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After Grassley Spreads “Death Panel” Lie, Obama Still Wants to Work with Him
Just gonna keep beating our heads against the wall until it starts to feel good:
Undaunted by Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s declaration that the Democratic health care agenda might empower the government to “pull the plug on grandma,” President Obama still hopes to achieve a bipartisan reform bill, his spokesman said Thursday.
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“Obviously the president is continuing to talk to lawmakers in hope that the Finance Committee can come to some kind of agreement,” said Gibbs.
But, Mr. Gibbs, Grassley and his Republican comrades on the Finance Committee aren’t interested in an agreement. The GOP’s strategy, and they haven’t exactly been secretive about it, is to stall the healthcare bill until it dies and then profit from it in 2010. Grassley’s use of the completely untrue “death panel” rhetoric doesn’t really show that Democrats should work more with him.
Obama/Gates/Crowley Make MADD Angry
- The Delaware chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving is not mad, but they are very disappointed in Barack Obama, Skip Gates, and James Crowley for consuming “adult” beverages. (We won’t name them, for fear of scarring the children). (WDEL)
- The new owners of the Waco Tribune-Herald hope that by printing “In God we trust” on the front of every edition they will be rewarded for deciding that now would be an excellent time to get into the print media business. (Citydesk)
- Thomas Jefferson™ is a registered trademark of the Associated Press, but his words can be reprinted… for a price. (Laboratorium via Hit & Run)
- Every time Robert Gibbs says, “the President will not increase taxes on the middle class,” someone from your professional media asks, “But will he increase taxes on the middle class?” And that is why no one is buying their newspapers anymore. (CNN)
When Swine Flu Reared Its Head, Sarah Palin Was There
- Everyone was so mean to Sarah Palin until she left, and now Alaska has the swine flu. Way to go, jerks! (KTUU)
- Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insists that Barack Obama is an American citizen, but he won’t make Obama take a DNA test to prove it. Where is the DNA, Obama?? (CNN Political Ticker)
- Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and closet queens will vote for Sonia Sotomayor today to be our nation’s first “wise Latina” on the Supreme Court. (Charleston CityPaper/LA Times)
- Your Senate Finance Committee has reached a bipartisan compromise on healthcare: there is no public plan for people who can’t afford private insurance, no requirement for employers to provide healthcare to their employees, and basically nothing is changed from the current, horrible system. Hooray for bipartisanship! (USA Today)
Cruise Ship Murders Twitter “Fail Whale”
- A cruise ship arriving in Vancouver discovered that it had killed a whale and then dragged it all the way back from Alaska. This is what happens when the media says mean things about Sarah Palin! (Vancouver Sun)
- Yesterday your Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told C-Span that Twitter was blocked on White House computers, but, thank God, it is not. The Republic lives on! (Mediaite)
- Your Department of Homeland Security has recently learned that building a multi-million dollar facility to study infectious diseases in a part of Kansas known as “tornado alley” was maybe not such a smart idea. (WaPo)
- Ok, here is a video of some GOP Congressmen who are not quite convinced that Barack Obama wasn’t really born in Kenya/Indonesia/Cuba. (Firedoglake/TPMDC)
Quote of the Day
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:
When a White House correspondent for The Washington Post asked a question about health care at the daily press briefing, Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, laughed and said, “I seem to have forgotten my Amex card.”
Rahm Emanuel Dropped in Dunk Tank by F-22s
- At yesterday’s White House luau, a tradition of Hawaii, the President’s “place of birth,” Sasha Obama and her dad both dunked Rahm Fucking Emanuel, the Fucking Chief of Staff to the President of the United Fucking States in a giant water-filled dunk tank. Ha! Members of your White House Press Corps also dunked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, for his tardiness. (Washington Post/CNN)
- F-22s, America’s favorite figher jet! The President doesn’t want them, the Secretary of Defense doesn’t want them, but by God Congress is going to build them anyway because who doesn’t want more warplanes, hmm? And then we will probably sell them to Japan, or something. (The Hill)
- Those lamers at Apple have removed a porn application from the iPhone App store even though porn is the whole purpose of the iPhone and the internet in general. Boo, Apple! (TechCrunch)
- How sad for teary-eyed romantic Mark Sanford. Sixty percent of South Carolinians say he should resign from office. On the plus side, now he can go back to Argentina without causing the people of South Carolina to worry about silly things, like where in the hell their governor has gotten to. (CQPolitics)
- According to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri “Hussein” al-Maliki, we are finally winning in Iraq!… because we are leaving. (New York Times)
RESOLVED, that the Senate is sorry for having been a dick, historically.
- Your U.S. Senate today officially apologized for slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Huzzah! But don’t expect to get anything from it, black people, because the Senate specifically prohibited any reparations. (CQ Politics)
- That little troublemaker, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, shows up to his press briefings whenever he feels like, sometimes whole MINUTES after they were supposed to have started. This is greatly annoying to the Washington media establishment as well as… actually, just the Washington media establishment. (CNN)
- Oklahoma’s crochety old man distinguished gentleman Sen. Jim Inhofe is going to vote against Sonia Sotomayor without even meeting with her, but it doesn’t matter because she’s going to get confirmed anyway because of racism, or something. So let’s just get these confirmation hearings over with so Jim Inhofe can go back to sitting on his porch with his shotgun, keeping the durn kids offa his lawn. (Tulsa World)
- FOX News are whiny brats, in addtion to being full of shit. Wait, hold on, why is this news? (Think Progress)
News from America
- The Senate will swear-in Roland Burris as the next Senator from Illinois. Let’s see if Blago cashes any checks any time soon. (Washington Post)
- Your Next President will sign an executive order at the start of his term beginning the process of shutting down Gitmo, which Still President Bush thinks was not as big of a mistake as that dumb “Mission Accomplished” banner. (CBS News/AFP)
- New White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says that Obama will get rid of “don’t ask, don’t tell” (at 4:17 in the video). (Change.gov)
- RNC Chair Candidate Ken Blackwell the Magic Negro* says gays can “choose to restrain that compulsion” if they really want to. Not that he’s a closet case, or anything. (The Hill)
* Hey, it’s a joke! Don’t be so hypersensitive!
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