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Gay-for-each-other fecal demons Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham are being suuuuuuchhh baaaaabieeesss now that the few decent law-abiding and moral Democrats in the House have promised not to approve any spending bill that would send the sneaky Lieberman-Graham Amendment to the White House, which of course loves it. If you haven’t been following, the “Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009″ amendment allows the president to legally ignore any court-mandated Freedom of Information Act release of “any photograph that was taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside of the United States.” NO BUT REALLY. And now Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman are threatening to shut the Senate down until this comically fascistic fart-nugget of an amendment saves America.
The Politico’s Congress guy, the one with the hat, Glenn Thrush, reports:
Calling the release of the so-called torture pics tantamount to a “death sentence” for some U.S. operatives working in hostile countries, Lieberman and Graham took the unusual step of vowing to attach their ban to every piece of legislation passed in the upper chamber if their amendment is removed from the war supplamental [sic].
Note that this amendment has never even been debated. Because then people might know about it, and people might know that Obama loves it! Here’s the official WAH WAH WAH statement, from these rats.
“We will employ all the legislative means available to us including opposing the supplemental war spending bill and attaching this amendment, which was unanimously adopted by the Senate, to every piece of legislation the Senate considers, to be sure the President has the authority he needs not to release these photos and any others that would jeopardize the safety and security of our troops.
“The release of the photos will serve as propaganda and recruiting tool for terrorists who seek to attack American citizens at home and abroad. We should strive to have as open a government as possible, but the behavior depicted in the photos has been prohibited and is being investigated. The photos do not depict anything that is not already known. Transparency, and in this case needless transparency, should not be paid for with the lives of American citizens, let alone the lives of our men and women in uniform fighting on our behalf in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
“Let it clearly be understood that without this legislation the photos in question are likely to be released. Such a release would be tantamount to a death sentence to some who are serving our nation in the most dangerous and difficult spots like Iraq and Afghanistan. It is this certain knowledge of these consequences of having the photos released that will cause us to vote against the supplemental and continue our push to turn our important amendment into law.”
Shouldn’t these losers be stumping for John McCain 2010 in Arizona by now?
Lieb, Graham threaten scorched earth on pics [Glenn Thrush]
Obama’s support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law [Glenn Greenwald]
TIME TESTED LOGIC:
It isn’t the acts committed against people that causes harm, but the photo-shoot afterward.
Glenn Thrush is quite a porno-name.
“The photos do not depict anything that is not already known.”
Oh yeah, remember when America was abuzz with talk about our raping detainees? And then Sean Hannity said he was willing to be raped by a soldier to prove it wasn’t so bad?
Fuck you Joe Lieberman and fuck you Lindsey Graham. And Obama’s got to man up. I know it sucks that decades of American stupidity have landed in your lap, but it’s the job you ran for. Good luck.
Imagine when these people discover facebook and how THAT can haunt you after a night of tort-, er, “harsh” sexifying techniques
What kind of torture caused Lieberman’s enormous, melon-shaped head?
I’m surprised they didn’t include a requirement to release the top secret documents that Dick Cheney has been begging to be made public.
Then, the sheer lunacy of their illogic would drive any sane person - i.e., the Democrats - right up the wall.
We should strive to have as open a government as possible, but the behavior depicted in the photos has been prohibited and is being investigated. The photos do not depict anything that is not already known.
My fucking head is going to ’splode. So, the “behavior was prohibited”, but it’s not torture. Who’s investigating it? If we already know what’s in them, why can’t we see them?
Dick Cheney is on my teevee all the time. Where the fuck are we?
Well, if anyone would know about potentially embarrassing photos, it’s Graham
Don’t these two twatwaffles have anything better to do? I mean, isn’t there a male page that hasn’t yet been molested or something?
Lindsey and Joe: Big girls don’t cry.
Our tent is large, but I draw the line at Joe Lieberman. He is a boil on a sarcoma on the testicle of a rabid, ensyphilletic, feces eating possum.
And Lindsay Graham is queer.
Do they realize that Germane is not the name of one of the Jackson brothers?
OK, yeah, rights and tyranny and all that stuff, but someone has to step up and ask the real question here: holy shit, that can’t be a real picture, can it?
Oh, and Newell, props on the alt text…
About as transparent as black paint. Way to follow through, Hopey.
*crickets*
“We will use every power at our disposal to stop the release of these, ahem, ‘detainee abuse’ photos, which we are to understand depict two men, a ‘terrorist detainee’ and a ‘U.S. soldier,’ engaged in various stages of demeaning, humiliating sexual congress. For all we know, these photos are forgeries, produced by America’s enemies to generate ill-will, and using computer Photoshop trickery to make the men to look like handsome U.S. Senators, but nevertheless! They must not be released, for 9/11.”
Denying war funding sounds awfully similar to all the kinds of American-hating tactics that the Dems are always being accused of.
I recently passed something from my “uppper chamber” that closely resembled Liverman’s wrinkly puss.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Actually, I bet they need to pass this amendment to make “celebration night” together more gratifying. It’s for the health of their relationship, really. Also.
Lindsay “The Angry Bottom” Graham is just trying to find a way to suppress the “Lemon Party” photos he took with Lieberman and Arlen Specter.
Idiots. Everyone with half a brain knows the only way you can shut down the Senate is by sending them an envelope containing non-dairy creamer.
Fail.
Um, whatever happened to the Lindsay Graham that’s against torture? Sen. Graham, Sen. McCain, what happened to these principles?
Screw Lieberman, though. That man never even acted like he had principles.
freakishlystrong: Alternative #1: “And Rush was just like ‘Nom nom nom’ all night! I know, right?”
arclight: He digs having those submarines built in his state though, all long and black and wet and everything. Oh, and full of seamen…
Lindsay “The Angry Bottom” Graham is just trying to find a way to suppress the “Lemon Party” photos he took with Lieberman and Arlen Specter.
OH GOD WHERE IS BRAIN BLEACH NOW
What is imagined cannot be un-imagined.
Lemon party!
This is all great and all, but I’m pretty sure most people don’t really know what we did and most of the stuff that came out was quickly denied by the Powers that Be, the people who investigated it slimed by the wingnuts, and not really reported about anyways because OMG Jon & Kate might be breaking up! And, of course, you could say that the people involved are being investigated except for the fact that other than a couple of dumb rednecks who were at Abu Graib, nobody’s been prosecuted for anything and the person mainly responsible for all of this is appearing on every damn news show and defiantly telling everyone to fuck off. They would also make a good point if the two of them stood up and talked about holding hearings about torture or bringing people to trial but as far as I know, they have not.
In other words, those two fucking suck.
I’m just glad we’re over that whole nation of laws business and full into the phase where we make it legally OK to ignore laws that relate to the documentary evidence of the breaking of other laws based on the shrieking of two foppish tit clutchers. Where’s an eagle or flag I can salute.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
IceCreamEmpress: Alt text alternative #2:
Graham: Remember when I did this with your sack?
Lieberman: Haha, how could I forget suh!
Hey Jim! Miller is back!
Miller: YOU FOOL… prepare thyself.
The reality is that Joe and Lindsay don’t want to spend government funds wiping their semen off the photos.
Fiscal conservatism and all that.
What about the photos of Lieberman and Graham with Larry Craig and Mark Foley? Someone said they called such get-togethers “The Graham Cracker Barrell.”
These wacky Congressmen, ya’ know!!!!
I narrowed down the identity of goatse man as either Lieberman or Graham.
Blender:
…or by flying an ultralight through DC airspace.
Scrodd: I’ve actually read an interview with the real Goatse man. He seems well-adjusted for a dude who stretches his anus to the size of a basketball. Probably a Republican official at some level.
Scrodd: then who is tubgirl? I’d say Malkin, but that would be racist.
Already there has been a casualty. Just mentioning this stupid fucking grandstanding tactic has resulted in the instantaneous spontaneous combustion of a Wonkette-registered commenting douche.
Scrodd: The lemonparty dudes are Cornyn and John & Joe McCain.
Jim Newell: The banhammer reigns supreme! I bow before thee, mighty banhammer, and ask that you spare me, though you spare not others! (at least long enough for me to watch their suffering, eh?)
So like when did Lindsey break up with McCain? I missed that- maybe it was the months after the inauguration when I was dedicating myself to working harder and volunteering and not reading Wonkette?
At Chippenndales: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/Liberman_Graham_100208.jpg
You know, Joe Lieberman spent years building his homo-erotic bondage collection, and he will be damned if he is going to allow people to get it for free.
So who in the White House supports this the Graham/Lindsey See-No-Evil bill? I thought that Stephen Hadley moved out of there.
Blender: [i]Scrodd: then who is tubgirl? I’d say Malkin, but that would be racist.[/i]
Michelle Bachman
Mike Steele: I actually had an opossum like that named “Sonny.” If it makes Joe feel any better, there are worse things on a ‘possum’s body than that (see Newt Gingrich).
Decker: amen. BHO, just rip the fuckin’ bandaid off. it’s time. i’ll empty my goddamn piggy bank for you if you make a move on this in the first term. i understand pragmatism, but really. these fuckers still live and breathe freely. and i’m not talking about the terr’ists.
Hooray For Anything: blessed be, brother (or sister). i thought the assholes who perpetrated all these crimes were OUT of fucking power. Lieberman, in the words of mom, needs to take a long walk off a short cliff. he’s a walking empty scrotum.
it’s amazing that Lieberman manages to merge the absolute worst of both parties. he’s really the epitome of all the shitty things about war-shington. chicken hawk? damn right. religious fundy? sure. corporate fellatist? he’s a regular “dental dam” joe. constantly punts on constitutional duties of the legislature? anything to do less. what a stinking pile of worthless shitbag. thanks, connecticut for this shitheel. can you just elect Geno Auriemma next time? he’s a really great guy too. or maybe that equally loathsome jim calhoun. those are three worst representatives of Jews, Italians, and Irish imaginable. And they all have Connecticut in common. I’m declaring War on Connecticut (the NYC exburb).
Will also hold breath til they turn blue.
No jokes–I just fucking hate Joe lieberman.
Transparency, and in this case needless transparency, should not be paid for with the lives of American citizens
Needless transparency – his speech writer should get, or likely has..something –vCJD?
Joe Lieberman gives Connecticut a bad name — which is saying a lot.
These queens doth protest too much. I think there’s probably a photo in there of Lieberman leaving a stain on Lindsay’s dress. (I apologize in advance for every displeasing mental image that my statement evokes.)
They should release the photos one small square at a time, like Hannity’s picture puzzle of Obama and Clinton. Terrists would get so caught up in trying to figure out, e.g., what’s up that guy’s butt, that by the time the whole photo was revealed, they wouldn’t be all stirred up to kill Americans.
Hannity’s picture puzzle: http://wonkette.com/406374/sean-hannitys-dumb-puzzle-solved-immediately
loudmouthredhead: I expect all these photos (especially the rape ones) will turn up on porn sites some time soon.
Zhu Bajie
Blender: Malkin’s the only pundit I can imagine having sex with, but then I have Yellow Fever (which is one reason I live in China).
Zhu Bajie
In all seriousness, do these photos show the rich and powerful at play? Torture’s been well-known for not producing reliable info for millenia. There must be some other powerful reason that they ordered it.
Zhu Bajie
If they did shut it down, would anyone notice?
Zhu Bajie
Gee, US Senators against transparency! If this news trend continues, we might start hearing about the State Department undermining politically appointed ambassadors or the courts taking too much time. Or even foreign countries shipping drugs to the US! It’s a hard news goldmine!
So interigators during the Obama presidency and in the future will know that if the abuse is so vile and pornographic, they will not be screened and investigated as strongly as lesser abuses, Truth is always the best policy. Go got through Abu Ghraib pictures and openness there. This will look like a cover-up and that in itself will be used against us.