Frankly, we are surprised it took this long — three years and ten and a half or so months into Barack Obama’s Purple Reign — for Senate Minority Leader and King of All He Surveys Mitch McConnell to become so demented that he is now forced to filibuster his own bills. This man, he is just not very good at his job, right? How ever has he managed to last this long opposite streetcorner brawler Harry Reid?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wanted to prove on Thursday that Democrats don’t have the votes to weaken Congress’ authority on the debt limit. Instead they called his bluff, and he ended up filibustering his own bill. [...]
McConnell brought up the legislation Thursday morning. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) initially objected, seemingly proving the Republican leader’s point that it cannot pass the Senate. But then Reid ran it by his members and, in the afternoon, agreed to hold that same vote. This time it was McConnell who objected. [...]
McConnell claimed he never agreed to hold a simple majority vote on the bill.
“What we’re talking about here is a perpetual debt ceiling grant in effect to the president. Matters of this level of controversy always require 60 votes,” the GOP leader said.
Jesus Christ. But what’s this? Harry Reid let him get away with that shit?
“Senator McConnell’s filibuster prevented us from having this vote today,” he said in a statement, “but I will continue to seek an agreement to hold an up-or-down vote on his proposal to avoid another debt ceiling debacle.”
Put on your boxing gloves, Harry. Of votes.
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Comity sounds Socialist.
And funny.
Isn't comity what you sit on to poop?
That's a comodity.
And if you just fart, comedy?
*poot*
Um, until the smell drifts up….
Of course it does. Commie is right in there name.
"DO IT AND THE TURTLE GETS IT! Do what he sez! Do what he sez!!!"
According to McConnell, it's still all Obama's fault.
According to CommieLibunatic, McConnell should be slapped with a half-thawed mackerel.
Made of votes.
Votes made of rotting, mostly non-lethal fish.
Boy, do I wish this Senate would just find its collective stones long enough to blow the Fillibuster into tiny little pieces.
heh heh.. you said "blow"
Not this Senate… the new one. January.
Doesn't that have to happen in the house? As a rule change, I mean. The senate could pass legislation, I suppose, but then the idiot squad would have a chance to torpedo it.
I could be wrong, but I think that's how it goes.
The filibuster is a Senate only thing. No such thing as a House filibuster.
Nope. Each house adopts its own rules by itself.
It's happening in the next session.
BTW, I'm not for getting rid of it, entirely, but I'm for making them work for one. You want to filibuster? Well, you actually have to do it. I know; what a novel idea.
This is a sign of senility right?
Did you see any onions on his belt?
He's a Reaganite at heart.
Honey, the entire Republican Party is showing the telltale signs right now…
Comity gold I tell ya!
and there is clearly no sanity clause.
See? Now we know the real reason why deMint quit: McConnell started horning in on his auto-filibustering franchise!
How about a plan for him to be a self-resigning minority leader?
And then self-deporting?
Works for me.
The turtle waxed on……
and wacks off.
( OT_ Seen Lizzie?)
Why does Mitch keep hitting himself?
Maybe he's tired on hitting on other men?
On the far-away island of Sala-ma-Sond,
Reigned ol' Mitch McConnell,
And some sheeple he conned…
BAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHAHAHA…….
HAHHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad Congress doesn't paid by the piece (of legislation they pass).
We could still close the deficit if they paid by the piece…of rentboy…
McConnell then pouted and went home, where he spent the remainder of the day locked in the bathroom reading the phone book out loud.
This is the legislative equivalent of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
WITH VOTES
Perhaps fittingly, I at first read the headline as "Filibustering His Own Balls."
Assumes facts not in evidence.
But, those are the best kind of facts.
This was in Kung Fu. I swear. Ask David Carradine on the Ouija Board.
OK, look, Libunatics. It's very simple.Mitch McConnell is from the future, a time when humans have been altered by G-d to look like turtles because evolution is a lie. In order to save the turtle-people of the future, McConnell came back in time to the present day to filibuster EVERYTHANG.
Otherwise the Senate will make gay marriage mandatory and the human-turtle hybrids (who will begin breeding in that gated 13-year-old gun-nut Partiot paradise any day now) will never be born.
the human-turtle hybrids [...] will never be born.
But I want!
As you can probably tell from McConnell's behavior, human-turtle hybrids don't make good pets.
Damn. I was sort of looking forward to winning another hundred yard dash.
But they make great ninjas!
"Partiot"
Apropos of nothing, this looks like a portmanteau of "party" and "idiot", which could prove useful and applicable in a number of situations.
Being a "party idiot" is different than being the idiot at the party, right?
Seems legit.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles libel!
Like those vote-frauding Republican guys on election day, he was just doing it to prove that it could be done.
Since he failed in his #1 job over the last 4 years, why doesn't he continue to fail at goals he sets? He's on a roll…
In russia your own bill filibusters you.
He was for it while he was against it.
WIN!
Much like, say, extramarital homosexualisticalish dalliances?
Circle jerk or circle of jerks?
Republicans are now officially and henceforth to be known as the Pud-Pulling Party.
They do have the world up their ass.
Pivot man.
Yes.
Filibuster!?? I just met her!
I've never filibustered a woman. It's usually the other way around.
Liquor? I haven't even kissed her.
you brought her, you …
Yurtle got pawned!
Again…..
It's like a 2 year old having a tantrum only not as much fun.
Also, we're apparently not allowed to put him in a time-out. Or lock him in the closet.
We can still turn him over onto his back, right? He will right himself, eventually, but the struggle is priceless.
I like the way you think.
Or we could set him up on a fencepost.
Can we please just leave him in the supermarket and dare the cops to find our house?
Looks like Reid MAY have done the same thing last year. http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politi…
Wasn't that one of those cases where he voted against it so he could retain the right to bring it up for a vote again? That at least has some sense to it.
Not sure. I hope someone can explain how that situation was substantively different. I prefer it when us guys keep the hypocrisy to a minimum.
It looks like in that instance that Reid just delayed the vote on his bill rather than filibustering it, which would've meant voting against it. McConnell was just being melodramatic in calling it a filibuster.
Thank you. My faith in the Senate leadership is restored.
Yep. Not the same thing.
Commie Moonie paper…
Run by lunatics.
Which is probably why you should have ignored it…
You confuse me, sometimes.
It's filibusters all the way down.
So McConnell was for the bill before he was against it? Sounds like a flip-flopper to me!
Old turtle yells at sky!
Harry Reid let him get away with that shit?
Maybe Harry Reid's idea is to keep McConnell's idiocy in the news cycle for a bit, and then sweep in like a hero and whip his ass (with votes!) another day. Or so I hope.
Just curious: how many of you googled "comity" like I did?
Guilty.
Me and myself agreed it would be hilarious.
Why doesn't Reid actually make that ass stand there for days doing useless shit? All you have to do with Reid is say, "I object" and Reid says, "Okay. Sorry." and the game continues. Fuck that! Make that asshole actually spend time blocking his own bill until he quits, then hold the fucking vote. Get some balls, asshole.
No kidding. I wish that the Senate hadn't watered down the filibuster and you had to stand there and bloviate for hours and hours and hours like Strom Thurmond did when he was filibustering all of those anti-lynching bills. Watching McConnell stand on the Senate floor and having to read the phone book to filibuster his own bill would have been priceless.
Who needs The Daily Show when you've got the US Senate?
C-SPAN could change it's name to The Daily Show Network and not spend a dime on programming more than it already does.
This is good news for Ashley Judd.
That would be hi-larry-us if she ran. The wingnuts in KY seem to love Yurtle unconditionally, but they also loves them some Judds, especially Ashley, with her UK Wildcats basketball support and nice butt, and what not.
The former ensign who dated Wesley Crusher would certainly be a big improvement over the obstructionist filibustering turtle.
You mean Wesley Crusher?
You know, the first time I heard her name brought up I laughed because it just seems too ridiculous, and then I remembered who the two senators are from Kentucky. Ashley has a heart bigger than a lion's, and, hell, if Hollywood wants a seat in Kentucky (and that would be awesome all by its damned self), I say more power to them. It's not as if we have anything to lose. Kentucky has realigned at the federal level is still nominally Democratic at the state level, so it's not like even a serious elected Dem has a real chance, so let's shoot for the stars.
Goddamn, can't Congress just fucking work?
Support goes up, support goes down. Never any miscommunication.
The floor reconizes the Senator from D'oh.
Is filibuster anything like Glenn Beck's Philly Bluster?
The 'killing streets' around Independence fucking Hall? Jesus, I'd love to drop his pasty white ass in Tioga or Fairhill and tell him to find his way home.
Here I was thinking we were talking about Philly Buster, the newest Triple Crown winner.
Say, is that Lindsey Graham that
YertleMcConnell is standing on top of?"Whatever it is, I'm against it. Even if it's something I did."
Even if I said I really meant it, I'm against it!
Poor Yertle looks like he in dire need of a Metamucil enema.
All that's missing is a case of Acme brand TNT.
This guy makes Mayor Quimby look like Niccolo Machiavelli.
Where does that place Mayor Adam West?
Somewhere in Rhode Island, I think.
Thumbing kitties at The Clam.
Beware the wrath of the ninja!
You mean to tell me that once you get through the jowly mashed-potato-stuffed pie-hole sound he makes when trying to eee-nun-see-ate that he's just yammering?
No kidding: I hastily turn off NPR whenever they put a Yertle McConnell sound clip on the air.
I really hate his tone, as he sounds like he's scolding a teen found smoking cigarettes, no matter what he's talking about or who he's talking to.
I think that Bernie Sanders should block every bill in the Senate, every bill, unless it advances the cause of socialism and includes a ten million dollar block grant to Vermont. Maybe if absolutely nothing can happen, the Senate will reform this nonsense.
With a statutory obligation that it be spent on liquor and loose women?
I'm in!
Congress! How does it fucking work?
for fuck's sake.
The World's Greatest Defibrillative Body
As the last of Kentucky's ancient gay sea turtles.. of course he has to "filibuster" himself.
Editrix? I think its spelled COMEDY.
Does this stuff sometimes feel like it's from a Marx Brothers movie? I can see Groucho as Mitch McConnell, filibustering his own bill, with Harpo (Lindsey Graham) tooting the horn from behind to try and get his attention.
Or maybe the Three Stooges. But then Mitch'd have to get hit over the head with a podium or something. Actually, not a bad idea…with votes.
Yes.
We are living inside The Onion. You can't make this stuff up.
Derp.
I object to this herpness. I demand derp!
I get all shivery when they go all procedural on each other.
Well, I get all shivy.
GOP will eat itself.
Mitch, no chin McConnell, looks even more flustered now than usual
I think we are in for some terrific tap dancing by Barry O on the heads of the House and Senate Republicans over these next four years, tap shoes with cleats! SNL may have to air twice a week just to keep up.
I can't believe these asshats get paid. By us.
Mitch McConnell, R from K-Y. I'll bet he needs a lot of that stuff just to get into his shell.
"Tragedy tomorrow,
Comity TONIGHT!"
You know who had a bad idea? Mitch McConnell! Who's the only person who can save Mitch McConnell from Mitch McConnell? That's right – Mitch McConnell.
You are stone cold Mitchin.
That was brilliant, Trix. It could also be a new Ben & Jerry's flavor. Now, I'm going to have that song stuck in my head all night…things could definitely be worse.
Would the gentleturle from the Commonwealth please provide an explanation for this?
I have kin in Kentucky in the Halls of Power and I'm told Yertle is amazingly frail and cannot walk without assistance. This leaves me (and McConnell's hot asian wife) hoping that Breitbart is fluffing a pillow and making a bed of coals for the Senator as I tap this out.
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