"They were warned - and did NOTHING."

[ClassWarrior]

Eric Massa's current Diary posted at Daily Kos shows how to neatly connect Foley to the bigger picture of Rape-Publican corruption and negligence:

"NY-29:'They Were Warned and Did Nothing': Foley, 9/11, Iraq, etc.":
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/8/15156/5676

For those who may not already know it, Eric Massa is the Democrat running to defeat a smarmy Rape-Publican incumbent in NY's 29th CD.

Thanks to DUer Tom Rinaldo for calling attention to this, here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2871384&mesg_id=2871384

NGU.

[BOSSHOG]

1. bush's base is so pissed their boys got caught

People who vote for republicans don't care if republican congressmen are fucking 16 year old pages; they are just royally pissed that members of the "party of responsibility" are getting caught with their pants down. The base is as fucking scummy as elected republicans.

[MadMaddie]

2. BOSSHOGG it should be a crime to be as stupid as the Repug

supporters are....they are the good "German Nazi public" who will say when it is all said and done....they had no idea of the crimes of this administration...

[BOSSHOG]

4. They truly can plead ignorance.

They are so freaking gullible and so full of pride, just knowing that whomever they vote for is christian, fair, honest and chock full of integrity. bush supporters are the number one cause of so much pain and harm in this country. And they are the constitution's number one domestic enemy; no doubt in my military mind.

[seemunkee]

7. Vainglory

A favorite word my boss uses to describe them.

[ClassWarrior]

16. That's a good word. Blinded by emotion and ego.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

5. It's not stupidity...

...and when we hurl that third-grade epithet, we not only look petty and childish, we fool ourselves to the detriment of our own strategy.

Two important books to read:

"Conservatives Without Conscience," by John Dean

"Thinking Points," by George Lakoff (which is being serialized online at http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/thinkingpoints)

NGU.

[BOSSHOG]

10. I believe the foot soldiers

who provide the votes can be labeled ignorant. They are easily manipulated by the gop propaganda machine. The base chooses to accept what they are told by people they believe are christian and honest and have their best interests at heart. They are team players too proud to admit their team just might be wrong. Pride and ignorance have been a winning combination by the manipulators of the gop.

One (of many) examples I always chuckle about. When the swift boat attack book came out about Kerry, novak said on crossfire that it was well researched and those two words were on the back cover of the book. One of my fellow old farts (he of the ignorant and malleable crowd) who hangs out at my favorite watering hole was blathering about the book before the 04 election. He said it was (imagine) "well researched." I asked him if he read it. He said NO! I have no problem referring to them as ignorant. At the very least they are intellectually lazy.

[ClassWarrior]

11. I think the word you used above is better: gullible.

Gullibility and stupidity are not the same thing. I know plenty of BRILLIANT people who can be proverbial P.T. Barnum suckers.

We shouldn't give ourselves over to the prejudice - strategically foolish prejudice, no less - that "all those people are idiots."

NGU.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Indeed!

The base is as fucking scummy as elected republicans. Birds of a feather... and all that jazz.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. "They were warned and did NOTHING." Indeed, a good meme if ever

there was one.

[liberal N proud]

6. They were warned about bin Laden, They were warned about Katrina

They were warned about Foley
They were warned about North Korea

What did they do...
They attacked Iraq
They are preparing to attack Iran

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. It's the new meaning for a "Do Nothing Congress".

But actually we left out the last active step in this dance, the one where Republicans actually DO something: They were warned, they did nothing, and then they covered up.

[ClassWarrior]

18. Yup. Then they tried to cover it up.

NGU.

[Aviation Pro]

9. Add the NK nuke to this list.....

eom

[texpatriot2004]

12. There is no excuse for this! nm

[bleever]

13. I'm not sure these folks should be in charge anymore.

K&R.

[ClassWarrior]

14. Any more R's for Eric Massa's "meme of the year?"

NGU.

[calimary]

17. Hell, by now, that applies to North Korea, too.

My latest mouthing-off certainly did...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2873896

Frankly, the meme "they were warned, and they did NOTHING" seems to apply pretty much ACROSS THE FRICKIN' BOARD with these people. I guess when one has one's head that far up one's ass as this bunch has, it's awfully hard to see or hear what's going on around you.

KICK, dammit.

[seabeyond]

19. 'They Were Warned and Did Nothing':.... i didnt know if 9/11 or foley

thread with that title. what else havethey been warned about..... oh ya katrina ..... that they did nothing

[ClassWarrior]

21. Invading Iraq without enough troops or resources...

Just about EVERY damn thing with these criminals.

NGU.

[seabeyond]

22. n korea,bin laden,tax decreases, nclb, i am seeing more and more

[Tom Rinaldo]

23. Yellow cake evidence doctored, Chalabi couldn't be trusted...

Al Quada recruitment would soar if we attacked Iraq, the need for serious post invasion planning for the period after removing Hussein, if we broke Iraq we would own it, the list goes on and on...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. They were warned about KATRINA and did nothing, as well.

[brer cat]

24. k&r