I know. I was disappointed when Kerry lost, seeing how willing he would have been to work with us on our tax cuts, and dumping Saddam, and all. Why can't we be more like you guys?

Interesting choice. I never went to 3rd grade.

Keep taking those tests. Don't give up.

*sigh* whatever, I don't know why I click, I had too much to drink tonight. You are a twisted, sad, bitter little old man.

Undoubtedly. (Except for the sad part, of course. I'm very cheerful tonight. But "twisted"? Fer sure.)

But I never confuse "bipartisanship" with "people who will do things my way, which is the only way."

DeLay would rather avoid bipartisanship to ensure that corporate contributions go solely to his side. If Democrats are voting for his bills, he figures he's leaving something on the table.

Our party does a horrible job of getting out the daily bon mots...er...gaffes... of Byrd, Pelosi, Rangel, Schumer, et. al.

Hell, I get* daily emails from the DNC misquoting our President/Senators/Reps/Governors, whereas I have to read Reynolds, NRO, Bainbridge, CQ et. al. to get the quotes from the other side of the aisle.

*Actually, the GF gets them and she shares my computer.

In the 2005 version of the Webster's Dictionary:

bi-par-ti-san (adj): (1) Requiring the majority to concede to the will of the minority, losing party; (2) Giving away something for nothing; (3) Destroying the reputation of a faithful diplomat and civil servant to curry favor with the United Nations; (4) Mocking a noble, theologian for being an "evil conservative."

Fuck this!!!

The man reinforces the notion to a lot of moderates that a fat swath of the GOP's base is trailer trash. Delay's Achilles Heel is his bloodline. Who he is, what he is, etc... a mean thug. Its amusing to watch people like Delay and Clinton, both from humble upbringings, reach such different levels. Delay's epitaph will be "low rent enforcer" - a Ty Dome of DC politics. Clinton will be remembered as the low rent son of a bitch who rose up to hoodwink everyone from Oxford to the Impeachment Inquisitors, and rode off into the sunset with enough bags of cash to sink a small fishing boat.

Bullshit. Delay and others booted Gingrich because Clinton brilliantly outmanuvered Newt on the budget impasse/government shut-down.

And because he whined (inaccurately) about not being able to talk to Clinton on Air Force One and (inaccurately) about having to exit the back door of the plane. And because he was secretly boinking a young committee staffer while the House was publicly frothing at the mouth because Clinton was getting a blowjob from an intern.

An interesting position, given your discussion of Delay. Senior staffers from his office, and elsewhere in the GOP House leadership, are on the record as defining "bipartisanship" in almost exactly those terms after the 2002 and 2004 elections.

In other words, they will "reach out" to Democrats who agree with their proposals, but see no purpose to compromise to bring in more. The established Hastert rule that no legislation can pass the House unless a majority of the GOP members support it, speaks volumes.

S_A_M

Recently, I voted at my firm on an issue where we compromised to get agreement. The compromise was not exactly what I wanted. I supported the proposal. One can support a compromise, you know. And if the majority of the House republicans don't support something. should it pass? This isn't a coalition government.

No, I understand and agree. My point was, this much-vaunted bipartisanship certainly isn't coming from the Dems, either, and so it's just fun to hear anyone complain about it.

Vatican Spins Off U.S. Catholic Church
 

In one of his first official moves, Pope Benedict XVI today announced that the Vatican would "spin off" the U.S. division of the Roman Catholic church, but retain a 49-percent stake in the new entity, called R.C. Lite.
...
To counter Pope Benedict's dogmatic conservatism, several church sources said America's leading Roman Catholic politician, Sen. John F. Kerry, D-MA, is considered a shoo-in for the New-World Papacy.

"We need a pope with nuanced ideas," said one unnamed U.S. Bishop. "He needs to be a uniter, not a divider. He can't be afraid to change his deeply-held convictions in light of shifting public opinion. He must be courageous enough to keep his beliefs separate from his behavior and decision making."

If Mr. Kerry accepts the R.C. Lite leadership post, insiders say he will assume the name Benadryl XIII."


(Scrappleface, of course.)

And here I was thinking that if Gore had let Clinton campaign for him, Gore would have won.

Stay on message- Gore did win!

Rats and Zingers
 

God FORBID they elect a Hispanic Pope considering Latin America is holding the fucking Catholic Church together. As IF there's a need for representation of the modern, nihilistic, chain-smoking, ugly, leder-hosen-wearing European-Germans, who could GIVE a crap about Catholics or any other God-fearing religion!!! Typical that this Nazi (I lose!) Pope takes the namesake of a traitorous fellow European who took a whimpy stance in World War I and who is honored by......you betcha.....Muslims. At LEAST if those whackadoo Cardinals were going to elect a European Pope, they'd have found one with typical relaxed Euro-mores, which mean Priests would have at least gotten the ticket to hit the Pooty Store. Confounding.

btw, i encountered this t-shirt yesterday. not on Ty, but it should be:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/spymuseumstore_1824_4739517

Rats and Zingers
 

Um, that may have been the root problem as it is.

(Oh, wait - is "pooty" definitionally female?)

I'm available to run, though given my background, I won't be able to hold the religious right vote.

Rats and Zingers
 

Well, in this context, Pooty would generically mean "down there" and would not be gender-specific. As in, Vatican Doctrine does not allow any Pooty Store Shopping whatsoever. Anyone having to put up with one of those sleazy Europeans as their Pope should at least get the benefit of sleazy European values.

http://www.yperit.cz/images/Auferste...nger-small.jpg

Wow. That's good.

Of course, the murder rate has been rising since the Scopes trial, so the connection between teaching evolution and murder sprees seems pretty rock-solid to me.

strategic bombing
 

If you really think this of me, you are a complete idiot.


This phrase is approaching the use of "Nazi" as an automatic disqualifier -- it demonstrates the speaker's inability to speak and disagree rationally about an issue. Accordingly, you will understand if I decline to engage in further discussions about history with you.

I will suggest that you and Delay and the rest of the crew settle your difference by playing poker. If their experiences are like mine, that should work out well for you.

Sorry, I agree with Billmore here. Most voters don't even know who Delay is, especially in CA. He will have minimal effect on CA races. If you think CA Republicans are not getting elected because of Delay, you've got far bigger problems on your hands.

WEll, there is also the incredibly unethical, yet successful, Gerrymandering of the Texas state legislature, the unlawfu use of the DEpartment of Homeland Security and attempted unlawful use of the FAA to ensure that the gerrymandering would occur, the fact that he has been caught numerous times trading money or votes for votes on his pet projects, the fact that he is an idiot, the way he tried to make the Schiavo thing about him....

I could go on for quite some time, but there's now this really badf taste in my mouth.

Bilmore was only listing sins. He sees those as virtues. Sorta like your view on free trade.

(I'm kidding, okay?)

Yes You Would.

Coming soon, WWSCD tee shirts!

DeLay
 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/....ap/index.html

Is Delay (a) really that clueless that he's got concerns about internet research of precedent, the concept of the common law or looking to see how other countries resolve certain issues or (b) just playing to the unwashed, uneducated masses who are the only ones keeping him in office?

I am pretty open to hearing about different perspectives on a lot of issues, but I almost automatically write someone off when he starts ranting about "activist judges" and the need to reign them in.

DeLay
 

Wasn't the internet research thing, that Kennedy did it himself, rather than the fact of using the internet?

DeLay
 

Even if, so . . . .? He's a heathen because he's internet-literate?

(As I said before, I agree that Kennedy's reliance on his own factual interpretation of how "attitudes have changed here", coupled with his "lookie at what the french say!" international survey, are bullshit. But where Delay gets this internet thing is just beyond me.)

DeLay
 

Next week we'll hear that Kennedy squeezes the produce at Safeway.

And puts it back.

Rats and Zingers
 

I've heard that the consensus is that they're looking to groom someone from either Latin America or Africa, and this is clearly an interim pope.

Rats and Zingers
 

Because they expect him to retire as he has said before he would, or because they expect him to die? Do Popes retire?

Rats and Zingers
 

I prefer the term "rebound pope".

aV

DeLay
 

That he knows how to use google does not make him literate. And knowing what not to accept as fact from the internet is not so easy. I know seemingly smart people who take various unsupported rants from the net, and try and use them as fact (e.g. Tyrone Slothrop )

not wishing to question their motives for using these lies, I will assume it is simple dull-wittedness.

DeLay
 

Ah, so the complaint was that his internet research was shoddy, and relied on bad sources? That would make more sense. I had the impression that the complaint was that he knew his own WL password.

DeLay
 

He does his own grocery shopping? I say, impeach the fucker already.

DeLay
 

The quotes I've seen don't say "and he does Internet research poorly," just "he does his own Internet research." I mean, I don't wanna accuse Hank of saying anything less than perfectly true, but before you accept it you might request a cite. (Hank does his own internet research, of course, so YMMV.)

DeLay
 

Arguably it would, but I've not hear this anywhere. If that's the complaint, then allege incompetence -- it wouldn't matter whether the research were via Lexis or hardcopy. Of course, we tend to let SC justices work until the can hardly read anymore, so this particular complaint would seem to move the bar a bit.

This was my impression too.