Healthcare reform? What healthcare reform? You must have been dreaming, darling.

Obama Seeks Freeze on Many Domestic Programs [NYT]

Ed Schultz on Robert Gibbs, Saturday:

“I told him he was full of shit is what I told him. And then he gave me the Dick Cheney f-bomb the same way Senator Leahy got it on the Senate floor. I told Robert Gibbs, I said, ‘I’m sorry you’re swearing at me, but I’m just trying to help you out.'”

Robert Gibbs on Ed Schultz, Monday:

Gibbs adds that he demanded Schultz tell him “why he’d tell his viewers something so completely and knowingly wrong in an attempt to get people to watch his show.”

Ed Schultz on Robert Gibbs, later Monday:

“no response. sorry.”

No, we don’t watch the Ed Show either. But if we’re not getting healthcare reform, at least we’re going to enjoy the pissing match.

Alfred Baldasaro, Republican representative to the House of the great state of New Hampshire, aims to take on the entire South Carolina Douchebag Delegation in a single outing. Can he do it? Let’s check in with his testimony in favor of a bill that would repeal his state’s same-sex marriage law:

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We still don’t know what it is about South Carolina that reinforces a Culture of Douchebaggery, but Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer is doing his best to keep up with the pack:

In a phone interview with CNN, Bauer, a Republican candidate for governor, said, “I wish I had used a different metaphor.” Bauer told an audience Friday that people receiving government assistance are like “stray animals” because “they breed” and “don’t know any better.”

“I never intended to tie people to animals,” he said, before opting for a kinder animal metaphor: “If you have a cat, if you take it in your house and feed it and love it, what happens when you go out of
town?”

Ummm… Ask the neighbors?

You do have neighbors, don’t you?

Or are they avoiding you because you associate with couch-jumping believers in rogue space aliens?

South Carolina Republican regrets ‘stray animal’ metaphor [CNN]

We’ve long enjoyed our American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, primarily because it includes:

a) word histories.

b) dirty words.

For example, between oral hygiene and oral tradition comes oral sex: “Sexual activity involving oral stimulation of one’s partner’s sex organs.”

A definition now deprived from inquiring minds near Riverside, California:

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Our latest stray takes intense interest in a potted plant in the Wonderful World of Concrete Courtyard behind Stinque World Domination Headquarters.

Not shown: Us taking intense interest in a cat staring at a potted plant.

Jim DeMint, July 17, 2009:

“Senators and Congressmen will come back in September afraid to vote against the American people,” DeMint predicted, adding that “this healthcare issue is D-Day for freedom in America.”

“If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him,” he said.

Jim DeMint, this morning:

TERRY MORAN: So did you break him? And is that really how Americans want you to behave here in Washington, break the president?…

DEMINT: I did not want this to be the President’s Waterloo. But pushing through a massive government takeover of our healthcare system was certainly not a good idea.

Ummm, Jim? You won. Take it. It’s yours. “Waterloo” is second only to “Death Panels” as the defining meme of the healthcare debate. Stand proud.

Because your sudden reticence to twist the blade really confuses us. Unless you’ve heard something we haven’t. Are the Teabaggers not as powerful as y’all have been insisting? Has your private polling shown that fomenting treason isn’t such a good idea after all? Are you suddenly worried about the midterm elections?

Jim, Jim, Jim. You’re this close. Stop acting like a Democrat.

DeMint Lies: ‘I Did Not Want’ Health Care ‘To Be The President’s Waterloo’ [ThinkProgress]