That remark about 'how many laws we repeal' basically says that every Congress before this one was wrong-headed and passed laws it never should have passed and ought to be repealed. But those Congresses were precisely as legitimate as this one, elected by the voters and sent to DC to legislate. So, I must conclude Boehner is an idiot who can't think his way out of a paper bag, or else he just says stuff he thinks sounds good without thinking at all.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 24 July 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
I think in Boehners mind politics is the same thing as governing so burning down the other dudes shit is regular business.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
SAC indicted
― Mordy , Thursday, 25 July 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/us-usa-healthcare-republicans-idUSBRE96O0EJ20130725
FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity, a conservative issue group financed by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, known for funding conservative causes, are planning separate media and grassroots campaigns aimed at adults in their 20s and 30s - the very people Obama needs to have sign up for healthcare coverage in new online insurance exchanges if his reforms are to succeed.
"We're trying to make it socially acceptable to skip the exchange," said Dean Clancy, vice president for public policy at FreedomWorks, which boasts 6 million supporters. The group is designing a symbolic "Obamacare card" that college students can burn during campus protests.
Americans for Prosperity launched a $1 million TV ad campaign against the healthcare law this summer to test its message in swing states of Virginia and Ohio. The 30-second ad presents a young pregnant mother who asks questions that suggest the law will raise premiums, reduce paychecks, prevent people from picking their own doctors and leave her family's healthcare to "the folks in Washington."
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
freedom works
― loosely inspired by Dr. Dre (crüt), Thursday, 25 July 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
...just says stuff he thinks sounds good without thinking at all.
^^^ From "welfare queens" to "death panels" to Michele Bachmann's entire political career, GOP have mastered talking loud, saying nothing.
― Byron E. Coli (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
I think they're excellent at it!
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
They truly are! I've often said I wish progressive causes had spokespeople so adept at tossing red meat and getting their base motivated. I mean, they kinda do, but...
― Byron E. Coli (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Some laws Boehner does not want to repeal:
NYTimesTop NewsHouse Defeats Effort to Rein In N.S.A. Data GatheringBy JONATHAN WEISMANThe 217-205 vote was far closer than expected and displayed the shifting allegiances and fierce lobbying on both sides of the issue.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
nice to see him working with Obama there
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
Nancy too.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
http://www.squareone-learning.com/cartoons/nancy.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
oh man mccain's gonna lose it
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/360433838339526657
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Thursday, 25 July 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
mccain's already visited, kerry and him led the effort toward normalization of relations
― balls, Thursday, 25 July 2013 17:45 (ten years ago) link
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/25/weiner-estimates-he-sexted-three-women-after-resigning/?hpt=hp_t1
my favorite bit: "It's not dozens and dozens," he said. "It's six to ten, I suppose, but I can't tell you absolutely what people are going to consider inappropriate or not."
Obviously having a hard time telling what people consider inappropriate.
― akm, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:14 (ten years ago) link
a hard time you say
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
― balls, Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:45 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah a while after i posted that i remembered that from one of his many many profiles (the DFW one maybe?)
but still, maybe?
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Thursday, 25 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Charlie Savage on John Roberts' influence on the FISA court:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/politics/robertss-picks-reshaping-secret-surveillance-court.html?ref=politics&_r=0
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
Congratulations on finding a way to make me more disgusted with politics:
“With the Obama administration poised for a huge public education campaign on healthcare reform, Republicans and their allies are mobilizing a counter-offensive including town hall meetings, protests and media promotions to dissuade uninsured Americans from obtaining health coverage,” Reuters reports. “‘We’re trying to make it socially acceptable to skip the exchange,’ said Dean Clancy, vice president for public policy at FreedomWorks, which boasts 6 million supporters.”
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 26 July 2013 05:52 (ten years ago) link
http://washingtonexaminer.com/pelosi-looks-to-assuage-angry-democrats-with-letter-to-obama-questioning-nsa-snooping/article/2533515
ugh fuck her
― k3vin k., Friday, 26 July 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
Seriously..
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
"I thought that impeachment would be divisive for the country. ... If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story." -- Nancy Pelosi, 2008
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 26 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/michaelhayes/status/360839251027431425/photo/1
― antoine fuckwant (goole), Friday, 26 July 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
^ the torn bill of rights
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 July 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/business/media/nbc-announces-mini-series-on-hillary-clinton.html
can't wait
― Mordy , Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:43 (ten years ago) link
It's a four-hour miniseries, but since it's on NBC it will be canceled after the second hour.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 27 July 2013 23:51 (ten years ago) link
what a disaster for nbc
― k3vin k., Sunday, 28 July 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/485119_10151309074333278_1641232265_n.jpg
― Z S, Monday, 29 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
oh jesus
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
lol
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 July 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
agl
― |citation needed| (will), Monday, 29 July 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
We all saw the "1998 and after" Shrillary miniseries already.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
huh?
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
The reality show! Can't top that; no actress can reproduce the campaign-trail "gallonagas."
I guess a couple hours dramatizing the healthcare reform screwup just didn't sell in the suites.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:10 (ten years ago) link
You've never touched any one else's genitals before, have you?
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
yo mama's, right after I heard that in kindergarten
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
Were you trying to say "gazongas"?
― how's life, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:34 (ten years ago) link
no, that's President Hil folksy talk for a "gallon o' gas"
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
I'm really not a Hillary fan, but everybody code switches, dude.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
The reality show! Can't top that; no actress can reproduce the campaign-trail "gallonagas."I guess a couple hours dramatizing the healthcare reform screwup just didn't sell in the suites.
http://ionenewsone.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/rushcigar.jpg
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
dude -- sorry, I mean gabbneb's shriveled dick -- I don't think RL is big on HC reform, or ever was.
Now go crawl back up Jim Carville's asshole.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 July 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
dude -- sorry, I mean gabbneb's shriveled dick -- I don't think RL is big on HC reform, or ever was.Now go crawl back up Jim Carville's asshole.
http://deathandtaxesmag.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rush-limbaugh-793679.jpeg
― waterface, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
In other news, I guess Republicans will respond to the below by saying that people aren't trying to get work because they're living the good life on food stamps; and taxes are just too high on job creators....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/28/poverty-unemployment-rates_n_3666594.html
Nationwide, the count of America's poor remains stuck at a record number: 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population, due in part to lingering high unemployment following the recession.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 29 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Who Are We at War With? That’s Classified
― c21m50nh3x460n, Monday, 29 July 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
What a dated reference.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 29 July 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link
don't tell Bill Hader
― kaiju rolling stone cover (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 29 July 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
wawaface & gabbneb are dated
as are these threads
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:26 (ten years ago) link
especially with this news:
The Senate overwhelmingly confirmed James B. Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Monday even as Republicans and Democrats struggled to hold together the fragile deal that preserved the filibuster for executive branch appointees.
After approving Mr. Comey on a 93-to-1 vote — with Rand Paul the lone “no” vote — the Senate was also expected this week to approve Samantha Power as ambassador to the United Nations and the nominees to the National Labor Relations Board who were part of the 11th-hour pact that kept Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat and majority leader, from changing the filibuster rules.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
so I offer Obama's and Reid's asses for Dem trolls to crawl up
(warning: crowded)
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:36 (ten years ago) link
http://www.featurepics.com/FI/Thumb300/20080513/Happy-Man-Magnifying-Lens-724374.jpg
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 00:39 (ten years ago) link