Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

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Do The WaPo Editors Read Balloon Juice?

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You be the judge:

YESTERDAY THE Post reported that Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley heard years ago from a veterans advocate and even a member of Congress that outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was distressingly squalid and disorganized. That commander proceeded to do little, even though he lives across the street from the outpatient facilities in a spacious Georgian house. Also yesterday, the Army announced that Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, the head of Walter Reed since August, had been relieved of his command. His temporary replacement? None other than Gen. Kiley.

Idoubt it, but I am glad someone picked up on that other than me.

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  1. 1.

    Richard 23

    I was afraid you were going to say that the WP had offered Darrell a column or a spot on their editorial page.

  3. 3.

    Mr Furious

    Where’s the WaPo column about privatizing care and offering soldiers a choice of hospitals…?

    They must have been reading somewhere else.

  4. 4.

    jg

    Where’s the orgy? I came here because I was told there was an orgy. I don’t see any orgy.

  6. 6.

    John S.

    No doubt they get a real kick out of Darrell.

    Yes, it must satisfy them immensely to know that there are people out there that will believe just about anything.

  8. 8.

    Tsulagi

    Sonofabitch.

    In the previous post yesterday I wrote a comment saying at least I give Gates credit for rolling the two-star head who was in charge. I’m a firm believer that when you take over a job you only get 30 days to blame shit on the last guy before you own it after that. Following that, Weightman had to go, and I thought give Gates the benefit of the doubt that he was trying to do the right thing in this admin where that seems never to be the right thing to do.

    Now I find Kiley commanded WR previously for two years and knew about the problems allowing them to grow. A shitbag.

    In one Darrell comment he linked to a dipshit who thought relieving or reassigning NCOs at WR was a “step forward” as they had failed “to control the message” from wounded patients. Well, that true patriot should be really fucking happy now that Kiley has been put in charge as the only qualification he seems to have is being able to control the message.

    Stupid me for giving any asshole in this administration, even a new one, the benefit of the doubt. The real message? In this “honor and integrity” admin you can engage in willful shading lying, corruption, incompetence, and/or fuck over the country any way you can imagine and there will be promotions in your future. The one and only thing that will throw you out the door is failure to promote or at least control the message put forth by an admin whose only contribution to the country would occur if they stopped breathing.

  9. 9.

    Zifnab

    Stupid me for giving any asshole in this administration, even a new one, the benefit of the doubt.

    Heh. Brand new asshole, same old shit.

  10. 10.

    ImJohnGalt

    See what happens? You start as a Republican. Then you begin to question the administration. It’s not long before you succumb to BDS. And afore you know it, you’re engaging in orgies. Next you’ll be smoking Ye Olde Cracke Rocke.

  11. 11.

    LilSquire

    The real reason that WR hospital is in the shape it is today is not because of the people trying to run the day to day business, it’s because of the Clinton adminstration and it’s 8 years of continually decreased funding. When you decrease the size of the military and the funding it gets, what do you expect? Could anyone have run a better WR facility with the paltry sum that the hospital receives for an annual budget? The Veterans Adminstration is THE ONLY Cabinet Department that has to BEG for money to meet it’s budget each year. Every other Cabinet Department i.e. Dept of Agriculture, Department of Defense, etc. get their budget automatically… Yes they have to project…BUT thye get it without having to BEG like the VA does…….. they don;t have to ask for it… So with these two things in place…. it’s a wonder that any VA type facility can even run…

    Don’t blame those at WR who deal with the SHABBY funding.. BLAME Bill and Hilary Clinto for their willful and wanton distaste for the military and the continued decrease in funding to support our troops. 8 years of fucking the troops took it’s toll….. That’s why the military has not had armor, vehicles, troops to fight… The fucking Clintons took it away… And to think that anyone is even considering trying to elect that NASTY bitch as our president???? Do you even want to think what she’d do for our troops now ???

  12. 12.

    yet another jeff

    Yes yes yes…it’s 2007 and the Clintons are just itching to get another chance to destroy the military they hate soooo much. If Hillary saw a guy on a street corner with a “Disabled Vet, Will Work For Food” sign, she’d give him food loaded with preservatives and trans fats, setting him up for nasty coronary artery issues in the future…for the Clintons are a stealthy lot, planting their poisoned seeds of destruction…and a patient lot, waiting 10-15 years for the destruction to take place.

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