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“You are a nit-wit . . . Now go away!” – The voice of Ireland’s leader
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[Originally posted on Potatriotique]
This has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in the Dáil, since the Ceann Comhairle’s frigging outburst at Inda. (Also)
Bertie lost the head this morning in the Dáil with his socialist komrade, Joe Higgins.
Higgins was pronouncing on some such, as is his wont, and Bertie lost his patientce, and certainly didn’t hold back with his “nit-wit” slur. All barrels blazing there, I must say. I’m sure Higgins didn’t know what hit him. Ahern’s coup de grace, however, is something which Joe will never recover: “Now, go away!“
[Assume impudent child's voice; stomp feet if possible]
High-larious.
A transcript of this is a must, but it really won’t be the same without the unequalled intonations of d’Teapot Ahern.
[With all thanks to NewsTalk 106 FM for gracing our ears with it (tune in online or on FM every half-hour for news bulletins).]
BreakingNews.ie has it:
Ahern in war of words with ‘nitwit’ socialist TD Higgins
21/06/2006 – 12:08:10Taoiseach Bertie Ahern lost his temper in the Dáil this morning during an exchange with Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins regarding the cost of housing.
Mr Higgins told the Dáil that the cost of buying a house was now beyond most working people and that Fianna Fáil, which receives vast sums of money from developers, was not doing anything to tackle the problem.
Mr Ahern hit back by saying the Government had done more than any other administration in the history of the state in the area of social and affordable housing.
He then launched a string of insults on Mr Higgins and his socialist policies.
“You have a failed ideology, you have the most hopeless policy that I ever heard pursued by any nitwit,” Mr Ahern said.
“You are a failed person, you were rejected and your political philosophy has been rejected and you’re not going to pull people back into the failed old policies that you dreamt up in south Kerry when you were a young fella.
“Now go away.”
oh burn
OH DEAR!
Throwing toys out of his pram.
A little fit of pique, is it?
OH DEAR!
Nice to see what lies underneath the yellow jacket – a petulant bully who doesn’t like to be contradicted.
OH DEAR!
Of course he is speaking as a successful person, One who has yet to be rejected (May 2007?); He who has a wise political philosophy (all in the briefing notes) He who is not going to pull the people (Begg; O’Connor; CORI & Co) back into the failed policies of economic prudence; He who will lead the people of North Dublin into the promised land of Bankruptcy.
IN 2008.
Higgins get his digs in:
He failed cataclysmically to stop the unbridled speculation by developers and house builders. Of course, that was deliberate. The matter goes all the way back to the devil’s pact made between Fianna Fáil and house builders and speculators in the 1960s. They bought the party’s councillors, who in turn corrupted planning in Dublin, and perhaps other areas, and created the nightmare we now have.
“They got everything they wanted. They bought the party’s former leader, who the Taoiseach eulogised unstintingly last Friday. The VIP pen in the Donnycarney church was like a major house builders’ convention.
“Oddly enough, the politicians were probably the poorest people there, with the exception of some of the Taoiseach’s colleagues who are publicans, landlords or dabblers in hairdressing salons in Moscow for the Russian nouveau riche
Higgins certainly shows up the main opposition parties with his talent for getting Bertie Ahern’s gander up.
Disagreements within the socialist family are a fact of life, and there’s nothing new in knowing that Bertie and Joe disagree on the real meaning of socialism today
Incidentally, the complete exchange between Bertie and Joe, with voices off, is worth a read
http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebate.aspx?F=DAL20060621.xml&Node=H3&Page=2
I was surfing the internet and was thinking just how mindless my life is. I don’t go out anymore and I’m sitting here all alone. I said to myself Charlie your a nit wit and haven’t gone anywhere in life and wonder if I put in am I a nitwit.com into the seach engine to see if there is anything under that cataagory and sure enough there is . Hey if you are in Ireland and frequent the Pubs that we call taverns over here more power to you because I discoverd a long time ago that it led in the wrong direction and almost every thing I’ve done has been useless and I don’t even have a job. Have you heard about Boeing.I have and I worked there and I’m laid off and I never want to work for those creeps again. You know something? I only blog this babble and I don’t even read what others write. I beleive I’m not alone with this habit. As a result I believe that nobody will read this anyway. So what Ireland are you in he North or the big Erie. One thing ereerie is that I’m afriad to fly and never felt that way until I worked at the aircraft company down the street. With the new world order all the real good jobs have gone overseas. Remember Vietman amd theier fight agianst capitalism? I do and they let a tennis shoe company from Oregon State set up a factory there. The amount they pay these people they can’t even afford to buy the shoes they make. And with the peanuts these poor people are paid Nikie sells their shoes for 100 dollars. The Chinese are laughfing themselves all theway to the bank. With the great and wonderful new world order they are learning all the technology and if the corps can make a quick profit now they don’t even care about the fact these people can and will use this to put us on the short end of the stick in the future. From what I understand people get together in the coffee shops and watch our president and are rolling in luaghter. Hey these peple aren’t stupid. When I say they are laughing all the way to the bank we are the goose wwho laid their golden egg.I ‘m in bad sorts because I’m getting old and the doctor can’t prescribe Viagra because I’m on a alfha blockers. Oh well. Once I passed out and the ambulence came to my rescue. After gaining my senses the medic asked alot of questions. After answering positive too all he put his pen and paper down and asked if there was anything I haven’t had. I quiped yes ” I haven’t had a hard on in ten years”. Hey maybe my bonie lies over the ocean? A tura lura lua to you – kiss that stone and have a good day. Being green here is hard to come by and this is in regards to the mean green i.e. the American dollar.
This is maybe the best reply to any post ever made on this site.
This is the nit wit in America. In order to get the medicine I need I go to a mental health center and the mental health proffessional ar driving me crazy . Guess what? I have three cronic medical disorders and every company I’ve work for has harrassed me to death because I not a cost effective commodity because they figure that their company medical insurance is hurt. They want me to quit because of the costs. I approached a boss and asked instead of making me want to quit why don’t you just fire me. He replied ,”Its more fun that way and we don;t have to pay unemployment”.Now I go and get humiliated by having to go to a romper room activity and hang around retarded people. I make to much money on Social Security and according to the state of Washington I “need” to pay 2400 dollars a year in a deductible. Plus my medicine is 1200 hunderd dollars a month.Does this happen to people over there. I would hope not maybe the grass is greener in Erie all the mean green I get is forked over to the medical establishment and this has been the case for 30 years. My reputatoion has been ruined. A lady saw me reading a book at the resturant and was shock and said to her husband that I thought he was retarded. These nuckleheads i.e. the mental health pros have made it thier vendetta to make me look stupid. They were embarressed because I worked for 15 years when thier stupid, or shall I say insane laws, made it necessary to go through this hulmuliation. Look its no fun to work under these circumstances. I have been in this bad situation for 30 years and have nothing but medical bills all my life. There are card rooms here (poker) and in order to make ends meet I had to make up the extra cash needed to pay my medical bills.The only companies that let me work were sweet shops that even the Humane Socitity(an animal shelter) wouldn’t let a dog work there. My co workers would bark like a dog amd mock me. I metioned to one of my supervisors that the work here is so mundane and easy why don’t you hire chimpanzes to do the work because you don’t need to pay them. He replied that they considered doing so but animals have rights and we can’t do to them what we do to you. Arf Arf Arf. Liven in the USA give me a cheese burger and fries. Tell me if people over there go through this or is it just a phenomena in this country. Maybe I sould swim arocros the Rio Grande to offset the Mexican influx across the border. I know that Canada won’t take me and I quote ” We have enough problems here without taking on America’s”. I got on the ground and rolled over and begged but they didn’t feel they could teach an old dog new tricks. In order to motivate me to go back they threw a dog bone acorss the border and said fetch. Maybe I can join the circus and be in a side show and be the man who thinks he a dog ARF ARF!! The carnaval barker would be able to point out that all the industrial chemicals he worked with effected his mind. Hey you see you blogged my last message and it has spurded me on to babble on ARF ARF!!! When the illegas come over here and make a baby with an American they call them anchor babies. Maybe instead of picking dasiy and making daisy chains over here I might come over and pick four leaf clovers. Ha rurmor has it the Celts invented the wheel. Have one of the warm beers for me. Its true the ones here are cold. I haven’t had a stiff one in years ARF ARF. In the words of one of my bosses,” The reason we hire head cases like yourself is because your fun to watch”. If there is any mis spelled words forgive me I’m a product of the Washington school system. That the hole truth nothing but the truth so help me God. And I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers because I’m still crazy for all the years.
Remember me I’m the nit wit across the pond on the other side of the eastern shore in the Pacific Northwest. Hey the reason you haven’t heard from is that I crashed another computer and I tried what I could to get it running again. My brother out in Issaquah Washington gave me his old lap top and I’m back on the saddle again. That is American slang for a comeback after a long period off of work or something that one has been away from for a time. This is of course a play on a old Western movie that had some singing cow boy signing a song. Guess what the name of it was? ” Back in the saddle again”. Ha ha! I actual saw John Wayne one time and he was huge and of course you don’t want to get on his bad side because he so tough “Dukeing” it out with him would be like having a death wish. The word Duke was a nick name that was given to him and Dukeing it out with someone means a fist fight. I remember seeing a flick that had it’s setting in you country where Mr. Wayne had a major role. Is it true that everyone over there play darts in the pubs ( called taverns here). In the movies that take place in your country there are always pub scenes. It is beautiful and and the scenery there is real pretty and I love the accents and the way the woman talk. I’ve never been over there and probablliy wont because of finances. If it wasn’t for my Brother I wouldn’t have this opportunity to blog and I feel that I have gone two steps forward and I’m still walking ahead and that is better than one step forward and two steps back. Even though I’m ten steps behind the new technology I’m happy as a singing cowboy and I’m happy for what I have because it’s what I need. Just like in the American Westerns I’ll ride out into the sunset and blog you another time. Yo!
How come I don’t get any response from you people there? I’ think you are a a bunch of light waits and are in the pub wetting you’re whisker’s. I’m going to start to get political and maybe i’ll get you’re goat and have some steaming response. Otherwise I’ll loose all my faith in my Neolthic ancestors. Meaning that most of what I’m made of come from over there too. What about the British Prime minister giving a go ahead to breed human DNA with animals? Didn’t we fight a war against the Nazis because of their genetic field day with the pure Arian race Bull!!!!! State sanctioning is going a littl bit to far and should be address with vigor and greater debate and people should be aware that this is crossing a fine line into the twilight zone. I can give you a first hand discourse on this subject and knowing that this kind of activity has gone on and will still go on not only with the Nazis but with the Medical establishment in general here and all over the world. Here in the USA a woman has choice to abort a child but the doctor can not make that final decision and should never have the right to interfere with anyones choice over life. Let me first talk about what is happen here as a result of individuals deciding who are able propagate their genes and those on the other side of the coin are let to propagate. In Oregon ST Hospital this activity occurred in terms of the sterilization of mental patients up until
the 1980s. Here is an example of someone making a decision to not let someone have the ability to have children. And it should be up to that individual and not a doctor and in the case where that individual can’t make that decision for themselves, family members should. This subject is something that has greater depth then this one particular example and before logging off for a future date I will give some historical background of the situation on the West coast in these activities. It was made an every day occurrence in the 1930s to sterilize mental patients and the so called feeble minded. This was a fad all over the world and it was believed that it was possible to create a superior race by ending the breeding capability of those who were deemed to be feeble minded and not fit into the ideal society. And at the same time those who were seen as fit had their gene taken sometimes without their knowledge and used for breeding purposes. Then as WWII came and went too far in Germany . I will wait to see If someone will reply before making any further comments.
This is the nitwit across the pond and I admit me and Mr. Bush have alot in common, for example, we are both stupid. I don’t know if you have the same political lingo as we have over here but we call a a politician that has lost his position or is in his or her last term a lame duck. Well guess what? He is the lamest duck in political history. Since I don’t get any response you have hurt my feelings and I don’t think I should give you the honor of my blogs. However, I may make a guest cameo blog, only if I feel like doing so. Have fun playing darts and getting drunk. May the Orange Order Boogie Man under your bed get you tonight, so sleep well. Fine, I will listen to the evening news and keep up on the daily shooting that happens in every city in America across the pond. But you can see we can and know how to deal with the Boogie Man. Chase him away with a broom stick. Draw!!!Wimps!!!! Those Protestants are now crossing the border now!!!I Can you here those tommy guns Drop you’re darts and sober up the time is here.
This is me again and let me apologize for being so rude. I was very upset about getting no feed back form my neolithic kin folk. Sorry about the comments about playing darts and drinking. I would like to play darts and I’ve watched it before and it seems like everyone was having a good time. Also I know that it takes a lot of skill to be able to be good. I’ve actually tried throwing them before and not understanding how you keep score it seems to be a life long endeavor to develop the skills necessary to master the game. I think just for laughs each tavern or what you call pubs should have a service whereas a picture of someone dislikable can be produced and stuck on the dart board and people can have an opportunity to release pent up anger toward that hated personality. I’m sure with the derogatory things I said in my last comments hurt your national pride and I hope you forgive me and I’m not that hated person. Parliamentary government is interesting and I’m sure that it would do a lot of good to televise the proceedings over here across the pond. There is a government channel that televises the British Parliament and it would be very interesting to see yours. It would break down barriers and show that it is a different format and cause discussions in classrooms and give a perspective of the differences as well as the similarities. I would hope that there someday will be a channel that would play all of the Western democratic sessions. It might bust the bubble of the American ego and help us live together. There could be moderators that can give introspection on history and culture. It would be interesting to go into the making of all the different makeups of the various parties in each society. To tell you the truth it is entertaining to watch the questioning period and see just how brilliant a prime minister has to be during the session and the comments made by the opposition are educational as well humorous at times. Being a jerk and saying the things I’ve said make the world worse and again I’m sorry that I was out of line. The curser in my mind at the time was off the screen. If others political system were televised besides ours maybe people can judge for themselves and see the bad and good points of human nature.
Its me again and I just want to let you know that I’m still alive. Things have changed alittle bit in terms of the dilemma I had with the state Of Washington and the medical situation that I was in. It got better under the Bush administration because of coverage of medicine by a new plan in Medicare. Medicare is a name for the medical coverage we have for Social Security disability and retirement. Instead of having to pay a large deductable or out right paying the full price for medicine I now pay a small copay of a few dollars. I had this cloud over my head sense 1973 and I almost broke down and cried when I only have to pay this amount. Alot of bad things haave been said about the Bush administration but this was very good and I thank him. Under Obama things might even get better. He is brilliant and is a good man and I hope what happened to the Jack and Robert Kennedy doesn’t happen to him. In america we have been rob of the great politicians and the great things that would have been done and I fear that this can happen again. I put a lot of faith in Mr Obama and think that the World would be a better place if there was more men and women like him. I will tell you a story about a paper I wrote in the 8th grade. The assignment was to write a paper on who I wanted as president. The year was 1968 and I picked Robert Kennedy. The day after I wrote it my father knocked on my door and told me that Senator Kennedy will assassinated. I was shocked. My father called the school and the principle told him I could still turn in that paper I wrote the night before. I know I’ve joke about the daily shootings before and I’m sorry. There is one thing that is true and that there are daily shooting in all major cities here. Its sad. There is to much hate and I don’t have any answers to the crime problem. One final note that it has been logged that there was an 8 minute period of time when no crime was reported in the USA. During that period of time the Beatles were playing on the Ed Sullivian Show or shoee as he would say.