Comments on: That Lancet Study

By: Balloon Juice

Balloon Juice — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:11:49 +0000

[...] Of course, as we all know, polls are biased and, as one of our esteemed readers stated, “Figures lie and liars figure.” In general, I don’t support impeachment, in large part because I still believe in the power of the Republican spin machine. If the Dems come into power, the spinmeisters will try to portray them as ‘crazy Bush haters,’ and I would hate for the Dems to blow a shot at 2008. I really think we need the Dems to win in ‘06 and ‘08 so the GOP can have some good time out of power, clear out the rot, do some soul-searching, and get back to the basics. Howver, if the Democrats win, and become as ruthless and nasty as the Republicans have been for the past ten years, it will be well-deserved, and I can point to my friends on the right that I warned you all repeatedly. Will it be good for the country? I don’t know, but considering this GOP has not cared about the good of the country for a while, it won’t be much of a change for most of us. [...]

By: Dubya

Dubya — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:33:13 +0000

I agree with you that leftists, but not conservatives, are blinded by their ideology. Only leftists would conduct research or write essays to discredit the President and his grand war on terror.

Sincerely,
Dubya

By: J Daniels

J Daniels — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:46:41 +0000

Since you ask:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=7448
“Which conservatives would those be? I’d love to read their material. I’d even like to read your conservative sentiments. Where would I find them?
Cheers,
David”

By: JDZ

JDZ — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:04:43 +0000

Which conservatives would those be? I’d love to read their material. I’d even like to read your conservative sentiments. Where would I find them?

Cheers,
David

By: Realist

Realist — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:36:10 +0000

Will someone please assure me that this is a satirical blog?

As a conservative, I had wondered why some conservatives made fun of you and this blog. So I checked and read a few blog entries.

Two words: Good grief. I felt increasingly embarassed as you went on. It’s no wonder why whiny liberals declared them as the “reality-based” folks.

Please stop blogging, I beg of you. Please stop giving liberals the ammos.

By: Pug

Pug — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:36:26 +0000

Well, I guess we have a choice. We can believe MIT, Johns Hopkins and Lancet, or we can believe you and George W. Bush. For many, many millions of Americans that is an easy choice.

Care to conjecture a figure of your own? Maybe the number is only 100,000 dead people. A mere pittance.

By: Balloon Juice

Balloon Juice — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:45:53 +0000

[...] Only 421 people? How can they possibly know whether it works in every case from this? Why should we accept these facts? David Zincavage explains it all for us: [...]

By: Mark Zanger

Mark Zanger — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:47:14 +0000

As I roll about on this billowing mattress of words, I still feel the points of a few small steel needles of fact: The Iraq invasion was unnecessary, has been expensive beyond all predictions, and is dissolving even as we discuss it into a civil war which will force the US to retreat or call in international reinforcements. To pursue it as we have has cost us influence elsewhere on the Globe, so now our old enemies North Korea have an atomic bomb test. This is a situation rapidly escaping the ability of all the king’s sophists and all the king’s apologist to reassemble. In what net of sophistry will you safely land? I’m afraid a stab-in-the-back story to beggar Hitler’s will be necessary, and I regret seeing my friends pulled down so, scraping the farthest walls of the Internet for words of consolation as the milk pours irretreivably out of the broken bottle.