Morning in America: Butthurt Achieved

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I hope you stupid bastards are happy. Now we have a goddamn worthless government again.

Don't worry. I doubt the drone program ever missed a beat during the shutdown.

[CBStew]

Holy crap.

http://gawker.com/house-stenographer-dragged-off-floor-yelling-about-free-1446830813

As the House finished their vote to reopen the federal government and raise the debt ceiling, the House stenographer decided it was a good time to let everyone know her feelings about God, Congress, and the Freemasons.

"He [God] will not be mocked," the stenographer, apparently named Molly, yelled into the microphone as she was dragged off by security. "The greatest deception here is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. It would not have been. The Constitution would not have been written by Freemasons. They go against God. You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God. Praise be to Jesus."

Yet another sherson snowed by the Antarctic Reptoid conspiracy.

Damn those Freemasons!

[Chuck to Chuck]

(let's pass this in the early morning hours on Christmas Eve)

Just using an existing playbook.

(Medicare D) came to a vote at 3 a.m. on November 22. After 45 minutes, the bill was losing, 219-215, with David Wu (D-OR-1) not voting. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes, as they had in June. Istook, who had always been a wavering vote, consented quickly, producing a 218-216 tally. In a highly unusual move, the House leadership held the vote open for hours as they sought two more votes. Then-Representative Nick Smith (R-MI) claimed he was offered campaign funds for his son, who was running to replace him, in return for a change in his vote from "nay" to "yea." After controversy ensued, Smith clarified no explicit offer of campaign funds was made, but that he was offered "substantial and aggressive campaign support" which he had assumed included financial support.

$1 trillion in unfunded spending, ladies and germs!

Let's repeal them both!

I'm all for that. I'm not for someone who's in favor of repealing the one passed and signed into law by their opponent's party.

The next guy who says "Repeal and Replace Obamacare AND Medicare D" will be the first. And he'll get beat in his next election.

[Brownie]

(let's pass this in the early morning hours on Christmas Eve)

Just using an existing playbook.

(Medicare D) came to a vote at 3 a.m. on November 22. After 45 minutes, the bill was losing, 219-215, with David Wu (D-OR-1) not voting. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes, as they had in June. Istook, who had always been a wavering vote, consented quickly, producing a 218-216 tally. In a highly unusual move, the House leadership held the vote open for hours as they sought two more votes. Then-Representative Nick Smith (R-MI) claimed he was offered campaign funds for his son, who was running to replace him, in return for a change in his vote from "nay" to "yea." After controversy ensued, Smith clarified no explicit offer of campaign funds was made, but that he was offered "substantial and aggressive campaign support" which he had assumed included financial support.

$1 trillion in unfunded spending, ladies and germs!

Let's repeal them both!

I'm all for that. I'm not for someone who's in favor of repealing the one passed and signed into law by their opponent's party.

The next guy who says "Repeal and Replace Obamacare AND Medicare D" will be the first. And he'll get beat in his next election.

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

[Gilgamesh]

(let's pass this in the early morning hours on Christmas Eve)

Just using an existing playbook.

(Medicare D) came to a vote at 3 a.m. on November 22. After 45 minutes, the bill was losing, 219-215, with David Wu (D-OR-1) not voting. Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay sought to convince some of dissenting Republicans to switch their votes, as they had in June. Istook, who had always been a wavering vote, consented quickly, producing a 218-216 tally. In a highly unusual move, the House leadership held the vote open for hours as they sought two more votes. Then-Representative Nick Smith (R-MI) claimed he was offered campaign funds for his son, who was running to replace him, in return for a change in his vote from "nay" to "yea." After controversy ensued, Smith clarified no explicit offer of campaign funds was made, but that he was offered "substantial and aggressive campaign support" which he had assumed included financial support.

$1 trillion in unfunded spending, ladies and germs!

Let's repeal them both!

I'm all for that. I'm not for someone who's in favor of repealing the one passed and signed into law by their opponent's party.

The next guy who says "Repeal and Replace Obamacare AND Medicare D" will be the first. And he'll get beat in his next election.

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

I'm fondly remembering a Congress that could trade things for votes on bills, like campaign donations and earmarks.

DATS HOW SHIT GOT DUN, MY FRENTS!!

[Chuck to Chuck]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

[CT III]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

[Internet Apex]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

I witnessed that fashion decision at a college basketball game. Loyola no less. Though I'm not sure what it reveals. Noted Homocrat and self-educated Fork wore a tassel on the zipper of his cargo shorts at Cody's. For easy access, baby?

I threw a pair of McCarthyite DadPex's tasseled loafers into a dumpster without him knowing, thus forcing him to wear a more decent pair of shoes to a Butler game.

What the hell do I know about fashion though? Clearly nothing.

[Tonker]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

Just as a matter of interest, what does wearing non-ironic jorts to Sheffield's make you a man of?

[Internet Apex]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

Just as a matter of interest, what does wearing non-ironic jorts to Sheffield's make you a man of?

Leisure.

[Eli]

So, in exchange for shutting down the government and bringing the country close to defaulting, the GOP received a reiteration of something that was already in the PPACA.

I really don't know what to say, other than it's apparent that the Democrats finally brought a gun to a gun fight.

Whatever. Get back to work.

With pleasure.

Seriously, it wasn't really a gun fight. It was more like John Boehner trying to sell an ice sculpture. The Democrats didn't really do anything but wait the GOP out.

Boehner and McConnell are sort of like Epstein and Hoyer with Ted Cruz playing Al Yellon, except in this bizarro-world, Yellon gets to take the reins of the team in time for the trade deadline and hilarity ensues. The only difference is that more people come out to Wrigley Field for a lazy August afternoon game with the Padres than have registered on the exchanges for health insurance. The problems with the ACA won't go away, and Harry Reid (let's pass this in the early morning hours on Christmas Eve), Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius cannot run away from that.

And this is coming from someone who likes Cruz.

I think it's more like if Yellon stood outside Wrigley and threw a giant tantrum, saying the Cubs couldn't play any games until Theo bought him a unicorn. For some reason, the Cubs allowed this to happen and canceled games while Al stomped and screamed about not having Theo and/or Kim DeJesus' email address. Eventually Al gave up without receiving his unicorn and the only thing that changed was the Cubs had lost a bunch of money for no reason.

[Brownie]

So, in exchange for shutting down the government and bringing the country close to defaulting, the GOP received a reiteration of something that was already in the PPACA.

I really don't know what to say, other than it's apparent that the Democrats finally brought a gun to a gun fight.

Whatever. Get back to work.

With pleasure.

Seriously, it wasn't really a gun fight. It was more like John Boehner trying to sell an ice sculpture. The Democrats didn't really do anything but wait the GOP out.

Boehner and McConnell are sort of like Epstein and Hoyer with Ted Cruz playing Al Yellon, except in this bizarro-world, Yellon gets to take the reins of the team in time for the trade deadline and hilarity ensues. The only difference is that more people come out to Wrigley Field for a lazy August afternoon game with the Padres than have registered on the exchanges for health insurance. The problems with the ACA won't go away, and Harry Reid (let's pass this in the early morning hours on Christmas Eve), Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and Kathleen Sebelius cannot run away from that.

And this is coming from someone who likes Cruz.

I think it's more like if Yellon stood outside Wrigley and threw a giant tantrum, saying the Cubs couldn't play any games until Theo bought him a unicorn. For some reason, the Cubs allowed this to happen and canceled games while Al stomped and screamed about not having Theo and/or Kim DeJesus' email address. Eventually Al gave up without receiving his unicorn and the only thing that changed was the Cubs had lost a bunch of money for no reason.

At any rate, we can now focus on how self-employed people are getting jacked around as are plenty of people on existing employer-sponsored plans. And how the online exchange is completely useless, yet we're supposed to want to let the same people who brought us that take more control over our lives.

[Chuck to Chuck]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

Just as a matter of interest, what does wearing non-ironic jorts to Sheffield's make you a man of?

Leisure.

And comfort, laziness and not giving a shit.

[Internet Apex]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

Just as a matter of interest, what does wearing non-ironic jorts to Sheffield's make you a man of?

Leisure.

And comfort, laziness and not giving a shit.

That's kind of what leisure means more or less.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

So, I'm unelectable? There goes your "Draft Brown for Illinois Governor' movement.

Very few people are electable who say they are taking stuff away. "No chicken in every pot!"

The real difference between the Dems and Goops the last 30 years has been that Dems give you programs and raise your taxes not enough to pay for it. The Goops give you programs and cut your taxes to pay for it.

Plus, TJ was once seen wearing tassled loafters at a high school basketball game.

Man of the people, my eye.

Just as a matter of interest, what does wearing non-ironic jorts to Sheffield's make you a man of?

Leisure.

And comfort, laziness and not giving a shit.

That's kind of what leisure means more or less.

Intrepid Reader:  Huey

Schwing!