Tonight is the State of the Union Address, not a presidential debate, but still…
…this clip from the West Wing is one of my favorite clips in all the land:
Also, if you plan to have a couple drinks tonight, might I suggest the State of the Union drinking game?
Everytime he says filibuster, drink until 60% of the people with whom you’re watching agree to stop… or go unconscious.
Or, just start drinking when Michelle Bachmann opens her face hole and don’t stop drinking until she closes it.
[I’ve selected Banana Bread Beer and Double Chocolate Stout for my poison. What’s yours? -ABL]
Mr Stagger Lee
Is there an line on which A-hole Teabagger congressman will spout something stupid in the middle of the SOTU? Will Joe Wilson go 2 for 2?
The Grand Panjandrum
I’m drinking Smuttynose 2010 Baltic Porter with a massive pile of nachos sitting in front of me.
lamh32
Chris Matthews just said that “there will be” a special comment from the President on gun control.
The WH did not want to have the SOTU overshadowed by the gun control debate.
soonergrunt
I’m swiping your Macallan. Deal with it.
David Fud
Too bad that guy plays a president on a TV show. I sometimes wonder if that show isn’t the liberal version of 24.
JPL
Thanks ABL the clip was great and I miss that show. Someone should send the clip to Gov. Perry.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Mr Stagger Lee: The prospect of this happening is probably why Michele Bachmann is being confined to the Tea Party Express website. Some guy commenting on the WaPo article about her had a good take:
Mr Stagger Lee
Oh thank God the Ohio State-Purdue game will be streamed on ESPN so I can see both.
fucen tarmal
chris matthews can die in a classic philly grease fire.
JPL
Headline at MSNBC.com
lol..Unfortunately it did not mention Mitch’s all or nothing proposal. That silly msm…
Davis X. Machina
Why watch it if we already know it’s a failure. And that Howard Dean is a sellout….
lamh32
@lamh32:
sorry, that’s a Presidential address, not special comment. watching MSNBC, I’ve got olbermann on the brain…lol.
BTW, I’m kinda interested in seeing how MSNBC’s coverage changes.
demkat620
I am also tired of hearing Tweety talk about regular white guys.
stuckinred
@Mr Stagger Lee: You don’t have PIP???
The Dangerman
Obama: “The State of America is rocking; Boehner, up top!.”
(Turns to High 5 Boehner; Boehner turns from Orange to Burnt Orange and doesn’t reciprocate)
Obama: OK, House Dude not a Homey.
(reaches down a la Cleavon Little from you know where)
Obama: Pardon me while I whip this out…
Angry Black Lady
@soonergrunt: the hell you say!
drew42
Syracuse completely shit the bed against Seton Hall. Now I’m too pissed to enjoy the SOTU.
Davis X. Machina
I scanned the advance text — no mention of the public option.
Sellout.
Mark S.
What? No drink every time a gooper yells “You Lie!”?
Mnemosyne
So apparently the National Journal got hold of a draft of the speech and published it. Is it just me, or is it weird that they’re treating the president’s state of the union speech like it’s “Transformers 3” and posting bootleg versions?
SIA
MSNBC has horrible panels. They’re already whining and getting on my nerves. CNN is worse. I just switched to CSPN.
stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: The WH posted it too.
Valdivia
Ok. Valdivia + 3
Any drinking games?
mr. whipple
I’m going straight. I am strong, I am invincible, I am whipple.
Wile E. Quixote
@Angry Black Lady:
Why would you want MacAllan’s when you could have this instead?
Dr. SkySkull
“Or, just start drinking when Michelle Bachmann opens her face hole and don’t stop drinking until she closes it.”
So, drink until you spew or she stops spewing?
Nellcote
Olbermann is live tweeting the SOTU
http://twitter.com/keitholbermann
Ryan and Bachmann already have their responses up on the intertubes.
stuckinred
@SIA: People are whining all over, here too. It’s the national pastime.
Mr Stagger Lee
@stuckinred: Well I have the game on the computer, kind of broke for all that fancy stuff.
stuckinred
Here’s your FDL pre-bitching.
freelancer
Tweety is repeatedly just bashing Michelle Bachmann. Just relentless. :D
stuckinred
Georgia forces OT with Florida!!!!!!!
Joel
I’d rather some hot drinks.
Just Some Fuckhead
Awesome, both Republican parties get to give a rebuttal, the nutty one and the nuttier one.
SiubhanDuinne
FLOTUS looks so awesome I am seriously thinking about changing my sexual orientation.
I’m in my late 60s but I’m pretty sure I just released an egg.
arguingwithsignposts
@stuckinred:
Wait, I thought college football was over? :)
lamh32
Maddow just said the the speech was leaked 2 hours on the web and that was unprecedented. The National Journal leaked the excerpts about 2 hours ago!
And Another Thing...
Just read Rand Paul’s “budget” proposal to cut $500 billion (posted at TPM.) It’s a shame that it’s not going to get the attention it deserves. Every tea partier & “conservative” should be asked to take a position on every one of his cuts. What pathetic tripe. In any other business you would be laughed out of the organization. It is disgusting.
stuckinred
@arguingwithsignposts: the hoop
Just Some Fuckhead
I love how they’re all sitting together so you won’t be able to tell which side the word “nigger” is shouted from.
Mnemosyne
@stuckinred:
Where? All I see is the video. No printed version of the speech from the White House as far as I can tell.
Something just smells bad about that alleged “draft.”
Chyron HR
@Mnemosyne:
Yeah, but the new Joe Biden toy looks pretty awesome with that tattered cloak/poncho accessory.
Mark S.
Clijsters hits the ball harder than anyone who doesn’t have the last name of Williams. I think she’s going to win the tournament.
Oh, I know I’m supposed to be watching that other thing.
jl
I see a moving picture of rich old people milling around in fancy room on my teevee. Is that the shindig? Disturbing sight. I’ll turn off the pic and just listen.
stuckinred
@Mnemosyne: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/25/obama-state-of-the-union-_1_n_813478.html
lamh32
@stuckinred:
Rachel said it was posted 2 hours before the embargo was lifted. Maybe the WH then released their version.
dmsilev
I think Obama should have run down the aisle in the manner of a high school football team. Much more dramatic than shaking hundreds of hands…
dms
El Cid
Anyone mention this yet?
fucen tarmal
in the interests of party unity i am gonna two fist beer and wine.
stuckinred
@lamh32: yea
jl
@Chyron HR:
Everything is “Transformers 3” now. Where you been?
But I will turn on the picture if I catch a glimpse of Krazy Train Joe Biden in a cape.
Just Some Fuckhead
Sounds like you might have Masterpiece Theater on.
Dexter
Bunch of O-bots in the congress. 5 minutes of clapping.
handy
@fucen tarmal:
That kind of bipartisanship does not have a happy ending. Trust me.
El Cid
@dmsilev: Piloting Air Force One in and dropping down on a line through the roof (a secret door maybe?) in full crotch-suit.
SiubhanDuinne
Preznit looks so cool and mellow. Happy.
/yeah, Obot. Bite me.
robertdsc-PowerBook
LOL at Crazy VP Joe!
mr. whipple
@dmsilev:
I think he shoulda been carried in on one of them beds like an Egyptian dood.
lamh32
@stuckinred:
It was still an unprecedented leak from what Rachel’s said.
Another example of the things that this President has to deal with that others have not…
inkadu
I didn’t prepare so I’m having slightly skunked granny smith woodchuck hard cider. Don’t have enough to make it through to Bachman.
I’m sticking to MSNBC for Rachel Maddow.
arguingwithsignposts
@lamh32: Embargoes are the biggest joke in the media, esp. in the days of the Internet.
dmsilev
OMG! Teleprompter!
dms
fucen tarmal
@handy:
as long as i make to the aisle to throw up across it, i don’t mind a little pain, you know, for the good of the country
inkadu
Oh barf. My girlfriend thinks Boehner is cute. He has pretty eyes. Not enough cider.
Svensker
Did you notice Ruth B. G. was wearing black lace gloves? Nice touch.
Mr Stagger Lee
Joe Wilson has two Democratic Women congressmen on botyh sides of him, one armed with a rolling pin, and the other with a frying pan, if he gets out of line.
dmsilev
Boehner is looking rather less orange than usual.
Svensker
@inkadu:
You need to do something about that.
demkat620
@robertdsc-PowerBook: I love me some Unca Joey.
Have you seen this?
Comrade Mary
Yep, he’s still grey. So much for Daily Mail claims that he dyed his hair for Hu last week.
mr. whipple
OMG OBAMA GONNA THROW ME UNDER THE BUS WITH BIPARTISANS.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Svensker:
Not gloves, she is so old her hands are rotting off.
freelancer
So much for American Exceptionalism.
Svensker
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Not nice. Not true.
inkadu
@freelancer: I can’t wait to see what the headlines in tomorrow’s Guardian are going to be. Obama SOTU: Other countries don’t care about the dreams of little girls.
Just Some Fuckhead
Boehner looks like he’s pooping.
stuckinred
2bl OT in Athens
Angry Black Lady
Y’all should watch online if you can. You get maps and graphs and trivia and shit.
Did you know that back in the day (like the 11th century or whatever) the Statue of the Union was called the ANnual Message?
‘+1
freelancer
@Just Some Fuckhead:
He is.
inkadu
@Svensker: Should I get blue contact lenses and some tanning cream?
Alex S.
@dmsilev:
He still looks darker than Obama, but that might be the lighting.
Some Guy
I am finding the SOTU incredibly dull. They are always dull, that is a given regardless of president or year, but this seems really lifeless. Everyone seems really bored, very little of the usual applause monkey behavior.
BD of MN
what’s that thing in front of Boehner? looks like a candleholder…
Svensker
@inkadu:
He actually does have pretty eyes — look more green/hazel than blue, to me.
Don’t think you can match that Republican look, though. You can just spot ’em, can’t ya?
inkadu
… and with the help of Nazi scientists, we surpassed the Soviets and beat the Russian’s in the space race…
handy
@Some Guy:
The Repubsa re all thinking the same thing: Not enough “We’re gonna kill all the brown people”
Just Some Fuckhead
@BD of MN:
That’s his buttplug.
dmsilev
Did Boehner just applaud “clean energy”? Tea Party primary challenge in three… Two… one….
dms
Comrade Mary
Ha! I’m on my laptop with the streaming version of the SOTU playing in another tab while the tv is broadcasting MSNBC. The delay means I’m getting Obama in counterpoint.
Alex S.
Uuh, John Thune sits next to Sen. Gillibrand…that’s the 2016 race right there.
BD of MN
@Just Some Fuckhead: spent some time cleaning off the santorum, huh?
Just Some Fuckhead
One or both of the Republican rebuttals will contain an apology to oil companies.
dmsilev
OK, now Boehner looks like he just accidentally swallowed a sea slug. The thought of all that oil going unburned seems to upset him.
dms
lol
@mr. whipple:
Here are the cuts to Social Security that everyone at FDL predicted:
“To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations. And we must do it without putting at risk current retirees, the most vulnerable, or people with disabilities; without slashing benefits for future generations; and without subjecting Americans’ guaranteed retirement income to the whims of the stock market.”
Svensker
Oops, the Spousal Unit is going all Jane Hamsher on me and yelling at the teevee. Time to go watch an old movie. Svensker out.
SIA
@stuckinred: Now I’m going to whine about CSPAN. I don’t want to see “DR” Paul Broun’s tweets. (from your neck of the woods I believe?)
stuckinred
@SIA: Yup, the fucking asshole. He talked about the “venom Obama was going to spew”. Not so different than the firebaggers.
Alex S.
That’s a pretty progressive vision there…or is it…liberal?
Ija
This is the second-to-last paragraph of the speech from the version released by the White House.
Help me out, people. This remind me of a different speech. Not by Obama. There’s something about the cadence of the words. Edward Kennedy?
The last paragraph is that god bless America thing. I know he has to say it, but still.
handy
@Svensker:
My dog is going apoplectic at the site of Boner right now. Well, not really but that would be funny as hell.
Just Some Fuckhead
Great, now I gotta compete with Kathy for a job in the biotech field. Thanks Obama. Asshole.
freelancer
@Ija:
Sounds like JFK to me. I could be way off though.
El Cid
@inkadu: You know who else employed Nazi scientists?
freelancer
Why do’s the Repubs Hates Trains? They hates them!
j
Speaking of drinking, if I took a swig every time the Boner slugs whatever it is he is swilling ( I DOUBT it’s water) I’d be on the floor by now, and it’s only been 25 minutes.
Watch it. Boner is dry mouthed, or drying out. Every 45 seconds he’s gulping from his glass.
inkadu
Boehner’s been doing some coke. Or he’s allergic to infrastructure development.
handy
You know who else loved trains?
SIA
High speed rail! “Without the pat down!”
ETA: @j: Naw, it’s just that the straight vodka is making him more thirsty.
Mr Stagger Lee
Uhh Mr President we can build those roads and high speed railroads if we stop spending money on stupid and pointless wars. Just saying!
freelancer
Chuck Grassley smelling his fingers. I don’t even want to know…
Omnes Omnibus
@Ija: You could have given a spoiler alert, Jeebus.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Gigantic fucking fail at lowering the corporate tax rate. Fuck that shit. NO.
dmsilev
@El Cid: Stalin?
jeff
In horrible pain and can’t pay attention, but wanted to thank those who are responsible voters and irresponsible commenters, because I sure as hell appreciate both.
Obama looks fine and I have no idea what he’s talking about.
I think Boehner is in worse pain than I am.
freelancer
WTF are we exporting to India and China that they don’t already make? (Looks around at tags on everything I have in my apartment) Uhhh, Appetite, Neurosis, and Fleshlights?
handy
Boehner just gave O the biggest stink eye when he mentioned child labor laws.
inkadu
@freelancer: Cheeseburgers and action movies.
freelancer
@inkadu:
Sigh, Tim Pawlenty’s gonna win 2012 on that platform. Sponsored by Five Guys and Transformers 4.
freelancer
Nice wink at Tunisia and Egypt there. Fingers crossed.
trixie larue
You are very funny. We are drinking Victory Ale, “Yakima Glory.” It’s in Washington state; I live in Philly, yahoo.
Boehner’s ribbon is sideways – ‘hood-like?, disrespectful or just too dumb to know?
Ija
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sorry :)
artem1s
@Ija:
teddy, not RFK or JFK
Democratic convention speech
For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die
freelancer
Ugh, Fuck Tweety. We need to talk about the “music”, the poetry of it.
Mnemosyne
@Ija:
Actually, his version is subtly (and interestingly) different. Other politicians say “God bless America,” but Obama is careful to almost always say, “God bless the United States of America.”
I first noticed it when he was campaigning.
Batocchio
ABL, I love that clip, too – and that whole episode. Also, there’s the precursor in the S3 closer: “in the future, if you’re wondering, ‘Crime. Boy, I don’t know’ is when I decided to kick your ass.”
Angry Black Lady
Michelle Bachmann has got teh krazy eyez.
freelancer
@Angry Black Lady:
Crazy for tryin’
4jkb4ia
@El Cid:
If they voted months ago, that must mean that some of the Republicans supported it, which would be outstanding.
4jkb4ia
@Mark S.:
Smiling
soonergrunt
@Wile E. Quixote: I’ll take a six pack of those.
burnspbesq
@El Cid:
Excellent! I am uniformly in favor of prosecuting criminals when there is sufficient evidence to do so.
burnspbesq
@Svensker:
Quintessentially Fuckhead.
Uloborus
I can’t help but notice that Cole’s SOTU thread is 60 comments and ABL’s is 130. I hereby name this phenomenon ‘Angry Black Lady Love’ in the hopes of elevating myself to the ranks of people who must be shot for the good of mankind.