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SCOTUS reaction shots were great, but military shots better. reaction to DADT repeal looked like botoxed military action figurines. full dress but no expressive human capability.

i heard sufjan stevens was in the gallery and i don't know why they cut his inspiring real american story out of the speech

Oooh, McDonnell took 12 minutes, his boys checked the fuck out of there.

Hahaha Brian Williams is calling out the placement of the token black and Asian people behind McDonnell.

continued renditions, escalating in Afghanistan, free money for banker thieves = "nitpicks." God bless you, you're the nightmare, bnw.

love for bnw but Morbius is OTM. it is not nitpicking to give a shit about torture & war, no matter how many times people in the pro-Vampire-Weekend camp claim it is.

Whitney is awesome. Fuck an indie band imo.

SHE WILL NOT QUIT
I WILL NOT QUIT
WE WILL NOT QUIT

hahaha, talk away people, am swapping Morbs for Morpheus!

i think far as military and SCOTUS go, they have a general understanding that they don't react to the speech, don't applaud - doesn't matter what's being said

I used to be pretty relaxed about stuff like war and torture but then i saw bomb blown up to 96 point futura

yeah i'm not surprised the military dudes didn't react

j0hn has gone all Rufus Hipster Runoff Firefly on us

man what'd I do to deserve this, I spend all night bringing quality material only to be tarred with this brutal brush

already redacting my campaign trail showtunes riffs in retaliation

my impression was that the military dudes are supposed to stay stone-faced the whole time

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j0hn d. i for one support your work tonight--kudos to you

btw i'm pretty sure i heard, in the footage of Obama walking around chatting post-speech, someone talking about Jersey Shore

dude I like comedy/novelty tunes way better than Broadway, pay attention.

The Difference Between the President's Speech and Governor McDonnell's [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

The president had some optimistic salt on his. McDonnell exuded it in his.

someone make gross gif of McDonnell exuding salt, plz

he exuded salt? is that a symptom of dehydration?

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/temprain/slug_4823.jpg

He needs to conserve water to cool all the offshore drills.

yeah i'm not surprised the military dudes didn't react

they are too busy going over the coup plans in their heads

continued renditions, escalating in Afghanistan, free money for banker thieves = "nitpicks." God bless you, you're the nightmare, bnw.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:42 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

all this gets much much worse under a McDonnell. if I'm Vampire Weekend, you guys are trying to dish some abstract noise record that you and 14 other people have heard. you will never have enough people listening or caring about it to make anything substantial happen. so get with the watered down version or stfu.

I don't like it when K-Lo uses 'exude' or similar in sentences, and on that note zzzzzzzzz

he exuded salt? is that a symptom of dehydration?

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:50 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a: yes!

GOP: "the president asks too much and we propose to deny any bill before reading it because we are blessed in america with... and we should be blah blah blah... terrorism... we want opportunity, freedom, everything good AND limited government... don't forget to help haiti"

so get with the watered down version or stfu.

An actual cynic in da house, ladies & lackeys^

also excellent path to dictatorship, bnw

do you also feel like pissing on Zinn's grave?

well where is it?

my vote for best comic line of the thread goes to Morbs tho, I lol'd v. hard here

Why aren't my stories on?

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 27, 2010 10:05 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also:
so get with the watered down version or stfu.

seriously this is so hopeless and horrible that outright fascism would be preferable

and who made Howard Zinn the spokesman for the common man?

he wrote a book, man!

some Obama libs correlate w/ "love it or leave it" Archie Bunker hardhats 40 years ago

yeah but Archie Bunker at least knew to put zings first instead of being really grave & Serious Business about it

in more important news I understand that the entrance music at the next inauguration will be provided by Guadalcanal Diary

who made Ed Droste the spokesman for the common man?

THAT'S RACIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9TgqWuJTk

confession time, prior to now I have never heard a note of Guadalcanal Diary's music

second best band of the 80s, behind the housemartins.

Already sick of the Facebook status about Biden, Michelle, and Pelosi wearing purple to encourage bipartisanship.

Josh Marshall posted this letter:

Maybe it's just because I'm a poli sci major turned lawyer, but that moment when he turned to the Supremes and took them directly to task for Dred Scott II the Citizens United opinion, and then watching the majority look completely taken aback as the other branch of government stood up, looked at them and cheered actually stunned me a bit.

I know I've never seen anything like that happen in a SOTU and if anything like that has ever happened before in a SOTU or a joint session, I must have been hung over the day of the lecture in college. Even the fireside chat in which FDR unveiled his court packing scheme, as dripping with patrician condescension and barely concealed venom as it was, didn't go second person and directly in their face the way Obama did tonight.

The Supremes are used to wafting into the House in their black robes, sitting dispassionately through the speech and wafting ethereally out again on a cloud of apolitical rectitude. It's like they forget they're there because they're one of the three branches. And I truly don't think it ever occured to them that crassly injecting themselves into the sordid partisan fray of what they like to call "the political branches" with that catastrophic decision would cause the President to treat them like people who'd injected themselves into the sordid partisan fray. (And why should they? After all, they got away with Bush v. Gore with barely a dent in their credibility). I even thought I detected a bit of "told you" coming from the four in the minority.

I think we saw a bit of history made tonight, and no one noticed except the Supremes themselves.

i have never heard of Guadalcanal Diary but that song rules, thx

people noticed. palin and hannity just now made a thing saying obama didn't respect separation of powers because of comments about the scotus.

"In his State of the Union address, President Obama asked Congress to repeal the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. I am immensely proud of, and thankful for, every American who wears the uniform of our country, especially at a time of war, and I believe it would be a mistake to repeal the policy." - mccain

smh

the conclusion doesn't follow from mccain's premise.

sidenote: McCain's favorite song is Dancing Queen

Chris Matthews hanging himself:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/msnbcs-matthews-i-forgot-he-was-black/?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Matthews thing seems innocuous and uncontroversial to me.

Apparently the GOP kept a tally of how many times O used first person singular and that is basically all they've got in the riposte dept. Awesome random Twitter:

@KarlRove Dubya didn't NEED to say "I" so much because YOU had your hand up his ass the entire time.

I hate word-counting as a subtitute for analysis. Even Top Columnists do it. It's like starting an article with a dictionary definition of a word, complete with pronunciation symbols. Ooh how lateral and artistic! No it's fucking LAY-ZEE SHIT.

chris matthews has said about a million worse things than that on air and it hasn't mattered so...