StillAmused's Comments (8422)

“Someone, QUICK... jingle your car keys before the m 0ron becomes sullen.”

“South To Get More Political Power Through Census, SATs To Be Canceled”

“On top of all her previous embarrassing, uninformed, adolescent teen-queenie prattle, the woman now damns herself with faint praise.

Hey, timekeeper! Slap that clock! It's been stuck on 14:45 for months!”

“"when Bush spends money on the war, the day to day activities and civilian deaths mount up, but when Obama appropriates the money, that somehow changes the entire facilitation of the war?"

Analogy: when you pay an incompetent roofer and the roof leaks like a sieve, you appropriate MORE money to a competent roofer to complete the job... and the roof continues to leak, albeit less and less as the work is completed.

You would "withdraw every last troop within 90 days" ? A seductive fantasy, indeed, but completely out of touch with the pragmatic strategic realities... and the predictable consequences, even if it COULD be physically accomplished! It took FIVE YEARS to build that pile of men and machines.

As for Scheuer, I liked what he originally had to say... right up to the moment when -- on Glenn Beck's FreakFest -- he said THIS:

"The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States....only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/02/jon-stewart-blasts-glenn_n_224766.html

Even the sleek, fast trains can run off the rails. I prefer my transportation upright and under the control of a sane operator.

Yeah... after THAT whopper, I think I'm more qualified than Scheuer.

Toodle-oo.”

“Not to belabor this discussion but, where FISA is concerned, there's no telling what "ongoing" intelligence fiddle-faddle was dumped on Obama by the military/intelligence/yadda-yadda establishment when he took office. I can understand his being reluctant (especially considering the wall of obstruction, "birtherism" and challenges to his very legitimacy that welcomed him) to trash the entire china shop in one fell swoop. That said, I share your discomfort that these policies have been extended. It remains for history to report whether, in fact, there were defensible rationales.

As for "Bush's deficits somehow excusing Obama's", I assume you favored allowing the looming global economic collapse to proceed unfettered. No question, the bailouts were not sufficiently conditioned and poorly administered, but I'm glad we're not finding out what the joint would have looked like if we'd done nothing.

To extend your analogy, when your spouse runs up the credit cards and you can't pay them off, you don't JUST cut them up. Unless you fancy bankruptcy, you consolidate the debt and work out a payment plan. If Obama attempted to simply walk away from the Bush debt and deficit -- with its attendant consequences -- I suspect you'd have been among the first to condemn him as irresponsible and unqualified.

... and, one more time, compare the beginning of the 45-degree ramp-up in oil price with the invasion of Iraq. Wiggling around the definitions, references and comparators can't change that.”

“Denial to follow.

... other denials.

Someone smack the timeclock... it's been stuck on 14 minutes for months.”

“ACORN "scandals"?

It takes gullible, wishful rubes to believe their own desperate inventions.

"Report Finds Acorn Broke No Laws"

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/acorn-broke-no-laws/

Yeah, credibility is, indeed, in the results... which is why Beck is a laughing stock with one debatable feather in his dunce cap.”

“Yep... nearly inapproachable, and just about right for the swamp-dwellers who actually watch him.”

“Those wacky, funloving wingnuts have that special ability...

... to communicate their true intentions in second-grade euphemisms that fool nobody but make the wingers very, very proud of themselves -- and their "clever" wordplay -- during the delivery.

... to see what isn't there, like the divine right of private corporations to engorge themselves as procurers (see: p!mps) of health care for the average citizen.

... and to feel good about offering absolutely nothing to stem the tide, other than vacuous allusions to "freedom" (just another word for "whatever").”

“Yep, you're qualified.

However, we recommend a greater emphasis on the "birther" thing... remember, you're competing with Bachmann for the loopster spotlight.”

“Yeah... "huge", but only in your damp little world.

Trying to remember if you were as worked up over investigation of BushCheney warcrimes.

Only hundreds of thousands of innocent casualties, not the kind of "bombshell" you can really sink your pointy little teeth into.”

“"Sen. John McCain accused the president and Democratic leadership in the Senate of abandoning pledges of accountability and transparency during the reform process."

The sort of "accountability and transparency" displayed by CheneyBush? The "accountability" displayed by the GOP sockpuppets in Congress while the neocons were running wild?

"Republican Party strategists say the GOP senses a serious opportunity to portray itself as the party of transparency and reform."

They're already transparent.

... transparent doorstops.

Might as well portray themselves as the party of levitation.”

“... which, of course, raises the awkward question: What are YOUR hopes and dreams, and who'll fulfill them if the Republickers get the reins?

... y'know, while the interrupted de@th-spiral resumes, unabated?”

“Would've required los cojones grande, but Obama should've begun his first address as President by assigning every American a simple math question:

"Prove, using only basic mathematics, that there is ANY advantage to the American people allowing health insurance to remain in the hands of private, for-profit corporations. Grading will NOT be on a curve."

It would have been over by now.”

“Biggest mistake Obama ever made: turning the whole enchilada over to Congress.

(slaps forehead)

You'd think they could see the buzzards circling...”

“There ain't a spectacle more fun to watch than the rightfringe eating each other.

Karma has a truly wicked sense of humor.

Maybe, Liebermeister and the lovely Lindsey can give McSame more campaign guidance.”

“Part Deux

"He has surpassed all 6 years of Bush's deficits combined in 2009 alone and even if Obama had inherited Clinton's surplus he STILL would have surpassed all 6 Bush deficits." ?

You don't even see the clue lurking in your own characterization. Allowing for the collapse of the "tech bubble" and other extraneous global economic forces, just how DID that surplus turn into massive deficits under Junior and the GOP? For just one example, ever overlay the dramatic spike in oil prices upon the timeline of our noble undertakings in the M.E.? Y'know, all that cheap oil that was gonna "pay for the invasion"... ?

... and, at that, with the spiraling cost of his adventures in the Middle East conveniently kept "off the books", thus not even reflected in Junior's "budgets"?

... not until NOW, just in time for the new guy on the block.

What -- EXACTLY -- did the Bushies and the GOP do to address the stormclouds gathering over banking and Wall Street while preoccupied with their foreign adventures? And, now that it's all hit the fan, you expected the massive, foundational damage could be fixed ON THE CHEAP? Like the man says, "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later."

As for the FISA references... the Bushies were LYING to Congress from the jump.

We only agree on one thing: the situation truly s*cks.”

“"He just signed off on $105 Billion more funding to perpetuate those exact war crimes." ?

Those EXACT war crimes?

What a facile, childlike representation. Most of our military structure was solidly embedded in Iraq (and a still-growing portion in Aghanistan) for five years when Obama was elected. Have you read ANY of the analyses which painfully delineate what it would take to REMOVE that structure? It's bad enough that serious consideration is being given to simply turning over much of the heavy equipment to the locals... a more "economical" alternative than bringing it home. We can only guess at the BILLIONS that represents.

... and that doesn't even begin to address both the military AND indigenous mindsets and acculturation to our hostile presence in BOTH countries, including our insidious "partnership" with their corrupt governments, that have evolved over those years.

I wonder, if you had all the levers at your disposal in your playworld, how YOU would have "wrapped up" those two occupations in a snap, with no destructive fallout?

To paint Obama with comparable accountability for the conscious, methodical, deceptive and devious criminal plundering of the Bush/Cheney cabal over eight years is tantamount to indicting both the arsonist and the fire department since the latter, of necessity, also causes damage to the building.

Obama -- at least, on the record -- has ended torture, while, to the very end, Bush denied it... and Cheney CONTINUES to justify and rationalize it.

(more, if they post it)”

“If you're talking about a sweep in the South, you could have a point... eight years of warcrimes, Constitutional vandalism and a lockstep, do-nothing, surplus-busting GOP Congress that held the door for Junior and the neocons just ain't enough to satisfy them thar good ol' boys.

The Republickers proved the short attention span and ignorance of a vast swath of voters before, and they might well do it again... none of which changes the fact that the party, itself, is in advanced decomp, with arm-waving m 0rons at the throttle and not a single statesman left in the lineup.

If that's your idea of political 'victory', we're ALL on a sinking ship.”

“Now, if we can just convince him to replace Michael Steele...

Some gifts CAN keep on giving.

Buh-bye, Wudy.”

“Warning: "Compassionate Conservatism" in progress.
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“A different twist... climbing ONTO a sinking ship.

Good widdance, mowon.”

“Hmmm... don't recall Harwood's hard-hitting piece exposing the hallucinogen-induced idiocy of paying private insurers up to a 50-percent markup for the PRIVILEGE of seeing a doctor.

Mr. Harwood, look up the definition of "procurer".

Ironically, you may be right that this abomination is the best we could expect... but it's because of spineless, go-along scribes such as yourself who are perfectly content to report on a car full of people being taken out by a speeding locomotive but wouldn't -- for one second -- think of warning the driver of that car that a train is coming.”

“And, there, you have it.

Mission Accomplished, v2.0”

“This was promising to be a really good Christmas. Now, they've taken away the gift I most anticipated... the chance to watch this m@levolent m!screant get squ!shed by Andrew Cuomo, taking the whole right-wing herd of GOP l0udmouths down with him.

Guess we'll have to settle here for a squ!shed Lazio.

... and, now, we have to worry about security at the Olympics.

Ola! Rio! Don't listen when he tells you to house the emergency operations center in the main venue!”