Where is the Republican Outrage?

[lavender]

Republicans are always ready to wave the "we're more patriotic" flag. Republicans are all about national security. Republicans are all about making sure our officers and servicement are safe. (Democrats are too, but sometimes conservatives try to say we're not). So, knowing how patriotic and into national security our Republican friends here at lit are - where is the outrage?

Where the fuck is the outrage about the Valerie Plame incident? Shouldn't the outrage not be confined to democrats? When former CIA operatives who have voted Republican their whole lives are pissed as all hell, and calling for an investigation beyond the current Justice Dept investigation, shouldn't we be hearing more about this?

Shouldn't the president - who addressed national security for well over 40% of his State of the Union, be worried about the security of the officers of this great nation?

Shouldn't god continue bless our CIA officers, even if their husbands stood up for what was right and against this administration?

Or does god not continue to bless people when they've crossed the wonderful neo-cons who have invaded the inner circles of the White House?

 

[HeavyStick]

God has nothing to do with it.

"I'd like to thank God for me scoring 4 touch downs"... you rarely hear "God told me to shut that fucker up, so I capped his ass".


And yes everyone is worried about something.

 

[Guest]

why didn't you tell me you where making this thread....i just made one on the same lines....

 

[lavender]

I was just using god because "May God continue to bless the United States of America," instead of "May God bless the United States of America" was the ONLY impromptu thing that Bush did in the State of the Union.

He's just proving he's confident about God's blessings - since God told him to fight these wars and all.

 

[lavender]

why didn't you tell me you where making this thread....i just made one on the same lines....

Sorry.

 

[Wrong Element]

The investigation has made it to a grand jury. Not saying this is Watergate by any stretch, but it was Judge Sirica and his grand jury that really started the ball rolling in that scandal.

Certainly the story would go nowhere fast if the Justice Department and the House/Senate leaderships had anything to say about it. But it might be slipping out of their hands.

 

[Guest]

Even as the Justice Department appeared to be going forward in the Wilson leak probe, it faced new controversy over the alleged leak of the name of a Detroit man whom government sources described to TIME as a key confidential federal terrorism informant. After going undercover in bars and elsewhere in the Arab community for the feds in Detroit, Marwan Farhat's name was revealed in a Detroit Free Press story last week that cited "officials" as the source of information about Farhat and an internal Justice investigation of a prosecutor. Farhat — whom the Free Press said was an illegal immigrant from an Arab country who began helping the feds after he was charged in a drug case — fled the U.S. this week after saying he'd been shot at in Detroit on Friday morning, according to a source who spoke to Farhat. The Free Press story ran the day after Farhat was shot at, but a knowledgeable source said Farhat's name had become a poorly-kept secret in the city after leaking out a month before. "He's an intelligence asset. He was providing information on terrorism, not just who's the local dope sellers," said an outraged congressional aide. Justice officials in Washington and Detroit refused comment.

there we go..i'll just let that thread die

 

[KillerMuffin]

Being Republican on this board is like being black at a KKK convention.

I quit talking politics when someone gave the Idiot Clique cyber bullhorns. There's just no point anymore. It's not fun, there's nothing to be learned or otherwised gained from it, and I hate morons of any political ideology or cult.

So, no Republican outrage here. I have other places to vent such things.

 

[HeavyStick]

Being Republican on this board is like being black at a KKK convention.

I quit talking politics when someone gave the Idiot Clique cyber bullhorns. There's just no point anymore. It's not fun, there's nothing to be learned or otherwised gained from it, and I hate morons of any political ideology or cult.

So, no Republican outrage here. I have other places to vent such things.

Exactly.

 

[breakwall]

The investigation has made it to a grand jury. Not saying this is Watergate by any stretch, but it was Judge Sirica and his grand jury that really started the ball rolling in that scandal.

That may not be Watergate, but this sure reminds me of it...

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Outrage with no evidence is not our style lavy...

We generally like to see the outcome of an investigation before we form a lynch mob. The fact of the matter is that with her husband being such a staunch partisan, we can't be sure that this wasn't manufactured by the DNC because your side, my former allies, plays dirty. It ain't beanbag.

You have been outraged from the moment Florida was declared prematurely for Bush. If the reporters had been more restrained then the kerosine would never have been poured on that fire, but it was, and you haven't stopped screaming yet at every single opportunity.

So cry wolf yet once again...



















Now, if you wanted to go after him on runaway social spending, I'd be with you. But Socialists such as yourself just can't bring yourself to bag on spending as you understand how hypocritical it would sound while you are also talking about taking the tax cuts away from people and raising their taxes. Hell Clark is saying we haven't soaked the rich enough and if you don't like being soaked then you're not a patriot!

Who you gonna vote for?

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Yes Killer, they can find many ways to censor you.

And, when no one speaks up, then they sound right, like no one has an argument that can defeat them (like our good friend LT). So keep speaking and let people see them with their bullhorns. That's okay!

Look what it did for Dean...

 

[TWB]

I was just using god because "May God continue to bless the United States of America," instead of "May God bless the United States of America" was the ONLY impromptu thing that Bush did in the State of the Union.

He's just proving he's confident about God's blessings - since God told him to fight these wars and all.

I wouldn't be so sure that was impromptu.

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Like Allah isn't whispering into Osama's ear...

You fear Gawd like the right fears fags.

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Not you T, the kid...

 

[TWB]

That may not be Watergate, but this sure reminds me of it...

Legislators are never supposed to talk to civil rights groups. Absolutely smacks of subverting the constitution to me!

 

[TWB]

Being Republican on this board is like being black at a KKK convention.

That's very interesting. I thought being a democrat on this board was like being black at a KKK convention. Matter of perspective I guess.

Marxist has opined about what it is like being black at lit, too, somewhere around here.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I quit talking politics when someone gave the Idiot Clique cyber bullhorns.

Translation: People won't accept the "facts" I pull out of my ass as Gospel truth anymore. How dare the teeming masses disagree with me! I'm...I'm...a VICTIM, dammit! *sob

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Hey T, I think you're both right in a way.

At first, it was a real Democrat hotbed, but more and more conservatives are actually sticking around and standing up to the people like lavy who just throw stuff up and then move on (aka Kerry in your last post of the other thread).

She [lavy] was the leader of the bullhorn brigade, even her friends styled her the queen of flame. A lot of the nastiness you see in my posts stems directly from those early days on the board of name-calling and bashing. I'm not saying the conservatives are any better, but right now, the country is moving back to the right after many long years of leftward movement.

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

Throb you need to go back and check out the level of what passed as debate during the 2000 election before you pop off on Killer.

 

[TWB]

Hey T, I think you're both right in a way.

At first, it was a real Democrat hotbed, but more and more conservatives are actually sticking around and standing up to the people like lavy who just throw stuff up and then move on (aka Kerry in your last post of the other thread).

She [lavy] was the leader of the bullhorn brigade, even her friends styled her the queen of flame. A lot of the nastiness you see in my posts stems directly from those early days on the board of name-calling and bashing. I'm not saying the conservatives are any better, but right now, the country is moving back to the right after many long years of leftward movement.

Thanks for the perspective of the ages. . .

 

[Fawkin'Injun]

The perspective of the village idiot...

 

[TWB]

The perspective of the village idiot...

I did not say that, or mean it.

I wonder what the Right would say about Al Gore if he ran a record $375 billion deficit in 2003?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Hey T, I think you're both right in a way.

At first, it was a real Democrat hotbed, but more and more conservatives are actually sticking around and standing up to the people like lavy who just throw stuff up and then move on (aka Kerry in your last post of the other thread).

She [lavy] was the leader of the bullhorn brigade, even her friends styled her the queen of flame. A lot of the nastiness you see in my posts stems directly from those early days on the board of name-calling and bashing. I'm not saying the conservatives are any better, but right now, the country is moving back to the right after many long years of leftward movement.

Interesting perspective. In my mind, the exact opposite occurs here daily...it was a real Radical Republican hotbed, but with more and more moderates actually sticking around and refuting the wild-eyed radical rightwingers who threw stuff up and then moved on. I think the zenith occured in the run-up to the regime change in Iraq, where failing to support whatever position thrown out by the Republican posters here branded you "un-patriotic" or somehow "not supporting the troops". I think the tide turned on your side then, it brought a lot of people off the bench saying "Hey wait just a minute".

Truthfully, I think the board is just about at equillibrium as far as political leanings are concerned. And that makes for some interesting reading in an election year.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I did not say that, or mean it.

I wonder what the Right would say about Al Gore if he ran a record $375 billion deficit in 2003?

"Git a rope! THIS one ain't gonna get away and make fools of us like the last one did!"