Ann Coulter's most recent idiocy

[Catholic Sensation]

Maybe she has turrets, or downs syndrome, or some kind of mental defect where she doesn't realize several things. Here are the parts I love:

Would that the Democrats would give the war in Iraq as much time to succeed as they are willing to give the "War on Poverty," now entering its 40th year.

Okay since LBJ proposed the war on poverty forty years ago we've had 17 years of leadership by the Democrats, 23 by the Republicans. Now in eight of those 17 years America had a consistent drop in the crime rate, the biggest economic growth in American history, and all that under one moderate centrist Democrat. During I think every single year of the Republican administrations there was massive debt and our deficit was growing like a child with a pubic disorder. Sorry Ann, you lose that point.

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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor recently upheld a 25-year failed experiment in race discrimination for college admissions.

I mean I can't agree more, it's so fucking hard for white people to succeed in this country! Christ, I mean, it used to be politics was all white, now it's only 95% (guessing here) white! Jesus Ann quit worrying that one white girl may have to go to Michigan State.

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To be fair, encouraging Democrats to come up with new ideas is fraught with danger. One Democrat who has recently demonstrated her out-of-the-box thinking is Mattie Hunter, a Democratic state senator in Illinois. (You knew she was a Democrat when the New York Times neglected to provide a party affiliation.) After a fired employee returned to the auto supply warehouse in Hunter's district to gun down six of his former colleagues, she demanded an investigation into ... the circumstances of the gunman's firing. "How did they do it?" she said. "Did they just say, 'We're going to fire you'? Was it done professionally? In today's day, everyone is under a lot of pressure. When someone loses their job, it's a shock and tragedy in itself."

Oh where to begin. Maybe this state senator was looking into ways companies can let go of people so the chances for violent reaction is minimized! HOW ABSOLUTELY FUCKING STUPID!!! This is as idiotic as when she claims it's anti-American for liberals to want to figure out what is driving Islamic terror groups' passion for blowing our shit up. God, I wish a lot of Al Franken's book were truly satire...

[LynneSin]

1. You misspelled Ann's name

it's Ann Coulter(+)

That dang symbol has been next to her name on the NYTimes bestseller 4ever that her name is being changed permamently to reflect that she sells because of bulk orders, something that no other book on the list seems to have to do.

[Catholic Sensation]

2. She has to sell in bulk...

because Affirmative Action keeps making it more and more difficult for an affluent white lawyer who worked as a pundit for MSNBC (before being fired) to truly succeed in this country!

[iamalevi2]

3. Shared blame

You left out one major point. The Dems had control of the Congress for about 40 years. The Repubs took it over in 1994 promising to fix all the messes. Both parties have fail. Neither has the guts to do what's right. They both only know how to pander to whoever gives them the most money.

[coda]

6. Not forty years

Republicans had the Senate half of Congress for Reagan's 1st six years.

I'd agree about the shared blame though. Waiting for crises to address problems is a poor way to govern and makes for poor legislation. As far as pandering though, take a trip to opensecrets.com and look at the vast % shifts (party wise)in corporate campaign donations in the last 3 1/2 years. Huge shifts like that are indicative of pandering on a mass scale and the EPA changes of the last 2 1/2 years alone are a testament to its effectiveness (as are the recent no-bid contracts).

[library_max]

9. But wait a minute,

Dixiecrats and Democrats aren't the same thing. Before and during the Reagan years, there were Republicans, Democrats, and Dixiecrats, and the Dixiecrats usually voted with the Republicans. During and immediately after the Reagan years, most of the old Dixiecrats turned Republican, but that didn't change their politics or their votes.

[PAMod]

12. Right on, good job library_max...

One of the reasons I love DU is the breadth of historical knowledge among most of the posters.

The Dixiecrats stood in the way of progress far more than anything else they ever did - and Democratic presidents and legislative leaders were forced to kiss a lot of ass over the years to get anything done.

[Braden]

4. I know she's a gun nut but she doesn't have Turrets

I think you meant tourettes.

;-)

[Gman]

5. Let's do a little math here...

Would that the Democrats would give the war in Iraq as much time to succeed as they are willing to give the "War on Poverty," now entering its 40th year."

Ok, let's do a little math here.

40 years x 52 weeks in a year = 2,080 weeks

2,080 weeks x $1,000,000,000 a week = $2,080,000,000,000 That's $2 trillion.

No Ann, I don't think we're willing to give it another week at $1 billion a week much less $2 trillion.

Ann, get back on your medication. You really embarrass youself when you don't take it.

[underpants]

8. At first it just looks like millions and millions...

but pretty soon it adds up to real money.

I can't remember who said that (approximate quote) but I always loved it.

Gee with $2 TRILLION I bet you could do a lot to end POVERTY. Just a guess.

[Richardo]

10. Senator Everett Dirkson, (R-Ill) (IIRC)

"A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money." (Off the top of my head.)

And that was in the 60s!

[underpants]

11. Hey what's a billion anyway?

Thanks

[Richardo]

7. War on Poverty = metaphor; War on Iraq = blood-drenched violent death

Apparently you do not need to know the difference to qualify as a "brilliant lawyer" to the wingnits.**

It's SO tiresome even reading her crap, if you happen to have a working brain.


** LOL! I was going for "wingNUTs", but I like that better!

[The Sushi Bandit]

13. I have nude pictures of Ann..

but no one will buy them!