Two quick peeks at the lighter side of politics
If you’ve ever tried to read an Ayn Rand novel — and Michael Kinsley clearly has — you’ll get a kick out of Kinsley’s piece in which he re-imagines Paul Ryan as the central figure in one of Rand’s “masterpieces”.
An introductory snippet:
“(Ryan) flexed his muscles, the result of hours spent in the House gymnasium. Look at these pathetic specimens, he thought. Not one of them could do a one-armed push-up if his life depended on it. Not one was worthy of so much as cosponsoring one of Ryan’s bills. Every single one of them had been elected by appealing to the average citizen in his (or her — Ryan snorted at the thought) district. It occurred to him, and not for the first time, that of all the men and women in this room, only he, Paul Ryan, had been selected for his current office by the president himself.
The president. Ryan’s mind wandered as he thought about the only man who stood between him and absolute power. Mitt Romney was a weakling, Ryan thought — and not for the first time. He’s a man whose views can change. The thought filled Ryan with disgust. His own views were as solid as granite. They were the views of the only clear-thinking woman he had ever met: Ayn Rand.”
And while I’m at it, you also MIGHT enjoy this piece by Kevin Williamson of National Review, written in tongue-in-cheek celebration of the macho powers of Mitt Romney. At least I hope it was written tongue-in-cheek.
Because otherwise ….
You want off-the-charts status? Check out the curriculum vitae of one Willard M. Romney: $200 million in the bank (and a hell of a lot more if he didn’t give so much away), apex alpha executive, CEO, chairman of the board, governor, bishop, boss of everything he’s ever touched. Son of the same, father of more. It is a curious scientific fact (explained in evolutionary biology by the Trivers-Willard hypothesis — Willard, notice) that high-status animals tend to have more male offspring than female offspring, which holds true across many species, from red deer to mink to Homo sap. The offspring of rich families are statistically biased in favor of sons — the children of the general population are 51 percent male and 49 percent female, but the children of the Forbes billionaire list are 60 percent male. Have a gander at that Romney family picture: five sons, zero daughters. Romney has 18 grandchildren, and they exceed a 2:1 ratio of grandsons to granddaughters (13:5). When they go to church at their summer-vacation home, the Romney clan makes up a third of the congregation. He is basically a tribal chieftain.
Professor Obama? Two daughters. May as well give the guy a cardigan. And fallopian tubes.
From an evolutionary point of view, Mitt Romney should get 100 percent of the female vote. All of it. He should get Michelle Obama’s vote. You can insert your own Mormon polygamy joke here, but the ladies do tend to flock to successful executives and entrepreneurs. Saleh al-Rajhi, billionaire banker, left behind 61 children when he cashed out last year. We don’t do harems here, of course, but Romney is exactly the kind of guy who in another time and place would have the option of maintaining one. He’s a boss.
Read. Enjoy. Discuss.
– Jay Bookman
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0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
11:02 pm
getalife:
“I read drudgey poo and the attacks on his family.”
That has happened to every president and certainly Bush and his family.
I was talking about myself ………… personal vs. policy ……… and that is what you can’t seem to understand.
ooooooooooo la la la
August 23rd, 2012
11:02 pm
jkl2
We disagree on politics, but let me step back for a second.’
Thank you for your service and I assume you are still serving.
We just see things differently.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
11:03 pm
getalife:
“That is his latest excuse.
There will be more.”
That may be but I will do my part to hold his feet to the fire as I do Obama and his attempts to hide some of his records.
ooooooooooo la la la
August 23rd, 2012
11:03 pm
0311
I think that is two ways. Many of us get caught up in the personal over the political differences.
You should be commended for your service, but we are all open for ridicule if we post on a blog
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
11:03 pm
ooooooooooo la la la :
Is there some reason you won’t disclose your MOS?
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:04 pm
oooo lala- Desert Storm. Yourself?
I wish. OIF. Desert Shield was kicking off just as I got out of tank commander school. Instead of going over to play with my friends, I got orders to go to drill sergeant school in God forsaken Ft McClellan, AL teaching chemical AIT. Worst job I ever had in my life, anytime, anywhere.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
11:04 pm
Okay scout,
“TX Billboard: ‘SEALs Removed One Threat To America, Remove The Other In November’…”
The only policy that is a threat is his focus on crushing aq.
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
11:06 pm
Then we have your birther hero swift boating getting obl.
The list is long scout.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
11:07 pm
getalife:
Nothing new there …………….. worse was said about Bush.
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:07 pm
-The cons will start showing our President some respect and start acting like Americans not radicals
Sieg Heil obama! Lemmings reporting for cliff duty.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
August 23rd, 2012
11:11 pm
O.K. Taps for me !
I’ll leave you with this ………………
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t
need it and hell where they already have it.”
Ronald Reagan
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
11:12 pm
jk,
We went over the cliff under w.
ooooooooooo la la la
August 23rd, 2012
11:12 pm
jkl2
Kuwait from Oct 90 until Feb 91.
Of course, the real fighting and assault occurred in Jan of 91.
We have political differences, but thanks for your service and sacrifice
ooooooooooo la la la
August 23rd, 2012
11:13 pm
Feb 91 is when my unit went into Iraq.
Two months and out
getalife
August 23rd, 2012
11:14 pm
You will need a strong middle class spending money in our economy to reach full employment.
Did you sleep through the Clinton economy?
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:15 pm
oooo lala- Thank you for your service and I assume you are still serving. We just see things differently
You’re welcome. Still wearing ACU’s for a couple more years until they kick me out. Thanks for doing your part.
obama is a Chicago crook run by other crooks. Valerie Jarrett (the other half of his brain)is a slumlord who was looking to cash out on the olympics coming to Chicago. obama is just lucky he doesn’t have a cell next to Blagojevich. Not to worry, as the teflon don has plenty of people around him ready to fall on the sword for him.
How’s that prison he bought in IL to house all the Gitmo inmates working out?
moonbat betty
August 23rd, 2012
11:16 pm
Yip yip.
goodnight yo ’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3N8ZW6fCa4
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:18 pm
getalife- Then we have your birther hero swift boating getting obl.
overloading on the meds again? Try something coherent next time.
ooooooooooo la la la
August 23rd, 2012
11:21 pm
jkl2
I don’t care for Obama. Romney doesn’t thrill me either.
Bunch of corporate brats in my opinion
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:21 pm
getalife- We went over the cliff under w
Fresh from obamaland: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/stutistics-obama%e2%80%99s-budget-vs-reality/
td
August 23rd, 2012
11:25 pm
I posted the below on Kyle’s board this afternoon and not one lib wanted to dispute it. I know some of you have to be braver to take on the below:
LIBERALS:
Fact: After we (The USA) used all the money we collected in taxes this year we were still $1.1 trillion short.
Fact: The top 10% of taxpayers in this country only made $1.3 trillion dollars last year.
Fact: If the Bush/Obama tax cuts for the top 1% are repealed then it will only bring in $80 billion dollars per year or two weeks of Federal government spending.
Where is the H3LL is the rest of the money going to come from?
JKL2
August 23rd, 2012
11:26 pm
ooooo lala- I don’t care for Obama. Romney doesn’t thrill me either
Agreed. I’ve always said our country needs a leader and obama isn’t it (always been a behind the scenes guy) I think we would be much better off if Hillary was president. obama would have made an excellent VP.
Time for bed for me too. PT (now called PRT for you old timers) comes early for us long in the tooth.
Good Night all.
Ahem
August 24th, 2012
12:01 am
Class of ‘98
August 23rd, 2012
5:46 pm
Jay, your readers have never read an Ayn Rand novel. That’s why they are still liberals.
After this post, the need for new sheetz should have been obvious, even to the lib+ards and Jay.
They have no clue and seem to be stuck on stupid.
Oscar
August 24th, 2012
12:06 am
Where is the H3LL is the rest of the money going to come from?
_____
We were hoping you would kick in the rest.
getalife
August 24th, 2012
12:06 am
No attacks, no more occupations and no more collapses.
Works for me.
lllllllllll
August 24th, 2012
12:07 am
ahem
you are what you speak of, yet to ignorant and naive to know
you little punkette
getalife
August 24th, 2012
12:09 am
What kind of economy did they have after the depression?
How long did it take before it was over?
lllllllllll
August 24th, 2012
12:10 am
getalife
WW2 came calling
After that the US went bonkers selling products to ourselves and to the world……….
See Europe and Japan
lllllllllll
August 24th, 2012
12:12 am
geatlife
Does the 0311 dude always think he is the man of the hour that save America?
getalife
August 24th, 2012
12:20 am
lllllllllll,
He said he worked Secret Service so yeah, he thinks he is saving our country but it is already saved.
lllllllllll
August 24th, 2012
12:23 am
thanks
I thank him for his service, but he is only one man and he didn’t do it all on his own, plus we do not know what he did or didn’t do
getalife
August 24th, 2012
12:28 am
lllllllllll ,
We call him scout but one day he said it was satire so who knows.
Z
August 24th, 2012
1:25 am
Its simple if you like bought and paid for Politicians who take from you and give to those who are wealthy, vote Republican. If you like a political party that has to suppress the vote to get elected, like they do in places like Syria, where they have a Dictatorship, then vote Republican. If you like a political party that has to lie, cheat, fabricate to get elected to a public office, then vote Republican. If you like a Presidential Candidate that avoids paying Taxes by hiding his money offshore, then vote for that Republican. If you like Politician’s who started a War on Women, by taking their rights away, then vote Republican. If you like the two Political Candidates, Romney/Ryan who will destroy Medicare as we know it, then vote for them, they’re Republicans. If you do not like the Affordable Care Act that has helped Millions upon Millions of American citizens, then Vote Republican. If you are happy with Politicians that want to throw Granny off the cliff, then vote Republican. If your Happy with this 112th congress, who has done nothing for 3+years except obstruct everything President Obama has tried to do, plus take Rights away from Women, then vote Republican. If you are a Woman and you like your Politicians telling you what you can and cannot do with your body, then vote Republican. If you like your Politicians owing to Wall Street and their Corporate Masters, then vote Republican. If you like your Politicians leaning Religious tootie fruity and Right Wing Extremist, then vote for Republicans.
These are not all by any means of the Republican antic’s we’ve seen and are seeing, but some of the most outlandish ones. Get registered and Happy Voting.
Obama 2012
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
5:21 am
Did someone say Ayn Rand???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5YWTFW5WMw
Moon Mullins
August 24th, 2012
5:37 am
Yessssirrrrrreeeeee! That Mitt Romney is a veritable “Chicken-hawk Factory.”. . .
marko
August 24th, 2012
5:46 am
One thing to remember about Ayn Rand was the fact that she was Russian. With the Czars, Russia was very much a top down society. As westerners, our democratic traditions go back at least as far as the Magna Charta. It’s really hard for me to understand why so many of our fellow Americans buy into this nonsense of society owing it’s existence to a select group of elites, fully deserving the lions share of what the society produces, while generously allowing the rest of us to bask in the glory of their radiance. Give us a break.
As for this nonsense about our wealthy benefactors leaving us because we didn’t appreciate them, or were too stupid to understand the true depth of their genius, Isn’t that what they did when the Titanic went down. The first class passengers were given access to the life boats while the riff raff were locked in the lower levels. A good con man always stays one step ahead of the suckers.
however, If you really enjoy reading bizarre works of fantasy, why stop with Atlas Shrugged? Why don’t you check out the Book of Mormon.
Common Sense isn't very Common - Bored in Pittsburgh
August 24th, 2012
5:52 am
I think Romney’s main problem is that he wants to outdo his father.
But he likes to take the easy way out instead of working for it (like his father did).
stands for decibels
August 24th, 2012
5:57 am
mornin’.
From the department of “Things I Didn’t Think I’d Read from Nate Silver”:
“My view is that the Rasmussen Reports poll represents a more-realistic portrayal of the race as it stands now.”
of course, the local Rassy fans aren’t going to like what that particular poll represents.
(it’s still early–it’s just a couple of polls so far–not applicable in all 50 states–yadda, yadda…)
stands for decibels
August 24th, 2012
5:59 am
One thing to remember about Ayn Rand was the fact that she was Russian.
and, not to put too fine a point on it, but in my experience, most everything from that snakebit region of the world is kind of messed up to begin with.
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
6:21 am
“most everything from that snakebit region of the world”
more like frostbit …
mehlman rings twice
August 24th, 2012
6:41 am
Speaking of the lighter side of politics; now that we found out that Paul Ryan dated a black girl in college does that mean that he lost Judge Jack Camp’s vote?
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
6:52 am
happy Friday!! this made me laugh loudly
http://www.kulfoto.com/funny-pictures/19715/caution-wet-floor
marko
August 24th, 2012
6:54 am
The sadness is that Mormons have had most, if not all, of their powers of critical thinking taken away, transferring them to the local religious authorities. In this respect they are not much different than the strictest forms of Islam, Catholicism, Unification Church or what ever form of cult that uses the same techniques to create the illusion of a “heaven on earth is us” approach. When leaders are given the authority to tell you what God says, be prepared for a long Dark Age of Spiritual enterprise. The good news is that the enterprise of making money will not be a problem.
-Mark Twain
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
7:12 am
Love me some Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
skydog
August 24th, 2012
7:19 am
I have many friends “serving” in Afghanistan right now.
Scout and his crowd are always talking about life choices. My friends made life choices to become pipe fitters and electricians rather than choose the military.
The lowest paid person over there is making about $4,200.00 dollars a week. My company has 16,000 people in Afghanistan.
Bring um home.
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
7:31 am
“I know at least two Mormons that like my gambling money.” – Sheldon Adelson reminiscing on the Romneys
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
7:41 am
“You see, it’s right here in the Good Book. We only have to tithe based on REPORTED earnings here in the US.” – Mitt’s Interpretation
Mick
August 24th, 2012
7:46 am
Morning or afternoon (usinuk) Another day in paradise, the tv weather heads are sqawking terminally about this tropical storm isaac, they so much want it to be a big bad hurricane…it was twenty years ago today that I was at ground zero of hurricane andrew, it came in like a speeding train and the second half was just a giant cyclone. When it was over, there were no trees left and you could see naples from miami. Natures way of trimming the tropics. It was the wild, wild west for a few months with one important caveat – after all the insurance payouts some were calling it st. andrew. South florida has never been the same since…
Ivan Cohen
August 24th, 2012
7:52 am
Ayn Rand novels aren’t pleasureable reading, they’re tedious reading.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 24th, 2012
8:02 am
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
If I could plop every resident of Cobb and Gwinnett Counties in Western Yurp for just a one-week business trip, I think I can guarantee we’d see opposition to MARTA expansion there melt to some weird fringe group within a year.
JohnnyReb
August 24th, 2012
8:04 am
A shining testament ladies and gentlemen to the hypocrisy of the Left.
They cringe and point if you tell a Polack or Amos and Andy joke, but when it suits their purpose Political Correctness is thrown aside to get a “kick” out of belittling the next President and Vice President.
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
August 24th, 2012
8:05 am
Good, good Friday morning to all y’all, both Liberal and conservative. I hope that today, we can all come to agreement that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7fPpxAnuM
God, I’m such a Hippie…
Mick
August 24th, 2012
8:08 am
reb
No one group has a monopoly on hypocrisy, it is what it is…
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
August 24th, 2012
8:08 am
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
7:41 am
I hear that Ol’ Mitt is using his tithing as a reason not to show his tax forms. Even though, as it has been pointed out in the press, he constantly brings up the fact that he does tithe.
I wonder if, one, what is he hiding, and, two, has he ever heard the parable of “The Widow’s Mite’?
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:09 am
Jay- Two quick peeks at the lighter side of politics
This sounds like something they would have played on Air America. Demwits are still wondering why they went off the air…
GT
August 24th, 2012
8:11 am
The convention will be an interesting study into marketing. It was once said a good ad man could make a ham sandwich into the president of the United States, I think this crew is worse than a ham sandwich so the skill set will be interesting. If they sell these guys as ordinary America this country is under a spell. Seems to me freedom of thought is violated when you start considering a ham sandwich for president, but then look what it has done for sex.
JohnnyReb
August 24th, 2012
8:12 am
Mick – you are correct. However, it is very apparent, not only on this blog, but within the elite of the Left that they only find political humor when disparaging the Right.
Mick
August 24th, 2012
8:13 am
jkl2
Right…there’s plenty on satellite radio but the cons own am radio hate mongering, you guys can give it up for clear channel. Conseervative beast that has swallowed up all the indies – you can have hannity, rush etc…
JamVet
August 24th, 2012
8:15 am
2, pace yourself.
It is only August 24.
Your head is going to exploded by Nov. 7!
Back at ya, brother Normal…(Can ya feel it?!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soCQFCgf7X0
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 24th, 2012
8:15 am
still wondering why they went off the air…
after providing us with a US Senator, and a cable-tv news star who’s managed to do pretty OK for herself.
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
August 24th, 2012
8:16 am
Pity the humor impaired, for they too are children of the FSM.
Ramen!
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
8:16 am
dB – 8:02 – two words:
The
Tube.
I think it’s even better than the NY system
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:17 am
getalife- He said he worked Secret Service so yeah, he thinks he is saving our country but it is already saved.
Nothing but rainbows and unicorns here in obamaland.
Thanks for proving to everyone how delusional you are.
Mick
August 24th, 2012
8:17 am
reb
The way I see it, bookman it a very clever columnist. People like me agree with him pretty much across the board which is kind of cool to find someone to read with similar perspective. People that hate his columns and come here to denounce and argue with him is fine too. Nice to get the other side but some just get too carried away with it. I certainly don’t go over to kyle’s to cause a ruckus just because I disagree with most of his analysis…
Thomas
August 24th, 2012
8:17 am
The extreme right will watch and get mad at any centrist movement.
The extreme left will watch and get mad at what they can’t control.
Normal folks will do what normal folks do- live their lives and catch the highlights in the NYT or on CNN.
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
8:19 am
“Mommy! Obama took my scissors!” – Mitt “Scissorhands” Romney
Fred ™
August 24th, 2012
8:21 am
JohnnyReb
August 24th, 2012
8:04 am
A shining testament ladies and gentlemen to the hypocrisy of the Left.
They cringe and point if you tell a Polack or Amos and Andy joke, but when it suits their purpose Political Correctness is thrown aside to get a “kick” out of belittling the next President and Vice President.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Oh
My
God
JohnnyReb is butthurt by a little humor? I’ll remember to point out his hypocrisy the next time he speaks badly about the CURRENT President and his FAMILY. Obummer, Oblamer, Muchele ect……..
lynnie gal
August 24th, 2012
8:21 am
Class ‘98 “You became a liberal because you couldn’t live with yourself otherwise? Did you know that top ten states that donate most to charity are red states, and the bottom ten are blue states?”
Yeah, you guys are real princes. Conservatives are known for: Cutting school lunch programs. Cutting education. Cutting unemployment benefits. Cutting preventive care initiatives. Cutting Pell grants. Obstructing bills and allowing student loan interest rates to double. Cut Medicaid to children. Cut Medicaid to the remaining poor. Promised to repeal Obamacare, which is the only way people with pre-exisitng conditions can get healthcare. Promised to cut Medicare, making it a voucher system. And…all the while….cut taxes on the wealthiest. Yeah, you conservatives are real givers. We are forever in your debt.
Fred ™
August 24th, 2012
8:22 am
Normal folks will do what normal folks do- live their lives and catch the highlights in the NYT or on CNN.
Normal folks don’t read the NYT OR watch CNN……….
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:23 am
USinUK- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Yes, it’s a shame we can’t be like one of your peace loving muslim countries where I could sell you for a cow.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 24th, 2012
8:25 am
I think it’s even better than the NY system
meh, having ridden both, it’s like arguing over ice cream flavors. It’s all good.
I’d be happy to go down in a tube station at midnight, OR take a ride to Rockaway Beach.
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:25 am
skydog- The lowest paid person over there is making about $4,200.00 dollars a week. My company has 16,000 people in Afghanistan.
and people blame the military for fraud waste and abuse…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
8:26 am
JKL – 8:23 – yes, because anyplace that isn’t america is “one of your peace loving muslim countries”
#fail
JamVet
August 24th, 2012
8:26 am
Somebody explain to the bigoted 2, that countries don’t love people.
Or that religions don’t love people.
Or that corporations don’t love people.
People love people.
But then he would have to actually indict individual people instead of countries or religions.
Which would require some intellectual honesty and moral courage…
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:28 am
stands- I think I can guarantee we’d see opposition to MARTA expansion there melt to some weird fringe group within a year.
mass transit is a great thing when your country is the size of a state.
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 24th, 2012
8:28 am
it’s a shame we can’t be like one of your peace loving muslim countries
JKL2, I’ll wait for you to provide evidence of any liberal here suggesting we should adopt a theocracy.
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
8:30 am
“Paul, you’ve got to quit contacting me. I have an afterlife now.” – Ayn’s Ouija Board Moment with Paul
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
8:30 am
USinUK- yes, because anyplace that isn’t america is “one of your peace loving muslim countries”
Didn’t realize the UK was muslim. Thanks for your knowledgable insight…
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
8:31 am
“mass transit is a great thing – full stop”
there … fixed your ramblings
Normal Free...Pro Human Rights Thug...And liking it!
August 24th, 2012
8:31 am
Jam,
One more we should be thinking about…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KtScrqtbc
USinUK - pro-gay-marriage thug and former Girl Scout
August 24th, 2012
8:32 am
“Didn’t realize the UK was muslim. Thanks for your knowledgable insight…”
dude – nice try, but that is the lamest retort you’ve ever posted … and, that’s saying something
TaxPayer
August 24th, 2012
8:34 am
and people blame the military for fraud waste and abuse…
You shouldn’t have hired them if they are defrauding the government
JamVet
August 24th, 2012
8:37 am
For us anti-Republicans…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mKMV0d2cs
stands for decibels (SfBA)
August 24th, 2012
8:38 am
beat-to-crap American middle class SHEETZ
Joe Hussein Mama
August 24th, 2012
8:39 am
C. 98 — “Yeah, I’ll keep in mind how mature liberals are when I watch Stewart and Colbert tonight.”
I look forward to you taking your tough-guy act on the road by enlisting with either the US Army or US Marine Corps.
GT
August 24th, 2012
8:44 am
It is like Republican candidates watch the film, study their weaknesses and then try to perfect themselves to a non human standard. The problem with these guys are they are not real, too much makeup,like a too cheery sorority girl. It is not the rich part as much as it is the Bush awkwardness, the trying too hard to please, or as John Kennedy said of Richard Nixon it takes a lot more energy to remember who you are trying to be each day, than just waking up being yourself. American greatness comes from its grassroots. Teddy Roosevelt went to be a cowboy in the Dakota territory before he ran for president. It changed his life, his view on the world and his personality. Bain ain’t going to get this man where he needs to be, or a gentleman farmer or ranger, he needs to go to bed with dirty hands and not notice it, never going to happen.
skydog
August 24th, 2012
8:46 am
“JK-and people blame the military for fraud waste and abuse…”
JK- My company is working FOR the military. Following them around building barracks, bridges, and roads.
skydog
August 24th, 2012
8:54 am
I guess my point is, you can CHOOSE to learn how to shoot a gun for $9.00 an hour or learn how to screw 2 pieces of pipe together for $100 and hour.
We are in the same foxhole.
Fred ™
August 24th, 2012
8:56 am
JamVet
August 24th, 2012
8:37 am
For us anti-Republicans…
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i like that, ANTI-REPUBLICAN. Because while I sure as hell am not a Democrat I can’t find a single redeeming quality in today’s Republican party. Yet I’m not anti-Deomcrat.
oh and nice catch on the ‘Cat Stevens” song. you got a twofer. One on the PeaceTrain and one on the Muslim convert. An updated version…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLG91tOLPdQ
Rightwing Troll
August 24th, 2012
9:59 am
“Where is the H3LL is the rest of the money going to come from?”
So this means what, exactly? That since we don’t have a comprehensive solution, we simply don’t need to make any effort at all?
If nothing else you citizen’s united and the ensuing super PAC’s should show you that the “job creators” aren’t interested in your pain, they only want to create ONE job, and they’ll expect quite a lot in return for their billions.
JKL2
August 24th, 2012
1:32 pm
skydog- JK- My company is working FOR the military. Following them around building barracks, bridges, and roads.
Duh. See previous comment.
Nothing like charging $250k to build a $20k building because it’s in Afghanistan. We know all those engineers in the military are incapable of doing those jobs at 1/3 the salary and 1/10 the cost.
aladawg
August 24th, 2012
11:07 pm
You are still an idiot. You are so stupid you still don’t know that your wife and I meet in out of the way places to do the dirty.
dbm
August 25th, 2012
8:13 am
Ayn Rand would not have written something like those two Kinsley paragraphs. But it’s supposed to be a joke, so maybe we shouldn’t make a big deal of it.
dbm
August 25th, 2012
8:14 am
There is a mature way to appreciate Ayn Rand. Too bad some people never progressed beyond the 14 year old level.
dbm
August 25th, 2012
8:36 am
To what extent is Mitt Romney a man whose views can change, and to what extent is he a politician whose statements can change?