It might please the teaparty morons who pull the party strings, but it is just incredibly stupid for Republicans to pick fights that they will almost certainly lose. To anyone who doesn’t belong to the angry core can tell it just makes them bigger losers.
Reconciliation passed 220-207.
ellaesther
Whoot!
Short Bus Bully
At least they lose with class, amirite?
WereBear
Why were they promising something they know they can’t deliver?
MikeTheZ
Rachel Maddow is gloating. I am enjoying this.
ellaesther
Also, I’ve been thinking today about how the GOP’s behavior over the past few days shows real contempt for the Americans they claim to be championing — because anyone other than the angry core who has half a brain can see that they’re acting like petulant, ill-mannered children who won’t play because the other guy won (and are, thus, “the biggest losers”). And these Americans can also see that, oh, by the way, the other guy fought a good fight and won.
If the GOP really thinks that this behavior is what will win and keep voters (other than the angry core), they really don’t think much of the voters.
valdivia
Yes We Did. So happy.
MikeTheZ
@ellaesther: The term “useful idiot” was being tossed around in the previous thread to describe what ReThugs think about their voters. Its pretty accurate.
valdivia
@MikeTheZ:
what is she saying?
Pigs & Spiders
Shorter Rachel Maddow: “Neener Neeener Neener! Yoooouuuu lost agaaaaaiiiinn! Ha ha ha HA HA ha!”
ellaesther
@MikeTheZ: “Useful TO A POINT idiot” – FIXT!
Because they will throw their own under a bus as soon as that is what’s useful. Oy, they are a blight, this GOP.
General Egali Tarian Stuck
They know it’s a loser, mainly because they just don’t have the numbers. They are just playing to keep the wingnut natives happy that they are trying, that and drawing clear ideological policy lines for the fall.
TBP = whoopidy doo!!
schrodinger's cat
@Short Bus Bully: You Lie!
Mark S.
By voting against the reconciliation fix, doesn’t that mean they were supporting the Cornhusker Kickback or whatever the fuck it was called?
Violet
NANCY SMASH!
Yay! I think I can finally relax now. Whew. About time.
jamie
Meanwhile, RS is busy discussing whether or not having a loved one die due to a surgical mistake is categorically similar to King George.
Seriously.
It is the “If King George…” post from Erick “Erick” von Erkickson. (I’d post a link, but that gets me stuck in mod hell.)
rootless-e
And don’t progressive own the patent for humiliating losses and symbolic doomed struggles?
MikeTheZ
Here’s some celebratory images.
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3332902912
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3332908544
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3332947200
YES WE DID
Some Guy
Suck on it Boner. Or “Orange Boner” as we like to call him.
mcc
@ellaesther: What we’re seeing right now maybe is an experiment in whether “obvious to antyone who is paying attention” is the same thing as “obvious to the electorate”.
MikeTheZ
@valdivia: She was making fun of how their hard line obstructionism of the reconciliation bill that they promised disappeared into the ether.
Brian J
Maybe it is, but maybe it isn’t. Let’s say, no matter how they play this for the rest of the year and no matter how the midterms go, they decide to focus on something else besides health care. This isn’t to say they become enthusiastic supporters, just that they aren’t ranting and raving every chance they get. They convey the idea that they will more or less go with the flow.
What is there to stop them from doing this? Not much, I’d say, because they will claim what they want no matter what happens, so swing voters will be okay, and the insane base will remember that they threw down a fight even as it looked hopeless. So then they get the support of both.
Stranger things have happened.
Kirk Spencer
I’ve been arguing with some staunch rightwing folk elsewhere about related issues and think I can throw this comparison in.
The Tea Party is today’s SDS. There are a lot of well-meaning, passionate, but misinformed members who have enough force to swing their related political party.
What is going to hurt them more and more is that in their ranks are the Weather Underground types. Some have
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@MikeTheZ:
I am loving Rachel pointing out that there are some fractures developing in the Republican Stone Wall. Lindsay Graham is sure going to hear it for rebelling with Senator Webb in keeping their committee in session. Snowe and Collins signing on the the Dems? The Redstaters better start shipping rock salt and Tom Collins mix to Maine!
I wonder if the teabaggers will go nookular because the Senate Repubs didn’t do everything they could have to stop the Reconciliation bill.
soonergrunt
One of the things that reinforces this is congressional gerrymandering. The majority of congressional districts are majority for one party or the other, and the R districts tend to be much more red than the D districts are blue. Most of these guys are perfectly safe being batshit insane. How else do you think Michele Bachman in Minnesota and Jean Schmidt still get re-elected?
When you have a district overrun by Brick Oven Bob’s inbred family or Makewi and its paste eating brood, this is what you get.
jamie
@MikeTheZ – Well, it is really, really hard to keep the strong jaw of resolute resolve in the face of a 2PM nap-time.
MikeTheZ
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal): Its going to be fun to watch. I’m actually looking forward to November, just to see if we see some bang up ads featuring “restore preexisting conditions” and “HELL NO YOU CAN’T!”
SIA
Well! That was easy! What’s next?
Oh and BTW, send Harry Reid some love. He did his part too.
NANCY SMASH! You’ll get that pool table now missy!
demkat620
Very nice. Now, we need a jobs bill, and financial reform bill, a clean energy bill.
Just keep rolling. Fight the election on our terms and with an energized base.
Democrats, fuck yeah!
mcc
@Brian J: Well… among the next things on the schedule are financial reform and immigration reform. Either of those sound like issues the republicans will be happy just going along on?
(Oddly DADT repeal and ENDA seem to have some of the best chances of netting Republican support.)
Violet
@SIA:
Yeah, agreed. Harry Reid really came through with this. Held their feet to the fire. And never underestimate NANCY SMASH!
I love the smell of victory in the evening!
Mark S.
I have a question, if the Repubs run on repealing only parts of the bill, what are they going to go after? The individual mandate? Insurance companies won’t like that. The regulations on rescission? Don’t think so. The cadillac tax? Ok, then how are you going to pay for it? Cut the subsidies?
My guess is they will hem and haw when you ask them for specifics and change the subject to tort reform.
Max
I agree with SIA @ 27… What’s next?
Fired Up! Ready to Go!
MikeJ
@MikeTheZ:
Instead of yeas we can, how about:
http://www.zazzle.com/hopey_changey_working_out_great_tshirt-235948643254361427
MikeTheZ
@Mark S.: They’re running on “repeal and replace”, because their (dammit, why do I keep typing “they’re”?) base can’t take more than 3 second soundbites.
SIA
@Violet: NANCY SMASH sounds like something one would drink to become intoxicated.
I am drunk with Liberal Cahones Wine. YEEHAW!
Harry Reid’s office number in DC: 202-224-3542. I just left him a gushing message. I’m gonna send him a little check too, the poor dear. He hasn’t had an easy year, and not really getting his share of the glory because he’s a bit of a muddler. But good hearted, and produced as required.
Violet
Schoolhouse Rock fans ought to enjoy this. http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/blogs/2010/03/big-effing-deal-bill/
jamie
@Mark S. – maybe they can repeal the credit for it.
“
111112113th Congress. Mr.DingellBoehner…” and so on.SIA
@Max: Next is you and Wheaten Max stride onward towards your future in the Great Northwest!
(And maybe a jobs bill, and Wall St reform)
geg6
NANCY SMASH! And good on Harry, too. I think the Dems have found that winning and getting shit done puts good hard bone into spines. Yes, we did. We fucking did.
MikeTheZ
@MikeJ: Ask and ye shall receive:
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=3333015040
DonBelacquaDelPurgatorio
Big smiles over here. We might go out to our Drinking Liberally session tonight and raise some hell. Or at least heck. (Phoenix, George and Dragon, right now … come on out!)
Sweetest words I’ve heard so far in the Obama Era: “Go for it.” That’s right, potatoheads, run against this reform, run run run run run. Go for it, and screw yourselves right into the ground.
I became an Obot in 2008 for a lot of good reasons, one of which was to get to this very moment in history. Winning is good.
Suck it, righty morons. Suck it all night.
Todd Dugdale
About 46% of the electorate voted against Obama, ginned up into a frenzy by more than a dozen smears that still live on today. Did anyone really expect these people to just go away?
Nothing substantial has changed in the electoral make-up since that election. PPP party ID polling shows a linear relationship between the decline in Republican self-identification and increasing Independent self-identification. IOW, a substantial number of Republicans simply stopped calling themselves Republicans and became “Independents” in name only. Meanwhile, Gallup showed that Independents had become significantly more conservative since the election – what a mystery, huh? It’s the same “base” as the Party had before the election.
The putative game-changer in the rhetoric was the Tea Party, who were supposed to be new voters drawn in by the terror of Obama. According to the myth, these people were too conservative to vote for McCain, so they just sat on their hands in the election and let Socialism take over. But now they are “fired up”, and these ‘new’ voters will tip the balance. Colour me sceptical. Anyone who believed all of the slander, fear-mongering, and Doomsday scenarios of the Republicans during the campaign (as these people obviously did), but failed to vote is not what most would call a “likely voter”.
Again, it’s just the same old Republican “base’ that we’ve always had, in terms of numbers anyway, but in a different wrapper.
So when Rasmussen shows 42% “strong disapproval” of Obama, the real question is “What happened to the other 4% who voted for McCain?”.
The two big differences from 2008:
– The Republican “base’ is more likely to vote than Democrats, at least at the moment. But any victories this would produce are not a sign of any seismic shift in the country. It just would mean that they voted at a rate disproportionate to their numbers compared to the country at large.
– There is no national election in 2010. Even if every wingnut in Mississippi turns out to vote, it has no bearing on races in Wisconsin, for example. And a substantial number of these “fired up” voters are in the South. Basically, we are just seeing “red” districts get redder.
Violet
@SIA:
Yeah! It’s the kind of drink you underestimate because it looks like it shouldn’t do much, but it’s way stronger than you think and packs a real punch.
Max
@SIA: That’s true! The move is going fast and I’m in the process of cleaning out my closets.
I have so many clothes to donate. The first charity that is willing to come to my house and get them will score. We’re talking like over 20 huge black garbage bags full.
It really is disgusting the excess I have.
soonergrunt
@Mark S.:
DING, DING, DING! We have a winner!
SIA
@Violet: Yeah, it’s kind of a girly drink that tastes sweet and bubbly so you have 2 or 3 more and next thing you know, you’re waking up with Steny Hoyer.
El Cid
Can I just say again how truly, truly relieved and happy that the Republicans lost this battle?
SIA
@El Cid:
Amen brother. I am giddy.
Annie
Finally, the adminstration and Democratic leadership are looking like a party that can truly lead…And, the Republicans are beginning to look like the “gang that can’t shoot straight.”
Eric Cantor: I, too, have received threats. Recently a bullet was shot through the window of my office in Richmond.
Police: The bullet was fired into the air and struck the window in a downward direction, landing about a foot from the window. Force was only enough to break the windowpane…window blinds intact…
Yes, we can! Because, lately, everytime a Republican opens his mouth, bullshit comes out….And, ultimately, the American public is not that stupid — I hope.
valdivia
@SIA:
for the fucking win!
SIA
@valdivia: WOOOOOHOOOOOO SISTAH!
Urza
This gives me odd visions of Pelosi in 2016. Yea she’d be to old, but she’s certainly aged well to her 70th birthday. And imagine the winger craziness if she was running, let alone won. San Francisco values for everyone.
Robin G
@SIA:
Contest time!
I vote coffee (to stay awake for those late-night votes), chambord (to trick the unwary into thinking it’s sweet), and two shots of Jameson (because it means business).
Can we also have a Big Fuckin’ Deal drink contest?
Snarky Pickles
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal):
Earlier today my local newspaper’s resident conservative blogger — whose posts are essentially daily GOP talking points strung together with transition sentences — posted a long list of “fixes” that Republican senators were trying to amend the reconcilliation bill, that were voted down by those evil Dems.
I posted a mildly snarky comment that it’s too bad those GOP senators didn’t put those amendments in their original bill a couple of weeks ago, which would already be law.
The blogger replied that the GOPers didn’t put them in the bill before, because then they were trying to kill the bill, but today’s amendments were, in fact, good-faith efforts to make the bill better.
Yeah, it made my head hurt, too.
El Cid
@Annie: Yeah, but, um, what if, instead of the window blinds, every one of Cantor’s staff had gone to this old, infrequently used office and had all stood on top of chairs and stuff looking out the window? That bullet could have put somebody’s eye out!
rootless-e
@El Cid: No way. If we had lost, but symbolically stood supine in utter defeat and futility, it would have forced Rahm to allow Dennis DeFazio to write all legislation and impose it by fiat.
Jane Hamsher and BTD have explained this all with crystal clarity.
Linda Featheringill
On the financial reform issue:
From what I can gather from here and there, the senate bill has been watered down significantly from what Sen. Dodd first proposed. Is there any way we can get that bill back to one that might actually do some good?
jamie
@Snarky –
The blogger replied that the GOPers didn’t put them in the bill before, because then they were trying to kill the bill, but today’s amendments were, in fact, good-faith efforts to make the bill better.
Is there a name for this sort of mental defect? Cognitive assonance?
Mark S.
Maybe I’m not reading it right, but how does a bullet go through a window and not the blinds?
kommrade reproductive vigor
Go. For. It.
Mnemosyne
I’m toying with my own t-shirt over at CustomizedGirl.com. Being the sarcastic bitch that I am, mine says, “Hopey Changey is working out great. Thanks for asking.”
stickler
Urza: NANCY SMASH is 70? Really? She doesn’t look it.
ellaesther
@Mark S.: I’m guessing because of the downward trajectory? But I really am only guessing.
soonergrunt
@Mark S.: just enough kinetic energy to break the window. The action of breaking the window depletes the kinetic energy to the point below that needed to break the blinds. It falls to the ground. This would be near the end of it’s maximum trajectory.
El Cid
@Mark S.: The suggestion is that the bullet was not a recent and close shot, but like a stone thrown through a window which is decelerated by the collision with the glass itself to go little further, the notion is that the bullet was fired in the air, and directly or indirectly fell out of the sky and hit the window.
This is also why people who go out and shoot guns in the air to celebrate or whoop it up or whatever are complete and utter moronic assholes. People throughout the world are routinely killed or injured by falling bullets from dumbasses rushing out to shoot up in the air.
Mark S.
@ellaesther:
Well, it must have been going really fricking slow, and it must have been completely unintentional.
But the lesson is that complaining about death threats is the real danger to the country. I wish Cantor would get abducted by aliens.
soonergrunt
@Mnemosyne:I’ll get in on that action! After I get a new job, that is.
Got turned down for California. I’m overqualified. How the fuck can I be overqualified if I’m willing to take the cut in pay to stay with the company? I just don’t understand that. It’s not even really a cut in pay, due to the locality differential. It’s about $500/year more than I’m making now. It’s just that the job is a pay band 9 with locality bonus and I’m a pay band 10 with no locality bonus.
Anyway, if I get a job soon, I’m up for one of those shirts.
Midnight Marauder
@mcc:
This is brilliant. I’ve always felt that and never quite known how to express it until reading that.
@El Cid:
I have felt so fucking good this entire week, especially since the Affordable Care Act passed. And the Democratic Party certainly is starting to understand that winning and accomplishing things not only feels good, but that it also gives you a little bounce in your step and makes the chest puff out a defiant smidgen. And I haven’t seen this news anywhere else here, but this certainly will make the weekend interesting:
Giggity.
+4
SIA
@Robin G: I say more like creme de menthe mixed with champagne and a espresso chaser! (I’ll be the ref, don’t want to undo 30 years without a drink even over HCR!)
SIA
@Mnemosyne: OH YES. I will buy one of those, please!
Linda Featheringill
Financial regulatory reform:
I know you guys don’t want to talk about it now but I found this site had some helpful stuff on it [from NYT]
http://tinyurl.com/yk5r3zh
Apparently the House reform bill is a lot tougher than the Senate bill at this time. Surprise!
Martin
@Mark S.: Anyone got a sandbox, 3 GI-Joe dolls (at least two with kung-fu grips), a Barbie Dream House, and a 1978 original Colonial Viper with working missile launchers so that we can prove that Cantor’s story is bullshit?
kommrade reproductive vigor
@Robin G: If it doesn’t have a tiny gavel in it I ain’t drinking it.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@MikeTheZ:
I want to see Dem commercials with the incumbent shown talking about healthcare reform (several news footage cuts will do nicely) and what it will do for Americans, and then intersperse the positive clips with Boner saying “Hell no you can’t!”. Then end with the incumbent Dem saying “Yes we did.”
Works for me!
@Snarky Pickles:
They fought the baking of the cake every inch of the way and now they want to help frost it, going so far as to demand the kinds of frosting to be used? They can sit back and chew on the tasty Democratic cake they just got served.
More likely they had three goals here: One was to try and poison the bill, the second being that they wanted to coyly insert something that they could point to later this fall if it turns out that their constituents were in support of it. Going for the coattails effect, so to say. The third being they could continue to whine that they were frozen out of the process from the very beginning.
The Republican party bet it all, they went all in on this and lost. Every single one of them will be forever known as the party who tried to kill healthcare reform for all Americans. This is now a part of history and nothing they can do will ever change that fact.
They bet against the American people and lost.
Annie
@El Cid:
LOL….Let’s see how he spins this…Either an idiot with a gun randomly shooting in the air, or a carefully thoughout progressive plot to take out the eyes of all Republican staff. Truly biblical….
@Mark S.:
Contrary to Eric’s rantings that he, too, was the victim of violence, apparently an idiot fired into the air, which landed a foot from the office window…No one fired into the office window….
robertdsc
Mild fix. /wink
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: You are totes on fire tonight!!
El Cid
Even if you just constrain yourself to contemporary political movements, a century of history has taught us that no one ever hates the opposing side more than the splitters from one’s own domain.
Montana
Since their inception the Teaparty crowd (not a movement since they do have the numbers or clout) have been “haters not debaters”. In my opinion this is what the small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” have brought you. They are good at “Follow the Leader” of their dullard leaders, they listen to Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. Are you surprise at what they do when you know what they think? The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim of government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although some republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe most of them are just going along and fanning the flames.
geg6
SIA @68: I’d say a sambuca with a hot roasted coffee bean. A lovely Italian apertif with the kick of the coffee. Sweet, sophisticated, and will kick your ass.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
OMFG, Redstate has this post at the top of their page right now:
Rachel Maddow Incites Violence
They fear teh powerful lesbian! ;)
ETA:
From another front pager at RS:
And the whining begins anew…
Mike in NC
Oh no! Time to go sabotage some Dem congressman’s garden hose. Maybe rip up a few solar lights in the driveway. Beware of teabaggers armed with putting irons and knitting needles.
soonergrunt
@El Cid:
The Judean People’s Front! No, the People’s Front of Judea! No, the Popular People’s Front!
Splitters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Z_b-06BDk
SIA
@geg6:
Sounds like NANCY SMASH to me.
Mark S.
@Martin:
I actually look forward to it.
Re: Battle Star Galactica toys: Yeah suuuuuure that Colonial Stellar Probe was a toy for kids.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Neil Stevens at redstate titled his FP post about the shot that took out Cantor’s window.
Eric Cantor’s office shot up
No, the shot came down, broke the glass, bounced off the window blinds and landed on the floor about a foot away from the window.
Maybe he meant that everyone in Cantor’s office shot up? Better get the DEA over there.
Annie
@Martin:
ah…I see you are adopting the Republican mindset…
Mnemosyne
@soonergrunt:
@SIA:
Gee, thanks. /blushes
I built it with the available tools at Customized Girl — you can see it here. It’s a women’s shirt, but they also sell men’s sizes and, since I used a graphic from their library and their font, it would be easy for guys to customize their own.
(I’m not a shill for Customized Girl, just a returning customer.)
Annie
@geg6:
an awesome, sinful, pleasure….great after dinner
PeakVT
Can we also have a Big Fuckin’ Deal drink contest?
I bought one of those on Bourbon St. Or was it just a big fuckin’ drink? Hard to say…..
kay
@Montana:
Teabaggers piss me off a little because they act like they’re the first people ever to read the Constitution.
Waving it around, like “reading the Constitution” is this radical idea, and the rest of us hadn’t been doing that.
It’s like when they were screaming last summer, “READ THE BILL!”
As if they invented “reading a bill”. We were just sitting around, uninformed, until these clowns showed up very late in the game to berate us.
People who are brand new at something usually have a little humility. Not tea baggers. They jumped right from “walking around in a disinterested daze” to “we know everything”.
One class at Glenn Beck College and they have this all figured out.
Ron
Damn, it feels good. I’m not used to being on the winning side of policy issues. And yes, I was among those mocking and complaining about spineless Reid, but in the end, he did the job. And Nancy Pelosi is just an amazing speaker. The fact that she makes the GOP apoplectic with anger is just a bonus.
ellaesther
@Mark S.: As a Jew, I have often wished that we could just throw him back.
Dee Loralei
@SIA: I don’t think I’ll ever drink enough to wake up the next morning with Steny Hoyer. LOL and I like the guy!
The Nancy Smash drink needs Amaretto, something Italian in honor of her heritage, maybe something “nutty” for those California Liberal Values.
Dee Loralei
@Dee Loralei: Dumbass that I am, I just remembered that effing Amaretto is a nut liquor, sheesh.
J. Michael Neal
@soonergrunt:
I don’t know what it means within the same company, but I’ve come to the conclusion that, when an HR person tells you you’re overqualified, what she means is, “I work for a company so lame that, once we all decide that you’re more talented than this job requires, we don’t have any other job to move you to that has a hope in hell of keeping you interested.”
The funny thing is that I’m consistently more impressed with their company than they are. The most ridiculous example (for stupidity, it ranks right up there with, “I like you, but you’re too nice to date.”) was when I applied for a job as an analyst on the trading desk at an insurance company in St. Paul. When I asked the woman why I wasn’t getting a second interview, she told me that, since I was taking the actuarial exams, they were afraid that I wouldn’t want to stay in that position. I really wanted to yell into the phone, “Lady, you’re a fucking INSURANCE company! Why the hell are you turning someone down because he is interested in actuarial science? What the fuck do you do down there?”
Unfortunately, I didn’t.
JenJen
This could well be the best tweet in the history of all time, and at the very least one of the best tweets of the last week, all things considered.
Nice hire, CNN.
SIA
@Dee Loralei: Haha! I like it! Especially the nutty part! We have some very creative beverage creators here.
@ SiubhanDuinne! Hey! Let’s dance! (Last 10 seconds)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw94TwKqH_c&feature=related
TAKE THAT TEABAGGERS!
Brian J
@mcc:
I was referring to health care and only health care.
SIA
@Mnemosyne: I’m buying one tonight. Love it.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Something is wrong with that. Here, let me fix it for Erickkk.
Fix’t.:)
mcc
@JenJen: I feel like this is an appropriate time to link the newest “Hillary is 44” post.
Cat Lady
@JenJen:
I’ve been away all day – wins what? Clueless Fucktard of the Week?
jamie
Random, but just happened across this thanks to Tbogg. Has this been discussed here?
www reasoncruise com
(de-linkinated, because I’m avoiding the mod queue.)
soonergrunt
@J. Michael Neal: It’s just wierd. This company has been very good to me and is a very successful company. I wasn’t strictly qualified by the written requirements of the position, but the hiring manager took a chance. I love what I do, and for the last two years, I’ve gotten up in the morning with the attitude that I couldn’t wait to get to work!
Well, the customer, the USAF, decided that they didn’t need our services here anymore. Waited until the last moment to tell us they were non-renewing the contract. Well, I’ve got a drawer full of kudos from the people I work with, great performance reviews, and I want to stay with the company, even if I have to relocate, even if I have to take a ‘cut’ in pay, just on the hope that something cool will come along in three or four years, and that I’ll vest in the pension plan in the mean time.
San Diego would’ve been perfect. I could’ve stayed with my in-laws until the summer when the family came out, and then got a house in a market that is still one of the most depressed housing markets in the country.
Well, here’s hoping for Florida or Georgia.
JenJen
@mcc: You have got to be fucking kidding me. Seriously, I can’t even take that into consideration. Not today. Can. Not. Deal. Those people just keep proving that they have no earthly idea how to lose.
@Cat Lady: Ericksson posted that right after Cantor’s “They shot up my office too, really, they did” presser today. No idea what he meant either, but if cracks me the hell up to read it again, especially after all the GOP Congressional Fail since Sunday.
MRL
Financial reform needs to be strengthened on the floor of the Senate closer to what Dodd originally proposed; watering it down got 0 Repub votes anyway.
After that, I’d like to see Tom Harkin give the public-option-via-reconciliation part II a shot
Dr. Loveless
@jamie:
Ugh. Trapped on a boat with glibertarians. There’s not enough rum in the world to get me through that.
Anne Laurie
@soonergrunt: That’s too bad — the company doesn’t know what they’re missing. Hope the next decision goes in your favor, although it’s hard for me to imagine a move to either Georgia or Florida as something “positive”…
S. cerevisiae
@mcc: Good lord, they’re still around? you would think they would change the site name.
Alex S.
I wonder if the dam is broken now. Student loan reform passed, too. Dodd’s financial reform bill passed through committee without republican resistance.
Hob
@Some Guy: In Soviet Russia, boner sucks you?