In advance of the 1 pm Vote on the Bailout, we’re watching the C-Span Live Stream of the House of Representatives, and highly suggest you do the same. It’s basically going to be two and a half hours of airings of grievances. Ron Paul got himself good and worked up a few minutes ago. Hopefully there’ll be a fistfight before 1. I’m not sure who I think would be the most worthy opponent but I would like to see Barney Frank rumbling with one of his colleagues.
Update: Okay Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) just suggested that his colleagues who are against the bill “watch movies about the Depression to see what might happen.” Movies. “Watch Cinderella Man, gang. Russell Crowe is too fat now to save us. Watch The Sting. Paul Newman is dead now and Redford looks like the suitcase in your attic, so there’ll be no puckish scamps to bring good cheer with their lovable cons. If that’s all out at Blockbuster, and it probably is, because you know people are feeling nostalgic, try Armageddon. This is serious, people.”
Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX): Is Our Congressman Learning: “This bill is a hundred pages. That’s a billion dollars a page* that the Wall Street Fat Cats want Joe Six Pack to pay for.” Barney Frank adds, “While I think the gentleman was a little too hard on the Bush administration, I agree with what he had to say.”
Update, 11:24: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) adds the Wizards of Short Selling to her Enemies List:
“I hate the high priced schemers of Wall Street and their tricky products, and hedge funds, and short selling. I’m not voting for this bill because of Them, I am voting for it because of Main Street.”
*Let’s not be too hard on him, he’s not off by *that* much.
Barney Frank vs Barney the Dinosaur
How is Tim Sykes doing during all of this?
Barney “Fat Blunt” Frank, Hank “The Hammer” Paulson and Alan “The F-Up” Greenspan, in a smack down trifecta, only on payyyy per view. (in the south park narrator’s voice.
Really…do they know movies are not REAL? WTF !
Barney Frank vs. Larry Craig….oh, wait…
I’ve got a movie for you: Gasbag and Fuld star in an indie Christmas release “Not So Tiny Tim”
OK what’s the next bank to go under? Citi? US Bancorp? NatCity?… that sounds like a winner…
Did the Fed open the window for Tim Sykes too?
Come to think of it, I could use some liquidity, too.
I voe for a fistfight. I want to see Cynthia McKinney hit someone over the head “big momma” style.
No, makes sense, half of them probably never read Grapes of Wrath and McCain’s the only one that was alive at the time to remember it.
Rich fellas come up an’ they die, an’ their kids ain’t no good an’ they die out. But we keep a’comin’. We’re the people that live. They can’t wipe us out; they can’t lick us. We’ll go on forever, Pa, ’cause we’re the people.
~Ma Joad
“As I rained blows upon his head I thought there must be a better way.”
Barney Frank vs. Dennis K…
Barney Frank vs. Tom Osborne…option left stiff arm him to the podium!
Leroy Jenkins v. Bubb Rubb
I don’t recall giving anyone the right to use my name in those proceedings.
~Joe Six Pack
Slurp ‘n Burp, TX
Game’s the same, just got more fierce.
Ron Paul – what a kook. Remember back in the primarys when he kept talking about an imminent financial crisis? Oh yea, nevermind…
@16 even a stopped clock
#9 is racist. Dealbreaker’s innocence is lost.
Maxine Waters should really have her own reality show. She is pure comedy.
maxine, maxine, maxine. if she’s not the poster child for abortion, i don’t know who is.
Only reason I would watch c-span live stream is in hopes of hearing someone yell…………GRENADE!!!!!!!
since when is 30k a year in a production job the “American Dream”?
this is hilarity
#22 – $30K plus bennies (not that there’re a lot of those anymore) looks mighty good to some schlub from Bumblefuck, Iowa whose prior career apex looked to be getting the day shift at Casey’s so the drunks wouldn’t be covered in their own puke yet.
@20…that is putting it kindly.
Yes, but the best about MAxine is that she is a “key member” of the financial services committee.
Which goes along way to explain how the congress just became aware if this “crisis”.
Why is bess rehashing Sienfeld episodes?
So who is bringing the festivus tree?
idiot @27- a reference is not the same as a rehash.
main st? what a load.
idiot @27 – it’s a pole not a tree.