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Jon Stewart on the Health Care Reform Vote

Posted on: November 14, 2009 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton

You have to love the use of children as props during legislative debate.

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Why is is that when Democrats push through their legislation, it's "tyranny of the majority", but when Republicans do it, it's "the will of the people"?

Posted by: Jeff Eyges | November 14, 2009 9:37 AM

Stewart and his writers sure are funny motherfuckers.

Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | November 14, 2009 10:02 AM

I found the use of the baby as a prop - and throwing words into the baby's mouth - to be quite disgusting.

Posted by: Ron Brown | November 14, 2009 11:08 AM

Sitting through one of these sessions in the House sounds like pure hell. That is, unless I could be armed with, and allowed to use, a super-soaker filled with some disgusting fluid (cat urine, maybe?) whenever I deem it appropriate. Then it might be pretty fun. Would have to ask him to put Maddie the baby down first, though. As much as I object to her statements on health care, she deserves a chance to change her mind.

Posted by: Gretchen | November 14, 2009 11:22 AM

Politicians are by nature at least slightly insane. This has been borne out by history. I do not think this has changed much in the last, oh, 10000 years; their insanity has just been tempered by what the rest of humanity has learned, and those precious, precious few who are bright and sane are in many ways the bedrock on which civil society stands psychologically.

Posted by: Katharine | November 14, 2009 11:27 AM

The folks at Cognitive Daily were quite impressed to see a major tv personality mention "object permanence."

Posted by: Scott Hanley | November 14, 2009 12:23 PM

"...and those precious, precious few who are bright and sane are in many ways the bedrock on which civil society stands psychologically."

See? Liberals are Randians, too. ;>

Personally, I think all pols are insane and evil, no matter how pure their hearts are, because they suffer under the delusion that their tiny little lines of beneficial legislation will some how float to the top of the cesspool affectionately reffered to as "a parliament of whores."

I admire most, and strive to emulate and assist those who take direct action to change the world for the better.

Politicians and government and those who support them are just a bunch of people who think that the attempt is what matters more than the outcome. How many times have you heard a politician say, "I don't like this legislation, but I'm voting for it anyway because we have to do something"? My own pols wrote me that very thing in emails about the medical care packages they've voted on.

@Jeff: For the same reason that when Rethuglicans do it, it's "colonialism," but when Demon-crats do it, it's "spreading hope." And so on, and so on. That's the trouble with picking a side rather than working out which ideals one will push for.

Posted by: 10000li | November 14, 2009 1:32 PM

O HAI GUISE: The Republicans sent my dad, who is not a Republican, this prime piece of stupidity.

It is a yes, no, or no opinion questionnaire.

Among the questions are gems such as

4) Should English be the official language of the United States?

13) Are you in favor of reinstituting the military draft, as Democrats in Congress have proposed?

15) Do you support Democrats' drive to eliminate workers' right to a private ballot when considering unionization of their place of employment?

HAW HAW HAW OH THIS IS RICH

I think I may take it up to their local office along with evidence that they're wrong and personally tell them to suck it.

Posted by: Katharine | November 14, 2009 2:28 PM

http://xkcd.com/661/

Posted by: 10000li | November 14, 2009 2:35 PM

Pelosi should have said: "The bill is passed. Suck it, bitches!"

Posted by: CHV | November 14, 2009 2:48 PM

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Posted by: G | November 14, 2009 5:04 PM

"This is Maddie the Baby. She'd like to grow up in a country unburdened by crushing foreign debt, but Dubya fucked that one up big time..."

Posted by: BaldApe | November 14, 2009 10:08 PM

The folks at Cognitive Daily were quite impressed to see a major tv personality mention "object permanence."

I'm waiting for the Republicans to get "conservation".

Posted by: Paul W. | November 15, 2009 9:33 PM

"This is baby Maddie. She wants to do a poo-poo and eat a cookie. She thinks you all do too because she hasn't developed yet, what Piaget called, 'A Theory of Mind'. That is, she can't distinguish between her thoughts and desires, and those of others.
Oh wait, politicians, never mind ..." ;) - DJ

Posted by: DingoJack | November 15, 2009 9:48 PM