JABbering Stooge

This is why we lost two governors in the special election last night:

WASHINGTON — In a blow to the White House, the Senate’s top Democrat signaled Tuesday that Congress may fail to meet a year-end deadline for passing health care legislation, leaving the measure’s fate to the uncertainties of the 2010 election season.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., spoke as Democratic officials said it could be December before Senate debate begins in earnest on the issue atop President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda, months after senior lawmakers and the White House had hoped. The drive to pass legislation has been plagued for months by divisions within the party’s rank and file.

The next time you decide to stab Obama in the back (Which will be, ohh…about five seconds from now!), have the guts to do it to his face.*

* Cf.

So, Judas Iscariot shows his true colors once more, eh?

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) told reporters today that he would in fact filibuster any health care bill he doesn’t agree with—and right now, he doesn’t agree with the public option proposal making its way through the Senate.

“I told Senator Reid that I’m strongly inclined—I haven’t totally decided, but I’m strongly inclined—to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don’t support the bill that he’s bringing together because it’s important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year. But I also told him that if the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill.”

When will the Senate Dems wise up to the fact that Joe Lieberman has not voted for one damn thing that they have wanted since 2001, and likely never will so long as he remains a Senator? When will they punish him for constantly stabbing them in the back?

When pigs fly, if Sen. Chris Dodd has anything to say about it.

*SIGH*

How did I end up in a party of co-dependent wimps and corporate whores who keep making excuses for their abusers?

Shorter Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Lord Griffiths:

Public must learn to “tolerate the inequality” of bonuses, says Goldman Sachs vice-chairman

• If getting financially raped by your Wall Street overlords is inevitable, just relax and enjoy it!

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* Cf.

If you missed last night’s hour-long Special Comment (You sad, sad person!), here it is in all its glory:

Amen. If the Rethuglicans manage to kill comprehensive health care reform, well…

“Weep for the future, Na’Toth. Weep for us all.”
— G’Kar, Babylon 5, “Revelations”

Sidebar: My only quibble with the Special Comment (and it’s a very, VERY minor, nit-picky quibble) is that he got the capital of Montana wrong: It’s Helena, not Butte.

It’s official: Gangster capitalism has reached the cancerous stage.

It just feels like the fix is in for the average guy every where you look these days. The top story at the Times now is the market surge because there was bad news for the dollar. What is bad for America is good for the Wall Street boys.

Meanwhile, one party in Congress is completely devoted to defending the rights of insurance companies to screw their customers, the ratings agencies have paid no price for their part in the meltdown last year and are still slapping triple A ratings on anything that moves so that the big swinging dicks on Wall Street can swindle pension funds out of their holdings — I’m really looking forward to that hoocoodanode/come to Jesus in a few years. The pension funds are already horribly underfunded, social security [sic] is strained because employment is so bad that people are collecting benefits early, setting the stage for the Republicans to push through some way to tinker with social security, benefits are running out for a lot of people collecting unemployment and the jobs market has not recovered, and banks are failing left and right and Congress decided the banks didn’t need to pay fees to the FDIC for a decade or so.

But hey — Goldman is turning a profit. Fuck it all.

Why does Wall Street hate America?

First the Rockefeller amendment to put a public option into the Max Baucus (D — CIGNA) health care “reform” bill fails by a vote of 15-8.

Then the Schumer amendment to add a (very watered down) public option to the Baucus Baka bill fails by a vote of 13-10.

Can we get some real Democrats in office in 2010? You know, ones who aren’t willing prostitutes for the murder-by-spreadsheet cartel?

Also.

The latest masterpiece from Funny or Die:

Humor, with a purpose. Imagine that! (Bonus: Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka gets a couple of lines!)

MY COMMENT ABOUT OBAMA ON WALL STREET

• LOL! Epic Logic FAIL! I’m not comparing B. HUSSEIN Osama X The Usurper to a child molester in that infamous tweet, but since he’s just as dangerous to Wall Street as a child molester is to kids, they are comparable in a way. Stupid libtards!

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I haven’t seen logic this bad from Boortz since he declared Kerry voters were just as dangerous to America as all Muslims Al-Qaeda.

Just think folks, this moron used to be a lawyer.

Gee, Conservatives for Patients’ Corporate Rights lied to the Canadians they duped into taking part in their lying ad bashing Canadian health care. Color me not surprised in the least.