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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: Harry Reid
Morning Awful: McConnell Whining
After three years of pure obstruction, Mitch McConnell has the cojones to get upset that Harry Reid has grown a spine about Obama’s judicial nominations. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so stupidly infuriating. Via ThinkProgress
The Immortal Public Option
Harry Reid hit back that tennis ball called the public option just in time for the weekend news cycle: I remain committed to pursuing the public option. While I believe that the legislation we are considering does much to provide … Continue reading
Lagging Indicators
From Sam Stein at HuffPo: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged on Wednesday to take a serious look at revising the filibuster rules at the beginning of the next Congress, calling the current level of obstruction in the Senate … Continue reading
Wheat From Chaff
We’ll be seeing more of this: Reid said that the Senate will have the opportunity to take up other job-creation provisions in the future once this first bill passes. “The answer is not to do nothing,” Reid says in prepared … Continue reading
Reid Stiffens, Divides His Forces
Reporting for HuffPo, Ryan Grim describes the new Harry Reid. After doing away with Baucus’s horrible Finance Committee jobs bill, Reid explained: The new bill drops disaster assistance and extensions of unemployment insurance and COBRA health-insurance subsidies, all Democratic priorities … Continue reading
Harry Reid Has No Spine
I could bring a bill to clotureAnd heed the will of votersEnding gridlock-grind;For sixty votes I’d muster;There’d be no filibusterIf I only had a spine! Agendas would be simpleAnd leftward of the middlePassing in good time;Oh, the bills we would … Continue reading
Harry Reid Has No Spine
The spineless Harry Reid has announced there will be no healthcare reform vote until after the August recess. His words were a near-echo of Republicans who have criticized the rush to act on complex legislation that affects every American. Reid … Continue reading
If Harry Reid had a Spine
I could bring a bill to clotureAnd heed the will of votersEnding gridlock-grind;For sixty votes I’d muster;There’d be no filibusterIf I only had a spine! Agendas would be simpleAnd leftward of the middlePassing in good time;Oh, the bills we would … Continue reading
