• May 26, 2012
MIRACLES REALLY DO HAPPEN

December 23, 2011

House Abandons Brave Fight To Raise Taxes on Workers, Passes Extension

by Kirsten Boyd Johnson  

It's OK to cry when you get beaten up by Mitch McConnell, John.

It’s a FESTIVUS MIRACLE, kids, get ready for it: Barack Obama and Harry Reid and millions of Americans wanted A Thing, and the House Republicans finally just agreed to give it to them! It was not easy! House Republicans passed the two-month payroll tax cut extension with a fun “unanimous consent” vote that didn’t force Representatives to actually vote up or down but just to shut up and not say anything for roughly as long as it took John Boehner to say on the House floor, “Bill passes if it’s quiet for the next ten seconds.” Even this part about the shutting up was very hard for some of the teabagger freshmen, but luckily there’s Twitter, for yelling. Hooray!

But John Boehner still just needs to clarify that it pained him to do something nice for America:

“I’ve talked to enough members over the last 24 hours who believe that, ‘Hey, we don’t like this two month extension [but] if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want.”

Come on, John Boehner, the Republicans have still enjoyed a pretty banner year in inexplicable meanness, don’t feel so bad!

So what does the average American worker win, Bob? A $50k-per-year worker will get to keep $20 more per week than if the tax cut had expired. Good! Although… given how badly the payroll extension fight damaged the House Republicans, it might have been a worthwhile sacrifice for America to trade the $20 a week each in exchange for the much better holiday gift of the end of the current Republican party. [AP/TPM]

{ 273 comments }

Barb December 23, 2011 at 11:45 am

Boehner folded like a Detroit hooker punched in the gut.

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 11:55 am

Caved in faster than a Chilean mine.

Maman December 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

I was thinking Kentucky coal mine… because I am a patriot who believes in America first

OneDollarJuana December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Collapsed faster than a Bush real estate bubble.

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm

REAL AMERICANS strip mine.

natoslug December 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm

REAL AMERICANS prefer strip poker to strip mine. With bush-free Chilean hookers.

MzNicky December 23, 2011 at 11:59 am

Someone should alert Barry. "See, Mr. President? Now that wasn't so hard, was it?"

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:14 pm

Barry doesn't need a lesson in capitulation.

LionHeartSoyDog December 23, 2011 at 1:43 pm

That's what she said.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 2:50 pm

Lost another fucking keyboard. Sprayed with Dr. Pepper.

V572 the Merciless December 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

I sent Boehner's comment in as a tip and got the usual result.

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm

The beloved Editors pooped in your inbox?

V572 the Merciless December 23, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Merry Season’s Greetings to All! I’m still mad about sending them the grid coordinates for Mitt’s La Jolla McMansion and not getting credit. ~~~~~~~

WunkRocker December 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

That's why Mr Pink doesn't tip.

JustPixelz December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm

"Folded faster than Superman on laundry day." — Bart Simpson

Folded faster than a Dynafold AF-300 Paper Folding Machine.

Folded faster than me vowing to lose weight.

elviouslyqueer December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm

Collapsed like Callista Gingrich's latest botched facial implants.

Puffperney December 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm

Man, that poor woman's face is a horror isn't it?

mourningnmerica December 24, 2011 at 2:25 am

"Doc, can you make me look like Cruella DeVille?"

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:14 pm

I don't understand how it gets carved pointier and pointier. What does the surgeon SAY before he/she convinces Callista that the plastic molding will make her beautiful?

MzNicky December 23, 2011 at 7:41 pm

"This will SO complement your new Tiffany's 4-karat diamond solitaire princess-cut pinky ring"?

Terry December 23, 2011 at 12:10 pm

He represents southwestern Ohio. It's more like a I-70 truckstop hooker.

BarackMyWorld December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

All this talk of Boehner folding/caving in is just going to make him want to be a bigger douche next time. I prefer to think he finally came to his goddamn senses.

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:31 pm

It's not necessarily Boner that's the problem. It's his Tea Party caucus and its sympathizers that's the problem.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Don't be silly.

starfanglednut December 23, 2011 at 3:40 pm

And that rat faced bastard Cantor.

actor212 December 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Yes, but I bet he collected every dime in tips.

An_Outhouse December 23, 2011 at 12:51 pm

He flipped faster than Mitt Romney making pancakes.

starfanglednut December 23, 2011 at 3:42 pm

He flipped faster than Mitt Romney.

/fixed.

V572 the Merciless December 23, 2011 at 12:55 pm

Folded faster than former DCI Porter Goss when Kyle "Dusty" Foggo's name came up in the news.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:16 pm

…went to bottom faster than Ted Haggard after benediction.

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Unexpectedly great.

WIDTAP December 23, 2011 at 1:20 pm

He turned faster than fish left out in the sun.

Tundra Grifter December 23, 2011 at 1:52 pm

Boehner rolled over faster than Jessica Cutler.

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:11 pm

Oh, good Lord, Barb, that was just stupendous.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 2:15 pm

like a kid who got out of his iron lung.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 2:52 pm

The greatest laughs in the world are those I know will cause me to burn in hell.

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:33 am

"Hell is for Children" Pat Benatar!!

nounverb911 December 23, 2011 at 11:46 am

Did Bachmannn and Paul actually take time off from avoiding their real jobs to go vote in DC?

HedonismBot December 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm

No. It was "unanimous consent." That means no one had to vote "yay" or "nay." But if any single Congresscreature wanted to kill the bill, they could have done it just by (I guess) placing a hold on it or something.

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Son't be silly. Voting is for pussies.

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:34 am

Congress is a fake job.A sham !

Chillwaver December 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

How do you like them oranges, fuckers?

nounverb911 December 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

Squeezed!

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:35 am

Orange Fuckers don't get to march in my parades!

Indiepalin December 23, 2011 at 11:48 am

I'm using my tax cut to buy me a steel mill.

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm

I'm using mine on vodka; only way to get through the election season.

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

I'm thinking 2012 calls for absinthe

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

It's too expensive, though!

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm

True, but with the end of the world just a year away what else am I gonna blow my money on? Paying down credit cards? Ha, as if!

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:36 am

I'm using my tax cut to buy Ammo?

tessiee December 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

I'm using mine to outsource jobs to India!

Oops, did I say that out loud?

An_Outhouse December 23, 2011 at 12:52 pm

You fuckin' job creator, you!

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:08 pm

One word, son. Plastics.

Radiotherapy December 23, 2011 at 1:21 pm

I'm using mine to buy more ammo.

jesus_vs_gojira December 23, 2011 at 1:35 pm

Then Mitt Romney can buy it and shut it down for you.

Guppy December 23, 2011 at 1:51 pm

You could always donate it all to the DCCC…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 2:53 pm

Mine is going to repairing my car, so I may continue driving to my job at your steel mill.

HAHAHAHA, I KID, THERE ARE NO JOBS IN AMERICA.

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

"I don't understand how DC "works"

This man is a congressmen. Hoooooray for Emerica!

V572 the Merciless December 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Fuckin democracy, how does it work?

Chillwaver December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Idiots are voted in, not a damn thing comes out. You can't explain it!

An_Outhouse December 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm

When does D.C. explode from the constipation? The shit is going to hit the fan eventually.

TanzbodenKoenig December 23, 2011 at 2:41 pm

The shit just spews out of their mouths, instead.

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm

I work in finance and don't understand how it works. Hey! I could run for Congress!

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 12:25 pm

Does anyone understand how finance works, though?

BaldarTFlagass December 23, 2011 at 12:29 pm

That's what bankers are for. Let them handle it. What could go wrong?

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 12:31 pm

No, not a fucking single person. Give us a bailout!

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

Its magic…..with numbers!

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm

It's all done with magnets.

Callyson December 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Wall Street is in, Main Street is out. Who can explain it?

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:37 am

Jane,stop this crazy thing !

nounverb911 December 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

I hope Boehner get strip searched by the TSA on his way home for Kwanzukkah*.
*I totally stole that from Melissa Harris-Perry.

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:13 pm

That's right nv911, Agent Orange lives across the river in Kwanzukkahstanstan. Modern geography is much more fun than the olde Belgian Congos and Dutch Guyanas.

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:38 am

Boehner strip search? Yuck !

paris biltong December 23, 2011 at 11:50 am

Even though we don't want what's best for the American sheeple, we're going to do it just this once so they vote for us again.

Ruhe December 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

That is what he said isn't it?

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

Incredible, no? They're no longer even trying.

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:34 pm

"Freudian Slip" if I've ever heard one.

Swampgas_Man December 23, 2011 at 1:16 pm

The Torch-And-Pitchfork Committee party is waiting for us at home, so we're going to vote for our personal survival.

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:40 am

The American People are not that stupid! O right we did elect G.W Bush. My bad.

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

Boehner giving in? Who does he think he is Obama!

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:41 am

Boehner folded like a cheap suit!

AlterNewt December 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

"..why not do the right thing for the American people.."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 12:36 pm

But they been telling us for the last three years that the reason they say "NO" to everything was that they were doing the right thing for the American people.

AlterNewt December 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Now, that's just mixing assholes and oranges.

NYNYNYjr December 23, 2011 at 2:12 pm

"I talked to enough of the House members and they said, sometimes you've got to do the right thing in the short-term, so you can do a big wrong thing later."

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:42 am

The right thing for the right wing is never the right thing for America !

sbj1964 December 23, 2011 at 11:51 am

A Boehner cave( Boner) Now has a new meaning.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:10 pm

The only thing worse than a sour piano is an organ that goes soft halfway through the piece.

sbj1964 December 24, 2011 at 2:44 am

Viagra could help the Limp dick GOP teabaggers!

SheriffRoscoe December 23, 2011 at 11:52 am

I would have gladly sacrificed twenty bucks a week to see the GOP drive over the cliff.

Ruhe December 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

Amen.

MzNicky December 23, 2011 at 12:03 pm

On the other hand, many Americans will now still be able to pay their utility bill this winter.

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:14 pm

At least those living in Key West and Maui.

HedonismBot December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

I make nowhere near $50,000 a year. So, I guess I would've sacrificed $2 or $3 a week.
Cue Sally Struthers: "For the price of just a cup of coffee, you can help destroy the Republican party."

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm

That's it! I'm mailing in a cup of coffee!

paris biltong December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

That's because you're a 20 or 30 percenter, or at least on this side of the median income line, like me and probably most of us here.

Spurning Beer December 23, 2011 at 11:52 am

The Boner is totally going to get Clean Coal in his stocking this year.

Spurning Beer December 23, 2011 at 11:54 am

I think I'm going to cry.

chicken_thief December 23, 2011 at 12:41 pm

John? You posting on the Wonkette?!!!

memzilla December 23, 2011 at 11:55 am

I saw this movie, where at the end the Grinch gave back the presents he stole in the first place. It wasn't a net gain for Whoville.

Ruhe December 23, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Yeah, only in this version the Grinch realizes that the morons in Whoville are going to accept whatever they get so even as he's riding the sleigh into town he's having some serious second thoughts.

NYNYNYjr December 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm

In this version they sort of wrestled the presents back from him, and he went back to his mountain. But I disagree, in the movie, it was a net gain, because they had fun without the presents, then they got the presents back plus they add a dog and a grinch to their clearly limited gene pool.

SarahsBush December 24, 2011 at 2:27 am

You just blew my mind.

GorzoTheMighty December 23, 2011 at 11:56 am

Gee, how nice. They want "to do the right thing for the american people". I would suggest seppuku with a dull rusty putty knife would be most appropriate. Fucking fuckers.

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 11:57 am

It's a Festivus miracle!

Now for the Feats of Strength…

prommie December 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Bet when is the drunken fucking on the pile of coats?

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

That wuz yesterday in the Rethug Caucus Room. Boehner's fundamental orifice will take weeks to recover.

Biff December 23, 2011 at 1:16 pm

Fucking on republican cloth coats? So itchy!

natoslug December 23, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Right before the fucking of a drunk pile of goats?

FNMA December 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm

You're confusing it with Christmas at the Santorums….

natoslug December 23, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Fucking a pile of dead drunk goats would be preferable to Christmas with the Santorums.

Swampgas_Man December 23, 2011 at 1:17 pm

We've got plenty of material for the Airing of Grievances.

emmelemm December 23, 2011 at 1:19 pm

Amen.

MzNicky December 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

"why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want."

Why thank you so very very much, elected representatives! We realize it's always supposed to be about what YOU want, so we understand how difficult this whole thing must have been for YOU. Fucking bunch of shitbags.

anniegetyerfun December 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm

At least he has openly admitted it. I guess?

Callyson December 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm

"…even though it's not exactly what the Kochs want"
/clarified

An_Outhouse December 23, 2011 at 1:04 pm

There better be some political ads echoing this quote next fall.

jesus_vs_gojira December 23, 2011 at 1:37 pm

Now I know what to do with my twenty bucks.

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:21 pm

And why won't there be? Because this shit is never brought up again.

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:23 pm

OT, MzNicky, but I finally satisfied my jones for wedding cake cookies after you spoke of them during the second to last (or so) debate. I've been going crazy for those damn cookies!!!

MzNicky December 23, 2011 at 3:35 pm

Oh good. They're addictive li'l suckers, aren't they? My new oven and I have settled our differences and my last few batches of wedding cookies and macaroons have turned out quite nicely. Enjoy!

Bonzos_Bed_Time December 23, 2011 at 11:58 am

I'll go get the pole!

valgal2342 December 23, 2011 at 12:38 pm

I'll get the line.

Nostrildamus December 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Boner's gonna crawl into a crawdad hole.

HelmutNewton December 23, 2011 at 12:01 pm

"Hey, we don’t like this two month extension [but] if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want."

Well, it's nice for Boner to actually admit that what the teabaggers usually want is wrong for the American people.

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Reports are that the Tea Bagger Caucus is seething over the fact that the Republiklans caved on this issue.

yyyaz December 23, 2011 at 2:46 pm

Oh joy! I just LOVE me a good holiday seethe.!!111! Here's hoping the seethe builds 'til they begin to pop, one after another like fudge bubbles. Or Creosotinously, if you don't mind the cleanup.

memzilla December 23, 2011 at 12:02 pm

Perhaps Santa will bring the Democrats the rest of a spine for Jeebusween.

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:18 pm

Your lips to doG's ears, but not sure how many titanium rods would be needed to stiffen all those jello vertebra.

JustPixelz December 23, 2011 at 12:04 pm

The hypocrisy hurts, it hurts!

They also hate earned income tax credit, helping make work worthwhile at low income levels.

And … for one hundred years with a progressive income tax, America has become the most powerful economy in the world. Naturally the Repubicans hate it.

elviouslyqueer December 23, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Dear Santa:

My holiday miracle would be to see Dennis Ross brought down in an epic Mark Foley-esque teen boy buttfucking scandal. Could you make that happen, pretty please? I'll even leave out some "special" holiday brownies for you and the Mrs.

See you on the 25th.

EQ

HedonismBot December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

How about just lewd text massages to a teen boy? I don't want any actual teen boys to be pawed, groped or buttfucked by any actual dirty old Goopers.

MasterDebater December 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm

I wonder how much fingerbanging was required to move this legislation forward.

In LBJ's time, it was arm-twisting. In the 2000s, it was wide stances in bathrooms. But with this Congress, simple fingerbanging will do, thank you.

weejee December 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Likely it was Boehner & group buttsechs.

proudgrampa December 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Boehner should do the right thing now and retire.

What a prick.

Graham Cracker December 23, 2011 at 12:22 pm

That would be the best Kwanzukkah present ever!

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm

For approving this deficit-increasing payroll tax cut, I think John Boehner should be voted out of office!!

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 12:49 pm

Maybe this will energize the Tea Baggers to mount a serious primary challenge against him, instead of just threatening it.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm

I think his opponent in 2012 should get some money from Colbert's SuperPAC and make an ad touting this very twisted chain of logic.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:14 pm

The fucking socialist.

NYNYNYjr December 23, 2011 at 2:03 pm

Republicans are like, yo, we can't extend these tax breaks, it's just adding to the deficit… Oh wait…Oohhhhh. Oh Shit! This is what you were talking about!

RedneckMuslin December 23, 2011 at 12:09 pm

"why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want"

We better see this quote in all Democrats' campaign ads this fall.

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 12:50 pm

That and Joe Barton apologizing to Tony Heyward for President Obama holding BP responsible for the Gulf oil spill.

Nothingisamiss December 23, 2011 at 2:26 pm

As I said upthread….And why, why, WHY won't we?!

memzilla December 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm

Boehner reversed his position faster than an Eye Street rentboy with a $40 tip.

Terry December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

"..why not do the right thing for the American people…"

"..why not do the right thing for the American people for once"

There, fixed.

BlueMonkeh December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

Jeezus. These fucking fucks finally realized the dombasses that voted them in are just as likely to vote them out over $20 a week.

Ceiling Cat (pbuh) can only hope that our jellyfish dems learnt them a few lessons from this.

Buckminster December 23, 2011 at 12:43 pm

You rock. Great comment.

BarackMyWorld December 23, 2011 at 12:12 pm

This is all Obama's fault.

sbj1964 December 23, 2011 at 12:19 pm

Obama's fault? I blame the parents of these GOP douche bags.Incest is wrong.

BarackMyWorld December 23, 2011 at 1:11 pm

It's always Obama's fault.

Chichikovovich December 23, 2011 at 1:24 pm

The fact that it's always Obama's fault is Obama's fault.

Nostrildamus December 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Satan + Goat != incest

Chillwaver December 23, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Now turn the cameras back on, your spray-tanned asshole.

Buckminster December 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm

Why, so he can join Macaca guy?

Chillwaver December 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Now that's one sexy cam show I wouldn't want to watch!

MozakiBlocks December 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm

I'll pay somebody $20 to slap the shit out of Boehner on the House floor WITH CSpan running.

Buckminster December 23, 2011 at 12:46 pm

You're on!

tealsheart December 23, 2011 at 2:38 pm

Make it .50 cents and you got a deal. Hell I'll throw in some free orange paint

Terry December 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm

Isn't John Boehner about due for his sex scandal to occur? Maybe the delay is that easy stuff has already been done. Public restrooms? Done. Male prostitutes and meth? Done. Tweeting crotch shots? Done. Serial philandering? Done, done, done. Paying hookers to make you crap in diapers? Done. Paying hookers but not schtupping them? Done.

Mumbletypeg December 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

"Isn't John Boehner about due for his sex scandal to occur?"

aha — that was on our wish list for Santa some Christamas's Past

Chichikovovich December 23, 2011 at 1:31 pm

I'm not hopeful about a sex scandal for Bohner. His affair with hooch is too profound. And remember:

Porter
24 'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock;
25 and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.

MACDUFF
26 What three things does drink especially pro-
27 voke?

Porter
28 Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
29 Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes
30 the desire, but it takes away the performance. There-
31 fore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator
32 with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him
33 on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and dis-
34 heartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in
35 conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him
36 the lie, leaves him.

This is Shakespeare's way of saying that alcohol does get men hot and bothered, but also makes them sleepy, with boner problems.

Guppy December 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm

It would probably need to involve a "down on the farm" video.

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

What does Grover think about the repubs fighting the good fight for a huge tax increase?

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm

Grover deserves an extended stay in Oscar's trash can torture chamber.

Scottsdalian December 23, 2011 at 12:28 pm

When Grover is in there, can I take a baseball bat and pound the shit out of that garbage can? It'd be FUN!

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 3:16 pm

In any event, I'm sure Grover is blue.

Ruhe December 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

He thinks there might be a fly in the soup.

NYNYNYjr December 23, 2011 at 2:34 pm

The Count is clearly the one one who should be asked. He's like the Alan Greenspan of muppets

sbj1964 December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

In the words of Kenny Rodgers "You got to know when to hold em,and know when to fold them."President Obama was playing Poker,while Boehner was playing Go Fish.

actor212 December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Do Boehner's tears taaste like Tang?

tessiee December 23, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I hope that wasn't a pun.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm

"I hope that wasn't a poon"

Fixed.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:17 pm

More like Kool-Aade.

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 1:18 pm

Whiskey.

Chichikovovich December 23, 2011 at 1:33 pm

Has anyone ever lit Bohner's tears on fire? That would be cool.

actor212 December 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm

I'm a Finn. We're generous with vowels.

Also the letter "j". You do not want to play Scrabble with us.

YasserArraFeck December 24, 2011 at 12:46 am

More like KKKool-Aade

Biff December 23, 2011 at 1:22 pm

Nicorette, I've heard.

yyyaz December 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm

"Tasting Boehner's tears" would be grosser than being the caboose in a human centipede. But I'll make you a deal: for the modest sum of the cost of one day of U.S. dollars spent on the Iraq debacle, I will do it. And I will use every cent of that $300 million to drive every teabag dolt from the People's Chamber, using my LLC's free-speech rights, of course. I also promise to leave the current majority "leaders" in place as a sideshow, 4tehlulz.

YasserArraFeck December 24, 2011 at 12:46 am

Only Smokey Robinson knows what the tears of a clown taste like

gullywompr December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Official 2011 White House Christmas Ornament – John Boehner's testicles. ♪♫Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…♫♪

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:17 pm

Tree Nutz!

RedneckMuslin December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Fox News: John Boehner (D)

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm

You know, this could have all been avoided if only the president had been a leader.

chascates December 23, 2011 at 12:19 pm

As a still unemployed older American I don't have much skin in this particular game but I fear that extra $20 a week for most people will give way to an extra 10% off the taxes of the top 1% before long.

BlueMonkeh December 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm

As a soon to be unemployed middle aged American I've been preparing for my future by bending over and grabbing my ankles.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:33 pm

HeyHeyHey enough with all those complicated "numbers and maths" already. People are frightened enough this time of year, and just want to know when they can pick up their government cheese… or where the next tea party gathering will be held.

proudgrampa December 23, 2011 at 2:15 pm

As a still unemployed older American, I would love an extra $20 a week to keep my liquor cabinet full.

chascates December 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm

Popov vodka?

proudgrampa December 23, 2011 at 5:32 pm

Desperate measures in depserate times, my friend.

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

BaldarTFlagass December 23, 2011 at 12:24 pm

"do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we the Koch Brothers don't want.”

Let's be honest here.

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm

Wow. America's Airing of the Grievances actually worked. It is a Festivus miracle!

Baconzgood December 23, 2011 at 12:34 pm

I GOTTA A LOTA PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!

MissTaken December 23, 2011 at 1:26 pm

AND NOW YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT IT!

rickmaci December 23, 2011 at 12:30 pm

Boehner went limp!

littlebigdaddy December 23, 2011 at 12:32 pm

What a clusterfuck! And not in a good way.

SayItWithWookies December 23, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Poor John Boehner — he's done every damn thing he could to keep the economy in the ditch, and now he's given in to nothing more than massive and overwhelming public outcry. A complete fuckin' failure as an autocratic bastard, he is.
Wait for the Congressional teabagger mutiny any second now.

SheriffRoscoe December 23, 2011 at 12:39 pm

How about a stocking stuffer, wookies!

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 12:43 pm

"The last non-Socialist Leader in the US Federal Government caved in last night to the Socialist-Democrat Wing of the once proud Democrat Party. Yep, ol' Boehner-Head finally cut all pretense of protecting the TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY folks from the terrible damage done to America by the Socialist-Democrats led by Chairman Obama, "Bottleneck" Reid and of course, certifiably brain-dead, Ex-Bottleneck, Princess Nancy. "

Gah, how can this not be satire?

yyyaz December 23, 2011 at 3:22 pm

Good satire is grounded in truth. And funny.

SayItWithWookies December 23, 2011 at 1:09 pm

Now that is some holiday cheer.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:35 pm

God damn, I was joking earlier about voting him out — but these baggers are vengeance-seeking missiles of "Zero Fuckups Permitted", aren't they?

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 1:48 pm

Freepers are some psychopathic assholes. They make Eric Rudolph and Tim McVeigh look like moderates.

SayItWithWookies December 23, 2011 at 2:04 pm

That Tim McVeigh was a stinkin' RINO.

Radiotherapy December 23, 2011 at 3:17 pm

In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion

Thanks for confirming my "bully to victim and back again" theory about freepers — in one sentence nonetheless.

SayItWithWookies December 23, 2011 at 3:21 pm

Here comes some more backlash — summary of several articles and posts headlines at FoxNation with title Speaker No More? Excuse me while I take this catnip outside and roll around in it for a while.
(Oh, and a warning: if you read the linked article, don't read the comments. Really, just don't).

Mumbletypeg December 23, 2011 at 4:33 pm

don't read the comments

Surely you didn't mean this blithering idiot "commenter"?
Such non-sequitur digressions are wiggling-around-in-excrement icing on the catnip cake, I'd say.

valgal2342 December 23, 2011 at 12:36 pm

It's not Festivus, it's Fetusivus damn it!

prommie December 23, 2011 at 12:37 pm

Was this how Braveheart ended? Robert the Bruce, seeing that defeat was inevitable, called off his futile charge, and ordered his men to flee from the battlefield, was that it? I seem to remember something different. Wasn't this supposed to be the teatard Republicans "Braveheart Moment?" Isn't a Braveheart moment supposed to be a suicidal stand for priniciple? Next time these Teatards promise to commit suicide, I want to see some suicide, dammit!

Buckminster December 23, 2011 at 12:48 pm

Boehner ought to look cool with the orange tan and a blue bottom.

littlebigdaddy December 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm

Look like one of them guys in body paint at a Broncos game.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 3:00 pm

Auburn fans rejoice.

Ruhe December 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm

To carry your analogy through…We the people, being like old long-shanks, are well and truly fucked whether John the Boehner is drawn and quartered or not.

NYNYNYjr December 23, 2011 at 2:45 pm

Basically, Braveheart (the House Republican party's political capital (6% approval rate)) is publicly murdered and his men (scottish terrorists /tea baggers) stop fighting and cry silently.

ttommyunger December 23, 2011 at 12:41 pm

So Barry came out on top for once? Merry Fucking Christmas, indeed!

Sue4466 December 23, 2011 at 12:41 pm

"Why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want.”

Exactly. The GOP never wants to do the right thing for the American people.

At least he's being honest about that bit.

GOPCrusher December 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm

Sadly, not enough people will comprehend his statement.

Slim_Pickins December 23, 2011 at 12:43 pm

Teabagger congressmen are more appropriately called "Single-term" congressmen.

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 3:19 pm

Pre- or post-gerrymandering? Because I don't they're going anywhere in Pennsylvania.

Slim_Pickins December 23, 2011 at 4:54 pm

In Illinois, we'll probably lose one, maybe two. The Dems redrew the districts so that Hultgren and Deadbeat Dad Walsh would oppose each other, DBD has switched to an open district and will be opposed by Tami Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both legs in Iraq. Hultgren isn't much of a teabagger, just as "keep your mouth shut and your head down, and move up Republican, he's got Hastert's old district and almost lost it last time.

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Sad to say, or maybe enraging, but Pa.'s map now looks like a plate of spaghetti, or maybe an unmade bed. It's fun when the state GOP controls House, Senate and Gov. Bonus points for making 2 of 7 congressional Dems primary each other.

YasserArraFeck December 24, 2011 at 12:50 am

Maybe we'll start seeing some "Single-cell" congressmen from the Red/FuckTard states. After all, zygotes is peepul too……

chicken_thief December 23, 2011 at 12:49 pm

Maybe now Mitt will be able to figure out what his position on the issue was.

sbj1964 December 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

Mitt will just change his position 3 times before he decides what plays well in Pretoria.

Buckminster December 23, 2011 at 12:50 pm

I bet Boehner hasn't stopped drinking ever since the big moment. He's crying in his beer/whiskey/vodka as we speak.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:22 pm

His family never knew he drank until they saw him sober one day.

owhatever December 23, 2011 at 12:51 pm

The War on Christmas is working!

Puffperney December 23, 2011 at 12:52 pm

Fox couldn't spin this enough to make the red staters take their tax increase and like it.

The speaker had to give in…

BigDumbRedDog December 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Yeah! An extra $20 a week for the hobo bean and cat food fund so that maybe I will starve slower when I am old and have no social security. Sorry, but I really can't get that excited about paying less in payroll taxes when social security is supposed to run out of money on my 65th birthday.

Mumbletypeg December 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

Your frustration resonates w/ plenty of us. Much of this ado about a panacea or what amounts to it. Let the fucking paradigm shift begin already – - real economic wholeness and financial well-being require solid footing, not just propping up on matchsticks.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 3:02 pm

Until we get that ship turned around, can we continue to call burger flippers "the manufacturing sector"?

Blueb4sunrise December 23, 2011 at 12:54 pm

My sinus snot is returning to normal consistency as well. So, really good day.

Puffperney December 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm

T.M.I.

Barrelhse December 23, 2011 at 1:25 pm

Mine's still bright yellow and I'm coughing shit up now. I wouldn't be as concerned if I had two lungs and didn't have emphysema. Sometimes it affects my sense of humor.

Geminisunmars December 23, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Mine is not (returning to normal) and I've run out of tissue and there is too much snow out there to make a run for the store (paper towels is/are having its moment), and it is still a good day. When do we get to see him cry?

HedonismBot December 23, 2011 at 12:56 pm

Cry, Boehner, cry
Make teabaggers sigh
You're old enough to know better
Cry, Boehner, cry

Mumbletypeg December 23, 2011 at 1:20 pm

Needs more CryBabyBoehner's avatard..

Callyson December 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm

"Hey, we don’t like this two month extension"
Then stop adding all the unrelated policy riders if you want the full year one, asshole
"if you can get this fixed, why not do the right thing for the American people, even though it’s not exactly what we want."
Nice to see you admit that what is good for the American people is not good for you Reeps. This will be a good soundbite next fall, idiot…

Puffperney December 23, 2011 at 1:09 pm

…and yet this obvious admission will fly over the heads of almost all of the electorate, ads or no ads.

sbj1964 December 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Another fine example of how the GOP is out of touch with the real world the rest of us live in.

Monsieur_Grumpe December 23, 2011 at 1:05 pm

Boehner is the shittiest Santa ever.

BarackMyWorld December 23, 2011 at 1:15 pm

This two-month extension gives Boehner *just* enough time to figure out how to be simultaneously for and against the cut next time. Happy New Year!

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 1:23 pm

so the minimum christmas gift we get from republicans is one thousand bucks. This is the same as getting a quarter from Gramma, and her obligatory "Don't spend it all in one place!!"

BaldarTFlagass December 23, 2011 at 1:24 pm

Hahahaha, Merry Fucking Christmas, you Republican pustules!!! Hope you like getting THAT Yule Log jammed up your ass!

*flips bird, gives "pressed ham"*

natoslug December 23, 2011 at 2:01 pm

If that's how you do the Caga Tio in your house, I think you're doing it wrong.

iburl December 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm

When Boner hears "Ho-Ho-Ho" he thinks "Hostage-Hostage-Hostage".

Incredibly, this hostage taking was just a teensy bit too stupid for even some in the Fox-dome.

Manhattan123 December 23, 2011 at 1:43 pm

The orange fuck Boner went limp. Now if he'd take the rest of the tea baggers with him DC might actually function again.

zappadoo76 December 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm

He hands you a nickel
He hands you a dime
He asks you with a grin
If you are having a good time
Then he fines you every time you slam the door.

–Maggie's Farm
Bob Dylan

paris biltong December 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm

I believe the preferred practice here is to quote Dylan lyrics and other such sources and assume that everyone knows where they come from – we can always google them when unsure.

Geminisunmars December 23, 2011 at 3:22 pm

I don't prefer it. Attributers Unite!!

ShaveTheWhales December 23, 2011 at 8:24 pm

Is this going to result in one big motherfucking Attributor? Cause I'm cool with that.

Beowoof December 23, 2011 at 1:56 pm

Holy Shit, this is a tax increase that Grover Norquist was for and they cut them anyway. Wow, K Street is losing its grip on Congress.

LiveToServeYa December 23, 2011 at 2:11 pm

Stepped on their Boner, they did. Stepped on it and FELL DOWN.

Come here a minute December 23, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Gah — doesn't CNN have spell-check? "TAX CUT EXTENTION PASSES"

proudgrampa December 23, 2011 at 2:22 pm

That's the right spelling. Americans are going to need more TENTs if we don't get the economy fixed.

Dashboard Buddha December 23, 2011 at 2:18 pm

What a wonderful Christmas present.

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 3:04 pm

"Two blu-ray movies. Thanks a fucking lot."

or, to turn it around and be merry in spite of it all:

"Two fifths of El Ultimo Agave Tequila?! THERE IS A SANTA!!"

paris biltong December 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm

"The Caucus: Bill Extending Payroll Tax Cut Heads to Obama's Desk"
I don't know about you, but I first read this as referring to cutting heads and handing them to Obama on a platter .

rocktonsam December 23, 2011 at 2:40 pm

Here comes my recess appointments and my fucking airplane to Hawaii bitches!

ifthethunderdontgetya December 23, 2011 at 2:44 pm

Bah, Humbug.

I'm not going to be happy until I see some banksters getting frog-marched off to Club Fed.
~

slowhansolo December 23, 2011 at 2:46 pm

A bit OT but in light of more recent events, that pic of weeping Boehner-Running-Dog might just dethrone the pic of the weeping Santorum children. It's more funny, less creepy and, after all, all Santorum did was get tossed from Senate.

tealsheart December 23, 2011 at 2:50 pm

Orange you a sad moFo.
My FAV Orangu'tan got PIMPED like a $2hoe.
American ppl love a bargin.

Fox n Fiends December 23, 2011 at 2:56 pm

i can't wait to do this again two months from now. 2012 will be the "stopgap" year.

Fukui_Jong-un December 23, 2011 at 3:03 pm

It's pretty cool when the leader of the free world finishes his pre-Christmas "we finally owned the republicans" press conference by saying "Aloha"

iburl December 23, 2011 at 3:20 pm

"Brent Bozell, the president of the Media Research Center, appeared on Fox News Thursday night and suggested President Barack Obama looks like a skinny ghetto crackhead.

Bozell was talking with Mark Steyn — filling in for Sean Hannity — about MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who said in March that GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich looks like a car bomber.

After Steyn joked that Gingrich just looked like a "big, ugly, slightly older Winnie the Pooh," Bozell wondered how long Hannity’s show would last “if four times in one sentence [Hannity] made a comment about, say, the President of the United States and said he looked like a skinny ghetto crackhead."

So far so good — until Bozell moved out of the arena of hypothetical, adding: "Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does.”"

I sort-of agree with only one tiny part; Newt is ugly and reminds me of Pooh (but without the h).

notreelyhelping December 23, 2011 at 4:34 pm

It'll be quiet and lonely on the golf course tonight. Just a lone pair of loafers crunching across the frost-tipped grass.

ttommyunger December 23, 2011 at 7:55 pm

Looking for this headline in tomorrow's papers: "Republicans Shit and Fall Back In It!"

mourningnmerica December 24, 2011 at 2:25 am

"The Vanilla Folder"

SorosBot December 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Personally I'm probably gonna go for the hookers.

FNMA December 23, 2011 at 1:56 pm

Oh, that's Newt's tradition…

KeepFnThatChicken December 23, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Don't call Callista (and Jackie and Maryanne) goats!!

HistoriCat December 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm

You know Soros, that "twenty bucks, same as downtown" is just a punchline – not an accurate guide to prices.

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