Among the many boring items on Barack Obama’s official schedule today was an unexplained 11:30 a.m. meeting with retiring, not-completely-insane Republican Sen. George Voinovich, supposedly about upcoming plans to “lower the national debt.” Fiddlesticks. No one cares about some debt or another! It was clearly a covert meeting in which Obama would pay Voinovich millions of dollars various respectful compliments in exchange for him becoming the Brand New 60th Health Care Vote, after Martha Coakley is killed by a curling iron tonight. How very “Chicago politics” of this jester, Barack Obama, hmm? Michelle Malkin knew what was up. And yet…
Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, met with President Obama today at the White House to discuss the national debt, but the main political story of the day, the Massachusetts Senate race, was Topic A when he spoke to reporters.
When asked about the Massachusetts Senate race and the future of health care reform, Voinovich said he is still opposed to the pending legislation.
“That’s out of the question — I am not a vote for the health care bill, period,” he told reporters.
Eh screw you too then.
Snowe, Collins, Voinovich… that’s really it, no? It takes a pretty substantial conservative leap into the next tier of “maybe, on a good day, if the planets are aligned” potentially sane, work-withable Republican senators. Lugar and… [shudder]… Lindsey Graham? (Graham mostly for his homosexuality, which in turn makes him support climate change legislation.)
[ABC News]
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On that teaparty site that you dragged me to(I thought i was goiong to find an excellent scone and lemon curd recipe)- after I registered some fake name and email- there were a number of posts about this meeting. I didn’t actually read them but saw that we were to call his office and tell him not to take the bribe from Obama.
Well, if we can’t count on the Republicans to come to aid of the powerless, ill and impoverished, I don’t know who we can count on.
GRAHAMNESTY!
George,Olympia, Susan; no one is asking you to vote for health care reform, just to vote against continuing the filibuster. I know your bosses have turned it into a routine thing, but it really hasn’t always been this way, not until three years ago.
And hey, as a retiring man, George, you don’t even have to worry about some teabagging moron taking you out in the primary for being impure.
Some fools expected a retiring Republican to screw up his potential lobbying gig and actually vote for the will of the people? They’re as out of touch about the GOP as they are about everything else, these teabaggers.
Kill me now..
I can’t pronounce his last name so I always just say “sammich”.
hey! Coakley won, like, 3 hours ago.
http://bostonherald.com.nyud.net/news/politics/view/20100119globe_jumps_the_gun_in_online_map_goof/srvc=home&position=recent
[re=497010]rambone[/re]: The Christians; their messiah commanded them to help the poor and sick.
Ha, no just kidding; modern Christians hate the poor.
I liked him a lot better when he anchored the ABC Nightly News.
After he killed himself with lung cancer in order to get elected to the Senate as an anti-health care reform Republican, I realized that the whole “Trust me, I’m a Canadian” thing was as phony as one of Dan Rather’s countless cornpone “Drunk Brokaw cunnilingus” analogies.
Fiddlesticks is right, goddamn it!
[re=497025]choinski[/re]: I *KNEW* this election was rigged!!!!1!!9!!11!! ACORN, SOCIALISST, NAZI, COMMUNST MUSLINS!!!!9!9!!!!!
[re=497024]Gorillionaire[/re]: I actually find it hard to dissociate him from the immeasurably smarter, funnier, and just generally more awesome Vladimir Voinovich. ‘Moscow 2042′ is a great novel, and in ‘Monumental Propaganda’, which came out in 2000, he pretty presciently described the current stage of history as “Terror Unlimited”. It really set the tone for the next decade.
[re=497024]Gorillionaire[/re]: Don’t make me phone-a-bitch and cancel your lunch order!
[re=497026]JMP[/re]: Jeebus said, “The poor will always be with us.” How much more clearly could he have put it? Always with us = not quite legal to send them to the death camps, but then again there’s no reason to treat them better than cockroaches, either.
I support climate change legislation. Am I…gay?
You got serbed!
[re=497025]choinski[/re]: The traditional papers really just can’t handle anything technical.
[re=497024]Gorillionaire[/re]: Hot damn that was funny.
[re=497031]Jim Demintia[/re]: Those books are both on my list of shit to do.
[re=497026]JMP[/re]: We do! Ever’ damn one of us. Only real Christiuns are Repug Christiuns.
Michelle Malkin is a professional moron, by the way. I can’t believe she actually gets paid for her stupidity and far-off conjecture, and yet somehow she does. Almost as bad as Dick Morris.
[re=497035]Our Hobo Senator[/re]: You can only Kosovar with that line.
[re=497093]BarackMyWorld[/re]: There’s two reasons Michelle Malkin is able to get paid for spewing her obnoxious, self-hating racist crap, and they don’t come from her mouth.
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