From THE HILL:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that President Barack Obama is “dithering” on Afghanistan drew agreement from Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) — after Wilson learned what that word meant.
Wilson, the lawmaker who shouted “You lie!” at the president during a joint session address to Congress, said he had to look up the meaning of Cheney’s charge against Obama.
“I actually have to agree with Vice President Cheney, that the president is dithering,” Wilson said in an interview with a conservative talk radio syndicate. “And I actually had to look up ‘dithering,’ and it means ‘indecisive,’ and that’s exactly what he’s being.”
Cheney said Obama is dithering over a decision whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, as was recommended by the top U.S. commander in that country, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
24 Comments
November 7, 2009 at 1:38 am
thanks for not showing Joe’s knockers.
November 7, 2009 at 2:38 am
you’re welcome! do you like the little outfit i made for him? he’s not as much fun to dress as lindseypoo.
November 7, 2009 at 12:43 pm
sadly, saying that he needed to “look it up”, probably played well with his base.
November 7, 2009 at 11:40 pm
his base is probably wondering where you look up stuff like that. i doubt they’ve ever heard of a dictionary.
November 7, 2009 at 6:46 am
Dithering, Blithering or Blathering?….. You decide!
November 7, 2009 at 7:16 am
I’ll take Blithering and Blathering for the Daily Double, Fran!
(Wicked awesome title, lovely picture, Nonnie.)
November 7, 2009 at 7:53 am
thanks, wcp. i thought a little levity was in order after such a ghastly couple of days in the news.
November 7, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Very true. I’m making a Glenn Beck Operation Game for levity’s sake.
November 7, 2009 at 11:39 pm
cool! we can sell it alongside my version.
November 8, 2009 at 12:09 am
http://writechic.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/gop-operation-game/
Hee, hee, hee.
November 8, 2009 at 12:15 am
we really need to open up a toy store in time for xmas!
November 7, 2009 at 7:52 am
with a smattering of nattering? not very flattering.
November 7, 2009 at 7:31 am
Deadeye Dick as Heathcliff. Yeah, people may have thought Heathcliff was a Romantic lead. He wasn’t. He was a Gothic villain!
November 7, 2009 at 8:03 am
heathcliff was a bitter, nasty, cruel, obsessive, selfish man who destroyed everything around him. sounds like deadeye dick to me! just change cathy to money and power, and it all fits perfectly.
November 7, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Ummm … As an amateur grammarian/fan of picking nits:
I wonder what dictionary he used.
“Dithering” is a verb. (Well, actually, a gerund functioning as a noun derived from the verb “to dither,” but close enough.)
“Indecisive” is an adjective. “Dithering” doesn’t mean “indecisive.”
November 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Picking nit wits?
November 7, 2009 at 11:44 pm
November 7, 2009 at 11:43 pm
shhhh, wickle! joe is trying to show off that he learned a new word. don’t steal his thunder. wouldn’t it be funny if a few hundred people sent him one of those word-a-day calendars? he’d go up to the podium on the house floor and try to use them all in sentences, insuring comedy gold for months to come!
November 7, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Hello Nonnie!!
I’m back … on the internet, that is.
I am so delighted to have my excommunication from the internet lifted, or absolved, or however they do that sort of thing.
This post is very erudite, and I especially like where it says “Blithering (look that up, Joe) Idiot” at the top.
I immediately looked it up and found out that to blither means to blather, and is a blend of to blather and to dither.
Now I am better informed than Joe because I do not think Joe will look up two different words in one day.
November 7, 2009 at 11:51 pm
mighty mikk0mouse!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think there’s a pope of the internets, and she (at last, a female pope!) decides who’s been naughty or nice. i will write her a thank-you note for allowing you back on the internets (and to ask her to please get rid of whoever was responsible for making my computer crap out last week).
we don’t know whither joe wilson learned of dither, but i hope it was not hither he chose to slither. should he choose here to blither or dither, i will hit him with a zither until he withers away.
November 8, 2009 at 4:01 pm
I wish Al Gore would have provided a running commentary on the foibles of Bush and Dick.
It could have been like “The Soup,” where Al would show clips and made snide comments afterwards.
Dick should shut his stupid mouth and become a full time grandfather to his turkey baster grandchild and Liz’s litter.
November 9, 2009 at 2:52 am
on one hand, i wouldn’t wish that on innocent kids. on the other hand, they are the descendants of satan, so they might already be lost souls, so who cares what happens to them.
November 19, 2009 at 8:54 am
Which one is Heathcliff and which one is Catherine? Just curious…
November 19, 2009 at 9:29 am
i think deadeye dick is heathcliff (but i bet he wears catherine’s panties when he thinks he won’t get caught).