"Just Keep Walking" Nooners doesn’t like all this finger-pointing and assigning blame.
Hearings, commissions or prosecutors would suck all the oxygen out of the room and come to obsess the capital, taking focus off two actual, immediate and pressing emergencies, the economy and the age of terror. Hearings, especially, would likely tear up the country as we descended into opposing camps. They would damage or burden America’s intelligence services, and likely result in the abuse of those who acted from high motives, having been advised their actions were legal.
Right. Hearings are damaging and counterproductive.
Unless we’re trying to figure out how the Democrats and the blacks crashed the economy.
…when the economy came crashing down, "nowhere did we see a board come out and say: ‘This is what happened, these are the decisions these particular people made, and this was the result. They are no longer a part of our organization.’…We did not see congressmen get on television with charts and eviscerate their organization and say, ‘These were the men who in 2003 allowed Freddie and Fannie unlimited rein over mortgage securities.’…There is no one in national leadership who could convincingly "assign blame," and no one "who could or would accept it."
This is a new record for Nooners — a total 180 on the virtues of televised eviscerations and blame-assigning during the "age of terror" — in less than 50 days!
Just remember: hearings about Democrats, good. Hearings about Republicans, bad.




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No offense, but just fuck that bitch.
I wonder what she takes that keeps her floating mentally.
Blowjob=endless investigation
Torture=walk on by
Good grief these people are self-serving idiots. How does torture square with being a good Catholic Peggy??
I don’t normally go off on right-wing ideologues like that, but I can’t think of anyone else who deserves such scorn.
Would she be talking like this if her 7 & 9 year olds were disappeared?
Now the younger people are seeing what watergate felt like to a degree,the difference was that it was bi-partisan once John Dean testified and those infamous tapes surfaced.
The republicans had no choice.But this is a new breed of republican,that seems as if they are going to be fighting and screaming till the end.
Oh and by the way,don’t be in such a hurry for a special prosecutor.For if that should happen the info gates will be shut down.
The Democratic “leadership” does not not want hearings on Bush torture. They are up to their noses in it. So bad cop Reid will directly kill hearings with incompehensible Pelosi being her usual incomprehensible self supporting the hearings. Meanwhile Mitch McConnel with his 25k relection victory will kill hearings from the Repub side. These people really are not part of any representative democracy. They are simply tacticians operating their business.
Man, was that ever well said!
I’m always torn when these posts go up — one one hand I’m appreciative that others listen to these a-holes so I don’t have to, but on the other hand I feel like
well there is no one quite like Nooners
Peggy Noonan Reverses Herself, Now Once Again Opposed to Hearings
Ya know – one might think that putting the R’s into a position where they had to, for months, jump up and down and praise torture from every hearing, microphone and mountaintop, would leave them in a position such as they might feel electorally challenged and more pliable wrt other goals and platforms of the Obama agenda.
One would be wrong.
That’s very true, but to paraphrase puravida @1 “fuck them, too”.
The pressure is building to the point that something other than a whitewash commission will be forthcoming, and if they get swept up in it, so be it.
No offense, but just fuck that bitch.
tough duty.
That’s why they call it “spin.”
And don’t forget, it was the investigation into a LAND DEAL in which the Clintons LOST money which begat the SEXUAL HARASSMENT investigation (catapulting the repulsive Paula Jones to international prominence in the process) which begat the blow job investigation…
I like the idea of an international commission to look into this. Include Red Cross, ICC, Amnesty Intl., ACLU, U.S., G.Britain, Iraq, Canada, and a member from each country which has had any of its citizen(s) fall prey to The Torture Regime.
Simple Majority Rules.
In the immortal words of Nick Nolte in “48 Hours”, I’ll take a raincheck on that…
The train has left the station.
Jonathan Turley has migrated away from being exclusively on KO and Rachel, and that’s big trouble for the torture deniers.
He makes the case for hearings and accountability so simple, clear and straight forward it’s scary.
The more people see him, Gen. Karpinsky and Ron Suskind on the tee vee, the worse it is for Darth, Rummy, Condi & Co.
…with being a good Catholic Peggy??
well, she does avoid any chance of non-catholic-y sodomy by keeping her head firmly planted up her ass….
That was funny.
I too am beginning to wonder if the current political establishment possesses the objectivity to conduct an investigation of The Bush/Cheney Torture Regime. So many who appear to be complicit still hold office. Why, John Rizzo is still the acting general counsel at the CIA! Bet the shredders in his office are running nonstop. How many hard drives have gone to landfills in China out of his shop?
Oh, and Peggy Noonan should be in prison.
Okay , you get the best fucking comment of the day award. Hands down.
And, as some are questioning here, who the hell would want to? Maybe that’s one of those things that should remain a Mystery.
Thanks for the good laugh, pura. I needed it.
From our neighbor here at FDL:
“These people are monsters and should be destroyed because that is what you do to monsters.”
Peggy’s one of the monsters.
*g*
Also, I’m hearing alternate lyrics in my head to Devo’s Crack that whip!
Because it’s a Friday, we can have a little sing along.
Isn’t “Hearings, commissions or prosecutors would suck all the oxygen out of the room and come to obsess the capital,” the same argument put forward by Pelosi, et al,regarding, impeaching Bush,Cheney,et al?
Hello Pups. I’m late to the party but I had to mention that the photo of “Peggy The Nooner” scared me so badly that I’m probably going to have nightmares for about a month.
Know what? I agree with those who say that a commission/hearings would be a distraction.
Know what else? Tough shit.
they’d distract people’s attemntion from orter things at the beginning but then not again until a report came out. But look, nobody asked for this.
any photo of hers scares me
“…Hearings, commissions or prosecutors would suck all the oxygen out of the room…”
Yeah, well, the rest of America would feel like their oxygen had been replenished and start breathing more freely.
I’m probably going to have nightmares for about a month.
consider yourself lucky. there used to be a Mr. Nooners.
No word that I can find on whether or not the psychological damage was permanent.
P.S. – hey, that’s not Catholic-y either…..
This is a party whose last candidate had to break off his campaign to go and sit dumbly and pretend to be handling something he knows nothing about, so it makes sense they would see a completely linear process like a train in which only one station might be visited at any time. A steam engine, not one of thos modern diesels, neither.
Why does anyone pay any attention to these fools? Their most popular spokesfolk are unable to break the 20% approaval barrier.
Why does anyone pay any attention to these fools?
It’s a mystery, isn’t it?
Surely she sees the irony in this, doesn’t she? How can she actually say any of this with a straight face and not spray her wine all over the place?
fuck that bitch
In the immortal words of Nick Nolte in “48 Hours”, I’ll take a raincheck on that…
Or, in the immortal words of ME, “not even with your dick”!
you call that a face straight?
When some bullshit comes along,
You must fuck it.
Before the masses take it long,
You must fuck.
When the talking heads are wrong,
You must fuck it.
Now fuck it.
Out of shape.
Throw it out.
Get it straight.
Go forward.
Look behind.
Try to prevent it
It’s not too late
To fuck it
Fuck it good.
And I always thought Neil Young wrote that line!
Something I haven’t seen mentioned on Countdown or by Rachel neither, and that’s the effect of commissions and Congressional hearings if they grant immunity. Briefly, don’t. There were a couple of Repugnant perps (You know, the party which deplores such unwholesome non-guilt/innocence issues as Miranda intruding) who had prosecutions thrown out because of supposed evidence tainted by immunized testimony, so be careful of the Ollie Effect, Congresspersons.
Deaver, that was the other creep that got away on a technicality in the Raygoon era mop-up.
Either
She’s consistent because evrything is IOKIUAR,
or
She’s Consistent in her inconsistency.
wasn’t he sarcastically referring to Bush 41’s “thousand points of light” ?
But then, I remember, the greatest writer of my whole high school era is still spoken of these fifty years after, and he was illiterate. He used a prominent wall, and he only needed four letters!
Here ya’ll go:
There’s colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin’ their feet
People sleepin’ in their shoes
But there’s a warnin’ sign on the road ahead
There’s a lot of people sayin’ we’d be better off dead
Don’t feel like Satan, but I am to them
So I try to forget it, any way I can.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
I see a woman in the night
With a baby in her hand
Under an old street light
Near a garbage can
Now she puts the kid away, and she’s gone to get a hit
She hates her life, and what she’s done to it
There’s one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world.
We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people, says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Keep on rockin’ in the free world,
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
“Rockin’ in the Free World” Neil Young
Find his performance of this song in 1989 on SNL on YouTube-infuckincredible.
there I go foolin around again!
A ‘thousand points of light’ is what one sees when one’s head is smashed into the wall by interrogators. Nooner was just one generation off.
Jane is upstairs!
Kabuki Macabre: Reid Opposes Pelosi’s Plan for Torture Commission
I wonder if the gas mask training drill with cs would be considered torture? I thought I was gonna die!
yeah, FUCKING AYE
let’s review the tape
back in the Clinton Administration, how did peggy feel about BLOWJOBS between consenting adults
were consensual sexual relationships something that should remain a mystery ???
or was a consensual sexual relationship a threat to the foundations of Democracy and civilization
maybe peggy can help us out here …
Give.Me.A.Break!
Everybody knows that the mouth-on-pee-pee kinda thing is un-Presidential. Peg is a right-thinkin’ A’Merkan.
While protected by the First Amendment, Noonan is a cancer within the Fourth Estate.
Hey Twolf, nice work putting Nooner’s head on Althouse’s body!
So, in the picture, is she offering us her Kool-Aid?
I suppose that shall remain a mystery, like Reagan’s intellectual ability and other fantasies.