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Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL

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Optimism opens the door to great things.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

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Or even one week, as it turns out. From Roll Call, news of the fking Mole People:

Just two hours before the Department of Homeland Security was set to run out of funding, the House delivered a bill to float the agency for one more week.

But last-minute maneuvering almost put a snag in that plan.

Shortly after learning that GOP leaders intended to bring the stopgap measure to the floor after Senate passage earlier in the evening, a band of conservatives huddled in the chamber to plot their next move.

Earlier in the day, 50 of them helped sink the House’s proposed three-week continuing resolution because it did not include language blocking President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

At around 9:30 p.m., close to 20 members who hailed largely from the newly formed House Freedom Caucus appeared to be consulting the House rules on a laptop belonging to Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

Republican votes were critical to passing this one-week patch, especially since leadership chose to expedite consideration of the measure by bringing it up under “suspension of the rules.”

Typically reserved for noncontroversial measures, bringing a bill up under suspension requires a minimum of two-thirds of those present and voting to vote in the affirmative.

That meant leaders were relying on a lot of Republicans to vote “yes” — and a lot of Democrats, too. Members of the minority party earlier in the day held out all but 12 of their votes over the GOP’s refusal to bring up the other bill passed by the Senate on Friday morning, to fund the DHS for the remainder of the fiscal year without conditions.

Luckily for Republicans, Democrats agreed to help out with the seven-day stopgap. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to her members asking them to support the latest effort, saying that it would ensure passage of the longer-term DHS funding bill in the next seven days…

Cherry on the shite sundae:

… A senior House Democratic aide clarified to CQ Roll Call that Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, gave Pelosi and other House Democratic leaders his commitment to bringing up the six-month bill next week, once the Senate inevitably blocks the House’s motion to form a conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers.

Michael Steel, Boehner’s spokesman, denied that such a conversation had taken place: “There was no such promise made,” he said…

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Speaking of whiny clowns, before anyone complains about too many tweets, I’ve been fighting a nasty cold & the spindizzies (labyrinthitis) all week. One hundred forty characters is about as much attention as I can muster, right now.

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  4. 4.

    Little Boots

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    they do have a pattern.

    Oh, I think they’ll lose, ultimately, but it’s gonna be an annoying, pain in the ass, long, twilight struggle.

    and thanks for the music. you know what I love.

  8. 8.

    Little Boots

    @efgoldman:

    that is so true. boner cannot count votes for shit. damn. this is seriously the most inept congress in history. and nothing matters, cause people will keep voting them in for the hell of it.

    can we blame omnes?

  11. 11.

    Hal

    @BruinKid:

    Um, so the opposition leader in Russia has just been shot dead in Moscow.

    So are conservatives in America going to be on TV all next week asking why Obama doesn’t handle his enemies like, um, whoever might have had this guy killed. Not saying it was Putin or anything.

  15. 15.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Speaking of clown shows, in the new season of House of Cards, the script has Claire Underwood in a hearing announce proudly that she’s devoted herself during the past year to “sexual assault reform”. Note to show producers: I think it’s only called “reform” when it’s something that you want to keep, but improve. It would be like talking about “drug abuse reform”, just bizarre, and wrong.

    The show is entertaining as hell, but at times it seems like it was written by someone with the political IQ of a turnip.

    Present Frank Underwood spent a lot of the previous episode ranting about how social security is “bankrupting us”, and he’s a Democrat.

  18. 18.

    Morzer

    @Bill E Pilgrim:

    Frank Underwood spent a lot of the previous episode ranting about how social security is “bankrupting us”, and he’s a Democrat.

    Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller see nothing contradictory in those positions.

  19. 19.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Morzer: Joe Lieberman’s a Democrat?

    Yeah I know, but I mean this guy is the freaking President, and otherwise not being portrayed as a Zell Miller.

    I think the show basically just regurgitates “centrist”-to-right gobbledygook that it thinks sounds good, that was just one of many examples. It should just stick to the intrigue and dastardly stuff.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: Oh, he is is sad, sad caricature. Or maybe a figurehead. I haven’t decided which.

    @Little Boots: I did post music. Also, my dad can T-step like you wouldn’t believe. He’s now about 5’10” and 250, but he can still do those dance moves – with a grace and smoothness I could never manage. Listening to late night music stations that he could catch from Memphis and NOLA had an effect.

  28. 28.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @Morzer: My God does he still exist? A mythical figure seen only on conservative morning talk shows.

    I imagine Joe Scarborough thinks Ford could be President. And that’s about it.

  32. 32.

    Anya

    @Omnes Omnibus: I know, but I give Josh Marshal a little bit more credibility than other sources. This rumor sounds ridiculous and very harmful if it happens. How can POTUS allow a foreign leader that kind of leverage over him. It doesn’t make sense at all.

  34. 34.

    Citizen Alan

    Honestly, I genuinely believe at this point that the Republicans WANT a terrorist attack so they can blame Obama and the Democrats for it. Hell, I think most of them would actively facilitate a terrorist attack if they thought they could hide their involvement. Traitors, every god-damned one of them.

  35. 35.

    Mnemosyne

    So my job interview today went strangely well. Strangely, because they’re not sure they want me for the exact position I interviewed for, but they want to put me in the running for a couple of positions that haven’t been posted yet that could eventually (meaning in about 5 years) lead to actual TV writing jobs. Um, yes please! Plus I think a friend of mine would be good for the actual position, so when I sent over my updated resume, I asked if it was okay for me to send them her resume as well.

    I hadn’t quite realized that the person interviewing me would recognize my name from regular emails I exchange with her team members (though I probably should have since I have an unusual name) so she was prepared to like me and want me to work for her department. So, yay to having been polite and professional via email!

  39. 39.

    Mnemosyne

    @efgoldman:

    Make sure to tell her to sign the paperwork authorizing the show to withhold income taxes from any winnings, even if it seems like they’re withholding almost half. I knew someone who didn’t bother to do that and ended up having to go on a payment plan with the IRS because, of course, she had spent most of the money by the time her taxes came do.

    (She spent it responsibly by paying off a chunk of her student loans, but the IRS doesn’t care how you spent it, they just want their share.)

  43. 43.

    Anya

    @sharl:That’s what I thought initially then I realized that I can’t tell the difference between The Onion and real headlines anymore.

  45. 45.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: A bit Beatley, aren’t you? I get the feel that there rest of the folks around tonight aren’t feeling musical. Perhaps it’s time for some Nyquil and sleep.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: It is about a girl wanting to be the prettiest at the dance. Not pretentious in the least. Rather universal, I would think. Maybe this from Francoise Hardy will help….

    Or this, which is perfect.

  75. 75.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    In honor of Leonard Nimoy’s passing; a bit of a mind meld of Supertramp and the Beatles The Logical Song(the drummer in the white coat is Mr. Starkey).

    The mom of one of my bosses, back when I worked for Satan, dated Lenny(as she called him) back in high school.

  77. 77.

    Betty Cracker

    Feel better, Anne Laurie. I’m still shaking off a rotten cold. I hates it, I does!

    @sharl: I think you’re right. God, I hope so, anyway. If we have to involve foreign governments to swing a funding deal, we might as well admit this experiment has failed and petition the Queen for readmission to the kingdom.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: To be fair, I also have ancestors who were accusers and judges at the witch trials. I prefer to mention the convicted and the ones you protested and opposed from the beginning.

    @efgoldman: Yep.

  101. 101.

    Little Boots

    bill, you are not pissed at me are you. don’t be.

    you know I have this whole thing with omnes.

  155. 155.

    Morzer

    Second Amendment remedies still failing to help anyone:

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/27/missouri-shootings-multiple-crime-scenes

    A man apparently upset at the death of his mother killed seven people in a shooting rampage in rural Missouri before turning the gun on himself, police said Friday.

    The Missouri highway patrol said Joseph Jesse Aldridge, 36, carried a .45-caliber handgun through four homes in Texas County either Thursday night or Friday morning, killing four of his cousins and three other adults.

    A 74-year-old woman who apparently died of natural causes was found dead in another residence. Texas County coroner Tom Whittaker told the St Louis Post-Dispatch the woman appeared to have been dead at least 24 hours.

    Authorities said the motive remained unclear. Whittaker speculated to the newspaper that Aldridge “came home and found her deceased and then for whatever reason went on a rampage and started killing people”.

  156. 156.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Morzer: I think you’re viewing this in a much too limited framework. It’s FREEDOM, in this case freedom from life for these poor souls.

    When I saw this report earlier in the day, Texas county rang a bell. My aunt lived there about 40 years ago(we visited in 1969 and 1975), about(per teh google maps) 15 miles from where this ‘freedom’ took place.

  159. 159.

    PaulW

    Just remember, the Republicans keep campaigning on their belief that government is broken or wasteful, and then they spend every day in power sabotaging everything to prove themselves correct.

    This is what you get, registered Democrats, when you fail to turn out to vote during midterms.

    This is what you get, independent voters, when you fail to turn out to vote for Democrats during midterms.

    This is what you get, Democratic Party, when you fail to even challenge more than half of all Congressional Districts during midterms and fail to stir up voter interest in progressive candidates who will protect and improve our schools, hold businesses accountable, and make government as efficient as possible.

  161. 161.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    House Republicans have the biggest GOP majority since before the New Deal. But they can’t pass a 3-week punt without Nancy Pelosi.

    and here is what the GOP “wave” was really about – the Republicans are really three or four political parties with conflicting agendas all using the same name

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