Tom Coburn gets rolled with the "Tomnibus" bill
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Well, well. well, Reid finally won at something. Because of archaic procedures, James Dobson's pal, Sen. Tom Coburn was able to place holds and block many pieces of good legislation in the Senate so finally Harry Reid got fed up, rolled them all into one and had it passed on Sunday.
The Senate conducted its first vote of the 111th Congress –- on a Sunday no less -– and overrode the objections of Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, to push forward a public lands bill.
On a vote of 66-12, the Senate agreed to take up a package of 160 different bills joined under an umbrella measure. The package has been dubbed a Tomnibus since the whole idea is to merge multiple proposals opposed by Mr. Coburn -– a physician known in the Senate as Dr. No. — and win passage all at once. Fifty-nine votes was the threshold...read on.
While the Roland Burris fiasco has dominated early perception of the new Dem caucus, yesterday's work shouldn't be ignored. With Obama looking for as many votes as possible on the stimulus package, this early vote did more than warn Republicans of possible Sunday work - it provided a nice, concrete reminder of a new, expanded majority.
Meanwhile, Red State's Erik Erickson throws a hissy fit at Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell Lost His Testicles and Now Infects the Senate GOP With a Cancer
Conservatives are melting down....
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Now that's the kind of message to end the day on. Anything that pisses off the right just makes me smile. It's our turn to watch them piss and moan for a change.
I'm guessing that guy is a tad angry when he writes something like this, "The idea that Mitch McConnell is protecting us from the Democrats is bullcrap. We should collectively rip off his jaw and shovel the crap back down his throat that he’s been serving us."
Ouch! Nasty!
Yer usin' them wirty dords again! :)
Where's his conservative compassion for McConnell?
It ran off with the "fiscal conservatism" and "party of personal responsibility."
Kind of the three blind mice of the republican party. Lost somewhere with a farmer's wife chasing them with a carving knife.
But all I'm thinking is that Reid probably thinks that his work for the year is done....
good job, though.
I don't know why that made me laugh so hard. Probably should be crying.
All I can say
...because he makes Harry Reid cry on queue, people love him.
What, McConnell gives Reid noogies in the Senate cafeteria line?
Erik Erickson's supporters are encouraging each other to push for a more conservative Rep. party. I say go for it guys - move so far to the right that you make yourselves irrelevant for the next 50 years. In Oregon the Reps just went back to the future to make their party head a guy who spent 2 terms in the state legislature and managed to get pretty everyone in the state to hate him, and who then lost 3 runs for state office. He's been off the radar for a few years, but he seems as abrasive as ever. Gotta respect their loyalty to their own idiocy.
Boehner can cry at the drop of a hat, so I think he's faster than Harry. Although I don't recall ever seeing Reid cry. He's made me cry a few times though.
...Boner really doesn't "like" to cry, because it makes his pancake make-up run.!
66 to 12? Where was the rest of the Senate?
In church. Pretending to be pious.
Watching the football playoff games
me something very much like a temporary Tourette's syndrome.
sounds like he should be a porn star...then you see him...then you hear him...then you shiver
Okay, you made me laugh with that comment. Thanks!
Sorry Patricia. It is storming like the second coming of an ice age here, and very, very, very cold.
It's so cold, I have 2 cardinals in my feeder, and they are wearing fur coats made of squirrel. They kinda look like Hollywood movie Soviets.
Well whatever, cold weather seems to do you good. It's going to be in the 40s here tonight and tomorrow the high will only be in the mid 60s. This is winter in Fla.
here in Maine. Too cold to snow.
Fuck your 60 degree weather. ; )
If it's too cold to snow what happens? Does the air just freeze in one big chunk. Moving around in that could be a challenge.
Yep, I've got the windows open and a cool breeze is blowing through the house the temp in the living room right now is 73.
but in 50 years you will be under water.
In 50 years, I'll probably be under dirt.
it's 72 and sunny and the butterflies are visiting the garden.
I have a butterfly garden and lately we have had all kinds of butterflies. I even have a sign on my wooden fence that says, Butterfly Crossing. It seems they can read because so often we see them flying over the fence at that very spot.
I got the National Wildlife Backyard Habitat certificate and a Monarch Butterfly Rest Stop cert. (planted milkweed)
Great minds...
Wow! Congratulations and good for you! I have a lot of milkweed too. We bought one plant and that plant gave us lots of others all over the yard.
I'm pretty sure we could qualify for the NW backyard cert. if we applied for it. I can't imagine why we wouldn't. I know the birds, squirrels, raccoons, opossoms and butterflies would vote for us.
Provide food sources, cover and water - can even be a birdbath.
That's all you need.
Certified Wildlife Habitat.
Do it. We did. Food, water, shelter. Get the yard sign for $20 (?) -- let the world know. Wonderful thing to do.
We have two large patches of milkweed. It's a ton of fun to watch the process. Beautiful big fat Monarch caterpillers . . . .
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Have the milkweed - not the certificate - will have to look for that - we certainly qualify . . .
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Can I hate you?
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We have a balmy minus five or so. Think I'll put on my Hawaiian shirt and go out and shovel the foot of snow we got last weekend. My cardinals are eating sunflower and peanuts - w/o their fur coats . . . .
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Somewhere around zero here in Central VT. Supposed to be down to -18 Tursday night. Waiting for a January thaw!
like killing..........a bottle of...whatever.
From Orton's example 5: "McConnell privately told Republican senators this week that he will not publicly fight Barack Obama’s economic agenda."
Dude, that's because McConnell doesn't want Americans with pitchforks knocking at his door.
From the Times:
We should be so lucky, Sen. Demint. Don't worry, in another 8 to 10 years, enough idiots will have forgotten how badly you can f*ck things up.
46% haven't figured it out yet. They voted to keep em' in charge, and in overwhelming numbers too in some states! Esecially in places like Sen. Dimwits home state.
I would love to see this kind of thing happen all of the time.
Passing legislation in spite of the GOOPers!
If this becomes a regular kind of thing -
can't...get...hopes.....up..
Now they just need to REapprove Clinton's wilderness roadless law and LOCK IT IN.
They do.
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Dr. No. When the worm turns it is more like a cobra instead of a little bitty worm. I regret that I take such relish in the anger of the republicans against the democrats. But, I have watched that idiot for several years during hearings playing crosswords, insulting questions to anyone with a alternate opinion, and generally Bushie kiss ass-er. And I guess they democratic party just waited until the right moment--then pow!hit him where it hurts!!! I love it.
The "TOMNIBUS" part was just the icing on the cake, that made my day.
This is just funny.
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“Mitch McConnell is privately screwing us just like Obama is doing to the left, but because he makes Harry Reid cry on queue, people love him. It’s almost like Reid and Durbin know it and are happy to cry on cue if it means conservatives stay rallied to McConnell.”
One has to assume that since he used queue and cue in the same paragraph, he knows the difference between the two. Unless he’s talking about a ponytail, I believe Erick means that Harry will stand in line to cry. Perhaps if we’re lucky he’ll use clique and click in the same paragraph in his next offering.
Harry Reid probably held on to this omnibus for precisely the occasion when Americans started to realize he's a putz.
Reid's attempt at a Get Out of Jail Free card.
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