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Category: Liberals suck

  • Close enough for government work

    I’ve always hated that phrase for all the years I spent in government. It seemed to perpetuate a myth that all government workers were half-assed goof-offs.

    Well, welcome to the Executive Office of the President version;

    Just Monday, I was getting email from my BFFs telling me to fight for this spending bill, now Obama is hiding in a closet in the Oval Office signing the damn thing in the dark. WTF, over?

    I wonder what it’s like to be so empty of principles and direction.

  • Who wants to do some research? (UPDATED)


    IVAW took their circus on the rode to Texas, and this guy had some….compelling (??) testimony:

    Rooster Romriell
    Branch of service: United States Army (USA)
    Unit: 1-41 ARmored and 1-8 Cav
    Rank: means nothing to free men
    Home: Texas
    Served in: Ft. Riley, Ks, Ft. Hood, TX, Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, Abu Graib, Iraq.
    I learned to cherish the sanctity of life in the fires of war and came to my studies of Buddhism in Iraq. As an infantryman I saw the worst of the war and took it home on my shoulder. 1-41 was known for it’s murder scandals and I was the man who broke the case open, the one who stood against the evil of our own, regrettably it had to be done. Our nation is now falling to the ashes of Rome, fascist Germany, and the Persian empire. WE are weakened by our wealth and power, and this once great Babylonian fortress is set to collapse. Let’s set it free!

    Anyway, set your BS detectors to stun, and ponder his testimony.

    First beer is on me at the Milblog conference who can verify/demolish this guys tale of woe.

    Anytime a guy claims that he was the sole person standing for truth and justice, I imediately suspect a phony. I’m sure he served there, but his “I was the man who broke the case open, the one who stood against the evil of our own” translates into grunt speak as “listen to the mating call of the endangered Blue Falcon….”

    Have at it kids!

    UPDATE: Well, it would seem that most of this is truth, which I find rather shocking. I did note this one sentence in a WaPo article:

    An Army investigator described Romriell as the black sheep of his squad in part because he opposed the war in Iraq. The private has since been transferred to another unit for his safety.

    Young testified that Williams had said, “The first chance he gets, ‘I’m going to kill Romriell.’ “

    Black sheep or no, that’s pretty messed up.

    So, I’ll give this guy a temporary tip o’ the hat on this one. You do screwed up stuff, you do the time. Still can’t buy into the other 99% of IVAW stories, but this guy looks legit at first read.

    Jonn added: Well, the guy doesn’t get a complete pass. He says his unit is known for “murder scandals” as if the whole unit was complicit a widespread murder spree and cover up. There was ONE SCANDAL. The offender eventually pleaded guilty. Romriel continues in his IVAW profile like he personally brought down the “empire” by sliding a note under his CO’s door. If his commander decided to investigate the crime and prosecute the criminal, that should be sufficient evidence that our military isn’t the out-of-control murder machines Romriel tries to tell us it is.

    On top of all of that, Romriell calls the unit 1/41st Armor. It’s the 1/41st INFANTRY. If he wasn’t such an ate-up, pot smoking hippie, he’d remember that and be proud of it. In fact, he was in C Co. 1/41st – the same company COB6 and I were in together in Desert Storm. Romriell wore a Valorous Unit Citation over his right pocket that we earned for him. He could at least remember the branch he served in.

    And that drama queen answer about rank – that means he was probably a screw up and got out as an E-1 or E-2. He did an honorable and brave thing by turning in the murderer, but then he beclowned himself to make emo friends in the IVAW. Legit? Barely.

  • Dean on Obama’s perfect health care plan

    Christina Bellantoni of the Washington Times interviewed Howard Dean about the President’s health care program. Of course, Howard Dean took the opportunity to belittle and threaten Republican opponents:

    Mr. Dean said “Democrats can’t cave” on Mr. Obama’s plan, which he called “perfect.”

    “Not every Republican is a right-wing ideologue,” Mr. Dean said in an interview Monday.

    “They called Medicare socialized medicine,” he said. “If they want to filibuster this to death, be my guest and let’s see how they do in 2010.”

    Yeah, who do they think they are to call socialized medicine by that name? It’s working Americans paying for health care for Americans who for some reason or another don’t pay for their own health care. What else would it be called?

    And “perfect”? How is anything perfect? That statement alone should make his intentions suspect in the minds of most Americans.

    The Dean makes an even more absurd statement:

    He said Medicare for all would be a good solution since “people like it,” and “it works.”

    “It’s ridiculous to say care would be inferior,” said Mr. Dean, who was a family practice physician in Vermont and later the state’s governor. “It’s perfectly good for the millions and millions of people over 65 in this country.”

    Yeah, he should ask people over 65 in this country how they like Medicare. I did. I asked my mother who is 73 years old and her husband who is eighty what she thinks of it. She says she couldn’t afford the Medicare Part B that the government tried to shove down her throat, so she found a private supplement that is cheaper and more flexible. See, she contributed her whole life to Medicare, and then when it came time to use it, she had to pay more. And in order to afford what the government had told her would be free, she had to turn to private insurance so they could continue to live on the sparse income they get from Social Security.

    I get my health care from the Army – I earned it, but it’s still government health care. Bill Clinton decided to save money on military health care and began charging us for what we’d been told would be free while we were earning the right to it – fulfilling our end of the bargain. Even now, Congress is discussing whether they want to put caps on our health care, raise our co-pays and being more selective about who gets to participate. Active duty service members used to get dental treatment free, until Congress changed their collective mind and forced an inadequate, expensive dental insurance on families.

    Those are the two heath care programs that Congress administrates now – when costs exceed their projections (read that campaign promises) they get to change their minds. And it’s difficult to plan for your future when you’re trying to hit a moving target.

    Dean goes on about “Baby College” which is a program which “encourages” parents to stay involved in their young children’s lives;

    The “Baby College” idea encourages poor families to attend parenting groups to learn basic skills like reading to children, keeping fathers engaged and in some cases offering adult literacy courses.

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure they’ll be “encouraged”. We know how the government “encourages” us to pay taxes. After poor participation, there’ll be an enforcement policy, and an agency to administer enforcement. Then it’ll be perfect.

  • So whose spending bill is it anyway?

    My latest email from my newest BFFs at Organizing for America tells me to gird my loins for battle against…well…someone. I don’t don’t who I’m fighting, but I need to be ready to fight;

    Maybe it’s the oligarchy…no wait that’s Chavez – oh, yeah, the “the special interests and old ways of Washington”. I wonder which special interest I should whup up on first…ACORN or the lawyers.

    But wait. Obama is claiming this budget as his own? That’s what the email says. What did Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget tell CNN yesterday?

    He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. The bill would keep the government running through 2009.

    “This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game,” Orszag said. “Next year we’re going to be the starting pitcher, and the game’s going to be completely different.”

    Are we supposed to be supporting a Bush spending bill? Really? It’s not Obama’s like they told me in the email? I don’t thin I want to fight anymore until I find who I’m fighting for. Geez, ya know maybe I ought to screen capture that CNN story in case it disappears;

    So in order to come down on both sides of this issue, Obama alternately blames Bush for the spending bill and tells his mindless drones to get ready to fight for Obama’s bill.

  • Safe enough for ya now, TJ?

    We got an IVAW press release today announcing their intention to send two representatives to an Iraqi Labor Conference. It’s um, pretty funny;

    Since the U.S. occupation began, Iraqi workers have been targeted in an attempt to suppress the population and control Iraq’s natural resources. Labor leaders have been killed, tortured and imprisoned; worker’s rights have been routinely violated; and union bank accounts have been frozen. In turn, Iraqi labor unions and workers have been among the leading non-sectarian forces defending Iraqi sovereignty and democracy.

    Notice how they fail to mention who is doing the killing of these labor leaders. The implication, of course, is that either US troops or the Iraqi government is doing it. I’m not going to speculate about who they think is responsible – but it sounds like they lifted the whole line from a presser from the US labor unions about Colombia. You’d think they’d point fingers at who they they think is the culprit.

    IVAW members Aaron Hughes and TJ Buonomo will represent IVAW as the only non-labor union participants at this historic conference. We have accepted this special invitation as an opportunity to powerfully show our support for the Iraqi people’s struggle for a democratic and sovereign Iraq, free of foreign domination. IVAW believes this can only be accomplished by ending the occupation and removing all foreign troops and bases, said Aaron Hughes, Iraq veteran and former Sergeant with the Illinois National Guard.

    Oh, good, two clowns who’ve never held a job are going to a labor conference. Here’s Thomas J Buonomo’s profile at IVAW;

    Buonomo’s story goes like this: He went to the Air Force Academy, got commissioned in the Army, went to intel school in Arizona and then got cold feet about being being deployed away from the lifestyle he’d grown accustomed to in the Air Force Academy.

    In his profile he explains;

    After examining statements made by numerous journalists and public officials with firsthand information on these matters, I came to the conclusion that the Iraq war was not only irresponsible but illegal and immoral….

    Brilliant, huh? He read “numerous journalists” whom we all know are infallible experts on every subject in the world. And this snot-nosed green El-Tee swallowed their BS and used it as an excuse to avoid the service that he OWED the country because of the free education he received.

    But I guess it’s safe enough now for TJ to venture over to Iraq – last time they sent Hughes and Millard. I guess Buonomo figures that they made it back in one piece he can stick his cowardly nose in where it doesn’t belong.

    The trip is being funded by USLAW (US Labor Against the War) an affiliate of United For Peace and Justice.

  • Poor darling

    My buddy Renwaa posted this article to Facebook awhile ago and while I was reading it, I thought I’d passed through a time warp to 1980;

    Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

    Yeah, wasn’t that Jimmy Carter’s excuse for his last year of poor performance, too? He was losing sleep over the Iraqn hostage crisis. Maybe Obama would sleep better with his head removed from his fourth point of contact (an airborne term – look it up). Maybe if him and his team would wake up to the fact that they’re destroying the economy with their tinkering and guessing, they’d get some rest.

    Everyone in that administration has an excuse for sucking. Nothing pisses me off more than a pack of rookies making excuses (well, almost as much as wet toilet paper and drunk privates piss me off). Now it’s because the poor dears are overworked – what did they think? That the next four years were all going to be like Inauguration night?

    Think of it like a marriage, folks. Ya’all had a great wedding night and now you have to work at holding the marriage together. Every. Single. Day. Buncha crybaby pussies. Before the election you were all pretty words and big ideas – now the rubber has hit the road you have to make it work.

    There’s plenty of time to sleep after January 21, 2013. Crybabies.

  • Understatement of the year

    Here’ another headline from Associated Press that HAS to be the understatement of the year;

    Now, Obama can say he’s trying to help the poor – despite the businesses and investors – but the poor don’t have much to do with the economy. That’s why they’re poor. If he had half a brain, he’d come out tomorrow and tell us that he’s putting off enacting those economically destructive portions of the stimulus bill and his budget until after the recovery is complete. That announcement alone would put 25% of the lost value back into the market.

  • This ain’t the 60s, Cindy

    I found this at IVAW Actions about Cindy Thomas, an Army wife who opened “Under the Hood”, an IVAW “coffeehouse” that sprang from the coffeehouse plot of VVAW in the 60s to undermine military authority and help facilitate an end to the Vietnam War.

    Now, I’m not going to demean the sacrifice that Cindy Thomas has already made, but if that’s the excuse she’s going to use to undermine order and discipline in the Army, she really needs a dose of reality. Yes, her husband was injured. Yes, her step-son VOLUNTEERED to join the Marines – but they’re all making their own respective choices to fight this war – they’re not being drafted and force to participate. It’s not the 60s, Cindy.

    The title of the post is “New cafe a refuge for dissent”. Dissent of what? Cindy – look at your husband. Do you think he’d want you to facilitate dissent in the Volunteer Army? If he’d come home from work and complained about some “dissenting” soldiers in his unit, what would you have thought of them? What would your husband have thought of them?

    By encouraging dissent among volunteer military members, you’re causing more deaths in this war because dissent makes them unreliable in combat. You might as well strap on a bomb vest, pick up an AK and wrap a head scarf around your head and attack the Fort Hood Rod and Gun Club (the only place to go to get a decent meal and a beer on Hood as far as I remember from my years there).

    Wouldn’t it be easier to to join Soldiers Angels and actually do something supportive for the soldiers instead of something completely destructive? Besides, you’ll lose your ass if you think you’ll be able stay open on what those derelicts will spend on coffee.