• February 14, 2012

Never forget.Wonkette Operative “Michael C” reports that this TARP-bailout hearing at the House is providing endless lulz. Why is Illinois Rep. Pete Roskam jabbering about tapping people’s backsides and the “greased chute of government”? Because he’s a Republican! It’s all about ass.

Rep. Pete Roskam (R-Ill) just twice referred to the “greased chute of government” in regards to the TARP Epic Fail program during the House Financial Services hearing. Roskam: “What we’re dealing with today is the greased chute of government.”

Minutes later he said there was “sort of a pat you on the head, tap you on the backside” given to critics of mark-to-market accounting rules.

TARP OVERSIGHT HEARING [C-SPAN]

{ 58 comments }

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 1:51 pm

And the next morning, after all the hot greased chutes and liquidity-injecting, the government just claimed it had “stuff to do” and snuck out. Didn’t even call me the next day.

Come here a minute December 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm

I’d tarp that.

shortsshortsshorts December 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm

To wit a joke Kevotron once told:

Why dont Republican Senators use book marks?

They can just bend the pages over.

Serolf Divad December 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Greased chutes? I’m surprised. I figured these guys like it rough.

tunamelt December 10, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Chutes and ladders politics.

MoodProcessor December 10, 2008 at 1:53 pm

So Rep. Pete Roskam is the Illinois Enema Bandit?

Neon Trotsky December 10, 2008 at 1:54 pm

Constantly talking about pork and thinking in terms of buttsecks–the House Republican caucus is basically just those hillbilly’s from “Deliverance” dressed up like city folk…

Kev-O-Tron December 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm

[re=195791]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: badda BING!

4tehlulz December 10, 2008 at 1:55 pm

[re=195792]Serolf Divad[/re]: That’s if they’re underaged. Sweet loving is reserved for their daddies.

DAmicosonegoodyear December 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm

[re=195794]MoodProcessor[/re]: I heard he’s on the loose!

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Save some grease for the chutes of the taxpayers

MathewBrooks December 10, 2008 at 1:56 pm

NEVER 4GET!!!1!

Miller December 10, 2008 at 1:57 pm

There’s been nothing greased about any of these bailouts. It more of the “grab your ankles and brace yourself” chute of government. Which is actually the regular chute of government. I thought everyone knew we switched to this terminology.

http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/

ManchuCandidate December 10, 2008 at 1:58 pm

(Thanks Blazing Saddles)

Whip out your bucks,
IM your pass,
tap on his toes,
Talk about ass,
you’ll be surprised,
you’re doing the Republican!

Come on try those ass innuendos,
15 million closeted men can’t be wrong,
weeee

Whip out your bucks,
IM your pass,
tap on his toes,
Talk about ass,
you’ll be surprised,
you’re doing the Republican!
Voila!

Stranger in the Alps December 10, 2008 at 1:58 pm

Minutes later he said there was “sort of a pat you on the head, tap you on the backside” given to critics of mark-to-market accounting rules.

I didn’t know the Congressional pages felt so strongly about mark-to-market.

sux2bu December 10, 2008 at 1:59 pm

“Greased chutes?” I just can’t deal with this avalanche of snark-ready news…This prepackaged stuff is just WAY too easy!

Capitol Hillbilly December 10, 2008 at 2:01 pm

Joe the Plumber’s Quality Chute Grease, only $4.99 at WalMart.

FreshCliches December 10, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Taints And Greased Chutes. I remember seeing them at the Beacon in the 80s.

[re=195806]ManchuCandidate[/re]: It’s like steam escaping!

Advocatus_Diaboli December 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm

I can’t wait until the hearings move on to the big 3 automakers and Rep. Roskam starts taking about smoking tail pipes and backseat shenanagans.

shanemcgowan December 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Check out http://rubberstamproskam.com/2008/04/29/peter-roskam-declares-war-on-naughty-bits/. Apparently the chute-greaser was a sponsor of a bill to keep Playboy magazine out of the hands of our troops.

Schadenfried December 10, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Ken, why are you posting about Larry Craig and Mark Foley again…

wait, what?

bhosp December 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Republicans…. Republicans, come on over here. I got to explain something to you.

The anus is a really great hole, no one’s saying the anus isn’t great, I’ve always been a friend of the anus. But you guys should really check out anus’s neighbor, the vagina. Your whole (hehe, “whole”) world doesn’t have to be about the anus!

Iggy Plop December 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm

I’ve been trying, but I just can’t squeeze an “ass” pun into December. De-anal-ber? Decemb-sphincter? Nothing works. So it’s just a day of dumb buttsechs jokes, no big seasonal thing going on at all.

hedgehog December 10, 2008 at 2:06 pm

[re=195820]Iggy Plop[/re]: Merry Chrism-ass

One Yield Regular December 10, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Tap tap tap!

Beltway Bully December 10, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Super Tubers will be served at the house cafeteria

Kev-O-Tron December 10, 2008 at 2:08 pm

[re=195820]Iggy Plop[/re]: It’s a stretch but howzabout ChristmASS?

chascates December 10, 2008 at 2:09 pm

The Repugs are always goin’ down the dirt road. If they don’t watch out they could get rear-ended.

AngryBlakGuy December 10, 2008 at 2:10 pm

…he was probably referring to the annual Republican Greased Pole climb!

Mr Blifil December 10, 2008 at 2:11 pm

[re=195820]Iggy Plop[/re]: Duh. “Decembutt.”

Thanks I’ll be her greasing chutes all week…

rev_matt_y December 10, 2008 at 2:11 pm

[re=195794]MoodProcessor[/re]: Nice! A win for FZ.

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 2:16 pm

[re=195806]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Manchu-WIN.

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 2:18 pm

You need a fairly wide stance for a greased chute I’m thinkin’..

Min December 10, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Because he’s a Republican! It’s all about ass.

Which is why Repubs are always the butt of Wonkette’s jokes. What? Someone had to say it.

DeLand DeLakes December 10, 2008 at 2:20 pm

[re=195819]bhosp[/re]: Ah, I would prefer that Republicans stay the fuck away from my vagina, in all matters sexual and legislative. Sorry pageboys, we all gotta take one for the team.

S.Luggo December 10, 2008 at 2:22 pm

He’s just one more satisfied grease-job customer: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/images/roskam3.jpg

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 2:24 pm

I think the clear play for this month is Dickcember.

mattbolt December 10, 2008 at 2:26 pm

“Call in to work gay” day has just been a big failure

MoodProcessor December 10, 2008 at 2:27 pm

[re=195821]hedgehog[/re]: Season Reamings?

hedgehog December 10, 2008 at 2:28 pm
ManchuCandidate December 10, 2008 at 2:37 pm

[re=195849]hedgehog[/re]:
Ass-ember

freakishlystrong December 10, 2008 at 2:45 pm

[re=195820]Iggy Plop[/re]: Merry Cornhole and a Happy New Queer?

Uncle Al December 10, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Dude dropped his purse.

shanemcgowan December 10, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Chapter 12 of “Why Daddy is a Republican”

DangerousLiberal December 10, 2008 at 2:53 pm

Hey, I voted for Change on Nov. 4. So why isn’t the eagle a blingee yet? Christ, who do I have to blow to get…Oh, Sen. Craig, good to see ya!

superdave December 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm

HA! Who ever thought that ass-fucking jokes would be tired and unfunny? Ass-fucking jokes will NEVER go out of style.

Lascauxcaveman December 10, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Really gotta hand it to these Repubs, their codewords are even better than the fundies. Yes, yes, I realize there’s a whole lotta overlap there, but it warms the cockles of my heart to know that these phrases are being uttered in our legislative chambers.

queeraselvis v 2.0 December 10, 2008 at 3:01 pm

[re=195861]freakishlystrong[/re]: WIN.

Mista Eko December 10, 2008 at 3:03 pm

[re=195842]mattbolt[/re]: Didn’t we all agree on Jizzember last year?

Schadenfried December 10, 2008 at 3:12 pm

[re=195820]Iggy Plop[/re]: You have no Christm-ass spirit.

lawrenceofthedesert December 10, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Roskam reps the DuPage County district in IL, with the state’s highest property taxes and the lowest levels of consciousness. From Mt. Prospect on the north (bring oxygen to the summit — the sherpas are Korean, for some reason, so everything is dry cleaned) to Napertucky in the lush, tropical South, it’s a different country on the dark side of O’Hare, and not one I’d move to without a really splendid reason. Roskam’s response to accusations of double entendre may be to accuse Wonkette of witchcraft. Amish are forbidden in DuPage as being too liberal a sect (they allow facial hair).

sarahconnor December 10, 2008 at 3:40 pm

“Fist-iv-ass, for the cris-co-pants”… or something.

Mr.Handsome December 10, 2008 at 3:54 pm

Congressman Roskam’s credo: “Why call into work gay, when you can go into work gay?”

azw88 December 10, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Eagle has a sad! He has no parachute, unlike the eagles in “Why Daddy is a Republican”,and Eagle needs a parachute to land in the senate seat he was trying to buy from Blago.

Won’t Santa help out a sad eagle and get him a parachute for Christmas?

nrkeyqueer@gmail.com December 10, 2008 at 4:22 pm

What you don’t know is Rep. Pete Roskam’s district has the largest Crisco plant in mid west and he is deep deep in the…pockets(?)…of the fisting lobby.

Zadig December 10, 2008 at 4:46 pm

So how soon will Obama’s huge package enter the greased chute of government?

sanantonerose December 10, 2008 at 10:25 pm

[re=195793]tunamelt[/re]: WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Mr Blifil December 10, 2008 at 11:44 pm

[re=195884]Mista Eko[/re]: I’m pretty sure it was Dickcember and Jizzuary.

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