Remember, Folks: It’s the GOP that’ll suffer in this Election

So say the Democrats, as thousands of rats abandon ship:

We Are Fucked
by Maryscott OConnor
Mon Jan 30, 2006 at 02:16:53 PM PDT

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Look, I’ll replace the original text later, but it seems cruelly, viciously ironic to keep it up right now.

What I want is a complete list of every scumsucking fuckstick Democratic asshole Senator who voted for Cloture. That’s what I want.

I don’t know what to DO with that list, not yet — but I know for GODDAMNED sure I won’t be VOTING for any of them, lt alone sending them any goddamned MONEY.

Frankly, right now I’d like nothing better than to torpedo the entire lot of them. Just dump them like so much worthless, leaden, VICHY MOTHERFUCKING BALLAST.

I got nothin’, folks. Don’t look over here if you want comfort or a nice, uplifting LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY speech.

I’M DONE WITH THEM. They are DEAD to me.

Yeah. CANTWELL and BYRD and LANDRIEU and BINGAMAN and every last motherfucking one of them, I’m DONE with them.

I’m registering Independent tomorrow. You’re welcome to join me.

The anguished cries of leftists fill me with pleasure.

I didn’t know I liked Samuel Alito so much.

Zarqawi: I’m Still Standing

Has it really come to this? Al Qaeda big wigs are bragging that they merely remain alive?

Seems like they’ve lowered their standards a bit.

Why I don’t take feminists seriously

Feminists are actually less concerned about women’s rights than they are with their own “right” to have an abortion.

George Bush has done more for women’s rights than any president in modern history. But feminists hate him because he is opposed to abortion rights.

Bill Clinton sexually harassed more women than any president in American history. But that’s okay! He supports abortion, so feminists love him. If he were ever convicted of rape, feminists would still love him because he supports abortion.

I guess all those Afghanistani women now exercizing the right to vote and those Iraqi women who no longer fear rape as a retaliation for a male relative’s political beliefs don’t matter as long as a pro-life Judge might be nominated to the Supreme Court in the United States.

Thugocracy

Fatah supports turn violent

These are the “moderates:”

A mob of up to 2,000 furious Fatah supporters took to the streets Friday, burning cars, firing guns and demanding the resignation of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas after the militant group Hamas trounced their party in parliamentary elections.

Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, was in the West Bank, where he called on Hamas to form a new government after its election landslide snatched power this week from Fatah’s ruling old guard.

Waving yellow Fatah flags in the flickering light of flaming bonfires, protesters swarmed around Abbas’ home in Gaza City, where they shot in the air and accused him of being a “collaborator” with Israel.

CNN has the video.

Kerry to the rescue!

Just when you think the GOP is down for the count, some Democrat rides to the rescue:

Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday.

Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.

He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also has the support of his fellow Massachusetts senator, Democrat Edward Kennedy.

This will drive a wedge between Democrats as it puts tremendous pressure on vulnerable Democratic senators in the red states; it will energize the GOP’s base while doing wonders for Republican fundraising; and it will prove futile, thus dispiriting rank and file liberals with a reminder of their powerlessness.

That this has no chance of succeeding is precisely why Kerry is doing it. This is Kerry being Kerry at his political “best” – taking the safely contrarian position that has no chance of being enacted while he can paint his position as one of “principle.”

UPDATE: Crap. It appears the Republican leadership plans to choke it off:

Republicans have already said they’ll have the 60 votes needed in the Senate to break a filibuster and end the debate, so such a threat probably won’t have an impact. . . .

A cloture vote, which would end a potential filibuster, is scheduled for Monday at 4:30 p.m. EST; if cloture is approved, the final vote would be scheduled for Tuesday at 11 a.m EST.

Gawd damn it, guys. Give Kerry at least a week’s worth of rope to hang himself with. I know we’re all anxious to have this over, but let the man filibuster for some days! And I mean, make him do it right. None of this, “Oh, we’ll table the matter until we’re ready to invoke cloture.” No, no. Keep the Senate in session around the clock. Have Kerry in the well at 2 AM ranting and raving and get it all on tape.

Froggystan is becoming Fattystan

France is battling the ultimate menace: FAT.

It seems the more they hate us, the more they love us! They hate our movies, but always go see them. They hate our music but have to pass laws mandating that a minimum number of local songs get played on the radio. And no matter how many McDonalds they destroy, the more they eat there:

McDonald’s is more profitable in France than anywhere else in Europe. Sales have increased 42 percent over the past five years. Some 1.2 million French, or 2 percent of the population, eat there every day.

Democrats don’t get it; neither do their friends in the media

E.J. Dionne Jr. on Karl Rove:

Rove went on: “Republicans have a post-9/11 worldview, and many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. That doesn’t make them unpatriotic – not at all. But it does make them wrong – deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.”

Oh, no, those Dems aren’t unpatriotic, just security idiots.

Correct.

When challenged to answer the view that Democrats lack a post-9/11 worldview view, Dionne responds:

Does having a “post-9/11 worldview” mean allowing Bush to do absolutely anything he wants, any time he wants, without having to answer to the courts, Congress or the public?

In other words, the Democrats are going to enter the national security debate with nothing but criticism and no solutions of their own along with only a straw man caricature of the GOP’s views.

Democrats: Does having a “post-9/11 worldview” mean allowing Bush to do absolutely anything he wants, any time he wants, without having to answer to the courts, Congress or the public?

Republicans: No.

Democrats:

Republicans: We are at war against foreign terrorists who want to kill you and your society and we’ll do what it takes to stop it and the Democrats won’t; we will cut your taxes and give you money and Democrats won’t.

Pause for elections.

Republicans: The House will be in order …

"I don’t support the troops"

For once, we have an intellectually honest anti-war leftist who isn’t afraid to air publicly what we’ve seen in the fringe left. But sheesh, what a dumb editorial:

I DON’T SUPPORT our troops. This is a particularly difficult opinion to have, especially if you are the kind of person who likes to put bumper stickers on his car. Supporting the troops is a position that even Calvin is unwilling to urinate on.

Indeed, but as Stein points out, it’s the only logically consistent position for those who morally oppose the war in Iraq. How can you oppose the war because it is wholesale slaughter, but support the people bringing that death and destruction down upon vaunted “freedom fighters”? You can’t fight a war without warriors. (Note: This is in regards to those who claim moral opposition to the war, not those who think it’s bad foreign policy or being run poorly.)

We saw the true feelings of anti-war protesters during the Vietnam War, when shameful public displays toward returning war veterans repulsed the nation. Today, the political environment is no longer so friendly to such actions, so the typical leftist like Michael Moore has to shroud his views even as he attempts to portray the American soldier as nothing more than a mindless grunt enjoying the havoc he gleefully rains down on “innocent people.”

If you don’t believe me, just look at what Stein says:

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they’re following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

He displays appalling ignorance with that last bit. But let’s grant it. Given Stein’s formulation, how can someone who morally opposes the war also claim love for those who enable it?

I think it’s probably okay to question Joel Stein’s patriotism.

Canadian Burn

Michael Moore, January 20, 2006.

C’mon, where’s your Canadian pride? I mean, if you’re going to reduce Canada to a cheap download of Bush & Co., then at least don’t surrender so easily. Can’t you wait until he threatens to bomb Regina? Make him work for it, for Pete’s sake.

But seriously, I know you’re not going to elect a guy who should really be running for governor of Utah.

Canada, last night.

Canadians installed a Conservative government in office for the first time in 12 years but with a limited mandate, signaling voters’ desire for change at a measured pace.

Thus one of the most consistent political axioms in history holds true. If Michael Moore publicly supports your candidacy, you’re going to lose.

It’s funny, when the Right loses an election they ask, “What did we do wrong?” When the Left loses an election, it’s “Why are voters so f’in stupid? Do we need to learn Conversational Retardese to communicate with them? Perhaps some balloon-animals would help. These people just don’t seem smart enough to ‘get’ us.”

I’ll admit that I’ve never understood this “Hey, vote for us, stupid!” gambit.

Iraqis & Afghans Most Optimistic in the World

Apparently being crushed under the iron heel of Bush Hitler™’s evil empire isn’t so bad:

Iraqis and Afghans are the among most optimistic people in the world when it comes to their economic future, a new survey for the BBC suggests. . . .

In Afghanistan, 70% say their own circumstances are improving, and 57% believe that the country overall is on the way up.

In Iraq, 65% believe their personal life is getting better, and 56% are upbeat about the country’s economy.

Kerry to vote against Alito before voting for him and then against him. Because of Vietnam

Via the Boston Globe:

Sen. John Kerry said Sunday he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he fears Alito would take the country “backwards.”

Kerry, the failed Democratic nominee for president in 2004, also voted against now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. But Alito, Kerry said Sunday, goes even farther than Roberts in undermining established legal precedents.

So does Kerry think that slavery and segregation should still be legal because they were “established legal precedents”?

Calling a qualified conservative judicial nominee “out of the mainstream” at a time when conservatives control the House, the Senate, and the White House, is a rather strange strategy. I will continue to point out the withering contempt I hold for the likes of Kerry, Kennedy, et al who, while firing off righteous-sounding condemnations to justify their misuse of our advice and consent system, accuse qualified judicial candidates they oppose of barely concealed racism and misogyny.

Such opportunistic, fringe-pleasing character assassination against a highly qualified, highly educated legal conservative is precisely the kind of venomous nonsense that is poisoning our political system almost beyond repair.

That the charges come from the particulars in question simply means that God is an ironist.

I Would Be Too, If You Were My Mom

Moore Meddles in Canadian Election

Michael Moore has taken a break from the buffet table to tell us how aghast he is at the thought that Canadians might actually elect a Conservative government. It’s infested with the same logical leaps, half-truths, smoke and mirror tactics he’s always been known for.

Oh, Canada — you’re not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That’s a joke, right? I know you have a great sense of humor, and certainly a well-developed sense of irony, but this is no longer funny. Maybe it’s a new form of Canadian irony — reverse irony! OK, now I get it. First, you have the courage to stand against the war in Iraq — and then you elect a prime minister who’s for it. You declare gay people have equal rights — and then you elect a man who says they don’t. You give your native peoples their own autonomy and their own territory — and then you vote for a man who wants to cut aid to these poorest of your citizens. Wow, that is intense! Only Canadians could pull off a hat trick of humor like that. My hat’s off to you.

Does anybody actually think that the change in government is going to result in Canada going to Iraq?

Oh, and:

Far be it from me, as an American, to suggest what you should do.

Ahem:

A Queen’s University student and president of the Ontario Campus Conservatives has launched a Web site and online petition calling on Elections Canada to charge Moore with interfering in the recent federal election. When Moore was in Toronto during the election, promoting his film Fahrenheit 9/11, he urged Canadians to rally against Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

According to the Canada Elections Act, it is an offence for anyone who is not a Canadian citizen and does not live in Canada to “in any way induce electors to vote or refrain from voting or vote or refrain from voting for a particular candidate” during an election period.

I love his whole, “I’m not trying to tell you what to do, but PLEASE DON’T!” schtick.

The Conservatives will most likely win a minority government. But I have the sense that no matter who wins, nothing much will change in Canada.

Jimmy Carter Shills for Hamas

He’s applauding the participation of the Hamas terrorist gang in Palestinian government:

Carter told CNN in an interview that although Hamas were “so-called terrorists,” so far “there have been no complaints of corruption against [their] elected officials.”

He conceded that “there is an element within Hamas who deny Israel’s right to exist,” but compared the current situation to negotiations with the PLO, which was still outlawed as a terrorist organization during his presidency.

He drew an additional comparison with Menachem Begin’s rise to Israel’s premiership in the seventies. “The Irgun, to which Begin belonged, was also characterized as a terrorist organization,” he noted.

“So-called”? Slaughtering hundreds of innocent men, women and children, blowing up buses, pizzerias, discos and other public places only makes you a “so-called terrorist?” Once again, Jimmy Carter proves the best service he ever performed for this country was leaving office.

If one’s goal is to destroy Israel, I suppose it only makes sense to elect Hamas to the government. Makes it a lot easier to train terrorists and funnel that tax money into “charitable causes.”

Democrats: the gifts that keep on giving

John Podhoretz:

EVERY TIME I THINK THE GOP IS TOAST . . . a Democratic politician opens his or her mouth.

That, in a nutshell, is the story of Election ’06.

John Kerry, Howard Dean, Michael Moore… some ambitious young poli-sci graduate should write a thesis on subconscious Democratic complicity in Republican rule.

Proof George Bush is Trying to turn America into a Theocracy

The beer my friend bought for the Panthers / Seahawks game? 3.2% alcohol.

What the hell is that all about, Jesus?

Osama Tape Littered with Liberal Talking Points

Is Osama secretly a Democrat? He hits all the right notes!

QUAGMIRE:

“[T]he [American] soldier is caught between two hard options. He either refuses to leave his military camp on patrols and is therefore dogged by ruthless punishments enacted by the Vietnam Butcher (U.S. army) or he gets destroyed by the mines…. The solution is in your hands if you care about them (the soldiers).”

He even managed to throw a Vietnam tie-in. You have to admire his skill.

IRAQ WORSE OFF AFTER INVASION:

“On another issue, jihad (holy war) is ongoing, thank God, despite all the oppressive measures adopted by the U.S Army and its agents (which is) to a point where there is no difference between this criminality and Saddam’s criminality, as it has reached the degree of raping women and taking them as hostages instead of their husbands.”

Aren’t the ones who are raping all these women and cutting off their heads, you know, Osama’s men? Yeah, I guess we’re to blame.

What anti-Bush liberal rant wouldn’t be complete without a sneering reference to his “mission accomplished” moment on the now infamous aircraft carrier?

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:

“[I]f you compare the small number of dead on the day that Bush announced the end of major operations in that fake, ridiculous show aboard the aircraft carrier with the tenfold number of dead and wounded who were killed in the smaller operations, you would know the truth of what I say.

Seriously, it’s like someone is sending him these things.

HALIBURTON:

“There is no shame in this solution, which prevents the wasting of billions of dollars that have gone to those with influence and merchants of war in America who have supported Bush’s election campaign with billions of dollars which lets us understand the insistence by Bush and his gang to carry on with war.”

Damn That Global Warming

Russia’s severest cold in a quarter of a century, with temperatures in Moscow at minus 8 Saturday, has killed at least 40 people and strained the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, with residents piling on the blankets and heating bricks to keep warm.

Damn that ChimpyMcHitlerburton Bush and his global warming! Damn him to hell!

Of course, you do realize that unusually cold temperatures are proof of global warming. As are unusually hot temperatures, unusually dry periods and unusually wet periods, not to mention tsunamis, earthquakes, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, puppies, butterflies, the war in Iraq, and techno-music.

Everything is proof of global warming! Those global warming people are geniuses.

Who Said This?

Can you tell who wrote the following passage?

1) “When the Bush administration uses white phosphorous on innocent men, women, children, and babies, when it uses illegal imprisonment and immoral torture on fellow members of the human race, when it invades and occupies another country that is no threat to the USA, we must say No. BushCo is an out of control entity which needs to be reined in by us! The longer the horror of Iraq continues, the more war crimes are committed and the more innocent lives ruined.”

2) “The torturing of men has reached the point of using chemical acids and electric drills in their joints. If they become desperate with them, they put the drill on their heads until death. If you like, read the humanitarian reports on the atrocities and crimes in the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. I say that despite all the barbaric methods, they have failed to ease resistance, and the number of mujahideen is increasing.”

Your choices are between Cindy Sheehan and Osama Bin Laden.

They’re not “anti-war,” they’re just on the other side.