Dec
2nd
Wed
2nd
We have nothing to fear from love and commitment.
— Senator Diane Savino during the NYS Senate floor debate of the marriage equality bill up for vote today.
Nov
30th
Mon
30th
Nov
10th
Tue
10th
soupsoup:generic1:Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment
One of Congress’s foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the controversial “bible-thumper’s” amendment would pass over her dead body. Clutching her chairman’s gavel like an avenging valkyrie, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.
Boxer stated that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and that those 60 would be found in the Democrat-controlled Senate when hell itself freezes over. Boxer’s reading of the political landscape might seem like the hopeful spin of an left-coast Marin bra-burner. But it was seconded by a far less pro-choice lawmaker, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)
“She’s right about the hell freezing over thing,” sad the almost-Republican of an amendment which mirrored that offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in the House. “I doubt it could pass.”
“We had a deal,” Boxer said. “We had a goddamn deal. When we sat down to do health care, I thought there was an understanding that we would be abortion-neutral. In other words we wouldn’t change anything on abortion; that federal funds couldn’t be used but of course private funds could as long as this was legal. Roe v. Wade is the law of the land. These trifling assholes should face that fact.”
“Holla,” remarked Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), Boxer’s senate colleague in the California congressional delegation. “This is a pro-choice country. Deal.”
Thank you, Barbara Boxer! Regardless of whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, abortion is a legal medical procedure in this country and I’m glad to finally hear a member of Congress acknowledge that.
Nov
9th
Mon
9th
The first time I saw this on TV, I almost fell out of my chair. I assume this is targeted toward fat people. If you’re too fat to wipe your own ass, there are some serious problems. Do we really have that many people who are that fat?
Nov
6th
Fri
6th
Um, wow.
Oct
28th
Wed
28th
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Vince and Larry have had enough of this shit.
Oct
22nd
Thu
22nd
Sen. Al Franken: How many bankruptcies because of medical crises were there last year in Switzerland?
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number in front of me but I can find out and get back to you.
Sen. Al Franken: It’s zero.
[silence]
Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many medical bankruptcies there were last year in France?
Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number but I can get back to you if you’d like.
Sen. Al Franken: Yeah, the number is zero.
[silence]
Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many were in Germany?
Diana Furchtgott-Roth: From the trend of your questions, I’m assuming the answer is zero, but I don’t know the precise amount.
Sen. Al Franken: Oh, you’re very good, very fast.
Oct
19th
Mon
19th
I don’t have Scott Gomez’s picture up at my house, staring at it while I eat dinner, working up enough psychotic energy to go slash him in the throat. That’s not the case.
Sep
29th
Tue
29th
I was visiting South Korea. There were always good relations and nice dialogue. But there was a Korean foreign minister who thought he was not on the record and was having some fun, and said that he loves it when Secretary Albright would come to Seoul because we had a nice relationship and we were about the same age, but he was like an old man and I was so vigorous and besides when he gave me a hug I had very firm breasts. All of a sudden there was this outcry over this and there were questions about whether would he have to resign for saying that. So they asked me what I thought, and I said, “Well, I’ve got to have somewhere to put those pins.
Sep
21st
Mon
21st
He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin’s late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. The Russian president was staying at Blair House, the government guest quarters. Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.
The next night, Yeltsin eluded security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement. A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and U.S. agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.
— USA Today article on secret interviews of Bill Clinton during his presidency (via USATODAY.com) (via skidder, soupsoup) (via caro)
