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 • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: I have birthright citizenship in Cascadia, so I think I’m good.
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Only the sane parts... like the West coast, New England (minus the Bruins and…
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @ManchuCandidate: So, can you guys annex us now?
MANCHUCANDIDATE • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! PP is done. 51st state, my ass.
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: No, but my government was.
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @nojo: Were you kidnapped?
NOJO • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! @FlyingChainSaw: I’ve spent the past five weeks looking like Astronaut Dave going through the…
FLYINGCHAINSAW • TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS - AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! NOJO - HOW COME WE'RE NOT COVERING KRASNOV?
NOJO • The Reckoning Four years later: Uhhh, how’d that work out?
JNOV • Hanging by a Thread @nojo: yeah. I had a feeling you’d say that.