Please contact these senators & politely tell them to vote NO on the omnibus spending bill
Senator Lisa Murkowski – Alaska
202-224-6665Senator Richard Lugar – Indiana
202-224-4814Senator Susan Collins – Maine
202-224-2523Senator Olympia Snowe – Maine
202-224-5344Senator Thad Cochrann – Mississippi
202-224-5054
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update: Well, then.
why for did you skip Nelson and Webb?
Murkowski is a corrupt earmark whore no way she’s not voting for this thing.
Since when have they given a fuck what we thought?
Pardon my cynicism, I’m calling all of them, but I doubt it will do any good. They already know and don’t care.
Calls placed.
E-mail’s next; although they probably ignore the ones that aren’t from their constituents.
Come to think of it, they probably ignore those folks too that disagree with them.
RT @michellemalkin: Reid relents on short term continuing resolution to fund govt. OMNIPORKULUS IS DEAD. For now.
But do keep on the lookout for Return to Revenge of Son of Omniporkulus.
reid pulls obamabust bill b/c of demint – levin
read every bill reid has up his sleeve
Wow, great news, Monster.
More here.
I believe I shall have a celebratory adult beverage.
Wouldn’t it be fun to find out that an element or two of the omnibus bill contained the incentives that some legislators demanded in order to agree to the tax deal?
Not only would that be fun, bh, I would not be surprised if all this carp collapses and all they do is pass a short-term continuing resolution on both the budget and the tax rates, keeping everything like it is for a few months. Which is what they should have done in the first place, the wankers.
That would make a very nice Christmas present.
I want to smack a bunch of them on the head with a rolled-up newspaper. Bad Congressman! Bad!
Hey, it might work. We haven’t tried it yet.
Reid and Pelosi are like zombies. I do not trust this to be done.
Especially make your wishes known if you live in one of their states. Politely of course.
Lugar is infuriating.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/255519/mcconnell-victory-country-robert-costa
Is there a victory or not?
You’re welcome bh,
“Cuz, like, it was my pivotal telephone calls that brought about Reid’s capitulation…
Or, you know, it might have been that the traitorous no-count RINO squish McConnell managed to hold the Rethugs! together on this.
I mean, I’m thinking it’s the former, but for some reason didn’t hear my name mentioned on the news?
But I prefer to stay on the DL anyway; that’s when I’m most effective :)
I suppose we could start with the rolled up newspapers and if that doesn’t work we might have to consider the zombie theory.
I think you’re supposed to ask for a fee beforehand if you’re playing the rainmaker con, Bob.
*
Drat! I knew I should have reviewed The Sting first, and boned up on my technique :)
who are the several Republicans? I will go see if Mr. Allah knows
buy squid™ brand pitchforks
he has no idea
we should organize a “go home harry and nancy” rally in dc next week
next week is Christmas Mr. newrouter
It would be nice to get some good investigative reporting on these victories so we could get a better feel for how to repeat them. Barring that, disastrous election cycles for a certain class of politicians might encourage others to figure out the specifics and exploit the system for us.
We could call them our “representatives”.
I think this song is very fitting for the occasion. He’s Britain’s Roy Orbison or something.
(Exit Through the Gift Shop is an entertaining documentary with some surprising depth regarding the nature of art. I mention this because that song played doing the opening title sequence.)
here is a song by Mr. Hawley called Silent Night it’s about when Jesus was a little baby and everyone was really quiet cause of they had no room at the inn and Santa was there and the wise men were there and Frosty and Rudolph and you coulda heard a pin drop
Heh.
even thad cochran?
i’m shocked,. shocked
i tells ya that gambling has been going on
in this building!
12/25 is xmas the rest of the week not so much
just got off the honker to thaddeuss..
his mail-box is full!
what? i Used to like that guy..
“Nevada Democrat Harry Reid gave up on the nearly $1.3 trillion bill”
I’m pretty sure Rubin amaro Jr had something or other to do with this.
(Can’t capitalize the letter a, cause of my dogsitter spilled an iced tea on my keyboard)
“omnibus bills burning by an open fire,
harry reid “nipping” at your liberties”
Just finished watching Bad Santa only to learn this good news. Huzzah!
He also talks of how Obama is stealing “our” power. The power to decide what is to be spent and where. However Reid is a Senator and it could also be said that the Senate is stealing that power from the actual Constitutional source for all appropriations, the House.
Well if there’s one movie that will put you in the spirit of ramadan, it’s Bad Santa.
some squid™ brand torches, tar, and feathers on display next week for “Harry and Nancy’s” we will “reid the bill after we pass it” finale.
btw, why the reference to Shostakovich re Bad Santa? Was it part of the soundtrack?
“…part of the soundtrack?”
Oh si, the part where the dwarf and wife murder the store dick. Seemed to fit the Reps and Dems pretty well.
I count myself lucky to have seen Maxim play a Piano Concerto of his dad’s (don’t pretend to remember which) and conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in his dadios’ Fifth Symphony on a warm summer’s night at the Mann, about 30 years ago.
I forgot about that until just now.
Thanks for the memory, sdferr.
I’m off to the phonograph!
This one, #2? Seems to me Maxim played this in Philly awhile back and my partner caught the performance.
So, if the Dream Act also goes down and DADT gets changed, what else is left on the docket?
Just had a chance to check the news. Looks like someone’s actually listening to us, at least for the moment.
whatever Obama, Harry and Nancy decide. March on DC 12/22 “Go home Harry and Nancy”
sdferr – could be. It was probably 1984, because I know it was before I got married, and I think it was the same year I saw King Crimson at the Mann, with Jon Anderson opening. Probably many years before Maxim’s “official debut” with the orchestra at the Academy.
Was that the same year Miles played one of his last tours at Carnegie? Which I went to, and I thought he sucked. But I was alone in my criticisms. Then the guys I was in a band with wanted me to play his licks. Ya, sure. Gor em right here, y’all.
Funny, I can remember those concerts at the Mann like it was yesterday, but I couldn’t tell you what I did today.
I think around the same year I dragged my wife to be to a Keith Jarrett concert. He was in his best groaning mood that night. And yet, she still married me! (I also took my Dad, who, said to me, “He’s good, but does he have to fornicate with the piano?”)
McClintock:
House Chamber, Washington, D.C. December 16, 2010. M. Speaker: I commend the Senate for passing the tax relief measure yesterday, and I hope that the House passes it today. According to the CBO, this bill comprises $136 billion in additional spending and $721 billion in tax relief. That means fifteen percent of this bill is spending – the other 85 percent is tax relief: · No across the board increase in income tax rates next year. · No AMT biting deeper into middle class families. · A Death Tax that’s a third less of what it would otherwise have been — threatening far fewer family farms and family businesses with extinction. If this relief fails, when the ball drops at Time Square on New Year’s Eve, Americans will have just been walloped by a tax tsunami the likes of which we haven’t seen since Smoot-Hawley. Families and small businesses will be spending the New Year struggling to pay thousands of dollars of new taxes. A family making $50,000 will see at least $3,000 more taken from its paychecks. A small businessperson whose shop makes $300,000 will have to cut another $8,400 – perhaps the difference between a part time and a full time job for an employee. From the Left we’re told that we should raise taxes on the very rich who make over $200,000 because they don’t pay their fair share. According to the IRS, those folks earn 36 percent of all income; they pay 49 percent of all income taxes. A lot of them aren’t people at all — half of the income earned by small businesses will be hit by these tax increases. These are the job generators that we’re depending upon to end the nightmare of unemployment for millions of American families. To confiscate billions of dollars more from them and expect more jobs to come of it is simply insane. Some of my fellow Conservatives object to the 15 percent of this bill that spends money we don’t have. I agree. But that damage can be corrected through offsetting spending reductions next year. The new Republican House majority can do so without the Senate or the President – simply by refusing to appropriate funds – and it’s committed to doing so. But it cannot rescind the taxes next year without the Senate and the President, who have made their opposition to just such a clean bill abundantly clear. And even if such a retro-active bill could be passed by Spring, these families and businesses won’t get their tax overpayments refunded to them until they file their returns a year later. Massive tax increases under Hoover turned the recession of 1929 into the depression of the 1930’s. Let that not be the epitaph of this Congress.
Boo Yaa!
DeMint 2010? For Jesus! And for the spendings.
Steph: I think around the same year I dragged my wife to be to a Keith Jarrett concert.
I’m confused… unless it’s a lesbian thing, then NTTAWWT.
Tatiana: Shos. P&F # 15, a taste of circus and moldy bread.
addendum to # 50
“gor” = got
And Jon Anderson really, really sucked. A solo acoustic “”The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)”?
The worst.
Saints preserve us all.
(Where’s Rick Wakeman when you need him?)
Stephanie-
Well, shit.
I’m found out.
Steph is short for Stephen.
I am in fact a guy. A man. A full blooded, nare I say, turgid, USA Certifed MALE.
“Steve” is, well, so worn out. And also, I think, he’s a second cousin of third cousin’s Barbie’s Ken.
My great-grandmother called me “steph”. I like that, cause I’m sorta nostaligic.
Plus, those old Hungarians rocked!
Jarret tries his hands: Shos. P&F #5, Dimitri sure loved his duplets.
DeMint is twenty different kinds of awesome.
(And… I can’t help myself here… a walking, talking example to the more libertarian types showing that you can have strong and effective friends in the social con camp.)
Grateful Dead – Franklin’s Tower
“a taste of circus and moldy bread”
Is that a Procal Harem reference, or something much older?
As best I can tell, three out of four old Hungarians were freakin’ geniuses, Steph.
y’all are giddy
Steph, no problem. I just did a double take cause someone here thought you were me the other day. I actually prefer Stevie (even though everyone usually uses Steph), though I don’t sing like a goat.
ah. no Steph, just a twist on panem et circenses, taking into account most ear’s probable souring on the fugue movement.
my fav Tatiana: Shos. P&F #7, tickles joy.
Grateful Dead : Uncle John’s Band @ Radio City 10-31-80
Harry Reid got teabagged!
Cspan is hysterical tonight.
We’re daring to let hope rear it’s head. That may be unwise, but I’m down with it anyway.
We cannot stop paying attention to these congresscritters for a second. They’re like 2 year olds who will immediately start eating the frosting off of the cake when we stop watching them.
Stephanie – I saw that post where someone thought I was you or you were I.
I didn’t know what to say.
‘cept that Stephanie can be known by the way she writes in complete thoughts.
And I. What? Where was I? As I was about to say …
Happy – I am Giddy! I’m giddy as hell!
You Boy! Yes you. Remarkable, smart boy. Do you know the poulter? Over but one?
sdferr – thanks for another great link. Keith is damned good, idn’t he?
bh – Soros. The Fourth Man. I’m gonna make a movie!
it’s -> its.
I blame my keyboard on my San Diego computer. That and Bush.
BYW, if the omnibus bill is dead and a continuing resolution is being invoked, the funding mechanisms for the Obamacare rollout for items starting on Jan 1 is also dead since a CR will only fund existing programs at their prior year budgetary levels. That means no 50% payout for seniors in the donut hole, no funding for free screenings for seniors, and some other provisions that were to be started on 1/1. Expect the dems to go screaming to AARP about the injustice of it all… It will be interesting to see what the dems and Obama use for bait to force the next congress into including these items in the new budget. My bet is that this may have just killed Ocare…
OH Happy Day! And on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party! Sweet!
was thaddeus in the planet of apes?
a spinach and cheese boreka has more credibility than the AARP
f)ck asssholes. die with gov’t care
three, no four, no numbers
apes i don’t wanna see
anywhere,any time..
heaven
the ‘knuckler’
welcome to the jungle
banana man
dianne fossey
turbulence
forearmns
buut squeeze killer
hairy moe
hairy larry
hairy curly
bold shemp
AARP = greedy geezers
doggerel
btw/ thanks 4 d poetry stuffy,,
the closer to a grand i gets..
the closer we
i
you
me
us
will sleep..
thanks 4 the posts
as a crazy bit. once said to me let’s get this madness behind us..
doggerel!
it’s where the cool cats hang out!
Hey, they’ve been running commercials for weeks touting the new provisions that were to be enacted on Jan 1 during the daytime TV shows reminding seniors to don’t forget to sign up for their medicare and oh, yeah the new extra goodies we’re giving ya… oops.
I have a sudden craving for the chicken in a basket #4 at Dairy Queen.
aarp
lets see,whats we do with its
another asshole requests payment
mmm/ i think thats a shiny
And the tax cut bill has passed the house and goes to Obama’s desk for signing… with more votes for it than the original bill in 2001. Boo-ya!
ann althouse really points
– “we should organize a “go home harry and nancy” rally in dc next week”
– Well, if that’s your plan, better get there early. Parking on Penn ave is at a premium, and what with all the WAR PROTESTER’S, it’s almost impossible to get a free space to chain yourself to the WH front gate these days.
– The MFM is dutifully trying to ignore it all of course.
The day the “Bush Tax Cut” meme died.
Dairy Queen is owned by Warren Buffett who is a dirty dirty Obamawhore.
What Warren Buffett can do is he can shove a peanut buster parfait up his Nebraskan squeakhole and ask his ass-munching whore friend Bill Gates if he wants a taste I think.
I can’t help seeing a strong correlation. Unless you’re exuberant about the buttseks, then things could get dicey. Also the abortionings. These fuckers get all principled and shit.
Warren Buffet owns Dairy Queen? Earth is weird.
The Comeback Kid II
Where did I hear such sentiments of Dr. Krauthammer first?
– Bummblefuck has not saved anything. He has two more years to do some more tripping on his dong with his golf club leadership. Based on what we’ve seen in just two short years, by 2012 he’ll be lucky just to finish out his term. With Congress in gridlock the war is going to start getting more press, and then the fun will really begin.
The local Dairy Queen is owned by some swarthy Indians – and their kid is a really good friend of my daughter’s. Now that I think about it, all the DQs I’ve been in lately have been owned by swarthy Indian types… they must pay evil royalties to Buffett for the privilege of making the tasty Blizzards. I wonder if they haggle with him each month over the amount? Where’s Joe Biden to get to the bottom of this invasion?
I saw one of these DQ thingers in Chicago but I didn’t go cause when I’m in Chicago I’m a kind of a whore for Dunkin Donuts cause we don’t really have them here in California or back in Texas and also Noodles & Co. The flatbread sammiches at Dunkin are my favorite.
that looks like a nifty blog kinda… here for Mr. bh…
he has a funny post about a diaper
That’s what our DQs look like. Well the new ones do. The old ones look like holdovers from the 60s.
I’ve got a new favorite restaurant. Genghis Grill Yummy. http://www.genghisgrill.com/?gclid=CMzL5dLh8qUCFVZc2godvhwPWg
oh! New Girl takes me to one of those… here
I’d never had before… I’m a big fan now even though I have trouble with portion control when I go
I first went to one in Columbus Ohio, don’t remember the name but it was similar to our new one and yours. Much better than the Panda Express fake Chinese fast-food.
Portion control is only a problem when the bowl is overflowing. ;)
OH, bedtime for me. My internal clock is all confuzzled from getting up too early this morning to see if the schools were closed due to our little ice covered road issues yesterday and finding out they were only delayed 2 hours. Not enough time to go back to bed and get K to school and not enough time left after taking her to get a good snooze. I finally took a short nap but I’m still zonked.
have a good night I have one more christmas shopping to do tomorrow and then that’s that
today I found this lady right in my zone what makes leather purses all by herself and she said whatever you see in the store take half off so I got a purse for my sister and the lady wrote exchangeable on the receipt cause I told her I didn’t have just a whole lot of confidence I’d get the right one
the one I got was an evita…. it’s blue
a Christmas miracle!
the day after the fiscally ruinous “tax cut” swindle passes?
bumblefuck’s dirty socialist Associated Press finally gets a headline right
#93
Portillo’s. Itallian beef hot, sweet, and dipped. Wear rubber gloves and a napkin bib. Or their double cheeseburger with everything. Or the Grinder Factory.
Food! It’s what’s for dinner. It also makes the corruption that is Chicago easier to take.
Good thing Harry Reid pulled this monster. But what he’s doing is swabbing the fouled barrel clean so’s he can load up the remaining blasts(s) (DREAM &c.) scheduled for the rest of the session. Don’t party too hard; the worst is yet to come.
do I have a Portillo’s?
I will google later
this morning Dr. Krauthammer nails it
he is a very perspicacious person
someday we’ll wish upon a star and wake up where there’s no Team R
spend spending
YES!
OK, #38 was funny. #68 is sage advice I am taking to heart. And I am going to go finally hit Jeff’s tipjar.
A good day, but like many I have had, always they must be followed with vigilance.
But I am going to go now and write a thank-you e-mail to McConnell.
Where I live there’s a newfangled-looking DQ owned by teh Hindus but I don’t like it because the layout is impersonal and unfriendly. So when we have DQ-pons my wife and I go to the next town and sit in the renovated dining room of a much older-designed DQ that is much more friendly laid out and come to think of it is also owned and also managed by teh Hindus. And I have my Blizzard treat and my wife has her waffle bowl sundae and we wish evil things on Warren Buffett so he has to sell DQ Corporation to teh Hindus because they know how to run a DQ.
So let’s scuttle the Obama tax deal in the house.
Here‘s your Rick Wakeman.
Lugar is out of touch. I truly wonder if he knows what is going on. —
Slart – Wakeman is great. I’d like to see some Jan Hammer as well.