Return of the Sammich

IS IT WORKING YET?

If only he had a toiled built into his chair, he wouldn’t have to get up to take a shit. Well, too late now.

toilet, even. i should have someone to spell for me.

the best part is, everyone who reads powerline thinks that blog post is lazy and self-indulgent, but this is the cream.

If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep. Perhaps someday.

Such a tease you are.

Why didn’t you just print the Hinderaker post? It didn’t really need a shorter.

Hindraker seepy. Hinderaker go nite nite.

I have definitive proof that Cheney’s V.P mansion’s bunker was used for secret trysts with John Hinderacker involving strap on power tools, imported elephant dung, a life size Rush Limbaugh sex doll, three goats, two gerbils and a bathtub full of scrambled eggs. I don’t have time to get into the details or provide evidence right now because I have to go to bed but perhaps your readers could extrapolate in the comments.

Once again, as soon as I thought about clicking over to see if what he said was as stupid as your summary implied, my brain said, ‘No, can’t be that stupid.’

It was.

Perhaps if they had comments over at Time Magazine’s greatest blog then we could tell them how stupid we think they are.

But I could always explain to you how the lack of comments over there, in no way, implies they’re afraid of fact checking – but I’m tired, this is only my day job, and well, I had a box of mcnuggets and now it’s nap time.

But as Hinderaker slept, his weary mind could not part with the thought of Dick Cheney in peril at the hands of the dastardly liberal press. And so he began to dream: He was now Sir John Hinderaker, girded in armour, riding to the former vice-President’s rescue on his valiant white steed: “I’m coming Mr. Cheney!,” he cried, “I’m coming! I’m coming!” Just then, his words took on a whole new meaning…

“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Aaack!”

I just ate something, now I’m hungry again.

And from now on, I am going to keep my arms discretely at my sides whenever I’m in public again, just in case.

It really is sad how the other blogs get comments, but poor John Hindraker gets none. Perhaps when he wakes he will find that someone has brought them while he slept, along with a soothing glass of warm Republican semen.

Maybe we could have a fundraiser to buy Mr. Hinderaker a comments section?

I bet his pillows are big white lumpy things with crude pictures of Dick Cheney drawn on them with black magic markers.

Well there have been a lot of canards around lately. Old ones at that.

Is that a duck? Some kind of folk instrument? A portmanteau for a mentaliy disabled citizen of canada?

I’d look it up but I can’t as I got this early day and all tomorrow. Maybe you should.

No, really, its *that* bad. I too went there, thinking – “there’s no way it can be *that* bad, but it is. Can you imagine what kind of comments they would get at PowerTools?

Ya know… Here in Minnesota we’ve got Michele Bachmann and we’ve got AssRocket. What did we do to deserve this? What Norse Gods did we fall out of favor that they hate us so?

“If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep. Perhaps someday.”

He has readers?

Since I missed the rude names thread: a friend of my mum’s named Charles Jones, middle initial ‘O’, did a lot of work in Latin America, where he would often get funny looks when presenting his bank card, which read ‘C O Jones’.

You have know idea of the troubles I’ve had

assrocket hits it out of the park again. well, all he’s done is report that:

“I saw and read something, that I disagreed with, but go read it yourself, and don’t bug me. I feel the meds kicking in…
This thinking is hard stuff, and since we won’t pay anyone to do our jobs for us, maybe other people can do them for free. Perhaps someday”

heh, indeed.

Viz the canard: apparently the original canard involved some bloke who claimed that he started with 10 ducks, killed one and fed it to the other 9, killed one and fed it to the remaining 8, and so on. So the word for duck became the word for big fat lie.

Personally I’d have called him knobhead, but there’s no pleasing some people.

ca-nard (k-närd) n A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.

The ones in Assmissile’s dreams are very, very long and have poor credit scores.

Alternative Shorter Powertool:

Hai, Newsbusters! Go fetch, good doggie.

Shorter Shorter AssCBM:

“I can’t rebut any of this and I don’t have the will to defend Unka Dick’s torture kink yet again so I’ll just mutter ‘partisan’ under my breath and go curl up into a ball.”

I think the wingnut grieving process has officially entered the “Depression” phase.

and don’t have time to deconstruct it

It’s the renowned wingnut post-structuralist John Hinderridaker.

If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep.

What happened to the Power Line Forum?

To sleep, perchance to dream … ahhh … mmm … zzzz … say, it’s Dick Cheney! What are you doing in my dream, Mr. Vice President? Is that a bucket of water in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Rowrrr! Mmm … mmmphhh …. gag … blurble …

Thank heavens Cheney didn’t bullshit us in the course of his speech, anyway. I might have missed this fact — and the proofs of it — if it hadn’t been for Heinietaker doing God’s work even as he pulled on his jammies.

Shorter AssRocket:
“Your honor, my client has been accused of dastardly things, all of which I’m sure you know are completely false and groundless.

I rest my case.”

I bet his pillows are big white lumpy things with crude pictures of Dick Cheney drawn on them with black magic markers.

With, of course, suspicious stains thereon.

I recommend that you recommend.

McClatchy was one of the few news organizations that kept doing their jobs back when the corporate media was busy fellating the Cheney-shrub administration.

Bonus: A blast from the past.

If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep. Perhaps someday.

Hrm. Does Hindy read the PLForum? Does anyone else? The commenters there are stupider than at Malkin’s site (I have to admit I was a little surprised by this; I figured if there was going to be a wingnut site where the readers didn’t mix up there/their/they’re on a routine basis, Powerline might be it). Maybe it’s changed since I got kicked off–I merely pointed out that Paul Mirengoff is an employer-side labor lawyer, and that when one of his readers gets hurt at work it is Mirengoff who makes sure the reader is not adequately compensated–but I bet it’s still full of gif files illustrating how dumb the libtards are.

If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep. Perhaps someday.

And if we had water and some ice, we’d have lemonade. If we had lemons.

Might I recommend

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/16-4

Hi Dick, turns out that (a) you tortured people after they were “compliant” to find an Iraq-Al Qaeda link in 2002. Then (b), you tortured more folks to give false information reguarding said links and the possession of WMD by Iraq post-invasion.

In review, you used torture to drum up a fake case for war (outside of the monstrous guidelines you set down, too), then you used torture to try to cover your ass.

That’s keeping America safe, you say. Rot in hell, you son of a bitch.

From Thunder’s link upthread to the Rude One: “The terrorists value death the same way you and I value life.” – Cheney

Somehow, I think Cheney’s values are exactly those of the terrorists. Probably worse.

You would think the Blog of the Century could afford to hire a full-time recalcitrant-reporter-shredder.

This latest piffle from the Poopshoot Projectile shows how empty the wingnut tank has become. Apparently Johnny-boy cannot even construct a single sentence of knee-slappingly kooky right-wing sophistry any more. This from a wacko who used to be able to effortlessly spin countless paragraphs of fact-free loopy bullshit to support his delusional babblings.

Jeezuz…it ain’ even fun mocking them any more.

[The sammich helps a little, though. And having them perched on toilets; that’s pretty cool, heh-heh…]

“The terrorists value death the same way you and I value life.” – Cheney

So you see, it was okay to torture them. Not that we did, mind you, but if we were so inclined it would be okay ’cause they’re dark evil creatures who value pain and death. Unlike us, who only value pain and death when we’re forced to.

Hey, this guy’s ripped off my act! Well, I would argue with him over it, but, um, it’s late I have a cold have to walk the dog blart sploot later.

yeahyeahblahblahblabbity……

the real story today is that Obama hates children

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Kindergarteners-Snubbed-for-Steelers.html

Oh yeah??? You’re full of it. The real Real REAL story today is that Obama is STILL a negro!!!!!

After getting my ass roundly kicked around here back in the winter, I went on sabbatical. There I formulated some awesome YouTube videos that show just how much better AOSHQ is than Sadly, No!, because over at Ace’s joint we talk about classy things and you guys say Blart a lot. Also, Obama is failing because wingnut bloggers don’t like him.

Seriously, dude, do you have anything to offer that isn’t painfully weak?

Wow, how curious is it that everyone interviewed in that “Snubbed kindergartners” story has the same surname?

goober, what are you doing here? it’s Friday Fart-off over at AOSHQ! remember?

This article accusing Cheney of misstatements is the biggest lie in the history of lying. I’d tell you why but I’m too sleepy right now. Figure it out for yourself. I’m sick and fucking tired of doing all the work around here. Kthxgnite.

TRANSLATION:

My damned hit count is off for the third muthafuggin’ month and so I’m forced to post sensationalized headlines and aggravating summaries so that you accidentally click on one of my ads in desperation.

Ya know… Here in Minnesota we’ve got Michele Bachmann and we’ve got AssRocket.

You also have Lileks.

What did we do to deserve this? What Norse Gods did we fall out of favor that they hate us so?

You gave us Garrison Keillor.

Wow, how curious is it that everyone interviewed in that “Snubbed kindergartners” story has the same surname?

Gosh, what a coinkydink that is.

Be interesting to see if either Ms. Stine had written for, oh say, Townhall.com or some such. You know, we dare not speculate and all that.

Rock Hardon said,
May 22, 2009 at 9:47

You have know idea of the troubles I’ve had

Nobody knows but Jesus.

Wow, how curious is it that everyone interviewed in that “Snubbed kindergartners” story has the same surname?

*picking Deliverance on banjo*

Wassat s’posed ta mean, y’all?

*spit*

ca-nard (k-närd) n A short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer.

From the French word for duck, since an aircraft with a canard looks like a duck in flight (the wings are more towards the back).

From the article:

In a statement April 21 , however, Blair said the information “was valuable in some instances” but that “there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means. The bottom line is that these techniques hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.”

In days gone by, upon occasion, a youth and maiden would come together in a freshly plowed and planted field and couple in the presence of the other villagers to ensure an abundant harvest. This worked “in some instances” as some years abundant harvests did indeed follow the public porking of the two young people, which is why we still count on teenagers rutting in the furrows to feed the nation.

Parents say it’s probably too late. The school year ends in a few weeks and they doubt the tour can be made up in that time.

Oh, now who is snubbing whom?

“THE MOST INSANELY BIASED “NEWS” STORY IN HISTORY!!!!”

Wow. How so?

“It just is. I don’t have time to explain now. Mommy says it’s bed time.”

But if it’s so insanely biased, you could toss out a couple of examples real quick, couldn’t you. Debunk one statement, maybe? It seems to me that if it is so insanely biased it would easy to do that, right?

“Ah, no I’m sleepy. But my legion of of insanely sharp readers will, you betcha!”

Great. Where can I read those?

“Um…I’m sleepy.”

“Just take my word for it.”

“Now leave me alone.”

ONE Stine….TWO Stines…THREE Stines! Ah-ah-ah…

(SFX: Thunder, lightning)

I’m amazed the fillings can stay in that sammich. Must be some kind o’ sticky mayonaise, maybe?

Another shorter from the the Failureline blog. This shorter is actually LONGER than the original, highly thought-out post.

Shorter: The dire financial status of a newspaper that we hate, and that reports middling assessments of a Kenyan pretender to the throne, means that said Kenyan is going to drive the economy into the ditch from the glorious state that President Illustrious Bush left it in

Original: Remember, the people who are running the Times are the people who think Obama is doing a good job running the country. . . .

I’m amazed the fillings can stay in that sammich. Must be some kind o’ sticky mayonaise, maybe?

The dispenser is kinda small and oddly shaped and needs a lot of pumping to get even a few droplets out.

So Hinderaker says Cheney is not lying. But all these people are.

Adm. Dennis Blair

All of those who believe we found no weapons of mass destruction when we invaded Iraq

Wow. What a frickin’ huge plot. THEY are all out to discredit Cheney. It’s what THEY live for. I recommend lots and lots of tinfoil, made into hoods and hung in strips at the windows to frustrate THEIR spying devices. Also, keep a record of all your neighbor’s movements and what’s in their trash. Check your Sun Current for coded messages to Islamofascists concealed in the classified ads. Place a copy of the week’s report under a beer bottle on lane 5 at Bogart’s Place at noon exactly every Friday. Do NOT stick around to see who picks it up.

I’m amazed the fillings can stay in that sammich. Must be some kind o’ sticky mayonaise, maybe?

c.f. snotchos

MzNicky said,

May 22, 2009 at 16:11

Rock Hardon said,
May 22, 2009 at 9:47

You have know idea of the troubles I’ve had

Nobody knows but Jesus.

Get out of my head! That’s exactly what I heard!

K-Nard is not to be confused with K-Tard, the latter being the editor of the National Review Online.

Place a copy of the week’s report under a beer bottle on lane 5 at Bogart’s Place at noon exactly every Friday. Do NOT stick around to see who picks it up.

The code word is “octopus”. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does it grow? Queen to Queen’s rook 4. The fish is red, the sea is wine-dark. Don’t touch a moustache. Dog, no bicycles. Abner is keeping the pickles in the wine cellar.

There are three flowers in a vase. One of the flowers is green.

I saw a comment, I think in Newsweek (stopped clock, etc…) that Cheney is still fighting a battle he lost in 2006, which I found perceptive.

The Pubbies need to make him shut up and go away.

There are three flowers in a vase. One of the flowers is green.

There are thirteen new episodes ordered. This is FTW.

The Pubbies need to make him shut up and go away.

I hope he keeps his mug in the limelight at least until the light goes all stripey on him, and hopefully even after that. It’s too easy for the public to forget what a pack of monsters the Bush maladministration was, so it’s good to keep the memory fresh.

Like a steaming turd.

Parents say they tried to make it on time, but their chartered buses hit heavy traffic that slowed them down substantially
…
A spokesperson said the group was actually supposed to be there at 9:30, but they held the gates for the group until 10:30, 15 minutes longer than they told the group, but when they still hadn’t arrived, they had to draw the line.

People who make no effort to be on time (god I hate that) miss appointment with Preznit. They were driving into DC (allll the way from northeast Virginia! what a journey!) during rush hour. I’m sure heavy traffic is completely unexpected.

Also, POTUS has shit to do on a tight schedule. It’s amazing that whiny self-centered bitches don’t respect that.

Also, POTUS has shit to do on a tight schedule. It’s amazing that whiny self-centered bitches don’t respect that.

Well, look at what they had to reference to for eight years – a guy who you only had to worry about interrupting an important game of “Splinter Cell” with.

The code word is “octopus”. Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does it grow? Queen to Queen’s rook 4. The fish is red, the sea is wine-dark. Don’t touch a moustache. Dog, no bicycles. Abner is keeping the pickles in the wine cellar.

I hear the gooseberries are doing well this year, and so are the mangoes.

There are thirteen new episodes ordered. This is FTW.

I knew, by the first episode I knew, that Ballard would end up working inside the Dollhouse by the end of the season. The laws of drama demanded it, and they were not disappointed. Although November was a shock. An awesome shock, but I did not (want to?) see it coming.

And once again, a Sadly No summation that isn’t even an exaggeration of the article it’s mocking – it’s an understatement.

It’s not worth becoming the soulless human shell required for me to become a GOP apologist – but I still resent their easy cushy gigs.

I hear the gooseberries are doing well this year, and so are the mangoes.

Mine aren’t.

Go on…

What a fool am I.
I went & read the loathsome thing – & now I can’t UNread it!
The pop-up at the top of the page says it all: “DRAG ME TO HELL”.
Hell is other people’s stupidity.

All these neocons want Dick back so hard.

…Maybe we could have a fundraiser to buy Mr. Hinderaker a comments section?…

That’s a fine idea. I suspect we could even provide Mr. Hinderaker with some comments if he runs short.

I hear the gooseberries are doing well this year, and so are the mangoes.

Mine aren’t, but the Big Cheese gets his at low tide.

The code word is “octopus”.

In women’s tennis I always bet against the heterosexual.

“The terrorists value death the same way you and I value life.”

Well, I suppose that’s true, so long as we’re still talking about Dick Cheney’s value assessments. Life is cheap, death is cheap, seems about right.

In the last few weeks, I have posted some two dozen items in cyberspace on the tangled mess of issues related to Guantanamo, waterboarding, etc. So I decided to sweep the whole thing into one pile, and see if the big picture makes any sense.

Here are the facts that we have in fact been able to establish.

Waterboarding is illegal, it causes more problems than it solves, it actually makes the intelligence-gathering effort harder rather than easier, and is a dumbass idea.

Cheney is a bottomless fountain of lies, fallacies, and fearmonger tactics; in particular, the notion that the Bush crime family made us more safe and Obama makes us less safe is demonstrable nonsense, and the notion that closing Guantanamo puts us in danger is also poppycock. And virtually all his bullcrap can be shot down using Republican sources.

The GOP jihad against Pelosi is also loaded with proveable lies and fallacies.

Now, the details.

TORTURE

Waterboarding is torture, and illegal. For that we rely on Title 18 of the U.S. Code, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the Geneva Convention, and some other rules you don’t get to break. A rightwing radio host who had insisted that waterboarding isn’t torture agreed to be waterboarded – and changed his mind in exactly six seconds. McCain also refuted Cheney’s screeching on the waterboarding issue. Bob Barr, the arch-conservative who led the effort to impeach Clinton, says torture is illegal. Even Reagan jailed cops who waterboarded prisoners.

The danger of using torture and other such nonsense in a system with virtually no adult supervision is made vivid by the fact that a hundred of our detainees have already died in custody, and a third of them are already confirmed or suspected homicides; meanwhile one interrogator who hated the notion of torturing people committed suicide; details of the incident were covered up by the Pentagon. Meanwhile the Senate Armed Services Committee shot down Cheney’s claim that the abuse at Abu Ghuraib was the work of rogue guards not sanctioned by any higher authority.

CHENEY

Cheney has been spouting rather a lot of lies and logical fallacies, in addition to the big ones on waterboarding, Guantanamo etc. Bush’s own Pentagon people shot down Cheney’s claim that Saddam was linked to Al-Qa’ida and other terrorists; the one big-name terrorist who managed to get to Baghdad…was killed by Saddam. Cheney claimed that the Bush gang moved decisively against al-Qa’ida and the Taleban, ignoring the fact that the leaders of both groups are thriving because the Bush administration was too obsessive about Iraq. Cheney implied that Obama was at fault for blocking the release of key documents…It was actually an executive order by Bush. A number of Republicans have said they want Cheney to shut up.

WE ARE SAFER!

Cheney falsely claimed that the Director of National Intelligence backed him up in claiming that torture yielded valuable intelligence we wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. A CIA investigation showed no evidence that the torture yielded anything valuable. Bush’s FBI Director also rejected the idea that we got valuable intelligence. The claim that torture yielded information which prevented an attack in LA – also a lie, already debunked. Torture actually hurts the intelligence effort: two detainees admitted that they gave inaccurate intelligence just to avoid being tortured – the false intelligence pertained to the mythical Iraq-terror link which Bush and Cheney wanted so badly to establish.

Also, Cheney stressed the importance of getting good intelligence while omitting the fact the Bush gang regularly ignored or fudged the intelligence they did get.

Stopping the torture program doesn’t make us less safe. If it did, the Bush gang wouldn’t have stopped it five years ago, would they? Their own actions belie their words. Likewise Bush’s Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge, refuted Cheney’s claim that Obama made us less safe, and Bush’s Director of National Intelligence shot down Cheney’s claim that releasing torture-related memos made us less safe. Bush’s generals refuted the notion that stopping the torture, or even talking about the torture issue, means we’re not supporting our troops – the generals said the torture itself is fostering terrorism and endangering our troops. And lying about it and concealing it isn’t helping our tattered credibility either.

GUANTANAMO

The Guantanamo detainees are not, as Cheney claims, the worst of the worst. The Bush gang stupidly offered a cash reward in the streets of Afghanistan for terrorists, no proof needed, so any local Afghan with a gun could run out and grab anybody even remotely Arab-looking, kidnap him, and collect the money. An overwhelming majority of the guys we grabbed are innocent of anything, and even the CIA admitted it way back in 2002. The New York Times reported that the released detainees were rejoining the jihad, but it was an invalid report and they had to backtrack.

If there were evidence against these guys, Bush would have taken them to court. Instead Bush was caught hiding evidence that proved the innocence of some detainees. A court spanked the Bush gang for that – it’s illegal. Privately, the Bush administration admitted to the Germans that some of the detainees were innocent – but resisted saying the same thing to the American people.

The claim that Obama is endangering us by closing Guantanamo is ridiculous. Even assuming these guys are real terrorists, which in most cases they’re not – you know how many people we have in American prisons who are genuinely dangerous? Proven to be dangerous with actual evidence?

Cheney has selective amnesia on this issue. He slammed Obama for the effort to ship detainees to other countries…a process begun by Bush and Cheney. Bush and Robert Gates, both Republicans, refuted Cheney on Guantanamo; Bush, Rice and Gates were working to shut down Guantanamo before Obama ever got to the White House.

[**UPDATE** from AFP: Gates said in an interview that opponents of Obama’s decision to close the “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo were engaging in “fear-mongering,” a reference to Cheney’s stance on the issue. ]

PELOSI

Two things which have been established firmly, are that the CIA has lied repeatedly to Congress, and that Pelosi did not know about the waterboarding as early as the Republicans claim. Kerry, Obey, Graham, Rockefeller, Specter, Fox News, House Republican leader Boehner, leading Republican Hoekstra pointed out the CIA’s lies to Congress. In fact the CIA is being investigated now, for lying to Congress. It has been established that the CIA lied about the briefings on the interrogations, and four of the above Congress members already have specifically refuted the claim that Pelosi was briefed about the waterboarding. Both the current CIA boss and Bush’s former CIA boss Porter Goss were pressed to back up the GOP accusations against Pelosi; even Goss, a rabid arch-conservative who hates everything Pelosi stands for and would love to see her destroyed, backpedaled rather than accuse her on this point. One GOP investigator not only admitted that Pelosi didn’t know about the torture, but also faulted her for not asking more questions – can’t have it both ways, guys! A logical fallacy.

Another logical fallacy by the GOP: Bush’s crimes are not extenuated by anybody he claims he told about it. Telling somebody you’re committing a crime doesn’t make it legal: it makes it a criminal conspiracy.
Another fallacy: that Pelosi should have stopped the torture. Setting aside the fact that she didn’t know it was going on, she wasn’t even Speaker when all this happened – in fact she was in the minority party, during a time in which the minority party was barely allowed to eat in the cafeteria and use the toilets in the House chamber, let alone demand an investigation or legislation. Furthermore the Bush gang made clear time after time that they intended to ignore any Congressional input with respect to any issue which, in their view, infringed upon the national security prerogatives of the executive.
Another fallacy: how can the Republicans simultaneously insist that there is no scandal, and that Pelosi is implicated in…the non-existent scandal? “Pelosi should have stopped us even though we did nothing wrong!”?

Newt screeched a stream of insults at Pelosi and demanded she resign. Other Republicans demanded she apologize, or be impeached, etc etc. A new GOP ad shows Pelosi being shot. Classy bunch.

POLITICS

So here’s the part I don’t understand yet.

The facts are easy to establish on these issues: the GOP knows that if they push this, it will turn into a year-long probe into Bush’s crimes and follies, a total disaster for the GOP, and in the meantime they can’t gain any traction on the issues they could actually win on, like spending. An even bigger hazard: a number of former Bush administration officials have admitted that the aim of the torture was to force detainees to falsely accuse Saddam of links to terrorism in time for the 2002 elections – a full exploration of that issue could actually kill the party dead, dead, dead. So why are they doing this?

Perhaps they know their other issues are weak, as evinced by the way the attack on Obama’s spending devolved into the pathetic tea-party fiasco which had no effect whatsoever on the popularity of Obama or his policies.

Perhaps they’re worried about the coming health care battle, and want to use a side issue like this to soften him up first.

Perhaps the Pelosi thing is driven by the fact that this bunch of reactionary dead white males like beating up on girls, particularly Democrats: not long ago a Bush administration official admitted that they handled Katrina the way they did because their main aim was to make Kathleen Blanco look bad and beat her up a little. That, not managing the crisis response, was their main focus. But directing their fire at Pelosi now is silly: she and Obama are the two Democrats who are completely secure in their positions (contrary to the precarious position of Reid), and attacking Pelosi gets them nothing – not even a chance to alter the balance in the power in the House

Perhaps they just want to fire up the GOP base, to show that at least the Gestapo wing of the party, with all their sledgehammer political tactics, is still alive and kicking. The only things which can be relied upon to spin up the base are fear and hate, so going that route may just be force of habit for the gauleiters of today’s GOP. But that also alienates the all-important moderates and independents, two groups which the Republicans have inexplicably showed no interest in wooing this spring.

Perhaps they interpreted Obama’s expressed intent to avoid a partisan fight on these issues as a sign of weakness: “If he says he won’t fight on this, let’s just keep punching him in the teeth until he changes his mind. Bloody him up a little.” That strategy would be pretty ludicrous because if the repeated Republican harassment impelled Obama to pursue these issues he could destroy the Republicans, but as long as he continues the arm’s-length stance, they can keep taking pokes at him, and at Pelosi.

Perhaps they have no coherent party strategy at all, reflective of the continuing civil war within the GOP – some Republicans want Cheney to fight on, others want him to shut up, some want an investigation into all this, others dread it. Steele wants a probe into all these issues, but he’s an idiot: Boehner was out there insisting that Pelosi apologize, but when he was asked whether he wanted an investigation, he backpedaled. Some Republicans threatened Eric Holder (perhaps they think blacks are weak like women…?); they told him that if there is an investigation, they will fight tooth and nail to smear any Democrat they can, the way they’re doing to Pelosi. How they would make such nonsense work is debateable: perhaps they would go to the old standby – blame Clinton for everything.

So the Republicans are gambling on a laughably fallacious campaign to try to exploit an issue which could very easily blow back and kill their party, and no one can figure out why. As Herman Wouk would say, giggling idiots juggling dynamite.

It is a puzzlement.

Actually, we do know one reason why Cheney went insane and screeched a bunch of desperate nonsense in that speech, even though a lot of Republicans want him to shut up and go away. As his daughter admitted to Fox, Cheney did it because he fears prosecutions are coming. And of course the book deal.

http://hellodollyllama.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-picture-on-torture-guantanamo.html

It’s been a while since we’ve seen Hinderaker giving that corn dog a blow job. Maybe you’d post it soon why not?

If we had comments, maybe we could let our readers tear this piece of nonsense apart line by line while we sleep.

Indeed.

Perhaps someday.

If only there were some way one could set up one’s own place on the toobz, by dog one could do things one’s own way.

Also: San Dimas High School football rules! Woof!