1 Boy, it's nice today, I still feel like going for a dip.

2 I think they've resigned themselves to the only talking point they now have:

We tried to save your lives, but the Rethuglicans wouldn't let us. It is a statistical fact that one hundred years from now, those of you reading this will all all be DEAD.

3 Perhaps there is some scandi band out there that could sing a waterloo themed song to commemorate the occasion of the death of this crap sandwich bill.

4 Only the hard core Democrats wanted this Obama Health Care Bill before Tuesday. Today, only 1/3 "want" it. I wonder how many of those people vote that want it! Did Axlerod mention that.

5 If only the ABBA song "Waterloo" wasn't such a crappy, wimpy piece of music.

6 Which old witch?  The Wicked Witch!  Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is dead!

7 Sure sounds like these waterheads (H/T LauraW) have done a 180 on most of their former positions after sleeping on it.  Last night, after the Scott heard 'round the world, Obama and the dems said that their "signature" issues would remain unchanged.  This morning, meh, not so much.

8 Just before crashing and exploding, The Bus ran over Sarah Palin.  The explosion had fire, and lots of smoke, but in less than a minute, Sarah got up, brushed herself off, and kept on walking.

9 Its not dead.  Its resting.  Seriously, it won't be dead until the 30% of the country that thinks communism is the way to go wakes up to reality.

10 The politicians of our country are corrupt individuals who have no respect for those that slavishly put them into their positions of power.

We need to hit the reset button, and write concrete controls on the power WE ALLOW THEM.

Because without us THEY HAVE NO POWER.

Remember that.

This is FUCKING AMERICA.

NOT the fucking Soviet Union.

11 It's done.

Time to set our sights on the next collection of scalps.

Like this C-word, right here.

(in video)

12 I won't link it, but I was just at Air America enjoying the sweet, sweet schadenfreude. They had a clip of Jon Stewart from Monday, when it was clear that the Democrats had FUBAR'd this election. The money quote: "It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs."

13 How would you like to be in Ben Nelson's inner circle today? Ouch...

14 Actually, the nuke montage from the end of Dr Strangelove might be more appropriate for the future of the Democrat party.

15 Are there any Congresspeople standing behind Obama after The MA disaster. I bet if he looks around in back of him, all we will find is Ayers and Axlerod. The others have said, "You are now driving the bus. we want off!"

16 I'm guessing that Obama and Axelrod were in a combative mood and would have tried to fight, but a few dozen conversations with Democrats in Congress convinced them otherwise. 

17 Laura, Sheila Jackson-Lee is surely one of those that has to get dumped.

Debbie Wassermann Schultz needs to follow her right after.

18 Rush just counseled a caller who was trying to make sense of the dem position on issues that got Scott Brown elected.  Rush said, "Does a doctor need to understand why a mental patient is insane in order to cure him or does he just try to cure him?"

19 What kind of initiatives are ripe for floating right now?  Tax cuts? Ending "porkulus" spending?  Re-militarizing the terrorist trials?  Some tort reform? Closed primaries?  Acorn de-funding (again?)  All of the above?  What?

20

Which old witch?  The Wicked Witch!  Ding Dong, the Wicked Witch is dead!

I'll sing that if (when?) Barbara Boxer is un-elected in November.

21 And Ben Nelson is praying his constituents forgets about the entire Cornhusker Kickback.

22 Shit, They are disappointing me. I was hoping for a mass seppuku.

23 I don't believe anything that comes out of this WH.  I think the ramming through of Health Care 'reform' is continuing.  I'm sure Obama would reluctantly sign it.  He might use frown #2(used to show mild to moderate disapproval) and shake his head sadly but he would sign it.

24

Somebody said in another thread that the Pubs really need to hammer their own proposals for health care reform, in as many ways as possible, for the next ten months.  Keep proposing actual bills on both the House and Senate floors, and make these Donk Douchebags vote them down.  Then keep talking about how its the Dems stopping real reform, because their commie style takeover didn't take.

Who knows, by mid-summer, perhaps enough Donks will realize they're fucked, electionarily speaking, and will vote for a rational overhaul of the system proposed by the Pubs, rather than continuing to whine about how their shit sandwich was so great, but not passed because of evil Repubs.

25

OMG, he is on ABC news saying that the people are angry because of what has happened over the last 8 years. Sooooo, they elected a republican to Teddy's upside down underwater seat?

Mmmmm, Mmm, Mm Barak Hussein Obama--You are

26

Now is the time to hold a solidarity line ON OUR SIDE.

RINOs want bipartisanship in order to show thems are doing something should be warned.

27 20 Laura, Sheila Jackson-Lee is surely one of those that has to get dumped.

Debbie Wassermann Schultz needs to follow her right after.

Posted by: Mortis at January 20, 2010 02:58 PM (hA5JK)

Oooo, ooo, can we put Maxine "I'll tel you what this liberal is all about.  This liberal is all about nationalizing --- uh" Waters at the head of the line?

28 Max Baucus was just qoted on FOX as saying that the "legislation is alive and well."

29 The Democratic Party is a fucking joke right now.

Just saw a pic on Fox with Reid sucking on a microphone, Dodd and fucking Al Franken standing behind him.

With a party of such fucking winners....

Why the fuck are we losing?

I want to know!

30

Oooo, ooo, can we put Maxine "I'll tel you what this liberal is all about.  This liberal is all about nationalizing --- uh" Waters at the head of the line?

Posted by: RushBabe

Hon, I think she was saying 'Socializing' before she caught herself.

But she has to go too, lol.

See my post #34

31 30

Now is the time to hold a solidarity line ON OUR SIDE.

RINOs want bipartisanship in order to show thems are doing something should be warned.

Posted by: always right at January 20, 2010 03:02 PM (Wqfrr)

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Hottie McAwesome said in his speech last night that he would work across party lines.

32 Do Palosi and Reid have any more whipping power left. if I was a Dem, I would tell them to stuff it. If half of them do this, what will they do?

33

Ummm...I'm not sure this is a waterloo moment.  Axelrod cautions against "SENATE ACTION" specifically.  The Senate doesn't need to do anything to pass the bill that's already been passed.  The House can just pass the Senate version.

Whether the House will act is another issue, but Axelrod said nothing about the House, and you can't parse the statements of these snakes too carefully.

34

Oooo, ooo, can we put Maxine "I'll tel you what this liberal is all about.  This liberal is all about nationalizing --- uh" Waters at the head of the line?

Unfortunately, her ghetto district, made up of the same wonderful people who almost killed Reginald Denny, will send her back ad nauseum. It is possible, however, that the "browning" of her district could force her to retire soon.

35 Posted this below, but I had on Fox News and Shepard Smith just stated what is going to be claimed a lot: "He didn't even run as a Republican."

36

That's all well and good, but this legislation doesn't require any Senate action and Granny's comments sound like the message has not been received at all in the House. If she can strongarm 218 votes then she'll do it, the American people, the White House, and the Senate be damned. And frankly, I think Obama would be happy for her to do it. He doesn't care about anything or anyone but himself.

One more thing, this election makes me despise people like Landrieu, Lincoln, Nelson, Bayh, McCaskill, and Webb even more. Cowards, the lot of them.

37 When did the WH start talking to FOX?

And did Shepard Smith not listen to the victory speech?

38 Do Palosi and Reid have any more whipping power left. if I was a Dem, I would tell them to stuff it. If half of them do this, what will they do?

If I were a 'Blue Dog' pressured by either of them, my reply would be 'Fuck off or I'll cross the fucking aisle.'

39 Health care may be dead, but I'm afraid it will be back.  It will be even worse; it will be Zombie Health Care.

40
Posted this below, but I had on Fox News and Shepard Smith just stated what is going to be claimed a lot: "He didn't even run as a Republican."

Joe Scarborough said the same thing this morning.

41 I heard one Dem congressman say this morning, that if The Senate version was introduced to the house for a vote, that it would be lucky to get a hundred votes, total.

42 Shepard Smith has his balls glued to his thigh.

43 DNC breathes a sigh of relief now that they can blame the lack of health care reform on those wascally wepublicans.

44

41 -- Beck commented on this too, as related to making both parties sweat.  Brown was elected by indies, not by those with concrete ties to either party.  The other nifty thing he mentioned was that Obozo never says the word "democrat" anymore.  It's all progressive, all the time.  "The progressives are fighting the republicans."

Beck is looking for a cage match between older-style dems/liberals and the batshite-crazy progressives.

45
The blood sucking rats were startled by a ray of sunshine. But, they are still blood sucking rats. More wooden stakes!

46 "progressive" = communist. Let that be repeated everytime they say "progressive"

47 I bet if he looks around in back of him, all we will find is Ayers and Axlerod. 

(And Valerie Jarrett and Michelle.)

Think of that final scene in Notorious, when they say "Come in here, Alex. We'd like a word with you," and Claude Rains goes up the steps in a foggy evening to his doom.

48

Yes, it sounds real good but watch what tghey do. We have said this over and over. They are ALL huge liars.

What their actions not their rhetoric.

 

49 #47 Mal  Well he sure in hell did not run as a Democrat! That's what Martha did, and she got her butt beat real bad. Only obama saved her from a 8-10 point beatdown.

50

MA Senate Election Starting To Get Through At White House?

Which rule are we on in Alinsky's book?

/uh, no.  Leopards don't change their spots....A marxist won't....

51

Yeah, umm, I think they're getting it in private even if they continue to denounce the referendum publicly.

2008

2010

52
Posted by: mystry at January 20, 2010 03:16 PM (kmgIE)

I know that he ran as a Republican.
I voted for him.
My point was that Scarborough is a douche.

53 Sorry Mal, I did not mean to put your name in the comments. boo-boo on my part.

54 Reginald Denny, RIP -- I bought my first automatic to keep in the car the day after that assault.

55

I can't remember who it was but His Holiness had a private meeting with a Republican senator a few days ago. It makes me wonder if he was able to buy that guy off in order to get his vote, thus still securing his 60 votes AND say it was bi-partisan. I hope that is not the case but crazier things have happened and it would explain the reaction of Pelosi, Reid and The One. Pelosi can stay the dominatrix in the House and push push push. Meanwhile, Reid and The One can take the supposed high road saying, "wait until Brown is sworn in." Does that make me a conspiracy nut?  

56

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Hottie McAwesome said in his speech last night that he would work across party lines.

Posted by: RushBabe
----------------

He was also very gracious about Ted Kennedy.

I took it as "If Dems will act like grown-ups, I'll let bygones be bygones." He probably won't have to make good on that offer.

57 ...doesn't want any Senate action on health care until Brown is seated.

It's a trick.  Beware of the sidestep after Brown is seated.

58 It's not Waterloo until Obama stands before the Senate during an impeachment vote.

59 What? No extra Medicare funding for Nebraskans?

60 It's as if their Frankenstein's monster of a bill was finally all assembled but the damn lightning storm fizzled out and the pieces just started rotting away. ( Including the Abbie Normal brain, and the movable hump that is Pelosi).

61 You know, I haven't been down with the whole ball dipping thing, but I may just have to try it.  Obama is now officially a lame duck.

Good god I hope nothing dangerous happens for the next three years.

62 I love how respectful they are of the "people of Massachusetts."  Now if yesterday's race had occurred away from the East Coast corridor, particularly in the South, I seriously doubt they'd be concerned (or even fake concern) for the people's will. 

Meanwhile, on a progressive friend's Facebook page below his post "thinks Maryland Democrats should plan for the November elections now" I read this comment from one of his friends:

"Time to get very busy.  Make the Republicans wish they had died at birth.  Time to go to war."

I guess he didn't hear Axelrod's comments or notice that it was the INDEPENDENTS (and some Dems), not the Republicans, who elected Scott Brown. 

Morons. 

63 You know Obama, aka Captain Zero, and his gang of political machers at the White  House has screwed this particular political pooch so many different ways from breakfast, that I can't see why the Dems in the House and Senate should follow his political advice at all.  Even if the political advice is "this thing smells bad, let's dig a deep hole, throw it in the hole, put some lime over it to kill the smell, and then cover it up."   Now that would be good advice--but the Dems on Capital Hill ain't takin' any more advice from Captain Zero.

64

Well done Massatchusetts and congratulations from very conservative Alberta. NOW YOU CAN MAKE SOME BUCKS LIKE WE DO.

65

Frankly, as soon as Webb or any other Democratic Senator proclaimed "no more ObamaCare votes until Brown is sworn," the White House had no choice but to echo the sentiment because they were back to 59 votes (not even considering the Constitutional point:  whether Brown was sworn or not, Kirk's tenure ENDED with the election, PERIOD) anyway.

I love it that Obama seems to want to tap into that anti-Obama spirit:  "It's the same frustration that swept ME into office . . ."  Heh, AS IF.  What swept the prancing, preening peacock into the Presidency was typical voter fatigue after 8 years of one party in the White House (in the last 100 years, only G.H.W.Bush was able to break that trend) combined with a huge influx of new young and ignorant voters who a) thought it would be "pretty cool to elect a black dude" and b) saw no need for experience at anything, since they themselves feel well qualified to start at the top of any given field, too.

 

66 They had a clip of Jon Stewart from Monday, when it was clear that the Democrats had FUBAR'd this election. The money quote:

"It's not that the Democrats are playing checkers and the Republicans are playing chess. It's that the Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse's office because once again they glued their balls to their thighs."

That right there is a great example of why it's so important to catch up on the threads when one has been forced to step away from the computer to attend to life's little necessities (beer and cig run, actually).  Great catch, Empire of Jeff!

67 Reginald Denny, RIP -- I bought my first automatic to keep in the car the day after that assault.

Posted by: Jean at January 20, 2010 03:26 PM (pIKTP)

He's not dead, is he?  Seems like I would have heard about that, living in El Lay and all.

68 "Time to get very busy.  Make the Republicans wish they had died at birth.  Time to go to war."

The leftists are going to keep that poor chicken pretty busy between now and Nov

69 "I can't remember who it was but His Holiness had a private meeting with a Republican senator a few days ago. It makes me wonder if he was able to buy that guy off in order to get his vote, thus still securing his 60 votes AND say it was bi-partisan."

You guys are back with the stupid Eeyore shit already?

At least read the whole fucking story before you post.  It was Voinovich, and afterwards he told the press basically "nice lunch, but I'm not that stupid".