July 16, 2013
— DrewM So the Senate had their big joint caucus meeting last night behind closed doors. Gee, if only there was a forum where Senators could get together and debate, maybe in public even. We could call it, The Senate or something.
Anyway, they didn't come to any agreements so we're on the edge of Harry Reid going nuclear.
Reid reiterated Monday morning that he could trigger the so-called nuclear option as early as Tuesday if Republicans do not agree to give up-or-down votes to seven of President ObamaÂ’s pending nominees.By going nuclear, Reid would change the SenateÂ’s rules to allow the nominees to be confirmed with a simple-majority vote. The rule change would prevent the minority from filibustering nominations, which requires the majority to win 60 votes to get a nominee confirmed.
Personally, I don't care if Reid pulls the trigger. In fact I kind of hope he does. The filibuster is not ordained by God nor is required by the Constitution. The republic shall endure without it.
And let's face it, the Republicans aren't going to have a filibuster proof majority in the Senate anytime soon. If you want to dismantle major programs, it's going to be a lot easier to get 50 or 51 votes than 60 ever will be. Sure it will be easier for Democrats to make mischief and put them back in or worse. But honestly, a federal government that alternates between growth and repeal of programs is a lot better than one that grows and...grows.
Of course that presumes Republicans would dismantle major programs if they had the chance. That ties into this filibuster fight because it's important to remember that back in 2005 the GOP was going to "go nuclear" over George W. Bush judicial nominations. You may recall that a group of idiot Republicans, led of course by John McCain. created the Gang of 14 which sold out the GOP majority and forced Bush to abandon some of his most conservative judicial nominees.
Note there are no "maverick" Democrats stepping up to undercut Reid and Obama. That kind of cowardly "bipartisanship" is for suckers, er, Republicans.
I realize that there are wider implications but I honestly am enjoying seeing the sellout Republicans who want to "work with the Democrats" (Hi Marco Rubio!) get slapped in the face by their Democrat "friends". Sadly, I doubt they'll actually learn that they can't trust Democrats. Hopefully Republican voters will realize that sending people "to DC to get things done" means sending people willing to cave to the Democratic line. Chose wisely.
The Senate convenes at 10am Eastern today. We'll see what happens then.
Added: Two word to keep in mind when Democrats say it's terrible, horrible and unprecedented to filibuster executive nominations....John Bolton.
UPDATE: There's always a Republican willing to sellout and it's usually John McCain.
The GOP needs to come to terms with the fact it nominated a Democrat in 2008.
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Posted by: Minnfidel at July 16, 2013 05:47 AM (vndrU)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 16, 2013 05:48 AM (659DL)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at July 16, 2013 05:49 AM (659DL)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:50 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:50 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: blaster at July 16, 2013 05:51 AM (c28BI)
It might, if it wasn't already dead.
Also more importantly, Stevie Wonder is boycotting Florida.
I denounce myself, but if you took him there, how would he know?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 16, 2013 05:51 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 05:51 AM (codCi)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 16, 2013 05:51 AM (Zswg6)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 05:51 AM (codCi)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:52 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 05:52 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 05:52 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:52 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Mainah at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (659DL)
Posted by: blaster at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (c28BI)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (4XER9)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (T0NGe)
Yup, because we all know who McCain's friends are - not a group any moron would want to be part of.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (2mSdf)
Posted by: Sweet Meteor of Death at July 16, 2013 05:53 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:54 AM (/PCJa)
Drew, you are mistaken here. Reid is only going nuclear for executive branch appointments. This is so he can ram through radical nominees to the NLRB and EPA and so that Richard Cordray gets invested for five years in the most powerful and most dangerous agency to come out of Dodd-Frank, the CFPB. All of these nominees will wreak havoc on the economy and financial markets.
As for payback? Not so much. The 60-vote threshold will still be in place for legislation even in the best of circumstances after the 2016 election. Today's development will be a big loss for our side. There is no silver lining.
Posted by: guest at July 16, 2013 05:55 AM (nF4Jh)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:56 AM (/PCJa)
Sweet. That's Steyn (burn, scatter, salt) and Sowell (the fact of Z's prosecution being the biggest danger here) both agreeing with me!
What do I win?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 09:54 AM (/PCJa)
--Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: logprof, veteran of the barrel at July 16, 2013 05:57 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 05:58 AM (4df7R)
If I recall correctly Republicans haven't had 60 votes in the Senate since the later 1800s or early 1900s. IOW Dirty Harry the pederast will hurt Democrats worse than Republicans and all just to get three labor goons on the NLRB.
Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2013 05:58 AM (lZvxr)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 16, 2013 05:58 AM (OevbG)
Posted by: FRONT TOWARD LEFT at July 16, 2013 05:58 AM (V3kRK)
And guess who is leading the fight against Republicans this time seeking another ass kissing compromise.
Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2013 05:59 AM (lZvxr)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 05:59 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 05:59 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Mainah at July 16, 2013 05:59 AM (659DL)
Be careful Drew, you'll make Gabe mad.
Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2013 06:00 AM (lZvxr)
I realize that there are wider implications but I honestly am enjoying seeing the sellout Republicans who want to "work with the Democrats" (Hi Marco Rubio!) get slapped in the face by their Democrat "friends". Sadly, I doubt they'll actually learn that they can't trust Democrats. Hopefully Republican voters will realize that sending people "to DC to get things done" means sending people willing to cave to the Democratic line. Chose wisely.
See, extremist talk like that is why we can't win elections. Gabe says so.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:00 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 06:00 AM (4XER9)
I'm sure the outrage from the people will rise up after they find out about this when they watch the news... if only Comrade Stalin knew!
Posted by: Gaff at July 16, 2013 06:01 AM (jPS2y)
Yes.
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:01 AM (codCi)
http://rare.us/story/nugent-zimmerman-verdict-vindicates-citizen-patrols-self-defense/
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 06:01 AM (gqgiP)
No, that was a sock.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 06:02 AM (gqgiP)
Posted by: Mainah at July 16, 2013 06:03 AM (659DL)
Posted by: I'm lighting my torch now... at July 16, 2013 06:03 AM (ULH4o)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:03 AM (codCi)
Just always remember that thread winner from yesterday:
The purpose of the GOP is to hold you still while the Dems fuck you.
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at July 15, 2013 03:44 PM (lQki4)
Posted by: Roy at July 16, 2013 06:03 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:04 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 06:04 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: Fritz at July 16, 2013 06:04 AM (G9Mmf)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 10:03 AM (codCi)
It's really that simple.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 06:04 AM (gqgiP)
Yeah.
That's the sum and whole of conventional and inside-the-beltway wisdom.
Let me give you exhibit A, from this very blog:
"I highlight this example because it comes down to a question of whether the GOP is ready to simply give up CA-31 and similar "purple" districts. Do we want to take back the Senate? Do we ever want to take back the White House?"
Witness the full might and mass of the pro-amnesty argument: We have to pass amnesty so that we will lose by smaller margins in districts . . . that used to be safe Republican districts before the last amnesty.
But, this very foolishness is the exact reason we don't have the Senate now. Forever casting about for the "perfect" Republican that won't offend or make the leftists uncomfortable--forever giving the far-left a heckler's veto over who we run!
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 16, 2013 06:05 AM (VjL9S)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 10:02 AM (gqgiP)
I thought socking regular contributors and posters was a banning offense.
Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2013 06:05 AM (lZvxr)
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 06:06 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (4XER9)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: DrDrill at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (23NH8)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:07 AM (vWV3A)
Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2013 09:58 AM (lZvxr)
Won't matter. Next time the rules interfere with a Demonrat's plans, they'll just change them again.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (4df7R)
See, if I were from Mexico instead of Cuba, it may be a good joke, but come on.
Geez Louise.
Posted by: Marco Boobio, comic critic at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Augustus Ceasar at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: SMOD the taunty at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (Zswg6)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (vWV3A)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (codCi)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:08 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 06:09 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:09 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:09 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: The Big Picture at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (2liOw)
Ask Ceasar how well that worked out.
We don't have a Brutus. Hell, we don't even have a Gracchus.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (4XER9)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (codCi)
...and if he's not mentioned, our genteel progg betters sneer "you're so racist you can't even acknowledge your own guy!" Because they're never nasty.
But hey, when I'm enjoying my 1/4 cup halal vegan fair-trade locavore gruel in the camp (alas, no 1 tsp lo-fat ranch dip--that's only for the children of Obamavoters), it'll taste all that much sweeter because I'll know I never criticized any of the people or policies that put me there.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: SMOD the taunty at July 16, 2013 10:08 AM (Zswg6)
If you had any mercy you'd have hit about 9 last night.
Posted by: Adam at July 16, 2013 06:10 AM (Aif/5)
In the case of the NLRB, they will just go back to each 'ruling' they made before and make them again, this time legally.
That's what this is all about. And it sucks, as the NLRB board will consist of a pack of union loving socialists until 2016. Also, expect more jobs moving overseas as companies flee to avoid being unionized under these rulings.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 16, 2013 06:11 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 09:56 AM (/PCJa)
Opposition party!? That's mean and aggressive. We're the fluffer party.
Posted by: GOP at July 16, 2013 06:12 AM (AWmfW)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 16, 2013 10:10 AM (/kI1Q)
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It's got what proletarians crave.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 16, 2013 06:12 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:13 AM (vWV3A)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 10:10 AM (zF6Iw)
And Caesar came at a time when Rome was the dominant world power. Obammy is rolling across this country and forcing us into a submissive stance on the world stage.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:13 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:14 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 06:14 AM (ELdpj)
Dammit. And by a regular too.
Bad form dude.
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 10:08 AM (codCi)
--Good fucking grief, that was meant to be so obviously a sock, and a (well, IMHO) a funny referential video, but y'all had to go all KG fuckin' B on me. 
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:14 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 06:15 AM (4XER9)
Posted by: KG at July 16, 2013 06:15 AM (p7BzH)
I guess Reid figures its their last chance to get BS senate only stuff through, so he is going for it. One thing about the commie dems is they always keep their eye on the ball to keep it moving to the left. The repubs, well, they are mostly either pretend conservatives or dumbasses.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2013 06:15 AM (4+FWp)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 16, 2013 06:16 AM (a3iAA)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 06:17 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: zsasz at July 16, 2013 06:17 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 06:18 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at July 16, 2013 06:18 AM (a3iAA)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 06:18 AM (4XER9)
Ugh, I can't let.it go.
Democrats are rioting in the streets, yet we're the ones being tisk tisked over our "tone"? Fuck that shit.
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 10:14 AM (ELdpj)
You know, there's a post in there somewhere about the bigotry of low expectations as assigned to Democrats, whom we expect to be thieves, perverts, rapists and all around slime, and how that's painted us into the corner to act like adults. But I'm too tired and depressed to write it.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:19 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 10:18 AM (T0NGe)
--Remember the dog and pony show they did for Splash for the Zerocare vote?
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:20 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 16, 2013 06:21 AM (SzAZ7)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 06:21 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 06:21 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:21 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 10:18 AM (4XER9)
-- 
BTW, I caught on the radio that a Glee actor died at 31 (OD? No shit!) --surprised there was no tribute thread or linky.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:22 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 06:22 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: spypeach at July 16, 2013 06:22 AM (0n1+D)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 16, 2013 06:23 AM (SzAZ7)
Posted by: YaHump at July 16, 2013 06:23 AM (tGHEU)
Posted by: Bill at July 16, 2013 06:23 AM (uvyrw)
Posted by: spypeach at July 16, 2013 10:22 AM (0n1+D)
--Happy Birthday and your hubby is a lucky dude! 
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:24 AM (3VBXw)
But, that also extends to the political as well, and by no coincidence either.
We pushed through the abortion ban in the face of the full might and fury of the state and national media and the far left.
Hell, not one single Republican even swayed or wobbled in the face of this.
Why?
Look at how the Republicans are winning in TX--ain't one statewide Republican in favor of the amnesty--and we still get a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote than any other Republicans nationwide.
Why?
Winner don't compromise.
But, over and over our "betters"--who live in Blue states, who can't win statewide office--tell us to follow the California model, the New York model, etc.; we ought to follow their failed states, their failed policies instead of the success of Texas.
Let me lay this marker: Walk the walk, then I'll listen to your talk.
Democrats would be the ones fretting about whether they could compete in purple districts if the Republicans increased the white vote a mere 4%. And if appealing to the tribal interests of the Hispanics is "good politics" then what about those policies that increase the white vote? How is that racism but the other is not?
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 16, 2013 06:24 AM (VjL9S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:24 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: spypeach at July 16, 2013 10:22 AM (0n1+D)
Prayers and all good wishes for you, spypeach.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:24 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:24 AM (mCNwt)
The Democrat Senatrices would be more valuable rendered into biofuel.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 16, 2013 06:25 AM (/kI1Q)
It's a bit of a reach, but observing Angela Corey's behavior, I can't help but wonder if in her small mind she's thinking that she might make the short list as Holder's replacement.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 06:25 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:26 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 06:26 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 10:14 AM (ELdpj)
Sing it, sister.
We've got pro-abortion murderous ghouls chanting "Hail Satan!" and waving around coat hangers and profane signs for the "right" to murder unborn babies, and WE'RE the ones who have to modulate our tone? We've got racial hate groups like La Raza and the NBPP marching around like California is Mexico del Norte and Philly is a third world militia-run hellhole, and WE'RE the ones who have to modulate our tone? We've got "victimized" minorities Tweeting videos from their brand-spanking new iPhones decrying the alleged "profiling" of St. Tisket-Tasket as a bad guy "jus' cuz he a n***a," while their buddies loot stores and load their ill-gotten gains into the back seats of their shiny new Escalades in honor of "innocent Trayvon," and we're the g-ddamned ones who have to modulate our motherfucking tone? Fuck that shit up it's red, raw asshole.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:26 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: blindside at July 16, 2013 06:27 AM (x7g7t)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:28 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 10:21 AM (da5Wo)
Don't worry. We'll throw a sheet over you and say you're part of the furniture. No one will know you're passed out cold.
I'm going to go far out on this limb and suggest that your morning hasn't gotten better.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 10:26 AM (VtjlW)
Nope. It's gotten a crapload worse, though.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:28 AM (4df7R)
That was beautiful.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at July 16, 2013 06:28 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 16, 2013 10:24 AM (VjL9S)
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How many times must the same thing be covered?
Racism: Thought. deed, or action engaged in or not engaged in by a white persons or white-like persons (including but not limited to white hispanics) with respect to non-white persons.
Posted by: RioBravo at July 16, 2013 06:29 AM (eEfYn)
Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula_51 at July 16, 2013 06:30 AM (Vgn84)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:30 AM (/PCJa)
To the party out of power, the filibuster is a key bulwark of against legislative tyranny..
To the party in power, the filibuster is an obstructionist throwback.
Posted by: joncelli at July 16, 2013 06:30 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 16, 2013 06:30 AM (qRWdI)
Posted by: Who is John Galt at July 16, 2013 06:31 AM (EO34X)
What's to stop the GOP from "nominating" their own candidates for these boards and positions?
Put up a slate of "moderate, acceptable, middle-of-the-road" candidates that make his look extreme by comparison. "Here's who we will accept."
What's the JEF going to do, "You can't do that!!! I get to choose!!!"
"Oh, you mean like how you went around us and appointed them before?"
"If you don't need us, we don't need you."
Yeah. That's what a real opposition party would do.
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 16, 2013 06:31 AM (VjL9S)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:32 AM (/PCJa)
Done and done.
Fuck cancer.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 06:32 AM (VtjlW)
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot
"The filibuster is not a scheme and it certainly isnÂ’t new. The filibuster is far from a procedural gimmick. ItÂ’s part of the fabric of this institution we call the Senate. It was well-known in colonial legislatures before we became a country, and itÂ’s an integral part of our countryÂ’s 214-year history. The first filibuster in the United States Congress happened in 1790. It was used by lawmakers from Virginia and South Carolina who were trying to prevent Philadelphia from hosting the first Congress...." - Harry Reid
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2013 06:32 AM (2mSdf)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 16, 2013 06:32 AM (g2ldK)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 06:32 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 16, 2013 06:33 AM (qRWdI)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:33 AM (/PCJa)
Hey, I think requiring a supermajority for Presidential nominees is wrong, but then I'm not of the party that opened that particular door to begin with.
Posted by: @JohnTant at July 16, 2013 06:33 AM (tVWQB)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 06:33 AM (ELdpj)
Agree. But McConnell is a backroom political dealer. And a coward. So I fully expect them to fold like a lawn-chair in a hurricane.
Obama is trying to ram these illegal appointees down the Senate's throat to score political points and continue the Destruction Across America tour. Which is why his handmaiden Reid now feels that going "nuclear" is an option.
Let him do it. There will be more bad press from that single event than Obamacare. If that's possible. They will also rue the day that was done when Republicans are back in control of the Senate. Which has sat on it's ass for the past 6 years.
In other words, its a bluff dumb-asses.
Posted by: Marcus at July 16, 2013 06:33 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 16, 2013 06:34 AM (SzAZ7)
Posted by: AmishDude at July 16, 2013 10:18 AM (T0NGe)
You could haul Reid through a car wash 5 times headfirst and he still wouldn't clean up to a sleazebag.
He's more like a fully loaded adult gorilla diaper.
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 06:34 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:35 AM (/PCJa)
Prayers for spypeach, and for your friend, FenelonSpoke.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:35 AM (4df7R)
So NOW it's a private family matter.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2013 06:35 AM (2mSdf)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 16, 2013 06:36 AM (SzAZ7)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:36 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: David Simon at July 16, 2013 06:36 AM (z9HTb)
Time for a national 30 day walk out by all the productive people who keep the wheels of the economy, as slow as it is these days, turning. We can sit back with a beer (be sure to stock up) and watch the riots start and the politicos in DC threaten, sputter, scream, and drool.
Posted by: Who is John Galt at July 16, 2013 10:31 AM (EO34X)
What about those of us who are productive and work in the PUBLIC sector? Should we walk out, too? Or should we just stop being productive, thus putting a drain on the system through our salaries and benefits without actually contributing to a functioning government?
I'm dead serious, by the way.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:37 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 06:38 AM (32Ze2)
It depends. I think that officials that serve at the pleasure of the President should generally be approved, unitary executive and all that.
Officials of quasi-independent agencies whose terms are independent of the President should require bipartisan consent, and that means a supermajority in our system.
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:38 AM (codCi)
Facts seem to be pointing otherwise.
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at July 16, 2013 10:36 AM (SzAZ7)
Obama is the Anti-Christ.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:38 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 16, 2013 06:38 AM (g2ldK)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:38 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:39 AM (4df7R)
Weren't there kids involved? Maybe she should check in with them about it.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2013 06:39 AM (2mSdf)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:39 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:40 AM (vWV3A)
Jane Lynch's divorce announcement
Posted by: Lizzy
And now the hassle of returning all those wedding gifts to Pottery Barn.....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 06:40 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 06:40 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 06:40 AM (ELdpj)
But, that also extends to the political as well, and by no coincidence either.
We pushed through the abortion ban in the face of the full might and fury of the state and national media and the far left.
Hell, not one single Republican even swayed or wobbled in the face of this.
Why?
Look at how the Republicans are winning in TX--ain't one statewide Republican in favor of the amnesty--and we still get a higher percentage of the Hispanic vote than any other Republicans nationwide.
Why?
Winner don't compromise.
But, over and over our "betters"--who live in Blue states, who can't win statewide office--tell us to follow the California model, the New York model, etc.; we ought to follow their failed states, their failed policies instead of the success of Texas.
Let me lay this marker: Walk the walk, then I'll listen to your talk.
Democrats would be the ones fretting about whether they could compete in purple districts if the Republicans increased the white vote a mere 4%. And if appealing to the tribal interests of the Hispanics is "good politics" then what about those policies that increase the white vote? How is that racism but the other is not?
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 16, 2013 10:24 AM (VjL9S)
But if we do that how will Gabe ever be able to attend parties with all his gay and liberal friends ever again.
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 06:40 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:41 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:41 AM (/PCJa)
>>"It's not dramatic. It's not a horrible thing".
If it's not "dramatic" and not a "horrible thing," why are they asking for privacy? Why even bother going public with it at all? Does anyone give a tinker's right asscheek about Jane Lynch's wifehusband?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:41 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:41 AM (vWV3A)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:42 AM (SSj/B)
I'm dead serious, by the way.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 16, 2013 10:37 AM (4df7R
There are productive people in the public sector?
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 06:42 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 06:42 AM (codCi)
Posted by: Reality Man at July 16, 2013 06:42 AM (obXkJ)
Posted by: Lauren at July 16, 2013 10:40 AM (ELdpj)
Oooooh. I LIKE this idea. A LOT.
It'd be like a version of the police unions' "Blue Flu," when they call in sick instead of striking.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 10:42 AM (SSj/B)
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Thank You. He is Peter and he is in MN.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (32Ze2)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 10:38 AM (32Ze2)
Logistics? LTL? What kind?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (gqgiP)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 16, 2013 10:37 AM (4df7R)
You know, you have an odd sort of soothing disturbyness about ya....
.....now put down that Louisville Slugger
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (/PCJa)
>>>Obama is the Anti-Christ.
O cmon now. We're already past his half-year mark for the last term. The AC is s'posed to get knocked in the head or something by this time, then wake up in a really bad mood and commence with the persecutin'.
Plus, we'd already know who the False Prophet dude is by now. With the Homonculus on the horizon.
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 06:43 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:44 AM (mCNwt)
No one hardest hit.
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 10:28 AM (mCNwt)
--Prepped to receive flames, but I think --yes, I know she digs chicks-- Jane Lynch is kinda sexy. Sorry, but there it is.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:44 AM (3VBXw)
Phoebe Cates turns 50 today.
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We showed "Gremlins" to our Master Race for the first time Sunday night. I said, "oooooh... Phoebe Cates. I had a big crush on her when I was a boy."
Wife says, "Apparently you still do."
As if. I mean, I'd invite her over to go swimming, but that's it.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at July 16, 2013 06:45 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 10:42 AM (LI48c)
Oi! *points at self* I am productive AS HELL, thank you very much. *huff!* Time frittered away at the HQ notwithstanding.
We have quite a few members of the Horde who work in various levels of gubmint, and I guarantee you that every last one of us is the most productive, capable person in our respective offices.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:45 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 06:45 AM (9Xc5j)
>>>>Everyone take their vacation days at the exact same time.
We will all go to Cabo Cabo and jump at the same time, thereby making the earth not wobble in the slightest.
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 06:45 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:45 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (ihCPW)
The problem is that most of "the productive people" can't actually afford to take 30 days off of work. "Going Galt" only works if you're so rich you don't have to work anyway.
For the rest of us schlubs, work is a requirement.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 10:36 AM (/PCJa)
And that is the major problem we have to overcome. A 30-day strike like that (especially if it were combined with a 30-day refusal to buy anything, not even a gallon of gas) would send DC and the FSA apeshit. But because we are so necessary to the functioning of the economy, we can't leave our jobs. If we don't have the money, we don't have the vacation time. Or we'll be fired for leaving for 30 days.
This is the sort of thing that would need at least 6 months preparation, and also be done offline, lest the FSA decide to fuck things up beforehand.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 10:44 AM (3VBXw)
I bet you get a funny feeling in your pants when Tosh.0 comes on.
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (LI48c)
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Quoting scripture out of context (and inappropriately) is easy, of course, still..., there are moments when I am heartened by such:
Joel, Chap. 3
9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 06:46 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:47 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 10:42 AM (codCi)
Nah. He doesn't ahve to be smart. He just has to PRETEND he's smart and let his alleged charisma do the work for him. Part of the Anti-Christ's evil, IMO, is making the masses believe in a lie with all their heart and soul.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:47 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: fluffy at July 16, 2013 06:47 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 06:47 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:48 AM (/PCJa)
>>>>Everyone take their vacation days at the exact same time.
We will all go to Cabo Cabo and jump at the same time, thereby making the earth not wobble in the slightest.
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 10:45 AM (3ZtZW)
Let's all go to Guam and see if we can make it tip.
Posted by: buzzion at July 16, 2013 06:48 AM (LI48c)
Stuff like this keeps me coming back, just for the comments.
Posted by: The Ghost of Breitbart at July 16, 2013 06:48 AM (71LDo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:49 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 06:49 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2013 06:49 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:49 AM (vWV3A)
Fine. Game on you cock gargling, ass licking, baby butchering, dumpster fire of a miserable excuse for a human being.
I repeat, Fuck. Your. Tone.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 10:46 AM (da5Wo)
If I had one, it would have moved.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (4df7R)
http://tinyurl.com/l8gzse7
NSFW
This may be the most masturbated-to image of all time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (gqgiP)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (bZKG0)
Logistics? LTL? What kind?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 10:43 AM (gqgiP)
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Yes, logistics. I do it all. Specialize in truckload Van and Reefer.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (32Ze2)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 06:50 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 16, 2013 06:51 AM (vWV3A)
http://tinyurl.com/l8gzse7
NSFW
This may be the most masturbated-to image of all time.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 16, 2013 10:50 AM (gqgiP)
Yup
Posted by: Judge Reinhold at July 16, 2013 06:51 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:51 AM (SSj/B)
Me, too.
Even more better-er: take those vacation days to do -nothing.
No trip. No movies. No souvenirs. Nothing.
Most of us can't "go Galt," but (with planning) we CAN take two week's vacation all at the same time.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 10:46 AM (/PCJa)
--Fuck it, I've bought enough good DVDs over the years to be idle for a month. Hell, half that time will be spent replaying Pocoyo DVDs for my babeh.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 10:50 AM (/PCJa)
She plays the cheerleading coach on "Glee." Who was actually my favorite character for the two or three episodes my friends forced me to watch before I couldn't take anymore. I enjoyed watching her treat people like crap.
That says nothing about my personality, and I'll deny it to my dying day if anyone says it does.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 10:46 AM (da5Wo)
.....and you're an anti-antihistiminest!
Put that in your fucking pipe ya lady bug ya
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 10:49 AM (SSj/B)
**ahem**
Allow me to quote from that literary entertainment, The Director's Cut: "Actresses are crazier than Harry Thaw."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (zF6Iw)
I'm outta here for awhile.
Posted by: spypeach at July 16, 2013 06:52 AM (0n1+D)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:53 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 06:53 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 10:52 AM (3VBXw)
All right then! Let's do this, folks. It can start here at the HQ, but we've also got to spread it around to other conservative enclaves.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:53 AM (4df7R)
But you could have picked a 1990s Lucy Lawless.
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 10:47 AM (mCNwt)
--What, I can't have them both? [looks at wife sheepishly] :-D
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:54 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 06:54 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at July 16, 2013 06:54 AM (bZKG0)
//Juan "Long Bomb" McCain
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 06:54 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 06:55 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 10:44 AM (3VBXw)
I don't know about sexy but her dry humor and the characters she plays cracks me up.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2013 06:55 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: fluffy at July 16, 2013 06:55 AM (z9HTb)
Jane Lynch is kinda sexy. Sorry, but there it is.
Posted by: logprof
Yeah. She's a capital "L" Lesbian all the time and a typical Hollywood lefty to boot. But she's still got that odd allure.
Do it -- and deny it afterward.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 06:56 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 06:56 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at July 15, 2013 03:44 PM (lQki4)
Posted by: Roy at July 16, 2013 10:03 AM (VndSC)
perfect.
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 06:56 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 06:56 AM (VtjlW)
At the end of the day we have not had a fiery "fuck you" guy in the Senate since Strom.....Cruz may grow into it.
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 06:57 AM (LRFds)
That says nothing about my personality, and I'll deny it to my dying day if anyone says it does.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 16, 2013 10:52 AM (4df7R)
--The episodes I actually watched that show she was mostly a great character. Then she got nice with the metro coach and his gleeh club. Game over.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 06:57 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2013 06:57 AM (BAS5M)
But you could have picked a 1990s Lucy Lawless.
Honestly, always more of a Callisto man myself.
http://www.almaz.net/gallery/images/Leick_Hudson/Leick_Hudson_003.jpg
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 10:56 AM (da5Wo)
Joxer for me.
...
SHUT. UP. Or I'm taking my ball and going home!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:58 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 06:58 AM (3ZtZW)
by the time we're liberated to be dirty we're old men and women hence the trope...
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 06:59 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: toby928
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Who needs brains when you have really sharp creases.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 06:59 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 10:58 AM (3ZtZW)
*sidles up to Bigby* How YOU doin'?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 06:59 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: DocJ at July 16, 2013 06:59 AM (qCk/f)
Posted by: shillelagh at July 16, 2013 06:59 AM (hRzu2)
you could have picked a 1990s Lucy Lawless.
Posted by: George Orwell
"Swamp Thing" era Adrienne Barbeau....
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 07:00 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 07:00 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: UWP at July 16, 2013 07:00 AM (r98SZ)
tea.
( I think i'm going to start spiking mine soon)
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 10:59 AM (nqBYe)
Good morning, willow. I promise to tell you if a new thread comes along.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:00 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 10:58 AM (3ZtZW)
Bum Squad?
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 07:00 AM (IdDrM)
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The fact is, nice guys finish last.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (aDwsi)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: fluffy at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (z9HTb)
Its kinda funny. Mostly everything is SFW at my job because we specifically deal with sex and perversion - so I can look at porn, participate in adult forums, whatever - but I never do.
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 10:58 AM (3ZtZW)
You're in charge of booking guests for MSNBC?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 10:54 AM (/PCJa)
--Seriously, the creators of the show could not even run with the Alex P. Keaton/Rorschach/Ron Swanson character-you-probably-are-supposed-to-hate-but-love conceit? That was way too lazy. I liked the Evil Sue character.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (3VBXw)
>>>>there's the issue that doing so would screw over the people relying on me. I actually do care about that
Kinda the point of a strike, isn't it? Make them realize they need you by witholding your work?
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 07:01 AM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 07:02 AM (/PCJa)
Honestly, always more of a Callisto man myself.
http://www.almaz.net/gallery/images/Leick_Hudson/Leick_Hudson_003.jpg
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 10:56 AM (da5Wo)
Joxer for me.
...
SHUT. UP. Or I'm taking my ball and going home!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at July 16, 2013 10:58 AM (4df7R)
Give me Aphrodite.
And I'm surprised you're not all about Cupid MWR.
You do know who played him right?
Posted by: Judge Reinhold at July 16, 2013 07:02 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 07:02 AM (32Ze2)
I felt so alone after typing out a few of paragraphs only to realize i was shedding tears by myself, with no-one to hand me a tissue.
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 07:02 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2013 10:55 AM (m2CN7)
--Yes. Some guys like me find funny chicks sexy, some just like it as it is. De gustibus and all that.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:03 AM (3VBXw)
Oh ma'am it is burning like a sailor after a visit to Lucy's in Manila it is burning...
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 07:03 AM (LRFds)
...They get a huge gift and just play with the box.
Posted by: Slapweasel at July 16, 2013 07:03 AM (lq3Ak)
Late to HQ reading today, so I just read the front page, I didn't read the comments, but I gather Gabe's post went over like a lead balloon crossing the Rio Grande.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (4+FWp)
Very funny, but I wouldn't go past "pleasant to look at"
Posted by: fluffy
Quick wit does a lot for a girl. Amy Sedaris has the same thing going on for her.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (kdS6q)
The GOP needs to come to terms with the fact it nominated a Democrat in 2008.
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And 2012...
And if you want to get technical, 2000/2004 as well.
Posted by: @JohnTant at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (tVWQB)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (mCNwt)
You do know who played him right?
Posted by: Judge Reinhold at July 16, 2013 11:02 AM (LI48c)
Mmmmm... Cuuuuupid. My boy Karl Urban. *purr*
He wasn't on that show anywhere NEAR enough. But I would absolutely jump him if he was standing in my vicinity. I don't care if we're at a fricking funeral, I would so hit that.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 07:04 AM (SSj/B)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 07:05 AM (VtjlW)
Destroy it all, including the atoms.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 16, 2013 07:06 AM (DuH+r)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2013 10:57 AM (BAS5M)
--I first saw her as the raunchy supervisor in 40 Year Old Virgin. My conservative 9and formerly single) self may have reservations about doing Real Life Lynch, but not about doing that character.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:06 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: DocJ at July 16, 2013 07:06 AM (qCk/f)
Posted by: Mike Hammer at July 16, 2013 07:06 AM (aDwsi)
>>>Bum Squad?
IDK what that is. I'm in Disease Control. A lot of infected people run around on the adult forums spreading infections they may not know of. Plus I get the fun job of looking for pervs in the park bathrooms and chatting up hookers and breaking up long-standing marriages because someone couldn't keep it in their pants and brought something home. Sometimes all of that at once, man.
Posted by: Bigby's Golf-Clapping Hands at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (3ZtZW)
'til they're convinced the time for being "nice" is in fact over...
http://youtu.be/eeNBS1IY3pY
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (LRFds)
o well.
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 11:05 AM (nqBYe)
Silly willow. *ruffles your hair*
Cookie? I'm having a terrible day so far, and chocolate is all that will save me. *offers Pepperidge Farm Sausalitos*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (da5Wo)
Just depends on your perspective.
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (B2fm1)
Posted by: George Orwell wearing a lampshade at July 16, 2013 07:07 AM (mCNwt)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:08 AM (da5Wo)
Like the fist of an angry god. Like me on a plate of blondies. Skadi style.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 07:08 AM (VtjlW)
For real taking the antihistamine now.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 11:07 AM (da5Wo)
.....um the antihistamine in question isn't brown is it?
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 07:09 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: fluffy at July 16, 2013 11:01 AM (z9HTb)
--Looks and sexiness can exist in almost mutually untouched realms.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:09 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 11:08 AM (nqBYe)
All The Things
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2013 07:09 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 07:10 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:10 AM (da5Wo)
McCain has been in discussions with GOP Sens. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, but it is not yet clear which two other Republicans he has looked to. But Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., may be in play as well.
I think three of those are up for re-election in 2014.
As if you weren't already depressed.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 07:10 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 11:08 AM (nqBYe)
Be daring. Try them all. ^_^
Funny how we're castigated by certain Republicans and called nasty just for calling Rubio a liar and a bad Republican, yet you never hear a peep out of these same folks when a true nasty piece of work like John McCain starts flinging invective at members of his own party.
Funny, that.
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at July 16, 2013 11:07 AM (B2fm1)
It all makes sense when you understand that, to certain Republicans, we -- as in those like you and me -- are not Republicans. We are interlopers; usurpers. It is their right and their DUTY to treat us like fleabitten dogs and kick us off the back of a speeding truck into the path of an oncoming train. They are the PURE ones.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:10 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (SSj/B)
This is all a byproduct of Obama's anti-Constitutional governance style and, sooner or later, this totally unnecessary bullshit should piss of even rabid Democrat tools.
If TFG had not tried to ram those ridiculously unpopular communist nominees for the NLRB and Elizabeth Warren's "Consumer Finance" bureau down the throat of the Senate, unsuccessfully, and then tried that stupid "recess" argument in the courts, this entire episode would not have occurred.
Posted by: MTF at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (B5y+v)
Posted by: waldo at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (cjFRv)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at July 16, 2013 11:02 AM (32Ze2)
--Mid '80s was the first place I discovered thong lingerie pics. I noticed in the last decade or so they've cleaned that up. 
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (3VBXw)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 11:10 AM (da5Wo)
Benadryl?
Benadryl works like a charm for me. And within four hours I am fast asleep and cannot be awoken by anything short of a bomb going off next to my head.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (da5Wo)
I'd say a Christianity that allows the lawfirm of Jack4on, $harpton, and Pfleger to undermine the sacrifice Christ made against the vendetta culture is a flawed Christianity.....
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 07:11 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 16, 2013 11:09 AM (BAS5M)
good. So i won't have to roam the aisles for 15 minutes trying to decide.
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 07:12 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 16, 2013 11:04 AM (kdS6q)
--Yes. I love funny girls. The wifey has a good amount of it.
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 07:12 AM (3VBXw)
Like the fist of an angry god.
Like me on a plate of blondies.
Skadi style.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 11:08 AM (VtjlW)
*fist bump of solidarity* Werd, sister. We can share him! Like, you get Daryl while I get Karl, then we swap. It'd be AWESOME.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:13 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: blaster at July 16, 2013 07:13 AM (c28BI)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2013 07:13 AM (4XER9)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:14 AM (da5Wo)
And if you go non-chocolate, double stuff blonde oreos.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 11:08 AM (da5Wo)
I will gladly eat All of The Milanos. All of them. Like, every single one ever made. They are my cocaine. Which is why I'm restricting myself to the Sausalitos for the time being. It would be NICE to come out of the summer weighing a little less than I started.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:14 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: waldo at July 16, 2013 07:15 AM (cjFRv)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 07:15 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 16, 2013 07:15 AM (QbyMe)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:16 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2013 07:16 AM (SSj/B)
Whoever told you there would be no math on this blog lied.
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Posted by: Allen G at July 16, 2013 11:15 AM (/PCJa)
srsly that is a Good idea.
Send it to every Republican senator and congressperson.
Posted by: willow at July 16, 2013 07:17 AM (nqBYe)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) - Passing through Rage & Out the Other Side at July 16, 2013 07:17 AM (/PCJa)
I am also getting the urge to go full on pixie cut with a navy blue streak and am having to remind myself that I am Of A Certain Age now and yeah no. Stupid being a grown up.
DUDE. You would ROCK the pixie cut.
And it would go perfectly with your demure stature, because pixies are small!
*flees*
PS -- but it really would look good!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:17 AM (4df7R)
Then unleash the Ravage upon them. Ah their screams will be sweet then.Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at July 16, 2013 07:17 AM (QbyMe)
*picks up willow and brings her to the new thread*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:19 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 07:19 AM (da5Wo)
"America is paying attention to this hypocrisy. Our citizens are alarmed at what the Republican majority is planning to do. According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released yesterday, Americans oppose by 2 to 1 changing the rules to make it easier for the President to stack the courts with radical judges.
The American people have rejected the nuclear option because they see it for what it is — an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Regardless of political affiliation, Americans understand that this is a partisan power grab. Nearly half of the Republicans polled opposed any rules changes, joining eight in 10 Democrats and seven in 10 independents."
http://tinyurl.com/lohxcgmPosted by: holygoat at July 16, 2013 07:19 AM (vAiDn)
McCain's big problem is he thinks the Senate needs to always do something. So when a bill comes up, and gets quashed he must act because...something.
I have to say Texas's part time legislature looks better and better because there isn't this drive to pass a law to appear to be getting something done that we have in ALMOST EVERY OTHER STATE.
Hell, as Red as MO is coming, even our legislature has made some missteps in the name of passing things. Somehow they passed a bill to make prescriptions subject to sales tax, not sure if it was an oversight as part of a larger bill, or a stand alone, but still, it gave the dems, especially the governor, a hammer to whack with. If they had just left well enough alone....
Posted by: tsrblke at July 16, 2013 07:19 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Jmel at July 16, 2013 07:20 AM (cfFqn)
Posted by: holygoat at July 16, 2013 07:20 AM (vAiDn)
By the by, if that right there did not prove that I am a chick, I'll be happy to spend the next hour discussing what I bought at Sephora over the weekend.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at July 16, 2013 07:22 AM (VtjlW)
"Sharpton was licensed and ordained a Pentacostal minister by Bishop FD Washington at the age of nine. He was re-baptized as a member of the Bethany Baptist Church in 1994 by the Reverend William Jones and became a Baptist minister."
So has he ever had a church or is he just a minister because he calls himself one?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2013 07:22 AM (2mSdf)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at July 16, 2013 11:10 AM (da5Wo)
....brown was Woodstock reference
Posted by: ontherocks at July 16, 2013 07:22 AM (IdDrM)
Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2013 11:03 AM (3VBXw)
agree and since we are confessing today, I will admit to finding Ellen Degeneres attractive back in her pre out lesbian days mainly because of her sense of humor.
Posted by: polynikes at July 16, 2013 07:23 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: ejo at July 16, 2013 07:26 AM (GXvSO)
Posted by: Jmel at July 16, 2013 11:20 AM (cfFqn)
Nah, it's not that easy to repeal an amendment, I think we're mostly safe on that one.
(Plus they could just run Mooch or Jarett anyway, better ways to skin that hog.)
Posted by: tsrblke at July 16, 2013 07:28 AM (GaqMa)
I approve of this plan in All The Ways. Okay, okay, hold on, I need to fire up Scrivener and revamp some of the Walking Dead Mary Sue of Epic Epicness to make it a Mary Sues of Epic Epicness. Do you want to be Lola or Lorelei? And who shall Karl be? I'm thinking the last remaining member of his Seal team. Name, name, name, I suppose that Richard Storm is a bit too subtle. *taps chin*
Oooh, may I be Lorelei? It sounds so sweet and sophisticated.
Karl is definitely Seal team worthy. What about a name like... Driver Garrison. Or Jeremiah Winston.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/b][/u][/i] at July 16, 2013 07:30 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: holygoat at July 16, 2013 07:35 AM (vAiDn)
McConnell, R-Ky., did offer to give up on filibustering all the nominees if Democrats took the nuclear option off the table, according to sources.
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 07:37 AM (codCi)
Posted by: Roy at July 16, 2013 07:39 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: Red Shirt at July 16, 2013 07:40 AM (FIDMq)
Yeah that Senate GOP team...basically ensuring that the Donks win since FDR...
McConnell is offering to let the democrats get their way and keep the filibuster in case we get control back...
"awesome fucking work shitstain"
the correct game theory response is..."fuck you you set this precedent you cocksucker I'll use it when *I* get the gavel back you fucking accused child molesting prick"
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 07:40 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 11:40 AM (LRFds)
Plus if we get control back (a big if) couldn't we just change it back?
Posted by: tsrblke at July 16, 2013 07:43 AM (GaqMa)
sure we could but the question is why?
The American people are so retarded they don't punish the mules for their games so play hardball back and have donk ass trying to explain why their rules change is "evil" now that they are in the minority again...
I hate our Senate caucus only slightly less than the Democrats
Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at July 16, 2013 07:52 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: toby928© thinks it's so nice to be back here at Carnegie Hall at July 16, 2013 07:53 AM (codCi)
Posted by: T. at July 16, 2013 07:58 AM (8HKDy)
The advise and consent clause was to make sure the Executive did not become a power unto itself, not guarantee it. One can argue about the requirements for the Senate to consent--whether a majority or not (and I think the "each chamber operates under its own rules" clause settles the matter, Constitution-wise, if not philosophically)--but one cannot say the President is owed deference. It's poppycock. The advise and consent clause is there to make the President understand he owes deference to the States when it comes to execution of law (for personnel is policy), and not the other way around.
Posted by: T. at July 16, 2013 08:05 AM (8HKDy)
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