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.

Who’s fascist now?

It’s getting ugly out there.

I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.

“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.

“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”

“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”

O’Neill also said she had received anecdotal reports of problems at polling sites in Gouverneur, which is Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava’s hometown. But she couldn’t immediately confirm this.

And yet, in the words of “Dr.” Phil, “How’s that workin’ out for ya?”

ALBANY, N.Y. — A Democrat running in a historically Republican stronghold won a closely watched special congressional election in northern New York on Tuesday, capitalizing on a split that emerged between moderates and conservatives for control of the GOP.

With 92 percent of the precincts reporting early Wednesday, lawyer and retired Air Force Capt. Bill Owens defeated businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, 49 percent to 45 percent, after a boost from unified labor efforts in the last days of the campaign and the withdrawal of the Republican candidate over the weekend.

Uh huh. That’s what I thought.

MEMO TO THE CO-DEPENDENT DEMS: This post by the Great Orange Satan is required reading going into the 2010 midterms.

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.

…to South Austin and Philadelphia.

I must ask once again: How long before this crap becomes violent?

It’s official. We are witnessing the *ahem* BIRTH of the Birther Caucus in Congress. Florida Republican Bill Posey’s Birther Bill, HR 1503, is now up to nine cosponsors — five of them from Texas.

Yes, you read me correctly.

HALF OF THE BIRTHER CAUCUS™ IS COMPRISED OF TEXANS.

Worse, one fine upstanding member of the Birther Caucus™ is Williamson County’s own John Carter, whose district I moved into last November (after the election). Upon discovering this fact about Rep. Carter, I felt compelled to write the following letter to him via his website.

Congressman Carter,

I am writing to you because I am concerned about your co-sponsorship of HR 1503. This bill serves no real purpose except to placate a fringe group of far right-wing kooks who believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Your co-sponsorship of this bill suggests that you agree with them on the “issue” of President Obama’s citizenship status.

I would strongly urge you to rescind your co-sponsorship of HR 1503. If you do not, I and others like me will make every effort to ensure that you are defeated in next year’s election.

Better get a bucket.