I thought about maybe going out and picking up a Subway turkey melt, but then I a was all like, meh, I don’t really feel much like driving — so I ate a couple slices of leftover sausage pizza and whacked off to “Three’s Company,” instead. Now I’m thinking maybe a nap. Or a Subway turkey melt, if I somehow get really really motivated.
“Good for the Gander”
From Dan Foster at the Corner: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) “will offer an amendment during Senate debate on the health care reconciliation bill this week to apply the reform legislation to the President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff,” according to a press release. Grassley said, “It’s only fair and logical that top administration officials, who fought so hard for passage of this overhaul of America’s
a self-effacing Monday afternoon joke for the benefit of all the comrades in the hizzouse
Q: How many progressives does it take to change a light bulb? A: Change it? Fuck that noise. We’ll just buy a new house! … you’re welcome.*
“The Lie of Fiscal Responsibility”
Peter Suderman, writing in Reason: Since the New Deal, American entitlements have consistently grown faster than projected in size, scope, and cost. Like unwanted houseguests, they cost money you don’t have, and they can’t be kicked out. Reform and repeal efforts are about as successful as kindergarten experiments with do-it-yourself haircuts. Indeed, the health care bill’s very structure is a testament to this fact. Much of it is funded with
Look at all the pretty colors!
See? Isn’t America, like, so much more groovy distilled to its inner rainbow…? Far out.
“Democratic bigwig: We have votes for health care reform; GOP chief: No you don’t!”
If ever a headline writer captured the moment… Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.), the House Democratic Caucus chairman, told CNN’s “State of the Union With Candy Crowley” that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had 216 yes votes in the bag. “This is a historic day and we are happy warriors,” Larson said. “We are so proud of the Democratic caucus, that we will be a part of history, joining Franklin Delano
Obama’s last last pitch for Obamacare.
No, really. At least, until tomorrow. When he offers just a few last last last last minute, last pitch words. Full text here. Remember: a vote for Obamacare is a vote against reactionary racist Bible-thumping treasonmongers who haven’t yet figured out that the real Jesus would have been so totally on the side of Obama. The dirty ball suckers.
ObamaCare: process, structural imperative, and the velvet coup
David Harsanyi, the Denver Post: as Democrats continue to display a creative knack for legislative swindling, a question has emerged: Are voters, by and large, concerned about the “process,” or do they care more about outcomes? This query becomes more significant as Democrats continue to abandon their defense of “deem and pass” — where the House deems a bill passed rather than actually voting on it — and make a
a “Samuel Beckett, the later years” knock knock joke: from the protein wisdom conceptual series
knock knock … knock knock …

Former teen idol Leif Garrett comments on the new day in America, where social justice is ascendent, and the tyranny of the white racist patriarchy lays moribund on the ash heap of history
“So, wait. Does this mean that Screech kid has to share his Smack with me by law? Because I’m pretty tired of having to cut his lawn or style his hair just for a little fucking taste, I can tell you that much, brother.”*