The party switch of Parker Griffith is giving the Politico vapers. And it probably pisses Pelosi and Hoyer off. And Democrats should by all means contest races in Alabama. But white southerners are batshit crazy wingers, by and large, and there’s just no way around that. Regional polarization is the wave of the future.
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Holiday sparkler
For many people, holidays involve lots of sparkling wine and lots of less-than-discerning relatives. But you’ve got to drink the same stuff they do, so you want something cheap *and* decent. I bought a case of Segura Viudas Brut Reserva (it’s a big family gathering on Friday) and just opened the first one. It’s really pretty good, not yeasty and complex like real champagne, but with nice fruit and acid and nothing offensive.
Only seven bucks and the best under ten dollar sparkler I’ve ever had.
My Heart Thump Not From Being Nervous Sometime
This may be the most awesomest moment in C-SPAN history. What you are about to watch is a tearful teabagger, noting that James Inhofe missed a health care reform vote sick, calling in to C-SPAN worried that his prayer group from Waycross, Georgia may have killed Inhofe by mistake after answering Cornyn’s Coburn’s call to pray for someone to miss a vote the other day:
I’m in tears.
And it is obvious to me that what really motivates these teabaggers is anti-corporate resentment. We should totally join with these guys to kill the bill. There is no doubt they will help us get a better bill.
*** Update ***
It could be, as noted below, a hoax. This does have a performance art sort of feel. But then again, so does standing in a town hall screaming “KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY MEDICARE!”
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WTF?
I have no idea what the hell Obama is talking about here.
Best Earphones Ever
It has been a long time since I worked in radio, and I used to have some great Sennheiser headphones, but while these Bose Quietcomfort are a little pricey
Soshulizm! In America!
Michelle Bachmann, welfare queen:
Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.
I’d be worried this would make Glenn Beck cry, but everything makes him cry.
(via one of you commenters but I can not remember where)
Is Our Congress Learning?
The NY Times:
Members of both parties say the dispute over health care has created bad blood, left both Democrats and Republicans suspicious of the opposition’s motives, and shattered some of the institution’s traditional collegiality.
At the same time, Democrats say the apparently unbridgeable health care divide has convinced them that Republicans are dedicated solely to blocking legislative proposals for political purposes. Several said they now realized that they would have to rely strictly on their own caucus to advance such defining issues as climate change in 2010.
“We have crossed the mark of over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said on the floor Sunday. “Never since the founding of the Republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding Civil War, was such a thing ever seen in this body.”
And with rats like Stupak, you can’t even rely on your entire caucus, although he has not been stirring up any shit the last two days, so I am wondering if he got the horse head in the bed and took the message.
(Via the GOS)