US POLITICS: Congratulation to USA for their upcoming health

Why are you so gloomy about this, Morbs?

cuz I don't own an insurance company?

the bill is grabage

read this morbs

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/12/five_cost_controls_in_the_sena.html

lol this is like summer camp with the shouting

what are they shouting?

"gangsta, gangsta," that's what they're yelling

speaking of bad House hairdos: if only Jimmy Trafficant were still in the House.

is bart stupak's hair covered under the new bill?

pre-existing conditioner

Where are our wonderful moderators to change this silly title?

CNN gave us this title.

hahahaha, J0hn

NOT TWITS. JESUS YOU GUYS. IT'S A U.S. POLITICS THREAD. WE DO NOT REALLY SAY "TWIT" OVER HERE UNLESS WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING TOO MUCH PBS.

http://www.truecrimereport.com/Jim%20Traficant.jpg

i nominate "your screens on tweek" but can't imagine I'll get a quorum on that one

Ed, I know that's where the title is from, I just think it needs a slight remix.

JOHN D MY MOTHER IN LAW SAYS TWIT TO DESCRIBE CERTAIN PEOPLE AND SHE IS NOT BRITISH YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH HER YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME BUDDY

Yes We Traficant

@ J0hn D

FLIP YOU MELLON FARMER

viewers' calls on C-SPAN, awesome!

US POLITICS: TWEETS TO THE LEFT OF ME, WOMB-GOONS TO THE RIGHT

HEAD CARNEGIE IN CHARGE

there needs to be anonymous therapy groups for people who call into cspan

FWIW, i can't really take credit for "womb goon." at best i can only popularize the term.

JOHN D MY MOTHER IN LAW SAYS TWIT TO DESCRIBE CERTAIN PEOPLE AND SHE IS NOT BRITISH YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH HER YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME BUDDY

ADMIT THAT SHE IS A PBS DONOR

FOOLING NO-ONE QUE

I like WmC's.

"alright, we got your point"

there needs to be anonymous therapy groups for people who call into cspan

lol, yeah. it's a highbrow crowd.

U.S. POLITICS THREAD: THE FIRST 400 POSTS ARE MAINLY TRYING TO NAME THE THREAD

cnn reporting someone from the gop side on the floor yelled "baby killer" at stupak when he was finishing up his speech. they're trying to figure out who it is now.

'Womb goon': it's lovely and onomatopoeic like 'God botherer'.

I DOUBT SHE IS A PBS DONOR BUT SHE LOVES MASTERPIECE THEATRE

"they're good parents, they don't want me to die"

some of these C-Span callers make the pro-life grandstanders seem like the Oxford Debate Team.

i'm kind of lol'ing at the fact that it's named YOUR TWEETS ONSCREEN in the first place because i didn't think my suggestion was all that funny

*alert*

michael steele has called into fox news

*alert*

womb goon follies

guys

I DOUBT SHE IS A PBS DONOR BUT SHE LOVES MASTERPIECE THEATRE

QUE E.D.

geraldo rivera is modding a debate between al sharpton and michael steele on fox news

A+

geraldo rivera is modding a debate between al sharpton and michael steele on fox news

I want this to be a regular show ASAP.

with guest dancing by Bill 'Cliff Huxtable' Cosby.

looking forward to the forthcoming bizzaro lawsuits challenging this bill.

all the people who call into cspan sound like voices on family guy

should i prank call cspan? and if so, what should i say

ask them what we should call the thread

"when we can and cannot sleep"

WTF

lol, yeah. ask if jose canceco's mental condition will be covered by obamacare.

hahaha

i'm not insured, i'm healthy and 20 ...

ask them if "Obama" is "Lenin" spelled backwards

poor C-SPAN dude looks like he just wants to go home

new thread imo btw

that obama is really picking kagan over wood because he just wants extra executive power is a pretty retarded suggestion - we have a far right-wing supreme court either way.

i would start the thread but the pressure of coming up with a good title is too much for me

anyway, this is the huffpo column about kagan -- it's not gonna do anything to pacify people already against her nomination, but it does make some interesting points, both about the court as a whole and about kagan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/a-case-for-kagan_b_551511.html

funny cuz this far-right court you're talking about has ruled 5-4 (stevens in the majority) a few times against executive powers in the past few years

xp

that you can honestly believe that obama would make a decision like this as some furtive executive power grab is just so lol

but I guess you believe that he's an evil dude and that's how evil dudes operate I guess

yeah it's not like he reconsidered his stance on FISA or the FOIA act or anything, he's a solid guy without any of the usual trappings of power - his immunity to its allure is kind of singular n'est-pas

yeah dogg i read that article a while ago, it basically doesn't say anything other than "trust me, i know her and she's gonna be great". the whole thing about her being able to sway conservatives based on the fact that she hired some white dudes at harvard is some wishful thinking BS imho - it's actually the opposite of what we want, which is someone who can make conservatives see it our way, rather than meeting them halfway, which is the best we can say about hiring a bunch of conservatives. what is the point of forging consensus with conervatives if the consensus isn't on our side?

so you want compromises where the other side suddenly agrees with you 100%

alright i bit the bullet US POLITICS: underrated supreme court decisions that i have read

what is the point of forging consensus with conservatives

well I mean I think the point of forging consensus w/conservatives is that one actually agrees with them generally about most stuff, if we're being honest

i mean that entire artice iirc goes on about how awesome kagan is without describing a single view she holds, other than that she's a "progressive". alright, if you say so, lawrence lessig.

xp no you retard, i don't want compromises at all. i want someone who has a record as being on the right side, and persuading conservatives to agree with her view of the case, rather than meeting them halfway - something wood has a record of doing, and kagan we're just praying for

and yeah i realize nine times outta ten wood and thomas may have the same view on a case - it's the close ones we're worried about

we can lock this now