For the love of everything Holy, please find something useful for these people to do. They have been at this all damned day. Fix potholes, serve in Iraq, give blood. Anything. I have an old rubiks cube lying around somewhere if that will occupy them.
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Seriously, this from the bottom of the first post I linked, is classic:
The finger pointing about who attended what hearing when seems besides the point anyways.
Both men have been AWOL from their day jobs for most of the past two years while they are running for president.
Any guess why they are finger pointing? Maybe because a certain band of idiots has devoted a large chunk of time and bandwidth covering the “finger pointing?” I dunno. Just a guess.
This will only get worse in August.
harlana pepper
Personally, I was delighted and proud to learn that Jim DeMint can write a letter.
jake
You’re just jealous John. We know you wish you were a hotshot like Jake Fapper and got paid the big bucks to do nothing but drool on your keyboard and respond to what other people have drooled on their keyboards:
dbt
harlanna: which one? “A”?
daphne
Tapper has a comment section that makes commenting meaningless. Almost as bad as Ben at Politico.
Complete crap, both above and below the fold for both of them.
cleek
that first link, “…hearing-gate-ex…”. yeah…when i see the prefix “gate-“, i reach for my revolver.
fuck the press and their fake scandals.
cleek
oh… and fuck automatic text markup that doesn’t show up in preview.
skippy
nice, john! i, too, like to link to multiple memeorandum pieces to increase my traffic!
John Cole
LOL Skippy. That wasn’t my intent.
Enlightened Layperson
Hear hear!
Enlightened Layperson
Hear hear!
Enlightened Layperson
Best election commentary I have read yet!
daphne
skippy, you reminded me. And thanks. There are other blogs. some of them quite nice blogs.
thanks
Ninerdave
Liberal media? No…Trivial Media!
Big E
the next ‘logical and enlightened outcry’ will be about
who, uses which hand to wipe their ass.. and why it’s not patriotic.
Punchy
It’s hard to make those meetings with a 8 pm bedtime, and married to some c#nt who wont prepare breakfast unless it comes in capsule form.
cain
We need some trolls. We never get any McCain trolls here I notice. We get Bush twats back in the day. But I guess nobody can be bothered to defend McCain.
cain
cain
Ouch. Remind me not to get you pissed off.
cain
skippy
lol! that wasn’t my intent, i wuz jes’ jokin’!
in fact, balloon juice is one of three blogs i read daily (other than my own).
the others i just frequent to blogwhore.
jon
The media will parrot things or make them up. Which is better? I’m still looking for the actual criteria used to determine that whatever candidate the Democrats nominate is the “Mostest Liberal _______ Evah!” (with Senator, Governor, SAG President, or whatever in the blank.) There will be stories about which candidate missed the most meetings, as if meetings have anything to do with getting things done in DC. Really, do you think Charlie Rangel does anything else buy ask questions seventeen hours a day? And accomplishes what? I guess he keeps Administration officials from doing their jobs, which is a good thing. But does it make him the best Administrator of the country? I don’t think so.
McCain and Obama are both running for President. They’ll miss a lot of vitally important votes timed just so they’ll not be there. Also, they’ll be fundraising rather than petting their cats and dogs, which is as bad as kicking them. And ignoring their wives, which will be the new accusation against Obama since his wife isn’t going on his foreign tour. Of course if he brought his wife and kids to Afghanistan, I might think of him as an abusive asshole. On the other hand, Cindy McCain can fly her private plane over the entire Afghan/Pakistani border region for all I care, but only if she drops empty beercans and prescription bottles on the citizenry.
Sarcastro
Meanwhile, Obama attended the full Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan in March 2007, although he used the opportunity to ask Gen. James L. Jones, then the commander of NATO, about Pakistan.
Nice.
Obama chairs the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which has oversight of military operations in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has nothing to do with Afghanistan because, apparently, Afghanistan is in Europe.
The success of Afghanistan is critical to the future of NATO …
Somewhere in Europe bordering on the North Atlantic. I think it’s right next to Belgium now.
…Central Command — which overseas U.S. troops in Afghanistan
I thought that was the European Affairs Subcommittee!
There was also hearing on June 7, 2007, on the nomination of Gen. Douglas Lute to be the White House war czar with oversight over Afghanistan.
I thought that was CentCom!