You know who is so mad about the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, and how Barack Obama sat around in the SitRoom, eating popcorn and demanding the CIA stand down and let our ambassador, Christopher Stevens, die and get dragged through the streets*? John McCain is so mad about it! He is so mad about it he is even willing to spout fart-scented nonsense from his poo-crusted old man mouth. BUT THEN B. Barry Bamz gave a press conference in which he reminded everyone about 45 times that, in fact, he had won the election and he is the president and y’all might wanna shut your fool poo-mouths, and also he would like to challenge John McCain to go mano a mano, old man! Well neither Lindsey Graham nor John McCain were taking any sass or guff from that one, and immediately started running around with their hair on fire. (But mostly Miss Lindsey.) So what was going on at the very same time as all these many displays of manly cockness? Oh, just the very security briefings on Benghazi that McCain was angrily demanding. Really! At the very same time!
McCain’s people — but not McCain himself, of course, as he was too busy screaming at reporters that they were fucking cunt trollops — say the reason John McCain skipped the Committee on Homeland Security’s intelligence briefing on Benghazi was due to “scheduling error.”
* This “dragged through the streets” canard is one of the worst-faith lies we have ever seen come out of the RWNJ’s collective pieholes, as usually when you drag someone through the streets, you hold them by their arms and legs and … drag them, rather than holding them under the arms so as to keep them up off the ground. Real-time photos have stopped precisely no one from claiming just that. Nothing funny. We’re just sayin’.
[ThinkProgress, via Maddow / Slate]
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Yes, scheduling error…a Senator's "My dog ate it"
Yep. When I was a kid, I never had a dog to credibly blame loss-of-homework on, so I nearly always got that stuff handed in on time.
My cat did cough up a nasty, wet hairball about a foot away from my English assignment once; but no cigar.
You know, he is old. It is just so unfair to ask him to keep his schedule like other people.
Have some respect!
Scheduling error=Matlock marathon
Nah, since they realized Andy was a Commie, all the oldz have switched to Walker, Texas Ranger marathons.
Lindsey Graham that is one ugly lesbian.
if he would be so kind as to pull his hoop skirt over his head and tie it in a knot …
He's such a Maverick that he's completely bucked reality!
If you keep paying attention to this person, he'll never go away.
I'm gonna start using "scheduling error" as an excuse for everything. Late to work? Scheduling error. Blackout drunk at Thanksgiving Dinner? Scheduling error.
Yesh, I men ta be sho-*hic*-burrrrr but I shed–shhhh-shedoo…planned a get drunk tiday…*urp*
Blackout drunk at our Thanksgiving is usually scheduled for about 10:30pm. But what do you expect on a holiday when the first martinis are poured around 4?
That and all the turkey and other overeating doesn't help; in my family everyone pretty much collapses into half-consciousness around 8 right after we finish eating.
Why do you wait so long? Why do you hate America? Don't you know you're supposed to start drinking during the Macy's parade?
In fact, there's a whole Macy's Parade Drinking Game.
Pacific Standard Time. I think the Macy's parade starts before we get up in the morning, so starting the drinking at that time would be problematic.
OTOH, the football games start at a reasonable time for us to enjoy, and then move on to dinner. I'll take that over a televised parade.
Right, like you've never woken up early to drink….
Well, he never said the first martini was the first drink…
Noon (or so) in the Flagass household. Slacker.
How the hell do you last so long? My folks served Thanksgiving dinner around 3 growing up (ie just after the late NFL game on the West Coast) and the drinking began well before then. You and yours must have livers the size of French geese.
I've always wondered how Meghan was conceived.
Every spring, the McCains spawn when he swims over her.
The new Republican playbook. If they can't steal the election, they go for impeachment. It is a shame that Dems aren't as vicious. Bush and Cheney would be in the Hague.
Ideally, they'd be in Spandau Prison.
(OK, I know it's closed, but I'd be game to have it reopened for those two)
Listening to Spandau Ballet, too, of course.
Can't do that, it'd constitute torture. And we wanna be legal, right?
I know that much is true.
OW!
Da da da DAHHH dah
With a thrill in my hand and a pill on my tongue.
Republicans do not like democracy. Clinton wins, they impeach. Gore wins, they go to SCOTUS to call it for Dubya. Voting restrictions to cut participation. Saying Obama won because of some media conspiracy instead of "being better". They just don't like what happens when people vote.
That's because when people vote, Republicans lose.
There's still a chance – some Spanish prosecutor with a hair up his ass will get them indicted ala Pinochet in 10 years or so (especially now that Darth Cheney has a new heart/isn't going to kick it as soon as hoped) and then President Loquicia Martinez may or may not give a shit about protecting them.
Bamz really needs to do a better job of hiding his contempt for McCain
Why? Most people don't.
Or he needs to do a better job of displaying it. One or the other.
I dunno. I'm pretty OK with it.
McCain has earned it, trying to keep his streak of Sunday morning talk shows alive despite his utter irrelevance to actual legislating.
It's hard to hide the howls of laughter that are caused by Walnuts' idiotic rants.
Johnny had to take his old man nap.
Yes he did, but think of some other old men who have lost a Presidential race. Walter Mondale, Bush 1, until a few weeks ago George McGovern, Jimmy Carter. Maybe being old is the least of Walnut's problems. What a pathetic specimen of a human being, let alone a leader.
So Walnuts, when are you going to finish answering questions about the Keating Five?
Remember when Lyndz and McRantyPants gnashed their teeth and accused Bush of incompetence and "Watergate style hearings" after Dubya lied us in to war?
Me neither.
But there were more than four people killed in Iraq, so it wasn't worth the Senate's time.
And they confirmed the other Rice as Secretary of State after her "stellar" performance as National Security Chief.
Thank you, I was wondering the same thing.
And remember when they held Watergate-style hearings about the 30+ people killed in 7 attacks on US embassies during the Dubya administration?
Yeah, me neither.
Grandstanding plane crashing moron acts like a grandstanding moron! Fighting with Mitt to see who gets to occupy the very bottom of the GOP barrel, with Lindsay.
power-bottom Lindsay.
mittens has used linday as lubricant from time to time …
"She's not qualified," is what the plane crashing moron says of Susan Rice.
Coming from a man who placed this on his ticket:
But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Helping the — Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. Shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americas. And trade we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive scary thing. But 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. ALl those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that. – Sarah Palin explaining the Wall Street bailout to Katie Couric, 2008
Good god. I used to know something about the Wall Street bailout, and that passage somehow robbed me of that knowledge.
She was a beauty contestant.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Miss Lindsey fluffed her gingham dress and started warming up the santorum for her tryst with Smeagol.
Is Smeagol Jim De Mint's porn name?
Yes, my preciousssss.
I can just see her boiling water over a woodburning stove then toting it in pails to the big iron washtub so she can soap up her man when he's home from workin'.
Miss Lindsey fluffed her gingham dress
OK, so who is that, "Her Gingham Dress"? Else why would he be fluffing him?
while sipping from buckets of sherry , like a lady …
Disingenuous, adjective: the entire fucking Republican party.
In other words, John McCain is still John McCain. Poor old fucker ages as well as a box of Franzia.
And this is not-so-good news, for John McCain.
So, what you're saying is I should just take that box of 1985 Franzia White Zin out of the cellar and drink it now?
Just save it for your Republican friends. Trust me, they won't notice the difference.
What do you suggest if we have no republican friends? Drink that swill ourselves or mix it with the sump oil of their Hummers?
Well, then you are a lucky person. Franzia also makes great windshield cleaning fluid for Vettes.
I would have said Boone's Farm.
Oh Johnny! Just because Obama is the first black President, you'll always be the first white man to lose to a black President.
I've got to admit, I'd never thought about it that way before. Thank you.
Poor Mittens can't even get *that* distinction.
In the haze of Johnny's dementia, his butt hurt felt all to real again last Tuesday.
Leave Walnuts alone. He was trying to save the US Amercia economy.
"…and the South Africica and Dia-rak"
like such as
These fuckers are really gonna freak the fuck out when they find out that Michelle Obama is a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother and Barack is the Kwisatz Haderach.
OMG!
MALIA = ALIA – M, for….well, something!
Muslim!!!
Muad Dib!
Malia and Sasha = the new, improved Spice Girls?
*hides*
Tell me of the waters of your homeworld, B'rack? I guess it could work.
"The pure waters originate from the snowmelt of Mount Kilimanjaro."
Only there is no more snowmelt on Mt. Kilamanjaro – so he was clearly lying about his powers.
And that picture. It says it all, and never gets old, bitches.
I'd like to drag Walnuts and Miss Lindsey through the streets. With Votes!
While they are in drag?
lindsay , while riding through the streets in her sedan chair , carried on the shoulders of matching baggers , was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes by the vulgar peasants ….
Why not a tank?
I say we run Barry against McCain again, and watch him beat his ass. Again.
WITH VOTES.
I bet if you polled the country, 99 percent of Americans would have no idea what or where Benghazi is. The RWNJ can't win on taxes, they can't win on job creation, they can't win on birth certificates, college grades or whether Michelle or Ann wears a pink dress better, and this is literally all they have left. Sorry, I can't even drum up snark on this. Just…sigh.
They're doing their very best to "manufacture" a scandal. So far, tho – no takers…
Well now we've got the two narratives they'll be using from now on: 1) Obama won because he gave "minorities" free stuff; 2) Benghazi was all Obama's fault and he should be impeached. STAT.
If you could actually talk to any of these posters- they could say nothing more than this. They couldn't say what Obama gave anyone or what Benghazi is/what happened- or who was involved
Is your avatar Clara Bow or Louise Brooks?
Louise Brooks.
It gives their idjit minions on The Facebook something to snarl about, because that's all they know how to do. Gawd forbid they actually try to work on solutions to anything real.
I'm surprised they haven't mentioned Vince Foster yet.
BECAUSE MICHELLE KNOWS.
"I bet if you polled the country, 99 percent of Americans would have no idea what or where Benghazi is."
Benghazi = Obama did a bad, bad thing, or didn't do a bad, bad thing; and should be impeached immediately because blah.
Perhaps Barry Bamz should suggest that Walnutz and Miss Lindsey enjoy a
ménagemenagerie à trois with Shrub's pet goat?Four years later, McCain is still yelling at Obama to get off the White House lawn.
Apparently John McCain doesn't like to be told he's wrong. No wonder he comes off as the angriest motherfucker in Congress.
He also suspended his campaign. so selfless
Gesundheit!
"Get off my [White House] lawn!"
Apparently he only starts screaming such after everyone has already got off it.
It's like the Democrats keep painting the solid white line on the road that runs into the fake tunnel hole that's painted on the side of the wall, and the Rethuglicans keep running on into it.
They might just as well paint a big ACME® on the Rethuglican platform, too.
Wile E. Coyote snickers.
Lindsey, John and Peaches.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamfollower/88473…
erratta….yep shoulda been Ham Biscuits, Walnuts, and Peaches.
Was that from the trip where he walked around a marketplace in the Green Zone and declared Baghdad safe because he only needed 100 troops and two gunships to protect him?
Jesus, these idiots really doing everything they can to manufacture fake scandals for the Obama administration, even though there's nothing there. And now that he's cruised to reelection, just like Clinton after 96 they'll get much worse. A bunch of whiny sore losers, the lot of them.
Be ready for the $50,000,000 investigation into the great Leaving-the-toilet-seat-up, or Toiletgate, scandal.
Oh. And for fuck's sake.
Scheduling error's my new favorite thing. Nothing I like better than making this should-be-dead-by-now dipshit look like the raving lunatic screaming WHERE'S MY HOSENFEFFER???-while-everyone's-eating-already-asshole he is. So fucking great.
spout fart-scented nonsense from his poo-crusted old
Say no more. Luke Russert is ON IT
John McCain shot down twice over Vietnam,and once over America.A true GOP Ace.My guess his wingman took him out both times.Then it was Sarah Palins turn.
McCain is a reverse ace, having lost five aircraft he was piloting. If he hadn't been made a POW, we'd probably have no Air Force left.
There was actually a scheduling error. Somebody forgot to schedule a time to check John in to a nursing home.
So McCain missed the briefing due to a "scheduling error". But what kind of error was it that made him think a vapid incompetent screeching moronic famewhore was somehow qualified to be Vice-President of the United States?
Also a scheduling error. His 9am "Make intelligent decision" got mixed up with his 9pm "Thoroughly embarrass self in front of everyone."
Obama's dick so big, he gave McCain a concussion when he smacked him upside the head with it.
I think the big scheduling error was McCain forgetting to take his Metamucil.
Really, really, he's not straining. He always looks like that.
As Will Rogers once said, "I never metamucil I didn't like"
HENGHHHH? Be on teevee or go to an important briefing? A: Be on teevee, of course! Every time!
I'm hearing him in my head now. Thanks for the awful, horrible laff.
Maverick, huh?
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DUKE CUNNINGHAM LIBEL!!1!!. Wait, what?
You can be my snarkman any time.
Republicans! How do they work? Four Americans tragically killed on 9/11 is Obama's treason. Three thousand Americans killed on another 9/11 is Dubya's coronation.
So what was going on at the very same time as all these many displays of manly cockness? Oh, just the very security briefings on Benghazi that McCain was angrily demanding. Really! At the very same time!
[Exit Credibility stage right]
There's no business like snow business like no business I know!
Those old male Republican operatives seem to be awfully obsessed with this "Ben Ghazi" fellow. I thought they were against gay marriage?
McCain is our generation's Bob Dole, except that Bob Dole at least had enough of a sense of humor to be in dick pill commercials.
Oh go to bed old man!
John Mccain is still alive. Didn't he crash in an airplane? Or two?
Hell apparently is still on "catch and release."
wait – Walnuts is still alive?!
It's hard to tell…
Too bad about the angriness, they seem like a nice couple.
Can't they see he's too busy trying to be concerned to bother being informed?
"Please proceed, Senator."
I wonder how long a petition for a *swift kick to Walnut's nuts or Ham Biscuit's biscuits would last on that official petition site thing?
*With votes.
Shorter John McCain:
"Don't they know who I think I am?"
Bite me, dude.
I like how in that picture he is both drawn to Bamz' butt and repulsed by it at the same time.
Sorry Repubs, pretty much nobody gives a flying fuck about Benghazi. "Just sayin'"
Heh heh…thanks for the pic, Wonkette. Laughing through my tears, now, after seeing that BBC journalists's little baby on WaPo.
Oh, and “dragged through the streets”? Fuck you, GOP…
ironically john mccain is the one person in the senate who can actually speak with authority about being beaten by mobs and dragged through the streets, since it happened to him in vietnam in 1968 and then again in south carolina in 2000
I knew it, the shirtless FBI agent is banging Cindy. It all makes sense now.
My granddad is 96, and he sometimes misses important meetings too.
My granddad is 90, a WWII fighter pilot and former POW, and described McCain, back during the 2009 election, as being "crazier than a rat in a tin can."
Scheduling error = short-term memory loss = dementia.
Yes, the Benghazi incident surely was a thing. A thing where mortar fire killed an ex-navy seal, and a thing that could have been prevented by installing these at every embassy and deploying a platoon or company of Marines at every embassy worldwide. Impeach, indeed.
Pity about those funding cuts in US embassy security. Who was responsible for that, again?
I would be mentioning that every single time I could if I was the 'bama. (Or one of his mouthpieces.)
replace all embassies with 100-story Mobile Oppression Palaces
I was thinking of putting them underground, perhaps into the sides of mountains. All of them. Or putting up signs that read "No frontal infantry assaults backed with heavy weapons and supporting fire."
Not just embassies, though, but even consulates in backwaters where the populace has better access to heavy weapons than the Marines would and fortifying the compound like the Iraq Green Zone might just defeat the purpose of fucking having the consulate in the first place.
Of course, we don't have large uniformed barracks presence in the actually dangerous places anymore precisely because losing contractors is less of a PR problem than flag draped caskets coming into Dover, but let's not have that get in the way of
Panamanian strongman Juan McCain's ravings.
Dipshit old man is a dipshit.
I think we are missing the point: Obama is a black muslim.
MUSLIN!! Spell it rite, dammit.
Someone should get McCain a banjo. You can't be that grumpy strumming on a banjo.
McCain must be installed as president before December 12 to fulfill the Mayan doomsday prophecy.
This will never work if Bronco Bammer doesn't try and form personal relationships with these GOPers. That's all Petreaus and Allen were doing with those non-spousal womenz.
Condi Rice. Smoking gun. Mushroom Cloud. 4,000 dead American soldiers. What was the vote on her nomination again? Fuck you, McCain.
Lady Lindsey is up for reelection in 2014, that's why he's starting in with his lilting voice. All the teabaggers in upstate South Cackilacky are fired up to get him thrown out of the senate,because he is such a liberal pantywaist. Neither way works. Teabaggers will get elected down here. Moderates? No.
On a related note, it's a good thing that they gave McCain another plane after he fucked up in the Forrestal incident. Otherwise we wouldn't have had 5 1/2 years of prison shit.
Helps when your dad is a four-star admiral. Helps a lot..
Grand-dad, also, too.
… scheduling error …
Walnuts must be part of the 47% that will never take responsibility for their lives.
Only in GOP Land could friendly people carrying the ambassador to the hospital be turned into "He was dragged through the streets! Worse than Watergate! ARGLE BARGLE!!"
Sigh. Why do I pay attention to this shit?
But they were BROWN PEOPLE and hence Al Queda, doncha know? Just common sense solutions, pew pew!
You pay attention for the same reason people watch reality TV – you want to reassure yourself that you aren't as stupid as the rest of the world, and the GOP provides it over and over again (even as it depresses you to realize they can't seem to ever fucking learn).
Walnuts is butt-hurt because the GOP just got 'dragged through the streets' by a black man, with votes.
Just tell him it's Condi, not Susan Rice. He can't tell them apart, he'll shut up then.
Ben Gazzara is dead, right?
"I'm tired as hell and I'm not going to stay awake anymore!!"
Remember how the other day everybody around here was quoting Kurt Vonnegut?
Here's one for McCain and Graham, from his novel Slapstick:
“Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut?
Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?”
I wonder if the French consider the abysmal 1982 movie version starring Jerry Lewis to be holy scripture?
Someone needs to alert the orderlies that one of their charges is out wandering the streets in his bathrobe.
It was obvious that the White House was lying about it being a terrorist attack when the terrorists
hung our ambassador from a bridgetook him to a hospital.Hey back in '08 everyone said John McCain would be dead by 2012. That he wouldn't even be around to say stupid shit. So let's giving him some credit for, technically, still being alive.
2012?
If he'd won, he would have "died in his sleep" a week later, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
Am I naive, or did Walnuts at one time make some degree of sense (for a rethuglican, mind you) with all his maverickiness? He certainly lost his shit with the whole Palin selection… but sometime before that I thought he could be counted on to at least not be a wingnut. Must be the dry heat down there in AZ baking his brain.
Arizona (and Florida) you're free to leave.
Senator, you have a scheduling conflict. Your supposed to be in your office for a Depends update.
Four years later, and John McCain is STILL not president.
Hazmat crew was called to his office, too much spilled gin on the desk and don't even look in the trash can…
This is the best the GOP's got? They truly are a party bankrupt of ideas.
McCain is irate because he thought it was an attack on Ben-Gay.
This is good News for John McCain…wait..no it isn't.
Will McCain heroically suspend his campaign and fly back to Libya to sort this out?
So I gather McWalnuts crashing jets into wherever was also a scheduling error? Frackin hero my ass.
I hope President Obama throws this grandstanding nonsense into Songbird's face at every opportunity. Extra points if he mentions picking Palin and the Keating Five.
He may be old and bitter, but he is one handsome piece of man flesh. BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA!
Suggested alt-text:
"Jeee-ZUSS, Barry! WARN me when you're about to cut one!"
PAULIE Walnuts has more on the ball than Walnuts.
Paraphrasing, "have you no shame …" (apparently not)
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