Posting Towards Gomorrah

[nononono]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
What can I say? I bow to your obvious ability ....

It's about fucking time.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
With Dean holding the cash, the Kossacks running the Lieberman's out on a rail and Pelosi and Rangel chairing the committees?

That's rich.

As a dem, I share some of this fear. Though I think Pelosi will act a lot more responsibly than, say, Rangel would. Or hope, at least. I think she recognizes the difference between tossing bombs as a back-bencher and actually having a position of responsibility and accountability.

If the Dems win the House and/or Senate -- and I make no predictions about this -- I hope that they recall the lessons of '94. People want government to work. They don't want stupidity and grandstanding, or endless bickering (hi, nono!). Newt got spanked for failing to recognize this.

A few investigations, I can live with, provided they don't get carried away. But anything like calling for cutting off troop funding, for example, should be quashed before it starts.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The most interesting question after this election will be whether the Democratic Party is a true Clintonite party - that can appeal to these moderates - or not.

Oh, the people in charge of the Dems are not moderates at all. Waxman? Pelosi? Come on... these are classic liberal thieves. Borderline Communist. Henry Waxman might be retarded. Ever seen him speak? He's the sort of person you want to slap on mere principle. He clicks off a Darwinian urge in all of us that makes us want to see him harmed... just to ensure he doesn't further infect the gene pool.

Thankfully, the Dems won't have the necessary majorities to pass anything. We'll get compromise for once. And we'll get another GOP Prez in 2008, so hopefully many more years of gridlock.

Here's to our govt doing what it ought to do - nothing! Now if it could only find a way to starve itself to death...

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you think that posting that exchange makes you look any less grasping and foolish, I'm not sure I concur. I still don't see where Ty said he personally reviewed the transcript or anything at refutes his initial post. I just see you trying to spin Ty's posts to make it seem like you think he said something that he didn't. Why don't you respond to my prior post about why this bothers you so much? Or to Gatti's post that it was apparently part of a list of one liners about Bush?

I no longer expect more of you, if that is any consolation.

You actually read a footlong Spanky-post?

I expect more of you.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
If you think that posting that exchange makes you look any less grasping and foolish, I'm not sure I concur. I still don't see where Ty said he personally reviewed the transcript or anything at refutes his initial post. I just see you trying to spin Ty's posts to make it seem like you think he said something that he didn't. Why don't you respond to my prior post about why this bothers you so much? Or to Gatti's post that it was apparently part of a list of one liners about Bush?

I no longer expect more of you, if that is any consolation.

gloves are off.

your post here is a prime example of the bullshit lib response here and i mean that as non-hyperbole

- maybe the entire tape makes it seem he dropped the word, maybe if we saw a transcript we would believe that even more, but here you are accepting as fact Ty's acceptance of what someone tells him the unseen or read transcript implies, and, oh what Gatti's wife though of some film none of us have seen and that simply can't be linked to- that clears up the issue for your big brain. this on a board dedicated to a professional where we are supposed to be able to weigh evidence.

and yes it is spanky and I who are the idiots.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch

I think she recognizes the difference between tossing bombs as a back-bencher and actually having a position of responsibility and accountability.

The last time the Dems truly were in a leadership position, i.e. Clinton administration, they demonstrated that the words "responsibility" and "accountability" are not ones that they are familiar with in the least. I doubt that has changed.......

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
gloves are off.

your post here is a prime example of the bullshit lib response here and i mean that as non-hyperbole
.

Offence intended?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man

I would be sorely disappointed if my kids turned out to be Communist revolutionaries, if for no other reason than their inability to pick a winning side.

S_A_M

It would be keeping up a family tradition, though.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Spanky
Who gets to do this? Is this fair? Balt was worried about Morons decided he gets to keep their jobs. This is subjective and people could play favors. There is no arguing with a test.

I work in an industry that's constantly undergoing accreditation of some sort or another from a variety of bodies, including educational accreditation bodies. Monitors walk in, see what's going on, ask for a variety of reports and documentation of certain achievments, including test results, make recommendations, and give a report. No one seems to object to how JACHO or the AAMC or the FDA or the state auditor or a variety of other oversight agencies do it.

ETA: I really liked the methodology that a local newspaper used in ranking the best local public high schools.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
It's also entirely consistent with everything he's ever said.

From back in 1972:

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. "We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'"

He's right. You think people like you or me are going to volunteer?

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I work in an industry that's constantly undergoing accreditation of some sort or another from a variety of bodies, including educational accreditation bodies. Monitors walk in, see what's going on, ask for a variety of reports and documentation of certain achievments, including test results, make recommendations, and give a report. No one seems to object to how JACHO or the AAMC or the FDA or the state auditor or a variety of other oversight agencies do it.

W p, P!. Although in some states the state oversight is a little questionable (cough) Oklahoma (cough).

[nononono]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
He's right. You think people like you or me are going to volunteer?

Of course not. You have to pass a drug screen.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Oh, the people in charge of the Dems are not moderates at all. Waxman? Pelosi? Come on... these are classic liberal thieves. Borderline Communist. Henry Waxman might be retarded. Ever seen him speak? He's the sort of person you want to slap on mere principle. He clicks off a Darwinian urge in all of us that makes us want to see him harmed... just to ensure he doesn't further infect the gene pool.

Thankfully, the Dems won't have the necessary majorities to pass anything. We'll get compromise for once. And we'll get another GOP Prez in 2008, so hopefully many more years of gridlock.

Here's to our govt doing what it ought to do - nothing! Now if it could only find a way to starve itself to death...

The number one rule in politics, and the most often forgotten, is that its what the voters want that counts. A good politician figures out how to give the majority 95% of what they want, and let his own preferences only influence 5% of the decisions. You can have a little influence, but you if you fight the voters on more than a few modest points, you're pissing in the wind.

Clinton understood. I suspect he would have liked to have put more liberal policies in place, but he didn't. He put the economy and the budget first. I may, in my hear of hearts, be somewhere to the left of Ted Kennedy, but if I was ever stupid enough to run for office, and voters lunatic enough to vote for me, I'd try to do the same. I think Pelosi understands this rule.

And, the great thing about politics is, once you buck what the voters want, you may con your way through one election, as Bush did in '04, but you never con your way through a second.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
Perhaps not, but certainly higher than the bar set by a rapist who goes on to sexually harass 20 yo underlings and spends work hours on the public dole masturbating into government owned sinks, and then thumbs his nose at the rule of law by committing perjury before a Federal judge. All of which distracted him from the duties of his office such that he let a terrorist slip from his grasp facilitating the most devasting attack on our nation in its history.

C'mon Penske, he never "sexually harassed" Monica. She was showing him the thong and begging for it.

S_A_M

P.S. You got something against masturbating at work?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

and yes it is spanky and I who are the idiots.

Why is spanky always the second person when people say stuff like this?