LiveBlog for Wednesday, October 28, 2009
• Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Karl Frisch, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific for another edition of “Humpdays with Hal.”
• Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said yesterday that while he’s “strongly inclined” to vote to move Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) health care plan with an opt-out public option to the Senate floor for debate, he would ultimately oppose the measure and join a GOP filibuster because it includes that option.
• The White House said yesterday that President Obama has nearly finished gathering information and advice on how to proceed in Afghanistan. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that a planned meeting on Friday with the Joint Chiefs of Staff will be among the last events in the decision-making process.
• The FAA has revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew a passenger jet past their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles last week. They had violated numerous regulations, including failing to comply with air traffic control instructions and clearances and operating carelessly and recklessly.
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hal Sparks, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, John Yarmuth, Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America, Northwest Airlines, Robert Gibbs
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Happy Hump Day Board! Miss you during the day something fierce. I find I can listen in during the day while at work, but I’m not going to post from the job for fear of viruses.
BTW, my credit card number was hyjacked the other day. Users beware. Check your accounts daily . . . you never know who or what’s out there.
Happy BDs to Julia Roberts (42) and weirdo Joaquin Phoenix (35), as well as Dennis Franz (65), Andy Richter (43) and Jane Alexander (70).
“A Serious Man” at the flicks – brilliant. If you tuned into Randi’s show Monday you caught Frangela subbing for one day. Also, anyone hear conservabot caller “Gina” on Randi’s show last week? These folks are becoming more and more emotionally unglued every day.
Goood morning all!
Miserable, dark and rainy. Just perfect weather to start a World Series. HA! I hope weather wreaks havoc with the Series and gives baseball the black eye it deserves. Oh … go Phillies!
Time for breakfast, brb.
Who was that gorgeous lady on with Ed last night? Someone should give her a show of her own. I heard she has a spectacular ass.
But I didn’t see any fangs or unibrow.
I wonder which of the four stages of marriage Jim is at now? The four stages being:
Tri Weekly
Try Weekly
Try Weakly
Try Beer.
Woke up last night to the sounds of cats fighting. Went downstairs to find Lucky sitting by my chair with Cleo cowering under it. Looks like Lucky is feeling better and finally got fed up with Cleo hissing at him. Good boy!
Littul Joey Blabberman: Worthless Piece of S@#!$$T wrapped
with skin. Now he thinks we’re trying to do too much with
Health Care Reform. Go Hang Yourself In A Closet, Joey you putz.
Who asked ya?
Whut else this foul morning? too early to tell
5 glad to hear Lucky is getting better! Put Cleo in her place
Congrats to Matthew Hoh: someone with a backbone and a brain.
I’ve been spouting it since before day one:
Do
Not
Fight
A
War
In
Afghanistan
On health care, I think that everyone should take a step back and stop looking at the individual trees and try to reflect upon the forest (in German, “Den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht erkennen”).
Obama is avoiding the very thing that got Clinton whacked in 1993. He is focussing the pressure on Congress, instead of making himself and the White House the target. By so doing he focusses the public scrutiny on the Senate.
The daily mood swings of a (below the) beltway media that seems to be permanently “on the rag” and continuously retouching their portrait of the political landscape (aka “having the painters in”) is mainly passing the Obama administration by and one can sense their frustration at not being able to bitch at the President.
As the debate goes on one thing is starting to be realised; that when the health insurance has been denied to the husband/wife/brother/sister/son/daughter because of recision and/or “prior condition” this was not a once off, but rather a systematic policy of the insurance companies tantamount to premeditated murder.
It is difficult to turn around the almost 30 years of corporately sponsored, media-abetted, dumbing-down which has occurred in the US. The longer the “debate” goes on the more people will start to realise just how badly they have been duped.
I’m not done with you, Joey Blabberman, you rat scrotum.
Wait, can I say that here? Geez, I hope so, ’cause I think
it’s only being accurately descriptive, if a tad unfair to
rodent genitalia. At least a rat scrotum can contain rat
testicles, showing the kind of Integrity that is utterly foreign
to Littul Joey…
9 “a systematic policy of the insurance companies tantamount
to premeditated murder”
thank you
It’s one facet of the War on Us that the elite has waged,
while not bothering to inform us. And if you don’t inform
yerself, you end up like the whut? 20% or so who are
working class Flush Dimbulb listeners. It’s a real war, the
ONLY real war going on today. And it’s mainly waged in minds,
tho it’s fought on many levels. Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars.
When you don’t know there is a war on against you, yer at a
significant disadvantage.
10
I don’t see what Gordon Shumway saw in Joey. Unless the potential feline delicacy that was Lucky the Tanner’s cat was too much to resist.
Bill Buckley purged the Republican Party of the Bircherite
whackos; a twentyfirst century Buckley is needed to purge
the current GOP of it’s Birtherite Insane, lest we become
a one-party State.
Ironically it was the Republican aim to create a one party
state, Lee Atwater and Ed Rollins and later the likes of
Ralph Reed and Jack [the Grand, or Abra-] Moff thought they
could deliver a permanent Republican majority. It worked
out differently though. Now most of the American people
can see that the Repbubs are party of the Elite, everyone
else be damned.
Now we have this Johannestanz [google it] of conservative
delusion. They live in a world different from the one
everyone else lives in. This St. Anthony’s Fire of Sara
Palin, Orly Tainz, Michele Malkin, Michelle Bachman and
millions of unwashed yahoos is destructive to the Party.
And ultimately the country.
12 Gordon liked to eat cats, didn’t he? Is Stephanie Harboring him?
Put it this way: is Oliver Really a dog?
14
Yes, he did.
Mark, don’t get too down. I counted the Democratic Senators. There are 59, not counting Lieberman the all-for-himself independent. Add Sanders the Socialist and we have 60 which is enough. But, if we lose one more, then anyone who abandons the Democratic Party in its hour of need should lose any perks he/she gets for being a Democrat, and should face a primary challenge. If we lose this one, it’ll be 1994 all over again, so we might as well clean house on the way out.
Harry Reid has given Lieberman a pass on this one. Joe probably made promises to the biggest industry in his state, and Harry said that Joe was “the least of my worries.” As long as the sausage tastes good and doesn’t make us sick, let’s not look too closely at the contents. And Harry says he trusts Joe… probably because Joe doesn’t want to lose the Chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee.
Trusting Harry and/or Joe is like leaving a lit match in charge of dynamite.
Dreadful, dreadful Sara and her ‘best seller’: $1.25 Million?!
I wouldn’t trade places with her for anything in the world.
She is cursed; damned, doomed… like all of her diseased ilk.
By which I mean Rethug skum, no offense to her [mostly] innocent
family. She cannot ever stop being who she is. I wouldn’t wish
that on anyone. But I do laugh at her for it. Dog S@!#$t B@#$tch
Take yer money and wallow in it, go ahead. Enjoy! It ain’t gonna
bring you any kind of joy or happiness. Any seed you plant will
wither, Dreadful Sara. It’s true for all these greedhead-serving
bastards. The system they serve is utterly unsustainable. It
will crash soon.
16 thanks Art, I’m not down over it, we never needed littul Joey,
he’s just annoying, that’s all. For all the bile I feel for
Blabberman he’s really nothing but a little putz. Bernie Sanders
on the other hand is a fine American. I listen to him every Friday
on Thom Hartmann’s show and I’ve never heard him say anything that
doesn’t make perfect sense.
Twenty years ago I called myself libertarian and railed against
“Socialism”. The ground moves under your feet. Then again, Stephanie
still believes the same things her father did.
Morning…a foggy Hump Day here…
Can I just ask….I’m I the only one who always gets the e-mails about her TV appearances three hours after they happen here on the east coast?
I mean, there’s still ways to see many of them (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) but…
And congrats to Lucky and send him after Joe Liverman. We thought the “Blue Dogs” were bad.
BTW, has Stephanie talked about this phone app for the iPhone that (supposedly) will show you where the Eco Stimulus money is going?
http://gizmodo.com/5391303/augmented-reality-iphoneandroid-app-tracks-where-government-bailout-dollars-went
20
Worse, I was trying out Twitter in the mall (sitting under the old Boston Gahden scoreboard) waiting for my wife to get out of work and I get Steph’s tweet about being on Ed last night and I know I’d never get home in time to watch.
Thank goodness for Shane-O.
22 – hey..at least you’re getting them before the event. If you’d been home you could have seen it. I can’t travel back in time (yet).
BTW that phone app…don’t know if it shows you the money that Rep Govs spend on big Sweepstakes Checks and photo ops to make it look like it’s money that they’re giving out (after claiming they wouldn’t take it).
Well, crap. I’m still sick, I have to go to work today, and it’s snowing. Giant piles of snow.
23
Well, I haven’t checked my email to see if I got a late notification either. That has happened on occasion.
Good morning figments of my imagination. Drop your c*cks & wear your socks.
Good morning, everyone. It’s another ‘hi/bye’ post for me today. Hopefully, I’ll get to play on Friday (a little).
Oh and happy anniversary to the start of what we (now) call the Great Depression in 1929.
My own started in 1970. I blame it on all of the crap in the environment.
Momma Time
26 – thought we were fragments…
Art, I believe you’ve miscounted. It’s 58 sans Lieberman and Sanders.
OTOH, the President of the Senate ruled in 1974 that all it takes is 51 Senators to be rid of the filibuster. Let’s do that.
I get like, an hour before I gotta go out
And Momma starts out with a poke at littul joey! Thanx!
I just don’t get Liverman. I thought he was cool on domestic social policy. Isn’t that why he was a Democrat for so many years? I mean if he doesn’t believe in health care or peace why the F didn’t he become a Rethug years ago.
1-2-3
Here we go
Bedlam, bedlam, ho ho ho!
24 aw Rocky I’m sorry, hope you feel better specially since
you gotta work… Massive Doses Of Nyquil! or Dayquil… some
kind of ‘Quil
Lieberman wants a bribe. It’s that simple.
33
In one case it’s religion before party
in the other it’s CT’s big industry before party
26 hey, that’s whut the Sergeants used to yell at us at about
0′dark-thirty
Douche-a-crats
And Lieberman is no douche. I, for one, do NOT feel spring fresh when sprayed by him.
#30 – perhaps aspects of the whole.
Momma got the big pole early?
do tell
#40: and you’ve been “sprayed” by Lieberman when exactly?
36 I thott it was that Joey has Taken a bribe, plenty big bribes…
at least he’s stayin’ bought, about as honest as he’ll ever get
#43, we all got sprayed by him yesterday.
What does Lieberman want: a personality 2 steps up from a small soap dish.
40, 43 being sprayed with crap does not give that
feeling o’freshness, I agree
There is an internet rumor that Stephanie Miller frequents
Hokey-Pokey dances, but when it comes to the part about
‘put your left foot in and shake it all about’ she does a
real Fandango.
According to rumors she’s also been known to do a Dirty
Bunny Hop, and she once worked at some kind of rabbit farm
in Nevada. Who knows.
These Republican State Governors will do what all republicans do. They will go Scorched Earth and not take Health Care Plan solely to make Obama look bad.
RW people in red states will never hear that the public option is working well in other states. They only get info from Fox news who will only report on problems. Just like they are convinced that Canadian heath care is a disaster.
Douches are kosher depending on how they’re killed.
39 Nick! caller stole yer stuff
#52. no sh*t huh. Biter.
18: “I wouldn’t trade places with her for anything in the world.”
i want you to try that again, but first i want you to take a really good look at this klondike bar.
Joe Lieberman looks just like a marionette and republicans are handling him just like one.
#50, RW people in red states are generally not a majority. Most red states still can pull 40% to vote for Dems, and it’s conservative-leaning indies that put Republicans over the top. These people are reachable.
Remember, only 1% of the country watches Fox (and few of those do so religiously). Seriously.
#51, let’s try to stay away from that kind of talk.
Is he actually moving his mouth this time?
Stephy having drunk-dialer’s remorse
56
And I’d say a good percentage watches Faux for the comedy.
54 Whut would you do for a Klondyke bar?
44: “at least he’s stayin’ bought, …”
circuitously ridiculing mccain so early ?
The MA plan does NOT include a government run insurance option.
The plan calls for universal coverage and forces people to purchase PRIVATE insurance.
They are subsidized by the state if the can’t afford it which creates absolutely NO INCENTIVE for insurance companies to hold down premiums.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/02/mass_healthcare_reform_is_failing_us/
60 is THAT why so many public places play the Faux? now I know…
Foxpublicans are just louder not necessarily the majority.
62 gotta do evveything early today, gonna hafta bail soon
50 – They’ll hear it from family members or friends in the states that have it. They’ll read it on blogs or forums they’re on.
That’s how come I’m sick we’re not getting single-payer. Friend in Toronto had his appendix burst…whole hospital stay cost him $14 for renting a TV while he was there.
48: “….and she once worked at some kind of rabbit farm
in Nevada. Who knows…..”
i love the look she laid on bill gates while declaring in that demure whiskey voice “i like machines !!!!”. – this may be why he always keeps one lens coated with vaseline.
#63: and as I was listening to WBZ 1030 AM here in Boston: they were talking about the public option & had the balls to mention that “MA has the highest percentage of insured in the country at 97%”.
Yeah because we’re REQUIRED to buy it or get fined.
#49, I doubt it will be left to the governors’ discretion alone. They are not the dictators of their states. The state legislatures will be involved.
#63, yes, but the CT plan does have an honest-to-god Public Option. The reports I read from people in it yesterday on Kos were very favorable.
Hello all. Funny that Steph is prank calling Lieberman. What’s the occasion?
Wagner? Not nearly Arayan enough.
LOL, Zach is worried.
51: “Douches are kosher depending on how they’re killed.”
SNL: i’ve always said “give me a SANDWICH and a DOUCHEBAG, and there’s nothing i can not do !!”
‘The Senator From Aetna’ — good one Momma!
o’course he’s really the Senator From Lieberman, like
she said before, Joey’s all about Joey, nuthin’ but Joey.
Awright Momma! Put the Lieberman putz call answerer on the spot!
He would be stupid to answer the phone now.
hannity plays “Marching Songs of the Waffen-SS” to his on-hold callers
69—MA is the perfect explanation of shy we need the public option. Everyone there was forced to buy private insurance. Hasn’t saved anyone a dime.
74 that was an awesome Buck Henry SNL skit.
“Douchebag”
Lieberman: looks like a penis, or a scrotum?
75—Yup. One of the most self-involved politicians we have. God I hope he loses next time. I’ll pray for that.
#78: precisely
66: “….gonna hafta bail soon….”
oh, well, that’s okay then…. as long as MDB doesnt make sport of mccain’s five spectacular airplane crashes….
67—But he had to wait for 6 days to get that operation, right? Right??? (I’m acting like the Right.) Commie Canada.
“I was just asking Lord Sandwich, “Where the devil are
those Douchebags?”
“Parliament has always had its share of Douchebags, and
it always will.”
70: “…CT plan does have an honest-to-god Public Option…”
see ? – i’ve always said that steph is every bit as good as viagra.
G’morning, gang! Just time for a drive-by, heavy work day today….
I e-mailed Dodd and Lieberman last week to support the public option and will give ” Joe the Bummer” (HuffPo’s headline) heck later today. Rachel Maddow noted that Aetna & other health insurance companies’ stock was going down yesterday morning, but recovered nicely about 2 o’clock when Joe announced he planned to filibuster with the Republicans.
I think Joe has seriously miscalculated the situation and is proudly standing on the deck of the sinking Titannic. Whether or not he plays the role of the dog in the manger regarding healthcare, I’m pretty sure even people who voted for him last election out of loyalty for his prior record will send him packing at the next opportunity (unfortunately not until 2012).
This would be a great moment for Obama to channel his inner Lyndon Johnson and put the hammer down, instead of overcorrecting for the Clintons’ alleged error of being too heavy-handed about healthcare reform and staying too passive (a position which he has allowed the Republicans, by whining about said Clintons, to badger him into).
The principal lie conservatives are telling about the Public Option is that it will be an entitlement, paid out of the treasury. It is not, it is a low-overhead non-profit insurance program funded entirely out of premiums.
So the PO will not add one red cent to the deficit.
If premiums are subsidized for the poor, they will be subsidized independently of what insurance the poor choose to buy.
63—The MA plan is the perfect example of what we don’t want.
71: “Funny that Steph is prank calling Lieberman. What’s the occasion?”
nick at nite ALF marathon.
Morning folks!
#80
You mean uncircumcised.
#87, the problem is, Lieberman is going to lose in 2012 either way. The people of CT hate him. He’s got nothing to lose, electorally. I suspect he’s trying to line up a cushy job afterwards.
Good morning, fellow BloggenMooksters! Now, that’s more like it – yesterday was pathetic, did you get to SPA.. ?
I hope you are all doing well.
83 aw now yer just egging me on… CrazyMean Johnny’s KEATING Five
plane crashes? izzat to which you refer? Must be nice to have the
Commander O’the Pacific Fleet as yer daddy, a ship named after
yer gramps… gets you outta trouble after crashing Another plane…
is it really a “prank” call when you give your real name?
I can’t call the Joey line… don’t want to get in trouble
33—I think his religious beliefs have trumped everything he ever used to think. The Republicans got to him and convinced him to join the GW Bush Jesus Camp and ever since then, he think he’s preparing the U.S. for the Messiah. Wars. Armageddon; we’re off to see the Wizard.
93 the People hate him, rightly so… but the Money loves that
little git, which is how he stayed in last time. See my definition
of “Joementum”
Lieberman is a turd, he cost us one presidential election already.
93—Yay! From your keyboard to God’s ears.
96—I think what makes it a prank is that there are a few thousand of us listening in. That makes it fun.
#99, and for the remaining years of his term, he’s going to butter up the money scum that he expects to hire him as a lobbyist as soon he’s out of office.
Littul Joey: Crusted C#$K-Nozzle
If they keep adding amendments to slow down the passing of health reform we have to keep an accounting & make it widely known – like full page adverts in the NY Times.
Lieberman should be off every committee. Let him sit on the back bench.
“Who would want to be known as the one who shot down the Emancipation Proclaimation…” – Strom Thurman? Jessie Helm? Trent Lott? John McCain? (voted against MLK Day)
Keep saying this:
It takes 51 votes to get rid of the filibuster entirely.
It takes 51 votes to get rid of the filibuster entirely.
It takes 51 votes to get rid of the filibuster entirely.
It takes 51 votes to get rid of the filibuster entirely.
It takes 51 votes to get rid of the filibuster entirely.
Totally off-topic: Get ready girls (and certain men) – Corey Feldman is available! http://dlisted.com/node/34557
Lieberman should be a pariah in Washington. He should be the man without a country….
“Corey Feldman is available!”
Michael Jackson’s spinning in his grave.
98 I’d think Joe’s religious beliefs have colored his time
in the Congress, certainly he has a lot of loyalty to Israel,
prolly way more than he’s ever had to this country… but at
the end of the day he’s really all about Joey, he knows where
his bread is buttered
Yer right tho the Rethug bastard have done everything they
could to bring on Armageddon, to Immanentize the Eschaton…
I’m just hoping when Jesus get back he’s gonna open that
Giant sized can of Smite Thee on their so-deserving asses…
How come Liberman can freeze out Steph, but Obama can’t freeze out Fox? Conspiracy sausage?
109 don’t tell Steph Corey Feldman is back available, she’ll
be taking off all her clothes, again…
Mrs. Chris Dodd also has ties to the insurance industry. So many members of Congress have hands up their puppet holes it’s a wonder we’re even debating the issue.
I’m sure those puppets would prefer us to all shut up and go away.
112—-It’s the classic bumper sticker from the 70s:
Jesus is coming and boy is he pissed!
#116: sorry but my fave is :
I gave myself to Jesus but he never called back.
Morning bloggos – wow up to a lot of posts already and it’s not even 7am out here on the WC.
#115, Dodd’s more of a banking/credit card company guy.
My girlfriend came up with a great idea… Those liberals who have life insurance with a Conneticut co. could simply write a letter to state they’re dismay w/ Sen. Liberman and ask what would be involved in cashing out their policy. Those companies would get the message pretty quick.
Wherever there’s corporate money, you’ll find Congress. Corporate ownership of Congress is why it’s such a crummy institution.. Be honest, how many Congress people are really admirable humans?
sorry “their dismay…”
Shouldn’t Joe just get it over with and become the repug he already is??
I need some lube. My a** is sore from the reaming from the Republicans.
I feel the urge to kick Lieberman in the nuts.
Face it – the system is set up to make people “bribe sponges”. Parties won’t back you unless you can prove you can raise money and you can’t raise money unless you promise rich people things.
Campaign finance reform.
#120, interesting thought. My car insurance is through The Hartford.
125 – Run with that.
Taped Gecko is noted as saying: “I started telling him about car insurance then he just taped me to his leg!”
Lieberman Toady/call-answerer Zach gonna have a bad day… ah-ha!
serves him right for being a Lieberman-toady
Okay, now Lieberman said he’d vote for the first cloture vote, but wouldn’t vote for “final passage” – that could be interpreted that he’d just vote against the bill, but not for the second cloture vote.
If he wants to vote against the final bill, fine. We don’t need him.
Yay for A-Ha! Now, the literal video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ
123 – He’s too busy playing Judas
117 “Pontius Is My Co-Pilate”
oh caller douchebag, have a big cup of STFU
Right-wing luv-muffin. Big pile of dookie.
#131, to clarify, he said he’d vote for the first cloture vote, he didn’t say in that clip that he WOULDN’T vote for the second cloture vote, just not for the final bill.
Crap, it’s my Uncle Don!
Right wing love muffin seems to be another good ole’ southern boy..
Joe’s an Independent now – not a democrate so he feels he can do whatever he wishes.
123—I think that’s why we’re all mad at him so often. We’d like him to just tell the freakin’ truth to start with.
has Lieberman any nuts? I guess he does have a big brass
pair of balls, what he lacks entirely is Integrity
he’s a Spherical Bastard: a bastard when observed from any angle
Stimulus is a joke? GDP is up 3.5% this quarter.
126—Yup. Waiting for that. Hoping Russ Feingold will reintroduce that idea soon.
and we’re back ….
93: “. I suspect he’s trying to line up a cushy job afterwards.”
i’d love to see the look, when they inform liebermann that those arent cushions.
HEY!! WHERE’S MY MONEY!!!! (i wrote, in right wing all caps.)
Hiya, Bloggoes!
It’s a drive-by today. Boxes.
Actually it’s not the money that’s keeping Lieberman tied to the insurance industry. It’s the heroin that he’s obviously been doing. Listen to that slurred speech.
#133 –
142—But that was all thanks to Wall Street banks increasing credit cards rates, fees, and foreclosing on all our fellow Americans.
We can’t thank Obama for that. We must thank our banks. (Again I am channeling Fox here.)
Hi, guys. Just popping in to say ‘howdy’. Listening to the show. Love how everyone says ‘Lieberman’ the way Seinfeld said ‘Hello, Newman.
145—What are you selling?
96: it is, when it’s kim louise jong il explaining pranck’s constant as applied in one of these newfangled portable japanese transistor radios.
awright, gotta Thing. I’ll listen on the truck radio
all this Lieberman talk makes me feel unclean. Urge to shower,
now no time.
Carry On to Sparta and beyond!
I think Lieberman was one of the many bad choices Al Gore made in 2000. He wasn’t the whole problem, but he was clearly a symptom.
Once again: If lieberman is opposed to government-run healthcare: drop it & buy your own private insurance.
We (the people) just want what you have.
150 — Nothing. I just wanna “stimulate the economy.”
Lieberman is a sad example of humanity, he claims to be religious but has sold his soul to corporate money. What’s the Jewish version of Hell?
Morning all!. I wonder if Obama got Lieberman to take his position because Obama doesn’t want the public option either.
Off topic: Steve Lopez of the LA Times goes on a field trip to show how laughably easy it is to get a recommendation for “medical” marijuana.
Oh California…you are an addict in so many ways.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez28-2009oct28,0,874874.column?page=1&track=rss
155—You’re selling boxes of NOTHING? Are they available on Amazon?
People are so gullible. It’s sad.
Lieberman is another of the pasty white oily plastic men in Congress. (Boehner is also pasty white and oily, but dyed orange.) They’re all owned by corporate money.
156 Gehenna
OK, now I’m really out
have a good day everyone!
Several books entitled “Nothing” on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=nothing&x=19&y=16
#159: not Amazon. eBay.
159 — Oh! Boxes! Yeah, that’s it! I could sell boxes!
158 — So, why does California make the poor potheads go through the rigamarole of getting a scrip? WHy not just turn those dispensaries into something like what we in MA call a “paki?”
There really is a gift of nothing. It’s priced at over $16.00! That’s ridiculous.
http://www.amazon.com/Gift-of-Nothing/dp/B002J8VDXE/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1256738585&sr=8-16
Stop. Saying. The. DOW.
The Onion sells empty novelty boxes.
166- Nothing is too good for you.
Yeah but “Zack the poor little intern” had to know who he was going to work for and what Joe stands for….
Why is Steph giving the DOW numbers anyway?
We are so getting off the point here. I WANT MY STIMULUS MONEY!!! CAN WE PLEASE EXPEDITE THIS???
Craphammer – another complete asshole.
165—I’m thinking there must be a fair amount of tokers on the City Council because these pot stores have sprung up like weeds (haha) even though there is a moratorium, and the city council doesn’t do a thing about it.
So now my game is: “Guess who’s the toker?” Eric Garcetti? Jan Perry? Alarcon? The mayor? Or maybe some of their major campaign contributors are the tokers and they don’t want to piss off those people by cracking down on the pot clubs?
Tis a puzzlement to those of us who do not imbibe.
171 — “economic indicator,” false though it is.
Krauthammer looking into the Ark: “It’s Beautiful!”
Reid needs 51 votes to recover.
All they have to do is abolish the filibuster.
**urge to squeeze Sean Hannity’s hairy little helmet until his eyes bulge and he pops like the pus filled little human zit he is**
#171, because when the Dow was down, Republicans blamed Obama.
Sean is just a boot licker following orders – super dweeb.
168—But the Onion boxes are very funny. I bought some of those last year and put my kids’ gifts in them because they always worry that I’m going to give them something super-mom-lame.
They were a big hit last Xmas. Fooled the kids and then they laughed.
Actually, Lieberman was kicked out of the Connecticut for Lieberman party. There is an Independent Party, and he doesn’t belong to that. They don’t know what to call him.
Time to Sean Hannity to be slapped.
177 — I like that Jimmy Stewart movie, though. I wish we could turn Max Baucus into Joseph Harrison Paine and oh, say, maybe Al Franken into Jefferson Smith
Grayson’s testes have descended. Have Asshole O’Reilly trying to slime him makes Grayson righteous in my view.
#184, alas, that kind of filibuster hasn’t existed since 1975. It’s been the painless filibuster for almost 35 years. We need to be rid of it once and for all.
Hannity got very irate on his show yesterday with a guest and admitted that he hung out with children and basically did nothing other than work if you can call reading false info all day work. How can anyone who has no experience with anything in life or takes the time to relate to the world have an opinion on anything. No wonder Beck makes more money than he does.
Our governator spoke at the Women’s Conference here yesterday. I felt that was the ultimate insult to women and children in our state because Arnold killed all the funding for all the domestic violence shelters in the entire state.
And yet I’m sure the ladies there applauded for him. How Maria can stay with that guy after he did that is beyond me.
“HEY!! WHERE’S MY MONEY!!!! (i wrote, in right wing all caps.)”
Thought all Right-Wingers are against accepting money from the government…
Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, Luv-Muffin!!!
186 — yup, it’s true. I think you’re right, but I like going the other, more romantic way more.
#188 – I’ve never been able to see the attraction of AHnold. He’s a pompous jerk. Maria said once though that he was so different from all the Ivy League types she had grown up with and was being set up with that he looked like fun – completely different and so the rest is history. Yuck.
189 — they only won’t take it if its given by a Democrat. Republicans don’t give “entitlements.” They give subsidies.
#190, sadly, though, the filibuster, old or new, has almost always been used to block progressive legislation, and almost never to block regressive bills.
186—I do not understand why Reid fears the filibuster. Let those Republican Senators take the floor for a few days and tell us why we should continue to give our money to these demon insurance companies.
Really—let them argue for evil for a few days. Let us laugh at them and call them what they are in the press and on YouTube and blogs. Let their phones ring off the freakin’ hook as normal, regular Americans call them to tell them to sit down and be quiet.
That’s right Bill-0. We’re from the Obama Monetary Redistibution Commitee and we’re going to roll back the Reagan tax cuts so morons like you pay your fair share.
#187 – you can tell Sean’s world view is narrow and limited. I doubt he has ever done any research on his own, he simply does what he is told.
What time is it? I have to get to work. Good to have some spirited blogging this a.m. Take care!
I was sure that Hannity had no college degree of any kind, but I looked it up and he got an honorary mouseketeer degree from some university. Doctorate of Assholery, Highest Honors..
#194, because the rules don’t require that kind of filibuster. All it requires is for one Republican to sit on the floor at all times to deny unanimous consent to move on; and they can take shifts. They don’t even need to speak. It takes 51 Dems present to move on.
The theater of the filibuster has not existed for 35 years. It’s not in the Senate rules.
Sean’s another right wing stooge.. pro
#189 – I find it funny that all these repugs that are so against “big government” don’t turn down their social security payments and don’t hesitate to collect unemployment either. Same with these right wing senators. You hate “big gov” yet break your necks to be a part of it and reap all the benefits – the ultimate hypocrisy.
If the Insurance co hits hard times you don’t get your payout do ya Joe…
Suddenly government bailouts are terrible.. Where was Joe last year about this time, when the huge banks were being flow $700+ billion?
Oops, forgot that was CORPORATE interests.
#203 – Oops, forgot that was CORPORATE interests.
More like corporate welfare!
i called Lieberman’s office and got a busy signal after pressing #2. Sounds like Zack is busy. HA HA.
OK, that’s it for me today. Have a great sparta, you bloggoe kids!
luvya!
Buh Bye
Just called Liebermans office in Washington.. His box is FULL. I bet.
Got through to the Hartford office and told them that Lieberman is going against his constituents and not doing what’s best for this country. We need a public option!
He’s trying to get attention!!!!!!!!!!
(he’s outta here)
204 – Corporate Socialism
205 – You don’t really think with all that insurance money flowing in Zach is the only intern they can afford, do you? LOL
207. Lieberman’s Hartford office oughta get a bunch of visits today from his constituents.
Hopped up on coffee is okay though right??
“Got through to the Hartford office..”
Hope you blocked your caller ID…or you just developed a “permanent pre-existing condition”…
Good morning Lovebloggers!
#71: Apparently it’s Dial-a-Douche Day here at the SMS.
Frightening to think he could have been our VP
Joe Lieberman is a medical terrorist.
211 — isn’t hops something they put in beer? I always thought that expression should be substance-specific. “All hopped up on dope” never made sense to me.
OK, now I’m really gone.
Promise.
calling Doctor Mbogo. calling Doctor Mbogo.
Can someone get that tape of Lieberman about his health care plan, set up huge speakers outside there house and play it full blast 24 hours a day….
Watch for him to end up on the board of Aetna. How childish for him to retaliate this way because he didn’t get what he wanted such as a cabinet position.
#67, #84: And they charged him $14 to watch CANADIAN TV!!
(Just kidding Canada, I love mooses and squirrels and the National Film Board!)
Hadassah Lieberman is douche-adjacent
Joe is douche? Hmmm. I like dill hole too (from that 70’s show).
#216, hops is what makes an ale a beer, historically.
#222: Lieberman is dumb…and he’s an ass. He’s a…dumbass!
222-I prefer “Joe the Bummer” from the HuffPo headline yesterday.
top 10 replacements for Lieberman
http://airamerica.com/politics/10-28-2009/ken-kupchik/#at
capon? no COCK!
#225 – that’s good!
Michelle Bachman. Brings a new meaning to the word “vomit”.
I think Michele has delusions of grandeur…
Michele has spent a little too much time out there on the frozen tundra.
So the right wing’s definition of estimate is gee, wouldn’t that be nice?
Oh go back to Maine and check your beaver traps you old hag.
#233 – HA HA!!!
How old is Ian McKellan?
Chris just saw his life flashing before his eyes.
That was good Steph!!
Oh c’mon! Not more Michael Jackson!~
What Stephanie from Madison said
http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/sen-joe-lieberman-wins-a-penis-pig-award/
How old is Quintin Crisp? Derick Jacoby? How long did Truman Capote or Gore Vidal live?
#137: Was this your Uncle Don? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Don
And here’s me thinking that filibuster meant someone who enjoyed sex with horses.
#239 Senator Lieberman regrets that he cannot except this award on the grounds that it is traif.
Quentin Crisp died in 1999. Derek Jacoby is 71.
242. FLAVIN!
Jim could call Zach and pretend to be Joe Lieberman …
At least you got a “dear” in the letter.
No paddles … strictly rulers. Or a bag of oranges – they don’t leave a mark.
Wow. Steph is a douche. A lying douche.
#249: just kidding blog.
Three cornered rulers. Across the knuckles..
#251: wow those hurt!
Michele Bachmann is an ultra religious nut.. all her views are guided by the insane teachings of pentecostal preacher Mac Hammond. But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if she’s got some wild sex life going in DC. You know… the fundy Christians ussually do.
Does Beck even realize that EVERY modern cellphone has a GPS in it, so that it can locate its transceiver links? I doubt it, Beck is a dumb ass.
Now-Senator Al Franken once took part in a (FIRING LINE?) liberals-vs.-conservatives debate. Decades later, it’s time for a rematch, perhaps on pay-per-view. Rachel Maddow vs. Ann Coulter, Keith Olbermann vs. Bill O’Reilly, Thom Hartmann vs. Michael Medved, Mike Malloy vs. Mark Levine, Stephanie Miller vs. Mary Matilin, Ed Schultz vs. Rush Limbaugh, Lionel vs. Sean Hannity, Gore Vidal vs. Newt Gingrich, (President) Al Gore vs. Senator Inskeep.
what’s the difference between a porn pilot and a palm pilot?
30,000 feet and one hand?
Hey, where’s John F.??
Hey, where’s John F.??
No Chris it DOES NOT look like Rio. Rio had artwork. Tool.
I’m so sick of Jon and Kate – I’ve boycotted the whole thing and I still can’t get away from it!
and where’s Hal?
#255 – great idea but the repugs would just yell because that’s all they know how to do.
#oops – meant Hal, not John….
watch and see how many blue dogs dems join Lieberman
All the hee-ha states need it the most.
#174: I like playing guess-the-pothead while watching our local happy, dancing weather-persons and teleprompter-reading hairdos.
Again, folks, that kind of filibuster doesn’t exist.
The Sound of A Republican Suck-Hole choking…music to my ears.
Rethuglicans!
Hey, can we kick the Nutmeg State in the nuts til they expel Joe?
Does Hal even know how hard it is to play banjo properly while kicking bad-guy ass!?
Hal knows a lot.
I’ll give Glenn Beck something to cry about.
Gawd. Give Bush his ruggie and shut him up.
Good thing Dubya is there to help us get motivated.
I’d hate to have to go LIVE IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!
Hal!!
Bill O’Reilly got caught at a Lemon Party last week. GOD is he wrinkled!
#277 – what is a lemon party??
Dammit! Everyone is a biter today. Bastards all!
Steph, douche on line 2 for you. Cover yourself.
A shout out to Steve Martin. Alright Hal!
Grampy, you’re supposed to sing it, not say it.
Is Grampy McCain awake??
bastige
#278: it where you suck so hard your face crumples in on itself.
And Bill-o certainly does suck.
#285 – he’s a sour puss that’s for sure
Republicans = Party of Death
SPARTA’s so near, yet so far
“wicked queea” doesn’t mean what it used to mean in Maine. No suh.
One more cup of coffee and back for SPARTA.
Bye everybody! Be healthy as you can to spite the bastiges.
I wish these Rupbs would stop queefing & do something good for the country as a whole for a change.
Be seeing you!
Did the rocket go off today? Is it possible for it to crash into Yankee Stadium?
#293: It’s possible that it COST more than Yankee Stadium.