Ha ha, remember when Robert Gibbs said that the Democrats would probably lose control of Congress, if they didn’t shape up? Well, it appears that this news eventually filtered back to the Democrats who still (for the moment) run the House, particularly one Nancy Pelosi, and she and they are pissed and will cut a dry, pudgy Southern motherfucker.
So, yeah, the Democratic House caucus got together last night, and shit got real!
Things heated up as Pelosi jumped in and blasted Gibbs for making “politically inept” comments, according to one source.
“It was bad,” another source said. “She was like: ‘I don’t appreciate it. I don’t know who this guy is. I’ve never met him before. And he’s saying that we’re going to lose the House.’”
A spokesman for Pelosi declined to comment Tuesday night.
Pelosi reportedly said Gibbs’ comments were particularly damaging because they give ammunition to Republicans trying to make the case that Democrats are going to lose in November. “Someone from the White House says it, and [House Minority Whip Eric] Cantor says it, so now you have both sides saying something,” the source said. “So she was very upset.”
Yeah, this Gibbs character, who the hell is this guy, even. Nancy doesn’t have time to watch your flunkies talk smack on the teevee, Obama Administration! Nancy is too busy getting your agenda passed.
But really, Nancy, Gibbs is only speaking truth to (soon to be lost) power! Important political/media analyst Howard Kurtz knows the score:
The Democrats are in trouble this year. You know it, I know it, your Uncle Al knows it, your local bartender knows it. This is not the kind of state secret you need to hire a Russian spy to uncover.
So why was it big news in the political world when Robert Gibbs acknowledged it?
Everyone knows about the coming Democratic bloodbath! Let’s have a look at the numbers over at Congressional Quarterly’s detailed district-by-district map and see how bad it will get, shall we?
Ha ha, all Republicans have to do is win every single one of the “up for grabs” seats, plus twelve of the “leans Dem” or “likely Dem” seats, and they’ll have an unstoppable one-vote majority in the house! The inevitability of this happening is well known to your Uncle Al. [CQ/WP/CQ]
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Fuck fucking dry, pudgy, southern motherfuckers.
How did Kurtz find my Uncle Al? He’s the “funny” uncle, and we miss him.
Geeze, Gibbs that should be clear as the nose on your face. You don’t need to get all quantum mechanical uncertain about it or you may anger the Pacific Heights Mamma Griz.
Kurtz has gone rogue
[re=616820]bfstevie[/re]: I don’t even HAVE an uncle Al.
I’m tired of these blogger lies. I’m going to start a Soda Pop Party.
My fellow Wonketters know I love some Gibbs but he really didn’t need to get so freaked out on us. Dude your forte is bitch slapping the DC press corp, stay focused!
Gibbs should be forgiven for forgetting which party’s which. Happens to Obama all the time.
Kurtz is in the tank for libruls.
I don’t get that chart. Why is the projected seats for dems 26 seats less than right now, but the projected seats for repubs the SAME as right now?
Why is Wonkette, a political comedy site, for christsakes, the only news source to state the issue so clearly? Wonkette is fast becoming the Daily Show, or better yet, the Colbert Report, of the interwebs. Or are they the Wonkette of cable?
C’mon – you know the drill. If even a single Repig gets elected ever again there will be dancing in the streets on Fux Noise and Red State wolverines will be howling with hubris because the country is rejecting liberal ideology and swinging back to the right in a landslide Republican victory.
Kill me now.
…you and your “Liberal Agenda” math! We all know 1+1= WIN!!! When have Rethugglicans let something as meaningless as “facts” or “math” get in the way of stea…errrrr, I mean winning!
That Pelosi moving picture thing has been and always will be my favorite.
I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn’t even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up a river that snaked through the war like a main circuit cable plugged straight into Kurtz.
Yeah, well, based on my Balance of “Rowr!” Scorecard, Aaron Schock will be Speaker next Congress. So take that all of you!
[re=616833]rafflesinc[/re]: It’s because all 28 seats that CQ considers truly “up for grabs” (the number in the yellow box at the bottom) are currently held by the Democrats. This is because 2008 and 2006 was such a wave election that the Dems control a lot of seats in fairly GOP-friendly areas, so their chances of holding them are only around 50-50 even with incumbency figured in.
Of course, if they lost all 28 of those seats, they’d still control the house.
SORRY ABOUT THE NON-FUNNY I’M GOING TO GO WRITE JOKES ABOUT BRISTOL AND LEVI ON US MAGAZINE NOW
Gibbs is just trying to lower expectations. Leading up to the midterms all the Republicans are going to be talking about taking back Congress like they did to Clinton in ’94, and win they fail to win a simple majority in either house Gibbs will be the one saying how even though Americans are sick of Congress and Nancy Pelosi they came out to support Obama’s agenda so that bitch Nancy Pelosi better shut her mouth and fall in line. Or something like that.
Damn, Gibbsey. A grown-ass man like yourself and you fail to take into consideration that you might say some shit that catches Nancy P. during a hot flash. Mmm,mmm, mmm.
Besides, why are we even talking about these has-been parties? The TB’s got this mutha on lock come November. Get out your Jazzy Powerchairs, motor on over to the polls, and watch the revolution unfold.
[re=616833]rafflesinc[/re]: Because of the 28 seats in the “Toss Up” row. The two parties are probably going to swap a couple of seats and come out even, and then there’s a number of Dem-held seats (mostly Blue Dog assholes) which are threatened by the Tea Bag rEVOLution.
But, Josh, everyone’s favorite math boyfriend Nate Silver has used math to calculate that the Democrats are completely doomed because people only slightly prefer Democrats in the generic ballot right now!
Fucking dry pudgy southern motherfuckers? They whine and cry when you cut them. It’s quite annoying. Irritating even. Trust me on this one.
Oh yeah, get Nancy mad — that’s the idea. The anger of the Democratic party is like one of those plants that blooms every hundred years — it’s a rare treat. Hell, they weren’t even angry enough to win in 2006 without the complete ineptness of the Republicans. This could be fun.
Now just because the fact that the Democrats actually will keep their majorities even if they loose a good number of seats is no reason for the mainstream media to stop screaming “THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO TAKE FULL VETO-PROOF MAJORITIES OF BOTH HOUSES THE DEMS ARE DOOMED!!”, as they hope will happen.
Howie Kurtz’s garbled repetition of other people’s poorly-informed opinion is like hearing the internet read aloud on the radio.
I am uncle Al and I know it.
people only slightly prefer Democrats in the generic ballot right now!
Hell. I only slightly prefer the Dems in a generic ballot. But that doesn’t mean I’m ready to hand the country back to the wingnut fuckwads who got us into this mess in the first place.
It is surprising that Pelosi doesn’t know who Barry’s Gibbs is; she’s a Baby Boomer, surely she’s seen Saturday Night Fever.
[re=616844]nappyduggs[/re]:
1980s = Culture Wars
2010s = Vermiculture Wars
Clearly Gibbs was trying to scare the stupid hippies into putting down the bong for a minute, getting off their lazy, food-stamp-fattened asses, and actually voting.
[re=616837]AngryBlakGuy[/re]: Though I do love the NY Post headline about the US-England World Cup game, something like “US Wins 1-1.” That was funny.
It’s all motivation Nancy. Just like Major Reisman shooting off the rope to get one of his Dirty Dozen over the top, Gibbs is trying to get the liebrul base off it’s ass.
[re=616841]Josh Fruhlinger[/re]: Well if you’re casting around for something non-math related to write about, we have a few handy suggestions. Write us. We’re here to help.
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p.s. You looked hot in that video. No, really. Weren’t there any fans or something?
Here’s the thing. People think Pelosi is a “San Franciso liberal”. No. The fine people of San Francisco elected her, but Nancy’s from a hard fighting political family in Baltimore. No dungeness crab quiche daintily eaten at a reception for her, it’s crab cakes and body blows in a smoke filled room. Gibbs should be worried and looking out for cars with fading bumper stickers that say “Eat Bertha’s Mussels” and “Believe”.
[re=616862]Captain Hook[/re]: Josh and Gibbs are trying to lower the h-bar, and for that they should have to walk the Planck.
[re=616859]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: I’ll vote, but do I have to put down my bong???
[re=616884]MOG[/re]: They can have my bong when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
I’m sorry but pudgy and Southern doesn’t mesh with dry. Sweaty, sure.
Gibbsy was just playin’ the soft bigotry of low expectations card, and Pelosi is now playing the faux-outrage card. This dog and pony show is just meant to rile the democratic voters, angry up their blood, so they will put down their bongs, jugs, hypodermic needles, crack pipes, and copies of The Communist Manifesto long enough to vote in November.
[re=616856]user-of-owls[/re]:
Mmm, vermiculture. Ahh, that settles it. Singapore Mei Fun for lunch it is. Thanx,, Owlsie!
[re=616862]user-of-owls[/re]:
Have you been commenting over at The Hill? The Palin hookworm Conjecture has curled its ugly face over there.
Gibbs is just doing what he’s paid to do, deliver Hopey’s message. This particular message is, “if shit goes bad in November, it’s not my fault”. Hopey don’t like to have shit traced back to him. Nothing is or ever can be HIS fault.
Who is throwing the party for Robert Gibbs’ testicles? Nancy don’t suffer insubordination. She takes names, and crushes manhoods.
A big “thank you” to Master Ginger Fruhlinger for posting the CQ graphic, making this page a one-stop e-mail shop for me to send to irritating relatives and friends convinced that the sky is falling.
The focus is on the “leans” and “likely” seats, but if you’re wondering why the system is rigged and doomed, look at the “safe” districts. 333 seats out of 435 (76%), almost evenly split between the embarrassingly corrupt two-party system, will never be in dispute short of sex outside of marriage or the bribe is so naked on its face whatever slick Repub or DINO can shame the electorate into voting (note: this doesn’t apply to openly scummy areas like Louisiana). The votes will never change, the politicians will never feel the heat.
As always, I don’t blame the system, I blame the people who let this slide. Sorry for the joyless bitterness instead of the snarky, sarcastic bitterness!
Maybe now that Nancy’s mad, she’ll get enough spine to start an investigation into Bushyt Misadministration war crimes? Want to re-energize the base? Dick Cheney in an orange jumpsuit and leg shackles sounds like a start.
So basically what you’re saying is that no matter how hard the Democrats try to F*ck things up, chances are excellent they will still be in charge after mid terms. Boy-o I can sure see why that Pelosi gal is so angry.
[re=616859]Advocatus_Diaboli[/re]: word.
Gibbs might try tazering the complacent ‘voters’ to get up off their asses and go to the polls.
I loves me some Pelosi when she gets mad. You go, Baltimore gal.
i grew up in Baltimore when Pelosi’s father was Mayor D’Alessandro.
[re=616914]Prommie[/re]: Saw a poll on TPM saying that most Dem voters think this election will be just peachy for the Dems despite every other indicator saying they’re in deep doo-doo. Gibbs statement was an attempt of getting all those who thought that all they needed to do was vote for Obama and then sit back and watch “Mad Men” on dvd to stop whining about Obama’s inability single-handidly destroy the insurance and financial industry and get off their asses. Angry elderly people and Fox News brainwashed Tea Partiers are way more fired up this year than pot smoking hipsters.
Did she not get the memo that the Administration is (wisely) doing this to try close the enthusiasm gap typical of Liberals during mid terms.
If the election was held today, everyone would be really confused because it was scheduled for November.
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