There Must Be 57 Tits Up There!

Note to self: The server’s living five minutes in the past…

But first, another ten-minute CNN intro…

Where’s the tiger act? I paid for a tiger act!

The “Phantom of Las Vegas” sings the national anthem. This… is America.

Crazy Eyes looks lovely in her white Sgt. Pepper uniform.

And 999 goes into the weeds over whether it’s a value-added tax…

Deranger Rick to Herman Cain!: “I’ll bump plans with you, brother.”

@nojo: Awkward.

Ron Paul: “It is a regressive tax.”

That’s at least two references to po’ folk.

Oh, by the way, 999 is in addition to state sales taxes.

Not that it makes any difference. But everybody’s going after Herman Cain! because he’s tonight’s target.

Anderson: “47 percent of Americans who currently don’t pay taxes.”

Um, Coop? That’s federal income taxes. Thank you for buying into the egregiously misleading GOP talking point.

I wasted an hour and a quarter in a worthless meeting. Surfing over now.

Frothy Mix: Europeans have better “income mobility” (i.e, poor to not-poor) than Americans. This after he dissed Europe for not making enough babies.

Santorum spewing over Mitt. Now, boys.

@Dodgerblue: Soundbite #1. Needs a backbeat.

Frothy Mix: Mittens expanded healthcare “without controlling costs.”

There’s a very Democratic undertone to tonight’s debate. Folks are saying that Occupy Wall Street is changing the conversation. If so, I’ll given them full credit.

@nojo: Mitt is playing defense. The whining defense, to be specific. “I may not be a doctor” but I am a douchebag.

Mitt admits that the Individual Mandate is a product of the Heritage Foundation. There’s a lot slipping out tonight…

@Dodgerblue: Everybody’s playing defense tonight. Except Cain.

Example: They’re attacking 999 from the left, although they won’t frame it as such. It’s all nuanced, but it’s fascinating.

Note to Herman Cain!: We have market-driven healthcare. That’s the problem.

Deranger Rick goes after Mittens for “hiring Illegals in your home.”

And: Cue Crosstalk #2!

Mittens: “This has been a tough couple of debates for Rick.”

Must be primaries coming up soon…

@nojo: Perry is attacking Mitts for hiring an illegal and won’t shut up. Fun.

Mittens: California (hi!) has had no increase in illegal immigration, but Texas has gone up 60 percent.

Deranger Rick: Still pressing on Mitt’s groundskeepers or something.

@nojo: Groundskeepers? Yeah, we all have that.

@Dodgerblue: Mittens would sound more authoritative if he would slow the fuck down. The defensiveness is a consequence of his chattering.

@Dodgerblue: Ah. Mittens hired a company that hires Illegals. So does my landlord.

Deranger Rick: By the way, building a border fence takes fifteen years.

Once again, Reality intrudes.

@nojo: What is “strategic fencing”? To keep riffraff off Mitt’s lawn?

Dinner and two beers with friends, so I’m late to the show. Headline on CNN dot com is “Gang Bang on Cain” with a snapshot of Perry.

go to live feed

Calling him “Herman” is a whole lot like Rick saying “Boy”. Just sayin’.

Eva “Michelle” Peron – what’s the R factor on that double walled fence you propose to build?

Michelle brings the crazy, stops just short of saying that Obama is a Kenyan.

Deranger Rick: “the federal government has failed miserably to defend that border” for ten years.

During eight of which, who was President?

That giant sucking sound you hear is Latinos leaving the Republican Party.

Deranger Rick: “magnet of people who will hire Illegals.” Georgia, hello!

Turn off the magnets!

@nojo: Who is picking those crops now in Georgia? Newt will have some free time soon.

Y’know, this may have been said here before, but the Repubs have figured out how to stop illegal (and legal) immigration — tank the economy.

Herman Cain!’s answer to Latinos: 999!

Deranger Rick: “You get to ask the questions, I get to answer like I want to.”

As a Young Reporter, I interviewed Oregon Congresscritter Les AuCoin. That’s exactly how it works. Questions are meaningless.

@nojo: Wow, I’m on a six minute delay here. Damn 3GS!

ANCHOR BABIES ARE BACK!

@nojo: Rising electricity rates? Huh? Is this something Obama has done.

Oh, Michelle, anchor babies. Coop baited her.

Frothy Mix: Latinos are Catholics, damn you! Catholics!

Only he doesn’t say “Catholics”. But that’s his pitch.

Question from the floor: What about Yucca Mountain?

Hello, Nevada!

Attention: Republicans now debating nuclear waste.

Gov’t should not be subsidizing energy, sez Paul. What about coal? Oil? Ethanol?

@nojo: We don’t know how magnets work, but they produce anchor babies!

What I’m seeing is enough traction by the minor candidates to keep the yellow journalists churning out bullshit well into the Spring primaries. Or Halloween.

ADD: I have some inside baseball on the Yucca mountain bidness that would interest Dodge, if nobody else. Camera 2, porfa….

Eurpean Alert: Deranger Rick applauds France for its nuclear industry.

Question from the floor: What about foreclosures?

You Nevada Republicans know what inspired the Tea Party, don’t you?

@Nabisco: Digame, amigo.

I appreciate what you all are doing as a public service.

@redmanlaw:

Roommate: “How can you watch these things?”

Me: “Self-loathing?”

@redmanlaw: Self-interest. This really is entertaining. In a perverse way, of course.

Bachmann: Obama has failed the foreclosed-on Moms. Huh?

Cain! stands by his nutty statements. Gotta admire that, in a way.

Hermain Cain!: Don’t blame Wall Street for economic problems. The audience finally gets a chance to cheer wildly.

Ron Paul: Herman Cain! is blaming the victims.

@Dodgerblue: I’ll have to see what was (U) and what wasn’t after the beer and fish tacos wear off. I’ll tweet at you.

@nojo: Paul likes to blame stuff on the Fed. Dude, Wall Street is up north from there.

@nojo: Hells yeah! I already watched Greg House and the unattached lungs. This is fun.

@Nabisco: Mmm fish tacos. Excellente.

@Nabisco: Fucking magnets — can’t turn them off, because I don’t know how they work!

After reading the liveblog over at ThinkProgress and here, I’m kind of sorry I didn’t watch this one. It sounds much more entertaining than the last one.

Everybody’s off their game tonight. Mittens just made a point of bringing Obama back into the conversation.

OK, I have to head out for a schmooze-a-thon before the food and alcohol disappear. Later.

Coming up: Cults!

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Whatever bubble Republicans have been living in all year, it’s been popped.

OMG! I’m watching it livestream and Newtie is answering the religion question. I think my ears are bleeding.

Who the fuck is dressing Rick Perry and why does he look like he has no neck?
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Newt: “How can you have judgment if you have no faith?”

Is that Wife #2 or #3 talking?

Mittens backs religious freedom. Please please please somebody ask about Islam.

Crazy Eyes: “Hineous”. I’ll leave it to the Floor to translate.

@nojo: I am amazed that Mittens hasn’t played this debate moment over and over in his prep, and he still fucked it up. He confirmed the equivalency of Mormonism and “other religion”.

Go, Newtie, go!

Go, Newtie, go! He just called Crazy Eyes “suicidally stupid”!!!!11!!

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: And he called the Supercommittee suicidally stupid. That being a GOP idea to resolve the debt crisis.

This is just getting fun.

@nojo: @karen marie has her eyes tight shut: There was a moment there when I saw Big Dog dressed in Newt clothing. Is it a 90s thing?

One-third of ALL US AID goes to Israel and Egypt.

Your Instant Google Search may vary.

NB on Ron Paul: for anyone who wonders where his speech pattern comes from, it is most definitely not Texas. That’s the Dormont High in him, same as Ma Nabisco.

@nojo: oh and also? The problem with handing foreign aid over to China is all the, well, opportunity we get when we show up with sacks of wheat flour and rice stamped “From the People…” etc.

Herman Cain!: “Hostages in Guantanamo Bay”.

Ron Paul mentions Iran-Contra, bless him.

Commercial break!

And can I say? This debate has been fucking awesome.

Leonardo DeCaprio as J. Edgar? Directed by Clint Eastwood?

One question: Is there cross-dressing?

@nojo: echo! I was late to the party, but enjoyed it immensely. Such a better narrative when the Single Digits get their shots in, and the Double Digits flail.

@nojo: Yes, you can, and you’re right.

@nojo: I think there are allusions to Hoove’s hobbies. But isn’t it Philip Seymour who plays J. Edgar??

@Nabisco: Maybe. I only caught part of the commercial.

This is the banner that CNN is running about the debate as “Breaking News”: During debate, Mitt Romney accuses President Obama of campaigning for re-election instead of working to create jobs.

WTF?

@Nabisco: Nope. It’s Leo under a ton of makeup.

Is Mitt advocating for a return to higher tax rates?

Newticles: “Nude Dog Org?”

@Nabisco: That may have come early — it’s a GOP talking point about his campaign preznidential tour.

@mellbell: Once again, Leo tries to play an adult. And once again, I have a hard time buying it.

@nojo: Yeah, I know – but that makes their “Breaking News” banner?

ADD: first Google result on the “no pastels, bold colors” quote? this FoD4Sarah blog. Go figger.

@Nabisco: In fairness, I wouldn’t know how to summarize what just happened. But I have the whole evening to think about it.

@nojo: “Suicidally stupid.”

Damn. It looks like we missed the only fun one. As Huntsman’s daughter tweeted “See what happens when the adult in the room isn’t there.” Or something.

One thing Cain has made abundantly clear: he’s running for the Stupid Party. He is, hands down, the dumbest. He’s one car-keying incident away from Judge Judy. Bachmann is nuts, Perry is lazy, Paul is nuts, Frothy is frothy, Mittens is rich, Newty is a mean fat joke, but Cain is so dumb even John Stossel has noticed.

@Benedick: john stossel huh? did he ask any tough questions last night? here he is asking a question that was best left unasked:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ

@Benedick:
How can Stossel tell when his head is firmly jammed up his butt?

@jwmcsame: @ManchuCandidate: I know but even he thought Cain was an idiot.

@jwmcsame: That’s the best clip ever!! Why can’t Dr Death run for the Republican nomination? I would so love to see him bitch slap Perry. And he could throw Mittens down and stomp him. It would be the awesomest debate ever!!

@jwmcsame: Can you imagine how much his crew must have loved that? I bet when they got back to the studio they put it on an endless loop.

@Benedick: great idea. you know dr death is drawing a sizable disability check these days what from all that flailing around and folding chairs to the head. how bout when cain, perry, et al say they want to end social security and a full blown death cage match breaks out over it. of course it wouldn’t last too long after cain, perry and gang find out that sometimes wrestling is not fake.

a friend of mine is a producer for a local tv station. he produces whatever the tv station talking heads do. he started out as a crew member and rarely does the crew have much respect for the talking heads because the crew does all the work, yet the talking head gets all the credit and generally treats the crew with disdain due to an inflated and too often televised ego. so i’ll bet you’re exactly right about stossels crew. stossel couldn’t run away fast enough while the camera man stayed right where he was. the crew probably high fived dr death and got some good laughs with him afterwards.