January 20, 2010
— Ace I opened up my mail to find an entire post written by the other guys.
Slublog links MSDNC:
Obama met briefly at the White House early Tuesday night with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.Pelosi said Wednesday that Democrats have gotten the message from Massachusetts voters — and it isn't to drop health care. "We heard, we will heed, we will move forward with their considerations in mind, but we will move forward" on health care, she said.
She and others contend that because Massachusetts already has near-universal health coverage under a state law, the upset victory by GOP state Sen. Scott Brown to take the late Edward M. Kennedy's seat could not be seen as a referendum on the issue.
"Massachusetts has health care. ... The rest of the country would like to have that too," said Pelosi. "So we don't say a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should."
Gabe:
Sure, Axelrod's going around saying that it wasn't about healthcare and that Brown never even cut an ad about healthcare.One: That's bullshit.
Two: I seem to remember the President cutting an internet ad where he said that healtcare reform (and cap and trade; and financial regulation) were on the line in this election.
They're busy re-writing history.
I'm pretty sure Obama actually said this election was a "referendum on health care" and that if Coakley lost it was dead.
But now, apparently, not so much, not so friggin' much.
DrewM:
BTW- Not even Chuck Shumer (who built the 60 seat majority by recruiting better candidates than Martha Coakley and winning in tougher states) doesn't buy that reading...
New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer: “The country is speaking to us, and we will show we hear them in the agenda we pursue over the next year. Our focus must be on jobs, the economy and delivering for the middle class.”
Schumer is many things, stupid isn't one of them.In fact before the election he said the D's wouldn't tackle health care because it would be too tough to do. At the time I figured he was just lying. Maybe he knew better by Reid, Pelosi and Obama didn't.
For a year, the Democrats and their Spirit Squad in the liberal media have been insisting despite all available evidence to the contrary that ObamaPelosiReidNelsonCare was wildly popular. No amount of town hall outrage or Tea Party revolt or cratering poll numbers could dissuade them from that belief.
Only the stupidest and most partisan leftists -- like Granny Rictus McBotoxImplants -- can maintain this jackass stance any longer.
Oh, yeah, and Team Obama, too, of course, because his entire campaign/presidency is nothing more that spun-sugar and fairy-cakes. It's all just one big bandwagon/fad/marketing campaign, and his strategy thusfar has been to simply ignore well-founded criticism and in fact demonize his critics as irresponsible and possibly lunatic.
They, I think, understand preference cascades. And they're scared as hell at what happens when people catch on to the fact that it's okay to call this failure of a president a failure, just as it was okay to call other failures failures.
What happens when people realize that thought is not, in fact, racist or anti-American or all the other crap they've been pushing?
They're scared of what happens when the bubble breaks.
Well, it broke. Now they'll have to finally begin taking their critics seriously instead of simply riding roughshod over them.
And this Tea Bagger wants to know how it tastes.
Yeah, I'm a Tea Bagger.
Was it good for you too, Captain Wonderful?
Cause on my end, it was everything I ever hoped it would be and so much more.
Oh, By the Way: Was up till 3:30 watching Rachel Maddown and Chris Matthews. And hearing Norah O'Donnell say, six thousand times, that this was a victory for Independent voters who turned out against the Incumbent, and that this indicates a populist fire in favor of Independent candidates and a red light for Incumbent politicians.
Did you know that? That Scott Brown ran as an Independent, and that Martha Coakley is a member of the Incumbent Party?
It was amazing watching this idiot give the same talking points on five different shows. It was unbelievable that in each report she successfully avoided using the words "Republican" and "Democrat."
Accept the pudding, Norah O'Donnell.
You will accept the pudding. You must accept the pudding.
Anyway, just got up at 11:30 and got on the train back to NYC.
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Posted by: Jayne Cobb at January 20, 2010 09:43 AM (FkLiP)
And we the people are more than happy to oblige.
Posted by: Robin at January 20, 2010 09:43 AM (6uXZa)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 20, 2010 09:44 AM (r1h5M)
Posted by: Crusty at January 20, 2010 09:45 AM (GvSpB)
Posted by: stuiec at January 20, 2010 09:45 AM (7AOgy)
Posted by: Barry-Call me? at January 20, 2010 09:45 AM (0AEWQ)
Teabagging will be redefined by the word Victory!
Posted by: Mjim at January 20, 2010 09:46 AM (V8B//)
Hell. I'm tired.
And awesome job, Ace.
Posted by: Jane D'oh! at January 20, 2010 09:46 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Crusty at January 20, 2010 09:47 AM (GvSpB)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 09:47 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: Cicero at January 20, 2010 09:47 AM (QKKT0)
I don't want four more years of W. I want Reagan 2.0, with DeMint as Senate ML and Cantor as Speaker of the House. How come the Dems are the only ones that get to pull the wheel hard over toward their chosen lanes?
I won't get it, but that's what I want. When did the legislature of a republic decide leadership roles should be allocated by seniority and not by election? When did the Republican Party decide that freedom and limited government meant not adding to the Dem's pile of shit. Bring a shovel and hose, clean out the stables.
Posted by: Britt at January 20, 2010 09:48 AM (DcWbe)
We need to keep killing off these scumbags until they beg for mercy, then we take a deep breath-look them in the eye- and resume killing.
They are treasonous vipers and if we leave any of them in power they'll get good Americans killed for real!
OK, I feel better.
Lollipops and skittles anyone?
Posted by: BIG ROB at January 20, 2010 09:48 AM (K2iC2)
Yep, they are marching full speed ahead with plans to jam it up our backsides. They will try some scheme, the current best probability is the "phoney" House/Senate bill that started as an income tax revision and got rewritten to get around the rules.
I see a bunch of Dems bailing on that but them still having the 50.1%. I then see it winding up in court. That is except the court is usually relunctant to get involved in congressional shenanigans, especially when it is the Dems doing the stuff.
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 09:49 AM (QrA9E)
Posted by: TheQuietman at January 20, 2010 09:49 AM (1Jaio)
Source citation? Anyone?
Posted by: Christopher Calandro at January 20, 2010 09:49 AM (JdbYk)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at January 20, 2010 09:50 AM (muUqs)
And ace, don't bubbles, um, pop?
Posted by: wherestherum at January 20, 2010 09:50 AM (gofDd)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 20, 2010 09:50 AM (GtZU2)
Don't expect them to show they're cowed.
Like those punks you see on the news getting "perp-walked" into the courthouse, they always grin.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at January 20, 2010 09:51 AM (2QFX4)
That's right.
Obama has told us that not passing this health care bill will bankrupt the USA. Yet we're so stupid we supported the guy that wants us broke.
A vote for Brown is a vote for generational abject poverty!
Hey, maybe argument that would have been more effective than moaning about a truck...
Regardless, we're still idiots.
Posted by: oh, Hi Mark at January 20, 2010 09:51 AM (1812w)
Fuckin A. Someone ate their Wheaties this morning.
Oh yeah I agree, it was real and it was spectacular.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 20, 2010 09:51 AM (SqAkN)
Posted by: wherestherum at January 20, 2010 09:51 AM (gofDd)
Posted by: mr.frakypants at January 20, 2010 09:52 AM (PonvG)
Posted by: D_Fitz at January 20, 2010 09:52 AM (nyFP6)
I can't decide who is the bigger fucking idiot, Pelosi, with the highlighted comments in this post (bold/caps just doesn't do justice to what I'd like to scream at her, so I'll just refrain), or Malicious Retard Robert Gibbs, who said this morning that Mass. voters were pissed at Bush, that's why Coakley lost.
Don't these people realize that even their own base isn't stupid enough to believe this spin any longer?
Posted by: Sharkman at January 20, 2010 09:52 AM (Zj8fM)
The GOP also needs to wake up and see that the Dems are not their friends and never were.
What's this you say?
Posted by: Sen. John McCain at January 20, 2010 09:53 AM (QKKT0)
20 Norah reported several times last night and this morning that Scott Brown supported waterboarding.
Source citation? Anyone?
Wake boarding! Brown is an avid wake boarder.
(You should see him ram them down terrorists throats. A thing of beauty.)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at January 20, 2010 09:53 AM (r1h5M)
And racist, don't forget that they called us racists for criticizing them.
Posted by: David in San Diego at January 20, 2010 09:53 AM (GF+6V)
Posted by: Barry "Hope & Change" Soetoro at January 20, 2010 09:53 AM (9Wv2j)
I wish them joy in their quest for epic self-immolation.
Posted by: DocJ at January 20, 2010 09:54 AM (dt6br)
With the indentations of our balls still intact. Maybe a few loose hairs, too.
Posted by: CUS at January 20, 2010 09:54 AM (wOGfT)
What's this you say?
Posted by: Sen. John McCain at January 20, 2010 01:53 PM (QKKT0)
I'm looking at you, Johnny Boy!
Posted by: wherestherum at January 20, 2010 09:55 AM (gofDd)
Posted by: Capt. Reid Pelosi at January 20, 2010 09:56 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: fred at January 20, 2010 09:56 AM (0DHcS)
Posted by: teej at January 20, 2010 09:56 AM (c459z)
I was listening to Beck on the satellite radio the other night (yeah, I'm that fancy) and he had an interesting take.
He said the response to Brown's win would tell us once and for all whether the Obama Administration and its congressional supporters were typical Democrat politicians, in the Clinton mold; or whether they were actually hard-core Progressive radicals, in the Alinsky mold.
If they double down and charge forward, despite this loss, that means they are following the Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" playbook.
Posted by: Fred at January 20, 2010 09:57 AM (xWGQr)
That's a good teabagger response. Was it good for you too?
Seriosuly, I think the lesson the DNC needs to take away is that they weren't sufficiently insulting and dismissive of people who disagreed with them.
Sure they called Brown a teabagging, racist, homophobe, nude model who supports rape. But that's just how most libs talk to people now a days. They really should have heaped some real venom.
I mean come on? No incest accusations? Coakley, that arrogant, evil toad just never put in the effort to really insult people.
Posted by: joeindc44 at January 20, 2010 09:57 AM (QxSug)
'Cuda beats Bambi, again.
Check out her timing. Coakley calls Brown first to concede, Palin calls him "a few moments later," at 9:15. Barry calls at 9:38.
She is good.
Moments later, about 9:15 p.m., another staff member handed a cell phone over again. "It's Sarah Palin."
Brown didn't miss a beat.
"Hi governor! How are you?" He nodded, moving again to find some quiet in the excitement-filled room. "Yes ... I already won. Yes. She already conceded." http://tinyurl.com/y8jbqja
Posted by: Pike Place Pete at January 20, 2010 09:57 AM (qD3QA)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 20, 2010 09:58 AM (SqAkN)
The more they try to force this abortion down our throats, the better the 2010 elections are looking.
Posted by: Scout at January 20, 2010 09:58 AM (GiUTT)
California, land of the two most worthless senators ever.
Posted by: wherestherum at January 20, 2010 09:58 AM (gofDd)
Posted by: John Galt at January 20, 2010 09:59 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 20, 2010 10:01 AM (B5cM9)
Posted by: blah at January 20, 2010 10:03 AM (qZgB+)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at January 20, 2010 10:03 AM (usjNq)
Posted by: Andrew X at January 20, 2010 10:04 AM (E46Ts)
Madcow diseased was trying to convince her three viewers last night that MA is not as liberal as people were making it to be.
This was after she found words (after she couldn't find them) when Marcia Marcia Marcia conceded.
I happily mocked their tears on MSNBC.
And I happily popped a cherry last night....I enjoyed the downward spiral over at the Haus of Kos.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at January 20, 2010 10:05 AM (pLTLS)
Posted by: bulwark at January 20, 2010 10:05 AM (MdzCh)
You need "something" to dip your balls into in order to perform a proper tea-bagging rite of passage.
Posted by: Mjim at January 20, 2010 10:06 AM (V8B//)
Posted by: Countrysquire at January 20, 2010 10:06 AM (e910j)
It was the dip of choice for ace, guys. Some of the moronettes didn't have pudding on hand so we used whipped cream, caramel sauce, fudge...
What happened to the idiot Obama/Biden 2012? Did he get scared and run away?
Posted by: wherestherum at January 20, 2010 10:06 AM (gofDd)
Not so sure about that one. The price of admission to the Left is emotion not reason.
Posted by: Iskandar at January 20, 2010 10:07 AM (doEqS)
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 20, 2010 10:08 AM (B5cM9)
Gobble gobble gobble...spit.
Gobble gobble gobble...spit
Gobble gobble gobble...spit
Hey, can't you see I am busy here?
Gobble gobble gobble...spit
Posted by: Honest Cloud at January 20, 2010 10:09 AM (wgLRl)
Posted by: Roadking at January 20, 2010 10:09 AM (jps0x)
Second: Nancy, Harry, Barry - PLEASE double down on your agenda. PLEASE keep pushing. You're almost there. You've almost achieved utopia. It's time to do something REALLY dramatic. I'm thinking late September would be ideal.
Posted by: random at January 20, 2010 10:09 AM (mhbHz)
FUCK 'EM ALL!!
Posted by: GarandFan at January 20, 2010 10:11 AM (ZQBnQ)
Posted by: WTFCI at January 20, 2010 10:11 AM (GtYrq)
Posted by: jeff at January 20, 2010 10:11 AM (+uoRK)
One, the people I've spoken to who live in Mass. do not like their healthcare. They resent being forced to buy it, it's expensive and I don't know where she gets this crap that it is almost universal. From her ass, I guess.
Two, she doesn't think that "a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should" ? Why not? Is this supposed to make sense? She has no problem with a bunch of assholes in DC mandating it to the rest of the country who DO. NOT. WANT. IT.
Three, I love how they want to tax "cadillac plans" while Congress not only has exempted themselves from a public plan they also exempted themselves from taxing their plan with is more like a Laborghini plan.
Posted by: moi at January 20, 2010 10:12 AM (7FgWm)
Posted by: St. Agnostica at January 20, 2010 10:12 AM (gbCNS)
The great thing about that is it's not a play on her name at all...yet everyone knows exactly who you're talking about.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at January 20, 2010 10:13 AM (GGulh)
When I was young, I always wondered how World War II dragged on to the final end. Why wasn't there a surrender, even if unconditional just to stop the death and destruction? Twenty six sq. miles of Tokyo were "put to the magnesium torch" before Hiroshima, and still no surrender. The Japanese were preparing to continue the fight and would have seen the Russians finally jump in at the end to permanently take some of the Japanese home islands and still they would not surrender until, not one, but two nukes were used.
Granny McBotox is moving into the bunker and will never be pried out. She can only be politically destroyed.
Posted by: snookered at January 20, 2010 10:14 AM (eBRdM)
"the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office"
Go ahead and believe that numbnuts.
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 20, 2010 10:14 AM (B5cM9)
Posted by: random at January 20, 2010 10:14 AM (mhbHz)
Maybe Scott Brown will let Obama use his truck to move his bribing ass back to Chicago.
Posted by: robtr at January 20, 2010 10:14 AM (fwSHf)
72
I kept making poker analogies last night while hammered. We just went all in with 2-7 offsuit and pulled a nasty 2 card out on the river.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 20, 2010 10:15 AM (SqAkN)
Posted by: Topsecretk9 at January 20, 2010 10:16 AM (MbyMv)
Posted by: The Puddin' of Wrath at January 20, 2010 10:17 AM (SPSOE)
They've been telling us that for 4+ years now--every poll they dismiss because it has "too many Republicans," every critic they brush off because they "worked for something Republican related," every time they've responded with something along the lines of "that's just partisan posturing"--it's all plain to see: Your opinion does not count, you do not exist to them.
They didn't get to the whole "we've a massive mandate for health care, global warming, etc." by fault, it was design--when you remove 40% of the opinions you don't like, there is a huge majority in favor of what you do like.
And we've a duty to remind them of that: Poll after poll, story after story, oped after oped of how there still remains strong support--insistence, even--for a health care bill, cap and trade, card check, etc. among all those people who really count: Democrats.
The best money conservatives could spend right now is a poll cooked up to show 50% plus want some sort of health care bill. And even go so far as to make it stupid obvious it's cooked, like 20% Republican sample, 30% black, 40% under age 30, etc. 'Cause these guys will run right off the cliff with it. The koskidz will front page it every day, the DUmmys will pin it at the top--they will force their puppets to dance to that tune.
They are desperate at this point for anything to tell them they are still doing Lord Obama's work. Dip your balls in that desperation . . . .
Posted by: jimmuy at January 20, 2010 10:18 AM (d47z6)
We knew all along that any win in Mass would be epic. This is the state that gave The Swimmer 75% of the vote, after all. Enjoy this.
Posted by: Hatchet Five at January 20, 2010 10:19 AM (67Cew)
Here's the inside story ... the Internet connection was bad to, well, nonexistent on blogger's row for much of the evening. Not sure if it was too much interference on the wi-fi signal or what, but there were some mighty pissed off bloggers.
However, Ace was connected through his BlackBerry and provided a constant stream of updates, with a few dips mixed in, to the Moronosphere while the signal was down.
Ace of Spades HQ. Come for the best conservative bloggers and commenters on the Internet. Stay for the pudding.
Posted by: Andy at January 20, 2010 10:19 AM (5Rurq)
"the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office"
Oh, man, he's gotta be smoking more than just cigarettes if he could say something like that.
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 10:19 AM (9Wv2j)
This is very true. Many of my friends who work in non union construction hate it.They're young and healthy and don,t like being forced to buy something they don't want.A few just pay the tax penalty because it's cheaper than their premiums would be.
Posted by: Mal at January 20, 2010 10:19 AM (Z+qzA)
Posted by: mikeyslaw at January 20, 2010 10:20 AM (QMGr1)
But I never thought the GOP would crawl back in just 3 years.
Posted by: WTFCI at January 20, 2010 10:22 AM (GtYrq)
Obama tells Dems not to jam health bill through, urges them to 'coalesce' around popular ideas - AP
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 20, 2010 10:22 AM (B5cM9)
72
I kept making poker analogies last night while hammered. We just
went all in with 2-7 offsuit and pulled a nasty 2 card out on the
river.
and check raising with that mf'n hand to!!!
Posted by: Joy to the whirled at January 20, 2010 10:22 AM (WVBjj)
I think this was a victory that was about Independents -- it was about a Republican canidate knowing how to get Independents supporting him, and even some disillusioned Democrats. This is, imho, a sign of things to come. Many Independents who don't follow politics all that much have been wakened and are finding that they do not like what they see coming from the Democratic party. Many Democrats are also beginning to realize that this is not the Democratic party as they have been led to believe it (we could call this the "Cliff Clavin theorem of Dem voting trends", a fair number of Dems are waking up to the realization that the socialist elitists are in charge of their party -- and some of them are still not very fond of actual socialism or elitists, because they are themselves neither apparatchiks or members of the elite).
I think it is time to take up the ball that's been given and run with it -- this is perhaps the winning strategy at least for '10 if not '12. Gather up the increasing number of disaffected and get them on your side by offering up a different solution than the one they've reflexively turned to (and which has ultimately betrayed them)...but the Republican party needs to clean up its own act and get off its duff about this.
Posted by: unknown jane at January 20, 2010 10:23 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: robertM at January 20, 2010 10:23 AM (OjfuN)
I've been away.
Actually had work yesterday. In at 2am. Drove way out onto Long Island. Delivered two stops. Drove to New Jersey. Picked up a load. Drove back into Connecticut and stopped at a hotel. Delivered the load in Massachusett(e)s and was back at the shop in Connecticut before noon.
I was able to watch the results last night from my hotel room, and I tell you, it was a very close thing. I was VERY tired and VERY close to just passing out, but I struggled through it and was able to watch Sen. (Elect) Brown be declared the victor.
I'm not too sure if I'd have dipped my balls in pudding. When Elizabeth told me we were ball dipping, my mind was totally not in the same mode as the rest of you I'm guessing.
Morning radio in Massachusetts was awesome. I caught Greg Hill's show on WAAF as it came on, and switched to the two libs on WTTK around 8:30-ish and listened to them until Michael Graham came on at 10am.
Graham was fucking hilarious, and made my drive through Worcester much easier.
Good for Mr. Brown! Good for Massachusetts! Good for America!
Posted by: Mortis at January 20, 2010 10:24 AM (hA5JK)
They do not get it. They are over extended. The zerglings have broken through the outer perimeter and trashed their forward base. Their only hope is to retreat, retrench and fort up. If they continue an expand policy at this stage of the game, 2010 will be a complete bloodbath with hydralisks and everything.
(We're in your base, killin' your doods...)
Posted by: Warthog at January 20, 2010 10:25 AM (WDySP)
POTUS knows it is mostly a show, but that's just the campaign. The actual governing is real. You really do have to consider that increasing public expenditures as a percentage of GDP WILL increase the rate and quantity of lobbying by the remaining private sector. Right now we have to pretend that Barack Obama didn't know this would happen.
Posted by: WTFCI at January 20, 2010 10:25 AM (GtYrq)
It was the dip of choice for ace, guys. Some of the moronettes didn't have pudding on hand so we used whipped cream, caramel sauce, fudge...
Rum, I didn't have any pudding in the house so I ended up using a cup of beer. Moose Drool Brown Ale, to be exact. Nothing like dipping in great election results...
Posted by: Hatchet Five at January 20, 2010 10:25 AM (67Cew)
Posted by: Narcissus at January 20, 2010 10:25 AM (e910j)
Holy Crap, Jake Tapper just tweeted that POTUS said to Stephanopoulos,
"the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office"
Bush Derangement Syndrome?
Posted by: booter at January 20, 2010 10:27 AM (eimUK)
I'll see your senators, and raise you a Durbin and a Burris.
Posted by: CUS at January 20, 2010 10:27 AM (wOGfT)
Methinks it's going to look like the Paul Ryan GOP House plan.
Posted by: WTFCI at January 20, 2010 10:27 AM (GtYrq)
Actually, I remember your post about tentatively accepting the teabagger slur and some outraged moralist comments about it. I said then, and I feel somewhat vindicated, that the term should be embraced to take away any bullets that libs felt they were throwing.
Fuck your laughable bullets, dumbshits.
Posted by: St. Agnostica at January 20, 2010 10:27 AM (gbCNS)
I, uh, well, consumers, um, uh, I, tax payers, um.....
Posted by: Mortis at January 20, 2010 10:28 AM (hA5JK)
Posted by: George Orwell at January 20, 2010 10:29 AM (AZGON)
It's was hilarious listening to Egan & Braude come to terms with what happened yesterday.
Posted by: Mal at January 20, 2010 10:29 AM (Z+qzA)
Posted by: Mortis at January 20, 2010 10:30 AM (hA5JK)
Posted by: Mal
Scott Brown - I love you.
Love him back, Margerie!
Posted by: Mortis at January 20, 2010 10:31 AM (hA5JK)
You know that feeling you get when you get pot commited to a shitty hand when you are on tilt with only a 4 or 5 card out, but then a miracle happens and you pull one of those outs on the river?
Yeah I had that feeling last night and I still do now and yes I am one of those aholes that celebrates obnoxiously while you sit there pissed off you got busted out.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at January 20, 2010 10:31 AM (SqAkN)
O/T: I saw a Haiti relief commercial with the First Wookiee last night. The situation is bad enough, do we have to make it worse by adding the Sasquatch to the mix? I say no.
Posted by: kefka at January 20, 2010 10:32 AM (n1uMU)
Posted by: Peaches at January 20, 2010 10:32 AM (9Wv2j)
Posted by: unknown jane at January 20, 2010 10:33 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: TheQuietman at January 20, 2010 10:33 AM (1Jaio)
Right after we get to bottom of that whole Trig Palin thing.
And that rash in my drawers that doesn't seem to go away.
Posted by: Andrew Sullivan at January 20, 2010 10:33 AM (Iq/G6)
I rejected at first, when a former classmate on FB used the term on me. I gave him a rare smackdown, but in very polite language. He couldn't take any talk-back and "defriended" me. Good riddance.
However, I now embrace that slur. How does my teabag taste, Owe-bama?
Posted by: GregInSeattle at January 20, 2010 10:35 AM (B5cM9)
Of course, if Boehner and McConnell had a lick of sense they'd be out front peddling the GOP reform plan and STFU about the election. Their plan had portability and nationwide access instead of the state crazy quilt. Small businesses could pool, it cost next to nothing.
You watch, they'll drop the ball.
Posted by: spongeworthy at January 20, 2010 10:35 AM (rplL3)
Posted by: Napoleon Bonaparte at January 20, 2010 10:36 AM (SPSOE)
Posted by: kansas at January 20, 2010 10:38 AM (mka2b)
So why were the crowds at Brown's victory party shouting "41, 41, 41"?
Unless they play a different form of blackjack up therem I'd say the reason is quite clear.
Posted by: Vashta.Nerada at January 20, 2010 10:39 AM (emMe8)
Many celebrated last night by dipping their balls in something. That's what teabaggers do, after all. Pudding was the dip of choice for many. It does have that cool, creamy goodness, and if you have a friend to help you clean up, all the better.
Posted by: random at January 20, 2010 10:40 AM (mhbHz)
Posted by: Ken at January 20, 2010 10:40 AM (Bs34i)
Posted by: Hatchet Five at January 20, 2010 10:41 AM (67Cew)
Posted by: norah o'donnell at January 20, 2010 10:41 AM (2qU2d)
And is this supposed to be a spoon?
Posted by: norah o'donnell at January 20, 2010 10:41 AM (2qU2d)
Folks folks, it is not that most of them are out of touch. What you are hearing from them today is just a contiuation of their lies. They know they arte lying but they depend on the press to diseminate their lies unfiltered to the public.
And you know what??? They are right. It seems so stupid to us because it makes them look like clueless idiots but to them it is a clear strategy. Since the press NEVER calls them on their lies they get a free pass and just more PR.
The average voter on the street who doesn't have access to AOS doesn't know any better.
Posted by: Vic at January 20, 2010 10:41 AM (QrA9E)
Posted by: wrg at January 20, 2010 10:44 AM (7t+Ws)
Oh, and, waiter, I suddenly have a craving for a Twix bar. Could you get me one even though it's not on the menu?
Posted by: norah o'donnell at January 20, 2010 10:45 AM (2qU2d)
Posted by: unknown jane at January 20, 2010 10:46 AM (5/yRG)
Did you see Bill Delahunt, he looked scared as hell.And he should he's my congressman.
Posted by: Mal at January 20, 2010 10:49 AM (Z+qzA)
Ah, it warms the cockles of my heart to see Ace self-identify as a teabagger. Remember the Anderson Cooper pledge: At any opportunity, ask Andi how it's possible to talk while suckling testes (he'd previously said it was hard to talk while tea-bagging).
Posted by: motionview at January 20, 2010 10:52 AM (DtSf1)
Nor is "un-ambitious".
If the current Health Care push fails, then Harry Reid, that is, "Senate Majority Leader" Harry Reid, faces even bleaker prospects of retaining his seat than he does already. He may even exercise the Dorgan option so that he can spend more time with his family.
Chuck Schumer would then be in line, assuming Dems hold their Senate majority, as the next Senate Majority Leader. Don't think Schumer wouldn't throw Reid under the bus to get it.
Posted by: furious at January 20, 2010 11:01 AM (4Qhdy)
Will Ace please STFU about this moronic ball-dipping and tea-bagging jag? We have the leftist shitbag mainstream media using a term for the Tea Parties that is on a par with calling them (us) buttf#@kers and c@@ksuckers, and here Ace is embracing the term because he us so slap-happy about Brown's victory, as if we are at the end of a long battle instead of the beginning. Idiot.
We have to crush into the dirt every dirtbagger who uses the teabagger term. We have to purge them from public life the same way we just purged Coakley. And here is Ace prancing around in his underwear: "I'm a teabagger, the first Ewok teabagger." We don't want to take away the power of this term. We want to explain it to people. We want them to know that Anderson Cooper is calling everyone who disagrees with him a c@@ksucker on national television, so that we can demand he be removed. All of them, out, for using this homosexual slur. We need to make it DEATH for these dirtbags, and it will be, as even Democrats begin to understand that this slur is being applied to ANYONE who rejects the far left agenda.
We know who the Tea Partiers are. These are family folks. Its grandma. And more and more, it is the term that the media is using for ALL opposition, even for the Massachusetts majority! Don't embrace it. Don't pretend it is innocuous. Ace may laugh at its application to himself, but does he laugh at the mainstream media and Democratic senators calling grandma a ball sucker? Wake up and smell grandma's coffee. This is not a joke.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at January 20, 2010 11:12 AM (57sG0)
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Tag it as spam. I don't have it tagged as spam but sometimes AOL decides for me and throw it in my spam folder anyway. Nanny browser.
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Posted by: St. Agnostica at January 20, 2010 11:24 AM (gbCNS)
Who cares what she thinks?
I watch Nora O'Donnell, and I visualize her naked. I've never heard a word that she has said.
Posted by: Call me a male chauvanist pig at January 20, 2010 11:35 AM (ITzbJ)
No, ourtage at their homosexual slander is not exactly what libs want. They get embarassed when their slander is exposed. They are playing off the fact that middle america does not know that they are using a homosexual slur. They can play to their base and express their inner nastiness, and their mothers won't know it. Only online folks know what they are saying.
If it becomes more widely understood that they are calling EVERYONE who disagrees with them ball-suckers on national television, it will destroy them. Just like with everything else they do, they are counting on the truth not coming out.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at January 20, 2010 11:35 AM (57sG0)
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Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at January 20, 2010 11:49 AM (cniXs)
Basically, Ace is giving the dirtbaggers an easy out. "Yes, its a nasty term," they can say when called on it, "but it's THEIR term." That is what Clarance Page said when called on it. Now it will be: "top right wing websites have embraced the teabagger term, so I guess its here to stay."
Just the other day we had a left-wing host ask one of his guests to please stop using the teabagger term. With the Tea Partiers being associated with Brown's victory, and polling widespread approval in MA (40% favorable, 41% unfavorable, IN MASSACHUSETTS), this is being recognized as a mainstream movement. Ace is treating it like a fringe movement, like it is okay for HIM to label Tea Partiers as teabaggers, just because he is slap-happy.
Wrong. He has no more business propagating the teabagger term than the dirtbaggers do. Its not for him to say that is okay to call upright folks and their children ball suckers.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at January 20, 2010 11:57 AM (57sG0)
Posted by: St. Agnostica at January 20, 2010 12:07 PM (gbCNS)
What happens when people realize that thought is not, in fact, racist or anti-American or all the other crap they've been pushing? "
There was a black General Manager at one of the Major League Baseball teams that got fired for poor preformance. At the time all of the sports talking heads pointed out that it was not when the first black General Manager was hired that it proved MLB was not racist, it was when the first black GM was fired because he was treated just like every other GM in MLB. I think it is the same for our country, we are holding Obama to the same standard we expect of every other president and by doing so shows that we are not a racist nation.
Posted by: Steve Kartchner at January 20, 2010 12:54 PM (74ekv)
Not me. I had a spicy salsa dip.
Feel the burn!
Posted by: OregonMuse at January 20, 2010 01:04 PM (hoowK)
"Massachusetts has health care. ... The rest of the country would like to have that too," said Pelosi. "So we don't say a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should."
Dear Ms Pelosi,
Congress has healthcare...The rest of the country would like to have that too, So we don't say a congress that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should.
Posted by: marie at January 20, 2010 02:35 PM (GuTKr)
The only way Ace's "strategy" could begin to make sense is if you think this is a done deal: that the great American middle already identifies with the Tea Party's anger at Obama, so that the "teabagger" slurs can only hurt the left. Maybe Ace sees himself as goading the center-left to continue on a path that is self destructive for them.
The problem with this goading strategy is that it absolves the dirtbaggers of blame for the teabagger term. If you want the left's use of this slur to be as damaging to them as it should be, it has to be on them. We can't take the term on ourselves and expect it damage them. Ace is grinding the tip off of the sword, just as it is about to skewer the left.
More generally, getting cute is always stupid, like some GOP leaders supposedly planning on letting Obamacare pass because they think the unpopularity of such a step will hurt Democrats in the fall, ignoring the harm to America. That is only a hair's breadth from the Democrats intentionally trying to lose the Iraq war (voting to defund 40 times in 07) because they thought the loss would hurt Republicans.
Stick to what is right in itself. It is wrong to call a group of mothers, fathers, children and miscellaneous patriots ball suckers, no matter how one momentarily imagines it to be strategically advantageous. This kind of cutesiness can only backfire, and deservedly so.
Posted by: Alec Rawls at January 20, 2010 02:37 PM (57sG0)
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Posted by: ÔÇÊ at September 02, 2010 12:50 PM (cKUx1)
Yeah, I'm a Tea Bagger.
Was it good for you too, Captain Wonderful? hahhahahha
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