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He’s not gonna go quietly, per the Washington Post last night:
Outgoing House Speaker John A. Boehner, in his first one-on-one interview since announcing his resignation last week, compared conservative hard-liners in his party to biblical “false prophets” who promise more than they can deliver.
Boehner announced Friday that he would step down Oct. 30 after nearly five years as speaker amid constant pressure from his party’s right flank. Asked Sunday by host John Dickerson on a live broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation” whether those hard-liners are “unrealistic about what can be done in government,” Boehner exploded.
“Absolutely, they’re unrealistic!” he said. “But, you know, the Bible says beware of false prophets, and there are people out there spreading noise about how much can get done.”…
Dickerson followed up by asking whether Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), the leading proponent of the 2013 shutdown, was a “false prophet.”“Listen, you can pick a lot of names out; I’ll let you choose ’em,” Boehner said as he sipped from a coffee mug. He added: “I refer you to my remark at a fundraiser I made in August in Steamboat Springs, Colo.” — a reference to a report, published in the Daily Caller, that he had called Cruz a “jackass” behind closed doors…
Boehner addressed the remaining five weeks of his speakership, in which he pledged to “get as much finished as possible.” Pressing matters include striking a deal with President Obama to keep the government open through the coming fiscal year, raising the federal borrowing limit, passing a long-term transportation bill and extending popular tax breaks.
“I don’t want to leave my successor a dirty barn,” Boehner said. “So I want to clean the barn up a little bit before the next person gets here.”…
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Apart from enjoying the ongoing confusion amongst our enemies, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Ian
Clean up the barn a little bit? I thought he spent the past five years burning the thing to the ground.
Lest anyone forget, Frankenstein’s monster has turned on him. Pity it couldn’t do more damage to the orange julius on his way out the door.
Baud
The next person will just burn the barn down.
NotMax
Doesn’t quite give the flavor. Listening or watching it, there’s a long pause while he searches for the word “noise.” One can practically hear his mental Rolodex flipping through words of a rather more vulgar nature.
satby
I like that he considers his fellow Republicans akin to barnyard creatures, though that’s unfair to the farm animals I know.
gratuitous
Boehner intends to divert the Potomac through Congress? That’s the method Hercules used to clean out the Augean stables. Pretty sure the EPA (which wasn’t around when old Herc was flexing his muscles) would have something to say about that.
Interesting how, once again, a politician having faced his last election suddenly develops a distaste for all the nonsense he’s had to put up with. It’s also telling – to me – that Boehner knew he just had to mention Steamboat Springs from last month, and be confident that John Dickerson would know what he was talking about. How many times do we see politician and interviewer alike sit across from one another practicing obtusities (Is that a word? Is now.) when both of them know full well what they’re talking about, even if they’re not saying anything about their subject?
pete
This is great news for John McCain!
JPL
He’s not cleaning the barn by moving around the dirty straw. He’s going to kick the debt ceiling down the road and that will tank the economy.
Not That Guy
Has he really been at this for 5 years? I kind of admire that, in a how-much-shit-can-one-person-take sort of way…
JPL
@Not That Guy: Bull.. All Boehner had to do was get rid of the Hastert rule.
Speaking of Hastert, let’s hope any settlement he is reaching, means jail time.
NotMax
@gratuitous
Only has to open up the large underground sewer tunnel through which Tiber Creek runs.
Corner Stone
I, for one, am going to remain slightly smacked in the gob that those are really Cole’s fingers in his twitter avatar. And not some concoction of a frat brother in an FX program.
Look at that mangled white potato that is his left hand ring finger.
***shutters***
Tommy
@Not That Guy: How about it. It would seem to me that if Boehner really wanted to make a difference he should have said the things he said above when still in office and not retiring. Those of us on the left have been saying this stuff for years. And if you are like me I’ve been waiting for somebody like Boehner to say what we all know is a fact for just about as long, but it never happens.
You know there are more than a few people in the House and maybe more in the Senate that will read what Boehner said and smile, clap, and nod their heads. But will they come out and join him, of course not!
Corner Stone
I’m wondering if I’m eventually going to end up loving, or at least smirking widely, over this “Free at last!” version of John Boehner.
maya
I’d say that Congress is more like that lone porta-potty at any Greatful Dead concert of yore.
Tommy
@Corner Stone: He sure has a lot of “low hanging fruit” to work with :)!
JPL
@Corner Stone: NO. He created the crazies. When they threatened his leadership, he could open up the votes to get something done. He might have lost one committee position but at election time, the minority would keep him as leader. He created his own demise.
Peale
@maya: Except you don’t blame the porta potty for its condition. Not its fault there’s only one. Instead, blame the asshole who thought sauerkraut and summersausage were just what those dead heads needed.
SFAW
I’m sure Speaker-in-Waiting Rafael “Canadian Dominionist” Cruz will do his utmost to erase any trace of that CINO, Boehner. Perhaps he can call down fire, floods, pestilence, locusts, and Air Supply records from his vengeful God.
What I want to know is, how can the Dominionists reconcile their “beliefs” with the teachings of Jesus? Being a devout atheist, I really don’t understand what are apparently the finer points of theology.
dedc79
If we’re going with biblical comparisons, I’m partial to possessed “swine”:
MattF
@Corner Stone: Well, Obama has his “rhymes with bucket” list, so I’m guessing Boehner has one too.
Mike in NC
@gratuitous: Even Hercules couldn’t clean up the yoooouge stinking mess the GOP has created in Washington.
ET
When I read this this morning I thought that “false prophets” was a really good description of GOP pols and talking heads that are the only ones that the rank and file of what is left of the GOP listen to.
Germy Shoemangler
The Faces of America: Ellis Island Photos 1906-1912
http://mashable.com/2015/09/07/ellis-island-portraits/?utm_cid=lf-toc#ysBuzViKskql
redshirt
They’re not our enemies, they’re our fellow citizens. Which makes this war all the more insane.
hells littlest angel
…Boehner said as he sipped from a coffee mug.
Sipped what from a coffee mug? What an odd phrasing.
trollhattan
@Baud:
And then claim Democrats and/or Mexicans done stole the barn and must build him a new one RIGHT NOW, all while shopping for a new lighter.
Gimlet
Finally we’ll get legislation repealing the ACA, defunding PP and impeaching Obama.
Tommy
@JPL: Not sure he created them, but he sure did empower them, which might be worse. As soon as he and leadership showed they were scared of maybe only 50 tea party folks (their numbers have grown of course) the end was near for any sane government in the House, even by the bizarro standards of the Republican party.
redshirt
@hells littlest angel:
“That’s fucking vodka, man!”
Name the movie.
NotMax
Kay could much better address this, but speculate that Boehner may be setting himself up for a run as Ohio governor in ’18. Getting out before the splatters of RWNJ feces hitting the fan irrevocably besmirches his image may be a sign of that. Two years (from his resignation to a possible run) is about the right time frame for a political resurrection.
Corner Stone
@JPL: I’m not so sure. He certainly quailed when crunch time came, and by all accounts could not count the vote, but he’s obviously an old school pol. He didn’t create the crazies, Gingrich and DeLay did. They are the ones that set up the outrageous rhetoric as acceptable (G) and put the overarching gerrymandering in place (DeLay).
Boehner just wanted his fat checks, a few glasses of something and a round of golf. He should never have been Speaker but no on else actually wanted it all that much after Hastert.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
Is the Orange Man at all popular in his home state? Hard to imagine he’s interested in further political offices–no spring chicken is he.
Corner Stone
@NotMax: He’s not running for Gov. My understanding is Speaker is all he ever wanted. Now he has UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH coming his way in lobbyist/retirement.
Judge Crater
Blame it on the Pope.
Someone comes before what is left of our two party system and speaks humbly and of things that matter. Ergo the lunatics who have taken over the asylum can only respond with more poop tossing. This is the death rattle of the GOP. Even a klutz like Boehner is embarrassed. Donald Trump is the avatar of Republican dissolution. The end is near.
bystander
That idiot Luke Russert said today that the source of Boehner’s trouble was because he didn’t get along with the “conservative” side of the party. Imagine those “conservatives” drumming out a moderate, middle of the road guy like Boehner.
This is what happens when an idiot is empowered to define our politics.
schrodinger's cat
@bystander: Who is the idiot, Luke Russert, the legacy hire or Boehner?
Gimlet
@bystander:
Luke is just repeating what somebody told him.
Gex
@SFAW: Boehner is in the House. Cruz is in the Senate. But other than that…
Tommy
@bystander: I was never a huge fan of Tim Russert, but at his core sometime in his earlier life he was in fact a journalist. The best I can tell Luke Russert just had a second rate radio show with James Carville. His father passes away and next thing you know Luke is working for MSNBC. Almost overnight, he seems to have leapfrogged who knows how many people and now you and I have to watch him all the time.
If this isn’t pure nepotism and/or sorrow over the death of his father by Universal/NBC I don’t know what it is.
Kathleen
@Gimlet: Probably Chuck Todd.
redshirt
@Gex: Anyone can be speaker of the House. You or I could theoretically be elected to the position.
randy khan
@Gex: Curiously enough, it appears that you don’t have to be a member of the House to be Speaker.
Kay
@NotMax:
I would say “no”. In fact, Kasich’s hands off management style has led to a whole bunch of state Republicans jostling for position and running little fiefdoms in their respective offices- the auditor, the secretary of state, the treasurer. I think every single one of them is “running for governor” right now. Kasich would be a horrible President because he’s not really interested in running anything.
Also, they’re younger than Boehner and not as low energy :)
Democrats may actually have a very strong candidate for governor. If Richard Cordray decides to run after he leaves the Obama Administration he would be very competitive. I assume he will run. He’s intimidating as a candidate. He’s really smart and he was absolutely fearless as an attorney general.
Tommy
@redshirt: @randy khan: And Cruz has shown, not the recent past but not the distant past either, he could exert a ton of influence on the House from the Senate. Not putting words in SFAW mouth but when I read the comment that was kind of what I thought about.
catclub
@redshirt: Big Lebowski. The ‘man’ gives it away.
redshirt
@catclub: Bzzt! Incorrect. It’s a pretty obscure movie line.
SFAW
@Gex:
Article I, Section 2, Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
You will notice that it does not say “from among their Members,” nor from any place, legislative body, political party, or Model Railroaders Club.
Rafael “The Canadian” Cruz tried to be the de facto Speaker last year, or maybe this year(?), hence my comment.
(And of course, redshirt beat me to it.)
catclub
@Tommy:
No, I don’t.
Tommy
@Kay: I have not followed the polls in Ohio closely, but I thought Kasich had above a 60% approval rating. I can’t wrap my mind around those numbers, but that is still impressive. If he is not term limited (is he?) I can’t see who from his party is going to beat him unless something massive happens (like a scandal).
redshirt
@Tommy:
I think it would be fantastic if Cruz got elected Speaker. It would blow up the Senate as well as the House, and kill any chance Cruz has of getting elected President.
Tommy
@catclub: LOL. I should rephrase. I don’t ever watch him. Don’t watch cable news anymore. But many people do :).
NotMax
@Tommy
Would have to look it up in greater detail, but (and there’s the proverbial snowball’s chance of preening, posturing House members stepping aside to elect Cruz as Speaker) it could well violate the rules of the Senate for him to accept the position.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Point the first – these people aren’t spreading noise about how much they can get done, they’re spreading noise about how much they are going to un-do (Civil Rights Act, Great Society, New Deal, 14th Amendment, etc.).
Point the second – being unrealistic is not a bug with these people; they promise big and fail on purpose because they want to prove that the federal government not only doesn’t work, but cannot be made to work.
Having said all that…
Too late or not, too little or not, would-a could-a should-a or not, at least he’s calling out the teatard caucus for what it is now. Not that anyone will pay attention to him.
SFAW
@Tommy:
Yes.
Steeplejack (phone)
@redshirt:
Mad Max: Fury Road?
redshirt
@Steeplejack (phone): Lol. There’s no vodka in our post apocalyptic future.
catclub
@Judge Crater:
Failure of Pope’s teaching. With better teaching Boehner stays and fights the good fight.
skerry
@randy khan: Baud!2015 for Speaker
Grumpy Code Monkey
@bystander:
Funny how nobody ever phrases it the other way – that the “conservative side” of the part is unwilling to get along with…well, anyone else.
Baud
@skerry:
OH HELL NO! I’m not going anywhere near those clowns except with my veto pen in hand.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! I was kidding! (Not that Cruz doesn’t think he deserves to run both Chambers, as well as occupy the Oval Office – simultaneously.)
What happened to the Balloon Juice where you could snark/joke, and people wouldn’t get their proverbial knickers in a twist?
Tommy
@SFAW: @redshirt: He doesn’t need to be speaker. Use his power to get somebody like minded in place and then do what he has done in the past and tell them what to do. The best of the best for Cruz.
NotMax
@Judge Crater
Please say “Hi!” to Ambrose, Amelia and Jimmy.
:)
NotMax
@SFAW
Chill.
It was an honest response to any who might take it seriously.
Baud
@SFAW:
When was this? Balloon Juice has had a sober, serious, and cerebral attitude for as long as I can remember?
Frankensteinbeck
I have no sympathy whatsoever. The House does not have to be dysfunctional. Boehner made it that way by abusing his power as Speaker to allow no legislation to be voted on that was not entirely partisan, passing only with Republican votes. Every hostage crisis was because he wouldn’t let a decent bill come to vote, not because there weren’t votes for it. If he actually gave a damn, the House would be functioning just fine. There are enough ‘merely asshole’ Republicans to get the basics done, and maybe more than that.
Because of that, I really don’t know who will succeed him. The Teabaggers may scream the loudest, but they’re outnumbered. It may be someone MORE reasonable than Boehner. Again, it just has to be someone who will let bills be voted on.
JPL
@Baud: I blame Obama…
Kay
@Tommy:
He’s term-limited. The auditor and sec of state are definitely running. The sec of state has been running for governor since the day he took office. The treasurer is delusional, so he’s probably hoping for President of the United States. Governor may not be enough for him, but he’ll be in the mix somewhere.
Cervantes
@NotMax:
FYI, that’s how I took it.
Hardly worthy of being compared to underwear malfunction.
Corner Stone
@Baud:
As long as you’re snarking…this place used to actually have a good sense of humor, and believe it or not, some sense of awareness that a yooge portion of the active commentariat actually gives a damn about some types of sporting activities.
Both of those things were driven right out of the blog at some point.
Cervantes
@bystander:
You lost me at Russert.
Thoughtful Today
“what’s on the agenda for the evening?”
… anticipating the cognitive dissonance that I’ll have when I find myself missing John Boehner…
might take a few months to really kick in, so there’s that…
Baud
@Corner Stone:
I’ve been here since 2010. I’ve noticed the decline in interest in sports, but not in sense of humor. YMMV.
Tommy
Since this is an open thread how about some happy thoughts not politically related. Long story short I had some issues with one of my bathrooms. Went to Menards and was kind of surprised at how inexpensive new counter tops, even custom cut, sinks and toilets were. Always wanted to change them but assumed it would cost many times what I paid.
Got this one kind of “hip” vanity with a sink that was listed for $589 for $99 (in-store special). Heck the faucet cost more :).
Oh also all new toilets.
Just giddy at the moment. Will be here the first of next week when my father can be over to watch the install, because well I am shit all stupid with this stuff and want somebody watching it done that in fact knows what is going on.
Can’t wait to have two “new” bathrooms done for well under $1,000 (includes a custom counter top for one).
SFAW
@NotMax: @Cervantes:
OK, OK. Sorry for letting my own knickers get twisted
Tommy
@Kay:
I wasn’t sure, but assumed. Then it is going to be a free-for-all.
Cervantes
@SFAW:
If I had a nickel …
SFAW
@Baud:
You don’t fool me one bit, buddy. You’re just doing the plausible-deniability-thing for when we have to address you as President Baud.
Patricia Kayden
Why is Boehner criticizing the looney tunes in his Party when he played along with their delusional conduct and abetted their obstructionism? He’s no better than any of them. And he was nasty to President Obama every chance he got.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/john-boehner-just-committed-treason/
President Obama is a great guy to have anything positive to say about that douche’s resignation.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: Not sure about installing the new sink/counter top(it looks nice), but toilets are pretty easy. I put in a new water saving toilet in July, we get rebates for that kind of stuff out here.
Baud
@SFAW:
This blog is nothing more than a youthful indiscretion.
SFAW
@Cervantes:
… you could get 15 minutes on a parking meter somewhere.
Because you wouldn’t be getting rich off of me, if that’s what you were hinting at.
SFAW
@Baud:
Let’s go, Mets?
Cervantes
@SFAW:
Pretty much the contrary — but never mind.
I’m off. Enjoy the evening.
Kay
@Tommy:
The treasurer ran against Sherrod Brown. They spent 20 million dollars on Josh Mandel.
Some of the attack ads were hysterical, because you’d have to be a completely plugged in wingnut to understand what they were trying to get across. It was abstract campaign art- a loud clanging sound and a chisel hitting the side of a… cliff? Sherrod Brown is..mining? Sherrod Brown is ..chipping away at the Grand Canyon? It was like charades.
Someone gave them 20 million dollars and said “spend all that on ads- I don’t care what they say”.
SFAW
@Baud:
Yeah, Cole is about the same age as Hyde was, interestingly enough.
Baud
@SFAW: Nothing funny about the Mets this year. Although I’d imagine a team in the NL Central will prevail. But who knows? A short series in baseball means anything is possible.
Cervantes
@Patricia Kayden:
And smart.
hells littlest angel
@redshirt: Wow, no one round here knows how to use the google?
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: It’s been odd for me to stay out of all the things that have been done here, especially since I have been home the entire time. I know it’s what I should do but it’s hard since there is so much I do myself.
SFAW
@Cervantes:
Not sure what “the contrary” would be, but … OK.
Have a good night.
geg6
@Patricia Kayden:
This.
SFAW
@hells littlest angel:
The what?
redshirt
@Corner Stone: I like sportsball!
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: The vanity, two toilets, we’re using a plumber. The counter top which I don’t have a link to, but love, my dad will do, but the plumber the sink for it. I don’t get tax cuts here that I am aware of, but plan to look into it.
The toilets I looked at where in the $149 to $179 price range. I went with the $210 ones that save water everywhere you can imagine and, as a geek I guess, are even more cool because you press buttons for them to work.
Baud
We should have more ballet threads.
raven
@Baud: billet maybe
Cervantes
@SFAW:
“If I had a nickel for each time I’ve done that …”
(Not to worry. It’ll come to you!)
Baud
@raven: Isn’t that against the Third Amendment?
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: The wife’s been complaining about the toilet for years, so when the landlord went on vacay…I got a new toilet.
bk
@redshirt: Up In Smoke
FlyingToaster
@redshirt: Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke.
You have to be OLD to know this (waving my AARP card).
SFAW
@Baud:
They’re never funny. But they’re definitely more fun this year. Now, if only they could find a manager with a clue, they’d be set for awhile. (As long as they don’t pick up Matt Williams after the Nats fire him.) Two high-quality young pitchers, plus Harvey, plus Colon once in a while. A decent set of hitters, although not great (including Cespedes).
I agree re: Central, but I think the Mets are expected to play the Dodgers first. We’ll see if their hitting holds up against Dodger pitching.
Mets 2015/Baud 2016!
ETA: Mets fan for 55 years
Tommy
@raven: I bet Raven. I don’t know how to do anything from a home improvement point-of-view. My father does, but not always as exact as I’d like. I want my father around so I don’t get screwed, but I want to let the “professionals” do their shit.
My house was built in the early 70s and well the bathrooms more than anything show this. The bathroom counter top I am replacing is off my home office, which I use 80% of the time. It looks like a counter top you’d have in a disco where you do coke off it. I hate it. Can’t wait for it to be changed!
SFAW
@Cervantes:
Oh.
‘Scuse me while I step out for a minute – the clue truck just drove by and apparently I need to catch it.
raven
@Baud: KillBillet Rat Rod site.
different-church-lady
Shorter Boehner: “I’m telling you so before it’s so.”
Baud
@raven: What corner of the dark web did you just send me to?
Gex
@SFAW: I stand corrected. As noted by many.
Moving on…
Corner Stone
@redshirt:
Yeah, sure. I don’t think your comment holds air, IMO.
shell
The return of Dean Martin
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy: My dad made me learn how to do a lot of that stuff when I was a kid. He was an Electrician’s Mate in the Navy and taught me a lot of that stuff too. Wiring is one thing I WILL NOT TOUCH, though I know enough to do it(I’ve been shot across the room a few times).
OT: I just picked up the mail and there was a letter from the Dept. of Commerce with big letters that a reply is required by law. I guess Obama wasn’t happy enough with the NSA’s snooping. I also got a package delivered to my door earlier, A NEW PHONE!
raven
@Baud: My Chevy is a bit new, 1966, to be a real Rat Rod, but the flat black “John Deere Blitz Black, certainly qualify it as old school. Billet stuff is cast aluminum parts that makes rides look kind of like show cars,
sukabi
@dedc79: why did you bring up the Cameron thing? Got enough to deal with here.
Punchy
Evening? Its Tuesday morning where Im at. Time travel rawks.
Citizen Scientist
Bumper stickers I noticed on one vehicle during tonight’s evening walk: “Democrat is Death”, some quote from Saint Ronnie about abortion, three placards advertising “FREE junk removal AND Free Candy“.
Obviously the Dems are not reaching today’s small business owners/job creators.
raven
@Tommy: Actually I know just enough to get in trouble! My wife’s dad was an old school builder and a Navy SeeBee Officer. He once said I was ok at demolition but stay away from carpentry.
redshirt
@bk:
DING-DING-DING WINNER!
Baud
@raven:
This blog is educational. Thanks.
sukabi
@Gimlet: I’d say Luke was the Village Idiot, but there are nothing BUT idiots in that village.
redshirt
@FlyingToaster:
DAMN! Beaten by seconds.
rikyrah
@Kay:
thanks for the continuing Ohio info, Kay.
Baud
@shell:
This Rat Pack has real rats!
SFAW
@sukabi:
It takes a Village of idiots to raise an idiot?
raven
@Baud: A whole different world.
Germy Shoemangler
@shell:
Reminds me of Jackie Gleason. His lovely assistant would hand him a coffee cup, he’d take a sip and roll his eyes. Not coffee.
redshirt
@raven:
Can we haz a picture?
different-church-lady
@hells littlest angel: In Soviet Russian, Google search you.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA:
My father is a master woodworker. I never paid attention. The two car garage I had growing up it was a place to do DIY before that was, well long ago.
He also took apart a MG and we drove it around most of the US. Never paid attention. Took apart and rebuilt the first car I had, a 1969 Fastback Mustang, which I still own, never paid attention. I so kick myself for all of my inattention when I could have learned so much!
different-church-lady
@Germy Shoemangler:
kc
It would have been awesome if the mug was labelled “Tea Party Tears.”
SFAW
@raven:
Deuce? Chevelle?
Germy Shoemangler
@different-church-lady: Here’s Jackie Gleason lending his support for Richard Nixon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_C9vGEJXTU
Van Buren
@Peale: Having had that for dinner and being a deadhead, I’m concerned that you are an NSA plant.
Renie
@Germy Shoemangler: Fascinating, thank you for posting that. I went to visit Ellis Island back in the 1980s before it was all fixed up. It was eerie seeing all the odd pieces of furniture, clothing, old luggage just thrown around. Knowing all this stuff was probably there for decades was so interesting.
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
The world needs Dick!
Germy Shoemangler
@Baud: we certainly got it.
Tommy
Oh another happy thing. I often note here I have a mass transit situation in a rural town/area you would be jealous of. I can get on a bus three blocks from my house. Rail. Cheap, easy to get to, and clean.
Last week we finally got all buses to have bike racks. You could always take your bike on the rail line but not buses. That has been corrected now. Happy, happy, joy, joy ……
Germy Shoemangler
@Renie: My grandparents came through Ellis; not sure of the exact year… probably 1906 or 07.
BruceFromOhio
@Van Buren: Mine was with horseradish and mustard, some lovely steamed carrots, two small dumplings, and a nice vodka martini. Suck on that, NSA!
And if you go
No one may follow
different-church-lady
@Germy Shoemangler: Please, I’m having a hard enough time with Tom Brady being a semi-tacit Trump supporter.
redshirt
@different-church-lady:
I now know cognitive dissonance.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’ve seen some movies where that’s the plot.
OT: I finished the Commerce Department survey, a bit long and lots of questions. Thanks Obama.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: I hope Richard Nixon didn’t star in any of them. shudder
BruceFromOhio
@Tommy: Yay! This, and more of it! The railhead is nine miles from my house, a mere 45 minutes of leisurely pedaling. Alas, it involves some of the more busy, dangerous, and pothole-y roads hereabouts, which upon consideration, may simply serve to make the endeavour more interesting…
mclaren
As I predicted, Boehner is going to keep the government functioning until the Teahadists get fully in charge. That put the onus of government shutdowns and the like squarely on the Republican house and the heroism of standing up to these lunatics and preventing ’em from wrecking the government squarely on the next Democratic president.
Next up: the Republican sharks in the house eat each other, to the revulsion of the voters.
Good times.
JPL
@redshirt: Chelsea Clinton and Ivanka Trump are good friends. Politics sometimes transcends friendship.
Maybe friendship transcends politics.. who knows
mclaren
@Baud:
And in 1968, America got it right where the sun don’t shine.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Gawd, I hope not. Ol’ Dick Nixon is the only President I’ve ever seen. He stopped by Satan’s offices about a year prior to his journey to Hell.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Did you wish him a safe journey home?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I was about 10 feet away from him, though one of my co-worker’s shook his hand. She said, she’s never wash her hand, I mentioned that it wouldn’t matter since the slime would never come off.
raven
@SFAW: Longbed Fleetside. I’ve owned it for 30 year and it’s pretty much all new drivetrain.
Here she is just after I had it painted.
SFAW
@raven:
Nice. Thanks for the pic.
Sebastian
@redshirt:
Up in smoke
Baud
@SFAW:
Very cool.
mclaren
@BillinGlendaleCA:
But once in Hell, Nixon probably opened up a HUAC investigation on Satan. And very soon Satan was packing his bags and Dick Nixon was in charge…
divF
@SFAW:
You’ve come to the wrong window. Sports is next door at LG&M.
Besides, didn’t anyone tell you it’s football season ?
Turgidson
@Patricia Kayden:
Obama undoubtedly understands that Boehner only wanted to destroy Obama’s political agenda, while many of the braindead mouthbreathers Boehner had to “lead” wanted to destroy Obama in any and all possible ways, right up to a firing squad.
BruceFromOhio
@raven:
Oh, that is sweet. Three on the tree? Round mirrors. Damn fine, sir.
NotMax
@Renie
If you liked that, you’ll go ga-ga for this blog.
(Not responsible for the hours which will slip by while looking at the phoitos).
mclaren
@SFAW:
Here’s how.
“When Jesus comes back, he’ll be carrying an AR-15 assault rifle.”
redshirt
@raven: Needs bigger tires and suspension.
PurpleGirl
@SFAW: Snark meters are broken and need to be fixed. (Myself, I tend to be literal and serious and have a problem telling when something is snark. So sometimes I don’t comment.)
gene108
@Germy Shoemangler:
I wonder if any of the U.S. airports, like JFK, where people who immigrate here have been clearing customs, since the mid-to-late 20th century will ever get the same treatment of being considered a national monument to America’s past that Ellis Island has received.
redshirt
@gene108: lol rhetorical questions!
Cervantes
@gene108:
Good question.
And not only “normal” immigrants but refugees, too, have been welcomed at JFK.
PurpleGirl
@Germy Shoemangler: Both sets of my grandparents came through Ellis Island. But when an Aunt wanted to have my maternal grandparents named on a wall, my father refused to pay a share of the contribution and so it didn’t happen. I’ve been mad about how cheap my father was. I think it would have been nice to them named on the wall. Ditto, if we could have had his parents named. But nooooo………
Tommy
@BruceFromOhio: Gosh that sucks. Where I live we don’t have sidewalks. If I want to walk somewhere, and I walk a lot, it is on the road outside of my house.
Wag
@Corner Stone:
This.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose
Tommy
@PurpleGirl: My parents came in here in a backdoor. The port of New Orleans. We caught a steameer to New Orleans on the Mississippi and then the new world in St. Louis. The other family member worked the rails from the east to here.
SFAW
@divF:
Opinions differ on that.
For the Washington Nationals, sure. Well, for Papelbon it is; the rest of the Nats will be there in a week.
But not for the Mets, it ain’t.
SFAW
@mclaren:
Thanks … I think.
I couldn’t finish reading Boykiin’s diatribe/declamation/raving – it was just too fucked up for words. Jesus coming back as a combination of Macho Man Randy Savage, Audie Murphy, and Vlad the Impaler? How has Boykin not been declared clinically insane (whatever that term means)? It’s like saying Fred Rogers will be resurrected as Dexter Morgan.
Those people are fucking scary. Not because of the weapons — because they’re so detached from rationality.
SFAW
@NotMax:
Thanks! Interesting stuff.
J R in WV
@hells littlest angel:
Yes, but many would think that was cheating.
After all, you can’t use a dictionary playing Scrabble before you make a play, only to contest one. Google = Mariam-Webster in this case.
Are you new here?
redshirt
’nuff said.
Matt
“Clean up the barn”? Boner, you’ve let it get so dirty there are piles of talking horseshit running the place.