Comments on: OMG So Many Words

By: mambochicken23

mambochicken23 — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:53:13 +0000

When Frank makes a claim ~~that is easily disproved~~, when you show him how obviously wrong his claim was, as it always is, he’ll respond by ~~acknowledging he overstated things, uh, continuing to make his claim~~spouting idiotic nonsense and being a little bitch. Fixed.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:01:31 +0000

Frank DiSalle: anti-choice
civil rights will never require affirmative action
the war on terror is gone — where did it go?
and so many, many more

Yup. When Frank makes a claim that is easily disproved, when you show him how obviously wrong his claim was he’ll respond by ~~acknowledging he overstated things~~, uh, continuing to make his claim.

wingnut intellectual honesty, ladies and gents

By: gumby

gumby — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:09:29 +0000

Um, do legislators not have staff that can prepare, like, memos and shit that would tell them what is in the big stack ‘o confusin’ words they are presented with? It seems to me that the problem is not entirely insurmountable. I know, get a smart intern chock full of book lernin’ and pep to tell you what is in the bill! Complexity is overcome with hard work and smartness, and if you ain’t got it, you can hire it.

By: Quaker in a Basement

Quaker in a Basement — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:19:58 +0000

Sean, let us not forget the infamous Gingrich Lexicon.

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:03:42 +0000

anti-choice
civil rights will never require affirmative action
the war on terror is gone — where did it go?
and so many, many more

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:04:46 +0000

Frank DiSalle: Because if anyone knows how to use and abuse words to forward their agenda, it is the left. You can tell by the sophistry that passes for thought in here, how the left manipulates words and their meanings to appear to be right.

Yeah! The right never abuses words or uses them to misconstrue things!

They’d never use terms like “enhanced interrogation”, or “Clean Skies Act” for a bill that actually allows increased levels of pollutants, or “death tax”, or such vague ephemera as “The American Dream Restoration Act”.

Nope. Nothing but straight talkers on the right. Every one of them.

(See, Frank. Here’s where the folk here on the left differ significantly from those of you on the right. The left tends to acknowledge when folks on the left are wrong. Not always, sure. But we do do it often. While you on the right insist certain traits exist ONLY on one side. Folks on the right NEVER abuse words. Folks on the left ALWAYS do.)

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:41:39 +0000

Sean Thornton: …said the boy who reads comic books…

And the problem with comic books is…?

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:40:39 +0000

Granted the article you link to is short, OW. But it’s only in the last two sentences that anything is made about the number of pages. Most of it is (legitimately) questioning the “revenue neutral” claim and pointing out (rightly) that once the amendments are gone thru the financial impact is going to end up quite different that what it would be for the bare bill.

But never mind that. In the last two sentences they said the bill is long. THAT’s what we obviously want to be focusing on.

I mean, it’s only folks on the right who nit pick on irrelevant side issues, right?

By: mambochicken23

mambochicken23 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:14:25 +0000

Boy the Bible sure does have a lot of words too.

Maybe this explains why so many shitheel “Christian” conservatives wind up perpetrating vile, un-Christian acts. They’ve never read the Bible! There’s just SOOOO many pages. Who has time for that?

By: johnnymags

johnnymags — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:08:23 +0000

Boy the Bible sure does have a lot of words too.

By: johnnymags

johnnymags — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:07:15 +0000

Hey! I’ll have you know comics ( before Rob Liefeld poisoned the well) were a source of great vocabulary. Stan Lee was quite the wordsmith in his story telling, Excelsior, bitches! ( add mine)

By: Parthenon

Parthenon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:01:09 +0000

This, as with the czar ‘controversy,’ is another of those issues that is only of concern when Democrats are in charge, and then it’s the latest and greatest threat to the republic.

By: Justus Paiewonsky

Justus Paiewonsky — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:54:42 +0000

But they’re right, I mean, where are all the pretty pictures in these bills anyway?

By: mambochicken23

mambochicken23 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:53:58 +0000

how the left utilizes words and their meanings to ~~appear to~~ be right. FTFY

By: Frank DiSalle

Frank DiSalle — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:34:20 +0000

Why do they fear words so? Because if anyone knows how to use and abuse words to forward their agenda, it is the left. You can tell by the sophistry that passes for thought in here, how the left manipulates words and their meanings to appear to be right.

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:57:20 +0000

Jay: I love that this is a concern all of a sudden and 2 – your GOPpals aren’t making the more reality based critique you are. They’re just saying golly, they have a lot of pages!

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:55:41 +0000

I read lots of comics, actually. But unlike the GOP I don’t think theyre reality or that they have too many words.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:42:03 +0000

Once again you’re missing the point about the size of these bills. The reason the size of the bills are called into into question is this: Who the hell reads these things before they vote on them?

That’s the problem. How many frigging times have we seen politicians say, “I wasn’t aware that was part of the bill” or how many times have we witnessed Congress have to go back and write new legislation to undo old legislation that was a total clusterfuck because politicians had no clue as to what they were actually voting for?

THAT’s the issue.

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:45:37 +0000

When The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Pet Goat are the books most closely associated with the GOP preznit, you get used to one page documents.