Bill Kristol imparts his advice to fellow Republicans on health care: 'Go for the Kill'
By John Amato Tuesday Jul 21, 2009 4:30am
I know this broke the other day, but I needed to hit it. William the Bloody Kristol passed on his wisdom for the American people and tells his Republican allies to hurt American families.
With Obamacare on the ropes, there will be a temptation for opponents to let up on their criticism, and to try to appear constructive, or at least responsible. There will be a tendency to want to let the Democrats' plans sink of their own weight, to emphasize that the critics have been pushing sound reform ideas all along and suggest it's not too late for a bipartisan compromise over the next couple of weeks or months.
My advice, for what it's worth: Resist the temptation. This is no time to pull punches. Go for the kill...read on
What a shock. I've was wondering what took him so long.
Yawn. This is like saying that Keith Richards still can't get no satisfaction, or that the much-missed Rodney Dangerfield would appreciate a bit more respect. It's useful to remember here that Kristol is less a pundit than an operative. His job isn't to give his opinion. It's to give this opinion.
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Bill Kristol is right that defeating Obama's health-care plan is a first step for Republicans who want to pick off vulnerable Democrats in the 2010 midterms. But the converse is also true: Passing health-care reform is the first step for vulnerable Democrats who want to save their seats.
I always remember what our own Nicole Belle said on 12/11/08:
Bill Kristol is NEVER right. And even Foreign Policy Magazine agrees with me, as they list the worst predictions of 2008 and who else but our favorite war-mongering chickenhawk neocon, William "The Bloody" Kristol
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Anyone listening to and relying on Billy's wisdom is a fool.
I think Bill Kristol just can't go more than 24 hours without advising someone to kill something.
I think Bill Kristol just can't go more than 24 hours without advising someone to kill something.
Franklin's advice to the Continental Congress was to hang together or we shall surely hang separately. This cannot more true today on healthcare. For me, I will not support the party if they cave on this. If we can't get anything done controlling both houses of congress and the WH we might as well let the GOP run the country further off the rails.
I have to agree. The Dems need to hang together, but what ever happened to everyone "hanging together?" Why (and I'm pretty sure I know why) can't the Right understand that health care and the economy are so big that everyone should focus on solving these crises and then take credit later? Maybe they know more than we do and health/economy etc. aren't really that critical after all.
I know....I'm naive.
I would say why does anyone care what this fool thinks,
But I don't think they do
He only seems to appear on FAUX.
Bill Kristol - this is what passes for wisdom and intelligence these days.
No wonder we're so fucked.
We can blame our corporate owned and run media for his sorry ass.
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there is only one useful thing that Kristol could be...a fencepost for a hog to scratch its ass on
Imagine what a dawg be doin'.
you must hate hogs.
Just as I said yesterday the bottom line for the republicans to try to make the Obama administration a failed administration. I don't see any real concern about health care coming from the right, only road blocks.
Steele was on Morning Joe and all he could do was complain. Joe even pushed him for the republican ideas and all Steele had were vague suggestions but nothing immediate. The general hue and cry is this thing is moving too fast but what they are really saying is, shit this thing just might pass and be successful.
I also heard this morning that the white house had to change the timing of the president's speech on health care tomorrow night or else the major networks wouldn't carry it. Does that tell you all you need to know or what. Reality shows and such silly shows are more improtant to air than the president talking about American's health care.
The president is going to make a speech about the healthcare crisis just when we were in the middle of altering reality about it?
Damn them truths.
On Countdown last night, Shuster covered American fuckin Idol and Paula Abdul...
Who cares about that incredibly lame show?
I turned the channel.
PUKIES, spoiled, little, rich, brats who think there's really a different set of 'rules' for the 'chosen' only want to sabatogue anything that might resemble a saftynet for what's left of the Amerikans since the coup de tate of 2000, and the continuing financial meltdown they caused. Grown ups who aren't insolated from reality know their own mistakes and take the fall for bad decisions. These little rich kids will never grow up, they are all stuck in puberty and Mark Sanford's mess, not to mention Mark Foley, and pedophiles like him, Rove comes to mind. Prescott Bush still lives and peddles his treason to this very day!!!
coup d'état
Was never a great speller, hope that doesn't offend.
Bill wanted McCain to choose Palin. 'Nuff said about him?
Why does Bill always look like he has gas?
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is hard work???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkEl2U6YbMk
... Bill's lips are optimal for a good seal. Makes him better at SUCKING.
Just because a group of rich people can place you in front of a camera, dress you in an Armani, and give you a national forum DOES NOT make you intelligent... just fortunate enough to appear intelligent to those who believe what they see on the TV.
... since the Clinton Administration tried to reform healthcare in the 1990's?
Oh, that's right: NOWHERE.
Only the Republicans can pitch 17+ years as 'too fast.'
http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/
in their cynical minds that if we are offered some form of universal healthcare that we won't take their shitty, low paying jobs anymore?
I'll bet that's on their minds.
Health insurance is a cudgel the Bosses hold over the heads of workers. It's a form of 'worker discipline.' The threat of the loss of insurance keeps hundreds of thousands of workers in effective bondage to shitty, dangerous jobs...
And that fear of job loss prevents any organizing on the workers part, and creates a market for low wage illegal immigrants who fear being deported if they poke their head up.
Ding ding. Today's winner! That was fast.
Bill Kristol translation: One of the four pillars of rich white conservative welfare is under assault, and we better damn well do something - anything to stop it!
Bill Kristol imparts his advice to fellow Republicans on health care: 'Go for the Kill'
So doesn't he need to dress like:
http://suitupscene.com/files/posters/kill-bil...
I HATE bill kristol.
of a brilliant quote from Booker T. Washington:
"I will allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
Do you not see how pathetic is this poor wee mannie, Bill Kristol? What he's putting out into the universe must return to him a hundred-fold, so I would wager that he is drowning in his own hubris. And, as long as he gets trotted out as a prime example of the Republican meme, very few of our young, impressionable activists will embrace his world view. (It goes without saying that our species will continue to produce a small but significant percentage of people who will walk a path that is similar to that espoused by Bloody Bill and his ilk--I remain hopeful that someday our species will experience the spiritual quantum leap that will render such behavior obsolete.)
But Booker T. Washington was by far, a MUCH better human than myself.
And my soul is as shriveled and black as my lungs.
So I feel free to hate such evil people with gusto.
However, that said...I do agree with your last paragraph...
Michael Steele & the GOP:
- Bling-bling
- Off the hook
- Trust me, it's all going according to plan
- Fried chicken & potato salad
Barack Obama
- Healthcare for all Americans
Which would you buy?
two birthers and raise you one certificate
an echo...echo...echo too
"Go for the kill". I must admit I find it rather disturbing that the reichwing freaks seem to always express their opinions through violent metaphors. I guess it's just a manifestation of their own impotence (in every sense of the word). I guess we should derive some perverse comfort from Bloody Bill's predictions. If he's saying Obama's healthcare reform is "on the ropes" that's a sure indication that even the conservatives have come to the realization that healthcare reform is pretty much a sure thing. Nobody in the real world listens to Bill Kristol; this is a man who couldn't predict yesterday's weather.
"Go for the kill". I must admit I find it rather disturbing that the reichwing freaks seem to always express their opinions through violent metaphors. I guess it's just a manifestation of their own impotence (in every sense of the word). I guess we should derive some perverse comfort from Bloody Bill's predictions. If he's saying Obama's healthcare reform is "on the ropes" that's a sure indication that even the conservatives have come to the realization that healthcare reform is pretty much a sure thing. Nobody in the real world listens to Bill Kristol; this is a man who couldn't predict yesterday's weather.
"Go for the kill". I must admit I find it rather disturbing that the reichwing freaks seem to always express their opinions through violent metaphors. I guess it's just a manifestation of their own impotence (in every sense of the word). I guess we should derive some perverse comfort from Bloody Bill's predictions. If he's saying Obama's healthcare reform is "on the ropes" that's a sure indication that even the conservatives have come to the realization that healthcare reform is pretty much a sure thing. Nobody in the real world listens to Bill Kristol; this is a man who couldn't predict yesterday's weather.
All bluster, no balls.
Couldn't beieve my eyes when Kristol turned up on a very legit national current affairs show here in Australia as a political expert commenting on the first 6 months of Obama's presidency. He basically told our unsuspecting nation that Obama's presidency was failing and the honeymoon was over. You can see how lethal these neocons spread their poison on a global scale. He was taken as a serious pundit! I hear the neocons on the BBC World Service as well. They are given a great deal of air time and they pose as experts as if they are speaking on behalf of the rest of the US.
Couldn't beieve my eyes when Kristol turned up on a very legit national current affairs show here in Australia as a political expert commenting on the first 6 months of Obama's presidency. He basically told our unsuspecting nation that Obama's presidency was failing and the honeymoon was over. You can see how lethal these neocons spread their poison on a global scale. He was taken as a serious pundit! I hear the neocons on the BBC World Service as well. They are given a great deal of air time and they pose as experts as if they are speaking on behalf of the rest of the US.
Couldn't beieve my eyes when Kristol turned up on a very legit national current affairs show here in Australia as a political expert commenting on the first 6 months of Obama's presidency. He basically told our unsuspecting nation that Obama's presidency was failing and the honeymoon was over. You can see how lethal these neocons spread their poison on a global scale. He was taken as a serious pundit! I hear the neocons on the BBC World Service as well. They are given a great deal of air time and they pose as experts as if they are speaking on behalf of the rest of the US.
The Insurance Companies do not have your health care in mind when it comes to their profits. The Insurance companies ration out care as they see fit. Get sick and need the insurance companies to pay and they terminate your health care insurance. Why stand back and let them destroy your future?
The Insurance Companies do not have your health care in mind when it comes to their profits. The Insurance companies ration out care as they see fit. Get sick and need the insurance companies to pay and they terminate your health care insurance. Why stand back and let them destroy your future?
The Insurance Companies do not have your health care in mind when it comes to their profits. The Insurance companies ration out care as they see fit. Get sick and need the insurance companies to pay and they terminate your health care insurance. Why stand back and let them destroy your future?
But not Biblically.
he's absolutely the biggest LOSER on the planet!
Smarmy bugger always has the look of one who cut a major nasty one at the cotillion but blames the busboy.
Oh Scrotum Fromage!!!
until Bill Kristol declares it is dead.
Anyone remember the last time he was right on ANYTHING?
Actually, I think blocking health care reform, or passing it without the public option, would be the end of a lot of Republican and Blue Mongrels political careers. A vast majority of Americans are going to know exactly who denied them what they need and want.
Obama's approval rating has slipped, but I'm certain that is due to the bank bailouts followed by bank bonuses. He will be able to take down some GOPers in 2010. It's up to the Progressives to take out the Blue Curs in the primaries.
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