Pot Calling the Broccoli Green

Sometimes you just have to laugh at the jackyderm mudslinging.

Teehee.

Let’s just take this apart bit by bit, it’s truly awesome in the magnitude of its hypocrisy.

A Vermont Democrat running for Congress said the Bush administration has “no clear strategy for success” in Iraq and that the “Republican ‘Rubber Stamp Congress’ has failed to do its duty when it comes to the oversight of this administration.”

Well, seems to me all you kids but Russ Feingold rubberstamped the USA PATRIOT Act, and then we got to hear that “extend it, mend it, but not end it” tripe coming out of that jackass Democrat Jane Harmon, with naught but bleating assent coming from everyone but Feingold and the few moderate libertarians in the GOP.

And what about Iraq? Let’s talk about Iraq. Let’s talk about your 2004 candidate voted for the war… and how your likely 2008 candidate voted for it too. Let’s talk about how when Murtha spoke the truth you were all too chickenshit to stand behind him because “OMG THEY MIGHT THINK WE WUB TEH TERARORISTS!”

State Sen. Peter Welch, the fourth congressional candidate this year to deliver the Democratic weekly radio address, said “the American people have had enough and it is long past time to change course.”

We need change! The American people want something different! What that change or difference might be, I have no fucking clue! Howard Dean’s still working that out in committee and the focus groups haven’t weighed in yet! But I fully commit myself to fucking up in a completely new manner if you stoop to electing me!”

“We must ensure that 2006 is a year of significant transition to full Iraqi sovereignty,” Welch said. “We must establish clear benchmarks for the Iraqis to take care of their own country and defend themselves, so that we can transition our troops out and move to fight a smarter war on terrorism — including doing a better job of securing our ports and our borders.”

We need clear benchmarks, dammit! What they are, eh, who knows? I sure as fuck don’t! But we do need them! Oh yeah, and, uh, Bush is polling really bad about the ports deal so I’m gonna kick him in the nuts for that again so it looks like I stand for something!

Yeah, this is just more jackyderm shit. They’re all spouting the same garbage, everywhere you go. Republican Senate contender Pete Ricketts back in my home state of Nebraska waffled on a lot of stuff dealing with the wiretappings when I asked him about it… and Democrat Scott Kleeb boldly declared that healthcare was his top priority… and that he didn’t have a plan, so much, about what needed to be done with it.

Someone fucking stand for something already!

posted Jun 5th, 2006 by Stuart Richards
  • http://www.killerisme.com James

    They stand for covering one anthers backs when they are being investigated for violations.

    Most of em stand when they piss.
    Thats about it.

  • sniggler

    I have a feeling that fewer of them stand when they piss than you think.

    And the ones that do would probably surprise you.

    The biggest problem, as we all know, is the lack of MSM coverage of those that actually have a plan. I would like to see more cable TV ads this year. Sacrificing some travel money for more paid ads would have LP candidates in the faces of many more voters, and I think the couch potato masses would sit up and take note of it. It’s not much, but I’ll be giving more to the LP this year than ever before, and I’ll try to make a similar contribution at least every major election year.

    What about it, Steve? Will we see more television ads this year?

  • Timothy West

    I got a killer video on this exact subject coming out, but it’s slow going becuase of stupid drug reactions.

    It reduces Iraq to a single dead American lying on the ground in front of you. You have to deal with the reality of war – and conctrast his dead body to certain public statements and votes by our so called leaders who pushed the war.

    It’s a fine line to walk. Hope I can pull it off becuase the dead american is not anonymous – and that makes you confront his death vis a vis our “leaders’ statements.

    I’m gonna try to get it done before the week is out.

  • http://libertarianyouth.blogspot.com Nigel Watt

    CNN has asked to attend the LPTX convention.

  • Julian (a Vietnam Vet)

    John Salazar(D), my unesteemed Representative, introduced a bill in the House to throw away 1.5 billion dollars on a problem that does not yet exist. He wants to give all 26.5 million veterans money to help protect them from identity theft just in case someone uses the info stolen from the jerk that took home all the information on veterans going back to WWII.

    I have emailed him and the reply I got? Boilerplate rhetoric about how much good he is doing for me since I am in his district. Please, don’t do me any favors, I said.

    I contacted his office and got the same crap runaround.

    It would be cheaper to offer a huge reward for the return of the stolen hard drives and computer. Hell, paying a hundred million dollars (which we do not need to do) would still be cheaper than giving away 1.5 billion dollars to solve a problem that does not yet exist. Talking about being proactive, he must be the all time champion.

    What the hell are those people thinking?

  • http://www.freevermont.org Hardy Machia

    My personal guess is that Peter Welch would have voted for the Patriot Act if he was in congress at the time, but with all due respect to Congressman Sanders he did vote against the original Patriot Act.

    “Representative Bernie Sanders is leading the charge in Congress to protect the civil liberties and rights of all Americans. Representative Sanders was one of only 66 Members of the House of Representatives to vote against the USA Patriot Act.” (source)

  • Mark

    Hey Timothy, I’m looking forward to the new video. I did have an idea I would like to share with you though. How about a basic video on how Americans’ tax dollars are being wasted.

    Here’s whats running through my head: Something big and bold “YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING WASTED.” Then just a list on pork-barrel items: $250 Million for this, $200 Million for that, the list could go on and on scrolling from bottom to top with a nice haunting tune to go along with it.

    And for the kicker, a huge list could be compiled so that the speed at which the items would scroll across the screen would go faster….and faster….and faster. Until it would go so fast it wouldn’t be possible to read and just blur and end with some catchy one-liner. Nothing grabs people attention better than $$$.

    btw, I was looking for your email, but couldn’t dig it up.

  • http://fuckinretard.com/blogn/ Sodo

    Standing for something is a bad idea because if you do, then someone will want to hold you accountable for your actions. Can’t have that.

  • TerryP

    I kind of like Marks idea for an ad.

    Another idea would be to use a slogan for a whole bunch of ads of “have you had enough” and then end with vote libertarian. You could do this with Iraq, spending, social security, medicare/medicaid, patriot act, pork barrel spending, education, etc. With the economic ones you could have things like how much per family is the current debt, how much per person/child is the unfunded debt, you could have like Mark says a ticker totaling all the spending, etc. There are so many numbers you could use it is mind boggling. For education you could show the scores versus spending, scores vs number of students per class, etc. But you start out with “Have you had enough” and continue that throughout the ad, and then end with vote libertarian and/or for a specific candidate. You can hammer both the republicans and democrats in the same ad as being pro big government in almost all cases and them give a person a different choice: Libertarian.