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The GOP Outreach Continues at Full Speed

by John Cole

The National Republican Congressional Committee is urging Gen. Stanley McCrystal to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in her place” for weighing in on Afghanistan—prompting one female Pelosi ally to blast the House GOP as “80 percent male,” “100 percent white”—and completely out of touch.

On Monday night, Pelosi told Charlie Rose “should go up the line of command” instead of publicly opining on strategy—prompting a swift, sneering reaction from the GOP committee.

Mocking the first female speaker as “General Pelosi,” an NRCC spokesman wrote, “If Nancy Pelosi’s failed economic policies are any indicator of the effect she may have on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope McCrystal is able to put her in her place.”

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), who is close to Pelosi, could barely contain her anger.
“I think the place for a woman is at the top of the House of Representatives,” said Wasserman Schultz.

Pelosi is, of course, 100% correct. I kind of happen to think that McCrystal was kind of screwed anyway you looked at it when he was in London, because his report had been leaked and people knew what he thought already- he had no choice but to answer the way he did to that question. On the larger point, though, Pelosi is completely correct. He should be going through the chain of command with his opinions and plans. No one who has ever spent more than a few hours in the military would dispute this.

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76 Responses to “The GOP Outreach Continues at Full Speed”

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October 6th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
calipygian

No one who has ever spent more than a few hours in the military would dispute this.

That’s why so many GOOPers do.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
burnspbesq

I’ve never quite been able to figure out why so many progressives harbor such scorn and anger for Pelosi. To my way of thinking, she is doing a difficult job, and doing it pretty damned well. And as you correctly point out, on this particular issue she is dead on.

In other news, Rush Dimbulb is part of a group that is negotiating to buy a majority stake in the St. Louis Rams. Hard to imagine a better reason to hate a sports team.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Makewi

So, you’d rather just distract everyone from remembering that under the Bush regime it was Pelosi saying that the administration should be listening to the generals. Perfect opportunity to wave the red flags of sexism, classism or misogyny.

McCrystal is just playing the time honored game of CYA, knowing that Obama is going to dither and then look for a scapegoat. Hey, wasn’t this Obama’s hand picked commander for the “real war”?
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
calipygian

What is McChrystal talking directly to the President for anyway? Isn’t that why we have a Theater Commander (Petraeus) and a SecDef (Gates)?

What happened to the chain of command? Last time I checked, Patton didn’t have audiences with FDR.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Derelict

No one who has ever spent more than a few ours in the military would dispute this.

Which tells you exactly why the RNC is disputing it.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
DougJ

So, you’d rather just distract everyone from remembering that under the Bush regime it was Pelosi saying that the administration should be listening to the generals. Perfect opportunity to wave the red flags of sexism, classism or misogyny.

I realize you’re a spoof, but it’s worth remembering—the idea of generals putting civilian leaders “in their place” is completely contrary to the set-up of our democracy here. I would never, ever have dreamed of saying that Shinseki should put Bush—or Hastert—in his place.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
KG

call me crazy, but I’m thinking if someone is two heartbeats away from being commander-in-chief, then their opinion should carry a not insignificant amount of weight.

@Makewi: um, there really isn’t any inconsistency here. President talks to generals, generals talk to president, two way street. Military strategy isn’t exactly something that should be developed in the public arena.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
KG

@KG: oh, and what DougJ said.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Skippy

Well he could at least be specific about the place Pelosi belongs. Does he mean the home, the kitchen, or in a compromising position with a GOP elected official?

“~~Nancy Pelosi’s~~ Bush’s failed economic policies ~~are~~ were an indicator of the effect ~~she may have~~ he had on Afghanistan, taxpayers can only hope ~~McCrystal is able to put her in her place.~~ there is a special place in hell reserved for him.”

Fixed (I hope that’s turned out the way I wanted it to).
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
calipygian

@DougJ:

I would never, ever have dreamed of saying that Shinseki should put Bush—or Hastert—in his place.

Actually, Shinseki isn’t the operative example here. The operative example is Petraeus when he was in overall command in Iraq and he DID put Bush in his place…indirectly, through proxies.

Which the nut-bags on the Weakly Standard right roundly applauded.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Sirkowski

The military should put the government “in its place”???
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
burnspbesq

@Makewi:

So, you’d rather just distract everyone from remembering that under the Bush regime it was Pelosi saying that the administration should be listening to the generals. Perfect opportunity to wave the red flags of sexism, classism or misogyny.

Are you actually this dense, or is it for effect?

There is no inconsistency—none whatsoever—between saying that an Administration should be listening to the generals and saying that generals should be speaking to the Administration through normal channels, rather than allowing (or worse, participating in) leaks that have the apparent objective of tying NCA’s hands.

And if you don’t think that the House Republican caucus is a nest of sexism, classism, and misogyny, you really aren’t paying attention.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
WyldPiratd

If Obama didn’t have a Come to Jeebus meeting with McChrystal on the tarmac in Copenhagen, then we have problems in the White House.

The fucking military are trying to roll Obama liked the rolled Clinton. These general officers with the big mouths need to shut their yaps to the press when it comes to policy.

Personally, I would shit-canned McChrystal for running his mouth.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
New Yorker

Of course the wignuts think generals should put civilian leaders in their place. I mean, haven’t you ever read what these “freedom lovers” say about Augusto Pinochet? They want to have his children.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Skippy

Yay it did. I really wish there was a preview option here though.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Sirkowski

Pelosi saying that the administration should be listening to the generals.

Listening ≠ Obey
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Makewi

@DougJ:

BS. You all were fine and dandy with military commanders giving Bush advice you agreed with, but now that the shoe is on the other foot is suddenly inexcusable. Worse, you just can’t help yourselves but to make every disagreement into some larger proof of the evil racist, sexist, classist heart of the republicans.

It is what it is. The arguments are the same, only the justifications and the names have changed.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
gwangung

Are you actually this dense, or is it for effect?

Effect. Makewi’s always admitted that she’s thrown up shit against the wall, relying on the quantity over quality strategy. Probably hoping that everyone else is dumber than she is—-and it’s painfully clear she’s never had any command time….
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Betsy

@New Yorker:
Given that these are the ones cheering on the Honduran coup, I would tend to agree with you.

The fact that she’s a woman just makes her authority all the more unbearable for them. Ha. WATBs, the lot of them.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
matoko_chan

the House GOP as “80 percent male,” “100 percent white”—and completely out of touch.

and 100% christian/mormon/evangelical.
can a religious political party survive in the 21st century?
Or will the GOP devolve into a noxious hive of fascists like the European Christian Democrat Party?
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
gwangung

It is what it is. The arguments are the same,

Nah, it isn’t. We’re all too smart to swallow that; kinda insulting that you think we’re that dumb.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
kommrade reproductive vigor

Gosh. Republicans playing You and Him Should Fight.

Never seen that before.

“80 percent male,” “100 percent white”

And the dick scabs will start whining about mean nasty racist DemoncRATs in 5…4…3…
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
calipygian

The fact that she’s a woman just makes her authority all the more unbearable for them. Ha. WATBs, the lot of them.

I actually wish it weren’t a woman. I wish it were an openly gay man. For the lulz.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Warren Terra

“80 percent male,” “100 percent white”—and completely out of touch.

Um, I’m not the world expert on the GOP house caucus, but I do remember the existence of Joseph Cao. He may be a total fluke, only elected because of Dollar Bill Jefferson (and, sadly, I’ve seen no evidence that Cao is seizing this opportunity to behave as a genuine centrist, which would make him interesting) – but he’s not white.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Makewi

@burnspbesq:

Oh there is some denseness around here, that is for sure. Perhaps you can show me the Democrats calling for the generals criticizing Bush’s war effort in the press to go through proper channels?
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
gwangung

@Warren Terra: Us Asians are considered honorary whites for most racial purposes….
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
gwangung

@Warren Terra: Us Asians are considered honorary whites for most racial purposes….
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
calipygian

The fucking military are trying to roll Obama liked the rolled Clinton. These general officers with the big mouths need to shut their yaps to the press when it comes to policy.

Personally, I would shit-canned McChrystal for running his mouth.

Personally, I would never have appointed that shit bag because of his role in the Pat Tillman coverup.

Somehow, he thought it was right and honorable to lie on Tillman’s Silver Star citation about how he was cut down by devastating enemy fire, but a few days later sent a secret “personal for” up the chain saying he was killed by friendly fire.

If that doesn’t indict the man’s honor and basic honesty, I don’t know what does.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Makewi

@gwangung:

Actually, my problem is in thinking that you can look at any subject with even a hint of objectivity.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Omnes Omnibus

If I have the command structure right, McCrystal reports to Petraeus who reports to the Army Chief of Staff who reports to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who reports to the SecDef who reports to the President. Obama can reach down and talk to anyone, but things go up through the chain. Unless the Army has changed since I left in ‘92.

Moreover, listening to the generals does not mean obeying the generals. It should not be that hard to understand.

Ignorant fucksticks.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Warren Terra

@Warren Terra: Us Asians are considered honorary whites for most racial purposes….

Hm. Not sure how to respond to that. Then again, as a Jew I was raised not to consider myself White, even though Jews are treated as White nowadays (well, outside of some parts of the South) – perhaps because in my parents’ youth, pre-Vatican II, Jews were still not really treated as White, with restricted housing, employment, and school admission still being commonplace.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Omnes Omnibus

@Makewi: You mean the retired generals, right? Different animal.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Skippy

The only Republican woman in the House I can think of is Michele Bachmann. So I’m guessing being batshit crazy is a requirement the GOP have for their female representatives, which makes sense seeing a woman would have to be insane to be a member of a party which hates her and wants total control over her body and mind.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Omnes Omnibus

@Skippy: Jean Schmidt, also.

On edit: There is the crazy death panel lady from SC, I forget her name, as well. But, like you said, crazy.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
gwangung

@Makewi: Nah. Your problem is that some of us know a tad more about the military and how the command structure is set up than what your arguments are implying. All the BS in the world can’t cover that up.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
DougJ

You all were fine and dandy with military commanders giving Bush advice you agreed with, but now that the shoe is on the other foot is suddenly inexcusable.

It’s their fucking job to give him advice, you idiot. The same it’s their job to give Obama advice. (Some may quibble it be done thru Sec Def or whatever, but you know what I mean.)

Come on, better spoofing.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
gwangung

Hm. Not sure how to respond to that.

With the usual snark on snark repartee.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
DougJ

Oh, do you mean the retired generals, Makewi?
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Skippy

@Omnes Omnibus: Ah yes. And yep, Schmidt fits the crazy bill as she’s a seekrit Birfer, IIRC.

Actually, I’m being unfair to the GOP. Insanity is a requirement for ALL members, not just women. Now that’s equal opportunity you can believe in.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
curious

i gasped reading the phrase “put her in her place.” how disgusting. why is this childish, petty, bullying language even remotely acceptable from public officials?

i listened to bit of cspan’s washington journal this morning and was pleasantly surprised to hear near unanimity among the callers on the importance of the chain of command. perhaps this attack won’t go over as well as the nrcc hopes, at least among people who actually have any familiarity with the military. or non-junta forms of government.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Omnes Omnibus

@Skippy: ... and good news for John McCain.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
jayackroyd

I actually am with dday here

I think the problem is not with military officials expressing their opinions, and, frankly, broadening public discussion, but with the media adopting an authoritarian line that whatever the military says we must do.

This is especially bad because the military tends to see military solutions as the best ones. Think Curtis LeMay during the Cuban missile crisis. Batshit crazy proposals from the military should be aired publicly, as should more measured ones, as should Noam Chomsky’s positions.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Skippy

@curious:

why is this childish, petty, bullying language even remotely acceptable from public officials?

Because we have the worst free media in the world who don’t call them out on this shit, and 9 times out of 10 the Dems don’t have the backbone to call these pigs the racists/misogynists/liars that they are, so it gets overlooked by America At Large.
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October 6th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Makewi

@DougJ:

First, it isn’t their job to give him advice in the press. Second, Pelosi deserves to be called out for her two faced approach on Afghanistan. It’s funny to watch you all twist this into something sexist though. When the only tool you have is a hammer….
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
aimai

Makewi isn’t a woman, is she? Because I don’t object to the twisted politics and the incoherent posts so much as I do to the sheer stupidty of all its positions and I really don’t want to believe that she’s batting on my team. I mean, come on! Please let Makewi be a man. She’s making all of us look bad.

aimai
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Skippy

@Makewi:

“Just from what little I’ve seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they’re a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they’re uppity.”

I suppose we were twisting Lynn Westmoreland’s words into racism, too.

There are certain phrases which have such obvious sexist/racist connotations that there’s simply no other way to interpret them. This crap about ‘putting Pelosi (a woman) in her place’ is a prime example of this.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

@Makewi:

Please provide a source for when “Pelosi (was) saying that the administration should be listening to the generals” during the Bush administration.

“...Perhaps you can show me the Democrats calling for the generals criticizing Bush’s war effort in the press to go through proper channels?”

Which active duty generals criticized Bush’s war effort outside the proper channels? Please provide a source.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Ash Can

That’s OK, the GOP will always have Phyllis Schlafly as its token female. I understand she hates women.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Napoleon

@Skippy:

Virginia Fox is another of their female crazies.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
LD50

@Makewi: I’m sure Gwangung is just crushed not to have your approval.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
DougJ

First, it isn’t their job to give him advice in the press.

I don’t recall any active duty generals giving Bush advice in the press.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Tonal Crow

OT: (Via The Great Orange Satan):

For years, the wingnuts have claimed that the Bible is the literal word of God, and that it supports conservative ideology. Problem is, the actual Bible hasn’t been as hateful and bigoted as they’ve wished, and really, cherrypicking the right passages while ignoring other salient ones is hard work! So conservatives, rather than adjust their belief structure to better line up with the actual Bible, have decided to rewrite it and eliminate liberal “bias”....

Among other things, they say:

The earliest, most authentic manuscripts lack this verse set forth at Luke 23:34:[7] Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” Is this a liberal corruption of the original? This does not appear in any other Gospel, and the simple fact is that some of the persecutors of Jesus did know what they were doing. This quotation is a favorite of liberals but should not appear in a conservative Bible.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Gwangung

@LD50: Whimper, whimper.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
ericblair

@Makewi: Perhaps you can show me the Democrats calling for the generals criticizing Bush’s war effort in the press to go through proper channels?

Mind pointing out where an active-duty general officer did this? And if you mean Shinseki, he gave his troop estimate in a session of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

This is bad because it completely screws up any objective analysis of the situation by the operational chain of command, because now everything is politicized into either a public smackdown of McChrystal or Obama. Plus, the Afganistan order of battle is complicated since NATO is technically the lead, and if McChrystal is mouthing off without the rest of ISAF leadership, CENTCOM, and Joint Staff leadership on board he’s way out of bounds.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Tonal Crow

McChrystal is out of line here. He’s active duty, and knows damned well to communicate up the chain of command, which is there to ensure that civilians control the military, and not the converse. Obama should slap the guy silly, if not can his ass. And no, there’s no parallel to the many retired generals who criticized Dubya’s Excellent Misadventures, nor to Shinseki, who was called before Congress to testify.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
sidereal

No one who has ever spent more than a few hours in the military would dispute this.

Actually, I mocked up the entire scenario in a sandbox at 1:30 scale and it proved beyond a doubt that it was impossible for McCrystal to go up the chain of command there and that Pelosi should go back into the kitchen and make him some pie.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Ash

I read the profile of McChrystal in Time (or it may have been Newsweek) and I watched him on 60 minutes, and since I have no clue how the military actually operates, my only contribution to this discussion is that he seems kind of strange.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
burnspbesq

@Makewi:

If you can show me an active- duty officer slagging NCA in the media, I will supply the matches, the kindling, and the stake. IIRC, the generals who went public with criticism of Bush were all retired. Small but meaningful difference.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Tsulagi

@calipygian: Exactly.

Not sure why McChrystal was in London. His job is in AF-PAK. If he is not there, it should be because he is conferring with senior military/political leadership elsewhere at their request. His job is not holding press conferences or 60 Minutes interviews discussing his preferences in impending policy decisions unless directed to do so by the SecDef or President. I’m guessing that’s not the situation this time as Gates when asked about McChrystal’s London musings said the general should speak and give his opinions candidly to the President, but privately.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
calipygian

And no, there’s no parallel to the many retired generals who criticized Dubya’s Excellent Misadventures, nor to Shinseki, who was called before Congress to testify.

And not only was Shinseki shit canned because of his testimony soon after, that classless piece of shit Rumsfeld didn’t even have the common decency to attend the guy’s retirement ceremony.

Are all Bushies classless pieces of shit?
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Mike in NC

Are all Bushies classless pieces of shit?

Affirmative!
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
slag

The funny thing about @Makewi’s infinite supply of moran-ness here is that John Cole didn’t say anything about sexism. He just said Pelosi’s right. It was Politico (that liberal rag) that brought up the totally unsubtle sexism in the comment. If you’ve never heard about “a woman’s place”, then you live under a rock. There’s no code there. Sexism straight out. And the only tool one needs in order to realize it is a brain. But apparently, some of us in this world have neither hammers nor brains.
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
kay

I suspect Republicans are just frustrated because they can’t attack Gates, and Gates said it first, and they already took a side, so that’s a real conundrum for them.

“Gates or the General? Hmmmm. Who to laud and who to denigrate? I know, we’ll go after Pelosi!”

You have to think “playground” to get the basic feel.
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Turgid jacobian

Actually think Shinseki wanted him to? When gates canned the last 4 star in Af he discretely asked if he would be welcome at the retirement party, I hear. Imagine there was a “duck no!” in reply
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
ksmiami

“Generals and majors always seem so unhappy unless they’ve got a war”

Generals always want more men; more arms. We need to declare victory in Afghanistan and get out before it wrecks us.

XTC forever man
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October 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Litlebritdifrnt

This entire thing reminds me of a caller to Limbaugh’s show the other day. She was homeschooling her 11 children (yes you read that right ELEVEN!) She was commenting on women today not being “happy” she said it is obvious that the reason they are not happy is because they have “strayed from their god given role” (presumably pushing out 11 sprogs and then homeschooling them while making sure your husband’s dinner is on the table and his slippers are warmed when he gets home). I thought for a while that she was a spoof, but the more she spoke the more I realized she was the real deal. I wonder if she wore a “housedress” an apron and pearls?
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October 6th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
JMC in the ATL

@Makewi:

When the only tool you have is a hammer….

Naw, BJ has a whole swiss army knife full of tools. You, BoB, etc.
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October 6th, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Ash Can

@Litlebritdifrnt: I have to wonder…

1) How many women listened to that and thought, “This broad’s on crack;”

2) How many men listened to that, said to their wives/girlfriends, “Why can’t you be more like that?” and ended up with “Farberware” engraved backwards across their faces.
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October 6th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
mike

c’mon here folks. obama and the dems have been pnk’d by mcchrystal and the neocons. mcchrystal assembled a group of neocons and other pro-war “foreign policy experts” to assess the situation in Afghanistan…..and surprise! – the conclusion is that we need to send in more troops and kill more people. After this stacking of the deck, someone on the inside leaked the “report”, which was no more than a compilation of neo-con talking points. there is no hope of anything resembling a “victory” in Afghanistan anymore than there is in Iraq. I guess if we stay there long enough and do as much damage as we’ve done in Iraq and pretty much depleted our national wealth, then we can claim to have achieved some sort of hollow victory. I’d rather just get out now.
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October 6th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Comrade Doctor General Michael Brown

Thank you, Callipygian:

Personally, I would never have appointed [MacCrystal] because of his role in the Pat Tillman coverup. Somehow, he thought it was right and honorable to lie on Tillman’s Silver Star citation about how he was cut down by devastating enemy fire, but a few days later sent a secret “personal for” up the chain saying he was killed by friendly fire. If that doesn’t indict the man’s honor and basic honesty, I don’t know what does.

The man is a snotrag. He has no business in decent company, let alone honorable company.
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October 6th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
SiubhanDuinne

Michele Bachman . . . Jean Schmidt . . . Virginia Foxx . . . and the gentlelady from Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn!
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October 7th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Mickey

Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening.

Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations.

Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey
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October 7th, 2009 at 10:46 am
bartkid

> “80 percent male,” “100 percent white”—and completely out of touch.

And, 98% chickenhawk.

Again, I fully support any war in which Bill Kristol joins the army and serves on the front lines.
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October 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
bago

Make wi. I guess that’s one way to take the piss out.
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October 7th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
joe from Lowell

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is going to be the first woman president, and the first Jewish president.

That woman could make Dick Cheney wet himself.
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October 8th, 2009 at 10:42 am
kormgar

“he had no choice but to answer the way he did to that question”

I believe the traditional response is either “no comment” or “I can neither confirm nor deny that”

He made his choice.