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Alec MacGillis of the Washington Post, you are one brave blogger, and a service to the Republic! Yes, the Senate Finance Committee is slowly working its way through 500 amendments and 500,000 opening speeches today on its terrible health care bill. How’s it going? Oh look, Chuck Grassley is being an ass, weird: “He acknowledged that the bill did not include a government-run insurance option, but raised the specter that might yet lie in the future and lead the U.S. in the direction of Europe, where ‘countries have inevitably turned to government imposed rationing to control costs.’” Ha ha, “raised the specter”/”Europe” — this is one sassy markup liveblog, MMHMM. [Washington Post]
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of… Europe?
He is no Karl Marx.
Jim, don’t you owe it to Wonkette to be there yourself?
So you’re liveblogging the liveblog?
ooooohhh, Europe… that frightening place of baguettes, lederhosen and (shudder) espresso doppio. Hold me, Wonkette!
WE’VE GOT… NOTHIN’ BETTER TO DO
THAN MARK UP BILLS AND HAVE A COUPLA BREWS
You can’t have Grassley without a little ass, right Jim?
bureaucrap: And ten weeks off a year, and free health care for all, yikes!
Once you start raising specters, it’s awfully hard to get them to lay down again.
Europe sucks SOOOO hard, they all need world class healthcare, whereas we can make due with the 37th best coverage in the world. How badass is THAT!?!? Suck on that, you socialized medisinners!!!
donner_froh: If Milan Fras of Laibach says so, it must be true…SPECTRE! SCARY! WHOOO!
freakishlystrong: Well, the healthcare isn’t exactly free…but it’s still a crapload less expensive than it is here.
qwerty42: OMG I can barely stay awake, and it’s only Tuesday… what happened to all of those co-editors I used to have…
I fear he will not survive this liveblog. Let us all bow our heads…
Chuck’s really with the times, trying to scare us with the spectre of Europe. Much better to follow the fatass ignorant rubes who elected this dumbass ignorant rube.
Jim Newell: I volunteer to aid you in your time of need, Master Newell. Simply have ex-Intern Juli and Intern Riley write extra posts using my illustrious name, Nigerian Business Executive. Of course, I will also post pics of guys I find hot to fill in any remaining blank space. So, what do you say?
The liveblogger was misquoted. It wasn’t “raised the specter” is was “relaxed the sphincter”.
The correct full quote is “Grassley relaxed the sphincter of what might lie ahead and took a big sloppy dump all over Europe.”
Health care? Is that still going on?
Europeans are dumb, yeeeeeah! *screams off in his BMW*
RoscoePColtraine: You go to war with the specters you have, not the specters you want. Also, Bill Nelson: “Nelson argued that the cuts should not hurt people in Medicare Advantage plans now,” but later, when Lady Liberty is suffering a herpes outbreak.
Jim Newell: They’ve abandoned you, you poor sod.
On the other hand, ain’t no one around to tell you what to do. Or rather what you can’t do,
IN EUROPE, NOONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM (because you probably got that broken leg taken care of)
I say we switch to the metric system so we start getting used to our new French and German masters!
I will personally give free blow jobs FOREVER to anyone that hides Chuck Grassley in the cement under their garage. That is all.
Jim Newell: You should procreate and take paternity leave. Then leave Juli and Riley the keys to the car. What could possibly go wrong??
Even France is having a problem with Mexicans:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32962851/ns/world_news-europe/
Someone get Chuck a pepsi, he wants 1.
SayItWithWookies: Well, Ken *is* away.
iz in ur committeez, blogin ur tardnez
And we all know that “rationing” is evil, don’t we? We don’t want no rationing, that would result in a fair allocation of a scarce resource, no, we should stick with hoarding, price-gouging, and fuck the poor.
Jim Newell: Recruit some temporary help on the sly.
I had no idea how scary it was in Europe. Eh, still trying to move there. Screw you Grassley.
Hey, what exactly does it mean to “mark up a bill”? Do they all take turns writing their own ideas on it, and the last guy has to try to type up the notes? Cuz that’s how this health care reform thing seems to be going.
Humpback: I think it is more like graffiti. maybe a “Kilroy was here” from some of the older participants.
Humpback: 4 a good time call olympia at 202-555-6969
jesusbutter: “I will personally give free blow jobs…”. And to think, they’re calling this a jobless recovery.
The fact that Grassley is even permitted in the room where this is occurring is proof that we are in deep shit. I imagine the hearing as a sort of rest-home sunroom, with olds tottering about randomly, occasionally blurting out nonsense. At this point poor Grampa Chuck saw the Kaiser entering the room and to remove Chuck’s kidney, and he just started shouting about the diabolical Krauts and stuff.