Comments on: Too wingnutty for the Bush administration http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:37:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Trystero http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515987 Thu, 15 May 2008 08:09:32 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515987 <i>So in a low-information situation, people struggled to makes sense of something that was happening. And in your estimation this was bad to do. And so your head spins.</i> No, my head spins because I am ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE struggling to make sense. And I was against the invasion of Iraq from the start. So in a low-information situation, people struggled to makes sense of something that was happening. And in your estimation this was bad to do. And so your head spins.

No, my head spins because I am ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE struggling to make sense.

And I was against the invasion of Iraq from the start.

]]> by: MikeEss http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515982 Thu, 15 May 2008 07:48:00 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515982 <i>"The optics of this story, as interpereted by liberal blogs, are fascinating."</i> Yeah, fascinating. Because with this completely transparent and open administration where secrecy is a bad word...Wait! This administration would classify presidential press conferences if they could. So in a low-information situation, people struggled to makes sense of something that was happening. And in your estimation this was bad to do. And so your head spins. I wonder: We're you one of the marching hordes of sycophantic wingnut idiots who eagerly switched from believing one justification for invading Iraq to the next without ever noting they were in direct contradiction of each other and all were unsupported by any factual information? Here's a little advice - People who worship glass presidencies shouldn't throw stones... “The optics of this story, as interpereted by liberal blogs, are fascinating.”

Yeah, fascinating. Because with this completely transparent and open administration where secrecy is a bad word…Wait!

This administration would classify presidential press conferences if they could.

So in a low-information situation, people struggled to makes sense of something that was happening. And in your estimation this was bad to do. And so your head spins.

I wonder: We’re you one of the marching hordes of sycophantic wingnut idiots who eagerly switched from believing one justification for invading Iraq to the next without ever noting they were in direct contradiction of each other and all were unsupported by any factual information?

Here’s a little advice - People who worship glass presidencies shouldn’t throw stones…

]]> by: trystero http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515953 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:02:33 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515953 The optics of this story, as interpereted by liberal blogs, are fascinating. The first version I read was about how the heroic FBI had the guts to take on a Bush crony. The second version was about how the corrupt FBI was persecuting the head of the independent office in charge of protecting whistleblowers. Now we find that the FBI was aparently justified in going after the guy because he was in fact a partisan wingnut. Excuse me while I wait for my head to stop spinning. The optics of this story, as interpereted by liberal blogs, are fascinating. The first version I read was about how the heroic FBI had the guts to take on a Bush crony. The second version was about how the corrupt FBI was persecuting the head of the independent office in charge of protecting whistleblowers. Now we find that the FBI was aparently justified in going after the guy because he was in fact a partisan wingnut.

Excuse me while I wait for my head to stop spinning.

]]> by: Indy http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515884 Wed, 14 May 2008 16:58:42 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515884 Well, I'm sure Regent U. Law is hireing... Well, I’m sure Regent U. Law is hireing…

]]> by: loneoak http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515855 Wed, 14 May 2008 15:41:08 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515855 Quoth the great Trailerpark Supervisor Jim Lahey of Sunnyvale Trailer Park fame: "The Shitapple driving the shitmobile, Randy." Quoth the great Trailerpark Supervisor Jim Lahey of Sunnyvale Trailer Park fame: “The Shitapple driving the shitmobile, Randy.”

]]> by: Mighty Ponygirl http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515799 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:49:36 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515799 we're to<strong>o</strong> inured, rather we’re too inured, rather

]]> by: Mighty Ponygirl http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515797 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:47:35 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515797 We need to be careful -- the Republican party is going to learn from this: They wasted all of their "good" wingnuts early in the administration, and now that we're to inured and bored to care about their gross incompetance and corruption, they're stuck with the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrell wingnuts, when their first stringers could have done some REAL damage if they were installed during a period of complete dipshit burnout apathy. We need to be careful — the Republican party is going to learn from this: They wasted all of their “good” wingnuts early in the administration, and now that we’re to inured and bored to care about their gross incompetance and corruption, they’re stuck with the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrell wingnuts, when their first stringers could have done some REAL damage if they were installed during a period of complete dipshit burnout apathy.

]]> by: Bitter Scribe http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515795 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:44:26 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515795 <i>I’m not sure [Karl Rove] actually believes a single thing he says. He is all about the competition, and in the end winning is all that counts. </i>Actually, Mike, Joe McCarthy was very much like that too. The difference between him and Rove is that Rove is competing for George Bush and his GOP allies, whereas McCarthy was interested in no one and nothing but himself. I’m not sure [Karl Rove] actually believes a single thing he says. He is all about the competition, and in the end winning is all that counts.

Actually, Mike, Joe McCarthy was very much like that too. The difference between him and Rove is that Rove is competing for George Bush and his GOP allies, whereas McCarthy was interested in no one and nothing but himself.

]]> by: MikeEss http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515787 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:24:02 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515787 <i>"They rode his wild accusations and slanders to control of the White House and Congress, only to see him turn around and start attacking them."</i> ...which is always the problem with "True Believers". Sooner or later you are not considered faithful enough and get whacked anyway. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution#Reign_of_Terror" rel="nofollow">Kinda like this</a>... That's what's especially interesting about a guy like Karl Rove. I'm not sure he actually believes a single thing he says. He is all about the competition, and in the end winning is all that counts. He's not seeking to perfect America or any other political goal. Success counts, what you do with it is immaterial to people like him - as long as you keep winning... “They rode his wild accusations and slanders to control of the White House and Congress, only to see him turn around and start attacking them.”

…which is always the problem with “True Believers”. Sooner or later you are not considered faithful enough and get whacked anyway. Kinda like this…

That’s what’s especially interesting about a guy like Karl Rove. I’m not sure he actually believes a single thing he says. He is all about the competition, and in the end winning is all that counts. He’s not seeking to perfect America or any other political goal. Success counts, what you do with it is immaterial to people like him - as long as you keep winning…

]]> by: Bitter Scribe http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515779 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:06:06 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/05/14/7204/#comment-515779 In a tiny way, this is a repeat of the experience the Republicans had with Joe McCarthy. They rode his wild accusations and slanders to control of the White House and Congress, only to see him turn around and start attacking <i>them. </i> In a tiny way, this is a repeat of the experience the Republicans had with Joe McCarthy. They rode his wild accusations and slanders to control of the White House and Congress, only to see him turn around and start attacking them.

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