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Tonight! How many House Republicans will bang on their pots tonight?

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  • Packy

    You can be sure the “Liberal Media™ will be inundated with pot-bangers.

  • http://sourgrapes@comcast.net idreamofskiba

    Who the hell is this guy that’s on Hardball right now?

  • idreamofskiba

    Oh, Dick Army. He was totally ridiculous.

  • Alan4s

    Oh, Dick Army. He was totally ridiculous.

    Not to be confused with his lesser-known cousin Schlong Navy.

  • ceu

    cocktails at the WH tonight ought to be interesting.

  • jane

    As opposed to this thread. (Miaow!)

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Or his wife, Vagina Coastguard. (Courtesy of Family Guy.)

  • cminri

    I just wanted to say…I HATE REPUBLICANS!Thats it..go back to what you were doing..(Dicks) – not you…them…

  • jane

    This is salting my driveway. So to speak.

  • cminri

    Is anyone ascared to click on Jane’s links?

  • ceu

    Turley’s on!that is all

  • jane

    CM, just hover. It’s only Crooks & Liars. But it is scary, our bailout money being used to fight unions.

  • cminri

    Can we talk now?!? ;)

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Jessica Alba – sexy AND smart!

  • jane

    Yeah. Sweden was neutral. Fuck off, BillO. Heh.

  • Kat

    >>>Is anyone ascared to click on Jane’s links?Fucking terrified, CM. Now I hover…and if I’m not sure, I click but keep one eye closed.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    What’s the over/under on Senate Republican votes for the stimulus?

  • jane

    Axl, there were 16 Republican Tops, but 28 Republican bottoms/undecideds, so they’re going back to the drawing board to…oh wait. Never mind.

  • Kat

    Shall we guess who is a top and who is a bottom?

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    Obviously Boehner is a top.

  • jane

    At least we’re finally *debating* whether Rush is relevant. Finally. Locus shift from a few years ago.

  • jane

    Axl, I see Boehner as a bottom…one who cries from butthurt.

  • gypsysoul

    i thought republicans just bent over…

  • ceu

    What’s to debate?

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    @ Jane:ToucheSpeaking of tops and bottoms, there’s a new word that needs to get out courtesy of Dan Savage… Saddlebacking.From me blog: http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com/hedonist_perspective/2009/01/saddlebacking.html

  • Kat

    I’m thinking Cantor is definitely a bottom too. Cantor/canter…..

  • Kat

    Axl – that is fantastic. And actually quite well done. Now how to use it in conversation…..

  • idreamofskiba

    Aww, that was the cutest damn thing I’ve ever seen (Obama talking about the Jonas Brothers & his daughters). Is it OK to talk about the president that way?

  • GItheScholar

    idreamofskiba,Absolutely Not!!!! Don’t you ever gush over my President again.

  • idreamofskiba

    Sorry, but I just can’t help it!

  • jane

    Armey seems to talk about Armey as if he is quite enamored of Dick Armey. Who else does that?

  • GItheScholar

    Did I see that everyone one of the GOP House members voted NO? I am in love with this. I believe this was a test bill for greater things to come like healthcare and massive banking regulation.

  • jane

    We should all thank Dan Savage for his contributions to our lexicography.

  • ceu

    “When it rains, we melt. When it snows, we melt, refreeze, and fall down on ourselves”

  • theo

    my new favorite activity is putting dirty/perverted answers on my homework.Kat: you can use saddlebacking quite often, if you live in an area with highly concentrated christian morons.

  • jane

    Subvert, Theo! We have your back (so to speak).

  • theo

    does anyone use santorum on a regular basis? It’s another Dan Savage contribution…

  • GItheScholar

    Rachel just gave me a hard on with her rant on Infrastructure.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    @GI:To me, that was silly because the GOP tipped their hand early.I mean, everyone voted no and they still lost by a sizable margin. Sure, it shows party discipline but they’ve also used all of their bargaining chips.There’s no way they get that same sort of discipline in the Senate as Senators have a lot more riding on this.

  • ceu

    ha! Scholar! forget protecting from a hypothetical terrorist threat – can we have a power grid that works in WINTER??So many people without power tonight. :(

  • jane

    Chris, if we can’t surf our porn, the Terrorists have won.

  • ceu

    I think I broke FB :(

  • GItheScholar

    Eric Holder is the MAN. Karl Rove is going to GITMO or another Black Ops Prison in europe. Can I suggest that he gets sent to those pussy ass french people that hate him so much.

  • Alan4s

    Chris, if we can’t surf our porn, the Terrorists have won.

    I think you jest Jane, but you really are right.Alert: Ben Stein bloviating on CNN right now – “oooh, it’s a lot of money. We’ll wake up in a couple of years and realize we’re in debt!”. Dickwad.

  • GItheScholar

    What happen to the porn? That is the most profound statement I have ever heard. I am going to build my own power grid and buy a Honda generator for back up power.If our infrastructure is in need of 2.2 trillion dollars of repair wouldn’t that mean our entire country is in a state of emergency?

  • SillyGit

    GI – It was a great rant. I nearly came.

  • veralynn

    GD I do love Rachel…an intelligent and coherent person, let alone a “woman”, taking it to the man!!

  • idreamofskiba

    Republicans give me a headache.

  • cminri

    I think the infrastructure of Facebook needs fixing.

  • Teh Minx

    Hmmm…I used to like Ben Stein, back when he had the show “Win Ben Stein’s Money” on Comedy Central and engaged in pseudo-homosexual flirting with Jimmy Kimmel. Now, not so much.Is anyone else feeling like me? Half-excited for the future & half wanting to wrap myself in the Slanket with some kind people until it’s all over??

  • GItheScholar

    Who the fuck is this moron GOP congressman that Rachel is handling like a child?

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Good job by Rachel with that Congressman. Amazing how Republicans don’t want to do her show.

  • jane

    Skiba. Where ya been?

  • idreamofskiba

    I had a stupid health scare then kind of suffered a nervous breakdown. I think I’m all better now!!! I missed you guys!

  • jane

    Missed you back.

  • veralynn

    yeah carl, they would actually have to answer questions instead of spewing talking points

  • SillyGit

    Exciting! New! Freeze dried Christomoroni™Christomoroni™ is just what those southern strategy Greedy Old Pricks were looking for. Each can of Christomoroni™ contains an entire Tennesee County’s worth of Christofascist Morons all raring to vote for the most ignorant and fascist candidate in your next election. Composed entirely of highly concentrated Christian morons, Christomoroni™ is easy to use. Just add five gallons of water to each can of Christomoroni™ and then just stand back and admire your new constituents.NOTE: It highly recommended to keep a crucifix on one’s person at all times when using Chritomoroni™ as the Christofascist morons produced are highly intolerant of non-Christians, anyone demonstrating intelligence, and persons of nonwhite skin color. We are not responsible for any lynchings that may occur.h/t to Theo for sparking the idea.

  • veralynn

    BTW, I got some good news today about my job. They increased it after they took some things away last week. Now, I will be he only one doing what I do, I think (crossing fingers and toes) that I should be ok…..whew, I have been so skeert

  • theo

    git, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful partnership.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    vera – was it me, or was the Congressman’s thinking completely backwards? $75mil in $5000 vouchers to buy cars that nobody wants at a 25% discount so your monthly payments can be less than $300 a month for someone who doesn’t have a job. Did I get that right?

  • veralynn

    I couldn’t recall follow his logic either, something about the stimulus’ not saving jobs, but making them…..I agree you should save jobs, but his logic says no this bill should only create jobs? I am glad Rachel didn’t let him get by, that she questioned when he spoke nonsense

  • veralynn

    meant to say “really” follow his logic

  • GItheScholar

    BC, How the fuck do you buy a car without a job? What happens when the LLC of Chysler goes under? I am pretty sure a good paying government job would help buy a car, a house, pay off debt, run up credit cards again and whatever else people do when they have a job. Oh, drink more beer and smoke cigarettes.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Right, GI. That’s what I’m saying. They’ll gladly give out $75 mil in vouchers to buy cars that people can’t afford or don’t want, but maybe injecting more Food Stamps into the borderline poverty areas where studies show that every $1 for Food Stamps returns $1.73 into the economy? No fucking way!

  • jane

    Oh, Carl. You and your silly facts.

  • SillyGit

    NSFers surf the pr0n, whoda thunk.I thought it was just engineers that did that.In 1969 engineers invented packet switched networking which quickly evolved into TCP/IP and the internet was born. DARPA was told that it was a project to produce a highly reliable data network. The researchers neglected to tell DARPA that the data being networked was pornography, now know as pr0n.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Facts schmacts, Jane-arooski. I’m just making this shit up. The other side does. If you can’t beat ‘em… Oh, wait. We DID beat ‘em. AHAAHAAHAHAHAHAH!

  • jane

    (joining) MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    I’ll chuckle for like three minutes very slowly….Because I’m high. :)

  • jane

    Fucking Hedonist.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    @ Jane:It’s these damn hippies!Countdown (no tv here so I have to watch it online) will be awesome.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    John BONER:Was gonna meet the President, but then I got high.We were gonna talk stimulus, but then I got high.More tax cuts is all I know, and now I know why…Because I got high,Because I bot high,Because I got high!

  • The Minx

    High on Life, Alex Rose?

  • jane

    Still in Asheville, I take it.

  • http://hedonistperspective.typepad.com Alex Rose

    @ Minx:Yeah… life… we’ll go with that.@ Jane:Yeah… don’t leave until Friday.

  • ceu

    Veralynn – Congratulations! Nice to have the worry lifted for a while, eh?

  • veralynn

    I love Asheville, very cool little town. For the longest time that was the only place I knew of where people thought like me.

  • veralynn

    very much ceu, thanks!

  • veralynn

    is it me or is something wrong with FB?

  • gypsysoul

    being high in asheville is like breathing air!well, most of the time you GET high by breathing the air in asheville! hehe… or someones dreads! i do love my hometown area, i just can’t stand living there!

  • ceu

    I broke it, Veralynn. Sorry

  • veralynn

    no worries ceu, I thought I did something, I am still trying to figure out to do things, so I wasn’t sre it wasn’t me!

  • jane

    Chris’ fault.

  • gypsysoul

    can i just say i HATE taking out the trash! i made a reference to it in the “why do republicans hate women” thread, but this is one i would gladly have someone else do!

  • veralynn

    I agree gypsy, I would also add mowing the grass, and also

  • Packy

    This ought to make everyone’s day”http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?P20001939

  • gypsysoul

    i loves me some riding lawnmower! and when i just had a little bit of grass i used an electric mower, but now i have to pay someone to do it. =(

  • veralynn

    I never liked it much gypsy, but I now pay someone because I ran over a yelow jacket hive and found out I was alergic to to them

  • veralynn

    damn I am a bad speller today

  • veralynn

    wow packy, that sort of does and yet I am skeert

  • Packy

    What? You haven’t been to http://www.sarahpac.com/ yet?

  • gypsysoul

    i love driving/riding anything. (don’t go there!) i am the queen of golf carts! i once flipped one over on it’s side breaking my boss’s arm! hehe…

  • veralynn

    @ gypsynow you are talking! I love driving golf carts!!@ packyI heard about it, but I couldn’t bring myslef to look at her picture

  • gypsysoul

    i live on an island near charleston and you can drive them all over the place! let’s just say the local rent-a-cops know me by name! hehe…

  • veralynn

    that would be so cool to be able to do that! Until a hurricane came

  • gypsysoul

    that’s the best surfing time! ;) i haven’t been here during a hurricane threat so i say that in jest.

  • veralynn

    everytime I hear charleston, I think of hugo

  • veralynn

    good nite all

  • SillyGit

    Every time I hear Charleston, I think of the slave market, Fort Sumter, and the gorgeous mansions along the battery.Charleston is a very beautiful city.

  • Teh Minx

    Wow, Gyps! I love Golf Cart/Go-Cart/Bumper Car driving too!! Once the weather doesn’t suck anymore I am SO coming to visit you! I will bring presents that I promise you will like…

  • gypsysoul

    deal minx. the toll to get into my house is a bottle of the tequila. or wine. or limoncello. or just shut your eyes and pick something! ;)

  • http://www.windonwater.net QueenTiye

    Re: Karl Rove. He suggests that Rep. Conyers is like Captain Ahab. What does that make him?QT

  • SillyGit

    Moby Prick™ – The Great White AsshatI’d love to see Conyers harpoon his ass.

  • SillyGit

    Oops. Forgot to answer Bob’s question.

    How many House Republicans will bang on their pots tonight?

    All of them.

  • SillyGit

    Rove is wrong. Ahab was obsessed. Rep. Conyers is tenacious. There is a difference, one is a mental illness, the other is a virtuous characteristic in law enforcement and legal efforts. Of course, from Moby Prick’s point of view they do appear similar.