LiveBlog for Monday, July 20, 2009
• The Rude Pundit (Lee Papa) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about the Sotomayor hearings and the Right’s reaction to them (also about his upcoming appearance in San Francisco on Sunday, July 26).
• Administration officials defended President Obama’s broad health care proposals yesterday and urged a skeptical public not to judge the Dems’ overhaul until Congress writes the final version. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that it’s “a work in progress,” and said “more will be done. The House and Senate are committed to working with the president to get this done.
• Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the top GOPer on the Senate committee reviewing Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination said yesterday her testimony did not settle his concerns about elevating her to the Supreme Court. “I was troubled by a number of the things the nominee has said, a number of the rulings she has made,” he said.
• The House Intelligence Committee will investigate whether the CIA broke the law by not telling Congress earlier about a secret program to deploy hit teams to kill individual Al Qaida members. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) announced the investigation in a statement on Friday.
• A self-described “more contrite” South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wrote an op-ed, published in newspapers around South Carolina yesterday, trying to win forgiveness after admitting to an affair and being incommunicado while he left the state for several days. He vowed to “begin the journey of trying to get things more right with you and others.”
Tags: Barack Obama, CIA, Jeff Sessions, Kathleen Sebelius, Lee Papa, Mark Sanford, Rude Pundit, Silvestre Reyes, Sonia Sotomayor
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On Friday’s show, Chris encouraged listeners to search YouTube for Stephanie’s old Evening at the Improv video, which he said included “great Katharine Hepburn jokes”. Someone had posted her entire 5 minute segment from the Best-Of DVD, but it has since been removed, either for copyright reasons or the excessive gratuitous nudity (kidding).
The only portion still on YouTube is someone else’s posting of the short edit I made for smfhc.com, which does not include the bit with impressions. Why didn’t I include that? Frankly, the impressions were mostly outdated even at the 1988 taping. However, Chris thinks it’s “hysterical” (probably in a “laugh at” not “laugh with” way), so now, as an exclusive for liveblog readers, and for a limited time only, I present “Exercise video impressions” by Stephanie Miller:
http://smfhc.com/special/index.html
greetings o tim. – they do get the bug for massive lies at times. steph blatantly called the “alright already” clip worth watching, but it was nothing of the sort.
wow .. bill press sucks realy bad.. all he does is reapeat headlines and stumble and bumble, cut people off.. horrible time management ……
3: it comes as no big surprise then, that sarah palin’s latest style point is to try to emulate him.
some one please call bill press and tell him to SHUT THE F UP..
Hey, thanks, Tim. Our Steph is such a cute entertainer!
“ahhhh, you’re going to helll, ahhhh”
It’s mondee!
It was a Walter Cronkite weekend here.
rip, Mr.Cronkite.
Good morning, early risers (or for those of us in the eastern time zone, risers)! Good morning Team Steph!
All this week I’ll be in design meetings in the ‘ol day job. So, I’ll have to catch the show via Stephcast.
So, Jeff (Angry Elf) Sessions is still troubled by Judge Sotomayor, eh? Heck, we knew that he and others of his stripe would be against any Democraticly-picked nominee, so there’s surprise here. Guess it’s time to start the chant of “Up or Down Vote”, since the Rethugs were so happy to bark that when they had the clear majority.
Gotta’ run. Have a great show and a great day, everyone!
and now, for health care insurance reform,
GO BARACK!!!
I so remember what happened to Barack’s mother and his image of her in her last month of life, on the phone, haggling with insurance companies. I KNOW he has the passion to drive his bill.
Public option, here we come.
#9 Hi shaf! Yep, Ms. Sotomayor is still latina.
Morning all! Tim- great clip- I’ve rented the DVD… I agree with the “laugh at” interpretation.
I too will be training a new employee for some of this week, so I may drop out without warning. I’ve got to keep up that diligent look to set a good impression.
Is anyone else tired of those “minute to freedom” commercials…
Gooood morning all.
I resurrected my old robotics kit now that I have a working laptop again to program it. Posted one of the early videos (named The Glenn Beck Robot) to the stephspace. By the end of the weekend I had Cleo the cat attacking it.
#8, with Mr. Cronkite’s death, the difference between his journalism and what they are putting out now is brought to mind. Current talking heads surely are ashamed at what the profession has become.
14… LOL… apparently even the cat appropriately judged his character!
15
Are they ashamed? I think not, if the name of the game is $$$$.
Journalism (as Mama said, Fox should try it sometime) is the furthest thing from their minds, they know it’s propaganda.
14
I programmed it a little too aggressively. It has an ultrasonic sensor and it got a bit too close and the robot’s claw hit Cleo. Cleo whacked back at it, while the robot was screaming “GET OFF MY PHONE YOU LAZY PINHEAD”.
18…. LOLOLOLOLO…. I want that ring tone but I’m not sure how to get it…
Bill O’Riley good entertainer?????????? Seriously???? I think someone slipped something in Bill Press’s coffee…
Good morning, live blogospherians! It’s Monday, and only 32 days until I have to go back to work. Blech!
Now I know why I’m not listening to Bill Press.
Good morning, fellow MookenBloggsters. TR, I *love* the Glenn Beck robot!
No more Walter Cronkites – we haven’t had any of his class of reporter/journalist since he retired. Can anyone possibly imagine O’Reilly or Hannity, and other walking bags of right wing ape dung ever being referred to as “the most trusted man in America”?
Wow, we’ve lost so many great people recently. It’s almost like some of them hung around until they knew there was a chance for this country to get back on the right track.
RIP to them all!
13: the abuse of perception of time …. is timeless. we can find illustration of what a vast spectrum of difference there is in the allotments of anthropoid mental capabilities, thru this particularly drastic pairing of different mental capacities. on one end of the spectrum, we have dennis miller, who has described diarrherun as victorious over ordinary people, because while ordinary people were bothered by 9-11 and other elements of national decay, diarrherun just kept calm and unruffled. – ironically, it was miller who gave away the underlying truth by prefacing that particular bit of obsequious rimmery with the preamble that people see diarrherun as this “chance the gardener” type character. to that, i can say, that’s only the optimistic scenario. here’s miller doing an unconscious PSA against forgetting to think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryd5s1f45zE
POP QUIZ: did you catch what dennis miller got correct ? – i didnt either. – just a yappy dog depending on a perpetual sense of urgency to circumvent cognition. – and this is the growth pattern that has built up the dennis miller we all know and love today, somebody not even adroit enuff to stretch or twist or weave sound bites into parcels of narrative that even perch momentarily when placed upon the table. they dont even hold shape well, while dennis is still supporting them with both hands. – clearly, dennis miller missed the more important part of the proverbial “fast talking salesman”. it’s not only about trying to talk fast and slip in a meme; the meme up for sale needs some sort of a parallel or modeling upon a known reality. — now, for a great relief and a contrast, let us see a more proper use of time. this is a nick begich appearance with alex jones which, amazingly, is an entire year old. they go over several major topics, and in a drastic departure from the dennis miller test-of-time standard (having been already proven wrong before you’ve spoken), jones and begich herein keep touching on ripped-from-the-headlines painfully, blatantly, eerily relevant items whereupon the perspectives which had envisioned worst case scenarios are solidly and repeatedly vindicated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqPU-zixKI&feature=related
the only problem is, i wish they had left a little something for the “paranoics”. – with all this going on, where does it leave for those people to go ?
I haven’t been listening to Steph regularly lately – what happened to Frangela?! They seem to have disappeared!
#17, Paul, I was being too nice.
They are all bastids.
I don’t watch TV “news”.
Miller is a prime example of the fact that one cannot be Republican and be cool. It just doesn’t play.
Miller Time – the Stephanie type!
25… I think you seriously over-estimate my ability to comprehend this early in the morning…
28…LOL…. so true!
#13 He was right in that there were no attacks on U.S. soil after 9/11.
Oops…Make that #25.
2008 november 20: this apparently, is some of the very earliest coverage of the glenn beck “get off my phone” ringtone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9r01g-PQEA – has anybody contacted the britney spears fan yet about a duet?
31/32: in that case, i dare you to eat monsanto-modified cereal for breakfast.
#34 You have to admit he was factually correct in that there have been no attacks on U.S. soil. Period. As for the rest, it was all BS.
Hi Evveyboddy![Dr Nick voice]
I was out Friday, hope I didn’t miss much
Watching Steph on these news shows [The Ed Show]
it seems she is actually polite and lets others
speak while the Rethug hag on there talked all over
everyone…
33…does that clip actually end with glenn beck because it starts out about Hitler only having one testicle… that one made my head spin first thing in the morning!!
Hey Mark! Missed ya’ Friday…
#36 That’s what Republicans do best.
Friday “news-dump” press conference…. really???? What was the conference about?
If the blue dogs don’t want to support the current bill the DNC should say they don’t want to support the current blue dogs.
Steph: “I’ve lost my virginity”
Squeezy: “Have you still got the box it came in?”
Wow, thought I’d get to stick around and read you guys for awhile, but it is not to be. Work to do.
Asi, hasta luego amigos. I’ll get back sometime this afternoon and read your blog posts.
Meanwhile, take good care, everyone! Don’t you ever change a thing..
L.
later Ivan!
Good Morning All!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to be back on the SMS LB. Wasn’t able to log-on for the past week or so. But THIS week!!! I’ll be Live Blogging my butt off!!!!
Hey, Mark, did ya read (here at the sms lb) that my son stayed over after his friend’s wedding (in Royal Oak) to “get to know the sister of the bride better”. woo-woo!
He’s going back in August!
It’s a Detroit/Boston romance!
“i’ll make grady and lamont get out and push”
Hey Danielle!
oh no, not Gov Mark Sanferd again… just go away
discount version: “aunt esee-lauder”
Mark Sanford is the gift that keeps on giving.
heres some news in G.L.B.T America that were not covered this month.
don’t ask don’t tell kills again.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/06/crimesider/entry5136758.shtml
Does anyone remember how stonewall became famous. Appearantly the police in texas don’t.
http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=25947
Police in nyc not much better than texas police.
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/civilrights/20090202/3/2813
46… as much as people are always saying long distance relationships don’t work, I personally think they are great for young people because it forces things to go a little slower and for them to really get to know each other in the mean time.
51: i just turned 47, so i’m not sure i qualify for your proposition, but thank you.
Frago getting caught sending racist emails is modern day survival of the fittest at it’s best. If you’re too stupid to realize that something like that is offensive and could get you in trouble, then you are definately too stupid to be doing anything more complicated than the Wal-Mart greeter!
O.J. took an opportunity away from a qualified white man to star alongside telly savalas in “capricorn one”, and to run thru airports.
#31, anthrax anyone?
Mark- you missed this from Friday… thought you’d like it!
Ode To Mama
In a land of laughs and wonder,
There lives a special lass,
Who showers in pure box wine,
And has a smokin’ ass.
She may not be a lady,
But Oh, She’s so much more,
As she longs for Jim to grope her,
As she’s passed out on the floor.
She may never get to marry,
Or use her bridal trail,
The only love she’s getting’
Comes with a different kinda’ tail.
She belches like a truck driver,
And like a sailor does she curse,
And if you want to ask Fox News,
They’ll tell you she’s the worst.
She loves to torture Chris,
With midnight, drunken calls,
To ramble on about some song,
And just drive him up a wall.
But Mama is the best you see,
There is throughout this land,
For only here on Stephanie Miller,
Are you more family than fan.
We love her fart-joke politics,
And we’ll kill for beaver stack.
We all laugh to tinsel talk,
And we know that Rodney’s black.
So, oh we do salute you,
Stephanie Miller Queen of Crass,
We will follow you forever,
And not just to grab your ass!
#55 I think the anthrax attacks were government sponsored myself.
55: congratulations. good answer. and for that, i’ve just mailed you a box of powdered donuts.
#57, whether one is a CTer or not, it was still a terrorist attack. And essential to understand the national psyche at the time.
59: even more importantly, if halliburton does it, it’s not illegal.
46 that’s wicked awesome! My chaperone/bailbonding services
are of course always available, as well as guided tours of
the best bars..
56 that’s great Danielle, you may be the Poet Laureate of…
The Stephanie Miller Show
is there a poet hardyate slot available?
Chris: “I DO SO have a spine”
Steph: what about a yam-sack?
LOL… will swap that title for the current “Official Militant Left Wing Drunkin’ Irish Family of The Stephanie Miller Show” (Which also includes my loyal listener father, hence the “family” part.)
63 Flombe, no restin’ on yer Laurels, or yer Hardys too
One of the problems I have with regard to speaking with quite a few Americans is that they seem to suffer from OPM (One Post Memory). They have no problems with saying mutually contradictory things from one post or statement onto the next.
Worst of all when you call them on it and quote back to them what they have written, they will deny having said it.
The mess with health-care has been 37 years in the making and anyone who has listened to the exchange between Nixon and Ehrlichman in the White House, knows that the entire concept was to screw as many people as possible right from the outset.
OOH! O’Biley Sodomized W/a microphone… in the Conservatory by
Colonel Mustard…
Do not use a Shure either.
Try a Behringer. Much cheaper.
67 Nixon to Ehrlichman: “F@&K The Poor…”
68: Would that be Rush’s Golden Microphone?
69: How about a Neumann? Billo might like that too much.
The CBO scored the House Tri-Committee bill as a net surplus bill. Why isn’t anyone talking about that?
64: what’s this in chris’ lederhosen drawer ? – oh my, it appears to be a well-preserved uniyam sack, sporting a shave around a square area. – and what’s this? a passport stamped for the rhineland. – ???
56 She belches like a truck driver,
And like a sailor does she curse,
She’s known to frequent waterfront bars,
challenging unwary swabbies to bouts of
strength for shooters of tequilla…
Good morning mooks & blooks,
#63: there was one, but Hardy ate it.
72 izzat a rather large mic? must google…
O’Biley is a parody of hisself
75… Mark, and see, I thought we were just getting to know each other… LOL… you know me so well already… ti he he
#77 Bill-o is a parody of a human being.
74 lololololol yamsack in the lederhosen drawer… But I thought
Stephanie had him by the yamsack, implying the drawer would be
at the Compound somewhere… it’s too early I need more coffee
before I can figure this. All I know is Steph makes Chris stand
there and hold the rabbit ear antenna so she can watch her stories…
and the rabbit ear isn’t even hooked up anymore, what with the
digital box… but that’s another story… heh heh ‘Box’
69
Why waste a good microphone. Go Realistic.
66: sadly, i was actually pinning some of my hopes upon the return of the native, but there doesnt really seem to be enuff total public demand for a reunion of the village people. – fortunately, bill oreilly looks awesome in the headdress, and hannity still has the motorcycle leathers from the eric von zipper auditions. – i figure that if somebody could just get glenn beck to take on the telephone lineman outfit, sarah palin to show up as the lumberjack, and give dennis miller a badge and a gun to play with, we can at least stage THE VILLAGE IDIOTS.
Morning, everyone. Today is a blog and run day. I gotta be out of here by 10AM.
Since people were talking about the Sotomayor kabuki theater, I wanted to link to an article about it by Howard Fineman. He said it’s time to end them. I agree. Did anyone learn a damn thing from those hearings? Did anyone change their mind on whether to vote for her or not? No? Then they were a complete waste of time. Far better for the Senators who spent three days grandstanding to have spent those three days working on health insurance or cap and trade.
Here’s the article Advise and Shut Up Already
And speaking of health care, I blogged about whether small businesses that do not provide health insurance to their employees are the ultimate welfare queens. You can check it out here.
Hope everyone is having a good morning.
Danielle, have you ever met up with Carol? You all are
geographically close aren’t you?
Tony, I think the only thing I learned (or confirmed, again, perhaps) is that the righties are a bunch of racist bastids….
#81: same as Tandy?
Mark, haven’t… but I believe we are located pretty close together…
82 von Zipper?! wow, Beach Blanket Boingo ref…
also ‘Erich Von Zipper’ is a stage name used by Chris
while dancing in lederhosen on stage with the punk band
The Yamsacks as drunken college kids throw beer bottles
at him… great preparation for being Steph’s sidekick…
Woo-hoo! Rude Pundit likee my remix.
I’ve got a 20 year old batter-powered condenser mic from Radio Shack that works quite well for Irish/Baroque flute. Don’t knock Realitic/Radio Shack.
#86, I think Tandy is their computer brand Realistic is their audio brand.
The Rude Pundit is good… sometimes almost Hunter Thompsonesque…
86
Probably. Any generic Radio Shack microphone would do.
Danielle…don’t know if it was racism or stupidity, but I really want to know why the hell they put up the “fight.” It made no sense. Everyone on that committee knew Sotomayor was going to get confirmed. So why waste three days on it?
Fineman’s got it right. Advise and shut up already.
I love rude pundit!!!!
81 O’Biley may not leave room for any microphone, what with
disappearing up his own ass
90 Irish/Baroque flute>!>?? cool. is that almost a recorder?
93… can we say Grand Standing!?!?!?!
They’ve all come out of the wood work since the show “Lie to Me”
But leprechauns ARE around. Jeff Sessions is proof.
#96, Baroque flute is the ancestor of both the 6-hole Irish and Cuban folk flutes and the modern orchestral one. Typically made of boxwood and has a single key and is fully chromatic. I use it for Scottish music since the heyday of the flute in Scotland was 1720s-1780s or so.
To the untrained eye, it just looks like an Irish flute in a yellowish wood.
Leprechaun: O’Riley I’ll grant you three wishes if you let me
f#%K you up the ass
O’Riley: sure!
Leprechaun: [while going at it] aren’t you a little old to be
believin’ in Leprechauns?
100, in appropriate SMS humor, the only important word in that post is “boxwood”
100 aye, if it’s not Scottish it’s crap!
102 heh heh heh
So Mr O’Biley, So, how’s your love life? Still holding your own?
boxwood sounds like something from beaver stack.
Jennifer, say hi to Putin’s big giant head for us!
#105, if not boxwood, it’s blackwood or pink ivory. All of which sound dirty.
I WILL PAY TO SEE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
82 Schrepreckin’ o’von Zipper…. Surf Nazis Must Die!
Freaking Rethug Surf Nazis…
Caller, the flag code is not criminal law, there are no penalties for violating it.
Otherwise every jogger with American flag short shorts would be in prison. Not that this is a bad thing.
Palin will be hosting a new Fox show with co-host, the former Miss California …
It will be called “Pageant Pundits”
it really just proves that 90% of the pundits the networks put on probably have no idea what the hell they are talking about!
They keep calling her at CNBC because she’s drunk and probably makes sense to them.
Ah…CNBC. I don’t watch them anymore because Chris is right. They really don’t add any value to the news.
If you want business news, Bloomberg is the way to go.
Wow, Steph’s throwin’ some IMAGERY!! Brady Bunch on Crack!
111 throw in the dizzy moron pagent hag who thought
Guantanamo was so much fun…
The way to counter the republican lies is to say this. If government provided health care is so bad, then why does every single republican Senator and Congressman, including those who are railing against it, have it? They’re rich. They can take any health care they want. But they choose government provided health care.
Invertebrate Democrats.
77: the original dittohead cadre IS a google (one followed by a hundred zeroes).
Joan Rivers has a new TV show? Remind me to burn my TV.
#100: “… the heyday of the flute in Scotland was 1720s-1780s or so.”
Until the 1960s when Ian Anderson brought it back, along with the Trouser Haggis.
Obama’s ranking among Dems has dropped because he’s been out of the picture in the last month. It’s nice that he’s going to stump for reform, but it’s cost him that he hasn’t been there through the whole process.
#121, ah, Tull.
Okay, folks, gotta go. Have a good one!
110: just proves that hitler was ahead of the curve with faith-based initiatives. first act in office was to consecrate the flag.
#111: “Pundits McGee is on vacation …”
Reviewing the Stephanie Miller Show TV episode where
she interviewed Corey Feldman is it just me or did she
have a real thing for trying to keep her hands all over
him…
123: only a dream just yet. but if afro ninja and jethro tull would just merge, the possibilities are wondrous. whether they become “jethro ninja” or “afro tull” is almost irrelevant. what matters is that bill o’reilly would finally get that ultimate dream guest who could do this with a couple of flutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h63T9RANnhc
AGHHHHHHH! I get annoyed out of my mind over people who call you and immediately launch into a 20 minute tirade of every stupid detail of their day…. no one cares! And for god sakes, ask someone “do you have time for me to bore you with random meaningless details of my life” before launching on said tirade!!!!! (sorry all… venting!)
127: stephy had the same problem with marty feldman… and marty allen …. and ethan allen … and ethan in sacramento
did steph say “ben nelson dover”?
Mornin! love the Beck/Beethoven thing!
The Wienermobile actually cracked their foundation. Fortunately Oscar Mayer says insurance will pay for the damages.
Codpiece!
130 Tim Allen, Alan Ladd, Any Young Lad…
#135 Alan Young?
129 was Steph drunk dialing you again Danielle?
Hey, baby, my Weinermobile will shake you right down to your foundation!
The internet rumor I just started is that Stephanie
got her start in show business as a cock-teaser at
Rooster-Rama. She’d enrage the bantams before the
big bout, by sitting on them while dressed as an egg.
That would really freak those roosters out.
Then she tried to get into bare baiting but decided
that putting worms on hooks while naked was not
for her.
– with apologies to Firesign Theater
Friends with benefits? Ooh, I could go for dental and retirement.
137.. LOL… geesh that irritates the hell out of me… I hate the phone in general… and to be honest, I really don’t care that much about any body’s day!!! Give me the clif notes and I’ll do much better at fakin interest!
#135 Al addin?
#139 Ah, yes! “I was a cock teaser at Roosterama.”
I must run out; hope to see you before Sparta… if not
tomorrow
#144 You should stock up so you don’t run out.
G’day all! NO HEALTHCARE, NO TAXES! Let the goddamn lobbyists pay the tax bill for the government they’re running anyway. HARRRUMPH!
I really enjoyed Hal Sparks and he clarified my thinking about the future of US politics.
It seems that we now have a three party system; Democrats, Republicans and “Blue Dogs.”
The Republicans are hopeless and getting worse but the Blue Dogs are the real threat to progressive politics.
Anyone else agree?
BTW, here is a list of them. If one of them is YOUR representative, I encourage you to write them often, telling them to stop opposing reform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition
#133, #138: I heard that the wiener took a wrong turn and found itself in a cul-de-sac. Sometimes it’s better just to back out rather than try a clever manoeuvre and get stuck.
Hey I was working on a metaphor or two about the Health care thing. If anyone can fix this up, please do so:
Metaphor #1: If I was have been in an Adjustable Rate Mortgage for the past few years, and my rate appears to be at 15% now, but I can refinance the current balance for 4% fixed for 30 years if I can come up with two grand now, what should I do?
The idea obviously is that if we can fix it now, it will be waaaaaayyy cheaper later.
Metaphor #2: I know someone who supplements their income by doing a Christmas light show in the winter months, but lately, the electric company is raising their rates dramatically. If they switch to LED lighting, they may not make money this year, but they will make money every year after that, even with the higher prices.
ProducerChris, um, that’s one poll. Single polls are meaningless. Remember “poll of polls”? That’s all that matters.
I think part of the polling decline on health care is because of liberals like me who are getting discouraged because of dwindling hope for a public option. If the president can restore confidence in the public option being in the final package I think the numbers will gain a few points and get over 50%. Another thing that needs to be pointed out is that some of the loudest voices against health care reform in congress are coming from politicians in red states that have some of the highest numbers of people without coverage. The right is winning the propaganda war and the task of President Obama is to turn that around. Let’s all support him.
she tried to back out, but didn’t realize she was in drive rather than reverse. When she hit the gas, the wienermobile went forward into the house rather than backward into the street.
Here is a picture of the Wienermobile crash:
http://tinyurl.com/n6mfov
#153 “Hey, can I crash my weinermobile through your garage door?”
Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener….
PeterW,
“Another out-of-control wiener wrecks another happy home.”
Sorry,
I just checked in. I’m sure that joke’s been done 1000 times already.
#157 Nope, only 998 times.
Getting Americans decent healthcare is like taking my cat to the vet.
He fights and scratches the hell out of me because he’s too stupid to know it’s for his own good.
Also too we need to stop funding the Democratic Party when the come asking for money til they put the Blue Dogs in the shed for a time out.
154… this brings a whole new meaning to pick up lines…
Has anyone who says “we need a third party” ever voted in a primary?
How about open-air surgeries in the parking lot?
Hey caller, the high cost is in large part do to hospitals never recieving payment for treatment of uninsured patients… freakin’ douche!
#160, I have no problem with blue dogs that are as liberal as their districts will allow. Blue dogs in safe Dem districts are unforgivable.
Nope. Ted would have been offed.
165. What is the point when their constitueents want them NOT to be conservative, as in health care? It’s about the loot.
Go Sue, you are CORRECT!
Sue is wrong about the FICA cap. Dead wrong.
FICA is not a teat on which general revenues should suckle. Social Security benefits are capped, so should its withholding. FICA is an insurance premium, not a tax.
Raise income tax on the same earners by the same amount, do it honestly.
Wasn’t Obama going to stop letting corporations avoid taxes by keeping a mailbox on the Caymen Islands? What happened to that?
>> k to the g says:
>> Also too we need to stop funding the Democratic Party when the come asking for money til they put the Blue Dogs in the shed for a time out.
But, I don’t want to throw out the real Democrats with the Blue Dogs.
Perhaps a better strategy is to directly send funds to real Democrats who are running against a Blue Dog in the primary.
165 Blue Dogs in save Dem districts should be targets for replacement in the primary.
PeterW,
I TOTALLY agree with you. Al Gore got the hell mocked-out of him for his Social Security “lock box” but he was a hundred percent right.
We need to repeal the Bush and Reagan INCOME tax cuts for the rich to pay for healtcare.
The FICA cap is a different issue.
#171, we should prohibit, under law, sitting office holders from campaigning for anyone other than themselves in a primary. Obama went to bat for way too many crooked incumbents, including Lieberman, precisely because they were fellow incumbents.
>> Rocky Mountain High, Colorado says:
>> 165 Blue Dogs in save Dem districts should be targets for replacement in the primary.
Exactly, but the problem is the Dem party doesn’t seem to have the fortitude to do this.
That’s why I suggested sending the money directly to the REAL Dem who is running against the “Stealth Republican” Blue Dog.
#173, the problem with Gore’s “lock-box” is that it wasn’t realistic either. You can’t put the SS surplus in a lock-box unless you use it to buy commodities rather than treasuries. If the SS surplus buys treasuries, that money goes to general revenue, and has to be spent by Congress.
There never should have been a SS surplus in the first place. It’s supposed to be a pay-as-you-go program. Redeeming all those treasuries SS holds is going to be a major hit on general revenues.
171. The Democratic Party need to control ALL their members one way or another when it comes to critical legislation, just like the Thugs do. Blue Dogs are going to be around for awhile.
I agree that if we had clean campaign financing, such blue dogs we had would be more loyal.
These conservadems aren’t loyal enough to be dogs of any color. We should call them blue cats.
I’ve been charged ridiculous prices for aspirin. (ibuprofen, I think)
That guy’s call didn’t convince me — the BILLING needs to be fixed, then.
It’s absurd that a headache costs you $50 if you get on in a hospital. It makes you hate the whole industry.
The blue dogs are loyal to green.
spacemonkey reporting for duty.
a practical means whereby one can get one’s Nerd-gasm on:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/17/2000359.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
above article asks what should be NASA’s priorities, aim low or aim high?
#180, not all blue dogs are corrupt; and there are plenty of corrupt progressive congressmen (Charlie Rangel, anyone?).
>> k to the g says:
>> 171. The Democratic Party need to control ALL their members one way or another when it comes to critical legislation, just like the Thugs do. Blue Dogs are going to be around for awhile.
That’s the ONE GOOD THING about pork.
Republicans and Blue Dogs should never oppose Obama AND still get new bridges for their district.
They should have to chose! Right now, they get both.
Drop in the bucket.
Mama, your taxes don’t increase if you check those boxes.
179.. I see the ridiculously low payments insurance companies (even “good” private ones) pay on some of these bills. It’s like a big circle-jerk…
Hospital gets jipped for uninsured, thus raises prices to cover cost…
Insurance companies have clauses in their contracts that they are allowed to change reimbursement methodology if hospital raises cost by xx%… thus, they lower payment rates in regard to price increase (or simply determine they will no longer pay for a particular drug / supply / visit)
With the reduced income from insurance companies, hospitals are either forced to continue the circle and raise prices or reduce costs, and thus also level of care…
It’s definately a damned-if-you-do / damned-if-you-don’t situation…
>> PeterW the Robobagpiper says:
>> #180, not all blue dogs are corrupt; and there are plenty of corrupt progressive congressmen (Charlie Rangel, anyone?).
I’m sure you can find some rare exceptions but, as a group, the Blue Dogs voted for tax cuts on the rich and the deficits that followed, they voted for Bush’s bogus war, they voted for banking deregulation and they are opposing healthcare reform.
They are not our friends.
183. Maybe the Blue Dogs are waiting for a bigger bone, and I hope Obama will find one, but they need to be GONE from the party. Support liberal primary challengers for sure. And I think we should rename them. Yellow Cats?
boy, did everyone leave for a bathroom break or something… the blog just dead stopped…
I actually don’t mind the fact that a few BlueDawg Dems exist, but it’s irksome that so few genuine liberals inhabit Congress these days. Everyone there seems to know the cost of everything and the value of nothing!
#189, um… yes.
188.. I personally like “puple monkies”…because they are in between the red and blue and all they ever do is throw a bunch of crap at us!
Chris isn’t always wrong; He is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. He is just laying out what COULD happen if Scrooge doesn’t change his ways.
Jim Louise Ward! YES!
Obama’s voice got all black-preachery when talking to the NAACP.
192 puple = purple
Happy Monday everyone!
The ghost of Sam Kinnison.
Jim Louise Ward! Christopher Louise Lavoie!!!
#197
ugh! it’s Monday?
*goes back to bed*
139: is it true that firesign theatre is where dennis miller learned how to be never funny?
ProducerChris is an honorary girl?
The only boobies he can bring will have blue feet.
202… I think Mama’s secretly going to pimp him out at girl’s night for some extra scratch!
I think Obama should hold the threat of investigations over the heads of Republicans. H’e got plenty of ammo. They might “cooperate” a little more.
#202 I saw a brown booby in Monterey a couple years ago. Still haven’t seen a masked booby.
Step and the gang want to know where Barrack’s “Black Accent” comes from????
????
Ahhhhhh, its called “bilingual…. Blacks speak differently when they speak to Blacks…..
????
Here is a start….
That speech that Barack gave…was all Rev Wright… Rev Wright has been giving that sermon for 30 years….
Come on … you guys know where he get his dialect from…
good morning all!!!!
READ, DO, PASS ON!
Man-The-F-Up or STFU Already: Health Care may Break Our Agenda
161: of course, the very best pick-up lines are STILL the WALKENIZED pick-up lines.
“DID IT HURT, AND I MEAN LIKE HELL ?”
“did what hurt like hell ?”
“WHEN YOU FELL FROM HEAVEN, OBVIOUSLY SCRAPING THAT
DELICIOUS LOOKING ASS AGAINST EVERY BRANCH IN THE
PRETTY TREE.”
203. I’d pay a dollar to see that! I hear he has multiple organs that he takes out at her command.
On The Douche-Baggery of Democrats:
they pretend it’s being bi-partisan
but it’s really that BIG INSURANCE PAID THEM OFF
The adoption of the cadence is no big deal, though we teased HRC for it. And yeah, among rural Southerners, my Texas accent comes out, though I have never spoken with one in normal speech (as a city kid).
2 Children tortured before parents, raped, all covered up by Bush/Cheney and our media
he’s a beady eyed, chinless, lipless freak
170: veto by goldman sachs.
Think about Rev. Michael Pfleger, where did his accent come from???
See???
LOL
209.. I’d like to see him juggle the multiple organs like he does to please mama
208… that’s seriously worse than the original…
The 2nd hasn’t been applied to the states, via the 14th, yet, like the 1st has. Only SCOTUS can do that (as it is likely to do soon). Sotomayor’s ruling simply reflected the limited power of appealate courts.
207-EXCELLENT point, Cindy! I’m in complete agreement. The president hasn’t done everything I wanted him to do as soon as he got into office, but he’s done a heck of a lot more than any other president in my lifetime. And he has great potential. I’m writing my representatives and telling them that I support Obama’s health plan.
On Star! I’ve crashed my Weinermobile into a house!
Okay. Stay in your hotdog and we’ll send over some tongs.
#219 “I think I smell mustard leaking out of the fuel tank!”
#220 I always wondered if the wienermobiles were powered by mustard gas.
212-oh god
Hwy, how about a Kim Jong-Pantsuit skit?
#212
humans need therapy.
ALL humans.
the Scientologists are wrong about psychology, btw.
212 222 WHEN? When will EVIL DICK be held to account?
Murderer, torturer, embodiment of evil
Rats on the High Street at Noon. No one says a word.
Thom Hartmann is so right: the Personhood of Corporations
must be rescinded. We are doomed to peonage under the Rule
of the Corporations.
221: THAT’s the guy who pulled all those kids out of the deadly mustard gas. it was JOE DIRT !
just curious…is there anything the Scientologists are right about?
Stephanie got a jart stuck in her head at 3 am in France… Colonel
Mustard in the Conservatory… again!
#219, #220: “It’s a bad one … ketchup everywhere.”
224-Are Scientologists right about ANYTHING
Col. Mustard in the conservatory with gas.
228: yes. you really can talk to each other at distance with those two cans connected by a wire.
#228
No, not really…
228-Like mindedness!
Colonel Mustard also drove the weinermobile stuck in the garage
There’s relish all over the windshield. Please hurry.
230: onstar ! i was just rammed by jim louise ward,
without a condiment !
Looked to me like the Wienermobile was actually trying to mate with that house. And yes, it was wearing a condiment.
The weinermobile crashed in Mount Pleasant. *Beavis and Butthead snickering*
239-
Why did Steph quit the Itchy Kitty in Racita? She found out
the other girls were getting paid… [skates, cause it's so old and bad]
242-That’s Reseda.
Conspiracy Snausage!
243 Sarah! Long Time! thanx for the spellin’ fix,
I was so far off not even the google could find it.
Steph: “Chris, call Mrs. James L. Ward and inform her she’s a whore…”
unicleat. OUCH !!! – is your unibrow okay?
if i’ve told you once, i’ve told you five times in a row, i’m not a bingohallic.
Oh Jim! with the I da ho comment! Hotel… Ho better not tell…
245-Poor Mrs. Ward!
Dreadful, dreadful Sara. One of Mother Nature’s crueler jokes.
Utter lack of brain and or integrity charm or basic self awareness.
Ah-Ha! Perfect rethug Toole
Okay, I’m heading out in my Weinermobile to look for road newt.
#236-#240: Now that’s what I call … a sticky situation.
Was Gaelic Storm playing back in steerage?
249 Jamiroquai will get over it. She must have known what she
was marrying into… but your empathy is nice.
Steph to Chris, on her own compound : “What-a-Dump! Start up
the central vacuum system for me, Chris, Momma gotta vacuum off
the dogs again…”
“Chris~! Come rub lotion between Momma’s hammertoes!”
Newt is the psy-ops candidate. His candicacy consists of sound bites repeated endlessly in mass media.
>> DrunkNIrishDanielle says:
>> 188.. I personally like “puple monkies”…
I call them “Stealth Republicans.”
They voted for tax cuts for the rich, a three-trillion dollar unfunded bogus war, warrantless wiretapping, and are now opposing Obama.
They are Republicans.
you guys are having way too much fun with the weinermobile jokes…
Dan Quayle’s wife will have the only real opinion between the two.
#258 If you can’t have fun with your wienermobile, what can you have fun with?
Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin: “Two minds in search of a single thought.”
>> Sarah in Santa Cruz says:
>> 224-Are Scientologists right about ANYTHING
I have no idea what they believe.
I have some vague idea they believe that aliens populated the earth or warred with the earth or something.
On a serious note. Remember it was southern white folks who taught Africans how to speak. The slave master would come upon a group of blacks and say, “hay dare boy.. pick dat dare rake up”…
The blacks would reply…. “Nkowka queen bee lady ga ga clik clik”!
Which meant…. “pick it up your goddamn self”!
Blacks only put the language to a cadence … because rumor has it that listening to English without a beat was more harsh than….. well, tending the fields…. so one of the elders commissioned a group of young kids name bones, thugs, and HARMONY to do something with that “ode to billy joe” language…
This is really true… I was there…..
255: is chris in charge of the star-kicking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SbPozqyrJ8
260… perhaps a sausage-train!?!?!?
Weinermobiles need to learn how to pull out….
“On February 11, 2008, a Wienermobile slid off of
U.S. Route 15 outside of Mansfield, Pennsylvania
due to icy conditions following a winter storm,
drawing moderate local media attention. There were
no injuries, and the Wienermobile suffered only minor damage”
hate it when your wienermobile slides off due to slippery conditions…
S
The drive to Sparta begins…via wienermobile.
When the Wienermobile has a radiator problem it gets steamed.
267. One needs a firm hand on the wheel.
I am also a dem from the 6th district…not as lonely as thought.
Newt… you don’t have but two brain cells, and they don’t
pull in the same direction
263 weezie, I hear ya! queen bee click click
P
267… better than not able to fit through a pass because of the dry environmental conditions…
If I understand right, our elected leaders don’t just have first-class government healthcare — they have the same kind of concierge health care that the uber rich have — their own private clinic, walk-in service, doctors on-call, etc.
#133: I’m glad to hear Oscar Mayer had their wiener insured, but has the house had its plumbing fixed?
But in a front end collision the Wienermobile might get grilled.
A
Sparta grows near.
R
I have Kaiser and my last appointment took me six weeks to get.
And we pay THOUSANDS for that rationed healthcare.
k to the g spells far too fast.
I prefer grilled Wienermobile to steamed.
Spatacular!
TA – DA!
did tongstar get a reading on how chili it was where the wienermobile crashed? – did the crash make michael wiener HOWL?
I’ve taken to calling our current system “conservative healthcare”
– it sharpens the issue.
Hey baby, wanna ride my Wienermobile?
see also “Do You Like My New Car?” by the Mothers of Invention,
live at the Fillmore
This message brought to you by Spartans for Universal Health Care.
Quyale/Newt 2040
Spartacular!
Now we need to live a spartan existence to afford health care.
I never blamed Dan Quayle for misspelling potato. It’s something I would do.
how many kids was funky oscar able to pull out of the burning wiener?
It’s not Sparta, but it’ll do.
288… I hear ya’… I’ve had many serious issues and the only answers I get are “maybe it’s just stress”… which pretty much equates to “we’re not paying for anymore tests, so quit your bitchin’ and deal with it”…
I can see Sparta now, the rain is gone.
SPARTAMOBILE!
Sparta Time!
SPARTAAAAAAH!
Sparta!
Wienermobile Sparta!
Go on with your bad self Skyhawk…
Big w00t to Skyhawk!!!
Congrats Skyhawk. Boy am I off my game!
Congratulations, Skyhawk!
*bows* Thank you all.
it does get cold. 3 afghans would be in order.
I predict Quayle will learn from his mistake.
This will be on his Tombstone:
This is my tombston.
Poor man.
Classic skyhawk swoop! whoosh!
“My dick rumble in the jungle
Your dick got touched by your uncle …”
http://www.moron.nl/lyrics/mickey-avalon/my-dick-lyrics.html
ok, skates…
311-I meant the caputured American. Not Dan Quayle!
Yay Skyhawk
I don’t think Palin knows she is a walking campaign for democrats!
I, like so many, don’t think we can “win” in Afghanistan.
At the very least, defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan is NOT the same as defeating Al Qaeda.
They will just move elsewhere.
later all!
nice job peeps, Sparta right under the wire… hava grate after…
this is all the proof dennis miller will need to call sarah palin a total success story.
Whew…short three hours…breathtaking! See you all tomorrow!
Let’s not get too cocky, we still have to whip the Dems in shape for Healthcare. If they blow this, the rethugs can gain some seats in 2010.
where does the time go?
Bye
Have a good day everyone! Let’s sparta again sometime shall we?
when they showed the video of the captured soldier on television this morning, they pointed out that it was a violation of international law to release a video of an imprisoned soldier. Not a word about torture.
Bye all! And all you Blue Dogs out there, don’t be afraid. Vote for what the people want. You can’t lose if you do the right thing.
>> gabby hussein hayes says:
>> when they showed the video of the captured soldier on television this morning, they pointed out that it was a violation of international law to release a video of an imprisoned soldier. Not a word about torture.
Thanks to the Bush administration, America has absolutely no moral authority left on POW treatment.