Burns Strider, Huffington Post:
Speaker Pelosi today let it be known she would seek to remain as Leader of the House Democratic Caucus come the new Congress in January. I applaud this decision. Keeping Ms. Pelosi as House Democratic Caucus Leader is the smartest move members of that caucus could make. Her tenacity speaks for itself. It’s a needed commodity to lead in Washington. But, there are also other, core reasons her leadership is needed more than ever.
[…] Republicans pretty much say it all. Why would they spend millions and millions demonizing Ms. Pelosi? Because she’s ineffective? Because she can’t move legislation? Because she’s poor at politics or governing? Did they spend millions blasting her because she’s not a thorn in their side? Exactly. They don’t want her as House Democratic Leader because she is effective, moves legislation, knows her politics, and can govern. Nancy Pelosi is a thorn in the side of reactionaries who want to move us, at high speed, back to the past.
Actually, we “demonize” Pelosi because she is arrogant, ignored the will of the American people, and strutted through the crowd with her giant gavel like she was doing a great service to US citizens (and non-citizens!) by doing for us what we weren’t smart enough to do for ourselves.
“Progress,” for people like you and Pelosi, always moves in one direction: forward. But sometimes the best progress is learning from mistakes of the kind that are a direct result of rushing forward with a faulty vision (or using faulty premises). At which point it makes perfect sense to recalibrate — to move “back to the past,” particularly if the policies of past proved themselves effective. Moving forward for forward’s is “progress” at its most insipid.
Here’s a secret, Burns: I want Pelosi as minority speaker. Her latest insistence that she will refuse to surrender the “gains” she and her “progressive” caucus deigned to provide us (for our own good) — policy “gains” the American people have just told her, clearly, they don’t want, and don’t appreciate — will further alienate the left, who can no longer use the cover of Blue Dog Dems to pretend they are the party of “moderation.”
Progressives, nannystatists, socialists — they will now be forced to reveal themselves; and unable to keep up the charade of being truly “liberal,” the American people will finally be given a very clear choice between the ideals of the left and the ideals of classical liberalism, which I’ve often argued here can — and should — cross party lines in the service of saving the American experiment.
I welcome Nancy as minority leader. And I welcome the doubling down being signaled by Pelosi, Reid (and yes, I’m glad he’s still Senate Majority Leader), and even Obama himself, who continues to believe that the failure of his policies is a product of the failure of Americans to recognize or understand how good for them these policies will be in the long run, once we throw over the free market system and replace it with the benevolent “democracy” of socialism Obama was trained to believe in.
I think having Nancy out there will do the Outlaw movement a world of good. Let people see who the progressives really are, and what they really stand for.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!
This will be the Democrat version of Pickett’s Charge- with Nancy in the lead….
A gift like this following the election makes me think Christmas has come early this year…
getting rid of her would be like telling Adam he couldn’t do vocals for Owl City anymore
Personalize them and their arrogant natures. The face of Nancy Pelosi works just fine.
The “MORE COWBELL” response of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama to this election will ensure further Democrat destruction in 2012.
I think what they’re saying, particularly in the last par, is that Team R women have been presented with a historic opportunity to … how to say?
This guy’s name is Burns Strider? What, Dirk Diggler wasn’t available when the HuffPo called?
i like nancys ‘surprise eyes’ reminds me of the
time my neighbors mom caught me mastrubating in her backyard-the look on her face
heil hitler!
hire pelosi sign
Forget it. The New Kids are already walking back all that rash campaign rhetoric.
do you have a link about the walking back? That would be interesting to see.
Nancy Pelose is remarkable. A gracious, dedicated and
effective politician. It is ashamed that is demeaned by
those who do not have the same garcious and effective
skills. Nasty remarks need to be buried. Senator
McConnell of Kentucky’s comment of the GOP intents to get rid of Obama is an example of the kind of comments that make the political scene ugly. Is is a racist?
Or just arrogant and culturally deprived?
depends on the meaning of is
Is is? Is is Turkish? Or just culturally depraved?
Mr. sdferr you are back!
It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
I are, and feeling pw deprived am I too. Got’s a lotta readings to get done. So off I go.
Heard they canceled that shuttle launch, sdferr. Too bad.
Yep, now I gotta root for cancellations of Monday too, so then they re-schedule for Nov 31 – Dec. 4 when we can go back to see. Otherwise, if it goes Monday next, I’ll be resigned to watching it from afar once again, right out in the front yard. In which event, bummer.
That Judy spambot sure did not grasp basic Engrish.
Not in a good way.
It isn’t gracious to march around with a big gavel showing how you stomped both your political opposition and the people you represent into the ground.
Dedicated, yes. Dedicated to progressive ideals which have been proven time and time again in history to not work. Committed, in fact, and I wish she had been committed four years ago.
She is effective, I’ll grant that. She helped ram through legislation that most of the people did not want, on strictly partisan lines.
That’s the kind of effectiveness that starts revolutions. You saw the beginning of it last Tuesday. Prepare to see a lot more.
“gracious”?
As in…?
Maybe her carbon assprint will be smaller now that she doesn’t get to have the airforce fly her family across the continent at her whimsy
Blockquote fail.
they canceled Undercovers too … which is Mr. Abrams’ biggest miss since Six Degrees which starred Shiri Appleby whose new show Life Unexpected just got… canceled
It is ashamed that is demeaned …. Yup, you hicktard racist are stoopid.
I’d be more than happy to answer this, Judy. But first I’d have to have it translated into literate.
“Her tenacity speaks for itself.”
Mine too.
It starts with a trickle, then the dam bursts.
Link?
I heard both Rand Paul and Rubio, and I’ve listened to Ron Johnson. Can’t say I’m hearing much of a walk back.
link
Nevermind. It’s just RD/Sinister/et al back under a new identity, linking to a piece about how repeal is unlikely.
Given Obama has the veto, yeah, it’s unlikely. For now. But defunding major parts of it ain’t.
See JD’s 1st Rule of Trolls, and the 2nd Restatement. Good Allah, they cannot quit you.
and puts about 22 demonrat senators up for reelection in 2012 on the record.
Oh jeez, another Lefty sniffing that the Republicans won on “old wornout bad ideas” only because of Dems were too nice
They absolutely refuse to believe that it was their IDEAS that were being rejected, not how they framed ’em!
I didn’t get that show, it was too hackneyed a premise, even for the genre,
I was surprised Mr. Abrams let them put his name on it
a journey of a thousand miles probably should start with tasty kolaches
whatever happen to the icc?
I just saw this part…
the times they are a changin’ Mr. Drudge says
that’s soooo sweet I think Team R is probably like the sweetest party ever
huggums wuggums!
“McConnell of Kentucky’s comment of the GOP intents to get rid of Obama is an example of the kind of comments that make the political scene
ugly. Is is a racist?
Or just arrogant and culturally deprived?”
Disregarding your false choice, I think I heard the clip of that. Something about R’s have the house now, can get some things going, but are limited in how effective they can be without the executive. So of course they want Obama out in 2012. You know, so they can put their guy in.
The question is, why doesn’t Obama announce he won’t run in 2012, having been judged a disaster by the voters Nov 2nd.
The R’s and D’s both want the white house. Derr…
Oh, I wasn’t clear. That was me questioning Obamas non announcement, not McConnell.
If they limit it to admendments that cut spending or cut programs only ok. Other than that I’m in no mood for the “hail fellow(traveler), well met” way of doing things. I’m more for “Fiat Iustitia Ruat Caelum” .
I think it’s wonderfully clever trickery… I think I wasn’t super clear
sarah palin – speaker of the house 2010
err 2011
You were fine ‘feets as was the story till it got to this below which threw the tenor off.
Sorry, no tickey, no journey.
Is is Obama a Keynesian?
Is is you a morons, Judy? I can haz cheezebergur?
Thanks for fixing my blockquote fail in #22.
And you thought the embarrassing losses my worldview suffered here in the US would keep me from trolling wingnut sites with an air of superiority.
HA!
You underestimated how sad my life is! Bitches!
msnbc has an open slot
I knew a guy who’s first name was Strider. His brother was named Scooter.
The parents were yuppie/surfers. Go figure.
Michael Steele, Outlaw?
Heh. Keef might be another one we’re better off keeping around.
I met a dude name Richard Dickler once.
yes the majority leader of the 111 congress should do it toute suite
link
Have you guys looked hard at the down ballot races across the country (I ask partly because I haven’t finished reading back the last week, but also because I haven’t seen much coverage of the results as I’ve been web-crawling the past three hours or so)? I caught a little bit of Stu Rothenburg giving an analysis of the election on C-Span yesterday: he seemed nothing short of amazed at the depth and strength of the Tea Party and Repub victories in the state houses and senates across the country.
Do you mean slog through the individual states results sdferr? I haven’t personally. But I have seenr eports of the historic displacement. Something like 19 state houses changed hands if I recall.
It’s something I was speaking about for a while, not so much because of the ground game it would help create but because of the redistricting as part of applying the 2010 census results.
I suppose you could check out the individual state’s secretary of state sites.
I have, sdferr. Read the heartland post. It gives a bit of perspective.
Something close to 700 assembly seats, with some states going Republican for the first time since 1870 or some such.
strider and surfer- they sound like ricky nelsons illegitimate babies [ i wont to go on record as saying i love ricky nelson!-not to big on the whole smoking crack and crashing ur plane thing]
“But I have seenr eports of the historic displacement.”
More or less that Bob: I’d hoped something of the sense of the aggregated 19 you’ve got there (if I recall aright, Rothenburg said 550 seats had changed hands countrywide, though I haven’t got the details, nor the past year landslide/tsunami comparisons with which to set them in proper context). Just as you put it though, I suspect these may be as big a deal in the long run as all the up-ballot races combined.
did you see #7 Mr. sdferr?
Womens hardest hit! Meaning for reals authentic democrat ones.
Sdferr – gov Daniels got a huge majority in the House,and a supermajority in the Senate.
Oh, and Woo-hoo!
Nov 30th earliest launch! So we may yet get to go up and endure the waiting torment one more time. [insert Howie Dean style — Yeeeee-argh — here]
If you’ve been enjoying the angry recriminations contest over at Ace’s you have to catch this comment. That guy seems to be trying to win the asshole contest.
“Listen: I’m a fucking conservative warrior.” That might become my ironic catchphrase for when I say something stupid rather than “brain lesion”. Say it out loud. It’s fun.
Oh, great success here as well, sdferr. Just about every seat targeted in the assembly and senate went our way. It was frankly shocking to hear some of the results.
sdferr: I don’t have the link, but if it’s true, it’s absolutely, positively the emblem of what happened last Tuesday.
The Congressional district that includes Ft. Sumter has a new Representative.
A Republican.
A black Republican.
Regards,
Ric
I hear the various bitch-moan sessions aimed at Angle or O’Donnell and can’t help but the names Patty Murray, Al Franken, Barbara Boxer, Mark Dayton or Barbara Mikulski jump into my head allasudden for reasons unknown. It’s the strangest thing. (And yeah, I’m looking at you, Minnesotans.)
400+ comments. Tells you where the readers are.
I can’t believe they threatened his life just for saying what he said about Sarah Palin.
I’m never leaving my apartment again.
Bitter fight threads always get the big numbers, Jeff.
If you want, I could call someone a dickhead. After all, I’m a fucking conservative warrior.
I don’t read the comments there that much, ‘feets, but if I had to guess a different dickhead couldn’t take how he was being such a cock.
Reading through the thread Jeff linked earlier, he was apparently born insufferable.
but no one should doubt he loves America and hates the spendings – He’s not Rick Moran
Wow…that’s pretty funny bh.
I mean, I can understand his anger to some extent. I got tired of being called a RINO on various comment threads, as well as the posturing of folks who, for instance, might be in their 40’s, had never voted before-for whatever reason, and were lecturing me what it meant to be a true conservative based on what Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity had said that particular afternoon; I needed to shut-up because they were the true consevatives.
But I decided to let it all go. It sounds like he hasn’t.
It’s getting to the point where RINO is an oxymoron, isn’t it?
And it’s never too early to target Olympia Snowe or Lindsay Graham, 2 yrs and 4 yrs out respectively.
You know, that may also be the first time I seriously read some of the comment thread at ACE’s. I generally stay away from it, just like HotAir.
That’s right. Still here, bitches.
And here I’ll stay, too, because it’s Friday night, and frankly, this is all I’ve got.
Holla!
Grahamnesty is going to be rudely surprised in 4 years. Because I have a feeling a Democrat is going to run using the same position on issues he currently does. And he’s definitely going to be primaried by one of DeMint’s boys; or who knows, by who is now Governer-elect Haley.
My Crystal ball can’t see that much detail from 800 miles away.
I suppose I don’t get his reaction on two levels, Bob.
One, if he’s really done all that work, he should be used to disappointment and people giving him a hard time. He doesn’t seem cut out for, well, politicking. People say all sorts of nasty things on the phone and slam doors in your face.
Two, conservatives have to trust the people. Even if the occasional random person is fully ignorant and wildly obnoxious, that’s still not a good time to start ranting about the moronic hordes. At the end of the day, we’re saying those same people are the ones who should be making all their own decisions. Any nonsense like that outburst (and listen, I can catch the same tone from Ace and DrewM over there) and we’re undercutting our own message.
Well, it’s still my message anyway.
Get the armadillo a pet Jeff G. Maybe an ewok…
I often wonder what happened to all the traffic here. I can tell you this, Dan’s not getting it.
Every time someone mentions the next round of primaries I smile inside.
ok this is weird for reals
ewok!
ok now that just looks stupid
I catch that tone from a couple of the authors there too bh, especially of late.
Who knows where that fellow’s from; that’s part of the problem with the internet. Unless they tell you where they are from, directly or indirectly, it’s hard to contextualize his experience. Maybe he’s from somewhere like Wyoming, where there’s not much conflict not many RINOs. I will say, as you allude to, he can’t have done any politicking in a state with any appreciable “blue” contingent.
Because one thing I can say, from many years in DC, the people’s republic of Maryland, and now adjacent to NYC on Long Island, I’m used to getting a hard time, and being rejected, when politics is the subject.
But it also is amusing from time-to-time; like the party where some friends of my wife took me around like an exhibit remarking, “Can you believe Bob’s a Republican?, I mean, he’s so nice“. One particular Manhattanite girl in her late twenties, from the hipster lower east side, remarked that she had never actually met a Republican before.
Industrial-strength stupidity, that is, from a troll who couldn’t hold a McJob if his/her/its life depended on it.
Having read no comments to this post I want to ask if Burns Strider has seen any of the ‘Downfall’ parodies of the bunker scene. And if so, I want to ask if he could tell me when does parody stop and reality begin?
You’re just begging for the reactionary label, Jeff.
Just in the last day or so, I’ve had a young fellow earnestly explain to me that I’m an ethno-nationalist with reactionary leanings. I’m in the process of extracting what the fuck he means by that, but I’m convinced that he’s so thoroughly embedded in some academic jargon generator or other, he just can’t figure out how it could possibly not apply to every single conservative.
Is Burns Strider a real name? Because it sounds like a really contrived pron name. And thank you thank you thank you thank you.
WTF is an ethno-nationalist?
Google it, JD.
I think it translates roughly as “racist”, but sounds more highfalutin.
How can Jeff or you be reactionaries when Jon Stewart and Colbert have got the position all locked up Slart? Something doesn’t compute.
I wonder if you can be reactionary and opportunistic at the same time
If you weren’t reactionary you’d probably have problems driving or catching things.
I think one of you needs to go look the word up. “Reactionary” doesn’t mean that you just react to things.
Sure, so long as people can opportunistically fall into a chosen deadend.
You really think I’m unfamiliar with the word “reactionary”, Slart?
Just taking cues from what you say, bh.
I could be misinterpreting, sure.
“Reactionary” doesn’t mean that you just react to things.
does so
Note to self: I must come across as a moron here.
No, it’s just that sometimes humor fails on the Internet.
If you were being funny, conjure up an image of me and slap it around eleventeen times or so.
react-repeat-rinse
Darleen,
Oh geeze, they’re still in denial about 1994: they are still insisting the Gingrich and the GOP won control of Congress because the Dems failed to pass Hillarycare.
I blame my irrational fear of emoticons.
Emoticons? Weren’t they the aliens on one of those 80’s space movies? Or were they characters in Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th dimension?
Emoticons are evil, and must be destroyed.
I heard that if you accidentally use the wrong emoticon you are suddenly transformed into a Japanese teenage girl. I’m not willing to take that chance for any lame joke.
;-). :-0
Emoticons rock
i feel depressed,i feel so bad
cuz ur the best girl that i’ve ever had
i can’t get ur love, i can’t get a fraction
uh-oh lil girl psycotic reaction
and it feels like this!
Emoticons are wonderful. :-) I ♥ them.
;-)
And nobody will ever confuse me with a young Japanese girl.
#(
That’s a man who is sad because he has tic tac toe for a face. A rare emotion, yes. But, I’m ready for it.
i wouldn’t mind being transformed into that japanese girl
who was in the movie kill bill- the one with the plaid skirt and the death ball..
cuz i really really liked her
really
Yeah, but hey bh, aren’t only 86.3347% of Japanese teenage girls abused by the Yakuza, so you’d still have a 13.6653% chance of getting to America?
That only proves you haven’t accidentally stumbled onto the wrong one yet, JD.
This could be a terrible movie plot now that I think about it.
Given my Japanese, sdferr, I wouldn’t even have a 14% chance of ordering the right food.
Lucy Liu :-0
Bh – your brain works in odd ways.
oh, I was assuming the transformation came complete with Nipptacht included. But hey, it’s your ghastly fantasy, so who am I to argue?
i think japanese teenage girls should be given free flights to America-to go to and fro
free bus passes
a 20 % reduction in all their purchases
pedicures
roses-flowers laid in their path as they walk
and many smiles and bow downs..
Tuukka Rask unsaved the day, tonight. Braden Holtby dances.
– EmotiCons = Contextual Lefturds
“A gift like this following the election makes me think Christmas has come early this year…”
That’s cus it’s Conservimass Rocketman;)
Can I get an amen Newrouter? Cmon man, you know their’s a smile behind that bah-humbug 8^)
– I think we just lost bh to the Sailor Moon thrawl.
if i heard a japanese teenage girl giggle-shyly
i would cut of both my ears with a rusty knife because i wouldn’t want to hear another sound in the world after that
yeah- i don’t give a f*** about bird sounds
or mozarts..
just let me have that teenage japanese giggle
Lucy Liu is Japanese?
lucy liu is cross eyed- and she probably has hygeine problems
check out the girl in kill bill vol one with the plaid skirt and the death ball!
hot hot hot!
I think Lucy Liu is perfectly serviceable.
Wait…maybe that’s the wrong word.
Then again, maybe it isn’t.
They all look alike, don’t they Slarti? ;-)
Japanese teenagers in short-skirted schoolgirl uniforms are a hentai stable. Just sayin’…
– I seem to recall one of Flockharts shows being devoted to Lucy’s ability to give every male (and female) within earshot an orgasm by simply crooning the word *s-e-x*. She also gave workshops on the proper massaging of the back of the knee, which always had the victim ready to change his/her will.
– Actually, I think she’s Chinese, so of course, after a few minutes rest you’re ready for another helping.
– I believe we can safely assume bh is feeling better.
Yes, thanks, bbh. The amoxicillin has me turning the corner this afternoon/evening. Actually had a meal tonight with more calories than chicken broth. Yay!
Brown bottle fly?
Brown bottle flu?
Nah, the symptoms didn’t include an inability to find my wallet.
Okay, later. Time to see if the hot bone scientist can find the killer again this week before I go back to sleep.
Anyway, regarding Pelosi, and understanding the mere mention of that name is more effective than ten cold showers in a row, she’ll just have more time now to concentrate on keeping the Botox seepage from forming donut bulges in her ankles.
– Reid can keep his pet for another two years, and then join Pelosi in the losers box, and all us outlaws can feel teh racists, every time we say his pets name.
– Win, win, win.
Japanese teen age girls are so 2004.
Hey bh, I just now read the thread where your strep came to light. Belated gets wells now you’re already on the road to improvements, figuring, what the hey, better late than never.
hey I just noticed on hulu they just got Lars Von Triers’ The Kingdom – both seasons – I know we talked about it before back when it was kinda hard to find
you will like I think
you meaning you
I’ve had that on DVD for years. Region 2, I think.
Never got around to watching it though.
Lars can be off-putting cause he’s such a wanker but there’s nothing to it but a great story and great story telling that I ever could tell – and some neat performances
happy, find a quite corner and stick your snout in it.
you’re mean and you talk in 80s cop show dialog
if i had a kid i’d name him david caruso mach 4 and
give hime sunglasses and spray paint his head red
and maybe a lil vodka in his bottle if he cried/whined alot
no- if i had a kid i’d make sure he knew how to
march-cuz marchings important in this herky jerky world
[eyes left] cuz if u can’t march son-[or daughter]
you might wander
[eyes right]
and if you wander about-ask yourself
then where will u be?
I didn’t know about the Kingdom, but Ultraviolet, the original noirish Vampire drama, really hits the spot
that one was good but too short
after i stopped laughing hysterically. i find it quite pathetic. her jobs basically gonna consist of finding a way to let all illegals in this country stay. anything to piss off americans. see you in 2012
Time to see if the hot bone scientist can find the killer again this week
Wait, is that a reference to a TV show, or something else.
Because I thought the preferred slang du jour is ‘to crank one out.’
So hard to keep track these days…
Heh.
are you people nuts ………………You dems have got to have rocks in your head……you guys just don’t get it , along with the prestident. wake up.
Somebody didn’t reconnoiter before opening fire.
Ready, fire, aim!