Where’d everybody go?

We’re all glued to the teevee, watching the Sunday morning asshats drone on about how the House passing health reform spells certain doom for the Democrats.

It appears that BewsNusters needs money to continue fighting the far-left liberal MSM smear machine yada yada blart

Jennifer, lol! You hard left libs are gonna pay for this one!

We’re all glued to the teevee, watching the Sunday morning asshats drone on about how the House passing health reform spells certain doom for the Democrats.

History is on their side. After all, the creation of Social Security and Medicare doomed the Dems. Oh, wait…

Reporters should only report on the nice signs carried by teabaggers.

Oh, and the signs with no misspellings, punctuation errors, and deviations from standard grammar.

Screw it. Reporters shouldn’t report on the teabaggers’ signs at all. Or their advanced ages. And especially not the telltale evidence of Depends Undergarments.

Why Can’t the Entire MSM be more like Fox, Huh?

Hey, moonbats.

I heered one’a our lovely Representatives from here in the So-Totally-Not-Batshit-Wingnut-Crazy-Souf decided to shout OVER another Rep when she was speaking. But hey, she was a femmy liberal, so there you go.

Then again, evidently one of the Repugs from Arizona held up a baby doll and “spoke in its voice”.

Yep, peak wingnut, we not haz it yet.

I heered one’a our lovely Representatives from here in the So-Totally-Not-Batshit-Wingnut-Crazy-Souf decided to shout OVER another Rep when she was speaking. But hey, she was a femmy liberal, so there you go.

He shouted over a dozen or so Reps, who happened to be femmy libruls.

Then another idiot brought his 7 month old baby onto the floor and proclaimed that SHE wasn’t in favor of health care reform.

Of course, said baby is a happy recipient of government-run health care being a child of a federal employee…..

If the M$M would simply do their jobs and instead of reporting on the teaparty protests they would act responsibly and simply spend 24 hours a day calling for the military to arrest President Obama for being some sort of illegal Kenyan and for un-Constitutionally threatening to spend money for health care, then the teapartiers wouldn’t have to party so hard.

Then again, evidently one of the Repugs from Arizona held up a baby doll and “spoke in its voice”.

The doll then told everyone where the Repug had touched her.
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Jennifer, lol! You hard left libs are gonna pay for this one!

Yes, I’m sure we will. With a generation of political dominance, just like we “paid for” social security.

as usual, the GOP stays so classy – with Shadegg dragging a kid on to the floor of the house

On the abortion pictures at least they are consistent. Abortion like all surgical procedures is gross to watch, and anything gross must be banned because of its grossness. So in order to maintain ideological consistency, they were forced, forced I say, to deny medical coverage to as many Americans as possible and resist any and all health care legislation. Surgery and medicine are gross affairs and people should be protected from them as long as possible.

And you all said they couldn’t be ideologically consistent.

Surgery and medicine are gross affairs and people should be protected from them as long as possible.

Well analyzed! I hadn’t thought of this, and it totally makes sense.

Being healed by a preacher putting his hand on your forehead and casting out demons is completely non-gross, which explains that as an alternative! That should be supported – through vouchers, of course.

Is the Milbank screencap over there at NewsDusters ‘shopped? I mean, if he went on air dressed like that for a Cheney story, mad props to him. If they ‘shopped it, S,N! should send a cease and desist demand for copying their schtick.

Remember that the 5’x8′ banners of Dachau corpses, while being displayed in public, were not meant to be actually seen, and that they were intended to make a point, but that point is not meant to be remarked upon or evaluated. And though those banners compared universal health insurance to extermination camps, that comparison is not ‘fair game’ for repudiation, but only for endorsement. Because that’s what freedom of speech means.

Surgery and medicine are gross affairs and people should be protected from them as long as possible.

Sex too, also.

anything gross must be banned because of its grossness

This theory explains why they’re all so full of shit: evacuating one’s bowels is gross.

Citizen-

Well of course, they are remarkably consistent on the gross front and not very subtle. Gay people are sinners. Why? They’re gross. Sex is wrong. Why? It’s gross. Abortions are the devil. Why? They’re gross.

If this wasn’t a good summation of their viewpoints, I’d be far less worried about our country.

Maybe we need more giant blow-up signs of the wrinkled old men who run churches, see if we can’t use the gross principle of these overgrown 6 year old children against them.

Yep, peak wingnut, we not haz it yet.

PEAK WINGNUT IS A FALLACY.

Stay in the boat, pipple.

Somezomebie misspeeled phallusy.
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Smut has a protege.

Then another idiot brought his 7 month old baby onto the floor and proclaimed that SHE wasn’t in favor of health care reform.

The best part was that it wasn’t even his kid! I have no idea who the fuck’s kid it was.

It was, however, a pretty welcome diversion from the white-hot rage that I was/am feeling over the Stupak amendment.

Smut has a protege.

A flying, flaming piano. It’s like they could see into my dreams.

“Well of course, they are remarkably consistent on the gross front and not very subtle. Gay people are sinners. Why? They’re gross. Sex is wrong. Why? It’s gross. Abortions are the devil. Why? They’re gross.”

UH OH.

“Well of course, they are remarkably consistent on the gross front and not very subtle. Gay people are sinners. Why? They’re gross. Sex is wrong. Why? It’s gross. Abortions are the devil. Why? They’re gross.”

GULP.

“Well of course, they are remarkably consistent on the gross front and not very subtle. Gay people are sinners. Why? They’re gross. Sex is wrong. Why? It’s gross. Abortions are the devil. Why? They’re gross.”

STOP IT.

@T&U: The kid belonged to one of his staffers. One really has to wonder about the judgment of someone who’d lend out her baby so she could be waved around like a prop like that.

Man, that whole thing with the insanely inappropriate Holocaust analogies the Republicants are so sweet on … is that a brilliant way to court the Jewish vote or what?

the House passing health reform spells certain doom for the Democrats

Uh, okay … so does this mean the GOP is gonna use campaign ads featuring footage of Katrina refugees in the Superdome, pallets of cash being dumped off the ramp of a C-130, & Bush giving the camera the finger to defeat Obama in 2012?

Truly, America is a mystery, shrouded in an enigma, wrapped in a cheese-doodle.

@T&U: The kid belonged to one of his staffers. One really has to wonder about the judgment of someone who’d lend out her baby so she could be waved around like a prop like that.@T&U: The kid belonged to one of his staffers. One really has to wonder about the judgment of someone who’d lend out her baby so she could be waved around like a prop like that.

Also, the full blown FAIL of faking ventriloquism from an infant who is clearly more interested in the microphone cover than health care, while, since the infant is the child of a Congressional staffer, already receives government health care….

Would be frickin hilarious if not for the Democratic Fainting Goat routine on Bart Stupak’s patriarchal bullshit move.

Also, I still think Shadegg looked like Greg Stillson hiding behind a child.

RE: the Stupak amendment:

There are howls of outrage all over the intrawebs today about this. I suggest context: currently, uninsured women, women on Medicaid, women who work for the federal government, and women in the military do not have this coverage, the latter three groups thanks to the Hyde amendment.

Out of remaining women, those covered by private employer-provided care, only 45 – just over 50% have plans which cover abortion. The status quo is that only something like 1/3 of women of child-bearing age currently have coverage for elective abortion; pretty much all insured women have coverage for abortions when pregnancy threatens life and health, and in the cases of women covered under Medicaid and VA, also when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.

The Stupak amendment, in other words, isn’t going deny coverage for elective abortion to anyone who isn’t already denied coverage for elective abortion. In the case of uninsured women, the bill as passed by the house will allow them coverage for a whole host of health issues for which currently they have no coverage.

Does it suck that we have to go through these machinations to placate fucktarded wingnuts and conservadems? Yes. Yes it does. Does it mean the bill rolls back abortion rights? No, it does not. By far the biggest obstacle to most women today who seek elective abortion is the lack of abortion providers within a few hundred miles of where they live.

In short, the Stupak amendment didn’t throw anyone “under the bus” – it just leaves a lot of women being pinned by the wheels, as they were before. Not great, but also not any worse than the status quo. And there will be many, many opportunities to address this issue both legislatively and judicially in the future.

HTML fail. Zombie should go back to mocking misspellings.

Quite right Jennifer, but some of the analysis I read over at FDL indicates that the “guaranteed issue” language might mean that any insurance company that offers plans that could be covered in the public option, cannot offer abortion coverage in ANY of their plans. Thinking being, that if the tax credits are being applied in one area, that money could be transferred elsewhere to pay for abortions.

And since the insurance companies have to offer plans for the public option, this could make them eliminate the coverage from ALL their plans.

Now maybe that’s not how it will be interpreted, and I certainly don’t know enough to be able to tell, but I wouldn’t find it surprising if the Insurance Moguls just decide to throw non-wealthy women off the buss, even if the Stupid Amendment doesn’t quite do it directly.

And in any case, the Fainting Goat routine in the face of gross sex stuff is getting terribly tiresome.

By far the biggest obstacle to most women today who seek elective abortion is the lack of abortion providers within a few hundred miles of where they live.

Yep. ‘strue.

But I still have trouble seeing further circumscription of abortion coverage as anything but further curtailment of reproductive rights.

Of course, there is NO health care that covers zombie bites.

From LGM:

For all intents and purposes, then, Stupak-Pitts prevents private insurance plans from offering coverage for abortions. Appalling stuff.

He’s got more on how this works, written more clearly than a zombie can.

The kid belonged to one of his staffers. One really has to wonder about the judgment of someone who’d lend out her baby so she could be waved around like a prop like that.

Repubs are all about treating people as props, especially children. The good thing is that they’ve now pretty much guaranteed that she is a Future Democrat of America.

And since the insurance companies have to offer plans for the public option, this could make them eliminate the coverage from ALL their plans.

This is exactly the problem. They are setting up a system where insurance wouldn’t cover elective abortions AT ALL.

Of course, there is NO health care that covers zombie bites.

Shotgun to the head.

Hey! You can have sex (gay and straight), childbirth, abortion and snot, but leave my sprouts alone!

Shotgun to the head.

Umm, that would be administered by the military, not the health care system.

Plus, undisclosed condition.

Also, that is so Breather. always wanting to shoot a zombrother in the noggin.

The problem with all of these analyses is that there’s nothing to prevent a private insurer from creating an elective abortion supplemental policy, and selling it to whoever wants to buy it. While I don’t agree that the language will force insurers to drop elective abortion from all their policies (clearly these policies will not be available for purchase with subsidies), if it did, you better believe they’d be johnny-on-the-spot with this nifty new “product”. I don’t really see any danger of women in general not being able to find insurance coverage for this one procedure. As it now stands, they’ll have to dip into their own pockets to buy it if they are being subsidized. That’s still 1,000 times better than being able to get no care at all.

Also, shotgun to the head?

Engineers have a weird idea of health CARE. I mean , sure it seems to cure the zombie, but it’s kind of rough on the patient.

which makes me a bit surprised it wasn’t included as a Shadegg Amendment.

Being healed by a preacher putting his hand on your forehead and casting out demons is completely non-gross

I dunno, the falling over backwards bit and going into ecstatic conniptions never struck me as terribly appealing.

Jennifer,

Scott at LGM discussed that briefly, It seems that five states have included language mandating these kinds of riders. It also seems that in the time this requirement has been in effect, there has been exactly no one who has elected to purchase one.

I guess I can see that, for the most part. Wingnut fearmongering about women who use ‘abortion as birth control’, I imagine very few people think they personally will need an abortion, until they need one.

Umm, not being a woman, I might be wrong on that though. In any case, the abortion coverage rider solution seems to be ineffective, at best.

And why can’t they all pay for the events they cover and try to rile up the crowd so they can cover a riled up crowd, like FOX? Durn librals.

It strikes me that the “no elective abortion coverage under government or subsidized plans” actually might be a really good bludgeon for forcing all the plans to cover birth control.

I dunno, the falling over backwards bit and going into ecstatic conniptions never struck me as terribly appealing.

Strikes me that they may have been watching my weekend.

A moose zombie once bit my sister…..

Mind you moose zombie bites can be pretty nasty…..

Hmm, the bill has a few LGBT provisions that, I am sure, will drive the whingers into further frenzy. Also, they’s killing “abstinence only”. Thank ya Jeebus!

One really has to wonder about the judgment of someone who’d lend out her baby so she could be waved around like a prop like that.

Well, she probably asked herself: What Would Sarah Do?

It strikes me that the “no elective abortion coverage under government or subsidized plans” actually might be a really good bludgeon for forcing all the plans to cover birth control.

I don’t see that, because it seems to be written from a ‘tainted money’ standpoint that holds that government subisdy would allow for re-allocation of funds to pay for abortions, so it is as if the government money actually paid for the abortions. Stupid reasoning, I know, but since when has stupidity invalidated the anti choice arguments?

Admittedly, I have been reading more of the gorecrow analysis today, and hope you are right.

OT, but it looks like zrm is in good company.

The future is Cao.

Leader Boehner, December 7, 2008

Hmm, the bill has a few LGBT provisions that, I am sure, will drive the whingers into further frenzy.

Focusing on Stupak woman-punching. Some good, at least.

the falling over backwards bit and going into ecstatic conniptions never struck me as terribly appealing.

Agreed, but I’d characterize it more as “creepy” than “gross.” Wingnuts got no problem with creepy.

Then another idiot brought his 7 month old baby onto the floor and proclaimed that SHE wasn’t in favor of health care reform.

Well if anyone would know how an infant thinks …

Is it me, or was that one of the odder political stunts, ever?

Thank God Terri Schiavo was allowed to R.I.P. or some dumb fuck would have wheeled her out there and Fristed Frist.

Does anyone want to start a forum pool for how quickly Cao is run out of the Republican Party.

On “This Week”, Sam Donaldson brought up the Dachau posters, bless his heart, while three producers in the control room keeled over with strokes at the shocking breach of ABC’s usual evenhandedness. Even Dutchess Corinne Boggs/Roberts allowed as how the Dachau posters might have been in somewhat dodgy taste.

Hello, what would you like to do today?

Choice A: If you would you like to see Teabaggers in Politico’s comment section accusing Elie Wiesel of being antisemitic, and arguing that signs at their protests comparing the healthcare plan to photos of dead bodies of Dachau victims are 1) not really theirs and 2) not antisemitic because Elie Wiesel and George Soros are engaged in a secret, diabolical conspiracy, please PRESS HERE

Choice B: If you would like to see a bunny opening an envelope, please PRESS HERE

(No cheating. You must choose one or the other.)

I went with the Bunny. I wasn’t disappointed.

Bunny here. Who needs to see teabaggers?

Does anyone want to start a forum pool for how quickly Cao is run out of the Republican Party.

In the interest of symmetry, I would go with the anniversary of the boehner quote.

Rodents. Is there anything they can’t do?

Anthony said,

November 8, 2009 at 21:03

Does anyone want to start a forum pool for how quickly Cao is run out of the Republican Party.
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Thery’re already all over it, like flies on something.
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Rodents Lagomorphs. Is there anything they can’t do?

/pedant

ckc – Did you think I was referring to the rabbit? We’ve got a thread full of wingnutty rodentia.

yay, bunny.

All part of the conspiracy that will make Democrats send out bunnies to open all our mail so they can tell who to add to Obama’s Super-duper-secret Enemy List. Also.

a bunny not opening an envelope

Bunny here. Who needs to see teabaggers?

Yeah. The bunny is cute and has a useful skill.

Not great, but also not any worse than the status quo. And there will be many, many opportunities to address this issue both legislatively and judicially in the future.

Either things must be the outright ideal, the purists say, or we should burn the entire edifice to the ground and pound our fists into the ashes. Because it’s not like there isn’t a virtual ban on abortion now anyway.

Does anyone want to start a forum pool for how quickly Cao is run out of the Republican Party.

It’s not like he’s going to get re-elected anyway. Pretty much any Dem not currently under indictment is bound to trounce him.

Yeah. The bunny is cute and has a useful skill.

Making it a part of the Productive Class.

Making it a part of the Productive Class.

Not if it earns less than $650,000.

Either things must be the outright ideal, the purists say,

Not trying to be a purist here. The health care bill is a good thing. But there are 24 Dems who voted for that piece of crap amendment. And they need to know that support for reproductive rights is NOT a bargaining chip to be traded to rightwing moralist scolds who will never be satisfied until all women are reduced to being nothing more than a brrod mare for the State.

brood mare. Typo zombie. Loose fingers.

they need to know that support for reproductive rights is NOT a bargaining chip to be traded to rightwing moralist scolds who will never be satisfied until all women are reduced to being nothing more than a brrod mare for the State.

Yes. One of these bastards is my own Rep, who pulled the real asshole twofer last night by voting Yea on Stupidak and Nay on the bill. The fact that he’s from Utah where a large number of people believe that women are property and brood mares doesn’t excuse him, IMO.

What’s w/ these bunnies? More than one has this skill

What next, they open us while we sleep?

Zombie Bunnies, Bouffant.

Be afraid. Be Very Afraid!

Practice your bunny skills.

“Sex too, also.z”

Only if you do it right.

Repubs are all about treating people as props, especially children.

Reminded me of this. (For some reason this was the largest screencap I could find of this scene. Pity.)

Your forcing our sibling bunnies into stationery-phagy to please your electro-colusseum-viewing barbaric audiences shall be noted, for when the time comes, WATERSHIP SMACKDOWN !!!

WATERSHIP SMACKDOWN !!!

(and little presents everywhere!!)

The MSM is more like Faux every day.

They were born that tragic moment when science made its great mistake… now from behind the shroud of night they come, a scuttling, shambling horde of creatures destroying all in their path.

They were born that tragic moment when science made its great mistake… now from behind the shroud of night they come, a scuttling, shambling horde of creatures destroying all in their path.

…well, I wish I knew your target reference – sounds like the higher-ups in my organization, but I’m sure you don’t know them first-hand.

1 tiem i had 2 shout over polly styrene, lydia lunch, and belinda carlisle when they were all arguing over the same pair of combat boots at granny takes a trip. i told the mouthy bitches to shut up and then i nabbed the shoes coz a 7 nation army cant hold me back.

Milbank has a lot of nerve. He hardly even MENTIONS the many, many protest signs that did not have pictures of Holocaust victims on them. And that Elie Wiesel fellow complained about it, but likewise he did not say anything about how most of the signs that didn’t say health care reform was equal to the Holocaust or Hitler or Nazis at all — one of them, for example, compared the public option to Stalin’s engineered famine in Ukraine, and of course several pointed out that 119 million Americans losing their private coverage* is many, many times worse than mass murder and genocide.

* By charging someone 30% less for something you are FORCING them to take the better deal, which is unfair, so it’s like taking the more expensive private insurance away from them.

ckc: The reference is to Night of the Lepus, which I linked to earlier. It’s a hoot!

It’s a bit embarrassing that I apparently think the same way as Brandi.

Now, all of you stop eating the trolls’ crank.

Ba-doodle-doo-yeah, tacky troll-feeders! Here’s the Concerned Coach to lay down a spread of SCOLDING for the way you suck the Cool Ranch powder off those tubular trolls’ wanga-danga-ding-dongs harder than the Obummer sucks at being President!

Urban out.

“Well of course, they are remarkably consistent on the gross front and not very subtle. Gay people are sinners. Why? They’re gross. Sex is wrong. Why? It’s gross. Abortions are the devil. Why? They’re gross.”

Executing people is gross, as is blowing people up, but those guys seem to love that shit.

For all intents and purposes, then, Stupak-Pitts prevents private insurance plans from offering coverage for abortions. Appalling stuff.

That’s what I’ve heard, too. I know Stupak is a D, but Pitts and most of the votes are the same Republican assholes who’ve been wringing their hands and bemoaning how health care choices will be limited if the government takes any sort of role. Puts the lie to that rationale, doesn’t it?

Zombie Bunnies, Bouffant.

So, they condition the ice at the hockey rink, too?

So, they condition the ice at the hockey rink, too?

(groan)

(golf clap)

for the latitudinally challenged

I popped for bunny myself. Lots more soothing to watch.

And, Night of the Lepus at 23.10, thanx for reminding me of one of the great alltime classic cheesy horror movies.

One of my favoritest things I ever saw was when a local cable channel featured that movie on Easter Sunday lolololol!! Some staffer there was well-schooled in Irony 101.

If the entire MSM was like Fox, Fox’s ratings would plunge even further. They’d have to relocate their studios and show hosts to an insane asylum and become a even more perverted type of reality show.

>hen again, evidently one of the Repugs from Arizona held up a baby doll and “spoke in its voice”.

If it really had been a doll, Shadegg’s vaudeville audition would have been highly amusing. Since it was a real baby, it was NOT. FUNNY. Dammit.

Center Left Grrrl said,

November 8, 2009 at 17:18

Jennifer, lol! You hard left libs are gonna pay for this one!

Do yourself a favor and shut up before you make yourself look even stupider.

Slippy, I think that was a solicitation.

hey slippy did u have 2 work had 2 become slippy, or were u BORN SLIPPY. undErWorld reFerenCe. 00b3r-pwn4g3

BUNNIES! BUNNIES!! BUNNIES!!!

BUNNIES! BUNNIES!! BUNNIES!!!

What’s with all the carrots? Why do they need such good eyesight anyway?

ROFL BTVS SPIKE WUZ TEH HAWT. not as hawt as obama tho. theres something about a black dude. yummy!

“anything gross must be banned because of its grossness.”

Which is why Republicans and Libertarians will soon be taking a stand against public sewage treatment.

They’ll go after contraception next, or try. One tactic will be to declare several forms of contraception “abortion,” and, therefore, uncoverable. They’re going after Griswold.

hey slippy did u have 2 work had 2 become slippy, or were u BORN SLIPPY. undErWorld reFerenCe. 00b3r-pwn4g3

1998 just called me about you. She said she was posting on Slashdot before cmdrtaco sold out, and arguing about rawk music, and playing through a text-only dungeon.

And she said that she’d like her fleeting coolness back because you’re wearing it like sideways and you look like a dumbass.