With the Chicago thug in the White House, is it any wonder his homies are feelin’ free to speak out?
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at 0:07 :
And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who then argued against the public health insurance option saying it wouldn’t let private private insurance compete; that a public option would put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer.My single-payer friends — He. Was. Right. The man was right.
I, uh, I … here’s what I told him. I said, excuse me sir, the goal of healthcare reform is not to protect the private health insurance industry.
at 1:09
I know many of you here today are single payer advocates and so am I … and those of us who are pushing for a public health insurance don’t disagree with this goal. This is not a principled fight. This is a fight about strategy for getting there and I believe we will.
Nationalized healthcare, nationalized banking and auto industries … Oh what an enchanting future Obama has in store for us!
(via Breitbart.tv)
Comment by geoffb on 5/1 @ 9:30 pm #
Chicago the Model*. They go with what they know, though they don’t really, really know it.
*Apologies to “Iraq the Model”.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 9:32 pm #
This is the woman whose convicted felon husband was schmoozing with Michelle and her $500 sneakers.
Comment by geoffb on 5/1 @ 9:44 pm #
Ah, a good team player then.
Comment by mcgruder on 5/1 @ 9:47 pm #
OT, so do forgive.
Glenn at Instapundit has a really….appalling video up of Michael Musto of the Voice and Olbermann absolutely ripping apart that girl from California, Prejean, over gay marriage.
this is literally the most disgusting thing I have seene in these sort of formats.
these men are begining to surrender their humanity. What kind of grown man sits there in prime time and makes fun of a woman’s tits instead of dealing with her diagreeable policy position. The answer is: keith Olbermann and a central casting gay fluffer.
I hate these guys. They simply dont belong in civil life.
Comment by geoffb on 5/1 @ 9:51 pm #
OT also, a question.
I recently came across a book in my wife’s collection which I am wondering if anyone has read. It is, “The Nazi Seizure of Power” by William Allen.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 5/1 @ 9:52 pm #
“Nice insurance company you got here…hate to see anything happen to it.”
Comment by geoffb on 5/1 @ 9:57 pm #
Either they are believing they can never be displaced from power, and so are finally free to be themselves, or they are so used to the press covering up all gaffs that they are still playing as if the digital electronics revolution never occurred. I pray for the second and fear for the first.
Comment by Joe on 5/1 @ 10:15 pm #
Where have I heard this before?
Hawkins is correct, and I am glad that Pajamamedia recognizes it…now. Too bad they rejected it when Jeff raised the issue.
Comment by cynn on 5/1 @ 10:32 pm #
Yes, I say Senator Schozowitz. Hoopty Hoopty Hoopty; Dems bad, anything short of an enema is good.
Comment by geoffb on 5/1 @ 10:41 pm #
I can only think of a “lyric” from the Beatles. “Number 9, Number 9, Number 9, ad infinitum.
Comment by cynn on 5/1 @ 10:45 pm #
mcgruder: I will gladly send you all my loser embryos, if you’re that despondent.
Redemption is fungible
Comment by pdbuttons on 5/1 @ 10:45 pm #
national front disco
ur gonna need…
Comment by hf on 5/1 @ 11:06 pm #
That was well expressed, what mcgruder said. Tv is wrongness I think and I’m over it.
Comment by Ted Nugent's Soul Patch on 5/1 @ 11:18 pm #
“This is not a principled fight.”
That’s really the telling quote right there.
However, thanks to Obama’s budgets for the next few years, they have no way to pay for this unless every business in America is liquidated and sold to China, or they incur massive inflation. The money simply is not there, although objective reality never stopped a left-wing true believer.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:22 pm #
TNSP: inflation is coming, Weimar-style.
You can bank on it.
Comment by bh on 5/1 @ 11:36 pm #
SBP, while you’re undoubtedly correct, the projections I’m seeing still seem low enough to predict a terrible economy for another few quarters. Then, if we’re lucky, we’ll move onto terrible inflation.
Was there a Weimar-style stagflation?
This is when we’re reminded that “May you live in interesting times” was a curse.
Comment by thor on 5/1 @ 11:38 pm #
I don’t get it. Of the gaggle of quackers that’s supposedly uber-uber hubba-hubba pro-business find me one quacker here who knows effen shit about business.
Still waiting for Jeff to explain the tangential nature of a bankruptcy to postmodernism and/or post-structuralism. Negotiated debt and equity restructuring transcends modern time, meaning restructuring debt pre-dates literary postmodernism and modernism. Asset-backed, Sr. sub and Jr. sub, maybe the classifying of debt into segregated classes smacks of Marxist debt class warfare. I’d just love to hear the zaniness in the construct of that rhetoric.
Duh-dar’s machinations are founded on paranoia based in ignorance. We’ve seen it again and again from the old gal. Or maybe she’s easily hypnotized by corporate logos. Starbucks, must pay $5, must pay $5, must pay $5 for coffee, free office coffee is too expensive, must pay $5. Who can really say.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:42 pm #
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
YIP!
YIP!
Comment by bh on 5/1 @ 11:43 pm #
Okay, thor, I’ll bite. Flesh out your macro and finance CV.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:46 pm #
bh, what set off the German hyperinflation was a foreign country (Britain, in that case) demanding that Germany pay off its debt (war reparations, in that case) in hard assets.
Any resemblance to the situation currently obtaining between the United States and a certain large Asian country is purely coincidental.
Comment by bh on 5/1 @ 11:47 pm #
heh, SBP.
Comment by thor on 5/1 @ 11:48 pm #
Hi Stupid. How’s the business of being a stupid little crazy fuck?
Say, SLCF, in your cliche concerning “banking” on it, are you referring to certain of American banks? Because your cliche sort’a dissolves in the particularities of which and what type of bank you’re referencing.
C’mon, SLCF, do your Wiemar-SS fascist-racist-crazy Yip dance.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:50 pm #
YIP! YIPYIPYIPYIP!
YIP!
Keep yipping, thor. Just be sure that you don’t ever come out from behind the safety of the living room window/your computer screen.
I hear the mailman has been known to punt little yippy dogs.
Comment by hf on 5/1 @ 11:50 pm #
Whatever this is just our trashy skeezey marxist thug president stealing shit and giving it to his greasy union thug pals. I’m not stupid you know I can see what’s going on.
Comment by thor on 5/1 @ 11:52 pm #
Hey broke-dick SLCF, check the action in CQB. Could have had you lot’s of bananas to shake at passersby. Tsk, tsk, SLCF, SPB.
Pedal on.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:53 pm #
YIP! YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
YIP!
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
Comment by thor on 5/1 @ 11:56 pm #
Good SLCF doggie. Punt!
Emotionally I don’t think you’re quite ready for the future. Score some cheap ass weed and harsh your self.
Comment by SBP on 5/1 @ 11:57 pm #
YIP!
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
Comment by thor on 5/2 @ 12:08 am #
When are you peddling your rickshaw to Texas, SLCF? Personally I wou’dn’t think a tenured professor of any academic standing would be so mobile. And let me dial you in, SLCF, Texas’s property taxes are the equalizer to other state’s state taxes.
Ignorant SLCF. Fuckin’ punter. Defeated little peddler. Loony congenital fibber.
Comment by thor on 5/2 @ 12:12 am #
Then again, some of that scrub land in South Texas might be perfect for you. Get you a little spread where your goats can run. It’d be nice if you afforded ‘em a runner’s chance.
Comment by SBP on 5/2 @ 12:22 am #
YIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIPYIP!
YIP!
Comment by hf on 5/2 @ 12:27 am #
Hey I am in the scrub in south texas now! How do you spell weesatch?
Comment by thor on 5/2 @ 12:29 am #
I dunno.
I’ll be in Big D soon enough.
It’s no vacation there.
Comment by hf on 5/2 @ 12:37 am #
My next vacation is gonna be Dallas for real a super best friend is there and I’m overdue to check in… He wants to do this canoe trip on the Brazos. Ok I guess.
Comment by thor on 5/2 @ 1:12 am #
I canoed the Brazos long time ago. Don’t think we caught it anywhere near the city though, plenty South, I think. You have to watch the water levels, unless you like carrying the canoe.
Comment by Barnay Frank on 5/2 @ 4:56 am #
Nonsense, lillehammer.
You came aboard with it.
Comment by JHoward on 5/2 @ 5:15 am #
threadautoconverterboibot sez:
How about: The many colors of bullshit.
Yip.
Comment by B Moe on 5/2 @ 5:37 am #
All you really need to know.
Comment by MarkD on 5/2 @ 6:23 am #
On topic, why is it OK for our representatives to have superior healthcare? They ought to eat their own dog food instead of trying to tell me how good it’s going to be.
Comment by Rusty on 5/2 @ 8:32 am #
#32
Is it really humid now? I’ve only been to Dallas and environs, but it was always very hot and humid. I pretty much stay in bars and BBQ joints the whole time I,m there. The guy who invented air conditioning should have a statue.
Comment by Darleen on 5/2 @ 9:12 am #
The only thing Walthor Mitty really knows about business is how to spend his parents’ money, but he demands to control the thread (much like the Left tries to control the framing of all conversations) and never contributes to the topic …
The collectivist bitch above along with her Chicago Thug (who never so much as ran a lemonade stand) are working furiously to stamp out private enterprise, private property and liberty as defined by American values.
It should be noted that over the past 8 years absolutely no Republican official of any stature called Democrats “unpatriotic” or “unAmerican”…but we have seen those exact words fall from the shriveled lips of Pelosi, et al.
Comment by SDN on 5/2 @ 10:22 am #
Damn, thor, you’re coming to Dallas? Never thought you’d bring the landing zone to me……
Sleep tight….
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 5/2 @ 12:32 pm #
“I don’t get it. Of the gaggle of quackers that’s supposedly uber-uber hubba-hubba pro-business find me one quacker here who knows effen shit about business.”
Present an accounted for sir.
“Still waiting for an explanation of the tangential nature of a bankruptcy to postmodernism and/or post-structuralism.”
I’m still waiting for a commission check from 1998.
You’re such a fucking fake poof.
Coming to Big D are you?
Look me up.
Comment by SBP on 5/2 @ 1:55 pm #
You still seem to be under the impression that I’m going to have a conversation with you, liebot.
I’m not.
Sorry.
Comment by meya on 5/2 @ 1:57 pm #
“You still seem to be under the impression that I’m going to have a conversation with you, liebot.”
So down, then? I’m afraid so as well. Didn’t GDP drop 6% or so annualized Q1? Not that I have that much money to put on it.
Comment by SBP on 5/2 @ 3:51 pm #
So down, then?
So, a liar, then?
The mere fact that I’m not engaging your lies, liebot, doesn’t mean that you get to make up more lies about what I said.
Sorry.
Comment by donald on 5/2 @ 3:58 pm #
Um, Cynn, you’re a cunt. Thor, I own a business. I employ people, I make money. I do a fair and good job for each and every one I deal with. You don’t. You wear birkenstocks and suck dicks. You know nothing. You’re a cunt. This cunt from Illinois is a moronic cunt. Um, Cynn, Thor, you’re moronic cunts also. I also officiated my second game this week in under an hour 1:15. I am a man, you two are cunts. Eat shit.
I believe this post may be a little scatalogical, but the truth is the truth. Live it, be it.
Comment by donald on 5/2 @ 3:59 pm #
I just did that post for America, which at this time has no balls.
Comment by Matt Damon on 5/2 @ 4:38 pm #
Thor sucks donkey dicks.
Comment by mcgruder on 5/2 @ 5:07 pm #
Thor, i got all the time in the world to talk biz with ya. I was a senior trader at a big old investment bank–in the bond area no less–having worked my way up from cap structure arb research. then, i spent the last decade covering wall street with an eye to forensic research and financial fraud for two top five circulation pub’s..
so any terms you wanna fire at me machine gun style in the hopes of impressing the others? lock and load.
Comment by Rusty on 5/2 @ 5:13 pm #
#44 Not the CPI, maya. The money supply. How’s yer hero gonna pay for all this once he’s taxed everyone to the poorhouse? Yeah. That’s right. He’s gonna print it. Your Snicker bar is gonna cost you 15 bucks.
Comment by meya on 5/2 @ 5:40 pm #
“How’s yer hero gonna pay for all this once he’s taxed everyone to the poorhouse? ”
My idea is that we use the Laffer curve and cut taxes to pay for all this deficit spending.
“Your Snicker bar is gonna cost you 15 bucks.”
How is that not CPI?
Comment by SBP on 5/2 @ 6:49 pm #
My idea is that we use the Laffer curve
My idea is that you are a liar.
Also one who is ignorant of basic mathematics, as I’ve pointed out before.
Comment by SDN on 5/2 @ 7:01 pm #
Hey, Lamont, you want to draw straws for who gets first dibs? or should we just make it a race to see who tracks thunderboi down first?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/2 @ 7:06 pm #
The funny thing about this is, it works even if mcgruder is lying through his teeth about his expertise. thor never met an argument he couldn’t try to define by coloring around it.
Comment by mcgruder on 5/2 @ 7:46 pm #
Slart,
thats my Cv.
not the prettiest climb up from collegiate asninity, but it was my mine indeed.
Comment by Rusty on 5/2 @ 8:14 pm #
57
I don’t think you’re going to be hearing from him for awhile. He’s a.) Googling like crazy. b.) moving goal posts.
Comment by Diana on 5/2 @ 8:24 pm #
Be quiet for a while, thor. We’ll thank you later.
Comment by SporkLift Driver on 5/2 @ 8:31 pm #
Thor, you need to drop the names of at least one famous and three obscure anti-intellectual authors. That would provide you some cover, otherwise the stupidity, derangement and childish temper are just too obvious.
Oh yeah.
Darleen owns you.
Every.
Damn.
Time.
Comment by section9 on 5/2 @ 8:37 pm #
Jesus, watching that woman was like watching Ellsworth Toohey make the Big Speech against Howard Rourke.
That bitch is every Ayn Rand Villain wrapped up in Looter Clothing and driving in the Second Rater Mobile towards a Government-funded Condo in Courtland Homes.
Now you know why Howard Rourke blew the fucking towers to kingdom come, ’cause he knew that that looter bitch was going to live in them.
I’m telling you, we’re living through the middle chapters of Atlas Shrugged. Watching that looter bitch is like waiting for the lights to go out in New York.
Comment by SDN on 5/3 @ 4:00 am #
Actually, Rusty, I think thunderboi is rethinking his travel plans because he might have let a few details too many slip……
Comment by Rusty on 5/3 @ 5:41 am #
#62
Oh, my.
Comment by donald on 5/3 @ 1:46 pm #
You know, My dick would fit right in that pie hole about perfectly.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 5/4 @ 9:04 am #
I wasn’t questioning your honesty, mcgruder, just saying that your 5:07pm comment worked whether you were telling the truth or not.
thor’s problem is not so much that he hides his light under a bushel basket, it’s that you can’t even tell there IS a basket. Or a light.
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