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I am laughing after reading this. What else can you do?
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Dreggas
what a douche-nozzle.
R-Jud
I LOL’d, but then found this linked in the comments:
I am grinding my molars into powder.
TenguPhule
Find a new Senate Leader.
TenguPhule
If Harry Reid was dragged out behind the barn, shot and processed into glue, he still wouldn’t stick to anything for long.
The Grand Panjandrum
After Reid’s little press conference conference saying how much he like’s Burris and he is NOT a racist I just wonder why he left out the part where in he says, "but some of my best friends are black." Pafuckingthetic.
Yoo hoo … Jane, can I sit in too? I need a little folding money.
Brian J
I’m tempted to give some of these guys more leeway than most are. I don’t like to judge anyone’s performance without the idea that I have no idea what it’s like unless I’ve been in the same position. Of course, I have no idea what’s it’s like to be an elected official on a local level, let alone on a national level where I’m in a leadership position.
With that in mind, I’m getting increasingly fed up with Harry Reid.
Exactly who is going to hold a grudge against him, Obama, or any other Democrats for not seating Burris besides Burris? Are blacks really going to consider this a huge insult? Are people in Illinois really going to turn against the new administration? Hell, outside of the Beltway, who is following this story besides the people who follow politics closely?
I can’t see an upside to giving in so easily. Really, I can’t.
DustPuppyOI
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/10/i-only-learned-one-thing-from-that.html
Keith
Is it too late for HRC to stay on as Senator and run for MajLeader?
OT, but for those who can’t get enough of Joe the Dude, BJ sponsor PajamasTV has hired him on as…war correspondent in Israel. Words fail me.
South of I-10
@keith: Damn, you beat me to it! I just heard that on the radio. Has the world gone mad?
JL
@Keith: Where’s Krista? She could definitely interpret this move for us. By the way has he paid his back taxes and who’s going to watch his child?
AkaDad
That was a slap in the face to Doyle Brunson.
The Grand Panjandrum
@Keith:
The blogging gods love us and have lobbed John Cole a softball. I look forward to the endless mocking of the guy formerly know as JTP.
@JL:
I hear Sara Palin’s future son-in-law is out of work.
maya
This is the net result of Reid’s reliance on the Rope-a-Dope technique one too many times.
Doctor Science
Keith:
Their reality has lapped my satire.
Zifnab
I’m just floored that Reid has managed to keep his position. If all you have to do is say, "I’ll do what I want and you can stick your head in an oven", why hasn’t any other Dem stepped up and told Reid to move over because he/she is becoming Majority Leader and there’s nothing Reid can do to stop’m. Hell, with Reid’s political skills, I’m a little surprised McConnell didn’t twist it out of him. It’s a comedy of errors and no one should be laughing.
rawshark
The right really believes anyone can do anything. Experience and expertise mean nothing to them. Joe the Plumber as war correspondent, why not? The people he’ll be speaking to already know the score over there and Joe will tell them what they’re expecting to hear. He doesn’t even need to go to Israel. He can commentate from Hannity’s basement and still get the story ‘right’.
John Cole
@The Grand Panjandrum: Actually, blogging about Palin and JTP is harder than you think. What can you say that is funnier than the things they utter themselves?
gypsy howell
Fine, fine… but what would the "Jane Hamshers of the left" say?
Ninerdave
@Brian J:
He took an indefensible, illegal position. He has to backdown.
Ninerdave
@John Cole:
No, no. That’s what makes it so easy, all you have to do is blockquote.
sgwhiteinfla
Re Joe the War Correspondent.
I wonder if that has anything to do with this post from Paul Mulshine directed at Glenn Reynolds
John S.
That never stopped a Republican.
Krista
No, no she can’t. This is only one step up from giving a United Nations post to that chick on Maury who had 15 guys go through a paternity test to find out which one was the daddy.
JL
If JTP went to Gaza, he could be war correspondent and do some plumbing work on the side. Talk about the American dream.
Keith
Correct. Republicans don’t back down from indefensible and/or illegal positions; they double-down.
Terri
Joe the plumber=the Kato Kaelin of the far right.
My grandfather, a pipefitter, who was a 65yr member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 72, always said the only 2 things a plumber really knows is that shit floats, and payday is on Fri. I guess he was wrong.
Michael D.
Can I ask an un-related question?
How many, if any, of you own an Amazon Kindle? And what do you think of it? I’m likely going to buy one, but I think a lot of people who own Kindles are dittoheads. At least here, I know there is someone who’ll tell me it’s a piece of shit if it’s a piece of shit.
Brian J
Has it been run through a variety of legal authorities?
gex
@Krista: Okay, maybe you can’t interpret it, but you sure as hell can find an apt analogy.
John Cole
We don’t need to even to do that, because Reid is willing to negotiate to seat him. If the law was on Reid’s side, he wouldn’t need to negotiate. If the law wasn’t on Reid’s side, he would be BREAKING IT by negotiating in an attempt to set the terms by which Buriss is seated.
Reid is a fucking moron.
JL
I suppose it depends on whether they were foreigners.
JasonF
The question I have about Harry Reid is this: is he the least competent leader in the history of the Senate, or is he the least competent leader in the history of the world?
John S.
And they usually win, because in Washington the ‘house’ always loses.
JR
The hell with that, I thought you were talking about THIS hilarity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/joe-the-plumber-to-become_n_155950.html
Please tell me this will appear as a webad on Balloon-Juice sometime very soon!
Grumpy Code Monkey
@JasonF:
Depends; do we consider George W. Bush to be a leader?
Jennifer
@Terri:
Well, actually, there’s one more: don’t chew your fingernails.
Think about it.
TR
In other news, it looks like Michelle Malkin was right that conservative bloggers do real reporting.
Just look at who Pajama Media is sending to Gaza.
Tsulagi
Shit to laugh at to the left of us. And…
Shit to laugh at to the right of us. Balance. And I thought Jon Stewart was going to have a lack of material during the Obama years. I didn’t see the big picture.
linda
if you want to see something really funny, check out this latest development:
joe the plumber in his next starring role:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0109/Joe_to_Israel.html?showall
John
That is exactly the wrong way of looking at it. In fact, that way of looking at it is what got Reid into this mess in the first place. The problem is that this isn’t simply a political question – arguably, it’s not a political question at all. It’s a legal question.
And it’s quickly becoming apparent that Reid has absolutely no legal grounds for refusing to seat Burris. They are relying on White’s refusal to certify, which White himself admits has no legal force and will not prevent Burris from taking the seat.
The fact is that, whatever the political results of any response to this crisis, Reid has no plausible way to prevent Burris from eventually being seated, as is becoming more and more apparent. So now he has to back down and look like an idiot.
Tough talk first, thoughts about whether one can actually back it up afterwards, apparently.
JL
CNN just had a teaser about "Say it ain’t so, Joe".
FYI, Keith linked to the Joe the Plumber article at 1:00 so he’s now my go to commenter for breaking news stories.
AnotherBruce
So let me see if I have this down. Non-Joe the non-plumber is about to become Joe the non-Journalist? There are not enough drugs in the universe to grasp this conceptually.
Josh Hueco
Plus ça change…
gex
@Grumpy Code Monkey: We don’t like what he accomplished, but he generally got what he wanted. Unlike Reid.
Keith
On the plus side, he’s been in the shit before, so you could say – in a Palin sorta way – he already has combat experience.
John S.
And he’s the featured speaker at CPAC 2009: We Still Don’t Get It.
This tendency for Republicans to take a national joke like Sarah Palin or Joe the Plumber and exalt them is as sad as it is funny.
Napoleon
Personally I love it. They just keep pointing out to the population at large what a bunch of nuts they are.
Sad_Dem
She summed it up rather nicely. Reid just tripped and fell into a big puddle of fail, in public, wearing white.
Ninerdave
@John Cole:
+1
Svensker
@Michael D.:
Re: the Kindle. I don’t own one, but a good friend has had one for over a year. She likes it — easy to read, nice size, light, etc. Only problem she has is trying to find a remembered page — she hasn’t figured out how to "leaf" through a book yet.
Incertus
@Napoleon: Don’t overestimate the intelligence of the American public. We glorify ignorance all the damn time.
JR
We don’t like what he accomplished, but he generally got what he wanted. Unlike Reid.
Why do people continue to believe without a shred of evidence that these traitor Dems have the same agenda as The People? Because they should? Is it a faith-based thing? Is it simply to keep from admitting that maybe Ralph Nader told the truth?
Clue: There is a species of humans, politicus horribulis, that seeks power and money over society, and will pretend anything, say anything, do anything to increase their power and money. These kinds are easily bought and become traitors, because being a traitor is very lucrative.
It just doesn’t make you many friends, and keeps the few you have from defending you. And Reid has fewer and fewer…
The Moar You Know
@JR: I was smoking a shitload of pot one night back in late 2005 and Ralph Nader came to me in a vision. He said the following:
Then he kicked me in the junk and called me a faggot. I swore I’d never vote for him again.
rawshark
@The Moar You Know:
Was he wearing socks?
Brien Jackson
Given my quasi-defense of Reid yesterday I suppose I should say that, by far, his biggest problem is his total lack of tact. He can’t help but shoot his mouth off, and usually he has no way to back it up.
oh really
Ace pugilist Harry "The Dope" Reid missed the class on the Rope-a-Dope technique, which is too bad since it seems to be only tactic he knows.
Ali let Foreman punch himself out by allowing George to deliver hundreds of body shots, all of which Ali absorbed.
Harry, too, thinks that his opponents will punch themselves out, except it’s his head, not his body, that he offers up for pummeling. The outcome of every "bout" is a foregone conclusion, Harry gets knocked out.
The ultimate loser in every case is not really Reid, it’s the Democratic Party and their agenda. If the Republicans have any sense at all (they don’t) they won’t even run a candidate against Reid in 2009. They’d also be smart to vote for Reid for Majority Leader, since as long as Reid is running the show, Democrats are going to fail — with the added benefit that they will look like buffoons on their way to failure.
The Moar You Know
@rawshark: No. And his pants were pulled up way too high.
Bob In Pacifica
I said before that the Dems should have been shooting for 75 senators instead of 60. But really, they should just be shooting at Harry Reid. Reid is too incompetent to be a politician.
The Moar You Know
Let me just state for the record that I find Jane pretty cute.
Ash Can
Re Joe the Plumbing Tool: Maybe he made himself too obnoxious even to the PJ Media people, and they decided that giving him a plane ticket to Tel Aviv and marching orders to get his ass into the middle of the shitstorm there would be a win-win — the right-wing wackos get a martyr, and PJ Media gets him out of their hair.
Grumpy Code Monkey
@gex:
Point.
Gregory
@The Grand Panjandrum:
Shoe money tonight!
Brandon
Wait, John…..are you saying that you endorse Jane Hamsher…
"of the Left"?!?!
Oh, memories ;-)
Brandon
For those of you who don’t know the context:
http://firedoglake.com/2006/03/27/its-all-theyve-got/
Let’s just say John didn’t use to find Jane’s commentary so appealing :-P
Cat G
Michael D – I’ve had a Kindle for about 9 months and really like it. Yes, it’s awkward to leaf through, but it remembers your last page read in each book. You can bookmark any page you want. You can search for words or terms, annotate, and save pages in a clipping file etc. There are thousands of free, out of copyright books avail in addition to the competitively priced books at Amazon. I have a variety of books on it, so I can read according to my mood. Word documents and PDFs can also be added. It’s much easier on the eyes than a computer screen, and you can change font sizes easily. You can download sample book chapters from Amazon for free before you purchase a book. Amazon has made it very easy to buy books..too easy. I’m reading more and can’t imagine traveling without one.
Shawn in ShowMe
Harry Reid: "You’re not going to have Harry Reid to kick around anymore." Stomps off indignantly.
Returns five minutes later. "Okay, maybe I was a little hasty .."
Sad_Dem
Where’s a smelly sockless tourist to blame when you need one?