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islamo fascists?

so these wacky guys - who believe in no government beyond an old interpretation of the koran - want that non-government to partner with the industrial complex - which is pretty much big oil.

yea that makes sense.

a wasn't ethanol "decided" by the same cowboy who cane up with the islamo fascist lable?

what a world

Tony Mostshitti can sing only one tune.........
REPUBLICAN = "GOOD"

DEMOCRAT = "BAD"

There is absolutely no reason to read any further because it's the same old tired song from the community's worst partisan hack. This guy has ZERO credibility because he just regurgitates GOP websites, talk shows and FOXNews. Add to that his personal attacks on anything and anybody Democratic, and you have one warped human...."cadaverous Harry Reid" or " wide-eyed Nancy Pelosi" are examples of this. Guess Mostschitti thinks he's an Adonis, a gift to the world..LOL!

another Tony Moschetti letter...
It is amazing after 18 years of his letters that they all still sound exactly the same. It's also amazing that after 18 years of his head in the sand that he is still lving. I didn't know that anyone could hold their breath that long.

Mostschitti's alter ego is neocon. Neo can post "anonymously" and is conspicuously absent on Tony Mostschitti's letters...Claimed on another thread he had many letters published using his real name to which the questioner then called him "TM".

NOW YOU KNOW .... THE REST OF THE STORY!

I love Moschetti letters for one reason, he stirs up lefties like whacking a hornets nest with a baseball bat. It's fun to watch.

Say what you want about the LTE, but the first sentence is fact. Congressional approval is at an all time low, 14%. Maybe it will rise a bit as the Senate defeated further passage of the Bush/Kennedy Illegal Alien Amnesty bill. Hillary and Barack are gonna have some splainin' to do in voting for it.

I differ with Tony on the ethanol mess. It's true that increased ethanol production is pushing up corn prices and angering tortilla lovers south of the border. However Bush has his fingers in this pie just as much as anyone else. I'm not a scientist, but I've read that sugar ethanol is more efficient, the reason why Brazil has adopted it. I would guess that our govt. is tied in with ADM and the big corn lobby. This is right up your alley JDR, tell me what you think.

Ah....More beautiful prose from Tony. I love his letters, as I love a good laugh in the morning.

But, I am beginning to believe the Democrats are losing hold. They lost any support from me when they flip-flopped and gave Bush more money for the war. I personally will not vote for anyone, Dem or Repub that voted to fund this war.

Gotta hand it to em' that 14% is a vocal group...

I only wonder how Tony's neighbor's in High Point feel in having him as a neighbor? How about his wife (if he has one)? His children?

JDR, the "Islamo-Fascist radical Muslims" comment really was the "final nail" in this LTTE.

mikeg, I agree totally with your post!

TLC, what more can be said than was stated?

Shalom

Darryl, mikeg, Brian Harper, JDR:

Leave it to Tony, oops I mean neocon, to be supported by Dan! Can we all say (at the same time) S-Y-M-B-I-O-T-I-C relationship?!!!

Mostchitti used to go on W-KEW and rant about ANYTHING and ANYONE with a "D" by their name. Now he just resorts to the only thing he has left...personal attacks.

Imitation is said to be the purest form of flattery...just look at TM's post here:

"Gotta hand it to em' that 14% is a vocal group..."

Funny thing about that is that he obviously doesn't see the irony. If only 14% approve of Congress, then that means some, actually tons, of Democrats are not happy about the direction. Compare that to the 26% who STILL support "Dubbie" after all of his foibles.

"We will be met as liberators"

"The insurgency is in its last throes"

"Mission Acoomplished"

Oh, and one more thing little Mo-kitty, Congress is an institution with various elected members from various districts, whereas the President is elected by the entire country. What part of that don't you and Danny understand? LOL!

"I only wonder how Tony's neighbor's in High Point feel in having him as a neighbor? How about his wife (if he has one)? His children?

JDR, the "Islamo-Fascist radical Muslims" comment really was the "final nail" in this LTTE"

Yeah I guess those Islamo-Fascist radical Muslims are just a fairy tale Darryl.

How about the Taliban radicals who strapped a bomb on a 6 year old boy, told him to walk near people and when he detonated the bomb it would spray out flowers?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19420772/
(Note, msnbc link, therefore credible by Demon Deacon standards.

And Darryl is worried about Moschetti's neighbors? I'd rather live next to Moschetti than these guys. Kinda proves the point of the LTE.

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Nice dodge around the first sentence of the LTE Demon Deacon, but as a member of the 14% it's expected of you to avoid facts.

BTW, the Gallup poll about Congressional approval was just that, a POLL. You know, they ask people all over the country about their opinions?

Your pathetic logic assumes one cannot approve or disapprove of Lindsay Graham if they are not SC residents. What do you think Gallup did, call me and ask ONLY what I thought of Burr and Dole?

No more posting for me today, gotta go work and travel back from Arkansas. So have at it Demon Deacon, keep speaking up for the 14%.

Tony, when you get Demon Deacon posting every five minutes you have done your job.

Danny,
Your ignorance is so pervasive that it is astonishing! You made MY point exactly. So why is it you STILL support Bush so fervently? No one out here is touting the Congress the way you "Apologize" for Bush. Oh, I almost forgot...you disagree on immigration! LOL!

Glad you now know "neokitty's" real identity. Now you can lather each other up on the blog! :)

I think what was interesting was reveiwing the vote tally for the 'amnesty' bill. Most democrats supported amnesty. Most repubicans were against it.

I don't claim to know their motives. But it is interesting that this is probably one of the few areas where Bush and the majority of the democrats agreed on something. And both were very wrong.

What were Hillary and Barack thinking?

In my opinion, if I thought Bush was bright enough, I'd give him credit with pulling a genius move. Get the democrats on record before the election that they support amnesty for illegal aliens. Course, his reputation is dirt, but he's a lame duck and he was already going down anyway. Course, I can't give him that much credit. Cause on immigration, he has ALWAYS been way off-base.

The problem is this: If democrats keep the majority in both houses and a democrat president is elected, I fear that the next amnesty bill will be even worse. The democrats who broke rank this time seemed to be folks who thought we were punishing illegals too much.

Nit,
Note that those who voted AGAINST it are mostly Republicans because they NEED that for the election...only choice they had.
Like little Danny, they can point to the fact "Hey, we don't vote lockstep with President Bush!! Look! Look! We voted against him on immigration!!!". It helps them line up for the fall elections and 2008 too.

Once again, neo's letter, like all of his rants--same old, same old. LOL!

TLC,

I agree completely. It is the perfect rallying cry for Repubs in fall elections.

I guess the big question is why democrats voted overwhelmingly FOR the plan?

Mainly because it was the best plan being offered for across the board changes. It would strengthen border security and would come much harder on corporations that hired illegals. Righties just couldn't get past the "homogenation" of illegals into our society and the reuniting of families.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Even if we COULD eliminate illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America, it would at the very least, cause the government of Mexico to collapse. Why? Because of the hard currency that flows to those living there from those living here. Bush's plan was not really that bad, but then again he has NO credibility and therefore couldn't pass gas at this point. Voting for this bill did not hurt Dems because it was not a bad bill. Voting for this would kill Republicans, because their base is up in arms over anything it perceives as "Amnesty" for illegals. Eventually, they will have boxed themselves into a corner, but for now, they are counting on folks to remember "We voted No! We voted No! We voted NO!".
Some experts are saying this right wing base will fracture the GOP turning it into a a regional party based in the South. That seems to be the direction it is going these days...ever since Nixon's
"Southern Strategy" changed the political map of Dixie.

Moschetti must be related to someone in N&R, he shows up like bad penney with some irrelevent idiocy far too often. The N&R must think there is a large bunch of Jukes and Kallikaks out here to agree with his tripe--they may well be correct. This country will reel from Republican crime and corruption for next two decades if not longer and he starts blaming Democrats. Yeah, right. Can someone hold his head underwater for ten minutes. Or better yet, find his sympathetic family member or co-conspirator and fellow traveler on N&R staff and drown then.

Moschetti must be related to someone in N&R, he shows up like bad penney with some irrelevent idiocy far too often. The N&R must think there is a large bunch of Jukes and Kallikaks out here to agree with his tripe--they may well be correct. This country will reel from Republican crime and corruption for next two decades if not longer and he starts blaming Democrats. Yeah, right. Can someone hold his head underwater for ten minutes. Or better yet, find his sympathetic family member or co-conspirator and fellow traveler on N&R staff and drown then.

wafranklin,
Love the post! I don't believe ANYONE would claim relation to this guy though. He does have one guy who would drink his bathwater though....read above the one that says, "I'd rather live next to Moschetti than these guys." He's one of our right wing "wack jobs" who just can't himself. He's still amazed at all the things a laptop will do, and can't help but give Mostschitti an "Atta boy" on anything he utters. Judging from some of his posts, he still thinks the world is flat and women should be barefoot and pregnant! Gets most of his human sexuality questions answered by his Catholic Priest. You couldn't make this stuff up if you wanted to!

Keep posting and help keep the neotards at bay.

As I said, job well done Tony, you've got poor Demon Deacon screaming out of the hornets nest chasing you, me, Neo and anyone who disagrees with his opinion. I love it!!

Especially precious how Demon Deacon thinks Gallup called voters in their individual states and asked them to ONLY state approval or disapproval of THEIR congressmen. Apparently it is not possible to state an opinion of OTHER state's congressmen. With logic like that I think Demon Deacon should replace Skip Alston.

I arrived in Little Rock a few hours before my flight and decided to visit the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library. What a shrine.

My favorite part was the exhibit explaning the Lewinsky scandal. It didn't mention that Bill commited perjury, simply that he wasn't "forthcoming about the relationship". No Monica pix and no stained dress on exhibit either. Damn.

There was only one miniscule section about algore. In fact, the exhibit about the family cat, Socks, was larger. Gotta have priorities.

There was quite a bit about the 1994 Congress and Newt. Particularly how Newt's Contract with America was going to give to the rich and take away from the poor. Classic playbook. It blamed Repubs for the creation of the "politics of personal destruction", as if this never existed until then. I guess they forgot about the same "politics" during the Reagan years.

I will admit the building was well designed and the exhibits spread out well for easy uncrowed viewing.

Gotta catch my flight. Keep the hornets nest stirred Demon Deacon. You are doing such a nice job. Maybe a few clips with be worth saving.

When are all of you going to stop the silly bickering and realize that ALL of them (Ds and Rs) are pandering politicians that make decisions based on what they think will get tem re-elected rather than what is in the interest of their constituents.

Hooray Term Limits!!!!!!!!

"I arrived in Little Rock a few hours before my flight and decided to visit the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library. What a shrine."

Dan,

I can tell that you are still tingling with inspiration. Those were good days!

Yeah. Boy I miss the days of prosperity, balanced budgets, a strong military with strong National Guard, cheap gasoline, U.S. brokering efforts toward PEACE in the middle east, ....that must really bite Danny in the ass when he stops to realize that. :)

J.C.,
You are so right. These Bush "apologists" like Tony and Danny can't be Americans for being Republicans first! They would vote for Adolph Hitler if he had an "R" by his name or if he called himself a "conservative". Conversely, they would rail AGAINST Jesus the Christ, if he began spreading Such crazy ideas like Peace and helping the poor or even helping the sick.

Instead, those shallow minds fail to see the corruption of our system, which is caused by MONEY. Take the money out of elections and we'd see a higher caliber candidate running for office. Both parties are addicted to power and money. What's even more amazing is, we have one of the lamest ducks EVER and he won't even lift a finger to root out corruption in his administration! Guess he never learned the definition of "legacy".

25 comments so far and nearly half, 11, is from THE CANADIAN COWARD.

To be so irrelevant, Tony Mo sure brings out the fear (woman like fear :]) in THE LIBERAL CANADIAN. He's spent all day TRYING to ridicule the lte. If this lte is such trash and nonsense, why tire out your hummingbird ass by waging your alligator mouth all day, THE CANADIAN COWARD?

I find it entertaining to watch the bug-eyed speakerette on Chris Mathews or some other liberal mouthpiece's show try and blame the democrats' ineptness on 'talk radio'. lol
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Dan, did they have a display in slick willie's library with little tombstones to commemorate all the people who ...ahem...'died' that were close to slick willie...McDougal, Foster, etc, etc, etc.?

Back from Arkansas.

As I said this morning Neo, one letter from Tony Mo and Demon Deacon will call in sick from work, if he does work, and spend the day on the computer waging his same 'ol same 'ol. It's more predictable than the sunrise and sunset. Kinda boring yet slightly entertaining to see one make such a fool of himself.

Nothing in the library about the folks you mentioned. Nothing either about selling nuclear technology to the Chinese. Nothing about Sandy Burglar stuffing documents down his skivvies from the National Archives. Nothing about bombing the aspirin factory in Sudan. Not even a damn cigar.

But I thought it was priceless that Socks got more spread than algore. Gotta give Clinton credit for that.

I did expect a new Hillary '08 exhibit but so far nothing.

Rufus, it was worth visiting if you happen to be in the area, but no tingling feeling. Sorry.

"Rufus, it was worth visiting if you happen to be in the area, but no tingling feeling. Sorry."

Ah, just the bittersweet longings of what might have been (if not for term limits).

The way my work schedule is, by the time I get enough free time to travel much I'll probably hit the other Clinton Presidential library first.

(;-}

Rufus,
What's killing Tony and Danny is that Clinton, despite all their childish rants, left office with over a 60% approval rating.
Yep. That budget surplus, and roaring economy are beginning to make the witch hunt for lying about marital infidelity, look worthy of its small place in the library.
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BULLETIN: The George W. Bush Presidential library burned--both books were ruined and one had not even been colored in yet! :)

TLC,

I can tell that Dan is still giddy from breathing the rarefied air of success.

You do bring up an interesting point. I wonder what the GWB presidential library will focus on. Two of the greatest intelligence failures in our history. The second most expensive and most pointless war in our history. Taking huge budget surpluses & turning them into deficits. The isolation of the US in the world & our decline as the leader of the world. The gutting of our constitutional protections.

Really when you think about it GWB does have an impressive list of accomplishments.

I'll bet I know what company is going to build it. I'll bet they get a no-bid contract too!

Yeah I'm still giddy Rufus, I called my wife and asked if I could stay an extra day to visit the library again and she said no.

I like your post, good humor.

Here is a difference I see. I wouldn't include you in the BDS crowd but they know who they are.

I didn't agree with many of Clinton's policies and his actions while in office. I didn't vote for him either time. That being said, I don't believe he is an evil man, I don't equate him to anyone evil like Hitler. I didn't allow my daily life to be effected by his tenure in office.

He made some mistakes and he had some successes. That's what presidents do. Not everything he did was bad. I gladly paid the $7 to see his library because he was a president and I wanted to learn more about him.

Obviously the exhibits and their texts were slanted to his favor, like using the term "not forthcoming about his relationship" instead of perjury, but I expected that. I do give him credit for putting the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment proceedings in the exhibits instead of whitewashing it out.

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Now compare to those who suffer from BDS. To them GWB has done NOTHING positive in 6+ years, NOTHING. He is as evil or even more evil than Hitler, he has shredded the Constitution, he is wiretapping calls from your mother, he wantonly supports pollution of the environment, he hates gays, poor people, blacks, and especially Muslims. (At least he likes Hispanics). He purposefully lied to the American people with the sole intent of gaining domination of Iraqi oil. Hell the list could go on and on.

BDS sufferers despise the man to the point where it interferes with their daily lives.

I will gladly agree to the following, Bush has screwed up a lot of things. He and the Repub Congress tried to pander to constituents, which has led to unbridled spending and waste. Immigration has been a disaster. He even sent Karl Rove to chat with the La Raza folks to assist with immigration policies. Iraq has been a disaster. I think Bush misjudged the history of those people in that they would rather kill each other over their religious differences than form a democratic govt.

Many Republican politicians have abandoned conservative principles and thought no one would notice. Well we conservatives noticed.

I am a conservative first. If Repub politicians do not follow conservative principles I have no problem calling them on it. Bush & Congress lost their way, last years election results speak for themselves. Until they espouse core conservative principles they will continue to lose elections. I don't see much has changed since the Nov. elections.

As for Dems, I don't see much has changed either.

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On a separate note, I sent an email to Burr & Dole expressing my views about the Bush/Kennedy Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill of 2007. Just got a letter in the mail today from Burr. Of course it was a form letter, but it had my name on it and explained Burr's positions on the bill.

Kudos to Burr for replying. I've never received a reply from Dole, which lessens my favor towards her.

Sorry Demon Deacon I forgot about you. You mentioned childish rants. Would you like me to post a few?

Dan,

To be fair to Dole I not too long ago sent both her and Burr an email on my views on the Iraq war and the funding bill and both of them responded. Yes, they were both equally useless form letters but they were a response.

Hopefully that point doesn't encourage you to vote for her next time around.

I've never been to a presidential library. Are there organized tours or is it free access like a museum or both?

I probably suffer from BDS. I don't respect him & can't really tolerate listening to him (except on the Daily Show). I think he has damaged our country in more ways and more deeply than I ever thought one man possibly could and I can't really think of any policy successes (political ones he's had several) that he's had, but I think unlike most CDS sufferers the day after Bush leaves office I doubt I'll give him a second thought.

I hope that the next person is someone that the great majority of us can respect. The Gingrich/Rove brand of partisan politics is killing our country and driving our decline. It's time to all be on the same team. Argue with each other yes, but trust that we are after the same basic goals. If not we're not gonna like the America that we are building.

Rufus, my first trip to a presidential library. At this one you could venture by yourself or for an extra $2 you could rent a cell phone like device that would walk you through the tour. As my time was limited I chose the former. They also had a 15 minute movie but I didn't have time for that either. I could have spent another hour there.

I don't think you suffer from extreme BDS. You don't seem enraged every single day. You disagree, which is fine, but I don't see the visceral anger from you.

One other thing about BDS sufferers, they also hate conservatives and frequently attack them solely for their beliefs. You haven't done that either.

You may have a very mild case. Take two aspirins, drink a beer, wine or shot if you like, spend some time with your family, relax and call me in the morning if you feel the need to call me really nasty names ;-)

THE LIBERAL COWARD, if you think I'm Tony Mosechetti (is that where the "TM" came from?) don't give up the gubbermint position and open a detective agency Inspector Clouseau....you'll starve to death.
Makes no difference what you call me but be advised you are wrong as usual.

Now I remember, it was CK who first called me 'TM' and like the trained little parrot, you picked up on it. Also, CK should stick to making utube videos of himself barfing in the toilet.

Classy...

"One other thing about BDS sufferers, they also hate conservatives and frequently attack them solely for their beliefs."

As long as someone is intellectually honest I don't have a problem with them & enjoy hearing their thoughts. If someone is spouting the party line it doesn't interest me.

My problem with conservatives is that I don't know what one is. Some people like to be called conservative but many of their beliefs don't fit into what is reasonably called conservative. Take Mr. Bush in example (huge new social programs, spends like a drunken sailor, open borders, intrusive government) . Most people have opinions that range from what is commonly called liberal to what is commonly called conservative and therefore are neither fish nor fowl. It's not important to me whether I'm thought conservative or liberal, I'm both & neither & so is everyone else that I know. We intellectually hamstring ourselves when we try to buttonhole ourselves into one camp or the other.

Respect is the key to discussing things. It doesn't matter what the folks on this board believe. If I convince you or you convince me it isn't going to change the world at large so why stress if folks have differing opinions here? For example if people truly like GWB and admire him I want to know why. Understanding that helps me understand what makes people tick.

I'll poke fun at folks (and at myself) but try never to do it in a disrespectful way. I like a clever cut as much as the next guy but the quality and thoughtfulness of the discussion is what I think we're all here for. At its best it's brain candy. Some days we have to settle for a little less.

"If someone is spouting the party line it doesn't interest me."

Well, you can disregard anything coming from Danny and Tony!

Conservatives used to want government out of our lives. Now they want unfettered eavesdropping on U.S. Citizens, and to make personal decisions (abortion AND birth control) for women.

Conservatives used to be for fiscal responsibility. Now they want to borrow and spend until the cows come home. The current "conservative" President, with no oversight by the "conservative" majority, expanded our government at a rate higher than all previous administrations! All of them.

"Conservatives" used to urge people to attend "the church or synagogue of your choice" but now want to narrowly define what is and isn't acceptable. (school prayer, vouchers etc)

"Conservatives" used to talk of "Morning in America" but now seem to focus on "fear and division".

"Conservatives" used to be for a strong defense, but now they are for unilateral attack of sovereign nations and for decimating the all volunteer armed forces. If they're not for it, they certainly provided no oversight while it was being done by their "conservative" President!

As a great man once said, "What is, is"

So why, pray tell, is being a "conservative" anything to be proud of?

Danny,
Love how you can't help but carry water for Bush. What's that little moniker...?

BDS?

Seems you can't help yourself...glad you did get to visit the bridge to the future in Little Rock.

Danny,
You claim that "BDS" people think EVERYTHING Bush has done has been bad....well start at the top of the list and give me some really great things he's done. I'm all ears, buddy! You might want to start with that "I'm a uniter, not a divider" quote...that ought to send you in the right direction.

In fact, other than the bullhorn moment in NYC, he has not done a damn thing worth mentioning. Hope they get you on staff at that Bush Library, 'cause you and Moschetti would have to make chicken salad out of chickensh_t. Doubt a Madison Avenue firm could take that sow's ear and weave it into a silk purse.

On September 12th, Bush had the country in the palm of his hand...he had the world in the palm of his hand...and what did he do?

Like Otter said in Animal House, "We f'd up! We trusted him!"

So, put on your pointy little UNCG thinking cap and let's hear all those GREAT things Bush has done.....?? Danny? Hello?

"On September 12th, Bush had the country in the palm of his hand...he had the world in the palm of his hand...and what did he do?"

That may be the one thing I can't forgive Bush for (well also his constitutional excesses). September 12 was a day that America was going to reforge the world one way or the other. The world was focused on us and ready to take our lead. We controlled the debate. This was a unique opportunity and we blew it about as thoroughly as is humanly possible. "You are either with us or against us". Then we proceeded to alienate most of the world. Thinking of what might have been if Bush had engaged the world instead drives me crazy.

To use 9/11 and Iraq as a partisan tool the way Bush/Rove & co. has done unconscionable. The Gingrich/Rove politics of division must stop, at least in relation to the only national office. To strengthen America is in his (or perhaps her) job description.

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I hope you're house broken, THE CANADIAN COWARD...

Rufus,
Your statement:

"To use 9/11 and Iraq as a partisan tool the way Bush/Rove & co. has done unconscionable. The Gingrich/Rove politics of division must stop, at least in relation to the only national office. To strengthen America is in his (or perhaps her) job description."

Is by far the most damning of Bush's Presidency. Note how quickly the color code "ramp ups" died after the election. The man had no shame...like neokitty, he's impervious to his own ignorance.

I would love to see a good 3rd party candidate come in a whoop some ass.

Respect is the key to discussing things.

I'll poke fun at folks (and at myself) but try never to do it in a disrespectful way.

Posted by Rufus_T.Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 30, 2007 8:02 PM

Versus:

So, put on your pointy little UNCG thinking cap and let's hear all those GREAT things Bush has done.....?? Danny? Hello?

Posted by THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 30, 2007 10:46 PM

Poor little Danny.
He's a V-I-C-T-I-M!!! Bless his heart. Would someone please hand me a hanky so I can dry my eyes.

Dan,
Buck it up and answer the frigging question! Quit being such a whiner. Did they call you a "crybaby" in school?

WHAT GREAT THINGS HAS GEORGE W. BUSH DONE?

It's pretty simple and straightforward.
Guess you just don't have an answer or Neokitty hasn't given you enough attention yet?

Time for Danny to call Allen Johnson and cry about being called...well, a "crybaby"!

I can hear it now..."Allen, this guy called me a cry baby! Make him stop! He hurt my feelings!"

AGAIN:

WHAT GREAT THINGS HAS GEORGE W. BUSH DONE?

Just pointing out the difference between a reasonable person and....well everyone knows what you are.

On this blog, in anonymity, you think you are a big man with your petulant insults.

Whereas, in person, we know the truth because YOU stated it:

Ned,
This is a great letter and I share your thoughts. As I contemplate another international trip with my family, I am even more disturbed at our standing in the world. While visiting London and France, we sewed Canadian flag patches to our backpacks---it saved us from the ire of many and we met many new friends through that act. I only wish we did not have to do that again.
Thanks again for your letter.
Posted by THE LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE | March 20, 2007 9:47 AM

No amount of insults can make up for being a coward. Keep trying though, some of them are keepers. You are forever labeled as the coward you are thanks to your own words. Kinda like setting your own noose.

No crying on my part, however your posts are good for third rate humor.

Can I borrow some Canadian flag patches for my trip to Tanzania next month?

Respect is the key to discussing things.

I'll poke fun at folks (and at myself) but try never to do it in a disrespectful way.

Posted by Rufus_T.Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 30, 2007 8:02 PM

Versus:

I can hear it now..."Allen, this guy called me a cry baby! Make him stop! He hurt my feelings!"

From one of the best:

Just go on and profess your love, DemonDeacon, and get it over with. I know I'm not alone in saying I'm tired of watching you flirt with Dan.
I hate to call you out, but it's EVERY single thread. Damn. Grow up.
Posted by: Denzien at January 15, 2007 06:06 PM

This is too easy.

Don't comment much here anymore, but I have an observation.
The n-r blog does resemble a 3rd grade schoolyard with one bully that is constant and relentless with the insults in his quest for attention.
He apparently has nothing of value to offer in the arena of civil discourse so he seeks to make himself heard by loud and boisterous insults sprinkled with hyena-ish 'LOLs' aimed at anyone who is to the right of Ted Kennedy or Howard Dean.
I'm no expert on human nature, but my job requires that I deal with a great number of people on any given day, and if I have learned anything in 30 years of dealing with what represents a diverse cross section of society, it is this: It is almost universal that those individuals who display such contempt and are willing to insult and belittle those with whom they disagree with on a daily basis are without exception the most insecure and lacking in depth than are the ones he/she attempts to lampoon.
Anyone with half a brain - nay, anyone with ANY brain at all - can review the threads in this blog and tell who is speaking from personal experience, has been exposed to life's lessons, and is comfortable in their own skin... as opposed to those who find it necessary to insult and dish out the teenage chat room "LOLs" in order to try and prop up a point(s) gleaned from the left wing websites and Keith Olbermann.
Carry on Dan. I enjoy reading your adult points of view.
Posted by Jonniebgood | May 3, 2007 7:00 PM

Gee, I wonder who he's talking about?

Pull out your "trusty" Stalker's file and you'd know Danny! Who else would keep a file on a "blogger" but YOU? Do you need more attention or are you just that unfulfilled? Does your wife tell you what to do when you're home?

Danny=narcisissm...all day. all night.

Glad you enjoy the archive Demon Deacon, it serves it's purpose quite nicely.

When you complain about someone posting "childish rants", I expose yours.

Little Narcissist,
Do you even know what the word means?

"Folks, I'm posting tonight from Little Rock...."

"I'm in my hotel room in Nashville..."

"Been in South Carolina most of today.."

"Glad you enjoy the archive Demon Deacon,....."

You are a legend IN YOUR OWN MIND, but one day you'll wake up and see just how you are unimportant. Glad you have neo.

"As I contemplate another international trip with my family"...

"We sewed Canasian flag patches to our backpacks"...

"We made many nre friends through that act"...

"I only wish we didn't have to do that again"...

"Dan even called her nice 'eye candy'"...

:]

nre= new

Yeah I'm a real jet setter, Little Rock, Nashville and S. Carolina. I got to hang out at a poultry processing plant in southern Arkansas.

Not quite as exciting as morphing into a Canadian to avoid the ire of vicious Frenchmen, gotta give that to you. What a pathetic coward.

Upcoming schedule for July: Marshville, NC; Gaffney, SC; Paducah, KY; Atlanta; Columbus, OH; and finally a vacation in Maine. Then off to Tanzania in August. I'll be sure to chime in on your ass thanks to my trusty laptop.

I may need Canadian patches for Maine, probably not for Tanzania.

Little Narcissist,
Do you even know what the word means?

"Folks, I'm posting tonight from Little Rock...."

"I'm in my hotel room in Nashville..."

"Been in South Carolina most of today.."

"Glad you enjoy the archive Demon Deacon,....."

You are a legend IN YOUR OWN MIND, but one day you'll wake up and see just how you are unimportant. Glad you have neo.

Hey Mostschitti,
Try this on for size:

A Profile in Cowardice
By FRANK RICH
THERE was never any question that President Bush would grant amnesty to Scooter Libby, the man who knows too much about the lies told to sell the war in Iraq. The only questions were when, and how, Mr. Bush would buy Mr. Libby’s silence. Now we have the answers, and they’re at least as incriminating as the act itself. They reveal the continued ferocity of a White House cover-up and expose the true character of a commander in chief whose tough-guy shtick can no longer camouflage his fundamental cowardice.

The timing of the president’s Libby intervention was a surprise. Many assumed he would mimic the sleazy 11th-hour examples of most recent vintage: his father’s pardon of six Iran-contra defendants who might have dragged him into that scandal, and Bill Clinton’s pardon of the tax fugitive Marc Rich, the former husband of a major campaign contributor and the former client of none other than the ubiquitous Mr. Libby.

But the ever-impetuous current President Bush acted 18 months before his scheduled eviction from the White House. Even more surprising, he did so when the Titanic that is his presidency had just hit two fresh icebergs, the demise of the immigration bill and the growing revolt of Republican senators against his strategy in Iraq.

That Mr. Bush, already suffering historically low approval ratings, would invite another hit has been attributed in Washington to his desire to placate what remains of his base. By this logic, he had nothing left to lose. He didn’t care if he looked like an utter hypocrite, giving his crony a freer ride than Paris Hilton and violating the white-collar sentencing guidelines set by his own administration. He had to throw a bone to the last grumpy old white guys watching Bill O’Reilly in a bunker.

But if those die-hards haven’t deserted him by now, why would Mr. Libby’s incarceration be the final straw? They certainly weren’t whipped into a frenzy by coverage on Fox News, which tended to minimize the leak case as a non-event. Mr. Libby, faceless and voiceless to most Americans, is no Ollie North, and he provoked no right-wing firestorm akin to the uproars over Terri Schiavo, Harriet Miers or “amnesty” for illegal immigrants.

The only people clamoring for Mr. Libby’s freedom were the pundits who still believe that Saddam secured uranium in Africa and who still hope that any exoneration of Mr. Libby might make them look less like dupes for aiding and abetting the hyped case for war. That select group is not the Republican base so much as a roster of the past, present and future holders of quasi-academic titles at neocon think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute.

What this crowd never understood is that Mr. Bush’s highest priority is always to protect himself. So he stiffed them too. Had the president wanted to placate the Weekly Standard crowd, he would have given Mr. Libby a full pardon. That he served up a commutation instead is revealing of just how worried the president is about the beans Mr. Libby could spill about his and Dick Cheney’s use of prewar intelligence.

Valerie Wilson still has a civil suit pending. The Democratic inquisitor in the House, Henry Waxman, still has the uranium hoax underlying this case at the top of his agenda as an active investigation. A commutation puts up more roadblocks by keeping Mr. Libby’s appeal of his conviction alive and his Fifth Amendment rights intact. He can’t testify without risking self-incrimination. Meanwhile, we are asked to believe that he has paid his remaining $250,000 debt to society independently of his private $5 million “legal defense fund.”

The president’s presentation of the commutation is more revealing still. Had Mr. Bush really believed he was doing the right and honorable thing, he would not have commuted Mr. Libby’s jail sentence by press release just before the July Fourth holiday without consulting Justice Department lawyers. That’s the behavior of an accountant cooking the books in the dead of night, not the proud act of a patriot standing on principle.

When the furor followed Mr. Bush from Kennebunkport to Washington despite his efforts to duck it, he further underlined his embarrassment by taking his only few questions on the subject during a photo op at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. You know this president is up to no good whenever he hides behind the troops. This instance was particularly shameful, since Mr. Bush also used the occasion to trivialize the scandalous maltreatment of Walter Reed patients on his watch as merely “some bureaucratic red-tape issues.”

Asked last week to explain the president’s poll numbers, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center told NBC News that “when we ask people to summon up one word that comes to mind” to describe Mr. Bush, it’s “incompetence.” But cowardice, the character trait so evident in his furtive handling of the Libby commutation, is as important to understanding Mr. Bush’s cratered presidency as incompetence, cronyism and hubris.

Even The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, a consistent Bush and Libby defender, had to take notice. Furious that the president had not given Mr. Libby a full pardon (at least not yet), The Journal called the Bush commutation statement a “profile in non-courage.”

What it did not recognize, or chose not to recognize, is that this non-courage, to use The Journal’s euphemism, has been this president’s stock in trade, far exceeding the “wimp factor” that Newsweek once attributed to his father. The younger Mr. Bush’s cowardice is arguably more responsible for the calamities of his leadership than anything else.

People don’t change. Mr. Bush’s failure to have the courage of his own convictions was apparent early in his history, when he professed support for the Vietnam War yet kept himself out of harm’s way when he had the chance to serve in it. In the White House, he has often repeated the feckless pattern that he set back then and reaffirmed last week in his hide-and-seek bestowing of the Libby commutation.

The first fight he conspicuously ran away from as president was in August 2001. Aspiring to halt federal underwriting of embryonic stem-cell research, he didn’t stand up and say so but instead unveiled a bogus “compromise” that promised continued federal research on 60 existing stem-cell lines. Only later would we learn that all but 11 of them did not exist. When Mr. Bush wanted to endorse a constitutional amendment to “protect” marriage, he again cowered. A planned 2006 Rose Garden announcement to a crowd of religious-right supporters was abruptly moved from the sunlight into a shadowy auditorium away from the White House.

Nowhere is this president’s non-courage more evident than in the “signing statements” The Boston Globe exposed last year. As Charlie Savage reported, Mr. Bush “quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office.” Rather than veto them in public view, he signed them, waited until after the press and lawmakers left the White House, and then filed statements in the Federal Register asserting that he would ignore laws he (not the courts) judged unconstitutional. This was the extralegal trick Mr. Bush used to bypass the ban on torture. It allowed him to make a coward’s escape from the moral (and legal) responsibility of arguing for so radical a break with American practice.

In the end, it was also this president’s profile in non-courage that greased the skids for the Iraq fiasco. If Mr. Bush had had the guts to put America on a true wartime footing by appealing to his fellow citizens for sacrifice, possibly even a draft if required, then he might have had at least a chance of amassing the resources needed to secure Iraq after we invaded it.

But he never backed up the rhetoric of war with the stand-up action needed to prosecute the war. Instead he relied on fomenting fear, as typified by the false uranium claims whose genesis has been covered up by Mr. Libby’s obstructions of justice. Mr. Bush’s cowardly abdication of the tough responsibilities of wartime leadership ratified Donald Rumsfeld’s decision to go into Iraq with the army he had, ensuring our defeat.

Never underestimate the power of the unconscious. Not the least of the revelatory aspects of Mr. Bush’s commutation is that he picked the fourth anniversary of “Bring ’em on” to hand it down. It was on July 2, 2003, that the president responded to the continued violence in Iraq, two months after “Mission Accomplished,” by taunting those who want “to harm American troops.” Mr. Bush assured the world that “we’ve got the force necessary to deal with the security situation.” The “surge” notwithstanding, we still don’t have the force necessary four years later, because the president never did summon the courage, even as disaster loomed, to back up his own convictions by going to the mat to secure that force.

No one can stop Mr. Bush from freeing a pathetic little fall guy like Scooter Libby. But only those who paid the ultimate price for the avoidable bungling of Iraq have the moral authority to pardon Mr. Bush.

Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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Refute that, you partisan hack!