Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
There are many reasons to be curious about what happens at the HCR summit Thursday at Blair House. Speculation about who wins, who loses and ways to score the event like a sports event flood the zone. Some of this speculation might be correct–most will be wrong.
What is new here is the dynamic of the long meeting. This kind of thing is almost never televised and when it is, it is almost never interesting. I expect the meeting on Thursday will be a surprise.
I’m not the biggest Bob Dylan fan and this isn’t his best song, but when they played it at Starbucks this morning, it cut right through the usual Norah Jones and Sting. Anyway, it seemed appropriate on a blog that runs on fumes and comments (not in that order).
Update. There was a tv show in the early 1990s (I remember seeing it in 1991 or 1992) that had this as its theme song, done by someone who sounded like a folkier version of Suzanne Vega. What was it? I can’t remember.
I’m out to eat and not interested in the news, so you won’t have me to kick around tonight.
Read this link.
The old Ed Morrisey would have been able to tell the difference between the then proposed nuclear option and reconciliation. And, we can assume, should the Republicans ever come back into power in the Senate, he will suddenly rediscover the distinction.
The nuclear option is an explosion of existing Senate rules and had never been done. Reconciliation is a Senate procedure, and used quite commonly, most recently by Republicans.
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More masturbatory fodder for the right-wing:
Last year, Miss California Carrie Prejean endeared herself to the right wing when she answered a question about same-sex marriage by saying that she believes marriage “should be between a man and a woman.” Now, Miss Beverly Hills 2010 Lauren Ashley, who will compete in the Miss California pageant in November, has gone further. Ashley told Fox News that not only is she against same-sex marriage, but that she thinks it is divine law that gays should be put to death because “the Bible is pretty black and white“
I don’t know how she competes in beauty pageants while wearing a burkha, though. I mean, with attitudes like that, she does wear a burkha, right?
But at least we still have the Politico!
Unbelievable. How long before these guys get bought out by Fox?
