Supernatural – Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid Promo
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They can’t stop the signal: Shuttle crew wakes with Firefly theme song…
How totally totally kewl. Have I mentioned that I miss Firefly this week? I miss Firefly. h/t SciFiWire
According to the NASA Twitter feed:
@NASA Shuttle crew awoke @4:14pET to theme song from “Firefly.” The Ballad of Serenity, performed by Sonny Rhodes, was played for Bob Behnken.
Did someone say Nathan Fillion?
Reid strips bipartisan ‘jobs bill’, cuts Unemployment and COBRA extensions from bill…
Smooth move Harry. I am sure the unemployed people and folks who need the COBRA subsidy will appreciate your newfound ‘toughness’ on spending. Especially since you found your cojones against members of your own party on an actual bipartisan bill.
Whadda maroon.
FDL! while complimenting Harry, notes he tossed the UE and COBRA extension:
...Reid set aside the social safety net spending, extending unemployment benefits and the COBRA subsidy, into a separate bill. That would net another $25 billion. Reid has promised to take that up later in February, after the Senate recess….
Politico notes that Reid pulled the rug from under the WH’s big bipartisan jobs bill announcement (headline calls WH ‘stunned’) and pixxed off his caucus at the same time:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid led colleagues and the White House to believe he supported a bipartisan jobs bill — only to scuttle the plan as soon as it was released Thursday over concerns it could be used to batter Democratic incumbents, according to Senate sources.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) worked for weeks with Reid’s blessing and frequent involvement to craft an $85 billion jobs bill, a measure that seemed destined to break the partisan logjam that has ground the Senate to a halt.
But as Baucus, Grassley and President Barack Obama were preparing to celebrate a rare moment of bipartisan Kumbaya on Thursday, Reid stunned a meeting of Senate Democrats by announcing he was scrapping Baucus-Grassley, replacing it with a much cheaper, more narrowly crafted, $15 billion version.
Sounds like members of the Dem caucus were pretty pixxed too:
…But people who were in the room painted a somewhat different picture, saying Reid’s proposal was met with a mixture of confusion and outrage from senators upset about having their pet projects redacted – even after Reid promised to include their proposals in subsequent jobs bills.
… And Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin argued passionately that, if lawmakers plan to extend corporate tax breaks, they should also extend employment insurance. “[Reid's] trying to keep it simple,” Harkin said emerging from the meeting, “but what I think ought to be in the package is unemployment insurance for one year.”..
Big Dawg recovering from cardiac stent placement
Update 2: The Big Dawg looked and sounded great in a clip post release. WSJ. Said he could feel the energy when the artery was cleared post stent. I miss the Big Dawg. Nothing new,. What is new is Dubyah makes me get a fond smile now. Yep. Some sort of karma that ultimately Obama’s series of failures will do much to revitalize the positive view of the POTUSship of WJC which Obama tried to rip to shreds during his campaign.
Even now Obama cannot bring himself to say that PAYGO led to a surplus and balanced budget during the ‘Clinton Administration. At his improptu presser this week, he said, ‘during the 90s’. And Reid referred to Teh One as ‘Obama’ during his presser announcing he slashed the jobs bill. That is the first time I have seen Harry refer to him as anything but ‘President’ Obama. A little thing but indicative of how far off the rose that bloom has gone..
Moderate Dems rule and neoprogs drool!
Update: Big Dawg released and seems in good spirits.
Bloomberg: Obama open to cutting Social Security, hiking taxes on middle class
Well there it is as predicted. h/t AceHQ
President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
As I have been saying since 2007, Obama is the ‘Democrat’ selected to cut Social Security and tax the middle class into oblivion. All the Obots who dedicated webpages to my comments in this regard can cram it like the taxes and benefit cuts we are about to get…frakkers…
…“What I can’t do is to set the thing up where a whole bunch of things are off the table,” Obama said. “Some would say we can’t look at entitlements. There are going to be some that say we can’t look at taxes, and pretty soon, you just can’t solve the problem.”…
Yeah! if you said no taxes on the middle class and no Social Security benefit cuts for the middle class then ‘Pretty soon’ you would sound like a free market, moderate Democrat and we can’t have that can we? Thanks again to the cabal of dunces in the Dem leadership who selected Obama, good luck getting a majority ever, ever, ever, ever again.
If this fool would let the economy GROW we would get out of this hole. Big Dawg cut taxes and GREW revenue!!!! When he increased taxes we were not in a recession, no one in their right mind would do that. Even in his ‘left’ mind Big Dawg didnt do that. My Gawd are these Obama people blinded by their determination to be the anti-Clinton anti-Bush or what?!
Glenn at Instapundit snags one of the hundreds of times Obama lied like a rug on video for us:
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