fark you Modmins.

Goetz: fark you Modmins.

Occam's Chainsaw: Goetz: fark you Modmins.

HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Mentat: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

He might as well have. Names are circulating among conservative circles. Don't you know he's going to nominate both the Clintons to the one post?

HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Shut up Modmins, you cocks.

Killerclaw: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

THIS BEARS REPEATING

Mentat: Killerclaw: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

THIS BEARS REPEATING

So if I'm reading this right, he's nominating multiple bears?

kmmontandon: Occam's Chainsaw: Goetz: fark you Modmins.

Mentat: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Action Replay Nick: Shut up Modmins, you cocks.

El Chode: So if I'm reading this right, he's nominating multiple bears?



These guys?

This is a tired old Rove technique - where you ascribe your own failures to your opponents.

In this case, W nominated the unqualified and incompetent Harriet E. Miers for the supreme court.

Even his staunchest supporters in the senate rejected her completely.

Obama hasn't nominated anybody, and already they're saying that he's going to do what W actually did.

"My legal sources have compiled sketches of Obama's top three likely picks"

lolwot

Goetz: fark you Modmins.

Goetz: fark you Modmins.

kmmontandon: Occam's Chainsaw: Goetz: fark you Modmins.

Mentat: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Killerclaw: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Killerclaw: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

Action Replay Nick: Shut up Modmins, you cocks.

Bathia_Mapes: HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET!!

I don't get it. What are you all trying to say?

The script is great, really:

1) Criticize Obama for nominating one of several people you randomly cite as insufficiently experienced.

2) If Obama picks one, claim to be some kind of political Nostradamus, and everyone should listen to you.

3) Profit

Alternatively

2) If Obama does NOT select one, claim that it was your investigative reporting that warned people just in time to express their outrage over something they don't understand told them by someone they don't actually know. Everyone should listen to you, and apparently, even the administration does.

3) Profit


It's a win-win from Malkin's point of view.

Whamdangler: El Chode: So if I'm reading this right, he's nominating multiple bears?



These guys?

Yes, I think their names are Jeff and Bruce. He's nominated them for sure. I don't know why this isn't a NewsFlash.

cranberryzero: "My legal sources have compiled sketches of Obama's top three likely picks"

lolwot

It'd be cool if they were Ralph Steadman sketches

Asa Phelps: In this case, W nominated the unqualified and incompetent Harriet E. Miers for the supreme court.

True that.

Obama would have to nominate a halibut to beat W nominating Miers.

HE HASN'T NOMINATED ANYONE YET

/also, ha ha Michelle Malkin got farked already!

Whamdangler: These guys?

I'm sure Scalia would welcome them with open arms...

Everyone send in a Farkback protesting greening bullshiat like this. There is no reason we should be giving this biatch traffic.

I would start going to church if there was an early thirties, ultra-liberal retired JAG officer floating around somewhere.

vygramul: The script is great, really:

1) Criticize Obama for nominating one of several people you randomly cite as insufficiently experienced.

2) If Obama picks one, claim to be some kind of political Nostradamus, and everyone should listen to you.

3) Profit

Alternatively

2) If Obama does NOT select one, claim that it was your investigative reporting that warned people just in time to express their outrage over something they don't understand told them by someone they don't actually know. Everyone should listen to you, and apparently, even the administration does.

3) Profit


It's a win-win from Malkin's point of view.

Or he could just nominate Michelle Malkin.

Asa Phelps: In this case, W nominated the unqualified and incompetent Harriet E. Miers for the supreme court.

Even his staunchest supporters in the senate rejected her completely.

The Harriet Miers tactic was brilliant. Nominate someone wholly unqualified for the position so that the next person you nominate looks incredible by comparison. Except I don't think that was the tactic. Alito probably would have been confirmed even if he hadn't been preceded by Miers.

In general, though, it's a good tactic.

GAT_00: Everyone send in a Farkback protesting greening bullshiat like this. There is no reason we should be giving this biatch traffic.

Eh, the modmins do it intentionally to piss people off.

It'll generate about a billion pissing and moaning liter posts. The problem is that it's like shooting puppies in a barrel. You should at least kick the barrel over and give the puppies a running start.

GAT_00: Everyone send in a Farkback protesting greening bullshiat like this. There is no reason we should be giving this biatch traffic.

I think part of the reason stuff from Kos and Malkin go green is because of the absurdity of the all.

Coming to Fark for serious news only is like watching a porno for the plot.

Hender: Asa Phelps: In this case, W nominated the unqualified and incompetent Harriet E. Miers for the supreme court.

Even his staunchest supporters in the senate rejected her completely.

The Harriet Miers tactic was brilliant. Nominate someone wholly unqualified for the position so that the next person you nominate looks incredible by comparison. Except I don't think that was the tactic. Alito probably would have been confirmed even if he hadn't been preceded by Miers.

In general, though, it's a good tactic.

Miers was, according to Shrub's own words, his "office spouse". So it probably wasn't a "plan".

But yeah, ask for the moon, "settle" for what you wanted to begin with is an old tactic.

El Chode: I think part of the reason stuff from Kos and Malkin go green is because of the absurdity of the all.

Coming to Fark for serious news only is like watching a porno for the plot.

Kos, at least the ones that go green, have citations. Malkin never does.

The_Flatline: Eh, the modmins do it intentionally to piss people off.

It'll generate about a billion pissing and moaning liter posts. The problem is that it's like shooting puppies in a barrel. You should at least kick the barrel over and give the puppies a running start.

I don't care as much about the other WHARRGARBL but Malkin really pisses me off. Nobody should give this biatch traffic.

Hender: The Harriet Miers tactic was brilliant. Nominate someone wholly unqualified for the position so that the next person you nominate looks incredible by comparison. Except I don't think that was the tactic. Alito probably would have been confirmed even if he hadn't been preceded by Miers.

In general, though, it's a good tactic.


Eh, maybe, but as i understand it Miers pulled a Cheney.

Most people don't know, W hired Dick Cheney to field him a vice president.

Cheney put dozens of people through an unprecedented vetting procedure that included, among other things, giving Dick Cheney access to their complete medical records in perpetuity.

And then, after all that, Dick went back to W and said, "I've searched high and low, and it turns out that the best man for you is . . . . ME!"

And W totally fell for it.

Miers was tasked with finding a supreme court nominee and selected herself.

GAT_00: Kos, at least the ones that go green, have citations. Malkin never does.

Well yeah, however my shiat could have corn in it, but that wouldn't make it smell any better.

There are very few women in the world that I would, upon meeting them, call them a coont then slap them and then urinate on the crumbled form lying on the floor; but Malkin is in my top 3.

El Chode: GAT_00: Kos, at least the ones that go green, have citations. Malkin never does.

Well yeah, however my shiat could have corn in it, but that wouldn't make it smell any better.

So what you're saying is that even if Malkin had proper citations, she'd still be a worthless shrieking twat?

GAT_00: I don't care as much about the other WHARRGARBL but Malkin really pisses me off. Nobody should give this biatch traffic.

I agree with you.

I'm also noting that more and more "progressives" on the radio are starting to use the same language as Malkin and Coulter.

It's pretty disgusting. A little anger and a little power and they become the very thing they claim to despise.

Occam's Chainsaw: So what you're saying is that even if Malkin had proper citations, she'd still be a worthless shrieking twat?

Yep. And she's still smell too.

She looks smelly, doesn't she?

\I'm really raising the quality of discourse in this thread, aren't I?

I'd have more respect for her if she was posting from the Phillipines.

As it is, I don't give two shiats about the opinion of some anchor baby.

Brown skinned, slant-eyed coont shouldn't have even been given citizenship.

El Chode: Well yeah, however my shiat could have corn in it, but that wouldn't make it smell any better.

Kos is right more often than not though. Malkin disproves the broken clock rule.

El Chode: Yep. And she's still smell too.

She looks smelly, doesn't she?

\I'm really raising the quality of discourse in this thread, aren't I?

Compared to what she usually says? Yeah you've elevated things above her level.

The_Flatline: Miers was, according to Shrub's own words, his "office spouse". So it probably wasn't a "plan".

But yeah, ask for the moon, "settle" for what you wanted to begin with is an old tactic.

I don't think Bush could have figured out that tactic. I think he just picked the nearest law-talking person he knew.

Asa Phelps: Miers was tasked with finding a supreme court nominee and selected herself.

That's not quite the case. You should check out the book "The Nine" about the Supreme Court, and the author talks about that time a bit. It's more like Bush just picked the only lawyer he had a personal relationship with at a high level, even though she had no real conservative credentials, judicial experience or support from the Republican Party.

We just had a discussion in my living room about this specific issue, and even Malkin was against her nomination to begin with. I'd still like to go back and see what Limbaugh et. all thought about her, but I'd bet that there was widespread condemnation.

As a mini threadjack, I've been hearing for years about how if a Dem won in 2008, they'd nominate either or both of the Clintons to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court...ignoring for the fact that neither has judicial experience and Bill was farking disbarred. I guess after the Miers affair, people think that the President is pretty much goin to draw names from a hat to fill a vacancy.

I'm going to start submitting trolling right-wing headlines associated with trolling right-wing websites to up my greenlight count.

Who keeps clicking on the damn link?

STOP GIVING HER TRAFFIC

Mentat: Or he could just nominate Michelle Malkin.

Actually, MY legal sources just came up with a list of people McCain would have nominated:

First off, is a woman who graduated from Cornell and then from the University of Law School, and passes all the conservative litmus tests:



Next, we have a man whose political career includes a stint as a vice-presidential candidate. His lack of a law degree would be positive as he would be unlikely to be an activist judge. He would probably have the same level of production of decisions from the Supreme Court as Clarence Thomas:



Finally, we have a graduate of Yale Law, a staunch friend, and someone who endorse him during his campaign for president. This man is a DINO, but McCain would consider it an act of bi-partisanship:



None are worthy of the bench, and we should all get outraged, because these are people my inside sources say will be nominated by McCain in 2012. I only hope you act in time to stop it.

The_Flatline: I agree with you.

I'm also noting that more and more "progressives" on the radio are starting to use the same language as Malkin and Coulter.

It's pretty disgusting. A little anger and a little power and they become the very thing they claim to despise.

Which ones? Just curious, as I avoid the AM spectrum like the Black Plague.

El Chode: Yep. And she's still smell too.

She looks smelly, doesn't she?

\I'm really raising the quality of discourse in this thread, aren't I?

She does indeed. Like she'd reek of kimchi morning, noon, and night.

The_Flatline: Compared to what she usually says? Yeah you've elevated things above her level.

Let's see...personal attacks, homosexual innuendos, and poop comments.

Yep, or at least I'm on par with her.

NewportBarGuy: Shut up, Michelle Malkin, you cock.

No Joke dude. Your momma's cool either way.

Hender: As a mini threadjack, I've been hearing for years about how if a Dem won in 2008, they'd nominate either or both of the Clintons to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court...ignoring for the fact that neither has judicial experience and Bill was farking disbarred. I guess after the Miers affair, people think that the President is pretty much goin to draw names from a hat to fill a vacancy.

Fun fact: The president can nominate whoever he damn well pleases for a seat on the Supreme Court. The only requirement to be a sitting justice is that you are confirmed by Congress. So yes, even everyone's favorite disbarred president can be a justice.