Paul Ryan Nominated by Republican Caucus With 200 Votes; Daniel Webster Nets 43

Paul Ryan: 200

Daniel Webster: 43

Marsha Blackburn: 1

Kevin McCarthy: 1

Oy. Someone really likes Kevin McCarthy.

Here's how the AP reported it:

BREAKING: House Republicans nominate Rep. Paul Ryan to be next speaker, hoping to end GOP disarray.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2015

That's bias there. What was had was the rejection of one speaker and the search for another. To call it "disarray" seems a bit theatrical; tell me, has your family scavenged for food and scrambled for ammunition during this period of chaos and darkness?

It's not just the AP's liberal bias; there are a lot of Republicans who are what I call Order-Obsessed Little Fucks -- jerky-eyed, panicky little low-T hysterics -- who just go to pieces at the idea that we don't have a "leader" or that there aren't Agreed Upon Rules we can all follow blindly.

By the way, we still don't have a "leader;" we have a guy who's willing to take a job in the Congress.

So, next the vote goes to the full house, where Ryan will become the new Speaker, and I guess we all can stop covering the windows of our cars with chickenwire (so that the Hollow-Eyed Men of the Barrens can't get to us so easily) and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future.

Posted by: Ace at 04:12 PM

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1 First?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 28, 2015 04:13 PM (kXzR8)

2 Hey Ace what happened to the Trump response post?

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 28, 2015 04:14 PM (kXzR8)

3 OOLFs?

Posted by: Insomniac at October 28, 2015 04:14 PM (kpqmD)

4 I would enjoy watching Manhattanites scrounge for food. Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 28, 2015 04:15 PM (oDCMR)

5 I think it's nice they let McCarthy's mom vote.

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at October 28, 2015 04:15 PM (mf5HN)

6 who are what I call Order-Obsessed Little Fucks -- jerky-eyed, panicky little low-T hysterics -- who just go to pieces at the idea that we don't have a "leader" or that there aren't Agreed Upon Rules we can all follow blindly.-ace

I'm sure some serious couch time once they are defeated in November 2016 will help with this condition.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 28, 2015 04:15 PM (J3phO)

7 >>>Hey Ace what happened to the Trump response post?

i couldn't think of but a couple of jokes; the premise was too specific. But I'm going to do a trump post one of these days.

Posted by: I prefer being called JMV at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (dciA+)

8 It's not just the AP's liberal bias; there are a lot of Republicans who are what I call Order-Obsessed Little Fucks -- jerky-eyed, panicky little low-T hysterics -- who just go to pieces at the idea that we don't have a "leader" or that there aren't Agreed Upon Rules we can all follow blindly.

That's Midol Medved to a T.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (JmGFJ)

9 Rush says the GOPe would much prefer Hillary in the White House than Ted Cruz. I don't doubt it.
GOPe should be the first to the gallows.

Posted by: maddogg at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (xWW96)

10 IT'S A BALLOON!

Posted by: Grump928(c) preemptively notes at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (evdj2)

11 Second verse: same as the first.

Posted by: David W at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (Hi6cL)

12
I hate Paul Ryan.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2015 04:16 PM (ODxAs)

13 i just need more of a premise and some more inspiration.

but trump really does have a humorous way of talking. I really want to get back to that. It seems crazy that I'm not doing it yet.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (dciA+)

14 Did Boehner vote for McCarthy?

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (oDCMR)

15 Those who require agreed upon rules are the ones who cannot function in a chaotic system. If you need someone to "lead" or in other words, give you orders, then you really shouldn't consider yourself to be anything other than a tool.

Posted by: Deathknyte at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (HtIC/)

16 To the AP, anything less than goose-stepping is "disarray."

Posted by: Beorn at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (dGF4J)

17 Oy. Someone really likes Kevin McCarthy.

====

That was Kevin's vote.

Posted by: Bigby's Pricking Thumbs at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (3ZtZW)

18 The whole lot of them are a bunch of quivering pantywaists

Posted by: donna at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (/dSsq)

19 While this is a relief, I still worry about The Night Men.

Posted by: Grump928(c) preemptively notes at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (evdj2)

20 >>> IT'S A BALLOON!

**survivalists scramble to various deep-woods bugout shelters**

Posted by: Bigby's Pricking Thumbs at October 28, 2015 04:18 PM (3ZtZW)

21 I remember when I really liked Ryan but that was about $5 less TRILLION dollars in debt ago. He seemed to care about the debt back then.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 28, 2015 04:18 PM (AC0lD)

22 "Ryan plans revamp of GOP steering committee"- http://politi.co/1LCxR9C

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan has told colleagues that he'll restructure
the influential Republican Steering Committee by Thanksgiving, a move
he's calling a down payment on a larger overhaul of the institution's
rules.

This was/is one of the demands made by the House Freedom Caucus.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:18 PM (YjDyJ)

23 >>>19 While this is a relief, I still worry about The Night Men.

I fear the Watchers in the Wastelands, myself.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:18 PM (dciA+)

24 Dog Oil, the fuel of the future

Aroo?

Posted by: Scooby Doo at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (evdj2)

25 Did somebody say dog oil?

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (FkBIv)

26 Ryno

Posted by: Sick of phony refugees at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (aFL58)

27 But I won't stop grinding my own wheat. I love grinding my wheat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (8ZskC)

28 While this is a relief, I still worry about The Night Men.
Posted by: Grump928(c) preemptively notes at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (evdj2)

What about the Shadow People?

Posted by: George Noory at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (kKHcp)

29 Yay.

Screw him.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (LA7Cm)

30 18 The whole lot of them are a bunch of quivering pantywaists
Posted by: donna at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (/dSsq

That's Miss Quivering Pantywaists to you serf.
Posted by: The GOPe House

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (J3phO)

31 I guess we all can stop covering the windows of our cars with chickenwire (so that the Hollow-Eyed Men of the Barrens can't get to us so easily) and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future.

Speaking of which, I finally saw that Mad Max:Fury Road flick. I kind of liked it. The stunts were amazing. Story was ok, I didn't hate it anyway. The actor who played Max was forgettable (he's no 80s era Mel Gibson). The actress, who's name escapes me, was ok. The bad guys were all sufficiently bad. I recognized one of the chicks in the all chick tribe from an episode of Farscape (old lady, I know, doesn't narrow it down much). I know, off topic, but I can't just get worked up over another episode of Failure Theater (a term I'm blatantly ripping of from here).

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (CUywL)

32 Order-Obsessed Little Fucks -- jerky-eyed, panicky little low-T
hysterics -- who just go to pieces at the idea that we don't have a
"leader" or that there aren't Agreed Upon Rules we can all follow
blindly.

Oh yeah definitely. Most of them, at least the ones I see, are prominent GOPe types: pundits and politicians. It's like their ability to think outside of the box is at absolute zero. It's why Trump has proven such a problem for them. They literally cannot conceive how he could possibly lead in the polls let alone for this long.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (4ErVI)

33 Weiner dogs are the best fuel source mainly because their shape makes it convenient to squeeze the oil directly into your gas tank without wasting any.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (+lsX1)

34 How will those of us that immediately resorted to cannibalism ever return to normal now that we have a speaker again?

Posted by: Komissar Vladimir at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (7NboP)

35 IT'S A BALLOON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qjxT1iIAM

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (8ZskC)

36 What about the Shadow People?

Yes ... the Shadow People.

Indeed.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Crab People at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (evdj2)

37 Choosing a new Speaker should be done the traditional way, in smoke-filled backrooms.

Posted by: Ricky Rino at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (5fSr7)

38 >>>20 >>> IT'S A BALLOON!

holy shit, right?

If you guys don't know what he's talking about, a missile-sensor balloon with a long trailing antenna got free, and Shep "Sensationalist Twat" Smith is trying to make it sound like armageddon.

he insisted "It doesn't work!" despite having never heard of this missile-detection system before. All we know is that the anchor failed. But Shep is in screaming and hysteria mode.

Hopefully a car chase will come along and she can shrill about that.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (dciA+)

39 Disarray = getting only eighty percent of the votes.

I learn new things every day here.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Treat Your Tricksters to an I Scream at the Outrage Outlet! at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (hLRSq)

40 how will those of us that immediately resorted to cannibalism ever return to normal now that we have a speaker again?
Posted by: Komissar Vladimir at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (7NboP)

I didn't know you lived in New Orleans!

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (mf5HN)

41 The actor who played Max was forgettable (he's no 80s era Mel Gibson).

He's Bane.

Posted by: Crab People at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (evdj2)

42 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(c) at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (evdj2)

43 IT'S A BALLOON!

**survivalists scramble to various deep-woods bugout shelters**

General quarters! The balloon is up! Repeat.
The balloon is up!
This is not a drill.
General quarters!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (H/5vA)

44 >>>>> Oy. Someone really likes Kevin McCarthy
-----
That would be pro-abortion Renee Ellmers. They are supposedly adulterers.

I love the Ace language in this post. Thanks Ace.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (EdhH3)

45
Paul Ryamnesty as speaker.

We are boned.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (ODxAs)

46 If Cruz wins the nomination, most of the GOP Congress will go home as Democrats.

Posted by: MTF at October 28, 2015 04:22 PM (LISuA)

47 please

Posted by: Bruce Boehner at October 28, 2015 04:22 PM (E5UB0)

48 You all said you were still going to vote for me! What happened!?

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at October 28, 2015 04:22 PM (VAsIq)

49 "stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future."

You've got this all wrong.

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 28, 2015 04:22 PM (3dOE/)

50 I will be ready to rule the Uniparty from Day one.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at October 28, 2015 04:22 PM (0dcbp)

51 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (GwIKd)

52 >>>Speaking of which, I finally saw that Mad Max:Fury Road flick. I kind of liked it. The stunts were amazing. Story was ok, I didn't hate it anyway. The actor who played Max was forgettable (he's no 80s era Mel Gibson). The actress, who's name escapes me, was ok. The bad guys were all sufficiently bad. I recognized one of the chicks in the all chick tribe from an episode of Farscape (old lady, I know, doesn't narrow it down much). I know, off topic, but I can't just get worked up over another episode of Failure Theater (a term I'm blatantly ripping of from here).

it was okay. I think I agree with you, it was fine, I didn't mind watching it, but I've completely forgotten about it, and I forgot about it the day after I saw it.

It's an okay movie. There is some fun here.

Not the gripping white-knuckle suspense of the Road Warrior, though. Just pretty pictures and stunts. No actual care as to what happens, no feeling of real threat or weight.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (dciA+)

53 "Freedom Caucus Members Will Stick With Daniel Webster in Conference Vote but Eventually Elect Paul Ryan Speaker"- http://dailysign.al/1jR2n6N

@JakeSherman 2h Many of the Webster votes were out of loyalty, sources said. Many of them are expected to flip to Ryan on the floor tomorrow.

@ChadPergram 1h Duncan of SC doesn't think all of the 43 votes for Webster came from Freedom Caucus. Labrador says most Freedom Caucus mbrs will back Ryan

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (YjDyJ)

54 Are poor people eating each other in the balloon? Is it at least possible that they're eating each other?

Posted by: Geraldo Rivera at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (8ZskC)

55 I don't get it. 200 is less than 218. If the 43 vote for Webster tomorrow, then Ryan isn't elected speaker.

Posted by: A.S. at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (0tbQ4)

56 Yes ... the Shadow People.

Indeed.

*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Crab People at October 28, 2015 04:20 PM (evdj2)

*clackity clackity pinch pinch pinch*

Posted by: Ant People Liberation Front at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (mf5HN)

57 Dog oil....?

Posted by: Matty Yglesias at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (mcm0N)

58 I saw Dog Oil open for Pussy Riot.

It was a mess.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (JtwS4)

59 Paul Ryan meeting Barry for the first time as Speaker:

Ryan: Hello, Mr. Pres..

Obama: Sit down and listen.

Ryan: Ok *quickly sits down*

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (4ErVI)

60 You think the wasteland gives you the advantage. But I was born in the storm.

Posted by: Bane at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (evdj2)

61 I prefer to eat Olive Oil.

Posted by: Popeye at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (8ZskC)

62 43 voted with the Freedom Caucus. Thats more than I expected. And scary for the GOPe.

Posted by: maddogg at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (xWW96)

63 "he insisted "It doesn't work!" despite having never heard of this missile-detection system before. All we know is that the anchor failed. But Shep is in screaming and hysteria mode. "

I wish I was near a TV.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (LA7Cm)

64 >>Speaking of which, I finally saw that Mad Max:Fury Road flick.

Watched it twice on my flight to Australia. Seemed appropriate and long ass flight.

I like Tom Hardy but nobody is going to top Mel Gibson in that part and the woman was Chalize Theron or however you spell her name.

Oh and there actually is a ranch in Australia that is bigger than Texas. Heard that from an Aussie and saw that ace mentioned in a thread last week.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (/tuJf)

65 The October people.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (SWB1A)

66 >>>> If you guys don't know what he's talking about, a missile-sensor balloon with a long trailing antenna got free, and Shep "Sensationalist Twat" Smith is trying to make it sound like armageddon.
--------
Proof right there that Ace doesn't read the comments and only writes the posts.

Here comes the aerostat vs blimp fight again.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (EdhH3)

67 Once the burning times arrive I volunteer to be the guy on the mad max pendulum car.

*driving* the mad max pendulum car. I'm not crazy.

Posted by: Ghost of kari at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (xuouz)

68 Charlize Theron?

Posted by: Matty Yglesias at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (mcm0N)

69 he insisted "It doesn't work!" despite having never heard of this missile-detection system before. All we know is that the anchor failed. But Shep is in screaming and hysteria mode.

Hopefully a car chase will come along and she can shrill about that.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:21 PM (dciA+)

Shep...hysteria? The deuce you say. Has the radioactive cloud of doom hit Cali from Japan yet

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (ck8TA)

70 "he insisted "It doesn't work!" despite having never heard of this missile-detection system before."

He's right.

He's right completely by accident, but the Aerostat based system has basically been defined as sub-optimal for a few weeks.

Aberdeen is just up the road from Baltimore, so this stupid thing makes it into the news regularly.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (VPLuQ)

71 @frankthorpNBC 1h John Boehner will submit his letter of resignation Thursday after Paul Ryan is sworn-in as Speaker.

On Friday, he will fly home to Ohio.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (YjDyJ)

72 Cheap labor for everyone!

Posted by: Paul Ryan at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (0dcbp)

73 BTW - if you see a formation of nuclear powered drone-launching stealth dirigibles fly overhead it's just swamp gas.

There's no need to be alarmed, it isn't a test invasion by an aspiring evil overlord and his army of cyborg mutants.

*shifty eyes*

Swamp gas, folks. Swamp gas.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Treat Your Tricksters to an I Scream at the Outrage Outlet! at October 28, 2015 04:25 PM (hLRSq)

74 I started watching Insurrgent, but stopped half way through because I couldn't remember anyone's backstory from Divergent, WHICH I SAW ONLY SIX MONTHS AGO!.

That's how little this Young Adult Fiction sticks with me.

Posted by: Bane at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (evdj2)

75 I hope they get me back to Aberdeen by Halloween.

My twin and I are going to paint our noses pink and go as Kate Upton.

Posted by: The Blimp at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (JtwS4)

76
OMG! Aliens are dropping from the blimp, and eating people. EATING PEOPLE!

Posted by: Sheep Smith at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (ODxAs)

77 The blimp didn't get any votes?

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (wAQA5)

78 I don't belong to any organized political party, I am a Republican.

Well, not so much anymore. I am a let it burn guy.

Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (2Ocf1)

79 Nobody would care about the balloon if it weren't white.

Posted by: D-Ray at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (FkBIv)

80 ace>there are a lot of Republicans who are what I call Order-Obsessed Little Fucks --

So not DrewM. Heh. Count me out of order too.

Posted by: Golfman-Xenophobe Extrodinaire at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (48QDY)

81 The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Or is it the other way around?

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (SCcgT)

82 He's Bane.

Posted by: Crab People

*muffled garbling and menacing mumbling*

Posted by: Bane at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (VAsIq)

83 Oy. Someone really likes Kevin McCarthy.

You'll always be my little Speaker!

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy's mom at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (0dcbp)

84 It's heartwarming that some on our side are just learning that leaders don't have to come from the right families, the preferred area or have attended the right schools.

They are beginning to understand that leadership is a function of personal character - the ability to stand up to the monied establishment and the elite insiders without folding.

Maybe someday we'll elect leaders instead of destroying them.

Posted by: jwest at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (Zs4uk)

85 27
But I won't stop grinding my own wheat. I love grinding my wheat.

Is that what they call it now?

Posted by: Roland THTG at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (QM5S2)

86 Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:24 PM (EdhH3)

Nah; He didn't call it either a blimp or an aerostat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (No/ki)

87 Hrrmmm. I guess I'm not the only one to notice what a hysterical little bitch Shemp is. He can't go through an hour program without getting his panties in a wad about something.

Posted by: Old Blue at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (9iR5/)

88 Keep an eye out for the Cedar Choppers. They say they'll fix your roof at a rock bottom price, and then not show up.

Posted by: CozMark at October 28, 2015 04:27 PM (CbGSW)

89 On Friday, he will fly home to Ohio.

To pack up his shit, stick a for sale sign in his yard, and head back to DC for his lobbyist gig, leaving the rubes behind for good.

Posted by: George Noory at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (kKHcp)

90
I wish Shep would stop talking about me.

Posted by: Berto Colon at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (ODxAs)

91 After this sweet, sweet budget deal goes down...wtf is Speaker Ryan going to be doing

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (ck8TA)

92 It's the Barrens Chat Congress. They'll all make Chuck Norris jokes in Orcish and pretend they're standing up to The Man from their mom's basement.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (2eZBM)

93 OMG! Aliens are dropping from the blimp, and eating people. EATING PEOPLE!

Posted by: Sheep Smith

Republican people or Democrat people?

Posted by: Geraldo 'Scoop' Rivera at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (0dcbp)

94 It's an okay movie. There is some fun here.

Not the gripping white-knuckle suspense of the Road Warrior, though. Just pretty pictures and stunts. No actual care as to what happens, no feeling of real threat or weight.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (dciA+)

Yes, forgettable.

But it was bad. Miller apparently was like hey the chase scene in Road Warrior was cool, let's make a WHOLE MOVIE OF IT.

And, let's make Max a whiner. Because that is what he's known for. Whining.

Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:28 PM (2Ocf1)

95 Dog Oil, the fuel of the future

I hear that makes your car run rough.

Posted by: cat oil vendor at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (2WoCi)

96 Did Boehner vote for McCarthy?

Posted by: Puddin Head at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (oDCMR)

He voted for Jim Beam

Posted by: TheQuietMan at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (493sH)

97 64 >>Speaking of which, I finally saw that Mad Max:Fury Road flick.

I thought it was pretty damn good. Better than any given Marvel flick by a mile.

The Nux character stole the movie IMO.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (SCcgT)

98 ***Hopefully a car chase will come along and she can shrill about that.

I read that as Shep was out chasing cars. It gave me hope.

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (j1SgI)

99 Cheap labor wanted! Our native citizens won't spend, even though we're practically giving them money! And making it totally impractical to save! As much as we can! You arabs, you ever been to Munchen?

Posted by: Ghost of kari at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (xuouz)

100 IT IS BALLOON!

Posted by: The Hiyakowas at October 28, 2015 04:29 PM (B3WUC)

101 OMG! Aliens are dropping from the blimp, and eating people. EATING PEOPLE!

Posted by: Sheep Smith at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (ODxAs)

It's swamp gas, you fool! Swamp gas! It is not my mutant cyborg army on a training exercise!

Will no one rid me of this miserable Shep?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Treat Your Tricksters to an I Scream at the Outrage Outlet! at October 28, 2015 04:30 PM (hLRSq)

102 Your torments call us like dogs in the night. And we do feed, and feed well. To stuff ourselves on other people's torments. And butter our plain bread with delicious pain... Funerals, marriages, lost loves, lonely beds .. that is our diet. We suck that misery and find it sweet.

Posted by: The Autumn People at October 28, 2015 04:30 PM (evdj2)

103 "I hear that makes your car run rough."

That pun was a real dog.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:30 PM (LA7Cm)

104 cat oil vendor missed a golden pun op right there. Ruff!

Posted by: Dave, exiled in RI at October 28, 2015 04:31 PM (j1SgI)

105 Speaker of the House (it doesn't matter who it is): Mr. President, we will not budge.

Obama: I will order the deaths of your wife and children, as well as the families of everyone else who votes with you.

Speaker of the House: Well, there may be some wiggle room...

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:31 PM (VAsIq)

106 I loved watching OOLF.

Especially when he tried to eat the cats.

Posted by: Joke Biden at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (lqmAz)

107 GOP Scrambles to End Anarchy, Prove it can Govern

Eleventy!!!!!

Posted by: Daybrother expects general trouble at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (xvons)

108 @ChadPergram 1h Duncan of SC doesn't think all of the 43 votes for Webster came from Freedom Caucus. Labrador says most Freedom Caucus mbrs will back Ryan
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:23 PM (YjDyJ

It would be nice that Ryan would have to go through 3-4 votes before elected. But, the gutless f*ckers won't even give us that satisfaction.

That's right. Just rub salt into the wound.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (J3phO)

109 And butter our plain bread with delicious pain... Funerals, marriages, lost loves, lonely beds .. that is our diet. We suck that misery and find it sweet.
Posted by: The Autumn People

You better leave Obamaville before you get Type II Diabetes.

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (awspb)

110
That blimp, fantastic, just doing a fantastic job. Wonderful. Terrific.

It looks luxurious.

Posted by: Don De Trump at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (ODxAs)

111 and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future.

As long as we don't go back to catpiss.

Posted by: DaveA at October 28, 2015 04:32 PM (DL2i+)

112 but trump really does have a humorous way of talking. I really want to get back to that. It seems crazy that I'm not doing it yet.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2015 04:17 PM (dciA+)well ,Trump does have a yuuge amt of fabulous quotes to choose fromIt's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real ____fill in the blank

Posted by: willow at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (nqBYe)

113 "...and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future."

That really made me laugh. Thanks Ace.

Posted by: Daybrother expects general trouble at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (xvons)

114 OOLF is not to be confused with Ulf, who lives in Paraguay and advises the Empress on matters of State and Terror.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (JtwS4)

115 55 I don't get it. 200 is less than 218. If the 43 vote for Webster tomorrow, then Ryan isn't elected speaker.

The threshold for the in-Conference vote was 125, including the delegate from American Samoa. With regards to the votes for Webster, the HFC promised to support him during the in-Conference vote but they say a majority will switch on the House Floor. Members are allowed to change their votes.

@JakeSherman 2h FREEDOM CAUCUS BOARD MEMBER MARK MEADOWS: Paul Ryan will have "more than enough" votes to win the speakership.

@mkraju 1h Mo Brooks, member of House Freedom Caucus who voted for Webster, says he will back Ryan on the floor. "He's the nominee."

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (YjDyJ)

116 ace is cheating on us with twitter again.

Posted by: Ant People Liberation Front at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (mf5HN)

117 Big Mooch aka Maxie the Moocher is taking another taxpayer funded vacation, this time to Qatar. Although, to be fair, when I think Gutter I think Obama.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 28, 2015 04:34 PM (XUKZU)

118 As long as we don't go back to catpiss.

Posted by: DaveA

From District 12? She's my hero.

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:34 PM (VAsIq)

119 Dog oil is haram, until it gets above $30 a barrel.

Posted by: Roy at October 28, 2015 04:34 PM (VndSC)

120 >>>Hollow-Eyed Men of the Barrens<<<

Yoink... just found my next Dr. Who baddie of the week.

Posted by: Steven Moffat at October 28, 2015 04:35 PM (lqmAz)

121 Freedom Carcass

Posted by: Doom Rider at October 28, 2015 04:35 PM (ck8TA)

122 Big Mooch aka Maxie the Moocher is taking another taxpayer funded vacation, this time to Qatar. Although, to be fair, when I think Gutter I think Obama.
Posted by: The Great White Snark

Is she going to visit Ahmed the Inventor?

Posted by: Prince Ludwig the #Problematic at October 28, 2015 04:35 PM (awspb)

123
But I won't stop grinding my own wheat. I love grinding my wheat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (8ZskC)

We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:35 PM (FeQTe)

124 We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Roughin' the Puffin.

Posted by: Tundra humor! at October 28, 2015 04:36 PM (VAsIq)

125 PLUCK ME!!

Posted by: The Possessed Chicken at October 28, 2015 04:36 PM (evdj2)

126 I hate Paul Ryan.

-
I don't hate him yet but give me time.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 28, 2015 04:36 PM (XUKZU)

127 123
But I won't stop grinding my own wheat. I love grinding my wheat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 28, 2015 04:19 PM (8ZskC)

We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:35 PM (FeQTe

Whew, I'm safe.
Posted by: Choking The Chicken

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 28, 2015 04:36 PM (J3phO)

128 74:I started watching Insurrgent, but stopped half way through because I couldn't remember anyone's backstory from Divergent, WHICH I SAW ONLY SIX MONTHS AGO!.

I liked that one too but yea, these youngin' movies seem not to stick with me. Lenny Kravitz's kid is real pretty though. The lead actress is a cutie too. Again, I liked the story but it doesnt seem to hang around after your done seeing it. Logan's Run was a silly piece of 70s Sci Fi but I rememeber it well and I was just a kid when it came out. A nekid Jenny Agutter may have helped.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 28, 2015 04:37 PM (CUywL)

129
OOLF is not to be confused with Ulf, who lives in Paraguay and advises the Empress on matters of State and Terror.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 28, 2015 04:33 PM (JtwS4)

Ulfs are also common to Peruvia, where they are hunted for their silky pelts and delicious meat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:37 PM (FeQTe)

130 Herself seeks nomination, hoping to further democrat overrule.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at October 28, 2015 04:37 PM (U6f54)

131 Secret video has been released of the Army blimp incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA_BhX0UdAo&feature=player_embedded

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (NjiZL)

132 We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Roughin' the Puffin.
Posted by: Tundra humor!

Priming the Pump.

Posted by: FDR at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (awspb)

133 Seeing as the budget deal clusterfuck basically gives Obama everything he wants for the rest of his miserable presidency, there's largely nothing of consequence the house will be able to accomplish.

So all Ryan will be doing is some Mickey Mouse rejiggering of how the sausage gets made.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (2yquu)

134 >>> Choking The Chicken

You ever wonder who has the job of changing out the magazines at a sperm donor clinic?

Posted by: Bigby's Pricking Thumbs at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (3ZtZW)

135 Ulfs are also common to Peruvia, where they are hunted for their silky pelts and delicious meat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Don't they live in trees and make cookies?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (VAsIq)

136 Submerging the Superdome

Posted by: Geraldo 'Scoop' Rivera at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (0dcbp)

137 The blimp didn't get any votes?

Posted by: wth at October 28, 2015 04:26 PM (wAQA5)

It's NOT a blimp! It's a floating tampon.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (zc3Db)

138 Scrounge for ammunition? Ace, the modern man doesn't own a gun. He doesn't want one and never will.

As for this balloon story, I am disappointed at the lack of Nena references on this thread.

Posted by: JPS at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (QrOaG)

139 We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Roughin' the Puffin.
Posted by: Tundra humor!

Priming the Pump.

Posted by: FDR

One-eyed Peek-a-boo

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (VAsIq)

140 But I won't stop grinding my own wheat. I love grinding my wheat.
Posted by: Cicero

We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Loping the mule, flogging Molly, spanking the monkey.....

Posted by: rickb223 at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (H/5vA)

141 A nekid Jenny Agutter may have helped.

Ah. I had only ever seen it on the teevee so I didn't know that.

And now we have the internets to document such things for me.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (JtwS4)

142 Well, off to the white collar sweat shop. I'll probably post from there. Wasting tax payer dollars for the Greater Good or something! Don't burn the place down.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (CUywL)

143 "Hello, airplanes? It's blimps, you win."

Posted by: Sterling Archer at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (awspb)

144 >>>>> trump does have a humorous way of talking. I really want to get back to that. It seems crazy that I'm not doing it yet.
---------
Start with his last speech in Iowa. Morning Joe just loved it. Then go to his speech in Jacksonville. He actually says "g-d Kerry" and uses the word "shithouse."

I am convinced that his style of speech is what appeals
to people most. No one talks like Jeb or Kasich or Rubio. Policy wonk talk is a put off for most normal people outside DC. It's also why they despise Trump so much. He is too crude and debasing politics. As if they haven't helped do that all on their own before Trump ever showed up

Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (EdhH3)

145 Ulfs are also common to Peruvia, where they are hunted for their silky pelts and delicious meat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:37 PM (FeQTe)

*screaming*
"Help me, they're all illiterate savages!"
*screaming, metal giving way, more screaming, static*

-The last broadcast home by ALF

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Treat Your Tricksters to an I Scream at the Outrage Outlet! at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (hLRSq)

146 Hand babies!

Posted by: Remember this one? From, like, two months ago? at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (VAsIq)

147 So Crying Boner gone, new speaker RINO Ryan appointed. Out with the old in with the new, actions and outlook unchanged.

Posted by: Vic-we have no party at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (t2KH5)

148 News:
House Republicans nominate Rep. Paul Ryan to be next speaker, ...

Commentary:
...hoping to end GOP disarray.

Posted by: dogfish at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (0O2Lr)

149 So when does the end of democrat mayhem come? Does the GOP need to elect someone else for that role?

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (AlM67)

150 " there's largely nothing of consequence the house will be able to accomplish. "

Taking bribes, fact-finding trips, and, buggering pages doesn't count for anything anymore?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:40 PM (LA7Cm)

151 I read on another website that I totally clicked on by accident that Ryan has already hired a former lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce as his chief of staff. Don't know if it is true or not but then at this point what difference does it make?

Posted by: Daybrother expects general trouble at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (xvons)

152 Posted by: JPS at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (QrOaG)

There are not 99 and Luft.

Posted by: Golfman-Xenophobe Extrodinaire at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (48QDY)

153 but stopped half way through because I couldn't remember anyone's backstory from Divergent,

I started watching that movie. Man ... that was some stupid shit. So stupid it was oozing out of the TV ... even after I turned it off.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (zc3Db)

154 "and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil..."
---------------

Whew.
*emerges from hiding place under the bed*

Posted by: Mike Hammer's dog at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (9mTYi)

155 "and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel of the future."

Do we have to stop right now? I had just oiled up the press after the little **** went on an extended adventure yesterday...

Posted by: West at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (1Rgee)

156 Journalism must be harder than getting a PhD in quantum physics.

Posted by: dogfish at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (0O2Lr)

157 Man it'd be funny if the McCarthy vote came from Renee Elmers

Posted by: Jollyroger at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM (t06LC)

158 Wolf Blitzer on Blimpopalooza.

http://tinyurl.com/prmysjf

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 28, 2015 04:42 PM (XUKZU)

159 >>>We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Roughin' the Puffin.

Posted by: Tundra humor!

Priming the Pump.

Posted by: FDR

One-eyed Peek-a-boo

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (VAsIq)<<<

Wrangling the one-eyed wonder weasel.

Posted by: because it always comes back to some kind of weasel at October 28, 2015 04:42 PM (lqmAz)

160 Do we have to stop right now? I had just oiled up the press ...

Posted by: West

Posted by: Overheard in the Bedroom at October 28, 2015 04:42 PM (VAsIq)

161 Soooo.

I got laid off today.

So there's that.

Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM (2Ocf1)

162 http://www.myorganicdog.com/images/stories/virtuemart/product/my-organic-dog-oil.png

Posted by: Sarahw at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM (3fTXW)

163 Are you not ENTHUSED!

Posted by: DaveA at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM (DL2i+)

164 Soooo.

I got laid off today.

So there's that.

Posted by: blaster

Booooo!

What can we do?

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (VAsIq)

165 sorry blaster

whats next?

Posted by: Bigby's Pricking Thumbs at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (3ZtZW)

166 "Wrangling the one-eyed wonder weasel."

Bopping the baloney.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (LA7Cm)

167 Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM (2Ocf1)

Aww man, I'm sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Treat Your Tricksters to an I Scream at the Outrage Outlet! at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (hLRSq)

168
161
Soooo.

I got laid off today.

So there's that.

Sorry to hear that, blaster.

Posted by: Mortimer at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (0dcbp)

169 I got laid off today.

So there's that.
Posted by: blaster
-----------------

Well, that's a bucket of suck. Did you see this coming?

Posted by: Mike Hammer's dog at October 28, 2015 04:44 PM (9mTYi)

170 Welcome to funemployment.

Posted by: DaveA at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (DL2i+)

171 Damn. Sorry, Blaster.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (LA7Cm)

172 Start with his last speech in Iowa. Morning Joe just loved it.

Here's the clip. It's fabulous.

on.msnbc.com/1HakSI9

Trump gets all yelly at Iowa for letting him drop in the polls and says if he loses it's because they're losers. Or words to that effect.

I pretty much loathe Trump but this is hilarious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (JtwS4)

173 Will Ryan give up his Chairmanship of Ways and Means? That is what is confusing me right now.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (MIKMs)

174 Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM <<<<

Well it is the Autumn of Recovery.

Seriously, good luck going forward.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (ODxAs)

175 Thar she blows! The Great White Blimp is coming down! (Scroll down).

http://tinyurl.com/ou2n57e

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (XUKZU)

176 blaster at October 28, 2015 04:43 PM (2Ocf1)

Well that blows. Sorry to hear it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (/tuJf)

177 *kicks dog to the curb*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (9mTYi)

178 I got laid off today.

So there's that.
Posted by: blaster

Now you can start living. Go to the hobby store and buy some paints. And thank Obamacare!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at October 28, 2015 04:46 PM (8ZskC)

179
Sorry to hear about that, blaster.

My advice is to start drinking heavily, and hunt down a few hobos. But mostly, hunt down a few hobos.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:46 PM (FeQTe)

180 Adds Blaster to my prayer list.

It will be okay. You have gotten through this before. You will again. But, I know, it still sucks and is hard.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:46 PM (EdhH3)

181 blaster, sorry to hear.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 28, 2015 04:47 PM (aLXXe)

182 Blaster - Two words; Cowboy Poetry, Grant.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 28, 2015 04:47 PM (9mTYi)

183 ... and not just because it gives you more hobo hunting time

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 28, 2015 04:47 PM (aLXXe)

184 We used to call it "prompting the porpoise" but whatever floats your boat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Roughin' the Puffin.

Posted by: Tundra humor!

Priming the Pump.

Posted by: FDR

One-eyed Peek-a-boo

Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 28, 2015 04:39 PM (VAsIq)

Wrangling the one-eyed wonder weasel.

Posted by: because it always comes back to some kind of weasel

Sticking My Hand Inside a Dark, Gravelly Cave and Just, Like, Moving it Around

Posted by: Hillary(!) at October 28, 2015 04:47 PM (VAsIq)

185 ...hoping to end GOP disarray.

-
It may end more of the GOP than just the disarray.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (XUKZU)

186 133 Seeing as the budget deal clusterfuck basically gives Obama everything he wants for the rest of his miserable presidency, there's largely nothing of consequence the house will be able to accomplish.

So all Ryan will be doing is some Mickey Mouse rejiggering of how the sausage gets made.

Posted by: Kreplach at October 28, 2015 04:38 PM (2yquu)

Thanks Boehner for stabbing us in the back one last time!

Posted by: Make America Great Again at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (LXJ1e)

187 I got laid off today.

So there's that.
Posted by: blaster

So what was it that you did before today?

Posted by: jwest at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (Zs4uk)

188 Sorry blaster. But look at it this way, you'll be available to take up arms during the coming unpleasantness.

Posted by: Daybrother expects general trouble at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (xvons)

189 133 Seeing as the budget deal clusterfuck basically gives Obama everything he wants for the rest of his miserable presidency, there's largely nothing of consequence the house will be able to accomplish.

The budget deal set the top-lines for FY 2016 ($1.067 trillion) and FY 2017 ($1.070 trillion). It is not an appropriations package.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (YjDyJ)

190 I pretty much loathe Trump but this is hilarious.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at October 28, 2015 04:45 PM (JtwS4)

Wasn't there a plot point in Bloom County with Trump's brain being implanted in Bill the Cat after a particularly bad encounter with a yacht anchor?

Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 28, 2015 04:49 PM (k9qR4)

191 That sucks Blaster

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at October 28, 2015 04:49 PM (J3phO)

192 Thanks Boehner for stabbing us in the back one last time!

Posted by: Make America Great Again

*looks up bleary-eyed from another empty tumbler*

*Hic!*

Posted by: John Boehner at October 28, 2015 04:49 PM (VAsIq)

193 on the upside Blaster, you'll have lots of free time to fully enjoy the holiday season...

that's why they call it #Funemployment!

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 28, 2015 04:49 PM (pEusi)

194 How am I losing to these people ?!

Posted by: Blimpostat at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (FkBIv)

195 Bandersnatch, thanks for linking that. I only caught that this morning because you linked it on the art class thread. I know you don't like him but it's weird the liberal media actually likes him. It's the RINO pundit and establishment class that loathe him. He has a chance at winning the general if he gets the nomination because he will traditional D voters and no voters hard.

Posted by: L, Elle at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (EdhH3)

196 "http://tinyurl.com/ou2n57e"

According to that link the police now have the blimp surrounded in a field in PA.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (LA7Cm)

197 What disgusts me is the fact that I have to register as a Dem, my town council, school board, and mayor are all dumb, I mean Dem. The only way to filter out the worst ones is to vote in the primary. Yes, I take alot of antacids those days.
Really don't know what I will do this primary, I just know who it won't be for!

Posted by: FCF at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (kejii)

198 Damn, Blaster - best of luck to you.

Goldman - Xenophobe Extraordinaire, 152: Fair enough.

Posted by: JPS at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (QrOaG)

199 Gee why could t they have done this before they all went with Ryan? Holding votes on the guys that wanted the job and then just having the field reduced until a clear winner was left?

Oh right that would have prevented the establishment from having one of their preferred stooges win.

Since Boehner is finishing up his back stabbing now, can we start a pool on when grown up Eddie Munster will do his first back stab as speaker? I say before thanksgiving.

Posted by: Buzzion at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (z/Ubi)

200 The budget deal set the top-lines for FY 2016 ($1.067 trillion) and FY 2017 ($1.070 trillion). It is not an appropriations package.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:48 PM (YjDyJ)

Top lines for what? Annual expenditures are over $3 trillion. What numbers are you talking about, here?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at October 28, 2015 04:51 PM (zc3Db)

201 NOOD 99 Luftballoons. or something

Posted by: Mortimer at October 28, 2015 04:51 PM (0dcbp)

202 Yeah I have to say I had a gut feeling it was coming.

But I stay on for the rest of November and get some amount of severance so could be worse.

Prospects are good in DC area though as a tech guy approaching 50 it is only a bit unnerving.

Have to hand this one off to the Lord it means I was meant to do something else.

Posted by: blaster at October 28, 2015 04:51 PM (2Ocf1)

203 According to that link the police now have the blimp surrounded in a field in PA.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill

My greatest role yet!

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at October 28, 2015 04:52 PM (VAsIq)

204 I'm off to re-work the lyrics to--

My Girl.

Hillary has asked me to do it as a campaign song.

Posted by: Matty Yglesias at October 28, 2015 04:52 PM (mcm0N)

205 According to that link the police now have the blimp surrounded in a field in PA.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill

Have they shot its dog yet?

Posted by: Janet Reno at October 28, 2015 04:52 PM (awspb)

206 Is there someone claiming his son is in this balloon too while he actually told him to hide in the garage so they can get a tv show out of it?

Posted by: Buzzion at October 28, 2015 04:53 PM (z/Ubi)

207 Does anyone know how many votes Charles Rangle got to be the next Speaker of that Hpuse Guy thing? We need a person of color in this position and Presdent Obama should have selected him. Once again Bush lies and mess comes back to haunt us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at October 28, 2015 04:53 PM (EIFYf)

208 "*looks up bleary-eyed from another empty tumbler*

*Hic!*"

Cheer up, buddy. Remember you got that sweet lobbyist gig lined up. You'll be back screwing people in no time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:53 PM (LA7Cm)

209 200 Top lines for what? Annual expenditures are over $3 trillion. What numbers are you talking about, here?

Discretionary spending.

"Details of Boehner-White House two year budget deal"- bit.ly/1MUuTeC

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at October 28, 2015 04:54 PM (YjDyJ)

210
So much goodness in one little post.
"It's not just the AP's liberal bias; there are a lot of Republicans who are what I call Order-Obsessed Little Fucks -- jerky-eyed, panicky little low-T hysterics -- who just go to pieces at the idea that we don't have a "leader" or that there aren't Agreed Upon Rules we can all follow blindly."
Exactly. I had the same beef about Gay Marriage - The Crisis of Our Time. Unless the government (Big Daddy) tells us who is married and who is not, whatever will we do? There will be chaos! Dogs and cats sleeping together! Insurance claims unpaid! It's madness!

meh.

Posted by: George Orwell's Ghost at October 28, 2015 04:54 PM (dEwvU)

211 Don't know if it is true or not but then at this point what difference does it make?

Posted by: Daybrother expects general trouble at October 28, 2015 04:41 PM

Makes no difference. Ryan can screw things up all on his own, just like Boner did.

Maybe while he's at it, he can find a spot on his staff for Top-Drawer Political Consultant and Republican Thinker Supremo Wick Rilson, who -- according to Breitbart -- told MSNBC that the GOPe needs to find a way to "put a bullet in Trump's head."

That's the kind of crap I expect all the GOPe superstars to spew.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 28, 2015 04:55 PM (qiCMH)

212 Clubbing the baby seal.

Posted by: Fritz at October 28, 2015 04:56 PM (3tjn4)

213
"http://tinyurl.com/ou2n57e"

According to that link the police now have the blimp surrounded in a field in PA.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 28, 2015 04:50 PM (LA7Cm)

I'm gonna laugh when they start beating it with their nightsticks.....and the batons start rebounding back into cop faces.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 28, 2015 04:58 PM (FeQTe)

214 Paul Ryan.

Warmly endorsed by Barack Obama, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Luis Gutierrez, Chuck Schumer, and the amnesty hacks at the Chamber of Commerce.

What more really need be said?

Posted by: torquewrench at October 28, 2015 04:58 PM (noWW6)

215 According to that link the police now have the blimp surrounded in a field in PA.
---------
#FinsUpDon'tShoot! #BlimpLivesMatter!

Posted by: Old Blue at October 28, 2015 04:59 PM (9iR5/)

216 Posted by: torquewrench at October 28, 2015 04:58 PM (noWW6)

Yep.

Posted by: Golfman-Xenophobe Extrodinaire at October 28, 2015 05:00 PM (48QDY)

217 I hope this murder-blimp doesn't kill any babies, until after we get back from this hard-break.

Posted by: Shep Smith at October 28, 2015 05:02 PM (dciA+)

218 Damn, Blaster. That sucks. Hope a better job comes your way soon.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 28, 2015 05:04 PM (Lqy/e)

219 blaster,

Sorry to hear that. Hope something good comes from it for you.

Posted by: Blano at October 28, 2015 05:07 PM (1eYr7)

220 and stop slaughtering our dogs for Dog Oil, the fuel food of the future.

sheesh, can't you get anything right? It's like you're incompetent or something

Posted by: Barry O, Washington DC at October 28, 2015 05:07 PM (aELbO)

221 The language you use to describe even minor opponents these is Andrew Sullivan-type over-the-top, and not clever

Posted by: Cliff at October 28, 2015 05:28 PM (sMVBD)

222 A house without a Speaker! A king without a sword! A land without a king!

Posted by: kaf at October 28, 2015 05:33 PM (rd/bK)

223 I though Ryan needed the support of every Republican in the house or he wasn't going to accept the job. What gives?

Posted by: Dogbert at October 28, 2015 07:26 PM (XnQCK)

224 If I am counting correctly, Ryan doesn't become speaker at all with 200 votes unless the Democrats make him speaker.

Posted by: redbanzai at October 28, 2015 09:07 PM (NPofj)

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