Fuck its silent in here.......

[Gilgamesh]

TEC's former governor seems like a straight-shooter tonight.

Also, fuck all of them for the attack on the NLRB's Boeing complaint.

[JD]

TEC's former governor seems like a straight-shooter tonight.

he's here to put the common sense back in government. 

[Wheezer]

This sounds like a truly awful, awful idea.  I hope it never gets out of "draft" format.

That. We don't need an "alternative source of funding for surface transportation" - we already have a system in place. It's called the gas tax. If you want to raise more money for transportation, raise the gas tax. From a pigouvian standpoint the gas tax is one of the best taxes we have - it's got a built-in INCENTIVE for drivers to buy fuel-efficient vehicles.

I can't help but wonder if they were looking at the rise in the use of fuel-efficient vehicles as well as reduced demand due to high gas prices and thinking, hey, we need to replace all that "lost" revenue somehow!

Why do it by the mile? They should do it for time in the car, so people who sit in traffic not only have a miserable commute, but pay extra for it.

I bet if they figure out the biometry, they can start taxing us based on how much air helium we use. You want to pay for more public works? Don't hold your breath.

Get it together, man.

[Wheezer]

Jesus Christ, I just heard Joe Morris assert that the "Arab spring" is the sand-nigger version of the "Tea Party." Thanks for silently chugging that dong, Milt.

[morpheus]

Can we all agree that this is a terrible idea?

Bonus: Gil pokestick at the end.  Although I guess one could argue that with his mouthful of Obamadong, the whole article is a Gil pokestick.

[Quality Start Machine]

Can we all agree that this is a terrible idea?

Bonus: Gil pokestick at the end.  Although I guess one could argue that with his mouthful of Obamadong, the whole article is a Gil pokestick.

I understand wanting to reverse the disaster that is Citizens United, but this isn't the way to do it.

[Gilgamesh]

Can we all agree that this is a terrible idea?

Bonus: Gil pokestick at the end.  Although I guess one could argue that with his mouthful of Obamadong, the whole article is a Gil pokestick.

Needs more clowns...

[Bort]

To be fair, almost everything I've done for the past two years has been more-or-less a Gil pokestick.

[morpheus]

This seemed like the right thread to post this in.

[Internet Apex]

This seemed like the right thread to post this in.

I'm mezmerized.

[Slaky]

This seemed like the right thread to post this in.

I'm mezmerized.

If only Peter Potamus had made the cut.

[Gilgamesh]

Hold on there, Lebron.

[Gilgamesh]

Newt's worst kept secret is now official.

"Gingrich 2012: He will always love America. Unless it gets cancer."

(h/t: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/newt-campaign-slogan-open-thread/?)

[Slaky]

Newt's worst kept secret is now official.

"Gingrich 2012: He will always love America. Unless it gets cancer."

(h/t: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/newt-campaign-slogan-open-thread/?)

I don't care what anyone says. No one will energize the GOP like Newt Gingrich.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

That sound you just heard was Gil spitting out Jon Huntsman's dong...

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/05/17/quote_of_the_day.html