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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2012 / President Obama Plays The GOP Yet Again

President Obama Plays The GOP Yet Again

by Zandar|  December 28, 20116:42 am| 81 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Republican Stupidity, Decline and Fall, hoocoodanode, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!

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Republicans are preparing to go into full OUTRAGE MODE over the Obama Administration’s request to the Treasury to raise the debt ceiling another $1.2 trillion.  The debt ceiling deal worked out earlier this year gives the Republicans a chance to pass a resolution of disapproval, but the President would have to sign the resolution after it somehow passed a Democratically-controlled Senate in order to stop the debt ceiling hike.  In other words, there’s nothing the Republicans can really do other than complain loudly.

Except President Obama has outfoxed the elephants once again:  the GOP may not even get the chance to do that much, because they’re on winter break until January 17.  Brian Beutler explains:

The key issue is the 15-day deadline Congress has to vote on a resolution of disapproval of the President’s request to raise the debt ceiling. The timing of the administration’s planned certification implies that the 15 days would be up before Congress returns in January from its holiday recess. Whether this was an accident or not, we’re told that the calendar issue created a behind-the-scenes mess — with Republicans threatening to return early from recess — and that the administration is trying to figure out a way to keep it from spilling out into the public.

I’ve reached out to the administration for further guidance on both questions. It’s still unclear whether this was a hardball political move, a dumb mistake, or just a misunderstanding — or what, if anything, can be done to avoid a public clash with the GOP over the timing.

The size of the debt hike — easily getting the country through 2012 without having to bring it up during the election — and the timing seems to indicate to me that A) this was done on purpose, B) it was done to pants the GOP, and C) most importantly the Obama administration understands full well that raising the debt ceiling was going to be portrayed by the GOP as an impeachable offense no matter what the President actually did about it.   So the White House is looking to get this out of the way.

Pretty sure this was the plan all along, and the GOP is now facing having to blow their vacation or miss their big chance at portraying the President as the most vile of all villains when of course previous Presidents jacked up the debt limit all the time, including Dubya’s seven times and Reagan’s 18 times.   Your move, Republicans.  You already lost that fight once.

If you ask me, President Obama’s got them by the short hairs.  Again.

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  1. 1.

    Soonergrunt

    December 28, 2011 at 6:46 am

    Leaving aside the fact that the debt ceiling is entirely artificial and probably unconstitutional, yeah, I’d say he maneuvered the republicans into a corner and then dry-fucked them.

    On another note, Ben Nelson, who kept us all safe from government-sponsored health care, will now get government-sponsored health care at our expense, for the rest of his useless life.

  2. 2.

    debbie

    December 28, 2011 at 7:14 am

    How long until Republicans freak out over Obama’s nomiations for the Federal Reserve Board?

  3. 3.

    BO_Bill

    December 28, 2011 at 7:15 am

    There comes a time when this stops being a game. Recognize that government debt is necessarily being monetized. ‘M3’ or money supply including long-term deposits stopped being publically reported by the private banking concern, the Federal Reserve, which creates money for its owners, the private banks, in 2006, because it was ‘not important’. Key Jews understand the consequences of this. Most Americans do not.

    So, anyway, before that private banking concern the Federal Reserve stopped keeping public record of ‘M3’ (it has even been scrubbed from Wikipedia) it was increasing at a rate of 19% per year. Again, this is the banks giving themselves money. M3 was $10 trillion in 2006 when it became too much of a bother to track any more.

    Continuing with our Logic, Barry has increased the debt from $10 trillion to $16 trillion. So this means, when everything pans out, the money supply has increased 60%, while the supply of sun-acres has stayed steady, and the supply of oil has decreased. The supply of gold has gone up slightly through mining, although the supply of gold reserves has gone down by an identical amount, yielding no real change.

    The end consequence is that if you had $10,000 in the bank, Barry and Company has taken $6,000 from you. Thus the power of the Presidency and the execution-style killings of all of the gays in Barack’s church in the months leading up to the presidential push with no press coverage, and the Weekly Standard’s hatred of Ron Paul. Barry’s team plays for keeps. I don’t think he understands this.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2011 at 7:22 am

    @BO_Bill:

    the execution-style killings of all of the gays in Barack’s church in the months leading up to the presidential push

    Say whut?

  5. 5.

    NobodySpecial

    December 28, 2011 at 7:22 am

    @BO_Bill: Your Stormfront is showing.

  6. 6.

    Console

    December 28, 2011 at 7:25 am

    @BO_Bill:

    There’s a reason real economists measure inflation by price increases instead of money supply increases. Otherwise you just get dumbassery like this statement: “The end consequence is that if you had $10,000 in the bank, Barry and Company has taken $6,000 from you.”

    Propaganda only works when it doesn’t dramatically conflict with common sense. Lying eyes and all that.

  7. 7.

    Phylllis

    December 28, 2011 at 7:30 am

    @BO_Bill:

    the execution-style killings of all of the gays in Barack’s church in the months leading up to the presidential push with no press coverage

    And you learned of it via the radio signals coming in through your fillings?

  8. 8.

    BO_Bill

    December 28, 2011 at 7:31 am

    *** Donald Young *** Larry Bland *** Nate Spencer ***

    Gay Obama acquaintances from church, all murdered November-December 2007. Bullets to the brain. I don’t get Stormfront. It is banned as hate-speech.

    Money is a very powerful thing. People go nuts over it. Especially those who say they don’t.

  9. 9.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 7:36 am

    Is there a reason that Brick Oven Bill is not banned here?

  10. 10.

    magurakurin

    December 28, 2011 at 7:38 am

    come on John, surely this is reason enough to ban the IP address. Fun is fun, but seriously…gay murder plots??

    Fuckin’ man up, John. Don’t let this become a nut job haven like TPM. I’m beggin’ ya here.

  11. 11.

    amk

    December 28, 2011 at 7:40 am

    @BO_Bill: You know jacksquat about what economy is and how it works, do ya ?

  12. 12.

    Baud

    December 28, 2011 at 7:41 am

    @Napoleon:

    Is there a reason that Brick Oven Bill is not banned here?

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure this:

    Key Jews understand the consequences of this. Most Americans do not.

    qualifies as a ban-able offense.

  13. 13.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 7:44 am

    @Baud:

    Not to mention he just basically accused a sitting president of murder.

  14. 14.

    SGEW

    December 28, 2011 at 7:44 am

    De-lurking to request that Brick Oven Bill be banned (again!) for overt bigotry and general craziness.

  15. 15.

    ant

    December 28, 2011 at 7:44 am

    yeah, brick head loves to mention the jooz…. dont he.

    put the pipe down man, it aint good for ya.

  16. 16.

    Raven

    December 28, 2011 at 7:47 am

    Get this motherfucker out of here.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    December 28, 2011 at 7:47 am

    @Napoleon:

    Not to mention he just basically accused a sitting president of murder.

    Well, they did that with Clinton too. It’s so loony that I find it less offensive than the antisemitism. I say we compromise and suggest that John ban him twice.

  18. 18.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 7:48 am

    @Baud:

    Deal

  19. 19.

    Ron

    December 28, 2011 at 7:50 am

    I had never heard of these gay murder plots before, but they exist out there on the internets. A short google search found references. They seem to rest on Larry Sinclair’s claims, and he isn’t exactly a credible source.

  20. 20.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2011 at 7:51 am

    It’s the GOP’s own damn fault. First, they insisted on this silly “let’s embarrass the President” structure to the debt ceiling bill, and then they gave themselves a month of winter vacation. If they had scheduled themselves to come back to work right after New Year’s Day like normal people have to, they’d have had plenty of time for their hissy fit.

  21. 21.

    amk

    December 28, 2011 at 7:52 am

    @Baud: Don’t the FP’ers here also get to ban the trolls in their threads ? I think mm banned some in his posts.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    December 28, 2011 at 7:54 am

    @amk: I think the FP’s can force a “time out.” I don’t know if they can also ban.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    December 28, 2011 at 7:58 am

    While BOB is reliably consistent in some things (oh noes! The Joos are coming to take your children for blood sacrifices–and, yes, that’s a slight exaggeration but not really), he can often surprise me. Gotta say the Obama gay murder plot came outta left field.

    BOB really is a vile mfer.

  24. 24.

    Emma

    December 28, 2011 at 7:58 am

    @BO_Bill: I’ll have to deduct points from this performance. It was going well until the last paragraph, but then it just disintegrates. 6.6 out of 10.

    (edit) Jesus Christ on a Harley. I looked the names up and sure enough… is there nothing the morons won’t swallow these days?

  25. 25.

    JPL

    December 28, 2011 at 7:58 am

    B.O.B tends to rant more in the morning when the boss man is fast asleep. He thinks he can get away with it.
    Has Boehner shed tears about the President’s latest move?

  26. 26.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 7:58 am

    @Ron:

    They seem to rest on Larry Sinclair’s claims, and he isn’t exactly a credible source.

    No joke:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11164.html

  27. 27.

    Melton

    December 28, 2011 at 7:59 am

    This is sad if this is what constitutes a victory.

  28. 28.

    Ben Cisco (mobile)

    December 28, 2011 at 8:00 am

    Whatever “entertainment ” this mook has provided for some on this blog is well past the expiration date, particularly for mobile users who cannot make use of Cleek’s troll-be-gone script-fu. Time for him to go, John.

  29. 29.

    Omnes Omnibus

    December 28, 2011 at 8:01 am

    @dmsilev: Well, come on now. Be fair. It wasn’t very nice of the President to fight back against them. Especially when they are on vacation. Everyone knows that.

  30. 30.

    KJ

    December 28, 2011 at 8:20 am

    Actually Congress is not on recess. Remember they are in session to prevent President Obama from making any recess appointments.

  31. 31.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 8:27 am

    @KJ:

    I have never been one to think that Obama and his people play 11th dementional chess, but your post and the one before it made me think just for a second that he is this time.

    First the Republicans, stupidly (a la Jack Kingston mode) complain that they are on vacation and that it is unfair for him to make them come back to save civilization from the communist Kenyan, then once that gets plenty of airplay he makes a ton of recess appointments and then they complain that he can not do that because they are in session.

    Nah, too good to possibly be true.

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    December 28, 2011 at 8:27 am

    And BO Bill has played the Balloon Juice commentariat once again.

    Who needs a pie filter to know “just scroll on past.”

  33. 33.

    dmsilev

    December 28, 2011 at 8:27 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Oh right, I forgot about that. My bad.

    Of course, we all know that these same halfwits will turn on a dime and accuse Obama of taking too much vacation time. They project more frequently than the local multiplex.

  34. 34.

    WereBear (itouch)

    December 28, 2011 at 8:29 am

    It’s stuff like this that will cement the “Republican = Clowns” meme in a whole generation. If anyone is unswayed now, they will probably have to die off before they vote D.

  35. 35.

    The Other Bob

    December 28, 2011 at 8:30 am

    How do I know there is nothing to the “gay murder plot”? Dan Choi hasn’t said anythign about it.

  36. 36.

    Xenos

    December 28, 2011 at 8:32 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Say whut?

    I think ol’ bricky (or whoever writes him) slipped that in there to see if anyone was still reading him by the third paragraph. If not for your ‘Say whut?’ it would have breezed right by me.

  37. 37.

    Cheap jim

    December 28, 2011 at 8:32 am

    What do Jews of Key Largo know that they don’t in say, Sarasota or Tallahassee?

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2011 at 8:35 am

    @Napoleon:

    11th dementional chess

    Nice!

  39. 39.

    MikeBoyScout

    December 28, 2011 at 8:36 am

    @3 brick oven:

    “‘M3’ (it has even been scrubbed from Wikipedia)”

    Not only has M3 not been scrubbed from Wikipedia, the page is rarely edited.

    Now, run along and replace your hat.

  40. 40.

    Napoleon

    December 28, 2011 at 8:40 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That is what lack of coffee and proof reading will do.

  41. 41.

    rlrr

    December 28, 2011 at 8:50 am

    @Napoleon:

    It’s OK. Many conservatives (Jerry Falwell, for example) accused Bill Clinton of murder without any negative consequences…

  42. 42.

    rlrr

    December 28, 2011 at 8:51 am

    @BO_Bill:

    A large, awkward, random assemblage of sentences…

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    December 28, 2011 at 8:52 am

    @Napoleon:

    I wasn’t sure whether it was a typo or deliberate. Even if it was due to lack of caffeine, it’s really a brilliant construction. I would own it proudly if I were you.

  44. 44.

    Calouste

    December 28, 2011 at 9:04 am

    In other debt-related news, Italy has managed to borrow money at 3.5%, half the rate it was last week or so. It seems the eurocalypse has been averted for the moment.

  45. 45.

    Schlemizel

    December 28, 2011 at 9:16 am

    @Calouste:
    If I were a rich man –
    The ECB was loaning money at 1% a couple weeks ago so people could buy Italy at 7%. You could have made 6% for just sitting there. Now you could sell at a premium, pay off the ECB loan and have a tidy profit left over. All you needed was the wealth to play in those circles.

  46. 46.

    rikyrah

    December 28, 2011 at 9:18 am

    hee hee hee hee he

  47. 47.

    redshirt

    December 28, 2011 at 9:38 am

    Trolls sure are good for thread hits!

    Also, I don’t know why anyone on this site would be surprised at anything Obama does – the man’s a genius, with a spirit and personality to match. He’s going to play every card he has as well as can be played. Is it enough? Who knows, but I feel a bit better every day knowing we’ve got Obama on the side of logic, justice, and everything that’s good up to and including kitties and puppies.

  48. 48.

    Dave

    December 28, 2011 at 9:43 am

    good to know Obama will play hardball for liberal priorities like the debt ceiling.

  49. 49.

    burnspbesq

    December 28, 2011 at 9:48 am

    @KJ:

    “Remember they are in session to prevent President Obama from making any recess appointments.”

    It would be kind of amusing if the Republican House members who are perpetrating this ridiculous stunt were to show up at the Capitol one morning to find all the doors locked.

  50. 50.

    burnspbesq

    December 28, 2011 at 9:51 am

    @The Other Bob:

    This gay murder plot must be the root of Manning’s psychological problems.

  51. 51.

    burnspbesq

    December 28, 2011 at 9:54 am

    @Calouste:

    “Italy has managed to borrow money at 3.5%”

    Unpossible. The Invisible Bond Vigilantes would never allow that.

  52. 52.

    kindness

    December 28, 2011 at 9:54 am

    People, people….C’mon now. Censoring nut cases & trolls isn’t how one wins a fight with them. You win a fight with them by pointing out their errors every chance you have. Let the trolls become your own attack ads as to why the crazies are wrong.

    Why any one here thinks it’s their place to tell anyone in authority here what they should do because there is an idiot in their midst is really on par with what the crazy righties want as a response. Don’t play their game. Play your own game. It’s the only way to win.

  53. 53.

    Craig

    December 28, 2011 at 10:01 am

    To Hell with these jerks. Congress is in session right now; if they took a recess, Obama could actually appoint some people to do the work of the government. And we couldn’t have that, could we? But if Congress is in session, it is entirely appropriate for the President to send them anything he wants. If they wanted to take a recess, that’s what they damn well should have done.

    More like this, please.

  54. 54.

    kdaug

    December 28, 2011 at 10:05 am

    @BO_Bill: Agreed. Further, the Illuminati’s cornering of the aluminum market is a direct bid to deprive us of the means to create our hats. It’s the last line of defense, people!

  55. 55.

    pablo

    December 28, 2011 at 10:09 am

    Now, let the FUCKING RECESS APPOINTMENTS FUCKING BEGIN!

  56. 56.

    MomSense

    December 28, 2011 at 10:19 am

    @Emmma “Jesus Christ on a Harley” is right. I wish my workplace had an eyewash station.

    Thank goodness for @kdaug #54

    Please blog master on high, please ban BO_Bill.

  57. 57.

    Marc

    December 28, 2011 at 10:26 am

    @kindness:

    It isn’t censorship. Half of the damn posts in this thread have been about an outrageous set of claims. If you don’t moderate discussions you end up with pure garbage. Trolls will post twenty, thirty, forty posts…enough to make sure that no one else can talk about anything but them. Or they’ll drop exceptionally vile and disgusting nonsense, like BoB did here, and enjoy getting the reaction that they did.

    You have to quickly ban these people for the same reason you have to quickly get rid of graffiti. The vandals stop bothering if no one sees their work.

  58. 58.

    kdaug

    December 28, 2011 at 10:28 am

    @MomSense:

    Thank goodness for @kdaug #54

    C’mon. Blushing ain’t my strong suit.

  59. 59.

    Cris (without an H)

    December 28, 2011 at 10:34 am

    @BO_Bill: I don’t get Stormfront. It is banned as hate-speech.

    “I would get Stormfront if my company’s firewall allowed it.”

    @Napoleon: Is there a reason that Brick Oven Bill is not banned here?

    Because he’s a spoof?

  60. 60.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 28, 2011 at 10:40 am

    @Emma:

    Jesus Christ on a Harley. I looked the names up and sure enough… is there nothing the morons won’t swallow these days?

    I have never heard the “on a Harley” part before. Let’s start a fundraiser to get this guy a suitable motorcycle so it can become true: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/lord_jesus_christ_suffers_mino.html

    To get back to your question, the answer is “no”.

  61. 61.

    rea

    December 28, 2011 at 10:50 am

    @dmsilev: You’re right, this is something the GOP did to itself. After all, the government has to make end-of-year interest payments on bonds, particularly those held by the social security trust fund. So, of course, now is when the debt ceiling has to be extended. The GOP just got caught not paying attention.

  62. 62.

    boss bitch

    December 28, 2011 at 11:00 am

    @Napoleon:

    I have never been one to think that Obama and his people play 11th dementional chess, but your post and the one before it made me think just for a second that he is this time.

    I really wish people would stop using that term. Obama thinks and plans for the long term. There’s nothing uber sneaky or 11th dimensional about it. Pundits, MSM, bloggers are all focused on scoring political points and winning the day or news cycle. Obama just keeps it moving, shaking his head at the carnival barkers, and gets shit done. Eventually the rest of you catch up and sometimes even have the nerve to take credit for his work.

  63. 63.

    Linda Featheringill

    December 28, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Morning, folks.

    I pied BOB a while ago so I don’t know exactly what filth he is spewing today but I take his sputtering as a sign that Obama won this particular little game. That’s good to see, sweet even. Obama akbar!

    [There’s some really cute stuff on the pie filter. Kudos to all who have contributed to that. You’ve increased the amount of peace in the world.]

  64. 64.

    The Moar You Know

    December 28, 2011 at 11:11 am

    This blog has done just fine for years without wholesale banning of people or any form of moderation whatsoever.

    I see no reason that should change. Frankly, I kinda like the Brick Oven guy, he reminds me of some of my more senile relatives.

  65. 65.

    Larv

    December 28, 2011 at 11:12 am

    @Cris (without an H):

    Because he’s a spoof?

    Yeah. I don’t know if this is the original BOB, but whoever is posting as him now is almost certainly spoofing. His comment at #3 really makes absolutely no sense, and seems to be just a bunch of crazy accusations strung together to demonstrate his craziness. In my experience, real conspiracy theorists are only too happy to explain the intricate connections between the various components of their theory du jour. But BOB is just throwing bizarre shit out there and hoping for a reaction – I mean, seriously:

    Thus the power of the Presidency and the execution-style killings of all of the gays in Barack’s church in the months leading up to the presidential push with no press coverage, and the Weekly Standard’s hatred of Ron Paul.

    That components of that sentence don’t have anything to do with each other, and none of it has anything to do with the rest of the comment. It’s just BOB (or the person playing that role) jumping up and down saying “hey everybody, look how crazy I am!”

    It’s even mildly amusing sometimes, but it inevitably results in dozens of comments responding to him as if he’s for real, which gets tiresome.

  66. 66.

    kindness

    December 28, 2011 at 11:12 am

    @The Moar You Know: And Rush Limbaugh.

  67. 67.

    liberal

    December 28, 2011 at 11:27 am

    @BO_Bill:

    Recognize that government debt is necessarily being monetized.

    You don’t understand how modern banking works. Banks are not reserve constrained; at best, they’re capital constrained.

    And given the risk of deflation, and the fact that there’s simply no way that all this private sector debt is ever going to be paid off, it would be a good thing if we had a bout of inflation. I say that as someone who has always saved and saw the dot com and housing bubbles in advance. It’s a bad outcome, but it might be the least bad.

  68. 68.

    Brandon

    December 28, 2011 at 11:27 am

    I thought people here were cognizant enough of all internet teaditions to recognize high trollery at its finest. But I guess not. B.O.B., Brick Oven Bill and the latest incarnation are playing ya’ll for fools if you get worked up enough to respond. My word.

    I have to give B.O.B. full credit here because he won the thread.

  69. 69.

    Aaron

    December 28, 2011 at 11:40 am

    How can I apply for one of these “Key Jews” positions that BO Bill speaks of?
    Does it pay well? it certainly sounds like it should.

  70. 70.

    DanielX

    December 28, 2011 at 11:55 am

    The size of the debt hike—easily getting the country through 2012 without having to bring it up during the election—and the timing seems to indicate to me that A) this was done on purpose, B) it was done to pants the GOP, and C) most importantly the Obama administration understands full well that raising the debt ceiling was going to be portrayed by the GOP as an impeachable offense no matter what the President actually did about it. So the White House is looking to get this out of the way.

    About – fucking – time. D’you suppose Obama has finally figured out, after three years, that congressional Republicans are never going to negotiate in good faith? Their version of negotiation is where the other party surrenders up front, and then the terms of the surrender are negotiated. Another fight over the debt limit would be another disgusting and pointless exercise in capitulation by the Democrats in which the more they surrender the more the Republicans demand.

  71. 71.

    DanielX

    December 28, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    OT but…

    Also, too – “Hitler hears that Gingrich is leading the GOP race” is second only to “Hillary’s Downfall” in Downfall political parodies.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laU6PfdgW44

  72. 72.

    shortstop

    December 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    @Emma: When Benen had The Carpetbagger Report, there was a particularly nutso PUMA who was convinced that Larry Sinclair was a normal, likeable guy who spoke gospel truth. In between her incessant whining about Obama’s sexism, she managed to fling around enough racist and homophobic rhetoric to top off a landfill. And she was a CalTech psychology professor.

  73. 73.

    Emma

    December 28, 2011 at 12:31 pm

    @DanielX: You know, looking back to what Obama has managed to accomplish in spite of Congress, I would have thought people like yourself would have realized that he usually wins. But I guess that you won’t be satisfied until he acts like a Democratic version of a Republican.

  74. 74.

    RalfW

    December 28, 2011 at 1:31 pm

    It doesn’t hurt the administration that this is about the most black-hole week of political news in the entire year. Very few people are tuned in to news, especially arcane debt-limit news, between Xmas and New Year’s eve.

    And if people are tuned in to political news, the Iowa horse race wins out.

    I nominate this as a smart assed pantsing of the GOP.

  75. 75.

    KarenJ

    December 28, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    @debbie: It’s a wonder a dozen or so GOPsters in Congress haven’t already keeled over dead from brain aneurysms, the way they go into tailspins every time President Obama does ANYTHING to progress this country.

  76. 76.

    ShadeTail

    December 28, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    @shortstop:

    When Benen had The Carpetbagger Report, there was a particularly nutso PUMA who was convinced that Larry Sinclair was a normal, likeable guy who spoke gospel truth. In between her incessant whining about Obama’s sexism, she managed to fling around enough racist and homophobic rhetoric to top off a landfill. And she was a CalTech psychology professor.

    “Mary”, correct? She followed us to Washington Monthly for a little while, but I haven’t seen her for a few years now.

  77. 77.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    December 28, 2011 at 2:15 pm

    @Napoleon:

    Is there a reason that Brick Oven Bill is not banned here?

    Comedic effect?

  78. 78.

    Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937

    December 28, 2011 at 2:18 pm

    @BO_Bill:

    I don’t get Stormfront. It is banned as hate-speech.

    If it wasn’t ‘banned’ as hate-speech, you would ‘get’ it? (whatever that means)

  79. 79.

    opie jeanne

    December 28, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    @Commenting at Ballon Juice since 1937: His mother must have figured out what he was doing in the basement, set up some parental controls.

  80. 80.

    priscianusjr

    December 28, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    the execution-style killings of all of the gays in Barack’s church in the months leading up to the presidential push — Say whut?

    Yes, the Key Jews saw to that.

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