Yes, there’s bound to be something behind all that smoke . . . like Karl Rove’s ass.

I wonder how many decades after Bill Clinton’s death it will be before they’ll finally stop trying to blame everything on Bill Clinton.

Shorter Frum

I shouldn’t defend the indefensible, but Democrats will steal elections if I don’t.

How I loathe those people. They seem to be utterly without insight, void of principle, and without so much as a nodding acquaintance with eithics.

I’m going to see Stephen Rapp lecture at Drake University this afternoon. I want to hear about the prosecution of the Rwandan radio announcers who inflamed the violence and aided and abetted atrocities. You see the role that hate radio played in that tragedy, and then you think, these right wing pundits who inflame wingnuttia are going to be responsible for atrocities themselves one of these days. To the Hague with them.

I’m sorry I read that sordid piece of tripe. (Here comes the unhinged liberal in me.)

I’m sorry, but that wussy needs to be bitch slapped.

Its bad enough when my 6 & 10 year old daughters whine about fabrications they believe, but isn’t this a grown man? Jeebus Cripes in on a Shitsicle. I

I am amazed that you guys can wade into the sewer that is the Rightward Blogosphere and come out unscathed…

“It is striking how much of the bad hiring can be traced to the administration’s overzealous eagerness for “diversity.” A lot of brickbats have been tossed at the imperious and extravagant US Attorney for Minnesota, Rachel Paulose. Yes, she was in over her head – agreed. So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job? Gee – you tell me.”

And there you have it: the Administration is being undone because it *cares too much.* It’s really *liberal* in its practices, and that is its undoing.

That’s why things are such a mess. BushCo isn’t conservative enough.

There aren’t enough words in the world-famous English language to describe how dishonest this clown is. But we’ve got to try, damn it.

Si, Senor.

GOP ploy 11 # “Quick! Blame the brown people.”

So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job?

Now if she were of European origin, well without any question, by all means promote her. That’s legitimate after all. It’s the South Asian thing that gets Frum’s feathers fluffed.

This isn’t simply the Worst. Administration. Ever. It’s somehow worse. It’s a toxic blend surreal incompetence, malevolence, arrogance, mendacity, entitlement and astonishing hypocrisy. It’s mind-boggling. Literally.

In most of life, things are rarely as bad as they seem — in this case, that’s just wrong. It’s worse than it seems, and it seems worse than can be imaginable. Two more years of this? Can we survive it?

underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry

The first word is the only one relevant to job performance, unless being young, female and Asian somehow makes one even worse than unqualified.

Ageism, sexism and racism, all in one concise phrase—a trifecta of suck. Will his employers hold him to the Imus Standard? Hmm?

We should demand a moratorium on the hiring of women and minorities for all government positions until this mess is straightened out.

Oh. My. God. Just. Shut. Up. Mr. Frum.

In just one sentance, he both blames an Asian-American woman, and adds that it was due to the GOP overdoing a diversity initiative.

I’m going to puke.

Imus has a right to say any stupid thing that comes into his old, ugly, backwoods lookin’ head, but in the marketplace he adores, if the stupid thing he says causes the loss of ad dollars, he is toast. I love the irony.

Oops, wrong thread. How did that happen?

“So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job? Gee – you tell me.”

Gee, David, I can’t. But maybe it’s the same reason Bush hired Mike Brown and proposed Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. In fact, has Bush ever hired a competent person of any color? Sadly, no.

And it’s hard to believe the idea of the Bush WH zealously keeping government resources away from the electioneering. You know, given the whole firing people for not maliciously prosecuting Democrats and using GSA to promote Republican candidates.

Boys, why does your blog eat my links? Can someone tell me? Is it a vast right-wing conspiracy? I’m trying to blog-whore here and I’m getting technological obstacles.

It’s probably that evil doin’ moderator. That rat bastard is all up in my shit these days…

mikey

Boys, why does your blog eat my links?

These are the unintended circumstances that occur when you discriminate against straight hamsters…

It seems to me if there is any affirmative action going on it’s in hiring Regent University graduates and like-minded Bible thumpers.

Ok, who’s going to tell Michelle Malkin about this Frum post?

I wonder how many decades after Bill Clinton’s death it will be before they’ll finally stop trying to blame everything on Bill Clinton.

I figure they will stop blaming Clinton for everything as soon as we have another two-term Democratic President. Franklin Roosevelt was, per the wingnuts I knew growing up, the source of every evil in the world. Since Clinton came along, ol’ FDR faded to the background (although they are still trying to destroy everything he stood for). Since there were no Democrats elected twice between FDR and Clinton, I figure that is the standard for becoming Satan incarnate.

I think I’m going to go out and get 100 X-Ray exams on my head so I can then get a job writing for the National Review.

I’ll need about 300 to work for Town Hall.

Woundwart: No, one term will do it.

Jimmy Carter.

“Since Clinton came along, ol’ FDR faded to the background (although they are still trying to destroy everything he stood for). ”

Except when they want to point to something they think FDR did right, like win World War II by suppressing dissenting opinions in the newpapers and sending Japanese-Americans to internment camps.

Don’t Frum and his kind know what happened to Julius Streicher when he was found guilty at Nuremburg?

Food for thought.

I heard something on the local Minneapolis NPR station that made Ms. Paulose’s appointment make sense. They said that Norm Coleman really pushed her as a candidate. He’s a notorious womanizer. It all makes sense now.

So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job?

Because she’s a foaming-at-the-mouth Christianist right-wing fucktard cadre?

I guess I give up, then.

So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job?

Hm…could it be
Four of her top staff voluntarily demoted themselves Thursday, fed up with Paulose, who, after just months on the job, has earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings.

or maybe…
Rachel Paulose, […] according to a former boss, has been a member of the secretive, ideologically conservative Federalist Society.

Most likely it’s
A former special assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Paulose worked as a senior counsel for deputy attorney general Paul McNulty and is best friends with Monica Goodling – the assistant U.S. Attorney and liaison between Karl Rove’s shop and Alberto Gonzales, who recently took the Fifth rather than testify before Congress.

Anytime something stinks, start playing Six Degrees of Shithead:

Rachel Paulose is best friends with
— Monica Goodling who
— works for Tudblossom
Ding-ding-ding-ding!

Gee, that only took three. Huh.

Actually that’s only one…

God, that picture!

Frum = Jon Lovitz + Joe Pesci + Alfred E. Neuman

“Frum = Jon Lovitz + Joe Pesci + Alfred E. Neuman”

excellent equation, but don’t forget to factor in the chronic constipation (you can apply it equally to all addends)

So why would anybody think it a good idea to promote an underqualified 34-year-old woman of South Asian ancestry to a highly visible job? Gee – you tell me.â€?

Golly gee, Mr. Frum! Maybe it’s the same reason that he promotes wholly unqualified white men and women to oversee the reconstruction in Iraq: they’re loyal to his blinkered political ‘philosophy’, to the extent that ‘philosophy’ can describe the mash-up of inchoate, unexamined prejudices and brainstem-level thinking.

How do these pundits manage to justify their existence, let alone their paycheck?!

Must….not….shit….self….

I love the fact that the current implication is that they were using RNC communications in order to avoid the Hatch Act, while at the same time one of Rove’s lieutenants is in trouble for attending a slide show in violation of the Hatch Act.

Quotes in my link.

Oh when oh when is Frum going to pack up his family and go back to Canada? Weren’t there enough people to soil in his native land?

Rachel Paulose, […] according to a former boss, has been a member of the secretive, ideologically conservative Federalist Society.

OK, “ideologically conservative” I’ll give you. I’d even say “reactionary,” in many instances. But the Federalist Society is hardly “secretive.” As far as I know, they don’t even have a secret handshake. They have a big public web site, which sets forth many or most of their positions on law and public policy issues, and anybody who knows any large-firm or government lawyers undoubtedly knows at least a few members.

Someone pointed out on Sepia Mutiny that, although the Federalist Society is open at the lower levels, there is indeed a great deal of secrecy at the higher levels, much like the Masons. I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy freak here (although with each new day that dawns under the Bush regime conspiracy theorists seem less and less freaky to me) but the Fed Soc does have an avowed desire to change the very structure of the law of the land.

I find them scary, frankly.