Another brick in the fail
I don’t want to be premature about who is doing this, but I tend to believe that it’s related to TEH TYRANNY OF TEH SLAUGHTER RULE:
Authorities are trying to find out who threw bricks through windows and doors at two Democratic Party offices in western New York before Sunday’s health care vote.
Monroe County Democratic Committee officials say a brick shattered glass doors at the party’s headquarters in Rochester on Saturday or Sunday. No one was in the building at the time. Rochester police are investigating.
A brick was thrown through a window at Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter’s district office in Niagara Falls early Friday.
Logically, the people who should be most angry at the Monroe County Democratic Committee are other Democrats, but I doubt a hippie did this. (I live right around the corner from where this happened, btw.)
March 22, 2010 12:39 pm
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Hoot-Smalley
77 Comments
77 Responses
Omnes Omnibus - March 22, 2010 | 12:43 pm · Link
They really don’t understand that, in a democratic republic, you don’t always get to win.
jeffreyw - March 22, 2010 | 12:46 pm · Link
They should be able to get a DNA match from the feces on the brick. The proposed rule had them shitting plenty of them.
TooManyJens - March 22, 2010 | 12:47 pm · Link
jeffreyw wins the thread, two comments in. Impressive!
Xecky Gilchrist - March 22, 2010 | 12:47 pm · Link
That is the thing about a party platform based on Stupid Anger – it’s pretty stupid. And angry.
cleek - March 22, 2010 | 12:48 pm · Link
when i lived on Strathallan, my car windows were smashed three times. it’s just a bad neighborhood for glass.
jg - March 22, 2010 | 12:49 pm · Link
No U2 fans here?
“I threw a brick through your window “.
New Yorker - March 22, 2010 | 12:52 pm · Link
Just called my 94-year-old grandmother in the nursing home. She’s still alive. What gives? Sarah Palin promised me the death panels would have sent her to the gas chamber by now.
Dreggas - March 22, 2010 | 12:52 pm · Link
Rush’s ticket to ride
jeffreyw - March 22, 2010 | 12:54 pm · Link
@TooManyJens: LOL Just wish I coulda worked in a kitteh pic.
JC - March 22, 2010 | 12:55 pm · Link
I do hope that they are beefing up security around Obama, actually. A lot of people, however misguided, do feel angry and impotent, and think Obama is ‘to blame’. May God keep him safe…
El Cid - March 22, 2010 | 12:55 pm · Link
@jeffreyw: Ow ow ow ow ow almost coughing up lunch into lungs laughing too hard
SGEW - March 22, 2010 | 12:58 pm · Link
Btw, the interwebs are full of delicious things today. Bitter wingnut tears of impotent rage mixed with victory laps by Krugman and Chait.
Simply delicious.
Dreggas - March 22, 2010 | 1:00 pm · Link
@SGEW:
We should really get a thread for cataloging the crazy. That’s the part I looked forward to.
LuciaMia - March 22, 2010 | 1:03 pm · Link
Has Stupak received his rolls of silver dollars yet from the Red-Staters?
I notice the latest addition to the Repub fear mongering is that Dem’s will pay dearly for this, that it’ll be their downfall cause Americans are angry,angry,angry!!
geg6 - March 22, 2010 | 1:03 pm · Link
@jeffreyw:
FTW. Awesome.
Trinity - March 22, 2010 | 1:03 pm · Link
@SGEW: I shall never tire of the the sweet taste of their tears.
The Populist - March 22, 2010 | 1:04 pm · Link
@Omnes Omnibus:
Who are they calling the Nazis again? Hmmm…..
Dreggas - March 22, 2010 | 1:04 pm · Link
This is too funny not to point out
celticdragonchick - March 22, 2010 | 1:05 pm · Link
The victory laps are cool…but I am worried that the tears of rage will lead to bullets and car bombs shortly.
Make that real worried…
It will not end with bricks through windows.
The Populist - March 22, 2010 | 1:06 pm · Link
@Xecky Gilchrist:
I really do believe all this faux anger is proof that America has truly become a nation of idiots. These mouth breathers are all over the place whining about this bill. They complain nobody read it (BECAUSE RUSH TOLD THEM THAT!) yet none of them have any concept of the good this bill can potentially do for those who NEED IT.
Life, love, the pursuit of happiness. Hmmm, life seems to cover it for me. Health care = human right.
The Populist - March 22, 2010 | 1:08 pm · Link
Oh and Makewi, score another for BJ regulars who told you this would pass.
We told you that the polls were wrong. The reason guys like you wanted this to fail is so Obama would tuck tail and run. Now he’s pretty much assured of a second term UNLESS the right can come up with something better (they can’t).
Maybe a few dems go down, but once people see the USA is still up and running as it always has, people will step back and realize maybe we did need to do this.
Pasquinade - March 22, 2010 | 1:10 pm · Link
@markos
Rep. Steve King is running for president of the new nation of Dumbfuckistan
Steve King (R-IA) floats secession as possible response to health care reform
Rep. Steve King (R-IA), whose reaction to Democratic congressmen being called “nigger” and “faggot” by his teabagging brethren was:
Martin - March 22, 2010 | 1:12 pm · Link
@The Populist: Makewi can’t hear you – she’s in her health care reform shelter stacking shotgun shells.
asiangrrlMN - March 22, 2010 | 1:16 pm · Link
@Pasquinade: Yup. He went on to say that there were many places in the US that if he visited, he wouldn’t leave alive. NAME THEM!
@JC: I’m with you. I worried before the election about the possible violence towards Obama. I worried right after he was inaugurated. Now, I’m worried again. Sigh.
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 1:17 pm · Link
Asshole shit shoveler and amateur racist Kristinn Taylor of the DC Chapter of Frei Republik whines about the accusation of racism from his teabaggot compatriots and pretends that his peeps aren’t exactly what they are.
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....6935/posts
I’ve met him – he’s a weaselly little piece of shit.
jg - March 22, 2010 | 1:18 pm · Link
What happened to frums Waterloo post? I can’t get the page to load.
someguy - March 22, 2010 | 1:20 pm · Link
The part they aren’t telling you is that there was a note on one of the bricks that said,
GregB - March 22, 2010 | 1:20 pm · Link
Surely the stock market has plunged hundreds of points and the healthcare industry stocks are getting wiped out over this total takeover of the economy by Maoists?
Get Larry Kudlow on the line stat.
Kennedy - March 22, 2010 | 1:20 pm · Link
OT but I have not heard anyone discussing the reconciliation bill going to the Senate. What happens if they fuck it up and are unable to pass it as is? Is anyone else worried about this?
Update: I should know by now to just go to Ezra Klein when I have questions like this:
“But my sense is that there’s some confusion about what happens if the parliamentarian rules against the Democrats on this or that provision. So let me be clear on this: Reconciliation isn’t all or nothing. The parliamentarian isn’t ruling whether you can do a reconciliation rider. He’s ruling over what you can do with it. An adverse ruling is more annoying for the Democrats than it is disastrous.
If the parliamentarian strikes a provision or two, Senate Democrats will either pass the reconciliation act with that provision deleted from the package or they’ll rewrite the package to try and achieve the same thing in a way that survives parliamentary challenge. Either way, if the package Senate Democrats pass is changed from the package the House considered, then it will have to go back to the House to be passed again. But since House Democrats clearly have the votes to pass reconciliation fixes, that shouldn’t be much of a problem.”
Martin - March 22, 2010 | 1:21 pm · Link
@Pasquinade: So, Iowa is going to take their gay-marriage and secede? That’ll show us!
TooManyJens - March 22, 2010 | 1:22 pm · Link
Kennedy, they only need 50 votes (plus Biden) to pass the reconciliation bill, and Reid claimed to have 52. I’m not too worried, because I don’t see the upside for Dems in voting to preserve unpopular stuff like the Ben Nelson bribe.
ds - March 22, 2010 | 1:24 pm · Link
The main health care bill has already been passed and will soon be signed by the president. The reconciliation bill is just tweaks.
If Republicans are able to successfully challenge a provision in the reconciliation bill and force it to be stripped or altered in the Senate, it will have to go back to the House to be passed again. But no big deal. They have the votes.
Upper West - March 22, 2010 | 1:25 pm · Link
why should Monroe Cty. Dems be angry at the Monroe Cty. Committee
A Ghost To Most - March 22, 2010 | 1:25 pm · Link
It’s not a coincidence that the Alabama swamps are just to the southwest of Rochester
MikeJ - March 22, 2010 | 1:25 pm · Link
@TooManyJens: You’re absolutely right, and I would add to it that today Senators are seeing ecstatic Democrats. Who wants to ruin the biggest Democratic victory in decades? I hope it gives them a taste for winning.
geg6 - March 22, 2010 | 1:25 pm · Link
Speaking of fail, what do the Firebaggers think of this?
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/no.....alth-bill/
Pasquinade - March 22, 2010 | 1:26 pm · Link
@Michael, Kristinn wasn’t even at the protest:
http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....page=24#24
JC - March 22, 2010 | 1:26 pm · Link
Kennedy,
I also am not worried, but in any case, I believe that the House has passed the Senate bill, so that WILL now be law. Reconcilation is making the law better.
Here is TPM explaining:
Maude - March 22, 2010 | 1:28 pm · Link
Right around the corner, Huh DougJ?
All in all,
no pudding for you.
gbear - March 22, 2010 | 1:29 pm · Link
Hey!!
Wingnuts!!
Leave those panes alone!!
Rick Taylor - March 22, 2010 | 1:30 pm · Link
I’m trying to remember, did anything like this happen when the Republican administration got its way, and we launched a war against Iraq?
asiangrrlMN - March 22, 2010 | 1:32 pm · Link
@gbear: You getting your ice cream today? Eat some for me!
Eric U. - March 22, 2010 | 1:33 pm · Link
someone at the GOS has been reading Red State, and they came back with some really bad news. http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....n-trouble.
If you need to merge, and a Red Stater sees your Obama bumper sticker, he isn’t going to let you merge, dammit.
AnotherBruce - March 22, 2010 | 1:33 pm · Link
@Martin:
Iowa’s going to have to fight a two front war. Thankfully they’re protected on the west and east by the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. But vulnerable to the north by invasion from Minnesota and from the south by Missouri.
danimal - March 22, 2010 | 1:34 pm · Link
@jg: I loves me the raw, young U2. Great song, but hopefully brick throwing is not becoming a trend.
Zuzu's Petals - March 22, 2010 | 1:35 pm · Link
@Pasquinade:
You mean this Steve King?
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 1:35 pm · Link
@ geg6
The comments are great. I’m noticing a cooling of firebag jets on the fdl frontpage. I’m a little afraid to wade into the fdl comments, though.
gbear - March 22, 2010 | 1:37 pm · Link
@asiangrrlMN:
Ice cream or pizza. Maybe both. I’m going to set a bad example for proactive health care today.
I’ll share a scoop with you. Damn if I’m going to get a double.
And I will wear my ‘Bears For Obama’ cap that I bought before the election.
The Populist - March 22, 2010 | 1:38 pm · Link
@Rick Taylor:
Yes, those of us that were proven right were told to “watch what we say” and that anything said against the president is tantamount to “treason” and “wanting our troops dead.”
Yep, seems the standards always change when it’s somebody the right don’t like.
The Populist - March 22, 2010 | 1:40 pm · Link
@AnotherBruce:
Funny, Iowa isn’t a completely wingnutty state. It has it’s share of freaks, but also tends to be pragmatic overall.
If they secede, they can shut the hell up about patriotism. Birds are singing, sun is shining (in my area at least), stores are open, the stock market is still running and life goes on.
Zam - March 22, 2010 | 1:42 pm · Link
@Eric U.: They really are children.
Svensker - March 22, 2010 | 1:44 pm · Link
@Rick Taylor:
Some older ladies wearing pink stuff showed up and skeered a buncha Repukes. Does that count? Oh, and some dumb mom whose kid got hisself killed in Eye-rak was complaining and being mean to Dubya who FELT ALL THERE PAIN even tho she was nutty. That definitely doesn’t count.
freelancer - March 22, 2010 | 1:46 pm · Link
@jeffreyw:
COTY nominee.
geg6 - March 22, 2010 | 1:46 pm · Link
@Michael:
A guy? Named Kristinn? Seriously?
No wonder he has “issues.”
Bubblegum Tate - March 22, 2010 | 1:49 pm · Link
@SGEW:
It is a pretty glorious thing. For all their tough guy talk, they really are a bunch of whiny little drama queens who burst into tears at the drop of a hat.
Sock Puppet of the Great Satan - March 22, 2010 | 1:51 pm · Link
“I do hope that they are beefing up security around Obama, actually. A lot of people, however misguided, do feel angry and impotent, and think Obama is ‘to blame’. May God keep him safe…”
Sad to say, I believe they’ll take a pop at one of the key Congressional Dems before taking on Obama. We saw the vitriol against the House Dems this weekend.
Pasquinade - March 22, 2010 | 1:55 pm · Link
hahahaha
http://twitter.com/SteveKingIA
Bubblegum Tate - March 22, 2010 | 1:57 pm · Link
This picture = LOL
Fergus Wooster - March 22, 2010 | 1:57 pm · Link
Just noticed the new tagline.
I concur.
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 1:57 pm · Link
Laughing at him, not with him. That’s just plain funny.
jeffreyw - March 22, 2010 | 1:58 pm · Link
@freelancer: Yer too kind, but no. A COTY should be self explanatory, containing within itself both the set up and the punch line. My comment is funny only within the context of the post itself, much like a caption on a LoLCat pic. Thanks though.
geg6 - March 22, 2010 | 1:58 pm · Link
@Michael:
Whooo. Those comments are totally polluted with Truthers. Basically calling Chomsky a corporatist because he doesn’t believe 9/11 was an inside job and really doesn’t care one way or another about their crazy conspiracy world. Chomsky, a corporatist.
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right…
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 1:58 pm · Link
Oh, and speaking of Fail, Jane of Arc has this bitter little screed going.
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.c.....care-bill/
The comment thread gets interesting from the start.
Hahahahahaha
Zam - March 22, 2010 | 2:03 pm · Link
@Michael: That person just won.
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 2:04 pm · Link
We need picture smileys – the one of the guy laughing his ass off while rolling around and pounding the floor would do nicely.
That was from the comment section of her FR article.
AhabTRuler - March 22, 2010 | 2:06 pm · Link
Rick Taylor@41: Unless the bricks weigh 2000 lbs., are laser-guided, and were launched from a B-2, no.
Pasquinade - March 22, 2010 | 2:08 pm · Link
AnotherBruce - March 22, 2010 | 2:09 pm · Link
@The Populist:
No, I’m just joking, I’m from Iowa, it’s just the western part of the state where King is from that’s the wing nuttiest. Eastern Iowa went for Kerry in 2004.
Go UNI!
Michael - March 22, 2010 | 2:11 pm · Link
I like this one, too.
I’m trying to figure out what happens when everybody betrays the revolution but you.
By my count, they’re mad at Woolsey, Sanders, Kucinich and Moore. Is there a left wing version of the Wingularity? If so, I think Jane has managed to exceed the limit.
andrewtna - March 22, 2010 | 2:23 pm · Link
Excellent title, DougJ
canuckistani - March 22, 2010 | 2:33 pm · Link
You go into exile in Mexico and wait for Obama’s assassins and their ice picks.
JC - March 22, 2010 | 2:35 pm · Link
Now, the thing that concerns me about the health care bill, is that subsidies don’t kick in until 2014.
So, the thing about ‘no denial of coverage’ – is it, or is it not, the case, that for example, my cousin – who is 25, and has a pacemaker at her young age, and is therefore, pretty much uninsurable – she’ll be available for a plan now – but won’t the cost for insurance, be the cost of a small house?
That’s my current worry.
maus - March 22, 2010 | 2:48 pm · Link
See, they’re passively-aggressively rioting to let the filthy liberal-raus know how they will feel under NAZI PELOSI, because liberals are the “true” national socialist brownshirts. Or something.
maus - March 22, 2010 | 2:50 pm · Link
@Rick Taylor:
The anti-globalist protestors like to break windows, but anti-war demonstrators don’t to my knowledge.
Mnemosyne - March 22, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
@Michael:
They guillotine you face-up.
gelfling545 - March 22, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
I live not too far from Niagara Falls and it should be said that here, and presumably elsewhere, bricks sometimes get thrown for the hell of it. It could be politics or it could be ingrowing adolescence ( not that they are necessarily mutually exclusive.)
David Moisan - March 22, 2010 | 5:39 pm · Link
@celticdragonchick:
I hear you. The R’s, Rove and Ailes have ramped up the hate and kept it so high I am convinced it won’t end until there’s another OKC. Or JFK.
If Obama and the Democrats ever dare to tackle immigration reform, I will be surprised. If you think HCR was crazy-making, you haven’t seen the worst. Maybe a true Night of the Broken Glass. Or several. In your town and mine (I live in what is supposedly a very blue city in a very blue state. The locals on the newspaper comment section scare me.)