You may be right that the dinner was planned earlier in the week and/or that it was Obama who invited the GOP Senators, not the other way around. But, at the very least, Graham and McCain have taken ownership of the dinner and they do not seem pleased by the fact that Paul’s filibuster overshadowed it.

Thank you for your service- 6 months combat pay to you, sir.

We could bottle these tears caused by Perry, and throw a label on it that says, ‘Perrier.’
Unfortunately, nobody would want to buy that piss water.

Maybe we could pass a law to force people to buy it. John Roberts says that’s legal, you know.

The final word: knock off all threats, suggestions, intimations, whatevers, that (xxxx) or any other poster or commenter here should be reported to the police or to his employers, period. (xxxx) thinks I should just ban you, permanently, and after twice suspending you (Wagonwheel) for 15 days for this type of behavior, you have not learned your lesson. This is the last warning! Once more, and I shall take (xxxx’s) suggested action, and impose a permanent ban!

Then on 19 January 2013 Dana imposed a permanent ban:

At 5:45 PM EST today, you posted yet another comment referencing a commenter’s position and employment…you protested your innocence in the same manner you did so often…

I have no idea what part of “This is the last warning! Once more, and I shall take (xxxx’s) suggested action, and impose a permanent ban!” is so difficult to understand. Yet you persist, always attempting to stretch the envelope, always trying to see just what you can get away with.

Well, if you were somehow unable to understand the meaning of that very unambiguous sentence, no one else is, including your Editor, the man who wrote it. You had a final warning, not even a month ago, but just couldn’t help yourself. And I am bound by the words I wrote, and have taken the action promised. I very much regret having to do that, but that is what you have pushed me into doing.

Barack Obama is a “dithering” president whose controlling tendencies and extreme risk-averse attitude to foreign policy has damaged US interests in the Middle East, according to a new book by a senior former State Department adviser.

President Prom Queen wanted to end two wars in the worst possible way.

And that’s exactly what he did.

127. Knowing this outcome, do you still defend this war, Steve?

Comment by Perry (329aa5) — 3/7/2013 @ 9:22 am

Had I known Barack Obama would have been in charge of the outcome, no, I wouldn’t have defended it.

The politics of President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal decision