John McCain may not have been able to get Congress to balance the budget by eliminating $7.7 billion in earmarked projects, but… but John McCain is very important, still. He took another important stance just yesterday in fact! At a confirmation hearing yesterday for the *deputy Secretary of the Interior*, the biggest responsibility of which is to run around national parks and pick up cheeseburger wrappers, McCain threatened to block the nominee for having once mentioned Ronald Reagan in a moderately unflattering light in a 2006 article. It is a matter of ETHICS.
In the article, [nominee David] Hayes wrote that “the conservative political agenda in the West is grounded in hoary stereotypes about the region and its people” and that “out of this conservative world view emerges the stereotypical Western man (and it is unquestionably a ‘he’)—a rugged, gun-toting individualist who fiercely guards every man’s right to drill, mine, log, or do whatever he damn well pleases on the land” and that “Like Ronald Reagan before him, President Bush has embraced the Western stereotype to the point of adopting some of its affectations—the boots, brush-clearing, and get-the-government-off-our-backs bravado.”
Hmm! You see the problem here. He mentioned the words “Ronald Reagan” and dared surround it with other words — nouns, adjectives, prepositions, oh maybe a VERB or two — instead of pretty sparkles and hearts and rudimentary phalli symbols.
Time to FUCK UP David Hayes:
Asked whether he stood by those remarks, Hayes said “the prose is overly florid, and I regret that.”
That didn’t appease McCain.
“So you had to throw Reagan in there?” McCain continued.
“I shouldn’t have done that,” Hayes said.
“I wouldn’t have said something like that about Bruce Babbitt,” McCain continued, referring to the Arizona Democrat who was Interior secretary during the Clinton administration.
“I will be considering seriously whether I can support your nomination or not,” McCain added.
He will announce his much-anticipated decision in a special midnight Twitter post.
McCain Threatens to Oppose Interior Nominee Over Reagan Remark [WSJ]
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Henngghhh!
I wouldn’t support this guy’s nomination either. He failed to mention that Reagan was a drooling dotard in his second term who turned foreign policy over to Ollie North and that evil mofo Poindexter dude, and he conveniently overlooked the fact that Reagan believed that trees pollute more than industry. And the he and Mommy believed in astrology, also. These are key omissions that completely undermines this guy’s cred.
Why did Hayes backtrack? What a pussy. McCain is the most annoying pig-man ever.
Sorry, one more thing. I need a picture of Will Ferrell, preferably wearing a coat and tie, for a blog posting. I’ve looked all over, and can’t track one down. Any ideas where I can get one? kthx
Response should have been: “Well, Senator McCain, I will seriously consider whether I can avoid making fun of you for being such an A-1 idiot.”
yes
don’t back peddle
John McCain is just trying to be relevant
What’s next, Hayes? Apology for a remark you once made about Mad King Ludwig? Pussy.
Note to Walnuts. Ronald Reagan is dead & no one gives two shits about him anymore. Most people don’t even know who the fuck he is accept someone wacko tried to off him to impress Jodi Foster.
And, if you LOVE Ronald Reagan so much, why don’t you just dig up his corpse & marry it?? Huh??? Could it be because Nancy hates your guts because you dumped your first wife (her good friend) for Cindy & now you’re trying to make up for being an egotistical, self-serving, gold-digging, philandering bastard? Also.
Not only do I not regret voting for Obama, I’d like to go back and vote against McCain a couple more times.
Apparently, Mr. Hayes didn’t know that, in contrast to his ranch-owning, Western cowboy image, Ronald Reagan wore women’s underwear. It gives you a whole, more sensitive and caring idea of the man.
I don’t remember Walnuts complaining when Interior employees were snorting coke off of toaster ovens and porking each other in the butt while on duty. What an asshole.
[re=265214]DangerousLiberal[/re]: Bravo. I’ll second that, since Hayes also failed to mention that Reagan stood by and did nothing while 20,000 Americans died from AIDS complications and thought Martin Luther King was a communist who didn’t deserve to be honored. My god – what other omissions can we expect from this guy if he gets into Interior?
WALNUTS is trying to convince everyone that his horrible presidential campaign was due to the onset of senior dementia. That way he doesn’t have to take responsibility for foisting Palin on the world.
oh, boo-hoo, john mccain. the country is going to hell in a handbasket and all you’ve done is find another reason to say “no”. i guess the “party of no” tag does fit rather well.
What got McCain’s Depenz in a twist was potty-mouth Hayes’ use of “hoary” and “Reagan” in the same article.
Blasphemy! You dare sayeth the Great One’s name in Jest! Blasphemy!
Someone needs to change Cranky McCain’s diaper.
Somebody said something slightly derogatory about Ronald Reagan? How dare they insult America’s favorite talentless, sausage-brained, hypocritical, dyed-haired, Alzheimer-ridden, Constitution-flouting, reckless, pseudo cowboy, McCarthyist, FBI informing, divorced idiot ever to sell arms to Iranians to finance an illegal war in Nicaragua. You stick to your little twatwaffle guns, John McCain.
Is this the remake of Bed Time For Bonzo? With John McCain in the role of Bonzo.
OT, but I think Glenn Beck has seriously lost his shit.
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/
UNITE OR DIE!!!!
[re=265237]V572625694[/re]: “phony posts,” I meant to say. Loser.
“Senator, at least I know how many homes I own.”
“Also I never called my wife a cunt.”
“Also.”
“So you had to throw Reagan in there?”
And why not? Is his name sacred, so that its a sin to use it in vain? Or is it more like Voldemort, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? The hero worship that surrounds that pathetically doddering old man is as misplaced as it is nauseating. And this is mild quasi-criticism. If McCain is questing after a Reagasm, I’ve got some great stuff about Reagan supporting the Contras whilst simultaneously taking a dump on the Constitution, or arming and training genocidal maniacs in El Salvador. Or his policy of ignoring both the utter collapse of our economy and the spread of AIDS, as if the two would simply go away if we didn’t talk about them.
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: You Are Not Alone!
You can live chat with the Great Glenn at 6p.m. ET after his earth-shattering broadcast with what’s his ass:
http://interactive.foxnews.com/glennbecklive
[re=265223]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Oh yeah, I forgot about Nancy’s hatred for Wallynutz. HAHAHAHAHA.
[re=265226]burton judson[/re]: ‘zactly, but they were porking the oil-coal-gas industry dudes in the butt, too.
WALNUTS! makes a big mistake here in comparing Bush/Reagan to Babbitt who was/is a REAL rancher cowboy, from 3 generations of ranchers who still have a big and real working ranch near the Grand Canyon.
Shows the dementia creeping up on McNuts….Cindy should have reminded him of the Arizona history of teh Babbitt before he shot off his ignorant partisan mouth.
Rich Republican pussies. Bonanza reruns are not American history.
“I’ll make you a deal, Mr. McCain – you announce your regret over calling your wife a ‘cunt’ or telling racist rape jokes, and I’ll go ahead and tell you how bad I feel that I insinuated that Ronald Reagan wasn’t big on nuanced foreign policy.”
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: Holy crap, my spouse and my self are the ultimate authority? Awesome, I just need a Viking wife and I’m off on a whirlwind of pillage and rapine!
Seriously, I wonder if he sees that 4,5 and 8 are flatly contradictory. The man is a jiggly multi-chinned loon.
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]:
Glenn Beck’s Nine Principles [Explained]
1. America is good.[No matter what evil shit is done in America's name. In fact, Principal 1 means that everything America does is good, including My Lai, Abu Ghraib, interning Japanese-Americans, etc. Because America is good, that's all good too. Got it?]
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.[And if you don't believe in God, you're un-American. Got it? Okay.]
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. [Because yesterday I was a fucking liar.]
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. [And we choose to use our authority to tell you what to do.]
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. [And my wife and I make the law -- see Item 4.]
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.[Except for hedge fund brokers and Haliburton shareholders. They need more, and the government will take it from you and deliver it to them with deregulation and endless war.]
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who[mever] I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.[Except to recipients listed in Item 6.]
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.[But it is un-American for you to disagree with me, and I will tell you so at length.]
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. [I'm getting rich criticizing it, so what's your problem?]
is it bad for me to wish for walnuts to have a health scare without rahm in the vicinity?
drill baby drill
Wait a minute, I thought you had to be caught porking your illegal Honduran nanny, or not paying a couple bazillion dollars in taxes, to be refused a position in the cabinet.
Hayes did wimp out. What he wrote, that Western politicians all look like unbelievable dorks in their 10 gallon hats and cowboy boots, is spot on. If a politician in Iowa showed up in bib overalls, he’d be laughed off the stage.
[re=265253]V572625694[/re]: Spot on, spot on.
The Republicans will really win back the nation’s eternal love by reminding them how much of a fuck up Bush was by always skipping over him. Oh and his daddy. Jesus they’re living in a time warp.
[re=265243]chascates[/re]: Oh goody, it just started. Today’s topic “Surviving the EVIL SOCIALIST WAVE that is taking over Amurica”. Ha-ha his expert is citing studies from the liberal bastion UC Berkeley without irony.
Ick.
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: I like the big ad for gold on his page too. All the conservative “entertainment” folks are hawking it lately — which is why I’ve invested heavily in lead.
Also, I hear that Glenn Beck has a room in his house where he can wade up to his taint in Krugerrands.
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: “If you agree with at least seven of those principles, then you are not alone. Please send a digital version of your picture to: wesurroundthem@foxnews.com”
My submission: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/images/osama_400.jpg
[re=265252]Gallowglass[/re]: I wonder how Beck’s declaration will go over in Salt Lake City?
[re=265217]DangerousLiberal[/re]:
.
Here ya go
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/oscar04/will_ferrell.jpg
MCcain has been distracted from real life again, this time because his daughter is called plus-sized, not by one of us libtards, but by a rightwingnut radio howler. Meanwhile, Goldilocks Glenn Beck is fomenting (almost) armed rebellion and Joe the Plumber has the hots for suddenly available Bristol Palin. I haz loves for dem Republicers.
There must be sacrifice given to the Pork Gods Limbie & The Shoe Hair Polish Overlord Ragen for the GOP to live. Cheney ate children’s fairy tales for breakfast. One must not bespeak in harsh tone or words against these ancient men of wacky star wars fame & the richest wife on this planet. This evil deputy & Kramer will be sacrificed over the weekend. Except everything Prez touches turns to gold….eventually, so we must choose one & it will be stanford & thain’s best bud. Kramer will not be seen evermore on the Cee Nothing Before it Crashes idol tv screen.
“I will be considering seriously whether or not you are as relavant as a chicken McNugget Mr. McCain”.
Can we get another McCain “Beaver Management” diatribe to get us through the weekend? please, .. our Nation is at War.
Senator Walnuts: Mr. Hayes, Ronald Reagan was my butt-buddy until my first wife jumped the shark, yet I still invoke his holy name whenever I feel the need to take one for the team. Couldn’t you do the same for the sake of your nomination, for the country?
Nominee Hayes: Depends.
This is what the guy should have said, with apologies to Chuck D:
Reagan was a hero to most
But he never meant —- to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain
Mother—- him and Barry Goldwater.
Then he should have said “take that you senile, bitter, angry old man and suck on it because YOU LOST”
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: Glen Beck seems to have gotten crazier and crazier since he got fired from CNN. Don’t know if he was always this crazy before and CNN just held him back or whether his firing made him lose the last strains of sanity he had
[re=265253]V572625694[/re]: You forgot this for #5. “If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. [except if you torture brown people]
[re=265264]S.Luggo[/re]: You can see my picture here
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: I sent this “We Surround Them” thing in to Wonkette as a tip. I’d love to see Sara or Ken do a piece on it, so we don’t have to hijack the comments threads for other topics. ;->
[re=265284]Hooray For Anything[/re]: You know we are allowed to say “shit” and “fuck” here, right? If you were making a personal choice, more power to you.
[re=265294]MisterLoki[/re]: Actually, it was more of a cut and paste job from a web site that didn’t say it….
[re=265264]S.Luggo[/re]: Awesome! As I see it, Osama bin Laden would probably agree with Principles 2, 3, 4 (changing the language from “spouse” to “spouses”), 5, 6, 7, 9.
Osama would agree with Principle 2 so much it would make him cry: “I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.”
Imagine every smug Christian you know, and all 19 of the 9/11 terrorists, all reciting that together, swaying and smiling, and thinking of the people they planned and/or are planning to kill, just to *prove* their devotion to God!
Osama bin Laden would agree with *all* the principles if you just changed the country name in 1 and 8.
These “anti-tax anti-socialism” people here in America do *not* see the myriad ways they closely resemble the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Mild Warning:
I have been reading comments on Righty sites especially carefully for the past few weeks, and, as the Intelligence people say when they’re monitoring phone and Internet traffic, “The chatter is becoming worrisome.”
I am betting that the next terrorist attack on US soil will come, and come soon, from the Dittohead Foxwatching Crowd. It has before: Tim McVeigh; Eric Rudolph; James Earl Ray. It will be interesting to see what all the essentially-normal-but-greedy media folks who have pandered to them, who have stirred them up (as Beck is doing today), will have to say when some of these fools succeed in killing a few hundred innocent people. Remember: the gun industry is the only US industry that’s doing well right now. Somebody told these people that Obama and Holder are coming for their guns, and so they’re stocking up … and planning to hunt for Anti-Americans.
BTW, the attack of the Right-Wing Gunman on the UU Church in Tennessee was underreported in the MSM, IMO.
Wish I had something funny/snarky to say about all that. But I can only come up with “SO?” I’m not afraid of them. I remember a few disavowals like, “The radio doesn’t make people do things.” Odd that they believe that about Political Hate Speech, but disbelieve it about, say, Heavy Metal?
He is also making a stink about Hill’s nomination as Ambassador to Iraq. You have to admit that the 2008 campaign seems to have taught McCain a powerful lesson about the value of vetting.
[re=265237]V572625694[/re]: Thank god I can still get the pron. I don’t mind the banner ads, or even the “advertorial” content. It’s just that I still haven’t completely gotten the image of Campbell Brown scraped of my retina yet.
[re=265284]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Boyyeeeeee
I skimmed the other comments. I don’t think anybody mentioned this. Reagan gave us James Watt as interior secretary who was a millenialist, a crackpot who believed that if we use up all the world’s natural resources, it would hasten the return of Jesus.
Hey, McCain check this out:
Ronald Reagan, FUCK YOU!
[re=265319]nyhfrog[/re]:
Oh yes, Jesus hiself James Watt:
Here was Reagan boy’s end from Wiki:
“A public controversy erupted after a speech by Watt on September 21, 1983, when he said about his staff: “I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent.”[13] Within weeks of making this statement, Watt submitted his resignation letter”
[re=265264]S.Luggo[/re]: After reading about how Beck stated “political correctness” was why that lunatic shot those folks in Alabama, I am really wondering how these nutjobs stay on the air.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/12/beck-shooting-pc/
[re=265303]iolanthe[/re]: I think James Earl Ray is the most worrisome part of that. Not that hundreds of people dying isn’t a horrifying image, but can you imagine President Biden?
I’m not overly concerned though, most of those people are just piss and wind.
[re=265328]glamourdammerung[/re]: So too much political correctness will cause you to become a crazy killer. What does too much Glenn Beck lead to?
[re=265303]iolanthe[/re]: Anyone who believes the radio “doesn’t make people do things” needs a quick lesson on Rwanda, stat.
Also, I’m STILL waiting for John McCain to apologize to the country profusely for stirring up these rabid nuts during the election.
[re=265259]Capricatony[/re]: In 2012, it’s the great throwback ticket of Reagan (Jr.)/Palin.
So what if he’s a gay Democrat ballerina? As long as he agrees to be called Ronald instead of Ron,outh breathers out there in Jeebusland.
[re=265331]chascates[/re]: Limbaughfication of your mind. Don’t forget that when Beck was on the radio, he mused one day about whether he would have the courage to strangle Michael Moore to death with his bare hands.
His answer was, “Actually, I’m too much of a puss.”
[re=265330]Gallowglass[/re]: We let them know that if anything happens to Hopey, the following consequences will occur:
1. Limbaugh and Hannity die.
2. Mann Coulter has her sex change reversed.
3. No more beer.
4. Alabama is closed.
That should take care of them.
[re=265338]CaliforniaMike[/re]: Weird. Part of my post got eaten:
“instead of Ron, that should be enough for the mouth breathers in Jeebusland.”
Sorry for thinking that what I post needs to be printed right. I must be part Republican.
And on The FoxNews site: http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/13/deseno_meghan_mccain/
Will Everyone Named McCain Please Leave the Republican Party!
I grew tired of McCain fighting our agenda, voting against tax cuts, bowing to global warming loons, insulting Christian leaders, ganging against us with his liberal “Gang of 14″ and passing useless laws with liberals like Senator Russ Feingold. — Not to mention snubbing CPAC.
Now comes his daughter Meghan McCain, proving the old adage that the poop doesn’t fall far from the pig’s rear end, Meghan has joined her father in the Republican bashing business.
Writing on The Daily Beast, an Internet blog, she takes on author Ann Coulter. She says she “straight up doesn’t understand” Coulter (probably all those big words Ann uses). She labels Ann’s followers part of a “cult” (Meghan must be reading the papers — that’s how media refers to our whole party!). She takes a swing at CPAC, too (chip off the old block, that Meghan).
This civil war is too good for words.
“I find your lack of faith disturbing” *slurp*
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: Beck is batshit insane. These “nine principles” are like weird Christian Objectivist crap. Sorry, Glenn, we outvoted you. You lost. You have to live with us for the next 4-8 years. Bawwwww.
[re=265303]iolanthe[/re]: I sometimes listen to Hannity (don’t ask) and he’s got his listeners pretty much convinced that Obama is some sort of socialist overlord who’s going to take everyone’s money, guns, and cars away, force us into government-run health care, and destroy free speech through the Fairness Doctrine and political correctness. He’s even arguing that all of Obama’s programs aren’t really for anyone’s benefit, but just one big huge power grab to take over the country (this is where ACORN comes in) and turn us into the United Soviet States of America. The thing is I think he’s totally serious (it’s hard to tell because it’s hard to believe he’s as stupid as he comes off) and his listeners sound even more serious– like they’re all about to head up to the mountains and play “Wolverines!” And he’s not even the craziest one out there- have you heard Mark Levin?
[re=265328]glamourdammerung[/re]: So the shooter in Alabama was really Michael Douglas in Falling Down?
Insulting Reagan is something that happens far too rarely.
What the fuck is David Hayes apologizing for? McCain can go and fuck himself. I am sick and tired of these assholes. Let him appose his nomination and let us hear another republican mentioning freedom of speech.
[re=265303]iolanthe[/re]:
“I’m not afraid of them.”
Keep in mind that the conservs will come armed with lit Cohibas, Montecristos, and aged Upmanns. Be prepared to defend yourself. Keep a bucket of water (or bubbly warm piss) by your side.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/01/magazine/06cov-500.jpg
http://kozidryngiel.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hans-frank-himmler1.jpg
[re=265354]TGY[/re]: True. At least among the nursing home crowd.
[re=265337]One Yield Regular[/re]: Also … if “radio doesn’t make people do things”, why is there *advertising*, Daddy?
OMG. I am SO glad that this self-important douche isn’t are President. I seriously would not be able to take it.
John McCain: Testicles First!
this is not just about mccain and ronald reagan and all of their problems. the interior department has to get a long well with all political stripes. it is way up there in the job description for competent managers of that department.
there is a whole lot of opportunity for all kinds of mismanagement and dischord to erupt… whether it is some prescribed burn in new mexico getting out of hand and burning down a bunch of peoples houses, or whether it is the feds refusing to repair roads that people rely on to travel to work, or whether it is annexation of land without even talking to the small landowners that are having their land taken away from them, or whether it is the good numbers veterans who find a place to ‘fit in’ and contribute to society as low level employees of the interior department, but are looked down on and discriminated against by managers… or whether it is the millions of people who visit the forests and parks every year…. you have to be sensitive to conservative people if you want to be a good leader in the Interior Department.
Obama said the GOP can’t listen to rush limbaugh, hannity, etc. But i think the same is true of the Democratic party. You cannot confuse the rantings of right wing radio with the average conservative, and their legitimate problems with government policy. Besides, the radio that conservatives listen to the most is not talk radio, it is country music, which is mostly about lost love and drinking, not about politics.
Now if you start going around trashing reagan, well, number one, you are bringing up politics, and number 2, the guy is a symbol… people may not know too much about him, but they feel connected to him anyways. There is just no purpose, for you, as a leader in a federal government agency, to go around bashing ex-presidents. It does not help you solve any problems and it does not bring your crew together, nor does it help the public or give the public confidence that their tax money is being used fairly and wisely. It is just pointless.
As for McCain, im betting that he has trash-talked plenty of Democratic leaders.. i mean everyone knows the guy has a mouth on him, thats why they like him in the first place. So its kind of silly for him to make this criticism, as John McCain. But the criticism itself, by itself, is kind of accurate.
[re=265350]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Yeah. I talk to his listeners in YouTube comments and other places fairly often. They often think they thought of this shit *themselves*, as opposed to RushBots who often like to acknowledge Rush. They are serious. Dumb, but serious. And yes, they *do* think of themselves as the Wolverines. They still haven’t figured out that people who disagree with them are *not* Enemy Invaders who do not deserve this land.
That’s it. I can’t take it any more. In order to rid ourselves of the asshats that have driven our nation into the ground since January of 1981, we must take a page from the anti-GOP terrorists of Cook County, Illinois. To arms! We must equip ourselves with Guitar Hero guitars and take to the streets. Fair warning, McCain. Fair warning, Palin. Fair warning, Vitter. Fair warning, Frist and Crist and all you other asshats whose names are faintly reminiscent of that greatest of all Jewish leaders. Hell, fair warning, Orren Hatch: your days in the substantial, roomy, well-lit closets of sunshiny Utah are at an end, you show-tune-writin’ asshat. Raise your toy guitars and take whack at the enemies of serious discourse. We have nothing to lose but our chains!
Did someone say the job entails running around the national parks and picking up cheeseburger wrappers? I just love cheeseburger wrappers.
Let’s be kind. After his last (and very hurty) colonoscopy, McCain gained a
mistaken notion about the meaning of the capitalized word “Interior”. A very old person, cranky and still sore, can, like a artery-sucking slug, hang onto a misimpression like that until his Senate term is over.
Just saying.
Country First.
[re=265389]decora[/re]: I hardly think of the statement made by this nominee as “trashing”. It was the mildest of rebukes for one of the most dishonest, disingenuous leaders this country has ever known.
[re=265458]AnnieGetYourFun[/re]: and senile, don’t forget senile.
Is Walnuts wearing one of those weeping eagle, Never Forget iron-on stickers on his shirt?
[re=265224]2goats[/re]: “I’d like to go back and vote against McCain a couple more times.”
Let’s all move to Arizona just to fuck with him. I’m guessing there are a lot of cheap foreclosed homes and most of us don’t mind housesharing (as long as we all promise to walk around in our underwear).
I’d bet we could also pass gay marriage there which would really get under their skin.
[re=265261]SayItWithWookies[/re]: “I like the big ad for gold on his page too. All the conservative “entertainment” folks are hawking it lately — which is why I’ve invested heavily in lead.”
Gold is now a sucker’s market. It can only go up!! Just like house prices. Please GOP invest heavily, on margin (or mortgage the house to the hilt to buy).
Hmmm. I wonder whose cock Reagan’s sucking in hell, Falwell or Dale Earnhardt’s?
[re=265303]iolanthe[/re]: Are there any studies the cite the number of NRA members causing gun deaths compared to Muzlin terrist attacks?
Just for kicks, we can even include the Iraq war deaths as terrist-caused. I’ll bet the results are predictable.
[re=265488]Bruno[/re]: Hippie.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html
Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Guns and Death
http://www.jtrauma.com/pt/re/jtrauma/abstract.00005373-200202000-00011.htm;jsessionid=J7FfXp17xdDdW163pSNfzH3F2TdGgP2JzDc90ZhbmmP1KNJn1kr1!-1046349743!181195628!8091!-1
Firearm Availability and Unintentional Firearm Deaths, Suicide, and Homicide among 5-14 Year Olds
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/11524/2002/00000079/00000001/art00026?crawler=true
Firearm Availability and Suicide, Homicide, and Unintentional Firearm Deaths Among Women
[re=265238]Cicada[/re]: Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. Namely, that Mr. Beck was ever in possession of said “shit.”
Back to the topic at hand, I lerrrve that part (most?) of the offense is likening McCain’s BFF, Reagan, to ol’ whats-his-face…you know, the one whose taint Walnuts! was in charge of licking clean the last six or seven years?
Forget about Raygun, McCain doesn’t like that description on the grounds of “resembling that remark.” The “Western stereotype … gun-toting individualist who fiercely guards every man’s right to drill, mine, log, or do whatever he damn well pleases on the land” describes just about every native (or adopted) Arizonan I’ve met. Take a spin around McCain’s pad in Cornville and every man you meet will fit this description to a T. To this day, it’s perfectly legal in Arizona, in the best “I drink your milkshake spirit,” to syphon the groundwater off your neighbor’s land as long as you can afford to build a pump big enough to drain it. And anyone who would oppose that culture is undoubtedly a Commie with no proper birth certificate, and certainly not qualified to be deputized for any gov-mint work. Plaid cowboy shirts for everyone!
The idea of the independent western pioneer spirit is a myth created by the parts of the country that drink the most from the federal munnies trough. Those least populated states, with all their “independent” cowboys, get to graze their aurochs for free or almost free on federal land, pay ridiculously low prices for mineral rights and then cry like motherfucking babies when anyone threatens to take away their federal candy. And on top of that continue to bleat about “gettin’ gubmint off our backs.” As if. They couldn’t exist without the government bare-backing them.
They are moochers extraordinaire who, like corporate farmers, need to be kicked off the federal teat cold turkey and get a fucking real job where the government doesn’t give you everything. Like the rest of us suckers who (my gainfully unemployed self excepted) work for a living. They are the cowboy equivalent of Reagan’s mythical welfare queens.
[re=265228]Cicada[/re]: I really think McCain wants us to believe that he has dementia praecox. Cindy will tell you that he has praecox eiculari and is covering for Viagra psychosis.
McCain was a POW. His judgments are not to be questioned.
[re=265214]DangerousLiberal[/re]: The Neanderthals down south have been dissuaded from demanding Raygoon be immediately added to Mt Rushmore by the pure knowledge it is after all a natural rock formation and must await God swill.
[re=265487]Reefpilot[/re]: Since it’s hell, LBJ’s.
If Walnuts wants to hear to some real criticism of of Ronald Reagan, he can just Twitter me, anytime, Bitch…
[re=265512]hobospacejungle[/re]: Are you me? Am I you? May I borrow that phrase “gainfully unemployed”? My friends have been referring to me “self-unemployed” for years and I’m getting bored with it.
Your post was an improved version of mine since it had much better examples of the shit I’m sick of seeing.
[re=265506]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Thanks. This now clears up the inexpicable love for the “Drill Baby Drill” rallying cry.
[re=265512]hobospacejungle[/re]: Excellent points, but farmers should be EASED off the nipple with a close watch on commodities speculators, who otherwise would use the weaning as a huge excuse to pull the same kind of stunt that they did last year with crude oil futures. Speculation has twisted agriculture so badly that it’s an almost insane endeavor.
Oooooooooo…K.
#1. “I will be considering seriously whether I can support your nomination or not,”
#2 Paraphrasing….”I’ll be suspending my campaign to address the economic crisis”
#3 “This one over here”
Guess we can add this to McShame’s greatest hits.
[re=265584]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Apologies for the late reply. By all means take “gainfully unemployed” and run with it!
I don’t know what it means to you, but for me it’s 9 years being a househusband while my wife works 60-80 hours/week. I am my mom 30 years ago, minus the kids, plus the cats, with much more free time (obviously, or I wouldn’t spend half my day with Wonkette.)
And thank you for the compliment.
[re=265595]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: Very good point. Now, are you a policy wonk or a Wonkette Snarkesaurus?
Dumb question, so indulge me if anyone is still on this thread. Where did the Walnuts moniker for McCain come from?
For the last time, Repugs, (that includes you WALNUTS!), Ronald Reagan was not Jesus Christ. He was in fact, just like David Hayes described him and bush. Posing, not-overly-bright, bought-by-big-oil, lumber-and-business, asshat clown, who was a much responsible for the financial mess we are in as anyone else.
I wish I could get nominated for something, so I could tell WALNUTS! what I thought of Reagan.
Uh-oh wait till McCain hears that Hayes lobbied for an earmark for the Reagan Sucks sheep sperm study project.
[re=265674]MortSinclair[/re]: I think it’s because he looks like he’s storing walnuts in his cheeks.
[re=265674]MortSinclair[/re]: take a stroll through the wonkette archives…
First it was the President’s helicopter, now this poor shmo cops it. The Noonington might be worried about the availability of anti-depressants, but there’s no shortage of angry pills- Just ask WALNUTS!
I’d love to see President Obama walk up to him, put a kindly arm around his shoulders (maybe offer him a blanket), and gently remind the old coot of the dangers of a man his age getting overly exercised. The result would be the best tantrum since John McEnroe terrorised Centre Court at Wimbledon. (He might be an old goat, but he’s spry, and I’m bettin’ he could still set teh YouTubes on fire!)
Mort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X8dLXvqu8k
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