Comments on: Jean Schmidt: Total Idiot Or Complete Idiot?

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:29:11 +0000

just can’t figure out how to quit him!
That would seem to be your problem with me, eh, groupie?

By: S

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:48:43 +0000

Says a lot about the power of OW that you’ve been promising to leave forever and just can’t figure out how to quit him!

By: pedromd07

pedromd07 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:08:55 +0000

No, but thanks for recognizing that OW has been writing this weak-ass shit for years now….

By: S

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:58:55 +0000

pedromd07 | Mar 23, 2007 12:22:45 PM
“Whatever, typical OW “argument”, lots of fluff, no fact.”

LoL … remember your repetitous promises of many months — possibly years — to abandon the blog precisely because of this reason?

By: pedromd07

pedromd07 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:22:45 +0000

But what you are doing Oliver is not saying “the room is red” you are saying “I heard the room was red, and anyone (even someone who has been there themselves) who says otherwise is a moron”

Whatever, typical OW “argument”, lots of fluff, no fact.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:05:07 +0000

I don’t know what these guys are complaining about. They have running water. See, there it is coming out of the ceiling.

Sheesh.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:22:03 +0000

Yes, because a red room isn’t red if a Democrat says so.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:06:40 +0000

Dugger:That’s what I meant when I said, “The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects.”

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:06:26 +0000

Dugger:That’s what I meant when I said, “The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects.”

By: Dugger

Dugger — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:38:58 +0000

You make it sound like Jon Soltz and his buds represent main stream veterans. Don’t think so. VoteVets is an anti-war activist group popualted by Democrats. They are active politically against the war.

By: pedromd07

pedromd07 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:22:32 +0000

Oliver you WENT to WR right? I mean, you are speaking with direct knowledge here yes? You have been to a military hospital?

Let me tell you what you will find….

The hospital itself is in great shape. They routinely pass the JCHA inspections with better results than most civilian hospitals.

Attached to said hospital is a building that is used as a “TPU” a Transient Personnel Unit (thats what it was in the Navy at least). This is usually an old, dilapidated hospital building that has been turned into a barracks.

So it is entirely likely that what she said is correct, and of course, she has BEEN there…

By: SpiderJ

SpiderJ — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:51:54 +0000

Schmidt was the one with either the gall or the ignorance to imply that John Murtha was a “coward,” right? And now she decides to stick her uninformed head into the Walter Reed fracas?

Maybe she’s really smart on a number of issues, but she keeps putting her foot in her mouth when she gets near anything military.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:42:17 +0000

A poorly maintained outpatient facility in one hospital, is no reason to fire the Secretary of the Army, for crying out loud! I don't care if it was worse than the original Snake Pit, you don't fire a subcabinet officer and a general over a maintenance problem. That is overreaction, at best. From yesterday's (Fredericksburg) The Free - Lance Star :

RALEIGH, N.C.--It's nothing but a pity that the name of Walter Reed is destined for some time to stand as a code word of dishonor. Leaving wounded soldiers to languish in a roach-infested rathole shamed the government that had sent them to war.

Exaggerate much?

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:32:30 +0000

Even if you prefer conservative policies and conservative politicians, Schmidt is the bottom of the barrel. She cannot possibly be the most qualified conservative in that district. An aggressively recidivist moron, possibly stupider than Bush.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:10:32 +0000

What you are saying has no basis in reality Frank. By all accounts – Republican and Democrat alike – the conditions in the specific area of Walter Reed were atrocious and certainly not what our military should be in after serving in this war. Once again, this is objective fact not subject to partisan posturing. That it happened under President Bush is as valid as if it had happened under President Clinton. Running around denying reality like you and Jean Schmidt are is just stupid. Read the article, even a Republican Rep. says Schmidt has no damn clue what the hell she’s talking about.

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:28:34 +0000

We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are not.

Should be:
We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are we not?

By: fd10801

fd10801 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:26:44 +0000

I have no idea whether Rep. Schmidt is dumb or not. It wouldn’t be the first time that a situation was blown out of proportion by the media and by politicians on either side of the aisle.

The investigation is not over, but we’ve already heard from the usual suspects. And there have been reports from veterans / patients who were at Walter Reed, and other hospitals, and said that it wasn’t all that bad.

The hospital I go to (Bronx VAMC) has the usual bureaucratic problems, but is clean and well – kept, and the medical care has improved over the years.

There’s a story floating around that Walter Reed has been trying to get private maintenance in to the hospital for years, but with no success. I’m fairly certain that that might have made a difference.

There are also commentators saying that firing the head of the hospital was the absolute worst thing to do.

Getting him, and the maintenance personnel, to do their jobs would have produced much better results.

We are talking about improving services for veterans, and not embarrassing Republicans, are not.

And calling conservatives “out of touch with reality” probably qualifies as the Stupidest Comment Of The Day.

Congratulations

By: frameone

frameone — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:13:33 +0000

“It’s the objective reality.”

And that’s it in a nutshell. There’s reality and there’s what conservatives think. The two have rarely been in sync the last eight years.

By: Wilbur

Wilbur — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:11:48 +0000

Gawd, what an idiot-filled place Ohio-2 must be if it keeps sending this she-bozo to congress.

I’m sure there are a lot of intelligent people there, but I feel sorry for them, they are clearly outnumbered.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:54:13 +0000

It’s not the “liberal view”, Frank. It’s the objective reality. Look into it. You regularly post here about how liberals are the source of evil, yet, when someone points out a dumb con you ring the alarm bells.