Go For It!
By Mitch Berg
Now that we have subpoena power, we have the ability to critically examine every move you guys made for the last 6 years and believe me, we’re going to do it.
Oh, please. Please please please. Go for it.
I mean it. Subpoena everyone from Karl Rove down to Learned Foot. Bog the Congress down in endless retribution for your (plural) lunatic obsessions! Try to tie every “scandal” to have oozed from your fetid imaginations to any available Republican! Turn Congress into a venue for the Stalinist show trials so many of you have been panting about for so long!
Show the nation your true colors in time for 2008!
Show this nation what the Democrats are really made of.
It’ll be the best two years we Republicans could ask for.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Mitch said,
“Show the nation your true colors in time for 2008!
Show this nation what the Democrats are really made of.”
Oh, we will Mitch and when 2008 rolls around, I would recommend that you guys try REALLY hard to find some true conservatives to run for Congress and the White House because all of the remaining corporatist thugs disguising as conservatives will be on their way out.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:01 am
If they subpoena me, I will bury them in so much paperwork and proceedural gimicks, that most of the shiny new freshman Dems in Congress will be dead before it’s all sorted out.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:03 am
If they subpoena me, I will bury them in so much paper and proceedural gimickery that most of the shiny new Dems in Congress will be dead before it’s all sorted out.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:03 am
Mitch,
Your new comment system sucks!
November 9th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Foot,
No, my new comment system is mildly inconvenient the first time you post something. I moderate all *new* incoming comments. Once you’re been approved, it works just like the old comment system.
What *sucks* is having to clean up between 200-3000 spam comments a day, and getting nastygrams from my ISP because my comment spam traffic is causing servers to yak. I’ve had not one comment spam since I switched.
You shouldn’t have to jump through any extra hoops (other than providing a name and email, which your browser should cache anyway) anymore.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Sorry for hatin’ on the WP. Didn’t know you were moderating comments.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:03 am
Oh, we will Mitch and when 2008 rolls around, I would recommend that you guys try REALLY hard to find some true conservatives to run for Congress and the White House because all of the remaining corporatist thugs disguising as conservatives will be on their way out.
Gosh, Doug, I haven’t been calling for real conservatives in the GOP since about 15 years before the inception of this blog, have I?
I didn’t *leave* the GOP in 1992 over this exact issue, and return purely to try and enact it.
What would my conservative conscience do if I didn’t have Doug around?
November 9th, 2006 at 9:19 am
Ohhhhh, so THAT’S the Democrats’ vision of government: investigating Republicans.
This will be a productive two years.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:49 am
The only way the Dems can damage themselves over the next 2 years is if the country is attacked again (and they fail to take action) or if the economy tanks. Posturing and acting silly on the floor of the House is what we expect from EVERYBODY THERE. The country will survive the Dems just as well as we’ve survived the Republicans.
Now, the Iraqi people, on the other hand…
November 9th, 2006 at 9:50 am
I would be very disappointed if the new majorities got too carried away in that direction. Just as frustrated as I was when the GOP went on their witch hunts starting in 1994. So to be fair, Mitch, you guys did set the bar for that kind of reaction/behavior.
Flash
November 9th, 2006 at 10:02 am
“you guys did set the bar for that kind of reaction/behavior.”
Two words, Flash: Robert Bork.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:17 am
flash said,
Just as frustrated as I was when the GOP went on their witch hunts starting in 1994.
Ther difference flash is that the Republicans were going after 1 guy over an alleged land deal gone sour. There was nothing there so they replaced the guy leading the investigation and followed a different angle.
Republicans had NO problems bogging down the system to make sure that Clinton got as little done as possible.
Since Democrats won’t be tied up golfing in Scotland, boinking teenaged Prostitutes in the Marianas islands or getting a reach around from the President , we’ll be able to balance the budget, get our troops home in victory and hold the President and Congress accountable.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Ther difference flash is that the Republicans were going after 1 guy over an alleged land deal gone sour.
Ah, Doug. You’re as selective and disingenuous as ever.
While I didn’t much care for some of the excesses of the Starr investigation, the fact is that most of us – the vast majority – were after Clinton’s lies to a grand jury.
That you continue to portray it as “land deals” and “about sex” merely contributes to the Goebbelsian “Big Lie” that the Dems and media (pardon the redundancy) are trying to have ground into the history books. Maybe you’ll get your way in the pages of the Strib, but not here.
Republicans had NO problems bogging down the system to make sure that Clinton got as little done as possible.
Thank goodness. Back then, during peacetime, gridlock was a good thing. The gridlock (and the Peace Dividend from Reagan’s ending of the Cold War) gave us the “Clinton Boom”.
But that was peacetime.
Since Democrats won’t be tied up golfing in Scotland, boinking teenaged Prostitutes in the Marianas islands or getting a reach around from the President ,
Doug, while I tolerate, and occasionally value your contributions, you need to mind your manners, or I’ll have to send you elsewhere.
Capisce?
We’ll be able to balance the budget,
Do us a favor, Doug, and tell the truth; the Dems won’t “balance the budget”, they’ll jack up taxes to ensure that the gaping maw of government doesn’t ever go wanting. The Dems are, have always been, and will always be the party of taxing and spending. That the Republicans have overspent this past six years is an aberration (one that many of us, including me, have opposed consistently); overspending to the point of sapping the economy is a tenet of the Demcorat gospel.
get our troops home in victory
You are deluded, as well. There is no Democrat plan for “Victory” in Iraq, beyond some odd “defeat is victory” doublespeak.
You are the party of Vietnam (got us into it, cut and ran from it). You are the party of the Killing Fields. You are the party that coddled Stalin. Don’t try to dress it up.
and hold the President and Congress accountable.
And we’re back to your real motives, yet again.
November 9th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
you need to mind your manners, or I’ll have to send you elsewhere.
Wait just one cotton picking minute here. Since when does SitD have a policy on manners? If I’m limited from poop and butt talk, I may as well not even come here any more. Is this part of the move to WordPress? Say it ain’t so, Mitch. I come here largely because of the lack of manners. Manners don’t belong on the Internet.
November 9th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Yossarian,
Poop and butt is OK. “Reacharound from the President?” He could have stuck with “Reacharound from Kevin Federline”, maybe, or even “Reacharound from Doug”, but I do have my limits.
November 9th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Mitch said,
the vast majority – were after Clinton’s lies to a grand jury.
Mitch. Got a calendar handy?
Good. Now, when did the “investigations” into Clintons alleged criminal endeavor, White Water begin?
And when did Clinton lie to a Grand Jury?
Also, if you’re going to attempt to make me the target of a reacharound joke, you need to understand the difference between pitching and catching.
I would recommend calling Ken Mehlman. I’m sure he could explain it.
November 9th, 2006 at 2:45 pm
“Targeting” anyone is the least of my concerns. Keeping discussions of it in either the bedroom or on leftyblogs where it belongs is.
As to the calendar – read more carefully. I disagreed with some of the excesses. Clinton’s lies to the grand jury were the serious issue to me.
November 9th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
That may be the case Mitch but unless I missed something, you were not a GOP member of Congress in the 90’s.
Need I point out that we were talking about the GOP going after Clinton? Not you.
November 9th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
I wasn’t restricting it to members of Congress.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
Doug, do you ever know when to quit? Mitch gutted you like an eight-point buck.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
Mitch said,
“I wasn’t restricting it to members of Congress.”
Well you should have considering that that was the context in which the discussion was raised. Maybe you just didn’t get that. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Paul said,
“Doug, do you ever know when to quit? Mitch gutted you like an eight-point buck.”
Paul, didn’t you use that one about a week ago? Maybe it’s time for some fresh material.
And Mitch said,
“the Dems won’t “balance the budget”, they’ll jack up taxes to ensure that the gaping maw of government doesn’t ever go wanting. The Dems are, have always been, and will always be the party of taxing and spending. ”
Said by the man who is a member of the borrow and spend party. I guess borrowing nearly 9 trillion dollars and paying billions in interest is the new fiscal conservative principal.
That you actually believe that this is in any way, good for national security is beyond laughable.
I hope to God you handle your money a little better than Republicans have handled mine.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Mitch,
I hate to agree with you (sort of), but I hope the Democratic leadership is smart enough to keep the investigations to a minimum and focus on things that the public values. ( minimum wage hike, access to decent health care and a sane immigratin policy would be a good start). We don’t need to investigate WMD’s that verdict came in last Tuesday. Bush will be gone in two years, they need to think in terms of long term strategy, not short term retribution. By the way, is this where we come to gloat ? GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT ! Gosh that felt good, almost as good as Tuesday evening. This is going to be fun.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Phipho, I’m glad you mentioned a few of the issues… Today Joe Senser was sitting in for Dan Conry on KTLK and he was talking about the Democratic agenda and he said a couple of enlightening things.
He said what the Democrats are going to do first right away in the first 100 days is push a federal minimum wage bill and then the next thing they would do is pursue the 9-11 commissions recommendations. He said that the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in 10 years so that’s a no brainer and the 9-11 recommendations were the same thing – a no brainer. He went on to say that after that, the Democrats will pursue a far left agenda.
This is important for two reasons. First if these were no brainers as Senser claims, why didn’t the Republicans do anything about them when they had the chance. Seems to me that if Congress wanted to at least give the impression that they were serious about national security, they would have made the 9-11 commissions recomendations a national security issue. Instead, they chose to ignore it. Related to that issue of course is the second half of the investigation into intelligence failures that never happened. It didn’t happen for one reason and one reason only. It would devastate both the White House and the pro-war Congress that knew the intelligence was cherry picked. It’s just easier to talk about a 700 mile, unfunded mandate that will never be built than talk about how personal responsibility.
Second, the minimum wage and the 9-11 commission have been framed as far left isues for years since it has been we liberals that have been pushing them. But now, Senser is attempting to position both issues as being in the center. Now why would that be? Remember, there is another election only two years away and when the time comes for more paid advertising, you can bet there are going to be Republicans all over the country bragging how they passed legislation that gave fair wages to American workers and that they passed legislation that kept Americans safe.
Mitch and company would be better off starting their own party since there is no way in hell that – in two years – the Grand Canyon gap that now divides the Republican can be healed. The strategy – and Democrats had better be prepared for it – will be to launch a full assault against Democrats.
If Democrats don’t try to pull any stunts like Delay, Ney and the twenty or so others, and if we get rid of guys like William Jefferson, we will be able to withstand the attacks. If the Democrats start acting like Delay et al, were screwed.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:26 am
Doug said:
“Paul, didn’t you use that one about a week ago? Maybe it’s time for some fresh material.”
Why should I change it? You haven’t changed. You’re still dishonest, disingenuous and condescending as ever. How about you get a fresh outlook?
November 10th, 2006 at 11:44 am
And interestingly enough, Paul’s full repertoire in the arena of public discourse seems the be limited to references to hunting and playing Goyle to Mitch’s Malfoy.
If you care to disect anything I’ve ever posted, feel free but try it on your own for a change… M’kay?