A POLL:
Which administration official will be the next to experience memory loss in front of a Senate Committee?
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A POLL:
Which administration official will be the next to experience memory loss in front of a Senate Committee?
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Dug Jay
John Podesta, Webster Hubbell, Sid Blumenthal, and Sandy Burger….just a few that quickly came to mind….the actual count would run in the many dozens.
Dungheap
So many choices. Just for giggles, I’ll go with Julie McDonald from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
demimondian
I don’t know, but, John, it sure looks like you got out of the Republican party just in time. Man, they’ve got some kind of amnestic plague going round there, don’t they?
Mr Furious
Whichever one is on deck.
The Other Steve
I can’t possibly speculate on what you mean by “memory loss”.
Perry Como
It’s probably an al Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons and turn the Glorious Republicans into Clintonistas.
Third Eye Open
“I do not recall ever being told anything, by anyone, in fact…who are you?”
Otto Man
Agreed. The White House is starting to look like an Alzheimer’s ward.
mrmobi
Good one, Dungheap, from the TPM Muckracker:
I vote for a Presidential Medal of Freedom!
She is fighting the good fight for human beings against the demislamunofascist animals. We don’t need wildlife. They take a lot of space and shit everywhere. And they have funny names.
McDonald is a civil engineer, maybe she could build a big pen and put all the wild animals in it. It would be so much neater.
Devil's Advocate
I would post an answer to your question, but, to best of my recollection, I can’remember what you mean by memory loss.
John S.
All your goverment belongs to teh Clenis!
John S.
Which prompts the question…
Do conservatives really hate Hillary because they are afraid of the Clagina?
mrmobi
Thanks so much, John S., I hadn’t really ever thought of that. Now I have to go wash my brain.
Zifnab
At least Clinton was able to remember the definition of “is”.
Punchy
Describing Gitmo, eh?
Moll Slanders
Dayum! She’s just an ideological hack.
Rome Again
Hush your mouth.
mrmobi
No, she isn’t. She’s just trying to help our divinely-inspired supreme leader keep his “base” happy. We can’t have very rich people being forced to make adjustments in their beautiful lifestyles for “animals,” now, can we?
Pay now attention to those massive Bee die-offs, there’s nothing there, move along now.
mrmobi
That should be “Pay no attention…”
MUST. GET. MORE. COFFEE.
Rome Again
We most certainly can. In fact, I think it is high time we cut into the lifestyles of humans to make way for the animals who are being squeezed out of their natural territory.
By they way, we’re ALL animals, only some are more dignified than others.
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Oh, God, this blog has truly lept over the entire tank on water skis if it is resorting to the old, “They sure say they don’t remember a lot” barbs. You guys sound like Cletus the Slackjawed Yokel, amazed at the indoor outhouse. It was dumb ten years ago, and it’s even dumber now.
mrmobi
Amen.
By the way, my personal favorite of the Bushies letting ideology trump everything is the 22-year old (If I remember correctly) that they sent over to Iraq to set up the Stock Market. No experience, no degree in economics, but loyal as shit. The Iraqis must have a very high opinion of us by now, don’t you think?
You cannot make this kind of stupidity up.
Jake
Been watching South Park, have we?
Eeel, citing the Washington Slimes is a common way to blow your Spoof-cover. Don’t let it happen again.
Now, what was the question?
Perry Como
So Mac, you agree the entire “executive privilege” claim is a red herring? And when Rove is called to testify you’ll say the Congress is well within its rights?
mrmobi
Wow. Two-in-the-brainpan Lambchop, I actually agree with you.
Now, back to the current bunch of criminal fuck-ups. I understand that Bush has moved on from his goal of ensuring his legacy to surviving office without being prosecuted and starting WWIII.
He’s well on his way, given the attack of Alzheimers’ disease which has decimated his administration. Now, of course, the Brits have provided him with an excuse to “liberate” Iran.
You are in for some fun, Brainpan!
Punchy
Listen to this new immigration plizzy from our Bush Xenophobes:
Becuase SOOOOO many illegal immies have $10K in scratch just sitting in a shoebox, and the additional 35 gunge to part with every 3 years or so. Cuz those lettuce pickers, ya know, are prolly making 60-70 large. Right?
Seriously, why not just go full-on-dick at this point and make them, in addition to the payola, marry their sister, eat a raw fetus, kill their family pet, and THEN blowjobs for all U.S. Consulate employees. After all that…Welcome to America, Senor!
Perry Como
We should just shove them into forced labor camps.
Paul Wartenberg
Has anyone subponeaed the janitors yet?
Rome Again
You are correct mrmobi.
Punchy
Holy crap:
Cant find exact link yet….but…not surprised, really
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Sigh. Cletuses abound at BJ.
mrmobi
Got a question.
Why haven’t the Iranians haven’t declared the hostage Brits “enemy combatants?”
I mean, once they do that, can’t they imprison them indefinitely, and use “harsh” interrogation techniques on them “legally?” I mean, if water-boarding isn’t torture, isn’t it within their rights to use it to extract information?
Someone should get John Yoos’ take on this. I’m sure he’d have an explanation why it would be wrong for the Iranians to mistreat British hostages.
Just sayin…
mrmobi
I’m sorry. I just learned that John Yoo says it’s ok to crush a babies testicles in front of its’ parents to elicit a confession. Or rather, “it’s the Presidents’ call.”
The law can be harsh, can’t it?
The Other Steve
Dude, why do you think this stuff is ok just because Clinton did it?
Perry Como
That would be shrill.
Jake
Unless you promise not to talk about what the law did to you.
Is it me or is this a rather…unusual plea arrangement? And by unusual I mean, how the flaming fuck does one go From: A danger to the entire planet and all the fishes in the deep blue sea and too dangerous to let go because you want to kill us; To: we’ll lock you up for seven years (maybe) if you promise to keep quiet about how we treated you?
Rome Again
What I want to know is who is the next person Bush isn’t going to strongly defend.
numbskull
I don’t care how many times someone answers with “I don’t know” or “I can’t remember.”
I do care what PERCENTAGE of the time they answer this way for separate questions. And I do care about answers to weighty questions. Recall that Newt’s asshats had Clinton’s people testifying over what turned out to be made-up stories or bullshit minutae. I would suspect that someone who answers “I don’t know” or “I can’t remember” to questions about fairy tales or how many angels can fit on the head of pin are actually telling the truth.
Perry Como
If someone is critical of Bush that means they must have loved Clinton, moonbat. That you can’t see that fact shows just how extreme you really are.
Tsulagi
It’s CPE, Clinton Penis Envy. They’ve always felt the yoke of inadequacy .
MathBlock
“Which administration official will be the next to experience memory loss in front of a Senate Committee?”
The next one.
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Never said it was OK. What part of “[Whining about “I can’t recalls”] was dumb ten years ago, and it’s even dumber now” is hanging you up? Everyone should just stop being so naive and hypocritical about it.
As to is it right/is it wrong, I think one of the Ickes quotes has it about right:
It’s all a “Gotcha” grandstand for the media and committee members anyway, so of course the witnesses are going to come up with their own way to game the hearings.
Rome Again
mrmobi… got another one for you, via WAPO regarding Goodling:
Loyalty is all that matters. Having the actual education and training to do a job, not so much. Of course, all we have is an anonymous source, but, it’s not hard to believe coming from this group, eh?
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Had to laugh at your totally impartial characterization, which kind of goes to my point. Anyway, it’s funny — “bullshit minutae” is pretty much what right blogs are saying now. I guess the seriousness of the matter mostly depends on whose getting grilled, doesn’t it?
ThymeZone
We ended up with a fucking theo-oligarchy for a government.
How wonderful. How many years will it take to undo all the damage in all the departments and all the contexts of government service and protection? At what cost?
Rome Again
Well, if EEEL has any say in the matter, we’ll NEVER see it happen.
numbskull
EEEL,
Let’s compare:
Small land deal that went bad, blow job, made-up stories about drug running and murders, haircuts on runways that actually didn’t stop airport operations, etc., etc. Yes, I’d call that bullshit, fairy tales, and minutae.
No WMD, No AQ link, obstruction of justice, outing a covert agent, illegal wire taps, torture, unnecessary invasion and occupation, etc, etc.
Yeah, I can see how exceptionally stupid people would find equivalence. It’s depressing that about 1 out of 3 of us are that stupid, but I guess it could be worse.
John S.
Not lately. Did they actually have an episode about the Clagina? Not that I would be surprised if they did.
mrmobi
Oh, god, John Cole has, to quote brainpan, “truly lept over the entire tank on water skis…” in a new thread.
Perry Como
Christmas card lists and blow jobs versus the possibility of firing US attorneys because of political investigations (:cough: Fitzgerald :cough:). Exactly the same!
Perry Como
There was a snuke in the Clagina.
ThymeZone
Okay kids, current-affairs time!
Been reading the ongoing saga of the pet food contamination story today?
Here’s my question: Wheat gluten is a pretty common basic processed-food ingredient. It is one of many that could end up in pet food, or in your canned chili or soup or any number of processed foods.
The food supply is a maze of interconnected large factory operations and transport.
Somehow, in this case, toxic chemicals (still being discovered, apparently) found their way into wheat gluten and/or other entry points in the ingredient chain, and have caused hundreds, probably thousands, of pet deaths so far.
What is preventing this from happening to the human food chain? How easy would it be for a terrorist, such as Timothy McVeigh, to slip some rat poison or melamine into an ingredient bound for a soup manufacturing plant?
How much “homeland security” do you think we have?
If we wanted some, who would get it for us? THE FUCKING POTATOHEAD GOVERNMENT?
Cuss, and discuss.
grumpy realist
Great. Even the Soviets only trashed their biology with Lysenkoism. We’ve managed to trash every single bloody branch of government.
When you start to make the Soviets looks like restrained and realistic…..
Moll Slanders
Don’t tell me you’re just figgering this out now.
John S.
Oh man, I just checked the episode listings. That is absolutely ridiculous.
Apparently, there really is an underlying fear of the Clagina.
AkaDad
I think the big story that’s being missed is that Alzheimer’s Disease has now mutated and become contagious.
ThymeZone
I’m not. (You told me to say that).
But, what we’re discovering is the depth and extent of the damage to government that has been caused by these morons.
Grrr
Funny, last time I checked, the real Cletuses were stocking up with ammo and circling their mobile homes in preparation for the coming toe-to-toe with the Pelosi Stalinist Stormtroopers.
Your should pander to your base, not confuse them with inconsistent metaphors.
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
As I said before, it’s funny how things are minimized or maximized based on who’s on the witness stand.
Because of the hypocrisy!
jenniebee
It goes somewhere beyond funny into a new range of true meta-humor when regular commentors not only can’t spot the painfully obvious spoofs, they also take other regular liberal commentor’s sarcasm seriously.
Perry Como
The distinction is made by some people because of the who, others make a distinction based on the what.
demimondian
You know, I was utterly appalled every time someone in the Clinton administration took the Fifth over an important bad decision like Ruby Ridge or Waco.
Funny — they never did. Odd, that, eh, eEel? Clean government types notice what’s actually going on?
Perry Como
From WingNutDaily:
John Yoo’s torture standards reach the Texas Youth Commission.
Grrr
Sure. And Bush could appear during prime-time tomorrow night in a Hitler costume, sweating and groaning, fucking a goat.
There would be absolute silence from right-wing blogs until 3:10 PM the next day. By 6:30 PM the consensus would be:
1) The goat had it coming.
2) Clinton did it first, with a pig no less.
3) Hillary Clinton is a Nazi.
Perry Como
Former interrogator talks about what US soldiers did to get information:
No word yet on the availability of the latest Harry Potter book.
Zifnab
Man-Boy love. Something this nation’s conservatives can really get behind.
Krista
Goddamn, where’s that eyeball bleach?
Perry Como
No Child’s Behind Left.
Moll Slanders
Personally, I make distinctions based on the WHY.
Perry Como
Why is part of it, but in something like the Plame case it only makes me cynical. It’s bad enough to burn the cover of a career, covert CIA agent, therefore burning the CIA front company and all of its contacts that work on nuclear proliferation; but the reason…yeesh. Covering your political ass. What a bunch of fucktards.
Paul Wartenberg
Swear to god this just happened at my library.
I had a teen skateboarding right in front of a “No Skateboarding” sign.
I and a co-worker went out to confront him and ask him to stop skateboarding. He insisted he was skateboarding. He then questioned if I was certain he was the one doing it. Then he pled the Fifth.
It’s official. The Bush Administration is made up of seventh graders.
Paul Wartenberg
Please edit previous post to reflect this. My bad.
Chad N. Freude
Late to the party on this one, but that is the absolutely perfect solution. Illegal immigrants are picked up by the Border Patrol, thrown into camps and leased to industrial farms. Illegal immigrants make it to farms, are turned in by the farmers, thrown into camps and leased to industrial farms. Crops are picked, farmers pay less than they do now, farmers pay the government (in lieu of taxes), illegal immigrants unable to live free and shipped back to wherever at the end of the harvest. Genius!!
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Oh my sweet Jeebus, I can’t believe this actually applies: “Why don’t they ever mention all the justice that Clinton DIDN’T obstruct?”
Siiiigh. First of all, it’s not remarkable that the Clintonistas didn’t take the fifth over Ruby Ridge, as that incident happened in Spring of 1992, before Clinton was even the Dem nominee. (Where’s Conan O’Brian’s “ASS” stamp when you need it?)
Second, there were at least a couple of obstruction charges against the Clinton DOJ resulting from the Waco fiasco and the cover-up of FBI actions. So again, let’s not conveniently whitewash recent history to pretend that “your guy” was a saint. It marks you as a frivolous shill and a naive thinker.
Zifnab
What, who, where? Niger now? Am I the Secretary of State? Am I a black woman? Am I in the House? Who can say?
Chad N. Freude
Clinton did it! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it first!
And I suppose Clinton did it better, too. What is the relevance of the Clinton-did-it canard/meme/T-shirt slogan? Whether Clinton did it or not, Bush is doing it NOW!
Sorry for raising my font, but “Clinton did it” is not a justification, excuse, reason, license, or absolution for the Bush administration. OK, Clinton did it. How come Bush isn’t better than Clinton?
Jake
Doesn’t one of the Carolinas want to introduce legislation that would allow inmates to trade time for organs?
Hmmmm. If you had a choice between an icky inmate’s liver and a healthy immigrant’s liver, which would you choose?
Chad N. Freude
There won’t be any healthy immigrants. They’ll be denied medical care (unless, of course, they carry their own insurance).
demimondian
Good morning, moron. Yes, Ruby Ridge happened on Bush Sr.’s watch — but so did the invasion of Somalia. You and your crooks don’t mention that much, do you?
As to obstruction on Waco you talk about, that’s simply a lie. (But I repeat myself.) There were no obstruction charges considered — and the issue was heavily investigated.
It must break your heart that the Codpiece in Chief has been shown to be a hollow man, the the center of the Republican-American party has not held, and that you and yours, heirs to the tradition of Burke, have sold your birthright for a mess of pottage. We did not make that so, though, and we did not make it possible. You did, by your blind, unwavering allegiance to a party of thieves — nobody else did this, just you.
numbskull
And EEEL has now joined Darrell as being either too dishonest or too stupid to respond to.
Remember, if you ignore someone on a blog, they don’t exist.
mac
The article about illegals buidling the southern border fence comes from the WASHINGTON TIMES.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070330-124512-2035r.htm
Fence firm hired illegals
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
March 30, 2007
The head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States has been sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job.
Ellison, Ellensburg, Ellers, and Lambchop
Demi, get a grip. You erroneously mentioned Ruby Ridge, not me. I’m a moron for correcting your obvious, huge, glaring mistake? And mentioning Somalia? What the hell was that? Are you totally insane? It’s like talking with a two-tear-old. Next, you’ll start randomly naming the Wiggles or something…
Your faith-based approach to history is so cute. Dead wrong, of course, but just sooooo cute. You might want to learn to use this new thing called Google.
Numbskull:
I find that so ironic that I may never stop laughing. The old “you’re so dumb I won’t respond to you anymore” has got to be the most transparent and childish admission of “I got nothing” on the intertrons. Heh.
John S.
Two paraphrase Dick23: The fabled eloquence of the right.
jake
Nah, just expand MMA Section 1011 a little. Slip a provision about All UR Organs are belong to us in whatever they have to sign and keep the scalpels and ice chests handy.