American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

I keep citing the Medicare expansion of '06 rollout that was a disaster for months and no one remembers now.

you can enroll forever im assuming or is it just gonna be available to people for the next six months lol

yeah this literally just does not work at all might be a finer point you guys are missing

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:40 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well it does work for some people, which is part of what's so confusing about the situation for me

yeah i dont think this will hurt the long term health of the program, but that doesnt mean its a fuck up

I think there will be annual or semi-annual periods each year just like medicare or the means people usually enroll in work-sponsored coverage.

there is literally no glitch in the world big enough to make this program go away

yet another reason why the Republicans are so fucking stupid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1TuRpsAVcg

man these guys are such shitbags

And Erickson...launches another fundraising drive, in essence.

(who, no joke, said her name was Erykah Badu)

Maybe the have celebrities manning the phone lines like they do during telethons? Keep calling and maybe you'll get George Clooney.

xpost When you;re being berated by an asshole like that, can you be held in contempt if you tell him to fuck off?

Tea party leaders accuse GOP of 'total surrender'

From Matea Gold:

The bipartisan Senate deal to end the government’s fiscal impasse was roundly condemned Wednesday by tea party leaders around the country, who accused Republican lawmakers of capitulating to President Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. Matt Kibbe, president of the FreedomWorks conservative group, called it “a total surrender” and said the tea party’s gambit to undermine Obama’s health-care law could have worked if GOP leadership had stood firm.

“We don’t have regrets,” Kibbe added. “This was a very winnable fight, if the Republicans had been willing to fight.”

They are really, really dumb.

can't count votes

So did they sign the damn thing ?

still voting on boring procedural stuff

Boehner is letting the Senate version come to the House floor for a vote, regardless of the so-called Hastert Rule. Coulda done this a long time ago and saved us a lot of grief, JB.

he was hoping beyond hope like the rest of them that the dems would cave, tbf a lot of people thought they would

Harry Reid just wandered over to the group of senators who aren't pieces of shit (Warren, Sanders, Sherrod Brown) and got some very warm handshakes

Is anyone tweeting on the floor?

Ew,

Chris Hayes illustrated the ways in which Dems could have caved and didn't rise to the bait.

The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a deal to re-open the government and raise the federal debt limit. The measure passed 81-18, with all Democrats and 27 Republicans voting yes.

The 18 Republicans voting no were: Senators David Vitter (La.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), John Cornyn (Texas), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Dean Heller (Ariz.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Jim Risch (Idaho), Tim Scott (S.C.), and Pat Roberts (Kan.).

who's missing?

your mom

huh there's a senator named crapo

the magnificent

my mom, the magnificent

Fox News super pissed right now that the late Frank Lautenberg's family got a death benefit

i have been watching cnn for like an hour and a half today and have heard the phrase 'kicking the can down the road' approx. 146 times.

nobody's happy, because we're just kicking a can down a road.

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:15 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now cnn has someone literally waving around a can and they have an infographic showing how many times the can has been kicked down the road already

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs5/i/2005/121/9/2/The_Kung_Fu_kick_by_sheen16.gif

Senator-Elect Cory Booker joins @Morning_Joe tomorrow for an EXCLUSIVE interview on his victory

The 18 Republicans voting no were: Senators David Vitter (La.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), Pat Toomey (Pa.), John Cornyn (Texas), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), Rand Paul (Ky.), Dean Heller (Ariz.), Chuck Grassley (Iowa), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Tom Coburn (Okla.), Mike Enzi (Wyo.), Jim Risch (Idaho), Tim Scott (S.C.), and Pat Roberts (Kan.).

Inhofe too moderate

Oh, wait:

Legislation to reopen the federal government and avoid a threatened national default has passed the U.S. Senate on an 81-18 vote with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn voting against the measure and Sen. Jim Inhofe — who recently underwent heart surgery — not voting.

and they found nothing there amirite

Anyway your new senator from New Jersey!

http://media.nj.com/nj-river/photo/1016bookerjpg-b8775af9a0a76432.jpg

our new gay sen -- oh wait

Our new non-stripper-breast-fondling senator.

Ted Cruz cannot dial down the hand gestures can he

Cory Booker to become 9th black Senator in history (4th to win Senate seat by popular vote -- Brooke, Moseley-Braun, Obama)

hey guys remember two weeks ago when Boehner said he "didn't have the votes" for a clean CR? 87 Republicans have voted for the bill tonight. so he could have just done this two weeks ago. why does John Boehner hate America?

Hahah apparently in the vote in the House some craziness happened to top it all off:

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/390663050531209216

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/390663368190984192

https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/390664460903653376

so Tom Waits songs are happening

Tom Waits, Crazed Stenographer

nic cage has gotten in deeper than even his overlords could have hoped this time

Frank Rich: same old news

http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/government-shutdowns-2013-10/index1.html

285 to 144

Obama could still veto, don't give up guys

Declares martial law tomorrow, NSA implants in everyone, etc.