Well, not really.

Pattycakes is upset because others aren’t grieving over the death of vicious, unrepentant, racist assholes he admires:

P.S. I firmly believe “TBogg” wouldn’t be this happy if the dead man were Osama bin Laden, instead of Jesse Helms.

P.S.: I firmly believe that Patterico is a vapid, soulless cocksucker who breathes new meaning into Samuel Johnson’s old saying, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Of course, if I’m wrong, it’s easily proven. All you need to do is dig up all his old posts denouncing vapid, soulless douchebag cocksuckers who hijack patriotism like a methed-out wise guy to use it like a cudgel.

Of course Patterico, being the disingenuous prick that he is, ignored the prefatory quotes to TBogg’s eulogy:

“The University of Negroes and Communists” - Jesse Helms 1950

“They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.” - Jesse Helms 1968

( …but he wasn’t a racist )

“The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.” - Jesse Helms 1995

“Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.” - Jesse Helms 1995

“Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.” - Jesse Helms 1996

Confronted with evidence that D’Aubuisson directed death squads to murder civilians, Helms made it clear that some things are more important than human life. “All I know,” he replied, “is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.”

Assholes like Patterico are deeply averse to context, aren’t they?

Scott adds:

The symbols that stick most prominently in my mind are his use of the blue slip to prevent the integration of the Fourth Circuit and “whistling ‘Dixie’ while standing next to Senator Carol Moseley-Braun.

Just the kind of spirited racist scumbaggery that tugs at a faux-patriot’s heart.

Today’s epic Pantload spoor is titled Can Obama rescue Bush?

If history is written by clueless Doughy Pantloads, Bush will be either venerated or overlooked, depending on how lucky he is or how successful we are in blaming others for his fuck ups.

Verbatim Doughy Pantload:

A successful Obama presidency would have the unintended consequence of making Bush’s memoir a success story.

Sadly, No! catalogues the latest adventure in stupid for the Doughy Pantload

The latest from the Doughy One: an op-ed defending neoconservatism citing an article by arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan.

That’s like quoting an article from a pederast defending child sex.

Goldberg’s latest crapone, however, does contain further proof that the Doughy Pantload remains oblivious to irony. Starting with this wonderful line:

During the post-9/11 age of neo-phobia, when an irrational fear of anything that might be called “neoconservative” gripped the nation, such critiques passed as intelligently nuanced.

Ironic, because there is nothing irrational about fearing the group of influential and incompetent ideologues who “masterminded” the Iraq invasion, an action which a recent Pentagon studied labeled a major debacle. The fact that the administration which gave birth to this debacle continues to rely on the same soggy-headed twits who dreamed up the invasion in the first place should inspire fear, none of it irrational.

Also ironic is Pantload’s use of the term “intelligently nuanced,” after his blunt treatise on so-called “liberal fascism” and years of absurdly ignorant commentary bursting forth from the strained seat of Jonah’s overstuffed pants.

A Pantload op-ed is hardly complete without an absurdly mangled historical misanalogy to demonstrate the depth of his ignorance and analytical deficits. And this one doesn’t disappoint. Attempting to defend the Iraq invasion as an action, he trots out the “examples” of Germany and Japan, the classic neo-conservative retreat to intellectual absolute zero:

America’s forcible promotion of democracy has been both successful (Germany, Japan) and unsuccessful (Vietnam). Where Iraq falls in the win-loss columns is unknowable right now. But the idea that the “Iraq project” is some bizarre and otherworldly enterprise will seem laughable to historians a century from now, even if it is viewed as a disaster.

Of course, America did not attack Germany and Japan with the goal of forcibly promoting democracy, as our bloated neocon idiot suggests. In fact, we didn’t attack them at all; each country declared war on the United States and unleashed unrestricted and total war against American territory, armed forces and merchant shipping, without provocation.

The fact that, after successfully defended ourselves against Axis aggression in the most destructive conflict in history, we found ourselves with no choice other than to occupy and rebuild those countries along a democratic model cannot seriously be taken as a justification to attacking nations which posed little or no threat to us on false premises, in order to install a government to our liking. Especially when that formidable task is undertaken by a group so lacking core competence and expertise as our inept and ideologically blinded Neoconservative warmongers. Compounding the blunder of invading was the burden of the neoconservatives staffing the occupying authority with ideologically compatible incompetents, like Neoconservative Michael Ledeen’s unqualified but well-connected Neocon daughter.

We didn’t choose to occupy Japan and Germany, we did so because we had no other choice after the end of the war. Analogizing World War II to Iraq is like comparing shooting a gun-wielding attacker in self-defense to shooting a stranger in the back because a drunk known to be a liar told you maybe he has a weapon. One is justifiable because you had no other choice; the other is reckless and stupid.

The fact that neoconservatives like Goldberg are incapable of grasping the blatant distinction between defending against aggression and fostering it — a distinction as obvious as the intellectual fat girding Pantload’s thinking, as surely as the physical fat girding his midriff — only serves to underscore why it is rational to fear the neoconservative lunatics who are now pining for yet another war against Iran.

Weston, Wis. - The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of untreated diabetes said Wednesday that she did not know her daughter was terminally ill as she prayed for her to get better. Madeline Neumann died Sunday from an undiagnosed and treatable form of diabetes. Her mother, Leilani Neumann, told The Associated Press she never expected her daughter, whom she called Kara, to die. The family believes in the Bible, and it says healing comes from God, but they are not crazy, religious people and they have nothing against doctors, she said. The girl’s father, Dale Neumann, a former police officer, said he has friends who are doctors. He started CPR “as soon as the breath of life left” his daughter’s body, he said. Other family members called 911 to seek emergency help, Leilani Neumann said. “We are remaining strong for our children,” she said. “Only our faith in God is giving us strength at this time.”

Back in October, Gun Counter Gomer (”GCG”) aka “Confederate Yankee” took on the Evil Main Stream Media for supposedly sensationalizing false reports that Shiite Militias were taking over much of the city of Basra in the wake of the Brit’s Sir-Robin to a remote base at the airport, 13 miles from city centre. A little taste of his snit-fit:

Basra is not in chaos. In fact, crime and violence are way down and there has not been a British combat death in over a month.

Today, however, GCG has a new complaint — that the Evil Main Stream Media is portraying the Iraqi central government’s attack on Shiite Militias which took over much of the city of Basra in the wake of the British retreat redeployment in a negative light:

Because of the success of the surge and the increasing competence of Iraqi security forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki decided that it was time to lead an offensive in Basra, a city long controlled by competing Shia militias that are often little more than criminal gangs. Maliki has given the militias 72 hours to lay down their arms or face “the most severe penalties.”

This, according to GCG, is a “moment[] of growth for Iraq’s fledgling democracy worth celebrating” even if the clueless wonder was in denial about the prevalent influence of Shia militias in the first place.

Now for GCG’s current delusion: “The Prime Minister of Iraq is all but publicly daring Muqtada al-Sadr and his Iranian allies to engage Iraqi government forces to determine the future of Iraq.”

Because, like GCG, we all know that the Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al Maliki is a inalterably opposed to Iranian influence in Iraq:

I can’t wait until this dumb son of a bitch is out of office:

President George W. Bush will acknowledge on Wednesday the Iraq war has been fought at a high cost but will insist a U.S. troop buildup has opened the door to a “major strategic victory” against Islamic militants.

“The successes we are seeing in Iraq are undeniable,” Bush will say in an upbeat assessment of the U.S.-led campaign in a speech marking the fifth anniversary of the war, according to excerpts released on Tuesday.

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“The surge has done more than turn the situation in Iraq around — it has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror,” Bush will say.

Mission fucking accomplished all over again.

Obviously, President Dumbshit hasn’t a clue about what the word “strategic” means. He invaded a country with no connection to al Qaida and its network of Islamic terrorists in order to topple a regime which was both frightened of and hostile to radical Islamists it viewed as a serious threat, and who in turn viewed Iraq’s corrupt, brutal, Baathist dictator as a heretic marked for death.

By toppling the regime and destabilizing the country and the region, Bush ignited a series of violent reactions which, according to our own National Intelligence Estimate, inspired a new series of Islamist militants and eased al Qaida’s task of recruiting more jihadists by the thousands.

Now, after an investment numbering in the trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives, the commitment of the vast majority of our military has marginally stabilized a largely failed political state in Iraq, a country which is still beset by widespread violence which can be viewed as a positive development only in light of the even more appalling levels of violence during the prior year of our occupation.

So, basically, vis a vis the Islamic militants, we’ve killed many of those our actions helped to create, we’re still militarily bogged down in Iraq, and the numbers of terrorist attacks as tallied by our own counterterrorist agencies worldwide are now measured by the tens of thousands, geometrically higher than the two hundred and eight terrorist attacks which occurred world wide in 2002, before we invaded Iraq.

So, to sum up, we’ve expended a ton of resources, turned millions of Iraqis into refugees, lost 4000 of our finest young people, and the number of terrorist attacks world wide jumped from 208 in 2002 to over 14,000 by our own last tally.

And this stupid motherfucker calls this a strategic victory?

MORE: As Bush chumbles moronically about “strategic victory” in Iraq, another strategic failure there — the latest attempt at reconciliation between warring factions is an utter failure:

A no-reconciliation conference

Influential Shiite and Sunni groups boycotted a conference on Iraqi reconciliation Tuesday, as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney traveled north to meet with Kurdish leaders.

Members of the main Sunni Arab parliament coalition, Tawafiq, refused to attend the two-day meeting because of complaints about the Shiite-dominated government.

Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada Sadr’s bloc walked out of the conference, saying it did not want a ceremonial presence. The same went for a contingent led by Sheik Ali Hatem Sulaiman, a representative of Sunni Muslim tribes that rose up against the Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq.

The boycott was symptomatic of the rifts and enmity among Iraqi parties, which are organized along ethnic and religious lines and have delayed progress in power sharing between the country’s Shiite majority and the formerly ruling Sunnis.

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Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s government has dwindled since last summer to a core group of Shiite and Kurdish politicians. But the Shiite prime minister’s relationship with the Kurds has become strained over matters such as Iraq’s stalled oil legislation and the country’s northern boundaries.

Maliki’s detractors describe him as being hindered by an inner circle that does not like to share power and is fiercely sectarian. His supporters argue that he is trying to build a strong government and that other parties are standing in the way for selfish reasons.

Via TS at Putz, we hear that Hugh Mantits has been overheard saying:

Senator Obama is Jimmy Carter, without the experience. Carter, without the United States Naval Academy education.

It seems Hewitt is distressed at Obama’s having to attend community colleges like Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard (where he earned his J.D. magna cum laude) rather than Annapolis.

As for “the experience,” I think George Bush proved definitively that a short stint as governor of a redneck state doesn’t prepare one overmuch for the responsibilities of being President of the United States.

As for the anti-cassandric qualities of Hewitt, well, TS has already nailed that one: “This is like an Al Gore endorsement times infinity.”

Two examples of Bill Kristol’s unbounded ability to be wrong about everything.

First, there’s this splendid example of fertile imbecility from 5 years ago:

“There’s been a certain amount of pop sociology in America … that the Shia can’t get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There’s almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq’s always been very secular.”

Of course, subsequent events proved Kristol to be a blathering ignoramus, as years of sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia have taken tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, at its peak as many as 2,000 to 3,000 dying per month as ethnic cleansing of mixed Sunni-Shia neighborhoods was prosecuted without pity.

And from this week’s Kristol-spoor in the Weakly Standard, A Bush Rally Can he close strong in 2008? :

Crittenden’s response was the right one: to mock the effort [to point out Bush's failures and inadequacies], and to adduce the easily adduce-able evidence that Bush has been a pretty decent president.

Perhaps someone should point out to Mr. Kristol that “evidence” does not mean “whatever half-baked opinion a neocon fucktwit warmonger pulls out of his ass.”