Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

I love the palpable disdain in "a martini, of course!" What a great man, great sense of humor.

and totally fact free! no mention of what the poor bastard was doing wrong that he deserved humiliating, or what bork said that was funny. maybe he just said his last name over and over again? that'd be pretty funny.

xp

the moral of the story: judges know everything. that's why they're judges.

secondary moral of the story: a certain judge got his balls motorboated that night

Jonah offers his experience:

I'm so sorry to be late to the party on the martini-Bork nexus (I slept late here in Hawaii where it's five hours earlier). First, let me add that I think the Judge — as I've called him since I was a policy gnome at AEI — is one of the most impressive and honorable men I've ever met. And he's also the only person I have ever met who can give one-word answers to very complex questions while sounding like he's covered all the angles. "No, he explained" works for the Judge.

Anyway, as fate would have it, the Goldbergs have recently switched (perhaps temporarily) to gibsons as our preferred cocktail. For me, this is a nostalgic turn, as my father drank gibsons when I was a kid. I have many memories of my dad telling waiters, "it's a gibson, not a gimlet" after receiving some lime flavored swill. Charles Dana Gibson is credited with creating the drink, by the way. And it is merely a martini that uses cocktail onions as a garnish.

As for the vodka martini, I am with the Judge on this: there's no such thing. Technically, the vodka and vermouth drink is a kangaroo. I can live with people saying "vodka martini" but I can't stand it when waiters ask, "do you want that martini [or gibson] with gin or vodka." That's like asking, "Do you want that milkshake with ice cream or tofu?

Star Trek IX: The Martini-Bork Nexus.

And he's also the only person I have ever met who can give one-word answers to very complex questions while sounding like he's covered all the angles. "No, he explained" works for the Judge.

^^^signs of a deep thinker

Star Trek IX: The Martini-Bork Nexus

"Execute the Prime Directive."

"That's disgusting, sir."

Who knew that fastidiousness about martinis would turn these fucking guys into ogres?

"Take back this lime-flavored swill, you jackass."

the Judge actually says "No, he explained"?

"I'll have a martini, he ordered loudly."

I like gin and tonic better anyway.

these guys were ogres way before the martini postings started

I can live with people saying "vodka martini"

compassionate conservatism in action

have many memories of my dad telling waiters, "it's a gibson, not a gimlet" after receiving some lime flavored swill.

who fucking treats waiters like this? oh, right the same someone who would marry Lucianne Goldberg

I can't even imagine the kind of darkness you'd have in your soul to marry Lucianne Goldberg.

have many memories...

good times!

Just order a martini and ask for cocktail onions instead of olives you twit. Although missing out on the waiter berating dog and pony show is a high price to pay.

fuck these guys for making me hate gin martinis

http://www.epicurious.com/images/articlesguides/drinking/cocktails/martini.jpg

DON'T WORRY DELICIOUS DRINK, I WILL RESCUE YOU

THERY'RE NOT GIN MARTINIS JUST PLAIN MARTINIS HAS BORK TAUGHT YOU NOTHING

THEY'RE NOT THESE NUTS JUST PLAIN NUTS BUT THEY CAN STILL SUCK ON THEM

http://lawyersusadcdicta.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/bork.jpg

"Oh god, I PRAY I get no lime-flavored swill..."

http://thesituationist.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/bork.jpg

"See? That right there? That's a GIMLET, not a GIBSON, you twit!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Reagan_with_Robert_Bork_1987.jpg/250px-Reagan_with_Robert_Bork_1987.jpg

"Show me where the gimlets are."

lol remember when that dude was supposed to be on the supreme court

I could actually understand this rhetoric if it were about Scalia, a person I fundamentally disagree with and find ideologically reprehensible, yet still manages to come across in his public appearances as a charming, rational person willing to explain his viewpoint.

http://swedishchefbebub.ytmnd.com/

"Oooh! GIBSONS!"

http://web.wm.edu/law/students/fedsoc/images/clip_image002_001.jpg

I could actually understand this rhetoric if it were about Scalia, a person I fundamentally disagree with and find ideologically reprehensible, yet still manages to come across in his public appearances as a charming, rational person willing to explain his viewpoint.

I agree with this, but am still hoping that he dies so Thomas and Alito won't know how to vote.

Thomas is more conservative than Scalia wtf.

Panetta Hearing [Marc Thiessen]

Panetta just said that if they caught Osama bin Laden, they would find a place to hold him briefly, give him access to the International Red Cross, and use the Army Field Manual to question him.

If we had followed this policy when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured, we would have gotten no information from him – and America would have been attacked again.

Marc Thiessen is Dick Cheney under a pussier pseudonym, isn't he?

Quantum of Solis [David Freddoso]

The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky points out a possible House ethics violation [...]

you don't even need any more than that, so funny

Barack Obama Has Failed [Jonah Goldberg]
A few readers misunderstand my point in today's column. I'm sure we will get a stimulus bill. I'm sure Obama will count it as a victory. But the magic is gone, or at least an important part of the magic is gone. By accepting the stimulus bill and, now, fighting for it the way he had since I wrote the column, he's made it clear he's a just a Democratic president wth a conventional liberal agenda. He will have victories, to be sure. But he's blown an important moment in his presidency, and moments are very hard to get back. He has had his "behold, a God who bleeds moment."

Jonah is really breaking bold new ground in concern troll annals.

he's made it clear he's a just a Democratic president wth a conventional liberal agenda.

I'm sure if you go back through Jonah's posts during the campaign, you'll find that he was totally giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on this point until just now

Marc Thiessen is Dick Cheney

He was a Bush White House speechwriter, so yeah. And he's been pushing these factually unsupported arguments re specific terror plots that waterboarding of detainees allegedly prevented in newspaper op-eds

Re: Jobs Numbers [Grover Norquist]

The economy as measured by the market and businesses’ willingness to hire does not sound very excited by the Reid/Pelosi/Obama spending spree.

The economy began to collapse when the Democrats captured the House and Senate and we then knew that the lower tax rates on individuals, capital gains, and dividends would end after 2010.

We are in the early stages of the Reid/Obama/Pelosi recession and nothing they are even talking about doing will help.

srsly these guys are so fucking predictable

"reid/obama/pelosi recession"

on rush limbaugh (with guest host) today i learned that the 2008 economy was all clinton's fault, 2009's gonna be obama's obviously

A Very Stimulating Red Meat [NRO Staff]

Jim Geraghty and Mark Hemingway talk about the economic stimulus and how this ordeal has revealed President Obama to be, alas, merely human.

^^^ totally loving this line right now. "lol he's totally NOT not the angelic overman we all lied to ourselves that liberals believed he is. two weeks in, epic fail amirite??"

haha i know

every right winger is like WELL, HE'S HUMAN AFTER ALL NOW

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/cornerreagankilmer.gif

lolololol

he's made it clear he's a just a Democratic president wth a conventional liberal agenda.

i'm not sure if it occurs to jonah that a lot of people voted for obama because of this.

Jonah, likes Morbs, thinks we all voted for him because he's OUR NEW GOLDEN GOLD!

I actually figure he was directing that comment more at Obamacons or whatever the catchphrase was supposed to be.

And I would hope gold was golden, yes.

Even aside from the lol juxtaposition of the Reagan - Al Franken headlines, how quickly they forget about:

Fred "Gopher" Grandy (R-IA)
Fred Dalton Thompson (R-TN)
Sonny Bono (R-CA)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)

Yeah, blame Al Franken for it. God, seriously, fuck these fucking fuckers.

The whole Republican celebrity-actor-cum-politician thing is more interesting itself than the loljuxtaposition, since Franken is the first Democrat celebrity-actor-cum-politician in a very long time. So, to me, it was just more partisan zzzzzzzzzzz from The Corner as usual.

They've moved on to ranking the best conservative movies:

Heartbreak Ridge (1986): Clint Eastwood’s foul-mouthed Marine sergeant Tom Highway makes quick work of kicking Communist Cubans out of Grenada. And, boy, does “Gunny” hate Commies. Not only does he kill quite a few, he also refuses a bribe of a Cuban cigar, saying: “Get that contraband stogie out of my face before I shove it so far up your a** you’ll have to set fire to your nose to light it.” A welcome glorification of Reagan’s decision to liberate Grenada in 1983, the film also notes how after a tie in Korea and a loss in Vietnam, America can finally celebrate a military victory. Eastwood, the old war horse, walks off into retirement pleased that he’s not “0–1–1 anymore.” Semper Fi. Oo-rah!

holy shit

Constitutional Amendment Idea [Iain Murray]

Just a thought off the top of my head; how about an amendment to Article I, Section 7 that reads:

Before voting on any Bill, a Senator or Representative shall certify to the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House respectively that they have read the Bill in full.

Or something like that?

This is inspired by Tom Coburn pointing out that to read the porkulus bill in its entirety out aloud would take the Senate Clerk 31.5 hours. Yet this monstrosity is going to be foisted on the American public today. The contempt for the legislative process is shocking.

lol patriot act