"There's a really big snowstorm coming to D.C.tonight. It would be unsafe to ask all the staffers and Hill employees who'd be needed at the Capitol if Congress stays open all hours this weekend, as Harry Reid intends, to drive to and from work–especially since many will have to do so at night, and they won't be well-rested. So from the point of view of public safety and personal well-being, Ben Nelson can do everyone a favor, announce today he won't vote for cloture, and let everyone stay home this weekend."
-The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol makes another salient point in the debate over health care reform.
Friday, December 18, 2009
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2018: A precocious 8-year-old girl wonders over a foodstamp dinner why her mom has to drive the beatdown 2006 Chevy Aero out into a driving Nor'easter at 8:30 at night to head to her second job. The explanation comes easily:
"Alright, child, I'll tell you again. It was the week before Christmas, and a couple of senators and this man Bill Kristol''
"You mean the one we call the Human Dildo, mommy?"
"The very same. Anyway, they had these great big staffs of young people--" "Attractive young people mommy?"
"Well, no, this was Washington, DC."
"But they had health care, didn't they, mommy?"
"Well, yes, but not you're getting ahead of our story. So they didn't want these nice, relatively unattractive people to have to go to work in a big old snowstorm, pretty much like the one we have tonight. Sure, most of them rode the subway, but enough lived Georgetown basements--"
"You mean those dens of inequality?"
"Iniquity, honey. Anyway, it would have been hard to get to work. So they called it off. And health care reform died. And now I work two jobs in weather like this. So you remember to turn your nebulizer off before you go to sleep, deal?"
"It's a deal, mommy."
Mom turns for the door, but as the triangle of light becomes more and more acute, her daughter pipes up one more time. "Oh, and mommy?"
"What is it, child?"
"Merry Christmas."
aaaaaand....scene.
"now" not "not" grrrr
"If they would rather die than had better do so, and decrease the surplus population."
"There's a really big angry mob coming to D.C. tonight. So from the point of view of public safety and personal well-being, Ben Nelson can do everyone a favor, announce today he'll push this fucking bill through, and let everyone disperse quietly without bloodshed."
(Besides if DC really had a big snowstorm, it would obviously be more like a week before anybody could go anywhere.)
I know! I should have stocked up on canned goods!
OMG Snowstorm!
I have a party to go to in the fucking hood north of and behind the Capitol building tonight, and I have no fucking clue how I'm going to get home. Its hard enough to convince cabs to go to that part of town to begin with, and now with the weather? Fuck, man. And the damn bus stops running at like 1:30, even if I wanted to take the bus from the fucking Atlas district in the middle of the night.
Bitch, I guess health care is going to have to wait.
Yeah, I hope no one without insurance injures themselves in this massive snowstorm.