Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Accountability, motherfuckers.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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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:

  • House convenes at 1 PM with the usual bullshit (prayers and some spouting off.)
  • An hour of debate, and then a vote, on the rule that sets down how the House will debate the Senate amendments to the House bill, and the reconciliation motion. Louise Slaughter will manage this with her ceremonial katana sword while swigging from a bottle of T-bird.
  • Assuming the rule passes, two hours of debate and then a vote on the Senate amendments (HR 3590) and the reconciliation (HR 4872). Steny Hoyer has the honors, and I assume he’ll use his ceremonial bullwhip and distribute a tray of Jell-o shots, pursuant to the rule passed above.

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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One More Last Chance?

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Apparently some Capitol Hill offices will stay open Sunday morning to take comments on HCR. I don’t think that district offices are open, so the funnel effect should make it virtually impossible to get through. Try the numbers below if you live in any of these key districts (thanks again to Moses2317 for sending it in), but make sure that you also send a signed fax with at least your zip code through a free service like faxzero.

Brian Baird – Washington (Vancouver, Olympia) – (202) 225-3536

Paul Kanjorski – Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Mount Pocono) – 202-225-6511

John Tanner – Tennessee (Union City, Jackson, Millington) – 202-225-4714

Earl Pomeroy – North Dakota (Bismarck, Fargo) – (202) 225-2611

Lincoln Davis – Tennessee (Columbia, Jamestown, Rockwood) – 202.225.6831

Marcy Kaptur – Ohio (Toledo) – (202) 225-4146

Mike Michaud – Maine (Bangor, Lewiston, Presque Isle, Waterville) – 202-225-6306

Bill Foster – Illinois (Batavia, Dixon, Geneseo) – (202) 225-2976

Kathy Dahlkemper – Pennsylvania (Erie) – (202) 225-5406

Chris Carney – Pennsylvania (Clarks Summit, Shamokin, Williamsport) – (202) 225-3731

Steve Driehaus – Ohio (Cincinnati) – (202) 225-2216

Stephen Lynch – Massachusetts (Brockton, Boston) – 202-225-8273

Rick Boucher – Virginia (Abingdon, Pulaski, Big Stone Gap) – 202-225-3861

Loretta Sanchez – California (Garden Grove) – (202) 225-2965

Dan Lipinski – Illinois (LaGrange, Oak Lawn, Chicago’s southwest side) – (202) 225 – 5701

Joe Donnelly – Indiana (South Bend, LaPorte, Michigan City, Kokomo) – (202) 225-3915

Marion Berry – Arkansas (Jonesboro, Cabot, Mountain Home) – (202) 225-4076

Jerry Costello – Illinois (Carbondale, Belleville, E. St. Louis, Granite City, Chester) – (202) 225-5661

Nick Rahall – West Virginia (Beckley, Bluefield, Huntington, Logan) – (202) 225-3452

Solomon Ortiz – Texas (Corpus Christi, Brownsville) – (202) 225-7742

Alan Mollohan – West Virginia (Morgantown, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Parkersburg) – (202) 225-4172

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Early Morning Open Thread: Scrambling to Join the Winners

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Hold those positive thoughts? Dana Millbank, aka Tha Dickwhisperer, is already arguing that Republicans running on “repeal” of HCR may not be making the best political decisions:

“This is the largest tax bill in history,” the Republican leader fumed. The reform “is unjust, unworkable, stupidly drafted and wastefully financed.”
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And that wasn’t all. This “cruel hoax,” he said, this “folly” of “bungling and waste,” compared poorly to the “much less expensive” and “practical measures” favored by the Republicans. “We must repeal,” the GOP leader argued. “The Republican Party is pledged to do this.”
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That was Republican presidential nominee Alf Landon in a September 1936 campaign speech. He based his bid for the White House on repealing Social Security.
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Bad call, Alf. Republicans lost that presidential election in a landslide. By the time they finally regained the White House — 16 years later — their nominee, Dwight Eisenhower, had abandoned the party’s repeal platform.
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Circumstances are different now, as Republicans, assuming the Democrats’ health legislation clears the House this weekend, prepare to campaign this year and in 2012 on the repeal of health-care reform. But the ghost of Landon should spook them as they do so: The health-care legislation, if passed, won’t be repealed, and the politics of repeal may not work out as well as Republicans expect. You wouldn’t think that based on the headlong rush to demand a repeal even before the health bill becomes law.

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I hate moving, but I am seriously glad I am too busy to have to follow the ups and downs that you all are going through while following this. From where I sit, which is to say, having just checked the headlines at the blogs I read, it sure seems to me like Stupak’s abortion gambit has run its course, Pelosi has the votes, and they have decided to skip deem and pass and just go for it.

Also, in what will surely come as a shock to Matt Welch and the rest of the glibertarians at Reason, it appears that some of the teabaggers are racist, homophobic louts threatening violence. No shit. And all along Reason told me they were just worried about big government (when Democrats provide it, of course).

Also, make sure to check the petitions to the right.

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