Comments on: Rascals Whupped & Kicked Out of Office! http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/ Author James Bovard Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:23:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119282 Jim Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:58:07 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119282 Marc - thanks for the kind words. Yep, it is puzzling that there is so little interest on government abuses. People just don't appreciate the macabre like they used to. Marc - thanks for the kind words.

Yep, it is puzzling that there is so little interest on government abuses.

People just don’t appreciate the macabre like they used to.

]]> By: Marc http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119280 Marc Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:38:52 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119280 Jim, the complete inability or unwillingness to look at the muck and carnage generated by government programs has become almost synonymous with being good (compliant) citizens as well as performing what is currently passing for state-of-the-art journalism. You are unusually adept at cutting through the glossy rose colored veneer of the politicians and bureaucrats feculent falsehoods like a laser beam. Jim, the complete inability or unwillingness to look at the muck and carnage generated by government programs has become almost synonymous with being good (compliant) citizens as well as performing what is currently passing for state-of-the-art journalism. You are unusually adept at cutting through the glossy rose colored veneer of the politicians and bureaucrats feculent falsehoods like a laser beam.

]]> By: Ron Moss http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119278 Ron Moss Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:53:08 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119278 Could you come up with something like A Republic deficit syndrome? Since the founders rejected a democracy calling it a volcano that would consume itself. Could you come up with something like A Republic deficit syndrome? Since the founders rejected a democracy calling it a volcano that would consume itself.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119274 Jim Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:50:18 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119274 Marc - Ms. Dole looked a bit thunderstruck. "OH SHIT - MAYBE THIS GUY IS NOT WRITING A PUFF PIECE AFTER ALL!" Reader's Digest hanged tough on that story - they did not flinch from exposing Dole's and the Labor Department's follies. Unfortunately, the Digest did not keep up that record. Marc - Ms. Dole looked a bit thunderstruck.

“OH SHIT - MAYBE THIS GUY IS NOT WRITING A PUFF PIECE AFTER ALL!”

Reader’s Digest hanged tough on that story - they did not flinch from exposing Dole’s and the Labor Department’s follies.

Unfortunately, the Digest did not keep up that record.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119273 Jim Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:48:45 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119273 Dirk - your mastery of analogies is rare in this age of declining literacy... Newt Gingrich as Unabomber... I expect he would be akin to some of the nitwits in the 1960s who blew themselves up with their own pipebombs. Dirk - your mastery of analogies is rare in this age of declining literacy…

Newt Gingrich as Unabomber… I expect he would be akin to some of the nitwits in the 1960s who blew themselves up with their own pipebombs.

]]> By: Lester Ness http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119272 Lester Ness Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:31:08 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119272 Newt returning to public life? What's he been doing? Still selling one-sided history lectures on video to low-level Bible Colleges? Lester Ness Newt returning to public life? What’s he been doing? Still selling one-sided history lectures on video to low-level Bible Colleges?

Lester Ness

]]> By: Marc http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119266 Marc Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:21:43 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119266 I wish that I could have seen Dole's expression when you mentioned $3 million in funding for a gay job-matching program. She and her press secretary probably expected you to follow their lead and limit the interview to a few polite questions about the tearful hugging photo. I'm sure that is what the MSM would have done in the same situation. I wish that I could have seen Dole’s expression when you mentioned $3 million in funding for a gay job-matching program. She and her press secretary probably expected you to follow their lead and limit the interview to a few polite questions about the tearful hugging photo. I’m sure that is what the MSM would have done in the same situation.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119264 Dirk W. Sabin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:57:19 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119264 Newt Gingrich offering to lead a "new Revolution" of the GOP is like the Unibomber offering to take over PETA to introduce a more vigorous approach. On second thought....that might actually have some logic whereas Newt offering to lead the scuttled Republicans is like Pee Wee Herman offering to lead the Red Cross....When will we be rid of these scheming cranks? The GOP is like a bad S. Clay Wilson Comic strip without benefit of humor. Newt Gingrich offering to lead a “new Revolution” of the GOP is like the Unibomber offering to take over PETA to introduce a more vigorous approach. On second thought….that might actually have some logic whereas Newt offering to lead the scuttled Republicans is like Pee Wee Herman offering to lead the Red Cross….When will we be rid of these scheming cranks? The GOP is like a bad S. Clay Wilson Comic strip without benefit of humor.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119262 Jim Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:53:26 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119262 On the bright side, Newt Gingrich has signaled that he would be willing to re-enter public life to lead a new Revolution. On the bright side, Newt Gingrich has signaled that he would be willing to re-enter public life to lead a new Revolution.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/11/04/rascals-whupped-kicked-out-of-office/#comment-119261 Dirk W. Sabin Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:50:08 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=563#comment-119261 Well, at least the Democrat Party now has a standard bearer who clearly understands the power of discursive government. The media will oblige him and more. One wonders if we will see rise some small government , laissez fire, liberty-centric intellectual conservatives to counter Mr. Obama, raise him and turn this rout into a real high stakes poker game of productive results. The sanctimonious script-adhering apparatchiks of the current GOP, both Neo-Con and Populacho Cultural Conservatives have plunged the rig into a ditch. Talent will be required now and that aint something that can just git bought. Well, at least the Democrat Party now has a standard bearer who clearly understands the power of discursive government. The media will oblige him and more. One wonders if we will see rise some small government , laissez fire, liberty-centric intellectual conservatives to counter Mr. Obama, raise him and turn this rout into a real high stakes poker game of productive results.

The sanctimonious script-adhering apparatchiks of the current GOP, both Neo-Con and Populacho Cultural Conservatives have plunged the rig into a ditch. Talent will be required now and that aint something that can just git bought.

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