The Senate Republicans. What arcane rule that shouldn’t exist did they pull out of Judd Gregg’s anus this time? Well, apparently you can deny unanimous consent at the outset of a new session and stop all Senate proceedings at 2 p.m. The Republicans are doing this because they are children who govern out of pique. All sorts of Very Important meetings are now being canceled, like the one Claire McCaskill is addressing in this clip. She had to cancel her hearing on contractor oversight in Afghanistan, and you know how much progress they would’ve made there! [TPM]
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This is such a great idea, Republicans–it worked so well for you last time to shut down the government. As a Democrat, thanks!
They just want to work only half-days this week as a warm-up for the two-week Easter break that starts this weekend. Why are the liberals such killjoys?
What’s the big deal? Clearly, America is totally capable of governing itself without supervision or rules of any kind.
[re=539532]Sweet Baby Cheeses[/re]: Oh, and one more thing–please keep following the advice of Bill Kristol and Newt Gingrinch. KTHXBAI
[re=539534]imissopus[/re]: Really. School’s out, McCaskill! I bet the Republican senators are having fun all over town. Lock up your diapers and airport bathroom stalls!
That cut + those glasses = not flattering.
The Imperialist Republician Dogs, having beendefeated by HCR bill, have seen the light and are now “batting for the other team” in our neo-colonial war in land of the Afghans. Power to the Third World , motherfuckers!
Or at least thats what I am fucking getting from this random prickism. Anybody have another take on this ?
I don’t want to work….wanna bang on de drum all day
In other news, Mitch McConnell has announced that he is going to run away from home because everybody is being “a big fat meanie” to him. And this time he REALLY MEANS IT!!!
But 2 pm is time for their milk and cookies, of course they have to leave early. And I’m sure the taxpayers are going to think it’s so cute of them to be cutting out early.
Republicans: The party of “No”, or the party of “YOU CAN’T MAKE ME! I HATE YOU! I WISH I WAS NEVER BORN! *SLAMS BEDROOM DOOR*”?
Silly Claire: everybody wants comp time for having to work so late Sunday night.
Nap time! Now where’s my binkie?
They just saw that it was nice and sunny out, and the mean Democrat leadership said no when they asked if they could have the hearings outside today.
the wingnuts accuse obama of being hitler (could i please smoke some of what they’re smoking? i would never see the real world again), then their so-called leaders take the very actions that make the national government into a de facto one-party state. if the republican party were a person, its concerned relatives would be intervening. powerful antidepressants may be indicated for the suicidal.
[re=539547]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: Most Republican Senators are the olds, and want to get out in time for the early bird special down at IHOP or Denny’s.
[re=539543]Buzz Feedback[/re]: Point taken. Even so, Claire McCaskill is a badass in her own sweet way.
Damn it feels good to be a GOPer
A real G. Oh Pee-er plays his cards wrong
A real G. Oh Pee-er always runs his fuckin mouth
’cause real G. Oh Per runs from fights
And Demrats always gotta work time
Showin’ all his boys how he did work
But real G. Oh Pee-er need Truck nutz
’cause real G. Oh Pee-er know they teabag’em
And everythings cool in the mind of a GOPer
’cause G. Oh Pee-er think dumb
Work only till two PM not 24/7
’cause real G. Oh Pee-er’s don’t work (that’s what 3/5 people are for!)
Claire. Be careful waving that pen around. You’ll put an eye out.
[re=539556]JMP[/re]: In their defense, it REALLY is marvelous golf weather today in DC. And so much business gets accomplished out on the links. But after the completion of our socialist revolution, comrades, there will be no golf — only grim, determined games of “Red Rover.”
Here’s why: “The Senate has a rule about the hours that hearings can be held each day. They can’t be held until two hours after convening business, or after 2 p.m. To adjust the timing, any changes must be agreed upon each day by the chamber. They always are, with no fanfare. But today the Senate Republicans objected to holding the hearings, which forced several hearings to either be postponed or canceled. The maneuver is done by voice vote on the floor, and we don’t yet know which senator objected.” TPM
So if one guy says “nay,” everyone gets to take a siesta for the rest of the afternoon. This may not be such a bad thing. Look on the bright side: if they can’t hold hearings, they can’t get anything done.
Jar-Jar Binks moves that the Senate be dissolved.
I guess the GOP is not backing on a military coup to topple Obama Allende from office, judging the attention they are giving to the concerns of “our troops”.
Aren’t those brave Republicans out on the balcony with their little signs to spur on the teabaggers? [attentun]+[murkin]+[peeple]+[bite]+[me]
Someone please tell these guys that it’s so over: even Liberman says he’ll vote for reconciliation. You don’t need a weatherman….
How do I get that rule implemented where I work?
Also, I remember some political party complaining about the other using procedural tricks and obscure rules… who was that…??? HEEENNNNGGGGGG?
When sausage making goes wrong.
[re=539570]TGY[/re]: First Jar Jar wants the Death Star renamed the USS Ronald Reagan. Please address your yay or nay to our new Hill staffer, Darth Maul.
[re=539567]bureaucrap[/re]: Da, golf is the game of the decadent bourgeois pigs. Red Rover red rover, send Grandma right over…to her federally-mandated DEATH PANEL.
But seriously, somebody needs to remind the Repubs that even a small government still has actual governing to do. Also that if any nominee hearings are held up this week and Hopey decides to break out the recess appointment pen over Easter, they don’t get to cry about it.
So, this may seem kinda awful, but politically, the Republicans’ rampant childishness is excellent news for Democrats. See, health care got them so used to the habit of absurd obstructionary bullcrap that the fact that they’re keeping it up even when there’s not anything resembling a major, controversial, or even significant piece of legislation pending really just makes them look like a bunch of ridiculous crybaby dicklickers. And they can’t even pretend that they’re taking a “principled stand” against “the destruction of America”, because, there’s nothing going on. There’s not even any pending legislation they can use to smokescreen their pissy-pants pettiness.
[re=539570]TGY[/re]: Hmm now that its Hopey that is the Sith Lord, not Chimpy, that does not sound half bad…Revolutionary Dictatorship indeed.
I agree with her main point, but I think the reason the police training isn’t going well in Afghanistan is because we’re training the police to take away all their drugs. Y’know the ones they’ve been growing for thousands of years?
No need for a hearing about this. You’re welcome Senator.
If you listen very closely to the background, you will hear the clanking of Callaways and TaylorMades – and a couple of Dem Senators saying, “Jesus, Claire – shut the fuck up”.
[re=539584]Sharkey[/re]: Well admittedly, our glorious legions are adopting a strategy of “turning away ones gaze” in regards to the drug growing by the natives. By putting the war on drugs on hold, the war on disgruntled Muslims can go on full throttle, without petty distraction. I am some Paulutard has argued on similar lines for US legalization.
[re=539583]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: Well, there’s still the House o’ Reps. And, actually, the Senate could be replaced by a Magic 8-Ball or a pair of glow-in-the-dark TruckNutz(TM).
[re=539578]comicbookguy[/re]: When we express our sentiments to the new Imperial administration, we’ll say it with Wookies.
[re=539569]Aurelio[/re]: And there you have the root of the issue…illegal imigration. If we don’t stem the tide coming across our southern border, there’s no telling what they’ll take next, now that ‘Thai lady-boy hour’ has been ripped from our lexicon. ‘Siesta’ indeed.
Poor “WALNUTS!” McCain is flailing his pathetic motion-restricted arms around and ranting on the C-SPAN2 (I have the sound down, of course). He is so mad they are trying to pass a law with a majority vote. UNFAIR!
http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx
[re=539591]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: Meaning the police can get as stoned as they want, at any time, and we’re over here wondering why the training isn’t going so well. I think I just contradicted myself, but you are correct: I am for legalization of all drugs, all the time, and you’ll never convince me otherwise. We are supposed to have a right to pursue happiness, end of story.
[re=539596]TGY[/re]: Or, hey! Perhaps we could do a trade with England and give them the Senate in exchange for the House of Lords. Only we’d have to rename it. I’ll think of something, I’m sure.
Well, she sure showed them. They’re not likely to be quite so cocky anymore after the severity of that dose of radioactive SMACKDOWNIUM.
…our glorious legions are adopting a strategy of “turning away ones gaze” in regards to the drug growing by the natives….
Actually, the Vth Augusta and the other legions are there to guard the drugs, so the Empire can keep the price up and continue to finance itself with money from the druglords.
[re=539596]TGY[/re]: Get me a working prototype of a combo product on that.
I say this is just for Boener to get another orange coat of…tan something on his skin.
This is just fucking great. Huffington Post says 10 Dems are being protected by security after threats. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Wednesday that officials from the FBI and Capitol Police briefed Democrats on how to handle perceived security threats.
Hoyer said at least 10 lawmakers who feel that they are at risk of harm are getting attention from the proper authorities.
Hoyer said some posters depict a lawmaker’s face in the crosshairs of a target.
[re=539606]Mr Blifil[/re]: i just wish someone had pumped Waterloo by Abba into the house speakers after HCR was passed.
[re=539608]Aurelio[/re]: Didn’t hear that one from my Socialist Worker rag. Learn something new every bloody day…
[re=539616]Katydid[/re]:
10 Dems are being protected by security after threats. Sometimes Republican theatrics get out of hand. Remember the 2000 election, when Republican staffers were sent to Florida to storm the hanging chad vote-counting center? That was better controlled.
[re=539618]PlanetWingnuta[/re]: THAT would have been awesome!
Hopey could have danced, too.
I thought they started their tea parties at 4 o’clock.
It looks like the Repubs have finally made their peace with the French work ethic.
I smell a David Broder “why can’t the Democrats be more bipartisan?” column coming soon.
Needs moar supermajority.
Republicans in the senate are taking cues from South Carolina legislators, just when you think they cant get any more insane, well they just keep topping themselves.
[re=539547]BlueStateLiberal[/re]: Indeed. How I’d love the luxury of just being able to cut out in the middle of my work day just because I’m tired of my co-workers.
Judd-o needs the extra time in the afternoon after his soothing nappy-nap to draft his amendents to the Reconcilliation bill:
1. The “No Frontsies/Backsies” rule.
2. The “Step on a crack” amendment.
3. The “Five Second Rule” for tongue depressors.
4. The “The Viagra vs. Cialis” protocols.
5. The “No Overdosing Dear Old Grandma with Her Heart Meds” rule.
6. Etc.
Not to worry. The invisible hand of contractor oversight will take care of it.
[re=539558]slappypaddy[/re]: could i please smoke some of what they’re smoking? ….dude, crack is whack. Just ask Whitney Houston.
Also, why does she look so surprised that Republicans are behaving like spoiled children? Has she not been paying attention for like the last year or so?
[re=539616]Katydid[/re]: You’ll be proud to know our very own Snowbilly Grifter put up a map on her Facebook page displaying crosshairs trained on congressmen she’d like to “off.” Of course, they’ll argue it’s “not a big deal,” but just imagine for a moment that McCrazy and her had won, and Obama did such a thing (not that he ever would, he’s too much of a grownup), and how they would be screaming he’s a terrorist threatening elected officials.
[re=539545]arewethereyet[/re]: Todd Rundgren is not the best person to quote in support of Republican shenanigans. Exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxW4U-SOqN8
[re=539558]slappypaddy[/re]: Funnily enough, that’s exactly what the Chávez-haters do in Venezuela. They boycotted the 2005 legislative elections to prove Hugo was a dictator. And when the President’s party and their allies end up with 100% of the seats, that’s exactly what happens.
[re=539616]Katydid[/re]: Assholery in defense of liberty is no crime, or something something.
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LWusOhZpq7w/0.jpg
Reuters, March 24, 2010:
“That is absurd,” Gregg said. “We have suggested a series of amendments that will significantly improve this bill.”
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Gregg seems to have given “improve” a new dictionary definition: ass fuck.
Ending by 2 p.m. gives them more time to plan for 4:20. Those Doritos don’t buy themselves, you know.
[re=539605]TGY[/re]: I say call it The House of Blue Lights. (a House is not a home- Dylan)
I love Claire McCaskill. All she ever does is her job, quietly and forcefully and effectively, except for when she rises to say “What the hell is wrong with you people?!” to crazy people who deserve to hear it.
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