Waiting for Fitzgerald

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I would not put this on the list of things about which I am outraged. I brought it up this time because it was topical.

Don't make me go searching for the quotes. You were using it as a point to critisize Bush and it was very important for you that I acknowledge that it was true. You kept bringing it up, and kept criticising me because I would not acknowledge it as fact.

It was not some neutral statement you brought up as "topical".

[Spanky]

My fundraising just got a whole lot easier. I don't know RT, don't count us out. We just may take him out in the primary.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Fair and Equitable
Let me guess, you think Ronnie Earle is an objective and honest politician with no underlying partisan motivation.

Yes. He's prosecuted just as many if not more Democrats as Republicans.

Plus, he's not sitting on the Grand Jury.

ETA: STP

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Spanky
My fundraising just got a whole lot easier. I don't know RT, don't count us out. We just may take him out in the primary.

With Fjetland?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Fair and Equitable
Let me guess, you think Ronnie Earle is an objective and honest politician with no underlying partisan motivation.

Who cares. Tom Delay is an evil, ignorant, maanipulative, sleazy, lying, hypocritical motherfucker who deserves to be a congressman about as much as my dog.

Anything that brings hims down is an act worthy of sainthood, no matter the motive.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Southern Patriot
I must take offense. Are you calling DeLay a pig?

I can't speak for Slave, but what have you got against pigs, Cracker?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Who cares. Tom Delay is an evil, ignorant, maanipulative, sleazy, lying, hypocritical motherfucker who deserves to be a congressman about as much as my dog.

Is your dog yellow?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Is your dog yellow?

Blue.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Is your dog yellow?

$5 donated to LT in the name of the poster who creates the "Wonk's Dog" sock and replies:


"Who you callin' yella, mister?"

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Blue.

Huh. Never figured you to take in a social conservative like that. I'd've figured you more for a DLC type, myself.

[Southern Patriot]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I can't speak for Slave, but what have you got against pigs, Cracker?

I've got nothing against pigs. I just don't think Tom DeLay bears any resemblance:



Maybe a hog.

[Dolly Llama]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Who cares. Tom Delay is an evil, ignorant, maanipulative, sleazy, lying, hypocritical motherfucker who deserves to be a congressman about as much as my dog.

Anything that brings hims down is an act worthy of sainthood, no matter the motive.

Your soul is a deep, dark place. You need to purge the anger and clense your soul.

Only when you yourself are at peace, can you truly see the good in others and in all of us.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Huh. Never figured you to take in a social conservative like that. I'd've figured you more for a DLC type, myself.

I've got a big tent. And it's pitched under a massive overpass.

But I just found this in my inbox. My dad is sending me Canadian Republican Propaganda. Should I start sending him Daily Show clips in Spanish?

A VIEW FROM CANADA
Perhaps a bit more objectivity than we get from our own press and politicians.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
George Bush, The Man.

By David Warren The Ottawa Citizen Sunday, September 11, 2005.



There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. I'm tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right.



But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that, when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults live.



And that isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable Lt.-Gen. Russel Honore, it was once again the U.S. military efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly institution.



We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one feckless government after another that has cut corners until there is nothing substantial left. We don't have the ability even to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At which point, our national smugness is of no avail.



From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S. equivalent to the people who run Canada -- we are still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed that a heartless, white Republican America had abandoned its underclass.



This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing and receive food stamps, prescription medicine and government support through many other programs. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to be lost in the flood.



Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth; and sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare dependency creates exactly the sort of haplessness and social degeneration we saw on display, as the floodwaters rose. Many suffered terribly, and many died, and one's heart goes out. But already the survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and their various entitlements have been directed to new locations.



The scale of private charity has also been unprecedented. There are yet no statistics, but I'll wager the most generous state in the union will prove to have been arch-Republican Texas and that, nationally, contributions in cash and kind are coming disproportionately from people who vote Republican. For the world divides into "the mouths" and "the wallets."



The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so far lost touch with reality, as to raise questions about the bashers' state of mind.



Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.



Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days in advance of the stormfall. In the little time since, he has managed to co-ordinate an immense recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently presidential to respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish blame-throwing.



One thinks of Kipling's poem If, which I learned to recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives postmodern leftoids and gliberals to apoplexy -- as anything that is good, beautiful, or true:



If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise,..... And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Ronnie Earle has indicted Democrats and Republicans alike.

12 Democratic office holders and 4 Republicans, according to a journalist just interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation.

eta: STSTP