debt ceiling
Would Somebody Explain To Fox News How Money Works Please (UPDATE)
Updated at bottom. Some particularly silly people have found a possible way around this upcoming debt-ceiling debacle, a solution that is almost as crazy as the fact that we have a routine that involves regular debt-ceiling debacles. They want to mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion dollars, and they, of course, have the White [...]
Reports: Congress Expected To Continue Acting Insane
Good morning! It seems appropriate to complement all of this “fiscal cliff averted!” news with a polite reminder that this deal in no way means Congress will stop acting like scotch-drunk shitbirds with a hostage and nothing to lose.
Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker: Let Them Eat Catfood
There are a lot of rich white men who are representing you in our nation’s most deliberative body, and sometimes they set themselves apart by being INSANELY CRAZY. But sometimes they are just run-of-the-mill crazy, in which case it is hard to tell them apart. This is why you don’t yet know very much about [...]
Loyal Opposition Mitch McConnell Now Filibustering His Own Bills, For Comity, And Freedom
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 [...]
Republicans Renege On Debt Deal, For A Change
The thing about the deficit is that it will cause the end of the world and is an existential threat to freedom, which is why it is so important to deny entitlements to Poors and Olds. Tax increases for rich people and cuts to the Department of Defense, however — that’s different, THAT’s the kind [...]
Congress To Finish Destroying Country During Lame Duck Session
Yeah, we were there for “LAME DUCK ’10.” Time of our lives, man, time of our lives. The gays got their military, the U.S. and Russia decided not to nuke each other for another few years, some nutrition or FDA dongle was passed — it was a lot of congressional activity! (Also too, there was [...]
Congressman Calls Obama ‘Tar Baby,’ But He’s Not Racist
Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado was very frustrated last Friday, about the debt ceiling. So he did what any reasonable Republican congressperson would do, which was to use some creative language to complain about President Obama on a local radio show. Specifically, he said that being associated with President Obama was like being stuck to [...]
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 [...]
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