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Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

This really is a full service blog.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

This blog will pay for itself.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

We still have time to mess this up!

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Let there be snark.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

T R E 4 5 O N

“But what about the lurkers?”

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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  1. 1.

    Andrew J. Lazarus

    Drives us liberals crazy, too. You’d never know from the editorial that the “No Torture” memo was from Feb 2002, but for some curious reason the underlings kept on studying the situation. The Bybee and Gonzales memos are more recent. Maybe GWB changed his mind later.

    Or, of course, maybe some non-com reservists decided on their own to implement torture as the preferred mode of interrogation. Right.

  3. 3.

    Rick

    “Or, of course, maybe some non-com reservists decided on their own to implement torture as the preferred mode of interrogation. Right.”

    OK, BGEN Karpinski did it. I mean, just *look* at her.

    Cordially…

  4. 4.

    willyb

    Unlike the Clinton Administration, which didn’t have the stones to deal effectively with bin Laden and his terrorist network, Bush went after the terrorists in Afghanistan where they were breeding. Since “prisoners of war” were taken, and the whole issue of dealing with terrorist prisoners captured by the military on the battlefield was one of first impression, rules had to be developed from ground zero. I am just totally shocked that there would be any evolution of the rules

  5. 5.

    RoguePlanet

    Unlike the Clinton Administration, which didn’t have the stones to deal effectively with bin Laden and his terrorist network, Bush went after the terrorists in Afghanistan where they were breeding.

    Yeah, it really took a lot of “stones” to go into Afghanistan after 9/11.

  6. 6.

    Dean

    Well, Rogue, in the face of the “brutal Afghan winter,” the prospect of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of refugees, the need to view this as law enforcement, and not a war, questions about the Taliban’s role (remember, not one Afghan was among the hijackers), not to mention the fighting history of the Afghans (who had humbled the Soviet and British militaries), actually, yeah, I’d say it probably did take a few “stones.”

  7. 7.

    willyb

    RoguePlanet,

    I will admit that after 9/11 the American public was more receptive to going after bin Laden. I guess that statement about the Clinton Administration just reflects my anger at how little they did. I can only speculate about where we would be today if Clinton had acted more decisively when he had the opportunity(ies) to take out bin Laden.

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