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

(from the debate, a moment ago!)

US POLITICS: THE STUPAK COMPROMISE SUCKED BUT THE STUPAK SUPREMACY SHOULD BE DOPE

heed the gavel!

loving the debate.

Apparently the American people are speakin' loud and clear. Who knew?

so much distortion and misinformation

i stand with americans who want the freedom to choose their own health care!

thank GOD for rich people.

Suck that gavel! Aw yeaaahh, dude, she's really going after that gavel!

watching c-span is pretty fascinating cuz tons of ppl you've never heard of get to talk and you get to go "wait what? this guy was elected? huh? okay i guess."

US POLITICS: DANIEL ESQ GETS SO EXCITED HE STARTS POSTING IN ALL LOWER-CASE

au revoir, mr. limbaugh

Who was that total screecher guy from CA?

if it's not TWEETS ON SCREEN i'm starting an IMP thread

so many of these really dumb republican speakers have really great names like "Colt Broadchest."

<3 jim mcdermott

Anyone got airmiles to donate to Rush for the one-way to Costa Rica?

US POLITICS: DANIEL ESQ GETS SO EXCITED HE STARTS POSTING IN ALL LOWER-CASE

lOl!

or LoL!

it is all v. exciting.

i would donate thousands of dollars to any democratic senator who walked up to the podium, took out their iphone/blackberry, held it up to the mic and played

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMpXAknykeg

and then yielded the rest of their time

jordan, dude did you watch jesse jackson jr earlier today? it was lol

There can't be arrogance located in a bill. That's not how the affect is produced.

jordan, dude did you watch jesse jackson jr earlier today? it was lol

― wears suburban hang-ups on her sleeve like some kind of corporate logo (daria-g), Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:27 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no thank god basketball was on -- he did look sassy in your screengrabs tho

I just discovered that the Fail Trumpet can be played over objectionable speakers, to great comic effect.

i feel like it's sort of cruel that they don't have toilets inside the chambers -- so many old ass ppl in this bitch

WTG Keith Ellison for inserting a demand for universal health care onto the record.

i feel like i could marry debby wasserman-schultz

nice jewish girl?

another way the congress could be more interesting: cutting down the time for remarks per rep to 30 seconds, and using the other 15 seconds to do basketball-game style intros with dimmed lights & colored spotlights & stuff

someone youtubed a short clip of jackson i'm hoping more shows up (not having patience to search cspan archives)

cutting down the time for remarks per rep to 30 seconds, and using the other 15 seconds to do basketball-game style intros with dimmed lights & colored spotlights & stuff

roger ailes, make it happen! cmon man!

i feel like i could marry debby wasserman-schultz

― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Monday, March 22, 2010 12:30 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

forget marriage, I'll gladly take a torrid weekend in cabo.

*lights dim*

*red spotlight flashes*

*republicans gather in line, hopping and clapping*

STANDING SIX FOOT ONE... FROM PENNSYLVANIA'S FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT... REPUBLICAN GLENN "G.T." THOOOOOOOOMPPPPPSSOOOOOOOONNNN

*fireworks are set off*

Don't forget that Alan Parsons Project song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCR85u9QngQ

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/the-future-after-health-care/37799/

The Future After Health Care
MAR 21 2010, 6:30 PM ET

Regardless of what you think about health care, tomorrow we wake up in a different political world.

Parties have passed legislation before that wasn't broadly publicly supported. But the only substantial instances I can think of in America are budget bills and TARP--bills that the congressmen were basically forced to by emergencies in the markets.

One cannot help but admire Nancy Pelosi's skill as a legislator. But it's also pretty worrying. Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse to the tyranny of the majority? Republicans and other opponents of the bill did their job on this; they persuaded the country that they didn't want this bill. And that mattered basically not at all. If you don't find that terrifying, let me suggest that you are a Democrat who has not yet contemplated what Republicans might do under similar circumstances. Farewell, social security! Au revoir, Medicare! The reason entitlements are hard to repeal is that the Republicans care about getting re-elected. If they didn't--if they were willing to undertake this sort of suicide mission--then the legislative lock-in you're counting on wouldn't exist.

Oh, wait--suddenly it doesn't seem quite fair that Republicans could just ignore the will of their constituents that way, does it? Yet I guarantee you that there are a lot of GOP members out there tonight who think that they should get at least one free "Screw You" vote to balance out what the Democrats just did.

If the GOP takes the legislative innovations of the Democrats and decides to use them, please don't complain that it's not fair. Someone could get seriously hurt, laughing that hard.

But I hope they don't. What I hope is that the Democrats take a beating at the ballot boxand rethink their contempt for those mouth-breathing illiterates in the electorate. I hope Obama gets his wish to be a one-term president who passed health care. Not because I think I will like his opponent--I very much doubt that I will support much of anything Obama's opponent says. But because politicians shouldn't feel that the best route to electoral success is to lie to the voters, and then ignore them.

We're not a parliamentary democracy, and we don't have the mechanisms, like votes of no confidence, that parliamentary democracies use to provide a check on their politicians. The check that we have is that politicians care what the voters think. If that slips away, America's already quite toxic politics will become poisonous.

US POLITICS: MEGAN MCARDLE IS POUTY

If the GOP takes the legislative innovations of the Democrats and decides to use them, please don't complain that it's not fair. Someone could get seriously hurt, laughing that hard.

laughing pretty hard already

does anyone even read megan mcardle? anyone?

US POLITICS: AMERICANS PLZ WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT OF CONCERN TROLLING...MEG MCARDLE!

is mcardle ws able?

eh.

http://neweconomist.blogs.com/.m/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/30/meganmcardle.jpg

yeah, that's a 'nay'

Paternalistic, arrogant and condescending Democrats? Again, who knew?

She's also like 6'10" or something.

She looks enough like an ex girlfriend that I feel like I already did ws.

paul ryan on tv warning about the "european welfare state." what a dweeb. worried about "the next generation." promises to continue "the fight to reaffirm our founding principles."

BORING.

After this pitiful thing is voted on at 2 or 3 a.m., you Dem stans ARE prepared for 7+ months of "IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT..." Right?

k guys i don't agree with her either but yeah, what does she look like? ws y/n?
because that's what matters if it's a woman obvs