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Hey, Wingnuts, leave those troops alone!

On Meet the Press Imploded Celestial Object Tony Snow; Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)

Why bother reporting on anything that Fox News Minister Without Portfolio on Detached Duty to Fox News Whitehouse HQ --Tony Snow – says these days?

Typical Snow: Things go wrong in wars. So what?

Typical Snow: Osama bin Laden will win if we leave.

driftglass: So how about we quit our nearly-catch-and-release game with bi Laden? How we surge troops into Afghanistan and actually catch and kill Osama bin Laden and stop the Taliban in their fastness?

How about that?

With a tip of the hat to the new Year of the Pig, let me close out any mention of the futility of interviewing Tony Snow by noting that, as the saying goes, it’ll just frustrate you and irritate the pig.

Then, Hagel and Reed.

Hagel: When I was in Vietnam I would have welcomed a Congress that actually debated what the Hell was going on there. The troops are not stupid. They know the deep shit they’re in. And it is simply scurrilous to suggest that people who want to debate this issue are trying to undercut or do not support the troops.

driftglass: Hey, Russert. We didn’t invade Iraq last fucking week, you moron. We have been there four years, going on five.

Hagel: Congressman Murtha asks some very valid questions. And these are questions that some of us were asking four years ago. This debate is really about continuing to put American troops into the middle of a sectarian civil war.

Hagel: This is just the tip of the iceberg of the damage we are doing to our armed forces. What we are doing to the National Guard. What we are doing throwing these kids into combat over and over and over again.

Reed: This is an Administration that went to war completely unprepared. That marched into Iraq with no plan, no appropriate training, no armor and no fucking clue. Their attention to the military can be significantly faulted, and they are now using the military as a political crutch.

Video of Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX) [I think. It skipped by very quickly and if I got this attribution wrong, my apologies in advance] saying that he was a POW in Vietnam when funding was cut and knows first-hand how cutting the money affects morale.

Of course, what he doesn’t mention is that if we hadn’t cut finds for Vietnam, there would now be 500,000 American soldiers dead in that war, and we would now be in our fourth decade of fighting that mother of all Bad Ideas.

Well, the Mother of all Bad Ideas until President Drinky decided to prove his manhood by wildly slapping his dick all over the Middle East.

I missed Engel, which I regret.



On "Face the Nation" Sen. Chompers Biden, Sen. Dick Lugar get their political freak on.

Lugar: This only works [politically/tactically] if Dems keep it focused on the President and the Surge.

Biden: The way to support our troops is not to surge troops in too little, too late over too vast a territory. The solution is political. Dubya does not want to talk about that.

driftglass: Drunks almost never stop until they hit bottom. And as has been true his entire, wastrel life, The Bicycle Chief was handed a blank check that lets him keep throwing other people’s children and other people’s money into the flame forever. He will never, ever hit bottom if he gets to feed his lunacy on someone else’s dime, because when this latest tactic fails, the next Magic Bullet will be trumped up.

The next war will be rushed to market.

The next sheaf of “Blame the Left for the Murderous Lying of the Right” talking points will come roaring out of Hate Radio and Fox and the White House.

The next Runaway Blonde will be rolled out to distract the Great Wad.

Lugar: I think the President has shown some signs that he will pay attention. There are some fledgling efforts. Maybe if Democrats bend a little lower, grab ankles a little harder, spread cheek a little wider…

Biden: I made this suggestion before. Many times. That we all -- on both sides – go down to Camp David and talk this shit out.

driftglass: Dubya got his reasonable, tepid bipartisan Suggestion Box. It was called the Iraq Study Group. Dubya wiped his ass with it.

Bob Schieffer: If it believes the war is a disaster and cannot be won, Congress should quit dicking around and cut off the funding. Having said that, everything Murtha proposed should be done. Should have been done long ago. It is fucking unconscionable that our military is being shoved into a kill zone without proper training, equipment or armor. That we don’t have any fucking plan but more of the same. That they are being stop-lossed to death. That their tours are being extended into infinity and beyond.

That their safety and care when they come home from fighting on our behalf is a scandal.

This should have been a given whether or not this war was right or wrong


Amen, brother Bob.



This Week… ex-Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA);

Mitt Talks Jebus!

Mitt: Life begins when boy DNA touches girl DNA in the Bad Place. Just like it says in the Bible.

driftglass: The Bible mentions deoxyribonucleic acid?

Imaginary Mitt: In my Bible is does. Right after the magic underpants part, and right before stockpiling food and converting the Jews post mortem.

George Stephanopoulos: So you would outlaw it?

Mitt: I’d let the states decide. We let states decide all kinds of things. I happen to think prostitution is terrible, but Nevada allows it. See? See how tolerant I am?

Stephanopoulos: But consensual sex isn’t murder you oily idiot. Unless, of course, it is a Democratic President having consensual sex. As we all know, that kind of consensual sex is, according to Republican Dogma, worse that murder. Worse than the Holocaust. Worse than the Heat Death of the Universe! But still, if you believe it is MURDER, then what should the punishment should be?

Mitt: I’m not about being judgmental. I am not going to answer that for states.

Stephanopoulos: But what about your state?

Mitt: Massachusetts is overwhelming pro-Choice, so I would expect it to be legal in Massachusetts.

driftglass: So you are cool with murder being legal?

Imaginary Mitt: In my Bible it is.

Stephanopoulos: The current law – the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell law– defines homosexuality as a disorder. As a disease. What about that?

Mitt: I am not a psychologist.

driftglass: But you would be perfectly comfortable making laws as if you were, and then evading any questions regarding those laws…because you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about? How very…Republican of you.

Mitt: It’s not about the Queers. It’s about the Children. The Ideal Setting for the kids is a Mommy and Daddy. Which is why letting the faggalas marry, or have children, of wander around near Normal Christian Breeders is worse than Hitler!

driftglass: So will you be outlawing divorce? Single parent adoption? Being a widow with kids? A widower?

Imaginary Mitt: No. Because there is no electoral percentage stabbing Hets or single Mommies in the back. But Queers? Lots of mileage in the Party of God slagging the nancies.

driftglass: And this kind of vicious pandering to bigots and lunatics is approved of by that "Judge Not...", "Do unto Others...", "The least of these..." Jesus you claim to love?

Imaginary Mitt: In my Bible it is.

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