Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Let there be snark.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

The words do not have to be perfect.

We still have time to mess this up!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

This blog will pay for itself.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    Just saw this tweet pop up below CSpan’s feed:

    mcurtisnc3: John Boehner got a little teary at the mention of John Boehner. #SOTU

    .

  6. 6.

    soonergrunt

    After giving the Republicans so much red meat in that speech (which both parties know most of the stuff won’t happen because we can’t pay for any of it) I wonder what they will complain about–as Keith Olbermann asked, “the color of his tie?”

    After taking a piss break during the bland Stepford-Wife Paul Whatshisname speaking for the Republican reply, I can’t wait to watch the queen of batshit, Michele Bachmann.

  7. 7.

    mr. whipple

    This is the part where the talking heads tell me what I just watched. Without their help I’d be sooo lost.

  9. 9.

    Alex S.

    The first half of the speech was pretty bold, but delivered in a very sober way. Obama is beginning to move the overton window in anticipation of his re-election. The latter half was boilerplate.

  10. 10.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    So were there any good “you lie!” moments?

    Or did the mixed-party chaperon seating keep the Redoublechins from losing their shit?

  11. 11.

    Loneoak

    What will be President Bachmann’s best historical gaffe be?

    The Constitution was written on the Shroud of Turin?

  13. 13.

    wenchacha

    Boehner’s tie hurt my eyes. That’s why I was crying.

    Also, too in my mind I smell stale cigarettes and booze whenever I see him on tv.

  18. 18.

    Ija

    Do Bachmann and Ryan get a copy of the President’s speech beforehand? Or are they just saying whatever just for the sake of it?

  19. 19.

    Poopyman

    @Xecky Gilchrist: Nah. You could see the old farts looking around to see whether they should clap or not. Applause was muted and dissent was non-existent. And RB Ginsberg slept through it all.

  20. 20.

    beltane

    @Xecky Gilchrist: I didn’t watch the speech live in anticipation of a repeat of the “you lie” moment, which would have caused me to start screaming obscenities at the first Republican I saw.

  21. 21.

    Davis X. Machina

    I quick- read the thread title as “The SotU Goes Ever On (Apathy).”

    I take great comfort from the fact that the Republic, while not flourishing as it might, is on an even enough keel that going through the ceremonial motions is once again the appropriate rhetorical stance.

    Save the great speeches for when the asteroid is incoming, is my feeling.

  22. 22.

    Anne Laurie

    Boy, there were a LOT of autograph seekers. One woman whose face never quite came into focus on CNN said “They sat me next to Joe Wilson, and I kept him from [inaudible] ”

    That got a big grin out of the President, but then so did a lot of other inaudible comments…

  23. 23.

    JGabriel

    Ija:

    Do Bachmann and Ryan get a copy of the President’s speech beforehand? Or are they just saying whatever just for the sake of it?

    I don’t know the answer to the first question, but the second is “Yes”, no matter the answer to the first.

    .

  26. 26.

    Loneoak

    @KG:

    hard to beat the one Tweety has been rattling on about today, that the Founders ended slavery.

    Have faith my friend, have faith.

  29. 29.

    ppcli

    @Southern Beale:
    Broun. Rhymes with “Whatta Maroon.” Listen, Maroon, I’ve lived in soc ialist countries. I grew up in a country where you could vote for a soc ialist party that occasionally won, and once I was of voting age, I regularly did. So I know what soc ialism looks like, and believe me, what Obama is giving us isn’t it.

  30. 30.

    beltane

    @Southern Beale: He’s a real witty one that Dr. Brauner. He said Obama believes in teh soshalism. I’ve never heard a wingnut say that about the president before, what a creative genius this rep is.

  32. 32.

    Anya

    It’s weird but this is the first time I hear Paul Ryan’s voice. Is this what Wisconsin accent sounds like?

  34. 34.

    KG

    Paul Ryan looks like he’s been using Bohnoer’s bronzer. He also sounds like one of those old Disney Amnimatronic robots

  35. 35.

    El Cid

    On PBS, another fucking conservative douchebag giving this bullshit comparison of the US to Greece if we don’t take care of the deficit (you know, without getting any more revenue, say, through taxes, because, fuck you).

    These days they don’t even have to say it that many times before people think it’s true.

    For variety’s sake, I turned it to Univision, where Ros-Legtinen is announcing an invasion of Cuba giving the Republican response. Also about how the deficit is about to creep out of the closet and stab your child in his bed.

  43. 43.

    JGabriel

    Does Paul Ryan make everyone want to pick him up and slap him with coarse sandpaper till he cries like John Boehner?

    Or is that just me?

    .

  48. 48.

    TR

    Anyone else getting dizzy watching Ryan change his facial expression with every syllable?

    Also, has anyone here ever met an actual human being who parts his hair in that way? Bizarre.

  49. 49.

    celticdragonchick

    @joe from Lowell:

    Agreed.

    BTW…I answed your comment to me a couple of weeks ago with respect to our disagreement on issues last year.

    I have no idea if you ever managed to read it.

  53. 53.

    fasteddie9318

    @joe from Lowell: What he really ought to be concerned about is that even his kids are bright enough to figure out that his roadmap is a big bunch of grade-A bullshit, and they’re all under the age of 10.

  59. 59.

    celticdragonchick

    @TR:

    Anyone else getting dizzy watching Ryan change his facial expression with every syllable?

    He is trying to be a very earnest person, I guess.

    Oh my God…the social safety net is bcoming a hamock again. Fer fucks sake.

  62. 62.

    celticdragonchick

    @TR:

    Anyone else getting dizzy watching Ryan change his facial expression with every syllable?

    He is trying to be a very earnest person, I guess.

    Oh my God…the social safety net is bcoming a hamock again. Fer fucks sake.

  63. 63.

    hells littlest angel

    He’s calling the social safety net a hammock where lazy socialist welfare cheats loll as we turn into Greece. What a jerkoff.

  64. 64.

    Anne Laurie

    Switched to CNN’s ‘SotU Focus Group Reaction’ screen — Reps are holding around 70% favorable, no surprise, and Dems in the mid-30s. But the “independents” are pretty much moving in line with the Dems… they are not feeling the Ryan-mentum, for some reason.

  67. 67.

    General Stuck

    I peaked too early today. All out of hot air. The SOTU does have a creepy feel about it. Like those old Supreme Soviet assemblies , where folks clapped on cue, or someone took them for a long walk. We don’t do that of course.

  68. 68.

    Bob Loblaw

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Ah yes, the renewed joys of the superfluous State of the Union speech. With all the bipartisan hackwork one can muster. It has been a long two years.

    Now we can get back to the important business of “clean” coal, earmarks, deficit neutral tax code reform and the ongoing virtues of the war on terror. Also, inefficient salmon regulations.

    Future won.

  70. 70.

    eemom

    Y’all are watching this after-shit so I don’t have to. I want you to know it is appreciated.

    I just don’t have the stomach for Bachmannturnerpsychodrive. Never have, never will.

  72. 72.

    martha

    @Anne Laurie: Thank heavens and thank you for being brave enough to watch. Since he’s from the district south of me, I cannot bear it and I won’t do it.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @celticdragonchick:

    Oh my God…the social safety net is bcoming a hamock again. Fer fucks sake.

    Ryan actually said that? You’re going to hear that a lot in the next few months. From Democrats.

  76. 76.

    harokin

    Ryan man this is unbearable. Not even attempting a smidgen of credibility. Just all the same cliches.

  79. 79.

    El Cid

    Ros-Lehtinen is suggesting that we have forgotten that the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence demands a limited government. And otherwise we have no individual liberties. It does too much. Too big. Too big. Too big.

    The Democrats want big government, love spending money. They want more taxes. In 2 years they’ve gone wild with spending (because under Bush Jr. and the Republican triumvirate 2002-2006, we were totally fucking all about balanced budgets and shrinking government).

    Their day of reckoning has coming — and we Republicans have arrived just in time to do it.

    The government’s bad policies inspired Wall Street to collapse.

    We succeeded as the most awesomest bestest richest magical fucking super terrific country anyone ever even imagined existing on this Urf because we had limited gubmit and a freemarkit, and in Washington they forgot this.

    —————————–

    I’m sure it was only party browbeating which kept her from claiming that Obama was following the orders of Raul and Fidel Castro.

  80. 80.

    beltane

    @Anne Laurie: Whenever independents watch actual Republicans for an extended period of time like this they tend not to like them. The problem is that they have very short memories and even shorter attention spans.

  81. 81.

    Loneoak

    American free market capitalism has done more to help the poor than all other economic systems combined! Wow. Just wow.

  82. 82.

    jl

    Hello, my fellow lazy debauched welfare kings and queens lazing in the Hammock of the Welfare State. I greet you!

    SOUND MONEY! The way Ryan said it, it sounds a little like MAD MONEY! Ryan would sounds a little like Cramer, if he talked louder and faster.

  83. 83.

    jcricket

    The CNN insta-poll, much like the ones during the presidential and Veep debates in 2008, should be illustrative to Democrats.

    Stop listening to the fucking Villagers. Stop watching Fox News. Don’t worry about what the GOP says America believes or their portrayal of Democrats.

    Enough of the American public is onboard with the Democratic agenda, should we choose to present it in the affirmative and defend it, that we need not worry. The 30%+ who are wingnuts aren’t voting for us no matter what compromise we offer. Adopting a defensive crouch, compromising away core principles (SS anyone?) does nothing but depress the base and turn off potential independent/non-affiliated voters.

    Basically, we don’t need to move any further left, or further right. Where we are is fine. This speech is an excellent reminder of it.

  85. 85.

    Mark S.

    CNN has a countdown clock to Bachmann.

    Everyone will remember where they were when this happened!

  88. 88.

    Alex S.

    @TR:

    He’s trying to sell his ideology to the dumb masses, as he was told.

    I had not seen Ryan ‘in action’ before, but he seems to be a man of average intelligence who believes in the simple ideology he was taught.

  92. 92.

    ppcli

    @Southern Beale:
    Dying in moderation up above, so I’ll try again:

    Broun. Rhymes with “Whatta Maroon.” Listen, Maroon, I’ve lived in soc ialist countries. I grew up in a country where you could vote for a soc ialist party that occasionally won, and once I was of voting age, I regularly did. So I know what soc ialism looks like, and believe me, what Obama is giving us isn’t it.

  94. 94.

    junebug

    Why does Katie keep saying this is only the second SOTU? Wasn’t there the one where Joe said you lie and then the other where Alito mouthed you are wrong? or some such? Am I counting these things wrong?

  95. 95.

    jl

    And we all know, very well that the ‘last century’ was an example of U.S. economic power and growth fueled by a move to stricly limited government.

    Ryan studied U.S. history with Bachmann, looks like.

  96. 96.

    Big City Mary

    Boehner is a very seriously odd person, I could not take my eyes off of him because I thought he was going to loose it at any second-all together very distracting.

  99. 99.

    ppcli

    @freelancer:

    @Bob Loblaw:
    Why do you even write here? Your posts are full of disgusting solipsistic, nihilistic resigned meanderings.

    In contrast to the rest of us, who produce appetizing solipsistic, nihilistic resigned meanderings.

  102. 102.

    Davis X. Machina

    the social safety net is becoming a hammock again

    I prefer to call it ‘the rump-sprung fold-out sofa of social provision, in the spare room of our great nation’.

  104. 104.

    TR

    Erick Von Erickson says he saw both texts, and likes the Bachmann speech better than Ryan’s.

    I bet it has more condemnation of goat-fucking child molesters like David Souter.

  105. 105.

    mr. whipple

    CNN has a countdown clock to Bachmann.

    Hopefully Dick Clark will emcee and the ball will fall on her haid.

  107. 107.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Mark S.: Josh Marshall says Wolf Blitzer is “vamping”, which I guess means bragging in this context, about CNN being the only ones to carry Whackadoo Bachman’s speech. Hard to believe they keep slipping in the ratings.

  109. 109.

    jinxtigr

    A black friend on twitter just retweeted a BUNCH of his black friends all saying “Did Paul Ryan just say Congress is filled with new white faces?”

    A fair question. Did he say that?

  110. 110.

    Davy McBongo

    Shorter Paul Ryan: We must shrink the federal government until so we can insert it into your uterus and Jesus things up in there.

  111. 111.

    Nick

    For the record, my friend who tried to tell me Wall Street Bonuses are good for the poor yesterday was very offended at Rep. Paul Braun’s tweet saying the President doesn’t believe in the Constitution, he believes in Socialism. Couldn’t believe that came from a member of Congress.

    I resist the urge to say “He’s one of yours buddy”

  112. 112.

    TR

    @jinxtigr:

    The advanced text was supposed to be “President Obama just addressed a Congressional chamber filled with many new faces.”

    Not sure what he actually said though.

  116. 116.

    Clutch414

    Actually, the Joe Wilson “you lie” thing wasn’t at an official SOTU address. The President gave an address to the joint session of congress (on healthcare) in September, 2009. Alito made made his mouthing at the SOTU in January, 2010. It looked and felt like and official SOTU, but wasn’t technically a SOTU.

  118. 118.

    joe from Lowell

    @celticdragonchick: …cuz I’ve got this ratty little beach towel that says “Social Security.”

    Now, don’t get me wrong. I love that beach towel. I’ve had it forever. But it’s, like, 26″ x 32″ and it’s kinda thin.

    …and the bastards want to take that away! “Hey, no hammock for you, pal!”

    And I’m, like, “What hammock? You mean my Social Security towel?”

    What’s up with that?

  124. 124.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    She has the teleprompter in the wrong spot. she is not looking at the camera!

  129. 129.

    TR

    Bachmann blaming unemployment on the stimulus. God, what an idiot.

    And now lying about the 165,000 new IRS agents. What a fucking moron.

  130. 130.

    lamh32

    wait, is Bahammann REALLY blaming unemployment on Obama. Wasn’t this happening b4 Obama.

    This woman is a joke. many she will have some more slavery ended by founding fathers quotes to give…

    sheesh.

    Wait a minute, did she really bring out a line graph…she’s literally become Glen frickin’ Beck

  132. 132.

    GregB

    And now from Romper Room, Michelle Bachmann.

    What a lying sack of shit.

    This idiot is Palinizing herself.

  139. 139.

    gwangung

    wait, is Bahammann REALLY blaming unemployment on Obama. Wasn’t this happening b4 Obama.

    Since Bachmann has an R after her name, she’ll be believed by at least 27% of the country.

  144. 144.

    Poopyman

    @Mark S.:

    My girlfriend made me change the channel.

    Mrs. P has the remote and she ain’t budging off MSNBC. All in all, it sounds like that might be the best course.

  147. 147.

    RareSanity

    Just wanted to take a quick second, to thank @cleek and @MikeJ, for the combined effort, of the Pie Filter Chrome extension.

    Seeing a big “REDACTED” for every one of the comments, by the last thread’s pathetic troll, was absolutely wonderful!

  149. 149.

    Gordon, The Big Express Engine

    here we go. miracles!

    Iwo Jima!

    our debt crisis is like WWII – the big one don’t you know…

  150. 150.

    lamh32

    If there was any doubt, that CNN would sell their dying mother’s soul to the devil.

    Airing Bachmann “rebuttal” totally obliterates that doubt.

  151. 151.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    Those eyes are creeping me out, like an alien from Star Trek, then again I am playing the Woo Hoo song by the group The 5,6,7,8’s

  152. 152.

    inkadu

    Wow. Fighting the debt crisis is EXACTLY like Iwo Jima combating a totalitarian regime.

    She really is scum.

  155. 155.

    piratedan

    @Bob Loblaw: its okay Bob, you can still read your Conservative handbook by candlelight with your AK-47 by your side as you bunker down for the night. The Black Helicopters are parked for the night…but soon my friend, very soon they’ll fly and they know where you ARE thanks to your posts here. heh heh heh

  159. 159.

    Anne Laurie

    Bachman seems to be trying to channel Palin’s weird ee-nuns-SAY-shun patterns. Also, she’s not blinking, but she’s moving her eyebrows to a rhythm that would be blinking in a normal person.

    Dems & Independents, once again, tracking pretty much together, mostly in the low 30% favorable. Reps can’t get much above the high 50s, except for spikes when she uses the word ‘repeal’ in whatever context.

  160. 160.

    Poopyman

    OTOH Valerie Jarrett is on MSNBC, and she really rubs me the wrong way. She needs to GTFO my TV.

  167. 167.

    scarshapedstar

    Bachmann was staring at something in the upper right corner of the room? I guess they couldn’t afford a real camera-mounted teleprompter.

  171. 171.

    celticdragonchick

    @joe from Lowell:

    …cuz I’ve got this ratty little beach towel that says “Social Security.”

    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says you should always carry your towel with you. It means you are a real froopy guy…

  173. 173.

    GregB

    Erick Erickson is calling for simple talk. How’s this?

    Erick Erickson is a goat fucking child molester.

  178. 178.

    srv

    @lamh32:

    wait, is Bahammann REALLY blaming unemployment on Obama. Wasn’t this happening b4 Obama.

    A stopped clock is right occassionally. Obama’s anti-Keynesian policies aren’t going to reduce unemployment any better than Morgenthau’s did during FDR.

    There comes a point at which you have to own it, blaming Bush isn’t going to work in Nov. 2012.

  181. 181.

    Anne Laurie

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: I heard it as ‘new bright faces’, but mostly it sounded like he was stumbling around getting a brainlock between the stuff he’d practiced in the mirror and his teleprompter scroll. He did seem embarrassed about something.

  182. 182.

    inkadu

    Well, I wish I had the last two hours back.

    I’m going to do something more useful now. Like stand on a pillar of 64 cobblestones in Mine Craft and wait out the night.

  185. 185.

    freelancer

    Wow, Omaha’s stupid mayoral recall election down to 2 votes at this point.

    Recall Mayor Jim Suttle?

    YES: 28,351
    NO: 28,349

    What a waste. Too bad I couldn’t vote.

  187. 187.

    junebug

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Crap, both of those insults happened in the same SOTU? Somehow I separated them in my mind.

    Someone has probably already said this, but at least the “date night” seems to have kept that disrespect at bay. . ..

  188. 188.

    Elia

    Hoo, Lord, that was dull.

    I suppose this is what Independents want, however. Politics shouldn’t be about all this disagreement and arguing; let’s focus on the important stuff instead: salmon!

  192. 192.

    jl

    @Elia:

    Well, ‘news flash siren alert, developing’ you, buddy.

    Instant CBS poll of State of the Union listeners say nine out of ten ‘liked the speech’.

  193. 193.

    Loneoak

    David Axelrod just mocked Bachmann on The Last Word: “David, am I looking at the right camera?”

    Atta boy, David.

  197. 197.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @gbear: Really, I mean, I use more complicated sentences, larger words, and more intricate logic when speaking to toddlers and they understand what is being said.

  198. 198.

    Loneoak

    From NYT, even the Tea Party Express had the brains to not mention Bachmann’s speech that they sponsored:

    Ms. Bachmann’s brief remarks were billed as a Tea Party response, sponsored in part by the Tea Party Express, one of the groups leading the movement that swept Republicans into office in November.
    __
    But in an oddity, the Web site for the Tea Party Express ignored Ms. Bachmann completely.
    __
    While CNN broadcast her remarks live, the Tea Party Express Web site instead broadcast a live stream from the White House featuring aides taking questions and talking about Mr. Obama’s speech.

  200. 200.

    Elia

    Did anyone have a thrill go up their leg once they realized she was going to have to pronounce “Iwo Jima”? There was a really intense, animalistic, primal fear that passed across her face, just briefly, right before she came upon those two clearly socialist words.

    I’m really all for more Michele Bachmann national addresses, really. I thought tonight exceeded expectations.

  201. 201.

    Svensker

    Listening to Ari Frigging Fleischer bleat on about how Obama spends too much money and doesn’t create enough jobs — Ari Fleischer — made my blood pressure shoot up. War mongering destroyer of countries aargle barrgle.

    The movie was worse than SOTU.

  202. 202.

    handy

    But in an oddity, the Web site for the Tea Party Express ignored Ms. Bachmann completely.

    When you’re the Teabaggers useful idiot, how much lower can you get?

  203. 203.

    JCT

    Whoa baby, what a gift to have Bachmann’s dribblings be the Republican’s “final words” on the evening.

    Talk about stream of “unconsciousness”. What an idiot.

  204. 204.

    gbear

    @Loneoak:

    But in an oddity, the Web site for the Tea Party Express ignored Ms. Bachmann completely.

    HAHAHAH! I hope that leaves her even more confused and paranoid than she already is. I’m betting that she spontaneously combusts before 2012.

  205. 205.

    S. cerevisiae

    Kiwis please help me – This place is fucking too crazy. I am sick of having to explain the lunatics in the Arkham Asylum.

    May the deep ones eat me first.

    I wanna go South.

  210. 210.

    JMY

    I wish people would stop acting as if the Tea Party is some reputable movement. They are not (I’m looking at you CNN).

  211. 211.

    Violet

    @S. cerevisiae:
    I’m just watching it now. She’s looking off to the side most of the time, which makes her look possessed. Her eyeshadow is too dark and makes her look freakier than normal. The lighting is not at all flattering and she looks like she’s had some very bad plastic surgery. She had charts, plus a weird peach colored chair in front of the American flag.

    The whole thing is bizarre. I have no idea what she’s doing.

  212. 212.

    Cain

    I wish people would stop acting as if the Tea Party is some reputable movement. They are not (I’m looking at you CNN).

    Of course anything that makes Wolf look like the stupid tool is absolutely fine with m.e

    cain

  213. 213.

    Violet

    Michele Bachmann: “I believe that America is the indispensable nation of the world. Just the creation of this nation itself was a miracle.”

    I bet the Romans thought they were indispensable too.

  214. 214.

    4jkb4ia

    I liked Nate’s tweet about how this overshot professorial and went right for cheesy. I read the speech, but spousal unit needed to take a walk after dinner.

  219. 219.

    freelancer

    Adam Green, firebagger by any other name, comes on MSNBC with a prepped list of 6 things he doesn’t like. There were a few things that I found objectionable, but this whiny prick finds Democratic politics and political gamesmanship to be a zero sum game.

    There’s a reason that Al Qaeda calls themselves Al Qaeda, which means “The Base”. Fuck Adam Green, he doesn’t speak for me.

  226. 226.

    CaseyL

    Coming in late is a mistake. Y’all drank all the booze, there’s nothing but crumbs left in the chips bowl, and it looks like someone used the party banner for a napkin.

    Anyway: I saw the SOTU while on the elliptic at the gym, and I have to say Obama speeches are pretty good to exercise by.

    The SOTU wasn’t bad. Since I watched it on C-SPAN, without benefit of talking heads, and without liveblog commentary, I thought it was a good speech. I agree that we need what amounts to a “space race” in terms of education, basic research, and new technology development. It’s an ambitious domestic agenda, that’s for sure, and it’ll be interesting to see how much he follows through on it.

    Two things really stood out for me: His call to end oil bidness subsidies, and to replace NCLB. Definitely good ideas; let’s see if either or both happen.

    I missed Bachmann’s psychotic word salad – “missed” as in, “refused to watch.” Which is kind of a pity, because it sounds like she was a hoot. Wonder what would happen if someone slipped her some good acid: would anyone notice? Would she suddenly become lucid?

  230. 230.

    Emerald

    @djork: You seem to be the only one who noticed that besides me. I thought that was the only huge piece of news in Ryan’s speech.

    The Rs have made Ryan the czar of all their financial moves. If he’s decided they’re going to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, then he’s decided to have a world depression. Probably thinks people will blame Obama.

    I’m frankly surprised the Rs will go that far, but if they do, then we are in very serious trouble.

  231. 231.

    burnspbesq

    @JGabriel:

    Does Paul Ryan make everyone want to pick him up and slap him with coarse sandpaper till he cries like John Boehner? Or is that just me?

    That is not just you.

  232. 232.

    burnspbesq

    “Sound money.” Yes, he actually said “sound money.” ‘Bout drove off the side of the freeway when I heard that. What year does this numbskull think it is, 1893?

  233. 233.

    FlipYrWhig

    @burnspbesq: I left the room rather than watching, but from what I heard, he sounded like the classic College Republican douchebag from my own college days in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

  235. 235.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @joe from Lowell:

    Congressman Ryan, if the national debt is one of your greatest concerns as a parent, that means you are a shitty parent.

    So where does the national debt come in on the Right-Wing Fear-O-Meter relative to the activist gay left? I mean we know, from listening to Andrew Breitbart that the activist gay left is scarier than Al Qaeda but where does the national debt fit in? Is it more scary than Al Qaeda but less scary than the activist gay left, is it more scary than the activist gay left and Al Qaeda? Or is it less scary than Al Qaeda, which means that it’s also less scary than the activist gay left.

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    fucen tarmal

    @Wile E. Quixote:

    “activist gay left” is just begging to be re/misspelled activest gay left, improper though it may be.

    you know how the fundies made peace with the idea of israel, and now they are all about the old testament? i mean they love an israel that might go armageddon at any time. because they can rationalize that it brings about the end times prophesy and the once and for all proof of who wears the nicest hats to church is the person closest to god type thing….

    why doesn’t this work for teh gay as well? i mean, theoretically nothing brings on the oldsmitey power of god like teh gay, right, and they want the one final true end smite? seems like they should want things to be as gay as gay can be? i mean if they want to be consistent….

    of course really its about breitbart and his type saying, “dude, its ok if you’re gay, just don’t be such a fag about it, you’re making me horn-erp-nervous.” when you say you think its a choice, you are really saying its an option you might consider, because for you it might be a choice.

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    Ron

    @CaseyL: Watching Bachmann was creepy. I could barely focus on what she was saying because of her looking off to the right the whole time.

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