Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

You cannot shame the shameless.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

No one could have predicted…

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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  5. 5.

    scav

    ‘Beyond My Control’, really? All I get off of that is the near end of Dangerous Liasons and that didn’t end well. Ah well, this was one of those sudden inexplicable affairs that may very well end with tears (and duels) before bedtime.

  6. 6.

    Bulworth

    At 4 PM EST Boner is still short.
    if the the tea party/conservatives/libertarians do not have the votes they will pull the bill to avoid the abject humiliation.

    It’s usually about this time that Village Media Elite rise up to wring their hands over how Partisan the Democrat Party is and where oh where is the grand mass of centrists from the serious center to band together, bipartisanlike, and pass the bill.

  8. 8.

    scav

    Excellent choice of entertainment for the evening and if I didn’t see a yeti it was probably my fault.

  9. 9.

    Legalize

    As much as the Boeher bill sucks, don’t we need it to pass so that the Senate can turn it into something better?

  10. 10.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I second the who is the mysterious band member? You mean we might actually know what a BJ commenter (besides ABL and me) look like? This could be fun.

  11. 11.

    Amir_Khalid

    A little while ago a commenter with the nym Uncle Ebeneezer said he was the drummer and songwriter, but when I refreshed the page Uncle Ebeneezer’s comment was gone. Wha’ happened?

  12. 12.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Whoops I got spammed for trying to provide website (click on my handle.)

    Yes, I’m the drummer of the band and an avid BJ reader. I also link to BJ frequently on our band blog. This is one of our sillier songs but we routinely get pretty political in our lyrics. EP available on Itunes and CDbaby.

    Thanks Doug, for posting!! –John/Uncle Eb

  13. 13.

    Linda Featheringill

    Good for you, Uncle E!

    I am watching the debate on the House floor on C-Span, with the sound down at the present. It’s easier on me that way.

    Ryan had on a suit that was really ill fitting. I’m not a clothes horse myself but gee whiz. You would think that Washington has lots of very competent tailors. He doesn’t have to look like an orphan.

  14. 14.

    joes527

    The whole: “the house passes the Boner bill and then the senate returns the serve with the Reid bill and THAT is what gets passed because there is no time for anything else” assumes that there ~25 Republicans in the house willing to accept everything that they asked for, while giving the Democrats didly-squat.

    Not. Gonna. Happen.

  15. 15.

    Cermet

    BJ has a famous band player – wow; now that is classy! (If I said anything in the past you didn’t like just forget I said anything … .)

  16. 16.

    Zyla

    CNN just announced that Boehner had to suspend the scheduled vote because he still doesn’t have the votes.

  17. 17.

    dmsilev

    From TPM, just a minute or two ago: BREAKING NEWS — 5:26 PM: HOUSE VOTE ON BOEHNER PLAN POSTPONED

    Translation: They don’t have a majority, and want more time to try to twist arms.

  19. 19.

    Joseph Nobles

    BOEHNER DOWN, BOEHNER DOWN. VOTE DELAYED INDEFINITELY!

    Translations: No Got Votes.

    Pelosi is on the floor right now.

  21. 21.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @12 Uncle – well that is fucking awesome! I think next to the pet threads, this is going to be one of my new favorite threads. Thanks DougJ.

  24. 24.

    General Stuck

    According to TPM, Boehner doesn’t have the votes.

    This is precisely why it was inherently dangerous to let morons play with dynamite ahead of a lightening storm

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    So, between yesterday and today, we have pretty stark proof that Boehner has absolutely no control over his caucus for anything remotely controversial. Any bets on how long it will be before Cantor tries to stage a coup?

  28. 28.

    joeyess

    I think Boner’s plan is a feces sandwich.

    So is Reid’s.

    With both parties competing for the mantle of austerity, they’re acting a bit like two crazed medeival doctors leeching a patient who’s already suffering from catastrophic blood loss.

    We’re gonna get austerity and we’re gonna like it, goddamnit.

  29. 29.

    Martin

    Well, regarding the whole default thing. I think I’ve now read enough stuff to feel relatively confident we won’t default. It’s not the finances that are the issue but the contradictory legislation that Congress has sent. Treasury has to do what it’s doing now, and will continue to do what it has to do to pay off maturing bonds, even if that means shutting down agencies and the like, but at some point maybe no later than around the 10th or so, they’ll be forced to violate one law or another, and I think Obama would at that point be forced to declare one of those contradictory bits of legislation to be unconstitutional, presumably the debt limit as the budget would override it, issue debt above that line and that’ll be that for the debt limit from here on out. The brain slug party will revolt, call Obama a totalitarian soçialist, threaten to impeach, and we’ll be off to the next manufactured crisis.

  31. 31.

    joes527

    Woo Hoo! Boner bill is defeated! Lets go dance in the streets!

    wait a minute …. is that a cliff I see up ahead?

  33. 33.

    Poopyman

    OK, so Boehner is a loser, and pretty soon surrendering the gavel to Pretty–Boy Cantor. Loverly.

    Just ran across a piece by Rachel Weiner at The Fix (WaPo): “Joe Walsh a new star — for better or worse”. Posted at 12:15 EDT, she somehow failed to notice the child support issue, for which she’s getting hammered in the comments.

    Ya know, if I didn’t know The Post’s editorial staff, I’d swear they put this stuff up as fodder for their commenters.

  34. 34.

    Amir_Khalid

    Böhner, Speaker of the House or Representatives, can’t get votes from his own party to pass urgent legislation? I tell you, friends, there stands a colossus of modern American politics. Future generations will speak his name with aw, as in “Aw, poor sap.”

  35. 35.

    Poopyman

    @eemom:

    ooooh, the pooooor little Orange thing! And right at cocktail hour too.

    My guess as to why he pulled it now rather than later in the evening. “Fuck it”, he sez, “Let’s get some scotch.”

  36. 36.

    J. Michael Neal

    What an awful week it’s been. Last night while trying to cut a mat out of Dirk’s fur, I managed to slice the back of his head open. So I spent three hours at the emergency room while he had three stitches put in. Fortunately, he turns out to be a lot easier to medicate than Eddie was.

    Also, a couple of weeks ago, I semi-accidentally found the contact information for a woman who was one of my tormentors in junior high school. She was the one who always confused me, because she always seemed like an intelligent and decent person in any context other than interacting with myself, unlike the dumb bitches and asshole jocks that made up the main portion of them. So now the incident in which she and a couple of her friends indulged in what I’ve eventually come to recognize as a bit of low grade sexual assault is stuck in my head.

    Bleh.

  37. 37.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Amir_Khalid:

    Böhner, Speaker of the House or Representatives, can’t get votes from his own party to pass urgent legislation?

    Without blaming anyone for the impasse, I must say that this has turned into failure to govern.

  38. 38.

    The Moar You Know

    Boehner’s finished. I will lay good money on the next House vote being for a new Speaker, rather than any of that confusing and scary budget horseshit, which the Republicans are clearly too busy to deal with.

  39. 39.

    Linda Featheringill

    @J. Michael Neal:

    My sympathy, dear.

    On the other hand, you have an opportunity to look at the incidents from an adult point of view, with the knowledge that you actually did survive it.

    Exorcising such demons is a painful business. I know. But a thorough mental examination of this situation in the past can give you a certain amount of peace. I know that, too.

    Good luck. And remember, we will respect you whether you choose to forgive the assholes or not. It doesn’t matter to us.

  40. 40.

    Todd

    I wish I could watch more than 10 seconds, it seems like it’s going to be ska. I miss ska.

  41. 41.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    Thanks everyone. Come for the tunes, stay for the pre-historic puppets!

    If this thread becomes no more or no less than a celebration of Agent Orange Fail Sauce and thinly veiled erection references, it will be an honor for us (Super Duper) to share the pixel-space.

  42. 42.

    General Stuck

    no later than around the 10th or so, they’ll be forced to violate one law or another,

    This is it in a nutshell. When congress passes a law with mandates, AND then appropriates monies to be spent to carry out those mandates, and both are codified by the POTUS john henry. Then the end game is reached for constitutional requirements, and must be carried out, and cannot be undone by a non constitutional requirement of a debt ceiling law.

    So it goes well past what the 14th amendment says, and when agencies start shutting down, then watchdog groups and various government advocacy groups will start filing lawsuits for their pet law and mandate to be carried out, as per the constitutional leg sausage having already been made and paid for.

    Obama would have to then, and hopefully before, just put an end to this contradictory Bullshit and choose whether to follow enumerated constitutional law, or some pure product from congress of their own devices only, that is the debt limit law.

  44. 44.

    IM

    To be honest, it is probably impossible to lead the current republican house. The younger generation is actually believing the propaganda.

  45. 45.

    Martin

    @General Stuck:

    Obama would have to then, and hopefully before, just put an end to this contradictory Bullshit and choose whether to follow enumerated constitutional law, or some pure product from congress of their own devices only, that is the debt limit law.

    Yeah, my guess is he’d argue to follow the most recent set of instructions given to him – which was the budget. The previous debt limit bill was early last year.

  46. 46.

    darms

    Here’s the band I’m in, ClearLight Research. Our ‘sound’ is old-school Texas psychedelia & the tune herein was first released by the Thirteenth Floor Elevators back in 1966. I’m the bass player…

  48. 48.

    Libby

    Late to the party, but really fun band. Nice work Uncle E. And I love this new meme. Great idea for a regular feature.

  49. 49.

    Greg M.

    I am the Coelcecanth in this band (have been for 90% of the performances involving puppets since the premiere of this song), and it’s a pleasure to see Super Duper and Balloon Juice come together.

  50. 50.

    Paul in KY

    Damn, that band has more members than Parliment Funkadelic! Nice video, though.

  52. 52.

    Paul in KY

    Be cool if Super Duper could play Bonnaroo sometime. They like the psycadelic/dance stuff (for the late night shows).

  53. 53.

    Uncle Ebeneezer

    @Kate- thanks. The Mint is one of our favorite venues. If you are ever back in LA, we’d love to see you at a show.

    @Greg M.- Were you already a BJ reader? If so, very cool. Our show would not be the same without you, that’s for sure!

    @Libby- Glad you like.

    @Paul- we some day hope to be the “biggest” band in the world, as far as how many people we can fit on a stage. Though P-Funk, Arcade Fire, and just about every Afro-beat band, have set the bar pretty high!

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