… to enforce the letter of the law, rather than the spirit.
With much of Washington focused on efforts to revamp the health-care system and address climate change, a handful of Obama appointees have been quietly exercising their power over the trappings of daily life. They are awakening a vast regulatory apparatus with authority over nearly every U.S. workplace, 15,000 consumer products, and most items found in kitchen pantries and medicine cabinets.
Are you all warm and fuzzified by such attention to our every step, our every breath?
In a move designed as much for symbolism as effect, the new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission dispatched all 100 agency inspectors across the country last month to enforce a law that requires special drains on swimming pools to prevent children from entrapment. The agency shut down more than 200 pools.The new regulators display a passion for rules and a belief that government must protect the public from dangers lurking at home and on the job — one more way the new White House is reworking the relationship between government and business.
Why so coy? Isn’t that really the establishment of a relationship between a Nanny Government and infantilized citizenry?
“The argument is going to be that this is going to hurt jobs and be bad for the economy,” Livermore said. “That has resonance on the Hill and within the public. . . . That’s the one big challenge.”
Oh, Rahm “don’t let a crisis go to waste” Emanuel will be so proud of you!
At the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates items as varied as aquariums and wheelbarrows, the new chairman, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, said her top priority is to implement a complex new law that includes the strongest consumer protections in a generation. [...]Tenenbaum’s determination to enforce the law is a reversal from her predecessor, said CPSC Commissioner Nancy A. Nord, a former lobbyist for Eastman Kodak who argued against many aspects of that law.
I’ve covered the irrational, draconian CPSIA “regulations” here before — from banning children’s books printed before 1985 to educational toys to making crafters, knitters, quilters, thriftstores, garage sales and anyone who dares to even sew a costume for a child — CPSIA criminalizes them. Overlawyered has a running category. How soon will SWAT teams bust in on illegal church rummage sales and NICU quilting clubs? Must stop those size 6T denim jeans with the metal zippers of DOOM! And don’t get Inez Moore Tenenbaum started on Premie Booties knitted with extra maliciousness!
My, how safe we should all feel with such ruthless dedicated people to make every decision for us!
Comment by Joe on 10/13 @ 8:06 am #
Obama was supposed to be some brilliant combination of Mr. Smith goes to Washington, with the political and managerial skills of Machiavelli and Sun Tzu.
Instead we have an administration that is like Goober playing checkers.
Not that the GOP is any better right now, but at least they are smart enough to get out of the way of Obama falling down a flight of stairs.
This kind of heavy handedness on matters that are frankly not that important will definitely backfire. But if you want Obama policies to fail (unless you still think he is a “good man”), this is an excellent way to fail. They are doing it all on their own.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 8:16 am #
I look forward to the coming crackdown on church rummage sales and charity crafting clubs. I think footage of a few more grandmas being tasered will do wonders for my budding pitchfork-and-torch* business, not to mention my partnerships with the chicken pluckers and asphalt boilers.
* Pitchforks and torches not tested for safety. Keep out of reach of children.
Comment by Joe on 10/13 @ 8:18 am #
Outlaw!
The case for parochial and home schooling.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 8:32 am #
Bubble wrap. It’s the only answer.
When you’re born, you get bubble wrapped. Forever.
Comment by Joe on 10/13 @ 8:48 am #
Maybe Team Obama could start enforcing laws pertaining to voter fraud.
Oh wait, conflict of interests there.
And N.O’Brain, you do not want to be covered with bubble wrap. Other kids will throw you down and start popping you. It would really suck.
And talking about sucking, you might have difficulty breathing too.
Comment by Eben on 10/13 @ 9:19 am #
Someone once said It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Can’t remember if is was Obama or Lenin.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 9:35 am #
So what your saying Darleen is that soon there will be fortunes made in the darning and rummage sale black market.
Excellent!
I shall be the Al Capone of Grandma’s ugly Christmas sweaters, and second hand crap. I decree my Flea Market will be bigger than The Mall of America.
Comment by SDN on 10/13 @ 9:35 am #
100 inspectors? I have a drum magazine that should hold just enough. And unfortunately, that’s likely to be the only response that stops this: when the rank-and file are too scared to do the job.
Do they actually want a second Civil War? Dear Lord.
Comment by AJB on 10/13 @ 9:36 am #
You know, I really don’t want to have to become paralyzed from eating ground beef, so I think I’ll support Obama on this one.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 9:44 am #
So we ALL have to suffer because a handful of idiots don’t have a meat thermometer?
What you’re really saying is you need mommy obama to cut your steak for you.
Will he set you in the little high-chair too?
Comment by B Moe on 10/13 @ 9:48 am #
Buy a lot of hamburgers ground in swimming pools at yard sales, AJB? That could certainly explain your dementia.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 9:52 am #
AJB, not content with tasering little old ladies for selling second-hand children’s toys at the church basement rummage sale, will now commence with tasering little old ladies for feeding people at the church basement potluck.
AJB, I thank you for your continuing promotion of my pitchfork-and-torch business.
P.S. You’re far more likely to get sick from spinach or sprouts than you are from ground beef. Food for thought (pun intended).
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 10/13 @ 9:55 am #
AJB is the poster child for “dumb American” so yeah, I am guessing he welcomes his betters clearing the way for him.
Comment by Eben on 10/13 @ 9:57 am #
It’s useful idiots like AJB that can’t tell the difference between the FDA and the CPSIA nor the difference between a thoroughly needed food inspection regime that the government can’t be trusted to run correctly and a thoroughly useless garage sale gestapo that the government wants to run just as ineffectively.
Comment by Eben on 10/13 @ 9:58 am #
Should have said USDA rather than FDA.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 10:00 am #
Disclaimer: Pitchforks and torches not tested for safety. Keep out of reach of children.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 10/13 @ 10:01 am #
I really don’t want to have to become paralyzed from eating ground beef
*sigh* Remember when fear-mongering in support of increasing the power of government was a bad thing?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 10:06 am #
“Let’s hope Obama will allow stand up to Big Meat”.
He’s going after the gay porn industry now?
Comment by JohnAnnArbor on 10/13 @ 10:08 am #
The philosophy is the problem here. Not every letter-of-the-regulation violation is a hazard. And not every incident cries out for a new regulation.
To normal people.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 10/13 @ 10:14 am #
The liberal plan for society: treat children like adults, and adults like children.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 10:14 am #
I think snowcone is right on this one.
Every democrat up for election in 2010 should immediately run campaign spots where they stare into the camera, and say, “Big Meat” over and over.
Landslide.
“Big Meat”.
Somewhere Beavis & Butthead just passed out.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/13 @ 10:20 am #
snowcone is clearly the Big Meat Czar.
Comment by geoffb on 10/13 @ 10:24 am #
Nothing brings on the snafu faster than going completely literal with all rules, orders, and regulations coming from the boss. Of course if your goal is to bring down the entire country then…
Comment by cranky-d on 10/13 @ 10:30 am #
Guess what, whichever assertion monkey you are? I don’t have to read your spew.
Thanks again, SBP.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 10:34 am #
Of course if your goal is to bring down the entire country then…
Funny thing about that. See, the country is designed to be self-repairing. It’ll bring down the Junior Fascists before they can finish the job.
And when the time comes, I hope everyone’ll keep in mind Squid® brand torches and pitchforks. Remember, whether your problem is a Mad Scientist or a Carpetbagger, five out of six angry mobs prefer Squid® brand torches and pitchforks.
Comment by newrouter on 10/13 @ 10:36 am #
i hope you add a “tar and feather” package
Comment by geoffb on 10/13 @ 10:37 am #
You see meat is unhealthy and just too darn cheap. Ribeyes for $6.99, strip steaks for $5.99. Soon the Wagu will be under $50 per and then those hoi poloi will horn in on that action. We elites need our “special” things to set us apart, because we know that it’s those things alone that make us better.
Comment by sdferr on 10/13 @ 10:38 am #
From Michael Yon’s piece today on the attempted liberation of the Netherlands of the Market Garden operation:
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/13 @ 10:49 am #
Burning millions of children’s books is a small price to pay to not have our tots exposed to 0.04 picograms of lead over their precious little lives, h8rs!
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 10:50 am #
sdferr,
Great scene on Yon’s point in Band of Brothers.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/13 @ 10:51 am #
You know, I really don’t want to have to become paralyzed from eating ground beef, so I think I’ll support Obama on this one.
Seriously, AJB, you’d be much more well advised to check out the causation of your weak mind.
Comment by Abe Froman on 10/13 @ 10:55 am #
Burning millions of children’s books is a small price to pay to not have our tots exposed to 0.04 picograms of lead over their precious little lives, h8rs!
When I think about how many times in my yoot I closed a lead split shot sinker with my teeth while fishing I weep for my impending DOOOOOM!
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/13 @ 10:56 am #
33. There has to be something that leads one to craft such lines as “I really don’t want to have to become paralyzed…” and believes that they are an intellectually enlightened superior. AJB, you and all of the other idiot sycophants of the Almighty One would support Obama if he told you to hop on one foot every day for the rest of your meager lives.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/13 @ 11:15 am #
Inez Moore Tenenbaum is the chairman of the CPSC??
Coulda sworn her name was Dolores Jane Umbridge
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 11:28 am #
“#Comment by Snowcone on 10/13 @ 10:28 am #
I giggled a little myself when I coined that.”
I’m sure you did, child.
Comment by cranky-d on 10/13 @ 11:30 am #
When I decide to join the angry mob, I will be using Squid® brand torches and pitchforks. They get the job done.
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Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 11:30 am #
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Comment by J. “Trashman” Peden on 10/13 @ 10:51 am #
You know, I really don’t want to have to become paralyzed from eating ground beef, so I think I’ll support Obama on this one.
Seriously, AJB, you’d be much more well advised to check out the causation of your weak mind.”
Maybe he should unsubscirbe from the “Paint Chip Of The Month Club”.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/13 @ 11:31 am #
Republicans are going to have to make me become paralyzed with their Big Meat.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 11:33 am #
Comment by AJB on 10/13 @ 9:36 am #
So, do you support irradiating hamburger to destroy pathogens?
Comment by Snowcone on 10/13 @ 11:36 am #
that leads one to craft such lines as
All the beef America ships to Japan is tested for Mad Cow disease.
It’s the beef sold to Americans that the government won’t allow to be tested.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 11:47 am #
Comment by Snowcone on 10/13 @ 11:36 am #
Hush, child, the adults are talking.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/13 @ 11:48 am #
snotbag really doesn’t get the concept of “Who the fuck asked you?” Go sit on some of your beloved Big Meat, you putrid pile.
Comment by J. "Trashman" Peden on 10/13 @ 11:55 am #
It’s the beef sold to Americans that the government won’t allow to be tested.
But fat chance Obama is going to commit political suicide by eliminating the obvious cause for his base support, eh what, Snowcone?
Comment by Snowcone on 10/13 @ 11:57 am #
You guys are really wee-weeing yourselves over this beef thing.
You’re not from Texas are you?
Speaking of Texas…looks like your governor is going to be charged with murder because he knowingly let an innocent man be executed?
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 11:57 am #
In a thread discussing the government’s inability to manage public safety programs, Snowy references the government’s inability to manage a public safety program. As though it were evidence against Darleen’s point!
That’s enough to make me glad that I unhammered Snowy for a moment.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 11:57 am #
“It’s the beef sold to Americans that the government won’t allow to be tested.”
…?
That is the stupidest…
Let me try one.
As long as I keep banging these small rocks together, tigers can’t come into my backyard.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 12:00 pm #
Let’s say for a moment that BMoe had cited USDA’s failures in food safety as evidence that CPSC would fail in its quest for handicraft safety. Does anyone for a moment believe that Snowy wouldn’t challenge him on it?
Black is white. Up is down. Hall is Oates.
Comment by SPC Jack Klompus on 10/13 @ 12:01 pm #
Loggins is Messina.
Comment by Reason on 10/13 @ 12:03 pm #
She was paralyzed by a powerful strain of e-coil, you suffering malcontent.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 12:07 pm #
Okay, I looked it up, and the case that Snowy is referencing is from a beef producer who wants to do its own testing for BSE, and then label its beef as tested and safe. USDA doesn’t want them to label their product as being safe, because it says the producer can’t be guaranteed to do the testing properly.
So, another thought experiment: The “We Luv Dubya” Beef Company is testing its herds and certifying them as safe. Obama’s USDA sues. Does Snowy criticize Obama’s thugs for preventing safety testing, or does it make the assertion that letting We Luv Dubya certify their own product is tantamount to letting the tobacco companies assert that nicotine is good for you?
Setting aside, for the moment, that Snowy doesn’t know what “tantamount” means.
Comment by Rigoberta Menchú on 10/13 @ 12:08 pm #
BSE couldn’t do any more harm to your brain, snowblower.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 12:15 pm #
“Speaking of Texas…looks like your governor is going to be charged with murder because he knowingly let an innocent man be executed?”
If Perry knew and is covering it up? Fuck him. Run him out on a rail.
We’re not like you shitcone. Just because a pol has an “R” behind his name doesn’t make him holy. Unlike you and your Jim Jones president (or any other corrupt democrat for that matter).
I suspect Perry will be indicted for murder around the time Janet Reno & Bill Clinton are indicted for the murder of 77 people in Waco in 1993, or your Nobel Prize winner is indicted for ordering the bombing murders of “innocent Pakistani civilians” residing in a country we’re not at war with.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 12:15 pm #
Given that Snowy obviously doesn’t read its own drivel, I see no reason why I should read the words back to it. Lesson concluded.
Trollhammer reactivate!
Comment by tex cattleprod on 10/13 @ 12:21 pm #
How did two assless chap wearing progressive pansies manage to make this about meat? Go choke on your un-chicken salad sandwiches.
Comment by sdferr on 10/13 @ 12:23 pm #
Yuval Levin quotes the imbecilic Sen. Olympia Snowe on her vote for the Baucus monstrosity:
She sounds like someone saying “When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go” pissing on Americans under color of an imagined tinkly necessity. Fucking idiot.
Comment by tex cattleprod on 10/13 @ 12:24 pm #
Ricky Ray Rector wants him some pecan pie!
Comment by Pablo on 10/13 @ 12:33 pm #
The stupid is dense in here. Pardon my redundancy.
Comment by DarthRove on 10/13 @ 12:35 pm #
Speaking of nanny-state idiocy:
A 6-year-old boy is being sent to reform school for 45 days because he took his Cub Scout multipurpose camping utensil to school. After all, it has a <i>KNIFE!!!11!!!111!!!</i> Zero Tolerance!! Bad, bad, BAD kid!!!
Quelle horreur!!
Comment by sdferr on 10/13 @ 12:35 pm #
Yesterday I frequently ran into a headline that read “Crane collapses in Center City” so I looked to see, what was the deal? The deal was not a crane, for starters. It was an articulated self propelled hydraulic man-lift. Where do they find these idiots, I wondered.
Just so with the “Bipartisan Baucus bill” predicated on the support of Sen Olympia Snowe. That’s laughably false. They might as well headline “Bipartisan opposition to Baucus bill” predicated on the opposition of Joe Lieberman. Still the idiots write the headlines.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 12:36 pm #
“Is this bill all that I want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? Far from it. But when history calls, history calls.”
Whatever small government conservative challenges her, here’s your campaign ad:
“Is this a Senator Snowe a Senator we want? Far from it. Is this Senator all that it can be from Maine? Far from it. But when the pols open, the pols open. I’m [so-and-so], and I approved this message”.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 12:48 pm #
Darth,
The best part of that story:
“Zachary wears a suit and tie some days to school by his own choice because he takes school so seriously,” said Debbie Christie, Zachary’s mother.
Kid probably answers his teachers with “Yes Ma’am & No Ma’am” too.
Little bastard obviously deserves the Gulag.
In Related News: Boy Scouts Change Motto from Always Be Prepared to, Always Be Prepared for the Government
Update: On Advise from Teachers Union, Obama Orders Predator Strike On Boy Scout National Headquarters
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/13 @ 12:54 pm #
You know, this sort of shit makes one long for the next big attack on the nation. It’s beginning to seem like an inevitable consequence of dumping our liberties into the crapper. Let’s get it over with. Sheesh.
Comment by TheGeezer on 10/13 @ 12:58 pm #
Mmmff. Now, the modifier is not really misplaced, but were the progressive pansies assless, but wearing chaps?
I’m sorry, but the grim news from the former USSR and Washington needs to be dispelled. How about “two assless chaps wearing progressive pansies…”?
I’ll shut up now.
Comment by sdferr on 10/13 @ 1:00 pm #
Insty linked to a Matt Welch piece bemoaning how easily one of the last big attacks has been forgotten Geezer.
Comment by dicentra on 10/13 @ 1:00 pm #
Let’s hope Obama will allow stand up to Big Meat and start letting ranchers test all their cows for Mad Cow disease.
Sweetheart, Big Meat (and Big anything) welcomes gubmint regulation because it shuts out smaller upstart competitors.
Don’t believe the dichotomy between Big Gubmint and Big Biz: they’re in cahoots and they WILL abuse their power.
Coulda sworn her name was Dolores Jane Umbridge
J.K. Rowling, she gets it. The Lefties think she gets something else, but she gets it.
So, do you support irradiating hamburger to destroy pathogens?
NOOOOO! Evil Radiation might flip a bit in the food’s DNA, and even though dead cells can’t divide (making any mutation irrelevant), it will still kill us all!!!!
But when history calls, history calls.
What the HELL did they offer her? Somebody ought to investigate. Glenn Beck is prolly busy, though.
Comment by dicentra on 10/13 @ 1:01 pm #
I think it’s supposed to be like this:
two assless, chap-wearing progressive pansies
The hyphen is your friend.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 1:07 pm #
“What the HELL did they offer her?”
A broom and a snazzy cauldron?
Sorry. I just saw a picture of her, and that’s where my head went.
Jesus.
On the plus side, the Halloween costume kinda makes itself I guess.
Comment by tex cattleprod on 10/13 @ 1:10 pm #
assless chaps
Comment by N. O'Brain on 10/13 @ 1:12 pm #
I do believe it’s supposed to be ” assless chaps”
As in….
Aw, fagedaboutit.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 1:13 pm #
“two assless chaps wearing progressive pansies…”?
I think that’s the British version.
Cheeky bastards.
Where’s Ricky Gervais when you need him?
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 1:16 pm #
#70
I don’t even have to click that link to tell you:
Don’t. Ever. Do. That. Again.
Fuck.
I clicked it.
See above thing about “don’t ever”.
Comment by B Moe on 10/13 @ 1:20 pm #
McGehee I am going to have to hold you partially responsible for that.
Comment by tex cattleprod on 10/13 @ 1:23 pm #
I reckon I owe everyone summa dis.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 10/13 @ 1:29 pm #
I reckon I owe everyone summa dis.
No tex.
After that?
You owe everybody summa dis.
Comment by newrouter on 10/13 @ 1:37 pm #
speaking of assless chaps:
“She{Ms. Snow] told her colleagues: “When history calls, history calls,” even though she had some criticism of the bill.”
Comment by ghost707 on 10/13 @ 1:46 pm #
More irony:
State workers are now complaining that their pensions are being appropriated by the very criminals they elected to office.
Insult to injury: Same state workers elect an idiot President who is devaluing what remaining pension money they receive.
Normally I would feel sorry for these State employees, however, if you hire a robber to work in your bank, don’t be surprised if your bank gets robbed.
Comment by Joe on 10/13 @ 1:47 pm #
Olympia Snowe wins the award again.
Call me when she does something unpredictable.
Comment by mcgruder on 10/13 @ 2:03 pm #
i know a family whose kid died when the swimming pool drain malfunctioned.
I hate the nanny-state, and it was rare-as-hell type of accident, but the bomb that went off in their lives, well, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Government reacts like the fat slow kid that it is—out of proportion and others suffer.
But still, your kid is swimming and then he is….not.
everyone loses.
Comment by Squid on 10/13 @ 2:46 pm #
But still, your kid is swimming and then he is….not. everyone loses.
On the other hand, mcgruder, the municipal pools that couldn’t afford to upgrade their drains remained closed this year. Parents wanted to let their kids swim, were willing to sign waivers if that’s what it took, but our Head Nannies were having none of it.
One freak accident is a tragedy, but is it tragic enough to screw up summer for ten thousand other kids?
Comment by Joe on 10/13 @ 2:52 pm #
I am sorry for your friends’ loss mcgruder. That is just horrible, regardless the cause.
Comment by Adriane on 10/13 @ 2:55 pm #
The ultimate nanny state motto:
Don’t do anything dangerous as a kid so we can kill you by depriving you of food and medicine as an oldster …
Comment by mcgruder on 10/13 @ 2:55 pm #
Squid, my point exactly.
muni pools are the only way to cool down for a majority of this nations middles class urban and suburban kids, at least on a regular basis.
i would have taken your point 100%, its just when you see it up close, damn, you know?
there simply has to be a way to test for that sort of thing, for when a drain becomes, in effect, a vaccum.
Comment by McGehee on 10/13 @ 3:38 pm #
Sorry, not me. I can’t even find mine.
It really chaps my hide when somebody hides my chaps.
(Besides, they just didn’t go well with the pink tutu.)
Comment by JD on 10/13 @ 4:00 pm #
Having lifeguarded for many many many summers, parents who use lifeguards as babysitters pose far more danger to children than drains that suck. Tragedy, mcgruder, no doubt, biut taking away tens of thousands of kids’ summer recreation because the local municipality or park district could not afford to re-do their swimming complex is absurd.
Comment by JD on 10/13 @ 4:05 pm #
I think every cow, fish, bird, dead animal, fruit, and vegetable should inspected by a trained USDA official. That would allow us to hire our way out of recession, and push the price of a taco to about $10.75 apiece. Great idea, moron.
Comment by JeffS on 10/13 @ 4:33 pm #
AJB, if you can’t trust yourself to cook meat properly, check yourself into to the nearest sanitarium. Or jump off a tall building. Responsible people don’t care to have Uncle Stalin telling us how to run our lives.
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Comment by newrouter on 10/13 @ 5:27 pm #
Adventures in Rent-a-Research
ah yes talking points memo the go to place for the intellectually dishonest moonbat
Comment by newrouter on 10/13 @ 5:29 pm #
because i’m too stupid to think for myself i need a talking point memo
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 10/13 @ 5:29 pm #
Not to mention, wrong fucking thread.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/13 @ 5:34 pm #
A day after their study of the Baucus Bill was released, PricewaterhouseCoopers admits that their study didn’t show much cost savings from the bill because its analysis didn’t include the cost savings part of the bill.
There’s a good reason for that: Every time Congress has passed a bill with the understanding that Medicare cuts would provide the savings, it has never actually then cut the Medicare payments that would lead to the savings. See, oldsters like it when you plunder their kids and grandkids for their powered wheelchairs.
Comment by Rusty on 10/13 @ 5:36 pm #
#90
You really think you’re bright, don’t you. I’m laughing. It was because they weren’t given the cost saving part of the bill. Accountants can only use the information they’re given. If information is withheld it isn’t the accountants fault. I know you think you’re making points, but you’re really just amusing everyone here. I hope to god you’re under 25. I’d hate to think there’s someone walking the streets with what meager resources you possess and you’re raising children.
Comment by SBP on 10/13 @ 5:40 pm #
If I’m not mistaken, Rusty, under one of his former names NippleNut claimed to have begotten at least two more generations of congenital parasites.
Comment by dicentra on 10/13 @ 6:00 pm #
OK, this is really complicated. You can do one of two things:
1. Put a regular hyphen between all three adjectives
two assless-chap-wearing progressive pansies
2. Put an en-dash (ALT+0150) after the second adjective
two assless chap–wearing progressive pansies
Though I thought my version had better optics.
Comment by JeffS on 10/13 @ 6:01 pm #
Re #95, Rusty:
“It was because they weren’t given the cost saving part of the bill. ”
And that’s because THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 10/13 @ 6:38 pm #
And that’s because THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.
Well, there’s that little detail, too. We’ll just vote on a vague set of concepts, let the Executive write the regulations and then decry them when the whole jalopy shakes itself to pieces.
Comment by Obama Nanny Inspectors on 10/13 @ 6:43 pm #
The Obama nanny state has been monitoring you all and decided that your blogging is detrimental to passing quality health care for this country. Stop what you are doing now, unless it is pro Obama, then you can keep doing it.
Comment by newrouter on 10/13 @ 6:45 pm #
i HOPE mr. obama will under go a sex CHANGE
Comment by geoffb on 10/13 @ 7:02 pm #
And that’s because THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.
Worse, there is no ANY bill.
Everything they pass isn’t even to “beta” version yet. What they pass is a outline of a flowchart. Then some “X” happens and voila there is that full featured bill in all it’s incomprehensible glory to be passed by the full Congress.
They run their fingers over a map and talk about their wonderful experiences on that long car trip across the nation to visit an ailing Aunt.
Comment by tex cattleprod on 10/13 @ 7:04 pm #
1. Put a regular hyphen between all three adjectives
two assless-chap-wearing progressive pansies
That’d git my vote I reckon. But I spose tain’t what ya’ll’d call an elegant turn of phrase nohow. An whomong us gots a hankerin’ fer the strunk and white Elements o’ style propriety when the very word picture ones etchin’ makes ya throw up in yer mouth while typin’? Punch them doggies n’ bring em’ to market but quick I says.
Comment by B Moe on 10/13 @ 7:30 pm #
That was comment number 14 meya. What part of it is too complicated for you to understand?
Comment by B Moe on 10/13 @ 7:54 pm #
Too fucking lazy and incoherent to thread jack.
Comment by Mark A. Flacy on 10/13 @ 10:54 pm #
Rusty, are you talking to *me*?
If so, blow it out your ass.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/13 @ 11:19 pm #
um, Mr. Flacy, from what I’m reading at the moment, it looks like there have been some deletions. which may be why you’re #90 doesn’t quite make sense to me… ;D
Comment by geoffb on 10/14 @ 12:04 am #
Is why I figure it is best to use a quote or at least a name so as not to have a comment be misleading.
Oh and the other night I meant that you, Maggie, looked nice in purple and that I was going to try to stay on topic which is hard late at night as threads wander.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/14 @ 12:08 am #
aw, thanks. It is hard to stay on topic.