I don't care if they're a Repube or a Dem - no one should resign just over stupid comments

[cbdo2007]

they made!! or be fired.

Everyone everwhere says stupid comments occasionally or makes offhand remarks and it's shameful to play this back and forth politics crap just because someone makes a stupid comment. We all do it all the time, just 99.9% of us are lucky our stupid comments are publicized.

[katandmoon]

1. It's certainly fortunate for the liberal bashing Obama administration that you feel that way.

[mikelgb]

2. ok, ok, we won't ask you to resign.

[grantcart]

8. I believe that cbdo2007 needs to spend more time with his family.

[atreides1]

11. Maybe cbdo2007 isn't really one of us!

You know, the "lesser people" that Simpson refers to.

[cbdo2007]

15. Statistically...I think I would have to be one of the 310 Million.

Right? Unless I wasn't part of the population but I wouldn't know how to pull that off.

[Submariner]

3. I watched that puke Alana Simpson shred Anita Hill

along with his pal shredders Orrin Hatch and Joe Biden. Simpson should be fired. He doesn't make occasional mistakes, he does it often. He's a mean little Trust fund baby of a prick.

[CBGLuthier]

4. His comments show his viewpoint. I don't want anyone

with that viewpoint of the american taxpayer to be doing the work he is doing.

[Poboy]

5. Its also clear 'you don't care' if your arguement is based on falshood.

The man has a well documented history of repeated inflammatory remarks, just like this latest one, and all aimed toward tax paying citizens who have/are PAID/PAYING INTO THE SYSTEM their whole lives.

He is a serial, repeat offender, which makes his initial appointment all the more curious.

Defending Alan Simpson? Amazing.

[msongs]

6. he was appointed BECAUSEof his views nt

[Ikonoklast]

7. You don't understand politics.

You apologize for the right a lot, however.



See: Radar, flying under.

[Enrique]

9. case-by-case basis n/t

[ensho]

10. it wasn't 'stupid'. it was misogynist

nt

[TwilightGardener]

13. Just the opposite: It WAS stupid, it wasn't misogynist.

Unless you think a reference to a dairy cow = a reference to women. Which actually WOULD be misogynist, IMO.

[lumberjack_jeff]

17. Seriously? That's the takeaway?

Simpson must go because he said the "t" word?

[handmade34]

12. this time he should

[mmonk]

14. Its the nature of the comments and his position.

He can help destroy the New Deal. It's a chance he isn't likely to pass up on his own.

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Stupid comments often reflect the stupid (and wrong) ideology behind them. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Um, no, Everyone does not make sexist, intolerant and vicious

remarks in a professional context. His 'comments' were made toward his employers, and for that matter the payers of his own massive public Pensions. Which he takes. And fails to mention that he takes when he attacks others who do the same, only on a far smaller basis.

[Doctor_J]

19. Yes, but the Dems DO resign or get fired, and Repukes don't

that's the problem

[G_j]

20. "greedy geezers."

He already made his feeling pretty clear when he referred to retired Social Security recipients as "greedy geezers."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9014011

[gratuitous]

21. Glad you feel that way

Would you come along with me today? I have something to say to my boss, and he might think it's stupid. You can be there to tell him that I shouldn't be fired just because of that.

Sheesh, what world do some people live in?

[Raineyb]

22. Did you even read the letter the comments were attached to?

It was unprofessional, insulting, and a "lesser" would have been fired for sending such a thing off in a professional capacity. It was more than a stupid comment.

[BurtWorm]

23. This jackal with an agenda is in charge of defining the executive's position on SS v-a-v the deficit

The big, scary old deficit. :eyes: This jackal has had the agenda to gut SS for about three decades at least. This jackal with an agenda must go.

Fuck being 'understanding' of the 'moments of weakness' of a fucking jackal with an agenda who never should have been put in that position in the first place, least of all by a fucking Democrat.

:grr:

[EFerrari]

24. This isn't the first time he was insulting to the people he's supposed to be "serving".

People make mistakes, I agree. But with this guy, it doesn't seem to be a mistake but a habit.

[Scurrilous]

25. Heresy!

:o

[donco6]

26. What a stupid comment.

Sadly, I can't fire you.

[walldude]

27. Yeah well not every one has the power to destroy millions of lives...

Yeah I could say something stupid, and the world wouldn't even notice. But I'm not making fun of the people who's money I'm supposed to be protecting now am I.

Look at it this way. You have a job. You go in one day and tell your boss he's noting but a leech sucking off of the 310 million tit cow. Do you get fired? FUCK YES YOU DO. ALAN SIMPSON IS PAID BY US! HE WORKS FOR US. And with the exception of, well, you, we all want his ass fired.