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You are here: Home / Politics / Republican Stupidity / Chutzpah

Chutzpah

by John Cole|  August 23, 20074:38 pm| 32 Comments

This post is in: Republican Stupidity, War, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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Unbelievable:

Yesterday, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker (R-TN) returned from a brief trip to Iraq, proclaiming that they saw “clear success” on the ground. But their definitive claims of witnessing success were seriously undermined by their traveling partner, Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), who admitted to reporters that the senators had only spent 10-14 hours in total in Iraq.

Is this really just a game to all these guys?

Maybe this is why he was only there for 10-14 hours. It was all he needed.

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  1. 1.

    Pb

    August 23, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    Wow*:

    Maybe this is why he was only there for 10-14 hours. It was all he needed.

    We closed Saddam’s rape rooms, and replaced his brutal dictatorship with CAPITALISM, I tell you…

    * That’s “Wow” as in “Wow, CNN is covering this”…

  2. 2.

    rawshark

    August 23, 2007 at 4:55 pm

    Why even go to Iraq. The right people would believe them if they stood in front of a green screen. They wouldn’t even need to superimpose them onto a scene from Iraq. Pointing out that they are standing in front of a green screen and not actually in Iraq is an attack on the troops.

  3. 3.

    Jake

    August 23, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Is this really just a game to all these guys?

    Yes. SA2SQ

    Maybe this is why he was only there for 10-14 hours.

    Oh man. That’s ugly and will just get uglier. Not just in terms of disease and unwanted children but why do I suspect that it is just a matter of time before a known brothel becomes a favorite ambush point?

  4. 4.

    myiq2xu

    August 23, 2007 at 5:05 pm

    Was that Hedley Lamar?

  5. 5.

    Rick Taylor

    August 23, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    “Unbelievable”

    Yes. You’d think I’d stop saying that by now, but I never seem to get quite jaded enough not to be continually staggered by what Republican congressmen will say and do. The theatrics when Murtha made his proposal proved politics and saddling the Democrats with “Cutting and Running” was far more important to them than having a serious discussion about a horrendously delicate situation this needless war has gotten us into it, even given the stakes. It is sickening.

    –Rick Taylor

  6. 6.

    Librarian

    August 23, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Vitter was in Iraq? I tell you, sometimes the jokes write themselves.

  7. 7.

    Tsulagi

    August 23, 2007 at 5:50 pm

    Is this really just a game to all these guys?

    Yes. It’s so these heavily protected brain-dead assholes can come back and say they have seen the pony and it is in good health. Said to their possibly even more brain-dead Malkinettes so they can all join in the manly merriment of cupping each other at the news.

    That CNN story is sad.

  8. 8.

    The Other Steve

    August 23, 2007 at 5:55 pm

    I don’t understand why they needed to go to Iraq.

    Couldn’t they have just diagnosed this war by seeing a video tape?

  9. 9.

    Doug H.

    August 23, 2007 at 6:08 pm

    Voinovich is that rare breed of Republican: He still has a conscience. You just need to bring things right to his face to shake it out.

  10. 10.

    RSA

    August 23, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Maybe this is why he was only there for 10-14 hours.

    Gotta wonder if he was confusing the amount of time he spent in Baghdad with the time it took to get there (a 6,500 mile flight, at, say, 600 mph). Nah. But that is weird. Did he have a more important appointment to get back to?

  11. 11.

    myiq2xu

    August 23, 2007 at 6:47 pm

    I guess they took the Potemkin Village tour.

    They weren’t even in Iraq, they were on the same top secret studio set inside Area 51 where they filmed the moon landings.

  12. 12.

    KC

    August 23, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    Man, this whole thing is a massive PR stunt, beginning to end. Congress goes on vacation, we get an oped by two war “critics.” Next, we get the Vice President praising the oped, citing the “critics” meme. Pretty soon, that’s all we’re hearing about is “progress” (I word I remember hearing a lot circa 2004). However, in truth, by just about every indicator, we’re actually doing worse in Iraq.

    What a crazy fuckin’ world.

  13. 13.

    Andrew

    August 23, 2007 at 7:53 pm

    Hey guys, remember when Lamar Alexander was nationally relevant and well known?

    Yeah, me neither.

  14. 14.

    DonkeyKong

    August 23, 2007 at 8:01 pm

    Bob Corker full quote about General Petraeus was as follows.

    Hey, man, you don’t talk to the General. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean, sometimes he’ll, uh, well, you’ll say hello to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you, and he won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say do you know that if is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you – I mean, I’m no, I can’t – I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s, he’s a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas – I mean –

  15. 15.

    DonkeyKong

    August 23, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    Lamar Alexander was quoted as saying after the 10 hour tour of duty.

    There’s mines over there, there’s mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite, I’ll tell ya.

  16. 16.

    Tax Analyst

    August 23, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    Yesterday, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker (R-TN) returned from a brief trip to Iraq, proclaiming that they saw “clear success” on the ground. But their definitive claims of witnessing success were seriously undermined by their traveling partner, Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH), who admitted to reporters that the senators had only spent 10-14 hours in total in Iraq.

    Don’tcha understand? These guys are SENATORS. SENATORS, especially those who reflexively vote in favor of War don’t “do” War. They can’t…it’s dangerous shit and they might get their precious asses handed to them in a sling – or blasted up into their head by some IED. They do “cameo” bits for the folks back home so they can act like they take this type of thing seriously. Or in Vitter’s case to show that he can do something other than solicit sex acts.

    As Tsulagi pointed out, when they get back home they can report on the pony’s health. They all know that they can’t get re-elected if people think we’ve got a sick pony. Hey, maybe Vitter went along to stroke it off.

  17. 17.

    Ryan S.

    August 23, 2007 at 8:42 pm

    Yesterday, Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker (R-TN) returned from a brief trip to Iraq, proclaiming that they saw “clear success”

    Good that must mean we can leave.

  18. 18.

    KC

    August 23, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    I just think Kevin Drum has pretty much spelled out what the surge is: an ego trip for neocons. Just look at the charts. Spelled out better than I’ve seen anywhere.

  19. 19.

    TR

    August 23, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    Hey guys, remember when Lamar Alexander was nationally relevant and well known?

    Looks like he’s gone from “Lamar!” to “Oh, fuck. Lamar.”

  20. 20.

    incontrolados

    August 23, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    This post and its’ links reminded me of what I took from Full Metal Jacket. The females in that movie were either whores or assassins.

    In ten years, Hewitt wants the movies now, there will be on the screen that harrowing truth from that link.

    Wingnuts will deny.

    How do we get out of this loop?

  21. 21.

    TenguPhule

    August 23, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Vitter was in Iraq? I tell you, sometimes the jokes write themselves.

    Indeed they do.

    We have a whole new spin on ‘Dog and Pony Show’ and ‘Screwing the Pooch’ in Iraq now.

  22. 22.

    TenguPhule

    August 23, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    We closed Saddam’s rape rooms, and replaced his brutal dictatorship with Shiite run rape rooms and a brutal American occupation

    If only those Republicans would spend more time in Iraq.

    Our problems would be solved, one way or another.

  23. 23.

    Bob In Pacifica

    August 24, 2007 at 8:46 am

    Did they have time to go shopping for rugs? I hear that there’s good bargains there.

  24. 24.

    Zifnab

    August 24, 2007 at 9:02 am

    That’s “Wow” as in “Wow, CNN is covering this”…

    Are you kidding? This is the closest cable news can get to airing porn. Nothing brings in those eyeballs like “Hot, Hot Iraqi on Marine Action Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!”

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the segment was sandwhiched between a report on teenage girls dressing in incredibly short skirts (causing a hubbub in small towns across America), and yet another expose on Nevada strip clubs.

  25. 25.

    Salty Party Snax

    August 24, 2007 at 9:31 am

    Lamer could only spend half a day or so in Iraq because his flannel shirts got all sweaty.

  26. 26.

    Pb

    August 24, 2007 at 10:18 am

    Nothing brings in those eyeballs like “Hot, Hot Iraqi on Marine Action Like You’ve Never Seen It Before!”

    To Catch A Predator was a big success, but when the kids are in Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo? Not so much.

    Lawyers in London estimate that more than 60 detainees held at the terrorists’ prison camp were boys under 18 when they were captured.

    They include at least 10 detainees still held at the US base in Cuba who were 14 or 15 when they were seized – including child soldiers who were held in solitary confinement, repeatedly interrogated and allegedly tortured.
    […]
    One child prisoner, Mohamed el Gharani, is accused of involvement in a 1998 al-Qa’ida plot in London led by the alleged al-Qa’ida leader in Europe, Abu Qatada. But he was 12 years old at the time and living with his parents in Saudi Arabia.

    After being arrested in Karachi in October 2001, aged 14, he has spent several years in solitary confinement as an alleged al-Qa’ida-trained fighter.

    Nothing to see here–move along, citizen.

  27. 27.

    demimondian

    August 24, 2007 at 10:44 am

    Looks like he’s gone from “Lamar!” to “Oh, fuck. -Lamar- Lamer!”

    Fixed.

  28. 28.

    Jake

    August 24, 2007 at 11:44 am

    Nothing to see here—move along, citizen

    .

    Pshaw, Pb. It is a well known fact that brown people, particularly foreign brown people, mature at a far earlier age due to the need to procreate quickly before their miserable, bestial lives are cut short by disease or malnutrition. I bet those young devils were born with full beards and an AK-47 in their pudgy little hands. [/snarkothon]

    Maybe Bush will say locking up 12 year olds in solitary is part of his No Child Left Behind program.

    Look, why is this a surprise? For years our court system has arbitrarily [cough] decided to try minors as adults. In this country children (and zygotes) are convenient political props. Sometimes they get paraded out to show us why we need to let GoneZo sniff our internet use records or block federal funding for stem cell research. Sometimes they get paraded out to show that some PA is Tuff on Crime.

    If the little ankle biters ever get mad and organized about what we do to them it’ll make that Star Trek episode look like a picnic.

  29. 29.

    HyperIon

    August 24, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    Our troops have earned more time

    By Brian Baird

    Special to The Times

    this was the headline to an op-ed in today’s seattle times.
    i don’t know who wrote the headline but again i ask:
    when did we become a county of MORONS?

  30. 30.

    HyperIon

    August 24, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    county = country

  31. 31.

    Rick Taylor

    August 24, 2007 at 4:17 pm

    “Unbelievable!”

    I feel like the Sicilian in the Princess Bride.

    Vizzini: “He didn’t fall?!? Inconceivable!”

    Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

  32. 32.

    James

    November 23, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    Gear up for grub with a tripleheader of pigskin, including a meeting of brothers in Dallas. Everybody knows it’s been a rough year for her, but find out who else had issues

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