I think anyone with a brain that is more than an ear spacer knows this "outrage" is a manufactured reaction. I think it is also fair to say that the Senate devoting any time at all to this ad would be a total and complete waste of time. Surely, this thing is not worthy of anything more than a passing mention...surely!
Alas, I am sad to report that in fact not only did the senate devote time to slamming MoveOn.org and the ad, seventy-two senators, including 22 Democrats voted yes on a measure condemning MoveOn.org. Here is the list of Democrats who voted to flip off MoveOn.org: Max Baucus (D, MT), Evan Bayh (D, IN), Ben Cardin (D, MD), Thomas Carper (D, DE), Bob Casey (D, PA), Kent Conrad (D, ND), Byron Dorgan (D, ND), Dianne Feinstein (D, CA), Tim Johnson (D, SD), Amy Klobuchar (D, MN), Herb Kohl D, WI), Mary Landrieu (D, LA), Patrick Leahy (D, VT), Blanche Lincoln (D, AK), Claire McCaskill (D, MS), Barbara Mikulski (D, MD), Bill Nelson (D, FL), Ben Nelson (D, NE), Mark Pryor (D, AK), Kenneth Salazar (D, CO), John Tester (D, MT), Jim Webb (D, VA). A sorry lot these, if you ask me!
What I would like to know in all of this is where is the outrage that should be pointed at Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Petraeus' boss? Where the MoveOn.org ad used words like, "General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts," Admiral Fallon used words like: "ass-kissing little chickenshit," or, "sycophant," or, accused Petraeus of ingratiating himself with a superior, something Admiral Fallon dislikes. Follow this link for the story.
Seriously, I think there's a just a wee bit of difference here. I think that the words of Admiral Fallon are a bit more to the point, more offensive, disrespectful, and derogatory...don't you? I mean, really!
On a scale of one to ten I'd put a snub by a bunch of impotent pundits backing political pussies at about 0.0000125, and what Admiral Fallon said at about one hundred. And yet, even at this point, after Admiral Fallon burst forth his pimples and waved his private parts at Petraeus' Aunties, not a soul, not DUBYA, not Petraeus, not even Dick(LESS) has dared to even mildly object to the words used.
No one, not one person has said dick to the Admiral about this! No one, not one single news organization has done anything resembling a follow-up story on this. I had to search a bit to find this tidbit...and finding the transcripts of all that was said...not having much luck. Fortunately, I don't think I really need the transcript. I think the words "ass-kissing little chickenshit" pretty much tell that tale to a "T"!
I guess even the Republicans are too afraid to stand up to a real man like Admiral Fallon!
Another congressional roll over this week was putting the screws to H R 1585: Webb Amdt. No. 2909; To specify minimum periods between deployment of units and members of the Armed Forces deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.
Yes, finally, a law was proposed that promised to support the troops by allowing them as much time at home as they have spent getting their asses shot off for DUBYA's oil buddies, and it gets slapped down. Let me say that again: Congress had a chance to actually support the troops by allowing them as much time off as they had spent in combat...and they didn't do it.
That's right, once again, Democrats in congress couldn't come up with a sufficient amount of leverage to twist back on the arms of the RepubliKKKan arm twisters who refuse to take our people out of harm's way. I keep hearing over and over, "it's about mathematics, the Democrats simply don't have the votes necessary to override a presidential veto." I say bullshit! The number isn't there because the Democrats are too pussified to go nose to nose in knock-down drag-out fashion with the RepubliKKKans. They prefer to pretend that they are above the fray! They prefer to hand over the henhouse to the foxes, and then wonder why egg production is all but gone.
It's not about mathematics. This is politics! It's about civics, making stands, proving points, being brave! That's why no one is willing to get behind the Democrats, or give them anything in the way of respect. They are trying to use the Marquess of Queensbury rules in the middle of a gang war where everyone else has Uzi's. They are trying to maintain their beauty while the castle in which they live falls around their ears, and ours as well.
You know, sometimes, a spade must be called a spade. So, I am going to call General Petraeus' speech nothing but bullshit salesmanship. He was another mouthpiece for DUBYA; another willing boot-licking, ass-kissing chickenshit sycophant fuckhead! He will face the same fate of all those who have been chewed up and spit back out by DUBYA. And I can't wait to see it happen.
I also call the Democrats in congress what they are, a bunch of pathetically pampered, pandering, pussies! It is their job to stand up for the will of the American people...and they haven't the spine for it. They could get a huge wave of popular support behind them, but they waste ever chance, every opportunity, every small gesture that would even reassure We The People, even if things kept on in their present helter skelter fashion. I can only shudder in fear as I think of what the Democrats are going to roll over on next.
Is it any wonder they have less public confidence than DUBYA?
Petraeus betrayed the military. In my eyes he is a coward and a boot licking suck up.
This administration has betrayed, and continues to betray, the people and our military.
Move on at least spoke up on how they felt. That's more than the majority of our elected are willing to do. Although one of them said Petraeus should be sworn in before 'testifying' and was arrested for it. Heaven forbid any of the lap dogs be sworn in to tell the truth!
Please, would someone tell me just what freedoms we have left that our Constitution granted? I can't seem to come up with any.
by
Rae (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 218 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 3:43:57 PM
Freedom of lying, crooked, Constitutionally criminal, weak, meak and insipid to run for office.
There are exceptions, but so few, and I honestly believe that it not so much the people who need changing, but the system. I've seen it in my own city where someone who was honest and well-intended became corrupted by the system or the power or both.
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Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1382 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 5:37:25 PM
Maybe Fallon's words had to be in a newspaper ad to get attention.
If only there'd been such an ad when Powell went to the U.N. It might not have done any good, but it would have been worth the try. Now Petraeus is a member of that elite club of men who tarnished their own reputations by speaking the truth when it was far, far too late.
Pubs are louder and nastier than Dems. Always have been; always will be. Maybe it the left brain/right brain thing. I just can't remember which side does which.
The Republicans remind me of the smokers' and nonsmokers' tables we used to have in my old work's lunch room.
The smokers table -- figuratively representing the Dems -- was full of joking, laughing, boisterous, outgoing people who were openly having fun and not ashamed of it.
At the nonsmokers table were the Repubican wax figures, sitting quietly, reading, not talking and occasionally firing off daggered glances at the smokers' table. They are the ones who can only have fun in a shameful way, inside dark, dank cubbies where no light ever shines...except when they get caught.
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Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1382 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 6:11:42 PM
Texas guns? Actually, my official act of ringing in the equinox was to go to a gay pool party. The water was as cold as the reception I got, but such is life.
Anyway, this article was a qucikie. The one I told you about earlier this week will be upladed later on tonight...after midnight so it comes in after the equinox. Hope it gets published...Hope you like it.
Got your pics, by the way. Nice place! You're right, it needs a little less brown!
Blessed be! Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:54:52 PM
Please, would someone tell me just what freedoms we have left that our Constitution granted? I can't seem to come up with any.
How about the right to sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up? Those are the only two rights we lave left under this shit-sucking regime! And the sad thing is we are the ones that voluntarily gave up whatever rights we once had. The day that we traded our "safety and security" for our freedoms, that's the day we all became complicit in giving away our freedoms.
And look what we have to take their place. We have another military puppet sucking on the ass of his chimp in chief, a president who would serve the world better if he was feeding worms, and a government of, by, and for the rich.
Well, at least the pigs at Halliburton will sleep in warm comfort. All that money they have made has to be the cure for their consciences...oh wait, I forgot, the have no consciences.
Blessed be! Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:06:30 PM
They could get a huge wave of popular support behind them, but they waste ever chance, every opportunity, every small gesture that would even reassure We The People, even if things kept on in their present helter skelter fashion.
I ask, am I speaking the truth above or what? If the Democrats really stood up, really found their spine, really went to ground with their promise to listen to the people, would you not be happy, impressed, willing to give the a bit more benefit of the doubt? I know I would.
And when you consider the amount of timidity shown by the Democrats in congress, you have to know it wouldn't take that much courage to stand out. It's easy to look like a genius if you are surrounded by the mentally retarded! It's easy to look brave if you are surrounded by cowards!
Mr. Smith, where did you go?
I confess my friends, sometimes I really get all torn up inside by the disgraces I see happening in our government. I see nary a one of those disgraces answered with more than the same irritated grumble your dog gives you when you throw him off the couch. I wish I got paid to blow a lot of hot air, and pretend I was working hard against my adversaries. No wonder the members (as in gold MEMBERS) of congress like their cushy jobs so much.
This congress wasted no time in getting nothing done, but putting on a good show...ok, so the show sucked, too. What do you want for nothing....R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-R-Rubber Biscuit?
Blessed be! Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:34:16 PM
There are exceptions, but so few, and I honestly believe that it not so much the people who need changing, but the system. I've seen it in my own city where someone who was honest and well-intended became corrupted by the system or the power or both.
I don't know what needs to be changed, I just wish the change would happen.
I am tired of having to hear governmental disaster after governmental scandal, with no resolution to any of it. It's like listening to a piece of music loaded with diminished chords and minor sevenths, without even visiting the Ionian mode, or trying to strike a major chord of any kind. Too much tension. Imagine Hamlet without the comic relief provided by the gravedigger and Yorick's skull.
It is crazy-making!
Blessed be! Pappy
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Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:49:22 PM
What is it that's so hard to understand about the operation of our government?
Legislation can be either initiated in the House or the Senate, but it must be approved in both houses--which means the Senate essentially has a lock on governance.
For those who don't seem to be able to count, Democrats hold 49 seats in the Senate, plus (when they feel like cooperating, 2 independents, one of whom is Joe Lieberman--nuff said)
It takes 60 votes to invoke cloture, which is the ending of debate so that something can be voted on.
49 is not 60. 51 is not 60. 60 is 60 and Democrats are at best 9 votes short and at worst, 11.
WHAT IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THAT?
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Jim Freeman (108 articles, 51 quicklinks, 221 diaries, 382 comments)
on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 6:53:16 PM
Why they refuse to fight. Why when they do actually fight, it's always a weak, token gesture.
Perhaps I am an idealist, but I fail to see how congress doesn't know that if they really went to work, they might make things happen...and the people might get behind them again. They wouldn't have to fight too hard for too long to get our attention, either. They could place themselves into lovely win-win scenarios.
Instead, I hear nothing but excuses.
I said it above, and I will say it again, it would take just a bit of effort and a bit of perseverence, and maybe they could wrangle those votes, and maybe a few more. It's not like the American public would fault them for doing thier jobs...or behaving as if they had spines, guts, balls...whatever you want to call it.
They are facing off against the most unpopular president in history, and still, they can't figure out how to twist an arm or two to get what they want? Either their really stupid, really cowards, or really on the take from someone somewhere.
The RepubliKKKans in congress twist arms all the time. DUBYA does it as well. If he can do it, why the hell can't Pelosi? Why can't impeachment be put on the table? Don't they realize the support that would fall behind them if they but looked into the mess that is the DUBYA regime? Don't they remember we voted their sorry asses in to end the war? Up to now, they haven't done dick but roll over on command from DUBYA. It's disgusting!
The force of the populace is a very strong thing. It put cowardly Democrats in to take the places of the ineffectual Republicans. It could depose our ruler if we were but to fiercely force OUR point of view on them.
Ah, but I am dreaming.
So, I get how government works, I just don't get how congress can't know how much we the people want them to quit dicking around and get the fuck out of dodge. This madness called the Iraq War can lead to no good in the short run, or the long.
Blessed be! Pappy
by
Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Monday, September 24, 2007 at 2:42:27 AM
...I just sent the article of which I spoke earlier. It's definitely going to be released after the equinox, since it's about forty-five minutes from now. Keep an eye out for it.
Kisses
Blessed be! Pappy
by
Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments)
on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 3:13:20 AM
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