More aches and pains than a Sun City shuffleboard convention.
Love Max, though the song over the closing credits has some unintended irony, methinks. Maybe not.
The GOP’s Best and BrightestBy: Jane Hamsher Friday July 20, 2007 1:00 pm |
More aches and pains than a Sun City shuffleboard convention.
Love Max, though the song over the closing credits has some unintended irony, methinks. Maybe not.

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Jane!
Uno
Zed
(((((Jane)))))
My first first
low digits?
Keerist!
The circle of death spun for 20 seconds before my comment posted.
WHAHHHH.
I love watching these morons repeat the talking points like the marionettes they are
their lips move, you see them searching their feeble minds for what they’re supposed to say next and then look for some kind of approval to see if they said it right
they can’t even find their own inflection, it’s like they heard a tape and copy the sentence exactly the way they heard it.
Cinq?
(((((((JANE))))))
Oh, yeah. A new category. Single digits.
Who knew that Republican students had so many health problems?
*cough*
And story of my life — just missed it.
Funnydiva2002 @ 9
whoah, not even close!
congrats bluejeans!
allan_in_upstate @ 11
they could get medically discharged just for mental illness
anyone that repeats what they’re repeating and actually think someone with a brain is gonna believe them have some mental health issues
bluejeansntshirt @ 5
Zedliness vobiscum!
Tanks diva and ((((((Jane)))))
I distain chickenhawks. These are the worst of the worst. Democrats. It is within this context that I regard Joe Lieberman as a priority. Do you understand?
retirin’ in five @ 12
My other category is “last comment posted in thread”. I am learning not to stare at the rotating Wheel of Doom.
Jeebus, those kids are just full of excuses aren’t they?
The poor young lady who chimes in about the “Islamo-fascists” is especially sad. She must be Micheal Ledeen or a Frank Gaffney groupie.
Such a sad youth.
-GSD
perris @ 14
Perhaps, but it qualifies them for a gig at The Corner.
Or as a US Attorney.
[or as a summer intern for Fred Hiatt.]
OK, so what I got from De Lay’s idocy about “if we had those 4 zillion babies that were aborted”
He’s saying “so THEY could do all those menial jobs.”
IOW, we’re against abortion because it deprives us of low-paid American workers.
Asshat!
Funnydiva2002 @ 22
Think of how many more troops there would be for the surge to be more successful.
A.k.a. FFFH (Fact-Free Fred Hiatt). . .
GabrielOak @ 15
Et cum spiritu tuo.
GSD @ 20
Yes,but did you notice how she chimed in with that and kinda realized as she was saying it how stonecoldstoopid she sounded? Watch her again,she trails off the second before she gets to the “ism”part of that obnoxious BS word she used. And she looks sort of down and over.
She hasn’t learned to sell it like she means it yet.
Life is gonna rise up and smack most of them just like a sidewalk eventually does to a drunk. The ones that don’t get the wind knocked out of them are the ones that scare the bejeezus outta me.
burnspbesq @ 25
Oremus! So there are a few throwbacks left out there!
The words best and brightest can never be coupled with GOP.
Showed Max’s College Repub videologue the other day to a friend. She was aghast…especially after seeing this clip…
Helluva compare/contrast.
“unintended irony” in the closing song?
Somehow I don’t think so. More like pointed commentary.
Too bad he didn’t follow up with the Air Force Acadamy reject with “and you didn’t just enlist in the Army because…?”
And the whole “oh, the Army won’t take” this that or the other is such a laugh. Haven’t they heard how desperate the Army is? How the standards have been lowered? To the point of letting convicted felons enlist? Duh.
The only reasonable answer along that line would be “the Army don’t want me because I’m openly homosexual.” Since these are College Repugnant-can’ts, the odds of getting that answer are basically nil.
ipso facto.
I want a “Draft College Republicans” bumper sticker!
Diva.
Funnydiva2002 @ 22
By extension: we have to exploit low-wage child workers in foreign countries because there are not enough low-wage child workers to exploit here. So, overturning Roe v. Wade and child-labor laws would be good for the economy.
It starts to become clear.
GabrielOak @ 15
Domini, Domini, Domini, you’re all catholics now.
I’d like for the troops to get a load of the kid who said he was more career-oriented, when asked why he wasn’t serving.
As I sit here in the comfort of my dust and sand free house with the ac on and the pool out back awaiting my ripples, I am caught by the fact at this very moment a soldier in Iraq is hot, dirty and sweating. Perhaps running out of blood and breath.
james @ 23
That, too. Probably primarily, but even The Hammer isn’t stupid enough to openly admit that it’s all about having cannon fodder for the all “volunteer” military.
Asshats.
Diva
I want my party to show some courage. This is it Democrats. Do what we elected you to do. You can do it.
burnspbesq @ 25
Let us prey.
LoudounLib @ 33
I thought he was the only honest one of the bunch. Completely shameless to say what he did with a straight face and no sense of irony, but honest.
Makes me wanna throw up a hairball…
*gag*
Diva
RonD @ 31
RonD:
Yes, that’s what I was trying to verbalize.
Thanks for putting it so much more clearly and elegantly.
Diva
Things like what’s on the YouTube remind me of the South Pacific song, You’ve Got To Be Taught.
Watched this yesterday.
Disproportionate number of Young Repugs seem to have health problems. LOL
OT. Two and a half hours is awfully long for a run-of-the-the-mill colonoscopy.
IANAMD
Oklahoma kiddo @ 34
OKK, you’re a good man.
allan_in_upstate @ 42
Yes, but most run-of-the-mill patients don’t run around running a country with their head up their a** for 6 years.
Just sayin’
Diva
Funnydiva2002 @ 30
me too
Funnydiva2002 @ 44
what’s the term … recto-cranial-ectomy?
by the way, IANAL.
Elliott @ 45
Actually, I bet the magnetic sheets that can go through the printer would work nicely. We could just make our own…
Hmmmmm.
punaise @ 46
I ANAL? :~)
Aw, poop
The one time I don’t preveiw, I put my comment inside the block quote.
nnnDUH!
Go back to sleep Diva!
punaise @ 46
707!
yellowdogD @ 41
When I watched the video a couple of days ago, I wanted Max to reply to their health problems with - That’s terrible, do you have good health insurance?
Ms. Diva @ 1:29 -
Maybe that will make it easier to do the procedure. *g*
Funnydiva2002 @ 47
good idea, haven’t ever done the magnetic with this printer, but why not?
allan_in_upstate @ 42
Oh I dunno (and IANAMD either) — when one’s innards are as twisted as his undoubtedly are, maybe that’s the reason.
Elliott @ 53
Why not, indeed?
We could join the Freeway Blogger team
Call us the Mosquito Brigade: Small and mobile.
Diva
bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Jane - rather the CCR’s “Fortunate Son” perhaps a more appropriate Republican theme song would have been “Born on the Buy-you”, reflecting their silver-spoon willingness to have others stand in for them on the battlefield.
allan_in_upstate @ 42
The colonoscopy takes about twenty minutes to forty five minutes if multiple biopsies/polyp removals are performed. The other time is spent on recovering from the effects of the sedation. It takes a couple of hours for those drugs to clear from the nervous system.
tbsa @ 28
I think that, after Halberstam’s book, the B&B phrase has taken on a permanent air of sarcasm.
Funnydiva2002 @ 55
and magnetically, I could apply them to suitable cars in parking lots across the
countyRepublican side of town.“It takes a couple of hours for those drugs to clear from the nervous system.” In his case, how will we know when the clearance is complete?
allan_in_upstate @ 42
I also wonder why they are not doing it at a clinic or hospital like everyone else. Are they hiding?
punaise @ 56
Or maybe follow Reagan’s lead and use “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springstein.
Elliott @ 59
Funny, except for the ever-present cc surveilance cameras. I guess if they hauled you into court (presuming you’re a citizen eligible for Habeus Corpus), you could argue that you weren’t being any more disruptive than the schmucks that leave advertising leaflets under the windshield wiper.
Oooh, maybe Late Night we can brainstorm some good slogans. I mean, why not use the whole package of magnetic sheets, right?
I’d start with
Give Impeach a Chance
Diva
Funnydiva2002 @ 44
punaise @ 46
How much damage can Cheney inflict on the country in 2 1/2 hours?
cathy @ 65
Hmm, is that a trick question?
cathy @ 65
Shhhhhhh! Please do NOT tempt the Fates to show us.
Funnydiva2002 @ 49
Damn! I did it too!
If our dreams can come true, what about our nightmares.
cathy @ 65
cathy @ 65
Funny you should ask.
OMG! Someone linked my humble comment with the Incomparable Punaise’s?
*wiping eyes*
I’d like to thank The Academy, and Jesus, and Mom and Dad…
Diva
GabrielOak @ 64
this just in: “President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.
The White House declined to say whether the CIA currently has a detention and interrogation program, but said that if it did it must adhere to the guidelines outlined in the executive order.”
I was impressed with the patriotism, devotion to country, and support for our Constitution exhibited by those young people on video.
One rarely finds such patriotism, devotion to country, and support for our Constitution at a convention for the best and brightest.
Many of the best and brightest have already sold themselves and their country for their own personal advantage. Many have a dual citizenship with the Devil.
jhaygood @ 72
link?
Funnydiva2002 - LOL!
Elliot, check Raw Story.
Elliott @ 73
Here.
thanks Busted and newtonusr!
punaise @ 74
Dang, and I was going for at least a 707.
Curses, foiled again.
cathy @ 65
This sounds unpleasantly close to one of “24″’s plot lines last year.
punaise @ 56
Actually I think Fortunate Son was written precisely for this type of Repub a**hole. Or rather, the next generation Repub a**hole exemplified by the Chimp, Danny-boy Quayle, Little Bill Kristol, Insect Man, Darth, and all the other Chickenhawks we know and loathe so well.
GabrielOak @ 27
Zedliness is next to godliness?
Speaking of Best and Brightest — On CNN, J.C. Watts just said, wrt to global warming, “I personally don’t believe the earth is melting as a result of this.” Then when he was told he was disputing all the science, he repeated his belief the earth is not melting.
Paul Begala couldn’t think of a response, and not sure I can either.
Hope your’e feeling well, Jane. Personally I like the Creedence Clearwater tune. It’s time for progressives on campus to start organizing. When you stop and think about it do we actually want political cadres in the military? Take a look at the Air Force Academy where fundamentalist Christain dictate on the campus.
jhaygood @ 72
hard for me to fathom why he’d need to sign some kind of executive order like that, does this mean it supercedes a prior one?
It’s a disgrace that our nation has been engaged in deliberate, malicious torture. We’re better than that.
College Republicans should serve their country but in the military they would be nothing more than political cadres for the Party. Why not make them serve in the inner cities, Appalachia, working with immigrant groups etc..
Bush Order Governs CIA Interrogation Techniques
By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 20, 2007; 4:06 PM
President Bush today signed an executive order governing the interrogation of terrorism suspects by the CIA and barring torture, degrading treatment and serious acts of violence, the White House announced.
The order “interprets the meaning and application” of Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions for purposes of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, which is designed to extract information from “captured al-Qaeda terrorists” about attack plans and the whereabouts of senior leaders, White House spokesman Tony Snow said in a statement
link
Jane has a new thread upstairs.
Scarecrow @ 83
Other that nobody is suggesting that the EARTH is melting. Or that the earth is MELTING. The contention is that the climate has changed and is changing and not for the better.
Diva
Nequals1 @ 57
Uh, dude, it’s been over 20 years… supposedly.
You have to admit, one good thing if Hilllary was to become president is it would make all these people so physically ill and probably brain damaged that they would no longer be able to function as “human beings.” The ones that survived might just leave the country.
plainjane @ 82: Exactly. And may The Zed be with you.
Scarecrow @ 83
Teh stooopid fairly drips from that man.
David Rivken? He seems to have removed the make up and nose to appear on Hardball. Is that too harsh?
Oops - water just squirted out of his tie
Phil Ochs had these guys (W, Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft et al) pegged during Vietnam. To the sons of the neocons, I give you Mr. Ochs who understood all your health problems so very well.
Draft Dodger Rag
By Phil Ochs
I’m just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down
And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red
But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:
CHORUS:
Sarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse
I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma’s getting worse
O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt
Besides, I ain’t no fool, I’m a goin’ to school, and I’m working in a defense plant
I’ve got a dislocated disc and a racked up back, I’m allergic to flowers and bugs
And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits, and I’m addicted to a thousand drugs
I got the weakness woes, and I can’t touch my toes, I can hardly reach my knees
And if the enemy came close to me, I’d probably start to sneeze
CHORUS:
I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies, but one thing you gotta see
That someone’s gotta go over there, and that someone isn’t me
So I wish you well, Sarge, give ‘em Hell, Yeah, Kill me a thousand or so
And if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Well I’ll be the first to go
CHORUS: