RIP OFF YOUR MASKS, COLD-BLOODS!
(And look, we wrote “Pass And Deem” in the headline, so now’s a good time to Address this, instead of in a long angry post that no one will read: if the idea is to simplify the process and ensure cooperation between the feuding House and Senate, then that’s good, but if House members think this will give them some sort of excuse to deny voting for the bill, THAT WILL NOT FLY PROBABLY. Defend what you vote for! And vote for it, because it’s really quite defensible! And goddamnit could the people who run the Democratic party please come up with a media strategy to stop Republicans from turning every single arcane-yet-common procedural move into THE COMMIE APOCALYPSE?)
Teabaggers are weird!
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Veer off to see the vizards?
Pass and Deem is a great idea as Barry’s healthcare plan wouldn’t face nearly enough court challenges without it.
Why don’t they get Barry to sign the legislation with his nose-snot just so we can give yet another excuse for Roberts and his cadre of the easily-offended right-wingers to throw out this legislation we’ve been hoping for for last century.
OK, I’m new here. Who/what are the Lizards?
I assume this must be someone mocking the teabaggers; but then, some of the shit they have done has been so wacky it’s hard to tell. Or it could be a viral marketer working for ABC. (Psst, ABC: there’s no V without the Beastmaster or Freddie Krueger; your show is not the real deal).
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]:
Google David Icke.
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: Who/what are the Lizards? Extra-terrestrial shape-shifting reptilians from outer space.
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: I am an oftimes Wonketter, I don’t know HELL the Lizards are! Does ANYone else out there know?
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: Click here.
[re=531933]Aurelio[/re]: I thought THEY were called “reptoids”. Wrong consipricy theory, perhaps.
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: They are not who they appear to be. They’re here to rape and kill us!
[re=531935]Aurelio[/re]: LOVE that!
[re=531939]heathenish[/re]: Sharkey’s link is good, too!
[re=531943]Aurelio[/re]: Yes, thanks, that was also very nice, but I always like to blame Dick Cheney or Karl Rove, whenever possible.
btw-does anyone know how I can get my phone to let me comment here? thanks.
[re=531938]Sharkey[/re]: This one goes on and on–a masterpiece of detail.
“Lizards” could also refer to this, except there’s no “V” in there.
I’m waiting for the baggers to take to their rented hot-air balloons and dump Democrat-killing paprika into the air and water table.
Great handwriting.
(JMP: Beastmaster Rules!!!)
Somebody’s been reading ye olde Wonkette!
And [re=531928]BeWoot[/re] and [re=531934]heathenish[/re], forget about Icke. As was noted in that earlier thread, Ken Adachi’s astonishing photographic forensic work definitively exposes the Obama Family’s true reptilian nature.
EDUCATE YOURSELF SHEEPLE!! BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!1!
What is it with the Teabag/Paultard-type people and science fiction? They really seem to have a thing for it.
“Pass and deem” is an okay move, but if you can’t defend against the pick and roll, you’re going out in the first round.
[re=531947]Aurelio[/re]: Scalies are the new Furries.
Any suggestions on what to call cold-blooded Scaly sex? “Yiffing” is taken.
[re=531956]Extemporanus[/re]: WELL! thanks for THAT information! Now I know the truth, and do I feel better! There are fucking lizzards EVERYWHERE! I’m sure glad someone does this hard investigative reporting!
Lizards=Fucking retards
[re=531929]JMP[/re]: [re=531955]DemmeFatale[/re]: Kodo & Podo are the “Twin Towers” of Rudy Giuliani’s furphobia.
I’m ok with the lizards only wanting to sort of help us–
In the words of John Lennon, “Goo Goo Ga Joob”
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: The Lizard People control politics. They were instrumental in the election of Al Franken. http://wonkette.com/404509/examine-disputed-minnesota-ballots-for-laffs
Sometimes I think we should say “fuck it” and concede every debate to the lowbrows. It would blow whatever’s left of their minds and hey, they SHOULD win just for being so mindnumbingly relentless. I’d be happy to live in a broken down wreck of a country for the joy of watching them live in it too.
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: “Lizards?”
I thought they were the Lizard People who tricked some Democrats into voting for them rather than the comedian.
We must not forget the Lizard people in Minnesota. Don’t forget the fellow on the ballot with Senator Franken on the write-in line. “Lizard People” I think there is some malfeasance going on, the Chillbilly is come soon for a rally with the dingbat Bachmann.
We must not forget the Lizard people in Minnesota. Don’t forget the fellow on the ballot with Senator Franken on the write-in line. “Lizard People” I think there is some malfeasance going on, the Chillbilly is come soon for a rally with the dingbat Bachmann.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/11/20/indecision-thumb-prints-and-lizard-people-in-the-minnesota-recount/tab/article/
So for the double post. Damn windozes!!
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: Barry the Magic Kenyan?
They’re saying that Democrats are equivalent to The Visitors? Hold on now. I remember the Visitors as a highly advanced group of super-intelligent beings who had a clear and persuasive communication style and were adept at winning the hearts and minds of the American people.
But that miniseries was on long ago, when I was a heavy drinker and sold cars for a living, and there were shows on NBC that people wanted to watch. Not this one, of course, but other ones.
[re=531967]Extemporanus[/re]: Moltin’ Sex?
Icthyosis or hirsutism, only your Dermatologist knows for sure.
Either way, I’m sure they all have birf certificates[re=531967]Extemporanus[/re]: and Medicaid Gold Cards.
I dunno. The Lizard seems like a different kind of politician, not a beltway insider. The Lizard has my vote!
[re=531967]Extemporanus[/re]: “Any suggestions on what to call cold-blooded Scaly sex? “Yiffing” is taken.”
It could be called “Coultering”, perhaps?
[re=531928]BeWoot[/re]: [re=531934]heathenish[/re]:
You want to see Lizard People, evolved beyond the stages of normal formality and post-formality? Why, here you go, and for a nominal service charge, you can too!
http://www.guru-talk.com
If Nancy Pelosi is really a lizard she needs a much better disguise.
That the GOP is making a big deal out of Pass and Deem is nonsense — like, how many votes have we had on healthcare bills already? It came out of five committees, had to pass a House vote, then in the Senate a cloture vote, some other thing that took place at the same time that wasn’t a cloture vote but I have no idea what it was, the actual vote, then some other 60-vote thing. It’s not like we’e all clamoring for x more votes on this when x-1 will do just fine. But of course, that -1 will be the difference between democracy and tyranny, especially to people who didn’t know the difference yesterday. Wow I picked the wrong day to stop doing whippets.
[re=532006]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Whoa like, you’re like arguing about process and not substance, man… dave’s not here…
[re=531999]Bearbloke[/re]: Cloturing?
But I love your long and angry rants!
[re=531991]mn_sleuth[/re]: Your redundant comment post is redundant.
[re=532017]waitforsugar[/re]: I love your cool chat handle and non-existant avatar!
[re=532013]Sharkey[/re]: Yeah, I know — but Jim’s point bugged me too, and got me thinking along those lines, and I don’t know a damn thing about the V series, never having watched it. So why not charge off in my own direction.
Now the ‘tards have twisted it around to “deem and pass”, easily slurred to “demon pass”. Clever little shits that they are…
Lizards hate liberty! The socialists are after our liberty! It is the nationalization of our liberty and the federal government taking our liberty over!
I look back 20 years ago in the square in Prague… when tens of thousands showed up there and they shook their keys peacefully and they took over their country from lizards and they achieved their freedom back again.
The teabaggers have mutated, they’re now WalMartians.
Fewer Lizard People, more Dracula Cunts!!!1!
[re=532024]snideinplainsight[/re]: As a patriotic liztard once bravely proclaimed, “Give me lizberty, or give me brumation!”
Leave it to a loserd to complain about a lizard.
[re=531983]Cape Clod[/re]:
Us Minnesotans know the wrath of the Lizard People!
You folks in DC need to stock up on dry ice and aluminum foil.
Don’t ask, just do it.
Wait for further instructions.
Oh, and send money.
MG
[re=532006]SayItWithWookies[/re]: also to jim’s point: do fearful house dems really think that deem and pass will get them off the hook with their constituents who oppose hcr in any form? um… no, that won’t be the case, if the soul-crushing parade of sub-moronic teabag rage that we’ve witnessed over the past year is any indication. nut up and vote for the goddamned thing if you think it’s worth voting for, already. maybe they should have gotten this clusterfuck done on the schedule that barry laid out in the first fucking place.
[re=531989]mn_sleuth[/re]: Huh. I got that all wrong – I thought it was Michele Bachman who was queen of the lizard people.
Can someone explain why Democrats – moderate, conservative or otherwise – are grabbing their ankles to appease total fucktards who would never vote for them in a million years anyway?
[re=531997]Radiotherapy[/re]: [re=531999]Bearbloke[/re]: Those were both excellent suggestions.
However, after dining on a deliciously inspirational dinner of cobra à la king — which I washed down with a 40 of ’85 King Cobra (a comet vintage of exquisite quality) — I think I’ve narrowed a Scaly-friendly term for “yiffing” down to one of two options: “scuting” or “herping”.
“Scuting” (from scute or scutom) has an “aww” factor that cutsies-up the act for younger users:
“Oh my god! Did you see the Mourning Gecko moping by the water heater? I’d scute his emo ass so hard his tail would fall off!”
“Herping” (from herpetology) has an “ew” factor that more accurately reflects the experience and aftermath likely awaiting anyone cold-blooded enough to try it.
“I herped a Common Snapping Turtle back in college once. She sucked so bad, my cloaca hurts just thinking about it.”
In other words, would you rather scute Obama, or herpe him?
[re=532045]RubberSoul[/re]: maddow asked geithner the same in regards to financial reform. basically, “why do you bend over backwards(or more accurately, just bend over) for a bunch of obstructionist snakes who force you to water down your legislation in return for… not voting for it anyway?”.
kinda reminds me of the parable of the scorpion and the frog.
Have they come here to chew Hubba Bubba, too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L86AAGZ9BBg
[re=532041]obfuscator[/re]: I can’t see how anybody could think, after all this villification of the bill, that pass & deem could let them off the hook. It could be used to illustrate the rhetorical point that liberal Democrats who would’ve been opposed to the Senate bill would be in favor of the totality of the Senate bill plus the amendment — thus cutting off that campaign talking point from anyone challenging the Dems from the left. Because they’re always worried about protecting their liberal cred.
But then there’s so much crappy reporting going around, it’s hard to tell what’s being taken seriously. Last night Nightline, in a rare foray into serious news, interviewed Obama. I was all set to sit down for some serious talk when the damn segment was over — in all of about five minutes. And that still left Jake Tapper (ptui) enough time to jump to conclusions about there not being enough votes in the House on the bill yet.
So I take all of this analysis with a heavy dose of skepticism. More likely than not, the analyst’s opinion is just the last thing he heard at the bar the night before.
[re=532020]Sharkey[/re]: Sexy bitches think alike.
[re=532051]SayItWithWookies[/re]: if only they’d realize that the best way to protect their liberal cred is to actually pass strong liberal legislation instead of assuming the fetal position and whimpering “please don’t hurt me!” every time someone calls them socialists.
anyhoo, there is some decent analysis/commentary out there: ezra klein took apart dick armey’s remarks at today’s gathering of the angry morons.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/dont_know_much_about_history.html
yesterday, ezra addressed david brooks in regards to the history of reconciliation:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/everything_david_brooks_says_a.html
[re=531929]JMP[/re]: You know, I always wanted to know if the show was worth it. Yeah, beastmaster and Freddy aren’t in it, but it has the super hot chick from Firefly. That’s gotta be a fair trade, right? Sausage (admittedly cool sausage) for hotness?
[re=532056]obfuscator[/re]: Nice job on the Brooks piece. To backtrack, when I said crappy analysis, I meant only the kind of speculation about rationales and numbers that could well be baseless (i.e. P&D was used to provide cover so representatives wouldn’t have to say they voted for the Senate bill). That kind of unfounded guessing is just annoying.
With regard to actual knowable facts, the GOP has been completely wrong in every assertion that this-or-that procedure is tyrannical, unprecedented, not intended for its present use, applies only to non-spending bills limiting interstate transport of altar boys, etc. etc. They’re not worried too much about facts, but are hoping to drown the signal with noise, as proved so successful last August.
[re=532059]SayItWithWookies[/re]: i believe the interstate transport for “sexytime purposes legislation” was known as the “chuck berry bill”, but the mark foley “altar boy amendment” was added on in committee.
Move over Joker, there’s a gloomier hero for HCR:
OBAMACARE – THE CURE
[re=532061]El Pinche[/re]: By 10:15 Saturday nite, it’ll be just like heaven.
And we’ll see if those good ol’ boys don’t cry.
If the Lizards offer us a single payer health care system, I’m voting Lizard in 2010. Why the fuck not? We’ve got Republicans in Congress who do nothing but throw fits while blocking every piece of government business they can. And then we’ve got the Democrats who are so fucking worried about yesterday’s poll numbers that they’re unable to do anything that might make tomorrow’s poll numbers improve. And the Teabaggers? Has anybody in history ever cobbled together such a bunch of fat, pasty idiots who’d vote against Jesus if FOX told them they should? Hell, I think Glenn Beck already told them to.
So I say, Vote Lizard! At least voting for a cold blooded, anti-human, evil, super-intelligent reptile is better than voting for a cold blooded, anti-human, retarded fembot. Also and too.
[re=532006]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=532051]SayItWithWookies[/re]: [re=532059]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That the GOP makes a big deal out of everything is nonsense, and yet they do, seemingly without fail or, for that matter, any level of lasting, fact-checked fall-out.
And they’re able to do so largely because their facetiously fomented “big deals” inevitably suck mouth breathing shallow-enders under at such a rate that those manning the beach soon find themselves facing the frothy crest of a shit tsunami that our Spicoli-esque press corp is always totally super stoked to drop-in on, set after septic set, summer after endless fucking summer.
Everything you said is indespensibly dead-on. Hell, nearly everything you say is indespensibly dead-on. Unfortunately — as you know as well as any — we are, all too often, a nation of morans. And though to most sensible observers, the GOP has not just jumped the Pelosi in their opposition to health care reform, they’ve double McTwist 1260′d the Pelosi, all the morans hear is “SHARK!” and “JUMP!”, and the substantive policy points are drowned in an ocean “GRRR!” and “DURRR!”.
Which brings me — in a much too metaphorically meandering way — to what I took Jim’s uncharacteristically dispepsia-free post to mean: Relatively substantive (albeit far from ideal) health care reform is thisclose to being a done deal, the GOP has (literally) hurled another acridly chunky word-purge at the media’s feet in an attempt to gross out the proles & pols, and we — well-informed, upright-walking, humanoid types who want to see a bill passed like our lives depend on it (because they do) — can either do the noble, nuanced thing — inform, influence, and inspire — or the necessary, nasty thing — incise, inundate, and intimidate.
This isn’t the time to preach to a well-meaning choir, boys and girls. This is the time to make like a brass bustier-busting, fat fucking bitch, and belt this goddamn shit out.
[re=532067]Extemporanus[/re]: Hear, hear. And I think even our Democratic representatives are getting ginned up with the idea that they can be part of something permanent and demonstrably beneficial with this bill. I still fear for the Senate, though — there are enough pansies in that outfit who might decide that coming close was brave enough that no real accomplishment is necessary. In fact, when this self-actuating rule passes, Sens. Warner and Webb are going to get real tired of hearing from me.
[re=532071]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Three things:
1) I didn’t mean to single you out; the simpatico [re=532056]obfuscator[/re] (and [re=532056]obfuscator[/re]) should’ve shouldered a slice of my reply.
2) That post-”ocean” omission of “of” in my previous comment is driving me fucking insane.
3) I’m heartened to hear that you’ve stopped doing Whippets; they’re a gateway dog that in time would’ve likely lead you to experiment with more hardcore dogs, such as Italian Greyhounds or, (god forbid!) pure, uncut Greyhounds.
4) I’m pretty sure that there was a fourth thing I was going to comment on, but the gist of it currently escapes me, and I said “three things” a bunch of words ago, so…fuck it.
Isn’t the Rep party the party of Reptiles? As well as molluscs like Cthulhu (GOP = Giant Octopus Party).
[re=532073]Extemporanus[/re]: OH SHIT! I just remembered!
4) [re=532067]“Indespensibly”[/re]? TWICE?! WhatthefuckREALLY?!
That’s, like, two wrong letters in one goddamn word that’s repeated in two back-to-back sentences! Wow, I picked the wrong night to stop doing Greyhounds…
Pass and Deem, is that like passing a kidney stone?
[re=532064]Radiotherapy[/re]: [re=532064]Radiotherapy[/re]: …alas Charlotte, Sometimes Obama is The Figurehead, Killing an Arab…
No, I’m not that old, I just liked those songs…
[re=532000]ForTheTurnstiles[/re]: Son of a bitch, everybody wants to call themselves a fucking guru.
[re=531935]Aurelio[/re]: Thanks for the link, Aurelio. I’m new here too, but should have known that Cheney is a lizard.
Ha! Looks like the teabaggers have finally caught on to the true nature of the Republicans.
All I wanna say is Lizards don’t really care about us. They just want to give us free healthcare and force us to be healthy so they can breed us for food. To Serve Man = Cookbook.
This alien/lizard thing starts to explain the whole birth certificate controversy!
Lizards are kind of cute if they have a working class Brit accent…
Diana ate a goddamn rat.
The elderly hag holding the sign must be a science fiction nut too. I believe she is referencing the old “V” (for Visitors, as in ALIENS) tee-vee mini-series. You know what the radiation box does to the brain. She thinks BO and his stormtroopers are literally ‘out of this world’….
[re=532075]Extemporanus[/re]: I didn’t even notice that, but it’s early, and I just had my first Pekingese of the day.
Normally I hate the “lyrics” posts, but I though this was appropriate…
He told me that the Lizards were a race of people practically extinct
From doing things smart people don’t do
He said that he was once a Lizard too
The second line encapsulates the `Bagger mentality pretty well.
Never know what these freaky people will believe. I met a catholic girl once who was raised to believe that non-catholics had tails. Just to be helpful I showed her she was wrong.
[re=531956]Extemporanus[/re]: Are you talking about the Ken Adachi who was a literary critic with the ‘Toronto Star’, until he killed himself over allegations of plagiarism.
[re=532114]blossom de turd[/re]: Actually she is referring to the remake which turned the old series, which was more a morality tale about right-wing fascism, into a tea-bag anti-Obama rant. The later sucks of course.
[re=532073]Extemporanus[/re]: Actually, classicist that I can be sometimes, I went straight to salukis.
The lizards are here to keep Juliet employed now that LOST killed her off and I’m just fine with that, so STFU teabaggers!
Is that “V” there because Obama is Lord Vetinari?
[re=532235]AxmxZ[/re]: Seriously, just take a few moments to imagine how Vetinari would deal with these people?
Crap, that’s actually an arousing thought.
[re=532114]blossom de turd[/re]: If people watch enough TV, they’ll think anything they see on it is real. Just look at Fox News.
Lizards? Teabaggers? Sound like a creepy Uncle that “hangs out” at the Mall.
And goddamnit could the people who run the Democratic party please come up with a media strategy to stop Republicans from turning every single arcane-yet-common procedural move into THE COMMIE APOCALYPSE?
Hey, to be fair, its not like its an election year or something.
I, for one, welcome our new lizard overlords.
[re=532241]I_KILL_ZOMBIES_ALSO[/re]: Vetinari would not only have had health reform enacted, but he would have had the Republican Lizard People bent over, tied up, and asking for it like HCR was their idea to begin with. The Assassin Guild would have long dispatched Vetinari’s rivals responsible for Gitmo. Cheney would be a playtoy for Uberwald’s denizens. Dribbler’s pies, Rincewind, Luggage, and the oddments in the Watch would dispatch the Teabaggers. All admidst much hilarity and witty social commentary. Plus, with trolls, neurotic emo goth vampires, and sexytime werewolves.
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