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A “beat sweetener” is when a reporter flatters a loathsome official, in hopes that the newsmaker’s press person will send news releases a few minutes before that same statement goes out to the entire media world — and that’s how a political journalist Wins the Morning. Today’s beat sweetener is about Congresslady Debbie Wasserman Schultz, [...]
OKAY NOW THE ACTION IS HAPPENING. Tony Hayward just took his Oath of Grillin’ and some lady is cold going nuts, yelling and screaming, oil all over her head, five or six Capitol police dragging her out. Tony just sitting there, trying not to look behind him. Oh jesus what a circus, welcome to America! [...]
Representatives Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) finally found cross-party cooperation in the supple mouths of these goats. It was a dumb stunt to promote …. eh, who cares? Both men got off and then the goats were slaughtered in a VooDoo Ritual, the end. Just kidding! One of the goats actually attacked Weiner [...]
Well, this will go down in Liveblogging History as “the night we shouldn’t have bothered,” but what the hell, let’s wrap it up. This liveblog will continue until ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED, or when we go to bed, whichever comes first. Meanwhile: Is Lost Island all a hologram? Only Jim Newell knows for sure. [...]
Sorry, Washington DC! Maybe you can have a voting member of Congress if there’s ever a black president or something. Steny Hoyer announced this afternoon that the House won’t vote on the DC voting-rights bill because the National Rifle Association got its bullshit attached to the legislation, thanks to wingnuts in Congress. [Washington Post/Roll Call]
Walking nicotine stain John Boehner, dapper lifelong bachelor David Dreier and stripper-loving sleazebag Pete Sessions have one wonderful thing in common: their mom, wingnut congresslady Virginia Foxx. She’s such a dingbat that the Republicans gave her the Ronald Reagan Dingbat award down at the Southern Confederacy dinner convention the GOP just held in that one [...]
Remember the great Congressman Eric Massa? The disgusting grope-y Democrat resigned last month because everybody finally got tired of him trying to hump every man he saw. Massa’s brief time in Congress was basically an endless attempt to fuck young dudes, mostly his own staffers forced to live with him in a Washington townhouse. His [...]
ARGH: “The U.S. House of Representatives will have to vote again on changes to a landmark overhaul of the country’s health system after the Senate’s parliamentarian rejected two provisions in the measure. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, said the changes are minor and related to education, not health care. Still, [...]
See, we told you exactly how sorry this idiot “Noogieburger” would be for shouting “baby-killer” at his colleague, while in session in the United States House of Representatives: just sorry enough not to shout CHA-CHING!!!! in his big fundraising video one day later. His wife Dana sure knows how big a score this will be; [...]
The first of two major votes, now! Get ready for 25 Democrats to turn on their yes votes and run for the hills… UPDATE: This thread actually covers both votes! A twofer! Click to see who won!
