Republicans disrupt House

Screaming, shouting, pantswetting Republicans doing their damnedest to disrupt the healthcare debate this morning.

And, in a last minute effort to swing votes for the anti-abortion crowd, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has just weighed in on healthcare reform.

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Not fame I had sought out but it appears I’m being credited with having coined a new word. Scozzafavaed. Not the first word I’ve invented as the name of this blog would suggest.

Google blog search says I said it first, but the important thing is that people continue to use Scozzafavaed to describe the batshit insane civil war raging within the Republican party.

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A new nickname for Michele Bachmann has wormed its way out of the Republican caucus and has found its way to The Raw Story: Captain Crazy.

More on the Party of No and efforts to spin the Fort Hood shootings.

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Wolcott on Doug Hoffman and Sarah Palin.

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Teabaggers force NRSC into a neutral corner as the base rocks the GOoPers’ world. David Dayen comments:

If this were happening in the Democratic Party, I would praise it, so let me briefly do the same here. People on the ground should decide who they want to be their nominee, not Senators playing favorites from back in Washington. Committees like this should respect their base and allow them to pick the candidates, and primaries are generally healthy events for parties. I certainly wish Rahm Emanuel heeded this.

Ditto the A-listers who think they have the right to raise money and influence primary and caucus races.

And just what the fuck ever happened to campaign finance reform?

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Phoenix = Birmingham?

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Robert Parry on the two times in my lifetime when Republican operatives scuttled U.S. foreign diplomacy to achieve domestic electoral results.

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Pricetag for the $2.4 billion unemployment benefits extension? Try $24 billion.

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The death of newspapers, cont.

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EtC:

Obama’s evil empire?

The poetry of Helen Thomas

Mexico’s drug war

Deconstructing The Weekly Standard

Alexander Cockburn with a blistering take on America’s weight problem

Obama’s court appointments not white enough

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You don’t care but my world just got a whole lot better. The railroad construction on Raymond Avenue is finally finished. The truck backup beepers going off all week made it clear they were packing up and leaving but I didn’t expect the street to be re-opened before rush hour last night, a full four days ahead of schedule.

I can now vote by walking two blocks instead of driving two miles.

Best of all, the three-story piledriver that drove me nuts last spring never came back.

And Iowa’s scozzafazaing Northwestern 10-7 early in the second quarter.

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Tags: Obama, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, piledriver, teabaggers, politics of infantilization, Scozzafazaed, Captain Crazy, Helen Thomas

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