Thursday, March 09, 2006

@%&!#!&

Jay Rockefeller, Tuesday:

The committee is, to put it bluntly, basically under the control of the White House,
Having learned that Chuck Hagel is insulted by being called a boot licker...(here's a hint, STOP LICKING BOOTS), the Rock, Wednesday:

[O]n Wednesday, the Democratic vice chairman of the committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, issued a conciliatory statement, saying that while he favored a full investigation, a committee decision on Tuesday to appoint a seven-member subcommittee to oversee the N.S.A. eavesdropping was "a step in the right direction."

Update: G.G. has the text of Rockefeller's apologetic non-apology. Battlepanda has a cheat sheet in case Rockefeller is confused as between whiffleball at a barbecue and national politics:
At a children's birthday party, it's important not to hurt anybody's feelings, even if they are being big babies. In politics, everybody act[s] like big babies, and people whose feelings can get hurt by political opponents saying mean things about them should get out.

3 comments:

reader_iam said...

That looks awfully painful, Pooh.

Mr Furious said...

"@%&!#!&" is right. A conciliatory statement?

Straight out of the fucking Harry Reid playbook...

STOP FUCKING APOLOGIZING FOR TELLING THE TRUTH, GODDAMN IT! THEY ARE UNDER THE CONTOL OF THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!

AAAARGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

[flips over table, storms out of room, slamming door...]

Pooh said...

Well, you certainly chose an appropriate handle, furious...

RIA, you might be seeing that image a lot in the next few days. I'm a little peeved by this development...