OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
Oh! Hi, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz! I understand that you’re claiming that calling Obamacare “Obamacare” is derogatory towards the President!
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
Guess you shouldn’t have passed Obamacare – and that the President shouldn’t have signed Obamacare into law then, huh?
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
Moe Lane
PS: OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
OBAMACARE!
Swear to God, I’m a sucker for stuff like this.
Oh, it’s not the only group that has, by a long shot: but it definitely helped stiffen some spines out there when it came to today’s defunding of Planned Parenthood. The Pence Amendment to the new [continuing resolution] has passed, 240-185; clearly the Senate is going to have a meltdown on the subject, but then… we’re already going to have one of those already, right? Just add it to the list.
The real question is, of course, which Republican legislator gets the first formal death threat because of this. And no, that’s not just the cough syrup talking. The Left is gearing up to be in an ugly mood this weekend.
Moe Lane
…with regard to their petulant, violence-threatening protests over Scott Walker’s collective bargaining reform package:
An election was held in Wisconsin last November. The Republicans won. In a democracy, there are consequences to elections and no one, not even the public employees unions, are exempt from that. There are no guarantees that labor contracts, including contracts governing the most basic rights of unions, can’t be renegotiated, or terminated for that matter. We hold elections to decide those basic parameters. And it seems to me that Governor Scott Walker’s basic requests are modest ones–asking public employees to contribute more to their pension and health care plans, though still far less than most private sector employees do. He is also trying to limit the unions’ abilities to negotiate work rules–and this is crucial when it comes to the more efficient operation of government in a difficult time.
You know, losing Joe Klein? That takes skill. I’m almost impressed.
Via @ddson.
Moe Lane
Five terms is apparently enough*. Frankly, it’s more than enough for a lot of Senators out there, but that’s just my opinion.
Contra Chris Cizzilla, though, Obama’s 15 point victory in 2008 is not the only thing to consider about New Mexico: it’s that in 2010 the GOP took the governorship and lieutenant governorship, flipped a House seat, and came pretty close to getting another one (the state legislature was a wash). New Mexico is a swing state, and if recent history is any predictor it’s busy swinging back the other way right now.
Mind you, this is good news for Tom Udall, who won’t be up for re-election until 2014; and by then the pendulum may have swung back yet again. In the meantime, we’ll have to see who gets bitten by the Senatorial bug…
Moe Lane (crosspost)
You expect me to play this game (Dead Island) after that? [Warning: video below NSFW]
I’m too busy crying.
Via AofSHQ Headlines.
Moe Lane
PS: Don’t get me wrong: I know damn well that the zombie genre has always had bad things happening to kids in it, because horror is all about pushing people’s fear buttons, and for most people GET AWAY FROM MY CHILD is a big honking red button with blinking arrows pointing to it. I especially know this, now that I’m a parent. But, like this guy, I found watching that trailer… tough. Not because it’s manipulative – again, you want horror to be manipulative – but because it’s too artistically successful at being manipulative. Or something.
You’ll notice that I’m not linking to a site where you can buy the game, either.
Marvel, oh my droogies, at the caliber of establishment that the Brave Sir Robins (otherwise known as “Democratic Wisconsin state senators trying to avoid a vote on ending collective bargaining”) hid out at, rather than do their job. I give you… the Tilted Kilt:
If you think that I’m going to pretend that I wouldn’t have a beer and something fried – AND NON-SCOTTISH – at such a fine, fine residence myself, well… I’m not. I’d probably cheerfully eat there, if I needed to, or really, wanted to. But I wouldn’t be doing it on the taxpayer’s dime, either – and if I’m there in Illinois when I should be in Wisconsin dealing with the fact that elections have consequences, then I’m doing it on the taxpayer’s dime whether or not I’m using my personal credit card to leave Fiona MacSchoolgirloutfit an outrageous tip that will not, in fact, result in her helping toss my caber*.
And remember this well, ye Wisconsin Republican state Senators. That is where your ‘colleagues’ were while you were carefully avoiding letting your heads, or those of your staffers, be in a clear field of fire today.
Via The PJ Tatler, via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*Not that I would attempt to enlist such help, being married and all.
Who Do You Love?, George Thorogood & The Destroyers
I remember being 22. Sort of. There was sort of… haze over everything.
I’m going with The Best of Randall Garrett: 43 Novels and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics), despite the fact that it’s only available on the Kindle, for one basic reason: Randall Garrett is quite possibly the most under-appreciated and overlooked science fiction writer of the 20th Century, and you will not regret reading him. If you only know him from the Lord Darcy series then it’s not so bad, but the man had an effortless way of writing that makes it fairly incomprehensible to me why he wasn’t more commercially successful. (Shrug) It happens.
And so, farewell to Marque and Reprisal. Fun series.
From your lips to God’s ears, Jimmie.
Personally, I would like to know why the President is endorsing a movement that is openly calling for Governor Scott Walker’s assassination, but that’s just me.
