We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.

Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Gudanov - Jan 19, 2010 4:56:50 pm PST #2764 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

They've still got a majority right?

Yes, but in the Senate they need 60 votes in order to have a vote on a bill. That means they need to get at least GOP vote + Liberman to pass anything except some budget issues that don't require procedural votes. Since the GOP is blocking everything and voting in lockstep, it means there's little the democrats can do with a majority.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 19, 2010 4:57:37 pm PST #2765 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Um, Jesse, that is pretty weird, because the same thing happened with a coworker of mine and her daughter. Perhaps the ATL guy makes a practice of drinking with moms?

“Throngs of screaming teenage girls don’t do it for Josh Groban, no. Josh Groban loves a blowsy alcoholic.”


P.M. Marc - Jan 19, 2010 4:58:26 pm PST #2766 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I really hate this country sometimes.

If I didn't have real estate I can't sell, I'd move my ass to the Motherland.


tommyrot - Jan 19, 2010 5:00:39 pm PST #2767 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I really hate this country sometimes.

Me too. Maybe I can find some European woman who'll marry me so I can live there....


sarameg - Jan 19, 2010 5:02:11 pm PST #2768 of 30001

Reimagination of something that is no longer evolving, authors dead, characters set in stone... I dunno, I loved Wicked and Ahab's Wife, but they weren't well fleshed out characters in the original. No consistency, but I'm just not inclined to seek out contemporary versions of the same. Odd that. I guess literary alternates bother me less.

I'm really fried tonight.


Gudanov - Jan 19, 2010 5:02:47 pm PST #2769 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

Because the Democratic party is sofa king LAME.

I dunno, to be fair, they have nobody to work with on the GOP side which means to do anything they have to get 100% of the democrats + Liberman to do anything.

What they need to do now is bring out populist issues like financial reform and jobs bills and force procedural votes that'll make great campaign ads if the GOP doesn't let them get to a vote.


Jesse - Jan 19, 2010 5:05:11 pm PST #2770 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I dunno, to be fair, they have nobody to work with on the GOP side which means to do anything they have to get 100% of the democrats + Liberman to do anything.

How did the Republicans push everything through under Bush with a smaller Senate majority?

Grrrr.

I'm going to hold tight to my state-wide healthcare mandate and marriage equality....


tommyrot - Jan 19, 2010 5:07:49 pm PST #2771 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

How did the Republicans push everything through under Bush with a smaller Senate majority?

Huge amounts of arm-twisting.


Sue - Jan 19, 2010 5:09:53 pm PST #2772 of 30001
hip deep in pie

How did the Republicans push everything through under Bush with a smaller Senate majority?

I'm guessing they have a better collection of compromising photographs.


Jessica - Jan 19, 2010 5:14:35 pm PST #2773 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

How did the Republicans push everything through under Bush with a smaller Senate majority?

YES, THIS.

GROW A PAIR, DEMS. FOR REALSIES.