Comments on: Dick’s Big Stick and the Democratic Alpha Male http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:35:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: alabama http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-50025 alabama Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:24:39 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-50025 <p>John Dingell? Ah yes, how quickly we forget!–the macho man who spent ten years tormenting the Nobel prize-winner David Baltimore, and who will always be known, in scientific circles, as the lower chamber’s version of Joe McCarthy (back in the bad old days of Roman justice, Dingell would have been tossed into a sack with Dick Cheney, and flung from the Tarpeian rock)…. Murtha, by contrast, is a man of honor–proof that the word “macho” isn’t always a putdown.</p> John Dingell? Ah yes, how quickly we forget!–the macho man who spent ten years tormenting the Nobel prize-winner David Baltimore, and who will always be known, in scientific circles, as the lower chamber’s version of Joe McCarthy (back in the bad old days of Roman justice, Dingell would have been tossed into a sack with Dick Cheney, and flung from the Tarpeian rock)…. Murtha, by contrast, is a man of honor–proof that the word “macho” isn’t always a putdown.

]]> By: Hugh http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49910 Hugh Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:04:58 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49910 <blockquote><p>OT - CREW asks AG Mukasey to appoint Special Counsel to investigate disappearance of millions of White House emails</p></blockquote> <p>Like that is ever going to happen. Mukasey will probably not respond at all but even if he did he would say that people of good faith have different opinions about what “disappeared” really means and that he can’t give a definitive answer but only outline how he might undertake an analysis of the issue. Of course, if he were read in on what “disappeared” really meant and if it indeed happened, he would regretfully be unable to share his findings as they were classified. He might add that he likes to think all of his prosecutors are special.</p>

OT – CREW asks AG Mukasey to appoint Special Counsel to investigate disappearance of millions of White House emails

Like that is ever going to happen. Mukasey will probably not respond at all but even if he did he would say that people of good faith have different opinions about what “disappeared” really means and that he can’t give a definitive answer but only outline how he might undertake an analysis of the issue. Of course, if he were read in on what “disappeared” really meant and if it indeed happened, he would regretfully be unable to share his findings as they were classified. He might add that he likes to think all of his prosecutors are special.

]]> By: radiofreewill http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49774 radiofreewill Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:38:37 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49774 <p>Cheney’s construction is particularly demeaning and misogynistic - he’s rubbing Murtha’s and Dingell’s noses in Pelosi!</p> <p>I circulate amongst my share of ultra-conservatives, and this nasty tendency of Gooper Men to objectify and impugn any perceived weakness as feminine, in base terms, is nearly constant.</p> <p>The best thing that could happen to America would be to Impeach Cheney and Bush, and let President Pelosi restore the Rule of Law.</p> <p>The Gooper Hypocrites could use being reminded that We are All Equal, and that the Goal of Our System isn’t to enrichen your ‘manly’ Cronies, but rather to do the Greatest Good for the Most People.</p> Cheney’s construction is particularly demeaning and misogynistic – he’s rubbing Murtha’s and Dingell’s noses in Pelosi!

I circulate amongst my share of ultra-conservatives, and this nasty tendency of Gooper Men to objectify and impugn any perceived weakness as feminine, in base terms, is nearly constant.

The best thing that could happen to America would be to Impeach Cheney and Bush, and let President Pelosi restore the Rule of Law.

The Gooper Hypocrites could use being reminded that We are All Equal, and that the Goal of Our System isn’t to enrichen your ‘manly’ Cronies, but rather to do the Greatest Good for the Most People.

]]> By: MadDog http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49772 MadDog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:28:35 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49772 <p>More OT from <a href="http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/no-rehearing-on-major-detainee-ruling/" rel="nofollow">Scotusblog</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The full D.C. Circuit Court, splitting evenly, refused on Friday to reconsider a July 20 ruling that requires the government to provide a wide array of information it has about Guantanamo Bay detainees when the Circuit Court hears their challenges to military orders requiring their continued captivity…</p> <p>~snip~</p> <p>…The government did win one small but important point when the en banc Court acted: it <strong>agreed to allow access to the intelligence officials’ top-secret declarations only to the judges themselves, and not to the lawyers for detainees or even to the judges’ own law clerks</strong>…</p></blockquote> <p>Secret Courts…the only way <i>Justice</i> can be served…in secret.</p> More OT from Scotusblog:

The full D.C. Circuit Court, splitting evenly, refused on Friday to reconsider a July 20 ruling that requires the government to provide a wide array of information it has about Guantanamo Bay detainees when the Circuit Court hears their challenges to military orders requiring their continued captivity…

~snip~

…The government did win one small but important point when the en banc Court acted: it agreed to allow access to the intelligence officials’ top-secret declarations only to the judges themselves, and not to the lawyers for detainees or even to the judges’ own law clerks…

Secret Courts…the only way Justice can be served…in secret.

]]> By: brendanx http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49771 brendanx Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:28:32 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49771 <p>emptywheel:</p> <p>Speaking of shillelaghs, you’ve probably seen this one, but if you haven’t I enthusiastically recommend Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”.</p> emptywheel:

Speaking of shillelaghs, you’ve probably seen this one, but if you haven’t I enthusiastically recommend Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes the Barley”.

]]> By: Hmmm http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49770 Hmmm Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:28:20 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49770 <p>Classic basic mammalian dominance chains. The most effective of the authoritarians manipulate the inner animal in all of us. They hijack the preconscious and mainly obsolete biological imperative of “follow the leader because that’s my best shot at survival”. Most folks who are susceptible to this mechanism are too busy or ill-equipped to recognize and unpack it. So for lots of folks, it just works on them and they may never really know it.</p> <p>John Dean said it far better than I in <em>Conservatives Without Conscience</em>.</p> Classic basic mammalian dominance chains. The most effective of the authoritarians manipulate the inner animal in all of us. They hijack the preconscious and mainly obsolete biological imperative of “follow the leader because that’s my best shot at survival”. Most folks who are susceptible to this mechanism are too busy or ill-equipped to recognize and unpack it. So for lots of folks, it just works on them and they may never really know it.

John Dean said it far better than I in Conservatives Without Conscience.

]]> By: biffdiggerence http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49769 biffdiggerence Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:17:30 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49769 <p>“Big Stick” talk from Dead Dick? </p> <p>hmph. </p> <p>With his regimen of medication, Dick hasn’t had a hard-on in twenty years. </p> <p>He makes war to compensate. </p> <p><em>“I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.”</em></p> “Big Stick” talk from Dead Dick?

hmph.

With his regimen of medication, Dick hasn’t had a hard-on in twenty years.

He makes war to compensate.

“I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.”

]]> By: MadDog http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49768 MadDog Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:16:44 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49768 <p>OT - <a href="http://citizensforethics.org/node/30932" rel="nofollow">CREW asks AG Mukasey to appoint Special Counsel to investigate disappearance of millions of White House emails</a></p> OT – CREW asks AG Mukasey to appoint Special Counsel to investigate disappearance of millions of White House emails

]]> By: BayStateLibrul http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49766 BayStateLibrul Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:08:52 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49766 <p>That’s one of the reasons why I’m voting for Hillary.<br /> Is an Alpha Man synonomous (sp) with a “Girlie Man”?</p> That’s one of the reasons why I’m voting for Hillary.
Is an Alpha Man synonomous (sp) with a “Girlie Man”?

]]> By: merkwurdiglieber http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/comment-page-1/#comment-49762 merkwurdiglieber Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:04:36 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/04/dicks-big-stick-and-the-democratic-alpha-male/#comment-49762 <p>So now Dick and Rove both are mouthing off about ‘you have to deal with<br /> us’ seems to me an indication of fear on their part… political scene<br /> changing out from under them. They may knock over the chessboard in<br /> attempt to avoid defeat.</p> So now Dick and Rove both are mouthing off about ‘you have to deal with
us’ seems to me an indication of fear on their part… political scene
changing out from under them. They may knock over the chessboard in
attempt to avoid defeat.

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