Apparently I wasn’t the only one to get the wild idea to taunt Jim DeMint with Abba. Apparently some merry Facebook pranksters had the same idea:
Heh, indeedy.
The pranksters are still having fun attaching pictures to his site:
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Apparently I wasn’t the only one to get the wild idea to taunt Jim DeMint with Abba. Apparently some merry Facebook pranksters had the same idea:
Heh, indeedy.
The pranksters are still having fun attaching pictures to his site:
by DougJ| 112 Comments
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Via Wonkette, whose summary I cannot improve upon:
Nancy Pelosi loves pissing off teabaggers. Here she is linking arms with John Lewis, just like in the Selma march, to remind America of how teabaggers chanted “nigger” at John Lewis fifteen times yesterday. And if anyone gets in her way, she will smash their skulls into sandhills of calcium with her Weapon, the “1965 Medicare gavel,” forged by ancient socialist hobbits in a distant epoch, as a paean to Thor.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 36 Comments
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For those of you biting your nails or popping popcorn, here’s the Daily Whipline [pdf], the House Majority Whip’s report on what’s going to happen on the House Floor today. Summary:
It says the session will go into the “evening”, which I’m sure is an accurate prediction. I’d suggest a good drinking game where you take a shot every time a Republican is ruled out of order, but I don’t want any deaths from alcohol poisoning on my conscience.
Since this document urges all Democrats to vote yes, I assume that some teabagger will equate it to Steny Hoyer pissing on the Constitution in the well of the House, but I fearlessly link to it anyway, in the interest of transparency.
Update: Ezra says the House leadership predicts a vote at 9 PM.
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I tell you what, if more progressives were like Anthony Weiner than Howard Dean (who still can not get it through his over-sized ego head that you couldn’t get most of the positive things in this bill by just “ramming it through reconciliation), there wouldn’t be any hippy-punching on this blog at all.
Although Weiner missed a point- while Nooners was droning on about fixing the economy, Weiner could have taken a moment to point out the Democrats would love to do more about jobs and the economy… if her party would quit fucking filibustering.
*** Update ***
And it appears DougJ and I were both reading Wonkette at the same time.
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TPM highlights the most important remaining Representatives. Please check to see whether you live in any of these districts, or if you live close enough to make a credible offer to help with their re-election.
Undecided Dems Who Voted ‘No’ On The House Health Care Bill
John Tanner (D-TN), Brian Baird (D-WA), Jason Altmire (D-PA), Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL), Jim Matheson (D-UT), Glenn Nye (D-VA), Scott Murphy (D-NY), Harry Teague (D-NM), John Boccieri (D-OH)
Undecided Dems Who Voted ‘Yes’ On The House Health Care Bill
Many of the undecideds who previously voted “yes” are comprised of pro-life Democrats who are leery of the Senate bill’s abortion language and are led by Rep. Bart Supak (D-MI).
Easy to get Stupakers:
Brad Ellsworth (D-IN), Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX),
Hard to get Stupakers:
Marion Berry (D-AR), Jerry Costello (D-IL), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Steve Driehaus (D-OH), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Dan Lipinski (D-IL), Bart Stupak (D-MI)
***Update***
If you call any conservative Dems today, make sure to bring this up. The abortion language dodge is simply untenable.
***Update 2***
Changed the post title. It sounds more focus-grouped this way.
by John Cole| 41 Comments
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More ammunition for the defense of the crazification factor:
Some 27 percent of Israelis believe that U.S. President Barack Obama is anti-Semitic, according to a Haaretz-Dialog poll conducted this week.
Anpther 56 percent questions said they don’t believe politicians who call Obama anti-Semitic or hostile to Israel, or who say he is “striving to topple Netanyahu.”
On the whole, Obama’s popularity may be declining in American public opinion, but a sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair.
Just the other day, 27% of Hiram Monseratte’s district decided that despite the fact he was convicted of slashing his significant other, he deserved their vote.
I’m telling you- pay attention to 27%. It is uncanny how often it shows up.
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Health reform is back from the dead. Many Democrats have realized that their electoral prospects will be better if they can point to a real accomplishment. Polling on reform — which was never as negative as portrayed — shows signs of improving. And I’ve been really impressed by the passion and energy of this guy Barack Obama. Where was he last year?
I dunno. Maybe expecting the Democratic majority in the legislature to write some legislation on the issue they have been trumpeting for five decades? I guess the fact Obama had some personal relationships with people from his time in the Senate blinded him to the simple fact that the vast majority of Democrats in congress are as worthless as breasts on men.
Also, only recently has the White House deployed the Rahm Emanuel Penis of Doom in the House showers, so who knows what else they have up their sleeves in their pants left?
I don’t know how anyone can look at the past year and not realize the problem in this government is in the Senate, and not the House or the White House.
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