Still Hating America.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Adder
Am I the only one cynical enough to be starting to suspect that the only objective the White House currently has wrt to Iraq is to make sure the Dems get blaimed for the aftermath?

Bush:
In combative speech yesterday, Bush said "the American people will know who to hold responsible" if funding for the war stalls

you spelled "bushhatinginsane" wrong. for starters there is no "y".

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This is true of just about every country, including Russia, which is why Putin has used Chechnyan terrorism as a way to squash domestic opposition. I don't know what you mean when you say it wasn't the case with the USSR. We weren't ratcheting up the pressure in the way you describe when Gorbachev was attempting his reforms.

plus the fall started with Poland, when we were fucking with the USSR that wasn't likely to strengthen the Pole's pride in their Government, which was the first to go, right?

[Adder]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you spelled "bushhatinginsane" wrong. for starters there is no "y".

Yes I am insane when actually quote the words Bush spoke.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
plus the fall started with Poland, when we were fucking with the USSR that wasn't likely to strengthen the Pole's pride in their Government, which was the first to go, right?

We certainly were on the side of Solidarity, which might have been a problem if the Jaruzelski government had had any legitimacy at all.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Bush, last night:

• "A year ago my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the Supreme Court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone," Bush said...
  
  "Ah," he said, "those were the good ol' days."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
We certainly were on the side of Solidarity, which might have been a problem if the Jaruzelski government had had any legitimacy at all.

supporting a trade union is a bit less aggressive than threatening the country's military, yes?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
supporting a trade union is a bit less aggressive than threatening the country's military, yes?

That is true.

But supporting the political opposition certainly carries the risk that you will delegitimize them as our pawns.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Tables R Us
Spanky is losing an economic idol. The WSJ reports that Alan Blinder has revised his pro-free trade views, now seeing it as imposing major costs on US workers that are educated and politically vocal and who will fight against free trade policies that undercut their standard of living. Samuelson is joined by other major economists, Paul Samuelson, Lawrence Summers, Ralph Gomory, and Dani Rodrik. Further, in the non-scientific poll of WSJ readers, 47% thought free trade hurt US workers, 39% thought it helped, and 14% thought it was neutral.

Spanky's pro free trade ideology of expanding world GDP if that increases world GDP even if that reduces income for the majority of developed world workers isn't selling. Him and Bush economic advisor Barry Mankiw will lose peddling that. No one cares about increasing world GDP or helping the third world poor at the cost of sabatoging their own livelihood.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1175...ys_us_page_one

Nonsense. They're going to take it and like it because it's an unchangeable reality. If it was good enough for the factory workers to suffer, it's good enough for the rest of us to suffer.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

So, what's Kyle Sampson's next job?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So, what's Kyle Sampson's next job?

Lobbyist or operative.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Lobbyist or operative.

Based on what you've seen, would you hire him for either job? His connections are with people who wouldn't seem to have a long tenure ahead of them. And he doesn't seem to have been the most competent operative.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Based on what you've seen, would you hire him for either job? His connections are with people who wouldn't seem to have a long tenure ahead of them. And he doesn't seem to have been the most competent operative.

Total failure living in his parents' basement?

I dunno. It seems like even the most abysmal failures can be lower-level operatives or lobbyists.

[Tables R Us]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Nonsense. They're going to take it and like it because it's an unchangeable reality. If it was good enough for the factory workers to suffer, it's good enough for the rest of us to suffer.

Nothing's an unchanging reality. Japan subsidizes domestic employment, in exchange there's a lot of underemployed young people. Japanese stocks trade at lower P/E ratios than US companies because they do more for employees, meaning less profits for shareholders.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
John McCain needs a reality check.

Speaking of reality check, here's more tales of turbulence, torment and torture from the "Gulag of our Times":

"War on terror" detainees at Guantanamo are avid Harry Potter readers and eagerly await the next book in the series featuring the schoolboy wizard, the camp librarian says.

While religion tops the reading lists of the overwhelmingly Muslim detainees, Harry Potter was a big favourite, said the chief librarian at the US-run prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"When you get to fiction, definitely Harry Potter," said the librarian, who would only give her first name, Maggie.

The camp has even pre-ordered the next instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, which is due out later this year.

"They're all waiting for number seven to come out," she told reporters.

[SlaveNoMore]

Rosie O'Donnell - ever the embarrassment - becomes the first lefty with a daytime bully pulpit to actually back the "9/11 Truthers"

Youtube link courtesy of LGF

Really nothing else to say here. If ABC doesn't distance themselve from these statements, there's really no reason to ever listen to a MSM network again.