Childish, I know, but it amuses me:
one reason Supercommittee II isn't ridiculous? the whole point is it's a punt. Congress actually pretty good at that.
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) October 8, 2013
@DougJBalloon in a typical football game, yeah. Supercommittee is both teams punting at once, I suppose.
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) October 8, 2013
@DougJBalloon wow – cool. Lesson of the day.
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) October 8, 2013
srv
We don’t have enough punting here in the comments sections.
Is Australian Rules punting or kicking? I never have figured out that sport.
somethingblue
I don’t think Congress can handle simultaneous punting, since it would require a pair of balls.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
On the other and if it saves face enough for the teatards enough for them to re open the government and raise the debt cealing,…
Basically my take is the teatards view their role in government as being their to harp on other people, them actually having to legislate is accidental and undesirable. After all, how can one be pure and above reproach when one actually does something? They’ve been trying to force Obama or the Senate to do their job. So this super committee might get them safely way from governing,
Punchy
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: more like a StuporCommittee.
WereBear
This is what happens when you elect people who don’t believe in governing.
If I believe in faith healing, do I go to a doctor? If I need my taxes done, do I ask my cats? If I want an economist, do I consult a cow vet?
Gary
I don’t think Rick Klein realizes he was punted.
Gene108
Well played Doug. Golf clap
Cris (without an H)
@WereBear: The example I won’t ever let go: in 2006, Constitution Party jerkface Rick Jore was elected to Montana’s legislature. Jore is an outspoken opponent of public education who believes religious homeschooling is the only appropriate course and who opposes all federal funds for schools. So what did the Republican House majority do with this guy? They appointed him to chair the House Education Committee.
These people actively root for failure.
YoohooCthulhu
Great example of the insanity that rouge introduces into Canadian Football:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zhLVBc69rFw
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Punchy: Yep. I figure it will waffle around long enough for everyone to pretend this mess never happened and then be ignored like the last one.
Tractarian
The King of Spoofs strikes again
Belafon
Please include your tweets for those of us that can’t go to Twitter at work.
waspuppet
What does the period in front of an @somebody tweet mean or do?
Doug Milhous J
@waspuppet:
I’m not completely sure but people here said it was a good idea.
Doug Milhous J
@Belafon:
I embedded them but maybe that doesn’t work.
Thor Heyerdahl
One of the rules of the CFL that I find much better than the US game is that the game has to end with a non-penalized play. None of this shit of walking on the field when there’s still 30 seconds left.
All you football fans can be glad that McGill University came down to Harvard and introduced the game we play north of the border. Nice to see that the Superbowl is going to be played out in the cold and snow this year.
Fester Addams
Hi Rick,
Let me explain it you you, Klein.
What Doug’s doing is using abstruse Twitter messages to call attention to your lack of self awareness. When journalists (is that what you are?) choose to ignore House Republican’s holding the government and, apparently now, economy hostage, and instead talk about a nonexistent situation where “both side do it”, or suggest we just need another committee to work it all out, they, the journalists are punting.
Punting is lazy and serves their readers/viewers poorly.
(The bit about Canadian football, that’s just Doug calling you an idiot.)
You’re welcome.
VOR
@Cris (without an H): They put Michele Bachmann on the Intelligence Committee.
Redshirt
@YoohooCthulhu: What the heck did I just watch? That’s really a thing up there in Canada?!
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Doug Milhous J: Not for people who can’t reach twitter at all. Embedding depends on running twitter’s javascript, which depends on reaching twitter’s servers. All some of us are seeing is Klein’s tweets.
Cris (without an H)
@VOR: The Onion’s job is so easy.
taylormattd
Holy shit Doug.
*headdesk*
BruinKid
I don’t get it.
But if you’re going to talk about punting, could someone manage to work in the infamous Delta Gamma “c*nt punt” letter into it? Thanks in advance. :-)
Seanly
So we appointed a supercommittee? It’s not going to drop another sequester load on top of the already stupid sequester is it?
At least if it allows Congress to punt on the issues and re-open the government, then they can have all their dog & pony shows.
EDIT: I look forward to all the conventional wisdom idiots fawning over this.
Feudalism Now!
Doug Johnson responds to DougJBalloon to tweet a random truthy statement. The mind of a steel sieve on Mr. Klein.
The proposed Supercommittee to resolve the results of the previous Supercommittee made up o fmembers of a larger deliberative body. It is a bold concept for an idea bankrupt GoP. I think we should push Klein to support this brave punting strategy.
Feudalism Now!
@Feudalism Now!: Hmm the nesting tweets messed with my perception of who tweeted whom. I can not mock. Sigh
Thlayli
@waspuppet:
A tweet that starts with an @name will only be seen by that person (and people who follow both the sender and the receiver). The period in front makes it visible to all the sender’s followers.
Hawes
@somethingblue: and the Internet is now closed. Thanks for playing and congrats to somethingblue for winning
Epicurus
Doug, have you never heard the old admonition against trying to teach a pig to sing? Methinks schooling Mr. Klein is a similar fool’s errand. Nonetheless, thanks for trying. He’s just too stupid to breathe without coaching. Don’t waste your bandwidth on this little tool.
Kevin
Love it! I wish we could get a glimpse into his head, showing how on earth both teams punting at the same time would even work.
Being Canadian, I thought I’d bone up on the rules for our Football…we’ve got some weird ones! But I think the NFL should adopt two things – wider fields, and bigger endzones. Players are huge now, give them more space (and the bigger endzone opens up scoring, even the Jaguars would get some points).
SFAW
Doug “Le Grand Troll” J –
A “rouge”? Stop makin’ shit up, OK? Next you’ll be telling us some shit like the Frogs call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese a “Royale with Cheese.”
You kids, with your “both sides do it” hippie-talk, I swear I don’t know what this country is coming to.
A fucking “rouge.” Right.
Lurking Canadian
@Redshirt: the madness in the video is probably legal in the NFL, but nobody would do it because there’s no point.
The key is that what in the NfL is called a “touchback” is worth one point in a CFL game. Which means the missed field goal, if downed, wins the game for the kicking team.