One of the right wing’s staunchest and most prolific public defenders of ALEC is none other than John Hinderaker of the PowerLine Blog. However, in his plentiful writings on the subject, there are some words you won’t find — words like “ALEC is a client of my law firm”.

The ways we put things always gets through my serious side, and although I worked for many years in the legal field, I never can repress a snort when someone sends “the papers for your execution.” Then you’re supposed to sign them in front of some witnesses or a notary! My mom didn’t have anyone that foolish!

Do you have any favorite unconsciously funny ways of expressing things? Or favorite gaffes, like a local dance studio that put up a sign announcing the dates for the coming “Spring Rectal”?

Pigs In Space: The End of the Universe, from episode 501 of The Muppet Show.

What on earth are we going to tell future generations about the great Debt Ceiling Crisis of 2011? Maybe if we’re lucky, they’ll be so busy dealing with actual real-life issues that they won’t bother to ask.

I was sad because I had no job until I met a dilettante who was forced to sit on a couch and stare at a laptop while typing continually wrong stuff about everything for A WHOLE WEEKEND.

Compared to laying siege to government, hurting millions, and putting the economy at risk, it’s only a minor irritant, I suppose, one of the dozens of little misrepresentations that we are so used to hearing from the right wing that we just shrug our shoulders and wait for something new. But the fact the media almost never pushes back suggests that letting it slide is a mistake. And it’s just fractions!

Live on CSPAN2 now   Senate votes to table the Boehner bill 59-41. Several Republicans, including Orrin Hatch and Jim DeMint, oppose the bill and voted with the Democrats. Reid files cloture on his bill. McConnell says he will allow the Senate to vote on it tonight, but Reid says he will only allow it [...]

John Boehner got his wish. After a day of tweaking following a bad CBO score, a day of browbeating his members to little effect, and a day of adding back in a balanced budget amendment tied to the increase in the debt limit, his bill finally passed by the close margin of 218-210. As expected, not one Democrat voted for the bill, which is pretty remarkable. Twenty-two Republicans, even after getting the BBA in the bill at the last minute, voted against it. Five Democrats missed the vote, so this was even closer.

The President’s address this morning wasn’t entirely useful, though he did lay out the compromise that everyone expects to get out of this unless John Boehner just lights himself on fire on the House floor while yelling “Wolverine!” He basically outlined the Reid plan, with Mitch McConnell’s resolution of disapproval approach attached to it and a trigger mechanism for the Catfood Commission II that would be enacted. So Reid-McConnell with a trigger, something that would come about if Congress votes down the recommendations of the Catfood Commission II.

Several Senate Republicans have intimated that they would sign onto such a deal.

Every plan that sucks money out of the economy is a net negative for the economy. And that’s every plan on the table, whether you put a hashtag in front of it and call it compromise or not. Real GDP remains below the peak in the pre-recession period of 2007. We haven’t even gotten back to zero, let alone grown. You can dodge and say that this is the mere result of slow recoveries to financial crises, or you can tell the truth. We don’t have enough demand in the economy. And we’re poised to take more demand out.