Someone finally said the safe words, so no more depressing posts. As a peace offering, I present this video that someone forwarded to me from the hijinks the other night:
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An Up Note
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Concern Troll is Concerned
The Senate Republican leadership believes that the parliamentarian allowed Democrats to violate the rules of the Senate by allowing Sen. Bernie Sanders to cut off the reading of his single-payer proposal.
The Republican right to obstruct shall not be infringed. It is in the Constitution! Meanwhile, this remembrance of Republican love for parliamentary procedure:
CAFTA actually went to vote early — at 11:02 p.m. When the usual fifteen-minute voting period expired, the nays were up, 180 to 175. Republicans then held the vote open for another forty-seven minutes while GOP leaders cruised the aisles like the family elders from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, frantically chopping at the legs and arms of Republicans who opposed the measure. They even roused the president out of bed to help kick ass for the vote, passing a cell phone with Bush on the line around the House cloakroom like a bong. Rep. Robin Hayes of North Carolina was approached by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who told him, “Negotiations are open. Put on the table the things that your district and people need and we’ll get them.” After receiving assurances that the administration would help textile manufacturers in his home state by restricting the flow of cheap Chinese imports, Hayes switched his vote to yea. CAFTA ultimately passed by two votes at 12:03 a.m.
I’m sure Sanders will email the American Spectator and the Senate Republicans a copy of his amendment if they want to read it.
The Best Thing
About health care reform is that it is a primer for Banking and Financial Regulation. We get to look forward to watching the House bill get neutered down by the conservadems, the GOP will be aligned in unison with industry against, and then when the final bill is not up to Howard Dean’s standards, the progressives can sink it because it isn’t good enough, and noted liberals like Tom Harkin, Ron Wyden, and Russ Feingold will be labeled sellouts to the cause just like they were with health care. Also, I’m sure this will all be Rahm’s fault.
Then we can stand around and masturbate each other about how, unlike Republicans, progressives stuck to their principles and refused to pass a bad bill. FAP FAP FAP. Then we can get wiped out in 2010 and 2012, and we are back to where we really like to be- in the minority, bitching about the Republicans, raising lots of money for our PACS, while Sarah Palin cuts the top marginal rate to 4% and invades Iran.
Victory!
I think I may just turn this into a gaming and pet blog.
And you know who will have health insurance even if this bill fails: Howard Dean, Katrina van den Huevel, Ed Schultz, and 99% of the people burning up twitter and memeorandum right now.
The Moustache Says “Jihad, No! Civil War, Yes!”
What will it take for this man to be fired:
Only Arabs and Muslims can fight the war of ideas within Islam. We had a civil war in America in the mid-19th century because we had a lot of people who believed bad things — namely that you could enslave people because of the color of their skin. We defeated those ideas and the individuals, leaders and institutions that propagated them, and we did it with such ferocity that five generations later some of their offspring still have not forgiven the North.
Islam needs the same civil war. It has a violent minority that believes bad things: that it is O.K. to not only murder non-Muslims — “infidels,” who do not submit to Muslim authority — but to murder Muslims as well who will not accept the most rigid Muslim lifestyle and submit to rule by a Muslim caliphate.
Tom Friedman deciding that the route to world peace is an Islamic civil war. I have no clever retort.
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For the Dorks
Via TNC, Sebastian at ObWi talks about what it is like to learn that someone you have known only through online gaming has died, and wonders if it is odd.
All I can think about is the WoW Guild that crashed an online funeral for one of their guild mates who had died:
For those of you who have no idea what you are watching, you are watching one guild slaughter another guild on a pvp server as they had gathered to hold a remembrance for a lost friend.
Razor Blades Optional
Ed Schultz has Katrina can den Heuvel on right now.
Drink every time you hear “the base.”
Drink every time you hear “public option.”
Drink every time you hear the phrase “sold out.”
Or just start chugging and shoot your tv.
When Ed Schultz is berating Tom Harkin for not being liberal enough, does anyone else think of the teabaggers attacking Cornyn for not being conservative enough?
Someone Else Remember This?
Remember when Harry Reid told the WH he had the votes and to step back, and they said “You better.” Good times. So glad Rahm and the WH are to blame for this current debacle.
So glad Howard Dean thinks it is a good idea to scrap the current bill and trust Reid with reconciliation. Nothing could go wrong there.