US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

gawker and wonkette have better drinking games than "drinkinggame.us"

Jonah Goldberg's drinking game:

Lots of readers keep asking when we'll come up with our version. I'm not sure there's room to be too original here. His usual phrases are familiar enough: "Let me be clear," "make no mistake," "this will not be easy" etc. There's nothing wrong with that sort of thing. One different way to go is conceptual or thematic. Every time Obama suggests there's a consensus among experts about a proposal when there isn't, drink. Every time he claims to be aligned with the populist backlash he created, drink. Every time he suggests that History with a capital H demands that we do whatever it is he's talking about, drink. Every time he says that he's being "pragmatic" or "bipartisan" when he's actually being wildly ideological or partisan, drink. And so on.

My own preference is to drink every time he says something that will obviously cost me money. If that seems like an invitation to alcohol poisoning, you could narrow it down slightly by drinking only when something will cost you money and make the economy worse at the same time.

Anyway, I'm open to suggestions.

Mordy!

Gawker drinking game is ILX proxy, awes...

max always stumping for gawker : )

;-)

and wonkette ;-)

when are you gonna start writing for them?

Have all three open TBH.

oh, wonkette. i don't read it anymore b/c seems to be so excessively mean spirited. stop the hate man!

here we go

GALESBURG

"unable or unwilling," v. nice

chuck grassley in an arresting red vest

full text si ca vous interesse:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/obamas-sotu-speech/

Ah, it's a woodshed special.

ok who besides me thinks stories about how resilient americans are is kind of a bogus trope. what the fuck are people going to do: just lie down? of course they're still working. they have to.

Can we get a YouTube edit with all the spontaneously planned clapping cut out?

J0hn D., unsurprisingly, OTMFM.

JOEKS

what the fuck are people going to do: just lie down?

well, sometimes people do. i mean official unemployment numbers don't count people who gave up looking for work..

pretty sure biden has been toking up, that smile seems to be responding to all manner of stimuli

maybe Ordinary Americans have so much time to write the President because they're out of work.

when Obama greeted SCOTUS I think I saw Alito ask him for an autograph lol.

also, biden nods in agreement mid-sentence

that good good mississippi green

Republican side of the aisle does not like the cutting taxes bit.

Regular Henny Youngman over here.

holy shit wtf at Biden and Pelosi grinning like Jokers.

They're passing the joint under the table.

Alfred I'm telling you, there's a big ol' bong in the antechamber

Seriously. The shuffle/smile Biden just did...

Pelosi: "I'm gonna be here long after you're gone, motherfucker.

God just the sight of Lieberman makes me wanna donate to the DNC

I can't figure out the semiotics of SCOTUS rising in applause. Do they only applaud when a Prez's actions look "non-partisan"?

if i were speaker of the house prob first thing i'd do is move those chairs so they weren't in the shot, so you wouldn't have to sit through an hour and a half speech making sure, the whole time, that you never have a silly look on your face!

Holy shit it is like Parliament in there with all the RAAAAHR

Tip O'Neill and Denny Hastert the masters of looking like three-day-old liver imo.

He's pushed really hard on populist impulses this speech. ("I hated the bailout," "If the banks can afford big bonuses...")

Whoa, shake that head is disbelief douche.

if anybody in power reads this thread & moves J0hn D's crush of shame Nancy P out of the frame for future speeches, Daria, I will personally see to it that you never have a fun Xmas ever again

More buildings please!!! Architects be needing work.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/photographs/large/c19630-20.jpg

lol @ 'publicans grimacing at small business aid, but applauding the same for large businesses.

hahaha j0hn you don't know my family, good luck with that
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Several of us have humiliating Pelosi crushes of shame ...

Older people who are looking not so bad

Defensive [Rich Lowry]

First part of the speech has been extraordinarily defensive.

nah i <3 nancy p, i just figure it can't be fun to sit up there that long, trying to never make a face that the GOP could immediately replay on cable news x one million.

The only way to move to full employment is to lay a new foundation for long-term economic growth, by legalizing vice.

fucking awesome

You know, when you are sitting looking up jobs on craigslist this shit hits a little close to fucking home.

J0hn, plz I beg you, don't relapse on me.

got confused and excited for a moment that that was true -- clearly i've been engaging in some vice during this speech xxp