It's really inspiring to know that the Happy Warrior isn't letting his intense suffering dampen the spirits of his mischievous inner child.

You mean like kicking the game board over when you're losing?

-- shooter242

Our Approach

In assignment after assignment, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, Mercury's approach has proven effective – achieving wins in the telecommunications, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation industries, among others.

I love this pitch. All about Mercury's "approach" and "wins", facts or truth need not apply. Isn't there a new show about about these guys called "Mad Men" or some such? An old (you can tell by the media being discussed) saying I learned from my father:

"Ink is cheap".

But then so are pixels.

Nobody, anywhere, has said that Iraq is going "well". That acceptance by one and all is what makes the "sturm and drang" by you folks so laughable. The two guys from Brookings allowed that progress MIGHT, underline MIGHT, actually be possible, and that has sent the Greenwalds of the world into a tizzy.

And the Republicans MIGHT fix the debt they created if they bet the national budget on horses. If they assume success and implement this stupid-ass plan, will you likewise blame citizens for bawling about misappropriation of their taxes?

Does it really bother you so much to see bullshit called bullshit that you have to pretend the motivation is some ridiculous self-hatred complex?

Perhaps you thought that the military would do a "Michael Moore" on itself?

They did do a Michael Moore: they produced propaganda that relies more on emotional appeals than facts.

Is that the level of honesty you expect from your employees?

It's really Bush's fault that America and it's military are compared to nazis by a Senator, murderers by a member of the House, torturers by the press, and genocidal beasts by the Lancet.

If the US army is grown-up enough to torture people, blow up women and children routinely, and to use phosphorus and landmines, then the US army is grown-up enough to handle some name-calling.

Isn't that better than just clearing out and leaving the ME to the "killing sands" like leaving Vietnam preceded the "killing fields"?

You know what would be even better? Accountability from the deluded, greedy snots that created the situation in the first place. Maybe then we won't have a third repeat of Vietnam.

LOL. you mean like kicking the game board over when you're losing? Yes that is pathetic.

People are dying needlessly by the hundreds every day, you freak.

According to a recent WaPo article, Schmidt is senior adviser to McCain's campaign: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061202017_pf.html

and Mercury is also working on McCain's campaign, apparently: http://www.observer.com/node/31884 and http://www.mercurypublicaffairs.com/team.htm

MA: LOVE your work!

HH: Love YOURS totally more!

MA: You're so RIGHT about all the latest, like insider stuff!

HH: Omigod, you're totally embarassing me! You've like soooo been reading everything I write! We've gotta do lunch. BTW - Schmidt's like AWESOME...

MA: Oh.My.God. I totally know! He's like BFF with Arnold, McCain, Cheney - Now he's like TOTALLY hooked up with the military! He so did the O'Hanlan/Pollack package tour! Like SHUT-UP! Just. OMG. Rave reviews. Genius!

HH: I totally know.

MA: How'bout lucky YOU?!? Dishing with dreamy Dubya!?! Apparently he like reads newspapers!! They're like TOTALLY depressing, so it's sooooo amazing how he stays so buzzy. But he DOES! I saw him do a donut at Camp David!! He like WAVED & everything!

HH: Too totally dreamy. Anyhoo - gotta go. Love you. Mean it. Missing you already...

gush about the morale of the troops and how wonderfully everything is going in Iraq and it turns out the 6 days they spent there was a Potemkin Tour arranged by the military. It's as predictible as the sunrise.

in my hair, which is really hardly noticeable so far; after all, sometimes a preventive strike is just the ticket.

But then, I thought... I really shouldn't act prematurely when making such an important decision.

So, I think I'll just wait until General Petraeus comes out with his September Report before I do anything too colorful.

In fact, I have a whole raft of important decisions to make, both at home and at work, but --really-- I think they can all wait until after General Petraeus comes out with his September report.

Nobody, anywhere, has said that Iraq is going "well".

The daily sectarian violence and car bombings may have something to do that.

As for the "overt participation by the military in dog and pony shows for the press" what would you expect? That reporters get shoved out the door of the green zone with a notepad and white flag?

Why shouldn't they, if things are going as "well" as you suppose?

"He drove by the press, waived, sped up a little bit, and then did a 360. It wasn't quite a donut, because he didn't spin out, but he did a little circle right in front of us, just because he could, gave us a little mischievous smile, and a waive, just to remind us that he's there. So that's his mood, and I think Tony Snow reflects that. He is a happy warrior."

Thankfully, I had not eaten breakfast yet when I read this, or I would have puked it back up. The sick fuck is a "happy warrior" doing donuts with Golf Cart One!? While our troops are getting blown to smithereens!?

Just when you think there is nothing more that this despicable regime could do to make you more disgusted than you already are, they come up with something incredible.

LOL. you mean like kicking the game board over when you're losing? Yes that is pathetic.

This is NOT a game.

This is REAL.

People - men, women and children - ARE DYING.

And the worst of it all? You just don't care.

Because all you believe are lies.

That is what is pathetic.

...is that the White House set up the schedule for reporting to the Congress. It's totally artificial. If Congress wanted to, they could have Petraeus teleconference with them once a week from now to September. He says he's open to interviews, they have the right under their constitutional war making powers and under their oversight powers.

The Congress is outsourcing it's scheduling to the White House? The White House is now writing the laws they consider (when they wrote their own there was no way they could pass something none of them had read), scheduling their hearings, deciding who they can talk to, what information they are allowed to look at, which bills they can bring to a vote, when they should consider what legislation, and how they will be covered in the press.

I detect a definite abdication/jellyfish problem. Or too many cocktails.