God made him do it. Is this the same God that told Bush to start two wars, and told Obama to throw the elderly, sick and poor under the bus?

God is a big meanie, then.

He’s wearing a red suit, with horns and a tail… He must be God!

I hope The Lard blesses Tim Scott in a measurable way, namely retirement from the House.

The respiration of these life forms is a waste of oxygen.

Well thank Jeebuz for good Christian God-fearing MF’s like Tim Scott. Now, where are those tranquilizer darts loaded with heavy-duty anti-psychotic medication? And let’s have a high-quality straight jacket on hand while we’re at it…

Yo Kelly: What’s the status on that undemocratic “super congress” monstrosity that you wrote about a few days back? That shit needs to be thrown in front of a speeding freight train…

If there are any (grown-up) Congresspe­eps who happen by, here’s a novel idea for you, so put on your thinking caps and try to keep up:

How about a forming a bi-partisan alliance in the house (sane adults, obviously) which would introduce a stand-alon­e, one-page bill that states the debt ceiling will be lifted immediately (or better yet, removed altogether­)? In addition, the bill can state that the other issues will be dealt with AFTER the debt problem has been resolved. Hell, you might just get lucky. The half-sane GOP members in the house and senate would probably “Aye” the document just to keep their corporate benefactor­s happy. Further, such a piece of legislation would have the ancillary effect of marginalizing the teabaggers, which the GOP brass are trying to figure out how to do even as we speak. Here’s a way to get the deal done and dispatch the crazies in one fell swoop. Everyone saves face and lives to fight another day.

I understand that this suggestion might have been difficult for you Congresspe­eps to follow, what with all them big fancy, liberal-el­ite, multi-syll­able college words, and all. However, it’s worth a shot. Someone just needs to have the balls to step up and do it.

Hey Congresspeeps: Prove you can read.

Tim Scott’s the same one who said Congress should impeach Obama if he invokes the 14th Amendment.

It’s still in Boehner’s Bill, which they’re bringing to the floor sometime this afternoon, so the chatter says.

And it’s New and Improved! Now With Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment!

SuperCongress is still in Harry Reid’s amendment too, and they gave the House till Midnite tonight to act.

So whatever shenanigans they do with the debt limit, pass clean bill, pass nothing, somehow I think they’ll still end up with SuperCatfoodII Commission to make more misery in the months ahead.

These people are idiots, and cannot be shamed enough.

That’s funny. God told me to oppose the Boehner bill, and the Tea Party. I’m confused….

Well, looks like me and God are going to have to have a little talk, to straighten out this kerfuffle. We can’t have God going off message!

I am gonna get tiresome, but…

Coin seigniorage!!

Balanced Budget Amendment, right. 2/3 vote in each House followed by 3/4 states’ ratification.

Kicking the can off the planet.

I suspect this debt limit dance nonsense is burning through both logic and good manners. Many folks look to the lord for guidance – and many disagree as to the direction they feel the Lord wants the nation to go in – there is nothing unusual here and certainly nothing that needs to be mocked.

Indeed mocking seems to be the only point of the post – BT, you are almost always great to read – but I do not see how you are advancing a progressive agenda with this post.

Spot on -

It is the only legal way that can not be challenged in the courts. The question of what it does to selling bonds will be settled at the first auction.

Idiots and criminals, actually, but who’s counting?

My memory (such as it is) might be a little fuzzy, but doesn’t a constitutional amendment require ratification by something like 75% of the states to become law? (Sounds like a job for Citizen’s United.)

This would be the same God who hands out brains, right? Well, this bozo thought God said trains and missed his.

That’s some cold shit, yo.

I like it. Heh…

When they say “the Lord”, they mean the corporations that give them money if they vote a certain way. Voting = praying.

“I hope the Lord corporations bless our nation pocket books in a way that is measurable.” heh.

Ima collllld motherfucker. *g*

Okay, so now we have to figure out who the Godfather really is….who do they really check-in with…Who is the God of all finance..there must be an apex.

Yes. It actually stands for

Large Originating Re-Election Dollars

Careful, you’ll get moderated.

“The divine source”, huh? Is that what kids are calling it these days?

I suppose it’s a reference to the “In God We Trust” printed on each of them.

All roads lead to ……?????????????

I heard Ashton Kutcher was hiding behind a curtain with a camera and had a microphone with reverb on it and he pretended to be the voice of God. “Vote No and take the Gold” said God. There was a gold foil wrapped turd in the middle of the room so he picked it up. When Tim Scott did, everybody jumped out and told them he was punked. You should have seen how fast he dropped the turd. It will be on TV Monday nite.

God told me herself she’s a Keynesian. “what do you thnk the sermon on the mount was about, people?”. Render unto Caesar? How many clues do you need?

If God is talking to this group of fools, He should be brought in for questioning and read The Riot Act. Because I have a Whole lot of dam questions that needs answers, and no amount praying will do. Things Like Global Genocidal, The taking of other people shit to give to others. No more of this talking in tongue.

Ah, Scarecrow the nation is being “translated” into a banana rethuglic just as quickly as reason can be “drawn” down to blubbering and and the elite can be rewarded for their self-serving effort.

Ceasar the day!! The great rendering is nigh.

The existential bill has come due.

There’s merely the eye of a needle to pass through …

DW

Jesus Fucking Christ what horseshit.

The Devil are in the details and Good OLD God told her to do it.

Dave Weigel is good with these Snake twirlers as tankbark calls them:

As the night dragged on, the visitors did not look like the sort who could cave on big, existential votes. Louie Gohmert, one of the diehards who believes that Tim Geithner is lying about the threat of default, was dragged in. Tim Scott, the co-president of the freshman class, was dragged in; he walked out nonplussed, walked past reporters, and took out his iPod earbuds to confirm he was a “no.” Roscoe Bartlett, an octogeniaran, who’s not usually counted on for tough votes, entered the hot room telling reporters he didn’t want to choose between “bad and really bad.” The farce peaked when Gohmert joined freshman Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., for a prayer session in the House’s chapel. It can’t be good when members of Congress are literally asking for salvation.

On one level, the vote was a charade, because the Senate had pledged to defeat it if it passed. But raw politics mattered, and Republicans made sure that they lost the politics.

So the right is talking to Gawd?

What evidence is that the “not-right” has been consulting with their or anyone else’s better angels?

Or even what was once termed “conscience”?

Who remembers, when W claimed to speak with Gawd daily, the chorus of those saying what leenskies @29 has so eloquently said?

DW

They used to lock up crazy fucktards who talked like this in public. I long for the good old days.

Rumor has it that God doesn’t talk to Koch suckers!

To borrow one from Monty Python: “Mr. Scott, I fart in your general direction!”

Tim Scott may indeed have a voice in his head that he mistakes for “God”. It’s far more likely that he is a lying sack of shit.

That’s right, ‘Tex! speaking from (ahem!) Myrtle Beach, I can’t tell you how proud I am of these good, god-fearing peckerh…I mean, these courageous statesmen.

It’s patriots like these who made it possible, way back in the mid-1860′s, for South Carolina to go on the barter system for decades, and for the state to be the early leader in re-cycling…particularly in used clothing and shoes, not to mention the bonanza of individual bricks so thoughtfully distributed throughout downtown Charleston by Union artillerists.

Shitfar; I was so excited about the non-vote last night that I went out with my flashlight and pissed on a fire-ant mound. :o)

Seriously: (for the moment…) It’s hard to get mad at the Timber-Rattler-handlers for dragging the GOP further and further to the right. Truth is, since Obama has proven to be such an astute little poodle at learning all those “bipartisan” poochie-tricks, the lunacy of the republican base is about our only hope.

God also told South Carolina to start a war to preserve slavery.

There was a time when I thought I was fortunate to be born in the United States. Now, not so much. It ain’t as bad as Burkina Faso, but I envy people in some other countries.

In a room off the Capitol Rotunda, Scott joined a prayer session with fellow South Carolinian lawmakers. “I hope the Lord. . . gives men wisdom when they desperately need it,” Scott explained.

Scott and his fellows very desperately need even a modicum of wisdom.

No, Mr. Scott, I don’t believe that God gave you any orders about this bill. I think that God is too busy throwing up and then getting the H out of Dodge.

I think God gets bored with normal reasonable people. Too predictable. I think he’d rather talk to ones who play with their poop or have sex in airport bathroom toilets. He probably busts a gut laughing, wathching Bachmann’s gay husband making up prayers to change normal homosexuals.

People that claim they talk and have conversations with a god or any gods, are indeed clinicaly insane they belong in mental institutions not in congress!. We had one mentaly disturbed asshole who talked to some god in the White House for 8 years and look at the mess we’re in today, these stupid religious superstitious assholes should be called out as the idiots that they are, there should be no tolerance for religious stupidity and superstition in government, and that goes for the likes of the bachmann’s and perry’s and the other assholes who find it convenient to refer to religion and superstition as some bellweather of high ethical morality just to compensate for their stupidity!!!!!