Comments on: The GOP’s Best and Brightest http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:52:01 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Monk http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-838117 Monk Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:24:07 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-838117 <p>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.<br /> Draft Dodger Rag<br /> By Phil Ochs<br /> I’m just a typical American boy from a typical American town<br /> I believe in God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down<br /> And when it came my time to serve I knew better dead than red<br /> But when I got to my old draft board, buddy, this is what I said:</p> <p>CHORUS:<br /> Sarge, I’m only eighteen, I got a ruptured spleen, and I always carry a purse<br /> I got eyes like a bat, my feet are flat, and my asthma’s getting worse<br /> O think of my career, my sweetheart dear, and my poor old invalid aunt<br /> Besides, I ain’t no fool, I’m a goin’ to school, and I’m working in a defense plant</p> <p>I’ve got a dislocated disc and a racked up back, I’m allergic to flowers and bugs<br /> And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits, and I’m addicted to a thousand drugs<br /> I got the weakness woes, and I can’t touch my toes, I can hardly reach my knees<br /> And if the enemy came close to me, I’d probably start to sneeze</p> <p>CHORUS:</p> <p>I hate Chou En Lai, and I hope he dies, but one thing you gotta see<br /> That someone’s gotta go over there, and that someone isn’t me<br /> So I wish you well, Sarge, give ‘em Hell, Yeah, Kill me a thousand or so<br /> And if you ever get a war without blood and gore, Well I’ll be the first to go</p> <p>CHORUS:</p> 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:

]]> By: Boston1775 http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837099 Boston1775 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:38:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837099 <p>David Rivken? He seems to have removed the make up and nose to appear on Hardball. Is that too harsh? </p> <p>Oops - water just squirted out of his tie</p> 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

]]> By: GordonM http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837059 GordonM Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:14:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837059 <p><a href="#comment-837014"><em>Scarecrow @ 83</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>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. </p> <p>Paul Begala couldn’t think of a response, and not sure I can either.</p></blockquote> <p>Teh stooopid fairly drips from that man.</p> Scarecrow @ 83

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.

Teh stooopid fairly drips from that man.

]]> By: GabrielOak http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837052 GabrielOak Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:13:24 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837052 <p>plainjane @ 82: Exactly. And may The Zed be with you.</p> plainjane @ 82: Exactly. And may The Zed be with you.

]]> By: marshen http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837037 marshen Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:05:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837037 <p>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.</p> 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.

]]> By: GordonM http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837033 GordonM Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:04:58 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837033 <p><a href="#comment-836984"><em>Nequals1 @ 57</em></a></p> <blockquote><p> 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.</p></blockquote> <p>Uh, dude, it’s been over 20 years… supposedly.</p> Nequals1 @ 57

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.

Uh, dude, it’s been over 20 years… supposedly.

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837032 Funnydiva2002 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:04:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837032 <p><a href="#comment-837014"><em>Scarecrow @ 83</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>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. </p> <p>Paul Begala couldn’t think of a response, and not sure I can either.</p></blockquote> <p>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.</p> <p>Diva</p> Scarecrow @ 83

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.

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

]]> By: Funnydiva2002 http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837029 Funnydiva2002 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:02:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837029 <p>Jane has a <a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/hey-jet-blue/">new thread</a> upstairs.</p> Jane has a new thread upstairs.

]]> By: Bluetoe http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837025 Bluetoe Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:01:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837025 <p>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..</p> 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..

]]> By: Patty Morlan http://firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837026 Patty Morlan Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:01:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/07/20/the-gops-best-and-brightest/#comment-837026 <p>Bush Order Governs CIA Interrogation Techniques</p> <p>By William Branigin<br /> Washington Post Staff Writer<br /> Friday, July 20, 2007; 4:06 PM</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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</p> <p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/20/AR2007072001264_pf.html">link</a></p> 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

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