What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Emanuel, working with his old boss and ally, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, made it easy for the Republicans to resist. Every penny in the more than 600-page bill came from a Democratic wish list of pork that dated back to the beginning of the Bush administration. “They were limited the last two years by the White House keeping firm on the cap for each bill,” a congressional source reported to me, “and Nancy Pelosi told them all to send their ideas to David Obey [chairman of the House Appropriations Committee], and he just put them together in one great big earmark.”
“We won the election, we wrote the bill,” said Pelosi as many times as she could to an open microphone. But what was happening away from the microphone made it even easier for the Republicans to hold together. All they had to do was bring up Rahm Emanuel.
“Rahm hates us and lets us know it, and we hate him back,†said a senior Republican. “If we had gotten together in a room and tried to write a bill that put the taxpayer together with the Republican Party, we could not have come up with this thing. It is too unbelievable.â€Â
Via Mike, thor couldn’t have said it better. All debate is over, losers: it’s settled science!
You do not build a concensus with Ari Gold at the helm. Don’t get me wrong, Rahm can probably be a hell of an enforcer at times, and those skills help occasionally in government. But not if you are trying to bring Republicans on board to a massive pork fest like this one.
After eight years of pork addiction the rethuglidums are suffering from withdrawal spasms. They’ll get over it, eventually, maybe.
It is to laugh. My cousin’s husband railed and railed against spending under the Bush administration. He leans liberal, but that (and the environment) were the major reason he voted for Obama.
I wouldn’t bet a dollar that he’s singing a different tune now. Kinda like how thorazine is. You guys really don’t care about spending, do you? It was all a bunch of bullshit.
Change looks an awful lot like more of the same.
Carin compare that to the supposedly anti-war people that are all silent now when they hear O! say he is going to send 30000 more troops to Afghan or that we will have troops in Iraq until 2011. They do not really give a shit about any of that they just bitch about anything they can when there is someone in office with an R in front of their name.
Of course it is change! It is change of the highest order! This porker was to go to the Democrats’ pet projects!
Geez, does it have to be spelled out for everyone.
[…] Via Dan, by their words shall we hang them: Emanuel, working with his old boss and ally, Speaker of the […]
Rethuglidums have zero credibility concerning fiscal restraint. Buh-bye, dumblicans, maybe one day you’ll become less a collective of illiterate liars and re-emerge with an active voice in American politics.
As of today, who gives a fuck what any retuglidum thinks – America is an Obama nation!
Was that supposed to be a coherent thought thor or are you just ranting how much you hate a certain subset of politician just because they have an R in front of thier name?
It’s looking to be a “thor is off his meds again” day.
“America is an Obama nation!”
Nah we real Americans can tell the difference between a door and a window.
Sissified and wearing your red Naughty Monkey slut pumps, lift your skirts and do your jello-spine McNasty neo-conchickarita dance for old times sake.
Who removed the belts from your trousers and whipped in you in the face until he left scars?
That’s right, Barack Obama did.
Excuse me, waiter, but can you bring a high-chair, a rethuglidum wants to sit at our table.
So instead of extolling the greatness of this bill and how we are all wrong for laughing at it thor and the other trolls continue with their “it doesn’t matter we hate you rethuglicans”. Even though half the people here aren’t even rethuglicans. Color me surprised.
It really reminds me of an ad for a casino (I think it was for Foxwoods in MA).
They had this guy playing online poker down in a basement on a laptop next to some washing machines. He flips over a straight flush and takes the whole pot. He immediately leaps up and shouts “Yes! I’m a winner! I’m a winner”, notices he’s all alone in a dimly lit basement, slumps down into the chair still softly going “I’m a winner……I’m a winner…………”.
Hahahah. Really what did any of us win? I mean supposedly having O! in office and the house and senate controlled by Dems means we all win right? Well if winning means the government blows trillions of mine and my future children’s money then I do not feel like a winner at all.
Thor has completely lost any shred of credibility he may have ever had. Please insert the title “shill” in front of your name.
Now, if we can hope to have any sort of interesting discussion on this thread, I suggest we all trollhammer him. Switching to firefox … NOW.
Don’t worry, Samantha Powers, the fired Obama adviser, has been appointed to the NSC. I wonder if Hillary will appreciate working with the lady who called her “a monster” during the primaries.
Wonder also if the NSC will start drafting plans to invade Israel and destroy the IDF…..
Hope AND Change we can all believe in.
(Via Hotair: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/01/30/power-to-nsc/)
This is going to be fun.
Techie it reminds me of the SouthPark episode based on World of Warcraft where the kids spend their entire summer sitting in their basement playing that game just so they can kill one guy. When they finally do kill him once they look at eachother and say “what now?”, “Well now we can play the game”, and then they go back to doing the same thing they were doing the entire summer.
“After eight years of pork addiction the rethuglidums are suffering from withdrawal spasms. They’ll get over it, eventually, maybe.”
I agree. That’s why we need fiscal conservatives back in the republican party, or wherever, that are electable.
And after making some sense, thor goes off the rails again. He can’t decide if he’s a classical liberal, libertarian minded, or a full on balls to the wall big spending democrat. But he does hate himself some republicans.
But he’s more than willing to discuss music with us poor evil/stupid rethuglidums (sp?).
He’s such a giver.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 1/30 @ 8:47 am #
And after making some sense, thor goes off the rails again. He can’t decide if he’s a classical liberal, libertarian minded, or a full on balls to the wall big spending democrat. But he does hate himself
some republicans.FTFY
SecTresury almost as incompetant at his new job as he was at his taxes:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18198.html
Not even sworn in yet, and almost triggering an international crisis. That’s Hope AND Change.
Come on, who wants a trade war with China and the WTO? Any takers?
More mispokening, I prsume.
Samantha Powers is part of the National Security Council? Hmmmm and she will be working with the “monster” Madam Secretary Clinton, who no longer has to cater to a vocal powerful lobby. Long time Israel Supporters Pat Buchanan and Michael Scheuer are lovin this!
I’d like to buy an “e”.
I’m confused. 8 years of republican spending thor ? Yet the dems have controlled Congress since 2006. And I’m also confused- the dems are entitled to spend like drunken sailors because allegedly, the republican did also?
Please just clarify your position. Is it change or not ? And if its change, is it only change as in “the money is now going to stuff the democrats like/think are important/like not the military” ?
I just don’t think now that your the party in charge, you can spend the next 4 years pointing at all the crap the republicans did wrong (and there was plenty, admittedly). In fact, one would think the American people may be on to the democrats, considering the drop in approval just this week for the “stimulus” bill.
ANd yes, now would be the time to blame that drop in approval on the lies of Rush Limbaugh. I mean really, what else would explain the rubes rejecting it.
Matt, your mistake is expecting any logical answer from Shill Thor. The only answer he does have is one that includes the word “Redumplicans” and the phrase “Sarah Palin is a hillbilly whore” or something like that.
I suppose it’s all down the memory hole where Shill Thor was complaining about Republican spending. Apparently, the operative word in his complaint was “Republican.”
Roland, the explanation is that only thick Rethuglidums(sp?) presume that the Secretary of the Treasury somehow speaks for the Administration.
That’s just crazy talk.
“But let it happen just the way the Brat Left wishes. Since they’ve proved themselves completely impervious to niggling things like facts and truth, let them try to argue with the calamitous reality their proven-failure ideology produces for the ordinary Americans they falsely claim to represent.”
I couldn’t have said it any better than Mike at ColdFury…
And, aside from the ideological aversion to the huge pork package that is being called a stimulus packege, although about the only thing it stimulates are Democrat benefactors and constituents, how in the world do they expect to get any Republican votes if the crafting of the legis;ation is going to be done in such a bullying, contentious, and adversarial manner..?
B-B-But I thought O!&Co. were about Healing!, Unity!, Fairness!, and being Post-Partisan!…
Make no mistake, there are few on the Hill that could be more partisan than Rahm-bo, Pelosi, Hoyer, and the collection of Democratic
apparatchickscommisarsleaders that are currently there…If this was truly about helping folks out and stimulating the economy as quickly as possible then it would entail primarily infrastructure spending and immediate tax cuts which would have an effect this year. But the plan as written acually spend greater money in the years 2012 and after than it does this year!
This is all about the Democrats wanting their long sought social agenda and pet projects passed-yesterday! It is less about stimulus, and more about not letting a good crisis go to waste…
Nancy Pelosi is a big believer in prevention!
Why are people even reading hor’s comments?
Because it’s fun to laugh at retards.
Rob, because some day – if Shill Thor has even an iota of brain cells working in his head – he’s gonna have to admit that this stimulus package sucks. And I wanna see it.
The incoherent reaction to the House Republicans’ rejection of this bill tells me that they did the right thing. Democrats enraged, trolls sputtering bits of fantasy threats and their ‘woulda, coulda, shoulda fights’.
all good
The tedious, earnest, overweening incompetency of Carter. Combined with the smarmy mendacious speeches, corruption, self-absorption, and cronyism of the Clintons. All wrapped up in a furiously vicious thin skinned package.
I mean O! not thor BTW.
Is this parody because it sure sounds like it. Democrats have all their guys in and they’re STILL bashing America!
It’s really all these people have got. It’s a Perpetual Campaign for them. A giant football game. They win, America loses, but who cares right? They won!
These are the sorts of things you need to brag about if you have no job, friends, family, general happiness etc.
Why do you think he’ll have to admit it? He’ll only have to do that if he’s intellectually honest.
Matt, don’t forget that the Dems also controlled the Senate in 2001 and 2002 (remember Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords?). So then it was only 4 years…..
BTW, I had to read PW without trollhammer some of this week and the experience was painful…..
This whole “stimulus” package seems to have odd overtones.
First, it’s supposed to “stimulate“. Apparently so much so that it had to contain measures for contraceptives (now removed) and STDs.
Worse, is that now that zero Republican votes won’t work in the Senate, they have the group “Americans Coming Together” putting up ads in key states.
Is this a pattern ?
autohr should start a second blog, it’s wonder!