Every action Obama takes is comparable to a national tragedy. Every. single. one.

Oh for chrissake. He changed an entire word, subby. Have you ever heard of nuance? Ever heard of a guy named JFK? One little word changed him from a Berliner to a jelly doughnut. One. Little. Word.

It's like when one artist or musician modifies the work of another. Changing a slight beat here, a little riff there, and you've got something completely re-imagined, something new. For example, here's the original:

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And now, look at what happens when another artist comes along and is inspired:

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At a first listen the beats sound similar, and you might call the second one a total ripoff of the first. But here it? There's that little difference in how the beat hooks. That's where genius comes from.

Pay attention to the little things, subby. Pay attention to words. They matter.

"Was it over when the Kenyans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
"Kenyans?"
"Forget it, he's rolling!"

James!: Every action Obama takes is comparable to a national tragedy. Every. single. one.

Obama got me in traffic so he and his motorcade can drive by. I now know how the Jews felt when they were depicted as non-humans, set up in prison camps and then gassed in Nazi Germany.

Sen. Mike Lee thinks

No, he doesn't.

So... Obama making recess appointments is just like Alabama getting upset by the University of Louisiana-Monroe a few years ago, right, Coach Saban?

...and how many times did George Bush do this 'end run' around Congress?
Not just with Bolton either...he did this with the ambassador to Belgium.

oh yeah...IOKIYAR.


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HotWingConspiracy: I can't wait for the Level 9 Buttfrustration to take hold when they lose in court.

Buttanxiety followed by buttdepression

Calling something "a day that will live in infamy" is not comparing it to Pearl Harbor, unless you're stupid.

Now, calling the President's use of recess appointments "a day that will life in infamy" is ITSELF a very stupid thing to say.

But lets not invent outrage. There is plenty of it to go around.

Just like the annoying bint who uses the red exclamation point on EVERY email she sends Republicans who compare Obama recess appointments/telepromptering/golfing/singing/killing Osama as "exactly the same as a million holocausts, but a million times worse EACH, plus I'm pretty sure he raped Lincoln's corpse and used the original Declaration to wipe Muslin Chow from his evil chin" the constant shrieking entreaties for attention just get ignored after a short time.

Attention Liberals: This shiat isn't helping. The guy was clearly just trying to say that something fundamental had changed in the relationship between branches of government. He may be right. You really don't know until a Republican retakes the office and takes this loophole to it's extremist conclusion, as is typically the case (see: filibuster).

But jumping right to Pearl Harbour? Dollars to Donuts says that this guy didn't even know that those words were spoken by Roosevelt, let alone about Pearl Harbour. He probably just remembered hearing them in a movie somewhere.

So please- Don't attribute to malice what ignorance can account for. There are very real things worth getting upset about- being petty about this tiny little shiat is unbecoming. It simply verifies what conservatives have been saying about you. So even if you won't do the right thing, at least don't give them the satisfaction.

barneyfifesbullet: The recess appointments thingy was awful when Bush did it. It meant we were all thisclose to being sent to camps or something.

Now, when Obama does it, it is just the smart move. Just more proof Obama is The Smartest President Ever™. ok

The recess appointments were bad when Bush did it because he appointed bad people. John Bolton should not have been the Ambassador to the UN.

Now, do you have a similar criticism about Richard Cordrey's ability to lead the CFPB?

I think they need to just go ahead and rename it the Hyperbole Party

/or maybe Squealing Breathless Hysterics Party, but that doesn't roll off the tongue

Is ThinkProgress in a race with Sen Mike Lee to see who can get to absolute stupid first?

unyon: Dollars to Donuts says that this guy didn't even know that those words were spoken by Roosevelt, let alone about Pearl Harbour.

Then he is too fng stupid to be in the Senate.

I agree with your sentiment- Mike Lee is not comparing this to Pearl Harbor. But to say that Mike Lee does not know where "A day that will life in infamy" comes from is doing him a disservice.

I've seen firsthand 9/11, the East Coast Quake of 2011 and the Blackout of 2004 and I can say, without hyperbole, that Obama's recess appointments are a billion times worse than all 3 combined.

unyon: Attention Liberals: This shiat isn't helping. The guy was clearly just trying to say that something fundamental had changed in the relationship between branches of government. He may be right. You really don't know until a Republican retakes the office and takes this loophole to it's extremist conclusion, as is typically the case (see: filibuster).

But jumping right to Pearl Harbour? Dollars to Donuts says that this guy didn't even know that those words were spoken by Roosevelt, let alone about Pearl Harbour. He probably just remembered hearing them in a movie somewhere.

So please- Don't attribute to malice what ignorance can account for. There are very real things worth getting upset about- being petty about this tiny little shiat is unbecoming. It simply verifies what conservatives have been saying about you. So even if you won't do the right thing, at least don't give them the satisfaction.

Too late.

Kid Lester: January 4, 2012. I remember I was at work that day when my wife called me to tell me she had just heard about the 4 recess appointments on the news. Pretty soon, everybody at the office was gathered around the radio as the reports kept coming in with new details. Management realized that nobody was going to get anything done for the rest of the day with the fear and trepidation we all felt, so they let us all go home to be with our families. I don't think I've ever hugged and kissed my kids so much as I did when I got home and found them safe. I called my mom to tell her how much I love her, and then...then I just broke down and cried.

LMAO
+1

watson.t.hamster: That's a pretty big stretch there.

For instance: Last week, Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) threatened to exact revenge for President Obama's decision to recess appoint four officials by engaging in a scorched earth campaign of obstruction against each of the president's nominees.

Is that the authors choice of words? That's a military term used as a pretty extreme measure. Is he saying that using the filibuster is literally the same as the Soviets burning half their country to the ground to deny it to the Germans?

Really?

heh good point

Roy_G_Biv: Fixed that for you, subtard.

I'll never understand why righties identify so much with Star Trek.

It's a f*cking liberal UTOPIA. Doesn't that bug you at all?