Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

If you're in the States and near a tv, they're about to read the Constitution on the floor of Congress because the Tea Party. The NYT says this was THE REPUBLICANS' IDEA.


Be careful what you wish for or reap the whirlwind motherfuckers or both?


Oh, wait. I just realized that I misread the sane members of the Republican Party being all "oh god, do you even know what's in here, y'all?" to the Tea Partiers. No. This is just more bullshittery. I like my way better, so let's play pretend.


I might have started a spy AU Inception fic just now. I have to decide if I'm going to commit to a full AU here (oh god, who am I kidding, it was a full AU from the minute I hit wikipedia).

To tide you over, I decided that Arthur wrote this wiki page and he and Eames get into editing wars on it.


I have so many tabs open I'm slowing down your connection from here.



Ok, most excellent political reality tv about to start. WHEEEEEEEEEEE.


eta: watching cspan is always such a horrible idea for me. After orchistrating this dog and pony show, Boehner skedaddled off the House floor to give a press conference about how the House is going to repeal Obamacare (tell me that term isn't the worst kind of doublespeak propaganda). So, the reading of the Constitution to open the new session was oh so important to set the tone for this new Congress, but not so much that THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE sticks around for it.

Watching these guys is like a preview of my own personal Hell. All we need is 70's cockrock blaring in the backroom and a baby crying somewhere nearby.

eta2: REP VIRGINIA FOXX R NORTH CAROLINA, YOU ARE ON THE REVOLUTIONARY HITLIST. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

One last thing: fix the budget crisis yourself. A lot of the options are over simplified/not explicated enough to make an educated decision, but who needs an education, this is just CONGRESS.

Hey, new people lulled into a false sense of comfort by my Tom Hardy posts: I'm actually a stridently political yahoo who sometimes blows (oh dear...I did that to myself).


So today I was watching cspan to view this whole ~Constitution reading and I look at the menu and realize on the infinitely nerdier cspan2 they were airing the actual committee meetings of the Rules Committee wherein the Republicans basically came out and said "we hate poor people" while the Democrats ineffectually waved photos of children with cancer and wept into their sleeves moaning "have you no heart, sir, have you no heart?"

But anyway. The big event for me was this:

One of the Democrats was trying to explain how insurance works to the Republicans on the committee (this had been going on a couple hours) to no avail because the people on the dais were more concerned with delivering longwinded lectures on how Obamacare was socialism (let's not talk about Medicare and how socialism is actually kind of great) when out of the blue--

My new most hated Republican member of Congress Rep Foxx SUDDENLY CALLS AN ADJOURNMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE DEMOCRATS SPEAKING.

Democrat: Can I ask Ms Chairman how long this adjournment will be?
The Devil: No.
Another Democrat off screen: YOU MUST BE KIDDING!
Democrat: Can I clarify how when we can expect to be recalled?
The Devil: No, I don't know.

THEN SHE JUST STANDS UP AND IT'S ALL OVER.

So everyone mills around the room awhile, the Congressmen who were there to testify/sleeve cry are lemon-faced, but no one's saying anything because the damned cspan cameras are all up in that bitch.

[LATER]

Cspan voiceover: It seems that that Congressman Sessions [the chairman of this committee] didn't attend the swearing in ceremony for this Congress yesterday and there were parliamentary questions of whether any of the hearings today are legal due to the fact he's not actually a sitting member of Congress. Technically.

Y'all. Y'all. He just didn't even bother to show up to TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE, and was all PUHSHAH, let's get this healthcare reform shit repealed, damn!



I watched this with my own eyes. Welcome to 2011, America, we'll all enjoy the end together.


[Sidebar, Liz just reminded me: when I was reading the Constitution today I realized they never took the Letter of Marque bit out. I plan to apply to my Congressman (John Boehner) for one and become a pirate. I feel like he'd be down with that (pirates hate taxes and healthcare). Want to be a pirate with me?]