McConnell and Rove Instruct House GOP to Cave on Tax Cuts, Boehner Says OK, Mitt Declines Newt's Special Debate Offer: P.M. Links

Mike Riggs | December 22, 2011

Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove to House GOP on payroll tax deal: CAVE TO OBAMA.
Boehner: We're caving!
Mitt Romney to Newt Gingrich: No special debate for you!
The Arab League sends human rights monitors to Syria.
AOL is still floundering.
Kim Jong-Un gets his first nickname.

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|12.22.11 @ 4:38PM|#

Fist!

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 4:40PM|#

Indeed.

mad libertarian guy|12.22.11 @ 9:37PM|#

It's probably better than a movie based on a comic book, eh?

Shmenge|12.23.11 @ 2:07AM|#

You're talking about Tintin, right?

Binky|12.22.11 @ 4:42PM|#

See, Team Red doesn't hate poor people after all.

Team Red|12.22.11 @ 4:46PM|#

Actually, we just like their votes.

|12.22.11 @ 6:58PM|#

And their custodial skills.

fish|12.22.11 @ 4:43PM|#

Kim Jong-Un gets his first nickname.

The Fat Helmsman

Ska|12.22.11 @ 4:52PM|#

Funny, I was thinking the Fat Toad.

|12.22.11 @ 4:59PM|#

Did he try to fly a kite with Frog?

Ska|12.22.11 @ 5:02PM|#

No, no, that was Ip Man's favorite waiter's kid.

|12.22.11 @ 5:06PM|#

Not Glorious Chin Fat?

fish|12.22.11 @ 5:15PM|#

Kam Fong...as Chin Ho.

|12.22.11 @ 8:20PM|#

A friend of mine suggested "Fearless Leader", which I thought was the best so far.

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 4:43PM|#

The handover of power in North Korea to Kim Jong Il's young son appeared to be going smoothly Thursday, with official media calling him the "outstanding leader" and no outward unrest in the capital or troop movements along its borders.

"You can call me outstanding or you can call me leader, just don't call me to go out standing with my starving people."

Anthony Weiner|12.22.11 @ 4:45PM|#

Kim Jong-Un gets his first nickname.

Meh. Well before he took power I was "Outstanding Member".

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:46PM|#

Well, you've definitely an Upstanding member...

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 4:46PM|#

Earlier on Thursday, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on the House to pass a temporary extension of the tax cut and then move to congressional negotiations on a payroll tax cut that would extend through 2012.

Negotiate from weakness, the very best place from which to negotiate.

Dekedin|12.22.11 @ 4:47PM|#

I wish Romney wold have accepted. What happened to the 8 hour debates we used to have? In the Lincoln Douglas debates each candidate spoke 60 minutes at a time. That's awesome.

Rich|12.22.11 @ 4:49PM|#

What happened to the 8 hour debates we used to have?

**cough**TV**cough**

T|12.22.11 @ 5:07PM|#

I'd say a wider range of entertainment options killed it, too. I mean, seriously, I can find better shit to do with 8 hours.

Ska|12.22.11 @ 5:17PM|#

Like rubbing my cock against a cheese grater followed by elective oral surgery.

Oh shit, that's for Saturday nights, my bad.

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 5:18PM|#

Entertainment? These debates meant to help voters choose the next leader of the free world are not "entertainment". They are soul-crushing reminders of what cream rises to the top of governance here in America.

|12.22.11 @ 5:30PM|#

what cream rises to the top

It would be worse with raw milk.

|12.22.11 @ 5:31PM|#

I'm actually glad that the best and most capable among us aren't craven enough to seek office (with a few exceptions; I'm not cynical enough to believe every politician is a toad, just most of them).

|12.22.11 @ 6:12PM|#

I'm actually glad that the best and most capable among us aren't craven enough to seek office

We'd be in serious trouble then.

|12.22.11 @ 7:01PM|#

Meh. Maybe. Not every genius is a squishy, ideological retard. Besides, it would be fun trouble.

|12.22.11 @ 8:26PM|#

Actually, I have long held the opinion that the people who would be the best ones to have in government simply don't want the baggage that goes with it - both the endless pandering and the relentless character assassination. WRT the latter, since virtually everybody has one or more blunders and screwups in the past, the smartest are aware that those episodes are sure to come out and would simply prefer to stay private than have the whole world chatter about what they did 20 years ago.

chris|12.22.11 @ 5:08PM|#

Overrated.

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:31PM|#

Soundbytes.

EDG reppin' LBC|12.22.11 @ 4:48PM|#

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- The handover of power in North Korea to Kim Jong Il's young son appeared to be going smoothly Thursday, with official media calling him the "outstanding leader" and no outward unrest in the capital or troop movements along its borders.

In office for a day. He should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize soon.

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 4:48PM|#

"We've had many occasions to debate together and we'll have more, I presume quite a few more, before this is finished," Romney told The Associated Press Thursday.

"But I'm not going to narrow this down to a two-person race while there are still a number of other candidates that are viable, important candidates in the race,” he said.

And then he burst into a fit of laughter before turning serious, adding, "Just give me my fucking nomination, bitches. We all know where this circle jerk is headed."

fish|12.22.11 @ 5:30PM|#

"We all know where this circle jerk is headed."

To you losing to Drudges "Pizza Boy"!

Appalachian Australian|12.22.11 @ 4:49PM|#

The Arab League sure is reliable when it comes to putting pressure on anyone who isn't Sunni.

|12.22.11 @ 4:49PM|#

AOL is still floundering.

AOL has managed to stay in business by expanding into fishing?

AOL|12.22.11 @ 4:50PM|#

We tried wailing.

|12.22.11 @ 5:31PM|#

Upon their eventual demise, surely a Whaling Wall will be in order.

Occidental Happening|12.22.11 @ 4:56PM|#

Kim Jong-Un gets his first nickname.

Well, perhaps the first that can be uttered out loud in North Korea.

|12.22.11 @ 4:59PM|#

AOL bought a crappy looking British social networking site that no one's ever heard of for $850 million in early 2008, right before or maybe exactly at the time the shit hit the economic fan? HAHAHAHAHA. The exuberance about social networking did get a wee bit... irrational for a minute there, didn't it?

T|12.22.11 @ 5:08PM|#

Given AOL's corporate history, you'd think they, of all people, would know better.

|12.22.11 @ 5:32PM|#

doesn't the evidence point in the direct that they're exactly the sort of minds that WOULDN'T know better?

|12.22.11 @ 5:32PM|#

(yeah, yeah, people are supposed to learn from their mistakes, in an ideal world)

|12.22.11 @ 5:36PM|#

Wait. I thought the AOL/Time-Warner Juggernaut was going to crush all other media under it's massive corporate influence and soon all content on the Internet will be theirs and theirs only?

At least that's what my leftist-halfwit acquaintances ran about squawking endlessly 10 or so years ago.

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:40PM|#

Actually Jeff Bezos owns the Internet.

Bingo|12.22.11 @ 5:28PM|#

Considering what Facebook is being valued at the irrationality isn't over yet.

|12.22.11 @ 5:37PM|#

Did you see Zynga's weakass IPO? Their main platform is FB. Zuck's in luck that their IPO is soon because I think a rude awakening is imminent.

Bingo|12.22.11 @ 5:51PM|#

Yeah, not surprised. Their year on year revenues are down some ginormous percentage. Zuck needs to IPO soon in order to satisfy their hoards of investors, but I think it's probably too late for that.

|12.22.11 @ 6:08PM|#

There was a link at the top of my Facebook today to the effect of "want to learn how Facebook makes money off of ads?" I didn't click through but it made me wonder if the desperate "SEE?? We can be profitable you guuuuuuyyyyyzzzz I swear!" posturing will only increase in the coming months.

Ted S.|12.22.11 @ 8:38PM|#

They're hoarding investors?

Hiram G|12.22.11 @ 5:40PM|#

What's a facebook?

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:44PM|#

The mugshot collection at the Precinct.

Gus|12.22.11 @ 5:10PM|#

"Kim Jong-Un gets his first nickname."

And here I always thought the Nobel Peace Prize Committee was located in Sweden.

PantsFan|12.22.11 @ 5:13PM|#

A glow was seen atop the mountain's Jong-il Peak for half an hour on Monday when the death was announced by Pyongyang, according to KCNA.
A natural wonder was also observed around Kim Il-sung's statue on Tonghung Hill in the northeastern city of Hamhung.
"At around 21:20 (1220 GMT) Tuesday a Manchurian crane was seen flying around the statue three times before alighting on a tree," the news agency said.
"The crane stayed there for quite a long while with its head bowed and flew in the direction of Pyongyang."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....death.html

The Crane|12.22.11 @ 5:41PM|#

Gonna poop on Kim Jong-Il's statue, brb.

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 5:14PM|#

Syria's government agreed to allow the observers into the country under global pressure to stop its bloody crackdown on dissent.

Envious leaders around the globe tell Syria if we don't get to do that, you can't either.

EDG reppin' LBC|12.22.11 @ 5:16PM|#

... in the northeastern city of Hamhung.

Mmmmmmmmm.... Hamhung is delicious.

Ska|12.22.11 @ 5:18PM|#

You and your precious, forbidden hamhung.

PantsFan|12.22.11 @ 5:18PM|#

New Satellite imagery of North Korea included Dear Leader's waterslide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8110093.stm

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:37PM|#

Anyone else think North Korean looks ****ing cold?

Kolohe|12.22.11 @ 8:40PM|#

Pyonyang is at a latitude between DC and Baltimore, but doesn't have any warm currents a few hundred miles away. (and is basically a straight shot to Siberia)

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:21PM|#

Two space-related links:

http://news.discovery.com/spac.....11222.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dos4ERyXO1I

Fist of Etiquette|12.22.11 @ 7:41PM|#

Well, obviously, you put Kenny Loggins to anything and it's going to be pretty awesome.

Doktor Kapitalism|12.22.11 @ 5:42PM|#

Do we have a continuing resolution yet?

Tony|12.22.11 @ 5:43PM|#

It wouldn't look like caving to Obama if they didn't make Obama Is Teh Devil their only political position. At some point it doesn't matter what mental gymnastics of economic philosophy you employ. If you refused to pay for trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy then you don't get to oppose tax cuts for nonwealthy people and come out looking good.

|12.22.11 @ 8:34PM|#

Obama is not the Devil.

At best, he is a Second-level Succubus.

PantsFan|12.22.11 @ 5:58PM|#

Feminists fight Christmas
In the following video, a feminist criticizes songs, most of which are from a half-century ago, for their “sexist” content. The songs are old Christmas classics, such as Dean Martin’s “Baby it’s cold outside,” (“date rape song”) and Bing Crosby’s “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas,” (stereotypes toys for genders).
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2.....christmas/

Eduard van Haalen|12.22.11 @ 6:04PM|#

And the reindeer were all male.

So is Santa Claus and his elves.

Mrs. Claus is a domestic slave.

Needy husbands and boyfriends demand a gift every day of Christmas. Then again, the ten lords a-leaping might be just the thing for the ladies.

|12.22.11 @ 6:13PM|#

I don't think chicks dig a-leaping. Sounds pretty rapey to me.

|12.22.11 @ 6:13PM|#

"Baby It's Cold Outside" is by far my favorite Christmas song. I always thought it was sweet and funny. The feminists will really find anything to get offended about, won't they?

Milquetoast Pantywaist|12.22.11 @ 6:23PM|#

But the lyrics mention smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol!!! This "Christmas" song should be banned!!! Children could hear the song and think it is okay to smoke and drink!!!

Scruffy Nerfherder|12.22.11 @ 6:26PM|#

There is no limit to indignation.

|12.22.11 @ 10:13PM|#

Wow!

She REALLY hates her vagina.

|12.22.11 @ 6:03PM|#

The Human Centipede Menorah.

SFW. Kinda.

Sky Captain AuH20|12.22.11 @ 6:51PM|#

The Republicans didn't even have the balls to force Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline (which... seriously you asshole?)?

|12.22.11 @ 7:04PM|#

He looks soft and squishy enough for me to wipe my ass with, just like his daddy.

PantsFan|12.22.11 @ 8:57PM|#

The King Williams College Quiz
GO!

Sarcazmic|12.22.11 @ 9:36PM|#

Anne Frank is still hot.

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