I really don't know why Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders aren't more offended just on general principle by Joe Lieberman smacking them around and publicly humiliating them on a daily basis, but you think they'd at least take objection to the image of whiny, petulant, self-centered spinelessness that he projects on behalf of Democrats:
Sen. Joe Lieberman, running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary, said Tuesday he hoped Democrats seize control of Congress — with one caveat: a Democratic-led Congress, he said, must change its ways.
''It won't represent progress that's real,'' Lieberman told reporters while stopping at a transportation forum in New Haven. ''It's not going to be much of a step forward if there's a new Democratic leadership that doesn't change the tone in Washington.''
As recently as Friday, Lieberman, a lifelong Democrat who was his party's nominee for vice president in 2000, would not say whether he thinks the nation would be better off with the Democrats in control of Congress.
I don't much like using the word "pussy" to describe this phenomenon but I really don't know a better word that connotes the sheer wimp factor of a supposed Senate and party leader who not only allows himself to be repeatedly bitchslapped without retort by lil' whiny Joe, but then lets his staff members write letters defending Joe Lieberman's indefensible record of not delivering for Connecticut. I say this fully expecting an attack of the PC police in the comments section but if there is an equally descriptive term maybe you could let me — or Harry himself — know.
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Fitz!
President Muffly from Dr. Strangelove but that means the same thing.
Ammo Dump Explosions – media blackout because the massive US casualties would affect election.
video at this site:
http://piglipstick.blogspot.co…..-near.html
saturday, October 14, 2006
News Blackout on Major Disaster Near Baghdad
Something very ugly happened late tuesday night at an ammunition depot near Baghdad.
A search of the news doesn’t bring much up. A few cursory statements, all basically saying the following, tend to minimize what happened:
I think “castrato” may be pretty good…but there is absolutely no wiggle room with “pussy”
“pussy?” too gender identified:
http://powerofnarrative.blogsp…..scism.html
How about good old fashioned “losers?”
Hi, everyone!~
NeoJoe @
3
Not bad.
I think pussy is a very appropriate description for every DC Dem when it comes to Lieberman.
I sent Reid’s office the article the other day about Holy Joe not supporting the Dem candidate for governor, or campaigning for Dem control of the house and senate….and got back a ridiculous letter thanking me for my concerns about voting issues.
Duh! What does this man have over DC Dems? My husband and I are so furious we will NEVER support the national Dem program again – with our time, treasure, talent – or thought. Never!
How bout punk-ass motherfuckers?
immanentize @
4
Nah. You can be strong and lose. It has to have the connotation that you don’t even try to put up a fight. I’m not crazy about the word or its aspect of gender denigration, but it is the only one I know in the English language that does have the full force of all those implications in five convenient letters.
Turley on Keith NOW
Turley on Olbermann about habeus corpus.
OT– Jon Turley kicking a** on KO!
i always thought that reid and the dems were waiting till joey innarguably crossed the line so it wouldn’t look like they were throwing him out (and hence increase his chances…) But at this point, their innaction, while arguably smart for the CT-Sen race has an even greater impact across all races because it makes them look… like pussies… spineless… oh wait, how about “STUPID”
I was around when pussy joined the lexicon. It was a reference to pussycat. Thus, don’t be a pussycat.
Actually, puss was our term of choice. Don’t be a puss.
No inkling of pudenda there, that I can tell.
Constitutional couch potatoes turning back to Dancing with the Stars.egregious @ 10
Turley sez we do too torture… loud and clear.
He said that he had to turn off the teevee when the preznit said we don’t torture.
KO ends the interview and says “I’ll see you at Gitmo”
Turley: the President can decide that anyone, INCLUDING A U.S. CITIZEN, can be declared an enemy combatant by the President or anyone to whom he designates this power.
We also have put into law the permission to TORTURE and the American public is just yawning–Turley.
Much more, I am not doing it justice. Hope someone is taping the whole thing.
This is HUGE. We are letting this day slip by.
October 17, 2006 The death of habeus corpus in the U.S.
I used to be proud of my country.
egregious @ 10
My computer refused to work for the first several minutes of Turley that I was hoping to liveblog for you. !&@%!*#!
Gotta share this with you guys…I was driving back from a trade show in Chicago yesterday with a couple of co-workers when we passed an “out of Iraq” billboard. The Bush lover in the car made some joke and proceeded to get smacked around by myself and the driver. It was pretty funny, he was getting really emotional and we just kept smacking him with facts. He finally, grudgingly told us we were right. It was brilliant!
Later in the ride he was complaining about our new compensation plan, and how hard outr comapny makes it for us to get paid. His head probably would have exploded if I had told him that he wouldn’t have that problem if he was in a union!
I am still on a high after meeting John Murtha(larger-than-life)! How do we contact Al Gore? A campaign appearance with Ned would put the final nail into Schmendrick’s coffin.
I’m with immanentize.
I’m a gender-identified pussy-owner, and could hardly be compared with these wishy-washy, ineffectual, irresolute, unconfident, weak, colorless, timid, spineless, cowardly, faint-hearted, pusillanimous, Leslie-named wretches.
Pussy is far too powerful a word to be ascribed to the likes of these gods-forsaken waifs that have somehow found themselves drifted aimlessly into positions of leadship like dead leaves and waste paper in the autumn wind.
So… it took Joe 4 days to finally decide that the Democrats taking over the House would only be a good thing if they act like him?
Jebus.
Fineman “The silence of the Democratic Party on this speaks volumes”. Again, PAMF’s. This party is the one that the FDL folks are pinning the their hopes on?
Well, how about ‘weenie’ or ‘wuss’? You can read sex into anything, but both of those are acceptable in the NYT. Trouble is, ‘pussy’ has real impact.
How about more than one word? Just say, “… wimpy, wussy, weenie …”
Joe Lieberman: caveat empty
People don’t realize that legally, enemy combatant status can be applied to AMERICAN CITIZENS. Keith closed the segment by saying if he is declared an enemy combatant, it’s been nice knowing ya.
See you in the camps honey!
We’re taking dinner reservations for who will sit at Keith’s table, anyone? Bueller?
Eli @ 5:13 pm (#22)
Sad part is, man of them already are acting like him. See Hugh’s list from the previous thread.
Testosterone challenged individuals.
You can fill the ocean with what “people don’t realize”!
egregious @ 26
it’s hard out there for a wimp
Naw, lets go with pussy.
FYI: the word “pussy” used to describe someone who is cowardly refers to a kitty cat’s tendency to run and hide rather than the more coarse definition.
Okay, it’s still gender-identified, but it is effective. The right hates being thought of as “pussies”.
I am so with you in my level of sheer astonishment at the dems (and Reid in paticular) letting whiney Joe totally trash the party. Hello, doesn’t this guy still suppossedly work with y’all? I hate the implied feminine put down in the way the word pussy is used nowadays, but lord have mercy it does seem to apply doesn’t it. Sigh…
OT – For the second night in a row Matthews didn’t give Countdown an intro. Hmm, a rift?
Rayne’s got a point.
I’ve considered whether “Harry Pussy” might take some of the, um, gender identification off of it. And it would (it’s also a good band).
But that’s not the problem. Pussy can be “I am pussy, hear me roar”. Or, in juvenile (yet accurate) terms: “I have the pussy. I make the rules”.
All in all, “pussy” is far too good for these wretches. Collaborationists. Weimar democrats. Company eunuchs. Bi-partisan prostitutes.
I’m still taking it too easy on them. Please pile on. Just not on the “pussy”.
“chump”?
(Still in a convenient five-letter package!)
Argonaut @ 5:15 pm (#24)
I’ve always preferred “wuss” in these situations. “Pussy” implies “female”, and “wimp” implies “small”. Neither condition disqualifies someone from having the courage or wisdom needed to act, which is really what we’re talking about here.
Harry Reid is such a SHRUM!!!
Rose Elvern @
2
Did you intend to provide a link here?
It’s not five letters, but every time I ran into a jerk in authority, I knew what to call `em:
Dickhead
Eli @ 22
Well, only if they have the right kind of leadership – like him.
I read Harry Reid’s staff member’s letter in defense of Lieberman, and I’m fuming.
The next time people want to jump all over Ned – I want them to think what he’s up against. And even with the abuse he’s gotten from BushCo and the passive aggressive behavior from the Dem party – he’s still only 7 or 8 points down.
I think it’s remarkable.
Now I’m going to give Harry Reid a piece of my mind.
A friend of mine occasionally uses the expression “wee tiny of a man”.
urban dictionary cross references for “wimp” (some offending terms removed):
1,305 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Hamsher:
Harry Reid is toast no matter who controls the Senate… Mrs. Clinton will be minority leader (where do you think the leak of Reid’s land deal came from)but we have a chance to get Feingold or Durbin if the Dems win control. That’s why Mrs. Clinton and the Republicrats in the beltway don’t want a Democratic take over of the Senate.
We gotta wake up here folks…not all the fascists are in the Republican Party.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION AND DON’T FORGET…DON’T EVER FORGET!!!
Argonaut @
24
Yeah “weenie” is the PG version but doesn’t have the full impact.
It would be the HuffPo substitute word.
Argonaut @
24
Nice. I like alliteration, and they all fit. Excellent!
Try some of these on for size, since they don’t associate women with weakness:
Wimp. Weak. Weakling. Pushover. Wuss. Doormat. Sucker.
1,305 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citzen Hamsher:
“Pussy” or “weenie” or “wuss” but “pathetic” is what they all are.
KEEP THE FAITH AND BELIEVE NONE A WHATCHA HEAR AND ONLY HALF A WHATCHA SEE!!!
I’m considering getting out my black armband and wearing it for the next 10 days, in mourning of the death of habeus corpus and the legalization of torture. It hurts my fingers just to type this.
A sad, sad day for a once great nation. October 17, 2006: the end of our promise, our potential, our being the light to the rest of the world. Now we bring darkness, aggressive war, and torture. SHAME SHAME SHAME.
Anyone can be imprisoned for any reason if the President says so. They can be tortured LEGALLY thanks to the acquiescence of our neutered Congress.
Tell me again, exactly what freedoms are we defending? Beacon of freedom to the world? Not any more.
I went to work in the former Soviet Union 10 years ago when we still had some international prestige as a free nation. Now I feel we have very little to teach anyone. My work saving children stands the test of time; my work bringing American ideals of peace and freedom: destroyed by this administration.
I WILL NOT FORGET THIS DESTRUCTION. I have worked my whole life to do this work and the political component of it has been ruined. I will respond.
the best thing for Lamont and the democrats is for the it to be made perfectly clear to CT voters that there is but 1 democrat and 2 republicans in the race. the democratic leadership [cough] if they had any sense and/or cojones at all would loudly and proudly renouce joe losermon. they should scream to the world that no matter what the outcome, losermon is not welcome to caucus with them.
Being bold, full of spine, and right by renouncing losermon would do democrat’s image as spineless, calculating stand-for-nothing politicos a world of good.
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“Chump” is good.
Also: “Sissy.” “Doormat.” “Pushover.” “Coward.” “Loser.”
If you took Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and Joe Lieberman (and I wish you would), who would you say is the most conservative? Hillary has no core convictions. Lieberman is a Bush apologist and an Iraq war lover, and Harry Reid worked with Bill Frist to make sure the Military Commissions Act passed before the elections.
Harry Reid won’t slam Joe because 1) that would require leadership and 2) the laws of inertia forbid it.
Cervantes @ 51
Has anyone used “sap” yet? Or “milquetoast”?
3.5 on the Richter scale earthquake recorded in suburban Washington DC as egregious gets ANGRY.
Joe Buck @ 5:24 pm (#47)
I’d drop “wimp” from that list for reasons I noted earlier, but the others seem apt. “Pathetic” does, also (per Norskeflamethrower).
how about craven, blustering, cuckold ? b/c that’s exactly the the words I used in my recent missives to the good senator -
further, I finished by telling him his all talk and no action act reminded me more and more of GWB – all hat and no cattle !
chicken hearted, lily livered, cowardly puke.
Perhaps we could send the whole list of words to Harry Reid, saying, “This is what the Firedoglake community came up with to describe you,” and ask him to choose which he thinks is most accurate.
OMG —- everyone should watch the video Rose Elvern posted above (see #39 at 5:20 pm). The video is shocking — and the explosions — and there does seem to be a mushroom cloud. I would love to read what more informed readers think about this video.
Time for a walk.
In the meanwhile, I was struck by the connection between working for Kissell and working for Benson. Kissell is dealing with closed textile factories, Benson’s opponent was responsible for working conditions for the textile industry in the Marianas. Oh and Laesch, who is opposing Hastert who was happy to let all of this happen. In addition to endangering pages.
Going for a walk now. It could be a long one. You don’t want to cross me just now. Will check in tomorrow. Please support Benson, Laesch, and Kissell.
[long string of very unegregious like curses]
Swopa @ 58
I like it.
Many fine contributions to my lexicon here. Much appreciated, everyone.
pwn3d
Cervantes @ 51
I like chump.
I’ve thought of but always resisted using the word. I think it’s apt at this point, justified, even overdue. And I could never get awway with it, anyway, at least, not in public.
As the servant of five cats (and the host of two testicles), my candidate for the rheorical money shot is “pussy”
If the PC police come knocking, I’ll cite the feline antecedents…..
Pathetic, soul-sucking dementors.
I’ve also thought of using the more extended “punkass bitch.”
egregious…not to disturb a thoroughly justified and righteous rant, but I was over looking at what you are doing in Russia. That is the inspiriation and the hope that you give, always these darts of light. You are such a teacher of what to do. This may the colossally wrong time to say thank you, right in the middle of the travesty, but it is pure sunshine through the middle of great turbulence and darkness. I honor your work and you.
Pussy works but I like coward.
I detest Lieberman as much as anyone, but I understand Reid’s silence. The Democrat’s look to be at 50 or 51 Senators come January. Assuming [I hope not and have spent time and money to prevent it] Lieberman wins the CT Senate seat, Reid will need him to form a majority. As such, with so much at stake, Reid
has calculated that avoiding a hard break with Joe is where wisdom lies. I don’t think this necessarily makes him a baaad leader.
Swopa #58 –
Mos’ def.
And on that submission I would, as John Hancock said, write my name LARGE enough for these capitulant excuses for humans to read without their f*cking spectacles.
F*cking puny cretins who aren’t even dusty shadows of the founding fathers who signed their death warrants on the bottom of the Declaration of Independence. I can’t believe that we’ve ever allowed them to walk the hallowed halls of our former democracy.
Twee.
The lot of them aiding Liarman; I won’t even waste a fifth consonant on them. Twee.
Back in the bad old days before I started disciplining myself about beating up on all Democrats for the sins of only certain Democrats, I used to say that the US has two political parties: The Psychopathic Fascist party, and the Useless Mumblefuck party.
I guess I find myself more appalled by the drifty cluelessness that “mumblefuck” implies, and think that’s closer to the Democrats’ problem.
For example, I was so pissed that Kerry didn’t fight in Ohio, but I don’t think he failed to fight because he’s a “pussy” (=afraid of the fight). I think he failed to fight because he’s a mumblefuck — by the time he actually found out when the fight was gonna start, he’d already conceded! What a mumblefuck! He didn’t let the Swift Boat lies go unchallenged because he’s a “pussy”, but because he’s a mumblefuck. Mr. Bigshot didn’t see how that petty stuff could ever be important!
Harry Reid, by the way, is not the only one whose name belongs in this wall of shame. There will be reporting on this.
What gets me cranked up is that people talked to Reid about this very bill, and he assured everyone that the bill simply would not get out of the Senate. Straight up, straightforwardly. And there was absolutely no evidence of any attempt to bury it. None.
I don’t know if I’m more pissed by that, or by Michael Fucking Hayden saying today that the bill was “a vote of confidence in the CIA” by the people of the United States, and that “everything the CIA has done has been legal.”
They are killing people during interrogations and he has the balls to say that.
egregious,
trust me, habeas is not dead and there are many fine people fighting for its survival. Someone once noted that if people (like Steve Bright and Brian Stevenson to name but two) who were fighting against the destruction of our rights could, instead, be scientists or some such, cancer would already be cured.
PS, I like weenie so far best (NORSKE!) I have no idea what Bush et al have on someone like Specter — it must be real bad. But do they also have shit on Reid? Godfather II and all — he is from Nevada :~)
Swopa @ 58
add: and we are/were the folks who are tryin’ like hell to support you!
Mumblef*ck is delightful, Phil K!
Pach, sweetie, I own that B-word too. Just ask my spouse.
Too good a word for the likes of them.
—
And yes, do check out that video at #39; if this is a legit video, something enormous has happened.
That blast at 3:55 looked like a Daisy-Cutter went off. God help our troops.
Quit whining about the suppression of some of these “precious freedoms.”
Bush’s plan is ingenious. We know that the terrorists hate us for our freedoms. By judicious editing of some of these trivial “freedoms,” the terrorists will suddenly find themselves in a pickle: how can they continue to hate us when we no longer enjoy the very freedoms they hate us for?
The terrorists will drop their arms, flowers will reign down on our troops, Jew and Arab will walk hand-in-hand, and the oil will flow like honey.
Swopa @ 58
perfecto
Curious in Central Texas @
59
Just to be clear, a mushroom cloud (which I think I have to agree is there) is not a sign of a nuclear explosion. It’s the sign of a large explosion, which could be nuclear or conventional. Also, it is hard to judge the actual physical height of the cloud from this video, which would give more of a quantitative picture of how much explosive went off here.
Also–Montag, Reid promised straight up that the Wiretapping bill wouldn’t pass, not the MCA.
If we don’t have any freedom left, can they still hate us for our freedom? Or, by abandoning (escaping?) our own freedom, are we hoping “they” will not longer hate us?
two beers — it’s a good thing you’ve been here.
I would have missed the invisible snark tag at the end of that post.
Pachacutec @ 64
It’s one of those words that is probably hard for men to get away with using, I understand and appreciate that. But I do think it’s apt.
Professor Foland @ 81
I stand corrected. Reid’s still a dickhead.
Et tu Jane? I hate that word being used in that context. You’re correct though in that nothing else seems to suffice when describing Holy Joe.
Professor Foland — thanks for the backup on the blast.
Need to go back and see if there was anything in the way of a shockwave after the 3:55 blast; seems like something that big would have made the camera shudder, might give an indication how far the explosion was from the camera.
epu’d
Rose Elvern @ 108
the utube link is broke, was that removed?
Some links about the ammo dump explosion.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=146196
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20…..raqblastus
http://paxalles.blogs.com/paxa…..explo.html
http://blog-ah.typepad.com/blo…..o_exp.html
http://blog-ah.typepad.com/blo…..ammo_.html
In particular, read the last link as he describes the next morning and finding shrapnel lying all around.
Joe’s an abject moral coward but he does have a kind of brazen courage of his megalomania.
Reid and the DC enablers, on the other hand, open their mouths while Joe pisses down on them. They could not do more to degrade themselves. They clearly don’t have to do it, but they do, anyway.
How much of a pussy do you have to be to alllow yourself to be bullied by Joe fucking Lieberman?
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Pachacutec @ 90
Hell, they’re probably all worn down from being bullied by the likes of Bush. It might not be that they’re cowed by Lieberman per se, but rather because they know Joe is Bush’s bosom bud.
There’s another one: cowed.
Pachacutec @ 90
perfect!
I think Harry Reid is too busy filing amended financial disclosure forms and reimbursing monies to his campaign fund that he used for personal affairs.
old gold @
70
There is only so much accomodation of Lieberman’s bullying tactics you can do before your credibility and your leadership are undermined so thoroughly that it does more harm than good. I just can’t see anyone being willing to take being smacked in the face every day by limpy Joe and not saying “enough” on behalf of the party. It would be really nice to see the party leadership come out fighting for the DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE in the State of Connecticut and try to secure the seat for someone who will reliably caucus with the party that Reid purports to lead. Anything else seems like — yes, I’ll say it — pussy behavior by the incumbency protection racket.
Pachacutec @ 90
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
montag: It’s not just Bush. They are collectively the product of a Democratic establishment developed and cultivated under the GOP machine as it dominated national politics. And that includes all of the 90’s. You can draw your own conclusions from there.
Rose Elvern @
2
This is terrible stuff. Read and view now.
I still like this one -
cuckold
Pachacutec @ 97
Yeah, I know… it’s that it’s been an order of magnitude worse ever since 9/11. Makes it stand out, y’know. *sigh*
Jonathan Turley was magnificent on Countdown.
The Williams boyz (”legal” and anchor) on NBC announced the signing like they announce the routine stock market totals. The legal nerd had his usual smile when things are going the Republican way. Jackass. His background for the newscast was the Supreme Court where he thinks the next scenario will take place. Licking his chops because Stevens at this time is the only one of the Supremes who can stop the Bushsheviks.
More on the Camp Falcon explosion.
Caution: non-official source
NeoJoe @
3
I’m sorry – “pussy” “no wiggle room” – must stop thinking….
battered “leader” syndrome
Predict06 @ 91
People posting on this site are idiots — beyond peradventure.
That is what I think.
Patrick 4/4 @ 103
don’t be coy to us. interrupt us.
Jane Hamsher @ 95
darkblack @ 102
Thanks for the site link, DB.
Very interesting (and serious)
New thread upstairs.
It’s late in the comments, but I’ll point out that Wallace Shawn, renowned editor of the New Yorker, once became uncomfortable with Pauline Kael’s use of the phrase “pussy-whipped” in a film review. She asked for a substitute, and he recommended “uxorious.”
She laughed, and made no change.
punaise @ 106
Please accept a partial quote: “oy”
OMIGOD. Fort Lewis 4ID folks involved in cleanup of that blast.
November can’t be over soon enough. If they call up my stepson out of IRR, it’ll be because of this blast.
would someone be so kind and post the link to the ammo dump youtube. I don’t see it via #39 (on the du page).
poltroon sorta sums up Harry or Joe, doesn’t have the sissy effect though.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 113
click on the link in #39 and then scroll down to the image, click on that.
major explosion around 4:00 mark.
dickless
de-balled – as in Democrats don’t lose because of Diebold, they lose cause they’ve been de-balled.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 113
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&eurl=
thx punaise
Oh and thanks Mark.
Ode to Harry
A is for abject
B is for backboneless
C is for clueless
D is for docile
E is for execrable
F is for feeble
G is for goopy
H is for hapless
I is for inert
J is for jejune
K is for kicked around
L is for lacking
M is for mute
N is for namby pamby
O is for obsequious
P is for passive
Q is for quiescent
R is for rudderless
S is for supine
T is for toothless
U is for uninspired
V is for vapid
W is for wonky
X is for the spot where you aren’t
Y is for Yesman
Z is for for zipperless
lickspittle
warOnBullshit @ 110
I hate to be pendantic but it’s “William Shawn”. :)
JftB
hello
(((applause))) Hugh at 119.
Only because I’m a big fan of the guy and have sorta studied him.
I like Wallace too, though… (Inconceivable!)
Jenny from the Blog @ 121
“‘Pussy-whipped’ I don’t think this word means what you think it means…”
Imm -
Hello. (missed ya).
Harry is almost the equivilant of a Gay Republican. He is a Mormon Democrat. He probably fears that he will be excommuicated just for party affiliation (or by saying something not appreciated by the Brethern).
I don’t think spineless is the right word, but maybe neurotic or closeted…
Jenny from the Blog @ 126
same. I was just thinking the same. It’s my fault. Very busy and cranky.
Didja see that BlakNo1 was nosin’ about here a few days ago? Miss him as well….
Eureka Springs, AR @ 118
yw
I’m finding a fair number of refereences (blogsearch.google.com is your friend) w/o major details. Very little via the news sources though the BBC picked it up *last* Wednesday! It is really amazing that there has been so little about this. Some of the descriptions from the blogs sounds pretty hair raising.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6038990.stm
hehe. I have two cool quotes from Wallace and William (from memory so they’re paraphrased…)
William, who was born stinking rich said: “I don’t care how much dough you came into the world with, you’ve still suffered enough by the age of five to last a lifetime.”
And Wallace: “I wake up every morning and reach for the cold coffee on my bed stand, but I always check for roaches before I drink.”
imm -
I haven’t been around much for several reasons, so I missed Blak. He’s a sweetie as I recall.
For months I’ve deluged the wussy wegiswator from Nevada with email about his failure to deal with Lieberman. To name your website “Give ‘em Hell Harry” and the proceed to cower down to the Gollumesque Lieberswine is as ironic as Foley heading up the child-protection committee.
Viagravated
Non-tumescent
vertically-challenged
montag @ 92
montag @ 100
Hey Pach and montag -
I keep trying not to think about this because it squicks me out, but the motif keeps resurfacing (pun intended)…
The theme of domination just keeps coming up with the goopers.
Their need for hierarchy and structure and vertical authority (”power-over”) and their ruthless pursuit of power is obsessively intense.
Even their weird ideologies revolve about ambivalence regarding power. Military – very strong – good. US Government – very strong – bad.
These people are switches. No wonder their operational decisions in Iraq create ideal circumstances for endless conflict.
These people are into hit and be hit for their jollies – and they couldn’t admit it even if they knew it.
Hello? Goopers? If you need to hurt and be hurt – if you need to control and be controlled – could you find a place where the rest of the world doesn’t have to watch you?
The issue isn’t your kinks. Your kinks aren’t the problem.
The problem, goopers, is your habit.
You goopers will sacrifice anything to get your D/s kink.
Gingrich throws away wives, Shrub shreds the Constitution, Hastert shreds pages, Rumsfeld sacrifices the troops in gory orgies, Cheney – his rotting carcass barely able to stand – sacrifices the Republic to win his infantile wish of infinite power.
It’s not your kinks, goopers.
It’s what you’ll do to the rest of us to get it.
You goopers deserve punishment – and I hope you’ll get it.
And a part of you does, too. You crave it.
Just quit inflicting it on the rest of the planet.
JftB
BlakNo1 is indeed a sweetie.
As for being elsewhwere: likewise: but I sure would miss the connection entirely — especially after the pleasure of re-stablishment.
Hugh @
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nice
Patrick 4/4 — ah, yes.
Non-tumescent.
Or is it detumescent?
In either case, very fitting.
If by some miracle (they sometimes happen) the Dems get control of the Senate without Joey, then Lieberman will be tossed to the wolves. He didn’t run as a Dem, and he won’t get his Chairmanship of the committee that investigates government wrong-doing. Reid can’t do anything now, because if he doesn’t get that second seat, he needs the L to secure the Senate. It’s a small price to pay, to control the agenda.
Lieberman is finished no matter what, or at least unless he gets promoted to Secretary of Defense. Reid would be in his rights to block the appointment.
Let’s hope none of this happens and Lamont closes. There’s still time.
When I was a little girl, my mother’s pet name for me was “Pussycat” — as in, “Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?” To this day, she occasionally calls me Pussycat. Loving felines as I do (plus being a Leo), I loved the name.
So when my older daughter was born, I started calling her “Pussycat.” Loving all things feline, including the two cats we then had, she loved the name. Then, when she was about 12, she came home one day and said, “Mom, you have to stop calling me Pussycat.” Why, I asked. “Mom, you KNOW why.” No matter how many times I tried to explain that I was calling her a cat and not “private parts,” she insisted I stop calling her Pussycat. Sadly, I complied. However, I continued to call her younger sister “Kittycat,” which in addition to evoking a kitten, is a play on her name.
A couple of months ago, the older daughter asked why I called her sister Kittycat and didn’t call her Pussycat anymore. I reminded her of her edict. She laughed and said, “Yeah, but I’m not 12 any more!”
Which is a round about way of saying that I think Reid and his cohorts ARE being pussies over Holy Joe, and not in a feline way.
‘night, imm. *see* you soon!
obsessed @ 132
I just posted a blog on his “Give em Hell Harry” blog community. Screw you, Harry – and Schumer (whom I think is the one who made the seniority promise) and all the other pussies in the Dem leadership). Cheney and Bush are laughing at you – even as we blog.
kirk murphy @ 134
It’s amazing how many of them have, uh, issues, isn’t it? Bill Bennett, the champion of old-fashioned virtues, blowing millions on gambling, and giving his leftover pocket change to a dominatrix. I can just hear him now: “beat me, fuck me, make me write bad checks!”
Control, power, and, yeah, domination. All with a very weird psychosexual component of some sort. Metaphorically, they seem to have all the attributes of pedophiles.
The whole thread reminded me of this bit:
Listening to Travolta’s delivery of the word “pussy” is a marvel. I don’t know about the whole movie, but for this bit in A Love Song for Bobby Long, it’s worth the wait.
Phil K @ 72
angie @ 77
Oh yes, it’s *exactly* right. Phil, nail on head, yes.
The idea of Lieberman as Secretary of Defense doesn’t make any sense except that Lieberman himself may believe it. I don’t think any neocon ala Bushco would allow Joe in the club accept as a wannabe lap dog even for a short time to serve as a fall guy. The opportunity for killing is to great to pass up for a large number of Republicans. Even though Joe would serve as a yes man quite well in trade for the position he would drive Bush insane with his whining (even in approval) in their first meeting.
jus’ sayin’
Maybe this would be a good question for Joe.
Joe, with rumors in the midst that you may one day be called to serve as Sec Def will you order the torture of men, women and children weather or not they are American citizens before afternoon tea or after? What about on Saturdays?
You hardly deserve a slapdown. I don’t understand why Joe doesn’t get a slapdown – and then some! What’s the matter with Harry, anyway?
Thanks for airing the grievance. I hate that he thinks he’ll caucus with the Dems if he wins. I hate that Harry might let him!!!!
Harry Reid is a samurai poker player who’s been allowing the GOP to fall all over itself by standing to the side. It’s the same thing with Joe. I wouldn’t write it off as any form of “not even putting up a fight.” If the opponent keeps defeating himself, that’s the best kind of victory.
Spineless Demos = Gobshite
n. Chiefly British Slang
1# A person regarded as mean or contemptible.
Perhaps ultimately from obsolete gobshite;
2# wad of expectorated chewing tobacco or tobacco juice
3# gob plus dialectal shite, excrement (from Middle English shiten, to defecate.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 144
Wouldn’t he have to delay working until after the Sabbath?
Signing torture orders would be a perfect Saturday night for Limpy Joe.
Jenny, thanks for the correction. I knew that….
I have a friend who refer to men who screw up or who are wimps as dickless. Almost the English equivalent of castrata. I think the term fits.
I hate the the term pussy or the c word.
“Pusillanimous Punk” or just “punk”….but, you know, you really can’t beat “pussy” for shear effectiveness.
whatever happened to Evil Parallel Universe? i miss Her.
as for the mot du jour, leave it to our Jane. she knows how put a twist in the collective knickers, don’t she? hahahaha 707! yes!
a word is a word, yes? power! the context empowers it. meaning! the more facets, the more meaning, and power.
Pussy. wow! a head-turner. how to get a man’s attention! no other word has more power than that one. and like some other very powerful words, pussy has more than one powerful meaning. and like at least one other powerful word, a near alphabet neighbor, some people have more ownership of it than others.
it’s not all logic and properness that makes for expressive and useful language. calling a man a dick works fine. calling a woman a dick? it just doesn’t have the same effect. calling a man a pussy? big put down. calling a woman a pussy, ermmm, ineffective.
PC police are so often the Keystone Cops. language becomes sterile when we try to make it too logical. or discourage or forbid certain usages.
if Harry Reid doesn’t want to be called a pussy, he knows what he can do. and we’ve already waited far too long.
“Wimp” is still very effective, as is “wuss”.
“Gutless wonder”? I always liked that one.
“Spineless wonder” works too.
“Had a spine-ectomy” is a bit too cutesy.
Don’t forget “Invertebrate”.
“Glutton for punishment” is strong and accurate, but perhaps conveys slightly different connotations.
Actually, “masochist” is similarly correct.
“70-pound weakling” for those who remember that ad about getting sand kicked in your face.
Actually, since he’s being taken for a ride, he’s also a “rube”.
“feeble” and “pathetic” and “weak” are all nicely traditional.
“Pussy” is actually a pretty bad choice no matter how you slice it. Apart from the sexist connotations, cats are pretty fierce little creatures who don’t stand for any nonsense.
Edit: I forgot an even more insulting one. “Gimp”.
As for describing Joe Lieberman, can we use lap-dog,suck-up, vichy,quissling,never was a DEMOCRAT. As for the torture bill I can not believe that this is my country to have any PERSON to vote for this BILL is like BEING in the old USSR. FROM what my old high school history TEACHER us to say about the USSR.
well,
I dont approve of the use of the word pussy.
it denigtrates something I hold in higher reguard than LIEberman.
and I am a gay man.
Doormat works for me.
Hey, you slap a real pussy(cat) around, and you find cat-crap in your shoe. The Dems aren’t pussies by any means. Theyre LESS!
Gosh.
Without Joe Lieberman, would Jane even have a job?
“The Dems aren’t pussies by any means.”
I’m sure that Jane agrees.