Watch The Budget Get Delivered to Capitol Hill!

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2010 5:21 PM

It's like a moment of Zen. Except that it isn't like that at all.

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sage 15 years ago

The Jacket beats the crap out of The Daily Show.
JW 15 years ago

I actually expected a team of elephants pulling it into the chambers, with Biden following closely with a shovel and a very large bucket.
1. ed 15 years ago
  
  A stream of 100 guys in bellboy uniforms, each carrying one box and driving Segways, would have been awesome.
  1. Slap happy 15 years ago
    
    *that* would have been awesome.
    1. Brian Sorgatz 15 years ago
      
      This dialogue should have come immediately before that video:
      
      "We have top men working on it right now."
      
      "Who?"
      
      "Top men."
      
      60 comments already, and I'm the first to think of Raiders of the Lost Ark? Let's not lose our libertarian geek cred, folks.
      1. ComradeZero 15 years ago
        
        I dunno. If smoking weren't so taboo in DC I'd have expected Cancerman.
2. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Are you joking?
  
  Biden would be getting in the way of the shovelers with his big toothie grin and pulling all of his Ed MacMahon moves like he was doing at the SOTU.
3. Colonel_Angus 15 years ago
  
  Pelosi being carried on one of those covered chair things with curtains.
  1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
    
    No, Xerxes' golden litter.
brotherben 15 years ago

You said Zen and I was expecting the pallet jack to groan and die. Or get away from the operator and plow over the top of the camera guys.
1. Naga Sadow 15 years ago
  
  In my mind, that is what happened. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
2. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Zen is one of the best sushi joints in all of Arlington Virginia, if not in the entire beltway.
  1. PIRS 15 years ago
    
    Why doesn't this allow non-English script anymore? I was going to paste the phrase "I love sushi." in Japanese. Oh, well, if it helps prevent spambots I understand. I hope it does.
    
    Wait, don't we still get spambots?
    1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
      
      You can still do it Japanese phonetic English. Might need to add some other padding.
      
      Yes, we still get spambots. Warty, Epi, MNG, Chad and others.
      1. Warty 15 years ago
        
        That's not cool, Suki-san.
        
        John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
        
        Hi Epi. Isn't it about stomach pumping hour for you?
      2. bleephole 15 years ago
        
        Those are trolls, not spambots. Keep them straight.
        
        John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
        
        My bad, you are correct on all counts.
Rich 15 years ago

*So* glad I had two cups of coffee prior to watching that, so I could laugh instead of cry.
1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Thanks for the one girl two cups visual.
Jeff P 15 years ago

Dem leaders still giddy a year on should have decked the pallette-loads out like ceremonial floats, got dressed in some garish hawaiian outfit with a big headdress, and had little girls strewing rose petals along their path.
Pro Libertate 15 years ago

A Roman triumph would be most ideal, except without the dude reminding the president that he is merely mortal. That's a downer and has no place among all this hopeful optimism.
1. Naga Sadow 15 years ago
  
  I thought that dude was at his side after a battle. Really? During a triumph?
  1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
    
    Now, Naga, while you're trying to kill people and avoid being killed, is that the time for some dude to be droning some nonsense in your ear about being mortal?
    1. Naga Sadow 15 years ago
      
      No, no. After the battle. The wholesale slaughter of people is over. All that remains is . . . victory. That would seem to be the time to say it.
      1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
        
        That's what the triumph was for. The time between the victory and the triumph was traditionally reserved for raping, pillaging, plundering, and the hearing of feminine lamentations.
        
        Naga Sadow 15 years ago
        
        Hmmmm. Maybe. I do know that dude's witchcraft wouldn't have worked on me.
        
        Dude: Remember you are human.
        Me: Yeah? I just crushed my enemies, drove them before me, and heard the lamentations of their women. You sure I'm human? I seem to be pretty awesome. Probably the child of some god. You? You're human.
        
        John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
        
        If you don't do it just right famine is soon to follow.
2. Isaac Bartram 15 years ago
  
  We've already topped the Romans.
  
  At least they one had one horse appointed to the Senate.
  
  We've managed to completely fill ours with horses' asses.
JW 15 years ago

The "woooo...woooooo" of the forklift motor reminded me of the episode where Bender became human and the air was escaping from his rolls of fat.

Which fits here too.
1. Naga Sadow 15 years ago
  
  Dead? But he just said WoOOOOO!
2. Andrew S. 15 years ago
  
  Well, lets get the budget out of here. It's starting to smell up the joint.
  
  Makes sense.
3. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Bender? The guy with the cigar burn on his forearm and got a carton of smokes for Christmas?
  
  I need to revisit Breakfast Club. So many questions.
  1. what 15 years ago
    
    SMOKE UP JOHNNY
    1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
      
      Damn it! I forgot the line I wanted to use. Was something about my dope hidden in the nerd's underwear.
      1. RichN 15 years ago
        
        No dude, you put your weed in African artifacts.
      2. Spoonman 15 years ago
        
        Impossible, sir. It's in Johnson's underwear.
hmm 15 years ago

That there was a lot of asswipin' paper.
Syd Henderson 15 years ago

Well, that's VP Biden's copy. Only 100 more to go!
Ziggy 15 years ago

hahaha, great video. Btw i just saw on msnbc the "economic adviser of VP biden" being interviewed...

Does that count as a stiumulus job as well? Since when does the VP need an economic adviser? what legislation is he writing. (although i am sure the position existed before this government)
1. hmm 15 years ago
  
  Biden has a breathing coach.
  
  Coach: Okay joe, breath in.
  Coach: breath out
  Coach: breath in.
  Coach: breath out
  
  They mic him up when he travels.
  1. brotherben 15 years ago
    
    They mic him up when he travels.
    
    God Damn Duracell batteries too, I bet.
P Brooks 15 years ago

I want Ron Paul to read it into the record.
1. Rich 15 years ago
  
  I agree in principle, but not Dr. Paul.
  
  Perhaps Diane Watson?
  1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
    
    No! Robin Guthries.
2. Maverick 15 years ago
  
  Bobcat Goldwaith. Police Academy version.
P Brooks 15 years ago

Since when does the VP need an economic adviser?

Those jobs don't just create and save themselves, you know.
greg 15 years ago

can't they email that shit?

Reminds me of when I have to throw out the assload of phone books they deliver to my office every year.
James Ard 15 years ago

That was the ugliest thing I have seen in a long time.
Tim Vinko 15 years ago

Wow, thats about as exciting as wathing paint dry!

RT
http://www.be-invisible.es.tc
1. sage 15 years ago
  
  Wow, bot conflicts with spellchecker...and loses.
  1. brotherben 15 years ago
    
    That or bot has a cold?
    1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
      
      I think it is an attempt at refrencing Biden's shirtless washing his Trans Am in the White House driveway.
2. PIRS 15 years ago
  
  How exactly does one wath paint dry?
  1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
    
    With a limp wrist.
  2. RichN 15 years ago
    
    With great anticipation.
Almanian 15 years ago

If the dude coming out of the room @ approx 2:04 had gotten jacked in the forehead by the cameraman, this would have totally been worth it. But he ducked - dang.
Mike Hammer 15 years ago

If this had a happy ending I'd be dragging Velda from the beach house as Gabrielle is consumed by the atomic fire rising from the box.
beezle 15 years ago

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011

Year/Pages: 2010: 186 p.
Price: $37.00 Add To Cart

Appendix: Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011

Year/Pages: 2010: 1424 p.
Price: $73.00 Add To Cart

Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011

Year/Pages: 2010: 368 p.
Price: $49.00 Add To Cart

Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011

Year/Pages: 2010: 472 p.
Price: $52.00 Add To Cart

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2011 (CD-ROM)
Year/Pages: 2010: CD-ROM.

Contains all of the above
Price: $25.00 Add To Cart

Total: 2,450 pages Cost: $211 or 8.6 cents per page.

I wonder how many of the Congress Critters ever read more than 0 pages?
1. Pro Libertate 15 years ago
  
  How much do I have to pay to have the whole thing chucked into the trash?
  1. Rich 15 years ago
    
    If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
2. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  I was expecting a "priceless" at the end.
  1. PIRS 15 years ago
    
    Seeing a government shutdown* do to gridlock in the Senate - priceless.
    
    * We can only hope.
    1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
      
      WIN!
DJF 15 years ago

They need to have a song for this occasion, like "Hail to the Chief" for the President, it could be "Hail to the Budget"
John Tagliaferro 15 years ago

Was the forklift business of hauling it in trying to show the Left that the Democrat Congress really does like spending money they don't have?
1. Jerry 15 years ago
  
  They should have used a forklift that was made in China.
  1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
    
    Sweet. With an operator from El Salvador.
    1. old publisher guy 15 years ago
      
      Did it smell all inky, and was nice and warm - fresh off the presses? I love that.
      1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
        
        Not sure. I was safely in America during the event.
bleek obummer 15 years ago

And he said "Let there be debt" and there was debt - massive debt.
1. PIRS 15 years ago
  
  +1
  1. Ziggy 15 years ago
    
    +2, great line...
    1. smedley 15 years ago
      
      +3
2. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  @ $4T/yr we can be up to $16T by 2012!
A Zen Koan 15 years ago

When the hubless wheel turns,
Master or no master can stop it.
It turns above heaven and below earth,
South, north, east and west.
Bulucanagria 15 years ago

That was seriously bizarre. And did that guy have a boxcutter in a federal building?
1. The Bearded Hobbit 15 years ago
  
  What, was he gonna fly the building into an airplane or something?
  
  ... Hobbit
  1. The Art-P.O.G. 15 years ago
    
    Ha! Classic, Hobbit.
Hugo Chavez 15 years ago

Just because it's huge, doesn't mean it's a Bolshevik plot. You're obviously a bunch of ideologues.
1. Michael 15 years ago
  
  That's what she said.
2. Maverick 15 years ago
  
  What's wrong with you're face?
  1. Maverick 15 years ago
    
    Stupid iPhone.
JW 15 years ago

"The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!"
1. Episiarch 15 years ago
  
  "I have a special purpose too!"
ransom147 15 years ago

i'm not gonna watch that fucking shit.
Maverick 15 years ago

Eff u, 3rd party spam filter.
1. 3rd Party Spam Filter 15 years ago
  
  You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.
Robert 15 years ago

All the pomp and circumstance without the benefit of a diploma. It would have been better if they had delivered it in a coffin complete with men in black suits to deliver out national eulogy.
d 15 years ago

Line item #1: money to pay for that fancy binding for the budget itself.

WTF?! Is plain paper not good enough?
1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Looked like cheap paperback "perfect" binding to me.
Ziggy 15 years ago

Has anyone ever read the comment section of the huffington post, I did today for the first time in a couple of months and I cant help but feel hopeless at the orgy of idiocy that goes on over there. I dont mean just in misguided opinions, i mean misguided opinions based on wrong information. Information that is actually pretty easy to find. Unfortunately I think the readers of the huffington post represent most american voters...

This gem "
photo

The U.S. needs to make guns illegal and drugs legal. Then and only then will the violence in Mexico stop. Very sad. So many of my students are being affected by this horrible violence. Please pray for Juarez!" the guns where Ak 47's... that and great comments just like it came from:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....43727.html
Nancy Pelosi 15 years ago

Shut up. The American people are interested in process.
1. John Tagliaferro 15 years ago
  
  Right on Nancy! We all want government processed cheese spread!
2. RichN 15 years ago
  
  No recess! We'd rather have them playing with each other than our money.
hmm 15 years ago

I give you the Galactic Godwin.

(unfortunately I lost some creative control due to not having "far far away" so it scrolls too fast and ends on an odd note)
hmm 15 years ago

I give you the Galactic Godwin.

(unfortunately I lost some creative control due to not having "far far away" so it scrolls too fast and ends on an odd note)

code fail fixed
j.i.am 15 years ago

What, they don't have e-mail in Washington?

Where's the Sierra Club when you need them?

True story:

I was working on fairly large public sector construction project a few years back and the specifications called for 17 copies of every letter and submittal. This is 10's of thousands of pages and 100's of binders. Some smartass called the Sierra Club to see if he could stir things up. Sure enough, a story appeared in the local news about the paper waste involved in the project.

The owner (a CA City) caved right away and introduced a change order to reduce the hard copies to 3, plus 1 electronic copy.

I'll bet the hard copies delivered to the Senate is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the total number of hard copies distributed.
1. Barack Obama 15 years ago
  
  I'll bet the hard copies delivered to the Senate is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the total number of hard copies distributed.
  
  In order to ensure greater transparency in my Administration, I have ordered the Government Printing Office and the U.S. Postal Service to provide every household in the country with a hard copy of my Proposed Budget.
I, Kahn O'Clast 15 years ago

You think those books are big, ha! What you don't realize is the whole thing is written in a 2 point font.
wylie 15 years ago

I actually expected a team of elephants pulling it into the chambers

The people guiding those suspensor lifts aren't big enough to count as elephants?

This vid pissed me off to no end.

1. motorized lifts? wtf
2. like anyone is ever going to read that phonebookian tome. wtf

Can we waste money any harder? Couldn't possibly have just put all that shit on a website, no no no, we need 500+ copies of a 5000pg+ book. Gotta keep the Govt Printing Office in business I guess.

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