Sen. Ron Johnson: Hillary Planned to Get “Emotional”

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Following his heated exchanges with Hillary Clinton earlier today, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is now accusing Clinton of planning an “emotional” response to “get out of the questions.”

Isn’t it great that Republicans are so amazingly predictable? I mean, it’s such a stereotype that one of these old white guys would immediately go out and brag that he put the uppity emotional woman in her place. You’d think they would learn at some point that it makes them look like total cavemen, but they do it every single time, like clockwork.

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230 comments
1 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:08:29pm

Oh for fucks sake. The GOP is beyond a fucking clown show.

2 dragonath  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:08:51pm

Wow, what a dick.

Can’t believe Wisconsin voted for this empty suit over Feingold.

Thanks a lot, Tea Party.

3 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:10:00pm

I thought Obama’s lack of emotion was the cause of the outraeg in the first place? Isn’t Hillary supposed to get emotional about the deaths of people in her organization.

GOP, please pick a derp and stick to it.

4 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:10:26pm

This type of drama is age-old and it will also travel with us into the future forever, I think.

5 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:11:05pm

What war on women?!

6 DREd  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:11:51pm

Where do they find these idiots? I don’t know who Mat Salmon is, but he’s waving pictures of people with black flags around like it’s some sort of smoking gun

7 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:12:06pm

What are they going to say next? That Clinton had a case of the vapors or that they should have scheduled the hearing for another time of the month?

What a bunch of dicks.

8 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:12:32pm

Sane GOP voters must be so proud.

9 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:12:40pm

re: #2 dragonath

Wow, what a dick.

re: #7 Kragar

What a bunch of dicks.

Calling Ron Johnson a ‘dick’ is an injustice to the male organ. Please retract and apologize.

10 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:13:17pm

re: #7 Kragar

“This is why women shouldn’t be allowed in combat.” &ct.

11 DREd  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:13:19pm

This moron has no idea how federal employment works. It’s unbelievable. Doesn’t he have staffers to do research for him?

12 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:13:22pm

Johnson: “Why isn’t the fog of war transparent?”

13 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:13:28pm

re: #8 Varek Raith

Sane GOP voters must be so proud.

Also hovering and invisible and made of dreams.

14 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:13:40pm

re: #8 Varek Raith

Sane GOP voters must be so proud.

Both of them?

15 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:14:09pm
16 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:14:35pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

A feature not a bug, etc

17 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:16:07pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

Calling Ron Johnson a ‘dick’ is an injustice to the male organ. Please retract and apologize.

I see what you did there.

18 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:16:55pm

I await the next Jennifer Rubin column telling us how the GOP just has a message problem, and that it can attract women despite the vicious misogyny if they just speak nicer, or something….

19 Girth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:17:18pm

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

20 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:17:37pm

re: #19 Girth

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

How will we know?

21 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:18:04pm

re: #8 Varek Raith

Sane GOP voters must be so proud.

That would be David Frum. Someone needs to stage an intervention with that boy.

22 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:18:38pm

I now expect the teabaggers to complain that Hilary made them have this hearing where she could ambush the Republicans on TV and be all mean and emotional and stuff.

23 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:19:21pm

re: #19 Girth

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

Maybe not.

Republicans now openly rigging elections in Virginia and other states

24 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:19:31pm

Mr. Marino is very concerned about politics.

25 Interesting Times  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:19:58pm
26 DREd  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:20:14pm

South Carolina is the tip of the spear of derp.

27 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:20:18pm

re: #22 Bulworth

I now expect the teabaggers to complain that Hilary made them have this hearing where she could ambush the Republicans on TV and be all mean and emotional and stuff.

She gave ‘gotcha’ answers.

This will be said, somewhere. It may have been already. I will bet five internet cookies.

28 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:20:24pm

LinkEmotional women.

BBL

29 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:20:48pm

How does anyone put up with this shit of a hearing?
I’d go all verbally Medieval on the gop’s dumb asses on live tv. Maybe throw a shoe.

30 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:00pm

Ok, who’s this bozo? Oh, Jeff Duncan. He’s one of the Republicans who wants to force women to bear the babies of rapists.

31 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:23pm

re: #3 erik_t

They have, it’s “everything you do is inherently wrong”

32 DREd  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:28pm

Hillary looks pretty pissed off at this fucking bozo

33 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:29pm

re: #29 Varek Raith

I don’t recommend that. Ducking thrown shoes is one of the GOP’s few legitimate strengths.

34 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:44pm

re: #26 DREd

South Carolina is the tip of the spear of derp.

Tip of the spear, butt of the joke.

35 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:44pm

re: #19 Girth

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

Right now, I think that if single-celled organisms met eligibility requirements, they would be competitive against anyone the Republicans would field.

36 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:21:59pm

re: #29 Varek Raith

How does anyone put up with this shit of a hearing?
I’d go all verbally Medieval on the gop’s dumb asses on live tv. Maybe throw a shoe.

They’re better people than I, that’s for sure. They’d have to call in the National Guard to keep me from strangling them with their ties.

37 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:22:01pm

Oh god who is this prick.

38 Interesting Times  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:22:16pm

re: #35 RadicalModerate

Right now, I think that if single-celled organisms met eligibility requirements, they would be competitive against anyone the Republicans would field.

Even in districts gerrymandered to the death?

39 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:22:26pm

re: #33 erik_t

I don’t recommend that. Ducking thrown shoes is one of the GOP’s few legitimate strengths.

LOL touche right there. Well done.

40 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:23:32pm

“Madame Secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap”

the answer to that should be FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.

41 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:23:39pm

Jeff Duncan apparently also said that all pregnancies are gifts from God, including rape pregnancies. That’s why he opposes abortion in all cases.

42 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:23:42pm

re: #38 Interesting Times

Districts should be quadrilaterals, except at natural state boundaries, like along rivers. We need an amendment to that effect.

43 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:23:44pm

Man, I never realized what a badass Charles Durning was.


WWII soldier, actor Charles Durning to be interred at Arlington

Known as Chuck by friends, Durning was drafted and found himself in the Army in one of the first waves to land on the beach at Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. Just nine days later he earned his first Purple Heart when he was seriously wounded by a German mine at Les Mare des Mares.

Following a six-month recovery in England, he was rushed to the front lines to fight against the German Ardennes offensive. During the Battle of the Bulge, Durning suffered wounds, this time in hand-to-hand bayonet combat for which he would later receive a second Purple Heart.

Still able to fight, Durning would earn his third Purple Heart when he moved into Germany in March with the 398th Infantry Regiment, where he was severely wounded in the chest in March 1945.

Durning was then evacuated to the U.S. to spend the remainder of his time in the Army recovering until he was discharged in January 1946 as a private first class.

In addition to the Purple Hearts, Durning was awarded the Silver and Bronze Stars for valor and the World War II Victory Medal. In 2008 the French consul presented him with the National Order of the Legion of Honor.

Following the war, Durning boxed professionally while enrolled in acting classes on the G.I. Bill and performing on the New York stage. But it wasn’t until he was 40 that he entered the film world where in 1962 he played the role of a G.I. in the “Password is Courage.”

44 Girth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:23:51pm

re: #35 RadicalModerate

Right now, I think that if single-celled organisms met eligibility requirements, they would be competitive against anyone the Republicans would field.

Yes, but they have a particular pathological hatred of Mrs. Clinton, so she would be way more fun.

45 Petero1818  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:24:22pm

Wow. That is chutzpah.

46 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:24:26pm

re: #40 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

“Madame Secretary, you let the consulate become a death trap”

the answer to that should be FUCK YOU VERY MUCH.

They’re probably 15 minutes away from blaming her for 9/11 because she failed to read a memo.

47 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:24:35pm

Mr. Marino.
R - Douchebag

48 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:24:55pm

re: #19 Girth

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

She will never run. Obama will proclaim himself PRESIDENT FOR LIFE!1!

49 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:24:56pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Ok, who’s this bozo? Oh, Jeff Duncan. He’s one of the Republicans who wants to force women to bear the babies of rapists.

The forced retirements of Allen West and Joe Deadbeat Walsh has created openings in the congressional department of derp.

50 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:25:15pm

re: #35 RadicalModerate

Right now, I think that if single-celled organisms met eligibility requirements, they would be competitive against anyone the Republicans would field.

I have to disagree with the concept that they have any left at all.

For God’s sake we’re at the point of waiting for the first white nationalist talk on the floor of the House. They already fluffed the Fast and Furious was a conspiracy bit.

51 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:26:23pm

What complete lunatics.
Geez, GOP, good job!

52 leftynyc  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:27:02pm

re: #23 Kragar

Maybe not.

Republicans now openly rigging elections in Virginia and other states

Lawyers are all over the VA thing. Here’s some ways to stop it (I hope this is an acceptable source)

[Link: thinkprogress.org…]

53 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:27:10pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

Jeff Duncan apparently also said that all pregnancies are gifts from God, including rape pregnancies. That’s why he opposes abortion in all cases.

He must go to the same church as Richard Murdoch and that other dude.

54 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:27:28pm

re: #50 stabby

I have to disagree with the concept that they have any left at all.

For God’s sake we’re at the point of waiting for the first white nationalist talk on the floor of the House. They already fluffed the Fast and Furious was a conspiracy bit.

You missed the Ted “Birther” Poe (R-TX) part. Poe is famous for giving a glowing tribute a couple of years back to KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest on the US House floor.

55 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:27:29pm

Looks like they left the derps for last.

56 dragonath  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:27:43pm

re: #4 Ojoe

This type of drama is age-old and it will also travel with us into the future forever, I think.

That time Nomad called Uhuru “a mass of conflicting impulses” on Star Trek doesn’t count, you know.

57 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:29:14pm

re: #56 dragonath

Well supposedly that was set far into the future, after the invention of Warp Drive, in fact.

58 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:30:06pm

re: #54 RadicalModerate

A couple of years back? A couple of years back? In 2010? In 2010, not say 1960, the GOP was praising the KKK on the floor of the House of Representatives?

Oh fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

59 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:30:16pm

re: #32 DREd

Hillary looks pretty pissed off at this fucking bozo

SHE’S MAD THAT HER TREASON IS BEING QUESTIONED! #whogavetheordertostanddown #Benghazi #neverforget

60 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:30:22pm

I don’t believe any of these self-righteous asses gave a single quarter-damn about Ambassador Chris Stevens while he lived.

61 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:30:47pm

Oh boy.

62 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:31:23pm

Aviano coulda bombed errybody.

63 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:31:23pm

WTH, F-16s being used to disperse crowds?
Seriously?

64 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:31:31pm

re: #60 jaunte

I don’t believe any of these self-righteous asses gave a single quarter-damn about Ambassador Chris Stevens while he lived.

Neither could any of them find Benghazi on a map. I suspect that many of them still couldn’t…

65 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:31:46pm

re: #26 DREd

South Carolina is the tip of the spear of derp.

“South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.”

James L. Petigru, in 1860. Plus ca change….

66 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:32:10pm

Junior prosecuting attorney time.

67 DREd  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:32:17pm

Why were there no F-16s?

For fuck’s sake, nobody even knew where the ambassador was until those evil muslims took him to the hospital. Were we supposed to indiscriminately bomb the city?

68 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:32:24pm
69 Interesting Times  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:32:26pm
70 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:32:59pm

Eyes too close together.

71 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:33:01pm

Key Anti-Gay Republican: GOP Has Lost The Marriage Equality Fight

Bauer, a former president of the Family Research Council who remains influential in certain evaneglical and Republican circles, ran a super PAC during the 2012 election that attacked President Obama on his support for marriage equality. While Bauer suggested after the election that then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney would have won over critical minority voters by attacking LGBT rights, he’s now admitting that he was mistaken:

The coalition in favor of normal marriage has been made up of political conservatives and American minority groups, including Hispanics and blacks. But the president’s so-called ‘evolution’ on this issue has resulted in what appears to be a major shift among blacks and Hispanics toward favoring same-sex marriage.

Bauer added that, despite the collapse of his so-called “coalition in favor of normal marriage,” the GOP would not change its position on marriage equality, saying “virtually all the candidates that competed for the GOP nomination this cycle supported traditional marriage. The party platform unambiguously did, also. I think that will be the case again in 2016.” He also suggested that the GOP could do very little to shift public opinion, admitting that “I don’t think we can expect the Republican Party to save us.”

“Yeah, we were wrong, but if we admit we’re wrong, we’ll lose our base, so we’ll keep fighting tooth and nail no matter how wrong we are.”

Your GOP ladies and gentleman

72 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:33:12pm

The sun blows off a lot of gas: Enjoy ! BBL

[Link: www.spaceweather.com…]

73 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:33:37pm

LEAD FROM BEHIND!

74 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:33:39pm

re: #67 DREd

Why were there no F-16s?

For fuck’s sake, nobody even knew where the ambassador was until those evil muslims took him to the hospital. Were we supposed to indiscriminately bomb the city?

“Well, yeah” - TGDN

75 freetoken  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:33:53pm

One thing to remember about all these backward and idiotic Representatives - they really are representing a portion of the American populace.

76 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:34:00pm

Sounds like he’s just making a statement.

77 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:34:03pm

I see another reason for Twitter’s new embedded tweet design - the whole thing is now inside an IFRAME, so the CSS can’t be messed with. Previously, they were using an ordinary DIV tag that got inserted into the page’s HTML via Javascript, and you could change the style via CSS, as with any other DIV. Now the only thing you can change is the size of the IFRAME container.

They’re going for a consistent look across all sites, obviously.

78 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:34:35pm

How long till someone from the land of #TGDN wonders whether Obama lifted the military combat ban on women just to win more votes from womenz?

Hey, we’re just asking questions here!

79 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:34:44pm

re: #72 Ojoe

The sun blows off a lot of gas: Enjoy ! BBL

[Link: www.spaceweather.com…]

Technically, plasma is not a gas.

80 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:35:07pm

re: #75 freetoken

One thing to remember about all these backward and idiotic Representatives - they really are representing a portion of the American populace.

I need to get my hands on some Thunder Warriors for a few years.
///

81 Petero1818  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:35:44pm

This is very simple to me. Questions around the lack of security at the location are reasonable questions to ask and may help prevent such future occurrences by creating safety protocols that are more closely followed by those in the field. That is a proper use of resources and was already completed with a host or recommendations that the Sec of State has agreed should be implemented. Could they have done better? Yes. Were they negligent? I have not seen anything that suggests they were negligent and every attempt to prove they were has been based on conjecture and refuted by facts.
Questions about who knew what, when, and how they communicated that information are entirely political and serve no purpose other than an attempt to discredit the white house. They are an enormous waste of time and resources and are without any useful purpose. There was no scandal, there is no smoking gun. There is no treason. The bill for this circus should be paid by the GOP.

82 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:35:52pm

re: #75 freetoken

I can’t bring myself to watch them.

I presume they’re just poking the talking points that Fox News has indoctrinated their base with. No point at all here other than transparent attempts to libel.

83 Interesting Times  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:36:56pm

re: #75 freetoken

One thing to remember about all these backward and idiotic Representatives - they really are representing a portion of the American populace.

Hopefully a portion that will dwindle sooner rather than later due to natural attrition.

84 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:37:08pm

This hearing has been very insightful. Not only do I know what states to avoid visiting in the future but if I do happen to visit them I now know what parts of the state to avoid.

85 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:37:15pm

Why do these clowns who claim to love/support/know the military not no shit about how it operates?

86 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:37:21pm

re: #68 Lidane

And who gave the order to arrest and imprison the video maker guy at Gitmo? Will someone please ask this question? /

87 Ojoe  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:37:35pm

re: #79 RadicalModerate

Thank you for the reminder.

Now I really have to get back to work.

88 freetoken  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:37:45pm

re: #82 stabby

I watched for about a minute.

That was enough.

So I’ve been reading today’s various PRs on science topics. The Greenland thing is totally being slaughtered, and the dog DNA story is coming out weird (see downstairs where one Bloomberg headline was particularly stupid.)

89 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:39:02pm

re: #81 Petero1818

“Were they negligent? I have not seen anything that suggests they were negligent and every attempt to prove they were has been based on conjecture and refuted by facts.”

You should know that the GOP charges and implications go beyond negligence: the are attempt to prove that Obama coddles and even supports terrorists because he hates America.

90 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:39:16pm

Because the US has absolutely no legitimate interests in Libya. Derp.

91 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:40:15pm

re: #85 Varek Raith

Why do these clowns who claim to love/support/know the military not no shit about how it operates?

Note to GOP: Watching Red Dawn while doing whippets does not make you an expert on US military operations.

92 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:40:33pm

re: #86 Bulworth

google turns up this

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com…]

93 freetoken  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:40:56pm

re: #90 Lidane

The wingnuts are going to add a new word to their vocabulary today: “consulate”. And one factoid - the US has consulates all over the world.

94 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:42:34pm

Barry did Banghazi

95 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:43:16pm

*facepalm* now right back to Susan Rice and the sunday shows.

96 bratwurst  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:43:48pm

Glenn Beck has cracked the code:

The government is using Sandy Hook truthers to distract from the Federal Reserve!

97 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:44:41pm
98 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:45:30pm

re: #96 bratwurst

Glenn Beck has cracked the code:

The government is using Sandy Hook truthers to distract from the Federal Reserve!

The man must be stopped, he is seeing the wheels within wheels…

99 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:45:52pm

Here we go trying to once again trap Clinton with “please answer true or false” if she gives real answers they can say she was trying to avoid answering. If she says true then BENGHAZI! if she says false then BENGHAZI!

100 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:45:53pm

re: #98 Sol Berdinowitz

The man must be stopped, he is seeing the wheels within wheels…

Derpception.

101 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:46:34pm

re: #96 bratwurst

Glenn Beck has cracked the code:

The government is using Sandy Hook truthers to distract from the Federal Reserve!

BWAAAAAAAAAAANG

102 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:46:55pm
103 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:48:21pm

re: #99 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

“Please answer true or false: where did you hide the gun you used to kill Vince Foster and start Fast & Furious?”

“Please answer true or false: who was your point of contact in the Benghazi terrorist mob and when did you give the order for them to attack the, what is it, oh yes, the consulate?”

104 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:49:14pm

re: #102 Lidane

If there’s anyone or anyplace I totally despise it’s #Begnhazi.

105 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:49:30pm

OUTRAGE!

106 Girth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:50:07pm

I like it when they use the #TGDN hashtag. I wonder if they also wear shirts in public that say “Hello. I’m a fucking idiot.” in order to clear up any confusion in real life.

107 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:50:15pm

I love how all these Republicans are trying to make Nakoula Basseley Nakoula completely blameless in all of the September 2012 protests.

108 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:50:37pm

re: #105 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

And what war would that be? The war on Christmas?

109 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:51:04pm

re: #106 Girth

My only regret in life is I have only one upding to give your comment.

110 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:51:39pm

re: #105 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

I wish conservatives were as good at getting us out of wars as they are getting us into them.

111 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:52:14pm

re: #108 Ghost of Tom Joad

Stop, man. The whole office is wondering why I’m laughing my effin as$ off.

112 Ghost of Tom Joad  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:52:20pm

re: #106 Girth

I like it when they use the #TGDN hashtag. I wonder if they also wear shirts in public that say “Hello. I’m a fucking idiot.” in order to clear up any confusion in real life.

No, they wear funny hats with Lipton teabags hanging from them. Same effect without the need to read.

113 Tigger2  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:53:00pm

re: #71 Kragar

Key Anti-Gay Republican: GOP Has Lost The Marriage Equality Fight

“Yeah, we were wrong, but if we admit we’re wrong, we’ll lose our base, so we’ll keep fighting tooth and nail no matter how wrong we are.”

Your GOP ladies and gentleman

There is only one thing he left out “we will have to cheat to win”.

114 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:53:22pm

Are there any House Republicans who aren’t Tea Party freakazoids?

115 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:53:47pm

re: #106 Girth

I like it when they use the #TGDN hashtag. I wonder if they also wear shirts in public that say “Hello. I’m a fucking idiot.” in order to clear up any confusion in real life.

Because when you live in fear of a monolithic government turning into a dictatorship, you really want to make sure your name appears in huge databases of information like secession petitions, NRA membership rosters, and anti-government political forums.

116 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:54:03pm

re: #113 Tigger2

There is only one thing he left out “we will have to cheat to win”.

Its implied.

117 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:54:27pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Are there any House Republicans who aren’t Tea Party freakazoids?

/throws dart at Washington-shaped corkboard

Let’s see what Wikipedia says!

118 freetoken  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:54:28pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t there one guy from somewhere in Ohio, maybe around the Cleveland area, that is still somewhat sane?

119 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:54:29pm

Not sure if serious or Poe’s Law:

120 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:54:50pm

re: #105 Lidane

Conservapedia, that’s the guy who decided that relativity and set theory are WRONG. Actual reasoning is that kids who get into physics and math stop reading the bible, therefor the interesting and accessible parts of both must be wrong and against the bible.

121 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:55:04pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Are there any House Republicans who aren’t Tea Party freakazoids?

They have to keep their mouths shut or risk being called Rinos or traitors.

So no, none with any balls left.

122 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:55:09pm

re: #113 Tigger2

There is only one thing he left out “we will have to cheat to win”.

GOP: The Captain Kirk of politics! Kobiyashi Maru, here we come!!!

123 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:55:39pm

re: #118 freetoken

No. You’re thinking of James A. Garfield.

124 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:56:55pm
125 webevintage  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:57:57pm

I gotta say watching Tom Cotton suck up to Hillary made my bitter Arkansas heart gleeful.

126 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:57:58pm

re: #63 Varek Raith

WTH, F-16s being used to disperse crowds?
Seriously?

I bet an F-16 could disperse the shit out of a crowd. Aerosolize one, too.

127 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:58:20pm

re: #122 Sol Berdinowitz

GOP: The Captain Kirk of politics! Kobiyashi Maru, here we come!!!

The Kragar solution: “The drifted into the Forbidden Zone? What the fuck were they doing there in the first place? Oh well, they’re fucked. Who wants to head to Risa?”

128 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:58:37pm

re: #124 Gus

That looks Photoshopped. The Lincoln granite is browner than the George Washington granite.

129 freetoken  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:58:41pm

re: #113 Tigger2

Regarding gay marriage, even today’s latest propaganda piece from AEI is advocating that the American right drop the issue:

Competing for Elites

That prop piece is full of partial truths, btw. For example in trying to describe the “Swedish Right” the authors are really referring to a party that self labels as “Moderate”.

130 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 1:59:21pm

re: #128 jaunte

That looks Photoshopped. The Lincoln granite is browner than the George Washington granite.

How can we be sure Mount Rushmore even really exists?

131 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:00:03pm

re: #130 Kragar

Stage Set!

132 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:00:15pm

re: #128 jaunte

That looks Photoshopped. The Lincoln granite is browner than the George Washington granite.

I can tell from some of the pixels.

133 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:00:44pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

I can tell from some of the pixels.

Where are the globular clusters?

134 Girth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:00pm

re: #130 Kragar

How can we be sure Mount Rushmore even really exists?

It doesn’t. Hitchcock just green-screened it in.

135 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:06pm

I’m watching Secretary Clinton right now. Looking great and answering all questions posed in a very calm, calculated manner. Doesn’t seem overly emotional or otherwise irrational.

Way to go Republicans. Still pushing that “women are inferior” card, I see.

136 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:21pm

re: #129 freetoken

Are they going to drop “personhood” bills or do they want to write off 51% of the population, plus everyone who cares about a woman or girl?

137 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:23pm

re: #63 Varek Raith

WTH, F-16s being used to disperse crowds?
Seriously?

Proof that these fucktards watch too many movies and play too many video games.

138 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:33pm

re: #128 jaunte

That looks Photoshopped. The Lincoln granite is browner than the George Washington granite.

LAYERZ! Eleventy!

139 wrenchwench  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:40pm

Lizz Winstead is cracking me up.

140 RadicalModerate  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:41pm

One thing that came out of these hearings:

The GOP plan to pillorize Clinton backfired on them, bigtime.
Hillary Clinton proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can stand toe to toe with the most lunatic of Republican howlers and make them look like absolute fools.

141 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:01:54pm

re: #130 Kragar

How can we be sure Mount Rushmore even really exists?

Don’t tell anyone, but it’s actually the secret HQ of Team America.

142 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:02:21pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

Are there any House Republicans who aren’t Tea Party freakazoids?

I think Greg Walden (R-OR/2) might not be wholly crazy, although I’d not vote for him.

Solar and geothermal power, water conservation, no apparent abortion freakout, and less-insane-than-usual federal-spending-hatred.

Not totally sure why he’s still a Republican.

143 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:02:37pm

Film exposes link between U.S. evangelicals and violent antigay Ugandan movement

Money raised by evangelical Christians in the United States is fueling a violent antigay movement in Uganda, according to the “Gospel of Intolerance” by filmmaker Roger Ross Williams.

“American evangelicals are sending millions of dollars in donations to Africa to spread their message by funding Ugandan pastors and sponsoring missionaries, many of who do good work feeding the hungry and providing shelter to orphans,” Rev. Kapya Kaoma explained in the mini-documentary, which was published online Tuesday by the New York Times. “But some of that money just goes to feed a dangerous ideology that teaches that gays, lesbians, transgender, and bisexual people do not have a place in God’s kingdom and are a threat to society.”

144 Jalal bin Smokin?  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:02:39pm

LOL, I just learned something about this site. Hitting the space bar is the same as clicking on the new comments button. It’s like finding an Easter egg.

145 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:02:47pm

re: #139 wrenchwench

Lizz Winstead is cracking me up.

She nailed these hearings earlier:

146 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:02:49pm

re: #19 Girth

I hope Hillary runs in 2016. The GOP will lose what little mind it has left when she wins in a landslide.

You got that right! Dying to vote for her. She’ll make a great President.

147 stabby  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:04:07pm

re: #140 RadicalModerate

Well the problem is that they’re scared of her and a lot of people who aren’t wingnuts will be watching.

If it was someone unimportant then they could play to the nuts.

You realize that with the base they ALWAYS win. No matter what they said, no matter what was said in response, their base is too stupid to process anything but a headline telling them how to think.

148 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:04:10pm

re: #140 RadicalModerate

One thing that came out of these hearings:

The GOP plan to pillorize Clinton backfired on them, bigtime.
Hillary Clinton proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she can stand toe to toe with the most lunatic of Republican howlers and make them look like absolute fools.

Yeah. I’m not seeing anything other than Senator Ron Johnson being a dork. Otherwise, it turned out to be rather bland. Seems like they were all bluster until Secretary Clinton started talking.

149 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:05:37pm

Looks like the GOP are paying attention to the Twitter morons:

150 wrenchwench  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:05:52pm

re: #144 JAFO

LOL, I just learned something about this site. Hitting the space bar is the same as clicking on the new comments button. It’s like finding an Easter egg.

Huh. Just sends me to the end of the page. You must have a different kind of space bar.

151 Gus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:06:19pm

Let the spin begin!

152 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:06:28pm

re: #144 JAFO

LOL, I just learned something about this site. Hitting the space bar is the same as clicking on the new comments button. It’s like finding an Easter egg.

Yes, and there’s also a hot key for it - Control-Option-C (or Alt-C in some browsers). The space bar works after you’ve clicked the button once and given it “focus” - if you click elsewhere, space won’t activate New Comments any more.

153 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:06:33pm

CSPAN Callers deride no-nothing Senators and Congressmen

Following the Senate hearing, C-SPAN took a call from women named Sarah from Sterling, Virginia on the Democrats line.

“As a former member of the foreign service, I thought that Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. John McCain made complete asses of themselves, if I can use that word,” Sarah volunteered. “They have no idea with regard to the status of forces agreement and to what the role of the U.S. Marine Corps is in embassies.”

Sarah went on to explain that she had been stationed in a Middle East country where American staff had only been provided one security guard by the host country.

“The State Department has no control over that unless there is a status of forces agreement that allows Marine security guards to step out of their comfort zone,” she continued.

“And Rand Paul has no idea, has no clue of what happens at an American embassy. I suggest that he change committees and go over to the Agriculture Committee, that’s where you can dish dirt. And that’s exactly what he did. He was a disgrace and he should not be on that committee.”

But it wasn’t only Democrats who were ripping into McCain and Paul. Sarah’s call was followed by a call from Natasha in Lansing, Michigan on the Republican line.

“As a Republican, I am thoroughly embarrassed by the way they acted,” Natasha said. “And I guess it would be very appropriate to say, there’s no fool like an old fool, unless he happens to be a young fool. This woman who has worked so hard for our country and has donated, well, practically her health had — they had no business in talking that way to her.”

“For them to get up and grandstand, no wonder our Republican Party is going down the tubes when we have two people that act as foolish and ignorantly as these two did,” she added.

154 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:07:00pm

re: #60 jaunte

I don’t believe any of these self-righteous asses gave a single quarter-damn about Ambassador Chris Stevens while he lived.

Or now that he’s dead.

155 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:07:12pm

Nice photo of the Benghazi hearing:

Image: BBUMdXsCAAIDFLC.jpg

156 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:07:21pm

re: #144 JAFO

LOL, I just learned something about this site. Hitting the space bar is the same as clicking on the new comments button. It’s like finding an Easter egg.

What do you…

HE’S A SORCERER!!!

157 Jalal bin Smokin?  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:08:15pm

re: #150 wrenchwench

Huh. Just sends me to the end of the page. You must have a different kind of space bar.

after I posted that I tried again. I think if you scroll first it repeats the scroll to the bottom, but if you had previously clicked the new comments button it repeats the button.

158 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:08:50pm

re: #153 Kragar

Something tells me “Natasha from Lansing” is going to think twice before pulling the level for the GOP in the next election.

Nice work, GOP. You probably don’t want to be losing right-leaning women in states like Michigan, but you just can’t help yourselves, can you?

159 darthstar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:09:23pm
160 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:09:48pm

Someone at FR has figured out yet another evil plot by Obama and how it is being foiled through allowing women in combat.

To: AnAmericanAbroad
I’ve recently read some unconfirmed reports that Obozo is firing Generals who would not agree to turning the machines of war against U.S. citizens. Perhaps this is Panetta’s way to counter Obozo? Women in combat roles would likely be less inclined to shoot at American citizens if that order is given.

77 posted on Wed Jan 23 13:51:46 2013 by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)

161 darthstar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:10:26pm

re: #149 Lidane

Looks like the GOP are paying attention to the Twitter morons:

Duncan left the hearing after he threw his jabs.

162 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:10:49pm

Adventures in privatization.

Lawsuit: Kabul Embassy Guards Told to Lie About Long Hours

The company responsible for providing security at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, has at times directed guards to underreport the number of hours they worked to avoid revealing that they have been on the job up to 18 hours per day, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week on behalf people who have served on the guard force.

In addition, supervisors at the company, Aegis Defense Services, “regularly edited employees’ timesheets so that they did not reveal any work beyond the Regular Schedule,” the lawsuit says.

Aegis employees in Kabul are supposed to work 72 hours per week but have regularly exceeded that, on many occasions working 14- to 18-hour days for six or seven days per week, the lawsuit says.

While the extra hours allowed Aegis to meet its staffing obligations to the State Department, the employees were not paid for that time, the suit alleges.

163 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:11:11pm

re: #89 Sol Berdinowitz

What’s the point of pushing that meme now that President Obama has won reelection? I really don’t understand the GOP — not at all.

164 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:11:32pm

re: #160 calochortus

Someone at FR has figured out yet another evil plot by Obama and how it is being foiled through allowing women in combat.

I read somewhere that Freeper men have no dicks and brains riddled by parasites.

Must be true.

165 Tigger2  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:12:04pm

re: #159 darthstar

The Republicans are making more voters Hillary voters with the way they are acting toward her.

166 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:12:29pm

re: #164 Kragar

I read somewhere that Freeper men have no dicks and brains riddled by parasites.

Must be true.

Gee, I just read that myself!

167 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:13:26pm

re: #166 calochortus

Gee, I just read that myself!

2 sources! Its verified!!!

168 simoom  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:13:32pm

I see CNN is back to bragging about having looted the Amb.’s diary from an FBI crime scene. You’d think they might have wanted to let that episode fade into obscurity.

169 wrenchwench  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:13:56pm

re: #157 JAFO

after I posted that I tried again. I think if you scroll first it repeats the scroll to the bottom, but if you had previously clicked the new comments button it repeats the button.

It worked! Thanks for the egg!

In other news, I wish I’d quit hitting Ctrl when I want to hit Shift.

170 Tigger2  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:14:19pm

re: #166 calochortus

Gee, I just read that myself!

I read it on the internet it must be true.

171 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:15:23pm

re: #167 Kragar

2 sources! Its verified!!!

This “Kragar” guy seems to be in the know.

172 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:16:16pm

Anti-Choice Activist Wants State to Prosecute Women Who Have Abortions

Steve Deace yesterday invited Michael Peroutka, the right-wing activist and 2004 third party candidate for president, onto his radio show for a weekly special with him about the Constitution. Marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Peroutka said that the anti-choice movement should begin to use different and more extreme tactics.

After arguing that Roe doesn’t have any impact on the law because it violates the Bible and merely affected “Jane Roe” alone, he said that local officials should begin prosecuting women for murder if they have an abortion.

173 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:16:35pm
174 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:16:50pm

Commenting on the hearings today:

“I get the sense these guys, after the hearing, are just going back to their caves for the night” - Chris Mathews

175 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:17:00pm

re: #173 Lidane

Yes.

176 Tigger2  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:17:07pm

re: #173 Lidane

They are the same

177 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:17:08pm

re: #172 Kragar

Is this the less-government they’re always promising us?

178 Kragar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:17:50pm

re: #174 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Commenting on the hearings today:

“I get the sense these guys, after the hearing, are just going back to their caves for the night” - Chris Mathews

So they’re all climbing back into their one tiny car again?

179 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:18:16pm

re: #173 Lidane

They are one and the same so trick question.

180 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:18:42pm

More keys you may not know about:

Control-Option-S (or Alt-S) activates the search field.
Control-Option-N (or Alt-N) activates the News search field.
Control-Option-R (or (Alt-R) goes to the referrer page.
Control-Y brings up the LGF Connect Twitter posting form.

181 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:19:44pm

If you select some text on the page before hitting Control-Y, the Twitter form comes up with that text inserted in the editing field.

183 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:20:09pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

More keys you may not know about:

Control-Option-S (or Alt-S) activates the search field.
Control-Option-N (or Alt-N) activates the News search field.
Control-Option-R (or (Alt-R) goes to the referrer page.
Control-Y brings up the LGF Connect Twitter posting form.

Control-Option-B (or Alt-B) proceeds to blow my mind.

184 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:20:11pm

re: #173 Lidane

National Liberty Federation? ‘Cause the NLF is gonna win?

185 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:21:35pm

This is a new one:

186 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:22:44pm

re: #185 Lidane

This is a new one:

@wjgreen_ As Suicide among our Military Men skyrockets is Obama trying 2 more fully prosecute the #WARonWOMEN by placing them in combat?#women #TGDN

I wasn’t aware we still had a fucking draft, William.

187 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:22:46pm

re: #185 Lidane

That or he’s trying to destroy America or traditional marriage. //

188 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:22:53pm
189 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:23:59pm

re: #186 erik_t

I wasn’t aware we still had a fucking draft, William.

He’s thinking ahead to the next wave of GOP wars I bet. /

190 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:24:13pm

re: #187 Bulworth

That or he’s trying to destroy America or traditional marriage. //

Oh, he did that already by mentioning Stonewall in the same breath as Seneca Falls and Selma.

191 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:24:14pm

re: #188 Lidane

So women shouldn’t be nurses either? They get rather close to the dying too.

192 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:24:55pm
193 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:25:17pm

Well, it has certainly been a News day and I missed it all.

VAWA reintroduced, Hillary, tons of articles I could Post on the history of Abortion and Roe v Wade.

How has it been?

194 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:25:19pm

re: #191 calochortus

So women shouldn’t be nurses either? They get rather close to the dying too.

Allowing women to volunteer to serve their country is a war on women.

Don’t you people understand!?

195 wrenchwench  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:25:43pm

re: #181 Charles Johnson

If you select some text on the page before hitting Control-Y, the Twitter form comes up with that text inserted in the editing field.

I hit Control-Y without selecting any text, and accidentally clicked ‘Tweet’ instead of ‘Cancel’, and a little pop up said, ‘You can’t Tweet nothing!’

lol

196 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:25:54pm

re: #192 Charles Johnson

Well, can’t say they don’t have ambition.

197 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:26:29pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

I hit Control-Y without selecting any text, and accidentally clicked ‘Tweet’ instead of ‘Cancel’, and a little pop up said, ‘You can’t Tweet nothing!’

If you didn’t read that in Mr. T’s voice, you’re under the age of fifteen or you’re technically deceased.

198 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:26:36pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

I hit Control-Y without selecting any text, and accidentally clicked ‘Tweet’ instead of ‘Cancel’, and a little pop up said, ‘You can’t Tweet nothing!’

lol

And it’s not a double negative, either.

199 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:27:35pm

re: #198 Charles Johnson

And it’s not a double negative, either.

Makes one wonder. Is ‘null null’ null?

200 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:28:04pm

re: #194 erik_t

Allowing women to volunteer to serve their country is a war on women.

Don’t you people understand!?

And besides, if women show they can be combat soldiers, there really isn’t much left to show how macho men are-but I don’t suppose they’ll admit that.

201 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:28:56pm

re: #192 Charles Johnson

Ron Johnson. Rand Paul. Mike Lee. The Agenda 21 Senator from Texas. It may not be as crazy a group as Richard Mourdoch and Todd Akin would have made it. But gosh darn it, Senate Repubs can be pretty crazy too and they’re not about to let us forget it.

202 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:29:08pm

re: #200 calochortus

And besides, if women show they can be combat soldiers, there really isn’t much left to show how macho men are-but I don’t suppose they’ll admit that.

Well they could just buy more gu—

DAMN YOU OBAMAAAAAAA!!!!1

203 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:29:35pm

So, I just watched the clip,

That was emotional? THAT is what they are calling an emotional outburst?

Her voice broke, no tears.

Seems rather blown out of proportion.

204 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:30:11pm

re: #202 erik_t

Well they could just buy more gu—

DAMN YOU OBAMAAAAAAA!!!!1

LOL. But they want women to be bristling with weapons too. Pink Uzis and whatnot.

205 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:30:52pm

re: #204 calochortus

LOL. But they want women to be bristling with weapons too. Pink Uzis and whatnot.

Hello Kitty AK’s!

206 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:32:11pm

If a woman sniper kills a Jihadist, does he still get his 72 virgins?

207 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:34:34pm

re: #203 FemNaziBitch

So, I just watched the clip,

That was emotional? THAT is what they are calling an emotional outburst?

Her voice broke, no tears.

Seems rather blown out of proportion.

SHE TALKED BACK TO A REPUBLICAN! SHE’S AN EMOTIONAL, HYSTERICAL WOMAN!

Also, she’s lying about BENGHAZI! Eleventy!

208 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:35:08pm

re: #205 FemNaziBitch

Hello Kitty AK’s!

Because deadly weapons are really just fashion accessories that inform the world you’re not ready to grow up quite yet.

209 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:35:12pm

Hahahahaha:

210 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:36:06pm

The emotion is frustrated rage. It always happens when politesse requires that you not choke the living shit out of some doof who is begging for it.

211 erik_t  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:36:50pm

re: #209 Lidane

Deadpan as a nuked cupboard: that doesn’t even make any sense.

212 calochortus  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:38:14pm

I’m thinking WomenInCombat is the next step in guncontrol for our military. #tgdn #tcot #nra

I’m not thinking at all.

Fixed.

213 jaunte  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:38:46pm

Remember that “onerous regulations” bugabear that the GOP keeps bringing up?

“…the responsibility for ensuring the safety of our food doesn’t fall to retailers and restaurants alone. The oversight authority belongs to the FDA, and the task is massive. In 2011, Americans consumed 4.7 billion pounds of seafood, 91 percent of which was imported. And yet the FDA only inspects a tiny amount of this giant haul: 2 percent at most. (The equivalent agency in Canada inspects 15 percent of imported seafood; in the European Union the figure is 50 percent.)

That’s worrisome because imported seafood has a spotty track record. According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44 percent of the 39 foodborne-illness outbreaks caused by imports from 2005 to 2010 involved seafood—more than any other type of food.”

Today’s Seafood Special: Pig Manure, Antibiotics, and Diarrhea Bugs

214 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:41:06pm

re: #210 Decatur Deb

The emotion is frustrated rage. It always happens when politesse requires that you not choke the living shit out of some doof who is begging for it.

Yeah, the Senator seemed to be playing the HS game of “he said, she said” and Hillary just called him on it.

215 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:41:07pm

re: #209 Lidane

Of course, because….wait, what?

216 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:42:15pm
And yet the FDA only inspects a tiny amount of this giant haul: 2 percent at most.

Gee, it’s a wonder how the job creators in our slaughter houses and meat factories can survive. /

217 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:43:46pm
218 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:46:36pm

re: #217 Lidane

What have they paid in taxes?

219 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:47:35pm

re: #218 FemNaziBitch

What have they paid in taxes?

Whatever it is, it’s too damn high!

/Norquist

220 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:49:02pm

re: #219 Lidane

/Norquist

I thought it was the Rent that was Too Damn High?

221 EPR-radar  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:51:43pm

re: #218 FemNaziBitch

What have they paid in taxes?

Quick poking around turns up a 1.9 percent rate on earnings outside the US, combined with only 13.9 percent of its profits being from the US. Double joke.

Not quite the zero taxes paid that can often be accomplished, but close enough to it.

222 JRCMYP  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:53:20pm

I miss Olympia Snowe.

223 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:53:59pm

re: #221 EPR-radar

Quick poking around turns up a 1.9 percent rate on earnings outside the US, combined with only 13.9 percent of its profits being from the US. Double joke.

Not quite the zero taxes paid that can often be accomplished, but close enough to it.

hmmmmm

224 Political Atheist  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:54:10pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

More keys you may not know about:

Control-Option-S (or Alt-S) activates the search field.
Control-Option-N (or Alt-N) activates the News search field.
Control-Option-R (or (Alt-R) goes to the referrer page.
Control-Y brings up the LGF Connect Twitter posting form.

Charles, you might make a Page on those some time-Pro tips for LGF, and (maybe for the noobs) some hints on what sites not to link.

225 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:54:14pm

They think this is a good thing:

226 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:54:17pm

A whole new level of fail and derp:

227 Lidane  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:55:55pm

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

They think this is a good thing:

They also cheer every time an employer cuts hours or fires people to avoid Obamacare.

Morons.

228 Amory Blaine  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 3:51:30pm

Here is Ron Johnson accusing Obamas administration and Clinton of lying and carrying on a false narrative on his bestest buddy Charlie Sykes radio show after his questioning.

[Link: www.620wtmj.com…]

229 pablogonzales  Wed, Jan 23, 2013 4:38:45pm

If attacks on U.S. Embassies are supposed to connote a “weakness” in the Commander in Chief, then GWBush comes out as the “weakest” of Presidents because there were 12 terror attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad during GWBush’s administration, more than any President in our history, and they include:

June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia?Truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan?Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan?Suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia?Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. 5 killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan?Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomat directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria?Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece?A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey?Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen?Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen?Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured. (Daily Kos, 9-12-12)

I don’t recall Republicans convening a hearing on any of THOSE embassy attacks.

There were also 7 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities during the Reagan era.

The embassy breach in Libya was only the second attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities during President Obama’s first term. Even after OBL’s death, American diplomatic facilities did not come under fire.

230 Patricia Kayden  Thu, Jan 24, 2013 6:38:44am

Thank you, Pablo for pointing to FACTS. They do tend to have a liberal spin, don’t they?


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