Good job, AO. You got the question mark in the right place.

“Shows signs of improvement.”

You will be singing a different tune when your personal medical treatment is in the hands of a bureaucracy.

Duros,
We would be the citizens of our fair republic. An extremely farsighted group of men crafted an elegant form of government, engineered to maximise individual freedom and liberty. They put unprecedented power in the hands of the people. Since then it has been the responsibility of us to protect our Constitution from the never ending efforts of the Govt. to diminish our rights and grab power specifically denied to the Govt. and reserved to the people. And before you get your panties in a bundle about slavery remember to put that into historical and global perspective. Shorter version of slavery: it has existed from the dawn of time to this very day. It was considered a normal condition. We had it, we got rid of it, get over it.

Canadian Bacon,
We protect our self interests, we picked up the cost of rebuilding and defending Europe from Russian aggression. Defending Korea, etc. etc. etc. Canada lives under the unbrella of our defense system.

I know to a liberal socialist it is just hideous blood sucking. The world is sick of our crap right up until they get their ass in a crack and we go in, once again.

Fafaroo, OK, you’re a huge douche as well as a naive liberal with good intentions. Feel better?

Like you never meddle in running other people’s countries, eh? Your type of american just wants to be involved where ever you self interest takes you but when an “outsider” comments on your hideous blood sucking ways, then we’re meddling. Typical crap that the world is sick off. Maybe Mr. Obama can bring back some self respect to your country. We’ll see.

Hang on JT, I’m reaching for my shoe.

Not once, but several times Jay did you repeat this ridiculous and false statement? What… the State of Hawaii hasn’t made the Birth certificate available? What, the Obama campaign didn’t do the same thing?

Yet, it’s easier for you to say it hasn’t been released…

ROFLMAO

Like you never meddle in running other people’s countries, eh? Your type of american just wants to be involved where ever you self interest takes you but when an “outsider” comments on your hideous blood sucking ways, then we’re meddling. Typical crap that the world is sick off. Maybe Mr. Obama can bring back some self respect to your country. We’ll see.

Jay Tea, much like Joe the Plumber, is another example of failing up on the right. He “graduated” from Wizbang to Commentary:

Commentary is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life.

I think Jay Tea defines what “intellectual life” means for the right.

Who exactly is this “we” you spoke of, Asshat Observer? You just continue to prove you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Eventually rationing will occur and some overpaid government hack will decide if you live or die.

As opposed to what we have now, where an overpaid insurance hack decides if you live or die?

He won’t, because this is a guy whose website is so ignored that he has to troll an obviously liberal site to get any traffic, or attention.

But I revel in it. He’s wrong about everything and anything, and during my coffee-breaks at work I enjoy seeing him made to play the fool yet again, as he brushes the Cheetoh-dust from his face and yells at mommy to make him yet another tuna fish sandwich so he can bellow about “libruls”, i.e., reality-based thinkers.

My god, we’re about to have a real president in one more week. Good times.

Grendel, please. Stop being such an asswipe. I spent over a decade despising Limbaugh over that, got into several huge fights with colleagues at Wizbang over it, and only got over it a couple of years ago. I still don’t listen to him.

You spent “over a decade despising Limbaugh” for his Chelsea joke. A point you returned to repeatedly in the years immediately following your own Chelsea joke.

Above you make a huge point of why you made the joke:

Why not remind folks of what he had done, with a bit of exaggeration and emphasis that would remind people viscerally of just what an appalling thing he had done? In a way that was admittedly tasteless, but considerably less tasteless than the deeds that inspired it?

In other words, why not tell a tasteless joke at Chelsea’s expense to attack her father. Just the thing you spent “over a decade” despising Limbaugh for.

I wish you would just go away but I know you won’t. Instead, I would suggest that you pause and think the next time you want to attack anyone here or some other liberal/Dem for hypocrisy. Because not only have offered a rationalization for doing what you claim to despise, you’ve made it perfectly clear that when called on your own hypocrisy, you couldn’t care less.

It is kind of cute the way the Canadians worry about the affairs of their betters. You’d think they would be busy enough ruining their own country and not have time to meddle with ours.

Almost as cute as an elitist Republican’t snob pontificating about others worrying about the the affairs of their betters. After Republican’ts have been spending the last fifty years doing that exact thing.

Apparently that whole hypocrisy thing is just slightly above the intellectual level of the average Republican’t Putsch fellator. Who (other than anyone who reads any of the comments from the Reich wing found on this blog) would ever conceive of such a thing?

LOL, indeed…

Here’s Jay Tea on Rush Limbaugh:

I was briefly a fan of Limbaugh’s, back in the early 90’s. His schtick was new then, and fairly entertaining. I quickly outgrew that, though. A big push towards that was when on his not-short-enough-lived TV show, he was assailing Bill Clinton’s pandering nature and said “did you know the White House has a dog?” and put up a picture of then-13-year-old Chelsea Clinton. Limbaugh’s defense is that his staff set it up and he didn’t have time to go back and edit it out. I refuse to accept that explanation; it was a completely reprehensible and despicable action, and any person of decency, honor, and character would have MADE the time to prevent it from airing. Regardless of one’s feelings towards the parents, a politician’s children are NOT legitimate targets — especially a 13-year-old girl. Ever since that incident, I have never listened to Limbaugh, never respected him, never liked him.

Here’s Jay Tea on Jay Tea:

In retrospect, perhaps I shouldn’t have committed my thoughts to the screen. But I did. I won’t go back and delete it, or edit it. I don’t bury or hide anything I said or did. And in this case, I wouldn’t. Not one of my prouder pieces, but I can live with “TEH HYPOCRISY!!!!!” on this one.

Nice to know what you can live with and what you can’t, Jay Tea. Funny how you’re so willing to excuse your own words while holding your grudge against Limbaugh for, what was it, years?

Then again, repeatedly attacking Limbaugh over his Chelsea joke is a neat, and meaningless, way to pretend you’re some kind of “independent thinker” while being such a huge douche yourself.

How huge a douche?

It’s clear that you’ve made this issue of children and the media one of your great “causes”. In one 2007 wizbang post you wrote:

For example, one of my pushbutton issues is the use of children in political events. I stopped listening to Rush Limbaugh when he had the infamous “Chelsea Clinton as White House Dog” incident, and still don’t listen to him today.

So this is one of your “push button” issues.

In another 2007 post, you wrote:

One of the most disgusting trends in politics over the past few years has been the use of politicians’ children — especially by their opponents. And I, for one, have had enough of it…I have a great loathing for those who attack children for the “sins” of their parents (Chelsea Clinton, the Bush twins, Mary Cheney, Al Gore Jr., just to name a few),

In 2006 you wrote:

I don’t care who does it, for whatever reason. I was disgusted and repulsed when Rush Limbaugh attacked Chelsea Clinton to get at her parents, and I carried the grudge far longer than the Clintons apparently did… And ever since George W. Bush started running for president, his daughters (and the rest of his rather extensive family) have been fair game. And I find that disgusting.

Jay Tea, this isn’t just a push button issue. You’ve made it one of your signature issues. You have spared no words for those you think are violating your set in stone principles. You’ve even used it to set yourself ABOVE Chelsea Clinton’s own parents in regards to your concern for her political exploitation.

And yet all of this came after your own little “joke” which you now find so easy to write off. You don’t drag yourself over the coals as you did with Rush Limbaugh. You certainly don’t apologize or, god forbid, apologize to Chelsea or her parents. Nope. You decide, well, you can live with it. That’s pretty damn douchey, dude.

Will you please just go away now?

Indeed. Who can forget when Obama, the liberalist Senator said, “Some call you the elite. I call you my base.”?

Prob’ly all the fags and “minorities.”

AO, you might want to use “I’m a huge douche as well.”

Here’s a thought, Jay Tea, why don’t you do yourself a favor and headline all your posts, “I’m a Huge Douche”. That way you won’t have to come up with so many pathetic excuses for being a huge douche. We’ll all just know.

We will have less freedom and liberty, liberals despise freedom and liberty, they despise the country we have built, what has made us different from the rest of the world. Liberals envision a world where the elite shall take care of the little people who can’t be trusted to know what is good for them.

Obama will disapoint the left. He will be plenty bad for this country but not as bad as you desire. He is smart enough to move to the center but he will probably be even worse for this country than FDR. Political pull not American ingenuity will dominate our economy. With any luck the inflation will kick in about midway through his first 4 years and he will take the heat.

Ruining our medical system will most likely be his major accomlishment after crippling our economy.-legacy. The government not doctors will decide what treatment is appropriate and on their timeline. Eventually rationing will occur and some overpaid government hack will decide if you live or die.

So enjoy your bit of power and be careful what you wish for. Idiot.

Excellent point. Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?