Via Wonkette, whose summary I cannot improve upon:
Nancy Pelosi loves pissing off teabaggers. Here she is linking arms with John Lewis, just like in the Selma march, to remind America of how teabaggers chanted “nigger” at John Lewis fifteen times yesterday. And if anyone gets in her way, she will smash their skulls into sandhills of calcium with her Weapon, the “1965 Medicare gavel,” forged by ancient socialist hobbits in a distant epoch, as a paean to Thor.
Pigs & Spiders
EPIC WIN!
Dr. Psycho
“Omigod, she’s carrying a weapon!”
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
I love that woman.
Comrade Mary
Hah!
Also: Mark Kleiman’s apropos fable.
Lisa K.
I would walk through fire for that woman.
Well played, Madam Speaker.
Brandon
I should give the credit where it is due, Obama, Pelosi and the Dems (aside from Stupak), had a very good day today any way you look at it.
Mike Kay
GIVE’M HELL, NANCY!
mr. whipple
Ha! That’s some great writing!
AnotherBruce
It’s sheer genious, using the Teabaggers as the props they are. Don’t mess with Nancy.
Cat Lady
O-bots stand up, your Speaker’s passing.
JCT
@AnotherBruce:
Impotent props– kind of like Karl Rove and his white board today.
This is the change I voted for.
Leelee for Obama
@Cat Lady: That is a perfect choice for a comparison! It’s my very favorite scene in “TKAM”!!! Well done.
Michael D.
Wow! Seriously? That happened? I’ve been out of touch the past couple days with the news. Wow!
Dannie22
I’m very proud right now. I never thought I’d see any history in my lifetime. All I’ve ever seen were idiotic republicans saying that my people were the problem. But now I will get to see a black president sign one of the most important pieces of legislation ever written. I’m very proud indeed.
hal
David Frum is calling this the GOP’s waterloo. Who knows what will happen next Nov, but this makes me a little less worried about the midterm elections.
Perry Como
Pelosi trolling the teabaggers? I approve.
Cat Lady
@Leelee for Obama:
I have the same goosebumps, but different flavored tears.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
Man, I do adore Nancy and her Big Ass Gavel.
MikeJ
220 yeses. How sweet it is.
FlipYrWhig
That was a nice touch. Kind of an homage to the Little Rock Nine.
The Dangerman
Like the imagery, but not sure walking amongst those assholes is a good idea (unless they’ve all gone through metal detectors – several times).
Napoleon
Awesome quote from Wonkette.
very reverend crimson fire of compassion
@Dannie22: This. This is the second time in my lifetime that political events have moved me to tears of joy and pride. The first was the inauguration of our President.
AkaDad
We shall overcome, bitchez.
JenJen
More sauce de awesome, please.
Napoleon
@Michael D.:
One African American Congressman was spit on and they called Barney Frank a f–.
demkat620
I can haz sweet, sweet wingnut tears now?
kthnxbai!
AnotherBruce
@Dannie22:
This.
demkat620
@Dannie22: This, indeed.
JenJen
Can we just say that Nancy knows what she’s doing? Can we hope for one, just one, day of acknowledgment from our Awesome Liberal Media of this enormous legislative and political accomplishment tomorrow?
The Speaker FTW. She’s good, y’all.
James K. Polk, Esq.
Now THAT was some awesome 11th dimensional chess.
Jim C.
As a nerdy former Dungeons and Dragons (and current RPG gamer) I heartily endorse and approve this description.
Damn this feels good. I’m going to go listen to Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” just to make this moment feel even more cathartic.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
You know wingnuts are on their last legs when they play the we want to protect the widows, soldiers and orphans card. Out of gas.
polyorchnid octopunch
Thought I’d pass you folks a piece of music that seems apropos from north of the border: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuwobLCaoWE
Enjoy!
stickler
Demkat:
If you want some, Redstate is ladling them out with five-gallon buckets. That site is going to be a schadenfreude factory for the next 48 hours.
slag
I’m not so sure their skulls are made of calcium. Calcium isn’t dense enough. But all the rest sounds about right.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@James K. Polk, Esq.: LOL, I’d call it a Chinese Fire Drill from hell, long as it all comes out in the wash fine by me.
BDeevDad
I’m eagerly awaiting news of Rush Limbaugh leaving our $ocialist utopia.
Texas Dem
Apparently now Ciro Rodriguez, D, TX-23, has been the target of racial epithets, according to the tweets at Huffpo. Don’t know any details, but it appears the Tea Partiers are determined to go down fighting to the last man, sort of like Napoleon’s Old Guard at Waterloo (to continue the analogy).
Karmakin
The speaker?
She’s a fucking Paladin. She needs to be nerfed to the ground. Obviously.
fucen tarmal
@jim c
what? no dr hook and the medicine show?
unabogie
This is indeed such a historic moment. But it’s also a very personal moment for me and millions of others who are or know someone who is sick.
Because of Nancy Pelosi, my friend will not have his insurance cut away from him now that he’s sick. His wife finally brought their six year old daughter to see her dad, who is recovering after a massive stroke. She has to deal with the daily infections, pressure sores, the awful reality of her now uncertain future while we try and figure out if there’s anything left of the guy we know and love. Thanks to Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, she will not have to add bankruptcy to this list.
If I believed in gods, I’d say they were on the side of the angels.
What a day.
AkaDad
We’re on the one yard line and the Senate is about to swing and hit a 3 pointer for the win.
rob!
Now Sen. Jim DeMint will never be able to hear Abba’s “Waterloo” without crying.
Bulworth
Nancy Pelosi will fuck your shit up.
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
If this has already been done here, please hang me in effigy, but I just can’t find anything on the Tubes better than this today, from DKos:
Ailuridae
@Texas Dem:
I think you left a negative in there you didnt mean to.
Joe Lisboa
Wow! Seriously? That happened? I’ve been out of touch the past couple days with the news. Wow!
Desperation is a stinky cologne. Or, as Oliver Willis aptly and alludingly (?) put it yesterday: “They are who we thought they were.” And, if I may attempt to coin a phrase and can be guaranteed full internet attribution:
We have met the enemy. And they are the slowest common denominator.
Michael D.
@Napoleon: Yep, just read all the news about it. FWIW, it makes me happy that it happened. People need to know that this is what these people are like. All those idiots out protesting the health care bill haven’t even got a fucking clue what’s in it. They just hate Obama and all the other “niggers” and “faggots” that wrote it.
This is who they are.
Joe Lisboa
We’re on the one yard line and the Senate is about to swing and hit a 3 pointer for the win.
GOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLL!
martha
Love the video and love Wonkette’s caption. And most of all, I love Nancy. She’s one tough woman. What a remarkable person.
Cat Lady
@stickler:
Just so that we don’t forget: the turning of the wheel.
Lisa K.
@demkat620:
The Freepers are drownng in them right now.
MikeJ
@Napoleon:
Frankenstein? Fatwah? Fucker? Fattie? Furminator? Fine, fine man?
If you’re quoting somebody, we won’t think you agree their sentiments just because you use the word.
If teabaggers actually start chanting “n word! n word!” and “f word! f word!”, I’d still think they’re idiots (or “i words”) but I would appreciate the humour of it.
Vince CA
I watched to video on mute b/c the baby and the wife are sleeping, but still, wow, what an inspiring video. Standing tall and walking through fire are awe-inspiring. More like this, please.
slag
Damn! Moderated for quoting Newell’s “soci-alism”. Hold on, Nancy! I’ll join you on the lines of the wantonly persecuted.
AnotherBruce
@DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio:
Beautifully done, and while we can bask a little, it’s a reminder that there is still a lot to do. The uglies are even uglier now.
Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill
@Jim C.:
AMEN.
And in tribute to that line, and to how the GOP’ll play HCR out once it all settles out to be a boon:
Biz Markie, Vapors
GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific
John Boccieri. Fuck ya!
General Egali Tarian Stuck
This ought to be full of shits and giggles
Chat Noir
Nancy Pelosi rules! After raising five kids, being Speaker of the House in this political climate is probably just a trip to the ice cream parlor for her.
Yay for Italian-Americans! She done us proud (and that Obama fellow isn’t bad, either).
Texas Dem
Sorry about that. According to the report, which I read at the tweets over at Huffpo, Ciro (a really nice guy, by the way) was the target of ethnic slurs from some of the tea party protesters. Always classy, those tea baggers.
cd6
The commenters at HotAir are freaking the fuck out, and it is glorious.
Here’s a sampling for your reading pleasure:
This one is easily my favorite:
When the country still exists monday morning, these people aren’t going to know what the fuck to do.
mcc
@GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific: Holy crap somebody get that Boccieri thing on Youtube!
Texas Dem
“This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.” Elizabeth I of England.
mr. whipple
@GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific:
Yup. He done good with his speech and his voting yes.
El Cid
Has Depends futures risen yet?
General Egali Tarian Stuck
@cd6: Say hello to the FBI for me Mr. Davis.
GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific
@cd6:
lulz:
Kerry Reid
@AkaDad:
I want this on a poster.
Texas Dem
According to Huffpo, a Heckler interrupted Barney Franks’ interview with Fox News. His reply: “This is FOX News. You probably don’t want to interrupt Fox. If it was CNN I would understand you.”
Aaron
It’s amazing looking back at William Kristol’s 1993 memo detailing how to kill health care reform
They tried the same thing again, and it just didn’t work. Now Kristol’s fear may come true as this shifts a generation toward the idea that maybe government isn’t always evil
GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific
@Texas Dem:
Barney Frank is teh awesome.
FlipYrWhig
@cd6:
Dear God, why do they affect this voice so often? It’s like they’re trying to sound like the heroes of sword-and-sandal movies. Or Prince Valiant, or Conan the Barbarian. Or Ming the Merciless.
Rhoda
Nancy Pelosi is made of win, God bless her. I love that, thanks for the vid. It must blow these people’s minds the diversity of the House leadership and that a woman and a black man are leading democrats to this vote today.
MikeJ
@FlipYrWhig: Wolverines!
Lisa K.
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
Honest to God, real must-see TV.
FlipYrWhig
@MikeJ: Or, in tribute to the caption at the top of this thread, they’re trying to sound like Thor.
cd6
Some more HotAir comments…
Their hate sustains me
AnotherBruce
@Texas Dem:
God, that made my day. I think I scared the cat with my LOL.
Texas Dem
I don’t know why, but I immediately thought of that scene in Beneath the Planet of the Apes, where the mutant humanoids who were worshiping the A bomb took of their masks. Wish I could find the clip on You Tube.
Ash Can
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: LOL! Headline from that link:
As if.
@Chat Noir: Hear, hear! Let’s hear it for Italian mommas/grandmas! And a Happy Belated St. Joseph’s Day to all!
Napoleon
@MikeJ:
I know, but because I figured everyone would get it immediately no need to repeat it,
Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill
@AnotherBruce:
Y’know, I always tell people I was never truly, deeply afraid of the KKK. I never was worried about the people who wore their shameful opinions on their sleeves.
All this ugly is like an iceberg, man, one we’re now seeing melt, and as it meats shows more and more of the hidden depths that too many people who’ve dealt with all kinds of prejudice knew was still in the American character. And I’d rather have it visible, and a known quantity, than to have them keep nursing these opinions like a silent Archie Bunker.
When the ugly is in your face, it’s painful. But painful, in insidious ways, is how that ugly has been infesting our body politic. I don’t want to “have it out”, but these displays are all too often how it gets out, gets managed and cleansed. It’s critical, in days like this, to be cool, to be positive, to be clear-eyed and calm like a bomb. Let them, by their words and deeds, hang themselves — as they are already doing! — and let us keep doing the work that makes a difference in this world.
In short, and in tribute to today’s sub-title here at BJ: Don’t Panic.
FlipYrWhig
@cd6: The anti-abortion people have always been loony tunes, but who knows what they’re on about now. How does the bill butcher babies? I mean, I know the answer is, IT DOESN’T, but there’s no good reason for them to think that it does, except that they’ve become convinced that there’s eugenics and gas chambers always right around the next bend whenever liberals do anything.
mr. whipple
LOL. Suck it up, dittospank.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Bwaha. They’re recycling quotes from the 2M4M ads.
Lather, bitch, repeat.
Cast your mind back to right before Massachusetts extended marriage rights to gays and lesbians. If their predictions of the result had been accurate, we’d be a) dead or b) fighting over dented cans of cat food or c) fleeing giant radioactive ants.
But the civilization failed to crumble to dust and what is now? 5 states + D.C. equal marriage and they still haven’t shut the fuck up about the American-crushing power of two people getting married and they still find time to shriek about other shit.
See also, desegregation, the civil rights movement, womens suffrage, &c.
I no longer wonder what it will take to shut them up. I’m busy figuring out a way to convert the seethe to energy. Talk about a domestic energy source!
gregw
@AkaDad: Which will then make a hat trick leading to a penalty kick by the R’s which will be blocked by
eh, too much of a stretch I think.
Dannie22
Chuck Todd actually gave Pelosi a compliment. He said she was one of the best speakers ever. People in hell must have gotten their ice water.
Joshua Norton
I have never seen so much demented wingnut word salad in my life. It’s like they’re all in a death-match with Queen Palin to see who can make the most ignorant and disjointed observation.
Texas Dem
Holy shit. Hell freezes over.
Litlebritdifrnt
Sheesh – how out of touch is Chuck Todd?
“NBC News: multiple sources say Stupak is a yes; prez exec order language acceptable. He will 6 with him, so we’re hearing. ”
Where the fuck has he been?
Josh
Ha ha. The poor dupes on C-Span are going on about President Obama being a socialist and “congress selling the future of our grandchildren.”
She sounds like this old lady I ran into when I was canvassing for Environment Michigan in Grosse Pointe.
She blamed the fall of GM on Obama, called me a soulless, Godless commie who was breaking the law asking for money for the pushing of Green legislation.
Oh, she was crazy. I couldn’t talk to her at all, and I’ve never been called such horrible things from a random person I’ve never met.
Got to be honest: old crazy people should just rot in their ignorance.
unabogie
@cd6:
Wait, they think staying on their parents’ insurance is MANDATORY, like even if they got a great job with bennies, they’d be precluded from using their new insurance?
And beyond that, they think if they have no insurance, it’s somehow a BAD THING that they’ll have their parents’ insurance for a few more years?
Huh?
Jim C.
@GeeYourHairSmellsTerrific
Indeed. Barney Frank is very much “teh awesome”. I still give him my award for “interview of the year” when he took on that nutjob in one of the city hall meetings.
AnotherBruce
@Woodrow “asim” Jarvis Hill:
“Don’t Panic”
You’re right of course, but I’m going to be carrying a towel.
Texas Dem
Breaking News from NBC: Nazi troops have crossed the Polish border. England and France expected to declare war.
Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill
@AnotherBruce:
Yet Another Hoopy Froid.
And towel-carrying is always a damned good plan.
Lisa K.
@Texas Dem:
They cannot possibly be just saying that now?!?
LuciaMia
One of my favorite whines from FreeperLand today. “Pelosi taunts protestors’ Apparently, we must weep for the poor teabaggers, when once they’ve finished calling people ‘fag’ and ‘n*gger’, have to endure the site of Pelosi carrying a gavel. Poor, poor patriots.
And of course, much made about her walking thru the crowd with a security detail. If the parties had been reversed, she’d have been lauded for her bravery.
Texas Dem
There’s a great post from David Frum over at his website entitled, appropriately enough, Waterloo: http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo
Money quote:
“No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to re-open the “doughnut hole” and charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents’ insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there – would President Obama sign such a repeal?
“We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.
John O
Obama has taken a lot of s**t over the past year. From the left.
Yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s a pretty damn big step in the right direction, and people should apologize or at least lay off the POTUS for a while. And anyone who thinks he could’ve got more with the 532 or so shameless hack morans he has to work with needs to read more.
Jane Hamsher, I know it’s too little, too late for you, that’s pretty much the case with me, too, but think of the children. Like, 30 year-olds. One of them will someday grow up to be you, and move the ball down the field some more. It’s going to be OK.
We elected the right guy. And the Speaker did her job quite competently, and we have a fighting chance of surviving as #1 for another couple decades.
morzer
@FlipYrWhig:
It just goes to show what happens to young minds that take Mel Gibson movies seriously.
morzer
@LuciaMia:
Funny isn’t it, how the teabaggers go from being manly defenders of liberty to pouting, delicate Southern belles with the vapours. I wonder whether they are planning a national Day of Swooning at Tara.
SiubhanDuinne
@General Egali Tarian Stuck #60
This, from your link, is troubling. Or stupid, one. Maybe both:
MARCH 21, 2010 4:54 PM Rep. Steve King (R-IA) brushes off the tea partiers who yesterday screamed racial epithets at a black congressman and spit on another. “I just don’t think it’s anything,” King said. “There are a lot of places in this country that I couldn’t walk through. I wouldn’t live to get to the other end of it.” #
Bulworth
@Texas Dem: Totally
OriGuy
@SiubhanDuinne: I’d say stupid, but do you expect anything else from Steve King?
MoZeu
This is so bad-assed. Nancy, this is your day. You earned it. You go down on the books with the Big Guys now. Awesome! First woman speaker, and she kicks ass.
Elie
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
Yeah — dig the gavel BIG TIME!!! What a total joyous hoot and I think its great that Nancy is sticking it in their stupid, ignorant noses…
I also agree that Wonkette’s comment cannot be improved upon. Yes, crush their skulls into Calcium dust indeed…aint certainly anything else in those empty heads
lethargytartare
@FlipYrWhig:
or an ahistorical William Wallace.
DaBomb
This is whole thread is so full win.
This day is so full of win.
I am proud of my President, Speaker Pelosi, and all of the Democrats who had the steel balls to vote for Healthcare Reform.
This is a huge and important step.
Porlock Junior
@slag:
I’m sure they will have no apatite for this treat from the Speaker.
But this is a very perceptive comment. According to Wikipedia, “Up to fifty percent of bone is made up of a modified form of [calcium apatite]”; but if you leave out most of the calcium, you get something truly hard: “Carbonated calcium-deficient hydroxylapatite is the main mineral of which dental enamel and dentin are comprised.” [emphasis is mine, but you may borrow it any time]
Teeth and teabagger skulls: harder than bone!