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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21 2007 9:00 AM

Time To Take The Dems Behind The Barn And Shoot Them

Tags: Democrats, Republicans, MoveOn.org

It happens all the time in movies. Really Bad Man talks Sort Of Bad Guy into fucking over his own friends. Sort Of Bad Guy does it because Really Bad Man is convincing and a little scary. So, Sort Of Bad Guy delivers his friends to Really Bad Man. Then Really Bad Man kills them and turns the gun on Sort Of Bad Guy.

Then Really Bad Man shoots Sort Of Bad Guy in the face. In this case, the Democrats are Sort Of Bad Guy and shooting them in the face seems like an okay idea.

I do not recall seeing, in my lifetime, a party so relentlessly pathetic as the current Democratic Party. Yesterday, I wrote about the Republicans record-breaking filibuster festival. That sort of bullshit is to be expected from the Republicans, who have no concern about destroying America to get what they want. And the Democrats could do nothing to stop it. Yet, the Democrats dont seem to realize that they should not actually help Republicans further their agenda. Yesterday, the Senate voted to condemn a MoveOn.org ad that criticized General Patreaus. In doing so, they spit in the faces of many who voted them into office.

Let me see if I can explain this to the Democrats: The Republicans have been trying to demonize MoveOn, but America just thinks its the usual partisan, left-right bullshit and doesnt pay attention. Then you guys in the Senate vote to condemn MoveOn, which legitimizes the Republicans accusations. This is whats known as a retarded move because, YOU DONT VOTE AGAINST YOUR OWN BASE. Its just at tip, you fucking idiots.

Voting to condemn the ad is voting to support the Republican agenda. It helps to justify Republican claims that MoveOn is a lunatic fringe group, which is an incredible exaggeration. Republicans fear MoveOn, because the group can quickly gather funds and attack Republican candidates anywhere in the nation. The right hates MoveOn because it is effective, not because it is a fringe group. Thankfully, Democrats just took a dump on the hand that feeds them. Nice work.

Harry Reid is a fucking idiot for allowing this vote onto the Senate floor. Yesterday the GOP stopped three important bills that the Democrats had put forward. Today, Dems should have told the GOP and their petty bill to go fuck themselves. Reid should have stopped the bill, then introduced several bills condemning Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Bill OReilly and Rush Limbaugh for their repeated hate speech. Or how about finally condemning the Swift Boat organization for making far worse allegations against John Kerry than MoveOn ever did against Patraeus? If Reid can allow himself to be manipulated and bullied by the minority party, he should step down. Immediately. Or at the very least, he should replace his picture on his Senate website with a douchebag.

The vote completely betrays the principle of the 1st amendment. We dont give the Senate authority, salary, security, privilege and power so they can vote on what American citizens should and should not be saying. The ad said that if the General was not honest it would be a betrayal of the troops. How the fuck is that worthy of the Senates time? Its called freedom, maybe these idiots should try to get an understanding of what it means.

In the end, what did the Democrats achieve by voting for this resolution? They insulted the people who worked so hard to get them into office in 2006. The let the left know that they are not entitled to the same free speech as the right wing and that if the Republicans pick on the Democratic base, their Senators will help to stick the knife in their gut.

See, the Democrats would rather go along with the bullshit than actually put up a fight. Better to fuck over the people who put you in office than show a little courage. And that is not just this vote, but everything. They rolled over when they were the minority party and now they are rolling over when they are the majority party. What was needed today was for one Democrat to stand up and say:

Hey, that ad was right. Patreaus report was a bucket load of bullshit and the lies need to stop.

But it wont happen. Obama ran out the back door, like a coward. Hillary voted no.* All together, 25 Democrats voted to condemn a group that worked to get them elected. Could you envision the Republicans doing the same thing if the tables were turned? Yeah, me neither.

FearTheReaper just donated $100 to MoveOn. He's never given them money before, but it's the only way to appropriately respond to this idiocy.

*correction

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Comments

mingol

Singapore

July 2005

SEP 22, 2007 03:23 AM

Zarth said:

Heathen_Dave said:
Just so we can all be clear here...

Did this bill actually do anything?

No.

Sure it did. It gave a bunch of congresspersons the opportunity to wave a flag and say "Look how patriotic I am, I support the troops!"

But apart from that, no.

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA

March 2004

SEP 22, 2007 05:49 AM

FearTheReaper said:
Your opinion could easily come out of the world's biggest pussy. I did not realize military members, whose job is to defend out country, could not take the brutal assualt of words. My God! We must save the soldier from words!

It has nothing to do with words. It has everything to do with the perceptions of those one is trying to convince when one runs that ad. The perception of people who agree with the ad before it ran is primarily pretty good. The perception of those who disagreed or were neutral is that Democrats are the anti-military douchebags that the right wing accuses them of being. Whether or not they're right doesn't matter; they get to vote, same as everyone else.

Bip

Washington, DC

January 2006

SEP 22, 2007 06:05 AM

Once again, I think Keith Olbermann sums up the situation surrounding this quite well in this opinion piece:

Is it wrong that I have a man crush on Mr. Olberman.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

SEP 22, 2007 06:25 AM

Archaneus said:

Admiral_Pants said:

Archaneus said:
legislating the denouncement of someone else's which is effectively saying they can't say what they said.

Once again for those of you in the back:

NO. IT'S NOT.

Keep trying, though. Maybe it'll be true the next time you say it.

You're right, they are not making it illegal to make the article and it's a truly pointless gesture with no actual political authority to it. However, they are still legislating their opinion that it was incorrect to print it. Legislating that someone's opinion was improper is implying that they shouldn't have said it. I'm done arguing this because everyone seems to be taking what I am saying as if I mean they are actually outlawing the act itself. What I am saying is that the act of voting on this in the senate is effectively saying that the government has the right to legislate their idea of "good taste," which is bullshit. I understand if you don't think it's a big deal that they did this but I believe it's a slippery slope situation. Regardless I'm withdrawing my hat from this conversation because it just keeps getting rehashed wrongly over and over again.

It keeps getting rehashed "wrongly" because you keep repeating the same incorrect assertions with zero factual basis for them. First you said it was unconstitutional. Then you said the government overstepped its bounds. Then you said what they did was tantamount to "effectively saying they can't say what they said" (when they did no such thing... there is a mountain of difference between "can't" and "shouldn't"). Now you're arguing it's a slippery slope despite the fact that Congress does shit like this ALL the time and always has.

There's no Constitutional issue here. There's no government overstepping their bounds. There's no slippery slope. It's simply a matter of Congress not feeling like they have better stuff to do than this bullshit. It's dumb, it's silly, it's a waste of time, sure. But it's not against the law or a Constitutional crisis, it's just Congress.