LOEB Meeting: 03/02/10 -- Bunning Bunts Edition

[Patsy Stone]

Didn't Bunning vote against pay-go? :hi:

[SharonRB]

1. Love the sign my senator had next to her

Just Vote!

:hi:

[SharonRB]

2. Hey, Jim

Fewer of them can get their budgets in order because of you, you ass!

[Patsy Stone]

3. I heard Randi say that it's all about Mitch McConnell

and how Mitch has been messing with his campaign. Nice to hold the unemployed hostage for your little grudge, Jim.

:hi:

[SharonRB]

11. Seriously.

I haven't listened to Randi in months. Just can't do it.

[Patsy Stone]

16. Funny, because today

was the first time in a looooooong time that I've listened to her. It was a good Randi day, so I felt lucky and got out of there quick. She was playing this incredibly funny audio of Mitch waxing poetic on the Senate floor about his Number One who is leaving to become a lobbyist. It went on forever. He cried. More than once. LOL!

[SeattleGirl]

21. That WAS funny!

She was laughing out loud and so was I. :rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

24. He

completes him -- or something. :rofl:

[SharonRB]

23. Bill Press played that a few weeks ago,

so I've heard it. Unbelievable!

[ralps]

4. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone! Yes I guess Bunning did!! & Frell you Bunning!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :rofl: :grr:

[Patsy Stone]

6. He's an ass.

:hi:, ralps and Crook.

[RevCheesehead]

17. Here, he's earned it:

[Patsy Stone]

19. OMG.

:rofl:

:hi:

[GigiMommy]

30. Oh my!!! I don't EVER want Cassie to earn THAT badge. Hi Rev!!!

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[RevCheesehead]

Don't worry - she won't.

No way, no how, she's too, too sweet. :)

:hi: :bounce::bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

9. Hi ralps!

Bunning is the worst of the stains on congress, I swear!

:hi:

[ralps]

20. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Yep!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

5. Hi Sharon!

Yep, Bunning voted against pay-go.

He is just freakin' crazy.

[Patsy Stone]

8. It's a pissing match with McConnell.

The two old coots. Oy vey.

:hi:, SG! Nice to see ya!

[SeattleGirl]

10. Why don't they just take it out behind the shed, duke it out,

and leave the people they are really hurting alone!

[RevCheesehead]

25. ...

[SharonRB]

12. Hey, SG

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

7. Hi Patsy!

I just want to slap Bunning!

:hi:

[SharonRB]

14. I want to hit him in the head with a baseball bat

[SeattleGirl]

15. You know, I really hate it that just ONE person can gum up the

works this badly.

I think Richard Wolff was right: people like Bunning don't give a flying fig about the needs of others. They really don't. I don't know that I can even consider them human.

[Berry Cool]

64. Somewhere, a newsman is burning his Bunning baseball cards.

:rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

13. Good title!

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

18. Rev!!!!

How are ya? :hi: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

26. Hi SG!

:hi: I'm doing OK. And you?

[SeattleGirl]

27. Doing well.

Just had 17 cases transferred to me from a co-worker who is drowning in work, so I'm having to shift into overdrive, but I don't mind!

How's your dad doing?

[RevCheesehead]

32. Busy is good, isn't it?

Dad has been doing great until today. He slept through lunch and only ate a little bit... all he wanted was to go to bed. But overall, he's doing well. Thanks for asking. :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

34. It's very good. Glad to hear your dad is doing okay for the

most part.

Maybe he was just tired today.

[Berry Cool]

43. Yes, maybe he was just tired today.

:hug: to ya, Rev, for the daughter you are.

[RevCheesehead]

50. Thank you.

I needed that today. :hug:

[ralps]

22. Hi RevCheesehead, Crook & I are doing good & Hi to Oreo, & lil' Keith! How are you all doing? &

Any news on CC? :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

28. Hi ralps and Crook!

Thanks for asking. No, nothing new, but one of my church people sent me an e-mail and said that since it's been warming up, she's taking her dog out to walk, and will keep on looking. I also found out the posters I put up at the library and the grocery store are still there. :)

:hi: and :meow: to Crook!

[Berry Cool]

29. AAAGHHH! *ahhhhhh* what a relief to finally get rid of this Bunning blockage!!!!

It's kinda the same thing that happens when you plunge a toilet...the shit plugging it up finally gives way.

:hi: So how is everyone else?

[RevCheesehead]

47. I was thinking something along the same lines...

[Berry Cool]

58. Yep!!!!!!

[Patsy Stone]

31. Thank you Sen. Conrad...

That was more than I ever needed to know about the Byrd rule and the arcane procedures of the Senate. :eyes:

[GigiMommy]

33. Hi Everybody!!!

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

36. Hi Gigi!

How are you and Miss Cassie doing?

:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[GigiMommy]

67. Hi SG!!!

Sorry, I got sidetracked by a phone call. A friend of mine's Mother is not doing well at all. :hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Berry Cool]

38. Hi GGM and Cassie!

:hi: How are you doing this evening?

[GigiMommy]

68. Hi Berry!!!

OK. I've been better. Hope you're doing well.:hi: :hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SharonRB]

39. Hi, Gigi

:hi:

[GigiMommy]

70. Hi Sharon!!!

I loved Sen. Debbie's sign too.:hi: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[SharonRB]

35. Woo hoo

Weiner calls out Fox!

[GigiMommy]

37. Can someone explain to me what the "left EXTREME" is!?!

'Cause I don't.:wtf:

[SharonRB]

40. I think he's talking about us.

[Patsy Stone]

41. Sometimes

it's GD: P. :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

52. the international date line?

:shrug:

[SharonRB]

42. Just switched to CSPAN and

Bunning is still acting like an ass. Brought an amendment that Boxer says is against the rules of some kind. Now he's asked for a vote to waive something or other and they're doing a roll call.

[Patsy Stone]

44. Um, yeah...

What.Ever. :eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

48. Can they call for an up or down vote on whether Bunning is

an obstructionist asshole?

[SharonRB]

51. LOL

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

60. I would like to provide my "up" vote.

http://thumb18.shutterstock.com.edgesuite.net/display_pic_with_logo/156268/156268,1213185980,2/stock-photo-upset-businessman-giving-middle-finger-to-boss-dof-focus-on-hand-13658119.jpg

[SeattleGirl]

61. LOL! Perfect, Berry!

:rofl:

[SharonRB]

45. LOL

I think they have mics on that shouldn't be on the Senate floor. You can hear all kinds of side conversations.

On edit: They're voting to waive the Budget Act, per Bunning's request. What an arse!

[Patsy Stone]

46. Weiner on FOX is on. nt

[SharonRB]

49. Damn!

I missed him. I've got it on now.

[Patsy Stone]

53. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x439316

[SharonRB]

55. Thanks

I'll watch it after the show.

[CBHagman]

75. Did you notice how the Foxites fairly shrieked?

They were this close to screaming, "I know you are, but what am I?" delivered in high-pitched voices. :eyes: Good for Weiner for not letting them get away with it.

I wish the Aussies would take Rupert Murdoch back, but I figure they've suffered enough...

[SharonRB]

54. Anthony!

:loveya:

And, yes, THANK YOU!

[ralps]

56. Thank you Anthony Weiner!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

[SharonRB]

57. Sounds like the votes to waive the budget act

for Bunning's amendment are breaking on party lines. Hugh surprise.

[SharonRB]

62. And....LIEberman votes with the Rs

I'm shocked!

[SharonRB]

66. And Blanche and Ben

Again, I'm shocked.

[Patsy Stone]

71. Who'da thunk?

:eyes:

[SharonRB]

72. They needed 60 votes to pass the waiver

and it went down 53-43. Now they're voting on the bill, since Bunning's amendment didn't pass.

[SeattleGirl]

59. Oh my, would you look at all those looters!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Berry Cool]

63. I would comment on what looters they are

but who am I to talk? I'm just a hobo. A lazy person who doesn't want to work.

[SeattleGirl]

65. Yeah, you'd better get off your lazy ass, get out there, and get

a job, damnit!

More:sarcasm: of course.

[Patsy Stone]

69. Don't get too comfortable, missy.

You'll make Jon Kyl cry.

[SeattleGirl]

73. OMG, she has breast cancer too?

Shit, so many people in this country are just getting hit over the head again and again and again, and the Bunnings of the world don't give a flying fuck!

[Berry Cool]

74. When I heard that, I just thought

"Damn Bunning to hell. Damn him to a fiery, fiery Hell."

Oh, and I fully believe what she says about the job search, too. I have had roughly the level of success she has had in finding anything, in seven months. Damn, I'm doing better on average than she is, and we're both still batting .000. And now she has to go get her cancer treated. Good luck paying the bills...and still keeping up the job hunt when you have to fight for your LIFE.

I hope for her sake she doesn't need chemo. It will be a lot easier for her to keep looking if she doesn't have to worry about weakness, nausea, losing her hair and chemo brain.

Of course, she doesn't dare let any potential employer know what she's being treated for. They'll never hire her for fear she'll cost them too much in health care benefits.