1 Corporate jets!

2 I'll get it over with:

Screw you DrewM, you RINO scum.

3 This one's finally going to melt my circuits. Pray for me.

4 Still don't like his cuffs.

5

The Potomac throwdown IV:

Corporate Jet Owners vs. SS recipients and struggling college students.

Yawn.

6

Blame it on Boooooooooooooooosssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

 

7 I'm stocking up on tires to stack barricades and burn for the impressive post-apocalypse authenticity. 

8 I'm sure the nihilist-in-chief will be as inspirational as always.

9 Odds that the wise man's translation of what he says is 'Head for the hills, folks'...?

10 Obama is a one trick pony.

11 I keep saying this: Every time he opens his mouth, it's because he thinks he's losing.  If he thought he were winning, he wouldn't say anything.

12 TOTUS due up any minute.

13 Woo Hoo!!! Elevator to Hell!!!!!

14 7 I'm stocking up on tires to stack barricades and burn for the impressive post-apocalypse authenticity. 

Posted by: Todd W at July 29, 2011 10:26 AM (lUA2h)

Nice!  Be sure to wear some superfluous sports equipment and a dust mask for that little extra apocalyptic je ne sais quois. 

15 How late will the Hawaiian Blowhole be today?  This thing was supposed to start at 10:20AM?

16 We're on the express elevator to hell!  Goin' DOWN!

17 I'm watching the news right until the jester opens his mouth, then it's time for a break.

18 He putting on his Kabuki make-up?

19 Well Oarack Bama - Looks like you finally ran out of other peoples money - you ain't getting anymore. Suck on that, bitch!!

20

You're missing the story,

 

2Q GDP GROWTH TRIPLES 1Q GDP GROWTH

 

Happy Days Are Here Again

21

CNN says Harry Reid announced that he's filing cloture for his plan, so he can start moving that through the Senate early Sunday morning. 

So much for the 'must originate in the House' dodge.

22 MY WALLET! MY MONEY!!

23 Why, there's absolutely nothing to worry about Mr. Astor and Mr. Rothschild, this ship is nigh unsinkable.  It's out of an abundance of caution that we require you to wear your lifejackets and have put your women and children into the lifeboats.  Why don't you relax, get a drink, and go listen to the band?

24 Hook up the printing press motor to his jawbone.  We'll be out of debt in no time!

25 what's his name is late as usual

26 Why, there's absolutely nothing to worry about Mr. Astor and Mr. Rothschild, this ship is nigh unsinkable. It's out of an abundance of caution that we require you to wear your lifejackets and have put your women and children into the lifeboats. Why don't you relax, get a drink, and go listen to the band? Posted by: Captain Barky at July 29, 2011 10:31 AM (4q5tP) But Captain why are you in that little dingy?

27 24 Hook up the printing press motor to his jawbone.  We'll be out of debt in no time!

Posted by: EC at July 29, 2011 10:31 AM (GQ8sn)

Are you crazy?  That's a one-way ticket to hyperinflation if ever I saw it!

28 Dear Leader has emerged from the Honeycomb Hideout to enlighten our simple minds. All praise Dear Leader ... Sing with me... Obama's big ... yeah, yeah, yeah! He's not small... no, no, no! Obama's git ... a big big plan! Big big Obama with a big big plan!

29

As John Boehner spent the night trying to wrestle members into place to support his debt ceiling deal, Valerie Jarret reminded reporters yesterday that it was President Obama who was losing sleep over the issue.

"He's getting absolutely no sleep. He's working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise," Jarrett said.

    Meetings. Outreach. Why, he's just community organizing his ass off to get something done.
 

30 - Obama could announce this: Kinetic Monetary Policy Action - Hey ... why not?

31 he's late...

32

Peas, peas, peas, peas!
Eatin goober peas!
Goodness how delicious!
Eatin goober peas.

33 Smell the Virgin thread

34

"He's getting absolutely no sleep. He's working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise," Jarrett said.

If I thought that was true I'd really be worried.

Terrified actually.

35 He could have used any one of his numerous speeches to announce his plan.

36 21+ minutes late.  Miserable Failure.

37 Picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue .

38 The first rep to stand up and suggest that we deem CCB as passed and implemented should be given Boehner's job.

39 Frugality?

Punctuality?

These are not matters for gods.

40 Blame Republicans

41 Hobbit power...'nuff said.

42 Brother, can you spare a dime trillion-dollar bill?

43 My re-election is doomed!!

44

Speech preview:

 

My fellow Americans,

I shot 32-over par today, a personal best.

Thank you

45 Let me be perfectly clear.  If we don't continue with the behavior that got us into this mess in the first place, I will cut checks off to your grandma and our rating will be downgraded.

46 No really, just a smoke and some Doritos and I'll be right there. And, you know, after I putt a bucket of balls. But then right. there.

47 21+ minutes late.  Miserable Failure.

Posted by: gp at July 29, 2011 10:36 AM (B9rV2)

 

Maybe he's still asleep. Oh that's right he's not getting any sleep these days. Poor Barry is just working himself to death

48 speechifiyin' has commenced

49 Reid Good McConnell good ( fuck you McConnell)

50 I'm so glad Harry is moving forward with his plan. When that thing gets stone-walled in the Senate, he's going to look like an ass and make everyone forget about Boehner.

51 All praise Obama for saving us from these wicked Republicans!!!11!!

52 Let us urge you to blow us Mr. Preznut.

53 We must rase the debt ceiling or he Cowboy Poetry Slams will be a t risk.

54 "Smart and balanced way" = "My way"

55 smart and balance now , not just balanced

56 He's getting absolutely no sleep. He's working tirelessly, meeting with his economic team, doing a lot of outreach, exploring all kinds of possibilities for compromise

Most importantly - not committing anything to paper. That would be gauche and unseemly, or something.

57 Are you crazy?  That's a one-way ticket to hyperinflation if ever I saw it!

Being totally sarcastic!

58 Obama: The wasp
Progressives: The larvae
Taxpayers: Paralyzed and walled up in the nest

59 23 Why, there's absolutely nothing to worry about Mr. Astor and Mr. Rothschild, this ship is nigh unsinkable.  It's out of an abundance of caution that we require you to wear your lifejackets and have put your women and children into the lifeboats.  Why don't you relax, get a drink, and go listen to the band?   Now if you'll excuse me, the deck chairs are clearly not arranged properly.    

60 @28 - definite smile of the day material, outstanding work.

61 We have to submit a debt plan that will satisfy the guy who gave us $5T in new debt and a .4% GDP growth rate.

This is like Meggie Mac designing your diet menu.

62 HEAD SWIVEL IS DISTRACTING.

63 WTF?

64 He's added government contractors to the threatened list.

65 BTW, August SS checks have been mailed

66

"We didn't have a AAA political system..."

No shit, we know that.  It's why you're in charge.

67

I really don't get why Liberals think this man is intellegent or some genius.

 

68 The fact that a country that's running a 14 trillion dollar deficit has a AAA credit rating is insane.

69 I've never seen the president give a speech while he's watching a tennis match. . He truly is magnificent. -

70 See my plan is wonderful. You guys figure out how to implement it.

71 So far he has said NOTHING new

72 We can end this with a single vote. Next November.

73 We're going to lose the AAA no matter what we do!
Downgrade is years overdue.
Aug 2 deadline has little or nothing to do with coming downgrade.

74

Posted by: BumperStickerist at July 29, 2011 10:40 AM (h6mPj)

^5

75 We can end this now if you just let me spend, spend, spend! That will solve all our problems you dumbass plebs.

76 Government contractors? That's supposed to frighten me?

77 this is the same shit he always says?

78 Ssshhh!!! Wormtongue is speaking...

79 tweet?

80 The Revolution will be Tweeted.

81 Obama's big ... yeah, yeah, yeah! He's not small... no, no, no! Obama's git ... a big big plan! Big big Obama with a big big plan! Hahahaha!

82 If we aren't able to keep going into debt the entire universe will collapse upon itself into a singularity. And you can blame the GOP for that.

83

this is the same shit he always says?

Yes, but he's sooooooooo dreamy that his words will work this time.

84 You know, if he'd spend less time campaigning and more time actually working on the problem....oh, yeah. Nevermind.

85 sssssssss

ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

ssss

86 hahahaha they cut the feed to Fox

87

cocksucker didn't take questions

88 signal lost- oh shit back- I thought maybe there really was a G-D in heaven

89 that was quick

90 The fact that a country that's running a 14 trillion dollar deficit has a AAA credit rating is insane.

How many legions has the Pope S&P?

91 no questions

92 he looked like he fled.

93 Whoa Blank screen. For a moment I thought TOTUS quit.

94 How much will we save if we get rid of the Executive Branch? It does not seem to be doing anything much for us now.

95 Well, shit, that was a whole lot of nothing.

96 Whoa, you're all moving in slow motion. Look at the pretty colors! And trust me on this debt thing, mmkay?

97 Smart and balanced = raise taxes on the 2% who already pay the lion's share of the taxes.

Obviously, that 10s of billions is all we need to close the deficit.

Maybe JEF is miscounting the zeros? If you drop 3 zeros from 1.6TRILLION, you end up with 1.6 BILLION.

Honest mistake.

98

And make no mistake.  There are those who still believe all my strawman arguments, so I'm going to keep lining them up and knocking down.

 

99 How many millions were wasted while that feckless fuck rambled on saying nothing?

100 he looked like he fled. Posted by: Gushka still hasnt settled down at July 29, 2011 10:42 AM (QNeKQ) Like a rat on a sinking ship

101 That's all folks!

102 Good thing we waited 20 minutes for that.

103 Not watching, is he watching the virtual tennis match while he speaks, i.e. using two or three teleprompter screens?

104 I turned the news off and will do so from here,hensfoth when that boob gets up there to say anything. I'm simply done with the community organizing bit.

105 we will pass a bill,

NO , don't question me.

106 Yeah, POTUS tells us to find a plan that HE'LL sign and put pressure on your senate and house members to get that to him.  Do HIS job and make sure it's a plan he can live with.  I'm disgusted. 

107 Sell the jet? 

108 Did Barry mention the wonderful GDP number? How about Q1 being revised down?

109 So that little speech amounted to 'Me too! Me too!' Thanks Barky.

110 All I know is that the prick has my 80 year old parents worried about their SS checks and that really, really pisses me off.

111

no questions

That's because he's speaking on the new fuel standards at 10:50.  He had to go so he could be late for that.

112 The bills that "Congress" racked up? As if he had nothing to do with racking up any bill? Obama is a pretentious asshole.

113 A Balrog ,yes.

114

We're going to lose the AAA no matter what we do!

Boone & Otter:  Toga Party!

Bluto:  Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!

115 Hobbit power...'nuff said.
Posted by: Samwise

Preach it, brother!

116 OOH Bret Bear just hit him a good one

117 Shovel ready speech

118 Please tell me he mentioned raising taxes again. PLEASE.

119 Market down 104

120 81 Obama's big ... yeah, yeah, yeah! He's not small... no, no, no! Obama's git ... a big big plan! Big big Obama with a big big plan! Hahahaha! Posted by: Cap'n Crunch at July 29, 2011 10:42 AM (4Kl5M) I challenge you to a dual Cap'n Dunce. I'm super cereal.

121 If the House GOP doesn't pass my bill the Senate won't be able to vote against it. And that makes me cry.

122 Over two trillion more.  That's not so bad.   We can have a bake sale!

123 By Sunday he'll be pre-empting his own pointless press statements to make pointless press statements.

124 Please tell me he mentioned raising taxes again. PLEASE. Posted by: Rich at July 29, 2011 10:44 AM (wnGI4) What do you think "smart and balanced" means?

125 Pass the Boehner plan and make this fucker eat it.

126

Dear lord, I thought no one loved the sound of their own voice more than me.  I was wrong.

Stutterting, etc. 

 

127 Oh, and the new fuel standards? Every fleet has to get 35 miles to the unicorn fart by 2012. Peace out!

128 Stole from HA

"BHO headed back to bed and pulling the covers over his headÂ…"

hehe

129 I am a government contractor and let me tell you; from my vantage point, the waste and ineffiency of the federal bureaucracy is jaw dropping.

130 He changed his tone a touch from the last speechifyin. Not so friggin strident. Trying to calm the market?

131 Keep calling your representatives in Congress. Yeah, that's going to be helpful in getting a "bi-partisan agreement". Good work, champ.

132 "BHO headed back to bed and pulling the covers over his headÂ…" hehe Posted by: cherry π at July 29, 2011 10:45 AM (OhYCU) French Oven time?

133 My guess - he will say that Republicans are irresponsible, but they are responsible for everything bad, ever. My next guess. Boehner is going to allow a "clean" debt limit vote of enough to get through the month and say that it has to be done in order to save the Republic. The Senate will amend it to Eleventy!!!11! bazillion dollars, the conference will set it at $3T. And we will all be encouraged to support the new Boehner plan, because otherwise we will never win an election.

134

He's getting absolutely no sleep

Cocaine.  It's a helluva drug.....

(You know everybody's thinking it, right?)

135 And I missed the Soprano's for that?

136 All I know is that the prick has my 80 year old parents worried about their SS checks and that really, really pisses me off.

Earlier commenter said they already mailed the checks. I'm a bit afraid to call my mother and ask her to check her direct deposits.

137 now that that's over, we will have the media spend the next 24 hours telling us what He meant when He said blah blah.

138 Bipartisan support?  Dead on arrival.  Just ask Harry.

139

I am a government contractor and let me tell you; from my vantage point, the waste and ineffiency of the federal bureaucracy is jaw dropping.

You're right. And I'm a Fed and from my vantage point the amount of money contractors rake in is jaw-dropping.

It's a double-edged sword.

140 Because of the 14th Amendment, it's not a debt ceiling ceiling.

141 See, he's already flipped the whole Boehner plan on it's head. He's calling for Reid/McConnell knowing full well that the media will back him up and pretend the Boehner wasn't a serious plan. Kind of like CCB. Kind of making the Boehner plan totally pointless.

142 I challenge you to a dual Cap'n Dunce. I'm super cereal. Super? Pffft! You got Crunchberries? I got Crunchberries.

143 All I know is that the prick has my 80 year old parents worried about their SS checks and that really, really pisses me off. Thank goodness my mother is senile? She does OK by the way. SS checks, Teachers Pension, my Dad's Military pension.

144 141, Good catch. That's exactly right. Ignore the Peoples house. Fuck him.

145

But Captain why are you in that little dingy?

Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2011 10:34 AM (i6RpT)

Again, purely out of an abundance of caution.  Say, if you don't mind, howabout shooting off that flare gun once every 3 minutes?

146 Well, the asshole was tight about one thing. People did offer an overwhelming response to his Monday pleading to contact your representatives. They all called and said essentially "Fuck Obama." And that lying POS knows it.

147 hehe Posted by: cherry π at July 29, 2011 10:45 AM (OhYCU) French Oven time? Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2011 10:46 AM (i6RpT) Is that the pussified version of a dutch oven? That inept fuck can't even fart right!

148 49 I'm so glad Harry is moving forward with his plan. When that thing gets stone-walled in the Senate, he's going to look like an ass and make everyone forget about Boehner.

Posted by: Rich at July 29, 2011 10:38 AM (wnGI4)

What they want is Boehner to pass something...anything, then the Senate guts it, puts in their version and then sends it back to the House where the Dems, miraculously, vote for it.

That is why it needs to be voted down in the House first.  We'll never get anything close to Boehner's bill.  We don't need anything that Reid can use as a shell.

149 I bet the one is drooling over that committee having the power to raise taxes at will, without debates or votes.Should that actually come to pass boys and girls, that's when the real shackles come into play.

150 Hey, Barky, shouldn't we leave Congresscritters alone to get on to this grand compromise so you can sign it instead of tying up their phones?

151 I am a government contractor and let me tell you; from my vantage point, the waste and ineffiency of the federal bureaucracy is jaw dropping. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're right. And I'm a Fed and from my vantage point the amount of money contractors rake in is jaw-dropping. It's a double-edged sword. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And I'm a taxpayer and it feels like that double edged sword is being stuck up my ass.

152 French Oven time?

Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2011 10:46 AM (i6RpT)

Zat is zee Dutch Oven!  Not zee French Oven!  We French, we have manners, you see?!

153 French Oven time? Posted by: nevergiveup at July 29, 2011 10:46 AM (i6RpT) Is that the pussified version of a dutch oven? That inept fuck can't even fart right! Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 29, 2011 10:49 AM (sVk8z) French Dutch, shit I knew it was an EU thing?

154

What they want is Boehner to pass something...anything, then the Senate guts it, puts in their version and then sends it back to the House where the Dems, miraculously, vote for it.

He could have done that with CC&B.

155 /sock

156 Earlier commenter said they already mailed the checks. I'm a bit afraid to call my mother and ask her to check her direct deposits.


I have no doubt they're going to get their check, and I told them so.

It pisses me off that the Prick in Chief is using my parents as leverage.

157

People did offer an overwhelming response to his Monday pleading to contact your representatives.

They all called and said essentially "Fuck Obama."

I guarantee that's what happened. 

I highly doubt people were melting the phone lines to the Capitol to say, "Raise my taxes!  Please!"

158 *FAP*  *FAP*  *FAP*

159 I don't know if we can wait until 2012. Tie this fucker to Fast and Furious ASAP and impeach his lying, incompetent ass.

160 If you do not pass a debt ceiling soon, we will be unable to go on our annual office furniture buying binge in September (so we don't get less money the next fiscal year).

161

--It's been awhile since the Senate has actually done something, I wonder if they had to look up how to actually do this stuff in the rule book.

If they did bother to look it up in the rule book, they'd see that the Senate is not allowed to intiate this bill.  And wrapping it in a shell of another House-initiated bill is beyond bullshit.  If Boehner had any brains or balls, he'd say that the Senate shouldn't bother working on originating an un-Constitutional bill to be presented to the House.  but ... Boehner will just cry, instead.

162 I could care less if my 80 year old mother gets her SS check.  She has over $500,000 in her investment portfolio and then has the balls to bitch about the amount of her SS check, which she splits with my dad, who worked his ass off to pay SS taxes for 50 years while she got her hair done and lunched at the country club. 

163

2007 Obama; “We have to live within our means, we have to reduce our deficit ...

2011 Obama: Give me money now

164

Posted by: Anonymoose at July 29, 2011 10:49 AM (ZgvjV)

It is dude.

BTW, there are a few of us working from the inside to try and stop that.

Shhhhhhhhh.  Don't give the plan away.

165 Let me be *head swivel* perfectly clear. *head swivel*  I have always said *head swivel* I inherited the worst *head swivel* economic crisis *head swivel* in American history *head swivel* since the Great Depression.

166 Hey, I've got an idea -- I'll make a speech! I haven't done that in, what, 48 hours. That'll shake things up!

167 Is that the pussified version of a dutch oven? That inept fuck can't even fart right!
Posted by: Ms Choksondik at July 29, 2011 10:49 AM (sVk8z)


Heh. I figured it was a variation on the Dutch Oven involving self-fellatio or something. I wasn't willing to go to Urban Dictionary to look it up, though.

168

Game over gentleman.

We're going to get a mix of the Boehner-McConnell-Reid as a plan.

It will be passed, I'm guessing by monday.

 

I think there was a chance with the Boehner plan, but Boehner went ahead without the votes and got embarrassed.

 

169 This guy is worse at president than he is at golf. We are so boned.

170 165 Let me be *head swivel* perfectly clear. *head swivel*  I have always said *head swivel* I inherited the worst *head swivel* economic crisis *head swivel* in American history *head swivel* since the Great Depression.

The teleprompter guys was playing with POTUS.  Flipping his pre-written speech between prompters. 

171

And I'm a taxpayer and it feels like that double edged sword is being stuck up my ass.

And that's why it's called a rapier ladies and gentleman.

172

Real GDP was revised sharply downward from 1.9 percent in the first quarter to 0.4 percent.

As an engineer, I'd be freaking SOOOO FIRED if my calculations were off by 475% fng percent!! How much of that GDP is government spending? Yup, we are in deep recession again.

173 John Boehner will save us all.

174 Super? Pffft! You got Crunchberries? I got Crunchberries. Posted by: Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries! at July 29, 2011 10:48 AM (4Kl5M) Well I have the Honeycomb hideout. While you're alone playing with your little crunchberries, I'm hanging with the chicklets in my treehouse. Sucka!

175

And that's why it's called a rapier ladies and gentleman.

Posted by: Ben at July 29, 2011 10:54 AM (wuv1c)

Rimshot!

176

Ok. New Plan.

A military takeover of Quebec.  Hole up there. Sweep down the entire Eastern coast after Armageddon.

177 #168, if there weren't enough votes in the House for Boehner's plan, what makes you think the House is going to vote for a Boehner-McConnell-Reid shit sandwich?

178 What are the odds that barky introduces a new pet phrase with his latest exploits in speechification greatness?  I think he's got a new catchphrase all poll-tested and ready to go. 

179 >>Game over gentleman. >>We're going to get a mix of the Boehner-McConnell-Reid as a plan. >>It will be passed, I'm guessing by monday. >>I think there was a chance with the Boehner plan, but Boehner went ahead without the votes and got embarrassed. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

180 The Republicans have played their hand in this debate brilliantly, just brilliantly I tell you.

181 Dutch oven: Someone pulls the covers over your head and passes gas.

French oven:  You pull the cover over your head and someone passes gas.

182 I don't know why, and I didn't even listen to the song today, but when I read these headlines, I hear: "So ladies, fish, and gentlemen, here's my angled dream.  See me in the blue sky bag, and meet me by the sea."  I guess it makes as much sense as most of the leadership in this country.

183

if there weren't enough votes in the House for Boehner's plan, what makes you think the House is going to vote for a Boehner-McConnell-Reid shit sandwich?

 

Pressure, fear of getting blamed for "default", politics as usual.

184 We can invade Apple to pay Granny

185 Why aren't more people hammering on the idea that the debt ceiling raise has to be through 2013?  Everyone will say it's gamesmanship, but not why--namely that a short term fix forces us to go through this again ONLY IF Obama and the Democrats continue to sit on their butts and allow the next deadline to pass without coming up with a plan.

186 Just a reminder to all the Morons that I am still offering premium benefits for those joining my Death's Head Shock Legions pre-collapse. Moronettes, there is still room in the Pleasure Battalions for supervisory staff. Get on board now before conscription becomes mandatory!

187

Meanwhile, GDP felt right the hell off the cliff.

Actually, the funny part is that, given the revision to 1st Q GDP, 2nd Q GDP (as they now claim it) ROCKETED ahead, being over 300% greater, in absolute percentage terms, than 1st Q GDP "growth".

188

Game over gentleman.

We're going to get a mix of the Boehner-McConnell-Reid as a plan.

It will be passed, I'm guessing by monday.

 

I think there was a chance with the Boehner plan, but Boehner went ahead without the votes and got embarrassed.

------------

This was always going to be the case. People thinking Boehner's plan was passing the Senate as is are completely fooling themselves. If a deal just had to be done before August 2nd, it had to be some shit sandwhich compromise.

 

189 Reid/McConnell will never make it through the house. The Gov. will get shut down.

190 I wonder if the Republicans ever think of my song during negotiations with President Obama--"It's Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long?"

191 Krugman: Conservative Views About Debt Ceiling Should Be Censored From News Reports

192 >>I think there was a chance with the Boehner plan, but Boehner went ahead without the votes and got embarrassed.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2011 10:55 AM (TMB3S)

Well, Don Obama just told his wiseguys to stop stonewalling.

If I were Boehner, I'd stop, say that the bill is CCB and we'll negotiate from there.

193 Ooh, the stock market suddenly SURGED!  No wonder he was 20 minutes late - it took time to get some of that yummy TARP slush fund money lined up to pour into buy orders in response to The Master's voice.  Even so, the timing was a little off.

194

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, EXXXTREMIST at July 29, 2011 10:57 AM (lbo6/)

Don't the Pleasure Battalions have Moron officers?

Where do I send my application?

195

Do as I say, and hold the freaking line!!!!!!!!!!  The Republican Party sucks. I am the only principled person preaching true conservatism.!!!!!!!!!

196 So Barky's plan turns out to be 'you guys stop fighting or I'll tell mom on you!'.

197 FUBO

198 As in mid-life crisis, a woman might wear too much make-up, her skirts too short, etc. all in an effort to appear younger. A man might buy the sports car, doff a toupe, and start wearing an earring to also appear more youthful. Transparent and pathetic. Our JEF likewise thinks that he is such a great orator and so wise that all he has to do is just give "one more speech" and maybe this time the dumb rubes in this country might fall in line. So transparent and pathetic.

199 @186 You would have to lay out the duties and responsibilities of said Legionaries, as well as the pay and benefits package.  And, will the Legions have a Navy, or at least a riverine flotilla?  As you know, in a post-collapse scenario, water transport will be the only way to move bulk goods around economically.

200 Valerie Jarrett: Obama 'getting absolutely no sleep' because of debt crisisAwwwwww....

201 So, let me get this straight.  The House passes CC&B, the senate refuses to vote on it.  The house draws up another bill, revises it, gets told by Reid that pretty anything they write will be voted down in the senate, gets told by Obama via various talking heads that he will veto anything the house comes up with and you guys think the republicans look bad?

202 Ok, Cap'n. I've got chunks of your Crunchberries in my stool. You want to throw down? I'll go alien on your ass.

203

Our JEF likewise thinks that he is such a great orator and so wise that all he has to do is just give "one more speech"

I wouldn't call it a "mid-life crisis" in his case.

A "pathology" maybe, but not a "mid-life crisis."

 

204

139

"You're right. And I'm a Fed and from my vantage point the amount of money contractors rake in is jaw-dropping.

It's a double-edged sword."

 I compete fiercely with sealed bids on infrastructure projects. I risk it daily. The waste and ineffiency of the gov't is sometimes a millstone that can sink a given project's profit or a boon that can triple the profit. In the end, macroeconomic theory prevails and about 10% is the average gross profit.

And now you've gone and really pissed me off.

 

205 >>If I were Boehner, I'd stop, say that the bill is CCB and we'll negotiate from there. He better have something passed by the end of the day or the House looses any leverage they might have had.

206 I'm so glad Harry is moving forward with his plan. When that thing gets stone-walled in the Senate, he's going to look like an ass and make everyone forget about Boehner.

Posted by: Rich at July 29, 2011 10:38 AM (wnGI4)

What they want is Boehner to pass something...anything, then the Senate guts it, puts in their version and then sends it back to the House where the Dems, miraculously, vote for it.

That is why it needs to be voted down in the House first.  We'll never get anything close to Boehner's bill.  We don't need anything that Reid can use as a shell.

Posted by: AmishDude

 

There's no good solution. If Reid's piece of trash is resisted, then the spin will be that the House is endangering the country. If Boehners' bill passes, then it gets pointed to if/when the rating tanks, which it should, even if we raise the debt ceiling yet again. If we somehow don't lose the AAA rating, then Obama gets the credit. And most of the Republicans know this.

207 151 I am a government contractor and let me tell you; from my vantage point, the waste and ineffiency of the federal bureaucracy is jaw dropping. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You're right. And I'm a Fed and from my vantage point the amount of money contractors rake in is jaw-dropping. It's a double-edged sword. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And I'm a taxpayer and it feels like that double edged sword is being stuck up my ass. Posted by: Anonymoose at July 29, 2011 10:49 AM (ZgvjV) THREAD WINNER ALERT.... THREAD WINNER ALERT...

208 I don't think a Boehner-McConnell-Reid plan would pass simply because the worst of all worlds isn't going to please the representatives already deadlocked by principle. Tax hungry Donks and the Tea Party freshmen aren't going to bend over for the leadership in the House simply to delay a media crisis and not be able to attend golf outings or cocktail parties with fellow assholes. It'll stay a deadlock.

209 The beauty of it is, the Liberals can now blame the demise of the economy on the Tea Party holding up the raising of the debt ceiling.

The road to hell is paved with Democrat Talking Points.

210 This guy is worse at president than he is at golf. We are so boned. Posted by: Dave at July 29, 2011 10:53 AM (Xm1aB) Ever see him throw a baseball?

211 loses... Crap.

212 Driving that train, high on cocaine...

213 So, let me get this straight.  The House passes CC&B, the senate refuses to vote on it.  The house draws up another bill, revises it, gets told by Reid that pretty anything they write will be voted down in the senate, gets told by Obama via various talking heads that he will veto anything the house comes up with and you guys think the republicans look bad?

Posted by: jewells45

 

Why yes. Yes we do.

214 How about Boener just reply "Obama sucks cock", flick off the camera, and then walk offstage.

215

And now you've gone and really pissed me off.

 Posted by: Samwise at July 29, 2011 11:01 AM (TEgVw)

Trust me, I know the issues.  I held a contracting warrant for a while.  I've also been a Federal contractor.

The FAR is 2 feet thick.  Thank Congress for the inefficiency baked into the contracting cake. 

216

I honestly want Boehner's bill to pass the House just for the sole purpose of being proven right. Vain, I know.

But when it passes and gets stone-walled in the Senate, then we will be left with the same exact proposition as if it didn't pass. August 2nd, or accept some bullshit Harry Reid deal.

217

Let me be clear. I have looked at all of the plans that are out there. The GOP Plan.  Harry Reid's Plan to have a Plan. Of those, my Plan to plan on having a Plan is the best because it's the planniest with more planning behind it than the other plans. 

Since it does not exist even in an imagined reality, it is the best plan for dealing with the imaginary fiction that is the discussion that we are going to actually cut government spending.  That's part of the Plan. Conceived so many years ago by Cloward and Piven. 

So, my fellow Americans, no matter if you're Hawaiian, Mexican or Kenyan, take the blue pill. Only this way will our economy continue to show the improvement we've seen since 2009 and the increased employment that the stimulus has brought about.

Together we can make America the place that my Father dreamed of, the place my Mother wanted, and the place that my Friends Bernadette and Bill have worked so hard to make. 

We can have that America that my Pastor of over 20 years envisions.  Not God Bless America! Your Chickens. Have Come Home. To Roost.

218 200 Valerie Jarrett: Obama 'getting absolutely no sleep' because of debt crisisAwwwwww....

Posted by: Sap at July 29, 2011 11:00 AM (EL+OC)

Because of the debt crisis, because of the increased cocaine usage...six of one, half dozen of the other.

219 So, let me get this straight.  The House passes CC&B, the senate refuses to vote on it.  The house draws up another bill, revises it, gets told by Reid that pretty anything they write will be voted down in the senate, gets told by Obama via various talking heads that he will veto anything the house comes up with

Ant that is pretty much what Barky just said in this latest speech. Again.Which really amounts to "I won."

220 We'll never get anything close to Boehner's bill. We don't need anything that Reid can use as a shell.

Wut?

Reid's and Boehner's bills are similar enough that they can tweak Reid's a little (and probably add whatever sucks most about McConnell's) and Boehner can fairly say it "incorporates all the essential principles" (or whatever) of his plan and cram it through the House with however many Democrat votes he has to beg Pelosi to trade for uh future considerations (in district-drawing, I'd guess).

Everybody wins!

221

but Boehner went ahead without the votes and got embarrassed.

Which shows what an inept idiot he is.  What sort of fool doesn't have his bills up and ready to go BEFORE going into negotiations?  What sort of idiot Weeper brings a vote to the floor on a MUST-PASS bill (by his own estimation) that doesn't have the friggin votes before he presents it?  WTF?

Boehner did nothing between the time of the CRs/Budget battle (wwhich included MANY of the same problems as we are being presented with now) in order to prepare for this.  He played golf with Barky and generally pissed away the time, only to go into suicidal negotiations with the equivalent of the palestinians without any concept of where he was going or what he was authorized to bargain away.  What an ass.

222

Together we can make America the place that my Father dreamed of, the place my Mother wanted, and the place that my Friends Bernadette and Bill have worked so hard to make. 

We're all gonna be Detroit?

That's it!  I'm off to Costa Rica.  If I'm going to live in a Third World hell hole, it might as well have better weather.

223 202 Ok, Cap'n. I've got chunks of your Crunchberries in my stool. You want to throw down? I'll go alien on your ass. Posted by: Quisp Has Come Back to Earth! at July 29, 2011 11:01 AM (Pir3k) I'm the King and I rule all the cereals. King Vitamin hath spoken.

224

Moronettes, there is still room in the Pleasure Battalions for supervisory staff. Get on board now before conscription becomes mandatory!

Aye aye my Captain!  but do I have to do lube patrol again?

225 We need to start a campaign to voluntarily pay more $ into the treasury.  Make it very public.  Go after rich, famous people (not necessarily Hollywood, but anyone in the news making $100,000+) cajole them into either donating or telling us why despite the fact that they favor higher taxes, they won't step up and set the example.  Make it really public. 

226 President Obama Is No Longer Tethered To Reality

President Barack ObamaÂ’s speech to the nation Monday night was highly disturbing. Because read carefully, it reveals a president wildly divorced from the fundamental realities of the nation he is supposed to be leading.

227

OMERICAS BACK!

The remarkable story of America's economic turnaround.

228 BINGO! Neil Cavuto just made the money shot 'THE ISSUE IS HOW DID WE MAINTAIN A AAA RATING WITH THIS GAME WE'VE BEEN PLAYING....ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL' (not exact quote but I can't type fast on the iPad). Every time I think we as a country have gone full retard, somebody says something intelligent.

229 {everybody sing!}

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I wanna good job...
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230 217
Let me be clear. I have looked at all of the plans that are out there. The GOP Plan.  Harry Reid's Plan to have a Plan. Of those, my Plan to plan on having a Plan is the best because it's the planniest with more planning behind it than the other plans.  Posted by: Vladmir Illyich Obama at July 29, 2011 11:04 AM (hbAPu)

Spoken like a true planarian! Bravo!

231

I am a government contractor and let me tell you; from my vantage point, the waste and ineffiency of the federal bureaucracy is jaw dropping.

You're right. And I'm a Fed and from my vantage point the amount of money contractors rake in is jaw-dropping.

It's a double-edged sword.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 29, 2011 10:47 AM (sbV1u)

 

It's not a double edged sword.  Its because its the Feds that make it so expensive to contract. The Feds do the contracting and do it wastefully. 

232 Neil Cavuto just made the money shot 'THE ISSUE IS HOW DID WE MAINTAIN A AAA RATING WITH THIS GAME WE'VE BEEN PLAYING....ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL' (not exact quote but I can't type fast on the iPad).

Posted by: Rightwingva at July 29, 2011 11:10 AM (btDMH)

Because the US dollar is the foundation of the global financial systems.  To put us at less than AAA is to re-evaluate the whole system at less than AAA (which is certainly how it is, but singling out the US for a downgrade is pure insanity).  The US dollar occupies a very distinguished position that many tend to forget or dismiss.

This is also why hyperinflation in the US dollar will be far, far worse than anytime it's happened before.  The US dollar will not be able to recover (or be substituted or replaced) like other nations with their minor currencies have been able.  When the dollar goes down, it's going to be something truly historical. 

In the end, the US is the last country whose credit rating should be re-evaluated. of course, this whole scene started just becausee Warren Buffett's Moody's decided to try and interject itself on Barky's side in this farcical "negotiation".

233 225 We need to start a campaign to voluntarily pay more $ into the treasury.  Make it very public.  Go after rich, famous people (not necessarily Hollywood, but anyone in the news making $100,000+) cajole them into either donating or telling us why despite the fact that they favor higher taxes, they won't step up and set the example.  Make it really public. 
Posted by: SFGoth at July 29, 2011 11:09 AM (dZ756)

Call it, "... Where's Your Check?" For example:

Matt Damon, Where's Your Check?

234

This only goes to prove that old adage ..

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always time to do it again

... or was that ...

if you take on a vast effort, and then only do half of it ... it becomes half vast

235

It's not a double edged sword.  Its because its the Feds that make it so expensive to contract. The Feds do the contracting and do it wastefully. 

Posted by: Vladmir Illyich Obama at July 29, 2011 11:16 AM (hbAPu)

I made that point in a post further down.  The Federal Aquisition Regulation governs contracting and it's why it's so frickin' expensive for the government.

Congress governs the size and shape of the FAR.  Everything in there has its origin in Congress.  If you want to stop the $900 toilet seats, then you fix the FAR.

To fix the FAR, you have to fix Congress.

236 Obmas speeches are BBBBOOOOORRRRIIIIINNNNNGGGGG

237 "When the dollar goes down, it's going to be something truly historical. "

For one thing, China will be royally SCREWED.  Which would make it almost... almost... worth it.

Except, we will all be DOOMED.

238 We need to start a campaign to voluntarily pay more $ into the treasury.  Make it very public.  Go after rich, famous people (not necessarily Hollywood, but anyone in the news making $100,000+) cajole them into either donating or telling us why despite the fact that they favor higher taxes, they won't step up and set the example.  Make it really public. 

Posted by: SFGoth at July 29, 2011 11:09 AM (dZ756)

 

I'd tax everyone in Hollywood or associated with it at 95% and say you douchebags like to talk a good game now pay up. That goes for all of those big mouth investors who end up paying very little in taxes. Tax them until they stop talking

239

It's a double-edged sword.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 29, 2011 10:47 AM (sbV1u)

Yes, but Fed employees. in general, get most excellent benefits and basically can't get fired or laid off even if they piss on their boss's desk!  I get a lousy 401k the chance of termination if there isn't sufficient work, while many Fed employees get to make up work (like evaluating 1000 mpg automobiles and trucks, estimating and unexpectedly republishing economic data, falsifying temperature data, and making plans for high speed rail).

240 172

Real GDP was revised sharply downward from 1.9 percent in the first quarter to 0.4 percent.

As an engineer, I'd be freaking SOOOO FIRED if my calculations were off by 475% fng percent!! How much of that GDP is government spending? Yup, we are in deep recession again.

Posted by: The Schwalbe : © at July 29, 2011 10:54 AM (UU0OF)

 

An engineer that wrong couldn't prop a board up against a wall for a shelter. He'd be slobbering and banging his head against that wall whilst soiling his knickers.

241 Off Sock

242

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 29, 2011 11:24 AM (yrGif)

Yes, well, I don't write the rules I just follow them.

I stipulate that all Feds suck and it would be better off if none of us existed.

But that's also not reality.

243 What happens if we fail to raise the Debt Ceiling:

 Oh no - that would mean we can't take on any new government debt. Oh no.

Oh no - the Chinese would have nowhere to deposit - at a profit - the Billions they have gotten from us. They would have to buy US goods and services instead. That would rev up the US economy. Oh no.

Oh no - other foreign countries would hate us because they would no longer be able to use US treasury bonds as a savings account, and would - like China - be forced to trade dollars for US goods and services. There goes the US GDP up again. Oh no.

Oh no. Oh no. The sky is falling.

Seriously people there is a difference between default and debt limit. These two are used interchangeably by the MSM and they are not the same thing.

Default means that you are unable to make payments you are supposed to make. Hitting the debt limit means that you are unable to take on any more debt. You can be in default before hitting a debt limit or you can hit a debt limit and not be in default which is what will happen on August 2nd.

What, has the government run out of ink for the printing presses - is that why they won't be able to send granny a SS check?

Note that every Kabuki Theater bill you have seen from anyone includes raising the debt ceiling. WHY?

As I have demonstrated in my previous posts - in a fiat money system borrowing is completely useless and gains the government zilch. Here is an idea: lets stop borrowing.

244 Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 29, 2011 11:27 AM (sbV1u)
Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with some fine, honorable, dedicated, and intelligent Fed GS types.  Surprisingly, they were all in DoD (gee a Constitutionally mandated function of the feral gummint), and not in BATFE, DoJ, EPA, DoEd, HHS, etc.

245

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 29, 2011 11:31 AM (yrGif)

Well, I'm in DoD, so...thank you.

246 Pretty sure I couldn't have picked a better time to up the mileage standards to a number that will be unattainable. Fuck you America.

247 186Just a reminder to all the Morons that I am still offering premium benefits for those joining my Death's Head Shock Legions pre-collapse.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff, EXXXTREMIST at July 29, 2011 10:57 AM (lbo6/)  Any room for those of us who'sonly skill is making birdhouses out of empty plastic Clorox Bottles?

248

Well, I'm in DoD, so...thank you.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at July 29, 2011 11:32 AM (sbV1u)

Somehow, I thought that was the case!

249

Any room for those of us who'sonly skill is making birdhouses out of empty plastic Clorox Bottles?

Of course there is!  That is the distinctive helmet of the Death's Head Shock Legions.

It is a silhouette that strikes fear into the heart of hobos everywhere.

250 Pretty sure I couldn't have picked a better time to up the mileage standards to a number that will be unattainable. Fuck you America.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 29, 2011 11:32 AM (mka2b)

I know, let's mandate 1000 mpg cars effective tomorrow--energy problem solved!

251 Wait, the recession ended?

252 251Wait, the recession ended?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 29, 2011 11:37 AM (bxiXv)

 

Did you miss our memo?  We sent it out on the same system that socialism works and that there is an upturn in Global Cooling/Warming/Climate Change.

Too bad.  You missed out on all the Unicorns and skittles and Cheesey Poofs.

253 GOP needs to present its case simply and clearly to the people, that it has been trying and failing to get an overspending administration to the table to agree to reign in their ways. Something that is anathema to them. Remember, downgrade will occur for one reason in reality. If we don't cut our spending. The default will be a technical state, easy to rectify. Control of spending, and cutting it, must be the message. Moodys and S&P both said it plainly, failure to contain spending is, in their opinion, far ... far worse, than a temporary missing of a debt service payment. The latter is easily correctable, the former requires fiscal discipline. And what should be highlighted, without responding to the many traps the dhimmicrats have layed out, is to paint this as that picture. We've been trying to do the right thing, trying to reign in spending, and we want to cap it going forward, so we can regain control of our financial health and well being. The dhimmicrats simply want to borrow more, not figure out how to spend less. That is what the press and fight should be about. Pure and simple. Phrase it any other way and the lefties win.

254 Why can't you people just let Obama be clear?

255 That is what the press and fight should be about. Pure and simple. Phrase it any other way and the lefties win. Posted by: John Galt at July 29, 2011 11:59 AM (9NQ6I) The problem is that the left has the ultimate coalition now - the ideological left, the portion of the right afraid of losing government power, and those dependent on the government ( a group that's been deliberately grown into a majority). Ultimately the dependent need those who pay for it more than vice versa, but when you build it into a "system" it lets people pretend that's not true. You can't cut my this, you can't cut my that, cut somebody else first, it's too hard, we can't do it all right now, we can't do anything right now, long game... None of it matters, mathematics doesn't care about excuses. You start living by excuses and the math eventually kills you.

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