Fucking BEAUTIFUL

[sonofabish]

I have been tuned into CSPAN2 all day, watching/listening to the GOP getting its ass handed to it on a fucking platter and enjoying every last second of it. Serves those fuckers right. After a year of dragging their feet, refusing to engage in the process, and obstructing obstructing obstructing, they're trying, at the final seconds of the game,

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[sonofabish]

The reconciliation bill will pass, yes. The tactic undertaken by the GOP is to offer all sorts of tasty amendments knowing that if any of them pass, then the whole mess has to go back to the House, and they know the Dems aren't going to allow that

[sonofabish]

Oh, and another Senator cast his vote and then quickly had to correct himself, saying "I forgot how to vote" and earlier a staffer saying "I really need a coke right now."

[anomie666]

I always need to take some deep breathes before reading one of your entries. I feel like a zen master practicing self-restraint.

November can't come soon enough.

[thetathx1138]

I don't think either side is going to be happy when it does, if I'm being honest.

The 2010 elections are going to be ugly. People are pissed off at politicians in general.

The GOP still has way too much infighting and the passage of the healthcare bill is drying up funding and support. The teabaggers are driving away moderates like you wouldn't believe. At least that loyalty quiz thing didn't pass. Instead they're going to fight it out in primaries across the nation, and something tells me a lot of winning candidates are going to be pushed aside in favor of angry loudmouths, and lose.

More to the point, their popularity is still in the toilet, largely thanks to nobody telling the teabaggers to shut up and start acting civil.

We've got eight months, anything could happen. But honestly I think nobody's going to be happy with the results.

[sonofabish]

The thing is, Matt, most of the damage done to/by the GOP is self-inflicted. Dan has it right- the GOP hasn't reigned in the kooks and nutters of the party. The reaction by the top people in the GOP to this latest string of slurs and threats against Democrats is tepid at best. They made what is now acknowledged as a terrible decision to totally withdraw from the health care debate and now at the last moment, try to reinject themselves into the process. They put themselves out at the party of fiscal restraint, yet during the Bush and Reagan years, ran up mind-blowing deficits. And even in the last presidential election, voters ran screaming from the GOP, a warning sign if ever there was one

Remember this greatest hit from January?

[rpkrajewski]

Oh, by the way, HANDS OFF OUR HEALTH CARE!

[rpkrajewski]

Does anybody know if the daily no-business-after-2PM votes are recorded anywhere ? I'd love to see how our "different kind of Republican" has been voting in that regard.

On Monday, Brown said he hadn't yet read the reconciliation bill. I hope he's found the time now!

[sonofabish]

I'm sure there's a record somewhere. What was interesting was that not a single ranking Republican in any of the committees claimed to know who filed the objection to continuing business past 2.

And when Brown flip-flopped, he didn't say "I have now read the bill and object to X/Y/Z."

[rpkrajewski]

The most detailed record I find was here:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_2.htm

But if you look at the oldest item (0064), it's real business (the start of the HR Reconciliation process), not a procedural vote.

[sonofabish]

I looked at a different section- you looked at the roll call section. Best I could find was this from the Judiciary Committee: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r111:14:./temp/~r111RPDDvQ:: It did not give who requested the cut-off.

And if McCain's to be believed, we're going to see a lot more of this, as the GOP is now determined to bring the entire government to a screeching halt. Which, I am sure, will thrill the Know-Nuttin' teabagger douchbags, but isn't going to do much for people who don't get all their "information" via swill enemas from Limbaugh/Beck/Hannity. And btw, love that one of the Right's screaming heads, who rails constantly about "socialistic handouts", was caught with his hand in the honey pot, with his family getting a $250,000 federal handout.

[thormonger]

The party is a stinking fucking disease-ridden corpse that should be dragged outside, doused with gasoline, and torched. Seeing them sit by and allowing all the shit go down- racial/homophobic slurs, death threats against members of Congress and their families, and the attacks on offices of Democrats.... they've lost any moral authority.

Yeah, ironic seeing these two sentences together.

(And yeah, I condemn violence from anyone. I'll protest with my vote... and I'm still planning on voting for Libertarian candidates, because I don't trust the GOP much more than I do the Dems.)

[sonofabish]

One's a metaphor lodged against an idea, the other is a specific threat. Kinda like the difference between "I want this health care bill to die a slow and agonizing public death" and "I am going to kill Congressman X for voting for this