The first of two major votes, now! Get ready for 25 Democrats to turn on their yes votes and run for the hills… UPDATE: This thread actually covers both votes! A twofer! Click to see who won!
10:33 — What the hell are we doing liveblogging this? It’s just that boring C-SPAN screen with no sound. Can we get some fucking Muppets on stage to dance on John Dingell’s head, or something “like that”?
10:34 — Let’s laugh at something terrible, while we wait another 11 minutes. While the Atlantic‘s libertarian economics writer Megan McArdle isn’t much of an enshrined “Wonkette character,” she is terrible, and this is her Opus. Read it for laughs!
10:35 — Why must the teevee turn this into such an awkward silence? RATINGS, C-SPAN, RATINGS.
10:38 — Alright, fine, we’ll turn to the cable news coverage of this vote, which is… Mitt Romney Loyalist Kevin Madden uttering some GOP talking points! He’s even more inspirational if you mute the teevee and play Berlioz’ Symphanie Fantastique. But what isn’t?
10:42 — Come again?
House Minority Leader John Boehner told his conference to “behave like grown-ups” if the healthcare bill is passed by the House on Sunday.
The Ohio Republican made the warning at a quick closed-door meeting with fellow House GOP lawmakers at noon in the Capitol.
So they should only fling bags of pee, and not handfuls of poop. Good luck sticking to that.
10:44 — Wolf to Donna Brazile: “You look so serious, Donna.” How else should one behave on cable news?
10:45 — 216-203, passed. Whoa. Wolf: “They look so excited there, on the floor, there.”
10:46 — Wolf Blitzer is a Furry God: “They’re cheering, there, let’s listen in. Well, they were cheering. They passed the bill.”
10:48 — 219-34, two votes left.
10:48 — BRINGETH THE MALLET OF DEATH! SMASH THE WOOD OF FINALITY!
10:50 — John King wants to read a letter from Vicki Kennedy! Wolf Blitzer wants to listen in on Steny Hoyer, though. When do our free abortion coupons go valid?
10:52 — Rules motions gentleman from suspend recommit resolution bill whatever. What is happening? Oh, Wolf Blitzer wants to explain! “You are a hologram, America.”
10:54 — Republican congressmen request permission from speaker to be annoying fairies. NO. Request again. NO. Request again. SHUTUP. Obama is a commie. PROCEED.
10:55 — OH MY GOD! REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO USE ABORTION AS A WEDGE ISSUE!
10:56 — Rep. Pitts, the junior loser of “Stupak-Pitts amendment” fame, is upset that Obama’s letter about abortion doesn’t ban abortion. Did Obama really “win” today?
10:58 — Said it before, will say it again: abortion is awesome. You can have all sorts of sexy sexytime and not have to worry about taking care of some idiot kid later on. Is this not a hot deal?
11:00 — Bart Stupak wants to talk. A green and orange lady is asleep on camera right behind him. Oh no, just on her BlackBerry. She looks foolish!
11:01 — The House is out of order! THE HOUSE IS OUT OF ORDER! Call in the Praetorian Guard, summon the Hessians!
11:02 — Shorter Stupak: “Republicans are wrong. Democrats are better at abortion stuff than Republicans.” Although it’s hard to hear him fully because REPUBLICANS CANNOT SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR FOUR FUCKING SECONDS.
11:03 — Democrats shouted “NO” louder than Republicans shouted “YES” on this annoying motion to recommit, so they WIN THE EVENING. Politico demands a recorded vote.
11:05 — So Republicans are going to lose this last-ditch vote to throw the bill back in committee, BECAUSE SORRY, THOUGHT OF THAT. Could the “October Surprise” of this cycle be far in the future? John Boehner, running in front of the C-Span cameras, showing surveillance footage of Barney Frank with another man!!! “HE’S FUCKING GAY, DO YOU SEE? DO YOU SEE?”
11:09 — Apparently someone is shouting “baby-killer” at Bart Stupak. What a smear. Bart Stupak hasn’t killed a baby in at least four hours. Sometimes you’ve just gotta keep on walkin’, as a Regal Banking Pamphlet Wordsmith once uttereth.
11:14 — Wolf asks David Gergen to kill some time. Your Wonkette will be right back!
11:24 — You know what would’ve been good to eat today? A meal.
11:24 — Oh look, while we were gone they started voted on the reconciliation bill! You’d never know, what with John King just plugging his new show.
11:26 — Wonkette operative “Rebecca” sends us this Blingee and wins her own Blingee Contest. Rebecca: go to the nearest dumpster, to claim your reward. It will look like a “naked Intern Riley,” because that’s what it is.
11:30 — 213-200, with 6:30 left on the clock. NEED THREE MORE. Stop getting your pussies waxed and close it, scared Blue Dogs.
11:31 — Oh ha there, it passed.
11:33 — Obama will speak soon, from the POTUS’ actual house! PREVIEW: “I just read this thing, and, well, VETO MUCH?”
11:38 — GAVEL THAT H.R. YO.
11:39 — The Democrats have exercised power. Better take a picture.
11:40 — Ken Layne is back from his dinner! Now he will type for you. He will be liveblogging Obama’s ARROGANCE in ten or so minutes, so look for a new thread. Thank you all for showing up on this Sunday night and clicking on things.
Today We Are All People Who Missed The Breaking Bad Premiere.
ONE MORE THING: 11:47 — *bows to Nancy Pelosi*
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Yayaayaya!!!!! THe vote! The VOTE!!! it’s finally here. Time to stop thinkin and start drinkin!
Does that picture mean there’s a medical marijuana provision in the bill?
Geezus how different my life would have been if the nuns who raised my parents smoked the odd bong or two…instead it was left to my sorry generation to blaze the trail.
I object to my tax dollars paying for Boehner’s spray-on man tan. Will HCR fix that?
[re=535933]Hooray For Anything[/re]: Yes. For nuns.
We are now muslin socialists communist nazi fascist pacifists. I am going to take a shower because I feel dirty (that and the fact that I am stinky).
You don’t know how happy I would be for health insurance premiums that were actually less than total unemployment every month.
Wow, this vote thing is pretty boring. I kind of wanted to do the roll call just because that’s how it always goes in the movies
Is there a 35 second shot clock?
You should have liveblogged Boehner’s tan instead. It’s always fun to guess what color his skin will be for important appearances.
Hey miz lady nun, is that a big bong or are you just happy to see me?
are there dems stuck in the bathroom?
Nancy, pull off your wicked witchcraft now or never, gurl!
The problem’s CSPAN; why, MSNBC is showing trenchant analysis by such noted political minds as … Luke Russert. And CNN’s team is even worse. Modern media is so depressingly bad.
The vote is rather anti-climactic, isn’t it?
OMG! there’s only 9 minutes left!
[re=535941]smellyal8r[/re]: They have all the fun
Ummm-kay…smart people who watch this all the time know the answer, but what is the deal with the electronic vote tally? Or is it just that everyone’s in the bathroom at the same time and mosey in and punch their button? Or does it take the system this long to record votes? I would think all 216 would slam their green keys and it’d be over with.
Switch to the CNN coverage, it’s Wolf N’ Friends absolutely exhausted in front of their little laptops. John King is clearly playing Minesweeper.
I don’t understand how Democrats can’t register their votes in the first 30 seconds.
[re=535930]hoosiermama[/re]: *ssschluurrrpp scchlllrrrck* bitches!
When do the “death panels” kick in? I know some people who seriously need a-killin. I figure I should start the paperwork soon to nominate them before the lines get too long.
What? Are the dems holding back until the last second? Like I haven’t been watching this all day.
Do they release confetti, crank the tunes, and bust out the disco ball when this vote closes?
[re=535945]Hooray For Anything[/re]: All 431 names? So they can get up again and make a speech about why they are voting no? Thanks but no thanks baby…
So is this vote the ‘real’ one, or is it the next one? Or the next one?
200!
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BONG HITS FOR JESUS.
(lawyers will know the reference).
[re=535958]smellyal8r[/re]: Many Congressmen are the olds, and have trouble with anything electronic. They probably need to call their grandchildren for instructions.
Probably, many want to wait until the end because they want to vote no but want the bill to pass.
Is there a prize for the last vote counted? WTF?
8 more… come on you pussies.
I hope our esteemed Mr. Newell took a nap today. If he’s been drinking non-stop since his first post of the day this Wonkette live-blog could get a little … Wonky.
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[re=535966]smellyal8r[/re]: Good point but there better be some balloons, fireworks, and AC/DC piped over the loudspeaker when this ends because this is pretty underwhelming. I can’t believe I’ve been drinking for the past five hours for this.
209. Where are the other seven already? Bathroom?
[re=535967]AKAM80TheWolf[/re]: Remember, they must vote on the actual pen which signs said bill.
Gettin a little scared here kids.
Calling all stupid:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/21/848802/-Stupid-Teabaggers-Planning-To-Storm-Capitol-Tonight!
I keep hearing someone cackle in the background every once and a while. They sound like the AFLAC duck. Whoa! Now everybody’s getting loud…
Geez – glad they turned the volume up,
Ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Whoopty-do.
There it is…I guess Nancy voted last…
216, there it goes! Rammed down your throats, teabaggers!
Healthcare, bitches
Finally! I kept looking for you guyz, while I wondered lost and alone in the tubes. Pelosi mentioned by church and thanked us. Well, not my church precisely, my demination!
Love the chant!
OMG.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!
Bingo. We win.
I really think we should have talked about this more.
AYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!!
Finally GOD.
Nicely done.
[re=535958]smellyal8r[/re]: Prolly because the Congress-creatures are taking the Capitol Subway from their various offices, where they were watching the debates on the TeeVee, to the Capitol. Srsly, the Capitol Subway is the flyest ride in the 202, and only THEY can take it. Figures.
HCR is the law of the land!
Holy fucking jesus that was a tough vote to sit through! Thank God!
WOOOOOOO! MARCH MADNESS! Crush Big Orange! Crush the TEABAGGERS! Sorry, everything is a blur at this point.
Boehner: “Wait, five more seconds … still … reading …! Someone help me sound out this word! Shit.”
Hooray Demrats.
Congrats on finally growing a pair (not very big and pretty lumpy, but they’re there.)
Holy crap. I’d like to snark on Megan McArdle but I’m just too stunned by her idiocy:
“Republicans…did their job on this; they persuaded the country that they didn’t want this bill. And that mattered basically not at all.”
Seriously? That’s what you’re going with? She must only watch Faux News. What is it with rightwing women named Megan?
recommit reconcile goddammit do it do it now now now.
Sorry, Boner, higher taxes on all those tanning beds
Cripes. With three to spare…Barry is to address us at some point (probably to put that EO in the shredder…). CSPAN has (in their patient way) explained that next is to recommit the reconciliation package. The Rs will all vote for that, the Ds No, then on to the final reconciliation package to send to the Senate.
Orange Crushed! Now just twice more!!!
Have to crack open another bottle of Wild Turkey.
We are all health care reformers now. Yay1!
Boy, freepers must be running for the gun cabinets right now…
The Freepers must be UNCONSCIOUS with rage right now.
down your throats, teabaggers! Nuts on your mutherfuckin chins!
And now, it’s the motion to recommit. See, this is part of what’s fucked up about are procedure; it’s like, the House passed it, now it’s time to say if they really meant it.
yeas and nays much more subdued this time for reconcilliation
OBEY
ok. what’s next.
a chicken in every pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[re=535981]Lucidamente[/re]: Great, so the pitchfork & torch crowd is going to come out and …. well, I guess that sign was prescient: if Scott Brown can’t stop it, a Browning will.
Why is it that 14 months after Shrub left office, I still feel like I’m living in an episode of Battlestar Galactica? The waterboarding-Cylons phase is over, but now we’re in the one-faction-pointing-guns-at-another-while-the-remnants-of-humanity-tear-themselves-apart phase.
FUCK YEAH. I will be avoiding Facebook for a few days though.
Holy Mary Mother of God! Opiates all round for the masses! Paid for by Congress and the Pope will be providing bongs to smoke them in.
ooooweeee baby.
Ok I’ll have another drinkee.
Now I can drink the rest of my lite beer in peace. Thank you to all the Wonkeratti and esp. the intrepid editors for making this one of the most memorable weekends. “Where were you when HCR was passed, mommy?” “Well, son, I was sitting in front of my laptop cursing my ass off on Wonkette while streaming a 2.5 x 2.5″ square of digital media on the ceespan for 48 hours straight.”
It’s quite possible I’m missing something, but is Luke Russert’s last name his only qualification for covering the Hill?
[re=536008]imissopus[/re]: No truer words have e’er been spoke: Republicans matter not at all. Ever.
What the hell is all this then. Or is this the UK/I thought it was the USA! WOOO (GO DEMS)
Can someone explain to me why the hell the anti abortion cabal- who got Obama to commit to an executive order- are now yet again bitching about how the bill turns america into Abortionerica?
Oh the huge manatee.
Jesus, someone please just run up & and pants this guy ! He is just begging for a dirty swirlie.
Something called Rep. Pitts (R-Pa) is droning on about abortion. Nice.
“The most massively pro-abortion to come before this Congress since Roe v. Wade.”
Ya just can’t make this stuff up.
Alright, now the shit gets REAL.
Who will be the first wingtard to try and be a fucking hero?!
Symphonie Fantastique? “Witches Round Dance” movement or “March to the Scaffold” movement?
Fuck the living! Protect the unborn! And zombie Reagan!
[re=536041]HedonismBot[/re]: Sheesh. If only…Why can’t we have retroactive abortion ?
Death panels are now open for business! Two man enter, one man leave!
[re=535940]memzilla[/re]: He’ll be taxed at a higher rate for frequenting tanning salons. Win win!
Shut up and swallow it, pubbies!
I want to fund everyone’s federally surcharged loopholed mandated publicly-funded abortion fees!
Axis of Please Shut the Fuck Up: Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Comments overheard:
“Members of staff on the other side of the aisle”
“You’re not even elected.”
Wow, people are angry at each other.
BRING OUT YOUR FETUSES! BRING OUT YOUR FETUSES!
Abortion fetishists, all those republican men.
Stay out of my uterus and I’ll stay out of yours.
This GOOD NEWS. For JOHN MCCAIN!!!!!!9!!!!11!!
The House Will Be In MotherFrackin Order!
Ah, so the latest delay is because people are afraid it doesn’t go far enough in hating women. Hey, you regressive misogynist assholes, there already was the compromise with Stupak and the rest of the anti-woman movement; but you won’t be satisfied unless this repeals Roe v Wade.
[re=536030]ella[/re]: No, he also talked about how he was sad when his died.
[re=536043]sanantonerose[/re]: idee fixe = abortion, abortion, abortion
Americans now have the right to get sick – meanwhile, isn’t China building new skyscrapers or something?
These old men spouting off about abortion is about as relevant to me as I’d be to them if I started talking about jock itch.
[re=535959]deitybox[/re]: They wait to vote so they can RELISH THE POWER.
Christ, these people love abortion, don’t they? ABORTION CONTINUES UNABATED, ABORTIONS WILL RISE, WE WILL WIPE OUT THE HUMAN RACE BECAUSE OF THIS BILL.
well at least we got our congress to work late on a sunday nite…11pm.
now they’ll really know what it feels like to be a member of the middle class
god bless the u.s.of a.
Oh for fuck’s sake. “The distinguished DINO from Mississippi.” Thanks a lot, Travis.
GAAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhh Stupak. What an ass.
You go Steny, read those flip-floppers the riot act. Scoop up your unaborted fetuses off the floor and go back to the South.
[re=535979]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: I want Obama to use a flower pen.
Stupak from self-righteous asshole to actually righteous dude in 4 days.
“Those who were shouting out are out of order.”
Followed by audible groans.
C-Span is awesome.
damn. in march, the dems grew a fucking pair.
why the fuck did we have to put with the past year?
They’ve got Stupak smacking down the republican pro-lifers. Am I high?
Aw shit, Stupak just got a round of applause from the repugs. Pelosi’s gonna bust his abortion balls with the Medicare Gavel of Living Death.
You go Bart!
Stewie! You GodDamn Commie I love you!
Bart Stupak is a douchebag of the highest authority.
Yay. prenatal and post natal care. Take that.
Stupak? Abortion?
What the fuck is this? Groundhog day?
Just bring on the President so we can all go to bed and wake up socialists.
Whoa–when the Stupak worm turns, he fucking turns. Must be scared shitless of a serious primary challenge.
These fucking assholes are such fucking buzzkills. FUCK YOU.
I think Steny just confused half of the caucus with that.
OMG! SOMETHINGS GONE HORRRIBLY WRONG!! MY COUNTRY HAS JUST GONE BANKRUPT! THE CHINKS ARE REPOSSESING MY HOUSE AND SELLING MY DAUGHTERS INTO SLAVERY!!!9!!11
A SECRET SERVICE AGENT JUST KICKKKED DOWN MY DOOR – HE’S HOLDING ME AT GUNPOINT UNTIL I COME UP WITH $2000 TO BUY ABORTIONS FOR 3 UNDERAGE ILLEGAL ALIEN (MEXICAN AND VIETNAMESE) PROSTITUTES!
HELP ME GOP!!! HELP ME AMERICA!!! WHERE IS MY AMERICA NOW!!!!/???
PLEASE HELP…. SAVE MEEEE….
OMG KARL ROVE WAS RIGHT!!! HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH!!!!!
Motion to Recommit: does that mean sending Virginia Foxx and Batshit Bachmann back to their booby hatches?
Fuck the fetuses. Fuck zygotes for that matter.
[re=536056]JMP[/re]: That explains it, then. He haz a sad. Boehner haz a sad. Qualified.
I wish the vote would involve them stepping up to a platform, writing a word on a piece of browned parchments, then speaking to the camera about how they hate Boston Rob.
The melodrama at freerepublic is unbelievable:
“I literally have tears in my eyes. We recorded Pacific tonight and I was going to watch it but I just can’t. I can’t watch and remember those who have died for our Republic … all for it to be thrown away tonight.”
God DAMN these assholes and their procedural manuverings. Seriously. God Damn Them.
There are web reports of Glenn Beck running through the streets naked with a grenade launcher. Anyone else read this?
At the bill requires that each abortee must have a teeny-tiny toe-tag.
[re=536057]Lucidamente[/re]: idee fixe? nicely done.
How confusing! Vote YES, then vote NO. I would totally mess that up.
So Stupak does the right thing for once in his miserable life – woo. He’s still a fetus lover & a woman hater. He can eat a bag of dicks.
[re=536070]Lucidamente[/re]: It’s like, how can I be cheering for that asshole? Weird.
More standing around and waiting for the vote! Wait, Discovery has lizards right now, that looks more interesting…
[re=536087]stew[/re]: I have now. WOO, new media!
Rep. Fart Poopstak FTW!
(Ha ha ha, just kidding.)
[re=536081]Lucidamente[/re]: No, the loony bins all got closed during the Bush administration. Because, you know, the federal government shouldn’t pay for anything – that’s the state’s job. And since they don’t have the funds for it, they’re pass it off on the counties, who REALLY don’t have the funds for it and close them all.
But hey, as long as we don’t have more taxes expanding federal control, right…
Somebody shouted BABY KILLER?! Bwaaa-haaa-haaa! Who the fuck did that?
[re=536085]Mad Brahms[/re]: That is beautiful.
When is Preznit Jeebus coming down from the Holy of Holies to sprinkle us all with healcare holy water?
Orange Crush numero two!!!
[re=536087]stew[/re]: Why won’t he show proof that he isn’t? Until he shows pictures of himself, wearing pants and sans grenades, how can we know this ISN’T true? It’s so simple to prove, Beckie.
[re=536089]sanantonerose[/re]: merci beaucoup; and don’t tell me that Hector B. didn’t pay for Harriet Smithson’s abortion.
HAHAHAHAHAHA , motion to recommit is at 219. BWAHAHAHAHA FUCK YOU BAGGERS
John King just said “this has been a testy debate”. Heh heh. Testes.
[re=536085]Mad Brahms[/re]: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Good. And fuck them, also.
[re=536066]sanantonerose[/re]: Perfect. haha
[re=536083]ella[/re]: I meant when his dad died. Gah, the perils of fast typing.
I wonder how many of those acting as if civilization as we know it is coming to an end were upset even a teensy bit when their SCOTUS pals sold our elections to the highest bidders?
[re=536067]ALIVE![/re]: [re=536067]ALIVE![/re]: I wouldn’t go so far as to say Stupak’s become an “actually righteous dude.” Hopey’s bitch, maybe. Had a reasonable challenger to his reelection not come forward do really think he would have voted this way?
I could have sworn that the guy on CSPAN just said “according to Politico…” Nobody, ever, should use those words together in any situation other than the architecture of a humorous anecdote or joke.
CNN’s delicate sensibilities have been shattered by the phrase “baby killer.”
[re=536085]Mad Brahms[/re]: Schadenfreude was invented just for such occasions. Even though their misfortune is born out of imagination rather than reality.
FockSnooze just asploded.
[re=536012]smellyal8r[/re]: OMG, I must be smoking crack to be hoping that Barry, my Barry, will sign the EO while addressing us, the masses, while he then moseys over to the White House shredder and casually tosses the EO through it, all the while chatting amiably about how great health care is. I would so offer to give myself freely to him, for life, if he would only do that.
94110 here…ok, i need a glass of white wine. the republic is free again. democrats CAN accomplish something. i think. had the vote pacific standard time.
[re=536111]Clankie[/re]: Nice: like “John Boehner is a brilliant legislator, according to Politco.”
cspan caller: Aaron, 20, who is currently not insured and considers himself a pretty healthy person, wonders when Obama will start telling us to sleep. Well, Aaron, studies have proven that we don’t get enough sleep, so BEDTIME FOR YOU. And no, you may not have a glass of water.
Who shouted that? Joe Wilson, was that you?
[re=536110]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I’d still primary the sumbitch. He’ll do it all again the next chance he gets.
Hopey better sign this thing in a bullet proof bubble surrounded by 1000 ACORN and SEIU soldiers. Take no chances, bruh
Is no one else watching the vote with me and David Shuster?
Wolf Blitzer: baby killer as epitaph. Paging Dr. Freud!
[re=536111]Clankie[/re]: Yeah, he’s only had employer-paid insurance two years in his adult life and he’s still not sure this bill is a good idea because Politico made up some scary deficit numbers. I HATE that expression, “You can’t fix stupid.” But this is a case where it’s appropriate.
[re=536102]Lucidamente[/re]: LOL! You are a fellow traveler. Berlioz’s SF is one of my favorite pieces to perform.
Hey dickfaces. Get your aborted foetuses some botox on me. Luv you all.
Exactly how drunk are you, Newell?
buzz buzz buzz. And How’s Your Grandmother… still alive?
Hopey should get 7-10 pts poll bounce when this is all done.
The Trucknutz lobby is frightened that it will lose a generation of customers.
Or something. That really wasn’t that funny. Sry.
Cspan caller Joyce: claims healthcare providers take care of the sick whether they have insurance or not. I need her to take out my bum gall bladder since the Austin docs don’t feel that way.
Lets hope Hopey is keeping tabs on which Republican pigs are doing this “baby killer”, delaying tactics shit. Then he can go all Jacobin up their ass.
I’m still not sure this was worth MSNBC preempting “Stripper and the Steelworker.”
Heh, “Aaron” on CSPAN’s “oppose line:” he’s 20, is uninsured “by choice” because he’s always been healthy and doesn’t feel like he should have to work and pay for something he isn’t going to use. Honestly, these people live in a fucking different, almost Panglossian, reality.
So civilization as we knew it ended half an hour ago and NOBODY has been by to ram anything down my throat! Where do I complain?
[re=536115]Katydid[/re]: If he does that, I really WILL have sex with you, to celebrate.
[re=536127]sanantonerose[/re]: let me guess: you’re an ophicleidist.
[re=536056]JMP[/re]: See, this is why I would not be a good Congress critter. Because I would get up there and say, “Are you misogynistic fucksticks aware that abortion is LEGAL? I yield my time.”
Hee! Roger Ebert via Twitter: Dems quote Disraeli: “Honourable GOP, it’s true we are low, mean snakes. But you could walk beneath us wearing a top hat.”
[re=536127]sanantonerose[/re]: From what I understand, though, Berlioz was still a right ass, and may well have been the sort of antisocial curmudgeon who would support this mess. Still, great music to watch the world *turn to socialism forever* to, in an ironic way!
http://socialistworker.org/2010/03/19/worse-than-nothing
http://socialistworker.org/2009/12/09/selling-out-health-care-reform
You know,just to keep the true Communists amongst us somewhat sober in the great Health Care Coservatard massacre of 2010.
Ooh, Anthony Weiner. He’s so hot. Because of health care reform. Otherwise Not so much.
[re=536136]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: Irrational economic man
[re=536124]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Yeah. Wiener just dick slapped me and my confusion of these parliamentary procedures. We can’t suck each others dick quite yet. We still have the reconciliation vote for the fixes.
John Dingell speaking. Uh, huh-huh, Dingell.
[re=536058]Rush[/re]: China is totally happy, they may see weakness (with all the heavy metals the’re injecting into our children and pets; and because they pretty much own us.
[re=536139]Lucidamente[/re]: My primary instrument is more viol than the wooden serpent.
Jesus, this is going to be a long fucking night.
Very happy and would just like to invte Phil Gingrey to suck on my GA peaches.
HCR in 15 minutes, bitches!
God help me. Watching CSPAN, I feel thousands of brain cells committing suicide with every undecided/opposed caller. CSPAN guy looks like he agrees with me, needs a drink.
[re=536135]VenjaminJenkman[/re]: As long as they don’t fuck with one of their prison shows. Priorities, ya know.
I guess I’ll be reporting first thing tomorrow morning for my federally mandated and funded abortion.
[re=536137]Veritas78[/re]: NOT to the RNC, they aren’t feeling it.
[re=536135]VenjaminJenkman[/re]: Don’t worry– it’s getting replied on Cinemax later tonight
Thanks to the vagaries of last-minute programming, Commcast’s guide thinks MSNBC is showing something called “The Stripper and the Steelworker” now. Hee.
Baby Shoes Russert has the dirt on the baby killer incident. It was a congressman according to Baby Shoes.
Now we’re on the real vote, right?
Yay–Young Luke with the babykiller comment. Surprise–the Republic had a southern accent.
[re=536142]Mad Brahms[/re]: Yes, the Symphonie and the opposition to this bill were both born out of an extended stay in an opium den.
Dingell and Wiener. Any other penis-themed names?
Luke Russert babbbbbbbbling and proving sometimes, the apple does fall far from the tree.
[re=536143]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: NO! I already gave $2 to Street Sheet!
Apparently that was a charming womb loving Republican law-maker who yelled “Baby Killer” and Wee Baby Russert said, rather ominously, that the Repub. had a Southern accent.
[re=536140]Katydid[/re]: When you get to Congress you will need to speak more clearly. Your last remark was simply too nuanced.
Some Repub called Bart Stupak a ‘baby killer’….sounds like someone was jealous that Joe Wilson got all that attention.
[re=536140]Katydid[/re]: Same here. The way I was screaming at the TV during the bit of Boner’s speech I watched, then the Motion to Recommit guy, I think I would put Joe Wilson to shame – only my shouts would come at actual lies.
You know what would have been better to eat? A baby.
Can I donate some of my health insurance allotment to pay for somebody else’s abortion? Because I’m spiteful that way.
[re=536143]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: I want to be with you here, in a way. I really do think the bill is a bit of a sham, a half-hearted attempt to fix serious issues that only serves to placate the masses and delay actual emancipation (and so on, and so on). But on the other hand, there are real people, with real suffering, really *now*, and the pessimist in me says that if “the revolution” is going to be that delayed, settling for a half-assed petit-bourgeois compromise might not be so bad.
Stupak can still eat a bag of dicks, though.
[re=536142]Mad Brahms[/re]: OT. You’re a music fan? I’m going to see Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich double bill on a lecture series.
[re=536138]Jukesgrrl[/re]: I’ll bet ya $5 if we offer to let Hopey watch, he’ll take us up on it, AND let us do it in the Lincoln Bedroom. Trick is keeping the damn nosy Secret Service out. Those guys are pervs.
[re=536163]stew[/re]: Boehner
Breitbart sites. Comments areas. Go read. Entertainment.
[re=536163]stew[/re]: john boehner. purple headed cockwad coburn.
Why would somebody take the time to tune this in on C-Span, call them and wait to get on the air, just to express the opinion that they’re “undecided”? What planet are these people from? Five minutes of listening to them explains why such dipshits get elected to Congress.
[re=536150]sanantonerose[/re]: no wood serpent, but col legno in the finale.
[re=536158]JMP[/re]: A little while ago, it said, “The Mind of Manson.” And yesterday it said, “The Santa Strangler” while some moron was droning on.
[re=536163]stew[/re]: You’re forgetting Boehner, obviously.
Discovery’s showing a snake orgy – somehow, this seems like a metaphor for Congress.
Donut holes…..mmmmmmmm sprinkles.
[re=536173]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Ooh, good show. Sadly, here in the frigid wastes of Canada-land, my temporary home, the musical theatre (and travelling musical luminaries) tends to be a bit tepid. On the upside, the political commentary is much better, though I do like Frank Rich!
[re=536164]ella[/re]: I’m not entirely convinced there wasn’t some, ahem, “poolboy action” involved here.
Orange Crush x 3
Poor Jim. You didn’t eat? 15 minute votes were made for nachos. Just don’t drip the cheese on the keyboard.
[re=536180]Lucidamente[/re]: Nothing like a hundred dancing skeletons to represent health care reform!
I had to pretend to work this morning – so what have I missed? Has the Ultimate Triumph of the People’s Revolutionary Marxist-Obamaist Health-Care Comrades happened yet?
No?
Well, have you Yanks at least gotten a tiny bit of Health Care for all the Pissing and Whingeing of the past year yet?
YAY and about friggin’ time!
[re=536172]Mad Brahms[/re]: Stupak can still eat a bag of dicks, though.
How ’bout we shove a bag of dicks, heavily salted of course, up Stupak’s ass, then give him an abortion ON DEMAND, just to show him how much we love ‘em? (Abortions, I mean, not Stupak.) And there will be NO KY Jelly allowed.
And what is this “AbortionOnDemand” shit? People would be a lot more upset if it were abortion by lottery, or surprise abortion, or abortion by chance, goddammit.
Great blingee.
DONE!
I suggest the first Death Panel rule on Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and, oh, how about Alan Greenspan?
Also, more LIZ GLOVER!!
zomg excellent! Now the country can finally afford to abort Rush Limbaugh. And I can get my cavity filled without having to go to Mexico and get one of those gold front teeth!
A
I wonder how Republicans will bring up health care during votes on recognizing the anniversary of Iwo Jima.
[re=536172]Mad Brahms[/re]: You & and our favorite commie Papist are correct that this is a half a loaf at best. That said, it will allow Small Biz who are already providing employee med/dent not to have to choose between continuing skyrocketing health coverage and new hires. For Small Biz who don’t provide coverage, you shudda been, and now you will.
[re=536174]Katydid[/re]: Can we invite Anthony Weiner? I don’t know how he swings, but he’ll be in a party mood and he’s my personal Mr. Healthcare. I get to unknot his very tasteful tie.
There needs to be a new House tradition, in which Dingell gets to take a ceremonial pee on Boehner’s leg.
Obama made a high 5 with Rahm Emanuel? Or a low 4.5?
[re=536191]Katydid[/re]: Surprise abortion: Oprah: And you get and abortion, and you get an abortion . . .
Abortions for some, furtive reach-arounds for others!
I want Nancy to start whipping people again. It hurts soooo good.
[re=536191]Katydid[/re]: Baby killer!!
It’s kinda fun what the majority party can do when it remembers it’s the majority…and when the president accepts not everyone will like him or wish him well and finally grows a spine.
[re=536181]Jukesgrrl[/re]: They’ve already got Scarborough and Matthews; put them together and that’s pretty close to Manson.
I think the last one (here; if you’re in a different time zone it could be different) was something on the Chicago mafia, which seemed like they were pushing wignut memes about Obama & Rahm.
[re=536200]sanantonerose[/re]: Reacharound, duh. Obvs, also.
All I want to know is do I have to kill my parents before or after I get my free abortion?
[re=536199]The Other Sarah T[/re]: WIN!
Michele Bachmann just texted my phone quite kerfuffled. God love her, she’s such simple folk.
[re=536091]The Other Sarah T[/re]: For Stupak to be called a Babykiller gives him a glimpse of what life is like the most Democrats. I’ve been called a baby killer–on my way into a senate campaign debate.
Tore a new one in the kid with graphic descriptions of illegal abortions gone bad. He turned white but I stormed off too quickly to see if he passed out.
I feel more healthy already! I feel like I’m slowly sucking all the life force out of the teabaggers. But, gosh, my diabetes hurts!
Drudge’s main headline in red:
A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFIRMARY
FoxNation:
America Goes Under the Knife: House Passes Obamacare 219 to 212
RedState:
“Tonight the Democrats voted to put people in jail who have no insurance, raise the costs of health care, destroy the federal government’s bond rating, keep unemployment high, and kill forever the mythological creature known as the pro-life Democrat.”
[re=536088]Veritas78[/re]: Adorable.
God. Bless. Nancy. Pelosi. As Maggie Thatcher quoteth, “In politics, if you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” So endeth the lesson.
[re=536191]Katydid[/re]: Well, China has abortion whether you want it or not; of course, the misogyny caucus somehow doesn’t realize their position is morally equivalent. What they’ve been putting in place in some states since Roe is abortion after jumping through fifty different moronic hoops.
How the hell do these C-Span moderators keep a straight face??
[re=536201]Lucidamente[/re]: Nice![re=536204]
El Pinche[/re]: Not only do I do it for profit, I do it for fun! And I’m not even in health care. I love killing fetuses that much. BWAHAHAHAH!
[re=536198]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Anthony’s allright by me. But he’s hotter when he’s mad, for some reason, so we have to tell him single payer sucks and then we can play with him.
i really don’t want to gloat but the teagbaggers can really suck it and suck it all fucking day long.
[re=536211]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Exactly right. My fave moment doing clinic defense was when the fetus-wavers screamed at this one woman, “THEY”LL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND KILL YOUR BABY !” And as cool as could be, she smiled at them and said, “God, I hope so !”.
St.James, St.Francis,the El Salvador martyrs, all patron saints of social justice be praised !
Now let get ready for the looong after party…and mourning after !
Ed Schultz is saying this is no Waterloo, but that is completely bogus. Whe DeMint (R-Dickwadistan).
DeMint was no doubt comparing Obama and health care to Lord Wellington. The MSM never gets anything right.
Well done, DeMintia. Well done.
I should be SEXIN WITH MY KENYAN by now. What’s the hold up?
[re=536213]chascates[/re]: In short, “Waaaaaah!”
[re=536216]BobLoblawLawBlog[/re]: So sorry that quote came from Bloody Maggie the Union Buster. But then again, in this context, the irony is perfect.
[re=536188]sanantonerose[/re]: Now we get opium on demand (“the dose, being too small to kill him . . .)!
[re=536216]BobLoblawLawBlog[/re]: Dude don’t compare Thatcher to Pelosi. I understand your point but that person needs to stay under the ground.
Why are people waxing their pussies on a Sunday?
I want to be clever and snarky, but after working for months to convince a conservative Democrat to vote yes on this bill, I am just crying for happiness!
Having said that… I don’t know how any of these representatives are making it through all this tedious procedure without some kind of intoxicant. Lord knows I couldn’t have done it without alcohol.
[re=536230]Rosemaryrules[/re]: Pussy-waxing on demand is in the bill.
It’s Sad Trombone Time for the reThuglicans, Faux News, Boehner, Palin, and oh so many others: http://sadtrombone.com
Who was that guy on camera behind the president?
[re=536221]obfuscator[/re]: Go ahead. Gloat.
[re=536229]biznesskommunity[/re]: Thatcher is, sadly, not quite dead yet. http://isthatcherdeadyet.com/
[re=536213]chascates[/re]: Let’s see, Redstate: No it doesn’t; it does the opposite; no it doesn’t; not it doesn’t; and unfortunately it doesn’t because that would be a very good thing to do.
B A B Y
N U R S E R ! ! ! 1 1 1 !
Hopey OWNS the high road.
I love Nancy Pelosi so much. Woman, you rock.
I love Obama’s speech so far…
“Okay, you fuck faces, we got this motherfucker passed. Now, kiss my black ass.”
That’s an exact quote, peoples.
[re=536228]Lucidamente[/re]: Again with the opium?
Is Joe going to have the opportunity to make a gaffe on national teevee? I love Joey.
Well, I sat here and watched the tv machine with “my” wonkette and the wonkeratti and feel worse than I did earlier. My common cold viruses and I really are going to bed this time. Nitey, nite, all.
Let’s remember this moment, just before the Marxist/Kenyan/fascist/totalitarian/UN/gayz takeover of the country begins.
PS You know that tiny url thing? (I didn’t until this afternoon, thanks wonkeratti) The teabaggers need a “tiny pejorative for Obama” app because they’ve called him so much shit that a person can’t remember it all.
[re=536252]Cranky Little Camperette[/re]: Don’t worry, it’s not Taliban opium.
After This does Obama really need a second term? If he fixes the Middle East mess what will there be for the next bi-racial half-rican black overlord to do that comes after him?
[re=536232]Lucidamente[/re]: and free merkins for all ‘merkins?
Damn, I always wanted a “Naked Intern Riely.” Why could I not be blessed with skills with the Blingee.
So – will one of you be sending Sens. Boehner, Coburn & DeMint an appointment reminder for their upcoming, now-mandatory, publicly-funded French gay abortion? They always forget the important dates…
I’m smoking so many cigarettes tonight.
Thank you, Jim; hope you get something nice to eat, now.
Goodnight everyone. Time for Katydid and me to tear up the Lincoln Bedroom.
[re=536249]BarackMyWorld[/re]: That’s *snif* that’s beautiful. Followed by “Now who’s that crackah callin’ Barney a faggot?”
YOU LIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1q17rUkVU
[re=536030]ella[/re]: is Luke Russert’s last name his only qualification for covering the Hill?
Pretty much. But he also scores weed for Brian Williams, so his job is secure.
Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority?
Shorter McArdle: “I was born a poor, black man…”
If she were any dumber, she’d be Gomer Pyle.
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