YOUR MOVE KANYE  9:53 am September 17, 2009

Nancy Pelosi And Paul Simon (Paul Simon, Yes) Have A Deep Relationship Thing Happening

by Juli Weiner

Nancy Pelosi has invited Paul Simon, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony to join in our nation’s health care and college financial aid debates. Everyone very kindly welcome Paul, Jennifer, and the other one, Matt! These Hollywood celebrities are from out West, way out in California-Town, just like Nancy Pelosi. This is how they know each other, from California. This is also the second time in a few weeks that Pelosi invited Paul Simon to D.C. for the important legislative Beltway work of politics. “The relationships, they deepen with repeat visits,” said Paul Simon. “The more you get to know somebody the longer the conversations get.” Haha, Paul Simon.

Yesterday afternoon while other members of Congress were probably meeting with their stupid loser constituents—who have almost certainly won far, far fewer Grammys than even like, Art Garfunkel, possibly even no Grammys—Pelsoi was with Paul Simon, who, in addition to being the more talented (!) member of a certain 60s pop duo, started the Children’s Health Fund. Later she spent time with recovering famous people Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Oh and Jane Pauley was around for some or all of this, if that’s the sort of thing that’s possibly of interest to anyone anywhere.

[The Caucus]

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{ 56 comments }

GuyClinch September 17, 2009 at 9:57 am

Jane Pauley! I loathe Deborah Norville. Can’t believe she slept with Garry Trudeau and then took over the Today show. I just won’t watch it anymore.

ManchuCandidate September 17, 2009 at 9:57 am

OMG, GOP! You need to get a booty as, um, well rounded as J-Lo’s to counter this libtarded take over booty. A Contarded booty. Judging by the photos of the Teabagging of DC, I’d say, all of them.

martinette September 17, 2009 at 9:59 am

He calls her Betty, and can call him Al.

meyotch September 17, 2009 at 9:59 am

This is very disturbing news. Nancy Pelosi is obviously in cahoots(!) with Big Folk Pop and the Romans.

forgracie September 17, 2009 at 10:03 am

She loves him like a rock.

bitchincamaro September 17, 2009 at 10:04 am

Wake me up when she’s lunching with Jack and Meg White.

Cape Clod September 17, 2009 at 10:06 am

Is that really Nancy Pelosi? Or is it her Spitting Image puppet?

TGY September 17, 2009 at 10:06 am

Goodbye, Silence, my old friend.

Car Ramrod September 17, 2009 at 10:07 am

[re=412967]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Paula Dean?

magic titty September 17, 2009 at 10:07 am

What year is this? A nation turns its lonely eyes to who?

Jim Demintia September 17, 2009 at 10:09 am

“The relationships, they deepen with repeat visits,” said Paul Simon. “The more you get to know somebody the longer the conversations get.”

I think my mind is blown.

HoboNutz September 17, 2009 at 10:09 am

Me and Nancy, down by the schoolyard (providing heath care to medically underserved children)

Square Deal September 17, 2009 at 10:10 am

Feels almost like a loose affiliation of millionaires and billionaires.

magic titty September 17, 2009 at 10:10 am

“The more you get to know somebody the longer the conversations get.”

That’s actually not true at all, and just the opposite.

Anyway, “April, Cum She Will”, Paul?? Hmmm…??

jasper f. krone September 17, 2009 at 10:11 am
onemoresexylibrarian September 17, 2009 at 10:12 am

@ Car Ramrod;

Pauler Deen is a Democrat, honey! She lunched with Jimmy Carter (“Mr. Jimmy”) and featured his recipe for baked ham in one of her cookbooks!

charlesdegoal September 17, 2009 at 10:14 am

“Love me, love me, love me, I’m a liberal” Where’s Phil Ochs when we need him?

Pithaughn September 17, 2009 at 10:17 am

Do I have to do everything around here?
Today, we are all diamonds on the soles of her shoes.

Min September 17, 2009 at 10:18 am

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes, man.

madtowngooner September 17, 2009 at 10:18 am

If he were a Repub, he could have lunched with the Hammer, rather than the Nail

freakishlystrong September 17, 2009 at 10:21 am

Paul Simon’s masterpiece: Graceland
Graceland: African Music
African Music: NOBAMA
NOBAMA: AFRICAN!11

queeraselvis v 2.0 September 17, 2009 at 10:23 am

Nancy, you’re breaking my heart.
You’re shaking my confidence daily.

Oh, and re: Nancy’s pic… the resemblance isuncanny!

Larry Fine September 17, 2009 at 10:23 am

Nancy will get a special box for Paul to stand on so the other Senators can see him.

bureaucrap September 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

[re=412981]Jim Demintia[/re]: [re=412984]magic titty[/re]: The relationships, they deepen with repeat visits,” said Paul Simon. “The more you get to know somebody the longer the conversations get.”

I thought it was “absence makes the heart grow fonder”, and its obverse, “familiarity breeds contempt.”

AnnieGetYourFun September 17, 2009 at 10:24 am

[re=412983]Square Deal[/re]: WIN!

Dreadful Gate September 17, 2009 at 10:31 am

In the clearing stands a Boxer… Oh, sorry, that’s the other California politichick

hoosiermama September 17, 2009 at 10:31 am

[re=412997]freakishlystrong[/re]: The four degrees of Paul Simon?

Studge September 17, 2009 at 10:32 am

Oooo, what a night!
Oh, what a garden of delight.
Even now, that sweet memory lingers.

I’m just lying ‘neath the stars (of the Capitol Dome)
Playing my guitar,
And thanking the Lord for my fingers, for my fingers.

Kathryn. September 17, 2009 at 10:35 am

They’ve all come to look for (a long-term solution to higher education and healthcare costs in) America.

nbawriter September 17, 2009 at 10:38 am

Was Edie Brickell there? Because I’d hit that (with a Febreze smart bomb … she stinks of patchouli).

Liebestod September 17, 2009 at 10:40 am

Perhaps Pelosi can tie down Boehner and Cantor to chairs then make Paul and Jennifer sing “like a bridge over troubled water” over and over-until Jenny gets it right- then perhaps the two guys will finally come out of the closet and ask forgives for being dick all this time.

V572625694 September 17, 2009 at 10:40 am

True funny story: my ex-wife, a total conservatard who had other redeeming merits, met Mme Pelosi about 10 years ago at some fund-raiser when she (NP) was a relative back-bencher. Expecting to hate her, my ex was instead totally charmed. The lesson is: these people don’t rise to power because they’re stupid or lazy.

Except for Bush — because Rich>Smart or Beautiful or Intelligent or Charming.

Now I’m depressed.

BigBrainOnBrad September 17, 2009 at 10:41 am

Can’t wait for the pictures of Nancy carrying Paul Simon around the house floor on her hip.

nailsinthecoffin September 17, 2009 at 10:43 am

I met my old Speaker on the street last night
She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled.
And we talked about some old times
and we drank ourselves some beers
She’s still crazy after all these years.

finallyhappy September 17, 2009 at 10:50 am

hahaha, great song lines. As a registered old- yes, AARP- I saw Paul Simon appear inconcert last year at the AARP convention in DC. Nancy Pelosi was not there feelin’ groovy .

Dilaceratus September 17, 2009 at 10:53 am

Wow, a lot of people living in the past are finding an unseemly amount of pleasure in typing tired old Simon and Farfunkle lyrics. This infects mine eyes. Why not join the modern world, where a good few of us go around humming Capeman songs?

mookworthjwilson September 17, 2009 at 10:54 am

Didn’t Paul Simon die in 2003? Dick Durbin took his seat in the Senate back in the 80s right?

mookworthjwilson September 17, 2009 at 10:55 am

Um…I meant 90s.

PsycGirl September 17, 2009 at 10:57 am

He’s interested in health care, because there’s nothing but the dead and dying back in his little town. He said so a while back, but he might be crazy after all these years.

BadKitty September 17, 2009 at 10:58 am

Yes, yes, but do they have a groovy thing going, baby?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38lPvuCTMqA

AddHomonym September 17, 2009 at 11:01 am

[re=413029]Dilaceratus[/re]: Who do you think you’re foolin’?

Servo September 17, 2009 at 11:02 am

You’ve got to…spank the monkey.

Lascauxcaveman September 17, 2009 at 11:07 am

What, no Van Halen jokes?

proudgrampa September 17, 2009 at 11:08 am

And Paul Simon, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony have exactly what relevance to the Health Care reform or college finance debates???

house of the blue lights September 17, 2009 at 11:10 am

This just makes me sad for our late lamented amazing Illinois Senator, yes, Paul Simon.

shadowMark September 17, 2009 at 11:12 am

[re=413029]Dilaceratus[/re]: Nancy should have called in Kanye West and Taylor Swift. And isn’t there someone named “Diddy” something or another?

Cape Clod September 17, 2009 at 11:16 am

[re=413050]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: Seriously, and why hasn’t Slayer weighed in with their opinion about health care?

gjdodger September 17, 2009 at 11:24 am

[re=413031]mookworthjwilson[/re]: Senator Franken should have stopped by and done his imitation of the other Paul Simon. “I thiiiink…I made a hiiiiit….with the bow tiiiiie.”

Below the Beltway September 17, 2009 at 11:30 am

[re=412999]Larry Fine[/re]: They keep that box around from back when Robert Reich needed to see over the edge of the table at cabinet meetings.

This should make teabaggers’ heads assplode, what with combining Hollywood liberals and brown people in an attempt to take away their country by providing them with health insurance.

the problem child September 17, 2009 at 11:45 am

[re=413061]Cape Clod[/re]: Slayer: Pro-death panel, obviously.

the deliverator September 17, 2009 at 12:02 pm

[re=413109]the problem child[/re]: I’m waiting for Nathan Explosion and the Dethklok opinion.

Dean Booth September 17, 2009 at 12:06 pm

I used to be in love with Jane Pauley. She broke it off when she found out she was married and didn’t know me.

imissopus September 17, 2009 at 1:38 pm

“The more you get to know somebody the longer the conversations get.”

Has Paul Simon never been in a relationship?

Werefrog September 17, 2009 at 1:42 pm

And Nancy when you call me, you can call me Al.

Werefrog September 17, 2009 at 1:43 pm

[re=413305]imissopus[/re]: Not since his relationship with Art Garfunkel. You can see why he would be leery of humans after that.

TGY September 17, 2009 at 3:20 pm

[re=413305]imissopus[/re]: Carrie Fisher, so he’s used to Princesses.

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