Here, here! I heartily concur. I hate it when people make assumptions too.
Ummm. Could you run that bit about making ass-umptions by me again Airs?
In that case, they are exceedingly nice for Republicans, considering just how much the Republicans typically demonize liberals. I’m not a terrorist, a totalitarian, a mass murderer, nor the Antichrist.
I’m the Antichrist.
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Okay, I’m not.
I’m thinking Elvisl1ves nailed it in one Airs. But keep up with the vehement contradictions and emphatic denials.
Not only entertaining but they make you seem almost believable in a psychopathic sort of way…You know, like when Tea’ed Cruz talks about how much he loves “his” country. Can we hang you up from the ceiling to be our many faceted glittering ball?
I don’t see any good reason not to be generous and understanding to a recovering Steelers fan. And if a man wants to deny being a Republican…well, at worst its an admirable taste in dissemblance! Hell, if I actually were a puppy-molester I damn sure would deny it!
Need another beer, there, Dave? PBR, right?
Shut the fuck up, buddy. You are a totalitarian - you just don’t realize it. If you ran the state, you would round up everybody who disagrees with you and have them shot for being “evil”. You are a fucking cartoon.
I’m Spartac-- the Antichrist!
I knew a Thelma Lou who might well have been the AntiChrist. Lost my religion in a hurry. Not likely to be the same, though. She was from Texas.
That’s a euphemism for “piñata,” BTW.
Just watched Barry’s speech of reconciliation and bi-partisan comity, and not a bit of snark detected. Shit, if it were Horndog Bill, you know he would have snuck in at least a spoonful of gloat!
I swear, we elected a Vulcan.
And now the House Republicans are mad that he spoke before they held their vote. Saying “it’s a respect issue”. There’s your gloat I guess. Or maybe more of a ‘spiking the football’ kind of thing. 
Oh dear. It seems that you never received your special DNC spectacles. He was laughing on the inside. 
A standard accusation made against both liberals and atheists. A case of psychological projection, in my opinion.
I don’t get this “throw all the bums out” sentiment. Assuming it’s in good faith, and assuming that your representative (or senator) had a (D) behind his name, would you have wanted him/her to appease the Tea Party and their demands? Is your analysis that the harm suffered by the public in the interim warranted giving in to the condoning of the Tea Party’s use of the debt ceiling in this manner? Or do you think that a default (or major contraction in government spending) would have little effect, since the interim effects of the shutdown appear to have been somewhat contained and certainly of no worldwide effect?
I’ve heard this “throw all the bums out” line a few times over many situations, and I can’t understand it.
The Republicans are mad? Holy shit, now I’ve heard it all. It’s not like we’re talking about a bunch of crybabies who complaint about everything here.
Its the bastard child of false equivalence, they’re all the same, the guy who votes to prevent disaster is just the same as the guy who doesn’t. My own Rep is the Lutheran Muslim guy, the hotdish jihadi. He’ll do.
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OK, the House has voted, the fat lady has sung. Anybody still all glum and sober, its your own damn fault!
So that stuff about the debt ceiling raising automatically and needing a vote to stop was in?
That hasn’t been clarified, best I can tell. Seems like too much to hope for. Though I can see it as something the money Republicans would want, if only because the Mammonite Church hates uncertainty. Screws up the spreadsheets.
But force the Insane Clown Posse to forego leverage? Not sure I can buy that without it being hammered in.
ETA: not that I doubt the sincerity of posters who say it is so, only that I am a pessimist, and am therefore seldom wrong.