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The Ball’s In Harry’s Court

The Senate Majority leader is not required to honor any Senator’s hold which means Harry Reid can dare the entire GOP caucus (and any conservadems who might feel like joining in) to filibuster every single one of President Obama’s nominees while the entire nation watches on television. But if Reid lets the entire federal government come grinding to a halt becuase of “Senatorial courtesy,” then it’s time to find a new majority leader.

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  • Barack Obama is going to Copenhagen next month for the “Climate Change Olympics.” Like the real Olympics, conservatives will be super-excited about them when we lose. (WaPo)
  • In Glenn Beck’s America, we just summarily execute detainees so we don’t even have to worry about where those pesky trials will be held. (Media Matters)
  • Actual war has been declared between Majority Leader Harry Reid and ancient pundit David Broder. Maybe something can actually get done now, while everyone’s distracted. (TPMDC)
  • Contrary to what Sarah Palin thinks, it helps to have an actual job while running for president. So, Lou Dobbs will run for Senate against Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the only Hispanic Senator. (AP)
  • Sarah Palin has some suggestions for Canada’s healthcare system, which, much like America’s healthcare system, she knows nothing about. (The Canadian Press)
  • Also too, Palin and certifiably crazy Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will highlight the teabaggers’ national convention, Baggerfest 2010. It is the wingnut respnse to ComicCon. (CNN)

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GOP Presidential Primary Will Actually Be a Contest of Who Republicans Most Want to Sleep With

  • Please, Republicans, do not vote for Tim Pawlenty in your 2012 primary, or we will have to listen to him talk about banging his hot wife for the entire campaign. (Des Moines Register)
  • On a related note, Mike Huckabee’s strongest base of support comes from older white women, who are much more interested in sleeping with him than, say, Sarah Palin. (GOP 12)
  • Oh, and Sarah Palin would like us all to talk about “death panels” again, probably because Rep. Michele Bachmann is close to stealing the title of “Chief Republican Crazy Lady” from her. (CNN Political Ticker)
  • The fate of American healthcare reform now depends entirely on Harry Reid being a strong leader. So, um, there goes that, then. (TPMDC)
  • Joe Lieberman thinks we don’t have enough facts to call Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, but we do have enough to call what he did a “terrorist attack.” (The Hill)

    11/9/09 11:28 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

    Will Charlie Crist Go the Way of Joe Lieberman? (I.e. Become the Most Powerful Man in the Senate)

    This picture will WIN the Republican Senate primary for Marco Rubio.

    • The latest attack from wingnut Senate candidate Marco Rubio: this picture of Barack Obama about to make out with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist! “Is Charlie Crist gay or super gay?” is the important question Marco Rubio has for Florida voters. (CNN Political Ticker)
    • Also, this line from the same article: “The picture of Crist and Obama could resonate with conservatives in a similar way an image of Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman embracing President Bush resonated with liberal Democrats in 2006. Lieberman lost his Democratic primary to a liberal challenger that year, though won the general election as an independent.” Yeah! And then Joe Lieberman was totally humbled and completely powerless in Washington!
    • Oh, speaking of which, some terrible blog called “The Hill” reported that Harry Reid had convinced Joe Lieberman not to filibuster the healthcare bill, but both Reid and Lieber-dick assure us that this is not true at all. Leave the reporting to the real journalists, Hill! (The Hill/The Plum Line)
    • How to win the Washington Post’s America’s Next Top Model Great Pundit Competition? Conduct an “admittedly unscientific” poll of your dark-skinned cab drivers. Ladies and gentlemen, the next David Brooks! (WaPo)
    • Does former Republican candidate in today’s NY-23 special election Dede Scozzafava have sex with animals? Teabagger candidate Doug Hoffman is not sure but thinks the idea is hilarious! (Watertown Daily Times)

    11/3/09 11:00 am | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

    How Much Will Wingnuts Pay for the Privilege of Sarah Palin Running for President?

    Sarah Palin is basically a grifter at this point.

    • For the low, low price of $100,000, Sarah Palin will come to Iowa to run for President. But only once the check clears. (Politico)
    • Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives are jumping on Harry Reid’s announce-a-healthcare-reform-bill bandwagon, with their own healthcare reform bill. (House Committee on Education and Labor)
    • Speaking of which, the insurance industry is not a fan of this healthcare bill, which would allow Americans to get health insurance from somewhere that is not the insurance industry. (TPMDC)
    • Chris Christie is a fatty-fat fatty! It’s okay, he wants people to talk about this instead of talking about the time he maybe ran some guy over in his car. (CNN Political Ticker)
    • Oh look, your economy is getting better now, thanks to cash-for-clunkers and some other things that were totally Socialism until they started working. (NYT)

    10/29/09 2:01 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

    With Us on Everything But the War… and Healthcare

    Seriously, there are two Republicans in this picture.Take a listen to Senate Majority Leader (or at least that’s his title) Harry Reid on alleged Democrat Joe Lieberman in 2007:

    First of all, Joe Lieberman, Joe Lieberman is my friend, and he is a good Democrat, votes with us on everything, except the war. So Joe Lieberman is easy to work with.

    And here’s a little trip down memory lane to the immediate aftermath of the election, courtesy of Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN):

    Joe [Lieberman] did say some things. Not his support of John McCain. I think everybody understands that supporting your friend is perfectly legitimate. He said some things that perhaps crossed the line in terms of questioning Senator Obama’s, you know, patriotism or things like that.

    And I think if Joe came before the caucus and said look, if I said some things that came as offensive, I’m sorry, but… they were — you know heartfelt in my support of John McCain. I think we had to just let bygones be bygones. We’re going to need him on healthcare and energy independence and education and a whole lot of other things.

    You can probably guess where this is going.

    Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.

    Campaigning for the Republican candidate for president. Questioning the patriotism of the future Democratic President of the United States. Voting to let the GOP obstruct Democratic plans for healthcare reform. And for this he gets spot in the Democratic leadership of the Senate!

    What else does this guy have to do to get himself kicked out of the Democratic caucus and stripped of his committee chairmanship? The old “we need his 60th vote to prevent a filibuster” excuse obviously no longer applies.

    Connecticut folks: let Holy Joe know how you feel.

    Update: As you might expect, Lieberman’s announcement is great news for the insurance industry.

    10/27/09 3:40 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , ,

    Senate Democrats Win Important Baseball Debate. Also, Healthcare.

    • Oh look, here is Harry Reid with your public option, for healthcare, even though Her Majesty Queen Olympia Snowe does not care for it! (CBS News)
    • If the Democrats really cared about bipartisanship, they would have let the St. Louis Cardinals go to the World Series. (NYT The Caucus)
    • Some of the RNC’s Facebook friends are terribly racist and do not care for our mixed-race president. (Raw Story)
    • President Obama has more women in his Cabinet than any previous president. But does he invite them over for basketball enough? That is the real important question. (ABC News)
    • Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) took his daughter to a public clinic to get the terrible socialist swine flu vaccine that he voted not to fund. What will Glenn Beck say? (Roll Call via Daily Kos)

    10/26/09 4:47 pm | Comments disabled. | Permalink | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

    Stabbing, Shooting People in the Chest Also a Health Risk

    This bro is tased.

    • The makers of the Taser are now warning that electrically shocking people in the chest might not be a totally safe idea. (Raw Story)
    • President Olympia Snowe will not support any kind of public option, so Harry Reid will probably just take it out of the healthcare bill because all bills must have one Republican vote to pass. It’s in the Constitution! (TPMDC)
    • All this worrying about healthcare and the economy has made Americans want to get high now more than ever before. (Gallup)
    • The health insurance industry would really like for healthcare reform to not happen at all. Shocking! (Huffington Post)
    • It’s hard to be from South Carolina when everyone is mocking your dumb state. (Los Angeles Times)
    • Americans are afraid of getting swine flu but still don’t want the vaccine because of… socialism? Or something. (Washington Post)

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    Gov’t to Force Bailed-Out Companies to be Less Douche-y

    • The Obama administration will require executives of corporations that took taxpayer bailout money to not pay themselves ridiculously large salaries this year. Socialism!!!!!1!!!11!! But the kind we can all agree on. (CNN Political Ticker)
    • Reason #593 not to Google yourself: you might find out you’ve been fired. (ThinkProgress)
    • A grieving nation mourns for Mike Rotch and Heywood Jablowme, who died because they have no health insurance. (TPMDC)
    • Surprise! Nevadans just are not fans of how ineffectual Harry Reid seems all the time. (Las Vegas Gleaner)

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    John Ensign’s Parents Have Some Cash for Everyone These Days

    • Sen. John Ensign’s parents, who famously paid off the family of Ensign’s mistress, are also maxed-out donors to Harry Reid’s re-election campaign. Is John Ensign having an affair with him now too? Or is John Ensign, along with the rest of the Senate GOP, only metaphorically screwing Reid? (CQ Politics)
    • Losing his job and his health insurance left one Wisconsin man with no choice but to join the Army to pay for his wife’s chemotherapy. So please, Congress, just take your time with this whole healthcare reform thing. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
    • And speaking of which, given the choice between passing a public option with only Democratic votes and failing to do anything in a spectacular but bipartisan way, most Americans choose the public option. Hopefully this influences the only person whose vote really matters, Queen Olympia I. (ABC News)
    • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is deeply disappointed that anyone thought that they might actually believe in global warming, and they would like to reinforce that they definitely do not think climate change is happening. (CNN Political Ticker)
    • The DNC demands that the RNC start mopping up the mess in Washington and stop… kicking over the bucket of nasty grey mop-water? This mop analogy was good for a while, but I think it’s gone about as far as it can go. (MSNBC First Read)

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