Watching Chuck myself, but here is a shiny for you all.
SOTU Open Thread
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Watching Chuck myself, but here is a shiny for you all.
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Dave C
24 Oz. of Stone’s Ruination IPA better be enough to get me through this. David Gregory’s blathering is not making me too optimistic about my prospects, though.
inkadu
I’m catching up to Chuck slowly. Should be done with Season 1 by the end of the month.
Let us know if Adam Baldwin does his condescending grin. It’s a drink if he does.
valdivia
Thanks John. Take it easy. Here we go.
Keith G
Yay
inkadu
CSPAN just has people milling about. Much better than the jibbering on the other networks. Oo. Gavel. Shh.
Bootlegger
Oh noes, look at all dem white peeple.
What did anyone expect from the first President of color?
McGeorge Bundy
Yaaaaaaay! Yaaay! Yaaaaaaaaay!
Creepy sounding.
Spork
I’m drinking on “United” “States”, and “We”. I’m hoping to be out by halftime. It’s a simple game, you win if you have to read about the speech tomorrow to find out what it was about.
TooManyJens
Why the hell does the White House app require a microphone? I was going to watch the speech on my iPod. No, I don’t really know why.
robertdsc
First Lady is in PURPLE! I am D E A D!
burnspbesq
Wise move. In your condition, you don’t need to be tempted to chuck your laptop across the room.
Zam
I’m watching it on BET
freelancer (itouch)
Thanks John
Probably a healthier way to spend the evening, blood pressure wise
Keith G
Sheila Jackson Lee fresh from her triumph at the MJ funeral.
demkat620
Well the Tweety just said the President didn’t eat his pie today.
Good god.
Michelle looks great.
Max
Michelle looks beautiful. I like her new hair and her outfit is sharp.
I love our president!
O-bot.
fourlegsgood
Thanks – get some rest, and yes, a nice card and a gift certificate to your nurse is a wonderful idea. And appropriate.
AkaDad
If Obama doesn’t say exactly what I want to hear, then I’m so hopping on the Palin bandwagon.
Corner Stone
One can imagine it would be hard to clap louder at this point.
inkadu
@robertdsc: Did you see the little uniformed security to the First Lady’s right? She’s teeny tiny. Looks like a DC cop. Wonder what that’s about.
Listening to this is making my palms hurt
mr. whipple
Obama just hugged Geithner, which can only mean Obama is throwing me under the bus.
Sentient Puddle
Drink of choice for me tonight is Rogue’s Dead Guy ale.
Here we go!
valdivia
Yes the First Lady rocks. Love the dress and haircut. Love our Pres. O-bot too.
freelancer (itouch)
I might not have enough rum for this speech.
MJ
Michelle looks fabulous! I take that as a sign of great things to come!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@demkat620:
I don’t get it, but I rarely get Tweety. But, fair’s fair, his remark to Olbermann, that the even-tempered Obama “is not you” was pretty damn funny.
Joe Max
Michelle’s dress is gorgeous! I love the color.
freelancer (itouch)
Omg NBC guys, stfu!
Keith G
I will forgive Obama all his sins if he becomes the Prez who discontinues the practice of introducing guests in the gallery.
JGabriel
Started to watch the SOTU on Hulu, but they’re streaming the Fox News feed. Recommend the CSpan feed instead.
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Max
Biden and Pelosi are color coordinated. Purple is definitely the color of the night.
burnspbesq
C-SPAN video feed froze on Obama shaking hands with Justice Thomas. Pulling the wastebasket out from under the desk in case I have to puke.
mr. whipple
Obama starting wide, historical context.
demkat620
Well, our first crowd shot of the cranky old white guys club on the right. Good lord that is an unhappy group.
Zam
Oh fuck he hasn’t said our union is strong yet, that is gonna come up.
inkadu
Bullrun? BULLRUN? Holy fuck. The Democrats have lost the south for a generation! Heh.
mcd410x
WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring “I don’t quit,’” an embattled President Barack Obama vowed in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night to make job growth his topmost priority for the year and urged a divided Congress to come together around new stimulus spending and short-term economic relief. He said he would still pursue ambitious longer-term changes to health care, energy, education and beyond.
“Change has not come fast enough,” Obama said before a politician-packed House chamber and a TV audience of millions. “I do not accept second-place for the United States of America. As hard as it may be, as uncomfortable and contentious as the debates may be, it’s time to get serious about fixing the problems that are hampering our growth.”
Bootlegger
Normandy and Bull Run. Bloody Sunday…and, look, Joe’s nodding…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@mr. whipple:
Hillary would have spat in his face!
Ralph woulda noogied him bald! !
Kucinich would have reached up and punched him in the nuts! ! !
Brian J
Is it too late to hope he makes a high profile firing tonight of Geithner and instead proposes the Senate approves someone who will make Wall Street piss itself?
Keith G
Wait, a Union v Confederacy CW reference? That must be a SOTU first (well in about 150 yrs, anyway).
Max
@Zam: See Left, Talk. BTD has already PUMA’d on it. He also says the reception wasn’t very warm.
Comrade Kevin
@burnspbesq:
You missed the knee to the groin then.
Bootlegger
The First Lady is standing with the cops that dropped the Terrarist, boy that gives me a stiffy….
WereBear
He’s got that right.
demkat620
Kick their ass Barack! Kick their ass! That’s what people want to hear. That somebody is going to get an ass kicking.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Max:
Republicans were doing that sarcastic slow clap from 1996. Dennis Miller is their comedy adviser, after all.
arguingwithsignposts
I’m also watching the SOTU Crack Van at First Draft: http://www.first-draft.com/ Three windows open: BJ, FD, and CSPAN. Got, i’m an internet whore.
inkadu
The numbing weight of politics.
The weight of my numbnuts.
Bipartisan in 5…
mcd410x
WASHINGTON (AP) — Obama calls for repeal of don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy on gays in military.
Joe Max
Wall Street vs. Main Street – major theme?
Comrade Mary
Amaretto fruit crisp is working nicely, but what the hell kind of pie was Tweety talking about?
eastriver (aka Mister Muffins)
Is Obama on the teevee tonight? Nobody told me.
Seebach
spoiler alert: we’re all sold out
Keith G
“They remain busy building cars….” Not if they work for Toyota.
Notorious P.A.T.
He’s earned it! ! ! ! !
demkat620
Everybody stand up!
Bootlegger
There he is, President Hopeful. Can we swallow another spoonful of Hope?
TooManyJens
Is it my crappy DSL, or has the Youtube feed been freezing for other people?
Poopyman
Hey Cole, I just came up for air after working a proposal most of the week and just read your “I’m Alive” post. Jeebus! I can’t offer anything more than my sympathies, although the closest I can come to advice is to get as much sleep as you can. It’ll help.
Mrs. P and I are sitting here (+0, sadly) watching Joe and Nancy sagely nodding along with the speech.
Ooops. Joe almost prematurely clapped. Must be reading ahead on the teleprompter.
jrg
I hear a lot of platitudes, but what the fuck is he going to do about the human-animal hybrids?
vk
watching the sotu on cnn. does obama’s makeup make him look jaundiced or it just on cnn? he doesn’t look like he normally does.
Corner Stone
Did someone order the Joe Biden bobblehead doll?
Bootlegger
“Hated the bank bail out”….”but we had to do it”….waaaaahhhhh!
freelancer (itouch)
Grassley doesn’t approve of not approving of the bailout.
demkat620
Where are they going here?
valdivia
Geithner looks like the death. Wow he got old.
Zam
I’m pretty certain that is why we can’t let the gays marry, you know slippery slope and all.
Bootlegger
ok, props for a good explanation of why he “had to do it”.
Corner Stone
Yes, because we still don’t know who got what money. Nice.
FOIA for yo ass.
inkadu
Obama reminds me of Fred Armisen.
SIA
My, Joe Biden has white teeth.
What’s Gaithner grinning about?
mcd410x
@jrg: lol
MysticalChick
Oh honestly some of these phonies kill me. So much grandstanding.
Obot here too btw.
Keith G
He is making a case. Cool. Will he be making the case in two months from now?
Corner Stone
Mars? Trip to Mars for -110 on the line?
freelancer (itouch)
Fuck you Ben and Joe, sitting together like 9th graders on their first date.
camchuck
@jrg:
Haha. I guess Bush came through on that one, though I’m suspicious of Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps.
McGeorge Bundy
Ah, the teabagging Republicans can’t bother to applaud a “modest fee” on the biggest banks to get the rest of the bailout money back. True colors shown right there.
WereBear
@jrg: Thanks for remembering the human-animal hybrids.
CaseyL
I can’t watch; I’ll lose track of time and miss going off to take the census enumerator test. So thank y’all for doing the play by play.
Dave C
I think Joe Biden might be trashed.
Spork
This is not bad, I like him pointing out the payroll tax cuts.
nepat
We even cut taxes for Republicans!
PanAmerican
@inkadu:
But funnier.
mr. whipple
LOL. Obama chides goopers.
Well played.
robertdsc
The Prez makes a funny. Ha ha ha!
Corner Stone
Oooooo – suck it boner!
Fuck it, I’m drinking on that one.
demkat620
Oh my god. The GOP looks like a bunch of lemon suckers.
Hahahahahaha!
Keith G
Where was this guy eight months ago? Jesus!!
Sentient Puddle
Yeah, Obama taking a dig at the Republicans wasn’t a drinking word, but damn, that was too good to pass up.
Zam
@mr. whipple:
I’m taking a shot for him saying that
Bootlegger
No Republican claps for taxcuts? Wha happen’d?
Skepticat
@Keith G: Good grief, they’re the only real people in the room.
JK
For anyone seeking a good progressive critique of Obama’s SOTU check out wbai.org, kpfk.org, or kpfa.org at the conclusion of the speech and democracynow.org tomorrow morning.
Corner Stone
That’s right bitches. The. Recovery. Act.
AhabTRuler
I find half of Nancy Pelosi’s head to be very creepy. I have no problem with the entirety of her head, but seeing just the “smile” is wrong.
inkadu
…. also known as the stimulus bill, bitches!
Poopyman
Come on, Dave C, he looks the same as he always does.
Ooooh. Hmmmmm….
Cain
haha “I thought I would get some applause on that one” the look he gave them was awesome!
cain
Bootlegger
Talk to the hand Bitch!
freelancer (itouch)
“I know shits emotional right now…but we got this guy Not Sure. He gon’ fix everything!”
burnspbesq
Time to go watch something that will make me happy. See y’all later.
Luthe
Ok, fine, fine, we can haz more stimulus plz?
nepat
About damn time. Own your success. FU non-mop picker-uppers.
mr. whipple
Obama feeling my pain.
Cain
clap, republicans, clap for the new job bill, motherfuckers! +2
cain
Corner Stone
***dramatic pause***
“now, slow the tempo mr. prez”
You’ve got them….now hit it! Up tempo! Preach it!
Bootlegger
New jobs! That gets the Aryan Bruthahood clapping.
Comrade Mary
Jobs bill for 2010. Okey-dokey. Aaaaaaand health …?
(I know, I know, gin makes me impatient).
inkadu
@AhabTRuler:I can’t get over Pelosi’s necklace. That thing is huge. I want it.
Notorious P.A.T.
That’s his leadership style: do nothing, and hope Wall Street behaves responsibly; do nothing, and hope a dysfunctional Congress passed health care reform; do nothing, and hope the economy rights itself.
Max
From Marc Ambinder’s Twitter feed
Obama Fuck yeah!
Keith G
New jobs bill…..Stimulus round two. Interesting.
RandomChick
Can we juxtapose the R’s “no” vote on the job bill (you know it’s coming) with their standing O on him mentioning it?
freelancer (itouch)
Jesus, fuck! Let the man talk, he’s only on page 3 fer Chrissakes. Sheesh.
jenniebee
@Bootlegger: that shit’s going to go viral, Republicans sitting on their hands when Obama says that banks should pay back the money given them by taxpayers and then sitting on their hands as Obama runs down a list of tax cuts.
Then they stand when he calls for a Jobs bill. WTF kind of optics strategy are they going for here?
Brian J
Boy, all of these references to Ohio, Pennyslvania, and Arizona, among others. You’d think these states were important in an election or something.
Bootlegger
Republicans hate small business!
SIA
@AhabTRuler: It’s just that she’s mildly brain damaged.
What is that fuckwad Saxby Chambliss (Asshole-GA) doing? Blackberry. Can I just say … FUCK YOU SAXBY.
OK I feel better now.
inkadu
Government getting involved in private lending. About fucking time.
Cain
clap, republicans clap!
Cain
somebody there is shouting a lot.. who the hell is that?
cain
mr. whipple
Goopers finally get up. Why? A capital gains tax cut.
They are odd people.
Luthe
…didn’t I suggest that the Dems tax the banks and loan it to small business like three months ago?
::wonders when the WH started reading BJ comments::
freelancer (itouch)
Oy, but does Boehner look like a pickled sea turtle who died in the sun.
mcc
He’s describing a bunch of plans re: loans with money from TARP, capital gains holidays etc for small businesses. How many of these were in the House “jobs bill” already passed?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Brian J:
Heh. I was waiting for
CarnaI mean Missouriinkadu
I must be too drunk to have heard the bit about health care.
Bootlegger
@jenniebee: I dunno, but they are out of sync big time, and those creepy poker faces only remind me of some dude standing over a hole in a tearoom.
Zam
STOP FUCKING CLAPPING DAMMIT! Pretty happy about the rail stuff though.
Comrade Mary
I want to dress Republicans up in little vests and hats and make them dance. They know all about organ grinding, don’t they?
Cain
Awesome.. finally, someone who will give tax breaks to businesses who don’t ship jobs abroad.
cain
Bootlegger
@freelancer (itouch): The wonderful orange glow of the tanning bulb.
SIA
@Cain: I’m mostly listening cause I’m working, but have the Pubs clapped for anything? OH, there we go, they clapped for getting rid of capital gains. Fuck them. Sorry I feel vicious tonight. ;)
Cain
damn, the democratic caucus sure seems fired up.
cain
Max
I love when he smiles.
/swoon
demkat620
Oh its on like Donkey Kong!
Trains Bitches!
Quackosaur
Apparently Republicans don’t like jobs…
TooManyJens
GOP: hell no we don’t want to cut tax breaks for businesses that send jobs overseas!
Admiral_Komack
The President is defending his record ’cause Lord knows the MSM won’t do it (Keith, Rachel, Ed, Billo, Joe Scar, Uncle Pat, I’m looking at you, bitches!)!
Cain
@SIA:
Not really, they’re just being dumb. I’m urging them to clap since Obama is hitting them with the stuff they SHOULD be clapping for.
cain
demkat620
@Comrade Mary: You win.
Seebach
@Cain: Too bad they don’t want to use any of that energy for legislating.
Corner Stone
This sounds like a frat house speech or something. Kinda rousing.
I likes it.
Bootlegger
No more lost decades, I want to remember the next one dammit!
Brian J
@Max:
If they have any sense at all, it will.
Keith G
@Skepticat: I donno. I’ve seen a more than a few zombies up there over the years.
RandomChick
here we go HCR
Doctor Science
Today’s puzzle: Red white and blue flowers.
Today’s book: The Ten Grandmothers.
Comrade Mary
Oooh, is this the wind-up? “I was told I was too ambitious, plans too contentious … but how long should we wait?”
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Shorter President Obama to Nation: “These fuckers write the bills, I only sign them. Give me something to sign.”
Corner Stone
oooooo – China’s the next big boogeyman obviously.
demkat620
Oh yeah, Populism Goopers. Its what’s for dinner.
Just Some Fuckhead
He should threaten to kill one Supreme Court justice per week until he gets his agenda passed.
SIA
@freelancer (itouch): heehee
Bootlegger
We be standin’ still, playin’ for second…but we got cheezeburgers dammmit!
Bootlegger
We be standin’ still, playin’ for second…but we got cheezeburgers dammmit!
freelancer (itouch)
Who the fuck stays down and doesn’t clap for Made in the USA?
Boo outsourcing!
“yeah we’re not on board. GFYS”
Notorious P.A.T.
@burnspbesq:
Ever seen “1000 Ways to Die”? It’s pretty good dark humor.
Laura W
@AhabTRuler: I dunno. Every time I look at her I feel like asking the Birthday Fairy for a bit of “work” for my upcoming solar return. ( Happy Bdays to fellow Aquarians, Krista and Mary. God. It’s been a year already? Has felt like 12, frankly.)
mcd410x
Obama: Iraq war ending and ‘all of our troops are coming home.’
Luthe
What about our 432854897634908325098th place health-care system, Mr. President?
inkadu
Second place for the United States of America… there’s a frame for ya!
Corner Stone
Fuck! Dodd closeup! Burn you fucking wanker!
Ash Can
This is a president who understands that the real engine of economic growth is the middle class. Hooray.
demkat620
Oh snap! He just out played them.
nepat
Bully meet pulpit.
darryl
After nearly missing The Wire by stopping 3-4 eps into it the first time, I now give shows the entire first Season. I gave chuck the entire first season, and it blew donkeys. It blew donkies aggressively. The Baldwin guy wanting to cavalierly and pointlessly kill the blonde agent? That’s the most nonsensical writing I’ve ever seen. And the theme song by Cake, whose vocals are the worst ever recorded and digitized…Don’t even get me started on the pseudo-weirdo Indian Guy and Bald Guy comedy duo’.
While Scrubs was a geek comedy by geeks, Chuck is just Geeksploitation. The first season at least. Maybe the second season is better.
eastriver (aka Mister Muffins)
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I like it. The light touch. Nice.
Bootlegger
No, punish the banks, they’ve been very bad and deserve a thrashing on reality TV.
SIA
@Max: Yeah, me too.
/O-Bot
Tomlinson
Lots and LOTS and LOTS of emphasis on what the house has done.
He’s asked them to suck it up and do the right thing on HCR, you betcha.
AkaDad
Obama’s speeches make my nipples hard.
Had to share that.
Comrade Mary
@Bootlegger: First the spanking, then the oral sex!
Oh, wait, the banks asked us to reverse that …
(Happy upcoming, Laura!)
jenniebee
Eric Cantor shaking his head on small business loans. Whoops, they’re up for eliminating the capital-gains tax on small businesses.
OMG, Obama’s going for High Speed Rail, BOB is going to be happy.
Republicans not applauding tax breaks for companies that do not ship jobs overseas. W. T. F.
Democratic agenda to keep us competitive with China. This man is a Framer.
Cain
@AkaDad:
Me too man.. me too. That’s my man out there..
cain
Bootlegger
More Nukes! More Nukes! More Nukes!
robertdsc
Send the bill back until it gets done right? Yeah, right. tell that to Tom Coburn and his guns in national parks bit that went through with the credit card reforms.
Please.
Comrade Kevin
Offshore drilling? FUCK NO
Tomlinson
Drill baby drill!
Corner Stone
Why do I feel like he has a Pac-Man roller ball or some shit on that podium? He keeps folding his hands over it like he’s got next for Dig-Dug or some 80’s arcade game.
inkadu
@darryl: Chuck trolling during SOTU? Unacceptable.
Also, Big Bang Theory is way more geekploitative.
Cain
Nancy is so cute the way she’s all happily clapping like that. She is an obot for sure.
cain
WereBear
Danged if I’m not lifted by how happy and cheerful he seems.
mr. whipple
Oh man, btchslap on climate deniers.
Ouch.
Cain
haha.. “I know that people disagree with teh overwhelming scientific evidence on global warming” Awesome!
cain
Sentient Puddle
Drinking to that climate change denialist dig too.
Dave C
“I know there are those who doubt the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change.” Fuck yeah, Mr. President!
freelancer (itouch)
“nucyular? We can make bombs from nucyulars and shit, yeah?”
(nods)
“Yay! Nucyular”
Tomlinson
Oh yeah, that’s the way to frame cap and trade.
Nicely done.
Bootlegger
@Comrade Mary: Then the lubeless rogering, nothing else can wake ya up in the mornin’…
Corner Stone
Pelosi is wearing those shoes featured in Seinfeld where Jimmy increases his vertical jump for basketball games.
She is springing the fuck up with a smile.
Poopyman
More exports! Let’s open WalMarts in China!
Laura W
North Carolina Batteries, Bitchez!(?)
(I’m thinking I should just go catch up on last week’s Project Runway since I’d hate to be a segment behind tomorrow. I’ll never be able to follow the plot line.)
Cain
damn republicans and dems are battling it out on twitter on the c-span.org page.
cain
Corner Stone
@Bootlegger:
Wakey, wakey…here comes the snakey…
Bootlegger
“seek new market aggressively”. Wasn’t that Columbus’ argument to Queen E?
mcd410x
@Laura W: Burlap sacks! Was a good one.
arguingwithsignposts
There is not enough gonad kicking in this speech so far.
Tomlinson
Oh yeah, this is populist Obama.
Know Fear, Republicans.
Heee’s baaaack.
SIA
“Overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change”. Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Nicole
“Reform export controls to fit with national security.” I liked the “uh… is this good? bad… Am I supposed to support this?” tentative half-clap. S’okay, Congress; I’m not sure what it meant either.
camchuck
Exports provisions just don’t have much sizzle. Who knew?
Corner Stone
WHHHAAAAATTTTTT??
Bootlegger
What if the status quo school is good? It does happen.
demkat620
Why have they been hiding this guy? He’s on tonight.
Cat Lady
@arguingwithsignposts:
He’s more of a shiv guy.
Corner Stone
@arguingwithsignposts:
Fuck it. I’m just drinking.
Peter J
The Panama shout out was obviously pointed towards Sen. John McCain.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
The Republicans look like they all shot up a paralysis drug before shuffling in like the zombies they are.
Bootlegger
@Corner Stone: Snakes! I hate snakes!
Max
I loved the climate change deniers dig.
Our President is badass.
The Chicago way. hehe
Comrade Mary
He’s really stroking the House hard, isn’t he?
Anne Laurie
Effin’ CSPAN keeps freezing – skipping on me so I’ve got the Hulu stream on. Apologies, but I did not know they would be using the Fox stream. How does Chris Wallace walk down the street without getting beaten about his whiny, smirky head?
The men of SCOTUS do not seem to be in favor of young Americans getting a good education. Even some of the Rethugs stood up for that one, John-John, Nino.
mcc
Barack Obama is very upset at the Senate
Tomlinson
There we go again, “I urge the senate to follow the house.” Fourth time?
That’s a message.
Brian J
@camchuck:
What exactly did he say? I wasn’t paying attention.
Admiral_Komack
@Tomlinson
“Lots and LOTS and LOTS of emphasis on what the house has done.”
“He’s asked them to suck it up and do the right thing on HCR, you betcha.”
-I think the President is also contrasting the Senate’s do-nothing whining.
nepat
An educated population would be the end of Republicanism altogether.
Bootlegger
Wait wha?! I get $10k? Righteous man. Righteous.
Tomlinson
No one should go broke because they have to go to college…
inkadu
Hope this college loan forgiveness thing is retroactive.
Sadly, I doubt it.
Nicole
@Laura W:
First, Happy B’day upcoming! Second, if you’re not already reading, the Gawker recaps of PR are an excellently snarky way to catch up.
But yeah, burlap was a fun episode.
mr. whipple
@mcc:
Yes.
TooManyJens
@Anne Laurie: The whitehouse.gov feed has been working for me. Only froze once, unlike YouTube.
freelancer (itouch)
Fuck yes. Omg they’re sitting down for college subsidies?!
Fuck, the ads write themselves.
contessakitty
@Dave C
Exactly! That is one thing I love about Obama, call me an Obot or whatever. The way he says, you can disagree or doubt but the overall scientific evidence on climate change means you decide not to believe in reality, that makes me smile. It’s been a while since I had a reason to smile…
Anne Laurie
“In the USA, no one should go broke b/c they chose to go to college.” If Obama can get the 10% of income, forgiveness after 20 years, forgiveness for public service proposals passed, he’s got the youth vote locked up.
jenniebee
Oh shit if he means that he’s for vouchers I am going to be seriously pissed.
Oh good, it’s community colleges. Those are
10K college tax credit!?! And forgiveness on loans? Halelujah
Laura W
@mcd410x:
Er…
I’m just gonna let that speak for itself tonight.
Tomlinson
HCR.
Midnight Marauder
Olympia Snowe did not stand up and clap when Presiden Obama said “We still need to reform health care.”
Sit down, Quasimodo’s grandmother. No clapping, not yours.
+5
Violet
Oooh…he’s all over the Senate’s ass.
SiubhanDuinne
Professor Obama: “That’s how budgeting works.”
Awesome.
Obot +2
Cain
goddam, HCR crashed balloon-juice!
cain
nepat
The fuck yous to Republicans are seriously piling up.
robertdsc
He just squashed the GOP on tax cuts and deregulation.
Corner Stone
He is donkeypunching the Senate.
Comrade Mary
HEALTH!
“Now, let’s get a few things cleared up. I wasn’t looking for pubic scalps, and I know I’m getting slaughtered in media and blogs and polls. But you poor fuckers need this. We’re finally getting our thumbs out of our asses (GOP: “What do you mean, “we”?”). Preventative care … Michelle Obama rocks .. . we’d drop the deficit … complexity led to scepticism .. I fucked up in not speaking plainly, OK … and I know you’re jaded and pissed. But, dudes, we own this, and we have to deal with it. I will not walk away, and neither should this sorry bunch of dipshits. Chillax, read for a fuckin’ change, and listen up. Nurses and doctors want this. Think you can do better? Tell me about it. [Aw, fuck. THEY’VE DEMONSTRATED TIME AND AGAIN THEY DON’T HAVE A FUCKIN’ CLUE.] Congress, don’t walk away, come together, over me … [bass solo]”
Hmmm.
Cain
Obama is kicking some serious ass.
cain
TooManyJens
“Let’s try *not* cutting services, cutting taxes, and pretending it will all work out OK if we clap harder!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne:
How ’bout that ad lib shot to the nuts? Heh
jcricket
I was watching a tiny bit of the SOTU pre-show (ha) on CNN while out with my kid at a pizza place. I almost threw up a little when CNN described their panel of ordinary citizens as scientifically selected as an equal amount of Democrats, Republicans and Independents – as if that’s what America is made out of.
There’s probably nothing more damaging to American political discourse than this pernicious myth of the center/balance/independents as “what Americans want”. Argh.
Well, besides the idea that the GOP is a legitimate political party and not a bunch of maniacal religious zealots who have no interest in governing and no grasp of the facts.
MysticalChick
Love the repug FU’s … yes, they are piling up. And I’m happy to accept more.
Corner Stone
This site got Arabian goggled.
scrappled
Bwahaha. “That’s how budgeting works.”
mr. whipple
Holy shit, Obama just called out SCOTUS.
Cain
Man is pelosi not tired of clapping? heh
Cain
Dave C
I know it’s all fleeting and it’s all just words, but fuck it. Tonight, I’m proud to be an O-bot.
Dave C +3
Corner Stone
What was that Alito? You got something to say you little bitch? Stop mouthing it and say it you fucking punk bitch.
demkat620
He’s talking to you John and Sammy and Tony and Clarence and Anthony.
KDP
Let’s try common sense. A novel concept.
Called out the justices on the corporate donations decision.
That’s right, you want earmarks, put ’em online.
I am proud that this man is our president, I tell you, proud.
You tell ’em, Mr. O. Call them all out on obstructionism.
freelancer (itouch)
Declare war on lobbyists. Fucking sweet.
Congress approval 30%
incumbent reelection rate 95%
nothing to see here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Kennedy, ScAlito, Thomas and Roberts get their own FU!
Woo hoo!
Earmark reform: have a cookie, senator McCain, would you like some more cocoa?
r€nato
In your motherfucking face, John Roberts
Keith G
Smacking the Roberts Court……..Fucking Yay
Is that a first?
Violet
Oooh! He even called out the Supreme Court! Never seen that happen in a SOTU. Wow!
TooManyJens
Somebody just passed a note to Pelosi like it’s sixth-hour Spanish class.
Corner Stone
Pox on both of you!
Cain
Goddam, I think he’s talking to balloon-juicers and the hamashers of the left!
cain
demkat620
I love him when he is like this.
mcd410x
Someone get another roll of bailing wire for the server!
MysticalChick
LOVE HIM!
Spork
@Comrade Mary:
Yeah, that. (paraphrase) “We just did that for the last 8 years”. This is way more confrontational and assertive than I expected. Nice to see, I really really hope he means it. No matter what, it’s a nice public and plain (and best of all, soundbite-able) calling out of current players.
Bad Horse's Filly
ABC just cut to the Repugs and man, do those fuckers look mad.
That just makes me happy.
Corner Stone
Ooooo – Senate you fucking suck!
demkat620
Looks like Dad gave everybody an ass whipping tonight.
Sanka
Why do liberals hate our system of judicial system so much?
nepat
“I’m speaking to both parties now.”
No you’re not, but I get the politics of saying so.
Jules
Fcuking SC right on front of him and he called. them. out.
freelancer (itouch)
He might as well have said DeMint’s name there.
Damn.
mr. whipple
DAMN!
inkadu
Democrats really need to stop the divisiveness, delaying tactics, and demonization.
Obama is never going to be remotely partisan.
AkaDad
Really good speech so far.
Cain
Finally! He just told those fuckers exactly what we were feeling.
cain
Midnight Marauder
I’m pretty sure Nancy Pelosi is ready to rumble out back with the entireSupreme Court. No backup, no help. Just fisticuffs.
“You and me, Scalia. BRING IT ON, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“grudges”
You think John McCain knows that was aimed at him?
Comrade Kevin
@Sanka: Why are you so fucking stupid?
Ash
Ooooooh snap.
Corner Stone
Fuck it. That’s a drink or two.
nepat
OMFG. This guy is fucking mopping the floor with these people.
carlos the dwarf
He is fucking taking it to congress. fuck yes.
Comrade Mary
The play nice lecture.
“I know that we wouldn’t get unicorns farting rainbows. I know I’m dealing with some recalcitrant and miserable bastards. But the perpetual campaign has to stop. Delaying or obstructing for the hell of it sucks. The confirmation of public servants shouldn’t be held hostage to the pet projects or grudges of a few senators.”
OK, that last sentence was verbatim. Nice!
“Democrats, stop wetting your beds. Republicans, learn to fucking count and get ready to do some heavy lifting.”
Zam
I am so hard right now.
freelancer (itouch)
I LOVE this guy.
camchuck
“Can’t live everyday day like its election day, measuring who wins and who loses… etc.”
Guessing this won’t be the featured segment headlining Politico and the cable news networks.
Admiral_Komack
Damn!
The President just called out the Democrats!
About damn time!
inkadu
Nancy’s really happy with the Senate smack down.
WereBear
More GOP squishing, please.
Cain
Boehner loosk like he saying “suck my dick, bitch” after the whole meeting bit.
cain
Comrade Luke
I can’t believe he junk-punched the SCOTUS.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@nepat:
Yup. Hamsher and Olbermann won’t, but I do too.
Cat Lady
Me likey this guy. Me likey a lot. More of this guy plz.
/O-bot
Just Some Fuckhead
Wonder if he’ll try to make Republicans feel bad again next SOTU after another year of record filibustering.
Tomlinson
jaysus.
I know I called this guy a spineless twit.
Um. I retract that.
Holy. Fucking. Shit. He’s going for it.
mcd410x
Having read the stories about the GOP response: They aren’t prepared for this …
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“schoolyard taunts about who’s tough”
I am loving this.
SiubhanDuinne
If I were a Republican, I’d hate this speech.
Nicole
I appreciate calling out the ‘Pubs on short-term politics vs. leadership. Won’t do a damn thing to change their behavior, but it was nice to hear.
Keith G
That fucker McConnell
Corner Stone
“And around the world, we are torturing and imprisoning more people than we did in 2008.”
Sanka
Another great
campaign inaugurationspeech by POTUS.Too bad he’s spent the past year spending, catering to lobbysists, paying off unions, etc etc.—-everything contra to what he’s yapping about tonight
RareSanity
@Comrade Luke:
LOL!
vk
his dig on the scotus was great. alito shaking his head was fucking worth the price of admission, which is admittedly free. speech is agressive in the obama way. surely will piss off the right. i love it.
Bad Horse's Filly
Just saying no is not leading.
Hit them again, O, hit them again!!
Comrade Luke
I’m used to the usual hopey-changey stuff, but there’s more than a little bit of taking everyone out to the woodshed.
Someone sounds fed up.
SIA
Wow- couldn’t log on for a while.
I am hearing SO MUCH of what I wanted to hear. This is the Obama we need. I feel so much better, thanks FSM.
Zam
Of course the talk after will be all about how he was too tough and isn’t bipartisan enough. But damn this shit needed to be said.
TooManyJens
…I’d feel better about the talk about not sacrificing our values for security if this administration weren’t still planning to hold detainees indefinitely without due process, and invoking “state secrets” every time anyone tries to investigate civil/human rights violations in the WOT/GSAVE.
AkaDad
I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many people get bitch-slapped at once.
Bootlegger
Timetables for withdrawal!!!! But what if I cum sooner?
Cain
Godadm I love that finality in his tone, “Make no mistake, this war is ending.”
cain
mr. whipple
Ditto. Hit ’em with the chair, couch and fridge.
rob!
President Obama: “I came here to kick ass and chew nicorette gum. And I’m all out of nicorette gum.”
MysticalChick
Bring them home from Iraq – WOOO HOOO!
Excellent speech, Mr. Pres – THANK YOU!
(Comrade Mary – love your shorter versions!)
SIA
@Comrade Luke: Yes but he keeps it civil and humorous while he does it, which pleases that stupid heartland middle amerrikin. Me personally, like to see some blood.
Ash Can
The janitors are going to be sweeping a few teeth up off the chamber floor tonight.
carlos the dwarf
you know what’s missing that bush used to do all the time [apart from the dumbassery, I mean]? spending ten minutes blathering on about all the people he invited to the speech to be political props.
Tomlinson
No shit.
Anyone in Washington he’s missed?
mcd410x
@Bootlegger: Lol
Corner Stone
This is some interesting shit.
Spork
This is Grade-A speechifying. I’m eating up 80% of the specifics and 100% of the attitude. Hope this translates to action from a broken system. He’s saying all the right things, I’m just not sure shame is much of a motivator these days for Gongress.
Bootlegger
@Sanka: Yeah! That’s right muthfuckin’bitchas!!!! It was all the Negro’s fault.
Corner Stone
What’s the name of that damn puppet the world’s best comedian uses on stage? Damn, I can’t think of it. The cranky old puppet the dude uses?
Biden looks just like that cranky old fucking puppet.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Tomlinson:
The Redskins?
Brian J
@Cain:
That’s because if he doesn’t go at least a few times, the White House can say it held its hand out but that it was slapped back, and yet, if he does go, he’ll piss off the teabaggers. If the White House makes this as big of a deal as it could, he’s got no choice but to go and act like an adult, or he will lose big time. Obama just tried to back him into a corner.
Comrade Mary
@rob!: Ha!
I had thought we were going to see conciliatory Obama tonight, and even though I think he could have hit harder on health, I’m getting flashbacks. He set them up the bomb. All their base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Tomlinson
ROFL!!!!!
After a year as Mr Rogers, your neighborhood doormat, where the fuck did this guy come from?
Bet it’s rewrite central over at republican central right about now.
Anne Laurie
@Midnight Marauder:
Careful, Nancy, that little fvcker carries a back-up shiv in his back-up shiv. I say you demand Nino send his pet John-John in… one good punch & Roberts throws up his hands & squeals NOT THE FACE OH PLEEEEAASE HALP ME NOT MY PRETTY FACE…
Corner Stone
Don’t fear monger dude. You just said others shouldn’t. Now you don’t either for God’s sake.
SIA
@Cain: Yes, I felt such relief when he said that.
WereBear
I am so impressed with this speech.
How can anyone call themselves a human and be against all these great things?
McGeorge Bundy
@Tomlinson:
He’s missed the pundits, mostly. But don’t worry. It’s coming.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
So has “just words” been made a tag yet?
carlos the dwarf
@Comrade Mary:
Old internet meme use FTW.
Comrade Kevin
Sanka, translated: “The previous eight years never happened”
SIA
@Comrade Mary: Well Said Comrade Mary!
geg6
I am gob smacked at his confrontational attitude. At every.fucking.body. Not exactly No Drama Obama. I like him tonight. I like him feisty. I can even swallow the stuff I’m not crazy about if he’d do this more often.
inkadu
@rob!: I won’t tell you how long I thought that line was from “Duke Nukem.”
AhabTRuler
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nah, no one in Washington would miss the Redskins right now.
nepat
The incredible shrinking Republicans. They get smaller with each sentence.
SIA
@Zam: You guys crack me up!
Tomlinson
Shit, man. He could do this every week and I’d buy tickets.
carlos the dwarf
DADT repeal fuck yes.
Corner Stone
Gays? We have gays in America?
gogol's wife
You people are cracking me up. This is better than Mystery Science 3000.
AkaDad
He just threw bigots under the bus!
Violet
This Obama is awesome! I’m so proud to be an Obot!
Oooh! Repeal DADT! Go Obama!
freelancer (itouch)
Perfect lead in to dadt.
sgoode
I’m feeling cautiously optimistic….Repeal DADT? Hell, yeah….
RandomChick
@WereBear:
Last year my 18 year old asked me to explain the difference between Democrats and Republicans. When I was done, he asked, “so how can anyone be a Republican?”
Great kid. Didn’t have the heart to tell him Dad, my ex, is one.
Poopyman
What’s up with the white-haired guy behind Michelle? Is he napping?
Martin
Earlier today I fantasized about Obama rhetorically asking SCOTUS permission to not have Osama Bin Laden not finance his own personal congressional candidate. He came pretty close.
Rather than a drinking game, we need Jane Hamsher poutrage bingo for the following day. I think that’d be more fun, personally.
Midnight Marauder
@Corner Stone:
It is, isn’t it?
OH SNAP, DID HE JUST GET TO THE DADT PORTION?!
Shit just got real, son.
+7
Edit: Wow. He is absolutely nailing this. Go get ’em, President Barack Hussein Obama!
KDP
@Zam: No, but, he promised to take the leaders of EACH party out to the woodshed once a month. What’s more bipartisan?
Whoa! Straight out, we WILL repeal DADT. I’d heard he was not going to address that at all. Good on him.
SiubhanDuinne
Hard nipples, schmard schmipples. I think I just released an egg.
AkaDad
@inkadu:
My favorite line from Duke Nukem is, “Your ass, your face, what’s the difference?”
WereBear
@RandomChick: Oh, gosh, he’s astute. Let him keep that feeling.
Comrade Kevin
@inkadu: They Live was full of win.
Comrade Luke
Fixed it.
Oh, and how about that response by the Joint Chiefs wrt DADT. Guess we know where they…sit.
Dannie22
Proud to be an Obot tonight.
JGabriel
Wow, look at the Republicans just sitting there, stone-faced and recalcitrant, at the call for providing equal rights to all our citizens.
They really are the party of bigotry. No surprise in itself, but the willingness to so publicly embrace it, en masse, is kind of shocking.
.
mr. whipple
Called out media.
No.one.is.safe.
inkadu
@McGeorge Bundy: Bingo. Shout out to the dissapointment of the media at 10:15.
TooManyJens
New thread: https://balloon-juice.com/?p=33580
Sanka
That’s right. It’s not like Democrats have controlled Congress for the better part of three, going on four years or anything.
Cat Lady
He’s been reading BJ I think, or my mind.
He fucking gets it. Yay.
mr. whipple
Pin drop.
freelancer (itouch)
Well…I just aimed the finger at Demint.
Nicole
Anyone interested, salon has started a factcheck of the speech.
Comrade Mary
“Fuck the polls. Let’s do what’s right.”
#dresses self as a poll and wiggles suggestively#
General Winfield Stuck
perusing this thread, not having watched the speech, it seemed liked Obama came out fighting. Or something to that order. And it looks the usual suspect PUMA’s are scarce, save for Kidney Stone and he even sorta was pacified by it. Can we have a few days of peace without the Obama made my puppy cry?
I am going to watch Syriana on netflix, instant. Somebody check on Cole and wipe the slobber off his face. and get him a purdy nurse.
Corner Stone
Joe Biden
Tomlinson
Here comes the ending.
Wow. Just wow.
Do Not Fuck With The Populist Obama.
It is unwise.
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne: Hoohoo! Easy now!
Da Bomb
I got my church lady fan out. I am about run down the aisle!
He brought it tonight.
Bad Horse's Filly
@rob!: FTW!
Corner Stone
Uh oh – he’s hitting the trough.
WereBear
Oh, geez. I’m tearing up.
And just what shallow plate of self-importance and cluelessness is following?
rob!
Good luck to Bob “Oh, shit” McDonnell having to rebut this. Jindal/McDonnell 2012!!
VladCat
Damn! Not out to the woodshed – down behind the sawmill for a good asskicking.
nepat
So how completely wrong was the conventional wisdom about this speech? Fuck you Marc Ambinder, Mark Halperin, Arianna Huffington, and the rest of you milquetoast belly-achers. Gnats!
Martin
Aw, Obama is getting all Dawson’s Creek on us. I think he should end on a high note: “And on that notion of hope and working together, watch me now disembowel the CEO of Goldman Sachs with one of Michelle’s garden trowels.”
Keith G
@Sanka:
We don’t, a## hole. I have a problem with 5 SCOTUS members who said that a corporation has 100,000,000 times the right to free speech than I do – or you.
Corner Stone
Thank God he’s finally stopped slapping that fucking podium.
Max
We don’t quit – I don’t quit!
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Done. Let the complaining commence!
Ash Can
The poor putz who’s lined up to do the GOP reply to this speech is sunk-ass sunk.
inkadu
@Comrade Kevin: They Live. I love 80’s critique of corporate consumerism.
@AkaDad: Then there’s his introspective “Damnit,” after he has to kill the babes-in-the-pods.
Just Some Fuckhead
I still think he thinks he can talk Republicans into being something other than douchebags. And that makes me wonder if he’s really fucking stupid or just too embodied of goodness.
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
Who was the guy who mouthed something when Obama criticized the recent decision? Was it Scalia? The guy looked too thin to be him.
MysticalChick
That was amazing. Well done, sir. Well done.
Wile E. Quixote
@Corner Stone:
What do you want to bet he hears that all the time from Scalia before the rough sex starts?
SIA
I’m feeling something…strange…I think it — PATRIOTISM. Holy fuck.
Da Bomb
@Midnight Marauder: You were right, he was going to bring it tonight. And some people thought you were joking or delusional when you said it.
He said everything I thought he was going to say and more.
OBOT ALL THE WAY BABY!!
ksmiami
See this is why I do not worry about the Republicans winning a few seats here or there; in the end, they are a party of assholes, theocrats, bigots and fear-mongers and after awhile that shit gets pretty old – and a lot of millenials feel the same way
AkaDad
With that speech, Obama just bought himself a week to fix everything.
Martin
Well, in all seriousness, I think Obama really understands how the public feels. This may not go anywhere, but I don’t think you can argue that he’s out of touch with the public.
And now tweety is going on about the camera work. The media we deserve…
moja31
but i thought some congressional aide had a “growing sense” about DADT, which in the blogosphere=fact.
nepat
Supercallifragalistic.
Skipping the chattering classes post-game shows but really really really happy he took them to the woodshed too.
MJ
Yess!!! Daddy’s home!
Corner Stone
@Brian J: That was Alito. That simple bitch was clearly shaking his head and mouthing something during that part.
I would’ve lost my shit of Obama had stopped and been like, “Alito…something to add here my man?”
sgoode
Ok – was the actual ‘State of the Union’ ever mentioned? And, if it wasn’t, does it really count as a SOTU address? Does that prove that the birfers were right all along?
Brian J
@Sanka:
Hey, Einstein, the majorities weren’t as big as they are now from 2006-2008, and since the Republicans take their ball and go home whenever they get the chance, there was no chance of a veto being overridden.
In conclusion, shut your dirty ho-bag mouth!
Just Some Fuckhead
Bob McDonnell is about to announce the secession of Virginia.
dr. bloor
@General Winfield Stuck:
In the mood for something a little more realistic, eh?
Martin
@Wile E. Quixote:
With Roberts huddling in the corner calling balls and strikes.
Ash
@Just Some Fuckhead:
It’s sort of like the parents of serial killers. You can say all you want that you know that your kid is a good person on the inside, but you know that they’d disembowel someone as soon as the cuffs are off.
Da Bomb
@AkaDad: BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!
mcd410x
Tampa tomorrow: Obama, Biden to announce high speed rail initiative, Tampa-to-Orlando http://bit.ly/a7RNof
General Winfield Stuck
@dr. bloor:
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about.
rootless_e
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I’m amazed at how hard this is for some people to figure out. He is not attempting to get Bohner to be decent, he is attempting to rob Bohner of supporters. The impulse to tell the 40% of Republican voters to go fuck themselves is an impulse that cannot produce positive results.
Sanka
Missed the part in the Constitution that says freedom of speech is limited to those with no money.
Sorry libs, but the application of the principles of the Constitution does not waver to suit your petty politicial gripes.
Brian J
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I’d actually have a lot of respect for the Republicans if they allowed McDonnell to say, “And now, I shall give our response to Obama and the Democrats: FUCK. YOU. Thank you, and good night!”
Martin
I would have gone for more of a Bartlett approach: “Alito, you may think that corporations have unlimited speech with their money, but here, tonight, you don’t. Shut it.”
Just Some Fuckhead
@mcd410x:
Finally, someone fixing the DisneyWorld-SeaWorld-Tampa Bay Busch Gardens issue.
carlos the dwarf
UGH, how fucking smarmy is McDonnell?
Martin
“Hi, I’m Bob McDonnell, I’ve found two black people willing to stand behind me and I’m in so far over my head right now, please don’t mind if I cry a little.”
nepat
@rob!:
Comment of the night.
daryljfontaine
The Republican response:
Cut taxes.
Reduce regulation.
Ignore everything President Hopey McKicksyourass just said.
Get ready for the prolonged wilderness, shitheads.
D
Corner Stone
This Gov isn’t Jindal-bad but nonetheless he is God-awful.
Even with his glee club supporters.
nepat
@SiubhanDuinne:
Other comment of the night.
Brian J
@Martin:
I actually think he’s doing pretty well. Granted, after Jindal’s swan-dive-off-a-tall-building-style speech last year, there was only one place to go, which was up, but still…
Corner Stone
A Gov should never mention Twitter in a speech.
dr. bloor
@Sanka:
What are you doing here tonight? All your friends out canvassing for the James O’Keefe Defense Fund?
Corner Stone
What fucking echo chamber are these fools in right now?
demkat620
Well he’s passed the not a clown test so far. He starts to get off cadence and blurry. This McDonnell has not impressed me as anything more than a minor leaguer playing over his head.
ETA: He likes bumper sticker politics. Nice
Brian J
@Corner Stone:
Either he’s lost a shit ton of weight, or my contacts are all sorts of fucked up, because that didn’t look like him.
Corner Stone
She is hot. She could lead me anywhere.
rootless_e
I’d just like to say that I’m proud of all of us who made sure we’d get a SOTU from a smart, principled, well-intentioned human being instead of a cretinous old maniac or the psycho he chose for VP.
And to all you members of the bed-wetting poutospheric base (base of something, I’m sure), a hearty kiss-my-ass.
thanks
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Sanka: Hey, Sanka! I promise not to cum in your mouth, k?
Corner Stone
Oh God. Not the Undie Bomber.
SIA
McDonnell reminds me of all the frat boys at UGA. UGGGHA.
ksmiami
p.s. Crist will switch parties in 4….3…2..1
Corner Stone
@Brian J: Are we mixing up Scalia and Alito? Scalia is a fat old dude and Alito is an average size youngish dude.
Both fucking pricks.
Sanka
Funny, I thought I heard POTUS say he wants to cut capital gains taxes and corporate tax rates.
Or is that just
another liea knee-jerk reaction to a Republicans sitting in Uncle Teddy’s Senate seat?Corner Stone
That dude was just not that good.
jcricket
@Sanka: Where in the constitution, pray tell, does it say that corporations are people? And moreover, we restrict the rights of people all the time. And we treat corporations differently than people in all sorts of situations.
This is exactly the kind of “judicial activism” conservatives are always railing against. Believe me, I understand that sometimes the law means things aren’t the way I want them to be, or that gun control laws might be unconstitutional if taken too far, etc.
But this idea that corporations are exactly like people when it comes to giving them rights, but entirely unlike people when it comes to punishing, taxing or otherwise controlling them is FUCKING RIDICULOUS. And it will destroy our country if it’s not stopped.
TuiMel
@gogol’s wife:
THIS
Da Bomb
@rootless_e: Ditto, my sentiments exactly.
Just Some Fuckhead
Good speech by Obama, on balance. I just hope it’s enough til next year’s speech.
Mike in NC
Enjoy a shit sandwich with your cup of tea, troll.
Comrade Kevin
I think Sanka is typing his comments with one hand.
Cain
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Agreed. I hope it is enough. I really felt that he spoke for me and that he was reading Balloon-Juice and others and was able to send signals to Congress about how a lot of us feels.
cain
darryl
Sanka inadvertently picked a great moniker. Cause sanka is what you get when you take a useful substance and remove the part that makes people smarter. He named himself with the same competence as the tea baggers. Kinda takes you back to the Bush years….
Notorious P.A.T.
Sounds like a good speech. Now let’s see if he actually DOES ANYTHING. You know, like calling the Senate and telling Lieberman “I saved your ass, how about paying me back?” or firing Geithner or something.
nepat
@General Winfield Stuck:
You really need to see it. It was a religious experience.
Notorious P.A.T.
Jon Stewart is mentioning O’Keefe’s arrest. Wow, he is acknowledging some responsibility for swallowing O’Keefe’s bullshit about ACORN hook, line, sinker, and pole. Not a lot, but some.
Notorious P.A.T.
You don’t fight in a speech. Fighting is “if you Congressmen don’t push through a Consumer Protection Agency I won’t campaign for you”. Fighting is “Appointee X is doing a terrible job, so he’s out”.
Tax Analyst
@Anne Laurie:
Yeah, between Pelosi and Roberts its easy to see which one acts worse than a frightened old woman (no offense meant to you frightened old women out there), and the name is NOT “Nancy”.
It’s just sickening how many partisan, Republican-owned little bitches there are in the SCOTUS.
General Winfield Stuck
@nepat: I will on rerun.
Wile E. Quixote
@Martin:
But where does that leave Clarence Thomas? Hmmm, on second thought I don’t want to know.
D-Chance.
Didn’t see one second of it.
Did I really miss anything important? Laying -140 on the “no”.
burnspbesq
@Notorious P.A.T.:
Making a note of that. Thanks for the recco.
I’m in a better mood now. Florida State made a game of it for a while, and some will continue to whine that we rely too much on Scheyer, Singler, and Smith. But a win is a win is a win. I’m ready to listen to SOTU now.
burnspbesq
@SiubhanDuinne:
You win. I ’bout wet my pants when I read that.
burnspbesq
@Sanka:
Mark the occasion, ladies and gentlemen.
At 10:29 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, on January 27, 2010, Sanka said something that makes sense.
This happens even less often than the appearance of Halley’s Comet, or the New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup.
But you can say to your grandkids, “Yes, you little buttfaces, I was there the one time that Sanka made sense.”
The Populist
Fuck you GOP. The next time any of you punks tell me that liberal judges are “activist” go fuck yourself. Alito’s disdainful mouthing proves these fuckers lied to get appointed and they are only interested in giving their masters every judgement they ask for.
Fuck off and I hope the term “liberal activist judges” dies and is replaced by “scum sucking, corporate liar activist judges”
The Populist
@Sanka:
Uhhhh, the constitution and bill of rights SAYS WE THE PEOPLE, not ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY CORPORATIONS.
Sorry, last I checked the founding fathers were talking about actual people not fictional entities.
I know it’s hard for your bootlicking beliefs to let down your guard and accept the truth, but if you want shove your talking points at anybody, I suggest you run along and go play with the dittoheads. You guys can all circle jerk each other by acting idiotic.
D-Chance.
Hilarious.