Wonkette
- MASS. SENATE PASSES ‘TED KENNEDY MEMORIAL PARTISAN WARM-BODY ACT,’ HOORAY! Oh good, now Gov. Deval Patrick should be able to sign this quick fixeroo tomorrow and Michael Dukakis or whoever can putz around Washington for a few months, casting a crucial vote or two occasionally. Also, pundits can stop saying, “But the Democrats only have 59 seats, they need Olympia Snowe!!!” because it is not true anymore. No one needs Olympia Snowe! NO ONE! [Boston Globe]
Mittens! Give it to Mittens!
So get well soon, Senator Byrd!
Isn’t Dukakis too busy shopping at Filene’s Basement?
I need Olympia Snowe! Call me, Olympia, you know you want me like I want the circa 1977 version of you.
Is getting Lieberman on board really going to be any easier than getting Snowe on board would have been?
But one of the 60 is a walking corpse that gets the vapors if he rises too quickly, and the other is human wastedump Vinegar Joe Lieberman. We will never escape the tyranny of Olympia Snowe! Bow before your Lobster Queen!
I haven’t liked anything Olympia Snowe has done since “Moonstruck”.
ThinkProgress already promised the seat to Dr. Atul Gawande.
I guess you’re assuming West Virginia has found some doddering old fool to put on a Senator Byrd suit and cast their other vote. The rich kid can’t do everything.
SayItWithWookies: What’s the problem? If he goes, we’ll just substitute another reformed klansman. Where is that guy from American History X, anyway…?
You know that they need Olympia Snow because at least a quarter of the Democratic Senate are spineless enough that they won’t vote for it unless she does.
I hate the Senate. The old Roman one caused the fall of the Republic and our new and improved version will probably end up causing the fall of the U.S.
I am hoping the right wing will be meaner to olympia snowe than we are, and she will “pull a specter.” It could happen.
I can’t wait to see Dukakis driving his tank up the capitol steps to take his rightful place in the senate.
Please send somebody whis gay married. I want to be able to tell my grandkids about the day the GOP had a collective head splodee.
Jim, how could you think they would “totally wimp out”? Massachusetts politicians have never met an underhanded backroom deal they didn’t like. They give extra votes for creativity and the benefactor passes out cigars.
It’s a shame that there isn’t any room left for Roland Burris to engrave another oustanding career accomplishment on his McMausoleum, or he’d be on this seat like black on dice.
Crank Tango: I read that at first as “pull a sphincter”, which actually works just as well.
And if there was anything Teddy loved, it was a warm body.
Extemporanus: a sphincter is haunting the state of Maine…?
Leopolt: You’re thinking of Kitty Dukakis.
V572625694: I don’t want Mittens casting any votes unless he’s wearing his proctologist gloves.
Can’t they just split the difference and appoint Olympia Dukakis?
DON’T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR THE DEAD GUY.
sezme: I’m assuming you’re talking about this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SenSnowe-1997.jpg
Yowza!
Extemporanus: Painted on the bottom of a divot and surrounded by white petroleum product? Huh…yeah, I can see that.
Snarkalicious: That was a perceptively succint deconstruction of Roland “Dem Bones” Burris and his place in the congressional crap game.
Can they appoint Gov. Patterson? Because that would seem to take care of a whole lot of problems with just one stone.
No one needs Olympia Snowe! NO ONE!
Mr. Wonkett,
You will be hearing from our attorneys shortly.
Association of Sneering New England Harridans
59: Never again!
“And how does the distinguished Senator from Mass vote on Senate Resolution 10032A”?
Big Popi: “Jes”
Suds McKenzie: “Dis bill been bery, bery good to me.”
Oh, but menos un punto por un sacrilegio contra el PApi Grande.
bureaucrap: Birth certificate now! The real real one from Kenyastan, not some Haole traitorous forgery.
— Oily
Duvall Patrick should appoint himself and then let RNC scholar-in-residence Stelley Mike accuse Obama of raciousity, racistness, and racialing.
V572625694: No. Henry Gates. Fun.
How do you know when Olympia Snowe was in your bed?
You wake up wet!
Deval Patrick should appoint Corey Booker. He may not be technically eligible but he’s hella qualified.
hobospacejunkie: A New Jersey mayor and a former commie …, excuse me, community … activist. Yup. That will work.
I’m back to my original suggestion: Henry Gates.
jfruh: Dayum. Behold the ravages of age. What have you done to your Olympia Snow, age?
BTW, Patrick (what a good Irish name) should just install some Southie so we’ll have some adorably hilarious stereotype to bring laughter to the uptight Senate.
Lastly, I’m so tired of “we need exactly 60 votes for anything”. We only need 60 votes if we’re afraid of a fucking filibuster. What we need is nothing more then 51 votes for anything. I dare those fuckers to filibuster. I dare them.
But wait, in ‘04 the Mass. legislature said the wise people of the state must decide who should replace Kerry when (tee, hee) he won the White House. Have the good folks of Massachusetts gotten less smarter or something?