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The preznit is a popular as the clap. This is news?
How come whenever we say something like that we hate America but it’s folksy when he does….
Note that this comparison isn’t even original. To wit:
Paul Begala: “There are four or five different strains of venereal diseases more popular than Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld…”
Technically, he compared the President’s approval ratings to gonorrhea, not the President himself.
Gonorrhea has killed a lot fewer people in the last 6 years than the president has. Its no wonder he’s less popular.
“Mortality from venereal diseases is relatively low, with 196 deaths from all forms of syphilis and 1 death from gonorrhea…”
Are you ever going to fix the hideous design of this blog? You know, so it can be read without getting a thermonuclear headache?
The obvious problem with the analogy is that some people have caught gonorrhea.
If he would get out of office today, I would glady vote for ghonorrhea.
Ivor: have you tried changing the color scheme by clicking in the graphic in the upper right of the sidebar. Try that and let me know what you think.
If you’re going to be pedantic, Reggie, he compared the president’s approval rating to the approval rating of gonorrhea, so the president and gonorrhea were in equivalent places in the comparison.
i doubt that bush is anywhere close to being as popular as gonorrhea
wow, this really is the worst layout for a blog ever!
Give the man a Koufax… and something for the clap too!
Okay, so hang on a sec: is he saying gonorrhea is popular? I’m so confused.
(Ivor the engine driver - that’s a great song)
I don’t think ol’ quippy boy was saying the pres is an STD, more like people like him about as much as they like an STD. You know, a joke. I know those are hard for Democrats to understand, but I think that’s what he was doing. Making a joke. Haha. Funny. A Democrat would actually say things like, right now I’d vote for gonhorrea over Bush, which is stupid and after saying similiarly stupid things for seven years has effectively drug our perception of ourselves into the gutter.
Man, that really sucks. I like the clap.
drip, drip, drip…
Note that this comparison isn’t even original. To wit:
Paul Begala: “There are four or five different strains of venereal diseases more popular than Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld…”
Well, yeah. Their best stuff is often stolen from us. The funniest and cleverest thing about the RW blog “Nihilist in Golf Pants” is its name — which is ripped off from a Garrison Keillor routine.
By the way: Y’all just got Atriosed. Wave to the nice people!
When you twist words like this, you make not just yourselves, but all the moonbats you represent look like asses.
It appears that Angry Al Franken is indeed in good company.
hey, Swiftee: go ahead and try to spin this as somehow being something positive.
Douche.
Swiftee: I have a direct quote from Rep. Seifert. How can this be considered twisting words!?
I don’t think Matt is criticizing Mr. Seifert, just pointing out a funny quote.
At least, I find it funny, not offensive. (Though partisan Republicans may beg to differ.)
It’s not even original to Begala — Monty Python fans will remember the sketch featuring Wilde, Shaw, Whistler, and the Prince of Wales: “Your Majesty is like a dose of clap….”
Leave poor Swiftee alone. He’s desperate and incapable of intelligent conversation.
What do GW and STD’s have in common? Nobody wants them, but you can live with them.
Bush being about as popular as gonorrhea and his being just a good old Texican, perhaps his problem could best be treated as gonorrhea was in the good old days — with a penis syringe. The blunt needle was inserted up the diseased’s urethra and a dose of mercury was injected. Not only did this chemical prophylaxis treat the disease, it got the diseased’s attention. Somehow seems a poetically appropriate treatment for Bush’s problem. Don’cha think?
Most people enjoyed the screwing that gave them gonorrhea. The same cannot be said of the screwing that gave us Bush.
“Swiftee: I have a direct quote from Rep. Seifert. How can this be considered twisting words!?”
Oh I see, now that the moonbat motherlode has arrived, it’s kindergarden time at publius! Suuuure, I’ll play along.
Tee hee..Matt is making bubbles in his kool-aid.
(Closed circuit to the Biggest Kahunyuk: Trust me pal, I don’t need anyone to step in for me at anytime under any circumstances…go back to your cookies and kool-aid like a good moonbat)
Like I said… incapable of intelligent conversation, only name-calling. You’re right, Swiftee. You are perfectly able to demonstrate my point yourself.
Swiftee clearly belongs to that 30% who interprets everything, even the worst of their debacles as somehow being good for the White House as it currently exists under the Bush regime.
If somebody had video of Dick Cheney dining on a platter of live kittens and panda cubs, Swiftee would probably tell us that the critters were part of an al Qaeda plot and how The Creeping Dick was nobly defending us by eating them
I love it when wingnuts share their new secret talking points.
But… Al Franken is angry? Huh wha? Psst: You’re letting slip you don’t even know whose name that is.
Best go back to Michael Moore is a fatty-fat fat man, punky. At least that one used to have some slight connection to reality, even if it no longer does.
It’s interesting how much emphasis is put on the President’s approval rating at its current low level and how little on how, currently and as of about 2 weeks ago, his approval rating is higher than that of the Democrat-controlled Congress, and his disapproval rating is lower than that of Congress …
I wonder where Congress fits on the scale with respect to STDs ?
mid-March poll
Just a rubber-necker from Atrios here. Thanks for posting Rep. Seifert’s observation. What makes it worth noting, of course, is that he’s a republican (albeit a Minnesota republican — which, I suspect, is not the most virulent variety).
Anyway, greetings from the mid-Atlantic. And, um, yeah — no offense intended — but I do think the right hand side of the page needs a little work to make it at least legible.
I understand that lawyers for the clap have filed for an injunction, seeking an immediate cessation of any comparison of their client to George W. Bush.
I would not have compared the President to an STD.
Rather, I would have compared the entire Bush Administration to a “Box Of Chocolates” instead. “Never knowing what you are going to get with this bunch.”
Against my better judgement, I’m going to play along here.
You have a quote wherein Siefert compared the President’s popularity with gonorrhea. He did not compare the President with gonorrhea.
A rational lefty (an oxymoron? We’ll see) would be content with the bad news inherent to the original context…when you start twisting the context you have lost the round.
It’s called snatching defeat from the jaws of victory…a concept with which the left is intimately familiar with.
Wow, Swiftee’s comments sure are predictable and irrelevant.
Don’t you know, Swiftee, that your language only emboldens your enemies? Obviously judging by your tone, your enemies are your neighbors, your co-workers, the people in line in front of you at the grocery store, or the poor sob putting his last fifty bucks into his gas tank next to you at the gas station. Your enemies are your fellow Americans, a whole lot of us. You have made us your enemy in your own mind. Maybe you should talk it out.
*Yawn* the talking points are getting oh so old. “Moonbat” is the new badge of honor, my friend. It is the term I call myself to mock people like you. Enjoy bathing in your newly found irrelevance.
We’ve got a broken country to fix. See you later!
I really hate to say it, but Swiftee’s actually right about this. That quote — as funny as it is that Seifart would use such coarse language — doesn’t “mean” anything. If you did something that got you in trouble with your higher-ups, and I told you that you were going to have to eat shit, I’m not saying that you deserve a mouth full of feces.
(I’m not sure anyone here actually disagreed with Swiftee on this point, but he seems convinced of it. I got your back, bro.)
Oh, and I’m not casting aspersions, but totally off-topic, I’ve met guys who get paid to defend the GOP online but who don’t personally care about the conservative platform, and they sound JUST LIKE Swiftee.
I guess the “real” ones do too, textwise, but you don’t get that scattershot joie d’being annoying.
Hey hey hey, Swiftee!! Congratulations - a coherent post. (One might think that you’ve been imbibing on the kool-aid yourself.) You’re right - Seifert DID compare Dubya’s approval rating with gonorrhea, not necessarily the man himself. But it takes only a very slight twist of context to make the shift and it hardly warrants anyone getting their undies in such a bunch over it. Frankly, with the massive spinning Dubya’s mouthpieces routinely do, this is nearly imperceptible.
Unfortunately, even though your last statement is grammatically incorrect (next time leave out the second ‘with’), the sentiment is all too often true. Lefties are particularly good at shooting themselves in the foot (which is still preferable to shooting a friend in the face).
He’s actually worse than Gonorrhea. The problems associated with Gonorrhea can usually be cleared up with a shot. It’s gonna take a lot more than that to clear up what Bush has infected.
“But it takes only a very slight twist of context to make the shift and it hardly warrants anyone getting their undies in such a bunch over it.”
Hey, I won’t lose any sleep over it. But I was under the impression that this blog likes to tout itself as a genuinely rational voice of the otherwise laughably oxymoronic “reality based community”.
If that’s true, why twist the context at all? And moreover, why go on to defend it with kindergarden logic?
The insult was clear in it’s untwisted, natural state..all the rest is nothing more than more moonbat babbling.
And yes, I know the second “with” was wrong…proofreading was an early victim of communicating in the fast lane.
One thing I’ve learned is that blogs are *NEVER* genuinely rational voices, as much as I (and others) might wish them to be. It takes only nanoseconds of reading any political blog to figure out that there are moronic idiots galore on both sides of the political aisle, who unfortunately wouldn’t know reasonable discourse if it bit them in the butt. It’s why I try to only infrequently indulge my interest in reading them (and I’ve spent far too much time today).
The only thing worse (IMHO) is the vast majority of talk radio programs, populated by a whole world of people (mostly the hosts) who only want to hear themselves yammer on and on (and on and on and on).
Funny you should mention talk show hosts talking to hear themselves….take a moment to read the comment I have written under the “people are complaining” post.
Can’t wait to see if Matt has anything to say.
The Bush Family War Crime Group - proudly infesting America with a pus dripping social disease ever since?
Sumbuddy’s been reading my email about this Bush/gonorrhea thing….
For Ivor the engine driver.
“drug our perception of ourselves” Well, that’s what illegal drugs do, they alter perceptions. Similarly, Bush, Limbaugh, Cheney et al alter our perceptions of ourselves with chauvinistic lies. They are like drugs. Nasty ones…. Oh, wait a second. Were you by chance trying to use the word “dragged”? My mistake.
Al