Listen you guys. We know that you were looking forward to retiring at 67, but we just can't have that because if we do, Iran will get a nuclear weapon and blow us up. This is the ACTUAL ARGUMENT that "Security Analyst" Robert Kagan is making in the Washington Post, so do not laugh (yet) because this is apparently not meant to be funny. It is meant to be a Serious plea for us stupid liberals to be reasonable and compromise with John Boehner in the upcoming "fiscal cliff" negotiations, because if we don't, Iranians will come kill us and it will be ALL OUR FAULT for refusing to eat cat food and to continue working till we are dead.
I think we need a few dozen more aircraft carriers so we can name them after racist old southern segregationists. That and go to war with Iran. Then everything will come up roses.
<blockquote>Republicans and Democrats alike have been prepared to see hundreds of billions of dollars cut from the defense budget, with even more cuts coming if Congress fails to avoid the automatic &ldquo;sequestration.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Lower budget = less world influence. Of course. What could be more obvious?
This is what you get when you find a stranger in the Alpo.
You can have my job when you pry if from my cold, dead hands.
(&quot;Take This Job and Shove It&quot; has been, er, retired as a working-class anthem.)
&quot;He has been wrong about pretty much everything he has ever prognosticated about.&quot;
When your job is to tell Republicans what they want to hear, that&#039;s pretty much an expected occupational hazard.
They hate us for our pensions.
I think we need a few dozen more aircraft carriers so we can name them after racist old southern segregationists. That and go to war with Iran. Then everything will come up roses.
The fuck?
Oh, I thought maybe they were going to recruit the guys who drink coffee at our local Hardee&#039;s all day to do volunteer sniping or something.
I&rsquo;ve pretty much given up seeking a sane GOoPer. I&rsquo;d settle for one that took its meds regularly.
<blockquote>Republicans and Democrats alike have been prepared to see hundreds of billions of dollars cut from the defense budget, with even more cuts coming if Congress fails to avoid the automatic &ldquo;sequestration.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Lower budget = less world influence. Of course. What could be more obvious?
with votes.