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proscribedroll call?well rep. doyle is a mfer
Lock and load, baybee, lock and load.
The roll
Good to see David Wu was an aye.
If there’s a bright spot, it’s that 95 of them got it right. 340 to go.
Wait, 66? I thought I saw 95, live.
Dems went 95-95
Nice title:
” BILL TITLE: To make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002″
Zoe Lofgren voted no she’s the hoochie what’s been stalwartly opposed to Lamar Smith’s fascist fun-with-child-porn bill
You’ve been warned.
Yeah, that’s weird: as many Dems voted against as for.
here’s aclu’s view of HR 1981
link
the tp should work with them to push back big gov’t
It seems Boehner was gaming us, if you acknowledge this lefty’s read…
If it does pan out like this LeftLibProgg believes, then Boehner’s head is the least thing he’ll have to worry about.
Heh. Some dude called in to Hewitt and proposed that we collect tribute from the countries we protect by keeping their sea lanes and air lanes clear. Because WTF? We’re paying other countries to put our bases in to protect THEM?
Hewitt says, “what if they refuse to pay,” and the dude said, “we don’t protect.”
Hugh acted as if that were a dumb idea. I think the dude was onto something.
Was the guy calling from Rome?
Palin should denounce deal in the starkest terms possible, note that both parties in DC have decided that what the American electorate wants doesn’t matter to them, and then announce that she’s running for President, on the promise that she will do battle with the political establishment on behalf of the American people, and will refuse to allow them to kick the can down the road.
The disgust out there over this deal is palpable. Our leadership, a good majority of our elected officials, and the vast majority of our so-called conservative punditry, have all sold us out.
Bachmann has held her ground nicely, but she’s not getting the pub that Palin would get.
Right now, I’m all for a third party. And unless someone like Palin or Bachmann or McCotter or Johnson gets the nomination, I’ll not be voting for any Republicans. I’ve left the party for good — though I’ll consider voting for a GOP presidential candidate.
Palin will be on Van Sustern’s show tonight.
If she comes out in favor of this, I’ll kick her to the curb, too.
McCotter, bless his heart, was an aye.
I’d like to see her unleash a shitstorm. Really would.
Was the guy calling from Rome?
Of course.
But still, if they want “revenue enhancement,” shouldn’t they get some from outside the country for once?
McCotter is off my list.
Very disappointed in Ryan, who must know he’s being groomed for bigger things and is playing the team R game. West, the same.
If Romney is against it you can bet Sarah is too… she’s not gonna let ickle Romneykins flank her on the right no sir
but I don’t see how this story has legs really … the new story is omg omg it’s a double double dip dip
which might could play all the way through christmas
McCotter is a proud member of Meghan’s coward daddy’s Main Street Partnership Club.
To me that’s kind of a deal-breaker like when people ass-rape me vengefully or cut me off in traffic.
I’m sure if Palin is against it, it’s not out of conviction, but rather because she’s a cumguzzling whore what wants to appear more staunch than Mittens.
There.
Now we don’t need to hear from you any more on that particular point.
@10, Why is the bill titled “To make a technical amendment to the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002”? Are we sure we’re looking at the right roll call ?
It was a vehicle serr8d, and they changed the name with the next vote
A vehicle. Goes with the ‘in the ditch’ meme well enough.
Heh.
The fat lady might refuse to sing…
here is what National Soros Radio has decided the narrative is about that Mr. serr8d for now anyways
Of course not. It’s no longer a crisis. Credit drop? Meh.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Alternate view.
The WSJ called me a Hobbit. Fuck them.
I nominate NPR to pay the extra $100B, they can afford it.
Well, absent the WSJ, we could just consider the idea of all NPV calculations going up a tick. That’s going to be oddly systemic in a way that people might not be thinking about now.
It occurs to me that if Obama & the Democrat Leadership were to call for the passage of the “Omnibus Shame, Ignomy, Desolation and Servitude Government Reform Act” Half the GOP leadership would be in a panic about getting blamed for shame, ignomy, desolation and servitude, while the other half would be worried about coming up with a way to oppose it without appearing partisan and obstructionist. The establishment Republicans would be afraid that opposing the bill would strengthen the tea-party. The old-line, mainline, NR, Weekly Standard conservatives would be focused solely on making sure that shame ignomy desolation and servitude didn’t come with a tax increase. And meanwhile, over in the Senate, the usual suspects would be busy trying to find some cohorts across the isle to help them craft a better bill.
I should put that more clearly. Greater discounts to cash flows. Lower NPVs.
This will have to enter the models in one way or another.
Ohhh, bit of confusion here. The alternate view of #34 was to the Soros whore comment at #32. Not #33.
Yes, it’s bad when your credit is downgraded. It’s really bad when it’s downgraded and you’re still traveling in the wrong direction.
Squid mentioned this somewhere awhile back and he had it exactly correct. This shit can go south far quicker than people think. Positive feedback loops and market psychology can kill you long before you’d guess at the outset.
Looks like we may be in for a blow down here next weekend, though for now not a bad awful one.
let’s pray that one makes texas.
Ann Barnhardt doesn’t exactly mince words… nor does she suffer a false optimism that Obama is, or ever was, “a good man”.
Quite the opposite, really.
I’m a bit of a blowhard (bh) so I feel like I have to flesh out what I was saying at #37 and #39.
We often think of this in terms of interest rates. What’s it cost to borrow money? Is it worth it to borrow money?
There’s another way this enters the macro picture. All throughout the economy people are making forward looking decisions on what they should and shouldn’t do with cash or assets on hand. You do that by looking at the spread between an extremely low risk investment and the higher risk thing you’re thinking about implementing. There’s a small amount of math involved but at the end of the day, the greater the return spread you’re looking at, the more likely you are to do it.
When your input number takes even a small tick up, it means something. Because, some non-negligible number of projects won’t be initiated and it’s the fundamental basis for almost all decisions like this across the entire economy.
i think cadell is right: they’re both ruling class losers
the ruling class never gets blamed in the blame game
It tells you everything you need to know about politics today when Cadell is schooling Hewitt. Which he did.
hughhewitt gop tool
bob beckel went through life fat, dumb, demonrat
He’s not the boss of me.
Hewitt, not Beckel.
(I never comment on time. It’s a constant failing.)
miss lindsay has purty tie tonite on greta
allen west gop tool
meanwhile because condoms and abortion are rare:
link
the carrier analogy fails because they just gave 2 trillion to baracky for full speed ahead
bh,
I put this which I had read about a while back somewhere in a comment. Is this the case on things like banks or Money Market funds as I was led to believe?
“This deal does nothing to stop S&P and Moody’s downgrading our debt. If these two do so then there are built in laws/rules that require many of the financial institutions to sell treasuries in order to be invested in AAA not AA vehicles.”
Yes and no, Geoff. There are pre-existing guidelines that will be followed in some of these instances. In other instances they’ll just hold a meeting and change the guidelines instead.
the Department of Health and Human Services announced mandatory coverage of contraceptives (including ones that may act as abortifacients) and sterilization in new insurance plans
The mandatory use of same comes later, which will no doubt warm the cold, dead heart of zombie-Margaret-Sanger.
Thanks.
Ah well, it was a nice country while it lasted.
Lemme ask, if you had $25,000 in a passbook savings account, and you really wanted to invest it, what do you do?
I hear America is still the best bet (whatever that means), even if our credit rating is downgraded, and that just scares me.
Real estate is still going down, and if and when they do away with the mortgage deduction, I’ll be dead of old age before it comes back. Basically, buying these days is like paying rent plus interest to the bank. Better to just rent.
Gold is too high to get into now, IMO.
Bonds aren’t even going to keep up with inflation, may as well have the liquidity the savings account gives you.
Seriously, in this environment, what do you do?
you’re allowed to put 5K in savings bonds in a year and for now you can earn 4.6 on the I series – the EEs you could put another 5k in but I wouldn’t
but that’s better than your savings account most likely and pretty much as liquid
I buy $25k of beans and bullets and practice my Lord Humongus pose.
If you want to Lee, I’d be more than happy to talk about that by email. No fee or anything like that. We’re friends.
I’m mainly gonna talk about funding your retirement account and tax avoidance though. That’s what I do.
You can do 10k in the I series. 5K through a bank in a paper certificate and 5K online through Treasury direct. Spouse can do the same for 20K total.
oh. I thought the papers were bye bye.
They weren’t as of a couple years ago. Don’t know as of today but thought it hadn’t changed.
you are correct
also yes you’re right about being able to do both
I knew That you could do both because I did back a couple years ago.
Thanks guys, I’ll check out that bond thing closer.
bh, I appreciate that, I think I’ve already got retirement accounts maxed out on allowable tax deferment. I was mostly wondering beyond that, with a stash of after tax cash just sitting there.
What about these rumors I’ve heard about a bond bubble forming?
FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 AM
July 13, 2011
WASHINGTON – The Bureau of the Public Debt announced today that as of January 1, 2012, paper savings bonds will no longer be sold at financial institutions. This action, which supports the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s goal to increase the number of electronic transactions with citizens and businesses, will save American taxpayers approximately $70 million over the first five years.
Sounds like you’re in good shape then, Lee.
Problem is that you can’t go off and chase returns now. Just how it goes.
Here’s what I say about the bond bubble forming: if you can figure it out and then we make money on it? I’ll give you half.
Who knows? I don’t.
[…] From Jeff at Protein Wisdom: 269-161. […]
Hugh Hewitt: “Shit sandwich surprisingly tasty. I give it a B+.”
Looks like a real housecleaning is in order come 2012. And 2014. And 2016…
OT, Jeff, as a palate cleanser you might want to read Stanley Fish’s latest take on moral relativism vs. moral absolutes. Does Philosophy Matter?
– Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
I think that’s actually an Ann Barnhardt quote Mr. Joe
Ann is a true American patriot
I don’t have any comment I just was curious what she said
Fortunately I watched the thing, happyfeet. Greta framed it as changing the conversation in DC, and in fact went on and on about it. She also expressed her disdain that the cuts were backloaded. Palin agreed to the part of the “victory” about changing the conversation but went on to make clear that she didn’t like the deal itself, and that changing the conversation doesn’t keep Obama from spending another couple trillion.
Incidentally, if you’re grabbing transcript excerpts, Bachmann was on Hannity’s show last night. I missed most of that interview, so go grab that one if you wouldn’t mind.
ok let me get my green tea from the kitchen then I look
here is the video of the interview hah his hair changered up colors since last time I saw him
here is a write-up from “newsmax”
Whither the rudders?
The bastards cheered. Time to eat the minstrels.
Greta has a tendency to confuse political issues more than she helps to clarify. She doesn’t do that with criminal trial stuff I think, so it’s evidently not an incapacity to seek or find clarity. But I don’t watch her enough to have a sense of what’s up with that.