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Stupak [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

"We have an agreement ... to protect the sanctity of life ... "

Well, no, it doesn't.

This press conference is being held in a fog of delusion. The executive order is not binding.

I think we're witnessing Bart Stupak write the obit for the concept of the "pro-life Democrat."

apropos of nothing: john boehner looks like one of the duracell family.

http://www.reelefx.com/images/webclips/duracell.jpg

J0hn was right on when he remarked that Boehner has the kind of face that haunts your dreams.

i kind of hate eric cantor more, tbh.

Boehner looks like a zombie, Cantor more like a smarmy a-hole.

can someone parse/interpret this tweet from david frum:

if HCR prevails, Republicans need an accountability moment. Jim DeMint/ Rush / Beck etc. ed us to Waterloo all right . Ours.

Cantor said once that his wife and mom-in-law are hardcore liberal Democrats and that it helps keep him balanced or some such nonsense. Right now he's probably going home each night and breaking down in tears while the two of them are all 'Told ya.'

i mean, i get it. but it's amazingly out-of-step with what i've been hearing virtually all right-leaning commentators say lately.

I don't speak Village-ese.

xxpost

It's parseable. But not worth it.

lol

It's something about the thing and the deal and the whatsit.

I've exchanged e-mails with Frum a couple of times. Friendly guy but definitely Sisphyean.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a leading voice in the tea party movement, said Sunday that protesters’ recent use of racial and homophobic slurs toward Members of Congress was no big deal.

“I just don’t think it’s anything,” King said, emphasizing that the incidents were isolated. “There are a lot of places in this country that I couldn’t walk through. I wouldn’t live to get to the other end of it.”

Greenwald dropping (well, re-tweeting) truth bombs on Twitter: RT @markos RT @nicopitney: As @RyanGrim notes, with the Stupak crowd in hand, Pelosi would now have had enough votes for a public option

lol, max, Sadly No! summarizes Nerdlinger's post thusly: Shorter Jay Nordlinger, America’s Shittiest Website™
Racism Today

The fact that health care protestors called a black man “nigger” rather than lynching him is proof that our country is no longer racist.

As @RyanGrim notes, with the Stupak crowd in hand, Pelosi would now have had enough votes for a public option

Eh, others would have changed, likely.

Also lol from the comments there: Eric Cuntor (R- John Boehner’s ass) is condemning the incident, presumably because he’s got enough of a survival instinct to know how people who scream “nigger” and “faggot” tend to feel about Jews.

mr.speakeriaskunanimousconsenttoreviseandextendmyremarksinoppositiontothisFLAWEDhealthcarebill.

enjoying the way rep. jackson (jessie jackson's son, yes?) is handling this process. totally efficient, no-nonsense.

As @RyanGrim notes, with the Stupak crowd in hand, Pelosi would now have had enough votes for a public option

yeah this makes absolutely no sense at all, because youve got the votes for this bill then youve got the votes for any bill? pelosi should totally legalize weed too, shes got the votes

This is why I haven't gotten a Twitter account.

I don't want to fool people into thinking I've got votes for a public option.

with the stupak crowd now in hand, pelosi has the votes for mandating abortion across the kingdom

alfred have u been holding out on us, do u have the votes for a public option

I can't speak for fear of releasing the silent pledges I've got to repeal DOMA.

is there any talk of trying again for a public option in a few years, or after this is everyone going to bed with a pint of ice cream until ~2020 after this?

apparently obama told lynch hed try for a public option next year but lol thats not going to happen. 2013 at the earliest id think.

i have heard talk of this, no idea how serious it is, obvs if we get filibuster reform in the next congress depending on its shape a lot of people are gonna be thinking seriously abt a lot of stuff

me for example

like max

imo expanding medicare is a easier and better path than making some crazy new public option

It's the same thing, really.

or after this is everyone going to bed with a pint of ice cream until ~2020 after this?

actually i'm boarding-up the house now, fearful of civil unrest, with ten tubs of phish food ice cream in the freezer.

The Dems were such chickenshits last summer that instead of using the unparseable "public option" moniker they should have promoted "Medicare expansion." Everyone likes Medicare!

its the same thing ~in theory~

i think i said this upthread!

to someone who knows congressional procedure: what is the purpose of this silly parade of GOP representatives "extending their remarks in opposition to this FLAWED health-care bill"?

offffff, rep. bachman with the sly punch: extending her remarks in opposition to this DANGEROUS health-care bill!

the cool things abt medicare are: people like it, and it already existis; so you can just be like 'ok now all of you get medicare' and then go home

Not Giving Up [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

FWIW: If my inability to get through to many House Democrat offices is any indication, many people are not giving up or in yet.

I suspect House Dem offices have caller ID.

love the idea that congressional aides are racing to the house floor to breathlessly shouting at their bosses STOP STOP KATHRYN LOPEZ CALLED SHE SAID VOTE NO

I liked one of the balloon juice headlines summarizing the current state of events: "All over but the spitting"

DONT GIVE UP

Because you have friends.

http://www.jeffzittrain.com/images/peter_gabriel_en_kate_bush_2.jpg

someone put K-Lo's face here plz

Santorum's touch clearly thrilling her.

speaker pelosi in case you check this thread ever I would once again like to tell you how completely hott you are lookin & the gigantor mjolnir gavel of doom sorta seals the deal so get at me N lets work something out, thx, jd

republican closer -- rep. david dreier -- just quotes dennis prager!

isn't that dr. m's mentor?

dennis prager: GOP hero.