With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll leave it to the better informed to ascertain the degree that the Democratic Congress came to the rescue of an embarrassed Obama administration and cut off funding for the shutdown to allow him an out with the now familiar excuse of “they did it — not me, who keeps promises”), I think we now have come to the end to the five-year left-wing attack theme of Bush “shredding the Constitution.”
Except for the introduction of euphemisms and a few new ballyhooed but largely meaningless protocols, there is no longer a Bush-did-it argument. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, military tribunals, Predator drone attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan — and now Guantánamo — are officially no longer part of the demonic Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld nexus, but apparently collective legitimate anti-terrorism measures designed to thwart killers, and by agreement, after years of observance, of great utility in keeping us safe the last eight years. [...]
In short, all the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the “I accuse” op-eds by the usual moralistic pundits — all that turned out to be solely about politics, nothing more.
Quite so. The down votes on funding the closure of Gitmo and the transfer to the homeland of the detainees is a pointed reminder of just how poll-driven the Dems’ attitude towards the WOT has been since 9/11. For all the missteps and blunders that have been committed over the past eight years, thank g-d that we’ve stayed after it, insisting that American blood is not cheap, and that murdering our citizens reaps consequences that are inexorable, severe, and conclusive. There are so many countries out there which lack the will, the means, or both, to defend themselves against The Jihad. The “world citizens” infesting the party in power got a sharp rebuke in Congress today.
Via David C Kifer in alt.quotations
Comment by newrouter on 5/20 @ 6:27 pm #
nah they were looking at this ca prop map
here
Comment by happyfeet on 5/20 @ 6:34 pm #
Looking back I think Bush a lot knew where this was headed. That piece of shit what is president now doesn’t seem near as confident his policies will survive even ten minutes after his dirty socialist economy-trashing ass is out of power.
Comment by Sticky B on 5/20 @ 6:38 pm #
The next time one of them asks the question, “Why do they hate us?” the answer will be simple. 90 – 6 bitches.
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Comment by Sdferr on 5/20 @ 6:47 pm #
Truth is, there is still a terrific amount of killing to be done. I cannot tell whether Obama is up to it.
Comment by newrouter on 5/20 @ 6:49 pm #
the kyoto thing was something like 90-6 no under bubba billy
Comment by newrouter on 5/20 @ 6:51 pm #
a dude that would protect a botched abortion will kill anything
Comment by AJB on 5/20 @ 7:09 pm #
That the Democratic Party is a shitty right-wing party as well isn’t exactly news.
Comment by ThomasD on 5/20 @ 7:26 pm #
What America needs now is a truth commission.
You know, one to go back and identify those authors of “the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the “I accuse†op-eds” and make them eat crow. Publicly.
Comment by SBP on 5/20 @ 7:27 pm #
That’s it, AJB. Drop your weekly turd in the punch bowl and run away.
Comment by newrouter on 5/20 @ 7:30 pm #
they be proggs there mister
Comment by Makewi on 5/20 @ 7:32 pm #
That AJB calls anything he disagrees with “right wing” in order to protect his self image isn’t exactly news.
Comment by Joe on 5/20 @ 7:34 pm #
Harry Reid is not doing this out of principal, but political shrewdness. Obama may even be in on it to give him cover with the nut roots (the lopsided vote suggests that). Still, it is still good.
Comment by SBP on 5/20 @ 7:40 pm #
Well, Makewi, when you’re a psychotic Stalinist like AJB, everything does appear to be “right wing”.
Comment by poon on 5/20 @ 8:09 pm #
“murdering our citizens reaps consequences that are inexorable, severe, and conclusive”
So we did get bin Laden and Zawahiri?
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 5/20 @ 8:15 pm #
poon: They aren’t giving interviews to the international media while the CIC rogers employees under the Oval Office desk. One is always galled at the cheek of libs, giving their boy Bill a pass for his eight years of dithering.
Comment by LTC John on 5/20 @ 8:42 pm #
bin Laden has been Purina Vulture Chow for years and Zawahiri has about as much influence on world events anymore as I do.
That answer your question, poon?
Comment by dash rendar on 5/20 @ 8:58 pm #
Something approximating a chill wind. I’ve got my long johns on though and Montana is nice.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 5/20 @ 9:13 pm #
But for real the neutron star all teh thinking peoples have been expecting is here. Except we’ve got something like the speaker going nova, the debt at black hole and a couple pulsars traveling through time to complete the trifecta. So I just got baked and saw Star Trek. Sue me.
Comment by happyfeet on 5/20 @ 9:19 pm #
Where’s Carin and how is her thumb?
Comment by The Monster on 5/20 @ 9:47 pm #
No question, feets. Last year, Bush had a bunch of talk jocks in the Oval for a pow-wow. One of the things he told them was that it didn’t matter whether McCain or Obama won, whoever had to sit in that office would pretty much have to continue doing what Bush was doing, because once they started reading those Presidential Daily Briefings, they’d realize that there isn’t a lot they can do differently.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 5/20 @ 10:09 pm #
At 21
It’s almost like the point of that show Lost is some subconcious iteration of ‘whatever has to be fucking done, do it.’
Comment by Sammy on 5/20 @ 10:12 pm #
Occam’s Razor says the Dems are just staying true to their political cowardice form.
Comment by Dash Rendar on 5/20 @ 10:25 pm #
Occam’s Razor also implies some nasty razor burn. Like those fuckers attempted to subvert a war after the homeland was attacked and now they are adopting the policies they’ve formerly spent so much vitriol on. By some grace of god half the dem party isn’t swinging or swanging from lampoles by now. Hope, my brothers, and change.
Comment by Sammy on 5/20 @ 10:38 pm #
OMG. This many years later, do I have to remind you that the homeland wasn’t attacked by Iraq?
Comment by SBP on 5/20 @ 10:39 pm #
This many years later, do I have to remind you that the homeland wasn’t attacked by Iraq?
Really? All those thousands (no exaggeration, thousands) of times that Saddam fired on U.S. planes don’t count as acts of war?
What would you call them?
Comment by maggie katzen on 5/20 @ 10:41 pm #
no. but then nobody said that.
Comment by dash rendar on 5/20 @ 10:44 pm #
Really OMg Hitler never attacked the us, north Africa had nothing to do with pearl harbor fuck itNO Blood for oil!!!! Damn I phone. For chrissakes man attempt to understand strategery lest you realize the current SecState and veep voted for said war.
Comment by Merovign on 5/21 @ 1:36 am #
Oh, that’s where the Sammy troll went after it got shut down at AoS.
How ya doin’, idiot? How’s that weak-ass subject-changing working out for ya?
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Comment by Carin on 5/21 @ 6:00 am #
I here, Happy. My thumb hasn’t killed me. YET.
Just busy with soccer. And, I had to take my dad to the hospital (he goes in and out a lot, so it’s prolly just another one of those times). But, busy busy. Thumb is still no better. I hobble on, though. I’m a trooper.
didn’t get the mint yet. But I will.
Comment by nikkolai on 5/21 @ 6:00 am #
Surely this is not the same Sammy from Ace? Most vile, if so.
Comment by alppuccino on 5/21 @ 6:06 am #
Take care of that thumb Carin. It’s what separates you from the animals.
Arlen Specter is now climbing onto the “the CIA is a bunch of liars” wagon. Welcome aboard Arlen! Wow, you add a certain, oh, I don’t know, air of “what do you need me to say Harry?” to the mix. Maybe it was either cop to the “liars” meme, or get hazed as a freshman Dem Senator. I hear part of the ritual is holding Robert Byrd’s balls in your mouth. Just for the men of course. The Dem ladies do something else. You’re not supposed to enjoy a hazing.
Comment by Pablo on 5/21 @ 6:08 am #
Do I have to remind you that the Dems’ Gitmo and EIT screeching have nothing to do with Iraq?
Comment by Pablo on 5/21 @ 6:10 am #
Barbara Mikulski’s balls, alp.
Comment by alppuccino on 5/21 @ 6:22 am #
Barbara Mikulski’s balls, alp.
I heard they were too big.
Comment by Matt on 5/21 @ 6:57 am #
And its not like Sadaam Hussein was paying suicide bombers or anything.
Hell, Hussein (sadaam not teleprompter jesus) was a stabilizing influence in the midde east- his people adored him and he was well known for his just ways and respect of human liberty. There was no reason to remove him unless we were directly attacked by him.
Wait, you mean he tried to shoot down our planes in the no fly zone ? Well, that’s hardly an attack. Wait, Bill Clinton said regime change was necessary in Iraq ? Well, he was just saying to distract from his latest scandal so the neocon warmongers would leave him alone by giving them some red meat to chew on. Wait, you say Hussein (the iraqi one not the marxist one that’s running our country) refused to comply with numerous resolutions sent by the UN and subsequently broken by Iraq?
I agree with sammy and the left- none of these things matter. What matters is peace, love and dope. And socialism. Lots and lots of socialism.
Comment by TheGeezer on 5/21 @ 7:12 am #
But only if the thing to be killed is helpless, defenseless, needs care, cannot cry out, and someone else actually ignores its cries for warmth, food, and air as it dies alone on the shelf next to the abotionist’s stool…
Yep. That’s our president. And his entourage.
Comment by McGehee on 5/21 @ 7:13 am #
Saddam also plotted to assassinate one of our former presidents, but big deal. He woulda had it coming I’m sure.
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Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/21 @ 7:46 am #
The twin forces that drive the growth of the Federal government to Caesarean proportions are progressive social policies and worldwide defense commitments. A confirmed big-government man won’t get rid of either, whatever the hippie left screams about.
Comment by JD on 5/21 @ 8:16 am #
sammy is a mental midget.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/21 @ 8:17 am #
You’re being unfair to the Caesars, Andrew.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/21 @ 9:21 am #
I disagree. There were a handful of enlightened ones: Augustus, Vespasian, The Five Goods, a few others. Most of them, however, were nothing but tinpot thugs and upjumped boys. And the strain of the office wore down many a good man. Tiberius’s first nine years in office were among the best in the empire’s history. Then he got crochety and paranoid (See also Claudius, Domitian, Constantine) Hell, even Caligulia had a good few months before he went insane.
Bottom line: we don’t want to go there.
Comment by SBP on 5/21 @ 9:27 am #
So, Andrew, where would you put O!?
I’m thinking Elagabalus, myself.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/21 @ 10:10 am #
Seriously, Andrew, I don’t think any of the Caesars ever planned to run the lives of Roman citizens to the extent Obama wants to run ours. They may have considered themselves gods, but I can’t imagine them declaring that Romans are no longer permitted to eat garum and have to ride around in one-horse carts made of cheap wicker.
And I can’t imagine Titus demanding Romans stop digging into the earth, holding up the loss of Pompeii to the effects of Global Angering as a dire example.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/21 @ 12:36 pm #
Obama would me more entertaining if he were like Elagabulus. As it stands, he’s more of a Nero type: vain, unserious, not untalented yet firmly convinced of his own genius.
Rob, the Roman emperors made worship of the state and themselves compulsory, persecuted religious minorities, violated property rights to feed the Leviathan state and grew an army of petty clerks to eat out the people’s substance. And under Diocletian, controls were placed on the economy for the so-called common good, restrictions on trade, employment, even one’s right to seek one’s own profession.
The result: one thousand years of feudalism.
The Augusti may not have had a nice pre-fab ideological framework for their actions, but the result was the same: tyranny in purest form, with the corresponding degeneration of their civilization.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/21 @ 12:50 pm #
Andrew, I was trying to make a joke.
I know how bad the emperors (and the late Republic) were.
ISTR that Gaius Julius Caesar ordered a census and audit of the population of Rome to determine who truly was entitled to the free grain ration. Two thirds of those receiving the ration were ineligible — owned too much property or not Roman citizens.
Thankfully, no one’s repeated the mistakes of the Roman Republic, right?
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 5/21 @ 1:13 pm #
Don’t get me started.
Comment by EastcoastMurcielago on 5/23 @ 9:00 pm #
wow sammy and ajb just laid a turd and ran away down to their mommy’s basement