« Friday Onlycatblogging | Main | Your Gifts Remain And I Have You Ever In My Heart »
Friday, November 18, 2005
Murtha, Murtha, Murtha!
Join us stupid fucking Quaker pussies in supporting Rep. Murtha's call for withdrawing from Iraq.
ntodd
[Update: Political Cortex is liveblogging the raucus House debate on immediately withdrawing from Iraq, a GOP proposal. I shit you not.]
November 18, 2005 | Permalink
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341c525c53ef00d83496939769e2
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Murtha, Murtha, Murtha!:
Comments
That's right - the GOP is not afraid of putting this important national issue to a vote. I wonder why the Dems voted against holding the debate and vote?
Posted by: Charlie | Nov 18, 2005 7:00:14 PM
And here I was thinking our Chuckles had finally OD'd on the Kool-Aid.
Posted by: Michael | Nov 18, 2005 8:26:59 PM
Hey - I have a hard time understanding your Quaker connection. It seems like you're very fond of mocking a group of people who you also really respect. I'm one who went to a Quaker college, have had a lot of friends who are Quaker, but have never felt religious enough to become one. When my mother died we had, as I felt she would have wanted, a short Catholic service and a short Quaker service. The more meaningful one for me was the Quaker one. My siblings were climbing the walls. It's jarring to me whenever you make fun of them. If this comes across as judgmental, then I've fucked up. Your stance on the Friends is confusing to me; and yet I firmly and fundamentally believe in the greatness of mockery.
bbbustard.
Posted by: bbbustard | Nov 18, 2005 9:44:13 PM
bbbustard, read his bio below the little boy's face on the left. He's a Quaker himself. Kinda like being able to mock oneself but nobody else can. You know how Quakers can get when they are mad.....
And how DID the Quakers get their name? Like the Shakers down the street?
Posted by: ellroon | Nov 19, 2005 12:16:32 AM
btw, Todd, a sometime Atriot (to est', ia, konechno) who happens also to be a member of Team Cortex says spasibo za link.
Posted by: sdf (Stu) | Nov 19, 2005 1:39:14 AM
Chuckles - funny how the GOP was only "brave" enough to take a vote after Murtha made a proposal, smearing him as a coward, then rather than debating the merits of his suggestion, put up their own strawman.
bbustard - not only do I respect Quakers, I am one. Lots of people think we're black hat wearing, pious cowards, so I make fun of that.
ellroon - reportedly George Fox, founder of the SoF, was told by a judge to quake before god. So the nickname kinda stuck.
sdf - pozhaluista!
Posted by: NTodd | Nov 19, 2005 8:47:49 AM
It looks like the Republican "resolution" kind of exploded in their face since anyone who has thoroughly followed the discussion saw what a mockery of the process it was. It's too bad that the GOP didn't have the courage to have a real discussion about the situation but spent the time sending out people like Jean Schmidt to slander a true hero. But that seems to be their only defense.
I rise in defense of NTodd's loving jibes at our shared Quakerism. The Quakers are perhaps the only denomination that enjoy making self-deprecating comments about themselves.
Posted by: Mustang Bobby | Nov 19, 2005 9:30:26 AM
MB, if there's one thing I've learned from Garrison Keillor, it's that Lutherans can be self-deprecating too!
Posted by: NTodd | Nov 19, 2005 9:43:54 AM
Sorry -I guess I misunderstood thee.I applied the "quasi" to the "quaker" incorrectly. I guess now I have to respect you? Actually, not hard to do.
Posted by: bbbustard | Nov 19, 2005 10:02:57 AM
bbbustard - no worries. The 'quasi' modifies 'anarcho-libertarian', and everything modifies 'Quaker'. And all of that is snark directed at the silly tendency people have to unidimensionally categorize me as 'liberal'.
Posted by: NTodd | Nov 19, 2005 10:19:14 AM
We Catholics poke fun at ourselves, too. But then we feel guilty about it and have to go to Confession. :9
Posted by: Michael | Nov 19, 2005 12:32:47 PM
O.K., then - I know those like Cindy Sheehan wanted an immediate pull out from Iraq, so at least they know who is for and against them now.
I am actually glad the rest of you do not want an immediate pull out (and hereby apologize to those people for the strawman above - I hope you can understand we at least had to have the vote before Sheehan arrives in Crawford again).
BTW: I never called Murtha a "coward" but he does have some ethics charges that should be looked into.
Posted by: Charlie | Nov 21, 2005 12:59:02 PM
I never called Murtha a "coward" but he does have some ethics charges that should be looked into.
Oh, thank you, Charlie, for that. Just when I thought you guys had lost all sense of irony.
Posted by: Mustang Bobby | Nov 21, 2005 5:37:48 PM
Buy me stuff off my 
