergotism is the effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs. It is also known as ergotoxicosis, ergot poisoning and Saint Anthony's Fire. Ergot poisoning is one of the explanations of bewitchment.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I've never heard Al Franken whinny. You obviously know him better than you let on if you've heard something like that.





Your small mind and red neck are completely on display. You might want to zip that up, so we all don't have to see something so ugly.

Who you callin' ugly?

Al Franken is a baby and bedwetter.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And here's another bedwetting liberal who don't like Obama!

I'm Stripping The Obama Sticker Off My Car
Tom Hayden: The Afghanistan Escalation Is Just The Last In A Series Of Disappointments

(The Nation) Tom Hayden, a former California state senator, is the author, most recently, of The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama.

It's time to strip the Obama sticker off my car.

Obama's escalation in Afghanistan is the last in a string of disappointments. His flip-flopping acceptance of the military coup in Honduras has squandered the trust of Latin America.

Of course his assumptions are totally incorrect but that a left wing whinny bedwetting liberal for you. No happy with anything.

 

[cloudy]

Who you callin' ugly?

Al Franken is a baby and bedwetter.

Whatever. I still want to hear about how you know that Al Franken whinnies like a horse. What have you been doing to him to make him sound like that?

Ooh, and Tom Hayden whinnies, too????

Damn, you've been a busy bee.

 

[JackLuis]

Jon Stewart compared Obama's "Afghan Surge" Speech to one of "W's" demented rambles, point for point.

I thought it was "CHANGE" we can believe in?

I don't see any changes, except for the parties changed, the Corrupt Republicans lost and the corrupt Democrats won.

I fear it was the people who lost another round in the politician lottery

 

[sr71plt]

I don't agree with Obama's Afghanistan policy, but in fairness to him, it follows what he said during the campaign he'd do in Afghanistan. The Republicans didn't do a takeoff on that at the time, because it put them in a bind. It would have been good leverage against the far left among his supporters (like the Tom Hayden crowd), but it's the same policy the Republicans would pursue in Afghanistan themselves, so they couldn't very well criticize it. (And they couldn't make use of it in the primary, either, because it also was Hillary Clinton's Afghanistan policy.) They needed to have been more clever and rolled some Trojan Horses on it into far left factions and let those people get concerned about it.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Whatever. I still want to hear about how you know that Al Franken whinnies like a horse. What have you been doing to him to make him sound like that?

Ooh, and Tom Hayden whinnies, too????

Damn, you've been a busy bee.

He mentions bedwetting three times in two consecutive posts.

Is there a closet fetish going on here that Zeb's not telling us about? Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you! I'm not a judgmental person!

Jon Stewart compared Obama's "Afghan Surge" Speech to one of "W's" demented rambles, point for point.

I thought it was "CHANGE" we can believe in?

I don't see any changes, except for the parties changed, the Corrupt Republicans lost and the corrupt Democrats won.

I fear it was the people who lost another round in the politician lottery

It's a hopeless, Jack. Everyone's corrupt. The only people who aren't corrupt are suckling little babies hanging off of their mothers' swollen, pendulous, dark-nippled teats. And since we can't obviously elect them, well...

...looks like we're all doomed! I mean, the sun's gonna evaporate the earth eventually when it turns into a red gas giant, so what the hell are we trying so hard for? Might's well slit our wrists, nothing's gonna change for the future except disappointment, despair and darkness!!!

This quasi-sarcastic post was brought to you by Sesame Street and the number 8.

 

[cloudy]

I just had to share this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9GHoR-RJLy8/SwwdoxLPf6I/AAAAAAAAOeQ/wouCaMtq3HQ/s400/fox-news-pie-chart.jpg

Not only does Faux News misidentify scandalous Republicans as Democrats, but their math skills suck big hairy monkey ass, sorta like all those whinniers.

 

[JackLuis]

-\
...looks like we're all doomed! I mean, the sun's gonna evaporate the earth eventually when it turns into a red gas giant, so what the hell are we trying so hard for? Might's well slit our wrists, nothing's gonna change for the future except disappointment, despair and darkness!!!

This quasi-sarcastic post was brought to you by Sesame Street and the number 8.

Well it has been a long time for Stewart to not chide Obama, then materiel has to come form somewhere and you can only jump on Fox or the lascivious Congressmen just so much.

Obama asked to be President, I just want to see him do something presidential.

I also want the winning lotto numbers and I probably have better odds on that.

 

[sr71plt]

I also want the winning lotto numbers and I probably have better odds on that.

Hey, the White House is trying. It's currently trying to be like the Andrew Jackson administration--opening the doors to the public for the first big party it's thrown.

(Note, I said White House. I'm waiting for some boob to blame the party crashing directly on Obama personally.)

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Well it has been a long time for Stewart to not chide Obama, then materiel has to come form somewhere and you can only jump on Fox or the lascivious Congressmen just so much.

Obama asked to be President, I just want to see him do something presidential.

I also want the winning lotto numbers and I probably have better odds on that.

Trying to think of something "presidential" that other "presidential" Presidents have done in the past that is so light years away from what Obama is doing so far that made them so much more presidential-like...hmmm...

Welp, can't think of anything! Looks like we'll have to settle for the Marvel Comics version of a president, which is either a half-cyborg who can shoot lasers from the palm of his right hand to stop Mount Rushmore from falling down on a group of tourists or a mutant with photosynthetic telepathy! That's so much more impressive!

 

[sr71plt]

Welp, can't think of anything! Looks like we'll have to settle for the Marvel Comics version of a president, which is either a half-cyborg who can shoot lasers from the palm of his right hand to stop Mount Rushmore from falling down on a group of tourists or a mutant with photosynthetic telepathy! That's so much more impressive!

I'm thinking more of the Tom Clancy president, who would rule over the White House (checking the credentials of everyone at the door himself), fly his own helicopter around to all of the various government departments every morning to give them their marching orders and down to New Orleans whenever it rained to stick his finger in the right hole in the levee and over to the Stock Exchange to balance the big board and then lead a platoon into bin Laden's secret camp and shoot 'em all up.

 

[DeeZire]

He mentions bedwetting three times in two consecutive posts.

Is there a closet fetish going on here that Zeb's not telling us about? Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you! I'm not a judgmental person!

I think some kid commandeered Zeb's PC. How else do you explain such juvenile behavior?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just had to share this:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9GHoR-RJLy8/SwwdoxLPf6I/AAAAAAAAOeQ/wouCaMtq3HQ/s400/fox-news-pie-chart.jpg

Not only does Faux News misidentify scandalous Republicans as Democrats, but their math skills suck big hairy monkey ass, sorta like all those whinniers.

That's the third time you shared that...who the fuck gives a shit! It's old news.

Anyway that's how democrats do math...take 100% of what the rich, and by rich I mean everyone making more than $85,000, and give 25% to the them that make less than $5,000 and then give 30% to them that make more than $5,000 but less than $50,000 then 70% goes in my pocket so I can take care of my twenty-seven grandchildren.

 

[cloudy]

That's the third time you shared that...who the fuck gives a shit! It's old news.

No, it isn't. I'd never seen it until about an hour ago, so you can take your misplaced hostility, and shove it right up your ass until you whinny.



Dumbass.

 

[DeeZire]

....Obama asked to be President, I just want to see him do something presidential.....

Excuse me, JL. Obviously, you haven't been paying attention.

A week before he was sworn in, Obama jammed part two of the bank bailout down the throat of his own party — a $350 billion accomplishment.

Two days after he was sworn in, Obama banned the use of "harsh interrogation" and ordered the closing of Guantánamo.

A day later, Obama reversed George W. Bush's funding cutoff to overseas family planning organizations — saving millions of lives with the stroke of a pen.

Three days after that, Obama gave a green light to the California car-emissions standards that Bush had been blocking for six years — an important step on the road to cleaner air and a cooler planet.

Two weeks after that, Obama signed the stimulus bill — a $787 billion accomplishment.

Ten days after that, Obama formally announced America's withdrawal from Iraq.

A week later — we're in early March now — Obama erased Bush's decision to restrict federal funding for stem-cell research.

In April and June, Obama forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy.

In June, Obama reset the tone of our relations with the entire Arab world with a single speech — an accomplishment that the Bush administration failed to achieve despite a series of desperate PR moves (anyone remember Charlotte Beers?) and a "public diplomacy" budget of $1 billion a year.

Also in June, Obama unveiled the "Cash for Clunkers" program, a "socialist" giveaway that reanimated the corpse of our car industry — leading, for example, to the billion-dollar profit that Ford announced on Monday.

Other accomplishments: Sonia Sotomayor, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the order to release the torture memos, Obama's push for charter schools, the end of Bush's war on medical marijuana, the controversial intervention that halted the financial collapse and revived the credit markets, which nudged the economy toward 3.5 percent growth in the last quarter.

There are also the accomplishments that annoy liberals, like appointing conservatives to cabinet positions and continuing Bush's wars. If "presidential" includes an attempt at bipartisanship, I'd say Obama has at least tried.

Of course, this list doesn't compare to the Tom Clancy version, so I'm sure Obama will continue to disappoint those who believe in comic books and the Tooth Fairy. (So that's where Zeb's "bedwetter" reference comes from. But this raises another vexing question: Isn't it past his bedtime?)