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Calvinball at Q and O

by John Cole|  August 27, 20079:36 am| 16 Comments

This post is in: Blogospheric Navel-Gazing

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McQ, attacking Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who is getting impatient with the surge:

He’s been talking 9 to 10 years for quite some time. So have many people. This isn’t a crisis that is going to solve itself by September or election day. This is a long term project, just like Germany and Japan were. And I find it difficult to believe that this Representative is just now finding this out, or perhaps coming to understand that.

McQ, a few hours later:

Maybe the message is getting across in Iraq that patience is wearing thin here and they better begin to take advantage of the improving security situation to make progress politically…

Got it? Impatience is bad until impatience is good. You just don’t know when it is bad or good- you have to read Q and O to know that.

And when this agreement inevitably fails in a few months, anyone want to bet who McQ will blame? And what will be the obvious solution to the agreement falling apart?

Why, six more months of surge!

McQ responds:

Well John, it’s not about “patience” and “impatience” (but I do agree you need to be reading QandO). It’s about a long strategic process which will obviously take some time and a demand for some progress politically in the short run which will obviously, then enable the longer process. It also addresses political reality here in the US.

He sure told me! Everything is much clearer now.

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16Comments

  1. 1.

    Davebo

    August 27, 2007 at 9:41 am

    And when this agreement inevitably fails in a few months, anyone want to bet who McQ will blame?

    The NEA?

  2. 2.

    Zifnab

    August 27, 2007 at 9:51 am

    And when this agreement inevitably fails in a few months, anyone want to bet who McQ will blame?

    Hillary Clinton, the New York Times, and illegal immigrants, in that order.

  3. 3.

    srv

    August 27, 2007 at 10:31 am

    It’s Groundhog Day everyday at QandO.

  4. 4.

    Jake

    August 27, 2007 at 10:53 am

    The score is 13 to Q!

    Once again many thanks for reading and digesting this slurry. Maybe with your help we’ll solve the eternal question:

    Are these people just low-level, reality detached, my best friend is an invisible chicken crazy, or are they pathological lie for the sake of lying crazy?

  5. 5.

    myiq2xu

    August 27, 2007 at 11:33 am

    That’s the second blogospheric Calvin & Hobbes reference in a week.

    Opus is back, could the boy and his tiger be next? Please God, let it be true.

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    August 27, 2007 at 11:50 am

    Maybe John should just make a CalvinBall Topic Label and be done with it already. For those stories where the people quoted make it up as they go along.

  7. 7.

    Xenos

    August 27, 2007 at 11:58 am

    Feh. I left a comment that he was being disingenuous, and he responded that BDS hurt my reading comprehension. But did not even point out what I had misread.

    I should just let John cross swords with these schmucks and be glad that I don’t have to.

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    August 27, 2007 at 12:04 pm

    What is the point of either listening to, or arguing with these people?

    They’re all a bunch of crazy liars and weasels.

    It’s all part of the big mindfuck.

    How they can argue with you on this, I have no idea. Even with an electron microscope we couldn’t find a particle of intellectual integrity in that bunch if we took a year.

    Bah.

  9. 9.

    Bubblegum Tate

    August 27, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    Don’t you people get it? The Iraqis can have all the Friedman Units they need, but really, they need to get their act together because it’s hurting the GOP Stateside. So basically, the Iraqis need to hurry up and take their time.

  10. 10.

    The Other Steve

    August 27, 2007 at 12:19 pm

    Don’t you people get it? The Iraqis can have all the Friedman Units they need, but really, they need to get their act together because it’s hurting the GOP Stateside. So basically, the Iraqis need to hurry up and take their time.

    You might be onto something. I think it’s important to interpret these people as to what they really intended to say.

    McQ is nothing but consistent, if you read between th elines.

  11. 11.

    The Other Andrew

    August 27, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    Methinks that “things are allegedly slightly less horrible” won’t be enough to sustain us for a thirty-year conflict.

  12. 12.

    CaseyL

    August 27, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Methinks that “things are allegedly slightly less horrible” won’t be enough to sustain us for a thirty-year conflict.

    30-year conflict?

    Stop thinking small. Let’s go for broke and try for another One Hundred Years War! After all, the last one worked out really for its combatants.

  13. 13.

    John S.

    August 27, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Let’s go for broke and try for another One Hundred Years War!

    We’re on that track in the semantical sense. After all, the Hundred Years War actually lasted 116 years…

  14. 14.

    Jennifer

    November 22, 2007 at 9:51 am

    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

  15. 15.

    Betty

    November 24, 2007 at 8:10 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

  16. 16.

    Betty

    December 17, 2007 at 7:16 pm

    Academicians, you know, don’t care to cultivate City people

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