Dissent being the height of patriotism, Ted Kennedy (D-MASS) today confronted Donald Rumsfeld with what he insisted was the undeniable fact of an intractable Iraqi QUAGMIRE and called for the Secretary of Defense to resign—thus reserving his place in the pantheon of Great American Patriots Who Love This Country So Damn Much That They Strengthen It By Forcing Us to Beat Back A Propaganda Attack That They Themselves Have Spearheaded With Knowingly Hyberbolic Rhetoric (Rhetoric That Is Then Thrown Back At Us By The Enemy And By A Hostile Press) As A Way To Really Really Test Our Resolve.
Meanwhile, in a secret bunker complex on the outskirts of Baghdad, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi enjoys a bowl of figs and a handwrapped Cuban cigar and waits patiently for Ted Kennedy and his fellow travellers in Congress and the media to prevail—and for America to lose her will to stay the course…
To the people of Massachusettes:
You do, of course realize how much of a fool Ted Kennedy is making of himself, your state, and the nation. While I can understand that you would prefer to keep him in Washington in order to keep him as far as possible from your fair state, please, enough is enough.
Sincerely,
Gamer
P.S. TW States as in “Those of us in other states are sick to death of this guy.”
And, while Teddy Bear declares failure, and the Democrats tacitly approve of Dick Durbin’s remarks, there is an outcry of anger over a speech given by Karl Rove.
See http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/rove.speech.ap/index.html
Dear Ted,
Take a case of Vodka go into the store room of the Senate building,wait for the faux impeachment hearing to end and drink yourself to death.
Thanks,
The American People
How much lamer can Democrats be? It ought to be a rhetorical question, but it’s not.
Bingo!
Massachusetts, don’t think this shit will inoculate you from a terror attack. Your weakness invites it instead.
He’s the Best Secretary of Defense ever.
…being questioned by the Greatest Kennedy.
If Ted is not already getting paid by the enemy, then he really should be. He does anough work for them, and too much unpaid work undermines healthy capitalism.
In other news, the ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne was seen wandering the halls of the Massachusetts justice system, dragging behind her the bumper to a 1967 Oldsmobile Delta 88….
I have and always will hate Senator Gin Blossom since the day I was born in what used to be the Great Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We used to produce statesmen and entrepreneurs that were the envy of the world.
Now we produce political failures and build $14 billion (and growing) tunnels that have more leaks than ole Teddys liver.
I never thought I’d say this, but I am damn glad I moved to Tennessee.
Timan reminded me of my favorite bumper sticker:
“Ted Kennedy’s car has killed more people than my gun.”
If Ted Kennedy doesn’t know when a policy is underwater, who does?
When I die and go to heaven–or the other place, as the case may be–I would like to finally know the answer to the riddle, why Teddy, this bloated demagogue, bloated wreck of a man, this particular Kennedy, was the one to survive. I fear the gods are mocking us.
This is definitely a ‘conservative bona fides‘ post, sir. I salute you!
As a resident of Massachusetts, I can say Kennedy does not speak for me. I am appalled and embarrassed every time he, and Kerry, open their mouths. I only wish more people in the state would realize how truly misguided and useless they are and STOP voting for them.
Teddy knows a lot about quagmires, and driving Oldsmobiles into same.
Ted, fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.
Don’t mean to get off on another subject here and I’m really, really not sticking up for the moron from Massachusetts,,,,,,,,,,, but hey, fat, drunk and stupid has been working pretty well for me.
Among today’s free software offerings on http://www.freewarepalm.com is the complete Quran in Arabic. I downloaded it just so I could drag it to the trash can. Fuck ‘em.
That’s right! He’s really going to look like an ass when we turn the corner and things start going our way.
Wait until the MSM starts talking about those schools and all the stuff the soldiers got their friends and families to donate!
We should be quiet about Mary Jo Kopechne, Laura killed an old boyfriend with her car too.
More vodka!
“Well, that is quite a statement,” Rumsfeld responded. “First, let me say there isn’t a person at this table who agrees that we’re in a quagmire and there isn’t an end in sight.”
There’s an end in sight? Really, Mr. Rumsfeld, if you can see it why don’t you tell me how you plan to get there?
Binny:
Laura was a teenager.
Teddy was a Senator and left the scene of a deadly accident, reporting it to the police the next day, so as to cover up his inebriated condition. Teddy, married, drove off a bridge that was not along the route to take the single Mary Jo home.
Other than that, comparable.
Actually dbt, we are getting there. Instead of listening to an alcoholic trust fund baby who, in the immortal words of Howard Dean, “never worked a day in his life” you can read the words of someone who did not drive off a bridge, killing the only other occupant in his car and putting on a neck brace to garner sympathy: “The War is Over and We Won.” HERE
In the words of my brother, I hope Teddy gets ass cancer. I, of course, would prefer to see him with pancreatic cancer. But who’s picky?
Without realizing it, Teddy and his supporters are the best friends the war effort have. The more they spew froth on American and coalition soliders, the more they extended the tenderest of their tender mercies to terrorists, the more they scream assertions that are ridiculously false, the more the rest of the country realizes that they are deranged. If Karl Rove can keep Teddy talking through Novemeber of next year he’ll have sixty Republican Senators to work with. And frankly, I’m not all that fond of Republicans, but complete, gibbering, raving, bug-eyed, spittle-drenched insanity isn’t much of an alternative.
*Without realizing it, Teddy and his supporters are the best friends the war effort have.*
I don’t agree with this, unfortunately. The democrats have figured out that repetition makes a thing so. I firmly believe that this entire thing with these asshole senators (boxer, turbin, kennedy et al) is a calulated move to continually weaken the president and the party. Average americans who don’t bother with internet politics and/or talk radio, are only hearing the bad news, from jackasses like Kennedy and news outlets. The Bush administrations utter failure to publicize the stunning victory that is Iraq (read practically any account of folks who have been in Iraq and returned- the country has been transformed in less than 3 years) continues to weaken the publics’ support of the war.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Bush isn’t out there more, praising our troops, praising the Iraqis, giving Americans the boost they need to stay the course- since the election, its like he’s gone into a cave and isn’t coming out- I can easily see why his poll numbers are down- if I was asked today my thoughts on how the president is doing, I would have alot of negative things to say – he let himself be bulldozed on social security, he’s doing nothing to counteract all the bad press on Iraq, bolton’s nomination languishes, the senate majority took a hard one in the ass on judge confirmations- and Bush *seems* to do nothing about any of this.
I voted for a president who would push his agenda hard and would stop taking shit off the Kennedy’s of the world- the republicans and Bush are allowing themselves to be bullied and unlike your local congressman, there’s not really much a Bushg supporter can do to motivate the president.
Does anyone know why Bush has turned into such a wimp in the last 6 months ?
Matt,
He’s a lame duck, so I would imagine the ninnies in his party facing elections and are afraid of controversy are silencing him.
Wasn’t it under the watch (and encouragement) of Ted Kennedy and John F. Kerry, that the Army was forced to reduce its ranks by three divisions? Wasn’t it their error(s) in focusing on the “Peace Dividend” rather than evaluating the cold, cruel world that has led us to have a smaller than (possibly) desired army. Because of their attitudes the military was able to commit fewer forces than it would have perhaps liked to have otherwise done. But its Rumsfeld’s fault that he inherited a military that the bloviating Senator from Mass. regularly exhortiates. Where is Ted Kennedy’s resignation?
Oh come on Teddy making an arse of himself is part of the theatre of the Senate. The more he makes an arse of himself the less people outside of Mass take him seriously.
The proper term is clusterf*ck, not quagmire.
BTW, Rumsfeld is a terrible Secretary of Defense.
They gave him the reins of the most powerful economic and military nation in the history of mankind, and these are his results?
If the current admin were real “party of accountability” Republicans like back when Gov. arnold first came to America (reference to his convention speech), Rummy would be sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of a retirement home knitting a shawl for the past 12 months.
Matt,
Bush was too busy shortchanging U.S. Veterans.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301888.html
Sure, sure. Because the media and Teddy tell you so, it’s so.
Forget what the guys on the ground say; forget what the generals say. The “reality-based” community likes it’s reality more liberally spiced.
Moneyrunner,
The link you left doesn’t work.
Please re-link correctly. I’m curious to know which war the link refers to.
Here you go, Robert. I’ve saved you the trouble of repeated comment posting days after the thread is really active:
Feel free to come back and join on the days when the threads are active, though.