Oh please, please, please, pleeeeeeease
November 18th, 2006 | by Craig R. Harmon |let Nancy Pelosie back Alcee Hastings to head the intelligence committee.
I’ll just let Byron York tell you why.
If Byron York doesn’t jangle your chains, perhaps the L. A. Times will be more to your liking.
13 Responses to “Oh please, please, please, pleeeeeeease”
By Jersey McJones on Nov 18, 2006 | Reply
It’s good to see that the welfare of your country is more important to you than the welfare of your party. Fuckin’ genius.
JMJ
By Craig R. Harmon on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
1. I expect her to have learned her lesson from the Murtha fiasco so this isn’t going to happen.
2. If she’s stupid enough not to have learned her lesson from the Murtha fiasco and she backs Alcee, I expect her party members in the House to smack her sillier than they smacked her over the Murtha fiasco.
3. If she’s stupid enough not to have learned her lesson from the Murtha fiasco and she does back Alcee and her fellow party members are stupid enough not to smack Pelosi silly by rejecting Alcee utterly, completely and unanimously, whatever damage to the welfare of the country becomes of that will be all Pelosi’s fault and that of your party members. It’s as bogus as hell for you to lay that shit on me.
I’ll just be out here on the sidelines laughing my damn head off at the pre-110th total meltdown of the Democratic Party. I’ll be laughing for approximately two years. Just long enough for the Republicans to get their shit together and retake at least one chamber of Congress in ‘08.
For your sake and for the sake of your party and for the sake of our nation you’d better pray to whatever god’s you believe in still that Pelosi has learned her lesson because if she hasn’t, don’t go blaming me for what follows.
By Paul Watson The Cranky Brit on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Craig,
But from the title of the post, you seem to be actively encouraging her to do something that you think is really, really stupid and damaging. I mean, when people here saw the President trying to do things that they thought were really stupid and damaging to the country, they tried to tell him not to. Unless there’s another meaning of “please, please, pleeeeeeeease” that I’m unaware of?
By Craig R. Harmon on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Paul W.,
1. Nancy Pelosi, doesn’t, so far as I know, read this blog so I’m not actually encouraging her to do anything.
2. It is obvious that I am not a Democrat and that I think that her backing Hastings will be a boon to Republicans so even if she or an aid of hers should read this post, (a) she is unlikely to care what I think or want or (b) to make her decision based upon my pleas but, rather, may even be (c) more likely to come to her senses and see what a bonehead mistake putting herself on the line for Hastings the way she put herself on the line for Murtha would be, thus sparing herself, her party and our nation the possibility of an impeached and convicted bribe solicitor into such a sensitive position.
3. She is much more likely to make her decision based upon (a) the strength of her animosity toward Harmon, the current holder of the position, and upon (b) the strength of her desire to ameliorate the Black Congressional Caucus, who are pushing strongly for Alcee rather than the blog post of a guy who obviously wants her to stumble.
Given these points, which are, I think, inarguable truths, in conjunction with those above my post indicates only my hope for Pelosi to make an ass out of herself once more and not for Alcee Hastings to actually wind up as chair of the House Intelligence committee.
By Craig R. Harmon on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
I do confess that that is not a very Christian attitude, however, and will take it up with God at Church this morning.
I am chastened about it.
By Jersey McJones on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Craig, say hi to God for me.
Ya’ know, I was watching C-Span the other day and Hugh Hewitt, a popular right wing hate-radio host, was saying basicalyy the same thing you were saying in your post. He was saying (I paraphrase), ‘Please, please, do (this and that wrong) so we can take back the majority! Please rail against the war, please nominate controversial (to the right, anyway) personalities, (etc).” There was no consideration that what he was basically saying, by his own context, that he wanted the Dems to harm the country! Nice. But then, I have said this sort of thing too, over the years, on the belief that America tends not to react and do the right thing until things get critical. So, I suppose I understand.
As for “my party,” I really wish you’d stop saying that. It fuckin’ pisses me off and if we were in person together, I’d shout you down over that. I AM NOT A FUCKIN DEMOCRAT!!! If I were to affiliate with any party, it would be the Greens.
JMJ
By Paul Watson The Cranky Brit on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Craig,
I didn’t say I thought you’d be any more successful at getting Ms Pelosi to act than we were at getting George Bush to act as we wished, just that Jersey was correct in his assessment that you appeared to want the Democrats to fail more than the country to succeed, which was out of character enough for me to comment on.
By steve on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Jersey:
If you supported liberals this past election, it is your party!
By Jersey McJones on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Steve, if you think the Dems are liberals (especially the ones that won this time), you’re a fuckin’ moron.
JMJ
By steve on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Um Jersey…
We go with the politicians we have, not the one’s we wish we had.
Go watch football or something… Nice touch calling everyone you disagree with a “fucking moron”. Nancy Pelosi=Liberal, runs with Democrats… need I say more? You have no idea do you? When she starts getting batty, it’s gonna be fun to watch the moderates in the Democratic Party squirm like baby’s with shit in their diapers. It will be, “what the fuck do we do now?”
By Craig R. Harmon on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Well, I have come to the conclusion that the attitude that I displayed here was quite unchristian.
The Bible tells me to love my enemies. I’m not saying that Nancy Pelosi is my enemy. What I am saying is that if I am to love my enemy, all the more should I love Nancy Pelosi whose political policies tend to be different from mine.
The Bible tells me to pray for those who persecute me. Not that Nancy Pelosi persecutes me but if I am to pray for those who do, all the more should I pray for Nancy Pelosi to do the good and right thing in her position of power.
The Bible tells me to do good to those who revile me. Not that Nancy Pelosi reviles me but if I am to do good to those who do, all the more should I do good to Ms. Pelosi and those that she represents.
I therefore retract the above post. On the other hand, I do not delete it. It should stand as testimony against me and against my sin and as a reminder to me to henceforth amend my ways.
Jersey,
Forgive me for calling you a Democrat. I shall never again do any such thing. Also, you were right in calling me on this post. Thank you.
Paul W.,
Yes, you are right and thank you for calling me on it.
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Anyway, I’m off again for a few hours.
By steve on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Well, I agree with Craig’s post fully…. So bring it on!!
By Jersey McJones on Nov 19, 2006 | Reply
Steve, the Dems are not NEARLY enough Liberal or Progressive for me. And there are a lot of people like me.
Craig, man, is everything okay? I mean, you’re worrying me a little here… I’m being serious.
JMJ