Utah Sen. Orrin “Booby” Hatch’s rider to the health-care bill that gives privileges to “any state that starts with the letter U” is the day’s biggest laff riot, and was duly noted by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today (tx to NYTimes humor sction)
(Shown above: The Guy Who Camped With Himself)
Then: The Wealth of Nations
Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden
Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
Then: The Theory of the Leisure Class
Now: [...]
Dr. Marcia Angell on the laughable Baucus bill, writing in the HuffPost:
“Look at the bare bones of the plan. Americans will be required to buy health insurance at whatever price the companies choose to charge, many using government subsidies. Businesses will have to contribute or be fined. Drug companies will still be able to [...]
Glenn-boy will take free publicity any way he can get it. “Just as long as they spell my name right” is the operable phrase.
“I generally go below…”
Getting into HMS Pinafore mode for a sail to Alaska starting today. Will be back online whenever I’m in port — or in Coast Guard cutody.
God, wouldn’t it have been great to listen in on that call between that moron heckler (now dubbed “Old Yeller”) Congresshack and Rahm Emmanuel last night?
An excerpt from Gail Collins’ funny column about the speech last night:
“Sure, Obama talked the fiscally responsible talk last night. But he cannot hold a candle to the finance committee’s Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley, the committee’s lead Republican. These guys are really, really, really concerned about balancing the budget. And that seems only fair [...]
Also, Keith Olberman’s “Worst Person” tonight: S.C.’s pinheaded Cong. Joe Wilson, the moron who yelled out “Lie!” during Obama’s speech when the President said undocumented aliens would not be covered. (Obama, of course, is right)
He’s wrested the HAOTW title away from Chuck Gassley (sic), which ain’t easy.
…who were in the audience tonight: They were the ones with faces like clenched fists.
The ones who held up pieces of paper most of their constituents couldn’t even read.
If this is the master race, I’d sure as hell hate to see the qualifying heats.
The NYTimes’ Maureen Dowd says it all in her fine piece today:
“President Obama is so wrapped up in his desire to be a different, more conciliatory, beer-summit kind of leader, he ignores some verities.
“Sometimes, when you’ve got the mojo, you have to keep your foot on your opponent’s neck. When you’re trying to get [...]