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The GOP’s Runnin’ Off the Rails tour continued this week with Sarah Palin announcing she will resign, Mark Sanford admitting he “crossed lines” with multiple women (while providing an instant new slang term for sex: “crossing the ultimate line”), James Inhofe welcoming Al Franken to the Senate by saying, “We are going to get the clown from Minnesota,” and John Boehner spending an hour on the House floor reading aloud portions of the landmark climate-change bill he labeled “a piece of shit.” Also this week, U.S. troops in Iraq were finally cause for celebration, fireworks, and dancing in the streets of Baghdad. It turns out it was not our arrival in Iraq that was greeted with flowers and sweets but our departure. It’s an agonizing lesson learned six years, $1 trillion, and 4,321 U.S. deaths too late.
It would seem to me that the GOP has been runnin’ off the rails for the last decade. It’s just more blatantly obvious now that they’ve lost the reins of power.
As for Iraq, let’s not leave out the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians who were killed in this worthless war.
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How could a party go so terribly wrong? Only a hardened republican living his life with blinders firmly fixed would not be alarmed and dismayed at the state of the party. It’s as if the kiddies have taken the family car out for a joy ride and after a few crashes are now hopelessly lost.
One problem with your analogy. It assumes there are parents at home waiting for the car to be returned. There are no parents. The only ones at home are a crazed relative or two who are as hopelessly lost as the “kiddies” you describe.
Not sure about Palin. Even less sure about Sanford.
But Inhofe and Boehner hit the nail dead on the head. If anything, Inhofe was being too kind. Who finds Franken funny?
I find your characterization of the Iraq war repugnant and grossly disrespectful of the U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives in the service of their country. But that’s pretty typical of you people.
And as for the Iraqi Civilian dead? Where were you when Saddam was torturing and murdering them by the millions? If your “you didn’t complain when Bush did it, why complain now?” theory is valid, kinda puts you in the same hypocritical, non-credible boat doesn’t it?
Bless your pea-pickin’ heart, there you go again making gross generalizations and assumptions. How do you know there were not complaints when Saddam was in power and murdering his countrymen and women. How do you know there weren’t complaints when Bush did it? And what, by the way, is the “it” to which you refer?
Shame on you for stating that liberals do not value the U.S. Men and Women who give their lives in the service of their country. You and yours do not have the corner on patriotism.
Your statement:
“kinda puts you in the same hypocritical, non-credible boat doesn’t it?” —- that dog don’t hunt Libby, it just don’t hunt.
@janine….Okay sweetie….I didn’t say “Liberals”. I was referring basically to this one little radical liberal who has stated the argument over and over that because you didn’t complain about something while Bush was President, you are hypocritical and lack credibility if you complain about Obama’s excesses now.
I just get a little tingle up my leg when I can turn these ridiculous arguments back on these people.
Likewise on the liberals and valuing U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives. I would say that describing the war in Iraq as “worthless” belittles their sacrifice and dedication to serving their country, regardless of who might say it or their Political Ideology.
One can hold two opinions. Criticizing the war, criticizes the policy maker not the fighting men and women. One can support the troops and yet believe the war is something that should not have happened.
What belittles the troops are people who use them as pawns to make a political statement. Equating criticism of the Iraq war with lack of support for the troops is shameful and shallow.
You wrote, “I find your characterization of the Iraq war repugnant and grossly disrespectful of the U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives in the service of their country.”
Spin it any way you want. You are equating criticism of the war with disrespect toward the troops.
Yes, words can be powerful. Choose them wisely or you’ll keep on making a fool of yourself.
@Don…I have neither the time nor inclination to further your Grammatical Understanding.
Piperni described the war as “worthless”. That is not criticism. That is a descriptive indictment. And by extension, sacrifices in a “worthless” war would also be “worthless”.
If you need further enlightenment, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to start charging you.
Runnin’ off the rails leads to train wrecks which best describes the current state of republicans and their party.
It’s not pretty but I’m enjoying it! :D
How could a party go so terribly wrong? Only a hardened republican living his life with blinders firmly fixed would not be alarmed and dismayed at the state of the party. It’s as if the kiddies have taken the family car out for a joy ride and after a few crashes are now hopelessly lost.
@Hearst
One problem with your analogy. It assumes there are parents at home waiting for the car to be returned. There are no parents. The only ones at home are a crazed relative or two who are as hopelessly lost as the “kiddies” you describe.
Not sure about Palin. Even less sure about Sanford.
But Inhofe and Boehner hit the nail dead on the head. If anything, Inhofe was being too kind. Who finds Franken funny?
I find your characterization of the Iraq war repugnant and grossly disrespectful of the U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives in the service of their country. But that’s pretty typical of you people.
And as for the Iraqi Civilian dead? Where were you when Saddam was torturing and murdering them by the millions? If your “you didn’t complain when Bush did it, why complain now?” theory is valid, kinda puts you in the same hypocritical, non-credible boat doesn’t it?
@libby,
Bless your pea-pickin’ heart, there you go again making gross generalizations and assumptions. How do you know there were not complaints when Saddam was in power and murdering his countrymen and women. How do you know there weren’t complaints when Bush did it? And what, by the way, is the “it” to which you refer?
Shame on you for stating that liberals do not value the U.S. Men and Women who give their lives in the service of their country. You and yours do not have the corner on patriotism.
Your statement:
“kinda puts you in the same hypocritical, non-credible boat doesn’t it?” —- that dog don’t hunt Libby, it just don’t hunt.
@janine….Okay sweetie….I didn’t say “Liberals”. I was referring basically to this one little radical liberal who has stated the argument over and over that because you didn’t complain about something while Bush was President, you are hypocritical and lack credibility if you complain about Obama’s excesses now.
I just get a little tingle up my leg when I can turn these ridiculous arguments back on these people.
Likewise on the liberals and valuing U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives. I would say that describing the war in Iraq as “worthless” belittles their sacrifice and dedication to serving their country, regardless of who might say it or their Political Ideology.
@Libby,
One can hold two opinions. Criticizing the war, criticizes the policy maker not the fighting men and women. One can support the troops and yet believe the war is something that should not have happened.
What belittles the troops are people who use them as pawns to make a political statement. Equating criticism of the Iraq war with lack of support for the troops is shameful and shallow.
@DonLA — well said!
@Don & Janine….That’s not what I said. I said to describe the Iraqi War as “Worthless” would infer the resultant sacrifice is also “Worthless”.
Words can be powerful. You should choose them wisely.
@liberal
You wrote, “I find your characterization of the Iraq war repugnant and grossly disrespectful of the U.S. Men and Women who gave their lives in the service of their country.”
Spin it any way you want. You are equating criticism of the war with disrespect toward the troops.
Yes, words can be powerful. Choose them wisely or you’ll keep on making a fool of yourself.
@Don…I have neither the time nor inclination to further your Grammatical Understanding.
Piperni described the war as “worthless”. That is not criticism. That is a descriptive indictment. And by extension, sacrifices in a “worthless” war would also be “worthless”.
If you need further enlightenment, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to start charging you.