Great news, America! We may be ruined as a nation, and the alleged Democrat elected by a big majority back in 2008 may have done nothing but “make concessions” to the Republicans and Teabaggers and Tax-Dodging Corporations and Wall Street and the Banks and the Pentagon and the Health Care Industry since the day he took office back in January of 2009, but weeping boozebag John Boehner maybe likes Barack Obama a little more today! Don’t you feel better? Also, if you like to physically abuse your spouse or kids or whatever, here’s a good lesson for them: In time, if they’re beaten enough, they may begin to enjoy it to the point that a Washington news story will explain how the relationship has brightened!
We don’t personally blame the Reuters reporter responsible for this awful inside-baseball “and they were all pals at the end” D.C. report, but we do blame the entire American News Industry for making this kind of thing the standard:
Analysis: Obama and Boehner relationship brightens with deal
(Reuters) – The spending cut pact that stopped a government shutdown may not make Barack Obama and John Boehner friends, but their relationship improved in ways that could help them mold compromises in battles to come.
Because that’s what really matters, as more desperately needed programs in America are intentionally destroyed by millionaires in the midst of the most prolonged financial disaster since the 1930s’ Great Depression. Everybody cool with each other on Capitol Hill and in the White House? Good! Don’t want to upset industry or anything, heh heh. [Reuters]
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This gives Villagers big wood.
They really do get off on abusive relationships, that's for sure. "Compromise" means that the Republicans never have to say their sorry, regardless of how outrageous their actions.
We're like a family. When times are tight, like any family, we have to give most of our money to our obscenely rich uncle and the rest of us have to live within whatever means we have left.
And we occasionally have to throw one or two kids out onto the street, but it doesn't mean we're BAD people.
You know that throwing kinds out in the street is typical of the liberal waste of resources that got us into this mess.
You can sell the girls when they get to be 8 or 10, boys can be hired out as chimney sweeps. (The uber-rich love wood fires with athentic stone chimneys, don't ya know?)
Hell, the GOP wants the boys, too.
It's animal experiments for the lot of yeh.
http://opinion.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c7de353ef0…
The uncle who molested us as kids and promises to molest OUR kids too, if we can ever afford to have them.
major WIN! pretty much sums up the entire sorry state of this cuntry the last 10+ years
Well, i'm glad i read this while i was drunk.
It's 12:42 AM and unless we are night shift nurses, we are all drunk.
ah, but it's almost 3 on the east coast. And we could all be drunk night shift nurses, like the kind they have in hospitals Bill Frist owns.
What kind of loser gets on this site at 3 am? Seriously, get a freaking life!!!
You bunch of lucky shits. At 12:42, I had woken up yet again, coughing and sneezing from spring allergies. At least if I'd been drunk, I probably would have minded it less.
But it's gonna make the hangover worse. I hope I remember seeing that pic so I don't wake up and have to see it all over again. Enof to trigger the DTs.
Oh, and needs moar buttsecks. Or tits. Whatevah.
The Obama/Boehner relationship is just a rebound fling now that the tea party wants Boehner's head on a pike. For the first time ever, I am rooting for the tea baggers on this one issue.
Release the hounds!
What about the Krakins!!
Just go to walmart…
http://bestandworstofokc.files.wordpress.com/2010…
Ha-ha, you know, I was just thinking about how in 1936 the Republicans managed to cut spending and pretty much strangle the recovery that the New Deal had been moving forward. Thank goodness today's R's have learned from history, and are instead convinced that the New Deal was the cause of the Great Depression.
30s recession leads to the New Deal and help for people out of work
2000s recession leads to the destruction of same
What? It really doesn't make any sense at all.
"Thank goodness today's R's have learned from history, and are instead convinced that the New Deal was the cause of the Great Depression. "
They learned from history, all right, but not in the way I think you mean it. When the goal is, "How do we cause another Depression and strangle any hope of recovery?", they're learning from history all too well.
If Tiger Woods is Blasian, what will Barry and Johnny's kids be? Blorange? Blangerine? Bloompa-loompa?
Blumpkin?
Kenyange.
Awesome.
muslimatto.
as opposed to this: http://www.dairyqueen.com/us-en/eats-and-treats/m…
Abominations onto the lord.
Blastards?
Blastomas?
Blitarded?
Blasshole.
A crybaby?
TAN-gerine.
Orangutan!
A mistake
Glad to see that Barry is growing into his new relationship.
However I do fear that "Orange" Boehner is just enticing him only to later pimp him out to the fatcat Republican overlords.
It's all about the money to them, Barry, you'll end up just another 'ho in the harem to these guys.
To paraphrase the great Lynda Barry, "What they so constantly do to everyone else, they will NEVER do to you".
After all of Boehner's hard work (and tears) America should have given him a bigger diamond.
…America should have given him a bigger diamond.
Or we could just shove a large lump of coal up his ass and make him clench…
The system works! As long as Republicans ask for obscene sacrifice from working people and the Democrats meet them more than half way every time, I'm sure that we will win the future somehow.
The future is not all it is cracked up to be. Particularly when the oil runs out. And global warming causes massive droughts. And all the fish are off limits for human consumption because of mercury poisoning. And the earthquakes and tsunamis keep occurring. And then there is the radiation from nuclear waste we can't dispose of safely. I'd settle for winning the 1840s, minus the slavery (but of course we still have that too these days).
So, Road Warrior but without the fast cars?
Road Warrior without the fast cars – worst remake ever!
Imagine "The Wez" in an Amish buggy, no turbine powered trucks etc. And Max on a mountain bike. And shitloads of confederate flags draped all over every goddamned thing, and truck nuts applied to buggies, horses, bikes and pedestrians. Idiots wandering around with slingshots and pointy sticks if they weren't lucky enough to get some real firepower. And then those too stupid to take care of their guns so they blow up like cartoon characters when they try to fire them. I'm thinking it isn't as funny looking when it happens for real, but by that time, it might be the funniest thing around.
There has been too much violence. Too much pain. But Boehner has an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Give him and Cantor your uteri, the environment, NPR, and the whole of health care reform, and he'll spare the DINO's political lives. Just walk away and he'll give you a safe passageway in 2012. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror.
Can I have a razor-edged boomerang?
Just one teensy-weensy little…
Republicans ask for obscene sacrifice from working people and the Democrats give them even more than they're asking for every time
All righty then, fixed.
If by "Win the future" you mean die before Social Security totally runs out, well, then, I'm old enough to have a good shot at winning the future.
Yeah, big deal, we've known Barry is our first black Republican president for months.
What we want to know is "who's on the mound?" and "who's behind the plate?"
the submissive one
I'm worried that Sara Benincasa is gonna fall out of love with Barry over this. It's certainly putting a strain on my affections.
Hell, I'm worried Sara is gonna stop talking dirty to us.
It would take Obama sacrificing a newborn baby ring seal, halal-style, on the capitol steps whilst covered by FOX News whilst cheered on by the local contingent tea party for that relationship to even start to be put to the test.
Well I just got home it's three thirty and tasty lead paint chips is now following me and 601 other poor souls. I got very excited hoping I had a new friend but no sir without even a visit to me she is copying our naughty in bits and pieces for all to see. I wish I could fax her a picture of my ass but that is not nice I know. Still the same old sad lusting after Jared as in her other id's and loving of little babies and hating our President and wishing we would let her comment here. The early pages are filled with quiet rage and are deeply poignant. It's all so goth I just had Wuthering Heights roll through my sleepy little innocent head. Which reminds me why family planning is so important.
Ah, sounds like the old "Helen Johnson I want to let you know that I saw your email contact as when I was browsing and decided to get in touch with you for a friendship and for you to know who I am, So that I can send you my picture to know about me" trick, eh?
This is even sadder. I see from her twitter she may be part of the racist anti birth control ads in NYC along with some kind of global warming denial blog I won't touch. The crazy is strong in this one.
Look at it this way. We have shoved a bug so far up its ass, it will be consumed internally by those tasty lead whatevers working their way up its clammy rectum.
Oh, I suppose I'm just disappointed it's not happening a little faster.
Now that people on the right love Obama, will they stop with those posters of Obama with the Hitler mustache?
don't be silly. it's a Benny Hill mustache.
They are actually surveyor's moustaches.
WIN!!
Is he still black? (Remember it only takes 1/64th.)
He can give them everything, starting with liberals, they an't never gonna love him like we do, even as he gives away everything we care about.
And yet, somehow, even though he's clearly not a stupid man, he keeps trying.
Those are actually LaRouchites…nothing makes them happy…
No, but it'll go back to its original meaning as the highest compliment a righty can give.
No, cuz they like Hitler.
"I'm sorry you made me hit you. You just make me so angry!! But I promise, it'll never happen again."
Don’t want to upset industry or anything, heh heh
"Industry"–what's that?
All McDonalds are independently owned franchises.
As are the porno movies being made in the San Fernando Valley.
What else is left?
Wait, I thought the tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy bullshit was to make them formal lovers? Whatever happened to that? What; do Boehner and Obama consummate the relationship if the president agrees to stepdown and turn over governance of the country to the Pentagon?
Boehner/Republicans to Obama: No one's ever gonna' love you more than I do.
What a dysfuctional-assed relationship, huh? You know, it'd be great if the president would ask those folks who, you know, actually elected him president to do something progressive. I'm sure they'd actually like to mobilize for something worthwhile for once in his presidency.
We're not asking for the world; we're just asking you to spend a little time with us.
Sorry – we are firmly in the "Friend" category. Obama is never going to go out with us because he just doesn't think of us that way.
So why do I feel cheap, used and Fucked?
What – you've never done tequila shots with friends and woke the next morning, unable to remember who you slept with last night? Barry just wants things to go back to the way they were; you know, pretend it never happened …
what orange people have always made me think of:
http://attractions.uptake.com/blog/files/2009/03/…
…the alleged Democrat elected by a big majority back in 2008 may have done nothing but “make concessions” to the Republicans and Teabaggers and Tax-Dodging Corporations and Wall Street and the Banks and the Pentagon and the Health Care Industry since the day he took office back in January of 2009…
To be fair, his party DID just lose 63 House seats in the last election after the other side spent two years calling him a radical leftist. Imagine the reaction from them and their trusty stenographers in the corporate media if he tried something genuinely progressive.
As much as Citizens United was something that couldn't be mitigated as much as we'd like, it'd be a bit disingenuous for anyone to imply that the Democrats weren't a major party to their downfall. The Dems quite literally got a unified message (i.e. "they (the Republicans) are trying to buy government with foreign money funneled through the Chamber of Commerce") just two weeks before the mid-terms.
This is not even to mention the not-insignificant amount of so-called Democrats who didn't just try to distance themselves from the president, but actually ran against his (and their own!) accomplishments over his first two years. That's the kind of stuff of desperation you simply don't see on the other side. Can you imagine Republicans running against Bush in 2006? Many tried to distance themselves, but there was not concerted effort to run against him and his policies, and that was after his administration had totally gone off the rails in popularity.
Nope, more than the obstacle of the media and corporate money is the Dems tried-and-failed tactic of folding in hopes that they won't be totally crushed.
Agreed. Dems never stick to their guns in the face of adversity. Neither to Republicans (in the face of Tea Party adversity), but at least they have the gall to pretend that they believed in racial segregation or shutting down the UN the entire time. Dems will try to find a fancy way to explain their change of heart.
That is the one and only reason that I begrudgingly can't hate Ron Paul. I disagree with the vast majority of his ideas, but at least he doesn't change them every election cycle.
I still think that the difference is what it also was in Europe in the time between the world wars. Good men hesitate to do evil things to stop evil men. But what throws their timing off even worse is that being good themselves, it's hard for them to realize just how far evil ones will go. By the time the good guys have taken the measure of their adversaries, the bad guys have already established control of the levers of power. Whistleblowers and men and women of foolhardy conscience are summarily dealt with. The part of wisdom (and what certainly looks like cowardice) is to lie low and watch for opportunities to drive wedges. At least, I hope to hell that is what Barack is doing.
When 257 House Demoncrats enacted health insurance reform it was "rammed down American's throats", but 239 Repubicans push their agenda it's "the American people spoke in the last election".
Do you know how many liberals there are in Wisconsin? 381,580.
How many Dicktards: 397,874.
Dicktards win! Majority rules!
But how many of those 397,874 Dicktards in Wisconsin came out of the pressing of the wrong button in Excel?
To be fair, his party DID just lose 63 House seats in the last election after the other side spent two years calling him a radical leftist.
That is certainly true — and well documented here on the Wonkette! — but all that stuff I listed happened when the Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Honestly, what is the point of taking part in an election when "your side" wins completely and still doesn't do a goddamned thing but bend over for the likes of BofA, Chase, GE, GM and the health insurance industry?
Well, if we could send them hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign cash we might have a voice!
what? oh, we did send Obama hundreds of millions of dollars! Maybe he likes the simplicity of one big check instead of millions of tiny ones……
"his party DID just lose 63 House seats in the last election after the other side spent two years calling him a radical leftist. Imagine the reaction … if he tried something genuinely progressive."
Sorry, BMW (hey! I see what you did there!) darlin', but I'm gonna have to call bullshit on that, or at least semi-demi-bullshit. While it's absolutely true that they've done nothing but call Pres. Obama a commie-nazi…
And it's at least probable, based on that reaction, that they would have gone even more insane if he'd done anything genuinely progressive…
The obverse (I'm pretty sure that's the word I want) doesn't seem to be true. Sure, they call him a commie when he does anything to the left of Joe McCarthy, but they also call him a commie, not an OK guy, when he caves in to them, either. What the hey, if *everything and anything* I did resulted in foaming at the mouth rage and tasteful lynching jokes, I'm pretty sure I'd eventually decide "Fuckit, nothing is going to please these people and nothing is even going to shut them up", and decide that you can't please everyone.
"Tasteful" lynching jokes?
Yeah, the sarcasm was intentional. One of the least endearing things about these returds is that they seem indifferent to the cheapness of their shots.
Yeah, I got the sarcasm. :) I thought it was a lovely turn of phrase.
"I welcome their hatred." -FDR
Who do you blame when your Galt is a brat?
Pampered and spoiled little plutocrat
Blaming the Galts is quite fun but it's lame
You know exactly who's to blame
The Boehner and Obama
Catchy! Can you put that to music? Maybe film a video? It'll top "Friday" for sure.
i can definitely do the former. the latter would be tough–i don't have a video camera.
Appropriately enough, those lyrics fit perfectly with the Oompa Loompa song.
Beat on the brat,
Beat on the brat,
Beat on the brat
with a baseball bat, oh yeah…
what can you do?
what can you do?
with a brat like that…
Which one is Veruca Salt?
I keep hoping that it's all part of a master plan. As we come into the 2012 elections, the Republicans are lulled into overconfidence. They try to crush Medicaid and Medicare, eliminate Social Security, defund health care, and reduce taxes on the wealthy and corporations to 10%. At that point, their evil plan revealed to all the world, ObamaMan leaps from a tall building, rallies the poor, working and middle class voters and — on a platform of straight up economic populism, tax increases for the wealthy, infrastructure jobs programs, and single payer healthcare — leads the Democrats to a 70 vote majority in the Senate and 300 vote majority in the House.
Then unicorns fly out of my butt and I fart rainbows and sunshine.
That is my deepest hope, too, Booj. Except for the practical problem of spiral unicorn horns escaping your rectum without bloodshed.
That is what I am crossing my fingers for as well, in my perfect world Barry gets re-elected and the Teabuggers and Republicans have overreached so insanely that we take back the House and Barry's balls fly back into place and he starts ramming shit through like crazy and we have single-payer healthcare, free abortions for everyone, the arts get billions of dollars in grants and funding and I fucking work consistently again for the first time in 2 years.
And, just for the hell of it, Barry holds press conference after press conference to laugh uproariously at the latest whining from the teabaggicans after the latest fabulous bill passed. And then he points at them and sings "Loooosers!"
And then he throws glitter at them and says, "Look, that's the magical fairy dust I farted this morning."
And then he straightens his turban and laughs his ass off as he leaves the podium.
I am so totally with you, except I plan on shitting vanilla ice cream,
which will be handy when I can't afford food.
I can't wait until 2012, it's all goona be better.
That probably would have worked when we actually had a super majority, but the unicorn version is OK with me also too.
I'd settle for the rainbow and sunshine farts
Then the Democrats figure out how to fuck up 70 votes in the senate and 300 in the house completely by being all "moderate" and "compromisey' and "triangulational".
At that point in the fantasy, I've usually already reached le petit mort and am falling asleep. But it is a nice thought.
Relationship brightens? This one of those unions made in hell where the wife is thinking “I'll change him after we're married.” In this case I can't tell which one is the wife.
"Well, he doesn't hit me."
I fear it's the one bending over and grabbing her ankles.
If you don't know who the chump is at the table, it is you.
To me it seems like mom keeps giving my sister ponies and Ice cream when she’s not hanging with here slutty friends at the mall. Mean while I am stuck cutting the grass painting the house and doing whatever crap job she can think of, dammit why oh why doesn’t mommy love me.
…. Sorry about the baggage.
ACHTUNG BEIDE SEITEN
ACHTUNG BEIDE POLE
SCHLAFEN IST NOCH NICHT DAS STERBEN
ABER LAIBACH IST IMMER BEREIT
I dunno, dude. More:
Du bist das Schiff, ich der Kapitän
Wohin soll denn die Reise geh'n?
Ich seh' im Spiegel dein Gesicht
Du liebst mich denn ich lieb' dich nicht
Ya, Sure
(;,;)
dogs are you sayin that we should be singing dada choral to Barry & Boner?
Who's your Dada?
I bet downfist troll doesn't downfist this.
Picture the furrowed brow, the dimly puzzled look in its close set eyes, the finger frozen above the mouse clicky button, the harsh panting breath from the slack-jawed mouth as drool splatters on the keyboard, the "thought" processes arrested to "eeee?"…
But how is Harry Reid getting along with them? If he's not happy he can be such a bitch.
I don't want to think about Pelosi . . .
So going with the Civil War theme, this is the point where Lincoln and Jefferson Davis become good friends, and Lincoln cedes everything south of New York?
If only. Is it too late?
I have never felt truly comfortable traveling any further south than General Lee got north.
Imagine living there. I still can't believe I'm living in a slave state. And I'd like to say that living in liberal Fairfax County helps, but more than half of my neighbors work for the military/cia/dod. And with the arsenal I know these guys have I'm a little worried about what happens to me when the new civil war starts. Probably should have kept my commie mouth shut.
How do you guys do it, I remember bringing a young project Engineer down to North Carolina to visit a customer. We stopped at a roadside diner right out of My Cousin Vinnie. After the waitress repeated the breakfast special three times for my Engineer he ordered toothpick and water. After the waitress left he said he would wait outside for me to finish. Feeling bad I went outside to try to convince him to come back in and give the food and the locals a chance, after all food is food and people are basically people. After completing my speech what drives by but an old pickup with a two by four bed which had the largest pig I have seen standing on, not in a crate mind you just standing on it. I gave in, paid the check, left and never looked back.
Was the young project engineer scared of religiously unclean pork product?
Not much halal foodstuffs to be procured south of Washington/Fairfax…young engineering peep should have brought their own pita bread and dates GTFooD survival pack.
And then Lincoln writes the "assification proclamation," turning all northern free blacks into slaves owned by textile factories.
This shit is depressing. I'll stick to the fake White House and rewatch The West Wing.
Be sure to get "The American president" also (another Sorkin product). You can just play the awesome speech over and over (which could just an easily be given today as back in the mid 90's): http://tinyurl.com/3opvz
Good idea! I'm going back to Disney's Hall of Preznits for some validation that this experiment hasn't completely failed.
Daydreaming about Obama hiring Sorkin to write speeches…maybe under an assumed name…
Making me puke, first thing Sunday morning.
It's like being in college again. Thanks, Ken!
~
When it all goes smash in US Merikka remember:
Eat the Rich: there's only one thing they're good for
Eat the Rich: take one bite now – come back for more
The thing that people forget is the incredibly marbling to be found in rich-people flesh. Especially the ones that are marginally overweight. Makes for a really juicy man-steak.
It's nice to read you again.
Come on baby, eat the rich,
Put the bite on the son of a bitch,
Don't mess around, don't give me no switch,
C'mon baby eat the rich!
The Bum on the Rods
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/196508
You know the teabaggers and Föx just might accept the odd couple if it weren't for a few stumbling blocks:
1. Miscegenation.
2. The buttsecks,
3. They think Barry is a Chicago thug, Muslim, with a Alinsky-style Left wing radical agenda.
Also #3, that he's an illegal alien.
Imaginary illegal alien
Well, and they think that Boehner is now a liberal.
Boehner's an octoroon, too.
Those coconut cookies??!!?
Now that Barry has the budget crisis wrapped up, he can go to Wisconsin and stand up for teacher's and worker's rights. Right?
One more thing:
I wonder if they have cute little pet names for each other?
Like "my sweet little Bonnie" and "the Prez."
Or, "big Johnnie" and "my Nigga."
A plurality of Mississippi voters think their friendship should be illegal.
Mississipi REPUBLICAN voters. Not to quibble, though. Well played.
Mississippi is moderate compared to the nutbaggers in Phoenix….
"Mississippi Republican" is a redundancy as far as I'm concerned. They have a black party and a white party, and the black one doesn't count so that's it. It's like parallel governments. Blacks get to rule at the municipal level in their communities and in some regions, and whites get everything else.
Mississippi is a special kind of shame, I hate to say it, special in that it's been a particularly socially toxic society for many, many, many decades.
Jeff Greenfield's new book is a collection of what-if alternate histories of recent US history. Two alternative scenarios seem like interesting thought experiments to me.
1.) What if Barry is right? What if other-cheek-turning to the racist idiocracy should eventually penetrate their blood-brain barriers, and the culture war, class war, and neo-Civil war subside. Reflexive hatefulness is replaced by reason, and maybe improved eating habits.
2.) What if Barry comes out swinging and shooting, calls the Republican assholes all the things we call them here, and turns the volume up to 11? He demands Thomas' resignation or impeachment. He sends federal troops into Wisconsin to seize election records. He pushes the limits of executive power to yank subsidies to oil companies and factory farming, pulls troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Germany, and demands Congress tax corporations and the wealthy properly or he stops actually spending the money Congress appropriates in their states. When they howl and file suit, he smirks and snarls, "Fuck you. What are you going to do about it?" and smacks them with another assault.
Yes, I know, fat chance of either. But who could foresee the big shifts of history like Biebermania?
I believe the (so-called) hyper-partisanship in the House stems partly from carefully drawn congressional district boundaries, aided by masses of election, demographic, marketing and other data. (Look at how Delay redistricted Texas back in 2003.) The boundaries are drawn to make a seat so safe an incumbent's only worry is a primary challenge from the extremes. This pushes them away from the center.
One remedy is to somehow make the district lines shorter. That's probably hopeless.
The other is California's new "top two" primary, with only the top two vote getters moving on to the general election. Though it tilts against third party candidates, the new approach should give major candidates an incentive to stay (and act) near the center. Washington State has this too.
I also think any political advertising — that is an ad that names a candidate — must also have the name of the person responsible for the content of the ad. The voters should know who is vouching for the ad.
Oh yeah, almost forgot… snark, snark, snark.
I vote for # 2. I would so love to see the GOP. Get the smackdown.
And Bieber comes out of the closet in 3, 2, 1…
Our newest lovebirds are monitoring Biebermania much like LBJ monitored Khe Sanh…
"What if Barry comes out swinging and shooting, calls the Republican assholes all the things we call them here, and turns the volume up to 11? He demands Thomas' resignation or impeachment. He sends federal troops into Wisconsin to seize election records. He pushes the limits of executive power to yank subsidies to oil companies and factory farming, pulls troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, and Germany, and demands Congress tax corporations and the wealthy properly or he stops actually spending the money Congress appropriates in their states. When they howl and file suit, he smirks and snarls, "Fuck you. What are you going to do about it?" and smacks them with another assault. "
I think I just came.
I know my shorts are all sticky all of a sudden…
The scary thing is if you think the TeaTards are insane now, imagine how apeshit apeshitty they'd be if Barry called out the inner Alinsky and went uber-lefty on everyone. My guess is that the Secret Service would tell Barry that in no way would he be allowed to attend a play.
Obama has no "inner Alinsky." What he does have is an inner Wimp.
At this point, I am seriously entertaining the idea that the man is a razor's edge away from being some kind of sociopath.
<bangs head against wall>
This relationship will never work. Boehner is neither clean nor well spoken.
What they meant to say is that Boehner changes to a brighter orange when he's happy.
So, he's a mood douche?
"(Reuters) – The spending cut pact that stopped a government shutdown may not make Barack Obama and John Boehner friends, but their relationship improved in ways that could help them mold compromises in battles to come."
It's really too bad David Broder died before he could see his dream come to fruition.
No. No its not.
David Broder would still think Barry wasn't willing to concede enough.
In fairness, they probably do get cable news in Hell, so he may be aware of this development.
My guess is Hell has FOX playing 24 hours a day. Which should confuse the fuck out of a lot of Conservatives when they get there
"Hell has FOX playing 24 hours a day"
And somehow also manages to have a continuous loop of "Hotel California".
Nah. (To fuck over your comment with unsolicited observance) That would mean a grasping of irony & admission to teh scary imperfection. Instead, whatever otherworldly pain felt would be instantly suppressed by the ensuing eye satisfaction and flame-quenching via collective, vehement, cacoethic, intrinsically wet masturbation.
Thank you Ken, I needed this.
The Leninist/Maoist in me (bad class background) was hoping for the shutdown, you know Worse/Better.
Right now it just seems abusive.
But as a friend said about Yeltsin: the best thing about him is that he is so much better than what is coming next. (Always look on the bright side of life, right?)
I, selfishly, was looking forward to the shutdown so the fucking traffic wouldn't be so bad on the beltway on Monday. Does that make me a bad person?
The Stalinist in me wants to set up the firing squads.
Does that make me a bad person?
Sigh, come Monday morning I will have reverted to right-wing-deviationalist-Browder-Popular-Frontism, justifing me going to work to buy more alcohol.
Great Weekend acting out! Mor Wonkette pitchforks!!!!
I have had a relationship with a Boner for many years now. It has its ups and downs, just like any other relationship. But I find that if I keep a tight grip on it, there's usually a Happy Ending.
Hahahahahaha! Whimper!
That's just plain nuts.
Maybe Barry can grow tits on his back and shave his ass, then Boehner can marry him.
# THIS IS WHY AMERICA IS A LEADER IN NEW IDEAS
"Barak, you got no tits and tight box."
"John, get off my back."
(h/t Ruth Brown)
I heard that attributed to Sophie Tucker, but it's one of my favorite dirty jokes evah!
I do believe Miz. Brown introduced it as a Sofie and Ernie joke.
Yeah, I just don't give a shit anymore. I'm going to continue being raped, being told the entire time that "we all have to make painful sacrifices." Meanwhile, GE, et al, will never again pay taxes, will continue raking in million dollar bonuses every year, and when those of us who are making sacrifices decide to no longer make use of these corporations' services, and they begin to fail, they will be bailed out by the government, which we will of course be required to pick up the tab.
Fuck the both of them. You want real reform? Single term limits for all. Do your job and get the fuck out of my life.
My fear is that term limits would encourage selling out to the highest bidder, to become a one-term water boy.
And exactly how is that different from this present mess?
Picture needs more burnt sienna.
Don't know about how successful Barry and Boner could be as a couple. When I think orange and black, Halloween is the first thing out of the popper (sorry Orioles, Giants, and Flyers fans). Scary, especially with bats like Bachmann flying around. If it is Halloween in the spring, then it is very unlikely that Obamar and Agent Orange will be tipping any rich folk outhouses.
What gripes me the most is the idea of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels looking down on us from the hereafter and going "Hah! Toldja so!"
Socialism and Democracy: good in theory, bad in execution. Because in both systems, powergrabbing f**ktard a**hat humans will rise to the top and only want to pi** on everyone below to keep their station.
And in the meantime, Mark Twain, George Carlin, and Kurt Vonnegut, having eventually decided that an afterlife is no more patently ridiculous than anything they saw on Earth, are drinking, smoking their dried plant matter of choice, looking for a fourth for poker, and having a good laugh while comparing notes on The Damned Human Race.
Agreed, and I nominate Dorothy Parker for the fourth,
Good thing Newt's not the jealous type.
Ad we know this how?
Not even Newt Gingrich could be that hypocritical.
The one's that fuck around are even more possesive, they know how lovers talk about, and feel about, their spouses.
He's just never gotten over his first love: Newt Gingrich.
"The one's that fuck around are even more possesive"
a/k/a, "You don't look under the bed unless you've hidden there yourself".
You're selling Newt short. I bet he could be even more hypocritical.
I guess you're right, now that you mention it.
There are oodles of depths he hasn't sunk to yet.
makes one shudder…
There are oodles of depths he hasn't sunk to yet.
I think you meant "that we have not found out about yet".
ttommy, don't laugh, I heard Newt mockingly call Obama "a Euro" yesterday in Iowa, and wanting to bring "european systems" to the US. Wait, not another nonsensical label on this guy. European values — the newest Bogie man for the scared little teatard bunnies to be afraid of.
“Eurotrash” is the latest Rightard buzzword. American Exceptionalism run amok. I guess they think belittling other cultures makes them look better. Our upstart young Greedocracy is so perfect by comparison, I suppose. I keep a valid passport handy, Radio.
You can always sleep in my spare bedroom.
You are too kind, and way too trusting. I can be trusted, but millions (prolly more) cannot, Z. The internet is a wild and crazy place; I would check my instinct for hospitality at the door if I were you. Not to say the offer is not appreciated, my friend.
Probly, mean Oreo and got the dyslexic.
Oh, yeah, well then Gingrich is "a dollar" meaning he is nearly worthless.
But Newt's really good at causing divorces, so maybe we shouldn't expect BoeHope to last very long as a power-couple.
Best at causing his own.
weeping boozebag
I've have you know I only drink my booze from a box, not a bag!!
(sobs)
Today, we are all experimental subjects:
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19798680/ns/enterta…
"Obama and Boehner relationship brightens with deal"
Brush with Deal twice daily for a healthier, brighter smile!
Safe when taken as directed. Avoid prolonged use.
oh come on. the media has to write about SOMETHING. obv the only interesting story available is the gov't shutdown. it's not the fault of the press if nothing is going on in the world.
geez. you people.
Yeah, this story was pretty much written months ago and the moment a deal was worked out, the editors hit the "publish" button. If you were expecting to a story that says "After deal, Obama and Boehner defriend each other on Facebook in anger" you'd be mistaken.
"Oh Good For Them: ‘Obama and Boehner Relationship Brightens’"
Did Boner hit the radioactive level of fake tan?
"Where the orange women at?"
Fab.
"weeping boozebag John Boehner maybe likes Barack Obama a little more today"
Because Obama's caving on every issue has made Boehner's life a lot easier with the tea baggers and his GOP colleagues. Why wouldn't he like Obama?
You mean like Planned Parenthood, Title X, Public TV/Radio, the EPA and a bunch of other programs he held on to?
The battle's not over for them yet.
Why wouldn't like Obama? Let me list some things:
Cause Obama is black?
And got a smoking hot wife?
And got the bomb?
And got the motorcade?
And the helicopters
And got a bunch of whinney white liberals on his left flank? (as opposed to bat shit crazy on his right flank.)
Everyone knows Obama is smarter?
Obama is not Orange?
Obama can sink a three pointer?
Just because Obama caves, doesn't mean Boehner likes him.
Behind every dependancy there is a resentment.
Good points. Thank you for reminding me of all this. I've been pissed off at Barry all weekend.
weeping boozebag
classic
Because he's a typical Cincinnati thug.
Play it again, Barry. https://picasaweb.google.com/11400799981044075510…
Ugarte: You despise me, don't you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
Ha, yes!
Fun Charts!
CEO Pay http://projects.nytimes.com/executive_compensatio…
Halve the deficit http://tinyurl.com/4vtt3fd
How the wealthiest 400 Americans tax rates have plunged: http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/…
there's nothing like a good ass-fucking to cement a "relationship"
Sodomy saved my marriage. Honest fact.
♫♪ Orange people got no reason
To live ♪♫
needz moar top hats, spats and monocles.
Boehner need to do someting with that hair. Do you know who else has really bad hair?
There Fixed!
Carrot Top?
Boehner is more Carrot Face.
Big Bither………….Donald Trump!
Boehner / Obama in 2012 !
does vilify the coloreds?
NPR is saved but heating assistance is slashed? Who is that a victory for? The increasingly desperate Americans from the Bronx to Alaska will can now heat their homes with the latest episode of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me"? Hooray.
Fuck this shit.
This is the negotiating away of all fundamental values that I can believe in!
Brown and orange is just so 70's.
It's a Boehmer!
Just saw a woman wearing a "Yes We Can" tshirt. Trying to remember why I was so fucking sure we would if only we elected the right guy.
Glad Barry has a new friend, though.
Nope, he was a northern version of a redneck, whatever the correct term for that is. He once told me his dietary palette consisted of what was served at McDonalds. The food didn't have to be prepared by McDonalds but it had to be on their menu.
I still think people are people, there is good and bad everywhere you go but the south feels weird to a northerner.
See that pig going by?
That's about 1000 MCRIBS Sam'miches…
"Nope, he was a northern version of a redneck, whatever the correct term for that is."
A Guido?*
*I'm originally from NJ, and a fair number of my uncles and boy cousins are that Jersey Shore type (though not as extreme), so I say it with love.
Um, I guess, but how the hell would you catch it?
Dibs on the gyrocopter!
favorite scene in the whole movie!
You've gotta be kidding. you are kidding. It's Lucy and the ball and Charlie once again. Most of the D's really are good guys, so it's hard for them to take the measure of the R's, who, while they do not believe in evolution, certainly do believe in the survival of the most ruthless (aka the fittest).
I doubt Newt could fit under anyone's bed.
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