Just wait...before they're done, Benghazi will be a part of it. Along with Bergdahl, ISIS, and chemtrails.
I especially love the misspelling on the graphic from "officialteapartyusa." "Waiting for you're trial On charges of Treason!" Incorrect syntax, misspelling, wrong word usage - that's how you know it's authentic grass roots, folks!
Does anyone else ever getting the feeling that a lot of what these guys do is in the name of revenge against The Left? Sometimes, it seems like a lot of the brethren are trying to create some sort of weird caricature of liberals c. 2000-2008, just to show us what it was like. "Oh, you libs thought you were so clever talking about impeaching Bush, huh? Well, let's see how you like it!" It's not about Bush, or even Obama - it's about razzing a group that they're convinced is all-power and out to get them personally. They're flinging bags of flaming poo at what they think is a Borg cube.
That's how sneaky Obama is, see? He looks at the disastrous Clinton impeachment, which hobbled his agenda, and instead of trying at all costs to avoid it, decides to seek it out so he'll be more popular.
Roy, you had me at sexually-active gangster-children.
I don't read the right blogger stuff myself but from your description it sounds an awful lot like the Jack Chick tracts we used to find slipped under our windshield wipers after Mass.
"... major agents-provocateur like Sharpton, Jackson and any of the MSNBC clowns seeking to garner audience shares and turn sound bites into ratings while the drama of a Presidential Impeachment captures the press' attention across the globe."
Translation from the original Wingnuttese:
"Libs are going to run video clips and soundbites of us saying stupid shit just to increase MSNBC's ratings."
I'm certain that Republicans won't impeach Obama -- until the dumbest possible moment. My money is on Summer of 2016, just in time for the party conventions.
Sometimes they come in bunches, as with Mr. Conservative's round-up, "10 Arguments For Impeaching Obama" ("1. Out-Of-Control Spending.")
As always IOKOYAR. Ballooning deficits under Bush? Eh, no big deal. In fact, we like 'em! Deficit starts dropping under a Democrat? Not fast enough, buddy! The deficit is a CRISIS that's going to kill us all! So cut them social programs, and cut some taxes for the wealthy too.
I guess it's basically this: No Democrat will ever be a legitimate president, so we can look forward to Republicans pushing impeachment for the rest of the life of the Republic.
M'self, I think this is 2016 electioneering. It worked pretty well in the 2000 campaign (not only did Gore choose Senator I'm-Oh-So-Moral-Kids-And-Their-Sordid-Music-Today as his running mate, but he put a lot of distance between himself and one of the most effective campaigners in recent history), so they're hoping that anyone that's gotten within a thousand yards of Obama will be tainted along with him by impeachment proceedings.
The desired outcome in the Senate only seems likely to the goobers. The ones thinking more than two minutes ahead are mostly dreaming about how wonderful it will be to have a Ken Starr in Washington again, poking through the dirty laundry with a microscope, then leaking all the salacious details to Drudge and Mike Allen.
Oh, they're so over the whole democracy thing. Since they can't win national elections (and they're having increasing difficulty winning statewide elections), they now want to 1.) make sure those who are allowed to vote, vote the right way, and 2.) make it so that elections maybe are not needed (i.e., eliminating direct voting for senators).
There's a doctoral thesis in deviant psych to be had in an analysis of George Will's thought processes as regards abandoning the bow tie and taking up with the brazen hussies of Fox News. From paper doll pompous egghead, to resident savant in the House of Harkonnen. "Writing about baseball not macho enough? I'm hanging in the green room with Megyn Kelly, bitchez. Howdaya like them apples?"
"making executive power compatible with democracy's abhorrence of arbitrary power," he said, is "now more urgent in America than at any time since the Founders, having rebelled against George III's unfettered exercise of 'royal prerogative,' stipulated that presidents 'shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'"
If I'm a Democratic House member, I rise to offer an amendment to the articles of impeachment, deleting all the existing language and replacing it with "Presidenting while Black". And I keep doing it while the Speaker gets red in the face demanding "The gentleman will suspend!"
"For all [Obama] knows there's a Lois Lerner e-mail that says, 'I want you to go after these Tea Party bastards with everything you got. Use every trick you can to keep them on the sidelines for this election cycle. Nuke those fascists.'" It's fun to play the "for all we know" game. If Lerner sent the IRS an e-mail commanding them to nuke the Tea Party fascists, though, it's pretty clear that it disappeared before anybody got a chance to read it.
Meaning that when Dubya had proven himself a blithering idiot on Hurricane Katrina and Iraq was circling the drain and the Democrats took both houses of congress in '06, McCarthy would have given them his blessing to... You know what? I don't even have the energy to finish the speculative sentence.
These people have all the understanding of the world and the dangers to America that one might glean from such '80s action classics as Cobra and Invasion USA.
"Libs are going to run video clips and soundbites of us saying stupid shit just to increase MSNBC's ratings." And in that sense, if in no others, the wingnuts are going to be very, very generous.
They look like cell phone towers. You see them in every neighborhood now. The truth is, they're thought-ray transmitters pitched to a frequency only RWNJs can receive, causing distorted visions of perfidy and scandal with even the most mundane and easily explained news development, all to increase Obama's popularity-by-victimization.
The brethren love McCarthy's easy-and-fun approach, and often repurpose it into clickbait, e.g. "Former Top Prosecutor: Here's How to Impeach Obama [VIDEO]," "7 Articles of Impeachment to Take Obama Down," etc.
Democrats Hate Him! Learn One Weird Trick to Impeach Obama!
I think inventing IRS e-mails is a rich vein to be mined. I mean come on, no unleashing the mutant zombie IRS agents to feed on the livers of Tea Party patriots? Collaboration with the CDC to invent a conservative specific virus? For all we know...
I'm not quite sure why there are two nooses in that graphic. Mayhap they are planning to exhume Reagan and string up his corpse because of the Iran shenanigans?
Unfortunately, all too true, Satch. One of the great blunders of the Founders, I think, was in believing that Congress' instincts to preserve the institution would always win out over loyalty to any party, and quite the opposite has come true. It might still have been true--if only barely--in 1973, but that impulse ceased functioning entirely by the time Iran-Contra rolled around, and partisanship over institution was in full swing by 1993 and has only accelerated since then.
Now that Congress, as an institution, is running neck-and-neck in popularity polls with cockroaches, one would think there would be at least a tiny impulse to change that, but, no, if anything, they're pressing on regardless into ever-greater depths of irrelevancy, sycophancy to insanity and a kind of granite stasis.
You missed the best part: The mountain of evidence that has not been produced. It's all there. Evidence. Mountains of evidence. But it's not been produced, so we can just make up shit. Mountains of shit.
For all the whining about "Bush derangement syndrome," there was plenty of stuff right out in the open to pick up and wave around (signing statements, the purge of the DOJ, torture, warrantless wiretapping, etc.). With Obama, it's always "We can only imagine . . ." followed by some complete bullshit (Continetti's made-up dinner conversations, this rack of imaginary emails, Michelle Obama's "whitey tape," and so on).
And we all know how putting "Rape Victim" as one of your qualifications moves your resume right to the top of the pile! That hamster would likely have been an executive had it survived.
West bade America beware the Mexican kids -- they "closely resemble an advancing column, a kind of foreign legion of child-mercenaries" and Obama is "shepherding them straight into an enfolding and enlarging federal safety net from which they may never have to emerge."
I always thought Will started to abandon his bow tie schtick after Tucker Carlson was ritually eviscerated and his entrails devoured on Crossfire by Jon Stewart....oops, I seem to have lapsed into Raw Story clickbait headline-speak for a moment.
The Matthew Continetti version: For all Obama knows there's a Lois Lerner e-mail that says, "i want you to go after these Tee Party basterds with evrything youse got. Youse every trick you can to keep them on the sidelines for this election sycle. Nooke those fascists." What more evidence do you need that there's a conspiracy? Look at the atrocious spelling, the bad grammar, the sloppy youse of words. Typical libtard writing style and absolute proof that Lerner wrote it.
For many conservatives, repetition = sincerity. That's why they're so big on saying the Pledge of Allegiance at every opportunity. Sure, you pledged yesterday. But it's a new day and your allegiance might have changed.
Given how much of the conservative landscape is nothing more than grifting dollars from the rubes, I think your line is a lot closer to the truth than they'd like to admit.
"Bruce Fein, the legal scholar who is known for drafting articles of impeachment against President Clinton," which experience should come in handy -- as should Fein's 2011 campaign to impeach Obama on grounds of Libya.
He's also a professional Armenian Genocide denier who works with the "Turkish-American Legal Defense Fund (TALDF) for that purpose. He's associated with various violent groups such as the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).
That's an excellent illustration of the two competing methods of thought: evidence leading one to believe in conclusions vs. conclusions leading one to believe in evidence.
Every day I see government devices beaming filtered electromagnetic radiation directly into the eyes of citizens, conveying instructions that they are commanded to follow...
Um, they aren't Mexican kids. They're from Guatemala and other Central American countries. Is this the wingnut's geography fail, or yours, Roy? Pleases update.
You can't expect much style from people who spent most of high school getting stuffed into lockers, or from the people who did the stuffing. I think those two groups make up a large proportion of the modern conservative movement.
It would not surprise me one bit if wingnut tomes started having extensive footnotes, all of which consist of references to IMDB. 'See: "Cobra" 28:55')
Yeah, Obama wants to be impeached to raise his popularity. Because the poll numbers on a lame duck, 2nd term president are what determine the course the Ship of State takes...
No, Will's a true believer. I remember running into a PJ O'Rourke essay a year or two ago on the subject of teacher's unions, and it was the most half-hearted thing you can imagine. US education stats have been where they are for the same reason for fifty years: white conservatives will move heaven and earth to keep money away from those people and their schools are underfunded. Anyway, Mr. O'Rourke is smart enough to know that kicking the hell out of teachers is going to do exactly nothing to improve schools.
George Will really thinks that women cry rape for the bennies. And why shouldn't he? Everyone he knows and works with runs to kiss the imaginary boo-boos of the GOP.
Narrow bandwidth modulated signals aimed--aimed--at specific targets in an attempt to control behavior! And criminal penalties for anyone who dares to deviate from that government-mandated behavior! These insidious devices are designed and built to federal specifications--the D.O.T. doesn't even try to hide it!
The president really needs to hit the campaign trail this year to support Democratic candidates, as a matter of self defense. He needs to put the GOP out of its our misery.
He made the mistake of dismantling his formidable political machine in 2010, and we have been suffering from the teapercussions of that unilateral disarmament
Rank authoritarians believe the trade-off in rights and freedom is worth the price, because then there will be clear and direct lines of command, everyone will be given a role with none of this pesky free-will bullshit, it will be easy to gain power by ratting out everyone you hate, and their manichean odds of achieving happiness will be raised by making everyone else miserable.
Slap up enough copies of the American flag and put a Reagan mask on Kim Jong Un and they'd be happy as clams.
It's a circular reasoning that's worked quite nicely for them, and as StringOnAStick pointed out, it does allow corporations to move into the resulting vacuum.
I think a big part of the problem here is that America's never-ending debate on the proper role of government got derailed back in the 1980s. That's when the right started to change from offering up reasoned positions on the issues to just lashing out in contradiction.
Today we've reached the point where the political discourse really is like John Cole's exemplar: You're discussing dinner options with your date. You suggest Italian, your date suggests tire rims and anthrax. There's no possibility of compromise.
US education stats have been where they are for the same reason for fifty years: white conservatives will move heaven and earth to keep money away from those people and their schools are underfunded.
That's part of it. A bigger part, especially in the last 15 years, has been the enormous pushback against teacher unions and teacher pay. There are lots of people who are convinced that teachers don't deserve to make more than cashiers, and they vote for school budgets that reflect that. The fact that many schools now require teachers to buy school supplies out of their own pocket is testimony to how we've decided as a society to defund education.
I always wondered why Rogers left M*A*S*H. Especially since his career apparently cratered when he did. Could it be that the left-leaning politics of the show were just too much for his sensibilities to bear?
The president really needs to hit the campaign trail this year to support Democratic candidates, as a matter of self defense.
Eh, for a lot of the Senate races, he shoud certainly send in the machine ... but on the Q.T. He is presumably planning to personally avoid most of the red-state Senate races, as he should. E.g., Kentucky Democrats are better able to use KYnect as a wedge against McConnell with low-information voters if the blackamoor usurper doesn't reactivate their Manichean worldview by showing up. (If Obama had carried North Carolina a second time, I might make an exception for the Hagan race, but given the drop-off from 2008 I don't think it's worth the risk.)
And there's the well-documented wingnut inability to distinguish satire and parody from reality. Is it any wonder these people buy into Glenn Beck's gold-bug crap?
I always thought the Democrats let the GOP off too easily for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. There should have vigorous campaiged at every level against the obviously partisan, more or less completely farcical attempt to remove a popular, twice elected president, on totally bullshit charges. -----Whatever one thought of Clinton's sexual peccadillos and even his attempt to hide them, still, they did not even come close to being impeachment worthy. ----And, besides the thinness of the legal argument, I actually do think it was, and is, a "political" issue. Leaving aside technicalities, to impeach a president there ought to be a damn good reason. And, when there isn't, and when you know damn well in advance that you don't have to close to the votes in the Senate to convict (as it turned out, not even a simple majority on any count), then you should not waste the people's time, energy, money, and government in pursuing impeachment. Without a good reason, so as to justify impeachment on principle, even knowing that it would not result in Senate conviction, and without the Senate votes as well, the GOP were the ones who should have been pilloried politically, by every local, State, and congressional and senatorial Dem candidate, and by Al Gore as well. ------Instead, even many stalwart Democrats let themselves be bamboozled by the drumbeat of "What will we tell the children??!!?11?" and all the other phony crap about the Clintons in general into a defensive stance, more about hushing up the impeachment attempt rather than attacking it, or even conceding that it was perhaps "justified" in some way. The Clintons are the most investigated persons in the history of the world. Virtually every moment of their adult lives, every phone call, every meeting, every document pertaining to them, every place they ever worked, everyone they worked with, their family members, etc, etc, has been investigated. Most of it multiple times and many of it by partisan witchhunters. And, basically, all of that time, energy, and effort has revealed squat, when it comes to wrongdoing. -----Not only is that unfair and abusive at a personal level, but it hamstrung the government during Bill's second term. And that is what they would like to do to Obama too. They already control the House, they might have enough Senators in 2015 to come close to the super majority they need. Given that they completely got away with it, when it came to Clinton, why wouldn't they be thinking about doing it all over again now, to Obama?
Leaving aside technicalities, to impeach a president there ought to be a damn good reason.
There WAS a good reason. The most excellent reason of all: Clinton was a popular Democrat. The fact that he presided over the greatest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history made his impeachment even more of an imperative. The fact that said economic expansion took place immediately following the tax increases that all Republicans claimed would destroy the economy just sealed the deal.
Clinton had to go because, once again, reality had a heavily liberal bias.
I wouldn't say that his career "cratered", exactly--IMDB shows a decent amount of credits, although it doesn't look like he's acted for more than a decade, and there's nothing there that would be the equivalent of being on a highly-successful sitcom for over a decade--but his real avocation might be what he's been doing lately: "appears regularly as a panel member on the Fox Business Network cable TV stocks investment/stocks news program Cashin' In." [Wikipedia] Which, really, sounds like the kind of show that most people involved in politics should be on, sooner or later.
A first rate education is still possible in the U.S. ... for the right sort of people at the right price. There's a reason that conservative thinkers get paid so well to dispute the actual value of a liberal arts education, why Rick Santorum called Obama a "snob" for suggesting that every qualified young person should have access to a college education, and why critical thinking courses are under attack in Texas and other locales. It's that, while society needs skilled engineers, programmers, HVAC technicians and semi drivers, high level general education and critical thinking are an impediment to the creation of citizens who are willing and able to question the assumptions and goals of the elite. The sooner they get rid of those troublemakers, the better.
I read Alan Alda's autobiography. I think Rogers was mentioned once, with no indication of any issues. Alda's amazingly nice about everyone and everything, to the point of almost being bloodless, but he waxed on quite a bit about everyone else on MASH and what a family and lovefest it was. You know, in the post-Rogers years.
People are absolutely silly about sex between consenting adults, especially if one is married to someone else; I suspect that as a society we're a little less silly now than we were then but I wouldn't bet folding money on it. Just like "run the gumbit like a family budget", "sex with someone not your spouse" was an easy sell to the non-politically involved. Their picky-ass list of what to impeach Obama over has nothing that is as easily understood/felt, and therefore it all sounds just like more wingnut ranting & chemtrails. I do hope the public receives it as such and pays closer attention this Nov.
They've bought into the "fair and balanced" myth so deeply that they believe that there has to be some liberal equivalent of the Nixon tapes, with their nearly-endless supply of bigotry, paranoia, and grudge-mongering.
I totally agree. The fact that Obama does not seem to have Bill Clinton's various "appetite" issues does a lot to insulate him from this kind of BS. If something can't be personalized, plus is just BS to begin with, is not actually a crime at all, etc, etc, then there is less plausibility to the impeachment argument.
"The mountain of evidence that has not been produced. It's all there. Evidence. Mountains of evidence. But it's not been produced, so we can just make up shit. Mountains of shit."
Sounds like the beginning of a "Chewbacca Defense."
Oh we don't care about your east coast latte sipping, pot smoking opinion polls - nope not one little bit. We know we have the full support of the American people.
He is, not to put too fine a point on it, boring. Happily married with no signs of extra-curricular activities. A middle of the road, slightly eggheady wonk. His signature piece of legislation is about health insurance, a topic so dull his opponents had to make up the specter of summary old folk death sentences just to make the debate interesting.
If it weren't for the fact that the GOP is stuck on full-on batshit crazy, he'd probably be remembered in the same breathe as Coolidge or Cleaveland or any other caretaker president.
As it stands, he'll be remembered by his supporters as as mildly disappointing but not too bad President, and by his opponents as 6000HITLERSTALINABORTIONBABYALINSKYSSKREEEEEEE
His signature piece of legislation is about health insurance, a topic so dull his opponents had to make up the specter of summary old folk death sentences just to make the debate interesting.
Winner! Please collect your internets at your earliest convenience.
"Obama cannot have known there was no corruption given the mountain of evidence that has yet to be produced and now appears to have been destroyed."
Uh. I'm not feeling my best today but it sounds like Obama is guilty of being unaware of the lack of corruption in his administration. I can see why this would disturb a Republican, but that's kind of blatant.
I don't know. I like the impeachement chatter, especially coming from the elected dumbfucks. Not only is it another way they bilk the rubes, but they've convinced their followers that Obama has committed eleven zillion crimes that warrant impeachment, starting with being born.
But then ... they won't do anything about it.
Except come up with more reasons Obama should be impeached and send out another request for donations. This is sort of like doing that trick where you tell a dog to sit while you hold a big lump of red meat over his head to demonstrate how well trained he is. Except Fido has rabies and thinks your arm looks mighty tasty.
Eventually you get lots of your remaining followers, who are already extremely distrustful because someone has been encouraging to new heights of paranoid thinking, saying things like:
They're all in on it.
Because you, their great white hope, won't do anything except talk the 300 things Obama did today that also warrant impeachment. And then comes a brash young challenger who promises to personally draw up Articles of Impeachment if you'll only send him to D.C. ...
I think they were the little remoras who hovered around the locker stuffers, hoping to absorb some locker stuffer cred but rarely if ever getting more than a tolerant nod. 50 years later they're still doing the same thing, on the locker stuffers have become CEOs and they'll talk to them when they want something.
I'm very surprised we haven't spent the past decade being bombarded with proof that Obama is a rampant fuck beast who rampantly fucks white virgins like all blah men. (Look at how close he's standing to Queen Elizabeth!!!)
There was that guy who claimed he had crack-fueled limo sex with Obama (that is, they smoked crack and had sex in, not with, a limo) and "Obama is gay because he was sexually assaulted by a had an affair with a family friend when he was 10 and that's about it. At the very least "My years in Obama's Harem" by Anonymous seems an easy way to hop aboard the wingnut gravy train, but there are no takers.
I am still kinda gobsmacked at the phenomenon that is Allen West. It's not just that he's got a serious thinking disorder. It's that the military didn't seem to notice all the while he was in--roughly two decades. And they promoted him to O-5, which is a bit like saying, in military-speak, "hey, we like the cut of your jib, crazy person."
I guess we should be thankful that he didn't end up in the Air Force or the Navy, where the ICBMs are.
Count me as one of the few people who think there won't be any serious impeachment attempts, because the way the math works out (you need a simple majority in the house and a 2/3 majority in the senate) the House could have gotten the ball rolling at any time in the last 4 years, and leadership definitely had incentive to do so and keep the crazy primary people at arm's length. The fact that nothing happened makes me think that enough House Republicans know it would be a dumb idea to silence the crazies.
Not out of respect for the system, mind you: they just know that impeachment proceedings would bring out the freak show front and center, and they know that the American people getting a long hard look at the freak show in 2010 and 2012 is what cost them the Senate-two easily winnable years in a row! (FYI, this is also why I'm not too afraid of losing the senate this year). There's a ceiling to this stuff; you can get away with shit in low-visibility, low-turnout House races that can't in state or national races. Cold comfort, but I think it will stop things from spiraling completely out of control until 2016. (Which I am looking forward to: I have no reason to believe that the current formation of the GOP will ever win 270 EVs again, and the Dems will get either a fresh face or Clinton's massive fanbase and a chance to knock out a bunch of class of '10 senators.)
All that said, the fact that the Republican rank-and-file is in such a frenzy about this is indeed depressing, and further proof that we don't share the country with people who intelligently and respectfully disagree with our goals and methods, but an animalistic hivemind that will do, say, and believe absolutely anything to get their claws on a marginally larger amount of political power, which will all be used to further crush the weak and disenfranchised and sell more of the country to a handful of fascist billionaires. I'm not much for the salt-the-earth solutions, but anyone at this point who's imagining a way to bring the insanity down to a simmer that doesn't consist of outwitting, outvoting, and outlasting the lunatics until they start dying off should just let it go. We are not dealing with an opponent who can be reasoned with.
There's no there to any of the other stuff they've tried to pin on Obama the Stupid Cunning Reckless Weak Tyrant Sissy, either.
Nah, what I think is they've finally figured out that every time they bring up sex, a rubber and leather clad goat skeleton* tumbles out of one of their closets.
Once they figure out how Obama makes that happen, they'll add that to his list of crimes. But until then, they're keeping quiet.
---"There's no there to any of the other stuff they've tried to pin on Obama the Stupid Cunning Reckless Weak Tyrant Sissy, either." -----Meh. "Weak" and "Sissy" are better fits for a slender, somewhat dorky, professorial, "egghead," non macho, non sexed up man, than sex fiend. And "Cunning" fits in with that too (brains over brawn, intellect over "animal" emotions). "Stupid," "Reckless" and, of course, "Tyrant," are just standard, stock in trade, charges, that don't actually need a predicate.
I think we're already at Full Metal Psychotic. There's what, a mass shooting every other week now? The people doing that are not, as far as I can see, Kucinich voters.
"Cratered"? Nonsense! Wayne Rogers was in Marlo Thomas's much-beloved "It's A Wonderful Life" remake! Why, being in that revered 70s classic alone justifies leaving M*A*S*H.
Red Scorpion does have some interesting political aspects to its production, although probably not what was intended. (Note the producer.) I've also heard it described as a propaganda film for Jonas Savimbi.
O-5 is about where you can get to even if you are a complete moron. Crazy can get much higher but you have to be at least smartish crazy. I once watched a group of O-5's lose an argument with an E-4 and then the that was the E-4's immediate boss E-5 it was a thing of beauty. Made even better that they were both female.
Umm, possibly in the Army (I didn't have enough time in the army to know the ins and outs among the officer corps). But, in the air force, the morons never got past captain (O-3), but were often allowed to remain in until retirement--if they'd had more or less clean careers during wartime.
It's a pretty hard line to get beyond but LTC is doable (more likely to top out at Major from my anecdotal evidence) for the subpar especially if they have at least some skill at the internal politics and manage to hang out long enough. It depends mostly on if they are just dumb but stable or have severe issues that will come out like major issues with booze. And of course bugfuck nuts reactionary isn't a bar. I haven't interacted in depth with enough O-6's and general officers to have a solid opinion but I've never gotten a completely checked out hamster wheel having significant difficulties from those ranks.
Just wait...before they're done, Benghazi will be a part of it. Along with Bergdahl, ISIS, and chemtrails.
ReplyDeleteI especially love the misspelling on the graphic from "officialteapartyusa." "Waiting for you're trial On charges of Treason!" Incorrect syntax, misspelling, wrong word usage - that's how you know it's authentic grass roots, folks!
Don't forget the Erratic Capitalisation.
ReplyDeleteAndrew McCarthy: "Impeachment is not a legal matter; it is a political remedy."
ReplyDeleteYou know what else is a political remedy, you anti-democratic shithead? WINNING A FUCKING ELECTION.
God I hate these people.
Does anyone else ever getting the feeling that a lot of what these guys do is in the name of revenge against The Left? Sometimes, it seems like a lot of the brethren are trying to create some sort of weird caricature of liberals c. 2000-2008, just to show us what it was like. "Oh, you libs thought you were so clever talking about impeaching Bush, huh? Well, let's see how you like it!" It's not about Bush, or even Obama - it's about razzing a group that they're convinced is all-power and out to get them personally. They're flinging bags of flaming poo at what they think is a Borg cube.
ReplyDeleteBut the election didn't come out our way! It's not fair, everyone knows we're the best!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be covered under syntax? Seems like sic is used as to signify a multiple of sins, that one included, IIRC.
ReplyDeleteThat's how sneaky Obama is, see? He looks at the disastrous Clinton impeachment, which hobbled his agenda, and instead of trying at all costs to avoid it, decides to seek it out so he'll be more popular.
ReplyDeleteRoy, you had me at sexually-active gangster-children.
ReplyDeleteI don't read the right blogger stuff myself but from your description it sounds an awful lot like the Jack Chick tracts we used to find slipped under our windshield wipers after Mass.
"... major agents-provocateur like
ReplyDeleteSharpton, Jackson and any of the MSNBC clowns seeking to garner audience
shares and turn sound bites into ratings while the drama of a
Presidential Impeachment captures the press' attention across the
globe."
Translation from the original Wingnuttese:
"Libs are going to run video clips and soundbites of us saying stupid shit just to increase MSNBC's ratings."
I'm certain that Republicans won't impeach Obama -- until the dumbest possible moment. My money is on Summer of 2016, just in time for the party conventions.
ReplyDeleteThe under-Capitalisation of Erratics has dogged glaciology for almost as long as the over-Capitalisation of Erotics has confounded Herculaneum.
ReplyDeleteSometimes they come in bunches, as with Mr. Conservative's round-up, "10 Arguments For Impeaching Obama" ("1. Out-Of-Control Spending.")
ReplyDeleteAs always IOKOYAR. Ballooning deficits under Bush? Eh, no big deal. In fact, we like 'em! Deficit starts dropping under a Democrat? Not fast enough, buddy! The deficit is a CRISIS that's going to kill us all! So cut them social programs, and cut some taxes for the wealthy too.
I guess it's basically this: No Democrat will ever be a legitimate president, so we can look forward to Republicans pushing impeachment for the rest of the life of the Republic.
I'll stop calling them racist assholes when they stop saying and doing racist asshole things.
ReplyDeleteM'self, I think this is 2016 electioneering. It worked pretty well in the 2000 campaign (not only did Gore choose Senator I'm-Oh-So-Moral-Kids-And-Their-Sordid-Music-Today as his running mate, but he put a lot of distance between himself and one of the most effective campaigners in recent history), so they're hoping that anyone that's gotten within a thousand yards of Obama will be tainted along with him by impeachment proceedings.
ReplyDeleteThe desired outcome in the Senate only seems likely to the goobers. The ones thinking more than two minutes ahead are mostly dreaming about how wonderful it will be to have a Ken Starr in Washington again, poking through the dirty laundry with a microscope, then leaking all the salacious details to Drudge and Mike Allen.
That's their idea of Christmas.
Oh, they're so over the whole democracy thing. Since they can't win national elections (and they're having increasing difficulty winning statewide elections), they now want to 1.) make sure those who are allowed to vote, vote the right way, and 2.) make it so that elections maybe are not needed (i.e., eliminating direct voting for senators).
ReplyDeleteIt's never too late. Hell, they'll probably still be trying to impeach him when he's Ex-president Obama.
ReplyDeleteThere's a doctoral thesis in deviant psych to be had in an analysis of George Will's thought processes as regards abandoning the bow tie and taking up with the brazen hussies of Fox News. From paper doll pompous egghead, to resident savant in the House of Harkonnen. "Writing about baseball not macho enough? I'm hanging in the green room with Megyn Kelly, bitchez. Howdaya like them apples?"
ReplyDeleteWell what chance does that give them? I don't think you're being completely fair here.
ReplyDelete[Sic] semper tyrannis!
ReplyDelete"making executive power compatible with democracy's
ReplyDeleteabhorrence of arbitrary power," he said, is "now more urgent in America
than at any time since the Founders, having rebelled against George
III's unfettered exercise of 'royal prerogative,' stipulated that
presidents 'shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'"
Strange... we didn't hear a peep out of George when Dick Cheney was reinventing himself as the fourth branch of government.
If I'm a Democratic House member, I rise to offer an amendment to the articles of impeachment, deleting all the existing language and replacing it with "Presidenting while Black". And I keep doing it while the Speaker gets red in the face demanding "The gentleman will suspend!"
ReplyDeleteYes, Obama's courting impeachment. It's you Dems who are forcing all us conservatives to do these things we want to do anyway.
ReplyDeleteNormally one doesn't encounter this kind of reasoning after leaving grammar school.
It's all okay if there's an R after the name. No abuse too egregious, no extra-Constitutional power too broad to raise an eyebrow.
ReplyDeletePut a D after the name and merely carrying out the specified role of the office is waaaaay too far over the line.
"For all [Obama] knows there's a Lois Lerner e-mail that says, 'I want you to go after these Tea Party bastards with everything you got. Use every trick you can to keep them on the sidelines for this election cycle. Nuke those fascists.'"
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to play the "for all we know" game. If Lerner sent the IRS an e-mail commanding them to nuke the Tea Party fascists, though, it's pretty clear that it disappeared before anybody got a chance to read it.
Meaning that when Dubya had proven himself a blithering idiot on Hurricane Katrina and Iraq was circling the drain and the Democrats took both houses of congress in '06, McCarthy would have given them his blessing to... You know what? I don't even have the energy to finish the speculative sentence.
ReplyDeleteThese people have all the understanding of the world and the dangers to America that one might glean from such '80s action classics as Cobra and Invasion USA.
ReplyDelete"Libs are going to run video clips and soundbites of us saying stupid shit just to increase MSNBC's ratings."
ReplyDeleteAnd in that sense, if in no others, the wingnuts are going to be very, very generous.
They look like cell phone towers. You see them in every neighborhood now. The truth is, they're thought-ray transmitters pitched to a frequency only RWNJs can receive, causing distorted visions of perfidy and scandal with even the most mundane and easily explained news development, all to increase Obama's popularity-by-victimization.
ReplyDeleteTHEY'RE HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, SHEEPLE!!
The brethren love McCarthy's easy-and-fun approach, and often repurpose it into clickbait, e.g. "Former Top Prosecutor: Here's How to Impeach Obama [VIDEO]," "7 Articles of Impeachment to Take Obama Down," etc.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats Hate Him! Learn One Weird Trick to Impeach Obama!
I think inventing IRS e-mails is a rich vein to be mined. I mean come on, no unleashing the mutant zombie IRS agents to feed on the livers of Tea Party patriots? Collaboration with the CDC to invent a conservative specific virus? For all we know...
ReplyDeleteHoc ptooey!
ReplyDeleteCheney has photos of Will and an unfortunately deceased hamster.
ReplyDeleteThey're trying to infiltrate James O'Keefe into the White House as an intern. He'll be wearing a blue dress.
ReplyDeleteI'm not quite sure why there are two nooses in that graphic. Mayhap they are planning to exhume Reagan and string up his corpse because of the Iran shenanigans?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, all too true, Satch. One of the great blunders of the Founders, I think, was in believing that Congress' instincts to preserve the institution would always win out over loyalty to any party, and quite the opposite has come true. It might still have been true--if only barely--in 1973, but that impulse ceased functioning entirely by the time Iran-Contra rolled around, and partisanship over institution was in full swing by 1993 and has only accelerated since then.
ReplyDeleteNow that Congress, as an institution, is running neck-and-neck in popularity polls with cockroaches, one would think there would be at least a tiny impulse to change that, but, no, if anything, they're pressing on regardless into ever-greater depths of irrelevancy, sycophancy to insanity and a kind of granite stasis.
Which would just make him a cross-dressing rat-faced little criminal.
ReplyDeleteLet us not forget that virtuous explication of U.S. foreign policy, "Red Scorpion."
ReplyDeleteIn his defence, Will claimed he was helping the hamster achieve a coveted status of victimhood.
ReplyDeleteFormer Top Prosecutor: Here's How to Impeach Obama [VIDEO],
ReplyDelete"Top prosecutor" is hardly a relevant qualification when the same guy is also describing Impeachment as "not a legal matter".
Yep. Nooses. And I'm sure it comes as noose to them that using lynching imagery regarding Obama is more than a little racist.
ReplyDeleteI'll stop calling them racists when . . .
You missed the best part: The mountain of evidence that has not been produced. It's all there. Evidence. Mountains of evidence. But it's not been produced, so we can just make up shit. Mountains of shit.
ReplyDeleteFor all the whining about "Bush derangement syndrome," there was plenty of stuff right out in the open to pick up and wave around (signing statements, the purge of the DOJ, torture, warrantless wiretapping, etc.). With Obama, it's always "We can only imagine . . ." followed by some complete bullshit (Continetti's made-up dinner conversations, this rack of imaginary emails, Michelle Obama's "whitey tape," and so on).
It's 11-dimensional impeachment.
ReplyDeleteSic Semper Typonnis
ReplyDeleteAnd we all know how putting "Rape Victim" as one of your qualifications moves your resume right to the top of the pile! That hamster would likely have been an executive had it survived.
ReplyDeleteJon Stewart is on MSNBC? Learn something new everyday.
ReplyDeleteWest bade America beware the Mexican kids -- they "closely resemble an advancing column, a kind of foreign legion of child-mercenaries" and Obama is "shepherding them straight into an enfolding and enlarging federal safety net from which they may never have to emerge."
ReplyDeleteI always thought Will started to abandon his bow tie schtick after Tucker Carlson was ritually eviscerated and his entrails devoured on Crossfire by Jon Stewart....oops, I seem to have lapsed into Raw Story clickbait headline-speak for a moment.
ReplyDeleteWheels within wheels....
ReplyDeleteThe Matthew Continetti version:
ReplyDeleteFor all Obama knows there's a Lois Lerner e-mail that says, "i want you to go after these Tee Party basterds with evrything youse got. Youse every trick you can to keep them on the sidelines for this election sycle. Nooke those fascists." What more evidence do you need that there's a conspiracy? Look at the atrocious spelling, the bad grammar, the sloppy youse of words. Typical libtard writing style and absolute proof that Lerner wrote it.
Considering the number of times they've recreationally repealed the Affordable Care Act, I find that all too believable.
ReplyDeleteFor many conservatives, repetition = sincerity. That's why they're so big on saying the Pledge of Allegiance at every opportunity. Sure, you pledged yesterday. But it's a new day and your allegiance might have changed.
ReplyDeleteGiven how much of the conservative landscape is nothing more than grifting dollars from the rubes, I think your line is a lot closer to the truth than they'd like to admit.
ReplyDeleteBy all means, impeach him. Then Joe Biden can run as an incumbent president.
ReplyDeleteWait. What? Could you link to that? I have to read it for myself.
ReplyDelete"Bruce Fein, the legal scholar who is known for drafting articles of impeachment against President Clinton," which experience should come in handy -- as should Fein's 2011 campaign to impeach Obama on grounds of Libya.
ReplyDeleteBruce Fein is one weird, sleazy political operator. He's a lawyer and "Constitutional Scholar" who worked under Reagan briefly. He's now been involved with impeachment proceedings against three presidents in a row (Clinton, Bush, and Obama). He teamed up with John Nichols circa 2007 to go on an impeachment tour against G. W. Bush.
He's also a professional Armenian Genocide denier who works with the "Turkish-American Legal Defense Fund (TALDF) for that purpose. He's associated with various violent groups such as the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).
That's an excellent illustration of the two competing methods of thought: evidence leading one to believe in conclusions vs. conclusions leading one to believe in evidence.
ReplyDeleteEvery day I see government devices beaming filtered electromagnetic radiation directly into the eyes of citizens, conveying instructions that they are commanded to follow...
ReplyDeleteUm, they aren't Mexican kids. They're from Guatemala and other Central American countries. Is this the wingnut's geography fail, or yours, Roy? Pleases update.
ReplyDeleteWhat else is new?
ReplyDeletechemtrails.
ReplyDeleteAt Wizbong!, they don't drink the Kool-Aid, they smoke the powder crystals then drink the bongwater.
ReplyDeleteIf only they knew they were inadvertently parodying an Oscar Wilde quip: "In matters of grave importance, style not sincerity is the vital thing."
ReplyDeleteYou can't expect much style from people who spent most of high school getting stuffed into lockers, or from the people who did the stuffing. I think those two groups make up a large proportion of the modern conservative movement.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Fein was working with Jean Schmidt, and I am not in the least little bit surprised.
ReplyDeleteWayne Rogers is still alive, Philip Seymour Hoffman is still dead. Happy Monday, everyone.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the heads-up.
ReplyDeleteIt would not surprise me one bit if wingnut tomes started having extensive footnotes, all of which consist of references to IMDB.
ReplyDelete'See: "Cobra" 28:55')
Yeah, Obama wants to be impeached to raise his popularity. Because the poll numbers on a lame duck, 2nd term president are what determine the course the Ship of State takes...
ReplyDeleteFirst goddamn week of summer...
ReplyDeleteso we can look forward to Republicans pushing impeachment for the rest of the life of the Republic.
ReplyDeleteSo this repeated impeachment nonsense will last only a few more years, then? That's a relief.
No, Will's a true believer. I remember running into a PJ O'Rourke essay a year or two ago on the subject of teacher's unions, and it was the most half-hearted thing you can imagine. US education stats have been where they are for the same reason for fifty years: white conservatives will move heaven and earth to keep money away from those people and their schools are underfunded. Anyway, Mr. O'Rourke is smart enough to know that kicking the hell out of teachers is going to do exactly nothing to improve schools.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Will really thinks that women cry rape for the bennies. And why shouldn't he? Everyone he knows and works with runs to kiss the imaginary boo-boos of the GOP.
Narrow bandwidth modulated signals aimed--aimed--at specific targets in an attempt to control behavior! And criminal penalties for anyone who dares to deviate from that government-mandated behavior! These insidious devices are designed and built to federal specifications--the D.O.T. doesn't even try to hide it!
ReplyDeleteJay Tea is still alive? I thought he and Hillary'sLovelyLegs were a murder/suicide pact back in 2000.
ReplyDeleteThe president really needs to hit the campaign trail this year to support Democratic candidates, as a matter of self defense. He needs to put the GOP out of its our misery.
ReplyDeleteHe made the mistake of dismantling his formidable political machine in 2010, and we have been suffering from the teapercussions of that unilateral disarmament
Rank authoritarians believe the trade-off in rights and freedom is worth the price, because then there will be clear and direct lines of command, everyone will be given a role with none of this pesky free-will bullshit, it will be easy to gain power by ratting out everyone you hate, and their manichean odds of achieving happiness will be raised by making everyone else miserable.
ReplyDeleteSlap up enough copies of the American flag and put a Reagan mask on Kim Jong Un and they'd be happy as clams.
Second one's for Biden. I'm surprised they didn't put one up for Boehner, too, since he's such a squish.
ReplyDeleteIt's a circular reasoning that's worked quite nicely for them, and as StringOnAStick pointed out, it does allow corporations to move into the resulting vacuum.
ReplyDeleteI think a big part of the problem here is that America's never-ending debate on the proper role of government got derailed back in the 1980s. That's when the right started to change from offering up reasoned positions on the issues to just lashing out in contradiction.
Today we've reached the point where the political discourse really is like John Cole's exemplar: You're discussing dinner options with your date. You suggest Italian, your date suggests tire rims and anthrax. There's no possibility of compromise.
Reagan/Friedman orphans. The School of the Americas should be shut down and made into a school for these kids.
ReplyDeleteUS education stats have been where they are for the same reason for fifty years: white conservatives will move heaven and earth to keep money away from those people and their schools are underfunded.
ReplyDeleteThat's part of it. A bigger part, especially in the last 15 years, has been the enormous pushback against teacher unions and teacher pay. There are lots of people who are convinced that teachers don't deserve to make more than cashiers, and they vote for school budgets that reflect that. The fact that many schools now require teachers to buy school supplies out of their own pocket is testimony to how we've decided as a society to defund education.
For all we know, Matthew Continetti fucks small crustaceans.
ReplyDeleteWow. Thanks for this, atheist!
ReplyDelete"Liberals are the real racists!!!"
ReplyDeleteI always wondered why Rogers left M*A*S*H. Especially since his career apparently cratered when he did. Could it be that the left-leaning politics of the show were just too much for his sensibilities to bear?
ReplyDeleteOw! Scratchy.
ReplyDeleteIt was correct in the original German.
ReplyDeleteObama-Wan Kenobi: "Strike me down and I will only become more powerful."
ReplyDeleteBeat me to that one, damn you
ReplyDeleteI read on the internet he's got crabs.
ReplyDeleteThe president really needs to hit the campaign trail this year to support Democratic candidates, as a matter of self defense.
ReplyDeleteEh, for a lot of the Senate races, he shoud certainly send in the machine ... but on the Q.T. He is presumably planning to personally avoid most of the red-state Senate races, as he should. E.g., Kentucky Democrats are better able to use KYnect as a wedge against McConnell with low-information voters if the blackamoor usurper doesn't reactivate their Manichean worldview by showing up. (If Obama had carried North Carolina a second time, I might make an exception for the Hagan race, but given the drop-off from 2008 I don't think it's worth the risk.)
And that's pretty much the sum and substance of it all. It's why conservatives find Obama such a disappointment.
ReplyDeleteGives new meaning to the phrase "Claw your way to the top."
ReplyDeleteAnd there's the well-documented wingnut inability to distinguish satire and parody from reality. Is it any wonder these people buy into Glenn Beck's gold-bug crap?
ReplyDeleteI always thought the Democrats let the GOP off too easily for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. There should have vigorous campaiged at every level against the obviously partisan, more or less completely farcical attempt to remove a popular, twice elected president, on totally bullshit charges.
ReplyDelete-----Whatever one thought of Clinton's sexual peccadillos and even his attempt to hide them, still, they did not even come close to being impeachment worthy.
----And, besides the thinness of the legal argument, I actually do think it was, and is, a "political" issue. Leaving aside technicalities, to impeach a president there ought to be a damn good reason. And, when there isn't, and when you know damn well in advance that you don't have to close to the votes in the Senate to convict (as it turned out, not even a simple majority on any count), then you should not waste the people's time, energy, money, and government in pursuing impeachment. Without a good reason, so as to justify impeachment on principle, even knowing that it would not result in Senate conviction, and without the Senate votes as well, the GOP were the ones who should have been pilloried politically, by every local, State, and congressional and senatorial Dem candidate, and by Al Gore as well.
------Instead, even many stalwart Democrats let themselves be bamboozled by the drumbeat of "What will we tell the children??!!?11?" and all the other phony crap about the Clintons in general into a defensive stance, more about hushing up the impeachment attempt rather than attacking it, or even conceding that it was perhaps "justified" in some way. The Clintons are the most investigated persons in the history of the world. Virtually every moment of their adult lives, every phone call, every meeting, every document pertaining to them, every place they ever worked, everyone they worked with, their family members, etc, etc, has been investigated. Most of it multiple times and many of it by partisan witchhunters. And, basically, all of that time, energy, and effort has revealed squat, when it comes to wrongdoing.
-----Not only is that unfair and abusive at a personal level, but it hamstrung the government during Bill's second term. And that is what they would like to do to Obama too. They already control the House, they might have enough Senators in 2015 to come close to the super majority they need. Given that they completely got away with it, when it came to Clinton, why wouldn't they be thinking about doing it all over again now, to Obama?
Especially restaurants . . .
ReplyDelete. . . and posted in the break room where all the federally mandated information posters have been put up.
Leaving aside technicalities, to impeach a president there ought to be a damn good reason.
ReplyDeleteThere WAS a good reason. The most excellent reason of all: Clinton was a popular Democrat. The fact that he presided over the greatest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history made his impeachment even more of an imperative. The fact that said economic expansion took place immediately following the tax increases that all Republicans claimed would destroy the economy just sealed the deal.
Clinton had to go because, once again, reality had a heavily liberal bias.
I wouldn't say that his career "cratered", exactly--IMDB shows a decent amount of credits, although it doesn't look like he's acted for more than a decade, and there's nothing there that would be the equivalent of being on a highly-successful sitcom for over a decade--but his real avocation might be what he's been doing lately: "appears regularly as a panel member on the Fox Business Network cable TV stocks investment/stocks news program Cashin' In." [Wikipedia] Which, really, sounds like the kind of show that most people involved in politics should be on, sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteA first rate education is still possible in the U.S. ... for the right sort of people at the right price. There's a reason that conservative thinkers get paid so well to dispute the actual value of a liberal arts education, why Rick Santorum called Obama a "snob" for suggesting that every qualified young person should have access to a college education, and why critical thinking courses are under attack in Texas and other locales. It's that, while society needs skilled engineers, programmers, HVAC technicians and semi drivers, high level general education and critical thinking are an impediment to the creation of citizens who are willing and able to question the assumptions and goals of the elite. The sooner they get rid of those troublemakers, the better.
ReplyDeleteI read Alan Alda's autobiography. I think Rogers was mentioned once, with no indication of any issues. Alda's amazingly nice about everyone and everything, to the point of almost being bloodless, but he waxed on quite a bit about everyone else on MASH and what a family and lovefest it was. You know, in the post-Rogers years.
ReplyDeletePeople are absolutely silly about sex between consenting adults, especially if one is married to someone else; I suspect that as a society we're a little less silly now than we were then but I wouldn't bet folding money on it.
ReplyDeleteJust like "run the gumbit like a family budget", "sex with someone not your spouse" was an easy sell to the non-politically involved. Their picky-ass list of what to impeach Obama over has nothing that is as easily understood/felt, and therefore it all sounds just like more wingnut ranting & chemtrails. I do hope the public receives it as such and pays closer attention this Nov.
Well, hell, their idea of "fair" is giving liberals a head start before shooting at them.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone told the Libertarians about this?
ReplyDeleteIn the libertarian paradise, YOU stop traffic light!
ReplyDeleteThe brain-bleach is in Aisle 4.
ReplyDeleteThey've bought into the "fair and balanced" myth so deeply that they believe that there has to be some liberal equivalent of the Nixon tapes, with their nearly-endless supply of bigotry, paranoia, and grudge-mongering.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. The fact that Obama does not seem to have Bill Clinton's various "appetite" issues does a lot to insulate him from this kind of BS. If something can't be personalized, plus is just BS to begin with, is not actually a crime at all, etc, etc, then there is less plausibility to the impeachment argument.
ReplyDeleteAttention K-Mart Shoppers - Blue Light special on Aisle 4
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"The mountain of evidence that has not been produced. It's all there.
ReplyDeleteEvidence. Mountains of evidence. But it's not been produced, so we can
just make up shit. Mountains of shit."
Sounds like the beginning of a "Chewbacca Defense."
Oh we don't care about your east coast latte sipping, pot smoking opinion polls - nope not one little bit. We know we have the full support of the American people.
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As a resident of the Volvo-driving, latte-sipping, East-Coast, ethnic-food-eating, liberal paradise of Vermont, I resemble that remark!
ReplyDelete"That's no moon! It's a Goldberg!"
ReplyDeleteHe is, not to put too fine a point on it, boring. Happily married with no signs of extra-curricular activities. A middle of the road, slightly eggheady wonk. His signature piece of legislation is about health insurance, a topic so dull his opponents had to make up the specter of summary old folk death sentences just to make the debate interesting.
ReplyDeleteIf it weren't for the fact that the GOP is stuck on full-on batshit crazy, he'd probably be remembered in the same breathe as Coolidge or Cleaveland or any other caretaker president.
As it stands, he'll be remembered by his supporters as as mildly disappointing but not too bad President, and by his opponents as 6000HITLERSTALINABORTIONBABYALINSKYSSKREEEEEEE
His signature piece of legislation is about health insurance, a topic so dull his opponents had to make up the specter of summary old folk death sentences just to make the debate interesting.
ReplyDeleteWinner! Please collect your internets at your earliest convenience.
"Obama cannot have known there was no corruption given the mountain of evidence that has yet to be produced and now appears to have been destroyed."
ReplyDeleteUh. I'm not feeling my best today but it sounds like Obama is guilty of being unaware of the lack of corruption in his administration. I can see why this would disturb a Republican, but that's kind of blatant.
I don't know. I like the impeachement chatter, especially coming from the elected dumbfucks. Not only is it another way they bilk the rubes, but they've convinced their followers that Obama has committed eleven zillion crimes that warrant impeachment, starting with being born.
But then ... they won't do anything about it.
Except come up with more reasons Obama should be impeached and send out another request for donations. This is sort of like doing that trick where you tell a dog to sit while you hold a big lump of red meat over his head to demonstrate how well trained he is. Except Fido has rabies and thinks your arm looks mighty tasty.
Eventually you get lots of your remaining followers, who are already extremely distrustful because someone has been encouraging to new heights of paranoid thinking, saying things like:
They're all in on it.
Because you, their great white hope, won't do anything except talk the 300 things Obama did today that also warrant impeachment. And then comes a brash young challenger who promises to personally draw up Articles of Impeachment if you'll only send him to D.C. ...
Yes, and missing emails are perfect for people who find Birtherism a little too nutty to publicly embrace.
ReplyDeleteI think they were the little remoras who hovered around the locker stuffers, hoping to absorb some locker stuffer cred but rarely if ever getting more than a tolerant nod. 50 years later they're still doing the same thing, on the locker stuffers have become CEOs and they'll talk to them when they want something.
ReplyDeleteI'm very surprised we haven't spent the past decade being bombarded with proof that Obama is a rampant fuck beast who rampantly fucks white virgins like all blah men. (Look at how close he's standing to Queen Elizabeth!!!)
ReplyDeleteThere was that guy who claimed he had crack-fueled limo sex with Obama (that is, they smoked crack and had sex in, not with, a limo) and "Obama is gay because he was sexually assaulted by a had an affair with a family friend when he was 10 and that's about it. At the very least "My years in Obama's Harem" by Anonymous seems an easy way to hop aboard the wingnut gravy train, but there are no takers.
Yes the smell of thoroughly rotten "ethics" [up there completely overwhelmed the poor rodent (the hamster not Will)
ReplyDeleteAnd the beltway media in sync with Faux "News" will show an edited clip of that Democrat saying that over and over again as proof.
ReplyDeleteI am still kinda gobsmacked at the phenomenon that is Allen West. It's not just that he's got a serious thinking disorder. It's that the military didn't seem to notice all the while he was in--roughly two decades. And they promoted him to O-5, which is a bit like saying, in military-speak, "hey, we like the cut of your jib, crazy person."
ReplyDeleteI guess we should be thankful that he didn't end up in the Air Force or the Navy, where the ICBMs are.
Count me as one of the few people who think there won't be any serious impeachment attempts, because the way the math works out (you need a simple majority in the house and a 2/3 majority in the senate) the House could have gotten the ball rolling at any time in the last 4 years, and leadership definitely had incentive to do so and keep the crazy primary people at arm's length. The fact that nothing happened makes me think that enough House Republicans know it would be a dumb idea to silence the crazies.
ReplyDeleteNot out of respect for the system, mind you: they just know that impeachment proceedings would bring out the freak show front and center, and they know that the American people getting a long hard look at the freak show in 2010 and 2012 is what cost them the Senate-two easily winnable years in a row! (FYI, this is also why I'm not too afraid of losing the senate this year). There's a ceiling to this stuff; you can get away with shit in low-visibility, low-turnout House races that can't in state or national races. Cold comfort, but I think it will stop things from spiraling completely out of control until 2016. (Which I am looking forward to: I have no reason to believe that the current formation of the GOP will ever win 270 EVs again, and the Dems will get either a fresh face or Clinton's massive fanbase and a chance to knock out a bunch of class of '10 senators.)
All that said, the fact that the Republican rank-and-file is in such a frenzy about this is indeed depressing, and further proof that we don't share the country with people who intelligently and respectfully disagree with our goals and methods, but an animalistic hivemind that will do, say, and believe absolutely anything to get their claws on a marginally larger amount of political power, which will all be used to further crush the weak and disenfranchised and sell more of the country to a handful of fascist billionaires. I'm not much for the salt-the-earth solutions, but anyone at this point who's imagining a way to bring the insanity down to a simmer that doesn't consist of outwitting, outvoting, and outlasting the lunatics until they start dying off should just let it go. We are not dealing with an opponent who can be reasoned with.
Any day now, they'll release the "Whitey" tape that Michelle has conspired to hide from the American people for so long.
ReplyDeleteProbably like most cons they lacked the courage of their convictions to go through with it.
ReplyDeleteThe Amber Alert rebels try to warn you but are each time shut down by the imperialistic federal warmongers
ReplyDeleteStop mentioning that hamster or Rick Santorum will get to worrying about George Will's marrying the damn thing.
ReplyDeleteDoonesbury's Duke?
ReplyDeleteMaybe a little bit!
ReplyDeleteThere's no there to any of the other stuff they've tried to pin on Obama the Stupid Cunning Reckless Weak Tyrant Sissy, either.
ReplyDeleteNah, what I think is they've finally figured out that every time they bring up sex, a rubber and leather clad goat skeleton* tumbles out of one of their closets.
Once they figure out how Obama makes that happen, they'll add that to his list of crimes. But until then, they're keeping quiet.
*Sorry, I don't have a newsletter.
"Unfortunately deceased"? Hate to say it, but I don't think the hamster would want to go on living after that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but there is no way they can possibly stop saying and doing racist asshole things. They have no chance!
ReplyDeleteConclusions leading one to imagine evidence, I think.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if I should be surprised by an ex-CIA agent lying to destroy his enemies, but Johnson really is hte worst.
ReplyDelete---"There's no there to any of the other stuff they've tried to pin on Obama the Stupid Cunning Reckless Weak Tyrant Sissy, either."
ReplyDelete-----Meh. "Weak" and "Sissy" are better fits for a slender, somewhat dorky, professorial, "egghead," non macho, non sexed up man, than sex fiend. And "Cunning" fits in with that too (brains over brawn, intellect over "animal" emotions). "Stupid," "Reckless" and, of course, "Tyrant," are just standard, stock in trade, charges, that don't actually need a predicate.
I think we're already at Full Metal Psychotic. There's what, a mass shooting every other week now? The people doing that are not, as far as I can see, Kucinich voters.
ReplyDelete"Cratered"? Nonsense! Wayne Rogers was in Marlo Thomas's much-beloved "It's A Wonderful Life" remake! Why, being in that revered 70s classic alone justifies leaving M*A*S*H.
ReplyDeleteRed Scorpion does have some interesting political aspects to its production, although probably not what was intended. (Note the producer.) I've also heard it described as a propaganda film for Jonas Savimbi.
ReplyDeleteIt also shows that the "both sides do it" meme has been a roaring success. Thank you, centrist media hacks.
ReplyDeleteWorked with Dubya, at least for a while.
ReplyDeleteO-5 is about where you can get to even if you are a complete moron. Crazy can get much higher but you have to be at least smartish crazy. I once watched a group of O-5's lose an argument with an E-4 and then the that was the E-4's immediate boss E-5 it was a thing of beauty. Made even better that they were both female.
ReplyDeleteUmm, possibly in the Army (I didn't have enough time in the army to know the ins and outs among the officer corps). But, in the air force, the morons never got past captain (O-3), but were often allowed to remain in until retirement--if they'd had more or less clean careers during wartime.
ReplyDeleteCaptain was the equivalent of the gentleman's C.
It's a pretty hard line to get beyond but LTC is doable (more likely to top out at Major from my anecdotal evidence) for the subpar especially if they have at least some skill at the internal politics and manage to hang out long enough. It depends mostly on if they are just dumb but stable or have severe issues that will come out like major issues with booze. And of course bugfuck nuts reactionary isn't a bar. I haven't interacted in depth with enough O-6's and general officers to have a solid opinion but I've never gotten a completely checked out hamster wheel having significant difficulties from those ranks.
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