Outlaw!*
Oh. And just so’s we’re clear, remember: dissent is patriotic, and it’s always right to Speak Truth to Power.
— Even if doing so makes the President look like a craven, Chicago-style street pimp always on the lookout for a bitch to slap.
(h/t happyfeet)
The ObaMack. “Bitch, just get me my mon-ay.”
It’s no damned wonder Obama didn’t like the Iranians shouting Marg Bar Diktator is it?
Well, as has been pointed out, GM and Chrysler bondholders were screwed by government overstepping its bounds, banks had TARP shoved down their throats by government and now this.
I’m not surprised at how BP has been handled. I am, however, surprised that anyone else is surprised.
Greetings:
I wonder what Constitution it was that he was teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. Pressuring BP to set up a fund to compensate its victims is one thing, but once President Obama’s “Pay Czar” takes control of it, we are way off the constitutional map as I know it. What, no authorizing legislation? No problem. Hey, let’s pay ACORN 2 to administer the process. No problem. Welcome to the United States of Chicagoland.
If it isn’t a problem to ignore the existing legislation with the $75 million cap, why get stuck on something like that?
But…this is a CRISIS!
Laws are for quiet times. During a crisis, REAL LEADERS STEP UP AND ACT KINGLY!
Government seizing private assets outside of the courts is a game-changer; this fundamentally alters the relationship people have with the government. Sure, this is BP, a big company that’s easy to vilify and is, in fact, “foreign” so this action doesn’t show up on most people’s threat radar. But in no way is this administration done with this sort of thing.
The dirty socialist Reuters whores are masturbating furiously this morning.
Because watching the administration fuck America is their idea of pornography, no doubt.
Republicans defend BP, that’s all you need to know in the next election.
If only we could have a benevolent dictator, he would plug the damn hole!
WHO’S FOR THE CHILDRENSES OF SHRIMPERS? WE’SE FOR THE CHILDRENSES OF SHRIMPERS!!
WITH HIS MIIIIIIND!!!
I been watching this crew for what, 16 months now? And I ain’t seen ’em do one smart thing yet.
Venal and corrupt, sure, but not smart.
And that fucking rule of law thing? For pikers and the little people, I guess. I hate even sounding like I’m defending a big multi national like BP, but hell, the fact the dems, including our dumbshit president, do not think it’s a very important bedrock is maddening. It’s not like Barton didn’t say they’d pay. He did, just through constitutionally legal channels.
That doesn’t matter, OI. All that matters is how you’re able to spin it.
He should have thought more carefully about his words. Because what he means isn’t worth a tinker’s damn — and that’s the way we like it!
In fact, that’s the pragmatic conservative’s way of dealing with language!
Slay the egrets. WHO’S WITH ME?
CHARGE!
Simmer down there, Spartacus.
No doubt, Jeff. And can I slay an egret with a 46″ hand and a half sword? Of course I can. I think a “modified” AR-15 might be a bit overkill. Let’s do this thing.
Who is getting the interest off the escrow? Do you think BP will be paying attention to the disposition of their money? Do you think Rhambo and the boys will keep their fingers out of the honey pot? Payback is a bitch.
Gotta slay the egrets. I think those marks they made mean “Death Threat!!!” or “Good Man!!!” or … something else that benefits me in some way …
Big Corporations caused this? With what? Midget subs? The ghost of Sam Walton with a flare gun? Daleks?
Fucking Daleks. I bet it was Daleks.
Wouldn’t be a fucking disaster if it wasn’t for the fucking fishermen out there depleting the fisheries all the time. There’s be tons of fish, oil or no oil. I blame this disaster on fucking Big Fishing.
Poor egrets were just minding their own business, composing beautiful sonnets to one another in the sand and BAM… covered in filthy oil, corporate greed and hurtful notions that they’re not cognizant enough to convey intent.
You people are monsters.
I wanna know how they’re going to reimburse all those folks who had been doing their business under the table all these years. Their lively-hood has been destroyed, yet they can’t prove it ’cause they don’t have any tax returns. This may keep me up at night.
“When I called the White House press office to ask under what law or regulation Mr. Obama was acting, I was told he did not need a law. If the government put a lot of money into GM, it could call the shots at GM, I was told. But under what authority, I asked. “None needed,” was the final answer.”
Ben Stein over at the American Spectator’s website, reminding us why BP is only the latest corporate scalp hanging from Obama’s belt.
Remember kids, it’s not illegal if the President does it!
So act first, then change the legislation later?
However, EPA regulations that prohibit the use of skimmers to start cleaning oil out of the gulf must absolutely be respected?
Oh, DrewM., last seen composing his political eulogy for Mitch Daniels considers this to be extremely non-pragmatic.*
Shocker!
People should watch what they say. Hell, they might accidentally tell the truth.
“When I called the White House press office to ask under what law or regulation Mr. Obama was acting, I was told he did not need a law. If the government put a lot of money into GM, it c
that reminds me of this.
It’s pretty hard to feel sorry for BP.
That pretty much nails it.
Fucking Daleks. I bet it was Daleks
Seek. Locate. Exproriate.
Expropriate! EXPROPRIATE!! EXPROPRIATE!!!
CNBC Analyst: BP’s “Blank Check” Was “Coerced” By Piece of Shit Dirty Socialist Chicago Street Trash Bumblefuck
but I’m curious about this part…
I can’t see the video here I wonder what it’s all about
Carin, it was meant to remind you of Nixon-Frost.
Willie the rcaist cousin-fucking hilljack is sock-puppeting me again. Coward.
It’s pretty hard to feel sorry for BP.
Not so hard to feel sorry for the share holders who’ve watched their investment get cut in half.
And pretty damn easy to feel contempt for an administration that expects BP to bear the financial burden while doing their best to devalue BPs assets.
Gibbs: “What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations…”
There is no corporation bigger than USA, Inc. Not by a long shot. It something that people need reminding of, every day. Relatives or cow-orkers complaining about Big Corporations having too much power go into all kinds of cognitive dissonance when you force them to acknowledge that Uncle Sam is the biggest, baddest CEO in the history of Mankind. It’s doubly effective when you throw in little facts about Uncle Sam’s profit margin on stuff like gasoline and tobacco.
If they support cutting the Big Corporations down to size, then surely they should be happy to join the Tea Party. After all, we’re going after the biggest fish of them all.
it’s now an upraoar according to the dirty socialist Reuters propaganda fags
meanwhile inveterate cumstain John Boehner lubes up Team R’s feckless ass for a nice hard dirty socialist hatefuck
maybe the the cowardly Team R Boehnerfags might should take note of this:
Actually, it’s pretty hard to feel bad for the shareholders too (and I own a good chunk of energy stocks). They bought stock in a company that caused, and then was unable to contain, a blowout in the gulf. Shit happens. You should know that when you buy stock. It’s a gamble, not a guarantee.
And if they have half a brain, they’re loading up on BP right now.
Can we call Obama a fascist yet?
the shareholders might be getting raped by Brit Pussy ineptitude but it’s president bumblefuck what is holding them down and screeching shut up bitch you know you love it in their face
Somewhere a pragmatic GOPer suddenly just fainted. You’re a bad man, Darth.
Can we call Obama a fascist yet?
I don’t know Darth. Is the Reichstag burning?
(Yeah, mixed metaphor. Sue me.)
Well, Charles, 1/6th of all pension moneys in Great Britain are in BP stock and depnd on the dividends which just got suspended. Oh, well, I guess they’ll just have to cut back or something, right?
Why do you hate old English people, Charles?
The irony of Republicans defending BP is up until now, BP has been firmly planted deep in the democrats asses- BP supports climate change research, cap and trade, gave significant amounts to Obama, etc.
Obama is a thug who has shaken everyone down- BP’s just the next victim.
One thing you can take to the bank is that the men at the highest levels of BP have nothing but contempt for our piece of shit president and likely very very little for the rest of our cowardly gangster failshit country, and the men at the highest levels of BP are not without their influence.
They know people.
oops very very little *respect* I mean
For guys who have “nothing but contempt for our piece of shit president…” they sure have been obliging about bending over and spreading him wide. The only thing missing has been the “thank you, sir, and may I have another?”
Are they really that spineless or do they really think that there is a grand strategic advantage to this overt obeisance?
Meya and the left have no use for actual laws. Force will do just fine, thank you. And there really is no need for the judicial branch anymore.
As feets would say … speaking of the gayest of gay Republican gaybots:
A Republican lawmaker from a district affected by the oil spill called on Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) to step down as the ranking member of his committee.
Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), whose Pensacola district is among the most affected areas in the Gulf by the oil spill, condemned Barton for apologizing to BP CEO Tony Hayward during a committee meeting on Thursday.
“I condemn Mr. Barton’s statement. Mr. Barton’s remarks are out of touch with this tragedy and I feel his comments call into question his judgment and ability to serve in a leadership on the Energy and Commerce Committee,” Miller said in a statement. “He should step down as ranking member of the Committee.”
Smile for the camera. Mr. Miller, you big old crusade warrior for Teh Gaia!
Jeff Miller should apologize for being stupid.
Are they really that spineless or do they really think that there is a grand strategic advantage to this overt obeisance?
both but also they hates now… they hateses the dirty socialist street trash and they hateses these whiny trashy godforsaken gangster colonies I think
Jeff Miller and John Boehner should get together and rent some young shrimper boys for the weekend I think.
That’s Joe Scarborough’s former district. We should ask Danger what’s up with that, the resemblance between Miller and Scarborough suggesting a pattern and all.
The leftist associates of Rahm “free rent at the BP lobbyist house for three years” Emmanuel have taken control of BP, and the results were pretty much what always happens when Democrats get control of something:
Detroit: Gone
New York: Issuing IOU’s
California: Broke
Foreign Relations: Britain? Israel? Iran?
BP: Wrecked
The Budget: Busted
Consumer Confidence: Low
The Debt: Exploded
Someone tell me why Democrats should ever be put in charge of anything we don’t want destroyed.
Can we send Barry to Iran so he can be with people who hate Jews as much as he does?
Team R likes it in the ass, evidently.
it’s obscene how much
I just got a summons for jury duty. Be there by 8 am, about an hour’s drive.
Yeah. That’ll happen. Fuck you, government. I just invented a law that says I don’t have to show up. Instead, I’ve decided some BP exec should go in my place.
Deal.
Drew and the Egret Hunter should get together and wag their pragmatic fingers at us.
All this truth is just so unhelpful, when it isn’t carefully danced around so as to make sure it can’t be spun into a suggestion that the GOP is in bed with big business.
After all, look how devastating BP’s relationship with Rahm and the Dems has proven to be for the Dems!
I see Ace’s thread on this has close to 800 comments.
I’d say this blog is no longer the place to be.
Haven’t read a one of them but I’d bet 80% are giving Drew and the Egret Hunters indigestion.
Team R likes it in the ass, evidently.
I take from that comment that you’re aware of the news that calling a corporate shakedown a shakedown is as uncouth as calling your dog “boy.”
Another bloodless victory of the souless over the spineless.
Yes, I’m aware, Ernst.
And nobody much cares what I have to say on the matter. Or at least, no big GOP-side sites that carry heavy traffic. Those ones all find Barton’s words so very unhelpful.
So you should too.
I see Ace’s thread on this has close to 800 comments.
That’s why I don’t comment over there all that much. Who wants to wade through 800 comments?
the Reuters propaganda whores would now have it that Mr. Baron is “oil’s darling“
what does Ace have to say I will go see
it looks like it’s Drew the establishment whore teletubby what is doing all the postings on this subject
Nothing good. He and Drew are being Helpful Team-R players on this one. And being reamed over it by their readers.
oh. yes. Ace is a bitter bitter bitter establishment whore teletubby today.
He needs some quality bunk time with his Palin Romney Pawlenty trading cards I think.
And Barton has withdrawn his statement. Score one for the “we can be just as hysterical and corporate-hatey as the Dems” branch of Team R.
And if doing so further empowers an executive branch that’s long exceeded their constitutional role, well, eggs/omlettes I suppose. Wouldn’t want to say anything that the MFM might paint as “bad”, in any event.
[They] all find Barton’s words so very unhelpful.
Maybe. They certainly became so when the “leadership” accepted the administration’s retexting and decided Barton would have to take the retraction route instead of the revise and extend route.
Too bad we can’t get that hoochie bitch Palin to weigh in on what the administration is doing. We could use a “death-panel” moment about now.
i see the justice brothers taught baracky their “skills”
Too bad we can’t get that hoochie bitch Palin to weigh in on what the administration is doing.
she was on Mr. O’Reilly’s (sp?) show babbling about finding people like the Dutch what have dike expertise the other day cause of she was thinking how to plug the hole.
God love her.
They get the big traffic, so they carry the day.
That’s the way it goes.
But hey, maybe one day soon Republicans will be back in office, and all will be fixed! Provided they don’t do or say anything conservative once they get there. That might offend — and that’s the quickest way to lose power!
Enough. This “leadership” has to go.
You will say what we tell you to say! Individualism is for chumps! WALK THE LINE OR WALK THE PLANK!
Democratic representatives can assault college students on camera and face no consequences, whereas the GOP crucifies it’s own for stating an opinion. In some bizarro world this sort of thing makes sense, but in mine it’s making me inclined to cut ties with the GOP. I will offer them a lovely hairshirt as a parting gift.
Eric Cantor is a frightful pansy I think. He was one of the homos what tried to gank the nice AIG people.
meanwhile back in Jindal’s cousin-fucking sewer
Every time Barton or some other Republican has the temerity to speak real truth to power, the leadership catches the vapors and barely makes it to their fainting couch.
Is Dale Peterson available for a leadership position now that he’s out of the running for Alabama AG commissioner?
Fuck them all. I refuse to vote for the GOP. I’ll just vote for no one and then refuse to follow laws that I don’t much like.
Blatantly stolen from Ace for happyfeet’s edification:
“[S]uper-liberal Greg Sargent, writing for the WaPo, was goofing on Sarah Palin for saying we should have accepted help from “the Dutch.”
“Now, that’s the way he wrote it — “the Dutch,” in sneer-quotes.
[quote]Don’t miss Sarah Palin’s take: She faults the Obama administration for not soliciting the help of “the Dutch,” who are “known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills”[end quote]
“Bwah-hah-hah-ha! “The Dutch!” Have you ever heard something so crazy?
Well, actually, dude, we have. From a “Dutch” “minister,” in fact.
What does this mean? It means that Sarah Palin was talking about something he’d never heard before and was using sneer-quotes to indicate what an absurd idea he thought it was.
In other words, he was ignorant, and used his own ignorance against Sarah Palin. [emphasis added]
“I find that happens a lot with the left. They simply do not hear about this stuff and, as the MFM is mostly liberal, it doesn’t publicize such things, and of course they don’t read righty sites. So they just remain ignorant of many stories, but then get all arrogant about that.
“My other observation is that the WaPo has a superliberal covering the left and another liberal covering the right. Balance.”
Me:
You may not like her happyfeet, but the plain fact of the matter is that Obamacare stalled out, nearly died and was only finally passed over the objection of a majority of American’s because that hoochie bitch, God love her indeed, had the nerve to call death-panels “death-panels.”
blue would have a lot coveted the clue we got when the homopublicans got their ass handed to them yet couldn’t see fit to change their feckless leadership
I have the nerve to call a lot of things.
Love me.
I think I’ve done what I can.
I can’t even win over my own “side.” I’ll be retiring for good soon. I’m going to move to the Oregon coast and become an American humorist.
And this is why we can’t have nice things.
Maybe we could lobby the feds to make one of the states a reservation for those who still care about things like constitutional limits on governmental power, an independent press, and the rights of the individual?
you’re the best one and there are no sides anymore
the center didn’t hold
mere anarchies are loosed upon the world and the ceremony of cupcakes lacks all conviction
Had this as an OT on a previous thread but it fits here.
From The Heritage Foundation “Morning Bell” email.
Looking on the bright-side, here we have an object lesson in what really speaking the truth to power looks like: Power stomps all over Truth’s skinny ass.
become an amish american humorist. the amish don’t have to be in obamacare
Obama makes the trains run on time.
WHY DOES JOE BARTON LOVE EGRETS BUT HATE ON-TIME TRAINS? WHICH BETTER SERVES THE CHILDRENS?
oh hi geoff i had that in an open window and read it a little while ago here is the full version … very good piece
here is a follow-up from the same guy what our angsty establishment whore teletubby friends at the Ace of Spades should read:
Joe Barton is Right: There Was a $20 Billion Shakedown in the White House
only for joey hairplugs. everyone else not so much.
That’s unhelpful, happy.
Shhh. We’ll never get enough votes to regain having no real power while pretending we do if we say truthful things.
And we need that pretend power. For our self esteem.
One other thing. The 100 million fund for out of work deep water oil rig workers, of which 50,000 are being hurt by this moratorium, works out to $2000 per worker.
A pittance thrown to those Obama has thrown out of work and billions for his slush fund buddies. Plus, bonus, a chance to takeover another big company and screw over all the investors including those oh so hated Brits.
What’s not to like? Our Prez, the Ass Kicker #44.
In fairness to Barton, Jeff, I think HE loves the committee assignment the Egret lovers in the “leadership” threatened to take away from him if he didn’t immediately apologize for asking for the salt.
The clusterfuck over at AoS just took a serious turn for the passive aggressive.
Funny stuff.
Is there anything more establishment than the Heritage Foundation? Kind of hard for the pragmatists to dismiss them as fringe cranks.
High Crime. Misdemeanour.
Tried to post this at AOS.
It’s a shakedown for a slush fund that will also give the Administration a piece of the action to parcel out to cronies just like the auto companies.
http://tinyurl.com/27g5gzk
and
http://tinyurl.com/2f7web3
Got this message for my trouble.
Your message has been rejected because long strings of unbroken text are very annoying. Use the space bar or tinyurl.com as appropriate.
here’s the left do their thing:
I’m going to move to the Oregon coast and become an American humorist.
Can we expect some light verse?
No. But I plan on getting my PhD in guitar. What I’ll do with the other 11+ months of my first year I haven’t yet decided.
Drew is happy Barton got taken to the woodshed. Shows our leadership knows what it has to do: make sure not to give the left any ammunition with which to launch attacks against conservatism.
One policy plank being considered for 2012: “Don’t say a word. Just smile and ask people nicely to vote for you with the luminance of your grin!”
Fucked we are. When not only leadership thinks such is good policy, but the fanboys on the right back that strategy — even the “edgy” ones.
Heh. A certain racist hilljack skin-flute player won’t appreciate the competition.
That AoS thread is just sad. Crist-Dreher 2012!!!
“and then the likes of shrimpers”
the barton thing should have used the opportunity to ask why the fuck are we drilling in 5000′ of water and not off the coast of say virgnia
Huh. It’s almost like they didn’t learn anything from the nomination of John McCain. Hell, we should all just become Democrats. At least that way you can say pretty much whatever the hell you want and your motives will be assumed pure.
levin is going after boner
Obama’s a good man. And Barton said what Gibbs said he said. Gibbs being a reasonable man and all.
And I have proof: even Boehner made him take it back — and he’s a Republican! See?
So’s Barney Frank.
Barton should have just let the cowardly homopublican Boehnerfags take his committee seat I think.
i thought he liked weiner
Integrity.
It would have demonstrated integrity.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
— G.K. Chesterton
from the :You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. dept.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/17/afghan-military-deserters-missing-air-force-base/
if you needed another reason to buy a nice zippy efficient Toyota here is one
oh what a feeling to piss on a bunch of illiterate fag-ass UAW poofters
oh what a feeling to piss on a bunch of illiterate fag-ass UAW poofters
Now that made me LOL.
Meya briefly removed the vuvuzela from huranus just long enough to post a mendoucheous comment.
Vuvuzelas where invented by someone who hates people I think. Using those things should be accompanied by an electric shock.
I like rednecks and black folk building “Japanese” cars in America for profit.
Have I mentioned that y’all are depressing the shit out of me? I really don’t do desperation well, so maybe I should share my little secret with you. Things have barely started getting bad. It’s going to get worse, much worse. But then it’s going to get better.
Some people, and America is full of them, have not been paying attention. They’re still not, but they’re about to. You’re gonna have to wait for the thud. It’s coming, and then, once the trauma settles in, we can start fixing things.
Jeff, you should thicken up the “I Told You So” file. It’s going to come in handy.
When I saw the shakedown comment, I thought, “good, someone’s telling it like it is.” Then I saw the apology.
It’s over for our country.
Jeff, you should thicken up the “I Told You So” file. It’s going to come in handy.
That memory hole ain’t gonna feed itself you know!
(I’m joking, but I honestly don’t know if that’s gallows humor or not)
You know who comes immediately to mind when I hear ‘shakedown’, right?
He’s from Texas, of course he’s going to be involved in oil, Obama being from Chicago, well they used to be big in beef, like the burger he helped lobby for to Azerbaijan
Looks like even with the apology, barton’s succeeded in taking the heat off BP — by putting it on him. Mission accomplished. Bet he can’t wait to stump Chu at the next hearing.
Yeah, a $20bn shakedown? No heat there.
Just lay still and it will be over before you know it. And if you tell anybody, I’ll kill you.
Stupid that pervasive and persistent is a crime against humanity.
Here’s a little something for the sane people.
Stupak: “Legitimate” For BP Escrow Account To Fund Health Care
BULLSHIT. U CANT CHARGE BP $20 BILL. US TAXPAYERS WILL PAY FOR IT, WHAT THA FUCK. LEAVE THEM ALONE. THEY WERE JUST CHARGING US $4 GALLON A FEW YEARS AGO, BACK THA FUCK UP. LET US TAKE UP THE ASS RIGHT TAX PAYERS, YEA. REPUBLICANS 4-ever.
Rocket surgeon, I presume.
Either that or a brain scientist.
Pablo: I guess that means Stupak is still in Obama’s stable.