Why not? May as well go all in, right?
And it ain’t like they won’t find a few GOP Senators willing to take the faux-moralist, eco-friendly plunge for a healthy state kickback.
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Brownback sounds a lot eager to get his nose in the trough
It’s odd anyone would want to plunge their face down into a trough of shit and come up all stinking like that, isn’t it? wind and solar wind and solar wind and solar, chant with us people
oil companies already pay into an oil spill fund but once there was an oil spill the dishonorable U.S. government wouldn’t tap into that money and did a shakedown instead.
This is how America rolls anymore.
Ganked by the U.S.
Green jobs available at all levels, from roaming windmill farms picking up dead birds with a nail on a stick, to writing brochures, to lobbying Congress.
They won’t be satisfied until the economy is utterly destroyed. It’s damn close to that now, of course, and may already be beyond repair.
I can hardly work up any outrage any more, though, and they are counting on that.
Hopefully this is just another trial balloon.
Or even a trial balloon fence.
Lame ducks have energy bills?
Did they get that from a radioactive spider bite?
If there are no Democrats left in the house after the election, who exactly is it that is going to give Blanche Lincoln a job?
Dems had better get mentally ready for the mother of all Lame Duck sessions.
OT: What’s the over/under on the number of people required in a room for Obama to pull out the teleprompters?
Well, there ya go. Lack of principles is of no matter when the state gets a big wad of taxpayers’ dough.
bh,
Chris “Tingly Leg” Matthews wants his dreamboat Barry to ditch the teleprompter? Oh please do! He could set a record for Presidential stammering the next time he makes a speech.
You know what?
Eat me.
No doubt, Spiny.
teleprompter over / under
Do we count Himself?
“If there are no Democrats left in the house after the election, who exactly is it that is going to give Blanche Lincoln a job?”
Obama, of course. I fear the Dems will do a lot of damage during the lame duck session. All that would restrain them is a sense of honor and respect for the expressed will of the electorate – which is to say nothing.
That’s a tough question, guins. How many does a deity like Obama count for in normal human terms?
Or, alternately, he might be legion.
No?
Then 0!
Ok.
Number of interns required in a room before Clinton pulls out his… oops, wrong thread.
All that would restrain them is a sense of honor
Guess what the dems didn’t attend last Saturday?
All that would restrain them is a sense of honor
Duct tape works pretty good.
We need to make it clear to these clowns that if they or their families want to live in the same district, they better not pull this crap. Otherwise the scene where “Cornhusker Kickback” Senator Nelson was booed out of his local pizzeria will become the norm in all of their lives.
“You can see it in their eyes as they sit and work the wheels and levers of government: There really IS such a thing as a free lunch.”
Brownback is bailing from the Senate, happy – he’s going to run for governor of Kansas, which is an awfully small trough compared to DC.
SDN,
The people who currently have the unbridled temerity to call themselves representatives are not residents of their districts, unless you meant the District of Columbia.
Half of them couldn’t find their districts on a map, and you will note that when they get voted out they do not return home. Ever.
Congress should meet one day a month, max.
I didn’t even know that – about Brownback retiring –
good. He’s a useless anachronism.
Some no-name guy is up 5 on Congressman Dingell after being outspent 7 to 1.
100+ Dems gone Nov. 2
“…Well, Gallup has an historic GOP lead and Dick Morris is predicting over 80 seats . . . The vote has taken shape much earlier than usual, which means when it makes its final break it could be just that devastating.”
Dick Morris is way low, and I am, strangely enough, having a difficult time getting anyone to take a piece of my congressional action.
Mr. W … why, on earth, would you think anyone wants to bet against you?
Mr. G,
I have been trying to get a large scale bet going with your commenters regarding my often stated contention that the Democrats are going to lose a minimum of 100 seats in the House and the Senate*, but so far only the artist formerly known as ‘Abe’ has been game enough to wager some dough.
Your visitors, not to put too fine a point on it, are more than content to tell me I am wrong, but it would seem they lack the courage of their opinions.
I suppose I understand after the Scott Brown pick people are reluctant to take part in preposterous bets that I propose, especially at 4 to 1. I was gonna lower the odds in order to get more people to take part, but when the Reichstag spontaneously bursts into flame, I just can’t figure out what the effect is gonna be.
My guess is, counter to the Democrat hopes, if there is some “event” (and there will be, you can count on it) it’s effect will not be beneficial to the Congress or the President, because this ain’t 2001 and Barry ain’t no George Bush.
Well, at least Abe owes you some money, so, you know, you’ve got that going for you.
*Harry, Barney, and Nancy all losing their races doubles the amount of Abe’s losses.
see you shouldn’t get cocky cause Rs are stupid and gay, lots and lots of them
I have links
Diana,
Because the money goes to Jeff for the site, and my entire life people have always seemed to really enjoy proving me wrong for some reason.
It has only happened twice so understand that it’s a weak statistical sample bordering on the anecdotal.
I’m not sure why those two ordinary people derived such satisfaction from besting me. It probably has something to do with their feelings of inferiority due to my towering intellect, and my imposing stature played a part too I guess. Actually, all that would be fine if I was not so damnably attractive. Yes. For what it’s worth, that’s probably it.
You see the problem? But enough about my burdens…
Would you care to wager some Kapital?
Heck … I give to Jeff just because. I’m hoping you’re lowballing the bet.
“see you shouldn’t get cocky cause Rs are stupid and gay, lots and lots of them”
Well said Gabby, and in authentic digital-frontier gibberish, they are all that and less.
But there is a bitch-slap of biblical proportions coming to DC from the American people, and it is fueled by love of country, not party identification.
I’ll be curious to see
JD took your bet, too, Mr W, and you blew him off apparently.
Again, the whole bet thing is tiresome.
Bet, bet, bet. Adrenaline jones. I believe in dumping the middleman and just cut to the chase.
the media’s October surprise I’m curious to see too
Mr W – I accepted your wager at least 5 times now. Apparently you prefer to rant on about your big self than accept it. I put up $100.
What’s the over/under on how many more times we’ll hear about the wager? That’s where the real action is.
bh, I’ll bet at least 50 times, if you count individual comments.
Barry will be blown out by what’s left of his Party after the scope of the wreckage he has wrought on the Democrats is seen November 3rd.
My guess is that we will see a sudden and wholesale conversion on the left to birtherism.
Hey, it’s more plausible than Bush blowing up the towers and they were dumb enough to buy that, right?
President Biden
President Biden
President Biden
President Biden
President Biden
I’m practicing…
Gotta say, even at 50, the over is still tempting.
gridlock is my favorite
Ahem… I tokk Mr. W’s bet for $25 a number of days ago…
hillbuzz has a theory and a slideshow
link
“tokk”? excuse me…took
#36 Cranky-d: Please feel free to use the scroll function to pass any of my comments by. You will note the “Mr.W” conveniently located just above the comment that alerts you to the tedium located below.
#37 geoffb: Dude, how do you find stuff like that?
#39 JD: I’m not the kind of person who actually reads other people’s comments unless they are commenting on something I have written. This one would be an excellent case in point!
#40 bh: The over is 875 now that I realize it makes cranky…er…crankier. That’s about 30 mentions a day, which my “big self”(?) can do no problem.
If you aren’t going to bother reading the comments to see if someone accepted your fucking bet, why fucking bother making the bet, and then beating your chest crowing about your big self and how nobody will take your bet?
Looks like Comrade Soros has decided to airbrush Premier Obama from the official records.
For reasons of personal safety, Barack Trotsky Obama would be well advised not go to Mexico any time soon.
Well, #48 was certainly illuminating.
JD.
Holy Cow! Get a sense of humor, would you. Geez. Bad day at the office?
The comment’s a caricature of pomposity, as opposed to my regular variety.
I was kidding, and brother, my humor ain’t that dry. Consider yourself tweaked.
JD/bh/cranky-d
This shows me that the trolls provide a valuable service on PW by giving commenters (who apparently need it) a focus for their rage.
It’s a free website populated by relatively like-minded people. If you have a complaint about a comment, I recommend passing it by.
And, seriously, there are problems in this world that probably deserve your comments much more than the low-grade ADD/OCD which shows up in my comments. But do what you like. As I noted, it’s a free site.
Not a sermon, just a thought…
the storm maker says it ain’t so bad but he’s kind of a doof I think
I see. So if I don’t like a comment, I shouldn’t say anything about it, but just pass it by.
Here’s a comment for you. Screw you.
travlin along there’s a song that we’re singin
this is me on tambourine
please mr. tambourine man play a song for me
Happy Beverly Hills day!
You are right, cranky, “pass it by” was a silly thing to say.
Because how do you know if you’re going to like a comment until you have read it? And once you’ve read it, if you did not like it, can a man such as you un-read it?
I think not!
And now that you have cast down your ladies’ size pixel glove, and then cut me to the quick with your eloquent “Screw You!” can we ever go back to the way it was? Can you ever read a comment written by Mr. W without casting a jaundiced eye upon the content?
I think not!
So I will henceforth comment under another name that you will not know…
That’s not how you tweak JD. THIS is how you tweak JD:
Hey, JD, just to remind you that INDY LOST THE SUPER BOWL~~~!!!!1!1!1!111!! _)
100+ Dems out as of November 3rd.
Too soon, serr8d. Then again, any time is too soon.
The picture lies. It is the Colts who are gay.
How was that?
100+ Dems out as of November 3rd.
wanna bet?
#20 GAY in that picture is serr8d’s hero. He is just jealous that his team is a perpetual bridesmaid in waiting.
Seriously?
Ok. Google proteinwisdom.com and whatever wording you are looking for perhaps with quote marks or just some words you remember then work through the results to find the exact thing.
Oh, and when you link to comments at times the link won’t go exactly to the correct comment. The one I linked above was #145.
Things about moderate and moderate Muslims.
C’mon, guys. If I want to see slap fights, there’s always LGF. Could it be that the general malaise is affecting even those who are normally unbothered by small things?
Seriously, there seems to be such an odd mood pervading this country, like an undercurrent of anger that manifests itself over the most trivial of affairs. Never saw anything like this, it’s really unsettling, when a redneck like me can pick it out.
Mr. Drudge sure does get excited about the stormy storms
Mr. grampa we’re watching our little country regress to the mean it’s kinda grim
Gay and the ‘Aints are in town tonight for worthless preseason ball. I’d mention the score but, pointless!
Neither Bush nor CJ started.
Hidden Camera Video: The Islamization of Paris
Drudge is a few hours out of date with the monster business. It was but now isn’t is all.
The Gaston track on the other hand, isn’t promising. Fingercrossing in order from now til middle of next week it looks like.
jobs saved or created no
we’re safe shep is kneeling before earl
Regress is an inadequate descriptor, happyfeet. What we are witnessing is the wholesale dissolution of the most exceptional form of government ever seen on the planet.
These next two election cycles, should they transpire as indicated, will be the start of of the repair. Won’t happen in 4 years, likely decades before all the damage can be undone.
it’s horrifying and 2012 is anyone’s guess
like beck was saying for the last year. 100 year project. oh the chicagoboyz got a nice beckolanche today
Undone? When has any ‘progressive’ gain been undone? Once these new entitlements become settled, there’s no backpedaling. Unless the US government completely defaults, we won’t see any real,necessary reversals of moocher-voter-attracting Republic-destroying policies.
Mr. W,
Would you go to Vegas, put $100 on black, and yell “Come on red?”
I think not!
That is why no one wants to take your bet.
Except JD, but he’s a Colts fan. No explaining some people.
no free lunch is a start
it is crumbling:
something’s happening here what it is ain’t exactly clear
link
“. No explaining some people.”
Now that was funny.
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Comment by Mr. W on 9/2 @ 12:46 pm #
If there are no Democrats left in the house after the election, who exactly is it that is going to give Blanche Lincoln a job?
Dems had better get mentally ready for the mother of all Lame Duck sessions.
Mr W,
These pieces of shit will be making millions of dollars a year as lobbiests.
Christopher Dodd should be put in jail for twenty years, but he will make millions of dollars as a lobbiest (I have no idea how to spell that word – I must be a flinking Yankee).
And fuck all of this bullshit.
The bigger the noise, the smaller the storm. I love to watch the weather people come on their own legs because there is a storm in the Atlantic ocean..
Uuwwww! Uuwwww!!!
Storm a-coming! Bow down to the weather gods!!!
Gag me with a weather report, will ya?
Well fuck me, fuck you, fuck everybody
It’s either that, or we must all dance at the ghost of Gilleys…
TLD
!
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Jamelle Bouie has obviously never read Liberal Fascsim.
And neither has Kipling. Because he’s dead. And a sockpuppet.
From the Chicagoboyz link of newrouter in #80.
This goes to what sdferr was getting at in another thread. The “big, who-we-are politics” is politics and so the Beck event was political. The “nickel-and-dime politics” is what is was not and that is the partisan-politics.
Declaring that the event was not political was not true except in the narrow sense, the “nickle-and-dime” sense. I’m glad that someone else on another blog noticed this too.
Indeed. Jamelle (sister of “Baba”?) is clearly relying on Conventional Wisdom (ie, “teh Narrative”) with regards to Goldberg’s book.
Unless our “monstrous” political opponents are Wilson, FDR, Sanger, Father Coughlin, Hitler, Stalin, and a whole host of other long-dead socialists. Monsters all, to be sure — but hardly our current loyal opposition.
If I recall correctly, Goldberg barely touches on the modern Dems. There’s some light mocking of Hillary’s “it takes a village” proposition, but mostly it’s a history of the early Progressives and their crimes. And how we’re still paying the price…
Lots of internal fighting here amongst allies. Sad to see. Hopefully not a reflection of the state of our tenuous union because quite frankly, there are much bigger socialist fish to fry.
When has any ‘progressive’ gain been undone? Once these new entitlements become settled, there’s no backpedaling. Unless the US government completely defaults, we won’t see any real,necessary reversals of moocher-voter-attracting Republic-destroying policies.
When has any incumbent has lost his seat in a primary?
Before this cycle, never. Maybe a few ‘.5’ times (Lieberman, who lost the primary but kept the seat) but no whole numbers.
During this cycle? Depending on how you count – did Specter loose his primary? (Either one? He was loosing to Toomey before he lost to Sestak.) Was Crist an incumbant? – like 8 have.
So… things might actually be different now.
If not? Then onward toward default.
Which, if things aren’t different, shouldn’t be very hard at all. Somewhat inevitable in fact with this bunch.
#81 serr:
Never, ever, ever accept the Lefty position that whatever they do is forever and can never be undone. That’s just propaganda to paralyze you. Remember how Marxism was ‘inevitable’ and would do blah, blah, blah because of the scientific blah, blah, and historical dialectic blah, blah.
And where is the Soviet Union these days? That’s right.
what humans do can be undone, what the Left has done can be undone, and listening to someone say that it is ‘inevitable’ and ‘permanent’ is foolish behavior, because your enemy is only trying to get you to quietly accept his actions.
So don’t, make them fight for it.
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