tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post7866999941733769858..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: I've Seen The Future, Brotherdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82837847773644032362014-02-21T17:07:43.370-06:002014-02-21T17:07:43.370-06:00@Horace - Are you saying Clapper could not have pl...@Horace - Are you saying Clapper could not have plead the 5th - really? How much time would he have served? I call bullshit.Pinkybumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966880596265799283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20554342327621090472014-02-21T08:21:18.503-06:002014-02-21T08:21:18.503-06:00I think Obama was elected mostly because he was st...I think Obama was elected mostly because he was still wearing diapers, politically, in the 90's. A complete unknown. <br /><br />This had the effect of catching the rage machine by surprise in 2008, and they were still off balance by 2012. <br /><br />In 2013, they finally realized his problem wasn't obamacare, or socialism, or even his muslimness. No, they finally realized his root problem was his negrodacticity, and all of the incompetencies and disqualifications associated thereof. <br /><br />But it was too late. <br /><br />Still, you can bet they won't make that mistake ever again. Even with one of their own, like that wacky army general from Florida, or that truck stop pizza mogul, Cain.<br /><br />Similarly, they are fortified by experience to never allow a Clinton mistake to happen ever again. <br /><br />Therefore, one's expectations for political depravity should be at an all time high. Because the only thing worse than a negro is a Clinton.bladernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-66150267622800281222014-02-19T23:00:47.666-06:002014-02-19T23:00:47.666-06:00**So twenty years later we have Wyden laying a per...**So twenty years later we have Wyden laying a perjury trap for Clapper, asking questions that he can neither answer nor not answer in public without breaking a whole raft of important laws. **<br /><br />What laws would have been broken had he refused to answer the question?CMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84838568416460594372014-02-19T22:10:48.130-06:002014-02-19T22:10:48.130-06:00I remember the nineties (and thanks a lot for remi...I remember the nineties (and thanks a lot for reminding me, friend driftglass, why don't you just kick me in the ovaries) as a time when I was just doing my stuff and minding my own business when the Republicans unleashed a molasses tank of dirty tricks and toxic lies that flipped me into a screaming leftie who hated everything Gooper.<br /><br />A big moment that cemented my new attitude was the perjury trap they set for the President, with that whole stupid "what is the meaning of 'is'" business and the utterly corrupt conflation of the political charge "Bill lied to me!" with the legal charge "He committed perjury!" Like you I am a stickler for intellectual honesty, so anything any Republican says ever again will be viewed with the greatest suspicion.<br /><br />So twenty years later we have Wyden laying a perjury trap for Clapper, asking questions that he can neither answer nor not answer in public without breaking a whole raft of important laws. Clapper, wisely, gave the answer which inflicted the least damage on the nation. For his pains, the bedwetters have tried to crucify him. "You can't trust anyone in Washington," they squeal as they clutch their pearls and faint, "Clapper is a PERJURER! He LIED to CONGRESS!" <br /><br />Congratulations, hysterical ninnies of dailykos.com, you have sunk precisely to the level of Ken Starr and the panty sniffers. The perjury trap was a dishonest mountain of bullshit twenty years ago, and it remains a dishonest mountain of bullshit today.<br /><br />And thanks heaps for using your feverish enthusiasms to suck the oxygen from any other important discussion that we might have been having these past eight months. The long term unemployed and oppressed minorities appreciate all the help.<br />Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.com