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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
In my day, never was longer.
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
Come on, man.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.
Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.
“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
“More of this”, i said to the dog.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
This really is a full service blog.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
Comrade Jake
I think the Dems are about to finally effect a major victory, and spin it as the same, which is mildly remarkable.
gnomedad
What will the wingers do when HCR passes and no one shows up to euthanize Grandma?
RedKitten
Love the new subtitle. :)
I assume you’re packing and all that good stuff, John?
I find that when packing, people tend to fall into two categories: the ones who, when going through their stuff, decide “screw it, half of this stuff isn’t worth the trouble of packing”, and they give it away or trash it. And then you have the ones who, when going through their stuff, say, “screw it, half of this stuff isn’t worth the trouble of sorting”, and they just fling everything (old ATM receipts, mismatched socks, the lid from a tin of Quality Street) into boxes and bring it all with them.
I’m guessing you’re in the former category…
RedKitten
@Comrade Jake:
I’ll believes it when I sees it.
But that WOULD definitely be gratifying.
mr. whipple
@gnomedad:
Screw the wingers. I wanna know how I’ll feel on Monday when I wake up to my socialist paradise.
rob!
Got up, checked again–yep, Republicans still lying, heartless assholes.
Btw, my gf and I feed a pack of feral cats that live behind a nearby 711. About twice a week, we stop by and drop half a dozen cans of soft food, which they greedily consume.
I mention that every so often on my FB page, and after I did last time, one of my “friends” who’s an uber-right winger called them “Welfare Kitties.” WELFARE KITTIES.
That’s how heartless, narrow-minded, and just plain odd these people are.
Roger Moore
@gnomedad:
I figure they’ll keep lying, since that’s what they do best. Their lies will fall into one of two categories:
1) They’ll make up some more lies about HCR, e.g. that their really are death panels and we’re too stupid to notice or,
2) Start lying like crazy about the next vital reform that Democrats are trying to pass, like Cap and Trade, Financial Regulation, or Immigration Reform.
Either way, backing down on the crazy is not in the cards.
Michael D.
I will be running a the ING Marathon in Alanta tomorrow morning. If I no longer comment after today, could you think of me first, then rejoice? (in that order)
Leelee for Obama
The media will do the same-just heard on MSNBC this question and answer:
What if people have insurance through their employer and they like it?
Answer: The bill says they can keep that coverage and doctor, BUT are employers really going to keep paying for expensive PRIVATE insurance when a GOVERNMENT program is available?
My guess is there are too many bleached blondes on this AM and they missed the part where the PUBLIC OPTION isn’t in the bill.
ONE DESPAIRS!
Sorry for yelling, but I’m just slightly awake, and already pissed.
Leelee for Obama
@rob!: Yeah, if those starving feral kitties can’t make the free-market invisible hand provide for them, then we should just them starve!
May I suggest that asshole go Cheney him or her self?
Lisa K.
@rob!:
He is probably thrilled that they can be scooped up and sterilized without their consent, though. Just like any welfare queen should be…
mai naem
They’re going to take it to court. Bill McCollum(remember him from the Clinton impeachment) and SC and VA AGs have said they are going to take it to court because the mandate is unconstitutional. And ofcourse, Roberts,Scalia and Thomas will want to take the case on. They have to keep the issue alive till the election. Also too, they’ll move on somewhat to the “Democrat ethics” crap with Blago, Rangel and Massa.
rob!
I have a couple of “friends” who leave right wing comments on my FB page, in response to something I’ve written. I used to get mad and argue back, now I just ignore them completely.
I wonder what kind of people are SO beholden to their narrow views that they even try to work starving cats into the equation. Jesus.
scav
Long live welfare kitties! Oh, this is positively a Delphic clue, or it may not be. Maybe a groundhoundic clue to prepare for 6 more months of astroturfed screaming: Obama Tells Congress: Act Soon on Financial Reform. Somebody was up early and had his Wheaties.
Ah, there’s my coffee noise.
Bootlegger
@gnomedad: Do it themselves and make it look like the Black Man did it.
Roger Moore
Too bad, because Benedict XVI’s letter to the Irish Church is out, and he’s surprisingly critical. He says that priests who are guilty of abuse should face Earthly justice, and that the Bishops who covered for them were guilty of grave error. I don’t think it’s enough, but it’s a hell of a lot better than I expected.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@rob!:
Fix’t. Odd how that works, eh? ;)
scav
@scav: whoooo, do not attempt identification of allegorical animals before coffee: Chance of severe genetic modification. That was, I now have reason to believe, meant for a groundhogic clue about the oncoming ambient noise levels.
how DID you guess crossword puzzles follow my java?
scav
Huh. rob!’s friend is really really whacked. ’cause unless he wears a redwhiteblue stripey hat and has a beard we’d be stunned to recognize off Orville Redenbacher, private charity has now been re-defined as welfare. FSM, the state of their souls.
Maude
@RedKitten: @3
I used to toss everything into backs and take it along.
In this apartment, I have done a grand sort. I shredded papers, gave away clothes and got rid of everything I was never going to use.
When I move, some day, I am less than 3 hours to get everything out and vacumn (sp).
Karen
DId anyone here watch “Real Time With Bill Maher” last night?
Dennis Kucinich was on last night and it was great because he explained why he was supporting this bill.
On the other hand, I just found an article on the NY Times website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/health/policy/19arizona.html?src=me&ref=health
Apparently, Arizona just dropped their Children’s Health Insurance Program and rolled back Medicaid for childless adults which is supposed to drop 310,000 people from the rolls.
Dropping CHIP means they don’t get millions in federal matching aid.
And….more cuts will be made if the taxpayers reject a penny sales tax increase for 3 years. A fricking PENNY! It would be 6.6 per dollar. The referendum is in May. Arizona is the first state to do this but since the Governor is a Republican, I’m sure it won’t be the last.
Is it a coincidence that they happened to do this the day before the possible passage of the health care bill?
Pigs fly too. It’s almost as if Arizona is punishing their poor people and children for the vote tomorrow.
Arizona can secede tomorrow. Take it and John McCain and join Texas, Alabama and all those states that have been rattling their sabers about states rights.
gbear
Too busy thinkin’ ’bout my baby.
Cold (25f) but sunny here this morning and I’m feeling guardedly optomistic. I’m going to try to be Mr. Goodvibes this weekend.
gbear
@mai naem:
That line plays well only until the bill passes. When people start benefiting from the bill, there’s going to be a lot of ‘hey, what the fuck’ coming at those state AGs.
mai naem
@Karen: I have a friend(single mom) whose 3 yr old is on CHIP. She has constant respiratory issues. She is one of the ones who will be affected by the cuts. My friend works and is going to school to better herself etc. etc. Her budget is very very tight. She will not have the money to pay to take the kid to the primary provider which means she will take her to the ER. The kid is not going to go without absolutely necessary care but she will go to the ER which will end up costing much more. What don’t these mofo wingnuts understand here?
debbied
@ rob!
Just “unfriend” those people. I know that’s very anti-social networking of me, but I have no interest in being subjected to the crappy comments and opinions of assholes masquerading as “friends.”
You don’t have to take it!!
Leelee for Obama
@mai naem: It’s not that they don’t understand, they do. They have an easy out when times are financially tight to take another swipe at the “free-loaders” who DON”T take care of themselves, like REAL Americans do. It’s ideology at the expense of innocent kids.
God, these people are so small and miserable.
Karen
@mai naem
They understand, they just don’t care.
It’s that’s motivated me enough to call my Congressman and Senator for the first time. It’s bad enough when adults have no health insurance but ten times as bad when it affects children.
rob!
@debbied:
I’ve thought about it, but it doesn’t happen that much. And I think its actually sort of valuable to have a couple of acquaintances that are on “the other side”–it gives me an up close glimpse as to how these people think.
Or, more accurately, don’t.
JCT
@Karen:
Heaven forfend the wingnuts miss an opportunity to take advantage of the most helpless among us. But don’t forget they are PRO-LIFE (until birth at least, then you are SOL).
Just horrifying.
Brian J
@Leelee for Obama:
That’s what I’ve never understood. Not that the public option was truly a government takeover of health care, but if it was in there, at least they’d have some (stupid, untrue) basis for their claims. But without the public option, the idea that the government is taking over health care seems even more baseless–as in, there’s nothing to distort, because there’s nothing at all. It is, in sum, a complete and utter fabrication. And yet, people keep repeating it. Why?
Karen
@rob!
That’s what scares me!
It’s almost like zombies only they’re not eating brains and they don’t have any.
I firmly believe that if a child were to fall down dead in front of them, they’d be kicking the body. There is no compassion in these people. NONE.
Brian J
@mai naem:
I have to imagine that they just won’t get anywhere. After all, is the president, surrounded by lawyers, and a constitiutional law professor himself, really going to let a signature piece of legislation–if not the signature piece of legislation–for his presidency die because of the way it was written? I don’t think so.
rob!
@Karen:
They do have an astonishing lack of empathy. Its really creepy. I mean, how does someone write the phrase “Welfare Kitties” with a straight face?
Leelee for Obama
@rob!: They do it right after they cut SCHIP, or refuse Medicaid to a cancer patient because they own a home. Really, you’ve got to remember who these people are. They went after a kid who was saved by SCHIP because his parents had granite counter tops, those lucky duckies. Wonder how many more folks with granite counter tops are now living on food stamps, SCHIP, Medicaid or any other helpful program.
Could we maybe do a poll?
These wankers are just crabbed souls, eh?
nhoj
Anyone in Asheville going to David Allen Coe tonight?
Doctor Science
I *love* the rotating subtitles.
burnspbesq
Obama was 25-for-32 in the first round (as was I, but that’s another story).
ESPN should hire him as a college basketball analyst in 2017 and get rid of Gottlieb.
Liberty60
Speaking of peak wingnut, has anyone seen this bizarre video from the Republican Governor’s Alliance
Complete with scary Satan-movie music in the background, missing only someone sillouetted against the sunset screaming “WOLVEREEEEEEEEENES!”
I am believing that Obama is doing a sort of political judo move, allowing their own crazy to enfeeble them.
Roger Moore
@Leelee for Obama:
Fixt.
BDeevDad
Who would have thunk, the Parkinson’s patient being verbally assaulted at the rally the other day was
Makes the teabaggers look like even bigger idiots and assholes.
D-Chance.
Noise… noise… noise… noise… signal… noise… noise… noise… noise… noise… signal… noise… noise… noise…
it’s pretty crappy around here, Cole.