Have we finally reached the point of exasperation in which Democrats will simply refuse to roll over any more?
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Have we finally reached the point of exasperation in which Democrats will simply refuse to roll over any more?
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Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable sock puppet
Translation for us at work who are ‘Tube impaired? Is it Grayson going off like Old Faithful, or a less-usual Dem suspect?
Baud
Just words.
John Dillinger
I think the public is ready for day to day derision of Republicans in the House, though of course the media will tut-tut it.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable sock puppet
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable sock puppet: Doy! There’s a link atop. Pay me no mind…
rdldot
He was pissed off last week, too, and that time he wouldn’t yield to the other Repub. Good on him for saying it out loud. Bet he’ll be on Tweety’s show tonight. He was last week. I just found my new favorite legislator.
c u n d gulag
YAY!
And now I look forward to seeing this exchange on all of the network and cable news shows for the next few days – especially, on FUX Noise!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry.
Sometimes I even crack myself up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
andy
Awesome. This is the second time I’ve watched it today. I wonder if these GOPers would be reasonable if more people tore open their bubbles and told them to fuck off already? One thing I’ve noticed about these people is that if you give them enough pushback they run like the little bitches they are.
piratedan
hey come on now John, Representative Griffin is “just asking questions” about how practical it would be if we could simply go back and remove all of this nonsensical ACA stuff that isn’t working because of these faulty websites and dropped coverages and these people could just magically save all of this bother by using money they don’t have and putting into an HRA that doesn’t provide the coverage that they need. Can’t you be reasonable about this?
Waldo
Art Carney speaks the truth!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Let’s hope so. The majority of the public is behind the Democrats on 90 percent of what they want to do. It’s time they stopped being scared and started fighting, unapologetically, for those things.
srv
All this incivility just makes things worse.
We’d have had much more money for TARP if Krugman hadn’t been such a a-hole.
Danack
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable sock puppet:
It’s Bill Pascrell, Congressman for the NJ 9th District. I’m not sure what he’s normally like but being from NJ he does say “all of youse” non-ironically at one point.
the Conster
@andy:
So true – every single one of these Congressional loud mouth ignoramuses is Skut Farkus.
Tone in DC
@andy:
LULz.
Yes! Pascrell couldn’t be more Jersey if he tried. This pleases me.
I’m waiting for someone like Grayson or Grijalva to cut loose with a “FUCK ALL Y’ALL”.
…I know such colorful use of metaphor won’t happen. I just like the thought of it.
Nora Carrington
@andy:
Don’t diss bitches by associating us with hated Republicans. Please! :-)
Awesomesauce, as TNC would say. I have a feeling the gloves came off behind closed doors during the shutdown so no one has any illusions about who hates whom. Still pissed that Durbin backed off his claim that a Republican dissed President Obama. You *know* that got said.
RaflW
I’m not sure that Republicans realize that Democrats can get mad. But we can. This dude shows one good way of doing it.
Ash Can
@Nora Carrington: Did Durbin himself back off of it? Last I saw, the White House was denying it, but Durbin was standing by his story.
Jim, Foolish LIteralist
Just saw this on MSNBC, Griffin looked like he’d been smacked up side the head with a flounder
Tone in DC
These wingers barely have the nerve to insult anyone to his face to begin with. They utterly lack the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say “Yes, I said it”.
El Cid
Fuck yes! About fucking time!
srv
Black robed men and their death panels:
El Cid
The GOP style is all that of the bully. They don’t know what to fucking do when people stand straight up to them in their faces and challenge them right back.
I’m god-damned tired of these fucks being let to wave their asses in the face of everybody and all non-right-wingers are supposed to be all intimidated and caught off-guard and nervous and/or super-civil-polite (‘Ssshhh nobody mention Uncle so & so is way too drunk so we don’t get into an argument!’).
Tone in DC
Moar LULz.
At times like this, I especially miss General Stuck. He’d love Pascrell’s rant.
Nora Carrington
@Ash Can:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/durbin-removes-facebook-post-white-house-blunder-article-1.1499912
ykwik
kooks
That. Was. Fucking awesome!
Chat Noir
Righteous push-back from the NJ Congressman. Excellent.
@Tone in DC: Yeah, I love that phrase. See Wendell Pierce in “Treme.”
catclub
This sounds like… Benghazi! I mean the real story in both cases is:
State Dept asks for more money for security, GOP congress turns them down.
Something bad happens. GOP congress complains about Administration errors that they helped to cause.
HHS asks for funds to implement Obamacare website and rollout. GOP congress refuses any money.
Bad things happen to website rollout. GOP congress complains about website problems that they caused.
… and the media isn’t exactly sharp at connecting these points.
jackmac
More. Please.
kindness
Yea….the Serious Village Elders will frown upon this exchange. No doubt there will be posts (Freidman, Brooks, NPR) but go suck eggs repubs. You’ve been a succubus for too long now. Let the truth set your people free (and maybe get some of these fine citizens to vote for democrats).
Can you identify what part is snark?
Trollhattan
Whoo, that’s as fine a dressing-down as I’ve heard in ages. “Are YOU going to tell them?”
Ash Can
@Nora Carrington: Thanks for the link! Sounds to me like an actual miscommunication. There’s no reason Durbin would suddenly get bashful about calling out that kind of assholery, and there’s no reason any GOP leader would want such a badge of True Conservatism to get wiped.
Tone in DC
@Chat Noir:
Grayson will do that phrase justice, IMHO.
Or, at the very least, Nick Nolte in Semi-Tough would.
El Cid
O/T, but bizarrely wonderful: in pursuing treatment research for gamb_ling addiction, scientists created an actual rat kasino.
JPL
Margaret Tavenner answered the problem of grandfathered insurance plans. I wish she would go on a Sunday morning show because she is good.
Think Progress
catclub
@JPL: If Obama had said: “If you like your policy _and it meets certain minimum standards_ then you can keep it.”
Would have saved some of the problems being brought up today. … Instead there would be some different problems brought up today.
Shakezula
Every Democrat needs to take up the refrain, every time some TEAOP choad claims they have an alternative plan.
ARE YOU REALLY SERIOUS?
kindness
@catclub: What kills me is all these people screaming about having their completely crappy and worthless policies canceled. Not one of these people sees that a current policy will cost them less out of pocket than what they pay now after all the deductibles and the subsidies are factored in.
I can deal with a nation of dummies but whining intentionally stupid dummies is a hard dummy to swallow.
rikyrah
@Waldo:
LOL
rikyrah
He is so Jersey
He said ‘ YOU’SE’
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
catclub
@El Cid: Link Needs pictures.
mclaren
Never.
The phylum Democrata is invertebrate.
danielx
What is that low but increasing-in-volume sound I hear?
Why, it’s a chorus of millions screaming “About Fucking Time!”
Mezz (fpa Michael2)
FUCKING. LOVE. IT.
I’m increasingly so exasperated, that I find that I can’t any longer avoid referencing the insanity in the history courses I teach. (We just, e.g. covered the Constitutional Convention and the levelers and the “better sort.”)
MOAR. MOAR. MOAR!!!
mclaren
@Tone in DC:
You mean that ignorant clueless asshole with the fake name who did nothing but scream insults? The guy who never provided any facts or any logic to back up his empty name-calling? The guy whose sum total contribution to this forum was “you have butt rabies” repeated over and over again?
That’s the guy you miss?
No wonder politics in America has gone down the shitter.
gwangung
@mclaren: Dear, that was the mirror you were looking at.
mclaren
The relevant cartoon dealing with Democrats is Get Fuzzy for 9/09/2007.
More than that, deponent sayeth not.
tybee
@Tone in DC:
i think you’ll need to look a bit further south to find someone to utter those exact words.
i don’t think too many people above maryland use “all y’all” in common speech.
mclaren
@gwangung:
Provide three (3) posts in which I indulge in name-calling without providing any logic or evidence to back up my assertions, or stand revealed as a liar who uses Karl-Rove-style smear tactics.
tybee
@mclaren:
you mean like this one: @mclaren:
mclaren
@tybee:
No, that post gives a specific reason why the sociopath who called himself “General Stuck” was an asshole, and clear evidence that he was clueless. The guy’s posts consisted of name-calling and almost nothing else.
No facts. No links to, say, the New York Times, or the Washington Post, or government reports, or anything like that. Just “You’re off your meds” and “You have butt rabies.”
That’s not a debate. That isn’t productive. It’s a grown man screaming insults in the manner of kindergartener.
El Cid
@catclub: I’m thinking it’s not an accident that they didn’t give out pictures.
I mean, this is one of those places where you only get in with an invitation.
tybee
@mclaren:
show me your evidence for General Stuck.
tybee
@mclaren:
and your evidence is…?
shelly
He’s my Representative, and I just sent a very grateful email to his office.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren:
Go back and jerk off to your archival video footage of the Holocaust and your life-size poster of Pol Pot on the wall of your apartment, you’re done here.
And this is reasoned debate?
Ted & Hellen
blah blah blah….big whoop, so fierce. Yeah, those Dems are so tough.
Patricia Kayden
@Shakezula: Wouldn’t it be nice if each and every Democratic Congressperson had the guts and fortitude to challenge Republicans every chance they got?
Looking forward with bated breath for the Republican healthcare plan. /not
SteveinSC
More of This, Please
You are fucking right. Throw this shit back in their faces.
pseudonymous in nc
Tim Griffin, former Karl Rove enforcer and current middle-aged doughboy.
pseudonymous in nc
@kindness:
I PAYED $10 FOR TIGER REPELLENT AND NO TIGER BIT ME OBUMMERCARE SUX.
Jamey
That’s my Congressman, bitches!
HL_Guy
The thing to know about Pascrell is that he is among the most well-liked Congressmen in DC… not by his colleagues, but by elevator guys, security guards, id-checker ladies, etc… real actual human people. They call him The Mayor because he was the mayor of Paterson NJ before becoming a Rep, glorious job that that must have been. He actually gives a damn about peoples’ lives. When he got redistricted into the same District as fellow (D) Rothman, he absolutely destroyed him in the primary, over 60% of the vote. He has the personal touch, and people at home in Jersey know he will stand up for them.
JasperL
@Patricia Kayden:
The *plan* Griffith waved around is real. If you’ve not been comatose for the last 30 years, you can predict what the core of it amounts to – mor tax cuts for the wealthy, a few crumbs for the poor.
Pogonip
@tybee: Blacks as far north as Michigan use “all y’all.”. Haven’t heard it from any other ethnic group north of the Mason-Dixon line.
...now I try to be amused
I like our in-their-face New Jersey guy. That is all.
catclub
@JasperL: No, no no. GOP Health plan is: tort reform, free-for-all interstate insurance sales (the Mississippi insurance commissioner is now everyone’s), self-extinguishing (they always go bankrupt) high risk pools.
fuckwit
COME AT ME BRO
priscianus jr
@kindness: Not one of these people sees that a current policy will cost them less out of pocket than what they pay now after all the deductibles and the subsidies are factored in.
True, but at least the old policies didn’t have death panels.
White Trash Liberal
@mclaren:
You are the epitome of insufferable. Robespierre would call you insufferable. Bakunin would call you insufferable. Roger Ailes would put you on the air just so every viewer could associate left wing ideas with your insufferable presence.
White Trash Liberal
@mclaren:
When she wears a Free Mumia t-shirt, everyone else turns theirs inside out.
Her puppets are bigger than yours.
The NSA hits mute whenever she places a call.
She is…
The Most Insufferable Progressive In The World
“I may not always post on Balloon Juice, but when I do, I must piss on a grave.”
catpal
@HL_Guy: Yep. Rep. Pascrell is the awesomest, and a really nice guy. so happy I got to vote for him when I was a NJer. so is Rep. Pallone who also used a Repub clown-convention hearing to call out how Bad the Repugs really are.
MORE of this from Dems please.
Dream On
Do bears fly rockets to New Guinea? No.
If you’re a Democratic congressman and you aren’t rolling, you’ve probably expired. Rolling is what modern Democrats do.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dream On: Oh, bullshit.
Another Holocene Human
@White Trash Liberal: it’s horrible to laugh at the woefully unmedicated, but I laughed all the same
Fred
The finish was the best: “Are you serious? After three and a half years and all we’ve been through, are you serious?”
Stupid is as stupid does.
Bob h
Pallone and Pascrell are both Jersey, you see. A little Jersey can be a good thing.
Tone in DC
@tybee:
Grijalva is from Arizona. Grayson’s from Florida. How much further south is there to go than these two.
Lex
The only way this could have been better would have been if Pascrell had described the GOP’s so-called alternatives to the ACA as “codswollop.”