Brilliant, just brilliant. Say hello to President Palin.

These idiots couldn't sell water in the desert. And if they waste their coming time in the wilderness as completely as they did after 1994, this time the party may not live to capitulate another day.

And . . .

Wow, just Wow.

We are sooooooooo screwed as a country. The Federal Government is becoming like California, completely ungovernable.

Time for a Constitutional Convention. Let's throw this whole monstrosity overboard and get a lean and mean government designed for the 21st Century. This is a complete and utter joke. Massive majorities in both houses and the dems have accomplished squat. The economy is completely tanking and they are fiddling while the country goes down the tubes.

Let's join the teabaggers and start a call for a Constitutional Convention to take our country back.

This party is utterly beyond hope. They deserve to get slaughtered. The problem is that we, the cities, don't deserve the result of that slaughter.

'Mathematically impossible.' I can't even formulate a response to that.

Has anyone told the Constitution or Joe Biden that it is mathematically impossible? From what I read the number is 50 plus the vice president.

This is actually hilarious, in a sick, disgusting sort of way. I mean it.

We understand that there is great anger, anxiety and frustration among voters as the economy continues its recovery. That is why Senate Democrats will continue to do everything that we can to strengthen our economy, put Americans back to work, reform Wall Street and address the health care crisis.

This was said after this:

· It is mathematically impossible for Democrats to pass legislation on our own.

Did someone proofread this?

And I predict that this is going to have a much staying power as the mythical "malaise speech", "Al Gore claims he invented the Internet" and "I can see Russia from my house".

What a total fuck-up.

"Mathematically fucking impossible?"

These assholes have an 18-vote majority!

God, what a bunch of useless bastards.

You know what's going to be really funny, in a slit-your-wrists-and-kill-your-dog sorta way? Next time the Repugs have a 1-vote majority in the Senate they're going to do away with the current filibuster rule. Sixty votes? What sixty votes?

Please, Republicans, we need you to help us pass the legislation that you've been blocking for the past year.

I would also like to ask all of the rapists out there, convicted or otherwise, to please step forward and offer your services as parking ramp escorts.

If any serial killers are looking for steady employment, there's a shortage of nurses and other caregivers. We really need your help.

Attention Democratic Party: Shut the fuck up.

Howard Dean is sorely missed.

The task of getting health care reform passed was entrusted to the Democratic Party. Control of the Democratic Party has been entrusted to blithering idiots. Yeah, we're screwed.

Yes, it is mathematically impossible to pass legislation with a 58-seat majority. Give me a fucking break.

Reading the talking points, is the perfect exhibit of why the Democrats are failing miserably. They are too busy thinking of excuses of why nothing was done and not busy enough thinking about how to get things done. Bi-partisanship is a myth that only exists when Republicans are out of power but yet like moths to a flame, Democrats believe that it can be achieved and ultimately get burned for it. Hence the pendulum of power switches back to the fear mongering, liars and thus we sit in another 30 years of conservative hegemony until they bring the nation once again to the brink of financial destruction.

The Dems are no different than the Repubs. They're all whores in a special interest brothel called DC.

Shorter Dem talking points:
The Republicans are in charge, even though they voters indicated they did not want them to be.
When the country votes Republicans into office, Republicans are in charge.
When the country votes Democrats into office, Republicans are still in charge.
Got it.

Absolutely pathetic.
and they wonder aloud how they blew Massachusetts.

I believe that I just heard Harry Reid say, "Massachusetts doesn't really change anything. If we had 100 votes, it wouldn't be enough."

Stopping By The Hood on a Revolutionary Evening

Whose people these are I think I know.
Their money is in the system though;
They will not see me cashing out
To watch their freedoms blown up like snow.

My little people must think it queer
To cash out with no vision near
Between the rock and frozen place
The blackest Tuesday of the year.

He gives his cable clowns a shake
To engender more off point debate.
The only other sound's the peep
Of easy wind for drowsey sheep.

The President's lovely, dark and deep.
And he had promises to keep,
And miles to go in dream-filled sleep,
And miles to go in dream-filled sleep.

WOW!! So Reid and company are going to let Scott Brown's clarion call that he will be the 41st vote to "Kill the health reform Bill" become a reality!!!! How typical of them!!! These mealy-mouthed ninnies, these weak-kneed S.O.B.s We wanted Progressive change, and all we got was more of the same......
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/20/evan-bayh-calls-for-a-ret_n_429699.html

You keep using that word mathematically... I do not think it means what you think it means.

They are not screwed at all. We are all going to enjoy screwdrivers!

Bluebell would like to take this opportunity to congratulate herself for preemptively turning in green in anticpation of this fiasco. We have a two party system: Lunatics and Nincompoops. Time for a new party!

Just yesterday there was a revealing interview on NPR where several White House "sources" were anonymously quoted as saying that a war has been going on and escalating in the white house over exactly what we have been chewing on....and they were saying in no uncertain terms that this year Obama was going to be taking the gloves off, not listening to Rahm, Giethner and Summers and getting back to his vision. Obama is really really really pissed off and now after after this Massachusetts nonsense, he is beside himself, livid and showing an angry side around the white house that no one has seen. So, after being given an impossible set of problems his first year, now he has to dig himself out of a hole his advisors put him in...my sense is that he is learning some hard lessons and will emerge from all this with a new set of balls which will turn him into a potentially even greater figure than he already is

It's one thing to lose an election. It's another to make total fools of themselves. I mean why don't they just get the Democratic majority together and they can all agree to give themselves a vote of No Confidence and turn the Congress over to the Republicans.

If the Democratic message is: "We can't do anything without the help of Republicans."

And the Republican message is: "We're not going to do anything to help the Democrats."

The only logical conclusion for voters is that nothing is ever going to get done until the Republicans take back the government.

Democrats are effectively telling voters they made a mistake. That they are too weak, leaderless, and disorganized to govern, even with the presidency and substantial majorities in both houses in Congress.

Sure, Republicans are able to push through legislation and run roughshod over Democrats. They can use reconciliation to bust the filibuster. But Democrats don't operate that way. We are the party of Koom by ya:

Altogether now,

Someone's laughing, Lord (probably Dick Cheney), kum bay ya;
Someone's laughing, Lord (or maybe Karl Rove), kum bay ya;
Someone's laughing, Lord (Wall Street for sure), kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

Hear me crying, Lord (cause I'll never get health care now), kum bay ya;
Hear me crying (and we're still getting kicked out of our houses), Lord, kum bay ya;
Hear me crying, Lord (and now we have another endless war in Afghanistan to fight), kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.

I appreciate that Obama has a philosophical respect for the notion of three independent branches of government, and has been hanging back to make room for Congress to stand up and fulfill its Constitutional role.

But this year-long experiment has proven that the Dems in Congress (yes, Mr. Reid, I'm talking about you) can't. Can't anything. Can't form a good-faith bipartisan summer committee to work things out, can't respond to phony "teabagger" rallies, can't bargain from strength, can't count to 51.

So... time to put philosophy on hold and put your shoulder to the wheel, Mr. President, and march through a decent, albeit small, health care reform.

No discrimination against pre-existing conditions, no being allowed to charge people triple if they DO have a pre-existing condition, no discrimination against people with obesity or high blood pressure (The "Safeway Amendment"). Extend Medicare down to age 42 (the bright line used in the Age Discrimination Act) and fix Medicare's lousy drug coverage. NO mandate. NO subsidies for insurance companies, even if they're disguised as subsidies for citizens being forced to buy private insurance.

That's not much to ask, just some steps away from discrimination and towards universal coverage. Also, dumping the mandate takes away the corporate welfare for insurance companies which they CERTAINLY do not need.

Have you guys noticed that a hardcore conservative Republican seems to be more likely doing very well on the big stage, while a hardcore progressive Democrat is even less likely to be elected.

How strange.

This is just ridiculous. Republicans NEVER numbered more than 55 members in the Senate under Dubya. Yet, they passed every piece of legislation they wanted with almost no opposition.

The Senate Democrats worship the fillibuster above all other things. This is the root of the current mess. This worshipping of a simple parlimentary rule is either an excuse for their weakness, timidity and failure to lead or an example of their inate inability to exert the power that the electorate has given them.

Either way it's a disgrace.

Yawn, the republicans must be cowering in their boots. Dont the democrats know scare tatics only work on them

you have still have a 18 seat majority. thats great math

I also believe that the Democrats keep losing because the majority of Americans are stupid and right-wing, not really really smart like me.

It is regrettable, but I fear that Obama who, let us not forget has ended both wars, established Medicare for all, closed Guantanomo, restored civil liberties and taken Wall Street to the woodshed -- is just too progressive for America.