Wonkette
Oh look, positive health care news out of the House! Whoa whoa, TAKE IT EASY, Mitch Stewart — no money yet! Much work remains, for Health Care. But still, it looks like mean old Henry Waxman was able to reach a deal with those bitchy House Blue Dogs without sacrificing anything super-vital, like a public plan or an employer mandate. (Although certain minimums have been adjusted!) Now the House should — should! — be able to pass a decent enough bill in the end, which will be important for final committee negotiations, given the aristocratic Hell-bill that six actual whores in the Senate are producing. Nice work, opportunist Blue Dogs who were elected solely because of historic GOP unpopularity! You may now return to your cubby holes. [TPM]
As long as all the stuff they took out goes back in during reconciliation, I’m fine with it.
Grinnin’ and lickin’ theyselves like blue dogs onna porch. You know they’s up to sumpin’
‘Bout time those blue dogs got neutered. Rahm should keep their little blue balls in a jar on his desk next to Arlen Specter’s lymph node and Joe Lieberman’s conscience.
Now wait just a doggone minute. Did they take out the part about government subsidized euthanasia? Cause if they did, I say they gotta just SLOW DOWN.
–A Concerned Merkin
What about the meth lab and oxycontin subsidies to the Red States? That’s still in the bill, right?
Just as long as the Blue Cross Dogs are letting everyone have free Viagra.
honkyman: whoa, damn right. I think gov’t mandated euthanasia is a must. Heck, next they’ll want to ax the gay abortions, and I’m not standin’ fer that. no siree!
Ya know the part of this that always makes me the angriest is that they call themselves “dogs”, because actual dogs would never be as mean and stupid as these people.
“Return to your cubby holes”? Is that how they talk about postillionage in the House? Because in the Senate they use the much more refined “recognizing your motion”.
Just form a fucking third party already so you can lose all your seats to good Dems. And even if a Repub beats you, that’s fine too, because we’ll still have the majority but we won’t be forced to court your whiney turncoat arses because you won’t be assigned to our caucus in committee.
And take Baucus with you too.
And tell Harry Reid to actually make the Repubs to get sleeping bags, bring hookers onto the floor, eat cans of hobo beans for days, piss in a milk jug and do a real old-fashioned Strom Thurmon hates black people voting type of filibuster on some of this shit(insert requisite hyphens where needed).
Please allow me to opologize on behalf of all Arkansans for sending Mike Ross:, an extraordinarily stupid person, to Congress. Dumb son of a bitch is in one of tthe safest seats in the House. Right along with Blanche Lincoln (D - Walmart) and Mark Pryor (D - Nepotism Sans Conviction or Courage).
House Dems also caved to the Blu Doggies demand that all syringes and bandages for the poors must reused at least twice … without rinsing. And no spending on any fancy-dancy anteee-beeeotics. If tree moss was good enuf for grandma (may God rest her soul), it’s good enuf for them.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: “Rahm should keep their little blue balls in a jar on his desk next to Arlen Specter’s lymph node and Joe Lieberman’s conscience.”
Extremely well stated. Lieberman hatred is always appropriate.
Noonan: Yeah, I know they’re in the House. Still, do what I said anyway. Because I am full of wisdom
Since they seem to be the more Republican wing of the Democratic party, is it possible that they got the nickname Blue Dogs because they blew dogs?
So, if Mitch Stewart isn’t going to finish his bag of lightly salted poison rat dick, can eat a few? It would neatly solve the problem I currently have of being too weak from starvation to kill myself.
Well, I read Brian Beutler’s article at TPM (link is in Jim’s original post) and it looks basically ok. We’ll have to see where this goes. I’ll even hold off on Baucus bashing for now. Nate Silver has a good post, with a suggestion Obama will have to be more hands on here, and the Democrats will need a plan. Not necessarily the plan they will pass, but a plan they can show. Dick Durbin seems to have similiar thoughts. This seems to be the origin of the DNC blast Jim got (I’d include a link, but that would be more than two in a post, so …).
Extemporanus: You and the muslin still tryin to spread the wealth around, eh? Commie.
I am confused.
Washington Post says:
“GOP negotiators rejected from the outset the “public option” plan that Obama and most Democrats are pushing for in an attempt to inject the health-insurance market with pricing competition. Instead, the committee would create coverage cooperatives modeled after rural electricity providers.”
TPM says:
“The public option hasn’t gone away, and remains in tact. Now, though, instead of being directly tied to Medicare, the rates will be negotiated by the Health and Human Services secretary–a provision which at a glance seems similar to the public option the Senate HELP Committee endorsed. States will be able to erect health care co-operatives if they choose, but that would be in addition to the public option.”
ChernobylSoup v2: I think you meant, Blanche Lincoln (D-Farm Subsidies) and Mark Pryor (D-Dropped On His Head As An Infant).
As for Ross, the D stands for duplicitous dingus. Never in a million years thought someone could make Boozman look marginally respectable. At least our doofus up here in NWA just keeps his pie-hole shut and does what he’s told. Errrr, errrr!
ChernobylSoup v2: And now I aplogize on my behalf for not knowing how to spell. Mix in an Arkansas education, add iPhne ryping skills, and this morphine drip I’m on and that’s what you get.
kapish: WaPo is talking about the Senate Finance Committee negotiations, TPM is talking about the House Energy and Commerce Committee negotiations.
gurukalehuru: I wish. The name comes from the idea that they’re yellow dogs who have been choked blue by the liberal wing of the party. My Congressman, Jim Cooper, is apparently Blue Dog #1, but at least he’s consistent. He also took the “no earmarks” pledge.
See Matt Yglesias (who includes a Link to Ezra Klein) about what the administration wants.
Snarkalicious: I’m an Antisocialist, not a Marxist.
I believe in the spreading around of death.
Extemporanus: I’m a CreamCheesist. Oh, you get the rest. errrr, errrr
kapish: States, like Texas, will also be free not to erect public health cooperatives. And you can be sure they will use this freedom.
True story. Had a sty/cyst under my eyelid yesterday and looked up on line to see how to get rid of it. YahooAnswers said to soak a warm teabag and hold it to your eye once every few hours. Sure enough it was gone by evening.
That’s right!
TEABAGGING IS THE NEW MEDICAL PLAN!
Extemporanus: Just let me know when it goes down then, so I can rifle through the pockets of the fallen.
user-of-owls: Forthis, I have a different type of rifle.
Snarkalicious: You bet.
My pockets are lined with rusty razor blades and used mousetraps, and contain nothing of value save a semen-encrusted wooden nickel, a half-a-tablet of Cialis, and a black Sharpie or two.
It’s alll yours.
user-of-owls: Snarkalicious wants to spread your liver around! Duck!
What Noonan said at 5:05.
Sense the dogs are already blue, can’t we just choke them further thus finishing the job?
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Agreed.