Bloodthirsty Liberal

Wasn’t I just saying how I hated most senators?

As if on cue:

Politico is reporting that Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D-NY), called a US Airways flight attendant a “Bitch” Sunday after a dispute regarding cell phone use prior to take-off.

According to a GOP aide on the same flight from New York to Washington, the flight attendant approached Schumer after he and fellow Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) continued talking on their cell phones after an announcement requested passengers to turn off the devices.

When Schumer’s request to continue his phone conversation was denied by the flight attendant, he turned off his phone and began to argue with her about the rules. Schumer persisted even after, according to the Politico report, the flight attendant had mentioned that “the entire plane was waiting on him to shut down his phone.”

The flight attendant reminded Schumer that she was only following the rules and then left. According to the GOP aide Schumer then leaned over to Sen. Gillibrand and called the flight attendant a “Bitch.”

Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Sen. Schumer, said later that “[t]he senator made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn’t have made, and he regrets it.”

It could happen to anyone. How many of us have let slip an off-the-cuff “c**k-s**ker” or “dou**e-b*g” when people in the service industry have had to remind us of their and our safety responsibilities?

And if people have to wait for our oversized egos to void their impacted wisdom? F**k ‘em.

I regret having written that.

If disaffected lefties really want to spank President Obama, I suggest they wait until he next bows—won’t be long, Copenhagen at the latest. That’s the best target-rich opportunity:

Ready, aim, thwack!

President Obama is days away from announcing a new Afghan strategy, but his immediate battle could come from liberals within his own party who are vowing to “spank” the president for committing tens of thousands of more troops to the eight-year conflict.

In a prime-time speech Tuesday from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Obama is expected to announce that he is sending up to 35,000 additional troops to Afghanistan beginning next year.

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“I think there will be some disillusionment within his base,” said Paul Kawika Martin, political director for Peace Action, a grassroots organization, who added that thousands of activists are planning to protest following the president’s announcement.

“We’re going to spank him for sending more troops,” he told FoxNews.com, adding that they may also “thank him” if he announces a quick exit strategy.

That’s a little churlish, don’t you think? Surely other anti-war types are more understanding, more patient, right Cindy?

President Peace-Nik: So you’re going to lay it on us next week, huh? How thankful will our service parents be? How many of our children are coming home in a box? Give us a hint: Is you is - or is you ain’t going to boost up “peaceful” killing in Afghanistan by sending more troops, at $1 Million / year for each individual soldier? How ’bout instead, you give us a real change and just STOP killing people? (I sure am hoping!) Guess I’ll mosey on and go about my own business. What the *bleep* do I know anyway?

Don’t hear about her absolute moral authority as much as we used to. I guess it comes with an expiration date. Somewhere around 1.20.09.

“I said Going Rogue, not Vogue. No, not Michael Palin, Sarah Palin, the ex-governor of Alaska. Alaska.”

Surprise: Many San Francisco booksellers refusing to carry Palin’s book

“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”

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“I would expect to take a bath on it,” she said. “The job of a book buyer is to be something of a psychic. You have to know your community. I don’t want to waste a lot of money and shelf space on a book nobody wants.’

Also:

“Anything like that we wouldn’t carry,” said clerk Emily Stackhouse. “We’re a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross.”

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”—except in the case of stuff that is just gross.

Out of curiosity, I found the website of Pendragon Books in Oakland (dba Pegasus Books, it seems) to see what their customers do read. Here’s one of the staff picks:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance-Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem

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As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead.

Yes, one sees why they have no time for “drivel”.

Not that she wouldn’t look good in slime, don’t you think? The glistening, the sinewy writhing…

Huh?

Anyway…

Let’s watch the whitest person in America tell us that there’s nothing wrong with people who happen to be white turn out for a politician who happens to be a white woman—while all the while implying that she’s Hitler at Nuremberg, in drag.

“A pretty white crowd… monochromatic… a tribal aspect… white versus other people.”

That’s pretty astute commentary, Comrade Chris. Were you as insightful at this Obama campaign rally?

“I never thought this day would ever happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know. If I help [Obama], he’s gonna help me.”

What color is this crowd, Chris? Chris?

As for his twisting of the word “profiling”, only a person with significant brain damage could contort her answer about Major Nidal Hasan into an endorsement of all racial profiling. What’s funny is that she predicts the left’s outrage and misrepresentation, and Chris willingly complies.

We’ve all met ‘em, and barely lived to tell the tale:

From a former Hill mom happy to be back home:

Kathryn, that picture is nothing new to the few Republican families who live on Capitol Hill. I can tell you true horror stories about the welcoming liberals who live up there. A few years back on Halloween one house had a sign up that said “No Candy for Little Republicans.” I once made the mistake of letting my two kids wear “W” shirts I picked up at the 2004 convention. The “W” shirt was a superman shirt but instead of an S in the middle there was a W. My boys loved them since they thought it was Superman. I thought it was pretty subtle. Not for the women at the park. We were accosted by fellow Moms. Insults were thrown not only at my little ones but at me and my parenting abilities.

My most favorite was when our car was bumper stickered! Someone actually went into our alley, into our driveway and placed anti-Republican bumper stickers ON our car. We didn’t have any pro-Republican signs up so I have to assume it was one of our very kind neighbors who actually knew us.

Trashing personal property, abusing children, incomprehensible rudeness—it’s only because they care about people so much. When they stone us, as in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, I’m sure they’ll be singing Kumbaya.

BTW, I am generally troubled by our Category creep, as the number of Categories in the right hand column grows and grows. But as you can see, I needed quite a few of them for this post.

Why are liberals such snots? (I said due respect.)

When asked what she thought about the Republican Party’s 2008 vice presidential candidate and her forthcoming book, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) shot back, “No, I don’t think she’s worthy of a response.”

“This is a woman who’s writing a book, and someone remarked the other day, she hasn’t even read one,” Waters told CNN. “So I don’t care what she has to say.”

Is there any Republican politician who would say anything like this about any Democratic politician? What about the Democrat who quipped that the Republican health care plan was “die quickly”? Sure, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh can be pretty incendiary, but they are more than neutralized by the Olbermanns, Maddows, Matthewses, Garofalos, et al, et al et al.

I’m talking about supposedly respectable, responsible public servants, up to and including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, whose responses to opposing points of view range from “shut up” to “eat s**t”.

So I have to ask again: why are liberals such dingleberries?

If Janeane Garofalo didn’t exist… could we just invent another Jessica Beal instead?

Please?

It’s obvious to anybody who has eyes in this country that tea-baggers, the 9-12ers, these separatist groups that pretend that it’s about policy – they are clearly white-identity movements. They’re clearly white power movements. What they don’t like about the President is that he’s black.

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But these people, who are also being led by the Glenn Becks, the Michelle Bachmans, the Rush Limbows [presumably Limbaugh], whomever, they are no different than any other white identify movement that’s part of our history. This has been going on since the founding of this country that white power movements have tried to establish themselves and hold onto power.

It’s very weird that whenever this comes up in conversation, so few people are willing to say that yes it is racism, straight up racism. And the Republican Party has been willing to carry water for racists in this country since about the 1950s. (Applause)

Electorally, these white power people don’t have their own party – maybe they will one day – so they are electorally-dependent on the Republicans. But also troubling, Fox News is happy to feed into this; AM radio is happy to feed into this.

Don’t forget us, Janeane! We may be inconsequential, but we try hard. I thought you libs liked the little people.

Oh please, lady. If your cries for attention were any more pathetic, you’d be Roseanne Barr.

I wonder if little Janeane paid attention during civics class? Does she know who voted for and who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example?

House of Representatives:
Democrats for: 152
Democrats against: 96
Republicans for: 138
Republicans against: 34

Senate:
Democrats for: 46
Democrats against: 21
Republicans for: 27
Republicans against: 6

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The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 recorded that in the Senate, only 69 percent of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82 percent of Republicans (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democratic senators voted against the act.

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In the House of Representatives, 61 percent of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 Southern Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80 percent (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.

Who has been carrying the water for the racists?

The Democratic Party is a veritable Poland Spring delivery truck of racists—from the Grand Cyclops, Robert Byrd, on down (or on up, I suppose). I would argue they’re still hung up on race, which is why they nominated a black Abbie Hoffman to be their candidate for president. And it’s why he got elected, too.

Maybe now that we know there are black Jimmy Carters, we can get past race, and judge people on the content of their characters, not the color of their skin (or their bleached hair). As for you, Ms. G., isn’t there a Tuesday night sitcom with a vacancy—somewhere you can go where your—ahem—talents can be put to good use? This is America, girl, land of opportunity. Find one.

Aunt Agatha treated us to Sarah Palin’s witty and classy riposte to John Kerry’s lame-ass joke about her.

It looks like she landed one on his chin (though even Helen Keller couldn’t miss it):

Kerry’s spokeswoman now tells The Sleuth the senator really didn’t mean what he said, though his clarification would hardly qualify as an apology.

“We stand corrected, the truth is every Democrat hopes Governor Palin is in the public eye for a long, long time, especially on the 2012 presidential ballot,” Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth says. “Lately it’s been Vice President Cheney that everyone hopes would lose the cameras and go for a long leisurely hike on the Appalachian Trail. And good grief, if anyone thinks John Kerry is afraid of strong, smart women, they sure haven’t met his brilliant wife and two independent daughters. It sounds like getting crushed these last two election cycles cost some of these Republicans their sense of humor.”

Kerry tells so many botched jokes, he could guest-host for David Letterman.

Did anyone see an apology in there? Me neither, though gratuitous slams of Dick Cheney always play well.

As the author of the post at Conservatives4Palin observes:

So, you are admitting that Governor Palin is a “strong and smart woman”? The whole statement is a flip-flop. First they want Governor Palin to run for president (because she must be a “weak” candidate) and then they say she is a “strong and smart woman.”

Rush frequently observes that the Democrats must be terrified of her because they work so hard to belittle her. Again, such “humor” plays well to a segment of society so impressed with itself. But conservatives and working class and women and leches (there is some overlap) are intrigued by someone so sure of herself (which is far, far different from being impressed with oneself).

You may have heard that during the period of time when Governor Sanford’s whereabouts were unknown, John Kerry made a little joke. Something to the effect of ‘Too bad the wrong governor disappeared. Why couldn’t it have been the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin?’

That’s what passes for humor in Massachusetts. We’re a dull bunch.

Anyway, if you go to this page, there is a short video, less than a minute, in which she answers him. It’s great.

- Aggie