Wonkette
Everybody was so excited about President Obama doing a limey-style Q&A with Republicans that now he’s doing it again, with Democrats! And it’s at the Newseum, the most famous building in all of Washington. This momentuous event clearly calls for a liveblog, so let’s have at it.
10:09 AM — This is probably not going to yield the same masturbatory material for Keith Olbermann as last week’s, but maybe he will yell at Max Baucus or something? Let’s see!
10:12 AM — “The extraordinarily constant rising costs of healthcare.” Oh, but he talks purty.
10:14 AM — The real question is whether he’s reading off a teleprompter or off a simple sheet of paper.
10:15 AM — Blah blah blah, talking all kinds of shit about Republicans. A review of all the terrible things the Republicans did, and how the last Democratic president left office with a surplus, etc. Who else is in this dungeon in the Newseum? Because it looks like way more than 49 senators.
10:21 AM — “You don’t get in this for the fame.” Here he is reminding Senate Democrats not to be HUGE FUCKING PUSSIES, all the time, forever, just because they are getting angry backwards faxes from constituents who have stocked their underground bunkers with Cipro and gold bullion. “Remember how many of you jerks campaigned on healthcare? Time to sack up.”
10:26 AM — First question from Arlen Specter, “the Democratic Mike Pence.” 1) Something libtardy about unions. 2) China is not living up to international trade treaties, etc. Why, it’s as if Specter is facing a primary challenge from a leftward-leaning rival!
10:28 AM — This HOTT HOTT Q&A is getting off to a lousy start with this boring trade question. Yes, China needs to buy our shit. But will they? Probably not! Oh well! NEXT QUESTION.
10:32 AM — Michael Bennet, Colorado: Some blonde is staring at her BlackBerry in the background, and she looks absolutely flummoxed. The question is, how can Democrats restore their credibility, in the eyes of Michael Bennet’s ten-year-old daughter?
10:34 AM — The answer is, Republicans are gumming up the works. Also: transparency. And furthermore: the innumerable hearings on health care resulted not in a bunch of overhandled hamburger, but in a “refined and improved” product. A product that The American People did not trust, due to lack of transparency in the deliberations. Last point: Kill your television.
10:40 AM — Blanche Lincoln. Ugh, this woman is terrible. She is the Democratic Marsha Blackburn, standing up and asking an interminable question about nothing, with a southern accent. Ugly scarf, too.
10:46 AM — OK friends we have had enough about this. Keep commenting on this dullness, if you would like!
If one were cynical, one would suspect that this rather hastily pulled together tete a tete was not meant to be consumed by the masses, as opposed to the well-publicized Republican smackdown on Friday night.
Who the hell is Michael Bennett?
Man this is boring. If Obama wanted to tell the democrats to get some spine He needs to go at them like he did the republicans last week.
ooooo, daytime liveblog. should we be drinking?
Katydid: Didn’t he play for the Vikings?
Katydid: Bennett is the guy who works with the Hatian - Claire’s dad.
Did they let Lieberman into this meeting? This would be a perfect opportunity to lure him into the basement with promises of being able to sample a rare sherry then seal him up inside a wall.
magic titty: Nah, I think he plays for the Eagles, and he was involved in cockfighting or something. Yeah, that’s it.
Has he called them “fucking retards” yet?
Has he announced he’s replacing Harry Reid with a soulless killer cyborg yet or is the “Nancy Pelosi 2000″ still in rollout?
I think we should go back and solve the problems of the 30’s. If we work hard, we CAN find a cure for polio.
FMA: Unfortunately retard is too lofty a word to describe these fucktards.
WAIT EVERYONE COME BACK
FAKE HILLARY CLINTON IS ON NOW
I would have paid money to see it if Barry showed up with a big 2-by-4 over his shoulder.
Er, next time, send Rahm!
It’s Kiki Gillibrand! I never noticed how much she’s like Bella in “Twilight.”
so boring i gotta finally ask: those two women in the “flat stomach” ad to my left — they’re not the same, are they? i mean, did the “before” eat the “after”?
–wpk
snideinplainsight: Instead of showing up in person, he’d have sent a dead fish wrapped in newspaper.
Cape Clod: Po’ Joe. He just wants his cask of aetna munnies.
Sweetest words in the English language from Harry Reid: “We have time for one more question.”
Many, Hopey can sling it.
Wasn’t that guy in “The Dark Knight”?
Wonkette and Fox News cut away at the same point.
It’s about time someone reminded the Blue Dogs that their sorry asses would not even be plopped down in a Senate seat if Barry had not been on the Presidential ticket and that his poll numbers undoubtedly exceed theirs to this day, and if they would like to be supported by Barry the next time around, they need to quit being fucking retards and start serving him coffee, as it were.
WadISay: Coincidence?
I think not….
Cape Clod: I pity the first intern who’s down there and here’s a familiarly grating voice uttering “The Manischewitz, Montresor.”
If Hopey wants some backbone in his Dems, Rahm Emmanuel should be standing off to the side cleaning his nails with a large knife as the President talks about standing up to Repub obstructionism.
Kinda like when my Dad went to a union meeting where the two goons flicked their Bics as the union rep said something about “not having a place to come to work to in the morning” if the men didn’t stop complaining about how crappy the union’s service was.
On the other hand, maybe we’ve found out that Rahm is all bark and no bite — he’s less “Chicago” and more “Toledo.”
Evan Bayh should go far far away and never come back.
sleepy: Which one, since there’s about four or five different versions of the ad? That said, it seems pretty obvious that none of them are the same. And it’s weird having these at work, since (like the American Apparel ads before them) some look close to soft-core porn.
I understand this was to be the original venue but was changed at the last minute when Spitzer pulled out as master of ceremonies.
Again, needs moar ‘Mad as Hell’
engulfedinflames: Why do I have an image of Birch Bayh as a decent guy, whereas I know Evan is a piece of crap? Or am I thinking of Birch beer? I thought the father is the son of the man. No, wait, that’s not right.
TGY: I’m slightly perturbed, but I will keep taking it some more.
McDuff: maybe we’ve found out that Rahm is all bark and no bite
No “maybe” about it. This neanderfuck is part of the problem and needs to go, along with the rest of the trash Obama brought with him.
Katydid: Because he’s so quiet and cute.
Senators are really pompous, aren’t they? They don’t even care what they are saying, they so love to hear themselves just spout. So bloated with self-regard, they are impervious to insult, correction, and criticism, they just smirk stupidly and utterly ignore anything they don’t want to hear. Fascinating, really.
Obama should just kick everyone out of Washington and lock the doors like our leaders do up here in Canada.
The best way to run a country is to not run it at all!
Hey, hey, you guys, Sara, Newell, what the fuck is Ray LaHood fucking doing, telling everyone who owns a Toyota to park it, right now, wherever you are, pull over to the side of the road, get out, and tiptoe away from it before it eats you? Fucking retard.
Katydid:
It’s because:
1. Evie graduated from St. Albans and still could get into an elite college.
2. Evie was born in Shirkieville, Indiana.
3 [From Wiki]“On October 2, 2002, Bayh joined President George W. Bush and Congressional leaders in a Rose Garden ceremony announcing their agreement on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War, and was thanked by Bush and Senator John McCain for co-sponsoring the resolution.”
4. One should never associated with anyone named “Evan”.
S.Luggo: “still could NOT get into an elite college.”
claytor: Strike! (Until Bennigan’s gift cards and bubble gum are received.)
S.Luggo: Heeeeeey! I’m married to an Evan!
Prommie: You put a Republican in your cabinet and this is what you get. But he’s a holy terror on texting while driving.
What a putz.
Oh hey, OT but for all Mark Sanford afficionadi, Jenny Sanford tells Baba Wawa that Mark refused to faithful in his wedding vows:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/jenny-sanford-south-carolina-gov-mark-sanford-refused/story?id=9727121
bitchincamaro: I get the distinct impression that Rahm is being chained down by this administration, and not being allowed to bite.
Personally, I would LOVE to see bloody chunks of Repub lining the halls.
Hopefully the money-losing, interest-losing, crappy Newseum is getting paid for this appearance. The place is losing buckets of money, it charges too much, it’s new space is horribly designed, the displays are stupidly dumbed-down (yes, stupidly dumbed-down), and fewer and fewer people are coming in. Oh, and staffers keep geting fired. The $18, or $20, or whatever it is now, admission price is a big factor. Hopefully they won’t charge people an extra dollar to watch the president walk through the building.
V572625694: Sanford is such a fucking retard, you don’t take it out, thats so obvious, you just cross your fingers when you say it.
Will Dick Swett be there? Dick Swett should be there. Dick Swett should be invited to everything now.
Norbert: should we be drinking?
You mean you stopped for some reason? Why?
DemmeFatale: I don’t know. Calling progressives “retarded” strikes me as that old pot and kettle routine.
And making matters worse, in terms of insufficient stimulation, there have been no entries on Harold Ford’s new campaign blog since Sunday’s report on the trip to Syracuse.
Prommie: You’re gonna make Sarah mad w/that kinda talk.
It really is hysterical that he didn’t get the memo: you just boink’em and go home. You don’t fuckin fall in love with them, fer crissakes! Don’t they teach these Southerners anything in the I Felta Thigh fraternity house?
Katydid: The next Democratic domino to fall, that’s who.
V572625694: The heart wants what the heart wants. I think it was kinda sweet, how he actually thought that he was somehow off the hook because it was true love, and not some physical thing, he really thought that was a mitigating factor. He thought he and his latin lover were the new Romeo and Juliet, that their story would touch us all, and make us all believe in the power of love. Its a common delusion, the lovers feel that God himself wants them to be together, that it is the necessary completion of the universe and creation.
Prommie: All true, as I know from personal experience, but needs more snark. This is our Wonkett, where we make fun of everything.
I’ll take it, because this is merely a set-up for the Main Event, question time with Senate Republicans, which they will back out of, and he gets to call them scared-y girls for the next 3 years. Either that or they will ask Scott Brown, who has succeeded Michael Steele as the anti-Obama, to pose every single question, each one suffixed with a dare to meet him on the court.
V572625694: My favorite part is that he’s a multi-millionaire and he gave his wife a $25 used bike as a gift.
bitchincamaro: But I’ll bet ol’ Rahm calls everybody “retarded” (and worse) everyday.
He seems like an equal opportunity offender.
Prommie: Um….remember how we own all the American car companies now? He’s just trying to kneecap a rival, which is a big thing they do in Illinois, apparently.
For an hour, I totally forgot he was a smoker.
Did Lieberman have to sit outside in the hall? Levin pwned him in the DADT hearings yesterday, must be a real strain on collegiality today…
Cape Clod: Very nicely done.
Prommie: Angling for a job at Ford, in marketing perhaps.
I had a great time reading around your posts as I read it extensively. Keep the posts rocking!
Regards,
Gold Bullion