Schmidt?

What’s with you righties and all these butt fetishes?

The guy leads from the rear.

You must be thinking of someone else. I saw leadership last night.

Cheney would have shot him from his seat next to the speaker.

And while you’re at it, START YOUR OWN BLOG.

By us saying “Christ on a Triscuit, what a fucking idiot this person is” and, to make matters worse, when her lemmings accept the Wasilly Snowbillie’s word-salads as unanswerable logic. Yep. Got it.

One of Andrew Sullivan’s readers writes about the antics of congressional Republicans during Obama’s speech last night:

Yes, the GOP of 2009 is the party of torture and fiscal recklessness. But as Joe Wilson’s outburst last night made clear, it is every bit as much the party of the College Republicans.

….Juvenile, manipulative, impossibly smarmy, hateful — or at least more than willing to use the weapon of other people’s hate — and, above all, relentlessly cynical. To these (mostly) men, politics is not the “art of the possible”, not a means for peaceably grappling with the most difficult and complex issues of the day, or for attempting to improve the lives of people you will never meet. It is nothing but a game, one where the object is not just to win but to destroy your enemies with a weird mix of angry slander and junior high insults — and to have a good chuckle while admiring your handiwork.

“Swimming With Sharks,” Frank Foer’s 2005 article about the College Republicans, is one of the best political pieces I’ve ever read. If you didn’t see it back when it came out, do yourself a favor and read it now.

I agree with Dennis on this one. Otherwise he’s just being the whiny little turd he normally is.

Long before Joe Wilson (R-SC) made a complete ass out of himself and his party on national television, he fought to keep the Confederate battle flag flying over South Carolina.

The flag came down that year [2000] after Republicans in both houses went for a compromise that would put it on Statehouse grounds at the Confederate Soldier’s monument. The “Magnificent Seven” of Senators who voted to keep the flag up included current Congressman Joe Wilson…

That’s right — Wilson was one of only seven members of the South Carolina Senate to vote to stick it to the blacks keep the battle flag. It was finally brought down under intense national pressure and from an NAACP boycott, which cost the state millions in tourism revenue.

Wilson was just being a good foot soldier for the Neo-Confederate cause, as he’s a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization teeming with white supremecists and racists.

Notes the Southern Poverty Law Center,

Early editions of the SCV’s Confederate Veteran newsletter defended the Ku Klux Klan, argued that the United States was created “for white people,” and complained that “when a Negro has learned to read he ceases to work.”

BTW, Van Jones was right about what Republicans are.
He should have held off resigning for half of a week.
–bartkid

Much as I hate to respond to something as off-topic as this, Bartman, but Van Jones rolled over like a rug. How can he fight global warming if he can’t stand up to some talking head with a 5:00 pm time slot?

… YELLS WHILE ADULTS ARE TALKING.

Who slipped the bad acid into my morning tea?

Don’t know which is the more amusing, Quibbie; you guys complaining about someone being off topic as if that’s the sole privilege of liberals who post here, or your speaking for us ‘trolls’ when we’re not here during regular sleeping hours.

Actually, though, it was kinda nice this morning scanning the comments from last night and seeing at least a few of you coming out of your catatonic states, even if it was only for that one brief, shining moment.

Who knew all it would take was a Republican Congressman calling Obama a liar to get you guys in a good mood again?

Yeah, DNA evidence is just such a gossip.

BTW, Van Jones was right about what Republicans are.
He should have held off resigning for half of a week.

In September of 2002, The Washington Post reported that Wilson flipped out during a debate on C-SPAN with Dem Rep. Bob Filner of California, shouting at him and ranting about his “hatred of America.” From Nexis:

Filner, who opposes unilateral U.S. military action, suggested that in the 1980s, when U.S. officials sided with Iraq in its war against Iran, Saddam Hussein obtained biological and chemical weapons technology from the United States. “We gave it to him,” Filner asserted.

“That is wrong. That’s made up,” Wilson fired back. “I can’t believe you would say something like that.”

When Filner calmly held his ground, advising Wilson to read newspaper reports and other documentation, the Republican erupted: “This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous. And you need to get over that.”

As moderator Connie Brod sat by helplessly, Filner challenged: “Hatred of America? … Are you accusing me?”

“Yes!” Wilson shouted. For good measure, over the next minute Wilson accused Filner of harboring “hatred of America” four more times, of being “hateful” three times and of being “viscerally anti-American” once.

South Carolina, you have the rest of The Union, to help you along.
What’s going wrong?

In addition to the obvious, this quote from Joe Wilson is pretty remarkable:

Wilson said it is unfair to debate rumors about Thurmond when he can no longer defend himself.

The same goes for discussion of an affair Thomas Jefferson is said to have had with a slave.

“Sometimes these things just go on,” Wilson said. “These are heroes of mine. I really hope these would be heroes to future generations of Americans. (The stories) are … a way to diminish their contributions to our country’s existence.”

Yes, God forbid that there be any criticism of (or uncomfortable truths revealed about) unrepentant segregationists who have long and undistinguished congressional careers. Schoolchildren should learn that they’re unblemished heroes! Sitting presidents are another matter, of course, especially if they’re the kind that his hero Strom felt compelled to form a new party to try to prevent them from being enfranchised.