Showing posts with label robert barnes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robert barnes. Show all posts

Friday, July 25, 2008

A flack's wet dream

McCain campaign aide gets press release onto A1 of the Washington Post with a substance free story about the timing of the Republican veep nomination. What a worthless story.

Fun (but also worthless) to guess:

  • Romney - how many houses between him and McCain? More than ten, so we know they can relate to the mortgage crisis.
  • Jindal - Mini-He scares everybody a little
  • Ridge - threat level low
  • Portman - who? A Bush budget director? Somebody's pulling wool. Is he the only Ohio guy they've got?
  • Pawlenty - my guess

Monday, May 26, 2008

John Yoo, professional bullshitter

John Yoo wrote Orwellian memos about torture and wiretapping that are only convincing to idiots who accept the redefinition of clear words on his whim. The law? The Constitution? 'Exclusive'? They mean whatever bullshitting legal whores like Yoo claim they mean, no matter how implausible.

Boalt Hall, the University of California Berkeley's law school, should be ashamed to employ anyone with so little respect for the purpose and mechanics of law. If a fucking dipshit like him (and I don't care whether he has the imprimatur of Harvard and Yale) can redefine the law to suit the lust for power of current and future Bushists, what's the point of calling anything "law"?

If you think my language is too rude, think about the fact that the people who started our country earned the freedom to write the Constitution after using something a lot sterner than 'whore', 'dipshit', or 'fucking'. They used bullets, grapeshot, and cannonballs. They killed redcoats, Torys, and Hessian mercenaries. They risked their own lives and in some cases lost them. But John Yoo and the Bushists think they can wash that all away with a few keystrokes.

(h/t David Kurtz at TPMMuckraker)

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