After Which, the Store Will Be Ceremonially Closed When a Home Depot Opens at the Edge of Town
“House Republicans just released a draft of their legislative agenda for the next Congress, a 21-page ‘Pledge to America’ that they will formally unveil Thursday morning at a Virginia hardware store.” [CBS, via Political Wire]
I hope they’ll be having a special on DDT, chlordane and dieldrin-based pesticides in honor of the their godfather bugman Tom Delay.
21 pages? That’s about 20 and 9/10 pages too long for the base. Anything that won’t fit on a bumper sticker is too wordy for the 15-20% that wants GWB back in the White House and Tom DeLay in the House.
Such a creative title.
@Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz, Tommmcatt A Relief He Is!: But will it be lemon-scented, or just a lemon?
@Dave H:
The document is in 80 pt font.
Sterling? That’s not part of Real Virginia! Figures that they would half-ass it.
@Plop-Plop, Fizz-Fizz, Tommmcatt A Relief He Is!: Sounds like a wimpier version of the Contract with America.
Breaking a contract has legal consequences. Breaking a pledge does not.
@mellbell: Sterling is getting towards yuckapuck territory – right on the edge of N. Virginia and Confederate Land.
@blogenfreude: A modern day border state, if you will.
@mellbell: Are there headless rednecks?
@TJ/ Jamie Sommers /TJ: Well, uh, Mr., uh, Senator, let’s get the immigrants on stage here, let’s see where they want to sit.
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 @JNOV: Does blockquote no longer work?Huh. Guess not.
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JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 My mood courtesy of Rhiannon Giddens: https://youtu.be/M7PvWw97Cq0
JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 A man who has his family and lackeys deeply embedded in every facet of our government is trying to…
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JNOV • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! WHAT. THE FUCK?!!?!
NOJO • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 @ManchuCandidate: Summer definitely disappeared.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 BTW, has your favorite fundies gone to Ratpure?