Perhaps you recall that for the last year or so, ever since those child-murdering dickbags who go by the name the Islamic State started making a nuisance of themselves in the Middle East — and we started bombing them, because America — various members of Congress have been demanding (demanding!) that the
Maybe this is one of Obama's 11 dimensional chess moves to suddenly turn all Congressional Republicans into Amish Pacifists:
<i>&quot;War? No way! Hell No Way!! Will will never, EVER sacrafice our young lives for Obama&#039;s war profiteers!!! Request DENIED!!!&quot;</i>
Whenever politicians or telescreen talking heads use the expression &quot;We need to have a national conversation,&quot; they really mean &quot;I need more airtime to get reelected/a raise on my next contract.&quot;
Because a &quot;national conversation&quot; is cheap. What&#039;s risky or expensive is a president asking for a war and Congress voting for or against it.
I&#039;m sure the Republicans will do the responsible thing and insist on tax increases to pay for this. Dubya <strike>found</strike> borrowed $2,000,000,000,000 to spend on Dubya&#039;s war Iraq and Afghanistan which turned out to be a big problem for Dubya when the economy went bad under Dubya.
I am sick of the glib metaphor &ldquo;boots on the ground.&rdquo; We are disrupting and sometimes ending people&#039;s lives. We are &quot;putting Americans in combat&quot;, &quot;sending soldiers to war&quot;. And, more to the point IMO, &quot;fighting someone else&#039;s war&quot;.
Ha ha. No oil, no Israel, no Ameircan involvement.
Harlan Ellison I think it was who condemned mothers who were willing to trade their sons for a tacky gold star to hang in a window.
He has to get past the RCMP first.
how&#039;d that work out for you?
can you imagine if mittens was president right now?
Maybe this is one of Obama&#039;s 11 dimensional chess moves to suddenly turn all Congressional Republicans into Amish Pacifists:
<i>&quot;War? No way! Hell No Way!! Will will never, EVER sacrafice our young lives for Obama&#039;s war profiteers!!! Request DENIED!!!&quot;</i>
[Hey, I can dream, can&#039;t I?]
Whenever politicians or telescreen talking heads use the expression &quot;We need to have a national conversation,&quot; they really mean &quot;I need more airtime to get reelected/a raise on my next contract.&quot;
Because a &quot;national conversation&quot; is cheap. What&#039;s risky or expensive is a president asking for a war and Congress voting for or against it.
McCain breaks out in his Happy Dance in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
Is 2026 too far off to start planning for our Silver 25th Anniversary?
I&#039;m sure the Republicans will do the responsible thing and insist on tax increases to pay for this. Dubya <strike>found</strike> borrowed $2,000,000,000,000 to spend on Dubya&#039;s war Iraq and Afghanistan which turned out to be a big problem for Dubya when the economy went bad under Dubya.
I imagine the GOPstoppers will vote to extend Obamacare to ISIS, &#039;cause, goodness knows, that&#039;ll ruin them forever!
...<strong>SHOCK AND AWE BABY!!!</strong>
I am sick of the glib metaphor &ldquo;boots on the ground.&rdquo; We are disrupting and sometimes ending people&#039;s lives. We are &quot;putting Americans in combat&quot;, &quot;sending soldiers to war&quot;. And, more to the point IMO, &quot;fighting someone else&#039;s war&quot;.
Well, folks, here we go again.