I continue to be wonderfully & brilliantly amazed by the talent of F.O.O. In last night's diary, phillygirl64 put on her Carnac hat & visualized what the GOP will bring to the table to tomorrow's HCR summit in the White House!
Now, in advance of tomorrow night's sparkin' live diary during the post - game analysis of the meeting & for my own curiosity, I'm going to watch as much of the meeting as my business at work will allow. If Small Price to Pay Boehner shows up looking like this, my computational device at work will surely be wearing the coffee I will probably be drinking at the time!
Tip of the hat to Diogenes2008 for the capture! :D
I'll discuss a couple "this day in history" items; I get to bring out THE cake - YAHOO! Yea, I know it makes some people's stomachs turn, but when you see whose birthday it is, you will SO get it.
On this date in 1903, the United States signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The horrors that have gone on there over the last years - just the stuff we KNOW about - make me sick.
On this date in 1983, a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a "grave injustice." Well, that was big of us, wasn't it {insert retching noise here}!
Finally, here's THE cake birthday; Joementum is 68 today. C'mon, y'all HAVE TO AGREE that he's deserving of THE cake in spite of the stomach - churning nature of it to some of you! For reasons too numerous to mention in 85 million gazillion diaries to infinity & beyond, Joementum, dive on into this sucker with the invitation to GO CHENEY YOURSELF!
Let's Countdown & try not to get any of the poo cake stuck between your teeth...OK? ;D
What the spark is with Countdown starting late because of mother – sparkin’ curling?! It’s not even the American team being featured! Hells bells... *&^%$#@! Who was in charge of THIS decision? Sorry to *itch but lordy...
Waitin’ for Countdown...waitin’ for Countdown...waitin’ for Countdown... HEY! Here it is!
#5 "The Truth Hurts" AKA "Summit of All Fears" - All the GOP wants to do for HCR is scrap everything that’s been done up to this point & start over. Rep. Anthony Weiner ripped the GOP a new one in Congress today! Some GOPer took offense at Rep. Weiner’s remarks & forced them to be stricken from the record. But, there’s always video tape! ;D The meeting tomorrow is going to be at Blair House across the street from the White House. The GOP doesn’t want podiums because President Obama will look too much like a professor. Well, that pretty much indicates how tomorrow will be!
President Obama is still holding out hope to actually get meaningful contributions from the GOP & all others present. Small Price to Pay Goldilocks has already signaled his intentions to "...crash the party." Don’t forget your porridge there, Goldilocks! Senator Levin signed the reconciliation letter today. WellPoint higher – ups got grilled by Rep. Waxman’s committee today. The House debated & passed a bill to get rid of the anti – trust exemption for the health insurance industry. Want to see how your Congress critter voted? Step on over here! Rep. Weiner was good & animated today! ;D Rep. Weiner got to say his peace twice; that Rep from CA was a maroon! Here’s Ezra Klein; he’ll be busy tomorrow. Ezra thinks the anti – trust exemption might even survive the Senate?! Y’all will have to pick me up off the floor if that happens. How many House – passed bills are languishing in the Senate waiting for passage – a couple hundred or so? Senators Lincoln & Landrieu are beginning to murmur about reconciliation, too?! WHAT??!! Senator Ben Nelson is taking issue with the recommendation of a commission to monitor premium hikes.
Let’s see now...what was one of his previous gigs before he infested the Senate? Oh yea! HE WAS THE TOP INSURANCE EXEC IN NEBRASKA! $hit head! Sorry for all caps, but I’m pi$$ed. He voted against the jobs bill, too, so he’s just making friends all over the damn place. Senator Nelson’s going to take up where Joementum left off. The roll call vote for the jobs bill in the Senate is here.
#4 "Socialist by Definition" - In attempting to define socialism in ragging on President Obama, Newt Gingrich managed to paint GWB as a socialist – BRILLIANT! Yea, GWB knew better than a lot of us on a whole mess of things {insert retching noise here}. Uh – oh, Keith’s really going to be on the receiving end of "conservative" neocon rancor because he dared to tarnish the image of St. President Ronald Reagan by bringing up that whole arms for hostages thing!
Countdown Hall of Shame – Media - Ite took issue with Keith’s characterization of them last night in his special comment quickie. A fired MSNBC employee who works there now had a little grudge to fix, huh? Lonesome Rhodes is even getting too oogy for the likes of Bill Bennett & Boss Limbaugh & Mark Levin. Some "lovely lady" also took issue with Keith not going to the Dallas Tea Party & mentioned his Dad in trashing him – CLASSY!
#3 "9021 – No" - Miss Beverly Hills is giving Miss Opposite Marriage a run for her money; hell, Miss Opposite Marriage looks like a damn dirty hippie now! Here’s what the "lovely" Miss Beverly Hills had to say:
The Bible says that marriage is between a man and a woman. In Leviticus it says, ‘If man lies with mankind as he would lie with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death and their blood shall be upon them.’ The Bible is pretty black and white...If He says that having sex with someone of your same gender is going to bring death upon you, that’s a pretty stern warning, and He knows more than we do about life.
The lovely Lauren Ashley isn’t even from Beverly Hills! Did you see that TMZ tape? She even used the "some of my best friends are gay" excuse! Yea for Dan Savage! Rip her a new one, baby! Dan Savage knows his Bible, too, by gosh by golly. ;D
"Special Comment" - O...M...G... Keith’s Dad asked Keith to kill him this past Friday night. Oh God... Keith’s Dad has been hit by numerous infections, pneumonia, kidney failure, liver failure, etc. I know what 6 liters looks like; Mom had about half that drained out of her digestive system when she was again hospitalized for her post – operative ileus. And Keith’s correct; it ain’t pretty – at all – or pleasant. OK...I’m bawling now. Keith’s been reading James Thurber to his Dad. I have a feeling James Thurber is going to shoot up the popularity scale on Amazon now! ;D And, I also know about gallows humor; I think celebrating bowl movements could qualify as gallows humor, too, like we were doing with my Mom a few weeks back. Passing gas was an occasion for celebration, too. A whole mess of people in Blair House tomorrow has called what Keith & his Dad have been going through a death panel. Keith’s out – of – pocket medical bills have been more expensive than his Dad’s has been because of Medicare & some supplemental insurance! Keith’s Dad is breathing OK, and he’s calm, but his white cell count is high. Thankfully, my sisters & I have had a life panel discussion with my parents, and they even have it all written out. Oh Keith, those people tomorrow won’t leave their egos at the door; they’re politicians after all.