"A surge is also a sexual metaphor, meant by wordsmiths such as Karl Rove to indicate..."

[Hissyspit]

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2007/01/06/surge-is-about-politics/

A surge is also a sexual metaphor, meant by the wordsmiths such as Karl Rove to indicate the continuing potency of the President. In short, “surge” is a cousin of the flight suit. And, as usual in Republican circles, it is always about PR and winning rather than doing the effective and right thing. Let's rephrase that specifically for the Bush Administration - it's about Bush's masculinity, his weiner, and not about what is good for America.

http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2007/01/quote-of-day_07.html

[DRoseDARs]

1. Well, this "surge" is gonna need some Viagra and Congress isn't a pharmacy... n/t

[achtung_circus]

2. I think of the surge as more of a spurt.

Draw your own innuendos.

[Oilwellian]

27. I was thinking...

more of a dribble. :D

[aquart]

3. That's how we get George to pull out! Tell Iraq to fake an orgasm!

[Ghost in the Machine]

5. DAMMIT MAN! WARN someone, would ya!

:spray: :rofl:


:hi:

PEACE!

Ghost

[aquart]

6. I'm not being funny. This is how we rephrase it.

If they want to use a sexual metaphor, ours is the man who won't pull out....hours of puffing and chugging and no ejaculation and no orgasm.

It's a button, it's a bumper sticker: IRAQ! FAKE AN ORGASM!

Plant it publicly enough and George looks impotent for STAYING.

Get three well-placed comedians or political cartoonists to run with it and the ploy collapses.

[undeterred]

9. He doesn't care about Iraq's orgasm, he only cares about his own.

Priapism is fun for no one.

[aquart]

18. BushCo is all PR.

That's why they take the trouble to frame and phrase. Turning the phrasing around on them and the advantage is lost. It's perception. The perception has to be a guy who will/can neither come nor quit. He's the one who decided sexual imagery would work. I'm saying, MAKE IT NOT WORK.

[EFerrari]

22. LOL!

:rofl:

[ddbaj]

4. This is one of the things that makes it so hard for progressives...

... to understand right-wingers. Winning, kicking ass, pride. Those are the things that matter to the right-winger, they matter even more than human life. To a right-winger, to leave Iraq in shame would be worse than death, which is why they think democrats hate the troops, we want to hurt something far more valuable than their mortal life.

Of course, in my view, human life is worth more than any ammount of pride or any perception. People who'd die or kill rather than suffer shame are nuts, IMO.

[patrice]

12. What they THINK is "winning, kicking ass, pride" not necessarily what

actually IS winning, or other ways to kick ass, or what actually IS pride. What they think these things are is more important than what they actually are. Power is the reason what they think is more important than what actually is. These people are first and foremost Fascists.

[Canuckistanian]

24. Notice the language of the RW talking heads

The word "winning" seems to be the only word to describe a successful outcome in Iraq.

If you're against their grand schemes or even wish to ask a few obvious questions, it's "you want America to lose".

Nothing about benefiting the Iraqi people or their neighbors. Indeed, they don't seem to give a shit about ordinary Iraqis.

Winning or losing. That's all they care about, as if winning will cleanse all crimes and make everyone happy.

And losing is worse than anything.

[Little Wing]

7. Well, Iraq will be taking a shot of money

in the arm, of course

[ashling]

8. Condi's urge =

Chimpy's surge

[JohnnyLib2]

10. Say no, Nancy, say it loud and clear.

And remember where to kick him if needed.....

[NYC Liberal]

11. Carlin:

Show us your Dick

I also look at war itself a little differently from most. I see it largely
as an exercise in dick-waving. That's really all it is: alot of men standing
around in a field waving their dicks at one another. Men, insecure abuot the
size of their penises, choose to kill one another.

That's also what all that moron athlete bullshit is all about, and what that
macho, male posturing and strutting around in bars and locker rooms
represents. It's called 'dick fear.' Men are terrified that their dicks are
inadequate, and so they have to 'compete' in order to feel better about
themselves. And since war is the ultimate competition, essentially men are
killing one another in order to improve their genital self-esteem.

You needn't be a historian or a political scientist to see the Bigger Dick
Foreign Policy Theory at work. It goes like this: 'What? They have bigger
dicks? Bomb them!' And of course, the bombs, the rockets, and the bullets
are all shaped like penises. Phallic weapons. There's an unconscious need to
project the national penis into the affairs of others. It's called 'fucking
with people'

Show us your Bush

So as far as I'm concerned, that whole thing in the Persian Gulf was nothing
more than one big dick-waving cockfight.

In this particular case, Saddam Hussein questioned the size of George Bush's
dick. And George Bush had been called a wimp for so long, he apparently felt
the need to act out his manhood fantasies by sending America's white
children to kill other people's brown children.

Clearly the worst kind of wimp.

Even his name, 'Bush', as slang, is related to the genitals without being
the genitals.

A bush is sort of a passive, secondary sex characteristic. It's even used as
a slang term for women: 'Hey, pal, how's the bush in this area?'

I can't help thinking, if this president's name had been George
Boner...well, he might have felt a little better about himself, and he
wouldn't have had to kill all those children. Too bad he couldn't locate his
manhood.

Premature Extraction

Actually, when you think about it, this country has had a manhood problem
for some time. You can tell the language we use; language always gives us
away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam? We 'pulled out'! Not a very manly
thing to do. No. When you're fucking people, you're supposed to stay with it
and fuck them good; fuck them to death; hang in there and keep fucking them
until they're all fucking dead.

But in Vietnam what happened was by accident we left a few women and
children alive, and we haven't felt good about ourselves since.

That's why in the Persian Gulf, George Bush had to say, 'This will not be
another Vietnam.' He actually said, 'this time we're going all the way.'

Imagine. An American president using the sexual slang of a thirteen-year-old
to describe his foreign policy.

And, of course, when it got right down to it, he didn't 'go all the way.'
Faced with going into Baghdad he punked out. No balls. Just Bush.

Instead, he applied sanctions, so he'd be sure that an extra half a million
brown children would die. And so his oil buddies could continue to fill
their pockets.

If you want to know what happened in the Persian Gulf, just remember the
first names of the two men who ran that war: Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.

Dick and Colon.

Someone got fucked in the ass.

And those brown people better make sure they keep their pants on, because
Dick and Colin have come back for an encore.

[walldude]

14. LMAO... Carlin always says what's on my mind

My favorite Carlin quote on abortion "The right wing wants live babies so they can make dead soldiers..."

[rebel with a cause]

25. Carlin almost always says whats on his mind

The night he was on Leno with Ann Coltor, they muzzled him and did not let him say anything. K T Tunstall came out with "This machine kills facist" on her guitar.

[rebel with a cause]

26. P.S. to # 25

I felt so bad for Carlin that night and was mad at Leno. Leno is a tool for Arnold and the repubs in general. My daughter (an adult) is sick and I am posting inbetween seeing if she is okay, so my post have been a bit scrambled. Got to go again.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

13. BAB is a hoot.

Jay Lassiter says she is a "shameless hussy" ;-). I will tell you what, she gives as good as she gets, if not better, on Blue Jersey.

Hell of a writer, that grrl.

[Karenina]

15. Go on ahead, Amurikkka

SHOOT YER WAD. :eyes:

[FightingIrish]

16. A surge is stomping on the accelerator

after the wheels have come off.

[originalpckelly]

17. "Surgagra, surges lasting more than four months..."

[jwirr]

19. His flight suit didn't work very well so he might as well forget the

surge.

[bonito]

20. Rove's presidency has shriveled ,shrunk , limp, impotent

Ask Edward Bernays.

[IndyOp]

21. Randi R quoted military docs saying they saw 1-2 soldiers per day with genital amputations

NOW MORE THAN EVER - Send * to Iraq.

Randi Rhodes, on Friday, quoted military doctors saying that along with all of the soldiers who had had arms and legs amputated, the doctors were seeing 1-2 soldiers PER DAY with genital amputations.


^ Toon from a thread by alfredo

[Octafish]

23. Smirko could just kiss fractured Turd Blossom.

If he wasn't so pre-occupied by a special play marine.

[NobleCynic]

28. Just makes me think of George Carlin

Specifically his take on the phallic symbolism of war.

[133724]

29. Surge Protector

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. Karl Rove my ass.

They literally pay top advertising execs to come up with this stuff.

Every sound bite that comes out of the WH, you can guarantee some ad company was paid for it.