I started cussing in this spot and deleted it.

Wirty dord

I am getting tired of cussing so much.

so I just keep inserting the F word.

So much for using our words...

He didn't utter a word, but he exuded mute blasphemy from every pore.

- Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013)

and felt that each home should have a room devoted only to cursing.

It might even be fun to make a curse wall
with words like "cockwomble" or
snollygoster.

What would our English teachers say.

Some days I just start sputtering.

I have also taken to using my MacCaulay Culkin/Scream face often, as I watch the abominable being reported.

They were scary looking!
But yes that is how I feel most of the time. Like the scream mask.

But maybe none of the Congressional leaders even remember what real legislating is like…

It is actually pretty good coffee ☕️

I don't but coffee, but it wouldn't surprise me if the price of a cup tops $15 bucks soon........

The issue is this: will there be subsidies for the ACA?

The issue is not this: will there be a vote for subsidies for the ACA?

The Republicans framed the whole thing around the second point. The Democrats WE THOUGHT were sticking to the first point, but have turned out to have accepted the second point. The second point is completely useless.

Durbin's great "Whoa!" triumph here is getting a verbal confirmation on the second point, which is useless.

Fuck's sake, we're in the weeds and goddamn sinking.

pull the football, er, I mean the "promise" of a vote just as you go to kick it?

Thinking a bumper sticker needs to be printed:

"DEMs: Fucking stop playing football with Lucy! "

The deal is NOTHING.

Hi. I would like to buy your house for $1, but you keep the current mortgage debt and keep paying it. In return I will give you a chance to shoot a basketball at a hoop i've conveniently placed on a different continent. If you make that basket, I will agree to pay your mortgage for 12 months. Otherwise, I get the house, and you keep the debt. And If you miss, you still mow the lawn for the next 5 years as well.

He can keep his word, and it costs him nothing, because a vote is meaningless.

from the movie "White Men Can't Jump" I feel Durbin would be Woody Harrelson's character in this scene.

POS.
Yeah, he's retiring with great free Healthcare for the rest of his life...I got mine, so f#ck you all...ha....ha

This wasn’t just criminal incompetence it was a betrayal.

Holy fuck!!

If you think that Thune will expose Senate Republicans to a vote that will put them on the record for opposing the continuation of the subsidies, then I have a bridge to sell you. No way Thune will allow a vote to happen and create campaign ads for Democratic Senate candidates.
Thune did the math and realizes that all he has to do is wait out Durbin until next November and wait for the Democrats to remove Shumer either through a no confidence vote or a potential primary from AOC. Thune will be rewarded by Trump for being a good boy. However, Trump will still demand that the filibuster be removed because he has a laundry list of legislation that cannot be passed via reconciliation.

The Democratic leadership got played and Trump knows he holds all the cards.

is to whisper in their ears, “You feel that tickle? That’s a shiv. It’s there until the votes are in, in our favor. If there is any problem, well, you can live with one functioning kidney. Assuming you don’t bleed out.”

They have no honor. We’ve seen that time and again. So don’t expect them to honor their words.

And now the usual wrong conclusion DU'ers making the lecture circuit.

... then I suggest that it is more evidence that we need these fossils out of government (and for the record, I am a fossil myself). They are playing by rules that have been obsolete for twenty years at least. We need realists in the Democratic Party who understand exactly what it is they are dealing with, not old cronies who think the world still operates under their old-boy unspoken rules.

-- Mal

It's called, "Lying through their teeth." Durbin, one of the Senators from my state, just bought into exactly another lie.

It just seems that every "too clever by half" moves the Dem politicians make ends up being more of an advantage for the wealthy rather than for working folks. Having the government shut down benefited project 2025 more than anything. Federal workers need to get back on the job before Russell Vought's destruction gets any easier.

Damn.

Comity Tonight!

Stuck in my brain

The House will not allow it to be brought to the floor.

Bernie sanders at 84 gets it.

Durbin at 80 simply does not.

they will and the subsidies will be voted down....wow, what an ask, give them the very thing they want.

Will those 8 vote no on the subsidies as a favor to Thune? Maybe.

Fuck you durbin, this is what you will be forever remembered for.

You should have retired BEFORE the vote

For fuck sakes. Have they not yet cleared the bullshit out of their eyes from the last time the repukes promised them???

Your constituents, women are getting shot, dragged out of their cars, and abducted in the streets of Chicago by armed, masked racist militia hired by Shit Mouth. I hope your pension gets deleted.

Marie Antoinette stuck her neck out, too. It was the last thing she ever did.

So I will say thank you Durbin, you did an excellent job negotiating from a position of power and all of the Centrist Dems should be thanked profusely for taking care of their constituents.