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Here is New York Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner on the House floor, yelling and pointing. Haha, he cares about his country and likes calling Republicans on their bullshit sometimes. Yeah, that is probably not going to work, but it is entertaining! The bill in question would have provided $7.4 billion in heath care benefits to [...]
WCBS in New York City reported this afternoon that Rep. Charlie Rangel has cut a deal to avoid going to trial on various charges of ethics violations. So did he? Charlie Rangel doesn’t know. “I don’t know. I’ll tell you one thing, until someone tells me that there is, there isn’t,” he said. Yes, that [...]
If, like confused old ass-clown Richard Cohen at the Washington Post, you’ve never heard of the “WikiLeaks” or the “Internet,” this year’s biggest news story maybe didn’t really hit home. And if there’s a natural constituency of confused old ass-clowns outside the Washington Post‘s op-ed page, it’s the U.S. Capitol. That’s why the House decided [...]
Wait, is Luke Russert still hanging around the Capitol dressed in his suit? Isn’t “bring your kids to work day” over? Well, Charlie Rangel is sick and tired of being harassed by our nation’s unemployed youth. That’s why Congressman Rangel wrote this great new law to scoop up all the shiftless young Americans and put [...]
As we reported a couple weeks back in a liveblog none of you read, South Carolina Congressman Bob Inglis lost badly in his Republican primary. Now we know why. “Leading up to the election, he frequently challenged voters who questioned the president’s citizenship or patriotism. At one town hall meeting, he was jeered for saying [...]
Congressman Charles Rangel is facing ethics probing and a challenger in the Democratic primary for his long-held seat in New York, but don’t worry about it, because there’s nothing voters love more than ethics violations. “My community [has supported me] beyond my expectations, not that I don’t have enough ego to get by,” Rangel said [...]
Finally, the award category you’ve all drooled for, longed for, the way a beaten child longs for the police to finally show up and kill mommy & daddy with the Long Guns: the 2010 Weeping Eagle for Worst Human (?) in the House or Senate. How to define “worst,” when talking about a group of [...]
A “beat sweetener” is when a reporter flatters a loathsome official, in hopes that the newsmaker’s press person will send news releases a few minutes before that same statement goes out to the entire media world — and that’s how a political journalist Wins the Morning. Today’s beat sweetener is about Congresslady Debbie Wasserman Schultz, [...]
OKAY NOW THE ACTION IS HAPPENING. Tony Hayward just took his Oath of Grillin’ and some lady is cold going nuts, yelling and screaming, oil all over her head, five or six Capitol police dragging her out. Tony just sitting there, trying not to look behind him. Oh jesus what a circus, welcome to America! [...]
Representatives Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn) and Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) finally found cross-party cooperation in the supple mouths of these goats. It was a dumb stunt to promote …. eh, who cares? Both men got off and then the goats were slaughtered in a VooDoo Ritual, the end. Just kidding! One of the goats actually attacked Weiner [...]
Well, this will go down in Liveblogging History as “the night we shouldn’t have bothered,” but what the hell, let’s wrap it up. This liveblog will continue until ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED, or when we go to bed, whichever comes first. Meanwhile: Is Lost Island all a hologram? Only Jim Newell knows for sure. [...]
