Comments on: We got the government Lanny Davis deserves http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142 BTC News: News, politics, opinion and satire Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:52:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cathartidae » The Equivalency Game http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142/comment-page-1#comment-12369 Cathartidae » The Equivalency Game Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:56:00 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1142#comment-12369 [...] Via This Modern World, from BTC News: [...] [...] Via This Modern World, from BTC News: [...]

]]> By: Jimmy Havok http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142/comment-page-1#comment-11744 Jimmy Havok Wed, 02 Nov 2005 01:28:45 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1142#comment-11744 Nice <i>ad hominem</i>, Casiday. So, everyone who's outraged at crime in high places is just compensating for their own personal failures? If that makes you feel better about your part in putting criminals into high office, and the mess they've made of our country, I guess that's what it takes. Nice ad hominem, Casiday. So, everyone who’s outraged at crime in high places is just compensating for their own personal failures? If that makes you feel better about your part in putting criminals into high office, and the mess they’ve made of our country, I guess that’s what it takes.

]]> By: Brian Casiday http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142/comment-page-1#comment-11742 Brian Casiday Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:35:21 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1142#comment-11742 Not wishing to go to the trouble of getting a copy of the NY Times, but wanting to read Lanny Davis's piece, I found same on your web page. So you've saved an evil conservative republican (a triple redundancy, I realize, in your view) some time. Any objective reader would have to note that Mr. Davis's piece, while very temperate, was more critical of republicans than of democrats, which is fine with me; temperance counts for a lot in my book. But the ad hominem attacks on Mr. Davis say a LOT more about y'all than they do about Davis. Here's a bit of avuncular advice for each of you: if you're an unhappy soul, confronted by the inevitable personal failures and setbacks of life, look to yourself to address your problems. Big Oil, George Bush, and (now) Lanny Davis, won't have much shelf life as scapegoats. Not wishing to go to the trouble of getting a copy of the NY Times, but wanting to read Lanny Davis’s piece, I found same on your web page. So you’ve saved an evil conservative republican (a triple redundancy, I realize, in your view) some time. Any objective reader would have to note that Mr. Davis’s piece, while very temperate, was more critical of republicans than of democrats, which is fine with me; temperance counts for a lot in my book. But the ad hominem attacks on Mr. Davis say a LOT more about y’all than they do about Davis. Here’s a bit of avuncular advice for each of you: if you’re an unhappy soul, confronted by the inevitable personal failures and setbacks of life, look to yourself to address your problems. Big Oil, George Bush, and (now) Lanny Davis, won’t have much shelf life as scapegoats.

]]> By: Carleton Wu http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142/comment-page-1#comment-11740 Carleton Wu Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:51:48 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1142#comment-11740 I heard similar sentiments from Richard Clark recently on NPR; basically, Washington insiders find it appalling that they might be treated in the same manner as common folk when they break the law. Davis doesn't claim that revealing classified info for partisan gain is *legal*, or even *right*- just that he's done it, so either 1)he's a felon and a threat to national security or 2)it's ok. He assumes that #1 is a reductio ad absurdum (ie a ridiculous conclusion), and that therefore we must conclude that it's really ok. But I think I've just concluded that Davis is, in fact, a danger to national security and a partisan hack. I heard similar sentiments from Richard Clark recently on NPR; basically, Washington insiders find it appalling that they might be treated in the same manner as common folk when they break the law.
Davis doesn’t claim that revealing classified info for partisan gain is *legal*, or even *right*- just that he’s done it, so either 1)he’s a felon and a threat to national security or 2)it’s ok.
He assumes that #1 is a reductio ad absurdum (ie a ridiculous conclusion), and that therefore we must conclude that it’s really ok.

But I think I’ve just concluded that Davis is, in fact, a danger to national security and a partisan hack.

]]> By: Wood Rose http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1142/comment-page-1#comment-11739 Wood Rose Sun, 30 Oct 2005 05:27:31 +0000 http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/?p=1142#comment-11739 Lanny Davis is desparate for business. I would be willing to bet a lot he has pitched potential targets in this and still hopes to get hired. Read his emails in the Scrushy matter to see how he operates when looking for a client he can milk for fees. Lanny Davis is desparate for business. I would be willing to bet a lot he has pitched potential targets in this and still hopes to get hired. Read his emails in the Scrushy matter to see how he operates when looking for a client he can milk for fees.

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