Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Books are my comfort food!

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

In my day, never was longer.

We still have time to mess this up!

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

You cannot shame the shameless.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Where do I go to sign the petition to get CSPAN to play the theme from _Jeopardy_ during moments like this?

    -dms

  4. 4.

    demo woman

    Hello, Once again thanks for all your work. The tubes are slow so if you put up an act blue page tonight, can you also put one up tomorrow when the system works a tad faster.
    Stevens was right!

  13. 13.

    mandarama

    I can’t even watch the real thing happening. I’m just hitting “refresh” here. I’ve probably said it more times than Edwards said “son of a millworker,” but both of my parents died young with no health insurance. I’ve waited a long time for this day to come!

  15. 15.

    SGEW

    Even tho’ we knew the votes were there, this is still kinda tense, isn’t it?

    There we go: past the 216 mark. Phew!

  29. 29.

    mr. whipple

    Those 34 poopheads that voted no: it ain’t gonna help ya. You had a chance to be on the right side of history.

  39. 39.

    eastriver

    Merry HCRistmas, one and all. Hey, General, go down to the corner and buy me the biggest HCRistmas turkey you can buy. I want to celebrate.

  43. 43.

    South of I-10

    Y’all are making me feel all hopey/changey here. Apparently everyone in the country is trying to access BJ right now – so slow!

  45. 45.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    Now for the senate blood match that will make today seem like tea with the friekin queen. But netherwell this fucker is law. Good job democrat CC;ers. You got off the mat and gave us imperfect HCR, but 32 million souls will get health care, and those with it are more secure, whether they know it now or not.

  46. 46.

    Sir Nose'D

    2500 mg of potassium cyanide used to be my long-term health care “plan.” It was brilliant–it would have prevented my family from going bankrupt to delay my inevitable death. Now what I supposed to do with them?

  50. 50.

    meander

    Thanks to a little noticed provision in the bill, after the president signs the bill, all anatomy textbooks in U.S. medical schools will be replaced by Mao’s Little Red Book, and all drug reference guides will be replaced by Das Kapital.

    OK, the excitement is making me a little giddy. I had the good luck of turning to CSPAN right at the end of the vote (which went only 15 minutes, not like the 3 hours of the Medicare Part-D vote),

  52. 52.

    FormerSwingVoter

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    SUCK IT, YOU TEABAGGING BASTARDS!!!

    FSV +7

    (don’t judge me, i have off tomorrow)

  54. 54.

    Adrienne

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor.

    Now the Repubs are trying to get us to add an abortion poison pill to our own bill that they won’t vote for… And this asshole Dem, Pitts from PA, needs to go away and die if he can’t stop lying.

  56. 56.

    Nellcote

    WTHell are the goopers talking about regarding abortion in this bill? It feels like they’re talking in a different language but using english words. Bizarre.

  58. 58.

    dmsilev

    What’s the over/under on the number of times that these twits will say “abortion”?

    -dms

  59. 59.

    Andre

    @Sir Nose’D:

    2500 mg of potassium cyanide used to be my long-term health care “plan.” It was brilliant—it would have prevented my family from going bankrupt to delay my inevitable death. Now what I supposed to do with them?

    You’ll be lowering the overheads of setting up all those death panels, of course!

  62. 62.

    dmsilev

    Ah, so the price of Stupak’s voting in favor is that the rest of the Democratic Caucus has to fellate him in public.

    -dms

  68. 68.

    Luthe

    They must have given Stupak some *good* ego stroking, because he’s on the floor telling the GOP to STFU about the motion to recommit.

  69. 69.

    Adrienne

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor.

    Now the Repubs are trying to get us to add an abortion poison pill to our own bill that they won’t even vote for… And this asshole Dem, Pitts from PA, needs to go away and die – without his cushy gov’t healthcare – if he can’t stop lying.

  71. 71.

    Comrade Kevin

    The little Balloon Juice web hamster is running as fast as he can, but he’s having a hard time keeping up.

  72. 72.

    curious

    is it “in the middle of the night” yet? just wondering how much longer the republicans plan to delay voting so that that choice phrase can be bandied about mtp and accompanying tv spots.

  74. 74.

    dmsilev

    Looks like party unity is quite a bit stronger on these procedural things. Only a handful of defectors so far.

    -dms

  78. 78.

    Dave C

    How long before somebody creates a mash-up video featuring Boehner yelling, “Hell No You Can’t!” and Obama/crowds of people responding with, “Yes we can?”

  83. 83.

    Anonsters

    @Annie:

    And just think of the multiple orgasms we could have had had there been a public option, or the tantric bliss of single-payer……..

  84. 84.

    SGEW

    Now, now. There’s gushing over politics, and then there’s . . . well . . .

    You know, I’ll just stop there.

  88. 88.

    Adrienne

    I love that the moment they hit 216 the Dems starting chanting “Yes We Can!” on the House floor. I’mjussayin.

  89. 89.

    FormerSwingVoter

    @williamc:

    It’s not over. The teabaggers will be back for financial regulation, immigration reform, DADT repeal, tax code reform… This is the first step. But it’s a good one.

  91. 91.

    Annie

    @Comrade Kevin:

    Which democrats were “nay?” If they think they are “saved” or “born again,” they need to think again…They underestimate progressives…

  93. 93.

    Nutella

    Some of the crazy Christianists were complaining that having this vote on a Sunday (and in Lent!) was sacrilegious.

    Rush Holt has an article over at HuffPo reminding us all that the last time Congress met to vote on a Sunday was in 2005 when they voted on the federal government taking over Terry Schiavo’s health care from her doctors and family.

    Worth remembering when we hear a Republican claim to be against government controlling health care decisions.

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