Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

In my day, never was longer.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

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

No one could have predicted…

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

This fight is for everything.

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

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Infrastructure week. at last.

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Live footage from the post vote tea party caucus:

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So that’s done for a bit, and from what I can tell the Democratic concessions included some pork for Mitch McConnell and an agreement that there will be a conference committee, something the Dems have wanted for a year. All in all, pretty much a total rout:

The House of Representatives late Wednesday night passed a Senate-brokered bill to fully reopen the government and raise the federal government’s debt ceiling.

I thought they would go over the brink, but it’s over for now until the lead paint caucus decides the debt limit is great fodder for teahadist primaries in February (the debt ceiling was only extended until Feb. 7th), at which point they will once again discover the joy of sticking their fingers into their didy and smearing shit all over the American body politic.

For now though, some relief, and us libtards can get back to our war on Christmas and aborting babies and making people gay through the magic of equal rights.

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  2. 2.

    MikeJ

    The Republicans might repeat the act that tanks their approval rating in a few months?

    Please, please don’t throw me in that briar patch!

  3. 3.

    amorphous

    Hey, remember when we hit peak wingnut shortly after McCain lost? That sure was a wacky time for this oil’ country. Good thing that cleared up quickly.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    and another one rolls on….

    Sam Stein ‏@ samsteinhp 2h
    I’m erasing the tweet. two reporters have now asked me if the Gravity excursion is true
    Sam Stein ‏@ samsteinhp 2h
    oh my god. i apologize to WH comms team if they get questions about POTUS going to see Gravity tonight. It was a joke. i’m sorry!
    Sam Stein ‏@ samsteinhp 2h
    I WAS JOKING!
    Sam Stein ‏@ samsteinhp 2h
    WH aide on timing of this speech: The President and First Lady didn’t want to cancel their tickets for the 9:10 showing of Gravity

    Pretty stupid of Stein to think this wouldn’t become the new right wing obsession– ever hear of a “hashtag”? I have and I’m old– we’ll hearing about “Gravity gate” for a week. and he hasn’t erased the tweet.

  5. 5.

    J.D. Rhoades

    it’s over for now until the lead paint caucus decides the debt limit is great fodder for teahadist primaries in February (the debt ceiling was only extended until Feb. 7th), at which point they will once again discover the joy of sticking their fingers into their didy and smearing shit all over the American body politic.

    And once again, they’ll grin like possums, thinking that everyone loves them for it. Maybe this time, people will send their asses home once and for all.

  7. 7.

    The Dangerman

    I was convinced we were going over the brink, too; I estimated the Right would rather burn it down than deal with post-cave political reality. Glad I was wrong.

    The good news is that Sequester II kicks in January 15th (thus the date of the CR) and S-II hits the DOD disproportionately hard. A deal will get done…

    …and, couple a CR deal in January with immigration reform, and the TP’ers will be barking at the moon.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I thought they would go over the brink

    Have you noticed that you almost always assume the worst thing is going to happen and that we will be DOOMED?

  10. 10.

    Redshirt

    Also, I, on the other hand, always assumed the last move would be Boehner letting the entire Congress vote and passing everything right before the deadline, just as happened. Also too, I am psychic.

  11. 11.

    TriassicSands

    And a majority of the GOP casts a heroic “Nay” vote. What clowns.

    I imagine they’ll spend the next several months trying to figure out how to do exactly the same thing in February and get a different result. How many millions of times between now and then will the Clown Prince (Cruz) blame college graduates’ failure to find jobs on Obamacare? Because we all know that every graduate was getting a six-figure job upon graduation before Obamacare came along.

  12. 12.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: here’ s the twitter profile of someone who retweeted Stein’s tweet

    Kathleen McKinley
    @ KatMcKinley
    Blog politics for The Houston Chron, Newsbusters, & The Moderate Voice. Compassionate Catholic Conservative. Crazy 4 God, kids,dogs, & wine. Ain’t a bad life.

    That’s the Houston Chronicle? The one that endorsed Cruz? I thought they were a serious outfit. But the Broderville Shopper has that jackass Melinda Henninberger as a “women’s issues” columnist.

  13. 13.

    Chris T.

    @J.D. Rhoades: Personally I think Stein and others should make increasingly ridiculous joke tweets like that somewhat regularly. I can’t wait for the wingnuts to claim that Obama is an alien from Alpha Centauri, that Obamacare is a secretly plan to drain all the nasal secretions from white people because it’s a Centaurian delicacy, and that the EPA is secretly collaborating to increase the CO2 levels to melt all the polar ice because Centaurians can’t take the cold!

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Of course, the problem with all this is that Presidents and First Ladies never go down to the Octoplex for a showing of any movie at all.

    If they see them, it’s in the WH itself. At whatever time they want to watch it.

    The reporters asking that question are unqualified to ever be employed by a legitimate news organization again.

    Which means of course there are plenty of opportunities for them with any of the major networks, CNN, or Faux. Or the WaPo, for that matter.

  15. 15.

    Nemo_N

    And let’s not forget that the media was in their usual “both sides do it” mode until the polls showed that the public somehow was able to see through the BS and find the actual miscreants.

    ALSO TOO: I’m so old I remember when the media liked to pretend the Tea Party was not part of the GOP.

  16. 16.

    mdblanche

    @TriassicSands:

    And a majority of the GOP casts a heroic “Nay” vote. What clowns.

    The important things to take away from that are that the Hastert rule is an inviolable constitutional mandate that is the very foundation of our republic and that the Teabagger crazies are an itty-bitty tiny little minority in an otherwise moderate, sober, and trustworthy Republican caucus.

  19. 19.

    Redshirt

    @mdblanche: Constitution?! I think it was in the Bible!

    Reagan 3:16 And Hastert came upon them, and said “Repukes only vote Repuke, and none other shall be suffered to speak”. And Lo, Denny delivered a law that the faithful followed, for they knew it to be Holy.

  26. 26.

    mdblanche

    Ha! The Washington Post is reporting that it was actually President Obama who requested the money for the Olmsted lock, conveniently located in Kentucky but also serving Illinois. It looks like the only thing the GOP got out of this were 3,008 Canadian dollars worth of Bennigan’s coupons and bubblegum.

  27. 27.

    Ash Can

    To tell the absolute truth, I really did think the House GOP would force a default and force Obama to take extreme measures, in order to trump up an excuse to impeach him. Although we came way too close to my prediction for comfort, I am quite glad I was ultimately wrong.

    Oh, and this?

    the lead paint caucus

    Ripped off without a hint of shame. Although I promise to at least try to give credit.

  28. 28.

    Comrade Dread

    For now though, some relief, and us libtards can get back to our war on Christmas and aborting babies and making people gay through the magic of equal rights.

    I also have to finish setting up the Muslim foot washes in the FEMA camps.

  29. 29.

    Chyron HR

    @Chris T.:

    I can’t wait for the wingnuts to claim that Obama is an alien from Alpha Centauri

    Forget the Kenyan birth certificate, I have an official record which proves that his name is Jupiter, from the galaxy.

  30. 30.

    mai naem

    What is it with the outside Dems criticizing the Obama people this week. First Gibbs with the Obamacare slam and then Leon Panetta and his dissing Obama for not getting involved. Seriously? Panetta who was grilled by the whackjobs over Benghazi and other crap is criticizing Obama for not working hard enough to make the whackjobs happy??

  31. 31.

    Ken

    us libtards can get back to our war on Christmas and aborting babies and making people gay through the magic of equal rights.

    Get some rest. If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.

  34. 34.

    Chris T.

    @MikeJ: Bwahahaha. That video is hilarious!

    [COMMENTATOR] “At first, he appears human … but look what happens when we zoom in so much that his face is represented by just six pixels!”

  36. 36.

    Chris T.

    @Chyron HR: Yep, the Kenyan thing was just a mistake, because from Alpha Centauri, it’s so hard to distinguish between the various parts of the Earth’s surface….

  37. 37.

    Felonius Monk

    @mdblanche:

    It looks like the only thing the GOP got out of this were 3,008 Canadian dollars worth of Bennigans coupons and bubblegum.

    And wow, did they get a deal! That is much too generous.

  38. 38.

    mclaren

    Once again my prediction that “the debt limit thing is another Y2K scare” came true. You may now kiss the hem of my robe.

    Speaking of predictions, I have a standing bet of 1 pizza that the next president of the united states will be a Democrat. Any takers?

    Didn’t think so.

  39. 39.

    jl

    @MikeJ:

    Weekly World News used to keep us all updated on all the Presidential space alien advisers. I remember Bush Sr. had a tall skinny one.

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    Great, now we can go back to not being laughed at for a few months until we repeat this whole thing in a few months.

    Whatever, more opportunity for the GOP to stomp on its own dick again.

  42. 42.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @PsiFighter37:

    Great, now we can go back to not being laughed at for a few months until we repeat this whole thing in a few months.

    Just memorize the psychotic parties in other countries. When they point out the Tea Party, mention the Le Pens if in France and so on.

  43. 43.

    jon

    Obama: Cruz, you bloodsucker. You’re going to have to do your own dirty work now! Do you hear me? Do you?
    Cruz: Barack? You’re still alive, my old friend?
    Obama: Still, “old friend!” You’ve managed to kill everyone else, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target!
    Cruz: Perhaps I no longer need to try, President.
    [beams the Sequester money away]
    Obama: Cruz… Cruz you’ve got the Sequester, but you don’t have me. You were going to kill me, Cruz. You’re going to have to come down here. You’re going to have to come down here!
    Cruz: I’ve done far worse than kill you, POTUS. I’ve hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you. I shall leave you as you left me, as you left her; marooned for all eternity in the center of a lame duck term… buried alive! Buried alive…!
    Obama: CRUUUUUUUZ!
    [echo]
    Obama: CRUUUUUUUZ!

    (ten seconds later)
    Obama: Biden, do you think he’s stupid enough to buy it?
    Biden: Who gives a shit? Just enjoy this moment!

  45. 45.

    Tim F.

    @Redshirt: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: i kind of wonder whether Obama bigfooted the House vote (just like I did John’s post. Sucka) to make sure that a majority of Boehner’s caucus voted no. Those votes were symbolic, but I bet the symbolism will make the coda of everyone’s wrap up of this sorry event. Even at the end Boehner’s bugfuck caucus voted no.

  46. 46.

    RaflW

    Gotta agree with Matt O’brien at The Atlantic

    @ObsoleteDogma
    Paul Ryan is so serious that he voted against raising the debt ceiling.

    144 yahoos voted to keep the monuments closed, and oh, yeah, also blow the M-Fing global economy to pieces. Charming.

    Anyway, cookies and ice cream and maybe a decent night’s sleep after this whole Shit-Show, Part the XXIV.

  48. 48.

    Redshirt

    @Tim F.: We have to presume Barack Hussein Obama is just as aware of the Wingnuts, Teabaggers, Birchers, Racists and other assorted Morans as we are, and can calculate their reaction to just about every one of his actions, or even non-actions. Barack Obama is the Troll in Chief if for no other reason politics these days is nothing but a game played between sincere contestants, and the insane.

  53. 53.

    jon

    @RaflW: At the point it’s going to pass, there’s just the possibility of protest votes. For the low-information types, a protest vote can be meaningful. For others, it just is a way to express disfavor. The Democrats missed out on a bit of an opportunity when they didn’t hold off voting on this, forcing the Republicans’ hands to say what they really thought. But even that is a bit of a game, because the Dems weren’t about to let this fall and everyone knew it.

    The shutdown was the proof of their intentions. The debt ceiling was the proof of their limits. I’m willing to believe many would have let the economy go for a day or two before “reluctantly” doing the right thing and giving up on the pretense of protest, but the only real proof they can have about their intentions to deal with debt are balanced budgets and tax policy votes. I wouldn’t hold my breath for any of that, nor would I recommend that for even suicidal Kool-Aid drinkers of the far Right. Just not going to happen.

  56. 56.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @jon: Paul Ryan’s opponent should use his protest vote against him. “Paul Ryan says he is in favor of fiscal responsibility, but he voted for the US to act like a deadbeat.”

  58. 58.

    eemom

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Have you noticed that you almost always assume the worst thing is going to happen and that we will be DOOMED?

    Well, I don’t and I confess to being a bit CONCERNED, this time around.

    k y’all — who besides mclaren is going to insist they absolutely KNEW all along the default wasn’t going to happen?

  59. 59.

    fuckwit

    @The Dangerman: I want immigration reform, a raise in the minimum wage to $15/hr, carbon tax or cap and trade, the VRA reworded to pass SCOTUS muster, a fix to the holes in coverage in Obamacare, tax increases on corporations and the richest individuals, elimination of offshore tax havens, and mandatory background checks for all gun purchase, including at gun shows.

    And a motherfucking PONY, motherfucker.

    And if you give me shit, I’ll add legalization of marijuana to the mix.

    Let’s start a conversation with that.

  61. 61.

    fuckwit

    @eemom: I for one was convinced it was going to happen. I’m damn glad it did not. Apparently Wall Street had some inside information, so they barely flinched. Indeed, this problem is solved now. On to the next ones.

  63. 63.

    Comrade Luke

    This showed up on my twitter feed today:

    I still don’t understand! How are we going to default? We earn 10 times the revenue we need to cover our debt obligations! We easily can pay our loans, so we won’t default. We don’t have enough to continue spending like we have been, with reckless abandon, on everything else under the sun, but our ability to pay our debts is unquestionable. Unless, of course, someone decides paying for everything else has priority over paying our debt. That would be incredibly foolish. But nobody’s that stupid are they?

    This guy is on the board of regents at my university.

  64. 64.

    RaflW

    @Tim F.:

    Even at the end Boehner’s bugfuck caucus voted no.

    Part of Pelosi’s move was the massive unity. Just a nice poke at Boehner, who can’t even whip himself these days.

  65. 65.

    RaflW

    @Comrade Luke:

    Well, because not paying Granny her SS check isn’t default (it is, but to morans like your regent there, uhh, he gets to set his own rules you see, just like GOP congrescritters do).

  66. 66.

    JC

    I’m interested in the February 7 date. It’s hard to understand this ‘legalese’, or ‘bill-ese’, in this case, however, it looks like the President is empowered to suspend the debt limit, subject to a ‘joint disapproval’ by Congress, that can be vetoed by the President. (thus only overriden with 2/3d’s of both Houses).

    Is that a one time ‘suspend the debt limit? Only good to February 7th? Or is this a continuing power the President has, for the future?

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    Have not had the time to read the bill page by page, but my understanding is that a crucial change was made regarding the debt ceiling.

    To wit, that the debt ceiling will now increase automatically unless both chambers of Congress pass a bill denying the increase.

  68. 68.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @eemom:
    I did not know. I did know it was all about Boehner and when Boehner would allow the Dem bill to come to a vote. I was pushing that from day one. Part of that assessment was that I did not have a friggin’ CLUE what makes Boehner tick.

    I still don’t. The Tea Party will try to take every budget, funding, and debt vote from now on hostage. All of them. They haven’t learned anything, and nothing can make them learn anything. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed. And it will still be easy to outvote them, if and only if the bills are allowed to come to a vote.

    EDIT – @NotMax:
    Hold up on that. I don’t think it’s true. I heard that it was just a weird fig leaf to the ‘the treasury can’t take extraordinary measures’ crowd. Utterly meaningless in practice. So we’d better wait for expert interpretation.

  70. 70.

    Jebediah, RBG

    @eemom:

    k y’all — who besides mclaren is going to insist they absolutely KNEW all along the default wasn’t going to happen?

    Sure as hell not me – I was pretty much scared shitless.

  71. 71.

    JC

    @NotMax: Yes, this is what I meant, in what I said above. But the language is hard to parse.

    Think Progess has it has:

    “Debt limit extended until February 7, subject to vote of Congressional disapproval, which Obama can veto”

    But it looks like there is more there.

  73. 73.

    andy

    And another bad day for the Forces of Evil. I keep thinking of those scenes in old movies, where someone who screwed up is left alone in an empty room with a pistol loaded with one round. I guess the problem with a lot of our House GOPers is that they wouldn’t get it even if they were presented with just such a choice.

  74. 74.

    James E. Powell

    Any rumors of a shakeup in the Republican House leadership? Any we can fan into flames? Any we can just make up and spread all over the intertubes?

  75. 75.

    Felonius Monk

    Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) shrugged off Rep. Louie Gohmert’s (R-TX) insinuation that he was an “al Qaeda supporter” in an interview with NBC Nightly News host Brian Williams on Wednesday, while conceding to an increasing amount of polarization between lawmakers.

    “On that particular issue, sometimes comments like that are made out of malice,” McCain told Williams. “But if someone has no intelligence, I don’t view it as being a malicious statement. You can’t respond to that kind of thing.”

    ETA: I guess the knives are out.

  76. 76.

    MikeJ

    @Redshirt:

    Obama defuses one of their nukes and they approve it.

    I don’t think it’s what people think it is. I recall they did this last May when the Congress didn’t want to raise the debt limit, they gave Obama the right to do it. That allowed them to raise it, but blame Obama.

    It’s a bit odd because it talks about making changes to 31 USC § 3101 (b)(2), but there is no section b2.
    I don’t see the language saying it’s a temporary raising of the limit, but it constantly says strike May 19, 2013 and replace with Feb 7, 2014.

  78. 78.

    Robert

    I’m reminded of the episode of South Park where Canada goes on strike. The rest of the world doesn’t care and the Prime Minister literally lets his people start dying just to get any concession from America. The result: gumballs and coupons to Beningans for every Canadian citizen so the PM can cry victory.

    They wanted to defund Obamacare and instead they get a committee meeting and some pork. Victory!

  79. 79.

    eemom

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    The Tea Party will try to take every budget, funding, and debt vote from now on hostage. All of them. They haven’t learned anything, and nothing can make them learn anything.

    This is really the question. Yes, we all know that they eschew reality in all its forms……but they ARE politicians, and they have to know they have lost plenty, and gained NOTHING, from this other than the continued support of the same deluded band of fucktards that would have continued to vote for them no matter what. Thus, they have to know that to pull the exact same shit show again next time will cost them AGAIN….and possibly more, and net them exactly nothing.

    All that said, just to suggest a remote theoretical possibility that it won’t happen again.

  80. 80.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @eemom:

    All that said, just to suggest a remote theoretical possibility that it won’t happen again.

    The Tea Party rump will continue to try to do it. The question is whether the ordinary GOP assholes will let them again.

  81. 81.

    Elie

    @eemom:

    I definitely did not know all along, but the last day or so it just became clear that they didn’t know what they wanted and that there was no real leader or core strategy..

    I think that Boehner may have always planned this but knew he had to play it to the end? Who knows.

  82. 82.

    Paul W.

    Just scanning, but I think people have missed the fact that the bill also gives Obama the power to unilaterally WAVE THE FUCKING DEBT LIMIT! It is subject to an overrule by Congress, but Obama can veto that and then they would have to override the veto…. so good luck getting 2/3rds of Congress to do that.

    Huge deal, people. Pass this one around.

  83. 83.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Welp, this is pretty goddamn strange. The House stenographer was dragged off the floor after a bizarre rant into a live mic.

  84. 84.

    xenos

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Just memorize the psychotic parties in other countries. When they point out the Tea Party, mention the Le Pens if in France and so on.

    This is definitely the case. Where I live there is a political party that basically represents rural pensioners who demand cutting taxes and all social services except their own pensions and medical coverage. What is different is that the local version of the Tories (Christian Democrats, that is, a permanent coalition of bug business interests and monarchists) would never be associated with them. They have very effective and long-lasting governments in coalition with the Socialist Party, instead.

    So we end up with banks running everything, while the public school teachers are the highest paid in Europe. My daughter’s French teacher earns over 110,000 euros per year, and is running for parliament on the Socialist ticket.

  85. 85.

    Chuck Butcher

    The politics may get a bit interesting since deadlines for filing to run in Primaries will be February-ish and Primaries will be around late May. Memory of this mess may fade after several months but those dates are getting close.

  87. 87.

    John O

    I thought we would go over the cliff, and am glad I was wrong, too.

    They’ll try again, but you HAVE to believe they’ll be a little more cautious about it. Especially as next November rolls closer. But Cruz did himself just fine solidifying his numbers with the base, and in his wallet. I still think he’s going to win some primaries unless he’s cannibalized by his own party.

    Who knows, indeed.

  93. 93.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @xenos: I used the trick when I was in London in ’84. Since Reagan’s reelection campaign was in full swing and coal miners’ strike was going on, people would say to me, “How could you vote for Reagan?” I would respond with, “Um, Thatcher.” The response would be, “I didn’t vote for her. Don’t blame me.” From me, “Yeah, well….” I would then get vague mumbling.

  94. 94.

    billgerat

    From NRO: MSNBC Martin Bashir – Ted Cruz ‘the David Koresh of Republican Party’

    The backstabbing in the GOP is going to be fantastic fun to watch.

  98. 98.

    billgerat

    I expect that the “Kentucky Kickback” is really going to pick up traction by the PLA in the next week. McConnell didn’t request it, but it was a brilliant move by Obama to place it in there, knowing the Dead Enders would go nuts over it against the Turtle. Primary season next year is going to be a smash hit. I should invest in popcorn futures.

  99. 99.

    Jc

    @Frankensteinbeck: @Frankensteinbeck: regarding this, if the 2/3 solution is true that IS the suggestion that McConnell made, awhile ago. It gives the ability for congress folks to preen and posture and rail against the debt limit raise, which they want, and then blame the president.

    And since McConnell – Reid put this together, and the powers that be even on the republican side realize how badly this hit the party – it could be, right?

    If so – and I certainly don’t know – it would be AWESOME. Finally, a democrat uses “shock doctrine” tactics intelligently.

    It makes me a bit afraid if there are any other Easter eggs hidden in the bill for “changing” entitlements, since Obama has been known to speak favorably about that for years (in exchange for tax raises), but I doubt that has happened.

  100. 100.

    fuckwit

    Holy shit. Nancy SMASH, amazing, so proud to have her as my representative. Best Speaker I could have hoped for, and eager to have her back in that seat in Januarly 2015. This is how you fucking do it.

    Here’s the Democratic roll call on the reopening of the government vote: 198 Yeas, 0 Nays.

    ZERO. Zero defecting Democrats. ZERO blue dogs. Every single Democrat who was there, voted Yes. She not only delivered her caucus, she delivered them with fucking perfection.

    Such a huge contrast compared to the disaster that is Boehner.

  101. 101.

    Groucho48

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I posted about this in another thread. After looking into it, it appears, unfortunately, that it only applies to the current debt ceiling. I’m guessing it is a way for the Reps to blame the whole thing on Obama as it was proposed by McConnell.

  102. 102.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    well tomorrow means another day of flag burning. such is life in the left coast.

  105. 105.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @fuckwit:

    I’m sure some fecking eejit on the right is going to try to claim that those 2 absent Democrats were totally going to vote with the Republicans, but they’re going to have to work awfully hard to convince even the most gullible teabaggers that Bobby fucking Rush was secretly planning to vote with the Republicans.

  106. 106.

    JustRuss

    On a positive note…I have an old frat buddy who’s always been very conservative, he posted on the facey book tonight that he’s had it with the Tea Party’s antics. If they lost him, they’re probably taking a pretty good hit over this.

  108. 108.

    andy

    @Omnes Omnibus: The somewhat less crazy GOPers will try and lay low and concentrate on constituent services. Another shitstorm in february won’t do them a bit of good what with election season ramping up a few months later.

  109. 109.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @billgerat:
    McConnell just increased Kentucky’s budget by 15%. A LOT of people are going to get jobs from this project. I’m pretty he’s just won reelection and is happy to be thrown in this briar patch.

  110. 110.

    YellowJournalism

    @andy: I’m sure they’ll find something stupid to say or some major policy to fuck up. Or perhaps there will be a scandal like finding out Boehner’s orange glow is from him being a peeping Tom at a local spray tan salon.

  111. 111.

    teiresias

    This wasn’t 11D chess. This wasn’t even chess. This was just a game of chicken — two cars on a straight track, and when the go signal went, the Blue driver shut off the engine and went for a cup of coffee.

  113. 113.

    Maclovin'

    I knew all this was going to happen 17 days ago so I wrote this comment 18 days ago, and knew 19 days ago that I was going to submit it, so 20 days ago I wrote a batch script to automatically submit it 21 days ago by postdating it for 22 days.

    Kiss my him.

  114. 114.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Here’s the latest example of why MoveOn should go away.

    ETA: This is not an official MoveOn petition, but they really shouldn’t allow dumshits to use their site for this kind of idiocy.

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    fuckwit

    @Groucho48: That’s fine, it still sets a precedent. I hope Obama raises it to a level that it doesn’t need to be raised for another year, and problem solved for now. I hope he raises it to a level where it won’t need to be revisited until Speaker Pelosi brings it to a vote in January 2015.

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    fuckwit

    @Frankensteinbeck: He increased Kentucky’s GOVERNMENT budget. While railing about the deficits. And creates a shit-ton of new excellent GOVERNMENT jobs. So his success undermines his and his whole party’s ideology… and more importantly, while doing so, helps the people of KY and the whole country’s economy too, so we all win.

  120. 120.

    qwerty42

    @Comrade Dread: I also have to finish setting up the Muslim foot washes in the FEMA camps.

    I thought implementing sharia law via the death panels came first. I’ve got to keep up on this.

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    Manyakitty

    Live footage from the post vote tea party caucus:

    Finally got a chance to sit down and peruse for a bit and this made me snort V8 out my nose. Ha!

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