This is why damn_registrars is so busy manning the airbrush, trying to claim that BHO is "conservative". Given Boehnerdict Arnold's recent surprise-no-surprise performance, I can't get past seeing the lot of them as "Progressive".

OK, so just the old "You're locked into your first response" canard. Would that you could someday escape your rut. I did. Pisses you off, I know.

Can you substantiate this? How do you even get to a person, much less a political party, from the linked poem? Or is this your usual make-it-up-as-you-go play? You're as pathetic as damn_registrars, who can't even be bothered to hold up his end of the Karl's Folly* Reading Club.

*The Communist Manifesto

Here's what I actually said on Afghanistan.
Tell me what you think I rationalized. Be specific.

Even the false stories?

You call it a copout; I call it an existential model.
Now, if you want to attack my model, fine. I'm waiting for you to proffer something better.
Otherwise, just saying "your model sucks", without a counter-offer, kinda seems like a coupout, too.

"You just keep on plucking that chicken." I haven't "signed off" on anything since I left active duty those years ago. I thumb my nose at your efforts to metastasize the guilt. I'm not Catholic or Jewish; I neither give nor receive such silliness. Your template, for example, would hold all Muslims accountable for ISIS beheadings. Surely you're not going there?

Sorry, I couldn't get anything out of that word soup. What's this about my chroma fortress viagra?
I confess to an obsession with Jesus Christ. All else is peripheral at best.

Wasn't true in '92, and not likely to be true in '16, your trolling be damned.

Can't top your obsession with claiming others are obsessed.

Speaking of rationalizations, look at you go!
By your logic, anyone using the Roman alphabet is a torturer, rapist, and murderer.
One can make a theological argument that all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
However, as a legal/political matter, you're guilty of only what you've done, per a proper proceeding (not necessarily our decayed modern system).
So: how are you slicing this?

Did "we"? In analyzing what passes for intellectual exchanges these days, guilt is such an important currency. Whoever is printing, spending, and accounting for the guilt in the conversation ends up being quite powerful.

If this notion held true, I'd be salivating when Jeb rings the bell. But I'm not. Because the notion is crap. Like the bulk of your accusations.

Haskell wept.

Really?

You DO understand that workforce participation has utterly cratered in order to make that statistic remotely close to true?

Not a rumor I care to push in any enclosed space.

In a sane world, Benghazi would have halted the rodeo clowning at the four year mark. The men who gave all in combat while President Jarrett and Her Majesty dawdled may yet mean that the latter doesn't carry the tradition of idiocy further.