LA’s smog so thick you can’t think? Or is this your “usual and customary” nature? Or is this YOUR prescription for all that ails us? How about you “grow up?”

Didn’t I tell you to go jerk off?

Geez, doofus. Lighten up, will ya please?

Eric in Bliss

“But then you go no these non-nonsensical tangents that ooze all over the place….”

An unintended double negative. I just said you make sense after all:-)

To retort it’s all “a joke,” is exactly the frame of mind I’ve repeatedly challenged as nothing more than ad hominem after ad hominem.

Dude, are you aware of just how much you sound like Sean Hannity with your persistent use of the phrase “ad hominem”??? That’s his favorite word. He can’t get through an interview with a “liberal” with out accusing him or her (usually him) of launching “ad hominem” attacks. That will take up most of the interview. That’s one reason why I don’t watch or listen to him (that and the stupid Scheivo thing). It’s annoying as hell. Sometimes you write some good stuff, make some good points, even if I disagree with much of the arguments you’ve made. But then you go no these non-nonsensical tangents that ooze all over the place, like suds coming out of a squeezed soapy sponge. We all get it. Some people here will use “ad hominem” attacks. BFD. People commenting on blogs tend to do that, in case you didn’t notice. Get used to it and grow a thicker skin.

BTW: “And I can’t tell you how many times I can’t stop laughing when I pass a homeless or hungry person, knowing that GWB has cut all forms of aid to the needy, poor, and marginalized”.

ALL forms of aid???? Since you think yourself the master of identifying false logic, which type of false argument(s) is this an example of? Do you really want to take that position? If so then all I would have to do is find one type of aid where spending has increased or remained steady to prove you are incorrect.

What’s not to like about the “Bush Doctrine?”

Is this you?

Yes, V the K, GWB is a “joke,” but only when understood of the context of issues like the above. Failed domestic “policy.” Failed foreign “policy.” Regression to a 19th-century Puritanism/Victorianism. Massive incompetents not even remotely suitable for public service, aka, cronyism, are the standard rather than the exception. Maybe our Constitution is a “joke,” but who gave GWB sole authority to regard it as such? Who will be laughing if YOUR phone is wiretapped in violation of FISA and the Fourth Amendment? Still, I cannot find rendition or denial of habeas corpus humorous in the slightest. The “joke” has been GWB and many of his Republican cohorts. I grant that Medicare Part D is definitely a joke, one pulled by GWB’s technocrats on the elderly and disabled. But again, it’s not of the “laughing” kind. Only theocrats, neocons, and GWB apologists are laughing. Is that the “joke” you find compelling?

Second, and for me this is most important, let’s keep a little perspective: This is the comments section of a weblog. Nothing anyone says here is going to change the world. In fact, it’s unlikely to even be read outside those who participate and a few lurkers. So, what’s the point in getting worked up about any argument made here, much less putting time and effort into refuting the paranoid delusional rantings of a yammering jackass? I got better things to do. I hope everybody else does, too.

Like I said, a joke. It’s so nice when you make a point about someone, and then they immediately prove it for you.

For the idiot who does not know that education was never under federal control until “No Child Left Behind,” I suggest you read something other than wingnut literature. Oh, the Department of Education has existed since the ’70s, but never “controlled” anything (except when racism was a factor). GWB changed that. He’s the first president to federalize education. He’s proud of it! Why aren’t you? (Yes, I know it violates the principles of “conservatism” and “subsidiarity,” but GWB has never been a conservative, nor fully understood the Roman Catholic notion of “subsidiarity,” despite the NCCB repeated tries to teach him.)

The Army Corps of Engineers’ reduced budget, and the precise diminuition of the levee program, was WIDELY reported in LA and in U.S. World & News and the NYT and WaPo. READ a real paper, for gawd’s sake. Or, if that bothers you, compare budgets from 1999 and thereafter. GWB CUT the levee renewal project 37% each of his four years so that “he could balance the budget.” If you’re not laughing, at least have some empathy for the hundreds of dead.

And GWB was “vacationing” and took five days to respond to the worst natural disaster in America’s history. While people were drowning in New Orleans, GWB was giving a speech on Social Security privitization in California, golfing in Idaho, and removing bush on his ranch. And if YOU really want to defend Michael Brown’s leadership of FEMA, maybe you should read the REPUBLICAN report by the GAO before making a fool of yourself.

If Harriet Mier is YOUR example of great nominees, tell us what a worse-case scenario would look like? How about the 25-year old who resigned his position at NASA over “Intelligent Design” this last week. First, he had no prior experience whatsoever; he’d just graduated college. What, for heaven’s sake, does Creationism have to do with running space technology? Neither “qualified” him to run a space agency. About two months ago, the New Republic magazine published a CV of 50 GWB appointees — ALL cronies without appropriate experience to function within, let alone run, the departments the Republican Congress stamped with approval. While it’s true that the elected reward their contributors with federal jobs, nobody has done a worse job of matching contributor to task. Total and incompetent disconnect. Be honest with yourself: What does being President of the Arabian Horsetrainers Assn prepare one to run a disaster program?

Perhaps — although I know it’s a stretch — you see why I don’t respond to your individual critiques. Almost all the “retorts” are simply stupid, like the dude who cited Bobby Kennedy’s wiretaps in the ’60, a decade BEFORE Congress passed FISA, in defense of GWB’s wiretaps. In a word: anachronism. At least he knew he bit the dust and was chewing crow.

Sad, but true, most of you GWB apologists don’t seem to read newspapers, political/economic journals, other blogs, etc. Instead, you “mind-fuck” incestuously with each other. If you only read KKK news, it’s the only “news” you will “know.” That’s why I let most of your inane remarks slide by. As Jack Allen pointed out, you’re still in the “ad hominem mode.” It’s the only mode you dudes seem to know. The only way to retort to ad hominems is ignore them. If you won’t play within the domain of reason, there’s no reason reasoning with you.

Seems he did the same thing about wiretaps, too. That damn Fourth Amendment and FISA law sucks. Hey, NDT?

We used to do that, but Stephen demonstrated that he does not come here to argue substantively. He comes to spew talking points. He never answers challenges people raise to his points. He never provides sourcing to the assertions he posts. There is really no point in responding to him, other than to dismiss his paranoid, delusional rantings.

Based on your post, one would have to wonder why Halliburton took so long to make money.

Furthermore, why didn’t it bother you when lord BJ granted them “no-bid” contracts? Or were you too busy humping his leg to notice?

I also wonder about your Corps of Engineers statement since they said, shortly after the storm, that the levees were NOT underfunded. I also note that you apparently don’t give a damn about the fact that the liberals in Louisiana were spending that money on everything BUT the levees to the point that the government was demanding the money be RETURNED.

The federalization of education????? Since when has it not been federalized? That’s a bit of liberal bread and butter right there. They can make ass loads of money off the unions and curry votes at the same time.

I swear you have to be the most worthless oxygen thief out there.

Liberal Doctrine – ……………………………..

“Uhmmm. That’s an unfair question!’

Anyone that is able to actually use the words, ceteris paribus and NOT suffer a coronary is entitled to a headache!

Thanks for the intelligent argument, nonetheless!

Eric, eating buttered popcorn and mourning the failure of Inouye & Baldwin in the Pairs Long program. Nice while it lasted…

Thanks for your words, my friend!

Eric in Awe on the Left Coast