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

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

Does anyone in this thread LOVE this bill, btw? I didn't think so.

Daria... horny dudez r horny.

gonna need a good sound effect to go w/IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT, in fact

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

she sound interesting.

I'm thinking Kucinich had the right idea, originally

mike pence is an idiot.

mike pence is special

man this guy's just lying now. they could've easily found a bipartisan solution? loooool

if this debate [sic] is still going on in 3 hours, I want all of you to switch to TCM for Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality

hey people I know it's all very amusing to see the thread post count approach 5000 but it's a pain in the ass when I'm on the move and want to read it, can we get a new one please

We're starting a new one after the vote.

Party nerdz

oh ok n/m

Mike Pence: "“Only in Washington D.C. could you say you are going to spend a trillion dollars and save the taxpayers’ money.”"

*head in hands*

This is a direct appeal to morons. It is analogous to the "increasing CO2 levels can't hurt it because we need it to live" climate change argument.

its going to be called US TWEETS, ABORTION EDITION

final vote should happen between 10-10:30 pm.

and then this will happen:
http://www.repealit.org/

Aw, Club for Growth... never change!

man this parliamentary procedural shit makes just zero sense - they should instead have some collaboration software that lets them forward each other blog posts and then after a while vote

congress.tumblr.com

someone just urged that Congress "Listen to the heartbeat of America..."

God, that instantly reminds me of the Perry Chevrolet (St. Louis area) commercial. Cover of the commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorTvLPjZ3w

Ron Paul and Barney Frank tried to roll some decriminalize pot amendments into this.

rep nunes sez: the ghosts of communist dictators will haunt us if reform is passed

i so want to wake up and find out congress has accidentally legalized pot. and obama all like, "it's in the bill, i have no choice."

I'm not scared of Stalin's ghost. What's he gonna do? He's a fucking GHOST!

dude ghosts r spooky think abt it