No SPARK for today & just one "this day in history" item.
John Lennon was murdered 30 years ago tonight; the second segment of today's Diane Rehm Show featured a WONDERFUL remembrance of the music and the man. 30 years ago, I was 10 years old, and one of my older sisters had a crush on a Beatles/John Lennon fan; we were watching TV, and whatever show happened to be on was interrupted by the news of the shooting. Those who were watching Monday Night Football heard the news from Howard Cosell. Feel free to share your memories and/or favorite Beatles and John Lennon works in the comments.
And, something for the season.
Let's Countdown...
#5 "Strange Bedfellows" AKA "Dem Revolt" AKA "POTUS VS. Dems" - President Obama is having difficulty rustling up support among Congressional Dems for the tax cut extension deal. 1 group will see their taxes go UP under this deal, and this group sure as $hit doesn’t need ANY tax increases; that group would be individuals earning less than $20K/year or families earning less than $40K/year. AND, the people who spend $20K or $40K on dinner, a show, and drinks afterwards in NYC spend that much in a night; THEY get a tax break. ‘Splain to me again how we’re supposed to be on board with this shtick?
Tea baggers are teaming up with "progressives" in fighting this deal? Uh, well, I’m physically incapable of being tea bagged, but other F.O.O. aren’t! ;D Senator Bernie Sanders AND Senator Jim "Waterloo" DeMint have both vowed to block consideration of this deal. Wow, now THAT’S a pair! Senator Waterloo has vowed to tarantino because of the extension of unemployment benefits. Oh please PLEASE let him get on the floor of the Senate to get him on the record for denying unemployment benefits to people DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON! Ralph Nader and $aint $arah from Wasilla don’t like the deal, either? Why doesn’t she like it? There’s very high likelihood that President Obama will fall on his face with this stuff barring a miracle of biblical proportions. Is there some hidden clause in the thing that charges her for each twit...er...uh...tweet? OR, maybe, each tweet makes a $20 donation to PETA! VP Biden told the House Dems basically to "take the deal or leave it." Great! After that, the Congressional Black Caucus just said no. VP Biden didn’t score well among his former peeps in the Senate, either. Only about a dozen are on board with the deal as it stands now. I bet I know who one of them is! And, since I’m feeling more down than usual today, I don’t feel like dragging up the image. 30 Senate Dems are "firmly" opposed! $HIT! Well, we have to remember this is the Senate we’re dealing with here. "Firm" might not be as "firm" as we think.
16 Senate Dems are currently undecided, and 2 Dems who have said they are against the deal will have to have their minds changed to avoid a tarantino on the Senate floor. Dan Phieffer blames Congressional Dems for not passing tax extensions before the election; I’ll buy that! Congressional Dems have also been called immature & not "pragmatic." Yea, nothing like insulting your biggest supporters there, chief! Erskine Bowles isn’t crazy about this deal, either?! Mr. Co – host of the Catfood Commission doesn’t like this, either??!! HELLO! Wow, there seem to be an awfully lot of people who "don’t get" the details of this deal, as per the "senior administration official" who told Keith as such the other day. Wow, this administration may have even sent a cooked Gallup poll to Congressional Dems to get them to play ball on the much – maligned deal. HERE’S SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS {insert roaring standing ‘o’ here}!
2000 Vermonters have phones Senator Sanders’ office over the last 2 days; 99% want this deal gone the way of the dodo. Senator Sanders wants some damn demonstrations; bring out them pitchforks and torches! ;D Debate on this deal could begin tomorrow. Huh, I might have to tune into CSPAN for this! Eugene Robinson gets to follow up Senator Sanders. Keith, the "hostage taking" was going to continue for the next 2 years BEFORE this deal was even struck. This nation is looking at 2 years of exactly jack $hit being done except for a whole mess of investigations on the House side of the picture. Eugene thinks more Dems will hold their nose and vote for the mother; he’s waiting to see if other GOBPers join the Senator Waterloo bandwagon. OK, Keith’s getting riled up again concerning the question of why President Obama’s getting riled up NOW instead of in October or so! ;D
#4 "Senate Tie – Ups" AKA "Don’t Ask Just Delay" - The fate of the DREAM Act is still up in the air in addition to the repeal of DADT & the overall defense authorization bill. Uh, the GOBP promised other legislation could commence once the tax extension issue was addressed. Don’t tell me they fibbed?! Man, my whole world view is SPARKED! Now, DO NOT tell me that Bristol Palin had her baby by any other means other than Immaculate Conception, or that will DESTROY me. 5 GOBP Senators are heavily leaning toward supporting the repeal of DADT. Those Senators would be Senators Collins, Snowe, Nude Cosmo, Murkowski, and Voinovich. Senator Collins wants more amendments – of course. Senator Ben Nelson wants to go home for Christmas. Ugh... the DREAM Act may really be in the $hitter. Here’s Chris Hayes. Does he have a zipper sweatshirt on over his shirt & tie or something?! Procedural votes before ACTUAL votes on bills in the Senate can be tarantinoed, too, and THAT’S what preventing DADT from being brought to the floor of the Senate even though there might be 60 Senators who support repealing it. If DADT, the defense authorization bill, etc., waits until the next session of Congress, repeal of DADT might be dead on arrival. The DREAM Act hasn’t reached the 60 – vote threshold. Yo Keith! You calling Ben Nelson "Senator Stimpy" is an insult to Stimpy; STOP IT! ;D
** AAAaaaWWWwww! Pandas!! Scientists are dressing up like adult pandas in order for the baby pandas not to get too used to people. A giant Rudolph got caught in a traffic light & got a hole poked in it! Keith! Hermie won’t do any good; ya’ gotta get Yukon Cornelius on the case! Donald Trump’s "hair" just about got swept away by Mother Nature during the Jets – Patriots game the other night. **
#3 "Same Old Party" - Rep. Hal Rogers is now in charge of keeping pork under control in the House of Representatives. His various aliases include The Pork King, Prince of Pork, and Porker of the Month. Golly! Now, are we sure that "pork" doesn’t mean he recently got a prescription for "that little blue pill" & is going to town with it?! Mr. Rogers is from Kentucky; well, he learned the "pork" stuff from little Mitchie McConnell. Senator Waterloo DeMint ain’t thrilled that Rep. Rogers is gonna be in charge of that particular neighborhood. Rep. Rogers HAS VOWED, however, to defund the new HCR law. BUT, he requested a mess of coin for clinics in his district AS PART OF THE HCR COIN. Time for THIS street sign again!
Small Price to Pay Goldilocks and his MiniMe, Eric Cantor, have already distributed approved lobbyist lists. 9 have already been assigned to be Chiefs of Staff for freshmen GOBP Congress critters. David Weigel gets GOBP hypocrisy duty. Tea baggers who were so hot & bothered before the election seem not to give a rat’s hind quarters about these establishment lobbyists working for Congress critters.
WPITW* A jewelry store owner is doing a going out of business sale because he thinks the end of the world is nigh. Silly goose! That’s not until 2012! Did you not see the movie? A Texas tea bagger doesn’t want no Jewish person leading the Texas state house. Well, considering the text books they have in schools, said tea bagger is probably still leaning on that whole "killing Christ" thing. Rep. Candice Miller doesn’t know her Wikileaks from the holes in her head.
#1 "Declined" AKA "War of Wikileaks" - Julian Assange is still in the Graybar Hotel in London. Is it still called the Graybar Hotel across the pond, or is there a different name for it there? Ya’ know, like elevators are lifts, car hoods are bonnets, car trunks are boots, cigarettes are fags, and sparking is shagging? Hackers are descending upon credit card companies who refuse to do business with Wikileaks with great vengeance & furious anger; they’re crashing the sites of Visa & MasterCard. Uh – oh! Twitter might be next?! What will all the Twit – o – files do??!! There’s people in Guy Fawkes masks in YouTubes ads. V for Vendetta did it better – better music, too! The US State Department told PayPal’s VP to sever their ties to Wikileaks. James Moore has gone from writing about GWB’s "brain" to Wikileaks; he’s with Mr. Assange.