Nobody cares about the deficit, of course, and when they do pretend to care they do it so badly as to defy belief. But what won’t stop our Media Overlords from taking the “deficit hawks” seriously or relentlessly pushing the Very Serious Truth that the only way to bring our economy back to sanity is to cause the greatest number of little people possible to suck it.
—Jason
Pelosi is running for Minority Leader. She kicked ass for 2 years and pushed through basically every progressive peace of legislation she could think of. She is unafraid to be a liberal and has more balls than any of her male Democratic counter parts.
-Ian
Since the Dems have decided to punt on having a vote on tax extensions for the middle class and a separate vote for the upper class cuts the GOP has back off calling them tax hikers, right? Their plan worked, right?
Orrin Hatch: “It’s unfortunate that politics has gotten in the way of making sure the American people’s taxes don’t go up.”
The fuck whits how run the Democratic party should at least try and act like politics is their business of choice.
-Ian
When the Bloodbath at the Polls happens in November and Speaker Boehner tears off his face to reveal the Alien Lizard living within, this will be the reason.
—Jason
FinReg passes the Senate, heads to the president.
What Freedoms does this one nullify? Can’t keep it all straight.
Instant Update: More here.
—Jason
Good on Sargent. Wrong is wrong.
—Jason
Senator Robert Byrd, RIP.
—Jason
Not bad.
Mitt’s sniffy defense of health insurers should win some kind of out-of-touch award.
—Jason
McChrystal out. You may now discuss whether/to what extent this proves that Obama is weak/thuggish or a fascist/socialist. The drill is known by you, I expect.
Update: Video.
—Jason
… that keeps on giving.
-Ian
The next couple of days are not going to be very much fun. No, they are not.
—Jason
—Jason
“We have 99 weeks of unemployment insurance,” Feinstein said. “The question comes, how long do you continue before people just don’t want to go back to work at all?”
Right, at a certain point, they should just do the classy thing and starve to death.
Seriously, fuck these people.
—Jason
Um…
“It has to be a gentlemen’s agreement” between BP and the Obama administration, [Jim Moran (D-Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior and the Environment] said. “It’s a combination of BP’s public commitment and Obama’s determination to make them pay.”
Foolproof!
—Jason
This story just keeps getting weirder and weirder.
For those of you who haven’t followed the story out of South Carolina’s Democratic primary, what happened is that the establishment candidate (who, to be fair, seems not to have campaigned much at all) was defeated by a person named Alvin Greene. And who is Greene? Well, no one seems to really know. He’s never held political office. Lives at home with his parents and appears to be unemployed. He’s also reportedly facing felony charges (and a five-year sentence, if convicted) related to the dissemination of profanity and was involuntarily discharged from the Army.
Some observers spent yesterday crying dirty trick, and it’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility (though why they’d bother in a state that is almost certain to re-elect Jim DeMint by wide margins is an open question). Without appearing to raise any money, the unemployed Greene did somehow manage to come up with the $10,000 filing fee. Not impossible, of course. Just damn mysterious.
—Jason
Good news from the House.
Amendment to ban ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ passes House 234-194.
-Ian
It’s not about being with us 100% of the time. But we would appreciate you not fucking us on every major policy issue, but I guess that would get in the way of hippie punching. And everyone knows how damn fun that is.
-Ian
They’re also completely, batshit insane. So there’s that, too.
—Jason
Looks like they might have finally dropped for the Dems.
“What we have done on financial reform was just as energetic as what we did on health care. We worked for more than two months with [Sen. Richard] Shelby trying to come up with something…. I’m not going to waste any more time of the American people while they come up with some agreement.”
“The games of stalling are over,” Reid said.
-Ian
Please…
—Jason
It took them long enough, but good on the Obama people.
I suspect we’ll be hearing a lot of moaning about “moral hazard” and bailing out deadbeats and such. This is modern America, after all, where the only people who deserve help from their government are those who need it least.
—Jason
Getting overshadowed by the HCR fight is this very big Hopey/Changey thing.
[F]uture borrowers of government loans will have an easier time repaying them, under a vast overhaul of higher education aid that Congress passed Thursday and sent to President Barack Obama.
The legislation, an Obama domestic priority overshadowed by his health care victory, represents the most sweeping rewrite of college assistance programs in four decades. It strips banks of their role as middlemen in federal student loans and puts the government in charge.
The House passed the measure 220-207 as part of an expedited bill that also fixed provisions in the new health care law. Earlier Thursday, the Senate passed the bill 56-43.
-Ian
HCR is officially over.
By a vote of 220-207, Democrats passed a package of amendments to the reform bill that President Obama signed into law on March 23.
Shorter Dems Vs. Republicans:
-Ian
… the “I didn’t get a pony” crowd.
-Ian
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