Boehner Proudly Passes His Dumb Bill, Senate Immediately Suffocates It
What's happening in the exciting/awful dullsville of dismantling America? Well, jaundiced boozebag John Boehner did just what his bosses told him -- he even coordinated the extremist-corporate bill's passage with the publication of some jackass propaganda posted under his byline at the National Review Online. But it didn't matter, because the Senate immediately tabled the House bill on a 59-41 vote. And now ... eh, who knows? Mud wrestling? In any case, America is doomed.
The NYT Caucus blog just posted this:
The United States Senate quickly dispatched the debt ceiling bill passed by the House Friday evening, tabling the Republican bill indefinitely and moving quickly to start consideration of a Democratic plan that would avoid default on Tuesday.
Less than two hours after House Speaker John A. Boehner pushed his bill through the House over the strenuous objections of nearly two dozen of his own Republican members, the Democratic leadership in the Senate followed through on their promise to kill his legislation.
This means another weekend of Crisis & Stage Tears, while Americans generally ignore this and hope it goes away. Oh, and the Dow Jones index had its worse week in a year, with a 4.2% plunge since Monday. Apparently things are getting a lot worse, very quickly! So, might as well buythreebottles of whatever tonight (catchup?), because it might get uglier before Monday. [ NYT ]
You know, it's like it's not anything I didn't know long ago, but for some reason it just never sinks in: the comments sections of political websites other than Wonkette are the most maddening, enraging places on the Internet. It's either conservatives braying about SOCIALIZMENS or liberals screeching about how PROGRESSIVE! they are. In a way, I think the latter irritates me more, just because, like, I agree with those people in a general way, but they make me want to join the Tea Party just out of spite, and I don't like that feeling.
You see, that's the thing, I know NEVER to read Yahoo or newspaper website comments, but I can't seem to resist, say, TPM's comments, which are really nothing more than people yelling, "PROGRESSIVE!" and "OBAMABOT!" and "FIREBAGGER!" at each other all day, every day.