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Damn right I heard that as a threat.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

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Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

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I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

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Looks like the Do-Nothings will take a vote on immigration reform before they flee DC, according to TPM:

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Friday night on two bills, first on the GOP’s border supplemental and then on their proposal to end the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Vote schedules often change but the current plan is to start voting on the first bill between 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. and wrap up both of them around 11 p.m.

It’s just a hastily built stage for the usual carnival barkers, though:

“This House is going to make a resounding statement today that says, ‘Stop, Mr. President. Don’t violate the Constitution,'” King said.

Bachmann called it “the most monumental vote that we will take in this entire term.” She said it was a “very good bill that people can be proud of,” declaring that it was about “stopping the invasion of illegal foreign nationals into our country.”

Useless fucksticks.

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    Obama gave a pre-emptive response at his press conference this morning. ‘Raised middle finger’ basically sums it up.

  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    TPM:

    “This House is going to make a resounding statement today that says, ‘Stop, Mr. President. Don’t violate the Constitution,’” King said.

    “Don’t violate the constitution.” Right. These people are about as familiar with the US Constitution as they are with the Bible they pretend to love.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @dmsilev: This is one of those unusual situations where can actually use Craziest in a comparison of two levels of crazy.

  13. 13.

    askew

    I can’t believe Boehner let Bachmann and King oversee these bills. And we are supposed to believe that Boehner is going to hold off these nutjobs from impeaching Obama?

  15. 15.

    Karen in GA

    OT, but I like the series of pictures, so here. Iggy helps out.

    Back on topic: The most monumental vote in their entire term, Bachmann says. At this point I’m amazed it’s not the only vote in their entire term. “Useless fucksticks” is right.

  16. 16.

    Roger Moore

    @askew:

    And we are supposed to believe that Boehner is going to hold off these nutjobs from impeaching Obama?

    We are supposed to believe that, while the wingnuts are supposed to believe that impeachment is right around the corner. In practice, he seems to be achieving the opposite of the desired effect. Democrats are convinced he’s weak and will give in to calls for impeachment once his harebrained lawsuit plan gets laughed out of court, while wingnuts think he’s weak and unwilling to launch an impeachment. If he were able to convince people, he wouldn’t have to keep coming up with plans to prove that he’s serious.

  19. 19.

    askew

    @dmsilev:

    @askew: Boehner’s “leadership” team is hilariously bad at its job.

    That they are. I am half expecting this latest bill to fail. His team can’t count votes and have had to pull multiple bills from the floor before they failed. He’s like the anti-Pelosi.

  20. 20.

    Schlemizel

    @raven:
    Not just a good thing by itself – it beats the hell out of the trolltown review in the last 2 threads

  21. 21.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @dmsilev: I’m not convinced that Boehner is that bad at his job. I have a very strong suspicion that NO ONE could successfully guide that clown cavalcade (and, no, I won’t apologize to clowns for the comparison, those creepy fuckers) to anywhere this side of Looneyville. For all I know, he’s the greatest leader since Cesear Augustus.

    . . .

    Okay, that last sentence went a little far. Boehner’s a tool but it’s not like there’s anyone else who could do better with this crew. Sometimes, the problem is the followers.

  22. 22.

    big ole hound

    I hope the Prez vetoes what ever crap they come up with and use his socialtist directive power to do something useful and then takes money from some military pork project to pay for it. Somehow we will survive but the rest of the world has to be laughing as they dodge bullets. One beer to many?

  23. 23.

    Frankensteinbeck

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    ‘No one could drive that clown car’ is an acceptable premise. However, a competent Speaker would not be repeatedly pantsed by his own caucus, offering bills he cannot get them to pass. Maybe he ain’t drivin’, but he should at least see the cliffs they’re jumping off.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I really wish someone would show some mercy and accidentally drop a 16 ton weight on Cray-Cray Eyes Bachmann last week.

  27. 27.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): You do have a point. The “followers” are pretty bad at following, or taking any direction whatsoever. I do believe it would be several orders of magnitude easier to herd cats than it would be to herd teatards.

  28. 28.

    Thoughtful David

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    His job is to serve the United States. At which he has failed miserably as a leader, supposedly third in line and ready to step in should something happen to Obama and Biden.

    If he were actually doing his job, instead of trying to fellate the right wing, he would have brought a bunch of things up for vote, which would have passed with Democratic votes, and would have actually done something for the country.

    But he hasn’t the balls to do what’s right. The Republican caucus is damning the nation for its little temper tantrum, and he shows no leadership skills to do what’s right. Which have been basically to tell the likes of Bachmann and King and Gohmert to fuck off.

  36. 36.

    Schlemizel

    I have heard so much about Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union so tonight I decided to look it up and read it.

    It is not great oratory but it is a stunningly good discussion of the history of slavery expansion and its restraint in American history. It does have some flourishes that are proto-Lincoln. It also intensifies my belief that what we are seeing in politics today is in fact the Antebellum politics.

    The best line to exemplify that:

    Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events. – A. Lincoln

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    After a taxpayer funded five week vacation, these fucksticks will return to DC rested and refreshed and enthusiastically beating the impeachment drum. Please proceed, asswipes.

  40. 40.

    JPL

    @SiubhanDuinne: Had he stopped typing at willfully ignorant, it would have been okay. CNN probably frowns on the f..ksticks though. It’s now my favorite saying though, so I appreciate his sentiment.

  41. 41.

    KG

    Every story starts with a bad/wrong decision. In this case, it was the GOP leaderahip’s decision that their number one priority was making Obama a one term president. Once you publicly say that, you’ve painted yourself into a corner because your side will accept nothing less and the other side won’t trust you to work in good faith. It may have been cynical (and probably was) but before they knew it, their base elected a bunch of true believers, and a fresh coat of paint was on the floor.

    What shocks me about this mess is that Bohener doesn’t seem interested in his legacy. A Speaker interested in his legacy and the best interests of the country (because unless you’re going the Eugene McCarthy route, as a politician those two things are entwined) would have used what part of his caucus he could along with the Democrats to fashion a working majority to pass meaningful legislation. That way plays out two ways: his caucus revolts the next term and refuses to nominate him for Speaker; or, enough of his caucus comes to it’s senses and plays ball

  42. 42.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
    Were Ted Cruz a Representative rather than a Senator, I suspect he could lead the House R caucus — or at least suss out which shiny object it was headed for right now, and walk at the front of the crowd, thus seeming to lead. That alone is still more than Böhner can manage.

    I suspect the problem here is as much a recalcitrant House majority that won’t follow anyone as it is a despised-by-everyone Speaker who can’t lead.

  43. 43.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Thoughtful David:

    His job is to serve the United States. At which he has failed miserably as a leader, supposedly third in line and ready to step in should something happen to Obama and Biden.

    If this is your belief, you are going to find American politics perpetually disappointing.

  45. 45.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Amir Khalid:

    Were Ted Cruz a Representative rather than a Senator, I suspect he could lead the House R caucus — or at least suss out which shiny object it was headed for right now, and walk at the front of the crowd, thus seeming to lead. That alone is still more than Böhner can manage.

    No, he’d be a complete failure as Speaker. He’d fail in a very different way than Boehner does, but it would be a more profound failure. Quite spectacular, though.

  48. 48.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I really wish someone would show some mercy and accidentally drop a 16 ton weight on Cray-Cray Eyes Bachmann last week.

    I keep telling people: IT’S ST CLOUD! (Okay, we can blame Stillwater, too.) THEY’RE NEVER GOING TO ELECT ANYONE EVEN SLIGHTLY USEFUL.

    Given that the district is never going to elect anyone who isn’t evil, I’m actually happier if they at least elect someone entertaining and obviously insane. I feel the same way about Louie Gohmert’s district.

  49. 49.

    srv

    Olds vs n00bs:

    The shuttle buses that ship techies from San Francisco to Silicon Valley have become loaded symbols over the past year, physical targets for community outrage over the tech boom’s role in the city’s skyrocketing rents and growing income gap.

    Now seniors and people with disabilities are taking issue with the buses themselves.

    On Friday morning, protesters from groups including Senior and Disability Action, the Gray Panthers and Eviction Free San Francisco blocked two tech shuttle buses stopping at 24th and Valencia streets en route to the Peninsula.

    The San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency’s much-hyped 18-month pilot program to regulate tech shuttles went into effect Friday, charging commuter shuttles from Google, Apple, Yahoo and other companies $3.55 for every stop per day.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @askew:

    His team can’t count votes

    Or at least they can’t seem to hold people to their promises on the way they’re planning on voting. I get the feeling that there have been a few times when the wingnuts turned on him and refused to vote as promised, and his whips were unable to keep them in line.

  53. 53.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):

    Well, but technically Thoughtful David is correct. The position is Speaker of the House, not Speaker of the majority party, even though that is de facto what it is because the selection is always along party lines. In most* Parliamentary systems the Speakership is explicitly a non-partisan position and remains aloof from partisan divisions. Dunno if that would ever work here.

    * I say “most” as though I’ve actually researched all the parliamentary governments across the globe. I really have no idea. But in Canada and the UK the position is nominally non-partisan.

  54. 54.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Noisemax strikes again!

    Ben Carson Picks 2016 Campaign Manager

    Oh please please please, FSM, let it be Mark Penn.

  56. 56.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @efgoldman: You fail to appreciate how far off the deep end they are. If Boehner threatened to cut off their pet project, they’d run straight to the nearest microphone to crow about how they’re standing up to corruption in Washington and how Boehner is nothing but a representation of everything they’re fighting against.

    That’s not to say that they don’t want that federal spending in their district (there are only a few of them that are crazy enough to go that far), just that anything that turns into a public fight over spending like that is going to work to the Teatard’s personal advantage.

  57. 57.

    Roger Moore

    @efgoldman:

    It’s no hard – you just “ask” the Appropriations chairperson to disappear a pet project, and blame the recalcitrance one.

    Which is exactly why the Tea Party has been so vigorous in attacking earmarks and other forms of pork. It hasn’t done much to bring the budget under control, but it has done a lot to free the backbenchers from party discipline. Cutting off their pork doesn’t work when they’ve already cut off their own pork, and they’re in a sufficiently safe district that they don’t have to depend on party favors for reelection.

  59. 59.

    MobiusKlein

    @srv: Gah, I biked right by that demonstration this morning.

    I’m not quite an old, but neither a noob.

    If they’re going to complain about the google bus, can they also complain about the 1000 other trucks, cars, vans, and crap blocking muni stops (and everything else on the road too.)

  60. 60.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @efgoldman: How long do you think Boehner would last in a primary if he was relying on Democratic votes to remain Speaker?

  70. 70.

    ...now I try to be amused

    Bachmann called it “the most monumental vote that we will take in this entire term.”

    I believe her. Do-nothing Congress indeed.

  72. 72.

    Anoniminous

    @Baud:

    A sample:

    DEMOCRATS CAN’T COUNT ON CRISIS AFTER MANUFACTURE CRISES TO SAVE THEIR *SSES THESE COMING ELECTIONS……DEMOCRATS What message do you have for us, in this year elections?

    THAT YOU DEMOCRATS INTENTIONALLY OPEN OUR US BORDERS, NOW WE AMERICANS ARE AT THE MERCY OF THE DRUG CARTELS, TERRORISTS,MILLIONS OF MORE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND MORE COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

    THAT YOU MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE REDSKIN TO CHANGED THEIR NAME FOR BEEN INSULTING AND RACIST/

    THAT OBAMA WAS DECLARED OFFICIALLY BY THE PRESS AS A LIAR.

    THAT OBAMA WAS DECLARED THE WORSE PRESIDENT SINCE WWII

    CAMPAIGN AGAINST 30 MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE KOCH BROTHER AGAINST YOUR ALMOST BILLION DOLLAR WAR CHEST

    THAT YOU ARE THREATENING TWO OF OUR CONSTITUTION BRANCHES OF POWER?

    LET THEM EAT CAKE?

    THAT THE EPA, VA AND THE IRS COMPUTERS CRASHED MYSTERIOUSLY

    THAT YOU RAISE MORE MONEY FROM YOU RICH POLITICAL DONOR AND HOLLYWOOD LIBERALS THAN REPUBLICANS

    TO GIVES US MORE LIES TO COVER OTHER LIES?

    NO! …DEMOCRATS WHAT YOU WILL HAVE IS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIDING AN ENRAGED ELEPHANT IN A CHINA STORE.

    AND YET THERE IS ANOTHER SENATOR REID STEALING AGAIN SCANDAL

    HOW MANY CRIMES WILL THIS LOW LIFE SENATOR HAVE TO COMMIT FOR ERIC HOLDER TO INVESTIGATE?

    THIS YEAR OUR NATIONAL DEBT will be 19 TRILLIONS.

    You democrats push for the legalization of pot.

    Approved gay marriages.

    approved gay in the military

    THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DYING FROM LACK OF HEALTH CARE DUE TO YOUR HELLCARE LAW

    92 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL STILL BE OUT OF WORK.

    30-40 MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS ALIENS YOU DEMOCRATS WANT TO LEGALIZED.

    OUR CREDIT DOWN GRADED SEVERAL TIMES

    INFLATION SKYROCKETING.

    50 MILLIONS IN FOOD STAMPS.

    SENATOR REID NUCLEAR OPTION

    CUT BENEFITS FOR MILITARY VETERAN INSTEAD OF CLOSING A LOOPHOLE THAT GIVE 4.2 BILLIONS A YEAR FOR CHILD TAX CREDIT THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE GETTING AND DID NOT SUPPORT AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD CLOSE THAT LOOP HOLE THAT SEN. SESSION INTRODUCED, BUT WAS VOTED DOWN BY NOT ONLY YOU DEMOCRATS ALSO BY THE MILITARY PROTECTOR JOHN MC CAIN? WHY? BECAUSE MC CAIN DIDN’T WANT UNDERMINE HIS AMNESTY BILL.

    UNEMPLOYMENT 92 MILLIONS ARE OUT WORK IN ALL RACES BLACKS, WHITE AND HISPANIC

    GENERAL UNEMPLOYMENT 52%

    BLACK YOUTH 43%

    LATIN YOUTH 22%

    WHITE 18%

    TRYING TO RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE THAT CREATES HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT AND HIGHER INFLATION.

    900 BILLIONS IN STIMULUS SHOVEL READY JOBS GONE.

    700 BILLIONS IN TARP MONEY GONE, MONEY THAT JUST DISAPPEARED INTO A BLACK HOLE.(PUN INTENDED)

    BILLION UPON BILLION OF DOLLARS FOR GREEN JOBS JUST VANISH.

    NOW DEMOCRATS THAT IS THE PLATFORM YOU INTENT TO RUN WITH?

    REMEMBER AN ARMY CAN’T RUN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

    YOU HAVE CREATED AN ARMY OF REAL ANGRY AMERICANS VOTERS THAT ARE REALLY HUNGRY AND PISS OFFF.

    REPUBLICANS NOW TAKE ADVANTAGE YOU HAVE SO MUCH AMMUNITION AGAINST THESE DEMOCRATS B*STARDS.

    REMIND ALL YOUR VOTERS THAT A VOTE FOR DEMOCRAT IS VOTE FOR OBAMA,AND THAT OBAMA COULDN’T HAVE INFLICTED SO MUCH DAMAGED TO OUR NATION WITH OUT HIS DEMOCRAT PARTY, HEALTHCARE OBAMA/DEMOCRAT OPENING OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN.

    AS IT’S NOW WE ARE AT THE MERCY OF, MILLIONS OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL

    ALIENS, TERRORIST, DRUGS, DRUG CARTELS, MS-13 GANG BANGERS, AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
    DO YOU MORE? VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.

  79. 79.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @efgoldman: How many of them were courting Democrats’ help on a regular basis. The primaries that have actually been run are utterly irrelevant to the fantasy primary in which John Boehner goes to the Republican electorate saying, “Please re-elect me so that I can continue to let Nancy Pelosi set the agenda.”

    Given that you’re usually pretty sensible I’m surprised that you don’t recognize how spaced out your argument is.

  83. 83.

    Suffern ACE

    @schrodinger’s cat: I like the gay rights section. Tired of shouting in all caps, he whispers those sections in lower case. Either that or he didn’t notice that he was already shouting when he typed it.

  87. 87.

    Suffern ACE

    @schrodinger’s cat: my guess is that he’s counting the labor participation rate somehow. Kind of like the illegal immigrant number he uses includes pretty much everyone who wasn’t born here.

  89. 89.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @efgoldman:

    Thanks, no problem, I have been keeping up with it on a dedicated FB site. There are people over there who can and do track down every article, every opinion piece, every official and unofficial communication from the participants. Appreciate your staying on it, though.

  94. 94.

    Montysan0

    @Anoniminous:

    THAT YOU MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE REDSKIN TO CHANGED THEIR NAME FOR BEEN INSULTING AND RACIST/…..

    …..NO! …DEMOCRATS WHAT YOU WILL HAVE IS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RIDING AN ENRAGED ELEPHANT IN A CHINA STORE.

    I always wonder: do nutters like this keep comments ready to paste into posts, or do they write it out each and every time?

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