LiveBlog for Tuesday, August 4, 2009

schwartzRep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) calls in at 6:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald McEntee calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about their grassroots effort to get health care reform passed.

sparks• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.

The White House shot down concerns yesterday that middle-class families may face a tax increase in order to combat rising deficits and a struggling economy. The concern came after the Obama administration’s two top money men floated the idea that tax increases to fund the nation’s economic recovery could extend into the middle class.

• Frustrated with the pace of bipartisan talks, Dem leaders yesterday promised to push a sweeping health care bill through the Senate whether they get GOP support or not.

Former President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea this morning on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance.

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Late post:

Prediction on Sotomayor confirmation -- no way on getting into the 70's

64-34 (Byrd shows up 65-34)

McEntee was GREAT!!! Please have him back on soon!!!!

Hasta manana, amigas y amigos. Don't you ever change a thing!

Zamfir was master of the skin flute..

Have a great day all and thanks for the great pics, Chris! :-D

451: it seems all too short, except 451, which was fair in height

Good show folks! Back to watching more Hal and Steph smut shots! have a good day!

Great show (and pictures!)

Have a fantastic day, peeps!

Another really fast three hours. See you all tomorrow!

holy crap! he's a dead soldier too. hal sparks does everything.

I piss with the one on the right and screw with the one on the left.

Nero was a noted player of a droneless bagpipe called a Chorus.

439: kreskin sent penn and teller down the road wimpering.

That's 4 balls and how many organs?

texas indian, maybe?

435. I'll get that back to ya!

439...Indian?

Republicans are NOT going to sweep back into office.

The Dems have a net -2 favorability rating.

The Repubs have a net -53 favorability rating.

432: thus, i checked "zamphir" on wikipedia, and it said "master of the pan flute". so i checked "pan flute" on wikipedia, and it said "bitch of zamphir".

is there a variation on texas hold-em where you can only see other people's cards?

#432: Just play me some uileann pipes!

430: what happens in hal sparks' libido, STAYS mockingly in chris lavort's field of vision.

#399 k to the g: Can you prove that with a forged berf certifikit?

Actually all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the best.

Listen to every audio of him you've ever heard:

What if McChinless simply has a mental block against remembering to wear his dentures?

how can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?

#426, not directly. It came to Hibernia from Europe, and Europe from Turkey. Every European country has at least one indigenous variety of Bagpipe, and many have several.

426: yeah, see? that's what i mean. just like "texas hold them" poker, and swiss cheese.

#427 I would have thought that Steph would be the organ grinder.

424: oh, crap, look what you did. hal sparks just added EMT, bus driver, door-to-door gynecologist, hot air balloon repairman, osteopath, and organ grinder.

If I recall my gaelic history correctly, the bagpipe came to hibernia via Turkey. Tulips came to Holland via Turkey. So many things the turks have to pay for.

Hey Chris, are they making you watch?

Jesus is coming. Look busy.

415: really should have hired sarah palin to deliver the lines thoe... and to write them.

412 -- there's not a T-shirt with that design at cafe press.

Jus' sayin'.

Republicans are famous for eating an elephant, and then choking on a fly. Hypocrites all, massive fat white quaking Republican asses!

Remind me again how much in CASH evaporated in Iraq..

#414 Precisely what you said. It's not for a war.

410: crikey! she's a strong one! if her jaw clamps down on my stiffie, i'll bleed out and die! this is exciting! we'll be right back afta this commewshull !

Oh jeez, get a room! Oh wait, you already have one (the studio). ;)

#406, she's a real-estate agent too!

$1B wouldn't run the goddam Iraq War a WEEK? What's the problem, Reputhuglicans?

Actually, the wages of non-union plants are comparable to the union auto plants, a little lower. But only because the Japanese companies are afraid that if they don't, the plants will organize.

Thom Hartmann points out that for every union job, another job with union-equivalent pay and benefits is created because of employer fear of unionization.

what would jesus fubar?

Conspicuous Christians away!!

408...you forgot cougar hunter...