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2012-12-20 11:32:00 PM
12 votes:
2012-12-20 11:31:20 PM
10 votes:
Looks like.....


....... Boehner pulled out.

2012-12-20 11:15:54 PM
10 votes:
Cry havoc! And let slip the cuts to war!
2012-12-20 11:52:08 PM
6 votes:
Speaker of the house
Doling out the charm
Ready with a handshake
And an open palm
Tells a saucy tale
Makes a little stir
Customers appreciate a bon-viveur

Glad to do a friend a favor
Doesn't cost me to be nice
But nothing gets you nothing
Everything has got a little price!

Speaker of the house
Keeper of the zoo
Ready to relieve 'em
Of a sou or two
Watering the wine
Making up the weight
Pickin' up their knick-knacks
When they can't see straight
Everybody loves a landlord
Everybody's bosom friend
I do whatever pleases
Jesus! Won't I bleed 'em in the end!
2012-12-20 11:11:08 PM
6 votes:
"Oh I'm the Speaker, the Speaker is me
And I say that I'm through with planning Plan B
Whiskey is good, so pour me some whiskey
Whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey"

"I cannot control my alcoholism or the House Republicans..." *sob*
2012-12-21 12:36:55 AM
5 votes:

Mentat: So all of you on the left who were raging at Obama for compromising, this is why I told you to relax.  The GOP is farking clown shoes.

The Teabaggers are the ones who are the ball-lickers. The Democrats are gonna maintain our social safety net while they watch and cry like little whiny biatches. Once we get to Washington and find those Tea Party farks who is holding up progress... we're gonna make them eat our bills, then shiat out our bills, and then eat their shiat that's made up of our bills that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you Senate GOP motherfarks are next.


Jay and Silent Bob.
2012-12-20 11:38:11 PM
5 votes:
I can only come up with two possible explanations for how the GOP is handling this:

1. They think that the next election cycle is too far away for it to matter that Obama currently has his highest approval rating since we killed bin Laden, and that a majority of Americans will blame the GOP if we go over the fiscal cliff.

2. Potato.
2012-12-20 11:24:52 PM
5 votes:

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Cry havoc! And let slip the cuts to war!

This is the winter of their discount tent!
2012-12-21 01:24:50 AM
4 votes:

demaL-demaL-yeH: //Quit messing with the background, Drew. It takes forever to load.

I thought Fark had shiat itself.
2012-12-21 12:29:04 AM
4 votes:
You mean that our taxes will go up after all?  You and your stupid Tea Party idea!
2012-12-20 11:45:46 PM
4 votes:

"I made a poop!"
2012-12-20 11:28:49 PM
4 votes:

Darth_Lukecash: Worse. Speaker. Of. The. House. Ever.

This man is bad at his job.

How quickly they forget......






/The Adulterer laughs in your general direction.
2012-12-21 10:31:20 AM
3 votes:

Debeo Summa Credo: Be specific rather than "hurrdurr GOP implode" fantasies.

Look at you making demands of everyone like you're somebody.
2012-12-21 12:19:13 AM
3 votes:
2012-12-21 12:07:16 AM
3 votes:
Tonight's abandonment of Plan B just shows Obama is a very bad negotiator.
2012-12-20 11:39:38 PM
3 votes:

Mega Steve: Did he cry? I don't think I've ever seen a grown man bawl as much as he does

Is anyone else concerned that the man who is two heartbeats away from the presidency cries more often than a fourth-grade schoolgirl?
2012-12-20 11:39:17 PM
3 votes:
From Politico:



Boehner nearly cried."
2012-12-20 11:37:19 PM
3 votes:
I bet John Boner's cheeks flushed from orange to darker orange.
2012-12-20 11:22:29 PM
3 votes:
2012-12-20 11:22:29 PM
3 votes:
That's it. We're Boehned
2012-12-21 10:33:47 AM
2 votes:

Gentoolive: Doesn't matter what he offers up, obamer will not accept it. He wants a collapse, "fundamental change" remember?

Gentoolive: Ps spending problem, not a revenue problem..

You're one of those humans that consistently fails the Turing test, aren't you?
2012-12-21 02:40:26 AM
2 votes:
Electing Republicans in 2012... not since Waterworld has so much money been invested in this magnitude of failure

2012-12-21 12:16:06 AM
2 votes:

sonnyboy11: Again, appreciate the insight.


"I'm surrounded by crazy people! Michele Bachmann actually believes the sh*t that vomits from her mouth! How am I supposed to make these people see reason? It's like herding f*cking cats! In fact, that would probably be a whole helluva lot easier!"
2012-12-21 12:12:56 AM
2 votes:

gideon: Maybe it's my naiveitae, but can someone, in a logical fashion, explain to me why the economic practices of 1992 to 2000 were bad?

Because EVERYONE benefitted economically. You know, Socialism.
2012-12-20 11:47:25 PM
2 votes:

2012-12-20 11:40:31 PM
2 votes:
Hmmm...I'm not one for conspiracy theories (well, that's not true, but it sounds better this way), but what if....WHAT IF....once Boohooner found out Super Grover supported his plan he felt the need to withdraw it, because he knows the GOP is about to eat Grover for Christmas dinner?
2012-12-20 11:36:33 PM
2 votes:

sonnyboy11: Is this chance of recession the only real reason not to strike some kind of deal now?

We have to raise taxes and cut spending or else we'll go over the cliff which will result in us raising taxes and cutting spending.
2012-12-20 11:35:51 PM
2 votes:
This is the guy who today accused Obama of being unwilling to stand up to his own party.

2012-12-20 11:32:15 PM
2 votes:
Must admit I got a kick out of the author's use of the Speakers full name.

John A. Boehner

How did anybody ever take this guy seriously?

Are we all getting shiat on because John A. Boehner got picked on one too may times in public school?

Is that why he has a hard-on for defunding public education?

Was three questions enough?
2012-12-20 11:25:24 PM
2 votes:
Takes ball, goes home.

2012-12-20 11:21:54 PM
2 votes:
I thought I'd seen it all when the Soviet Union collapsed. Now, the Republican party.
2012-12-21 02:44:09 PM
1 votes:

Philip Francis Queeg: I think the chances are very small that Boehner will win re-election as Speaker in january.

And be replaced by a more right-wing or left-wing speaker?

He only had 21 people shoot him down on the Plan B thing. It isn't like they can put forth anyone further to the right and be met with better success in the house if the teabaggers refuse to be corralled. So any change in Speaker moving to the right will do nothing for republicans. A move to the left and crafting bills that blue dogs go in on would give them the power to do more things without the teabaggers, but will the more moderate republicans be willing to go for that?

And if all they want is to stamp their feet and block all legislation, they hardly need another speaker anyways. If the republicans were united in that goal I'm sure boehner would be up to that task.
2012-12-21 11:28:20 AM
1 votes:

Debeo Summa Credo: If the GOP is "already talking about it", then why didnt they pass plan B?

Plan B was a Republicans-only plan that no Democrat was going to vote for and only some Republicans were. Obama's plan is one that most Democrats will vote for, and enough Republicans to make it pass. The problem is that the democrats cannot force a vote on it in congress. If Dems were willing to go for Plan B then would have passed too.

I thought you knew how the government functions, since you used to be a blind sheeple libby-lib like us until you saw the light and became a wondrous free-thinking juggernaut?
2012-12-21 10:52:17 AM
1 votes:

dmax: Pull up a chair and witness the collapse and ruin of the GOP.

Commandeered by extremists who don't represent the nation, and can't get along, it includes
Cheney, W, Rush, Bachmann, Boehner, Palin, Koch, Adelson, Beck, Newt and many many more.
These folks have never, ever, had the interests of the country at heart - and yet they intend to steer the nation?

The only question is: what will rise to replace them?

Lizard people.
2012-12-21 10:50:24 AM
1 votes:

jst3p: keylock71: Felgraf: keylock71:

Is taking arguments from Fark into the real world and trying to get someone to lose their job from it allowed? I would think that would be breaking a rule of some sort.

I sent a heads up to the Mods... All he's doing is giving everyone a good laugh over hear at the studio, though. Talk about butt hurt. Jeez.

Yeah, but you have to wonder if he has done it before and if it has actually had an impact on someone. I would be thrilled if this were the end of that full of shiat troll.

Wow. This thread was kinda boring when I went to bed, too. Good to know that Derp Pipes isn't trolling at all and really is that much of a blithering, self-absorbed shiatstain.
2012-12-21 10:25:33 AM
1 votes:

Zeb Hesselgresser: Listen you farking clowns:


"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of how awesome my deficit spending was."
2012-12-21 09:39:40 AM
1 votes:
Lol... So Thunder Pipes just sent an email to one of my employers accusing me of posting hate speech on this site. We all had a good laugh here in the studio.

Of course, the email address he "found" and used goes directly to my inbox.

Guess I struck a nerve...
2012-12-21 09:32:23 AM
1 votes:

EnviroDude: Will the media call the resulting recession Obama's recession? 


No,  they will be called the Obama Tax Cuts.

It will stick in the craw of Republicans for years and possibly generations to come.
2012-12-21 08:39:33 AM
1 votes:
I am outraged that the congresscritters are getting a paid holiday on christmas eve! They should work like the rest of the federal employees. Those welfare queens.
2012-12-21 08:37:46 AM
1 votes:

Taylor Mental: I heard on Lawrence O'Donnell his only hope now is to sweeten the deal for the Dems so much he can get all of their votes and then try to cobble together enough Reps to pass something. That'd be funnier than hell to watch. Not to mention good for the country if we had a viable option to governing and could finally get past the teabagger shiatstain blotch on our collective shorts.

And if he thought negotiating with Obama was hard, wait till he has to negotiate with someone who has a big hairy set of ten pound balls like Nancy Pelosi.
2012-12-21 08:12:07 AM
1 votes:
The Mayan Apocolypse wasn't a calendar but rather a horoscope for John Boehner, because his career is facing a political apocolypse.
2012-12-21 08:05:34 AM
1 votes:

Thunderpipes: Maybe if you actually, you know, worked hard instead of wanting handouts, your family would be in better shape? Always someone more poor than you. Maybe you should be punished, stripped of your iPad and have everything given to them. Not fair you have some money

Ahh .. .isn't that cute, another special little snowflake who believes he deserves a cookie because he gets up in the morning and goes to work like the rest of us.

Sorry you wanted to spend several trillion dollars needlessly blowing up brown skin people, who had nothing to do with 9/11 so you could feverishly stroke your flaccid impotent shaft to tactical pron on the Military Channel and put a meaningless trite bumper sticker on your car, but I'm afraid the check is due. Time to cough up like the rest of us.
2012-12-21 07:38:14 AM
1 votes:

Mentat: shower_in_my_socks: Problem is, even if there are moderate Republicans left, they've been blackmailed into sticking with the party, or they'll face a teabagger in their next primary.

The Tea Party is an anchor.  Boehner already tried to cut them loose by taking away key committee assignments.  Now other Republicans have to step up and put them in their place.

Go ahead and bash the tea party but they are a revolution that progressives hate. During the revolutionary war you tea party-like bashers were the crown's loyalists trying to stop freedom. You big govt, kill the revenue makers (you call them the rich) progressives are the reason we're in this mess. Both Republicans and Democrats are the progressives and have been for decades.
2012-12-21 07:34:21 AM
1 votes:

Alphax: I've heard more than once that the 'do-nothing Congress' of Truman's time passed 10 times as many bills as this one.

2012-12-21 07:29:21 AM
1 votes:

Felgraf: reclec has reading issues

2012-12-21 02:21:43 AM
1 votes:
remember when the GOP were so cocky about setting this whole thing up, because they knew, KNEW they would retake the white house and the senate? remember when the scoffed at those silly libs who chose to believe math, while the GOP knew, KNEW that the numbers where really on their side? Then the way those teaparty candidates said what they actually meant about things like rape, and how romney laid out what they really think about "the 47%"?

and here we are. sitting and staring at the house of cards the GOP has built, and watching the dawning realization come across their faces as the reality of the situation starts to sink in. They bought their own bullshiat, and now they can't give it back.
2012-12-21 02:02:25 AM
1 votes:
Where, I wonder, are all the fark independents (real and trademarked) who spent the last year pointing out that Obama is bad not because of bad ideas, but because he couldn't force the republicans to work with him through the magic of the bully pulpit?

Will they show up in any of these threads to explain how Obama is supposed to compromise with republicans who can't even pass their own bill?
2012-12-21 01:04:07 AM
1 votes:

NukeEuropeNow: enry:
For all the misguided hate on Pelosi, she really got stuff done.

You know who else got shiat done?


/What'd I win
2012-12-21 12:58:13 AM
1 votes:

A) It's not a cliff, it's a speed-bump. Going over it isn't going to cause lasting damage, so just do it.

B) It's a cliff, but we just can't see a way to cut spending nor raise taxes so kick the can out about 6 months and let someone else worry about it.

C) Eh, let's keep spending until we go bankrupt and don't have any control over what gets cut, we have to cut it all, so full steam ahead.

D) Take a handful of Farkitol, wake up in February and look for your shadow.
2012-12-21 12:24:38 AM
1 votes:
Boehner could have been a winner by championing a compromise. Tea Party 'over lords' would have used their Super Pac(s) money and found another GOP zombie to do their bidding. It's better to go out vindicated, strong and in control. Rather than a weak 'puppet' not taking responsibility. Sad day.
2012-12-21 12:21:23 AM
1 votes:
Say what you want about Tom Delay... but he would not have put up with this sh*t. Republican rank and file would be waking up to horse heads.
2012-12-21 12:10:57 AM
1 votes:
Thank God for the Tea Party. Who else is going to stand up for the multi-billionaires?
2012-12-21 12:03:45 AM
1 votes:

RobertBruce: Going over this "cliff" means small across the board budget cuts. when we should be talking about 40-50 percent cuts, especially to the military (the world can learn to survive without us -including Japan) but also including social security in a way that pays it to those who already paid in, while phasing it out for everyone else.

Social safety nets are a good thing. They can help provide long term care for those that have eaten too many lead paint chips, like yourself.

We got ya bro.
2012-12-21 12:01:09 AM
1 votes:

2012-12-20 11:57:45 PM
1 votes:

demaL-demaL-yeH: Weaver95: RandomRandom: So who's going to be the new Speaker of the House?

eric cantor?

Never, ever, say that again!

hey, if we're gonna implode the country we might as well do it right.
2012-12-20 11:56:10 PM
1 votes:


eric cantor?

Never, ever, say that again!
2012-12-20 11:49:13 PM
1 votes:

InmanRoshi: Cantor promised Boehner that he could deliver the votes .... just like Littlefinger promised Ned Stark he would deliver the Gold Cloaks.

which...technically...littlefinger DID do.  He just neglected to mention which side they'd be on when they showed up.
2012-12-20 11:49:01 PM
1 votes:

foreman3: DarkSkyForever: Now... just stay with me here... now why can't we just let tax rates rise back to Clinton levels?

Or, why not just go back to Clinton Spending Levels?

Something about the economy needing money injected into it and the private sector not being willing to do so and Europe and Japan showing us what happens when the government doesn't do it in situations like this?

I dunno, like history or something.
2012-12-20 11:47:04 PM
1 votes:

sonnyboy11: Dusk-You-n-Me: sonnyboy11: Is this chance of recession the only real reason not to strike some kind of deal now?


So in short, this is all a buncha nonsense. Good. Let's go over the damn cliff already! Whatever it takes to get the wealthy back to paying their fair share.

Well, the House will either eat shiat or own the recession. Not a great prognosis.
2012-12-20 11:45:52 PM
1 votes:
Dear Mr. President,

Either invoke Article II Section 3 and make those martherfarkers celebrate in the Capitol or APPOINT EVERYBODY!

A. Voter
2012-12-20 11:44:33 PM
1 votes:
Try Plan 9, Boner. The one where the brain-dead zombies are supposed to rule the world.

"You people of Earth are idiots!"
2012-12-20 11:41:54 PM
1 votes:

Jackson Herring: Does this mean we won't have another dozen headlines with this same unbelievably shiatty joke?

wait until the BONER BEGINS PREPARATION H jokes two weeks from now
2012-12-20 11:38:49 PM
1 votes:
Can you imagine the hell this poor bastard went through in grade school- little Johnny boner Nya nya nya!
2012-12-20 11:38:31 PM
1 votes:
Wait, he was actually trying to get Republicans to go for the tax hike?
2012-12-20 11:37:39 PM
1 votes:

Rann Xerox: Looks like.....


....... Boehner pulled out.


No he shrank under the pressure.

/is it cold in here?
2012-12-20 11:36:47 PM
1 votes:
Clearly, this just shows how unwilling Obama is to compromise.
2012-12-20 11:35:50 PM
1 votes:
He can't work on it until after tomorrow just in case the Mayans were right and he has to explain himself to Ronald Regan and Republican Jesus.
2012-12-20 11:35:19 PM
1 votes:
Abandon all hope,
ye who gee oh pee
2012-12-20 11:34:31 PM
1 votes:


Or, why not just go back to Clinton Spending Levels?

HOW ABOUT BOTH?! For fark's sake....
2012-12-20 11:33:55 PM
1 votes:
There are not enough clown shoes in existence to accurately explain this magnitude of absurdity.
2012-12-20 11:30:03 PM
1 votes:
2012-12-20 11:27:45 PM
1 votes:
Was a legitimate plan?
2012-12-20 11:03:34 PM
1 votes:


This man is bad at his job.

No one could be both Speaker and rooted in reality these days.  So basically Boener's timing for ascending to the speakership just sucked.

But that doesn't change the fact that he speaks really douchey in his press conferences.
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