I can’t get enough of this stuff:
Speaker Pelosi likes to call the Republicans the ‘Party of No.’ Some of us, we don’t like the way that sounds. It hurts our feelings.
In a few weeks we will start hearing complaints about the next SCOTUS nominee’s tendency to empathize, btw.
mellowjohn
boofuckinghoo
A Mom Anon
Not a minute later he said they were the party of Hell No on healthcare. Sigh.
Violet
Like I posted a few weeks ago, I was listening to Limbaugh and he had a sub in for him. The sub said the Republicans needed to be the party of “No comma [something else].” Seriously. He said they needed to say, “No!” first, but not just no. They needed to follow with good ideas. But he didn’t have any ideas. He asked his listeners to call in with them.
I’m sure he won’t be asked back to sub for Limbaugh again. He was way off the reservation.
madmommy
Bobby Jindal is a wanker of the first order. It’s a beautiful day in NOLA, and the cloud of evil hanging over the city is palpable. This morning’s paper had pix of Baby Dick Cheney, Matalin and Gingrich from yesterday’s wankfest. Today is Palin and Pawlenty. Interestingly, none of the speakers yesterday made one single mention of Katrina, the continued rebuilding, or the abject failure of GWB and his response to the aftermath. Shocking, I know.
Having this much concentrated asshattery in our beautiful city is too much. Have we not suffered enough? They better spend a hell of a lot of money and tip very well.
Joseph Nobles
Jindal: “To the accusation of ‘Party of No,’ we say no.”
robertdsc
Fuck you, Bobby.
Martian Buddy
@Violet: Speaking of which, Gingrich claims that GOP leadership has asked him to plan another government shutdown in the event that they manage to take congress in 2010. Party of ideas!
Bnut
“Elections have consequences.” He said it, not me!
El Cid
It’s amazing how the macho Daddy party is allowed to publicly complain that little Nancy Pelosi is being too mean to them.
MikeJ
@Martian Buddy: He’s still pissed about not getting to sit up front on AF1.
Roger Moore
Remember, the Republican party is the one that thinks Ronald Reagan was great because he made America feel good about itself again after Vietnam. They’re happy to talk about feelings, just so long as it’s their feelings being talked about, not somebody else.
Jay B.
OK, how about the Party of Smug, Ignorant, Hateful, Positively Stupid, Evil Motherfucking Scum-Sucking, Puss-Filled, Wrong-on-Everything-on-Purpose, Greedy, Hypocritical, Fake-Christian Douchebags?
geg6
Fuck that little pre-adolescent Mr. Rogers wannabe weasel. Fuck him with a pervert Catholic priest’s demon infested dick while he’s performing another of his exorcisms on it. Then he can whine and maybe I’ll give a shit.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Sessions is already going on about Obama’s empathy test. It didn’t take a week.
Elisabeth
@madmommy:
Jindal, according to TPM, told the folks to stay away from Bourbon Street. Probably means they’ll flock there, of course.
dSquib
Nah. That was just what they played for Sotomayor in an age of relative comity and cooperation, and when it was a little harder to criticize someone so obviously qualified but was a minority. This ain’t 2009 anymore.
beltane
I’m glad Democrats are made of stronger stuff. Imagine if Obama wept every time Miss Dopey-Hatey said something mean?
These Republican men are waaaay too in touch with their feminine side.
beltane
@Elisabeth: The best whorehouses are probably in a less touristy area. That’s all he meant by that comment.
Wannabe Speechwriter
I have to say I’m disappointed you didn’t post this:
fliiby.com/file/320407/lkf03yb8sj.html
Linda Featheringill
@Jay B.:
I think that would be lovely. Could we have that put on campaign buttons and saturate the appropriate areas with them?
4jkb4ia
OT: Lee Westwood and Ricky Barnes are also perfectly fine people to cheer for. Especially Ricky Barnes.
PeakVT
These Republican men are waaaay too in touch with their feminine side.
They’re not in touch with their feminine side; they’re in touch with their inner two-year old.
jl
No, next they will express personal hurt, outrage and explicitly point out they resent, on a very personal hurt level, that you disagree in any way with their arguments.
You attacked them, they are victims, and you have asked for any kind of treatment they choose to respond with.
They are reaching the bottom of the social opinion engineering barrel, and getting down the stoopit and the counterproductive Fail, and idjit sludge at the bottom.
madmommy
@Elisabeth:
What they really need to worry about are the “alternative” sorts of establishments. The GOP tendency to the kinky is well documented. If this little gooper soiree ends without at least one cellphone video of an attendee in a compromising position I’ll be sorely disappointed.
Getting ready to head to the local seafood emporium for a celebration dinner. Got a big promotion at work with a nice boost in pay. It couldn’t have come at a better time!
The Grand Panjandrum
I think Bobby has come down with a case of Eric Cantor disease. What the hell is it about Pelosi that turns these GOP men into WATB’s? (On second thought the question answer’s itself.) Maybe she should don a nun’s habit and carry a ruler around. Jesus, what a bunch of pussies.
Cat Lady
When did Republicans trade in their gray suits for footie pajamas? What a sorry bunch of candy assed whinging losers. Fuck them all with their own diaper wrapped petard.
Mark S.
OT: More pope-a-dope:
Just in case you were under any delusion that the pope isn’t Satan himself, Ratzo was worried about the age of the priest, not the age of the victims.
schrodinger's cat
Speaking of Jindal, it seems like if you want to make it big in the GOP circles and you are of Indian descent you have to be a convert to some version of Christianity.
Examples: Jindal, Ramesh Ponnuru and Nikki Haley.
Does anyone know of any prominent Hindu/Sikh/Muslim Indian Americans in the GOP who contradict this rule of thumb?
Cat Lady
@madmommy:
Congratulations! Another BJer does good. Throw one back for me!
kormgar
Oh come on baby…don’t you want to be the party of “Yes!”
r€nato
@Mark S.: I’m pissed all over again at the arrogance of the Vatican.
Remember, it’s not just a church; it’s a sovereign nation as well.
Mnemosyne
@beltane:
Nuh-uh, we’re not taking Jindal. He’s your gender, you’re stuck with him. I’ve met more than enough guys who get whiny when they don’t get their way to know it’s not a feminine characteristic.
QrazyQat
The big brokerages killed my father. Well, they hurt him bad. Hurt his feelings.
Midnight Marauder
@beltane:
There are a lot of jokes often about how the Democratic Party is filled with pansies and such. But say what you will about them, I’ve not heard any of them say, verbatim, “That hurts my feelings” and mean it as a serious policy critique.
Fixed, for you, etc.
Gramsci
OK, Bobby, how about we call your party by its SECOND most popular n-word?
Catsy
Okay, gotta say: I like the fact that Reply is back, but that goddamn disappearing “Reply” button mouseover is too cute by half and incredibly irritating.
Seriously folks, this is the kind of cutesy Web 2.0 gimmick that makes me pine for Lynx and beg for a device that lets me stab people in the face over the Internet. Is there something wrong with using an anchor tag that /doesn’t/ fucking animate and do backflips when you point at it?
EIGRP
@madmommy:
Just to be clear: we’re not bothered by their kinks, just the hypocrisy about them.
Eric
dslak
@schrodinger’s cat: This is just part and parcel of the requirement that GOP leaders be either conservative evangelicals, or Catholics or Jews sympathetic to their views (eg., Jindal qualifies because he believes in demon possession).
Hindus, Sikhs, or Muslims of Indian descent couldn’t toe that line very easily, although I suspect there are a lot of American Hindus who vote Republican.
jl
The Strike Out strikes again!
John Cole, nuke this strike out! Nuke it now, or you are not a Republican manly man.
Edit: That was quick. I saw the Strike Out plague again. Now it’s gone. Thank goodness.
Carrie
Suggested new Tagline:
Where using a strikethrough will get you flogged.
scav
@Catsy: if you get that ability, I want to use it against whatever the shit that is that keeps popping up at the bottom of the NYT recently.
Whackjob Militia Leader soonergrunt
@r€nato: Wouldn’t that require every paid employee of the
churchsovereign nation to register as agents of a foreign power? And wouldn’t make all of the pedophillic rape into acts of war?Calouste
OT:
Qatar has decided to “reassign” the diplomat who was smoking on the plane earlier this week.
BBC
arguingwithsignposts
the lady smudge is sensitive to Gov. Jindal’s fee-fees.
Elisabeth
@beltane:
When I was in the Navy and we went to exotic locales we were told which areas were off-limits….they were great fun! :)
Mnemosyne
@arguingwithsignposts:
Wow, she’s getting big! But I keep thinking the same thing with Charlotte, who’s about the same size as our Annie at this point.
Two months until Charlotte’s a whole year old. Yikes.
Colette
@jl:
This is exactly what my wingnut brother did when I pointed out that his entire half of a “discussion” about climate change consisted of him interrupting me before I’d finished even one sentence and shouting “prove it! Prove it! You can’t prove it!” over and over. And when I simply described this behavior, he was incredibly hurt and said he couldn’t believe I’d sunk to making personal attacks on him.
It’s all about the fee-fees, as long as they’re the only ones who get to have them.
Bnut
I was over at RedState reading about their take on the SRLC. A lot of commenters said how unnecessary Tony Perkins (the opening speaker) attacks on gays were. Almost everyone agreed it was a)bad politics, b)not something they would win, and c)was alienating more voters. But not one person, not one, said it was WRONG. Just bad politics.
Elisabeth
@EIGRP:
Although anything that leads to procreation by a bunch of dingbats is concerning.
Garrigus Carraig
@Calouste: Tool. I hope he’s never allowed back in this country again. And the Qatari government statement sucked hard.
ubersteve
Hi, 1st time poster, long time reader.
Maybe I missed this if anyone else pointed it out, but I got a chuckle last week when the Fox guys were all freaking out about the Marine dad being forced to pay Phelps. They seemed to think the judge was just too…unempathetic towards the family of that Marine.
Cacti
@Violet:
This is why I’m skeptical about the “big gains” that all the Serious People are predicting for the GOP.
Slimy Newt had his Contract
onwith America to go with the Clinton hatred. The current crop of Goopers has nothing but “ZOMG, We H@te Obama!1!1!”demo woman
@ubersteve: Judges should be strict constitutionalists except when it doesn’t fit their narrative. Welcome aboard.
Calouste
@Garrigus Carraig:
As long as he is in the diplomatic service and the US doesn’t declare him persona non grata, he will be allowed back in. Doubtful that Qatar will do that in the short term though.
I didn’t see the Qatari statement. What did they say? I assume a lot of it was “you can’t do this to our diplomats” kind of stuff they have to say in public to avoid losing face while they are trying to defuse the situation behind the scenes. It is diplomacy after all.
SiubhanDuinne
@arguingwithsignposts #44:
I love Smudge’s eyes in that picture. Chocolate-dipped almonds. Does she have a personality to match her extraordinary looks?*
*of course she does, DUH, she’s a *cat*
SiubhanDuinne
Using-asterisks-for-bolding-the-font fail.
Garrigus Carraig
@Calouste: Just a flat out lie, is what they said:
Yeah, so they’re diplomats, fine. Fu¢kwits.