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2006-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by .com 2006-10-28 01:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No matter what the donks do IF and when they get the house or senate, there is still one thing that the President can do. What's it called when he rejects the, oh yeah, a VETO. Yeah, that's it. They are getting just a little bit ahead of themselves at this point. They shouldn't have the trophy engraved yet.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-28 07:45|| 2006-10-28 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Bush seems allergic to the veto pen though.

Posted by Angort Slons8752 2006-10-28 09:40|| 2006-10-28 09:40|| Front Page Top

#3 So much bufoonery and so little time. Well, let's just pick one: They propose doubling the size of U.S. military Special Forces

The Dems do realize the SOF guys go around killing bad guys and blowing stuff up, right? I'm not sure they understand the part about "bad guys".

Posted by SteveS 2006-10-28 10:55|| 2006-10-28 10:55|| Front Page Top

#4 "They have made a conscious decision to focus on Republican weakness, and it may turn out to be the right decision. But it means nobody knows what they're going to do."

In other news, John Kerry sues for copyright infringement...

Posted by Raj 2006-10-28 12:53|| 2006-10-28 12:53|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm not sure they understand the part about "bad guys".

Could be they just focus on the "know lots of languages and customs" part.

Or, it could be they are incredible hypocrites, wanting SOCOM to do dirty work that they don't have to approve or acknowledge.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-28 12:57|| 2006-10-28 12:57|| Front Page Top

#6 And the funny part about that whole Special Forces thing is that Rummy has done more to both enlarge SOCOM and to deploy special forces than any other SECDEF. And he plans to add more, as fast as they can be added without diluting quality. (Which is not necessarily easy to do -- there's a reason special forces are considered elite.)

Posted by lotp 2006-10-28 12:59|| 2006-10-28 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 The donks see special forces as a JFK approved and created military organization that is allied with and a precursor to the Peace Corps. Using the same methods of relating to and understanding the indigenous population in an anthropological sense, they intuit the correct eating habits to bend the ignorant native population to the will of its new master.

It is a source for CIA agents like Dusko Popov who are given three digit license numbers and can explain the chemical distintion between a shaken and stirred martini. They've been to college, causing the employment and salaries of donk professors to rise. They are good.

Posted by Napoleon Buonaparte 2006-10-28 13:05|| 2006-10-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#8 They do NOT know the same guys I do, it would seem. ;-)

Posted by lotp 2006-10-28 13:07|| 2006-10-28 13:07|| Front Page Top

#9 But, perhaps, that's the real rub, lol.

Elite, by definition, is exclusive, so we must fuck it up with Dhimmidonk notions of inclusivity... Everybody's spechul, everybody's elite, lol.

See my beret? It's lucky, I tells ya! I've seen every episode of The Unit! I'm a SF operative!

/Jesse MacBeth

Posted by .com 2006-10-28 13:08|| 2006-10-28 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 No, they don't deal well with reality on a number of dimensions.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-28 13:08|| 2006-10-28 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 "We don't stand for anything!" -- John Kerry
"They said 'You can't beat something with nothing.' Yes we can!" - Nancy Pelosi

If they wanted this year to be like 1994, they omitted the important part: a substance-filled discussion of issues.

Posted by eLarson 2006-10-28 13:18|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-10-28 13:18|| Front Page Top

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