LiveBlog for Friday, September 11, 2009

fugelsang• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio from our New York bureau at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.

Democratic congressional leaders predicted passage of health care legislation within a few months despite undimmed GOP opposition, claiming momentum yesterday from President Obama’s speech and renewed commitment from lawmakers fresh from a month of meetings with constituents.

President Obama accepted Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) apology for shouting, “You lie!” during his speech to Congress, and House Dem leaders are showing no interest in sanctions against Wilson. “It’s time for us to talk about health care, not Mr. Wilson,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

• Rob Miller, the opponent of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who yelled “You lie!” at President Obama during his speech to Congress on health care, has raised nearly $600,000 in just one day.

Solemn memorial services in New York, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania today are marking the 8th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. In Washington, President Obama will be at the Pentagon, where he will make remarks and participate in a wreath-laying ceremony for the 184 victims when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the building’s west wall.

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#240: and don't let the water turkeys get your goose.

Bye ... have a weekend.

Bye all. I'm gonna go use my Smoke Assassin. Politics is theater. Have a great weekend!

Bye all. Be good.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Hmmm, I thought our $1200 amputation caller was just using the slang "axe" instead of "ask:.

Is his website still down for "maintenance"?

Have a great weekend I've got to run out

237: Watch out for the water turkeys. Have a good weekend.

Bye, Danielle. Have a great weekend!

The ONLY thing wrong with single payer is the Congress

I'm signing off for today... think it is a day to turn off the news in general... I'm pissed... and I'm tired of being pissed... hope you guys have a better day...

229 MGBYG

yay! you can't drink too early

232 I gotta look that up.

My current favorite band name: The Christ Punchers.

nice bit o'blasphemy there. Don't wear the t shirt to Catholic School

Dang it, ProducerChris. "The Ocean" is my cell ringtone.

224 an Easter is a pagan goddess to whom it was common
to sacrifice a small rabbit or chicken to when the Spring
Equinox came... a practice we still observe when people
get their kids a bunny or chick who's dead soon after...

Black Eyes Please. Their biggest hit: You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw.

Joe Wilson should go back to Nigeria with his wife Valerie Plame
and their yellow cake uranium
what? not that Joe Wilson? oh, sorry. never mind

223, naw, just me drinkin' too early...Happy FryDay All!

220 TUIHMALB! nice acronym, had ta think about it fer a minute.
I thought she just puked on the audience...

#217 Yeah Deb. There is NO WAY anyone could fly a jet into the side of the Pentagon as has been officially claimed. To me that's the least believable part of the 9/11 fable. BTW, my best friend was arrested by the marines for taking snapshots of the Pentagon damage a couple weeks after the attack.

Is it just me, or does Joe Wilson look kind of like Glen Beck?

221... You're assuming that we all believe that Joe Wilson really thinks.... :)

#216 - the best part is that the Christmas tree is from a pagan tradition!

215 Black Eyes Please? izzat a real band name? I like it.
Wasn't Stephanie Miller in that band?

Pelosi needs to get a Taser for the next joint session.

Oh I think we know full well what Joe Wilson really thinks.

213. Steph was good as Belchy Spice til she TUIHMALB on stage

214 good one Scooter. Never thought of it that way but it's very
obvious. And of course it was an inside job. It's hiding in plain
sight. It's the Hitler Technique: tell a Big Lie. The Bigger the
Lie, the more it's believed.

And, Joe isn't Wrong-Way Joe's real name!!

#205 - if you see the video, you know that an aircraft could not have hit the pentagon. Most likely the 757 was ushered out over the sea and blown up.

I'm all for war on Christmas. It's a twisted savage 'tradition'
started all the way back when Jesus was born... NOT! it dates
to no farther back than the late 1800s in New York city, made
from the whole cloth for two reasons: marketing, and as an
excuse to give expensive gifts to your own children instead
of helping the poor, as had been done.

213 What about the punk band Black Eyes Please?

#209 Yeah I know. I've watched enough detective shows to know that if 9/11 were a bank robbery we'd all be thinking "inside job".

Stephanie Miller was in the Spice Girls, she was Sporty Spice
then they kicked her out for drinking.
no she wasn't, she was Drunkey Spice
no Slutty Spice
no Flatsey Spice
no she wasn't in the Spice Girls at all, she was in the Black Eyed Peas

208 that's a sick trick. What kind of insane freak pulls a stunt
like that? It's right on par with flying Air Force One at low
level over New York a few months back. These aren't mistakes,
they are calculated psyops.

196: Yep, don't forget to order your War on Xmas Nativity set.

203 you said it. The Rethugs worship their gods: the
gods of Chaos, Death, War, Destruction, and of course Profit.

It's the Skull'n Bones religion. The C Street creeps are
right there too. Patty Robertson is really all about it,
he's got nothing to do with Jesus. Or rather Jesus has
nothing to do with him. Jesus gonna open an extra large
size can of whup ass on Robertson. Oh yeah.

205, I don't know, but 3 steel-framed buildings came down that day due to fire...never before and not again since.

Am hearing Potomac Coast Guard incident was a training exercise. Is it smart to do that on 9/11 anniversary?? The Right will go nuts with that. Kind of like the guy who coordinated Air Force One photo op over Manhattan.

192...a great book that lays how we got here...Maggie Mahar's "Money Driven Medicine" There are no clean hands in this mess.

The GOP uses immigration as a political football, just like abortion. The GOP doesn't want either issue to ever go away because they are both such good red meat for their base of RWNJs.

I guess I'm a half-truther when it comes to 9/11. IMHO, the cover story about foreign terrorists hijacking planes and hitting the twin towers is credible, but the Flight 93 and Pentagon story lines are pure BS. I think there's a chance somewhere down the line [maybe decades from now] that the truth will come to the surface about these events. I'm not holding my breath.

201 yes! Illegal immigrants are a much smaller problem when
they are tubercular and illiterate. No schools or medical
care for illegals! Just exploit their labor and cast them
off... same as the ultimate plan for ALL working Americans.

There's money in death - war and unaffordable healthcare - in the good ole USA

187 yer right on Deb. Dummy George didn't even make a good
stooge: too dumb. So stupid they had to keep him out of the
loop on 9/11/01. The biggest Tell of all: their clever little
in-joke of having him read The Pet Goat. The Pet Pharmakos,
The Pet Scape-Goat. SoFreakingDumb he doesn't even realize
the worst crimes in human history will be blamed on him.

They still curse with Alexander the Great's name over in
the middle east. 'Iskander' they haven't forgot. And he went
through there in what? 822B.C. or thereabouts. They will still
curse Bush in 3000 years

John was dead on about illegal immigrants. It just goes to show you how horrible we, as a country, can be. The point is this: we are debating INSURANCE reform (much to my chagrin...should be single payer). However, any illegal immigrant would pay into it. A couple of points are poignant: 1) isn't it better to have more people paying premiums so that we have more people to spread costs over? 2) like it or not, believe it or not, many, if not most, illegal immigrants work...and pay taxes...either income taxes or sales taxes, etc. How humane (or Christian...can say "the Samaritan") is it anyway to deny care to ANYONE who happens upon our shores?

#197 - what about condi totally missing the DPB outlining Bin Ladins intentions to use aircraft to attack the US? She was incompetent then and so of course got promoted.

195. You got it. BTW, does Cheney have a boat? hmmmmm

192... well, it shows that you obviously want to go in to it to care for people, not to deal with red tape and crappy regulations... I applaud you for that choice. We need more people who know how F'ed up the system is, but still care enough to try to get involved...