Live Whiskey-Blogging the President's Health Care Speech

The Rude Pundit. Just go...

8:11: Obama enters, Mitch McConnell behind him looking as happy as a leather queen at a prison rodeo,...

8:16: He's starting by establishing his street cred: "Hey, motherfuckers, I've gotten shit done."

IF ONLY he'd say that!

8:33: Okay, sure, same coverage as Congress? For those unable to afford it, there will be tax credits. Immediately offer catastrophic care - a McCain idea. He's reaching out to Republicans, who will no doubt respond by trying to fuck his face.

8:36: Gets laughed at for saying there's details to work out. Yeah, he kind of deserved that.

8:47: Says he's talking to seniors, yet he doesn't raise his voice, so he doesn't really care if they hear him.

What? Whaddja say?

8:52: Brings up tort reform and a whole group of white men in dark suits just stood up in the room, which ought to make any black man nervous.

8:53: Compares the cost to the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and the Bush tax cuts. Republicans sit down and cry. (Gotta say: $90 billion a year ain't a whole fuck of a lot in the scheme of the American budget.)

8:54: He just cut off a bunch of Republicans at the knees, like Jim DeMint, by saying he won't deal with people who want to kill the bill.

8:55: "If you misrepresent this plan, we will call you out."

He shoulda been doing that all along. Better late than never, I guess.

9:02: He says, "We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it." Republicans don't stand. This is for Americans now. He is shaming Republicans and they are gonna be mightily pissed. Look forward to right wingers saying, "He's a masterful speaker, but" on an endless loop.

Oh, wait...9:06: Charles Boustany of Louisiana? The Rude Pundit has met that backwards ass fucker and his racist family. What's he saying? Ah, fuck him.

Yep. Fuck him.

But you can have Bush ...

Love me some Texas:

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Denied the chance to view a peptalk from the historic President of the United States, fifth graders will be taking time off from school to listen to gibbering drooler Tokie McCokespoon, who will appear with his wife Pickles Stepford and that manly example of all that is good in America: greasy, arrogant asshole and criminal-coddler Jerry Jones.

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Can we just move all the Republicans to Texas? I'm willing to pay for their health care and anything else they want as long as they stay there and leave the rest of us thinking people alone. They can be like the safari exhibits at the the theme parks, you know, in their natural habitat with the rest of their herd. We wouldn't let them out (high, electrified fence ... with a moat ... and machine gun emplacements ... and ...) but when we needed to get a dose of stupid we could take the tour and then go back to the normal world where we had single-payer health care, no 'vanity wars', and sane government.

Oh noes!!!!!!1

Мы были все познакомлены к обучению Ленина.

Family values ...

Why can't these moralists just shut the fuck up?

Quote of the Day

This pretty much has nothing to do with the rest of The Rude One's post on tonight's health care speech, but I like it:

Sarah Palin's role in the world right now is to have her face photoshopped onto pictures of spread-eagled, nude MILFs, with the images emailed around the dorms of Dartmouth or Pepperdine so that she provides fresh spanking material for young conservatives who just want to jack their spunk onto her glasses. It puts her in the pecking order of usefulness somewhere between tribute bands and moon shoes.

Heh. My first thought was that it's like extra pathetic for wingtard college kids to jerk off to an image of a usually fully dressed woman old enough to be their mother. Better than doing it to Ann Coulter, I suppose. That'd be sick. Yuck.

One would think that they'd be fantasizing about women more their own age. I know I do. Thanks for the memories, Emmylou.

He's ours???

Maru finds out Glenn Beck's hometown wanted to honor him:

Mayor of Glenn Beck's hometown to present him with key to city during ‘Closeted Neonazi Loon Glenn Beck Day.’ Winner of the Biggest KKK Hat contest to be awarded tomorrow.

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Seems the idea wasn't popular with most of the town fathers:

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Fun fact: when Mayor Bud Norris asked the City Council members if they wanted tickets to the event, "six of the seven declined."

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Ha-ha! [/Muntz]

And stay out ...

Got this from Jill. These are the people who live like the Hapsburgs on our backs and now, when being forced asked to pay their fair share of taxes, like all the rest of us, they don't want to pay any:

As offshore havens comply with transparency demands, a growing number of ultra-wealthy Americans are handing back their passports

Private client lawyers and relocation specialists are reporting a surge in wealthy Americans living abroad who are prepared to give up their citizenship to avoid the scrutiny of US tax authorities.

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I see it every time I'm in Monaco:

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Because of this, many ultra-wealthy individuals who have chosen to become stateless now cruise outside coastal waters in their mega-yachts in the belief that if they stay on the move, tax authorities will not be able to catch up with them. One analyst who did not want to be named, has estimated the number of stateless tax evaders amounted to a few thousand.

This implies the quantity of money outside the grasp of global tax authorities could be trillions of dollars.

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They're all there, in the shadow of the Cousteau Society (and the casino from the other side) which overlooks the harbor from the heights, the same yachts (with the Bentley or Ferrari on the fantail for the crew to use) every year.

Being an American means paying taxes. If you don't want to pay yours, get out. We won't miss you and there's a place in the world where you can get together with others like you. You know, Monaco has free wifi for all its citizens, something else you won't have to pay for.

The British called them ...

"Colonial Governors". We call him "Karzai". Mr. Philadelphia (in toto):

No one cares about election fraud in Afghanistan because we all understand that it was basically a farce anyway. A farce which hopefully would've gone the "right" way without fraud, but which was inevitably going to go that right way.

We basically installed Karzai, and he'll be in charge as long as he wants to be. That's usually how these things work.

Quest For Hot Water

As astute readers of yesterday's comments will know, my water heater popped over the holiday weekend in perfect accordance with Murphy's Law (If it can fail, it will, at the worst possible time), so I gotta go find an energy-efficient one that will fit and get some BTU-rich water goin', so light blogging today.

Go see the 'Obama kiddie indoctrination speech' cartoons at YubaNet.

See yas later.

Oh, the irony...

Ironic Times

International Monitors Certify Afghan Election Results
Experts from Iran, Florida, Myanmar see no anomalies.

Nevada Most Distressed State
Unemployment among Elvis impersonators approaching 100%.

Report: 93% of New Hires in Next Decade Will be 55 and Older
Remember to speak up when ordering a hamburger.

Anheuser-Busch Decorates Bud Light Cans in Colors of Local Colleges
To support academic excellence.

400 years ...

The Verrazano - Narrows Bridge, over the mouth of the Hudson from MS Noordam (Brooklyn on the left, Staten Island on the right. Click to embiggen.)

Since Henry Hudson sailed up the river that would eventually bear his name to explore what would become the greatest city in the world.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Giovanni de Verrazano was said to be the first European to see the river. But it was Englishman Henry Hudson, sailing for the Dutch, who was the first European to explore it.

That was 400 years ago. How times flies.

And starting Tuesday, the celebration begins.

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"It is the most compelling untold stories in American history," Reynolds said. "The Dutch made the only settlement in North America that was multicultural."

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I'm happy to report, the Niew Amsterdam settlement still is.

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"When you come in through the narrows, no matter if there is a bridge now and wasn't 400 years ago or whether you see Manhattan, you still get a thrill," he said.

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I've done it more than once on cruise ships and ocean liners and all I can say is, indeed!

Great expectations ...

Krugman:

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I, for one, won't be obsessing about exactly which pieces of proposed reform he emphasizes — because that’s not what's driving the politics. Americans haven't become skeptical about Obamacare because they'd rather shave an extra $30 billion a year off the cost; they have not, contrary to "centrist" fantasies, been turned off by the details of the stimulus plan or cap-and-trade. What has been missing is a vision. And this is probably the last chance to supply that vision.

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Personally, being the cynic that I am, I believe it will be a chance squandered. We'll see, but I don't expect much. As long as 25 - 30% of Americans won't listen to a word he says anyway, and another 20% have been scared shitless by the Republican (insurance industry backed) Noise Machine, anything he says will be ineffectual. As long as the Republicans are dead set on sabotaging and derailing any initiative, the best we can hope for is more insurance company welfare with the burden, once again, falling on us. From what we've seen so far, there ain't enough testicle in the White House or Dem 'leadership' to do what needs to be done.

The 'public option' is little enough (single-payer should still be on the table), without it, there's no point in bothering.

Labor Day Music Blogging ...

Workin' ...

Huey Lewis and The News - Working For A Living

Harry Belafonte - Banana Boat Song

Update:

For Gordon and his water heater.

Sam Cooke - Chain Gang

Heh ...

Brain Bleach Warning ...

In aisle 2! Don't go here at 7:00 in the morning like I did. It's gonna fuck me up all day ...

Thanks ... I think ... to Mr. Aravosis.

Poster children ...

Over at Creature's place.

Sunday Crazy Redneck Music Blogging

A belated dedication on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of me 'n Fixer hookin' up to SouthKnoxBubba, where we met, and the other members of The Rocky Top Brigade. East Tennessee rocks!

Live at Johnny D's, Somerville, MA - May 28, 2009

Rhonda Vincent & The Rage ~ Rocky Top

Thanks to jaysarajevo.

Two Marines duke it out in Afghanistan

Thanks to keieyz.

Harwood: "They're too stupid to raise their kids"

Thanks to amcomis.

I'll go a step further: I am positively sure those people are too stupid to be allowed to breed.

When my 'inner Polack' starts agreeing with Fixer's 'inner German', things are getting bad.

And, oh yeah, the giggling bimbo in that clip is pathetic.

Moyers On Heath Care

Thanks to PBS.

So ...

The Republicans can call Obama every name in the book, make up shit about him, and do everything they can to derail his presidency and little is said. Obama's guy signs a petition and calls the Rethugs 'assholes' and he's forced to resign.

This country is extremely fucked up.