The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve's Blog

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Lincoln: "I'll Filibuster A Public Option Bill" by Brian Beutler

2009-11-21T21:57:31Z

Oh for God's sake? Fascist? Opposing the public option makes you a fascist? It may make them a lot of things, and indeed Landrieu and Lincoln have caused me to unleash more than a few of the uglier words in my vocabulary lately, but fascist? That's like Beck reasoning.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Sen. Landrieu Remains Undecided On Eve Of Test Health Care Vote by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-21T00:21:06Z

Landrieu's an opportunistic idiot. We hate her and mock her for it. Palin's an opportunistic idiot. Republicans swoon and worship her for it.

Not really all that hard to explain.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Obama's Approval Goes Below 50% In Gallup Poll by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-21T00:18:03Z

You people sure are taking this calmly. No hysterics. No panic. toldjas or recrimination based on his failure to do exactly what you've been advadocating for months now. No urgent pleas for an immediate speech or some other magic trick.

Aren't any of you Democrats?

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Obama's Approval Goes Below 50% In Gallup Poll by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-21T00:15:40Z

Oh, come on, now, that one never gets old.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Obama's Approval Goes Below 50% In Gallup Poll by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-21T00:13:31Z

Great. Matthew Weaver is back.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on The Sunday Show Line-Ups by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-21T00:10:44Z

Thank God President McLiebergraham will appear on a Sunday show. The Republic simply cannot go a week without hearing from him.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Is Chuck Schumer Taking Temperature On Carper's Public Option Compromise? by Brian Beutler

2009-11-21T00:07:40Z

OMFG! The public option is dooooooomed! We're being sold out!!!!

Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! No, really. This time, there's really a wolf! Honest! Mary Landrieu says so and she's, well, okay, a complete blithering idiot, but still, she confirms that I was right all along so just this once I'll believe the pefidious fool.

Please.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T23:55:32Z

I think maybe you're confusing "our history" and "our recent history."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidents_and_control_of_congress

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T23:53:44Z

Da nada. Obviously, it made an impression on me.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/the_commenter_formerly_known_as_ncsteve/2009/10/a-little-halloween-appropriate.php

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T21:21:44Z

http://www.democracycorps.com/focus/2009/10/the-very-separate-world-of-conservative-republicans/

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Tea Partiers Plan Anti-Cloture Vote Rally In D.C. Tomorrow by Evan McMorris-Santoro

2009-11-20T21:11:02Z

Amazingly, Fox already has footage of the event.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Sen. Landrieu Remains Undecided On Eve Of Test Health Care Vote by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-20T21:10:00Z

Mary Landrieu. A rare example of a politician who thinks she's playing dumb for the rubes back home but is, in fact, as dumb as she thinks she's pretending to be.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T20:31:22Z

It's not growing. It's always been 26%. Cheney's lower approval rating says more about Cheney than the segment of the twenty-six percenters who didn't like him.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Nelson: Let's Debate This Health Care Bill by Brian Beutler

2009-11-20T20:27:49Z

That's it! We could get that guy who played the dad in ALF to do the role.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Nelson: Let's Debate This Health Care Bill by Brian Beutler

2009-11-20T20:25:17Z

Substitute "crackers back home" for "insurance companies" and you're about right.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T03:15:18Z

Or even disenchanted liberals, for that matter.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on How Many Americans are REAL Americans? Twenty Six Percent. by The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve

2009-11-20T03:14:10Z

But lest anyone get complacent, while we've been bickering among ourselves about the public option and abortion and the details of the subsidies, we've been losing the broader fight for public opinion to the Republicans.

And no, when you dig into the internals, its not liberals disenchanged because it doesn't achieve utopia with ponies and ice cream. It's independents and unengaged Democrats who are falling for the Republican crap about how much it will cost and how it will hurt them.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Poll: Blanche Lincoln Could Lose In 2010 If She Supports Health Care Bill by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-20T01:45:49Z

Not just Zogby, either. Zogby doing a poll commissioned by people whose agenda coincides with the results of a Zogby poll.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on GOP Claims Senate Bill Forces Taxpayers To Pay 'Abortion Fee' by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-19T21:55:45Z

It's not ironic. It's just how they roll.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on CBO Says Higher Premiums Under Senate Public Option, 'Opt-Out' Clause Would Impact One-Third Of Consumers by Brian Beutler

2009-11-19T20:59:10Z

Guy by the name of Harry Turtledove who used to teach history at UCLA did a pretty amazing series of "if the South had won" books that actually made a pretty compelling case for an dark alternative. Let's just say when you add a Confederacy that's beholden to Britain and France to a rump U.S. that's been humiliated and looking for allies and extrapolate a half century out to 1914, things start looking kind of ugly.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on GOP Claims Senate Bill Forces Taxpayers To Pay 'Abortion Fee' by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-19T20:19:35Z

I just had this great idea for a Constitutional amendment. Whenever someone is elected to Congress, they should be issued with an unfirable civil service employee whose sole job is to follow the Congressperson around and publicly bitchslap him whenever he tells a truly egregious, flat out lie.

If I had time, I'd draft it up in Constitutionalese.

Of course, getting 2/3 of Congress to approve it might be a bit tricky . . .

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Hatch: Get Ready For 'Holy War' On Health Reform by Darius Tahir

2009-11-19T20:00:22Z

So how's the weather there in Republican Alternate Universe World, anyway? Can you just wish great weather into existence like all the other facts there, or has ACORN's diabolical plot to make it rain 24/7 ruined it for y'all?

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Hatch: Get Ready For 'Holy War' On Health Reform by Darius Tahir

2009-11-19T19:56:02Z

Ooohhhh, can Vitter get in on some of that action? He's got cash.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It! by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-19T19:09:25Z

And, by the most amazing coincidence, the same percentage thought they were doing a dandy job right up to the bitter end think S.P.E.C.T.R.E. stole the election for Obama.

Oops, sorry. I mean ACORN, of course. Not that there's a difference.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Report: Rudy Won't Run For Governor Of New York by Eric Kleefeld

2009-11-19T19:04:16Z

He's foregoing the race for governor of New York and, instead, has decided to throw his hat into the ring in the race for governor of 9/11.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Will Concessions, And A Trim CBO Score, Appease Conservative Democrats On Health Care? by Brian Beutler

2009-11-19T17:06:09Z

i still simply cannot fathom the continuing abuse victim mentality among the red state Democrats that if only they will vote correctly, the Republicans won't beat them up them next election.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Can States Opt Out Of The Public Option Immediately? by Brian Beutler

2009-11-19T16:41:05Z

Same people who are there now. The ones who are too poor to leave. (Hey, I'm a southerner so I get to talk smack about 'em.)

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on WH's Axelrod Says Obama Wasn't Expecting 'Immediate Gratification' From Asia Trip by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-19T16:37:49Z

What's your point? This post is about the Beltway MSM, not people connected to reality.

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve Commented on Clearing The Way: Sen. Bayh Says He'll Bring Health Care Bill To Floor by Christina Bellantoni

2009-11-19T16:34:23Z

Landrieu's the one we need to watch. Last I heard, she was still talking filibuster and, so far, I haven't heard anything to the contary. Some days, I loathe her worse than the rest, Lieberman included. Just because she's a rare example of a person who thinks she's putting on a dumb act for the rubes back home but is, in fact, as dumb as she thinks she's pretending to be.