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Great Moments in Stupid Rhetoric

by John Cole|  June 28, 20073:48 pm| 8 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

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Mark Krikorian, NRO:

Today’s defeat of the Senate amnesty bill was more than a run-of-the-mill legislative victory, representing as it did a self-organizing public’s defeat of combined force of Big Business, (some of) Big Labor, Big Media, Big Religion, Big Philanthropy, Big Academia, and Big Government. So I looked at what else has happened on June 28 — the closest parallel would appear to be the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, of the only two times when Gen. Washington managed to fight British regulars to a draw in a conventional battle. Because that’s all this is — a draw, because the open-borders folks aren’t going to give up. It’s just that they went from their usual tactics of piecemeal, behind-the-scenes victories, buried in appropriations bills and little-known courtrooms and bureaucratic offices, and tried to get the whole enchilada — trying to emulate something else that happened on June 28, the Turks’ defeat of the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, leading to Ottoman conquest of all southeastern Europe.

Slobodan Krikorian, celebrating the Battle of Kosovo Polje. Maybe we, too, can look forward to 600 years of acrimony, civil war, and politicians using the event to incite mayhem for personal gain.

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  1. 1.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    A Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914

    Also

    In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.

  2. 2.

    Jake

    June 28, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    Maybe we, too, can look forward to 600 years of acrimony, civil war, and politicians using the event to incite mayhem for personal gain.

    Maybe this will be what starts it all.

    Is he any relation to “Attacking out of the Back” soccer coach Mark K.?

  3. 3.

    Zifnab

    June 28, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    So, let me get this straight? The Democrats wanted to pass an immigration bill. So the Republicans first ginned it up with a bunch of big business incentives, corporate welfare, and new ways to profit off of American newbies. Then they dumped over $4 billion intending to turn the southern border of the US into the northern border of South Korea. And finally, they killed it.

    Wow. With victories like that, I’d hate to see what a loss would look like.

    That said, the Democrats – getting steamrolled both coming and going on this bit of legislation – may have technically benefitted by not seeing the bill passed, but definitely didn’t “win” anything worth speaking of. They got to stand on the sidelines and cheer as a crappy bill got piled up, then watched it collapse under the weight of right-wing talk-radio-inspired pants wetting.

    Someone needs to find “dysfunctional” in the dictionary, and put an overhead shot of DC next to it.

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    ThymeZone

    June 28, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Slobodan Krikorian, celebrating the Battle of Kosovo Polje. Maybe we, too, can look forward to 600 years of acrimony, civil war, and politicians using the event to incite mayhem for personal gain.

    Given the effectiveness of this government, I think you are being optimistic :-)

  5. 5.

    CBeck

    June 28, 2007 at 9:13 pm

    Psssst… TZ…

  6. 6.

    George B.

    June 29, 2007 at 6:15 am

    A Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sofia in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914

    9/11 changed everything.

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    The Other Andrew

    June 29, 2007 at 12:51 pm

    Denial is the first stage of everything. Of course they need to convince themselves that this is the Biggest Victory Ever, when it could very well turn out to be their party’s Biggest Loss Ever, in terms of both demographics and the party’s factions being at war with each other.

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    Randy Paul

    June 29, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Other notable events on June 28:

    1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
    1859 – First conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
    1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded
    1880 – Ned Kelly the Australian bushranger captured at Glenrowan.
    1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
    1922 – The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
    1940 – Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.

    Looks like June 28 is a bit of a mixed bag . . .

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