Americans are pretty much just sitting around eating Cheetos, waiting for the government to be raptured or whatever, and trying to get the disgusting image of Boehner’s leaky blue eyes out of their recent memories. But hey, Obama wants you to know that you should not lose hope (ha ha HOPE, remember that thing?) because there is still Twitter.
Enter #compromise, the Obama 2012′s latest attempt to turn Republicans in Congress from stubborn partisans into handshaking legislators.
Obama himself tweeted the call via his campaign twitter account, @BarackObama, Friday.
“The time for putting party first is over,” he wrote. “If you want to see a bipartisan #compromise, let Congress know. Call. Email. Tweet.”
Ladies and gentlemen, democracy at work. If all of your thoughts can be summarized in a few semi-coherent sentence fragments, congratulations, you are now in charge. [TPMDC]
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"ha ha HOPE,"
Nobody remembers that.
Yes, the internet is in charge of the debt ceiling, and according to the knuckle dragging of Boehner, it seems to be on AOL dial up.
I'll be using Prodigy…specifically smashing my bitch up.
I'm making my displeasure known right now on MySpace!
I'll cover Friendster.
I'll send out emails from both my Compuserve and excite@home accounts.
I using a Palm on MyFace right now. Mostly the Palm-to-MyFace. Ow.
I'll put it up on my Geocities page, and I'll use a flash tag so everyone notices it.
Any congresscritters on Google+ yet?
/snark off, too pissed to be pithy here…
No, I do not want to see another shitty bipartisan #compromise that gives 90% to the Reeps and maybe 10% to the Dems. I want *someone* in Washington to stand up for Main Street…finally…please?
10%, how adorable.
He still has hope.
Why not let the toobz run things for a while? We put the internet in charge of the fetish community and that turned out great.
Porn and LOLcatz for everyone!!!
kick 'em in the fuck…
with our votes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K66VCDZUKNY
Stupid shit like this is why Skynet wants to kill us.
At this point, I'd take Skynet over the thrice-damned teabaggers.
Hmmm….Twitter sucks. On the other hand, maybe someone on the twitterz could pass on The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling?
I have succumbed to a summertime cold virus, and am losing my boyish optimism.
I never figured out that "tiny URL" thing. Probably because I hate the twatters and only check it to see what Benincasa's up to (which is apparently not "Barry, Can You Hear Me?" but should be).
Twitter and teatards–two signs evolution is now working backwards.
There are such things as "evolutionary dead ends" … just part of the process.
The teabaggers are already there (can't get any more stupid and useless); the jury's still out on Twitter.
I for one welcome our new Twitter #overlords
Hey, why the hell not? CyberSimAmerika 2.0 probably kicks ass on "real" America, mostly because shitfucks like Cantor and the teatard goon squad haven't figured out how to log in and ruin it.
@BarackObama, you've gotta be fucking kidding me. #fuckthemalluntiltheybleedoutoftheireyesandwallets
fuck the mall? I tried doing that but my balls kept getting chafed on lady footlocker.
Lady Footlocker's an uptight bitch with no business doing you like that. Exercise some free market on that ass.
Yep, I think I am gonna flip the mall over and see how the Gap treats me…
Don't get any santorum on the good Linens N Things.
Did you learn Victoria's Secret?
No but I ran into Rep. Boener at …(ahem)… Orange Julius.
And now I can't even sit all day at my beloved Borders.
I remember the good old days when the pound sign was only used for a programming language called "C sharp" and for saying USA NUMBER ONE!!!!!1!!1!!!
Hmm… can I use to tell the teabaggers to #sand?
The internet is also in charge of filling potholes and rounding up stray dogs, right? This will end well.
Well, the reality is that there is no possibility of a bipartisan compromise or anything else passing through both houses of Congress at this point. Obama will go on TV early Sunday afternoon announcing that he has signed an executive order raising the debt ceiling. Of course, Teatards will be calling for his head (some of them probably literally calling for his assassination) but he will have no choice. The markets will be relieved to not have to worry about this shit ever again and reward him. The Supreme Court would not dare to try to intervene, and anyway has tended to be pretty cool with the expansion of executive power. There will be calls for impeachment in the House, but my sense is that Boner will just want to get this mess behind him.
Your lips –> God's ear, etc.
And the upside of all that? Hopey finally showing some goddamn leadership. Barry O, we (those of us paying attention) already know you're the only grownup left in the room, now smack them spoiled kids around a bit.
And the uppermost upside of all that? Hopey going on the teevee and delivering his professorial address to teh union explaining his actions beginning with the terse sentence, "It appears I am the only grown-up left in the room."
#sand.
Aw, you beat me to it….
The time for putting party first is over
When the fuck has Barry every put Democratic ideas first on his list?
( Sorry about the anger, but it's only 4:10 here in the OC, so while I wait 10 minutes, I have started on the Jack Daniels…)
Never, ever ever. He has never put democratic ideas first ever. Unless acting like a pussy is a democratic thing, well I guess there's that then.
Didn't the dems put "being pussies" at the top of the platform in 2000?
I don't recall if it was when Gore picked Lieberman to be vp, or when they refused to make some noise over the "election" of Bush, but it was around then, I'm sure of it.
I’m kind of a luddite, can’t I just jot my 140 characters down on paper and wrap it around a brick?
Probably better to cut them individually out of a few magazines, bu I like your style.
I suspect if Obummer is not given the chance to ” go big”, he will simply go 14th Amendment and all of this jawboning in the interim will prove to be one great waste of bandwidth.
However, after becoming an ardent reader of Hullabaloo and FDL, I believe it is apt to assign the label “villagers” to TMVs left leaners.
I'm waiting for the GOP/teabaggers to pull a Rick Perry and announce that they're gonna have a big prayer meeting, and ask God for a solution.
Then they'll announce that God is against tax hikes. (Your move, Obama!)
Another sign of Obama not being serious. If he really wanted to get his message out, he would have put it in some free internet porn. Then people would see it.
What little I've seen of Twitter porn hasn't impressed me. Then again, what I've seen is limited to congresscritter's dicks.
(ha ha HOPE, remember that thing?)
Nope, I have der chemical imbalance
HA HA HA who's ill equipped to handle the real world now "doctor"!
The Road baby-meat is sure lookin good,
"The Internet Is Now In Charge of the Debt Ceiling". Sounds about right. After all, it IS just a "series of tubes" according to the Late Senator Stevens, of late getting his 'nads roasted in Hell. These would be, I assume, the same "tubes" our National Economy is hurtling down, amirite?
My message to Obama, at this point, is to call their bluff — and if everything goes to hell, let the fuckers in the GOP own it.
The debt ceiling is an arbitrary number, dictated by no economic reasoning. It is a trigger for political theater and potential economic chaos. We might do just as well to repeal it completely and focus our political energy on real solutions.
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Well, the reality is that there is no possibility of a bipartisan compromise or anything else passing through both houses of Congress at this point. Obama will go on TV early Sunday afternoon announcing that he has signed an executive order raising the debt ceiling. Of course, Teatards will be calling for his head (some of them probably literally calling for his assassination) but he will have no choice.
oh i'll try to stay on Target.
I understand that was the Old Navy way, before the repeal of DADT.
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