Bush vs. the Mother

Rolling Stone ^ | 8/25/05 | Matt Taibbi

[Eagles6]

Put down the bong and slowly back away!

[LarryDeRobio]

"THis article gags me"

I didn't nominate it for a Pulitzer, but you found no value in reading a lefty who is telling anyone who still reads that magazine that the people down there are a bunch of Bush-Hating conspiracy freaks?

[LarryDeRobio]

"Put down the bong and slowly back away!"

I sware I was totally out when I found this article earlier today. I've subsequently scored but that's irrelevant at this point.

[MJY1288]

I'll bet you ten bucks that Cindy Sheehan will be drowned out by the Senate hearings on the nomination of Justice Roberts to the SCOTUS. If you remember, the Press did the same thing last year when Max Cleland camped out in Crawford demanding to speak with the President. The Democrats can't throw away their tired old playbook, they simply repeat the same mistakes. Cindy Sheehan is a nutjob and a bald face liar to boot. She has no moral standing and her and her crackpot friends do not represent nothing but the extreme left and the more and more the American people see this piece of Human debris in a ditch in Crawford, the more they will come to condemn her and everything she stands for

[HighlyOpinionated]

The saddest part of all of this is that Cindy Sheehan will be even more alone when the media finds another standard bearer for their "Hate Bush" cause. These 'friends' won't be there when she's alone and realizes what she's really lost. Husband, children, and a son who volunteered for the military. All the vigils and protests and demands won't bring the boy back.

Despite a rising tide of combat deaths and the prospect of deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan for years to come, Americans continue to volunteer for duty and are re-enlisting at record rates.
The services believe a combination of patriotism and the economy is driving people to the military and keeping them there.
"The war is not only not having a negative effect, but it is helping to reinforce the number of people who want to join," said Cmdr. John Kirby, a spokesman for the Navy's Bureau of Personnel.

Although the quote above is a year old, the numbers are still impressive.

Here's a recent article: as the fiscal year nears an end, the Army's numbers look great. Especially in combat units and Iraq, soldiers are re-enlisting at record levels. And you don't hear a whisper about it from the "mainstream media."
* Every one of the Army's 10 divisions — its key combat organizations — has exceeded its re-enlistment goal for the year to date. Those with the most intense experience in Iraq have the best rates. The 1st Cavalry Division is at 136 percent of its target, the 3rd Infantry Division at 117 percent.
Among separate combat brigades, the figures are even more startling, with the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division at 178 percent of its goal and the 3rd Brigade of the 4th Mech right behind at 174 percent of its re-enlistment target.
This is unprecedented in wartime. Even in World War II, we needed the draft. Where are the headlines?
* What about first-time enlistment rates, since that was the issue last spring? The Army is running at 108 percent of its needs. Guess not every young American despises his or her country and our president.


Apparently not everyone between the ages of 18 and 31 is anti-war or anti-Bush.

[LarryDeRobio]

Is it expected that the hearings will be over by the 24th?

[LarryDeRobio]

The NRO blogs have been covering the non-coverage of the positive recruitment numbers.

[roses of sharon]

I think he reports from LA, I have seen him on with Dan Abrams, and have heard him on Imus.

[LarryDeRobio]

Thanks I'll look for him just curious. I turn on Imus infrequently in the morning, but every time I do that jag-off David Gregory is on doing his little routine.

[MJY1288]

The RATS will delay the hearings by demanding documents they have no right to see, they have already laid the groundwork for that strategy by requesting the internal memos from when Roberts worked as the deputy Solicitor General

[Elyse]

He tries to make Bill Johnson out to look like an idiot. I'd like to know from Bill if this exchange really happened and if so, how that exchange really went because I don't think it was exactly as this guy described it.

I agree with the poster above that said he only described a few moonbats to lull you in and then totally trashed the opposition and praised Cindy and her "cause" to high heaven.

[Lorianne]

... an informal poll taken around a campfire revealed that six out of a group of ten protesters, selected at random, believed that the United States government was directly involved in planning the 9/11 bombings. Flabbergasted ...

This is the tipping point for me too. I first became aware of how far the "left" had slipped over the horizon when I started hearing these sentiments at social functions shortly after 9/11 ... they try to deny that the 'left' believes these things, but and informal survey by me indicates that they really do. Lunacy.

[Lorianne]

Priceless .... thanks

[Cecily]

Reading between the lines, my take is that Bill Johnson knew very well that Matt was putting him on about Sean Hannity. He was just too polite to call him on it.