1 23. Why birds suddenly appear every time you are near? . . . 97. Who are these tea party folks anyway and why do they keep moving my cheese?

2 He might be ignoring Pigford because several other people are already investigating it.  Stark and Bachmann come to mind, IIRC.

3 He is not ignoring Holder. He actually said he would be going after him in a separate interview. Besides that, quoting Politico is like quoting the NYT.

They are not trustworthy.

4 Too broad. Most of these topics will yield nothing concrete. Taking down Holder should be a slam dunk.

5 So much corruption, so little time.

6 The "retreat from the Sestak issue" is because it looks personal, plus all the there that is there is probably already available, so continuing will be a fruitless exercise.

7 I thought the AOS consensus on Sestak was that not onbly was it a waste of time, but it was also self-defeating.

8 And ultimately, it would have to go to the DOJ which will only sit on there hands, even with a winning hand.

9 Add one: corruption at the BATFE.

10 4. Combating corruption in Afghanistan

Exactly how does Issa expect to purge corruption in Afghanistan?

Does this translate into pulling out of Afghanistan given that government's complete permeation of corruption, including US tax funds redirected via Afghanistan to the Taliban allied with Iranian theocratic global aspirations?

Or does Issa plan to combat Afghan corruption by switching players and installing a new puppet?

11 And ultimately, it would have to go to the DOJ which will only sit on there hands, even with a winning hand.

Not necessarily.

12 He actually said he would be going after him in a separate interview.

Too bad Holder doesn't appear on the committee schedule. I can't believe you're gullible enough to believe what politicians are saying even in the face of evidence of what they're doing. Frankly, I'm shocked at that kind of naivete from someone your age, Vic.

13 Frankly, I'm shocked at that kind of naivete from someone your age, Vic.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, for now, since he said it on national TV and the only thing we have saying he will not is absence of an agenda item in a report by Politico.

I'm shocked that you believe anything Politico says.  They are known liars.

Lets wait and see what he actually does then we can hold his feet to the fire.

14 It looks like the omissions are primarily things that would be painted as "partisan" or "anti-Obama attacks."  Since the other things are important, especially stuff like the Fannie-Freddie debaucle, probably this is a good strategy.  I'm not keen on him announcing that the other things are definitely off the table (did he?), but prioritizing in this way is probably smart.  They may get more traction on the things that are less targeted at Obama. 

15 thanks for mentioning Pigford.  let's not bury that one.

16 thanks for mentioning Pigford.  let's not bury that one.

Posted by: kelley in virginia at January 03, 2011 08:12 AM (97r5C)

Frankly since it has already been passed with the help of "certain RINOs" I question the value of that one as well. Are we going to repeal it? Obama will simply veto the repeal.

17 why do they need to investigate wikileaks? manning stole info, he is in the military he should be brought before a military court......

18 He is not ignoring Holder. He actually said he would be going after him in a separate interview. Besides that, quoting Politico is like quoting the NYT. They are not trustworthy. Posted by: Vic at January 03, 2011 07:47 AM (M9Ie6) the NY Times? The NY Times?

19 why do they need to investigate wikileaks? manning stole info, he is in the military he should be brought before a military court...... Posted by: phoenixgirl at January 03, 2011 08:15 AM (eOXTH) I think they are talking about investigating why Assanger has not been prosecuted yet. Manning is already in deep shit

20

If Issa goes after Holder or investigates Pigford, he'll be called a racist.  Nothing more to it than that.  The fact that we're seeing profiles of Issa instead of Boehner today means that he's number one on the leftwing media's shit-list.

GM dealerships issue has no smoking gun, and none likely to arise.  As for stimulus spending, there are enough people covering it to make official investigation meaningless.

The schedule makes sense.  Patience is called for, here.

21 Perhaps the Sestak investigation is being delayed until the 2012 political season. Makes it fresher in the minds of voters. Let's face it, Obama will not be impeached, but maybe an investigation can influence the electorate, but it needs to be done at the appropriate time. Let Obama try and answer the questions while he is running for office.

22 Fannie and Freddie definitely needs to be on the list.

23 quoting Politico is like quoting the NYT.

This.

24 Also anything related to SEC oversight of Goldman Sachs and rating agencies. Basically Goldman was selling shit for financial products, knew they were shit and paid off rating agencies for good rating of their products.

25 Birth certificate, birth certificate, birth certificate.

It's the only thing that matters.

26 There needs to be an investigation of why Chevrolet makes such rickety pieces of fuckedtacular monkey shit.  Fucking Suburban starts after sitting all night in sub-freezing temps, drives to gym, and then is dead one hour later.

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28 Posted by: The Stupid Party at January 03, 2011 07:48 AM (qlpyb)

+1

We need high profile, narrowly focused investigations that will lead to punchy headlines and sound bites, and then to Holder spending 3 years in the pen for obstruction of justice.

29 Posted by: maverick muse at January 03, 2011 08:00 AM (H+LJc)

Or just drop a few nuclear weapons. That should get their attention for a few years.

30 22 Fannie and Freddie definitely needs to be on the list.

Agreed.  Barney Frank and Co need to be called to account for F&Fs misdeeds. 

Issa is going to have his plate full for the next few years. 

31

We need an investigation into why that Anderson Cooper-looking Julian Assmaster is still breathing.  Just saw the MSNBC "interview" with him where he is whining about the 1st Amendment rights he is somehow being denied, without being an American citizen.

We know the exact building he's in.  Drop a JDAM on that cocksucker.

If anyone accuses us, just shrug and say, "That shit was like that when I got here."

32

Hillary Clinton is a chronic fuck-up, too. Investigations should home in on that bumbling, incompetent fool, too, not just on Holder.

33 I could easily see dropping WikiLeaks and adding the voter intimidation case to the list in it's place.

Unless we want to see even more jack-booted racist thugs standing outside polling places in 2012, that is.

34 We should hold Issa's feet to the fire, but they've gotta leave something for the second week of the term... Seriously, I'm four-square in favor of dribbling these things out so the Demoncraps are raked near continuously in the news cycle for the next 20 months or so.

35 If Issa goes after Holder or investigates Pigford, he'll be called a racist. He needs to recruit Allen West.. It will do two things: 1. Have someone with balls and a titanium grade spine to help pursue the investigation and. . . 2. Quite frankly-- as much as I hate to play identity politics-- it will help to cover the 'racist' accusation in part.. (oh, it will still be played.. but won't be as effective)..

36 9 Add one: corruption at the BATFE.

Posted by: Jeffrey Quick at January 03, 2011 07:57 AM (FL/qM)

I mught be incompetent, but I have lists. Many lists.

37 Lets get justice for Walpin

Democrats are concentrated evil, Republicans are diluted.

38 #37 - Cite one legitimate and rational example of what Republicans in Congress or in the White House have ever done that was "evil". The word, rational, is the buzz word here.

39

any m&ms in northwest arkansas? 

what's up with all the dead wildlife?

40 what's up with all the dead wildlife?

Was there something more than the red-winged blackbirds? 

41

GM dealerships issue has no smoking gun, and none likely to arise.

I seem to recall a question of "party loyalty" and donations being called into questions when the dealerships were being selected to close.

There's also another questions concerning how the stockholders were treated in contrast to the unions. Violation of stock laws, there.

Issa has a full plate. It's time to expose this corrupt administration as the Chicago thugs that they are. Hopefully, a few of the MFM outlets will report his committee's findings in a responsible way, but I won't hold my breath. The Tea Party can pick up the slack.

42

y-not, 100,000 dead fish in arkansas river

 

43 saw it on drudge

44 #40  Was there something more than the red-winged blackbirds?

Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.

The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now.

/It is obviously Bush's fault.

45 I hope I don't get the Arkansas Fish Flu.

46 I would like an investigation of all the pundits that are introduced as conservatives.

47 1) Fannie and Freddie absolutely. Some people need to be in jail over that mess. Dodd and Frank need to be put under the microscope. 2) BO's relaxing of technology standards = China gets more of our weapons technology. Who's getting campaign contributions? 3) Green cronyism from "Stimulus" - Carnahan anyone? Also a lot of money just disappeared during the "stimulus"- who has it? 4) Pigford and forget Afghanistan-WTF? It's a third world kleptocracy- surprise, surprise, surprise. 5) Who caused/initiated the pre-2008 economic crisis that put BO over the top? Early reports said the initial trades all came from one source....true or not? If true, then who? 6) Holder Basically, find the corruption of this administration in all it's many faceted glory and slowly tie it all to BO. By 2012 everyone should realize he's nothing more than a two-bit Chicago thug.

48 Hmmm...

The fish kill is about 133 miles from Franklin County, where the birds died.  They seem to be connected by the same waterway (the fish kills seems to be downstream of the bird deaths).  There's a cluster of industrial stuff about midway in Russellville, next to the river. 

I was kind of buying the lightning and/or fireworks theory for the birds, but I don't see how that would explain the fish. 

49 I wonder if there's a large influx at the E/R.

50 Ahem... ....pre-2008 election economic crisis....

51 The lead bird dies in flight. Others follow to ground.

52 Sorry.... Sorry about the birds and fish and, uh, other stuff... I summoned Cthuhu last night and, well, things got out of hand- sorry for the inconvenience.... Sorry....

53 Bird deaths, fish deaths, zombie apocalypse starting?

54

Issa is making the exact distinction that needs to be made:

It's the spending, stupid. 

If we keep this as a mathematics and accounting exercise--the the questions of criminal conduct flow from that.  Doing it the other way around leaves room for obfuscation.

55 Never forget about the thousands of unicorns that died on Nov 2nd.

56

"Dead fish cover 20 miles of Arkansas river"

 

Now that would be a sight (and smell) to behold. 

 

One winter at the Cape, I walked down to the beach in the morning and the entire tide-line was covered with dead fish, all about 12-inches long, with needle-like snouts. I looked up their species at the time, but can't recall it. Sort of a cellophane-y look to their skin/scales. The birds, crabs, etc. took care of them pretty quick. 

57 Gabe! We've got 2 years! Geesh!

58 The birds, crabs, etc. took care of them pretty quick.

Yeah.  I guess there are a lot of happy racoons in Arkansas right now.

59 Prediction:

Darrell Issa accused of McCarthyism, in 6.. 5.. 4...

60 59 The birds, crabs, etc. took care of them pretty quick.

Yeah.  I guess there are a lot of happy racoons in Arkansas right now.

Unless the fish were poisoned and the toxic agent is now killing off the raccoons.

61 Publicizing the corrosive effects of regulation can be a game changer

Posted by: Tom Servo


How?  Our side already knows this, the other side does not -- and never will -- believe it. More importantly, the members of the Obama administration don't believe it twice as hard, and will never act to deregulate.

62 Let Obama try and answer the questions while he is running for office.

Posted by: Dr. Heinz Doofensmirtz at January 03, 2011 08:19 AM (gwU6B)

They will accuse Issa of creating a fake controversy to score political points during an election. He should pursue the Sestak case and drop Afghanistan. I can't see how the FDA is more important than Pigford, for example, unless he plans on exposing corruption that would make it popular to go after the EPA and other bureaucracies that sound benign to most voters. But the dealerships and Holder are two of the strongest cases for why the Obama administration has so much in common with 1930's Italy.

63 I looked up their species at the time, but can't recall it. Sort of a cellophane-y look to their skin/scales.

It sounds like garpike.

64

Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) -- As Barack Obama prepares to confront a strengthened Republican opposition to his tax, spending and immigration priorities when Congress convenes this week, his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

Like Reagan and Bill Clinton, Obama must spend the next two years of his presidency navigating a new balance of power after midterm election losses. Before leaving for a year-end vacation, Obama sought advice from Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein and David Gergen, an image adviser to both Reagan and Clinton, said an Obama aide. On his Hawaii trip, Obama brought along journalist Lou CannonÂ’s Reagan biography, “The Role of a Lifetime,” a selection his press secretary announced over Twitter.

 

So Barry is looking to Reagan to help his anti-Reagan agenda.

65

Meanwhile... for all you "self employed" folks, don't forget to send in your 1099s for anything over $600!

Funny how Congress forgot to fix that... too busy on the START treaty I guess...

66 But the dealerships and Holder are two of the strongest cases for why the Obama administration has so much in common with 1930's Italy.

We're waiting.

67

So Barry is looking to Reagan to help his anti-Reagan agenda.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2011 10:13 AM (1Jaio)

They always come in peace. "A pony? For me?!! It's so big!"

68 The birds probably flew into an encroaching new glacier and broke their necks.

69 Meanwhile... for all you "self employed" folks, don't forget to send in your 1099s for anything over $600!

Oh Lordy what a mess that will be.

Can you amount the mountains of 1099's some companies are going to get.  Just think of large chains like Office Depot or Lowes or Home Depot and how many millions of business to business relationships they have.  Just think of how many plumbers, remodelers, contractors, landscapers that spend $600.00 with just Depot alone.  Each and every one them has to send a 1099. 

How in the hell are companies supposed to just process those.

70

How about investigating the EPA and FCC end-arounds?  How about the off-shore drilling ban?  How about energy policy in general since it's going to the sky high rates that Obama wants? $5.00 sounds about right according to Obama, remember?

I don't see the point in wasting time investigating the Austrailian nancy-boy.  It's a spy case and he, along with that delicate flower of an Army private, should be tried and put to the firing squad.  Oh, but don't mention anything about Manning's gay butt boy love-sick hissy fit in the process.  That wouldn't be PC. 

I don't have any confidence whatsoever that any Issa investigations will get "personal".  I think the GOP establishment is too afraid to touch Obama, Holder, or Barny Frank.  Face it, the fear of being called a racist, or homophobe is too much for the sensitive GOP boys.  The stupids are going to shatter the party if they don't heed the Tea Party mandate.  Once again, they are going to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

71

his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

A.  Name even one thing the two have in common.  Just one.

B.  What is the next adjective up the ladder from "pathetic"?

72 Issa's problem is that you need a committee the size of the entire FBI to investigate Soros' boys. One little committee can only hit a few topics.

73 #65 So Barry is looking to Reagan to help his anti-Reagan agenda.

This only illustrates his laziness. He cannot be imbued with Reagan-like negotiation skills and charm by reading what others have written about Reagan or by asking people associated with Reagan a few questions. 

He will fail in this endeavor. This Indonesian Impostor can only hope to kiss the feet of Zombie Reagan someday.

 

74

I can underdtsnd Issa's quandary, so many illiegal acts to chase with limited resources, i'm not angry about taking a pass on sestak  (although i hope someone else is delegated that job) as our voting is supposed to be open clear-without this type of interference. Fannie and Freddie and Dems etc, using instruments of gvt for pay to play would be a nice bust. That most i would hope would find appalling as they are now personally effected by it.

I guess fishing and hunting birds, raccoon, anything on the food chain for sustenance  is off my survivalist training list for the near future. (that's ok i've always been squeamish about sticking worms on a hooks or filleting anything not found in cellophane nicely wrapped at the store.)

75 #72.  What is the next adjective up the ladder from "pathetic"?

Worthless, wretched, useless...take your pick.

76

How does one even begin to prioritize investigating such a colossal fuck up as the Obama administration??

Not an easy task.

77 Russellville...

Russellville has a diverse manufacturing base. Frozen dinners, railroad crossties, elevator panels, parking meters, aluminum foil, graphite electrodes, microplanes, and aircraft and automotive parts are a few of the products manufactured in the city. The city is home to ten divisions of Fortune 500 companies, including Arkansas corporations such as Tyson Foods.


Well, the birds could be an avian flu thing, but to take out the fish at the same time... 

78 Honest question:
When is the last time one of these Congressional investigations resulted in actual charges against anyone, or someone in the executive branch losing their job?  Anyone?

79

Gabe-

 

If I am to understand where you are coming from,  what you are basically saying is that none of your liberal friends are at fault for voting into power all this obvious corruption?

 

 

80

The left doesn't get that the right is not as stupid as the leftist braindeads. They compare Obama to Reagan and we're supposed to think, "oh, gee, he's just like Reagan". Spare me. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Did Reagan say, "I won, suck it?" Did his minions lock democrats out of negotiations? Did he pull outrageous maneauvers to pass legislation written by corrupt union thugs against the will of the people? Did he golf every day? Yeah, muslims are just like Christians too.

81

Well, the birds could be an avian flu thing, but to take out the fish at the same time... 

It was only one species of fish (drum fish).  It's most likely some sort of virus.

82 He might just be able to save some time and investigate Soros. I'd like to see Zombie McCarthy with supoena power.

83

B.  What is the next adjective up the ladder from "pathetic"?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 03, 2011 10:22 AM (B+qrE)

O-ba-mic: (adjective) pitifully inadequate; inferior to all other choices; historically mediocre; comparatively poor.

84 I'm good with Issa's list. Sestak lost to Pat Toomey and is rethinking that job offer - NRO had an article about why his defeat was sweet revenge. The guy is a turd.

85 Well, the birds could be an avian flu thing, but to take out the fish at the same time...

They're saying they are not connected incidents (although they do seem to have occurred at roughly the same time).  I checked Google maps to see if there was a physical linkage, which there kind of us (with the waterway) but it doesn't prove anything. 

I gather the birds are most likely to have died from trauma, because sick birds do not fly.  There was signs of trauma on some of the birds, but it wasn't clear if that was from falling or from something else.  One of the theories was high-altitude hail. 

Didn't I see something about torandoes or other violent storms in the south this weekend? 

I guess they are thinking the fish died of disease... but I believe the site is downstream of the industrial area, so I would hope they'll check the water. 

86 Sad about the birds.  They have a lovely song. 

87 Never forget about the thousands of unicorns that died on Nov 2nd.

You try shitting all those Skittles!

88

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane

 

Pretty close to a garpike. I just did a quick scan of a few Fish ID sites and decided it was one of the garpike's close cousins (in the same family, (Belonidae) but I can't decide exactly which species it was.

Needlefish, houndfish, blah, blah, blah-fish, they tend to look quite a bit alike.

89

"Basically Goldman was selling shit for financial products, knew they were shit and paid off rating agencies for good rating of their products."

 

Think that stuff Goldman did was bad, take a gander at what they along with Indybank FDIC One West Bank are currenting doinghttp://www.youtube.com/user/fiercefreeleancer

 

 

 Glad I do not own a mortgage.

90

Birds Falling from the sky.. Fish dieing in the Water...

HELLOOOOOOO!!!!

End Times...

I tried to warn you that electing the Anti Christ would be a bad idea... but no....

91

/singing...

Why does Birds, fall down from the sky

Everytime, you are near?

92 85 Spent all morning putting a new battery in the Chrysler. My fords would always act like they needed a new battery. Chrysler just decides it won't start one day. My diehard was out of warrenty but they pro-rate after the 3 years. Only cost $60 and the last one was free because it was under 3 years. Can't complain except the sons had "broken" the jumper cables and I had to get those first. I swear those boys could break anything and then forget to tell you till you need it.

93 his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

Didn't they already try this comparison?  And didn't people basically snort milk out their collective noses?

94 TheQuietMan at January 03, 2011 10:13 AM

Close your eyes and imagine...

Baracko Bama's SOTU:

"Don't look to government to solve your problems......................."

Holding my breath

95

I tried to warn you that electing the Anti Christ would be a bad idea... but no....

I've decided that the AC will not be such an intellectual lightweight.

96 his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

Yes, Mr. Border Patrol Agent, TEAR Down that Wall!

97 Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!

98 All is well!  Remain calm!

99 How exactly is Ogolf like Reagan?  Beliefs; negative.  Results; negative. Dress; negative (Reagan ALWAYS wore a suit in the Oval office out of respect for the Office.)  Even looks; negative.  His advisers are idiot sycophants.

100

I've decided that the AC will not be such an intellectual lightweight.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 03, 2011 10:44 AM (B+qrE)

I'm still trying to decide whether Obama is an idiot, or an Evil Genius.

He's wrong on EVERYTHING he does... everything hurts us... every decision he seems to make is wrong on one level or another...

And you'd think that just by chance an Idiot would get a few things right...

This level of incompetnence almost HAS to be intentional.

So for me the Jury is still out.

101 Chrysler just decides it won't start one day.

That's endemic with "Maintenance Free" batteries.  You only get about 2 days of hard starting warning before they just die.  And draining them flat, even once or twice, takes tons of life out of them.

102

When is the last time one of these Congressional investigations resulted in actual charges against anyone, or someone in the executive branch losing their job?  Anyone?

Right.  It's not going to happen.  There are many areas of corruption and outright crime to be investigated.  People need to be in jail.  Holder, Frank, Dodd are unquestionably three.  If anyone sets his or her mind to honestly fighting this kind or institutionalized crime and corruption, they will have to put their put their head on the MFM's chopping block.  It's going to take someone with a lot of guts and a steel spine.  Issa may dance and posture a little, but he won't risk his own neck to do the hard work that must be done.  The go-along, get-along attitude will prevail.  It's a damn good thing these kinds of people aren't fighting a war for us.  They would immobilize themselves to avoid negative enemy propaganda.  Come to think of it, that's basically what our "political officers" have been doing, isn't it? 

Bottom line - this is a battle.   We are in a battle to try to save this great nation.  It's now or never, so fight!  Yes, there will be casualities, but take as many of the bastards as you can down with you.   Do it, or get out of the way so someone else can get it done.

103 96 TheQuietMan at January 03, 2011 10:13 AM

Close your eyes and imagine...

Baracko Bama's SOTU:

"Don't look to government to solve your problems......................."

Posted by: franksalterego at January 03, 2011 10:42 AM (+6fgE)

"Because those evil racist Republicans won't let me"...

 

104 @ 79 Nixon?

105 Posted by: ExExZonie at January 03, 2011 10:33 AM (NwcOk)

It's all Sound and Fury signifying nothing anyway.  IMO, the way to handle the issues we've got is: Holder, the Czars, Hillary, &c.  And never, ever, ever go near the third rail of directly mentioning the President.

Then, you can still take out his support network (I didn't realize absolutely vital to his administration they were until I heard he'd only had something like 6 cabinet meetings all last year: that's a lot of autonomy).  As an added bonus, you get to tarnish him in the eyes of public opinion, but if he or any of his cronies complain that it's some attack on the President, you get to play the "guilty conscience" card: as in: "No, we have no open investigations into the President himself.  I do not know why he would see our Constitutionally mandated oversight of Government as a direct attack."

Investigating Afghanistan is like investigating corruption in Chicago or Detroit, only you're even more likely to find corruption about which you can do nothing- and if you try, you'll just look even more impotent.

106 his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

Didn't they already try this comparison?


Yep.  john Ryan has tried dropping that Kos mind turd here a few times already.

It is to laugh.

107

He still doesn't get it. Recess appointing this tool as assistant attorney general of the US is yet another insult.

108 The only way I can see how Obama is like Reagan is that Obama, like Reagan, believes in his own mind that he is this super-duper great orator.  The difference, of course, is that other people also believed Reagan was a great orator - Obama, not so much.

109 When is the last time one of these Congressional investigations resulted in actual charges against anyone, or someone in the executive branch losing their job?  Anyone?



Ummm.... Watergate? Pretty much clear cut the Nixon administration.

110 Issa has had a sit down with President Ovomit and at that meeting Barry demanded and got Issa's balls.  Business as usual.

111 106 @ 79 Nixon?

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 03, 2011 10:51 AM (mHQ7T)

Even then, it wasn't the Congressional investigation that brought him down, it was the special prosecutor, right?  I'm not real clear as I'm not old enough to know those details from first-hand knowledge, but that is what I understand...

112 Posted by: chemjeff at January 03, 2011 10:52 AM (PaSAU)

I'm not even sure they're similar in that.  I don't think that most outstanding orators consider themselves such.  As with most who really have some outstanding talent, they don't believe its that outstanding.

Talk with a good artist some day, almost none of them actually think they're super good- even if they're getting paid for doing it.  Mostly they look at their own work and say, "It'll do, I guess," or "Man, that's crap," to things the rest of us think are pretty fantastic.

113 110 Reagan also had a dog. He didn't however name the dog after himself. Or insist he had to scoop poop or fly it to Hawaii for Christmas.

114 112 Issa has had a sit down with President Ovomit and at that meeting Barry demanded and got Issa's balls. Business as usual. Posted by: Sparky at January 03, 2011 10:54 AM (r0u40) Heh? You got a link for that? How do we know it wasn't "Fuck you, Mr. President." "Fuck you back, Congressman."

115 Ummm.... Watergate?

The difference is it started with a criminal act/arrests and the media was behind taking down Nixon. 

Obama has the media to protect him. 

Plus, what was the economic climate of the country at that time?  I was pretty young, but I don't recall the bad economy hitting until Ford/Carter. 

I just don't think that people who are unemployed or losing their homes are going to be receptive to a bunch of Congressional hearings that seem more about payback and less about solving problems. 


I think the first 6 mos the new Congress should focus on presenting solutions and stopping the things that Obama started that we can stop.  Even as a political junkie, I'll be pretty annoyed if all the Republicans do is attack on these specific incidents before they tackle the broader issues.  Things like the Fannie/Freddie mess need attention a lot more than the Black Panthers case - right now.  We need to change the corrupt system.  Then we can hunt for specific heads. 

116 Fannie and Freddie, finally!

I want to hear the testimony of all the Democrat tools who ran that place into the ground, ruined our economy, and collected millions. Franklin Raines, Gorelick, how do you look in jailhouse orange?

117 110 The only way I can see how Obama is like Reagan is that Obama, like Reagan, believes in his own mind that he is this super-duper great orator.  The difference, of course, is that other people also believed Reagan was a great orator - Obama, not so much.

Reagan was humble about his abilities. 

Ironic that Obama, who harbors so much hate for Reagan and his beliefs, is now attempting to emulate his worst enemy to turn his political fortunes around.

/Even more ironic is that the libs didn't have much reverence for Reagan's oratory skills while he was alive, but now they finally respect their power.

118 Anderson Cooper & Kathy Griffin?    On the list.

119 47 1) Fannie and Freddie absolutely.

Some people need to be in jail over that mess. Dodd and Frank need to be put under the microscope.

I use to work at a bank that bought mortgages... in 2006, if a loan officer changed the borrowers race to black, the loan would approve.

So if they had a white person with marginal credit that would kick back a denial from FNMA, they would just change the race to black and WALA... approved.

It didnt last long.. maybe a few month.. but WTF.

Investigate!

120 Looking through the archives and revisiting the Chrysler and GM shakedowns, I came across this from Moe Lane: "Possibly not; thereÂ’s a certain laziness that can be reasonably attributed to the Obama administration, and itÂ’s precisely the sort that you associate with reasonably bright people with a too-healthy appreciation of their own virtues. From bad vetting of executive positions to consistently slapdash efforts inthe basics of international protocol to general exercising of political power, the White House has already demonstrated that they just donÂ’t think things through often enough before they do them. It shouldnÂ’t be too surprising that this heedlessness might extend to behaviors that are bit more ethically tricky." It was funny how Poppin Fresh was all breathless about the madman theory of the presidency or whatever. Sure, Obama is as crooked as the CA coastline, yet seemingly teflon. But he has never been held accountable due to his going from one job to another in his corporate leapfrogging. Now he has nowhere to go but out, and Republicans have the House. They likely cannot get him impeached, but they want power. The next two years will be hell for the Democrats.

121

how about we let the team lose a game before we start calling them losers ?

talk about perfection being the enemy of good ...

plenty of other committees will have hearings as well ... 

This sort of complaining sounds alot like Daily Kos in 2006 and 2008 ...  just the mob looking for a perp-walk ...

You are better than that ...

 

122 How about investigating the EPA and FCC end-arounds?

Don't need an "investigation" for those.  DeMint has said the EPA power grab will be halted period.  The FCC end-around has already been adjudicated. Now what they need is contempt of court finding and the head of the FCC go to jail.

123

how about we let the team lose a game before we start calling them losers ?

Heartily agree.

124 I want the Arkansas bird and fish kill investigated.  Those poor animals need better health care.  Too many of the poor at the lowest rungs are going unnoticed.

125 What we do need to investigate is why my lawn tractor will not start. Too damn cold to work on it outside and I don't have a garage.

Went down to have my old lawn mover place come and get it (will not fit on my my truck). They have gone out of business.

126 Hawt.  (Gruß Gott, Dumköpfe!)

127 Things like the Fannie/Freddie mess need attention a lot more than the Black Panthers case - right now.

With gas prices climbing to $5 a gallon and unemployment hovering around 10%, kitchen table issues are going to preoccupy voters more than ever before. The Democrats are supposed to be these competent technocrats who are strong on economic issues and all for the little guy. Put that lie to rest, and Republicans can take the Senate and the White House in 2012.

128

unemployment hovering around 10% 18%

FTFY

129 When is the last time one of these Congressional investigations resulted in actual charges against anyone, or someone in the executive branch losing their job?  Anyone? Sad part is it may just be a waste of time. This topic arose on the last Ricochet podcast and thankfully Rob Long pointed out the likely futility of hearings. The MFM will largely ignore them, being Republican hearings, as they did with Clinton, except to label them "witchhunts.". Probably a handful of minor expendables will get prosecuted and the real targets will go unscathed. Let's hope the new House has some better monkey wrenches to toss than this. And this 1099 filing bullshit MUST be addressed.

130 Posted by: HeatherRadish ist in Deutschland

My condolences. 

131 It's sad when .500 gets you into the Top10 of Group1 in the Pro-Pickem.  A mediocre goal I couldn't reach.

On the bright side, I finished way ahead of DiT.

132 Ken Jennings?

133 One of the things Republicans can do is get in front of energy issues. Vote to open ANWR and other closed federal areas to drilling, destroy all attempts to implement Cap and Tax by regulation, scale back regulation of nukes and stop the alternative energy madness by cutting the more ridiculous subsidies. Even if this legislation doesn't clear the Senate or survive a veto, it's on the record: Democrats want you to freeze in the dark, Republicans want to enable the market to create and deploy energy again.

134 Hearings will provide a good test of the power of the MFM. Can the MFM create and spread the winning meme? They failed to destroy the TEA Party. Maybe this time the truth will prevail.

135 Can the MFM create and spread the winning meme? They failed to destroy the TEA Party. Maybe this time the truth will prevail. New media is the key. Absent talk radio and the blogs, we'd be a socialist/corporatist state by now.

136 Considering how many resignations there were early in term, I'm encouraged that these investigations will be fairly productive. I especially want to hear who ordered the short on stocks that triggered a market run and the economic crisis in September 2008. I'm glad Issa has it on his itinerary, though I doubt anything will come of it. But you never know. I feel confident there will be a flurry of firings and rats jumping ship, though.

137 The entire World is running out of other people's money. The shitstorm hasn't even started yet.

138 @135 Yes, more of this please.

139 Probably a handful of minor expendables will get prosecuted and the real targets will go unscathed.

What the Repubs MUST do if they do hold hearings is make damn sure all the Dem witnesses are sworn in. I do want to see them question Dems on the F&F mess as well as Jamie Goerlich. That scrunt needs to go to jail.

I guarantee that if she gets sworn in and out on the real hotseat she will take the 5th.

140 What we do need to investigate is why my lawn tractor will not start. Too damn cold to work on it outside and I don't have a garage.

Trouble shooting for spark.

Get neighbor (the one that lets his dog crap in your yard) to disconnect one spark plug wire and hold the end in one hand. Have him place the other hand on a bare metal surface of the mower. Crank engine. If neighbor screams spark is good, if not move onto to fuel system.

141 Okay, so if Watergate (and maybe Iran-Contra too) is the most recent example of Congressional investigations resulting in people actually going to jail and/or losing their jobs, then are we saying that what Obama has done rises to the level of Watergate-type shenanigans?  I mean I think he's bad, but I don't think he's THAT bad...  Most of my differences with him, anyway, is that he's a socialist at heart, and I'm not.

142 dagny - how do you break jumper cables?

143 The costly, costly global warming lies.

144 ACORN !

145 Get neighbor (the one that lets his dog crap in your yard) to disconnect one spark plug wire and hold the end in one hand.

Alas that neighbor had to get rid of that dog because it bit a 5 year old little girl in the neighborhood. (That stirred up a real shit storm)

The other one who was digging up my yard is gone as well.

Only one roaming dog left and he isn't a bad one.

146 "...then are we saying that what Obama has done rises to the level of Watergate-type shenanigans? " Posted by: chemjeff at January 03, 2011 11:22 AM (PaSAU) Yep, easily. I don't think Watergate was truly as big a deal as the left claims. To me Nixon's biggest crime was going on national TV and lying his ass off the the American People.

147 I mean I think he's bad, but I don't think he's THAT bad...

I think Obama is worse than Nixon.  Nixon's sins were primarily political.  And stupid. 

Obama is constantly flaunting the Constitution, ignoring the will of the people, and working around laws by inventing powers his office doesn't have.  And he's much worse on foreign policy.

But the Watergate stuff started with arrests of Nixon's inner circle for something that was clearly illegal.  And Nixon was hated by the media. 

Obama will be a one-termer if the Republicans present a legitimate alternative to voting for him to all those stupid older people who let their kids talk them into voting for him and those folks with the white guilt syndrome.  The first step is rebuilding trust in the Republican party.  I don't think hearings do that.  At least, not hearings that appear targeted to political enemies as opposed to hearings about systems that failed in which the point is ostensibly to correct those failures so the economy rebounds. 

148

y-not, 100,000 dead fish in arkansas river

Is y-not a notorious fish lover? 

149 Oh, I didn't see She Who Defend's the Fishes comment.

150 then are we saying that what Obama has done rises to the level of Watergate-type shenanigans?

The race-baiting and the shitting on our allies is going to have a greater detrimental effect on the future of the nation than spying on campaign workers, but we don't seem to have any laws against them.

151 Blackbirds keep falling on my head, just like they were dropping dead,

152 I don't think Watergate was truly as big a deal as the left claims. To me Nixon's biggest crime was going on national TV and lying his ass off the the American People. Posted by: eman at January 03, 2011 11:27 AM (+iY8m) It didn't help that Nixon was intensely paranoid. All he really had to do was sacrifice some staffers and make some limited admissions on the record and the thing probably would have blown over. Instead he hunkered down and the coverup killed his admin. I'm ambivalent about Tricky Dick; yes, he was a staunch anticommunist but he was also as liberal as you can be and still be a Republican.

153 Yes, both Clinton and Obama did, and are still doing,  stuff that dwarfed what Nixon did.

But, as I said earlier, Dems will NEVER vote to impeach a Dem. They have no shame and consider themselves to be above the law.

All that besides being lying commies and traitors.

154 It's Arkansas.  Prolly has to do with pig shit or chicken shit.  One or the other.

155 @152

If they're tasty. 

I prefer trout, although I had a delicious Oolong-marinated sea bass over the weekend that was quite impressive.


Actually, I'm more of a bird-lover, so I'm sad about the red-winged blackbirds biting it. 

156 There needs to be an investigation of why Chevrolet makes such rickety pieces of fuckedtacular monkey shit.  Fucking Suburban starts after sitting all night in sub-freezing temps, drives to gym, and then is dead one hour later.

Government Motor vehicles don't work on federal holidays and they get 30 days of vacation.  Did you violate a labor rule?

157 We killed ourselves in solidarity with our black avian brothers. That showed 'em, huh?

158 His anonymous campaign donations, allowed by his shutting off the AVS on his web site credit card transactions was clearly illegal and the fact that we are talking about a campaign chest of over $600 million likely dwarfs the Watergate slush fund of less than half a million.

Yeah, if we couldn't nail Obama's campaign using Sarbanes-Oxley, there's no way in god's green earth we'll nail him on some of this other political shit. 

Let's de-fang him as best we can, try to bring some Dems over to vote with us on key things, and fix the economy.  If we do that, 2012 should take care of itself. 

And I agree with the idea mentioned earlier about bringing things to a vote, such as on energy issues, so that it's on record who wants to improve things and who wants to kill business and the economy. 

159 It didn't help that Nixon was intensely paranoid. All he really had to do was sacrifice some staffers and make some limited admissions on the record and the thing probably would have blown over. Instead he hunkered down and the coverup killed his admin. I'm ambivalent about Tricky Dick; yes, he was a staunch anticommunist but he was also as liberal as you can be and still be a Republican. Posted by: joncelli© at January 03, 2011 11:32 AM (RD7QR) Yep, he could have dodged that one. Instead he created and nurtured the coverup while pretending otherwise the whole time. He knew the Dems didn't give a rat's ass about the Constitution, that they wanted his head, and he played right into their hands.

160 One dead fish is a dinner; 100,000 dead fish is a statistic.

161 Big news!  Brett Favre retired!!!

2011 is starting out like 2010.

162

Disgusting.

(This will take you to the Slimes btw)

But look at this pic of Grayson's kids. Now I don't want to bash children -- it's not their fault their DNA never had a chance.

But look at how he let this kids be photographed? Mangy, unkempt, and without a shirt. Nice parenting. Explains a lot.

 

 

163 @167
Stone and Storm?

No problems in their future. 

164

Stone and Storm?

Yet "Bristol" and "Willow" are hillbilly names.

Can you even imagine the mockery if Palin allowed her boys to look like dirty girls like this??

It's beyond wrong.

165 The first step is rebuilding trust in the Republican party.  I don't think hearings do that.

You know what we need?  Like, a Cosby show for Republicans.

166 One man finding a dead fish becomes a forager. An Arkansas newspaper telling people where to find dead fish is... 100,000 jobs created!

167 Big news!  Brett Favre retired!!!

2011 is starting out like 2010.

And 2008, and 2007...

168 Give me your number and I'll send you a picture of my junk.

169 Can you even imagine the mockery if Palin allowed her boys to look like dirty girls like this??

Hygiene, like morality, is only for Republicans.

170 165 Big news!  Brett Favre retired!!!

Like the Terminator, Jason Voorhees, and a bad penny, Brett Favre will be back and turn up again somewhere.

Now with or without Crocs...that remains to be seen.

171 Posted by: Y-not at January 03, 2011 11:41 AM (IDL9N)

Maybe this time he'll stay that way.
I know if I were the Vikings, I'd just fire him (or refuse to re-sign his contract, whichever)

@172 - I don't know if that was serious or not, but can you imagine a comedy show written by, say, Dave Barry?

172 118 Fannie and Freddie, finally!

I want to hear the testimony of all the Democrat tools who ran that place into the ground, ruined our economy, and collected millions. Franklin Raines, Gorelick, how do you look in jailhouse orange?

Posted by: PJ at January 03, 2011 11:00 AM (QdxaI)

Don't forget that little ballerina dancing crapweasel Rahm Emanuel.

173 Obama wants to put the US at risk AS his own personal gain, seeing himself as the Avenging Angel of the Third World.

Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 03, 2011 11:22 AM (G/MYk)

There is nothing altruistic or idealistic in Obama's motives. His mother was in the Third World as an economic hit man. Obama grew up around Frank Davis, but he was taught not to feel guilt doing exactly what greedy white people had done before. He has rationalized his looting like all scoundrels. If he can't feed his own brother, who lives in a mud hut on $12 a month, do you think he gives a damn about the world's impoverished?

174 Don't forget that little ballerina dancing crapweasel Rahm Emanuel.

Who, despite not being a resident of Chicago for the last two years, gets to run for mayor.

175

Don't forget that little ballerina dancing crapweasel Rahm Emanuel.

Posted by: Hedgehog at January 03, 2011 11:53 AM (Rn2kl)

Oh, yeah. He's running for Mayor of Chicago!

176 Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 03, 2011 11:53 AM (mHQ7T)

All tyrants care about the impoverished.  They care so much, in fact, that they want there to be more of them.

177 Like a L&O plotline

178 hmm I guess I'm too cynical - I don't think Obama rises to the level of Nixon because I kinda expect presidents to be douchebags

179 I'm only retiring from football, beeyotches.

180 Plus, what was the economic climate of the country at that time?  I was pretty young, but I don't recall the bad economy hitting until Ford/Carter. 

Posted by: Y-not

Over the last couple of years I've actually gone and read some books on Nixon's economic policy. I've seen parallels between Obama's government run economy and Tricky Dick's.  Phase Two anyone?

Funny thing is, Nixon -- and everybody else, started to panic when the standard economic indicators -- inflation, unemployment and the deficit,  hit the relatively low, by our standards, area of 6% or so.

I can't imagine what they would think about our 10% unemployment for two years and 100% deficits. Pity us, I suppose.

181 182

Don't forget that little ballerina dancing crapweasel Rahm Emanuel.

Posted by: Hedgehog at January 03, 2011 11:53 AM (Rn2kl)

Oh, yeah. He's running for Mayor of Chicago!

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 03, 2011 11:54 AM (mHQ7T)

He also collected over $300K from Freddie Mac while on the board and doing absolutely nothing.  He'd be popular in prison.

182

Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat, at his home in Orlando, Fla., with his 5-year-old twin boys, Stone, on his lap, and Storm.

 

I'm going to guess they're spoiled little brats who end up doing drugs and a few years behind bars unless daddy can pull a few strings for them

183

It's black now 'n the blackbird's feedin' on rice
And his red wings look diamonds 'n lice

184 Actually, I'm more of a bird-lover, so I'm sad about the red-winged blackbirds biting it. 

Posted by: Y-not at January 03, 2011 11:33 AM (IDL9N)

Me, too. I never saw them growing up in WV, but there were plenty around me in Toronto. They loved the wetlands in High Park, and they're so striking when they fly.

185 Birth certificate, birth certificate, birth certificate.

It's the only thing that matters.
Posted by: Your Friendly Media-defined Conservative©

What more proof do you need that B has a vagina?

186 What Obama wants, so far as I see, is just to be worshipped in the third world Middle East as The Man Who Destroyed America (and The West).

Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 03, 2011 12:00 PM (G/MYk)

There must be some reason OPEC installed him in the White House.

187 I'm sorry but those twins? that says something about Mrs. (or, Ms, excuse me) Grayson. and not something good

188 Stay out of the E/Rs in Arkansas.  The patients will be turning into Zombies any time now.

189 Great idea, lacey. Stories ripped from the headlines.

Abused child of Tea Bagger Partier kills mother in self-defense after being forced to paint "Obama is Hitler" protest signs but the father, a local GOP bigwig, tries to frame their undocumented worker handyman for the murder. The kid won't go along with the lie and breaks down on the witness stand producing a flash drive with a video on it of his dad and their christianist minister making out and plotting framing the handyman.

Oh. And don't expect any residuals.

190 sTevo - hope that wasn't a slur on those of us who DO have a vagina!!

191

It didn't help that Nixon was intensely paranoid.

He had reason: the MFM, in particular the NYT and WaPo, had been out to get him since the early 1950s for the Alger Hiss case.

Read Whitaker Chambers' Witness. Chambers makes clear that he was going down, and Hiss (who we now know beyond any doubt from the VENONA decrypts was a Soviet spy) was getting a skip because of the strong cheerleading from the NYT and WaPo until Nixon got on the case.

Nixon singlehandedly drove the bus that ran over Hiss's ass (according to Chambers), and the media never forgave him for it.

Nixon knew it, and that's why he was paranoid. Those of us who were around then recall the incessant drumbeat of stories in the NYT, WaPo, and the alphabet networks that kept the story alive. Overzealous staffers, plus Nixon's refusal to throw them to the dogs, and voila! Watergate.

192 Re bird and fisk kill.

Damn Chinese sub made it up the Arkansas river and are conducting death ray test under our noses.

193 Muamar Gaddafi is a prophet who saw dying of the fish and proclaimed the coming of the fish flu to  the UN.

194 Do they make a popcorn popper big enough for blackbirds?

195

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

Never in the History of Tax systems, was so much Owed by so few, to so many.

Barrak Obama

196 He's all about revenge, not redistribution. He only gloms onto redistribution as a way to try to deliver some pain to the rich and successful.

This I can see. It brings to mind Rove's comment on Obama's character. "He is that guy at a cocktail party who stands in the corner making snide remarks about the other guests as he sips on his martini." Obama has had to ingratiate his way into polite society, and he resents it. Look at the company he has kept. Bill Ayers? That's scraping the bottom.

197 I'm going to guess they're spoiled little brats who end up doing drugs and a few years behind bars unless daddy can pull a few strings for them
Zat can be arranged.

198 200 Re bird and fisk kill.

Damn Chinese sub made it up the Arkansas river and are conducting death ray test under our noses.

Close.  It was a North Korean mini-sub. 

199

Posted by: Jay Guevara at January 03, 2011 12:08 PM (k18jn)

"Paranoid" does NOT mean they are NOT out to get you.

200 It was a Bolivian cocaine sub.  Must have sunk right there.

201 199 Jay Guevara is right.  Alger Hiss was extremely well connected and a Russian spy.  Nixon took him down.  The NYT and the rest of the MSM looked for payback for the rest of Nison's life and even after he was dead.

202 Obama makes Nixon look nervy and jovial by comparison.

203 Posted by: iknowtheleft at January 03, 2011 12:00 PM (G/MYk)

You know... I was kind of thinking about this yesterday and today.  I've come to a decision: I don't care what President BOHICA's motives are.  His motives don't matter.  If his motives really are the advancement of America as he claims (sha, right) or the utter destruction of all reality as we know it, it doesn't matter.  He's a bad actor.  What he is doing is damaging the country regardless of his motives, and he needs to be stopped.

I don't think we need to be arguing over his motives, whether you're on the Limbaugh/Levin/Hannnity side ("He's a socialist!") or the Medved side ("He's a naive incompetent.") shouldn't matter- let's just focus on stopping what he's doing.

If actually followed, this approach would do two things: 1) take away a bone of contention among supposed allies and 2) allow Republicans to say things like "I don't care if the President is a socialist, or not.  He claims to be considering the best interests of America, and I will believe him on that.  His motives are not the question, [Media Hack], the question is the results of his actions: 17%+ real unemployment, a falling dollar, inflation in the sectors the People feel most: energy, food, and other basics.  It is the policies responsible for those results I oppose, and I believe they should be replaced with limited-government, pro-growth policies that get the Government out of the way and let the People keep more of their own money."

Then, every time someone tried to bring up his race, his birth cert, or whatever, Republicans could just go back to: "I'm not talking about the man, I'm talking about the actual, measurable results of his policies."

204 It was a Bolivian cocaine sub.  Must have sunk right there.
Posted by: rdbrewer

Now you are on to something. Was Willy Clinton anywhere present?

205 Someone broke the seventh seal.  In Arkansas.

206 189 Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat, at his home in Orlando, Fla., with his 5-year-old twin boys, Stone, on his lap, and Storm. I'm going to guess they're spoiled little brats who end up doing drugs and a few years behind bars unless daddy can pull a few strings for them Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 03, 2011 11:59 AM (1Jaio) Plus therapy, if only for the names. Really folks, Stone and Storm? Why not Rock Formation and Squall Line? Way to fuck them up right out of the chute, parents.

207 Grayson article:  Them ain't cowboy boots Pilgrim. 

208 Posted by: joncelli© at January 03, 2011 12:15 PM (RD7QR)

You mean, you don't get to be a super-hero just because you have a campy name?  I thought that was how it worked.  Guess I shouldn't have named my kid "Awesome Man," huh?

209

Next will be dead frogs.

210

The way to get Obama is the way Los Pepes took down Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug asshole: undercut his support network (not killing them, in Obama's case, obviously).

This is especially effective in Obama's case because he's an empty suit, a spokesmodel for Soros & Co., who have surrounded him with handlers. Taking the weed whacker to the handlers is tantamount to pulling the plug on the teleprompter.

211 217 Next will be dead frogs. Posted by: rdbrewer at January 03, 2011 12:18 PM (qygnQ) Bring zem on!

212 Now they are saying the Arkansas birds died from mid air collisions. Probably with a chinese missile.

213 Posted by: law & order writers at January 03, 2011 12:07 PM (2rOwc)

BTW, wouldn't a bad city snowstorm that caused the roads to be impassable and a child dies but we later found out that the union purposefully slowed their efforts to keep the roads closed be a great idea for a L&O episode?

Sam Waterson could chew the whole set railing about how the greedy union boss allowed an infant to die to get a miniscule raise (and in fitting with L&O, the boss would get some huge cut for himself).

Well?  WELL???

214 Birds are dying in collisions with a green energy windmills!!11!

215

Posted by: AmishDude at January 03, 2011 12:20 PM (T0NGe)

Uh.... didn't Law and Order go PC? (have not watched in quite awhile)

So the script would follow as you said, but then in the end there would be some Evil Conservative Politician who CUT the Union Funding, to get a kickback or somthing...

216

Have all Arkansan clouds of swamp gas and stray weather balloons been accounted for?

217 224 Have all Arkansan clouds of swamp gas and stray weather balloons been accounted for? Posted by: Lincolntf at January 03, 2011 12:24 PM (ON0+x) Check and see if their anuses are missing, dude! Wake up sheeple! I want to believe!

218 There are no dead birds in Arkansas.  What you saw was, almost certainly, the planet Venus.

And if you tell anyone differently, you are a dead man.

219 189
Representative Alan Grayson, a Democrat, at his home in Orlando, Fla., with his 5-year-old twin boys, Stone, on his lap, and Storm.


Who the hell names their kids that?  oh yeah.. a moonbat nutcase does that.

220 [Kicks thread] Yup, it's dead. Can I have the meat?

221 Our blackbirds, and thus our children's futures, are being thrashed by global warming turbulence, killing them dead!

222 I want Issa to investigate the Van Jones appointment, and the political favors granted to the hate group New Black Panther Party.

223

North Korea strongly denied reports that any of their strategic sharks with freakin' lasers on their heads (SSFLTH) were missing or deployed to the Arkansas river in the United States.

Kin Dang Woo, SSFLTH program minister also denied the existence of the SSFLTH program, their ability to kill birds and/or their ability to enduce massive fish kills.

"If we had such a weapon system, it could argued that while the SSFLTH was targeting an object while slightly submerged, the laser system could possibly leak energy into the surrounding water, thus leading to a fish kill, but never actually targeting Drum fish...."  " But we deny that we have such a weapon of mass damage unless of course, the World would send us some more Obama bucks to wrangle our sharks back to their pens."

224 One of my son's buddies is name Skye.  And yep, hippy parents.

225 So the script would follow as you said, but then in the end there would be some Evil Conservative Politician who CUT the Union Funding, to get a kickback or somthing...

Yeah, they'd probably make it some businessman who wanted the city contract that doesn't exist or some other warping of how NYC works to make the narrative.

226 We told you those Republicans couldn't be counted on to prioritize. They just want Obama to fail.

227 the e is extra faggy.

228 I'm gonna name my son Marye.

229

So.....

John Mellencamp & Meg Ryan

Does that make sense to anyone?

230

ACORN's national vote fraud effort and funding, Van Jones and New Black Panther pardons.

Rip the mask from this Communist fuckwad's face, and show America who he truly is.

231 Posted by: laceyunderalls w/some ADHD issues this afternoon at January 03, 2011 12:32 PM (pLTLS)

Presumably it does to them.

And it's not ADHD to threadjack the morning thread in the afternoon.  It's a good way to tell Ace and the Co-Bloggers that we'd like a new thread, now.

232 In December of 2012, Barry will be throwing out pardons like beads at a MardiGras parade.  Until then, it will be stonewall city.

233

"Pablo Escobar" sounds like a Mexican candy bar. 

"Jes keedz, buy Pablo Escobar.  More coco, less loco."

234 236 I'm gonna name my son Marye. Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at January 03, 2011 12:32 PM (wd0Iq) That's just a RenFest re-enactor in the making.

235

/checks his Tricorder

Its dead Jim....

236 Does that make sense to anyone?

She seems a little old for him.

237 237 So..... John Mellencamp & Meg Ryan Does that make sense to anyone? Posted by: laceyunderalls w/some ADHD issues this afternoon at January 03, 2011 12:32 PM (pLTLS) They're both fading and semi-talented, so it's actually a perfect match.

238 242 236 I'm gonna name my son Marye.
Posted by: Joanie (Oven Gloves) at January 03, 2011 12:32 PM (wd0Iq)

That's just a RenFest re-enactor in the making.

Posted by: joncelli© at January 03, 2011 12:35 PM (RD7QR)

Well, since that the only Technology we are going to allow...

239 671AD There was the Great Death of Birds--The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Ever watch blackbirds flock clear across a county in the morning and evening, making swarming shapes and maneuvering? Ever wonder what a sudden downdraft or change in air pressure would do to one of those?

I once called the local EPA because the stream across from my office was full of dead fish. They laughed. Turns out, a sudden change in temperature, or in the oxygen-carrying capability of the water, kills millions of fish all the time. Happens every day. We never notice.

The McCarty hearings were the first thing I ever watched on TV. I was on my mother's lap. What they caused was the Army-McCarthy hearings, and nothing else. Ditto, the Kefauver Commission: result, several more commissions. I know we have a great attachment to those bright hearing-room lights, but they're mostly symbolic. Don't get your hopes up.

240 rdbrewer's sidebar Sleestak gif is disturbing, and not in a good way.

241 Yeah, they'd probably make it some businessman who wanted the city contract that doesn't exist or some other warping of how NYC works to make the narrative.

No no no, it would go something like this:

Evil Republican Corporation (tm) launched a cynical and self-serving political campaign (made possible by the Citizens United decision) full of lies and distortions aimed at cutting city taxes.  When the gullible people of NYC bought the campaign and voted for the tax cuts, then the cash-strapped city government had no choice but to start selling off assets and privatizing city services, and the winning bidder on those contracts was... you guessed it... Evil Republican Corporation (tm)!  But they had to bid so low in order to get the contract, they were actually losing money.  So when the Snowmageddon Blizzard of 2010 hit NYC, the management of Evil Republican Corporation (tm) made a conscious decision to deliberately not clean up the snow and let people die in the street, so as to improve their bottom line, and they could blame it on an Act of God, the snowstorm.  Sam Waterston takes great pleasure in berating the Evil Republican Corporation (tm) CEO on the witness stand, accusing him of being Worse Than Hitler (and GW Bush) for putting profits over people.  Meanwhile, a witness for the prosecution, Good Guy Union President, happily testifies that if only the responsible and professional union members had been in charge of the snow cleanup effort, everything would have turned out just fine.

242 Posted by: Sam Adams at January 03, 2011 12:33 PM

What could they find that Glenn "the Weeper" Beck hasn't found and reported over and over and over and over and over again?

Maybe Issa could go after Spooky Dude, too.

This is all peripheral shit. Go direct to the root of the problems -- the actions/behavior of Osama Obama, Eric Shabazz Holder, Geithner, et al -- and expose their malfeasance. Impeachment and arrests to follow.

Oh, wait, that would arouse the ire of the "in fairness..." crowd. Mustn't go after popular criminals....

243 Vince Foster memorial fish fry and flyover.

244 Speaking of weird baby names...

John Mellencamp and Elaine have two boys: Hud and Speck.

245 John Mellencamp and Elaine have two boys: Hud and Speck. Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 03, 2011 12:41 PM (9hSKh) [Facepalm] They might as well just give them a gift certificate for 100 hours of therapy for their 16th birthdays.

246 ZOMG, chemjeff, you should totally ask Dick Wolf for a job as a writer.

247 Speck Cougar Mellencamp Jingleheimer Smith has a nice ring to it

248 Am I going to have to sing "Jack and Diane" in a falsetto until we get a new thread? I'll do it too!

249 I can't remember if Hud or Speck was the one who created the Facebook group to get his dad to stop smoking if he got a million 'likes'...may be too late for the therapy.

250

Speck

For those who remember the old Porter Waggoner show--this name borders on child abuse.

251 The McCarty hearings were the first thing I ever watched on TV. I was on my mother's lap. What they caused was the Army-McCarthy hearings, and nothing else. Ditto, the Kefauver Commission: result, several more commissions. I know we have a great attachment to those bright hearing-room lights, but they're mostly symbolic. Don't get your hopes up.

Hearings are an end-run around the media, nothing more.  It forces them to cover something that they'd otherwise ignore.  Nothing more.  It isn't a courtroom.

252

Gabe - good post.  Also, you had a nice mention in NRO today.

Keep up the good work.  But also, we want to argue with you every now and then, keep that in mind too.

253 HeatherRadish @ 254 thanx but I'm not yet ready to sell my soul

254 John Mellencamp and Elaine have two boys: Hud and Speck.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at January 03, 2011 12:41 PM (9hSKh)

 

They were in named in honor of Richard Speck and a Paul Newman movie

255

his advisers are comparing him to another president who faced similar circumstances: Ronald Reagan.

His advisers are saying anything they can to keep the little sissy tyrant from getting his panties in a bunch and firing them all.

The Golfing Goofball would need to grow a whole lot more class and some new anatomy to be compared to Reagan.

Reagan, God Rest His Soul, is still a better leader than Jugears and he's laying 20 miles up the road in Simi Valley under concrete for years now.

256 Next will be dead frogs.
Lucky Obama doesn't have a son.

257 248 rdbrewer's sidebar Sleestak gif is disturbing, and not in a good way.

That is classic.

258 Maybe next Obama can summon a lake of fire. Lakes of fire look great on TV. Maybe he could give another speech and use it as a backdrop while his pet flies and rats run around. or the bees.

Kind of an AntiChrist Fireside Chat©.

259

I cut Issa a lot of slack. He's the Representative from an adjacent district, and the guy who singlehandedly brought down that asshole Gray Davis by starting the recall petition against him. Issa was edged out as governor by the Terminator. More is the pity, because Issa has more balls than Ahnold, and might have been able to pull CA out of its power dive. Ahnold started out strong, but folded like a cheap suit when the Red-infested media (LAT and SF Chron) started shitting on him for not making nice with the Red-infested public sector unions.

So I consider Issa one of the few good guys, until some concrete evidence to the contrary turns up.

260 You fringe righties are out of your fucking minds.

261 Got a little song about Chuck and Diane,
Two English royals making out as best they can,
Oooo-ooo, life goes oooon, long after the thrill of polo is gone!

262 You fringe righties are out of your fucking minds.

Heh.

263 dead now?

264 Reading some of these comments is absolutely hilarious! An SNL skit couldn't capture the level of (unintended) humor the Paranoid Parade exhibits here. Everything is a conspiracy, "they" are out to get you, blah (BOO!) blah, blah, blah. Fucking hilarious! Do you freaks actually have jobs, or are your mamas' basements the only safe place for you? 

265 Boy, these libertarians are either dumb as rocks or their smoke is chronic, dude!

What kind of a hearing could be held on the Sestak case?  The only witnesses are Sestak, who has given a couple of versions of it already and walked back his initial tone, former President Clinton, and Obama.

You're going to call a former President to testify before Congress with nothing more than this?  Obama would come, but he has golf that day - can't he just eat his waffle?

The idea of holding a hearing with nothing more than this is stupid and destructive, as it would make every subsequent investigation subject to the charge, "Just another senseless Republican fishing expedition."

Step away from the bong, dude, you've had enough.

266 Do you freaks actually have jobs, or are your mamas' basements the only safe place for you?

I laughed out loud.

267 You're going to call a former President to testify before Congress with nothing more than this?

Yes, that is exactly what an investigation is. The world relies on confessions. That is why everyone in prison is guilty.

268 former President Clinton

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Other times, you can stick in a fat chick when your dick is tired.

269 The Sestak mess doesn't resonate with the public. It's like the Valerie Plame "SCANDAL"! The only ones who really care are the Washington insiders and the lawyers who get very rich developing the case. As for Pigford and the Black Panthers, those I want to see pursued, because both cases demonstrate the politcal-correctness-gone-wild mentality in this country!

270 This administration is a house of cards, there is so much about Watergate that is similiar in the construction, AG Holder is the key.  If Holder is found to be nothing more than a judicial obstructionist and a cover up artist for the Un-Credentialed, who is covering his butt in every move, then the removal and threatened investigation of Holder himself may prove to be the undoing of the entire administration.  There is so many loose ends to pull any one or more may cause the same effect but Holers absence and protective skill could be the fastest way to kill the beast.

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