1 I'm sorry, I just don't get the point of this series. If the Republic weren't being dismantled perhaps I'd take a little more time

2 What do you mean the Easter Bunny is not real?

3

I have a technical question. Can't the Senate Republican filibuster the vote on the reconciliation package?  At the very least can't they push it back after the weekend, so the congressmen(people?) have to go home to their districts and get an earful?

I was promised that Scott Brown would answer all our questions, but that doesn't appear to be accurate.

4 Energizer Bunny...real. Easter bunny? A fiction designed by "Big Candy" to fatten their profits while they fatten our children.

5 Posted by: Ben at March 22, 2010 09:42 PM (jvBhz)

There is no filibuster on reconciliation, which is why they're going that route.  All it requires is a 51 simple majority to pass.  Filibuster requires a cloture of 60 votes to end debate.

6

 

Does this mean we stop stupping the chicken and instead hump the Easter bunny?  This questions for you Dum Dum.

7 Almost better than Epic Poetry. Almost.

8 It's the feel-good hit of the year, Jack.

9 Ben, No. Reconciliation avoids the filibuster, as it only needs 51 votes to pass and has a defined number of hours for debate. (It takes 60 votes to "invoke cloture" or end debate under general rules). Certain aspects of the reconciliation bill will be subject to a 60 vote point of order...but even if everything objected to gets struck, whatever is left only requires 51 votes (or 50 + Biden) to pass.

10

Posted by: Ben at March 22, 2010 09:42 PM (jvBhz)

There is no filibuster on reconciliation, which is why they're going that route.  All it requires is a 51 simple majority to pass.  Filibuster requires a cloture of 60 votes to end debate.

 

So Scott Brown's win was like watching your team win the conference championship, but losing in the finals.

11

Certain aspects of the reconciliation bill will be subject to a 60 vote point of order...but even if everything objected to gets struck, whatever is left only requires 51 votes (or 50 + Biden) to pass.

doesn't Biden count as only 3/5 of a person?

12 Where is the chocolate?  I definitely heard someone mention chocolate!

13 shit I just noticed that Kathy Dahlkemper voted for the healthcare bill. She is from Butler which is north of hear. She just lost her seat, that area is very socially conservative and abortion matters to them. That is at least one guaranteed pick up

14 I must say, I don't get these.

But I do find what they say about the human condition intriguing.

15 Nah, Ben, because Brown will have an impact on other stuff. The problem is that the Senate finished everything related to the underlying health care bill prior to Brown's election. That's why Pelosi had to pass the Senate bill, as anything "new" would have to be passed by the senate agin in a post-Brown atmosphere, where the GOP could sustain a filibuster.

16

You know what? I think I'll celebrate me some Easter by frying up a big 'ol pan of hot, crispy seasoned human fetuses.

MMMM MMMM MMMM, Deeeeelicious !

17 Sure this has been brought up somewhere else, but...

What the hell is this with the senior staff who wrote this shit sandwich exempting themselves from it?

This kind of shit makes me think that just maybe we really do need to start stringing these fuckers up until the rest get the idea and get the fuck out.

What the fuck is this bullshit, "it's so awesome but we don't have to partake and you do"? Fuck you buddy, fuck you.

18 If the Easter Bunny isn't real, why do I keep getting these chocolate Skittles?

19 rabbitist

20 Easter bunnies do it at the speed of light! IYKWIMAITYD

21 "Easter bunnies do it at the speed of light! IYKWIMAITYD" So Ace is more bunny than ewok? Explains quite a bit...

22 Barry the Bunny is a light colored chocolate Easter bunny and twitches his nose with no hint of a negro dialect, unless he chooses to.

23 S.E. Cupp is on Redeye tonight. mmmmm......

24

OT BREAKING:

Senate Parliamentarian has sided with Democrats that the Cadillac tax does not violate reconciliation.

25 One day, EC, I am going to write an Epic Poem on this blog about the House and the Senate and Speaker Suzanne Sena all appearing on Red Eye to discuss the Daytona 500 while Peggy Noonan does something elitist. Then, and only then, will I have painted my masterpiece.

26 "Senate Parliamentarian has sided with Democrats that the Cadillac tax does not violate reconciliation."

He's another one that needs to be told in no uncertain terms to get the fuck back to wherever he came from if he knows what's good for him. Yeah he might have left there to become Senate parliamentarian in 1836 judging from his picture, but too damn bad.

27 Enoxo, I'm shocked that a man hired by the Majority Leader ruled in favor of the Majority. Shocked.

28
Reconciliation is about Budget items only.
Why democrats found a way to raise our taxes some more.



My GOD the democrats really are the corruptocrats.


http://tinyurl.com/yjqemh8

29

Easter Bunnies and

Chocolate eggs are just so

Bourgois, my comrades.

30 So the Cadillac tax won't apply to people who actually MAKE Cadillacs, or drive them, just the people who steal them (who will just pay the alternative minimum tax.)

31 Little children say A freaking "easter orange"? Bite me, mom and dad

32 It's hateful shit like this that allows CNN to, rightly, call us Nazis.

33 The Senate gets Chickens that are already Fookn Size
It's real easy to size 'em
Fryer Size
Roaster Size
Fookn Size

They aren't interested in prepubescent chickens

34

Little children say

A freaking "easter orange"?

Bite me, mom and dad

Jack, my haiku skills are a little rusty but man you are the master.  My sides hurt from laughing picturing a kid with just an orange in his Easter basket!!!!

35

From Whorlitico:

After hearing arguments on both sides, Frumin said that Democratic plans to push back an excise tax on so-called Cadillac insurance plans until 2018 was within the purview of budget rules allowable under the filibuster-proof reconciliation process. The GOP had argued it was beyond the scope of the five-year budgetary window allowed under the rules, and it was a violation of the so-called Byrd rule because of its changes to the Social Security law.

Republicans were hoping that if Frumin had ruled that the tax plan was out of order, it would have derailed the entire reconciliation measure.

Now Republicans said there are a series of other challenges they plan to levy against the bill in the coming days. “Next up, we’ll begin the process of flagging the dozens of drafting errors Republicans have discovered in the reconciliation package that we believe violate the Byrd rule,” a senior GOP aide said.

36 The problem is that the Senate finished everything related to the underlying health care bill prior to Brown's election.

Posted by: Jack M. at March 22, 2010 09:53 PM (Ncr1R)

You sure that's right?  Brown was elected Nov. 19th.  The Senate bill was passed Christmas eve.  It took them forever to seat him.

37 I thought all politicians were naturally baby killing atheists, and therefore, would not believe in Easter.

Oh wait, that's just the Democratic party.

Sorry.

38 Fine:  Democrats violate the rules to exempt their fat-ass union cronies, but they're still going to make you pay through the nose.

Run with it.

39 #40You sure that's right?  Brown was elected Nov. 19th.  The Senate bill was passed Christmas eve.  It took them forever to seat him.

I thought it was Jan 19th?

40 I thought it was Jan 19th?

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at March 22, 2010 10:42 PM (otlXg)

Ok, now I'm not sure.  I'll go check

41

I was promised that Scott Brown would answer all our questions, but that doesn't appear to be accurate.

Posted by: Ben at March 22, 2010 09:42 PM (jvBhz)

He's not very talkative, is he?  I think he's stuck between the destruction of the Constitution and RomneyCare.  People got on Romney's case, but I see no problem with him arguing from the state level (where I don't like RomneyCare, but have no legal objections to it - people can move to another state) and saying how that's different from the federal level.  That is, after all, the major problem with this whole health scare; it's a state responsibility, and states can do any nutty things they want.  That's the issue.

But, the fact is that RomneyCare sucks, which is what is stopping Brown, I think.  He ought to talk to Romney, who is making a decent argument against the national health scare and just go lightly on the RomneyCare.  He can leave that to the Treasurer guy who's warning that the US would be bankrupt in 4 years.  I know that sounds drastic, but KikiCare in Hawaii had to be stopped within 8 or 9 months, I think, and that was just supposed to be free health care to poor kids, or something like that.  They blew through their budget so quickly that they had to shut the whole program down.

42 You are correct Kratos.  My apologies, Jack M.

43 Oops.  Sock mishap.

44 OMG, I love Matt Drudge for this (every single lib/dem I know has been telling me that people were wrapped up in basketball and other stuff and not paying attention....guess my friends are wrong!):
"THANKS FOR MAKING MONDAY THE SECOND MOST-VIEWED DAY IN 15-YEAR HISTORY OF DRUDGE REPORT! THE PAGE WAS SEEN 36,407,277 TIMES FROM OVER 50 COUNTRIES [including 4 vists from Swaziland, and 17 from Malawi]"

45 48 You are correct Kratos.  My apologies, Jack M.

I'm finally right about something?!?!  My God, the world's about to end!

46

Independants register Republican , no cost.

 

47 I'm so happy that all of my favorite radio talk show hosts are so relaxed and non-combative about this aberration.  As for me,

I FEEL BETRAYED.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm not going to breakout the kit.  Not yet.  <double negative>

I will give them nine months to cut off funding for this whole health care bill .

48 Climate is next!   All those lawmakers made those investments in all that alternative energy and they want their pay back, now!

49 I'm finally right about something?!?!  My God, the world's about to end!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at March 22, 2010 10:50 PM (otlXg)

And there will only be chaos.

50

 

Posted by: Cooter at March 22, 2010 10:51 PM (OYw0U)

You Cooter, are you the wooly-bully that resides between Nancy Pelosi's legs?

51 #55  And there will only be chaos.

You've been paying attention.  Good.

52 I stick a buck under my pillow every night and it disappears by morning .  If it ain't the Easter Bunny doing it, who/what is? 

53

 

Wooly Bully

54 Purple Avenger, The Denture Fairy. (See..it isn't the tooth fairy, because the tooth fairy wants teeth...but the denture fairy, see, shows up in the absence of teeth......whatevs, I don't even know why I'm still up).

55

You know what would be the shit right now? An AMC Road Warrior series!

AAAARRRRGGGHH!!!

56 People need to start organizing.  Nobody knows what to do next, tomorrow.  The next special elections I know of, Hawaii, is not for another couple months... but is there anything that can be achieved in the meantime?  Are there efforts to get state laws on the books to resist/rollback this nonsense?  A little bit pf planning outside of Tax-Day protests would be helpful.

Also, why aren't the Tea-Party groups organized by county or by congressional district?  That would be great!  If you live in xxxx your local Tea-Group is yyyy.


Btw, I guess we can rally around stopping the new Financial Regulations bill... but that would be a challenge. To take the side of the "evil" Wall Street. :rolleyes

57 I am so losing it with the cable guys.  I can't believe after the kind of worm rendel was during the election that oreally has him on the show.  My friend today was like "look at all the crap they pulled during the election.   Look how they outwitted hill/bill and got mccain to endorse them.  Did you not think they were going to clean the clock of the republicans?  Of course they were, the republicans can't even think of the evil ways they have thought to put forward their agenda, it's not in their DNA."
Makes you think right?

58 drudge says nan is "the most powerful woman in a hundred years....who is he thinking she replaced?"

Cause don't you think Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi and Evita Peron would take exception to that statement.  As well as Mother Theresa.

59 I stick a buck under my pillow every night and it disappears by morning .  If it ain't the Easter Bunny doing it, who/what is?

It's the magical, winged fiscal confiscatory unicorn of the Obama Administration. 

60 The next special elections I know of, Hawaii, is not for another couple months...

Florida has one coming up On April 13th to fill the empty Wexler seat.

Wexler has endorsed Ted Deutch, a flaming leftist, but there is a Republican challenger Ed Lynch.  I expect Lynch will probably lose, but the margin of the loss could be very telling.

61 It's the magical, winged fiscal confiscatory unicorn of the Obama Administration.

Now that you mention that, my wallet always feels a bit thinner each morning too.

62

The pic on Drudge with Pelosi walking through the park, with large gavel, in hand, and looking up to the stars, thinking to her self, everyone luvs me, wants me etc.

Throw Up.  What a concieted bitch. Weasel Death Pool needs

some updates.

63 drudge says nan is "the most powerful woman in a hundred years....who is he thinking she replaced?"

Cause don't you think Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi and Evita Peron would take exception to that statement.  As well as Mother Theresa.

Posted by: curious at March 22, 2010 11:11 PM (p302b)

Golda Meir would kick Nazi's ass ... and Golda was a real nutball leftist!

One of Golda's best lines, in response to some general's contrived, humble introduction, "Don't be humble.  You're not that great."

64

"The pic on Drudge with Pelosi walking through the park, with large gavel, in hand, "

I Heard she slept with it.

65

Have you started a local chapter of the TEA party yet?

Are you a Moron, or are you a wimp?

Dont wait for someone else, start it now.

ObamCaress delenda est.

66 And I will continue to beat the drum, in every thread.

67

What are some ways to get out of debt?

Besides selling my sperm and my wife working at the local dive bar entertaining passing thru truckers and errant bikers, I have found  reaching under the stalls into multiply occupied stalls in upscale gay bars and picking pockets to be quite lucrative.

 

Seriously, WTF?? NOBODY IS GOING TO READ YOUR g@#$%@MN AD. GO AWAY.

68

 

Are you a Moron, or are you a wimp?

Moron, Thank you Very Much.

69 You are very welcome Gerry

70

immigration is next.  The House Dems may well figure in for a penny, in for a pound  -they can only get pushed out of office once, so they may as well bully the rest of the crap sandwich through.  

 

71

So, i talk to some of the peeps i work with, regaurding health care bill just passed by wtf.  they dont see it, dont read, mahap. think the gov just rolls along.

doing what needs done.

MSM needs a revolution now.

72 "Wexler has endorsed Ted Deutch, a flaming leftist, but there is a Republican challenger Ed Lynch.  I expect Lynch will probably lose, but the margin of the loss could be very telling."

Too bad he probably will lose, Republican electoral defeats any time between now and November will be portrayed as the people turning away from the racist reactionaries and will get tons of exposure. While any Republican victories will be reported as more or less just the facts ma'am the way the beatings we gave them in Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey largely were. The fact that Republicans swept statewide races in Pennsylvania, an amazing feat, was almost unreported as far as I could tell. And of course everyone saw the bending-over-backwards to say that it had nothing to do with the asshole in the Oval Office.

I only realized how much I detested that man when I watched his loathsome victory speech with Biden practically panting beside him. You could tell what was running on repeat through his mind the whole way through: "fuck you, America. I won."

73

 You are very welcome Gerry

 After all, this IS Ace of Spades.....

74

Fuck the Easter Eggs:

The Democratic Party must be destroyed.

Never forget that.

Do not associate with Democrats.

If you have to associate with Democrats, undermine them. This is war, of their choice.

Do not date Democrats.

Seek out Republicans and support their efforts.

Always, remember this: Fuck Democrats.

75 @70 It wasn't a gavel, it was an antique wooden dildo first mounted by John Dingle during the medicare vote. Teddy later came in and made a gavel sandwich. True story. Except this time its being used on every one of us.

76 The MSM and their masters need to be strung up in Rockefeller Center. Then their heads placed on pikes for all to see.

77 Unjust law makes outlaws of us all.  Hoist the colors.

78 Stupak is more afraid of Nancy than he is of God. Happy Easter Bart!

79 @81 I can't date democrats but I can fuck them. But sometimes the fucking requires the dating. Its vicious.

80 O/T:  Not a fan of coulter.  don't read her column but occasionally see her on the cable shows.  But wow, she's invited to speak in Canada and then they threaten her with arrest for inflammatory remarks she might make by suggesting that she review their laws????   It's on drudge....sheesh do they say that to every speaker?

81 But I thought Obama was God

82 I'm liking this series and hope it continues.

83

"I can't date democrats but I can fuck them. But sometimes the fucking requires the dating. Its vicious"

Nah. Just pick 'em up at the bar. Doggie style, them wrong hole'em.

On the way out the door, tell 'em you will see 'em at the next Move on rally.....

84 @90 Would you suggest throwing in a "shocker" for extra fun? Of course giving an "angry dragon" sounds like it'd make a good story too.

85 Hey, if you need a composer for the soundtrack, I'm all in.

86 I'm liking this series and hope it continues.

Me too. Don't listen to the haters, Jack. "How you like me now?" had me ROTFL.

87 “Amendment 28: Congress shall make no law respecting medical treatment or its provision.”

88 What are you complaining about? Daddy Obama and Auntie Nancy just bought us a big ol' Pony for Easter!!!! /sarc

89 Paul Ryan Is Not Ready to Give up on Health Care

90 There is an excellent post at a site called truthbeforedishonor.wordpress that everyone should read.  It quotes Churchill and Patrick Henry and is very good.

91 What the hell is this with the senior staff who wrote this shit sandwich exempting themselves from it?

Hrm, I thought we had a Constitutional amendment somewhere about equal treatment under the law.

At least, that's what they tell me when I wonder why there's more women's college sports teams than men's college sports teams.

92 K, it's too early in the day to have worked up a fury, but there I am.  The arguments I've been having with libs generally include "but what about families that can't afford health care for their children?" I think we've got to counter the impression that we don't give a flying frack about other people.  I would guess that most of us who can afford it give money to charity.  Wouldn't be surprised if some of us tithe.  We've got to make the argument that we're not opposed to poor people having health care, but to the government funding of it.  And the coercion that is a key part of this bill.  We have no trouble with VOLUNTARY charity.  This "Party of No" stuff is driving me crazy.  The only thing we say NO to is bigger government.

93 "but what about families that can't afford health care for their children?"

Covered by existing state and federal programs like S-CHIP.

94 Oh, and ask them how much money they've given this year to the Shriners, or the local children's hospital, or any of the assorted pediatric cancer funds.

Not a fucking dime, usually.

They don't want to help people, they want to feel good about forcing you to help people.

95 Technical question on the IRS enforcement:  Are people who don't file returns exempt from all this BS?  Was at a place of business yesterday talking about Obamacare yesterday and the employees working there were pleased to hear about the IRS enforcement provisions.  They are all paid cash, none of it is reported, none of them file returns. 

96 You forgot the last line:

House: Shhh!  I know!  But mom and dad are into it so I have to pretend I am, too.  Otherwise, no free candy.

97

"At least, that's what they tell me when I wonder why there's more women's college sports teams than men's college sports teams."

It's vastly more entertaining, watching you ladytypes get all hot 'n sweaty glowing, running around, back and forth, in lycra shorts, the errant wisp of hair across your fac...

...*cough*...was I thinking out loud again?