October 01, 2013

Some Stuff About ObamaCare and the Shut Down
— Ace

I don't know why President Genius has such a hard time explaining 404Care. It's all so simple.

Ezra Klein recounts all the previous shutdown gambits. It's actually useful reading, apart from his belief that he's cute and/or funny. Shutdowns are not especially uncommon, certainly not "unprecedented," and are always resolved via compromise.

What's unprecedented about this shutdown is that Reid and his Second Banana Obama refuse to compromise. Which is, again, how these things have always ended in the past.

Matt Yglesias is paid to say stupid things:


If you're an adult man and the public tone you're going for is "Bratty," you need to sit down and reevaluate your Life Choices.

Bratty is only cute in children. And hot chicks who are DTF. And no one else.

This Bratty tone favored by the "Young Guns" of the online left was always repellent, but it's especially such as the "Young Guns" deteriorate further into Middle Age.

Patterico suggests that we don't call it a shutdown, as it isn't one. Eh, call it a Partial Furlough.

Democrats consider releasing Boehner's emails, in a sort of blackmail attempt.

Senate Democrats are considering leaking a series of emails between the chiefs of staff of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker John A. Boehner regarding employer contributions to congressional staff health care plans, multiple top-level sources said late MondayÂ…

Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., described the emails to lobbyists at a dinner on Capitol Hill on Monday night, telling those present that they would be leaked within a day, according to someone who attended the event. When asked if he talked about leaking the emails at dinner, Durbin did not deny the conversation: “I have heard about [the emails] but I have not seen any. … All I’ll say is that I’ve heard there are emails but I have not seen them.”

Gerrymandering and other factors suggest that the GOP won't pay a price for the shutdown like they did in 95-96.

This suggests that even if a public backlash develops against a shutdown or potential government default, Republican members may be far more insulated against those gales than their counterparts were during the two shutdowns in the winter of 1995 and 1996. Today's GOP legislators, for the same reason, also may be less sensitive to shifts in public attitudes that could threaten their party's national image or standing in more closely contested parts of the country.

Comparing today's 232-seat Republican majority with the 236 seats Republicans ultimately held after special elections and party switches from 1995-96 underscores the extent to which GOP legislators have succeeded in fortifying themselves into homogeneously conservative districts. On every measure, Republicans today represent constituencies that lean more lopsidedly toward their party.

And Gallup suggests that the GOP really didn't even pay much of a political price in 95-96 in the first place.

Update: Just in June, The Atlantic reported how Awesome the 404Care software was going to be.

"It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview. "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it."

Nailed it, dude.

Posted by: Ace at 09:49 AM | Comments (401)
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1 There is no price to be paid. The pendulum has swung too far. Even the complicit state-run media can't cover this shit up much longer, if at all.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 09:51 AM (4p5/2)

2 The tone in that Yglesias tweet sounds familiar.

Posted by: Xander Crews at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (SUbHR)

3 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (/PCJa)

4 @dccc: BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women. Their taking a shitload of crap on twitter about them not showing up at all.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (bCEmE)

5 "ObamaCare is too popular and itÂ’s overloading the servers."

People like to ogle at train wrecks.  Doesn't mean they want to be in one.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (/kI1Q)

6 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (/PCJa)

7 Will they be resorting to tweeting pictures of a puppy with a gun to its head and the quote "quit shutting down the government or the puppy gets it" soon?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 01, 2013 09:52 AM (RZ8pf)

8 Like a tweet from earlier today. Smug/bitchy/passive aggressive.

Posted by: Xander Crews at October 01, 2013 09:53 AM (SUbHR)

9 I couldn't access cowboyrhymingdictionary.gov this morning.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 01, 2013 09:53 AM (T0NGe)

10 Everywhere, no matter what community board you might visit, people are lamenting job loss/part-time status. Interesting how bosses don't have a problem blaming it on Obamacare.

Posted by: NeverEverMore at October 01, 2013 09:53 AM (hRV3r)

11 I no longer recognize my country or countrymen. Me. Mine. That is all I can look out for, anymore. See ya around, Ø-Merica....

Posted by: backhoe at October 01, 2013 09:53 AM (ULH4o)

12

And not surprising,  the Hollywood crowd  is stamping  their   tiny, uneducated feet  all over twitter. 

 

At least  liberal Seth McFarland  tweeted a half way funny quip that he always said  if the government shuts  down  you could steal an animal from the Zoo.  Go get yours. 

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2013 09:54 AM (m2CN7)

13 >>This Bratty tone favored by the "Young Guns" of the online left was always repellent, but it's especially such as the "Young Guns" deteriorate further into Middle Age. What did MeghyMac ever do to you?

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 09:54 AM (r+7wo)

14 It’s just like conservatives always warned — ObamaCare is too popular and it’s overloading the servers.

You know how they know it's "too" popular? It doesn't work. The fact that it's impossible to use demonstrates how awesome it is. If it wasn't popular it would probably work perfectly. Probably.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 01, 2013 09:54 AM (+lsX1)

15 Maybe someone should also tell the WH staff that adults acting bratty is pathetic. The juicebox mafia is taking its cue from our flippin' president.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2013 09:54 AM (vvueH)

16 "@dccc: BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women."

Seriously?

Posted by: Jaws at October 01, 2013 09:54 AM (4I3Uo)

17 Bratty tone in a tweet taunting conservatives you say? I seem to remember reading one of those this morning...

Posted by: Countrysquire at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (LSJmV)

18 How will ACA affect any of the charitable foundations like Dana Farber in Boston.  I have a friend who works for them and they're all in for ACA.  I'd like some shit to fling back.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (9U1OG)

19 So the Democrats' brilliant idea is to show Boehner ostensibly doing some sort of colluding with the Democrats...thereby decreasing the pressure he's under to hold the line? Um.

Posted by: WAGOPinTX at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (i2t2+)

20 I just wanna say that I think its very useful information to know that transparency in Govt only comes about through blackmail attempts. Hella useful.

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (3ZtZW)

21 That Obamacare chart is about 50% more complex than the old 1990's HillaryCare chart was.

Just saying..

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (9MLX+)

22 Will they be resorting to tweeting pictures of a puppy with a gun to its head and the quote "quit shutting down the government or the puppy gets it" soon?

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle

After calling the GOP terrorists, suicide bombers, nazis, confederates, and murders it would be gilding the lily ... or in this case, gilding the death camus.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (ligos)

23 The GOP Reps won't pay a price for shutting down the Government because they are doing just what their constituency wants.  That's how representative government used to work.

Posted by: Roy at October 01, 2013 09:55 AM (tiOTz)

24 Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., described the emails to lobbyists at a dinner on Capitol Hill on Monday night, telling those present that they would be leaked within a day, WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (lwkv9)

25 "@dccc: BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women." Because multiculturalism. Syria You Guys.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (/PCJa)

26 C'mon  down!   Your  country  is  run  by  a  tyrant!   Your  elected  officials  are  corrupt! 

Posted by: Belize : Your New Home at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (/1ATA)

27 BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women. Because we all know that selecting someone based solely on their race or sex produces excellent results. PS, this is not a great statement for the Senate Dems. They don't have any minority Senators and the women they do have are either extremely stupid or are the ancient Dianne Feinstein.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (T0NGe)

28 @dccc: BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women. Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 01:52 PM (bCEmE) I can almost guarantee the idiot who wrote this is a white man.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (r+7wo)

29

Bratty, or insipid?  A fat, balding middle aged guy with a journalism degree has very little   room to be either.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (9T/th)

30 Bratty tone in a tweet taunting conservatives you say? I seem to remember reading one of those this morning...

Every morning for the last five years now.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 09:56 AM (/kI1Q)

31 Why don't all white men go off themselves, then? Except, of course, the wealthy right-thinking progressive ones, that is.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 09:57 AM (r+7wo)

32 Finally got signed in.  Clicked the "go to enrollment" button and "The requested URL /protected/enroll/Enrollment was not found on this server."

Outstanding.  Can't figure out how to make websites, but they'll totally rock single payer.  Or something. 

Posted by: Mr. Mean at October 01, 2013 09:57 AM (Tlix5)

33 Will they be resorting to tweeting pictures of a puppy with a gun to its head and the quote "quit shutting down the government or the puppy gets it" soon? Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 01, 2013 01:52 PM (RZ8pf) Please don't give them any ideas. Actually, that would be awesome.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (r+7wo)

34 PS, this is not a great statement for the Senate Dems. They don't have any minority Senators

They've got pederasts, though.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (/kI1Q)

35 Are you conservatives winning yet?

Posted by: Brave, Brave Sir Countrysquire at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (LSJmV)

36 23 The GOP Reps won't pay a price for shutting down the Government because they are doing just what their constituency wants. That's how representative government used to work. Posted by: Roy at October 01, 2013 01:55 PM (tiOTz) And they're already starting the PR war. They're starting a "fund the parks" bill. Brilliant. Little bills to fund everything.

Posted by: AmishDude at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (T0NGe)

37 The server acted stupidly

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (9MLX+)

38 It's not a shutdown. It's a tax!

Posted by: wooga at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (+ijd9)

39 Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., described the emails to lobbyists at a dinner on Capitol Hill on Monday night, telling those present that they would be leaked within a day,


WTF?

***

Yeah, doesn't he know that's Leaky Leahy's job?

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (Hx5uv)

40 Democrats hate white people. Can we just admit that yet?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (ZPrif)

41 Matt Yglesias is paid to say stupid things

It's been a dream of mine since my very first playground pummeling.

Posted by: Matty Igloosiass at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (Dwehj)

42 So leaking emails that will be embarrassing to Boehner is going to make him more likely to cave? Have these guys ever negotiated anything or do thing negotiating means ramming whatever you want down your opponents throats? Smart power.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2013 09:58 AM (g1DWB)

43 Link on name from MN exchange website. Turns out that Indians enrolled in a tribe are immune from the individual mandate and can change plans every 30 days.  That covers me, but hell if I can figure out why that's needed? 

Posted by: DanInMN at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (XqeyF)

44 From a previous thread ...
__________
A punitive tax on medical devices destroying an American industry that benefits those in need of medical care?
__________

Any members of the Horde got the skinny on this tennis ball being lobbed to and fro?

Posted by: 4O Baht Barry at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (kGO+g)

45 Someone mentioned on Rush a few minutes ago that the phrase (not sure if this is exact) "At the discretion of  the Secretary of Health and Human Services" appears about 700 times in the Obamacare law.  That chart could get a lot crazier!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (f9c2L)

46 31 Why don't all white men go off themselves, then? Except, of course, the wealthy right-thinking progressive ones, that is.

I need to see my team in the Superbowl just one more time and then I'll go.

Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (KXm42)

47

>>>Are you conservatives winning yet?

 

Yes. We may disagree on definitions, however.

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (3ZtZW)

48 Oh, the GOP will pay the price, my pretties. THEY WILL PAY THE PRICE!

Somebody told me this morning that Boehner is preparing to hand the gavel back to Pelosi next year because of this. Suicide, I tell you!!!!!!

Posted by: J East at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (YmPwQ)

49 "ObamaCare is too popular and itÂ’s overloading the servers." Facts not in evidence. We know the servers are overloaded. For all we know they're getting 100 hits / minute and the chubby hamster is taking a water break.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (yETln)

50

Obamacare  is  nothing  new.  Hillary  and  I  tried  to  take  over  7  percent  of  the  economy  back  in   the  nineties.   "It   tastes  good." -  Bill   Clinton

Posted by: Ira Magaziner at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (/1ATA)

51 Someone quoted (or wrote) a difficult to follow analysis purportedly showing the shutdown helps the GOP in the eight upcoming Senate races in states TFG lost by big numbers but that still have prehensile Democrats in DC. Like Joe "I'm not an asshole, really" Manchin. I'd like to think this claim is so, and that showing an ideological backbone for a change will help GOP election prospects. That's what we get out of picking this tilting-at-windmills sort of a fight. Making our beliefs and positions clear to voters, after two national elections where our top of the ticket candidate did his best to obscure.

Posted by: MTF at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (r/ILj)

52 404Care heh. Should have put a "blue screen of death" around it.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 01, 2013 09:59 AM (IXrOn)

53 Democrats hate white people almost as much as they love late term abortion. Their wet dream is aborting a middle class white baby boy from a conservative Christian Republican family that live in a gated community and belong to the NRA.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 10:00 AM (ZPrif)

54 so Do we also get Reid's  obama's and pelosi's emails since they are the ones also working health care ?

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:00 AM (nqBYe)

55
>>>Bratty is only cute in children and hot chicks who are DTF. And no one else.


I LOL'ed

Posted by: dan-O at October 01, 2013 10:00 AM (D0bIN)

56 Didn't Dems just leak information about Issa's trip to Libya on the Benghazi issue, creating a security nightmare and prompting the *Libyans* to say they had effectively endangered Issa and his group? Don't Dems just basically do any amoral sack of shit thing they can to "win," regardless of the consequences to others?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:00 AM (qyfb5)

57

Government by blackmail. 

 

I am beginning to gravitate towards feudalism as a system of    government.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:00 AM (9T/th)

58 Leaking Boehner's emails? These people are just so..repugnant. Why, it's almost as if NSA will possibly be used in nefarious ways in the future in some kind of banana republic blackmail scheme against people Teh Elites(tm) deem blackmail worthy. 

Dem operatives are rifling through Boehner's home garbage can as we speak. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2013 10:01 AM (XB5Ak)

59 So, three years of prep time and metric fucktons of yet to be created money and they can't handle what is essentially a glorified Esurance website?

Like the little fuckstick from South Dakota once said, "You don't professionalize unless you Federalize!". 

Best collapse of a country ever......

Posted by: B at October 01, 2013 10:02 AM (Pson9)

60

Should have put a "blue screen of death" around it.

 

 

That  feature comes in later.   Elder care, for example.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 01, 2013 10:02 AM (BAS5M)

61 Their wet dream is aborting a middle class white baby boy from a conservative Christian Republican family that live in a gated community and belong to the NRA.

Some of them would rather he live to get diddled by a schoolteacher and spend the rest of his life as a Professional Gay Useful Idiot, and use the clinic time to kill a black baby.

Diversity.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 10:02 AM (/kI1Q)

62 Don't Dems just basically do any amoral sack of shit thing they can to "win," regardless of the consequences to others?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at October 01, 2013 02:00 PM (qyfb5)

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Yes

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:02 AM (9T/th)

63

But... but... GOP disaster and stuff!

 

So said our THC host this AM.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at October 01, 2013 10:02 AM (SCcgT)

64 So, where' are Reids and all Senate Dems emails? 
srsly  why not?
lets' go for it.

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:03 AM (nqBYe)

65 I just wanna say that I think its very useful information to know that transparency in Govt only comes about through blackmail attempts. Hella useful.

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 01:55 PM (3ZtZW)

 

 

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Hmmm.  Yeah.  About that.  Don't we already know that Boehner is a conniving, backstabbing SOB?   It's  not like this would be a great moment of clarity.

Posted by: Soona at October 01, 2013 10:03 AM (llpSw)

66 Today is the first day of bow hunting season.  Does this shutdown thing mean I don't have to buy tags?

Posted by: Big Ben at October 01, 2013 10:03 AM (I5Htn)

67 I think we are    beginning to see how Roberts and others were turned.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:03 AM (9T/th)

68 The 95-96 shutdowns hurt Gingrich personally far more then they hurt the GOP as a perty.   The GOP Congressional leadership has no one as recognizable, egotistical or polarizing as Newt so the strategy the Dems seem to want to repeat isn't likely to stick in 2013. 


Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (UJbdU)

69 Wouldn't having access to and acting upon or releasing a political opponent's e-mails basically be the same exact f*ing thing (only without actual paper documents, given electronic formats) that Nixon was rode out on a rail for trying to do?

Posted by: Cato at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (DQP0I)

70 Who cares?  Release the emails.  I want to know what he says to his wife when she's complaining that he's still not home.  I want to see how he yells at his kids in email.  Dontcha want to know when he gets a haircut and who picks up his dry cleaning?

Am I the only one who thinks releasing the emails could only help Boehner keep is position as there a lot of whispering everywhere that "he's got to be replaced by someone new".

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (Nx76m)

71 I am beginning to gravitate towards feudalism as a system of government.

I'm pulling for alien robot overlords myself.  They would be cruel but fair.

Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (KXm42)

72 You really have to hand to Obama. He builds a shit stain of a health care plan that requires the youngins, the most computer literate and focused generation in history, to sign up for it to work and then make them use websites that don't work. And these are the people who are going to negotiate with Iran over nukes.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (g1DWB)

73 44 - there is a 3% (?) tax on revenues of medical device makers, regardless of they have any profit.

Posted by: tofer732 at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (z3MpN)

74 After a friend repeated the meme this will cost Republicans the House, I ask him to make a list of those who were at risk because they waned to delay the Obamacare disaster, get entitlements under control and work within a budget we can afford.

Crickets.

Posted by: Marcus at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (GGCsk)

75 Somebody should photoshop a pic of Mr. Tudball working the counter at Obamacare. 


/if you don't know who Mr. Tudball is....off my lawn

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2013 10:04 AM (XB5Ak)

76 Wouldn't having access to and acting upon or releasing a political opponent's e-mails basically be the same exact f*ing thing (only without actual paper documents, given electronic formats) that Nixon was rode out on a rail for trying to do?

Posted by: Cato at October 01, 2013 02:04 PM (DQP0I)

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Yes, but republican

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (9T/th)

77 @TwitchyTeam  'BEHOLD THE GLORY!': Cult-tastic OFA Truth Team spreads the good news about Obamacare http://bit.ly/18p3wru

@robertcostaNRO  Surreal: Amash and McCarthy worked the House floor together on the CR that was doomed for failure http://natl.re/18KQ1S2

@Chris_Moody  Paul Ryan says GOP will push for budget deal as part of agreement to raise debt ceiling limit.

@DavidMDrucker  House GOP'ers emerging from mtg say they expect to vote on three funding bills around 6 pm ET (Vets, Parks, DC.) They will have the votes.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (YjDyJ)

78 "Venezuelan leader seeks to deflect blame as woes mount..."

Does this headline remind you of anyone?

Posted by: WalrusRex at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (Hx5uv)

79 I love you, ace.

Posted by: Y-not at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (5H6zj)

80 I'll take the bet that Google, Yahoo, and 100s of other sites get more traffic than 404care   ...and they don't crash.    Geesch, some people's Super Genii.

Posted by: dogfish at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (nsOJa)

81 They will give Obama and Reid a clean CR. They will do this for the same reason Dems gave W everything he was serious about. That way when things go bad, wait long enough things always go bad :-) , the party that got everything they wanted gets the blame for the badness and the other party gets to drive for awhile.

Posted by: Huggy3575 at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (ACKsG)

82 I think we are beginning to see how Roberts and others were turned.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 02:03 PM (9T/th)


and they aren't hiding it  now either.

It's not some random little guy hacking or spying it's the Dem party


Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:05 AM (nqBYe)

83 Dem operatives are rifling through Boehner's home garbage can as we speak. Guaranteed they have the FBI files, maybe the NSA files. The Hildabeast did that move. She had a whole mess of Republican FBI files. She claimed they were misplaced and "found" them after a few months. The Feebs fingerprinted the files and found her prints all over them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:06 AM (yETln)

84

It’s just like conservatives always warned — ObamaCare is too popular and it’s overloading the servers.

 

 

I  don't  get the sarcasm or joke anyway.   Conservatives always warned that Obamacare is too popular?  Or that we warned just the opposite and its supposed to be funny  that   he thinks that having the website down proves its popular?   The joke or sarcasm is unbalanced. 

 

It would have been better if he would have played it more straight and said -  Its just like conservatives always feared.  

 

Anyway

 

Its just like liberals warned ,  Obamacare  is so screwed up that people can't sign up if they wanted to.  

 

See,  that makes no sense. 

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at October 01, 2013 10:06 AM (m2CN7)

85 Bammy should have put that stupid scrunt "Flo" in charge of this insurance crap.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 01, 2013 10:06 AM (xdC/M)

86 If an airline company had passengers on a jet, and wouldn't let them off until they all paid another fee, what would you call it?

If a manufacturer had a labor union doing a 'job action' where you couldn't buy the product unless you paid more money, what would you call it, and would you buy the product?

If a school system refused to give the students grades at the end of the school year until you had paid more money to the teacher's unions, if your government told you the only food you could buy was beans and rice and you could only buy it at a government store, and when you went there to buy it, the store was closed or there wasn't any beans and rice, or you had to more pay money at the door to get out, what would you call it?

Since this is government doing all these things, and since you could get arrested for talking about getting a new government, it looks like what?

Posted by: Nameless hordes at October 01, 2013 10:06 AM (995uY)

87

So was Obama's speech a shot across the bow or a mighty but tiny strike? So hard following third grade thinking; you think you understand and then they start screaming about no ice cream.

Posted by: Chaos, it the other dark meat at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (oDCMR)

88 Obama's computers never went down when he was getting all his campaign money from overseas.

Posted by: Big Ben at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (I5Htn)

89 and they aren't hiding it now either.It's not some random little guy hacking or spying it's the Dem party

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 02:05 PM (nqBYe)

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...and the IRS, and the EPA, and the DOJ, etc.

 

 

And some people still view the 2012     election as legitimate.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (9T/th)

90 "Democrats consider releasing  Boehner's emails, in a sort of blackmail attempt."

Tell me they didn't have something on Roberts, culled from the NSA.

Posted by: SARDiver at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (vymXC)

91 I'm pulling for alien robot overlords myself. They would be cruel but fair. Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 02:04 PM (KXm42)
As long as the robot overlords are hot chicks like the Terminator gal from Sarah Connor Chronicles, I'm okay with this.
Also, black leather boots. Tall, black leather boots.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (3uJY6)

92 This will backfire! The parks are closed! the LIVs will hate us!

Posted by: That guy in the morning at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (Dwehj)

93 So if republican emails are  open to american policial action
so should Dems be.

To. Be. Fair.

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:07 AM (nqBYe)

94 Oh hell, not Mr. Tudball.  The Old Man that Tim Conway used to play.  The one who shuffled around.  That's who's apparently working the Obamacare counter. 

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (XB5Ak)

95 Waiting to sign up is good practice for waiting for a doctor.

Posted by: Big Ben at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (I5Htn)

96

Once more.... the ONLY reason there is a shutdown, is that Congress did not do their job, in doing the apropriations bills.

 

7 sit in the House, waiting on a Vote, John Boehner.... and 4 sit in the Senate, waiting on a vote, Harry Reid.

 

But with all the smoke and fireworks... this little fact is not talked about by the talking heads who want to assign blame.

 

Throw them ALL Out! (and yes, I include Cruz and Rand Paul...)

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (lZBBB)

97 I'll have to give our president credit -- the shutdown hasn't distracted him from job #1, which is to vilify the opposition.

Posted by: Mindy at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (C8jAQ)

98 I am beginning to gravitate towards feudalism as a system of government. Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 02:00 PM (9T/th) Well, you'll probably be less stressed out than the rest of us, as that's where we're heading.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (qyfb5)

99

Releasing emails reminiscent of Gen Petreus' ouster.

 

Please don't release no emails, Br'er Dems!

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 10:08 AM (3ZtZW)

100 I have heard from someone with a "source" that Boehner hasn't been sober since Wednesday. Yep, lib source. This is who we deal with, those that believe in "facts".

Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 10:09 AM (i2Lsf)

101 Apologies to Vashta Nerada.  I'd overlooked that post about Roberts.

Posted by: SARDiver at October 01, 2013 10:09 AM (vymXC)

102 "It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview. "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it." LOLWUT? Okay, let's take this apart: "It's fast, built in static HTML" Dude, no one has used static HTML for years FOR A REASON. "completely scalable and secure," Not if it's "built in static HTML" doofus. "It's basically setting up a web server" This doesn't even mean anything. Seriously, this him throwing up jargon he thinks sounds good. That was back in June? No wonder it's f*cked.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:09 AM (/PCJa)

103 Just heard a clip of the president out there campaigning for "the republcian shutdown".  That's awfully nice of him to give credit for the shutdown to the republicans and not to take any credit for himself and harry, I mean most regular everyday Americans, talked to quite a few today, are sort of thrilled the government is shut down, they can barely contain themselves.  In fact, they aren't even mentioning the government shutdown almost as though they're afraid if they mention it, it will re open.

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 10:09 AM (Nx76m)

104 It’s just like conservatives always warned — ObamaCare is too popular and it’s overloading the servers. — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 1, 2013 --- A man has the right to be stupid but, son, you're abusing it.

Posted by: W. Axl Rose at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (/Crba)

105 dem emails stat, full disclosure for the poor and the women and children of America.

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (nqBYe)

106 yeah, and that's what I've been saying. This whole 1995 shutdown myth is a delusional delight for those who suffer from the liberal pathology. What it says that our leadership class believes the same thing, I will leave to you.l

Posted by: joeindc44 didn't analyze nuthin, just offered his own anecdotal evidence at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (QxSug)

107 @73.  I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

Posted by: Cato at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (DQP0I)

108 Why isnÂ’t Flo fixing the website, instead of having Barky juggle chain saws?

Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (i2Lsf)

109

Posted by: Nameless hordes at October 01, 2013 02:06 PM (995uY)

 

And Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme.... something for which we'd all go to jail...

 

And don't even get me started on the Government backed Lottery.... where if folks in Vegas gave those odds, they would go to jail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 01, 2013 10:10 AM (lZBBB)

110

92 "Democrats consider releasing Boehner's emails, in a sort of blackmail attempt."

 

And they consider this a win with the voters who are required to divulge all personal information when signing up of Ocare?

Posted by: Chaos, it the other dark meat at October 01, 2013 10:11 AM (oDCMR)

111 so tell me Dems as leadership won't divulge anything  not progressive for the Team , from powerless  america.
because Information is Power. and they loove it. beyond anything else.

Posted by: willow at October 01, 2013 10:12 AM (nqBYe)

112 Whatever the outcome now, a long as the Repubs extract something resembling even a minor win. I am proud of them for taking the fight to the Dems. It was long overdue. In 2014 there will be plenty of fodder for the campaigns.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:12 AM (DmNpO)

113 Americans, talked to quite a few today, are sort of thrilled the government is shut down, they can barely contain themselves. In fact, they aren't even mentioning the government shutdown almost as though they're afraid if they mention it, it will re open. Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 02:09 PM (Nx76m) curious, how could you talk to people about something they wouldn't even mention? are you a mind reader?

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at October 01, 2013 10:12 AM (8JJ6O)

114

Bratty is only cute in children and hot chicks who are DTF. And no one else.

 

Do a brother a solid, Ace.  What is "DTF?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:12 AM (zF6Iw)

115

@104 AllenG

----

In layman's terms:  We're gonna need a bigger boat!

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 01, 2013 10:12 AM (EGPJQ)

116 It's time for Jennifer Garner to bring some discipline down on the bad Democrats. http://bit.ly/19Nehls

Posted by: MTF at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (r/ILj)

117 So how many compromise bills have the Republicans offered vs. how many compromise bills have the Democrats offered? And who is saying they won't negotiate? And who's unprincipled liars? Oh, right.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (qyfb5)

118 Ack who are not who is.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (qyfb5)

119 Do a brother a solid, Ace. What is "DTF?" Down to eff.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (yETln)

120 116>>>Down to ckuf

Posted by: Xander Crews at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (SUbHR)

121 and thus, obama gets to live out the liberal fantasy of the great, glorious 1995 shutdown, eh? the libs are always replaying their greatest hits. just a reminder, he was the guy who ran on going through the budget line by line and cutting net spending.

Posted by: joeindc44 didn't analyze nuthin, just offered his own anecdotal evidence at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (QxSug)

122 @104 Allen G. What, angelfire didn't have hosting options? That's a GREAT place for static HTML.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 10:13 AM (i2Lsf)

123 "completely scalable and secure," Not if it's "built in static HTML" doofus. Static HTML is as scalable as you can get. The only work the server does is outputting simple files to its connections. ItÂ’s also about as secure as you can get, because if it doesnÂ’t have anything but static HTML it isnÂ’t accepting any data.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (QF8uk)

124

100 I am beginning to gravitate towards feudalism as a system of government.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 02:00 PM (9T/th)

Taxes were capped at 20% under Fuedalism and everyone had a job. Weird.

Posted by: Chaos, it the other dark meat at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (oDCMR)

125 If an airline company had passengers on a jet, and wouldn't let them off until they all paid another fee, what would you call it? A riot. (Not the laugh kind)

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (lwkv9)

126 "It's fast, built in static HTML"
Dude, no one has used static HTML for years FOR A REASON.

Eh, real content management software (ie, everything but Minx) has the option to render each page once to static HTML and serve that until someone comments or whatever.  I'm guessing that's what he meant.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (B/VB5)

127 Gerrymandering and other factors suggest that the GOP won't pay a price for the shutdown like they did in 95-96.



I don't recall the GOP paying any price the last time other than a lot of hype by the MFM.

Posted by: Vic at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (zZbNF)

128

Bratty hot chicks are in to the spanking fantasy.

 

Just begging for it. 

Posted by: jwest at October 01, 2013 10:14 AM (u2a4R)

129 someone should remind Harry Reid that he has already been involved in 8 other government shutdowns

Posted by: tofer732 at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (z3MpN)

130 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 02:12 PM (zF6Iw) DTF - Down To Frack

Posted by: RWC - Bring on O-Care at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (fWAjv)

131 So how many compromise bills have the Republicans offered vs. how many compromise bills have the Democrats offered? And who is saying they won't negotiate? And who's unprincipled liars? Oh, right. Yeah, but those Republican bills were completely unacceptable. Unlike the President's budget bill that got not a single vote.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (yETln)

132 105 Just heard a clip of the president out there campaigning for "the republcian shutdown". That's awfully nice of him to give credit for the shutdown to the republicans and not to take any credit for himself and harry, I mean most regular everyday Americans, talked to quite a few today, are sort of thrilled the government is shut down, they can barely contain themselves. In fact, they aren't even mentioning the government shutdown almost as though they're afraid if they mention it, it will re open.

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 02:09 PM (Nx76m)

Matt Yglesias        ✔ @mattyglesias

It’s just like conservatives always warned — ObamaCare is too popular and it’s overloading the servers.

12:41 PM - 1 Oct 2013

Posted by: the spindoctors at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (Nx76m)

133 Do a brother a solid, Ace. What is "DTF?" Down to eff. Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 02:13 PM (yETln) o. I thought it was dying to eff, but rejected.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (IXrOn)

134 Whatever the outcome now, a long as the Repubs extract something resembling even a minor win. I am proud of them for taking the fight to the Dems. It was long overdue. I'm not quite there. It was long overdue, and I am proud of them for actually standing up for a change. But lets see what happens over the next few days. I'll even take the "Nope, Congress and their staff are subject to ObamaCare, too" option that was the 3rd one offered yesterday. But there are still plenty of opportunities for Boehner et. al. to sell us out.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (/PCJa)

135 WWII Vets visiting the memorials, not letting the park police stop them.  That's what leadership looks like.

Posted by: Big Ben at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (I5Htn)

136 Do a brother a solid, Ace. What is "DTF?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 02:12 PM (zF6Iw)

To Die For...

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (kXoT0)

137 123 and thus, obama gets to live out the liberal fantasy of the great, glorious 1995 shutdown, eh? the libs are always replaying their greatest hits.
*****
I'd stop any male interns from making a pizza delivery to the Oval Office then....

Posted by: B at October 01, 2013 10:15 AM (Pson9)

138 so tell me Dems as leadership won't divulge anything not progressive for the Team , from powerless america. because Information is Power. and they loove it. beyond anything else. *********** Because it's a two way street. You can bet that 3/4 of the emails sent to Boehner from the Senate is full of idiotic liberal pathological projection and name calling. Basically, the ravings of madmen, high off of sniffing glue.

Posted by: joeindc44 didn't analyze nuthin, just offered his own anecdotal evidence at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (QxSug)

139 I'm starting to believe that the dems never expected their health care law to work, and that they wanted the shutdown to cover it.  The software is so bad they could not have expected it to   work.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (9T/th)

140 Boehner's boned no matter what he does.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (IXrOn)

141  I think we are beginning to see how Roberts and others were turned.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 02:03 PM (9T/th)

 

 

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

 

 

This has been my suspicion all along.  Especially when it was reported that he had the dissenting opinion written long before the results were announced.  It's one of the reasons Scalia was so pissed was because Roberts changed his  opinion at the last minute.

Posted by: Soona at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (llpSw)

142 >> "It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," Serious You Guys

Posted by: Zac Moffatt, Team ORCA at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (rYagX)

143 I'm going to put "Didn't program the Obamacare software." on my resume.

I'm going to get paid.

Posted by: Shoot Me at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (qiXMt)

144 because if it doesnÂ’t have anything but static HTML it isnÂ’t accepting any data

A feature, not a bug!

Posted by: Bo the White House Webmaster at October 01, 2013 10:16 AM (Dwehj)

145 So the Democrats' brilliant idea is to show Boehner ostensibly doing some sort of colluding with the Democrats...thereby decreasing the pressure he's under to hold the line?

Um.

Posted by: WAGOPinTX at October 01, 2013 01:55 PM (i2t2+)

 

 

Just in case you were unsure whether the Democrats wanted the government shut down, here you go. 

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet - Get Your supplies for Opening Day of RINO Season here! at October 01, 2013 10:17 AM (hLRSq)

146 Dear Republicans who are concerned about the shutdown hurting your re-election chances, please do the following.  Get off your a$$, get on down to the Mall/Lincoln Memorial/anywhere else the Park Service is trying to shut down and lead fucking tours for the duration of the shutdown.  You get to stick it up POTUS' a$$ and get great coverage back home.  The only time you leave that post is if a 5th grade class from your state is shut out of the Capitol.  Then you get your a$$ over there and lead that tour.  You will be Corey Booker, without the whiff of corruption.

Posted by: Joe at October 01, 2013 10:17 AM (7pOq5)

147 Sharyl Attkisson ‏@SharylAttkisson 2m Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is ______________

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:17 AM (DmNpO)

148 A feature, not a bug! Right? Just link everything that ought to accept data to a 404 page (or a 500 page to keep people on their toes). Make those static, too, and BobÂ’s your uncle scalability wise.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2013 10:17 AM (QF8uk)

149 >> Do a brother a solid, Ace. What is "DTF?" Down To F***

Posted by: Andy at October 01, 2013 10:17 AM (rYagX)

150 Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is ______________ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 02:17 PM (DmNpO) ...being able to shower and brush my teeth.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:18 AM (r+7wo)

151 That fucking weasel, Pete King, is on Fox News running down Ted Cruz and his "acolytes".

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:18 AM (DmNpO)

152 >>> Do a brother a solid, Ace. What is "DTF?" Down to F***

Posted by: ace at October 01, 2013 10:18 AM (/IWYB)

153 "It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure,"

Serious You Guys

Posted by: Zac Moffatt, Team ORCA at October 01, 2013 02:16 PM (rYagX)


What about all the required translations to foreign languages.  We print our EOBs in 181 facking foreign languages and those have to be certified correct translations.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 01, 2013 10:19 AM (kXoT0)

154

; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal">37The server acted stupidly

Posted by: Purp

; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal">Speaking of stupid servers, Harry-- in the old days, Obama would have been a server.

Posted by: Sir Willie of Schlicktenstien at October 01, 2013 10:19 AM (VLifP)

155

Mistakes in the WH system strategy:

1. Requirements by OFA

2. Development by "Fast and Furious" Codeworks of Matamoros, Mexico.

3. Testing by TSA - "Hands on methodology"

4. Security by Department of State - Embassy Division

5. Hosting powered by Solyndra

 

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 01, 2013 10:19 AM (EGPJQ)

156 Posted by: Joe at October 01, 2013 02:17 PM (7pOq5) Great idea. Send it to your Rep reps.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2013 10:19 AM (a4Omg)

157

>>>ItÂ’s also about as secure as you can get, because if it doesnÂ’t have anything but static HTML it isnÂ’t accepting any data.

 

Not that it matters, but I saw a wonky posting long time back where the guy was testing comments from a static HTML page. Said it doesn't render, no, but it does get crunched by the browser/PC so he was attempting to pass commands through the comments, with some success.

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 10:19 AM (3ZtZW)

158 Down to eff.

 

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 02:13 PM (yETln)

 

Ah.  I had the "TF" part guessed, but that first "D" threw me.

 

Desperate?

 

Dying?

 

Doomed?

 

**shrugs**

Well, Ace knows the cool kid lingo better than me, anyway.

 

Lawn!  Off!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:20 AM (zF6Iw)

159 Sharyl Attkisson ‏@SharylAttkisson 2m Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is ______________ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 02:17 PM (DmNpO) Screaming, name-calling Democrats blaming everyone else for the consequences of the crap they pull. Oh, wait, we still have those. I guess nothing then.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:20 AM (qyfb5)

160 I mean most regular everyday Americans, talked to quite a few today, are sort of thrilled the government is shut down, they can barely contain themselves. In fact, they aren't even mentioning the government shutdown almost as though they're afraid if they mention it, it will reopen. Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 02:09 PM (Nx76m) Umm....wut? This makes less sense than your usual senseless posts.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 10:20 AM (bCEmE)

161 Static HTML is as scalable as you can get. The only work the server does is outputting simple files to its connections. No, because one Web server is only capable of maintaining X connections at once no matter what. So any time you need to scale up or out, you either have to modify the HTML to reflect the changes on the hardware, or you have to do a lot of config work to make the hardware transparent to the the HTML files. ItÂ’s also about as secure as you can get, because if it doesnÂ’t have anything but static HTML it isnÂ’t accepting any data. That's potentially true. But at the very least it means you're giving away server architecture information (if you have any links whatsoever in your document). Eh, real content management software (ie, everything but Minx) has the option to render each page once to static HTML and serve that until someone comments or whatever. I'm guessing that's what he meant. Based on him gushing about "basically setting up a web server" as though that *weren't* something that happened hundreds (thousands?) of times every day in the US, I'm guessing not.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:20 AM (/PCJa)

162 So George Will is going to Fox News?  Does anyone wear blue jeans there?

Posted by: buzzion at October 01, 2013 10:20 AM (LI48c)

163 Someone should start a twitter feed something on the order of "blame the republicans" and put all the good things the republicans have been doing and make it go viral.

Posted by: the spindoctors at October 01, 2013 10:21 AM (Nx76m)

164 When do the news stories about fraud start? Or are they just trying to get the web sites up first?

Say, how can you code something, if the Secretary hasn't yet decided? Do we even know if the Secretary has decided everything yet? Are there still regulations to write?

Doesn't HHS have a public relations officer?

What do they always say about handling a crisis?

Posted by: Nameless hordes at October 01, 2013 10:21 AM (995uY)

165 When you click on the vibrating dog bone gif, we activate your webcam!

Posted by: Bo the White House Webmaster at October 01, 2013 10:21 AM (Dwehj)

166 I saw  Static HTML open for Wilco last year.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (zF6Iw)

167 Well, I finally got a log in and password. It doesn't work with the site, but they did send me a nifty, completely useless form email that is just what they sent out BEFORE the exchanges went live. Government, ftw!

Posted by: Lauren at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (ELdpj)

168 Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is ______________

Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is Wagu Beef, Dom Perignon, and Beluga with Mooch.

Oh wait, that is not shut down.  Cr@p, I got nuttin.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (kXoT0)

169 165 Someone should start a twitter feed something on the order of "blame the republicans" and put all the good things the republicans have been doing and make it go viral. Posted by: the spindoctors at October 01, 2013 02:21 PM (Nx76m) get on that curious! stat!

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (8JJ6O)

170 Why is the GOP House still passing shit? You passed several CRs. Close up shop and go home. Let the senate pick one.

Posted by: Methos at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (hO9ad)

171 Democrats are all liberal fascist human scum.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (ZPrif)

172 They can't stop talking about it so they haven't said a word about it. Got it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 01, 2013 10:22 AM (ZshNr)

173 167 wait wut DATS NOT A DOG BONE

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (3ZtZW)

174 CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think Ted Cruz is brilliant. I think the President’s met his match in this guy. He set this thing up months ago with no budget agreement, therefore no appropriations, therefore the government would be completely exposed this morning at midnight last night to go to, to completely shut down. So he knows what he's doing. And it's about the baby, Obama’s baby. And you can't cut the baby in half. We learned that in Solomon. And they keep saying, “Please negotiate your baby. Please help us take it apart.”

Posted by: Koumei Nakamura at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (e8kgV)

175
I heard Dick Durbin diddles little boys, but I haven't seen it.Â… All IÂ’ll say is that IÂ’ve heard there is diddling but I have not seen it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (sj9LN)

176 My cats weren't able to register for obamacare, so now i have to lick them clean instead of having a doctor do it.

Posted by: stupiditudity is power at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (ggRof)

177 Here's the email I got...remember, this is AFTER I made an account with them today as part of the application process. "Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace! Now that youÂ’ve signed up for email updates, youÂ’re one step closer to getting the health coverage you need. WeÂ’ll send you tips and alerts that will help you stay on track to get health insurance that fits your budget and meets your needs. Enrollment in health plans in the Health Insurance Marketplace starts October 1, 2013. Coverage starts as soon as January 1, 2014. To get a head start, find out what you can do now to get ready to enroll. Want answers fast? Just answer a few quick questions to find out what programs you may qualify for and learn about topics that matter to you most. Feeling social? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for more news and updates about the Health Insurance Marketplace. Visit www.HealthCare.gov/connect to watch videos and check us out on Google+. WeÂ’ll be in touch soon! And remember, you can always update your state info, change your notification settings, or subscribe to new topics by changing your subscriber preferences."

Posted by: Lauren at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (ELdpj)

178 hahahaha.. MSNBC is at a health clinic in Miami. The big report is that people are really happy with Obamacare with the only complaint being the computer system is down so they can't sign up. I wish I had these guys covering my career. Every fuckup is a giant win!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2013 10:23 AM (g1DWB)

179 original sentence: "Brattiness is only cute in children and in hot chicks who are DTF." New setnences: "Brattiness is only cute in children. And in hot chicks who are DTF." It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents.

Posted by: ace at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (/IWYB)

180

@149

Sharyl tweeted that?

 

Damn. First the Ben Ghazi investigation and now this. Is she trying to steal my heart from Megan?

 

#itsworking

Posted by: Jollyroger at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (t06LC)

181 Finish the sentence: Now that the govt is shut down, the thing I miss most is ______________ Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 02:17 PM (DmNpO) ... the online instructions they used to provide about how to dress up after showering and brushing your teeth (neither of which I could do because ShutDown!).

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (r+7wo)

182 CHRIS MATTHEWS: I think Ted Cruz is brilliant. I think the President’s met his match in this guy. He set this thing up months ago with no budget agreement, therefore no appropriations, therefore the government would be completely exposed this morning at midnight last night to go to, to completely shut down. So he knows what he's doing. And it's about the baby, Obama’s baby. And you can't cut the baby in half. We learned that in Solomon. And they keep saying, “Please negotiate your baby. Please help us take it apart.” *** Seriously?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (DmNpO)

183 Sharyl tweeted that? Damn. First the Ben Ghazi investigation and now this. Is she trying to steal my heart from Megan? *** And F&F before that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (DmNpO)

184 I would love to see some volunteers show up at the national parks this weekend picking up trash, cutting the grass, and doing various other groundskeeping jobs.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 01, 2013 10:24 AM (JxMoP)

185 This sucks about George Will. He's boring. And it's not good if every last conservative allowed on television is on FoxNews.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 10:25 AM (ZPrif)

186 Here's my question: It's a partial shut-down. Essential services are operating? What is considered an essential service and what is not and who determines that? You mean pushing the elevator buttons for Congresspeople ISN"T an essential service? Horrors.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2013 10:25 AM (a4Omg)

187 ‏@KellyO  Senate Democrats say at this point they would not accept House GOP plan to fund Vets, National Parks. Full govt funding only.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 01, 2013 10:25 AM (YjDyJ)

188 It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents.

Phrasing.

Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 10:25 AM (KXm42)

189 What no one took into consideration with The Shutdown That Created Monicagate is the new media.  We are now much better informed about what's going on and why and no longer have to rely on either MFM or Rush only for information.

Posted by: Filly at October 01, 2013 10:25 AM (y+gTB)

190 The big report is that people are really happy with Obamacare with the only complaint being the computer system is down so they can't sign up. Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2013 02:23 PM (g1DWB) Um, so how can the people know they are happy when they can't sign up. Forget it. Sorry I even asked.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:26 AM (r+7wo)

191 It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents.

Posted by: ace at October 01, 2013 02:24 PM (/IWYB)

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It occurred to me, too.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at October 01, 2013 10:26 AM (9T/th)

192

"It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents."

 

You're one sick puppy.

Posted by: jwest at October 01, 2013 10:26 AM (u2a4R)

193 187 This sucks about George Will.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at October 01, 2013 02:25 PM (ZPrif)
I think he's swell!

Posted by: Archie at October 01, 2013 10:26 AM (vJFM9)

194 No, because one Web server is only capable of maintaining X connections at once no matter what. Yes, but static HTML will be delivered much, much faster than HTML that the server needs to render. So it can handle far more connections per unit time. So any time you need to scale up or out, you either have to modify the HTML to reflect the changes on the hardware, or you have to do a lot of config work to make the hardware transparent to the the HTML files. I think weÂ’re talking about different things here. If the HTML reacts to changes in the hardware, itÂ’s not static.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (QF8uk)

195 6 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 01:52 PM (/PCJa)


Perhaps today it should be:

Burning it down.

Scattering the stones.

Salting the earth where it stood.


Posted by: Ian Galt at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (QdOC1)

196 "It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview. "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it." If the US government was a startup, and released this buggy beta version as their final product, all the angel investors would immediately withdraw their funding, the offices would be padlocked the next morning, and we'd see another one of those articles saying "How Meteoric Startup iHealthWeb Crashed and Burned" focusing an the amateur self-indulgent antics of the smug young executives. I, as one of the unwilling angel investors in the Federal Government, would like to withdraw my investment now.* * / Fifteen seconds later an IRS SWAT team kicks down my door.

Posted by: zombie at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (+cx5n)

197 Hey man when I was a kid I was a brat and I was seriously down for Ms Culberson.

Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (KXm42)

198 BF  Barry  just  told  me  I'd  never  be  nonessential!   After a  tryst  in  the  Lincoln  bedroom!  Thx  taxpayers! 

Posted by: Reggie Love at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (/1ATA)

199 "Bratty is only cute in children." No. Not at all. Speak for yourself, without kids. As if you enjoy sharing space with bratty children in the theater, on long flights, during your dinner out, waiting your turn in cue, let alone in your personal space called home.

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (MhA4j)

200 @MichelleFields: Police just arrived at WWII memorial to kick out anymore vets lingering around

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (bCEmE)

201 I would love to see some volunteers show up at the national parks this weekend picking up trash, cutting the grass, and doing various other grounds keeping jobs. The Union skull crushers would be out in force. Shutdown or no, nobody's messing with the Union graft.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (yETln)

202 Serco, the British company to whom President Obama awarded a 1.25 billion dollar contract to monitor Obamacare.is under investigation in the UK. They were hired to do the monitoring of criminals wearing a leg tag. As it turns out, one out of every six charges they billed the government were people in prison, out of the country, not wearing a tag, or plain dead.
http://tinyurl.com/m2sgt2l

There were no American companies who could do this task?

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 10:27 AM (Nx76m)

203 181 original sentence: "Brattiness is only cute in children and in hot chicks who are DTF." New setnences: "Brattiness is only cute in children. And in hot chicks who are DTF." It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents. Posted by: ace at October 01, 2013 02:24 PM (/IWYB) _______________ I guess you could call it the "hook"...

Posted by: Harry Reid Esq. at October 01, 2013 10:28 AM (r2PLg)

204 >>>It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents. Harry Reid noticed that right away.

Posted by: Kronos at October 01, 2013 10:28 AM (6EFOB)

205 ...a health clinic in Miami...

Dumbasses, that's a Santeria/Voodoo shop

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 01, 2013 10:28 AM (9MLX+)

206 16 "@dccc: BREAKING: Republicans just came to the table... with 8 white men, and NO women." Seriously? Posted by: Jaws at October 01, 2013 01:54 PM (4I3Uo) @dccc: BREAKING: Democrats refuse to negotiate on the existence of a table...

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at October 01, 2013 10:28 AM (6J+oK)

207 @KellyO Senate Democrats say at this point they would not accept House GOP plan to fund Vets, National Parks. Full govt funding only. But Republicans are the ones who refuse to negotiate. I'm telling you, if the Republicans were smart* they'd win this so well that they might actually have a chance to dismantle OCare. *-In fairness, they're playing this better than I'd feared. So far.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:28 AM (/PCJa)

208 188 Here's my question: It's a partial shut-down. Essential services are operating? What is considered an essential service and what is not and who determines that?

Obama's mouth must be an essential service, because it's still running.

Posted by: Splunge at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (bKA83)

209 Obama's "baby" has serious health issues. It wasn't fully developed. It's missing some major organs. And Chris Matthews is an idiot and his analogy stinks. P.S, Too bad Obama didn't have 24 hours of painful back labor to bring it forth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (a4Omg)

210 Love the Run DMC.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (YnQnk)

211 Yes, but static HTML will be delivered much, much faster than HTML that the server needs to render. So it can handle far more connections per unit time. The nineties called, they said your time is passed. Look at Amazon. They serve millions of pages per day in multiple languages with personalized suggestions and ads. It's Not. Static. Code. They use their own Ruby thinger.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (yETln)

212 Ace, if you ever say "Life Choices" again I'm going to saw your nuts off with a rusty hack saw blade.

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (x3YFz)

213 @MichelleFields: Police just arrived at WWII memorial to kick out anymore vets lingering around

Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 02:27 PM (bCEmE)

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Can't    have citizens milling about on public property, even if we have to pay extra to prevent it!

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:29 AM (9T/th)

214 Here's your 404Care reality:
6m

I think you don't know what affordable means



Posted by: Country Singer at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (T7XIT)

215 On the radio, first thing this morning, I heard our better Senator, Jim Inhofe, saying something to the effect that folks 'round these parts don't have much problem with the Federal shutdown, and in fact kind-of like it. If I find the exact quote, I'll try to post it. Started my day off right. Then I peeked into AoSHQ and saw the WW2 Memorial battle reports. And all the terrible comments reporting the tragic misery like PandaCam being off. I don't trust feeling this good. Makes me start having hope, and you know how that can lead to disappointment.

Posted by: mindful webworker unable to function without government oversight at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (U13jb)

216 67 Sports News: The Atlanta Braves will not win another game due to the calendar changing to October and Government Shutdown, but mostly the calendar. ---- As one who bleeds blue, I hope this is 100 percent accurate.

Posted by: Czar Peter at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (CXr4y)

217 @KellyO Senate Democrats say at this point they would not accept House GOP plan to fund Vets, National Parks. Full govt funding only. *** For the record, that would be another "no", no?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (DmNpO)

218 The Shutdown That Created Monicagate So, who is willing to take one for the team and give Obama a blowjob this week?* * Fat boobies and '90s hair optional.

Posted by: zombie at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (+cx5n)

219 It wasn't fully developed. It's missing some major organs.

Microcephaly

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (9MLX+)

220

@KellyO Senate Democrats say at this point they would not accept House GOP plan to fund Vets, National Parks. Full govt funding only.

 

 

Pass it anyway, send it to the Senate, and then start bashing them over the head with the obstructionist label.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (JxMoP)

221 Well, I finally got a log in and password. It doesn't work with the site, but they did send me a nifty, completely useless form email that is just what they sent out BEFORE the exchanges went live. Government, ftw! Posted by: Lauren at October 01, 2013 02:22 PM (ELdpj) I know you're in a tougher spot than most and I wish we could do something about it, but unfortunately Effing Government. Welcome to the Unofficial Liverpool Pathway. I haven't opened that ugly letter from my insurance company yet.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:30 AM (qyfb5)

222 Serco, the British company to whom President Obama awarded a 1.25 billion dollar contract to monitor Obamacare.is under investigation in the UK. They were hired to do the monitoring of criminals wearing a leg tag. As it turns out, one out of every six charges they billed the government were people in prison, out of the country, not wearing a tag, or plain dead. http://tinyurl.com/m2sgt2l There were no American companies who could do this task? La Cosa Nostra was busy.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:31 AM (lwkv9)

223

"It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents."

 

You've got to stop reading Harry Reid's twitter feed.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:31 AM (zF6Iw)

224 Fuck them. I'm going fishing in the National Forest whether it's "open" or not this weekend, just like I go hiking when it's closed for fire restrictions...as if my Nikes are going to spark a fire or something. I know it's not as visible as the WWII vets in D.C., but just trying to do my part. The trout won't care, and I already paid for my license and stamp.

Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 10:31 AM (vH4YP)

225

>>Pass it anyway, send it to the Senate, and then start bashing them over the head with the obstructionist label.<<

 

 

That only works if YOU own the media.

Posted by: Roy at October 01, 2013 10:31 AM (tiOTz)

226 BTW, why would Skippy from HHS be talking about static HTML at all anyway? Aren't the online exchanges admin'd by their respective States?

Posted by: Bigby's Clappy Hands at October 01, 2013 10:32 AM (3ZtZW)

227 >>>And it's about the baby, ObamaÂ’s baby. And you can't cut the baby in half. We learned that in Solomon. Solomon was an amateur. Obama, in true Gosnell tradition, knows you can cut the baby in lots of pieces.

Posted by: wooga at October 01, 2013 10:32 AM (+ijd9)

228 Sarah Palin appeared on Sean Hannity Monday evening to talk about the government shutdown, and how Republicans need to stand firm and fight for the country.

“President Obama, a couple of weeks ago when he was hell-bent on dropping bombs on Syria, he said America doesn’t do pinpricks. Well, we don’t do pinpricks, but sometimes we elect them.”
*****

Double entendre, anyone?

Posted by: B at October 01, 2013 10:32 AM (Pson9)

229 227 Fuck them. I'm going fishing in the National Forest whether it's "open" or not this weekend, just like I go hiking when it's closed for fire restrictions...as if my Nikes are going to spark a fire or something.

I know it's not as visible as the WWII vets in D.C., but just trying to do my part. The trout won't care, and I already paid for my license and stamp.

Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 02:31 PM (vH4YP)

Solid copy.  This is our land, bitches.

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (x3YFz)

230 It's Not. Static. Code. They use their own Ruby thinger. Slippers?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (lwkv9)

231 On the radio, first thing this morning, I heard our better Senator, Jim Inhofe, saying something to the effect that folks 'round these parts don't have much problem with the Federal shutdown, and in fact kind-of like it. If I find the exact quote, I'll try to post it.   Posted by: mindful webworker unable to function without government oversight at October 01, 2013 02:30 PM (U13jb)

Yeah, Coburn used to be great and then he grew that silly beard and went all Hollywood!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (kXoT0)

232 Fuck them. I'm going fishing in the National Forest whether it's "open" or not this weekend, just like I go hiking when it's closed for fire restrictions...as if my Nikes are going to spark a fire or something. Don't get lost, or fall down a cliff.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (yETln)

233 “President Obama, a couple of weeks ago when he was hell-bent on dropping bombs on Syria, he said America doesn’t do pinpricks. Well, we don’t do pinpricks, but sometimes we elect them.” ***** Double entendre, anyone? Posted by: B at October 01, 2013 02:32 PM (Pson9)
*inhales tea and falls to ground choking in laughter*

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (3uJY6)

234 Yes, but static HTML will be delivered much, much faster than HTML that the server needs to render. So it can handle far more connections per unit time. The HTML won't care. IIS (or whatever you're using) has that limit. Sure, you can set it higher because its just static HTML, but it's still limited. And do you really think that the geniuses who designed this thought to increase that Maximum Connections in their web.config? I think weÂ’re talking about different things here. If the HTML reacts to changes in the hardware, itÂ’s not static. Depends on if you scale up or out. If you're scaling up (adding more processors/memory to your existing server) then you're mostly right (though you end up resetting the Web Server every time so it can "see" the new resources). If you're scaling out (that is: adding additional servers) and using "static HTML" then you have to modify the web pages themselves (or at least move them around) so that the various servers can all, well, serve them. I don't think he meant "static HTML" at all. I think he's some idiot suit who has no clue what any of that meant, and was spewing garbage he thought sounded good.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (/PCJa)

235

BREAKING:  Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks.

 

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 01, 2013 10:33 AM (EGPJQ)

236 We need those motorcyclists from 9/11 to go to DC and back up those vets.

Posted by: Y-not at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (5H6zj)

237 Obama's press conference? Was that a weight watchers meeting. 2/3 of the women and blacks at the thing were at least 250-300 lbs. One fatty did a dead hug on jugs. I thought for a minute he was going down. WTF was that about. Fat people get health care?

Posted by: John Smith at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (wR+pz)

238

I once knew a really great chef. I was young and waiting tables at a fairly high-end place and the only reason it was considered a fairly high-end place is because he cooked there. Not a cook myself, I didn't (and don't) know much about the profession and asked him what separated the really good from the not-so-really-good. He said much of it was about patience.

 

'Sometimes you just gotta let it cook,' he said. 'Too often these guys just won't leave the food alone. They think they gotta be doing something all the time. No, man. You just gotta let it cook.'

 

So yeah: let it cook. All the GOP needs to do for the next few days (or weeks or whatever) is nothing. Be the Buddha statues in a stoner's living room. Don't act or react at all, not for awhile. Let the Democrats jump and worry for a change.

Posted by: troyriser at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (gNlvW)

239 @MichelleFields: Police just arrived at WWII memorial to kick out anymore vets lingering around Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 02:27 PM (bCEmE) Apparently Shutdown! means spending more effort to keep people from seeing inanimate objects. Because SCIENCE!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (qyfb5)

240 is Matt Yglesias available to our early morning post?

Posted by: cirque de soothsayer at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (7ND3P)

241 Double entendre, anyone?

Posted by: B at October 01, 2013 02:32 PM (Pson9)

OWNED!  And I stand *cough* *firmly*.... ah shit there's just too many jokes in there....

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (x3YFz)

242 209 @KellyO Senate Democrats say at this point they would not accept House GOP plan to fund Vets, National Parks. Full govt funding only. But Republicans are the ones who refuse to negotiate. I'm telling you, if the Republicans were smart* they'd win this so well that they might actually have a chance to dismantle OCare. *-In fairness, they're playing this better than I'd feared. So far. --- Depends who is running things for the Republicans. If I were Boehner, I'd be rolling out people to talk all about how they sent bills up to the Senate to fund everything being conspicuously closed down by the Dims, such as the memorials, but that Dingy Harry et all are insisting on all-or-nothing. If challenged on this, they could bring up how "well" the ObamaCare exchanges are working today as examples of expensive boondoggles that the public doesn't need to fund.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:34 AM (/Crba)

243 I'm late but static HTML?!?!? Hilarious I'm getting kind of a queasy feeling. R u guys ready? Things heating up

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (F+ZCA)

244 I've had two cups of coffee and still have not dropped Obama off at the White House.  Do you think the shutdown could affect ... Never mind, here we go.

Posted by: Big Ben at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (I5Htn)

245

A hot, bratty chick is standing next to you.

 

What color is her hair?

 

(perception analysis)

Posted by: jwest at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (u2a4R)

246 Serco, the British company to whom President Obama awarded a 1.25 billion dollar contract to monitor Obamacare Wait, what? Oh I give the fuck up.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (VtjlW)

247 No one is allowed to look at Mt Rushmore; the govt is shutdown!

Posted by: cirque de soothsayer at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (7ND3P)

248 238 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks. That would be motherfucking brilliant. Do it. Do it. Do it.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:35 AM (4p5/2)

249 I don't believe these Boehner emails exist. Everyone knows he's been too drunk to write since about 2005.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 01, 2013 10:36 AM (oFCZn)

250 And it's about the baby, Obama’s baby. And you can't cut the baby in half. We learned that in Solomon. And they keep saying, “Please negotiate your baby. Please help us take it apart.” Posted by: Koumei Nakamura == What we "learn" from Solomon is that the mother forfeits her baby rather than see it cut in half. So Obama should relinquish Obamacide. Regarding compromise? Obama insists on selling every individual his entire beast (exemptions a la partiality, favoritism) vs. The People want no association/obligation to buy/own his beast that won't simply eat us out of jobs and home, but will consume our bodies and minds in due policy process.

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:36 AM (MhA4j)

251 Don't get lost, or fall down a cliff. Meh, which means the risk is exactly the same as I always assume. There are no park rangers, just me and the elk, deer and occasional turkey, which is the way I like it.

Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 10:36 AM (vH4YP)

252 Well, we donÂ’t do pinpricks, but sometimes we elect them. --- I wonder how the SCOAMF will handle her impugning his manhood.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:36 AM (/Crba)

253 All the GOP needs to do for the next few days (or weeks or whatever) is nothing. That didn't work out well for W, and the war critics.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 10:36 AM (i2Lsf)

254 I don't think he meant "static HTML" at all. I think he's some idiot suit who has no clue what any of that meant, and was spewing garbage he thought sounded good.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 02:33 PM (/PCJa)


^^^^  this.

Static html.  n00bs.

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (x3YFz)

255 is Matt Yglesias available to our early morning post? Posted by: cirque de soothsayer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Do we really know it's not the same guy?

Posted by: Brave, Brave Sir Countrysquire at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (LSJmV)

256 That only works if YOU own the media. I don't think so this time. Ted Cruz broke the blockade, and they're actually reporting what Boehner is saying (or they were this morning, don't know if that's changed).

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (/PCJa)

257 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks. That would be motherfucking brilliant. Do it. Do it. Do it. Then it's not Boehner.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (lwkv9)

258 238 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks. Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at October 01, 2013 02:33 PM (EGPJQ)
That would be glorious.
Simply frakkin' glorious.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (3uJY6)

259 Open Boehner's e-mail account wide open. I can't imagine how many death threats from moronic libtards would be instantaneously revealed - forcing the USSS to act, even in this post-sequester/post-shutdown cataclysm. Do it. Do it. Do it.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (4p5/2)

260 The cops will arrest you for singing the National Anthem,  because SHUTDOWN.

Posted by: Roy at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (tiOTz)

261

Tried turning on Rush at  lunchtime, got President Prissypants instead.

 

What a whiny  little snot he is. 

Posted by: BurtTC at October 01, 2013 10:37 AM (TOk1P)

262 251 238 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks. That would be motherfucking brilliant. Do it. Do it. Do it. --- Seconded. The longer this "shutdown" lasts, the more people will see through the street theater.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (/Crba)

263 No one is allowed to look at Mt Rushmore; the govt is shutdown! Why does anyone go to Rushmore? You go, look, and then you go somewhere else. There's nothing to do. If I put up a HD picture of Rushmore on a nice TV I get the same experience (ish) and don't spend any time driving.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (yETln)

264 I want them to    close    the interstate   highways, because shutdown

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (9T/th)

265 The once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves

Posted by: George Washington at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (0tWC8)

266 I wonder how the SCOAMF will handle her impugning his manhood.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 02:36 PM (/Crba)

 

I am wiggling my capellini-dick in outrage!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (ggRof)

267 249 Serco, the British company to whom President Obama awarded a 1.25 billion dollar contract to monitor Obamacare Wait, what? Oh I give the fuck up. Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 02:35 PM (VtjlW) ************** Wait... Billion? Wonder who owns Serco?

Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 10:38 AM (r2PLg)

268 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks. No, bad optics. Keep the House there "trying" to pass something to fund the government. Sending the House home says "Nope, I'm not interested in what you have to say." Let TFG and the Searchlight Strangler own that; we need to say, "We're here for the American People."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:39 AM (/PCJa)

269 Oh I give the fuck up. Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 02:35 PM (VtjlW) When you meet the Buddha in the road, just keep on walkin'?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:39 AM (qyfb5)

270 Hey...wait a tic. Does SHUTDOWN!!11! mean I get an extension on my already-extended taxes due on Oct. 15?

Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 10:39 AM (vH4YP)

271 I wonder how the SCOAMF will handle her impugning his manhood.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 02:36 PM (/Crba)

what manhood?  dude wears a helmet on a bicycle on a paved road ffs.  No Real Man (tm) would be caught dead doing that. 

Cowboy hat, on a horse, yes. 

Helmet on a bicycle?  yer a fag.

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:39 AM (x3YFz)

272 Meh, which means the risk is exactly the same as I always assume. There are no park rangers, just me and the elk, deer and occasional turkey, which is the way I like it. Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 02:36 PM (vH4YP) You forgot the drug lords protecting their pot farms and meth labs.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 10:39 AM (VtjlW)

273 Don't know about the emails, but the calls between Boehner and the Senate have already been released. Here's a partial transcript:

Boehner: "Ah come on, why won't you go out with me??"

Senate: "'Cuz I don't wanna."

Boehner: "But I'll bring you flowers!"

Senate: "I don't care."

Boehner: "I'll get you dinner! We'll have a great time!! I promise!"

Senate: "No."

Boehner: "Why you care so much about that other guy anyway? Go out with me!!"

Senate: "'Cuz all the other cool kids like him. No."

Boehner: "Come ON!!"

Senate: "No."

Boehner: "Pretty pretty pretty please??"

Senate: "No. And you've been bugging me nonstop for over a week now. Dad says to tell you that if you call just one more time, he's going to call his lawyer and get a restraining order filed. You're like a stalker lately."

Boehner: (loud teenage frustration grunt)

...

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 01, 2013 10:40 AM (T/XcG)

274 No offense to the gay folks, cuz you're agreeing with me.

Posted by: tangonine at October 01, 2013 10:40 AM (x3YFz)

275

Q:  "How do I know when it's done?"

A:  'It will smell done.'

Q: "What if I burn it?"

A: 'It will smell burnt.'

Posted by: cooking with garrett at October 01, 2013 10:40 AM (YnQnk)

276 225 Serco, the British company to whom President Obama awarded a 1.25 billion dollar contract to monitor Obamacare.is under investigation in the UK. They were hired to do the monitoring of criminals wearing a leg tag. As it turns out, one out of every six charges they billed the government were people in prison, out of the country, not wearing a tag, or plain dead. http://tinyurl.com/m2sgt2l There were no American companies who could do this task? La Cosa Nostra was busy. Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 02:31 PM (lwkv9) OH.MY.GAWD!! Where's AtC's 'fuckity fuck' sign?

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (bCEmE)

277

If the government is shut down, there is nobody to receive the   spectrum payments by ABC, NBC, and CBS, so why are they still on the air?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (9T/th)

278 You forgot the drug lords protecting their pot farms and meth labs. Naa. He has an "arrangement" with them.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (/PCJa)

279 Uh - when you do "view source", you see a lot more than html. FWIW. Brackets changed to curly-cues... There's jscript...CSS... Golly, anything *but* static HTML. { meta charset='UTF-8' / } { title }Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait{ /title } { meta name='viewport' content='initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no'/ } { meta name='msvalidate.01' content='598A98B6EDF7624D92A421A892DC3A45'/ } { meta http-equiv='X-UA-Compatible' content='IE=edge,chrome=1' } { link rel='shortcut icon' href='/images/favicon.ico' type='image/x-icon' / } { link href="https://plus.google.com/112755994883163074657" rel="publisher" / } { link rel='stylesheet' href='/css/all.css' type='text/css' / } { link rel='stylesheet' media='(max-width: 767px)' href='/css/style-mobile.css' type='text/css' / } { link rel='stylesheet' href='/css/print.css' type='text/css' media='print' / } { !--[if IE] }{ link rel='stylesheet' href='/css/ie.css' type='text/css' / }{ ![endif]-- } { !--[if lt IE 9] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-lt-9.css" / }{ ![endif]-- } { !--[if IE 8] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-8.css" / }{ ![endif]-- } { !--[if IE 7] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-7.css" / }{ ![endif]-- } { script src='//assets.healthcare.gov/global/js/lib/jquery-1.8.2.js' }{ /script } { meta name='content-type' content='index' / }

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (4p5/2)

280

The people running the "Buy Belize" ads are brilliant.

 

Talk about the right product at the right time.

Posted by: jwest at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (u2a4R)

281 You forgot the drug lords protecting their pot farms and meth labs. Don't wreck my Civil Disobedience buzz, m'lady.

Posted by: jakeman at October 01, 2013 10:41 AM (vH4YP)

282 Not a guy, obviously, but, IMHO, bratty is just not HOT in anyone.  It's tedious, tiresome, and tired.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at October 01, 2013 10:42 AM (kXoT0)

283 Serco (from the wiki) Serco has also gained criticism for its inefficiency in its pathology labs. Its laboratories in St Thomas' Hospital saw an increase in the number of clinical incidents, such as patients getting inappropriate blood when their medical history was not flagged by the system or patients' kidney damage results being calculated incorrectly. A Serco employee later revealed that the company had given false reports to the National Health Service 252 times over its medical services in Cornwall. Niiiiiice.

Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 10:42 AM (r2PLg)

284 Posted by: akula51 at October 01, 2013 02:41 PM (4p5/2) Like I said, I don't think that doofus had a clue what he was saying.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:42 AM (/PCJa)

285 282 If the government is shut down, there is nobody to receive the spectrum payments by ABC, NBC, and CBS, so why are they still on the air? --- If a TV network is broadcasting and nobody is watching them, do they really exist? I guess we can ask Al-Jazeera US, formerly CurrenTV, that question.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:42 AM (/Crba)

286 Please let the Boehner adjournment happen. That would be epic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at October 01, 2013 10:42 AM (ZshNr)

287

266 -

 

It's pretty impressive in person, and  the drive is very scenic as well.  You really can't go wrong spending time in the western half of S. Dakota. 

Posted by: BurtTC at October 01, 2013 10:43 AM (TOk1P)

288 Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 02:42 PM (r2PLg) Due diligence. How does it work?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:43 AM (/PCJa)

289 Know your enemy. Todd Park, the architect behind the IT backbone at HHS isn't stupid. Just the opposite. He founded athenahealth with his partner, Jonathon Bush (GWB cousin) and two other businesses before going into HHS and the WH. http://bit.ly/1eXqI5q But government works different and not like real life, too many people with too many different ideas of how things should work. I predict failure, no matter how good the technology is. That's what government does.

Posted by: MTF at October 01, 2013 10:43 AM (r/ILj)

290 No, bad optics. Keep the House there "trying" to pass something to fund the government. Sending the House home says "Nope, I'm not interested in what you have to say." Let TFG and the Searchlight Strangler own that; we need to say, "We're here for the American People." **** I agree

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:43 AM (DmNpO)

291 { !--[if IE] }{ link rel='stylesheet' href='/css/ie.css' type='text/css' / }{ ![endif]-- }
{ !--[if lt IE 9] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-lt-9.css" / }{ ![endif]-- }
{ !--[if IE 8] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-8.css" / }{ ![endif]-- }
{ !--[if IE 7] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-7.css" / }{ ![endif]-- }

Bwahahahahahaha.  Oh, Internet Exploder, never change.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 01, 2013 10:44 AM (B/VB5)

292 "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it." I'm certain that is the way the contractor pitched it.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at October 01, 2013 10:44 AM (659DL)

293 291 Heh. That's the most barrel-ish, non-barreling post I've ever seen. NSA couldn't possibly be listening today, with #shutdown and all - so I went for the gold.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:44 AM (4p5/2)

294 Uh - when you do "view source", you see a lot more than html. FWIW. Brackets changed to curly-cues... There's jscript...CSS... Golly, anything *but* static HTML. --- Looks like old-style BASIC to me. 10 Login 20 Try to buy insurance 30 Get fucked by Obama 40 Goto 30

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:44 AM (/Crba)

295 There were no American companies who could do this task?
Yeah!!!

Posted by: kruger industrial smoothing at October 01, 2013 10:45 AM (qnPg9)

296 250. cirque de soothsayer In response to 9/11/01, GW encouraged Americans to go shopping. If shopping "proves" normalcy, watch the trend. How many furloughed government employees does it take to engage in Obama's "volunteerism" agenda? Work for free, Obamacorps: Just as well funded [bankrupted nation, zero tolerance for debt as wealth Keynes], well trained, and even bigger than "essential" government.

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:45 AM (MhA4j)

297 When you meet the Buddha in the road, just keep on walkin'? Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at October 01, 2013 02:39 PM (qyfb5) No, I reach for my Hattori Hanzo sword. I know, I know, no Math on the blog but I have a question for the Horde. If I run face first (figuratively for once) into a wall while at 25% completion on a project and I do that on four different projects, that equals to one thing being done 100%, right? Right? *shakes internet* Work with me, here, people!

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 10:45 AM (VtjlW)

298 288 Not a guy, obviously, but, IMHO, bratty is just not HOT in anyone. It's tedious, tiresome, and tired. -- ITA. There's nothing hot about a characteristic that makes others want to punch you in the face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 01, 2013 10:46 AM (rZjM+)

299 If I run face first (figuratively for once) into a wall while at 25% completion on a project and I do that on four different projects, that equals to one thing being done 100%, right? Right? *shakes internet* Work with me, here, people! In the Project Management world, it means you've hit 100% utilization for the day. If that helps.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:46 AM (/PCJa)

300 295 Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 02:42 PM (r2PLg) Due diligence. How does it work? Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 02:43 PM (/PCJa) ********** They say they don't want single payer, yet they hire the Brits....

Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 10:46 AM (r2PLg)

301 ITA. There's nothing hot about a characteristic that makes others want to punch you in the face. Wait. What?

Posted by: Chris Brown at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (/PCJa)

302 If I run face first (figuratively for once) into a wall while at 25% completion on a project and I do that on four different projects, that equals to one thing being done 100%, right? Right? *shakes internet* Work with me, here, people! Um, yes?

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (lwkv9)

303 There's nothing hot about a characteristic that makes others want to punch you in the face. --- Just because you want to hate-f*ck someone does NOT mean they are hot.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (/Crba)

304 There were no American companies who could do this task?

They couldn't get enough H1-B visas in time.  

O_o

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (/kI1Q)

305

Sending the House home says "Nope, I'm not interested in what you have to say." Let TFG and the Searchlight Strangler own that; we need to say, "We're here for the American People."

 

 

The cynic in me thinks that adjourning would make it easier for Boner to sell us out since the pesky upstarts would be out of town.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (JxMoP)

306 BREAKING: Boehner rumored to adjourn House for two weeks.

Oh my, if Boehner did that I might think about contributing less to his primary challenger next year.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget[/i] at October 01, 2013 10:47 AM (epxV4)

307 Is Obamacide using Mitt's "victory '12" network program, creating wealth and good health through proven business success?

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (MhA4j)

308 The cynic in me thinks that adjourning would make it easier for Boner to sell us out since the pesky upstarts would be out of town. There's that, too. One more reason *not* to adjourn.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (/PCJa)

309 They say they don't want single payer, yet they hire the Brits.... --- They want the Liverpool Pathway set up, just administered by someone whom they can blame when it gets revealed.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (/Crba)

310 Steady as she goes.. Just like here in Mexifornia.. The wheels come off... Just hold course and feed Boehner some spinal fortitude...

Posted by: Jet Built Around Cannon at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (4L2D1)

311 Static HTML. LMFAO! { div class='alert alert-error' } The page could not be loaded. The Healthcare.gov website currently does not fully support browsers with 'JavaScript' disabled. Please note that if you choose to continue without enabling 'JavaScript' certain functionality on this website may not be available. { /div } LOLOLOL...

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (4p5/2)

312

305 -

 

You ladies are missing the point.  It's not the brattiness per se, it's the making them stop talking for 20 minutes (or 36 seconds,  depending). 

Posted by: BurtTC at October 01, 2013 10:48 AM (TOk1P)

313 Anyone need any help?

Posted by: O.R.C.A. at October 01, 2013 10:49 AM (qnPg9)

314 Helmets may be for fags, but physics has no respect for machismo.

Posted by: garrett at October 01, 2013 10:49 AM (YnQnk)

315 FFS, for all of Obama's talk about the evils of outsourcing and "protecting American workers," he goes out and outsources 1/6th of our economy. And will republicans hammer him on this point? Nahhhh.

Posted by: Mainah at October 01, 2013 10:49 AM (659DL)

316 It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents.

Posted by: ace

Not that it matters but the original was fine.

The second 'in' sets off a new prepositional phrase. Two 'in's, two phrases, zero confusion.

in ... and in ...
1 ... and 2 ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at October 01, 2013 10:49 AM (ligos)

317 181 original sentence:

"Brattiness is only cute in children and in hot chicks who are DTF."

New setnences:

"Brattiness is only cute in children. And in hot chicks who are DTF."

It occurred to me that the "who are DTF" could apply to either of the two previously-mentioned antecedents.
*
*
I think that's why Ace included the second "in," to make sure that the cuteness applied to children AND ALSO to hot chicks who, etc.  Two parallel phrases.

If he'd written "cute in children and hot chicks who are DTF," then yes, it could be interpreted as creepy.  With the second "in," you've got two parallel, but separate, phrases.

(We're fiddling while the govt. shuts down . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 01, 2013 10:49 AM (BDU/a)

318 @MichelleFields: Police just arrived at WWII memorial to kick out anymore vets lingering around

 

Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 02:27 PM (bCEmE)

 

Stand strong, vets!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (zF6Iw)

319 @ 322 Please we detoured that road long ago..

Posted by: Jet Built Around Cannon at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (4L2D1)

320 One more thing Chris Matthews. (although I could mock your stupid analogy for quite some time if I put my mind to it) Obama isn't, never was, and never will be Solomon-like. Wisdom is not the first thing that comes to mind with Obama, and 1000 wives??-that wouldn't float his boat either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (a4Omg)

321 Okay, I have to ask (and no, I haven't read the comments):  What the hell does "DTF" mean?  

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (4df7R)

322 >>So, who is willing to take one for the team and give Obama a blowjob this week?*

Zombie, if Obama cannot golf then the shutdown might just result in Obama getting caught diddling one of his usual golf partners - Reggie, Sam Kass, Marvin Nicholson....Especially if they're all hanging out at the WH with nothing to do.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (vvueH)

323 "{ !--[if IE 7] }{ link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/ie-7.css" / }{ ![endif]-- } { script src='//assets.healthcare.gov/global/js/lib/jquery-1.8.2.js' }{ /script } { meta name='content-type' content='index' / } Posted by: akula51" javascript shit code written by the government to get healthcare ... No fucking way.

Posted by: Melvin Frohike at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (sYLzD)

324 Have they started rolling the footage of starving babies yet?

WIC Shutdown
http://is.gd/ScQXHg

If you read all the way, you'll notice the program assumes all the baby mamas can access the department's Facebook page. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 10:50 AM (/kI1Q)

325

Democrats consider releasing Boehner's emails, in a sort of blackmail attempt.

 

Maturity!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (4df7R)

326

305 288 Not a guy, obviously, but, IMHO, bratty is just not HOT in anyone. It's tedious, tiresome, and tired.

--

ITA. There's nothing hot about a characteristic that makes others want to punch you in the face.

 

Well, we know there are two 'ettes who have no bi leanings.

 

I'll bet they're against pouting too.

Posted by: jwest at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (u2a4R)

327

I hope Obama and Reid keep the Federal government shutdown for at least 3 months.  There are at least 4 reasons I can think of off the top of my head.

1) Obviously, the Feds are the limb of Satan in America.  Think of how much better life will be without IRS audits, racist Department of "Justice" lawsuits, the EPA impeding commerce, etc.

2) The shutdown hurts (potentially) Federal government employees.  Screw them, the parasites.

3) A long shutdown will allow Americans to realize just how little the Federal government does that actually impacts them one way or the other.  This will cause them to question why they are paying all those taxes.  (Well, it will cause the 50% who actually pay taxes to question.)

4) The non-impact of a long shutdown will also undermine whatever confidence remains in the leftist fountains of wisdom, Obama, the Democrat party, the legacy media and their internet wannabes.

Posted by: Steve in Greensboro at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (sugnf)

328 You ladies are missing the point. It's not the brattiness per se, it's the making them stop talking for 20 minutes (or 36 seconds, depending). If they have time to talk, they have time to blow...

Posted by: rickb223 at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (lwkv9)

329 Down to...do what hot chicks do, and stuff.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (4p5/2)

330 Unfortunately, no. You have four unfinished projects, none of which are more than halfway to being halfway done. Sorry, but that cruel take immediately popped into my head and I had to share it. Posted by: The Obsidian Owl at October 01, 2013 02:48 PM (tWmgi) *shoots the messenger in the face and feeds said messenger to the Ravage* I'm sorry, you were saying? The problem is that I have to rely on some, er, clients with the reliability and trustworthiness of the Obamacare Exchanges to permit me to move to the next step and there's no way to get there without that information. brb playing in traffic

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (VtjlW)

331 329 One more thing Chris Matthews. (although I could mock your stupid analogy for quite some time if I put my mind to it) Obama isn't, never was, and never will be Solomon-like. Wisdom is not the first thing that comes to mind with Obama, and 1000 wives??-that wouldn't float his boat either. --- The only "Solomon" I'd associate with Obama is Solomon Grundy. "Solomon Grundy want pants too!"

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (/Crba)

332 If I run face first (figuratively for once) into a wall while at 25% completion on a project and I do that on four different projects, that equals to one thing being done 100%, right? Right?

The '90-90' rule may apply.

"The first 90% of a software project takes 90% of the budgeted time and resources.
The last 10% of the project takes the other 90%."

Posted by: Parker at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (YkW3i)

333 What the hell does "DTF" mean? Only The Scorpion knows! I do not even know what that means!

Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (i2Lsf)

334 javascript shit code written by the government to get healthcare ...

No fucking way.

Posted by: Melvin Frohike at October 01, 2013 02:50 PM (sYLzD)

 

FFS.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:51 AM (4df7R)

335 If my somewhat-squishy Republican Congressman, in a classic swing suburban district that Obama carried twice, is happily voting with the Republican majority on all these CRs, you can bet the GOP is not scared of any fallout from this showdown.  The fact is people in this district HATE Obamacare and want it repealed.  They threw out the Pelosi lapdog who had the seat from 2007 to 2010, mostly because he voted for it as well as Cap and Trade.   Obama lost about 40,000 votes between 2008 and 2012 here, mostly because of Obamacare. 

Posted by: rockmom at October 01, 2013 10:52 AM (Q4elb)

336 Obama's advice? Wait. Procrastinate signing up, keep waiting for the site to work. We have 6 months before being penalized. Not that the site will be up in time to avoid the automated penalty. Thank Roberts for calling late penalties caused by government fraud just another tax; buck up. By the time the site actually starts working, the three months Obama assumes will clear up the clogged applications will be the final three months clogging applications before the 6 month sign-up period expires.

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:52 AM (MhA4j)

337 t's time for Jennifer Garner to bring some discipline down on the bad Democrats. http://bit.ly/19Nehls Hot damn, I had forgotten how hot she was in the ALIAS days. She's got ears like O'Dumbo's though.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at October 01, 2013 10:52 AM (7ObY1)

338 @ 346 the better to hold her licker

Posted by: Jet Built Around Cannon at October 01, 2013 10:53 AM (4L2D1)

339 @ChadPergram 1m Rep. Steve King (R-IA) on vets to WWII Memorial: I distracted the guard and someone opened the gate. I will not say who"

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 10:53 AM (bCEmE)

340 Hopenchange: Terminate Obamacide

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 10:53 AM (MhA4j)

341 Hot damn, I had forgotten how hot she was in the ALIAS days. She's got ears like O'Dumbo's though. --- I like her a lot, but I have to question what she sees in Ben Affleck besides dollar signs. Same thing with Isla Fisher and Sasha Baron Cohen.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at October 01, 2013 10:53 AM (/Crba)

342 Wasn't it reported that the government website was just a front for insurance companies, and once you had selected the insurance coverage you wanted, you were redirected to an insurance company? If that's true, can't we just go directly to the insurance company?

Why do we have to go through a 'broker' to get health insurance?


Posted by: Nameless hordes at October 01, 2013 10:54 AM (995uY)

343 The two elderbugs frolicking (slowly) on my window screen make me want to burn my house down just to get rid of them. Have I mentioned today that I hate, hate, hate, despise, loathe bugs? And I want them all to die? (Ladybugs and butterflies excepted, of course.)

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:54 AM (r+7wo)

344 Congress members seen 'drinking' during late-night debate as the brakes are put on Obamacare leading government to brink of a shutdownhttp://tinyurl.com/o6svrw4
Congressmen Booze As Government Shutdown Looms
http://tinyurl.com/knkthte

Grayson blames shutdown on GOP literally drinking on the jobhttp://tinyurl.com/n36dkbc

Hillary Clinton parties it up with Democrats the night before government shutdown  http://tinyurl.com/lqx8sqb

A Clintonworld after-party for Terry McAuliffe
http://tinyurl.com/mottg2u

Oh an a rep posted a picture of the reception under their window, guess pre gaming.

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 10:54 AM (Nx76m)

345 She's got ears like O'Dumbo's though. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at October 01, 2013 02:52 PM (7ObY1) She has a head?

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at October 01, 2013 10:54 AM (VtjlW)

346

@330

Down To F*@K

Posted by: Jollyroger at October 01, 2013 10:55 AM (t06LC)

347 Thank God for obamacare. Now, I can become an artist*. *unemployed

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at October 01, 2013 10:55 AM (IXrOn)

348 Okay there is a side confusion here. A woman who is bratty *to others* but not to you is hot, if annoying. A woman who is bratty to you and not others is just annoying. A woman who is bratty to everyone had better be damned hot. A woman who is not bratty at all but is hot is happily married to someone else.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 10:55 AM (qyfb5)

349 Boeher and Reid are coordinating this show.  Reid wants the 404 care gone, but doesn't want to take all of the blame, so Boehner agrees to the shutdown to build his cred, while   alleviating some of the blame for killing 404 care from Reid.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 10:55 AM (9T/th)

350 It's not machismo to ride a bike without a helmet.

Me and all my friends rode bikes my entire childhood.

Head injury tally  --  0

Now riding a motorcycle without a helmet.......

Posted by: eleven at October 01, 2013 10:55 AM (KXm42)

351 342 What the hell does "DTF" mean? Only The Scorpion knows! I do not even know what that means! Posted by: Jay in Ames at October 01, 2013 02:51 PM (i2Lsf) I thought Down to F...

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (6J+oK)

352 A shout went up. The barricades had been moved — it was unclear by whom. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he believed the Park Service opened the gates. Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) said the congressmen did it. Rep. Steven M. Palazzo (R-Miss.) said the barricades just seemed to part. “I’m not going to enforce the ‘no stopping or standing’ sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans,” said a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name. “I’m a veteran myself.” Washington Post

Posted by: tasker at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (r2PLg)

353

MWR, it means "Down To F*ck."

 

Don't feel bad.  I had to ask, too.

 

Cup of Sanka, or would you prefer Metamucil?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (zF6Iw)

354 Down To F*@K

Posted by: Jollyroger at October 01, 2013 02:55 PM (t06LC)

 

AH.  Okay!  Thanks!   I figured the T.F was for "to    fuck," but I could not for the life of me figure out the D.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (4df7R)

355 >>Hot damn, I had forgotten how hot she was in the ALIAS days. >>She's got ears like O'Dumbo's though. Think of them as handles.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (g1DWB)

356 >>Hot damn, I had forgotten how hot she [Jennifer Garner] was in the ALIAS days. Huh, I always thought her face looked manly then. She's a lot prettier and more female looking now, though.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (r+7wo)

357   248 A hot, bratty chick is standing next to you.

What color is her hair?

(perception analysis)
*
*
Red, of course.  (Full disclosure: I love redheads.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (BDU/a)

358 @joanwalsh that this crisis hit under our 1st black president, over "Obamacare," isn't an accident

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at October 01, 2013 10:56 AM (bCEmE)

359 Indiana officials have said they were working to provide some backup ahead of the opening of the exchange. The state has hired, temporarily, 150 new caseworkers to handle an expected spike in residents seeking Medicaid coverage. The state also has run tests on its phone system to ensure it will be able to handle call volumes.

...did Medicaid change its qualifications?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 10:57 AM (/kI1Q)

360 Jennifer Garner? This Jennifer Garner? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnmNVl2N834

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at October 01, 2013 10:57 AM (DmNpO)

361 A woman who is not bratty at all but is hot is happily married to someone else.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at October 01, 2013 02:55 PM (qyfb5)

 

What about a woman who is not bratty, but also not what   one would call "hot?"

 

I'm asking for a friend.  >_>

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:57 AM (4df7R)

362 Cup of Sanka, or would you prefer Metamucil?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 02:56 PM (zF6Iw)

 

I'll take the Sanka, thanks.    

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at October 01, 2013 10:58 AM (4df7R)

363 AllenG: Okay, let's take this apart: That immediately had me rubbing my hands in glee. Oh good! Someone's tackling it! AllenG: "It's fast, built in static HTML" Dude, no one has used static HTML for years FOR A REASON. ^ This is why I'm chiming in. It might be as long as five years ago now that my son came to me about using a website management system. It took us much time to learn the ropes, much time more to covert the majority of my sad old static vanity website's content (slogan: "the Web's best-kept secret since 1996"). (BTW, having started some sites from scratch, I can testify it's lots harder to convert from static, hoo boy!) I just am glad I was able to convert in time to be laughing with Allen about this. On the other hand, I'm thinking, these sites are probably all about as vulnerable as sites can be. Not that I'm suggesting anything; just saying.

Posted by: mindful webworker of the world wide webworkers at October 01, 2013 10:58 AM (U13jb)

364 What about a woman who is not bratty, but also not what one would call "hot?"

Cats.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 10:58 AM (/kI1Q)

365 @joanwalsh that this crisis hit under our 1st black president, over "Obamacare," isn't an accident Posted by: Tami at October 01, 2013 02:56 PM (bCEmE) Yeah, I'm sure we'd all be OK with a white dude wreaking havoc on the healthcare system and the economy.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at October 01, 2013 10:59 AM (r+7wo)

366 What if Boehner decided to be thefirst-ever bipartisan speaker?http://tinyurl.com/mmr8hz6

There's that word again "bipartisan".  McCains favorite word, made him the maverick you know.




Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 10:59 AM (Nx76m)

367 Just in case you haven't tried....some of us with Honorable discharges from military service may be eligible for VA care which might allow for you to avoid Ocare and penalties...I went to try out my eligibility and....wait for it...the site could not comply!!  A clusterfuck.

Posted by: DefendUSA at October 01, 2013 10:59 AM (S0aj8)

368 @joanwalsh that this crisis hit under our 1st black president, over "Obamacare," isn't an accident

Is she admitting his handlers planned it?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 11:00 AM (/kI1Q)

369 What about a woman who is not bratty, but also not what one would call "hot?" Wouldn't know, don't have any of those around the HQ... >.>

Posted by: Nyarlathotep at October 01, 2013 11:00 AM (naUcP)

370 368 ...did Medicaid change its qualifications? In states that bowed down, absolutely. They were set to add millions to the 'Caid rolls down here in FL until the Legislature said "No, Governor. No, thanks". That's why I get to continually alpha-test healthcare.gov since I'm in between contracts atm.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/s]akula51 at October 01, 2013 11:00 AM (4p5/2)

371

What about a woman who is not bratty, but also not what one would call "hot?"

 

 


Cats.

 

Face-sized spiders.

 

Also, new thread up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 01, 2013 11:01 AM (zF6Iw)

372 I can't seem to find George Soros' name anywhere related to SERCO.  You'd think it would be a given.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 01, 2013 11:01 AM (9U1OG)

373 ...Elder Sock begone.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at October 01, 2013 11:01 AM (naUcP)

374

370 -

 

Ladies, don't sweat this one.  This is another of those things guys say, but don't really mean.

 

Most of us (I can't speak for all) don't want  to be around dames who  behave  unpleasantly. 

 

Be kind  and sweet and funny.  If you do that, guys will respond favorably to you, regardless of what you look like. 

Posted by: BurtTC at October 01, 2013 11:02 AM (TOk1P)

375 A white guy President who tried to pull this shit would have already been either voted out of office or run out of town.

Posted by: H Badger at October 01, 2013 11:02 AM (n/0Nw)

376 What about a woman who is not bratty, but also not what one would call "hot?" I'm asking for a friend. >_> Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Chelsea at October 01, 2013 02:57 PM (4df7R) Yeah I can't think of anything to say there that wouldn't get *someone* in some kind of trouble.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 11:03 AM (qyfb5)

377 203 I would love to see some volunteers show up at the national parks this weekend picking up trash, cutting the grass, and doing various other grounds keeping jobs. The Union skull crushers would be out in force. Shutdown or no, nobody's messing with the Union graft. Posted by: bonhomme at October 01, 2013 02:27 PM (yETln) Boy Scouts of America adopt a mile, around the national memorials. I can imagine at least one troop taking on a Union, get a union to volunteer for a smiley face merit badge on their bad rep.

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 11:04 AM (MhA4j)

378 Oh crap. Google's logo is all patches of federal parks. Gee, I wonder why. Ixquick. Ixquick. It's my default search engine. How did I get on Google? I feel dirty. Been thinking I'd like to be rid of the Googlephone, and yesterday saw an ad for a Nokia Windows phone. I know Gatesware is only marginally better, but, Google ß evil!

Posted by: mindful webworker vs all the evil in the world at October 01, 2013 11:05 AM (U13jb)

379 384 A white guy President who tried to pull this shit would have already been either voted out of office or run out of town. Posted by: H Badger at October 01, 2013 03:02 PM (n/0Nw) on a rail, tarred and feathered

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 11:05 AM (MhA4j)

380 Be kind and sweet and funny. If you do that, guys will respond favorably to you, regardless of what you look like. Posted by: BurtTC at October 01, 2013 03:02 PM (TOk1P) Largely true. Also, it will not be a surprise that pleasantness is inversely correlated with *actual* unpleasant appearance, though far from unique to it. There are not that many ugly women, outside of Whore Mart and drug shelters. Plain, funny and pleasant is better than hot and brassy and mean (though the latter is "momentarily exciting").

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 11:05 AM (qyfb5)

381 So if the government shut down goes all the way to Devil's Night, can we start the fires?

Posted by: Nameless hordes at October 01, 2013 11:06 AM (995uY)

382 And they all leave.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 11:06 AM (qyfb5)

383 Yeah, I'm sure we'd all be OK with a white dude wreaking havoc on the healthcare system and the economy. Yep. Yep. Conservatives loved every little thing Clinton did, simply because he was white. In fact, they were all on board with Hillarycare too. These sorts of folks are beyond stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 01, 2013 11:07 AM (a4Omg)

384 should have taken my friend's advice and action to heart and just found a place where I could live on my investment portfolio and savings

Posted by: The Dude at October 01, 2013 11:07 AM (vJdyz)

385 Nothing says sexy like Jennifer Garner's crossed eyes

Posted by: panzernashorn at October 01, 2013 11:07 AM (MhA4j)

386 "57 Government by blackmail.

I am beginning to gravitate towards feudalism as a system of government.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 01, 2013 02:00 PM (9T/th)"



Feudalism seems like a rather extreme over reaction.



The Spoils System seems like the right approach.  The system we have now means that all the employees of the federal government are Democrats no matter who is elected.  They have absolutely no experience in the private sector and no real connection to ordinary people who do not work for the government.  By returning to the spoils system, every few years all the government employees would be pitched out into the street and forced to look for work.  Job killing policies like Obama care, blocking the Keystone Pipeline and shutting down electric power plants would suddenly look much less attractive to them.



In addition, I suspect that there are a lot fewer lazy lackwits and idiot son in laws needing jobs among Republicans so that every time Republicans take office, they could streamline and automate government operations so that a lot fewer government workers would be needed to do the same work.

Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at October 01, 2013 11:09 AM (31Nrp)

387
Link on name from MN exchange website. Turns out that Indians enrolled in a tribe are immune from the individual mandate and can change plans every 30 days. That covers me, but hell if I can figure out why that's needed?

It's in the treaty, which spells out exactly what the feds can/can't do, (and in a lot fewer than 2000+ pages of federalese gobbledegook).

If any of you 'Rons, or 'Ettes have indian blood in you, you might want to connect with your tribes, and get yourself an ID number. (Bearing in mind that not all tribes have working treaties with the U.S. govt).

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 01, 2013 11:14 AM (0IhFx)

388 It's a good thing Piers Morgan doesn't have access to a firearm.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 01, 2013 11:17 AM (8ZskC)

389 If any of you 'Rons, or 'Ettes have indian blood in you, you might want to connect with your tribes, and get yourself an ID number. (Bearing in mind that not all tribes have working treaties with the U.S. govt). Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 01, 2013 03:14 PM (0IhFx) I don't know what the current situation is, but historically the Cherokee have been notoriously welcoming of people with a little Cherokee blood, and were also notoriously, shall we say *popular* people. I swear like 1 out of 10 people I know have Cherokee blood. Which is kind of astounding. I do. Just not much. More than Lieawatha, anyway.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 11:17 AM (qyfb5)

390 Be kind and sweet and funny. If you do that, guys will respond favorably to you, regardless of what you look like.

They'll peel out so fast they leave skid marks the second a pretty girl looks at them twice, but until then, they're happy letting you do kind, sweet, funny things for them.

*shrug*

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 11:17 AM (/kI1Q)

391 They'll peel out so fast they leave skid marks the second a pretty girl looks at them twice, but until then, they're happy letting you do kind, sweet, funny things for them. *shrug* Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at October 01, 2013 03:17 PM (/kI1Q) Yes, you found something men and women have in common.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile[/i][/b][/s][/u] at October 01, 2013 11:19 AM (qyfb5)

392 If the compromise gives Obama and Democrats another year to get their act together - three years + not being enough - on 404Care, it also puts the pain, costs, and inconveniences beyond the midterm elections. 

Why would we do that?  Obama will still be President/Dictator, presumably we will win fewer Senate seats than if the public were fully subjected to the fruits of their previous choices.  404Care isn't going to be repealed that way. 

Notice also the "shutdown" had no effect on 404Care at all, because it isn't funded by the budget or the CR.  Wow, maybe someone should have thought of that before, eh?

Posted by: Adjoran at October 01, 2013 11:32 AM (473jB)

393 "And Gallup suggests that the GOP really didn't even pay much of a political price in 95-96 in the first place"

You know what the preferred Narrative is that the media are pushing when they start to drop broad hints in advance.

About two weeks ago, the drumbeat began regarding how "voters were infuriated with Republicans after the 1995 shutdown, punishing them severely at the polls in 1996, and returning President Clinton to office".

Well, yes, Clinton was returned to office. After the GOP ran against him their equivalent of a half-living, pre-embalmed Leonid Brezhnev. And after a third-party spoiler candidate ran and pulled much bigger numbers than such candidates typically do, drawing most of those votes from the right instead of the left.

But other than Clinton having been returned to office, under circumstances that almost guaranteed his return to office, what evidence is there that voters "punished Republicans severely" at the polls in 1996? Let's run the numbers.

The GOP's seat total in the House plummeted as they were "severely punished" by voters. From 230 seats all the way down to 228. A dizzying, frightening drop of about eight-tenths of a percentage point. Leaving the GOP still easily in control of that body.

Meanwhile, the GOP lost three seats in the Senate out of 52 as they were "severely punished". Wait, no, that's not right. Actually, voters "severely punished" the GOP by handing them three NEW Senate seats, from 52 up to 55.

So, as usual, the numbers don't bear out the Narrative that the media would like.

But don't expect the media to stop with this complete hooey about how SHUTDOWNS ALWAYS HURT REPUBLICANS. Because, Narrative, and shut up, they explained.

Posted by: torquewrench at October 01, 2013 11:33 AM (gqT4g)

394 A question:  who reads/follows Yglesias and Klein, and why?  Neither one is even partly honest.  Both are lying leftist hacks.

Sure, like watching Chrissie Matthews, you will get some stuff for outrage, but our base doesn't need extra stimulus for outrage.  So what's the point?

For conservative sites to continually quote these propagandists just gives them credibility they have never earned.

Posted by: Adjoran at October 01, 2013 11:34 AM (473jB)

395
I don't know what the current situation is, but historically the Cherokee have been notoriously welcoming of people with a little Cherokee blood, and were also notoriously, shall we say *popular* people.

I swear like 1 out of 10 people I know have Cherokee blood. Which is kind of astounding.

I do. Just not much. More than Lieawatha, anyway.

I'm half Sioux, but I've never bothered with getting an ID number. My Dad had one, and took advantage of the meager tribal benefits it entailed, (which are looking pretty damn generous now). You have to jump through some hoops to get them, and they may not even be available in your area though.


Posted by: Sticky Wicket at October 01, 2013 11:36 AM (0IhFx)

396 The failure of the system is just a way for the federal government to point out how primitive their computer network and system actually are.  The boondoggle will only help them get help from an american company to implement state of the art computer equipment and networks.  Watch.

Posted by: knowledge is power at October 01, 2013 11:39 AM (Nx76m)

397 The servers are overloaded because everyone is trying to find out jut how screwed they are.

Posted by: Rick Caird at October 01, 2013 12:09 PM (aE0Mu)

398 I haven't kept fully up-to-date with web design, but this seems rather old school. The problem is that it isn't flexible or really scalable, as Allen pointed out. Plus as someone else stated, Amazon, et. al. seem to do pretty well with dynamic content. With all of the code in the pages, it's going to be fun with hackers probing the system.

Posted by: Chris at October 01, 2013 12:12 PM (aBOfW)

399 "It's fast, built in static HTML, completely scalable and secure," said Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of HHS, in an interview. "It's basically setting up a web server. That's the beauty of it." Bryan Sivack, as chief technology office of HHS, should know better than to spout this kind of crap. I suspect Sivack's credentials are about as good as O'Bagy's phd.

Posted by: Blake at October 01, 2013 12:57 PM (WuGBT)

400 Matt needs to pull his head out of Obozo's ass.

Posted by: Oz at October 01, 2013 01:14 PM (X0J5B)

401 Just hit Ctrl-Alt-Impeach.

Posted by: Moron Labe! at October 01, 2013 01:27 PM (WW8ug)

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