How timely…lie, lie, deception, lie. Aaaand, lie some more.
Seriously. It just doesn’t get any more boldfaced than this.
Wake up, America.
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God help us all.
Nancy Pelosi announced today that the House is ready to pass the Senate bill and make this healthcare horror story a reality.
Prepare yourselves for a big ole gigantic tax hike, folks. Yippee!
In other news, I am in DC! My dad and I had a full day of sightseeing, which was all sorts of awesome. We landed at around 8.30 this morning, checked into our hotel, and then headed to the city. First stop – Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Utterly AMAZING. We only went to the original one, not the one out by Dulles that has the huge aircraft in it – just wasn’t enough time. But what we saw was so fabulously cool. I love space stuff. The Hubble telescope, the Lunar Module , the space shuttles, the rockets – all of it. Much of it looks so totally just cobbled together out of stuff you’d find in your kitchen that I cannot BELIEVE it does what it does. But it does! So neat.
But the neatest part of today was seeing the National Archives. I actually got a little emotional about seeing our founding documents in person. The Rotunda in which they are all stored, dimly lit and sealed tightly, is so impressive. And you know what struck me? Seeing John Adams’ name listed as the Vice President of the United States, and realizing, with HORROR mind you, that someone as ridiculous as JOE BIDEN actually gets the honor of sharing the same title. I’m sorry, but that is totally f*cked up.
Anyway, tomorrow we’re doing a tour of the Capitol, and I have Senate/House gallery passes. I’m hoping to see all those clowns in session so I can make faces at them. 
I love DC.
And delusion, frankly.
But you just keep on thinking it’s going to happen, Bo. You know. Because those stars are aligned and all…
Blue Dog Democrats are pissed off – they feel they’ve been lied to, specifically by that unfortunate-looking dude, Henry Waxman.
“The seven Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill.”
So, now they’re saying that one of the only options here is to push it to the floor to see if they can pass it. However, the seven Blue Dogs are digging their feet in on that option, because let’s face it – that option kinda sucks monkey poo.
Charlie Melancon (D-La.) said that if they try to bring it to the floor all hasty-like, “they’ll find out they have more problems than the Blue Dogs.”
Oooooh. DRAMA.
And on a more serious note, that picture is bordering on giving me nightmares. I’m referring, of course, to the one on the left.
Take a look at this chart. Go ahead. I double-dog dare you. It’s the House Democrats Health Plan Organizational Chart.
And it hurts my eyes.
Anyone notice how NOT streamlined it is? Anyone see how ridiculously mired in bureaucracy it is? Anyone else notice what a steaming pile of monkey poo it represents?
Take a nice look at it (you’ll probably need your glasses), then slap a trillion plus price tag on it. Yay!
You know what my favorite part of the chart is? That the IRS has a nice, big space at the top. Huh…wonder what that means…
But go ahead, Congressional Democrats. Just rush it through, because you know that if you don’t, people would eventually see how completely screwed they’re going to be and you’ll subsequently never pass it.
Sheer awesomeness.
The Tennessee Capitol is buzzing this week. It’s statue-voting time. I mean, this is important political stuff, people. The House has already unanimously passed a resolution to create Al Gore’s likeness in stone.
Actually, if the resolution is passed in the Senate, there will be two statues: one for Al Gore and one for Cordell Hull, both from Tennessee and both Nobel Prize winners. Gore won, of course, for his work on Global Warming, and Hull won for his role in creating the United Nations.
(Is it just me, or is it kind of apropos that Gore’s likeness may be created from bland, cold stone?)
I know you’re all sitting back and thanking me right now for this earth-shattering breaking news. You’re welcome and Happy Friday.
Kal Penn is going to work in Obama’s administration. Kal Penn. The Harold and Kumar dude. The dude that’s holding the panties in the picture above. The young actor dude. Yeah. That one.
According to this blog entry, he “killed” his role on the show House so he could take a job at the White House.
His statement:
I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the president and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there, so I’m going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison. They do outreach with the American public and with different organizations. They’re basically the front door of the White House. They take out all of the red tape that falls between the general public and the White House. It’s similar to what I was doing on the campaign.
Well, alrighty then. I got nothing.
Apparently, Nancy Pelosi has a list. It’s a “nice and naughty” list of sorts. I read about this in the stellar and very cutting-edge Yahoo News – the same people that brought me the earth-shattering article, “Viewers outraged over Bachelor’s crazy antics.” You can thank me later for relaying this groundbreaking journalism.
Ever since she was a little girl, Pelosi’s made note of people who have done her right and those who have done her wrong. She keeps a record of these people, rewards the good ones, and makes it a point to punish, shun, or otherwise unleash her vindication on the “bad” ones. Evidently, this is a known thing throughout the House and Senate.
How completely Cruella De Vil of her.
She doesn’t even reserve her wrath to Republicans only – surprisingly, she’s applied the revenge-list smackdown to Democratic sidekicks, as several of those on her current list are indeed fellow left-wingers. When it comes to Republicans, though, she hates Rush Limbaugh (duh), but, the first one on her current so-called “list” made me sit up and take note. Heath Shuler, a Democrat (but pro-life, very conservative?) congressman from North Carolina, has pissed Princess Pelosi off. And by God, he’s on her naughty list. Not only did he vote against both bank bailout bills and the spenddiddlydimulus, but he also spoke out loudly about the leadership (or lack thereof) in the House and Senate. The word “fail” was woven somewhere in his speaking out. As a direct result, I think I may have a small crush.
After reading this, I started thinking about how the administration as a whole reminds me of a bad Happy Days cast. Obama’s the Communist Richie Cunningham, Biden is Potsie (the village idiot), and Pelosi is that Jenny Piccolo chick who yaps and claps and gossips a lot. In Congress. She wears crapteuse and then bullies people with invisible lists at the workplace. I’m so happy to know that we’ve elected staunch professionals to make important and country-altering decisions. Lovely.
So, back to Heath. I like him not only because he’s going head-first against Nancy and her stupid list, but also because he played football at the University of Tennessee, where I spent my undergraduate years (Go Vols). After a brief career with the Redskins, he moved into politics, and now he’s among Pelosi and her little pack of pleasers and foes. He doesn’t care if he offends her. Why should he? He’s had his butt handed to him on the field at Neyland. Like Princess Pelosi and her list are intimidating. Riiiight.
This story just proves once again that you can take the spiteful hag out of high school, but you can’t take the high school out of the spiteful hag.
