… on that old-fashioned Chicago thuggery
“Thinly-Veiled Threats”? White House Suggests Arizona Republicans Put Up or Shut UpOn This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said of the $787 billion stimulus package, “the reality is it hasn’t helped yet. Only about 6.8 percent of the money has actually been spent. What I proposed is, after you complete the contracts that are already committed, the things that are in the pipeline, stop it.”
A day later, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer received letters from Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar all pointing out the billions headed to Arizona.
Kyl “publicly questioned whether the stimulus is working and stated that he wants to cancel projects that aren’t presently underway,” LaHood wrote to Brewer, a Republican. “I believe the stimulus has been very effective in creating job opportunities throughout the country. However, if you prefer to forfeit the money we are making available to your state, as Senator Kyl suggests, please let me know.“
Isn’t it just like a [collectivist] Democrat to think that the money already extracted from Arizona taxpayers (and others) is now Federal largess? And that returning even a portion of Arizona’s own money to the state is dependent on getting anyone that criticizes the Obamacrat policies to shut up?
These are the people you want to control your doctor and decide what medical care you will receive?
Mr. Kyl, I’m sorry to say but your kidney dialysis has been denied.
Yeah, this is going to work out swell.
(h/t Hot Air)
Comment by Joe on 7/16 @ 8:19 am #
Advice to PW readers: stay healthy, it will be tough to be a Wolverine.
Comment by serr8d on 7/16 @ 8:29 am #
I really like John Kyl. He’s a whip.
Comment by Cowboy on 7/16 @ 8:32 am #
Nice kidney you’ve got there, Mr. Kyl…be a shame if something should happen to it.
Comment by KingShamus on 7/16 @ 8:40 am #
It’s gonna be totally rad when you have to show proof of your party affiliation to see a doctor.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 8:47 am #
He publicly questioned. There’s no way they can just overlook that.
Comment by Squid on 7/16 @ 8:48 am #
For those who don’t know: the key to setting up a really good fake-ID shop is to have an inside man at whichever contractor the People’s Glorious Revolutionary Health Corps (and yes, that’s pronounced ‘corpse’) chooses to print their ID cards. It’s actually a lot cheaper than a skilled forger, and you get first-rate materials to work with.
Call now! Franchises are available!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 8:51 am #
Cap’n Ed put up something about Kyl and Mav pushing back against this; as they well should. Remember all the caterwauling about eeeeeeevolll Booooosh! politicizing the government? Well I wonder exactly what the Obama administration would categorize this action as-”incentivization perhaps..?
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/15/kyl-mccain-to-white-house-threats-patently-offensive/
Ah this new kind of politics, it never ceases to amaze me…
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 8:58 am #
Arizona probably stands to gain when the combined obama / california tax burden leads to an unprecedented exodus of moneys and talents, many of which are uncommon attractive.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 8:59 am #
I think Paul McCartney sorta kinda lives in Arizona. That would be odd if true.
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 9:00 am #
Ya know what I hate?
I hate it when after several refreshes with no new posts, it finally dawns on me to check the recent posts section and I realize that everyone has left for another thread.
Jeff should build some kind of alarm for that;)
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 9:14 am #
Ok,
Where did everyone go now?
Did you jump to another site?
Was it something I said?;)
Comment by JD on 7/16 @ 9:16 am #
Did you fart, Danger ?
Happyfeet – Those uncommonly attractive folks should relocate to central IN.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/16 @ 9:16 am #
sorry, Danger, I’m a bit slow this morning. and not sure what to make of this news. They’re peeved if you don’t want the stimulus money and peeved if you do. Just do whatever they tell you to without complaining.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 9:19 am #
Just remember who’s paying for your gas and mortgage young man!
Backlash coming.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/16 @ 9:20 am #
Just please don’t ask for any data I might use to confirm my “belief”
FTFH
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/16 @ 9:20 am #
like the unemployment rate? not important.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 9:22 am #
good point. Indiana has a flat tax on income while in Arizona the hot rich people get raped, comparatively.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 9:26 am #
Indiana has a flat tax on income
But they are in the Top 5 in incest.
kidding JD
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 9:26 am #
Did you fart, Danger ?
No,
but I did just walk two miles in 105 degree heat so I have that going for me.
Comment by BJTexs on 7/16 @ 9:28 am #
Department of Homeland Health: 2011
“We have decided that the abnormal incidents of skin cancer in Arizona patients represent an abuse of lifestyle similar to overeating. smoking and governmental fiscal restraint. As a result the DoHH will no longer cover skin cancer in Arizona patients. Stay indoors, suckas!”
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/16 @ 9:29 am #
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 9:31 am #
FYI, used to be that men with 40″ waists were at great risk of heart disease. They’ve now reduced that number to 37″. Got to bulk up the obesity numbers to get these health care skeptics to “buck up”.
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 9:33 am #
“Just please don’t ask for any data I might use to confirm my “belief””
Maggie,
Thats what the left calls having “faith”, it’s just a different kind of faith.
Who are we to judge? (/sarc, just in case there was any doubt)
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 9:35 am #
was it uphill both ways? ;D
and against the wind;)
Comment by JD on 7/16 @ 9:43 am #
In the snow and barefoot too, no doubt.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 9:45 am #
Move to Texas, no income tax! And no carry permit required when outside your county as long as your weapon is not concealed…
Downside: Hot! in most places there; good meican food though…
Tip: Don’t move to Austin or San Antonio, although they are lovely, these always seemed like bastions of liberalism in an otherwise conservative paradise…
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 10:21 am #
A reduction in waist size is best achieved through cutting body fat.
This is groundbreaking research al thank you.
Comment by maggie katzen on 7/16 @ 10:28 am #
yeah, I’ve been doing it wrong.
Comment by mattm on 7/16 @ 10:34 am #
This reminds me of watching some coverage of a tax day tea party, you remember the one when the reporter decided to take the man to task for his beliefs: “But YOUR state is getting this much money” And he looked at her incredulously as if that was the point. It would be a no brainer if Arizonians could also absolve themselves of the extra debt. Reminds me of when the president told John Galt that if he helped them he would recieve a “cool billion dollars”
“Which I’ll have to make” except in this case, make payments on.
Comment by SDN on 7/16 @ 10:36 am #
Austin is also known as Berkeley on the Brazos.
Comment by Adriane on 7/16 @ 11:24 am #
Prior to Linda McCartney’s death, Paul en familie had a ranch down in Tucson, Arizona. The code name was Santa Barbara. When Linda died, the Santa Barbara coroner blew their cover by holding a press conference, demanding to know where the body was. Fans immediately swarmed and at least one broke in – not sure if he just crossed the property line or made it into the house.
Do not believe the family ever returned after that & may have since sold the property as too public…
too lazy to research further.
Comment by pst314 on 7/16 @ 11:26 am #
“It’s gonna be totally rad when you have to show proof of your party affiliation to see a doctor”
No need to show proof. They’ll know.
(They are progressives, after all. Enemies lists and commissars are nothing new to them.)
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 12:07 pm #
Speaking of waist size, John Daly is a marketing genius. Shame about the tax man taking everything he owns, you know, because of the, you know, success.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 12:11 pm #
I hear nobody beats Michael Moore when it comes to waste size though.
Comment by Kresh on 7/16 @ 12:16 pm #
Eh, we’re screwed here in AZ anyways. All those transplants fleeing Cali. will just vote in the same shit they fled from. Retards.
I have come to the conclusion that Americans are stupid. We are. Especially the 52%’ers.
Won’t vote the liars and thieves out of office and won’t take up arms against them. Won’t listen to logic and reason, just believe in good vibes comin’ from the lies. Ignore history and proclaim that things are really different this time, just like every other time.
Dumb. As. Rocks.
Maybe China will keep civilization rollin’ ’cause we sure as hell aren’t. *facepalm*
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 12:50 pm #
Americans are a lot dullards what are easily led. This is why we mourn when infomercial people die.
Comment by alppuccino on 7/16 @ 12:51 pm #
Dude, OxyClean
Comment by B Moe on 7/16 @ 2:00 pm #
Some folks are starting to fight back. This is beautiful.
Comment by mojo on 7/16 @ 3:35 pm #
In any normal population, half of the population will have “sub-average” intelligence, by definition. It’s that 2% that worries me.
Comment by mossberg500 on 7/16 @ 3:44 pm #
You guys know that talk of below average intelligence is a dog whistle for jenn, nishi, wheeler’s cat, or whatever fucking douchenozzle name she’s using now, don’t you?
Comment by B Moe on 7/16 @ 3:51 pm #
Considering that a very high percentage of the overall lower half don’t vote, mojo, it is worse than just 2%.
I have tried three times to watch that video I linked in 38 all the way through and can’t make it. Barbara Boxer is profoundly stupid. Seriously.
Comment by Akatsukami on 7/16 @ 4:26 pm #
BBSS, folks. Squid shows us the way in comment #6.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 7/16 @ 4:26 pm #
Well in one sense, they have a point: if the money is bad and doesn’t work, why are they accepting it? It should be stopped and the rest of the spending blocked. In another, saying “the money isn’t working to stimulate the economy” does not translate into “therefore you shouldn’t spend it in my state.” Some of the stimulus package is money well spent: fixing bridges, power networks, etc. Not much, but at least some is proper government spending. It just isn’t going to help the economy.
Comment by Kresh on 7/16 @ 4:27 pm #
It doesn’t matter. I didn’t exclude anyone because I couldn’t. We, as a people, are dumb as fuck. We know exactly what’s going on and we let it continue. Please explain to me, if you would be so kind, how this is an indicator of intelligence. Our trolls are part of the “Heritage of Idiocy” that has become our grand legacy for the future. They are merely the symptoms of the disease.
I told a Japanese friend (who lives in Japan and is a Japanese citizen) that we (Americans) are dumb. I followed this with examples to support my statement. She was surprised because she had never expected an American to say something of the kind. I asked why this surprised her, somewhat expecting to hear that American’s aren’t considered in a bad light (except for the tourists). She replied that Americans are considered stupid in Japan and that she never actually expected to hear confirmation coming from an American.
To be honest, it’s anecdotal and should not be considered an indicator of anything. My experiences will vary, as will my friend’s experiences. But let’s be honest. We, as a people, have legislated a need to warn people that hot coffee might actually be hot. We and our trolls belong to the most foolish and stupid nation on earth.
Good job socialists! Ronnie beat Russia and you beat America! Enjoy the mental and social cesspool you’ve worked so hard to create! Job well done, you fucking assholes!
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 4:41 pm #
oh. Thank you Adriane… here is a sort of muddled article that kind of explains.
Comment by meya on 7/16 @ 5:20 pm #
Only a chicago thug expects the GOP to live up to its rhetoric. They should quit being so ruthless. This may be fine for chicago but in arizona, people just can’t take this.
Comment by meya on 7/16 @ 5:21 pm #
“She replied that Americans are considered stupid in Japan and that she never actually expected to hear confirmation coming from an American.”
Americans are considered stupid in a lot of places. Including America.
Comment by guinsPen on 7/16 @ 5:41 pm #
Americans are considered stupid in Japan
Nuke me once, shame on you.
Nuke me twice, shame on me.
Comment by SBP on 7/16 @ 5:42 pm #
Back for your daily dose of abuse, SFAG?
I mean, SURELY you’re aware that everyone here knows that you’re a pathological liar (and a clumsy one)? I mean, we’ve all told you enough times, right?
So, what do you get out of it? Does public humiliation get you wet? You do know there are web sites that are especially set up for the devotees of such things, don’t you?
On the other hand, maybe you’re simply too mentally ill to know what you’re doing. Maybe in your mind you’re a rhetorical GENIUS who braves the lion’s den of right-wingitude every day, to spread Truth, Justice, and the Marxist Way.
Such delusions of grandeur might explain why you’re so worried that someone here will try to find your useless self in the real world.
You’re not that important, SFAG. You’ve never done anything of any consequence, nor will you ever. You’re a total failure at everything but wasting people’s time.
I seriously doubt you’ve EVER had a real job (as opposed to some feel-good proggo paper-shuffling gig that produces nothing of any value), nor could you hold one.
Sorry.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 5:44 pm #
It’s not about smart, stupid fascist meya. It’s about free. Cause we only want to be free and we huddle close and hang on to a dream. Used to anyways.
Comment by BobM. on 7/16 @ 5:44 pm #
This is sort of tangental to the original post, but in response to Kresh @ #35 and #44, I do not understand the leftist who flee from the failed schools, high tax, high unemployment, high crime urban areas, to the more suburban/rural areas, only to vote for more of the same kind of failed policies and politicians. Aren’t they happy with the 40+ years of policies that have created the socialist Utopias which they are leaving? Which they voted for? You know the ones I mean: the Califorians who move from LA to Oregon, Washington state, even Alaska and Colorado (esp. the Bolder-Denver axis), and the Boston & New Yorkers migrating to Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. What do they want? More Socialismz! Even here in my southern state and city, also with 40+ years of democratic control of the city government and state capitol, same story. I even know several European types here, successful business people, all legal residents, a few even naturalized citizens, who like living here ’cause the US is (for now) it’s a better place to do business. What do they want? More Socialismz! How’s that been workin’ out for Europe all these years? I for the life of me, do not get it.
Comment by SBP on 7/16 @ 5:48 pm #
I for the life of me, do not get it.
One definition of mental illness is repeating the same behavior, while expecting a different outcome.
Comment by SBP on 7/16 @ 5:50 pm #
But we’re not having a discussion, right?
No, we’re not.
You have a rather odd notion of what constitutes a “discussion”, don’t you?
Maybe my first hypothesis was correct. You simply get off on being publicly humiliated.
S’okay, SFAG. Different strokes and all that. As I said, though, there are places where you can indulge in that sort of kink with other people who are into it. Play your cards right, you might even be able to make a little spending money on the side.
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 5:52 pm #
You may get the same answer asking someone Japanese about any other people in the world. Japan was insular for a long time and that has had effects down through the years.
Comment by SBP on 7/16 @ 5:58 pm #
Can you imagine SFAG trying to hold down a job?
Boss: Hey, SFAG! Did you prep the salad bar?
SFAG: (pretends she didn’t hear the question, goes off on a twenty minute digression full of utter bullshit)
Boss: Hey, SFAG! Did you treat those patients?
SFAG: (pretends she didn’t hear the question, goes off on a twenty minute digression full of utter bullshit)
Boss: Hey, SFAG! Did you teach those kids to read?
SFAG: (pretends she didn’t hear the question, goes off on a twenty minute digression full of utter bullshit)
Nope, I don’t see that working out too well. I suspect that she has a very large hairnet, paper hat, and name tag collection to back it up, too.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/16 @ 5:58 pm #
Americans are considered stupid in a lot of places. Including America.
You seem to think everyone’s stupid. It’s hard to imagine another explanation for how lazy your lies are.
Comment by SBP on 7/16 @ 5:59 pm #
It’s Pat!
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 6:02 pm #
The socialism is always the correct way. They move because it is being implemented in the “wrong” way. When it is done correctly it will work.
Consider socialists to be the “slash and burn” farmers of the economic system. Their model is “right” they just have to keep moving because the world is always wrong where they are. Someday the land will love their rape, someday.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 6:05 pm #
This thuggery is really no surprise since, “The Democratic party is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party”. Or so says Scipio; read the whole thing here:
http://www.thereturnofscipio.com/?p=2437
It’s a tough piece, but not unfair…
Comment by B Moe on 7/16 @ 6:11 pm #
I was just thinking today about all the Czars Obama is naming and the backroom legislating of unknown, undebated bills and wondering if we could put a RICO case together against these goons.
Good to know I ain’t alone in those thoughts.
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/16 @ 6:20 pm #
There’s always been a thuggish element to the democrat party but the progressives have traditionally been more like parasitic insects who burrow in (like tics) or take ground by sheer blood-sucking annoyance (like mosquitos).
It’s unusual to see the progressives and the naked corruption and intimidation of urban machine politics so seamlessly conjoined on a national level. Why, it’s almost like fascism!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 6:32 pm #
“Why, it’s almost like fascism!”
Yeah, but at least AMTRAK will finally run on schedule…So when they ship us to the “re-education” camps we’ll at least arrive on time…
So we got that going for us!
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 6:36 pm #
130.Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 6:34 pm #
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/07/a-wise-latina-will-add-spice-to-the-menudo-of-justice.html
Iowahawk brings teh funny topical and timely as usual
Forgive the double posting but I thought it might get more notice here
Regards
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/16 @ 6:46 pm #
I’ve known a few Frenchies who were as dumb as fucking rocks. I guess all the french are stupid. I knew a German who couldn’t tie his shoes. I guess all the Germans are fucking stupid. Don’t even get me started on these danes I knew. Point is that I think the base line for all people is fucking stupid. You go from there. It’s easy to say that Americans are stupid, well because as meya, rd, josh almost daily prove there are a lot of stupid Americans. But, that’s the same for all countries. Any time I hear someone generalizing that one country’s citizens are either dumb or smart, I kind of think that the person exclaiming this is really fucking stupid.
Comment by Danger on 7/16 @ 6:50 pm #
One more link before I sleep.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/16/heart-ache-tea-party-hating-superhack-out-at-cnn/
The tide does turn slowly but it always turns.
Night all
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/16 @ 6:55 pm #
I saw that, too. See ya biatch. Good night Danger and take care.
Comment by Kresh on 7/16 @ 6:59 pm #
I never said I wasn’t stupid. I’m as stupid as all my other brethren. You may think you’re all special and smarter than the rest, but let’s be realistic; our society isn’t wise and our people have the common sense of a shrub (see whut I did thar?).
Individually we may be intelligent. In big groups, however, our collective IQ is inversely proportional to the number of members. Let’s pretend our average IQ is around 110. With 300+ million Americans voting, that’s still waaay too many people screwin’ up the average, no matter who you voted for (52% or 48%). I’d say that’s a joke, but it got a joke elected into the White House. Obama is our president. The guy who promised to bankrupt the Pennsylvania coal industry. The guy who cut his teeth in politics with the most corrupt political machine in America. The guy who’s history is so shrouded in plain sight that pleople can’t see it for all his glorious skin color. We elected am man who we knew wanted to destroy our economy, tax us into poverty, and institute plans that have failed and are currently failing everywhere they are implemented. The guy who said the gas prices went too high too soon.
He. Got. Elected.
Americans are smart? Maybe Americans are smart, but America is as dumb as a box of rocks.
@55: Yep, I’m aware of that, but the woman I was speaking to is what I would call wise. Perhaps not Latino Wise wise, but her common sense could not be beat. Thus, I said it was anecdotal.
Comment by B Moe on 7/16 @ 7:00 pm #
52% of them for sure.
Comment by Kresh on 7/16 @ 7:00 pm #
Oops, sorry. I know the entire American population didn’t vote. So it wasn’t 300+ Americans voting.
Mea Culpa.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 7:06 pm #
It was x number of Americans what voted, but a lot of them are tv watchers what watch tv. Bless ‘em.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 7/16 @ 7:09 pm #
Kresh, please don’t think that was directed at you. Maybe towards your Japanese friend, however, My point was that generalizations that one country is smarter than another are made by dumbfucks. Like I said, I think the baseline for humans, regardless of origin is dumb. I happen to share your sentiments fully.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 7/16 @ 7:15 pm #
Almost?
I wouldn’t count on that. With the current bent toward revisionist history they’ll probably just decree that “on time” is whenever the train arrives and adjust the schedule accordingly. Isn’t that how they demonstrate the positive results of all their programs?
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/16 @ 7:29 pm #
I just love it. Kyland McCain both eschew the bail-out funds as long as the tit doesn’t run dry in AZ.
The New Whigs continue their slouch toward Bethlehem……
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/16 @ 7:29 pm #
I think the baseline for humans, regardless of origin is dumb.
Which is precisely why the accumulated wisdom of civilization needs to be cherished, and lefties beaten with sticks.
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/16 @ 7:32 pm #
I also was tickled to hear the Grand Wizard of WingNut Nation reveal his racist predilection and ‘crack’ under the pressure of his hidden agenda.
Sessions ‘cracks’ me up…………….
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/16 @ 7:36 pm #
“The Democratic party is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party”
Whistling through the New Whig graveyard again, BMoe?
Let’s see how Cheney fares on his upcoming indictment, shall we?
Comment by Cleohammer on 7/16 @ 7:42 pm #
“Sessions ‘cracks’ me up…………….”
As a U.S. attorney, Sessions unsuccessfully prosecuted a group of civil-rights activists — including a former Martin Luther King Jr. aide — on charges of voter fraud. Sessions says he remains convinced that he did the right thing, but admits he “failed to make the case,” and that the prosecution provoked a good deal of animus against him. Perry County in Alabama, where the alleged voter fraud took place, has been dogged by similar accusations for decades; just last year, it was the site of a voter-fraud investigation by state and federal authorities who were looking into corruption by both black and white authorities.
Despite the smear campaign against him, Sessions’s actual record tells a different story.
“I filed 20 or 30 civil-rights cases to desegregate schools and political organizations and county commissions when I was a United States attorney,” he says. “I prosecuted the head of the Klan for murdering somebody, and I insisted the klansman be given the death penalty. When I became attorney general years later, I handled that appeal and ensured that he was, in fact, executed.”
The klansman in question, Henry Francis Hays, was executed for abducting and killing Michael Donald, a black teenager selected at random. The prosecution of Hays led to a $7 million civil judgment that bankrupted the Klan. Sessions notes that two of the lawyers from the Justice Department’s civil-rights division who worked the Hays case with him testified on his behalf [during congressional hearings on his nomination to the federal bench].
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 7:49 pm #
Re-defining success, one goalpost at a time.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 7:49 pm #
Uh, Semanticleo…
I hate to harsh your fantasy about Cheney going to jail and all, but the requirement for reporting on OPERATIONS either being implemented or underway is that they actually be, you know, operational!
Think tanking, training, and feasablilty studies don’t count…
I mean really, do you want the Congress to have to OK the number of times that analysts at Langley can use the rest-room during the day? Because I guarantee they spent more money on the upkeep of Batrooms and gym changing rooms than the paltry 1 million or so spent on this NON-OPERATIONAL program over the last 8 years…
Oh, and by the way, what exactly is your beef with the concept of assasinating Al Queda honcho’s anyway? They’re not heads of state, so no Boland amendmsnt violation…
What’s the beef, besides generic hatred of Booosh!, and Darth Cheney..?
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 7:51 pm #
That was for #73
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 7:51 pm #
Do you have any beef with the idea of whacking a non head of state, known terrorist if located in the field by our guys?
Me? none at all… I could press the trigger and sleep well the same night…
But none of our guys actually executed this plan, just talked and target practiced a bit…
And that’s why it isn’t lying to congress, nor violating the rules on Congressional oversight…
But it’s an interesting ploy by Pelosi to wriggle out of her predicament over the waterboarding lie…One that will backfire in the end, I believe; but it shows some cunning-and a lot of hypocrisy!
Comment by guinsPen on 7/16 @ 7:51 pm #
“The Democratic party is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party”. Or so says Scipio…
Spinks, ‘tic.
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 7:53 pm #
“I prosecuted the head of the Klan for murdering somebody…”
Empathy be Damned!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 7:53 pm #
“National Security Act of 1947, Secs. 501-503 [50 U.S.C. 413 - 413(2 b)]. In a change enacted as part of the fiscal year (FY) 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 102-88), Congress, for the first time, placed a statutory obligation upon the President to ensure that the congressional intelligence committees are kept fully and currently informed of United States intelligence activities, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity…
In Senate report language accompanying the FY1991 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 102-88), the SSCI wrote, “The requirement to report significant anticipated activities means, in practice, that the committees should be advised of important new program initiatives and specific activities that have major foreign policy implications…”
http://ftp.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/m011806.pdf (Page 2.)
It was never an operational program nor an initiative, just a feasability study, think tanking, and possibly some anticipatory training. And, it didn’t have any major foreign policy implications since it didn’t involve other nation-states or heads of the same.
So dreaming it up need not be reported; just as this “wish sandwich” we’re discussing needn’t…
I’m not debating the meaning of the word “is” here, just being, you know, objective…
Really… I am…
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/16 @ 7:59 pm #
What’s the beef, besides generic hatred of Booosh!, and Darth Cheney..?
You have hear of data-mining, haven’t you? You Classical Liberals have no problem with a Police State? And if you insist on giving Cheney the Benefit of the doubt, then you must remember that good intentions are te cheapest of the virtues, just as sentimentality is the lowest rung of Love.
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 8:00 pm #
It was never an operational program nor an initiative, just a feasability study, think tanking, and possibly some anticipatory training.
You were briefed?
Comment by Abe Froman on 7/16 @ 8:00 pm #
KKKleo is strictly a platitude troll, Bob. Don’t get carpal tunnel on his account.
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 8:06 pm #
There is his original sin. You don’t go after the operational heads of the midnight enforcement section of “The Party™” and expect to remain forever unscathed. Memories are long in criminal gangs. Payback is to be expected at sometime.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 8:31 pm #
Yes Miyuki, I was…
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/15/international/15INTE.html
By the NYTimes in 2002! And I’m sure the Democrats in Congress were too, since the times was where the Democrats and the far left wing progressives were getting their talking points before Kos’ “townhouse” cabal or “journo-list”…
Any other questions?
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 8:34 pm #
“You have hear of data-mining, haven’t you? You Classical Liberals have no problem with a Police State?”
You mean the policy that Obama is not only continuing, but expanding to include possible any communication, domestic or international? If you’re concerned why would you be happy with Obama’s expansion of the program?
Just another facet of the Chicago Thugocracy…
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 8:38 pm #
Any other questions?
The same as before. The NY Times article does not speak to your assertion that:
It was never an operational program nor an initiative, just a feasability study, think tanking, and possibly some anticipatory training.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 8:45 pm #
Ehhh, for what it’s worth, meya is the only troll I’m interested in clinically.
SBP is right, it’s not a discussion… it’s a group consult.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 8:47 pm #
Dumb, yes. A liar, yes.
But, what is the exact proportion?
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 8:50 pm #
Then you didn’t read the article closely enough Miyuki…
That is all
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 8:53 pm #
Besides, I allowed Cleo to get me off topic which was poor discipline. Why don’t you defend the politicization of the various US Gov’t agencies? That’s the topic at hand really, and one that was a source of criticism of Booooosh! by the left; politicizing DOJ, the WH staff, etc…
So why is it OK when Obama does it?
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 8:57 pm #
Besides the fact that it does not speak to your claim, it is odd that you would rely on an article written in 2002 to cover the following six and a half years in order to prove that:
It was never an operational program nor an initiative, just a feasability study, think tanking, and possibly some anticipatory training.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 8:59 pm #
Blah, blahing blaher, blahs.
Blah?
Comment by translated for Ric Caric on 7/16 @ 9:09 pm #
Bar, baring barer, bars.
Bar?
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 9:10 pm #
So, let’s examine the equation…
Pete Domenici privately pressuring the Arizona DA to bring in indictments before an election equals a cabinet secretary openly responding to a public request by a senator to kill a funding program.
Comment by Barbarian on 7/16 @ 9:12 pm #
Real funny, a-holes. Bar bar means “tits”. You could have just asked us.
Btw, meya is mainly dumb.
Comment by pdbuttons on 7/16 @ 9:24 pm #
we need a bar czar..
zsa zsa?
Comment by geoffb on 7/16 @ 9:28 pm #
You’re that famous painter “tit’-ian. NSW
Comment by serr8d on 7/16 @ 9:31 pm #
pd back! a good thing.
Cheney won’t go to jail. If anything, he and Bush should be commended for doing an excellent job, keeping our homeland’s soil safe for seven years.
Big shoes to fill for the boy who wears Mom’s jeans.
Comment by Joe on 7/16 @ 9:42 pm #
I heard Orin Hatch giving Chris Dodd head on NPR this morning. Seriously. Hatch was kissing Dodd ass on health care and related issues like it was shooting fancy chocolate truffles. It was disgusting.
Comment by Tiziano Vecellio on 7/16 @ 9:44 pm #
Yeah, I’m pretty awesome.
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 9:50 pm #
edit on #100. Pete Domenici/New Mexico DA
Bob Reed?
Comment by Linguist on 7/16 @ 9:54 pm #
Miyuki, to speak gibberish in your language I need consonant then vowel syllables right?
Ba, bali bala, bi?
Ba?
Comment by serr8d on 7/16 @ 9:56 pm #
Hmmmph. All of these assholes on the left, and the trolls here who are also assholes on the left, only get off by needle-dicking the previous President and Veep. Instead of wanting to search for and destroy the enemy, al Qaeda &c., they are trying to label as enemies those who should be considered heroes.
In my book, they, collectively, the collectivists, are the more insidious enemy: at best, they will collapse our economy by acting as children in a candy store, grabbing great handfuls of Other People’s Money to feed their bottomless well social programs; at worst, they are actively seeking to bring the collapse of our economy so as to bring on the New Order, a socialist world-state, greased into existance by Al Gore and his madcap Malthusian misanthropy, ‘Climate Change ONOES! the sky is burning!!11!’ .
May they all shovel coal in hell for it. The heat would do ‘em good I think.
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 10:01 pm #
non, teinousha
Comment by Arnold's drive-in on 7/16 @ 10:03 pm #
Wax off, Wax on Mr. Miyuki say. Karate Kid get whiplash from change direction. Sound like travel from Washington to New Mexico need layover in Chicago. Nice big House in Hyde Park sit vacant. Desirable neighborhood most honorable except crook next door and bombers nearby.
Comment by Linguist on 7/16 @ 10:07 pm #
Yeah, Japanese isn’t syllabic, teinousha.
Comment by Linguist on 7/16 @ 10:09 pm #
To yo ta.
Na ga sa ki.
Sa ma ri.
Ya ma ha.
Comment by Arnold's drive-in on 7/16 @ 10:10 pm #
Mo ri ta
Comment by Linguist on 7/16 @ 10:15 pm #
Mi yu ki
Comment by Barbarian, bh on 7/16 @ 10:24 pm #
Puddle deep. Without that pretty rainbow of parking lot oil.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 10:26 pm #
instead of sing-a-long this song is monotone I think
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 10:28 pm #
Trolls, a recommendation, seek out shallower waters.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 10:31 pm #
My apologies, ‘feets. But, you know, sometimes it’s fun.
Comment by Arnold's drive-in on 7/16 @ 10:36 pm #
Mumbling monotone can sound perty.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 10:37 pm #
it’s all good – I’ve had that monotone line stuck in my head is all cause my fun game today was figuring out Jules’s lyrics in that ting tings song… brb
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 10:37 pm #
here
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 10:42 pm #
I realize this sounds wrong, but… take more drugs.
Paul’s a fag. Whatever the song.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 10:43 pm #
It should be obvious but (spoiler) L and Shirley kissed them all, their poster on the stairs.
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/16 @ 10:44 pm #
More than 1 cabinet secretary Miyuki as well as the continuation of all the programs derided as “eeeeevol!” when Booooosh! was President. In fact, Obama has expanded the NSA wiretapping and “Renditions” programs…
But, you know, it’s Obama so everythin’ gon’ be eye-ree…
Comment by A. Miyuki on 7/16 @ 10:57 pm #
Omae aho ya de.
Comment by serr8d on 7/16 @ 10:58 pm #
‘feets, ran across this video t’other day, somewhere, not here I don’t think. Thought you might like.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 11:03 pm #
Japanese isn’t consonant vowel syllabic, Mi yu ki?
Please, continue. You might win the first Nobel prize in linguistics if you can pull this off. Consider me blown away in advance.
Sorry, ‘feets, I’m not actually doing Mi yu ki.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/16 @ 11:11 pm #
I added them. I only know I used to like one song by them but I can’t remember which it was. oh. no. not at all. Is ok bh. I got nothing new on my playlist from being gone all week.
Tomorrow’s Friday. I hope it rains but it won’t. It never does here.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 11:12 pm #
Okay, for bonus points, Mi yu ki, what do make of Native American languages?
Wi ne ba go.
Mi ne so ta.
It’s almost like there is some sort of pattern.
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 11:14 pm #
what do make = what do you make
Comment by bh on 7/16 @ 11:16 pm #
Okay, I admit it, I’m partially trying to bait Jeff back in with my weak ass shit.
Comment by Adriane on 7/17 @ 12:01 am #
Bob,
This sums it up, I think…
ht:Theo Spark
Comment by geoffb on 7/17 @ 1:02 am #
Sheesshhh, You’re going to make me dig through my basement for my Japanese language books. Need more コーヒー for that.
Comment by B Moe on 7/17 @ 4:40 am #
He is also setting up a shadow cabinet without any congressional oversight what so ever. A for real oligarchy, which nobody seems to mind at all either.
Comment by B Moe on 7/17 @ 4:53 am #
That actually helps prove our point. Don’t expect you to understand it, however.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/17 @ 5:02 am #
Comment by Semanticleo on 7/16 @ 7:29 pm #
DO tou speak English?
Comment by N. O'Brain on 7/17 @ 5:06 am #
“You Classical Liberals have no problem with a Police State?”
Police States are a specialty of reactionary left fascists, seman.
You know, like you!
Comment by Bob Reed on 7/17 @ 5:17 am #
Nice comic Adriane!
It does capture the sentiment nicely…
Take it easy
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/17 @ 6:58 am #
Wow, the Ting Tings got me shaking and tapping my feet. I rely on happyfeet to point me to the new good stuff. And who couldn’t love a band with this front woman (from Wiki):
Katherine Rebecca White (born 1985 in Lowton, near Leigh, Greater Manchester) raised in a small tent in Lowton, [5] part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England with her father David White, mother Lynne and sister Helena. White went to Lowton High School in Lowton, near Warrington which has a large performing arts department.[6] When she was 12 years old, White’s grandfather Ken White won £6.6 million on the National Lottery and gave each of his three sons David, Stephen and Richard £1 million each. As well as buying ponies for Katie and Helena, David used his share of the money to start a music management company.[7] PONIES!
Comment by Cowboy on 7/17 @ 6:59 am #
‘Feets:
I should start a folder on my IPod with your recommendations!
Have you heard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QZXFlUiDQg ?
Let me know if you decode Jules words in “That’s not my name.”
Comment by BuddyPC on 7/17 @ 7:36 am #
29. Comment by mattm on 7/16 @ 10:34 am #
This reminds me of watching some coverage of a tax day tea party, you remember the one when the reporter decided to take the man to task for his beliefs: “But YOUR state is getting this much money” And he looked at her incredulously as if that was the point.
He’s laughing now. 9.5% + 1.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/breaking-nasty-chicago-tea-party-basher.html
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/17 @ 7:40 am #
Bouncy fake blonds wearing lots of mascara are much needed now. With all that’s going down I’m prone to nostalgic sniffling while listening to songs about Elvis.
Comment by serr8d on 7/17 @ 7:54 am #
Salt Lick, how about just a nice pair of talking jeans?
(Not your average mom jeans, those… )
Comment by Cowboy on 7/17 @ 8:10 am #
serr8d:
Are you sure that’s not Sylvia’s mother?
Comment by happyfeet on 7/17 @ 8:18 am #
thank you! I didn’t hear that one yet… here I found after I figured out enough to google … scroll to the bottom and that’s pretty much it except I’m not sold on the word “baby” … i will paste cause sometimes facebook is hard to get to when you link it –
this song was in my head
now it’s in my mind
call it, reach it
get some words and get some time
though i realise
i cannot emphasize
i’ll stick around but just don’t promise, nothing binding
and baby can’t you see
that you’re so desperately
a standing joker like a vocal one-liner
instead of sing-a-long
this song is monotone
i gotta get some soul, i gotta get some feeling
Comment by happyfeet on 7/17 @ 8:21 am #
oh… *timing* not *time*…
Comment by Salt Lick on 7/17 @ 8:24 am #
Poor schmuck who’s job it was to choose the woman for that video, serr8d (“No, we need to audition another 50 applicants, at least”). She wasn’t even trying hard.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 7/17 @ 8:51 am #
I want there to be hearings on this program of the CIA. I really do. I want to hear the Democrats complain that the CIA never told them that they were planning to kill or capture leaders of Al-Qaeda. I want the Democrats to get up and say that they had no idea that was in the works.
I want the Democrats to admit that they are dumber than gravel.
Comment by geoffb on 7/17 @ 10:02 am #
Salt Lick,
This from the director of the CBO may be the economic answer you wanted yesterday.
Comment by Jim in KC & Partners on 7/17 @ 4:30 pm #
And most of all, I want them to explain why it’s such a bad idea that they shut down the program.
Comment by tony0506@yahoo.com on 7/19 @ 3:17 pm #
I know this has nothing to do with the post… NE ways, Obama is a socialist. The only way socialism can ever succeed is if it kills poor, black and hispanic babies. That is why abortion needs to continue to be legal. So that the socialist government of Obama won’t have to support the poor with welfare and other government aid. Imagine this, if our taxes had to support millions upon millions of poor black and hispanic people – the government would go bankrupt… Genocide of the poor and the weak – that’s the Obama story. He’s the Black Hero… LOL
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