January 05, 2010
— Slublog It's on life support and the prognosis is grim.
Congressional leaders, however, reportedly are expected to bypass the traditional conference committee process, in which lawmakers from both parties and chambers meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill. Instead, The Associated Press reports that top Democrats at the House, Senate and White House will figure out the final product in three-way talks before sending it back to both chambers for a final vote.The story notes the original campaign promise, made on January 31, 2008:
This format would seem ideal for closed-door meetings, which congressional Democrats have used many times to figure out sensitive provisions in the health care bill -- though President Obama pledged during the campaign to open up health care talks to C-SPAN's cameras.You know, I'm beginning to get the feeling that Obama was a little less than truthful while campaigning for the presidency, but that's probably just a case of thinking in the language of "Tea Bag.""That's what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are,"
An old, but still relevant, photoshop below the jump.

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Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 05, 2010 08:16 AM (SqAkN)
That shit was unbelievable.
Posted by: tachyonshuggy at January 05, 2010 08:16 AM (yUybe)
Posted by: maddogg at January 05, 2010 08:18 AM (OlN4e)
http://tinyurl.com/ldukte
Posted by: arhooley at January 05, 2010 08:19 AM (GKXA7)
Posted by: AE at January 05, 2010 08:20 AM (8/MsB)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 05, 2010 08:21 AM (SqAkN)
Posted by: Barack "Otter" Obama at January 05, 2010 08:25 AM (wWwJR)
What bothers me is that every time he opens his mouth an obvious lie comes out and NOT even Fox will call him on it.
The media accused Bush of lying every day when he was maticulas in telling the truth. Bambi is the opposite and they say nothing.
The press is destroying the 1st amendment by making it irrelavent.
Posted by: Vic at January 05, 2010 08:27 AM (QrA9E)
Brandy? You probably wear a scarf, too.
We, esp. the women, are manly enough to drink Valu-Rite 'round here.
Posted by: Mama AJ at January 05, 2010 08:27 AM (Be4xl)
Posted by: rplat at January 05, 2010 08:28 AM (G1ArL)
Sweetie, I've brought together the Democrats, the Socialists, the National Socialists, and the, uh, Progressives. How many more, uh, parties do I have to bring together?
Damn cynics want to, uh, make me miss my tee time.
Posted by: Barack Obama at January 05, 2010 08:28 AM (7BU4a)
The democrats know the only way they push this tax-payer funded disaster through - is by sneaking it past us in the dead of night.
Transparency? Corruptocrats don't need it.
Posted by: pre-paid sex monster at January 05, 2010 08:30 AM (0fzsA)
Posted by: mikeyslaw at January 05, 2010 08:30 AM (QMGr1)
The press is destroying the 1st amendment by making it irrelavent.
Posted by: Vic at January 05, 2010 12:27 PM (QrA9E)
Wait, isn't it the job of the free press to exactly repeat what the president, majority leader, and speaker of the house say?
Posted by: Enlightened Professor of Journalistic Ethics at January 05, 2010 08:31 AM (7BU4a)
It's no big deal. It's not like we can ever do anything about it. Why bother?
I'm otta here. Anybody seen my scarf?
Posted by: Mike "What Up?" Steele at January 05, 2010 08:31 AM (E0EDC)
Listen, I know Republican politicans say one thing and do another, too, but since so many complaints about Bush -- real and imagined -- can actually be credibly applied to Obama, I think we see the type of phony, ideological, partisan hacks that comprise the Left. Plus, you look at the cult-like enthusiasm for Obama by his supporters that was supposedly based on him being a different kind of politican (which always made me laugh due to its child-like hope and reasoning) and despite the evidence that shows he's the epitome of a politician (Chicago style), many of them continue to claim that Obama is different than other politicans. It just illustrates that the support of this guy -- by the liberals, moderates, and conservatives that voted for him -- was based not only them being naive about the guy's ideological bent and obvious inability to tell the truth (e.g., Reverend Wright) but also on emotions and their desire to feel good about themselves and illustrate to others their supposed lack of racial animus. It certainly wasn't based on the guy's experience and leadership qualities, which were obviously lacking.
Oh, I'll feel proud about voting for a minority to be President, too...when the person is qualified and ideologically conservative.
Posted by: Slappy at January 05, 2010 08:32 AM (ljvjO)
Only an extreme extremist tea bagger would ever accuse the president of lying. Have you no respect for the office?
Posted by: Kos, Andi Sullivan, Dan Rather, and the rest of the usual suspects at January 05, 2010 08:33 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: Slappy at January 05, 2010 12:32 PM (ljvjO)
The left is interested in only one thing - the acquisition and centralization of political power. Anything that advances that agenda is good, anything that opposes it is bad. Once you apply this "logic" to politics, it all makes sense.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2010 08:35 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: kefka at January 05, 2010 08:35 AM (n1uMU)
What is all this talk about fabulous real hair scarves?!
Posted by: remyscarves at January 05, 2010 08:35 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: WalrusRex at January 05, 2010 08:37 AM (xxgag)
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:37 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: reason at January 05, 2010 08:38 AM (q/kmn)
Jeez, Slublog, it almost - almost, sounded -- for a second -- as if you believed Obama's oratory about "open government". But -- piling on's fun -- is there anything the SOB's said that hasn't been a flatout, deliberate, baldfaced lie?
Posted by: Minnie Rodent at January 05, 2010 08:40 AM (PZLW0)
Posted by: Bewigged Laptop Batteries at January 05, 2010 08:40 AM (aC0uO)
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:41 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: teej at January 05, 2010 08:41 AM (QdUKm)
Jeez, Slublog, it almost - almost, sounded -- for a second -- as if you believed Obama's oratory about "open government". But -- piling on's fun -- is there anything the SOB's said that hasn't been a flatout, deliberate, baldfaced lie?
Posted by: Minnie Rodent at January 05, 2010 12:40 PM (PZLW0)
1) What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.
2) Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change
3) Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2010 08:44 AM (7BU4a)
Wait, isn't it the job of the free press to exactly repeat what the president, majority leader, and speaker of the house say?
Posted by: Enlightened Professor of Journalistic Ethics at January 05, 2010 12:31 PM (7BU4a)
Only if they are Democrats.
Posted by: TheQuietman at January 05, 2010 08:44 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: remy presidential campaigns at January 05, 2010 08:44 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: Dr Gregory White House at January 05, 2010 08:44 AM (2qU2d)
Posted by: The Zombie of Pres. William Henry Harrison at January 05, 2010 08:47 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: maddogg at January 05, 2010 08:47 AM (OlN4e)
Will I get to keep my guns and boots?
Posted by: alexthechick at January 05, 2010 08:48 AM (8WZWv)
Posted by: torabora at January 05, 2010 08:50 AM (LcHM4)
runningrn - I've started leaving friends like that a copy of Common Sense, hidden discreetly somewhere in their house where I'll know they will find it later. Usually in the master bathroom. Once under their pillow. A little gift from the Opern-Your-Eyes Czar.
I'd start leaving Arguing With Idiots, but it's bigger and a hardcover. More expensive, and harder to smuggle in for the drop.
Posted by: reason at January 05, 2010 08:50 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: Candidate Obama at January 05, 2010 08:52 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:52 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: reason at January 05, 2010 12:50 PM (q/kmn)
Wow! In the master bedroom--how are you getting in there? Are you providing them with other services too?
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:54 AM (CfmlF)
Come on lay off Obama, he's been working so hard for the American people.
Remember what George Costanza said, "It's not a lie if you believe it to be true." I'm sure Obama made that promise in good faith, believing it to be true. If it weren't for the Republicans being so partisan they wouldn't have to have these closed door meetings.
Posted by: Ken at January 05, 2010 08:54 AM (Bs34i)
Well fuck. I was hoping that would be the case that gets this abortion to SCOTUS. I can't think of any other angle they'd agree to hear.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at January 05, 2010 08:55 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:55 AM (CfmlF)
Mark Steyn just said they just closed down Bakersfield airport because of some substance found on baggage.
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 08:57 AM (CfmlF)
I'd start leaving Arguing With Idiots, but it's bigger and a hardcover. More expensive, and harder to smuggle in for the drop.
Posted by: reason at January 05, 2010 12:50 PM (q/kmn)
If you are really trying to educate them, Paine is probably a better choice then Beck. They *know* they hate Beck and Palin, but probably have a vague sense that Paine was a good guy.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer
Posted by: 18-1 at January 05, 2010 08:57 AM (7BU4a)
"Nurses and the word cheap do not go together in the same sentence."
Hi. I don't think we've ever met...
Posted by: The Damned Soul of the ONT at January 05, 2010 08:58 AM (q/kmn)
"Wow! In the master bedroom--how are you getting in there? Are you providing them with other services too?"
Me: "Hey, uh...where's your bathroom?"
Host: "Oh, the hall bath is righ--"
Me: "Um...*looks around nervously*...you probably don't want me to use that one, unless you're ready for this party to end early..."
Host: "Wha--ohh... *sigh* Through the kitchen is the bedroom, use ours. Just ignore the laundry, and for the love of God, leave the fan on?"
Posted by: The Damned Soul of the ONT at January 05, 2010 09:01 AM (q/kmn)
Slightly o/t, but in the same vein of the Obama administration lying (in this case Eric Holder):
Security for the federal trial of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four accused cohorts will run $200 million a year, sources told the Daily News.The NYPD's newly revised projection is almost triple the estimate of $75 million in November, after Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would move the prisoners from Guantanamo to Manhattan for trial.
The legal process is expected to play out over more than a year.
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 09:02 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: ford at January 05, 2010 09:03 AM (Ki7fm)
Posted by: teej at January 05, 2010 09:04 AM (c459z)
Host: "Wha--ohh... *sigh* Through the kitchen is the bedroom, use ours. Just ignore the laundry, and for the love of God, leave the fan on?"
Ha! Ha! That's funny! Oh, and Damned sockpuppet/Damned Soul--heh!
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 09:04 AM (CfmlF)
"remember many BO voters will not be as jacked to vote for him this time, he is not left enough for them..."
You underestimate the siren-song of "free shit."
Posted by: Bertha Lewis at January 05, 2010 09:06 AM (q/kmn)
Host: "Wha--ohh... *sigh* Through the kitchen is the bedroom, use ours. Just ignore the laundry, and for the love of God, leave the fan on?"
Host, to herself: (I wonder if it was the salmon mousse?)Posted by: CUS at January 05, 2010 09:08 AM (wOGfT)
plus, remember many BO voters will not be as jacked to vote for him this time, he is not left enough for them...
BINGO Funny you should say that. Today's "Notable and Quotable" from WSJ was David Corn of Mother Jones: "Obama and his aides should not ignore the spreading anxiety among his liberal fans. The folks who I"ve talked with--in conversations that often feel like counseling sessions--have said they are unlikely to hit the pavement for Obama and the D's in 2010. They felt empowered by Obama in 2008; they feel alienated from politics today. Disenchantment is not what you want in your base heading toward a tough mid-term election. Given that the congressional races are likely to be low-turnout affairs, any lack of passion on the Democratic side will enhance the advantage the Republicans will probably enjoy due to extended joblessness."
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 09:11 AM (CfmlF)
I think my New Years' resolution is to stop getting angry about this shit. It's affecting my quality of life. I've stopped talking to my liberal friends and family members because they don't listen. I live in a dark red district. I'm not able to change anything, so basically I'm going to wait until the apocalyptic warfare in the ruins.
Posted by: SGT Dan at January 05, 2010 09:15 AM (GgXZc)
Obama and his aides should not ignore the spreading anxiety among his liberal fans.
We both know you're too busy to even have this conversation, sir! This matter is in capable hands; leave the ignoring to us!
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at January 05, 2010 09:16 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 09:18 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: SGT Dan at January 05, 2010 01:15 PM (GgXZc)
Dark red as in Commie or dark red as in Republican? I live in the deep blue blue of the Seattle suburbs. I think that is why I'm so attached to this website!
Posted by: runningrn at January 05, 2010 09:20 AM (CfmlF)
Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at January 05, 2010 09:21 AM (YmPwQ)
Posted by: bill-tb at January 05, 2010 09:43 AM (y+QfZ)
Posted by: AE at January 05, 2010 10:02 AM (8/MsB)
plus, remember many BO voters will not be as jacked to vote for him this time, he is not left enough for them...
Could do that if you keep dead Democrats away from the polls.
Posted by: kansas at January 05, 2010 10:10 AM (mka2b)
Posted by: B+ at January 05, 2010 10:14 AM (hIOnV)
Posted by: kansas at January 05, 2010 10:19 AM (mka2b)
#65, rural Tennessee outside an Army base. Our senators need to get smacked now and then to keep them honest, but our Congresswoman (Marcia Blackburn) is reliable.
Posted by: SGT Dan at January 05, 2010 10:19 AM (GgXZc)
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Posted by: kefka at January 05, 2010 08:14 AM (n1uMU)