Executive Board Elections!
Posted 11/21/11 by Jon Newmark
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Posted 1/27/10 by Eva Lam
Budget freezes, underwear bombs, gay soldiers? Have at it in the comments.
Posted 1/27/10 by Eva Lam
Budget freezes, underwear bombs, gay soldiers? Have at it in the comments.
Keith Olbermann is wondering if words have meaning. I’m gonna go with “yes, unless you’re NBC or Harry Reid.”
NBC joke, check.
Fun fact: this is the first SOTU delivered on a wheelchair-accessible rostrum.
i BO
Hands up if Joe Biden’s smile has blinded you.
Obama’s lookin’ hot.
***I <3 nancy pelosi
Spotted: Joe and Nancy; matching tie and pant suit. Coincidence? I think not.
xoxo
Crimson Girl
I <3 Harvard Dems!
kind of sucks for harry reid that joe gets to sit behind obama/next to nancy…but totally okay since joe > harry x1000
pretty heavy start, talking about people’s struggles in the economy. no applause lines, just cold truth, and full attention. i approve.
The populist stance is coming out early. I think Biden has been eavesdropping on people’s kitchen-table conversations from the train again.
*hand up*
(fyi comments aren’t allowed to be as short as this one was without this parenthetical add-on…)
nancy has something in her teeth
Not a Dem, but throwing in my two cents… On a cynical note, is it possible for a speech, however powerful, to convince politicians to put aside what they see as the fastest route to reelection in order to do something that they know is good for the country but will make their election race more difficult?
aww, Lindsay Graham looks like he’s doing that awkward middle school boy thing where you’re inching your hand toward the girl’s hand during a movie. except the girl is John McCain.
*spotted….AC getting lots of dirty looks for causing the vending machine to be soooo loud*
“shore up the same banks that caused this crisis” = co-option? Joe likes it.
these “we all hated the bank bailout” attempts at humor are AWKWARD.
also, is a prerequisite for being a Senator that you have to clap your hands extremely strangely?
EWWWWWWW BLANCHE LINCOLN
DEFINATELY not a fan of the main street/ wall street cliche, it has been more than overused.
I’ve never seen so many people applaud at a fee before.
are those Democrats on the other side of the aisle, or actually Republicans clapping for that?
ok, those have to be Dems. LOOK AT OUR HUGE MAJORITY, WHY CAN’T WE GET MORE DONE.
harvard students in the midst of ERecruiting just shuddered…
CALLED OUT!!!!!!
LOVES IT!
JOKES JOKES JOKES.
OOOOOH. CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS, BARACK CALLED YOU OUT.
I wish he’d done that more in the last, say, year.
John Boehner could be on “Jersey Shore”
Cue angry looking republicans — the evil arched figures seem to be a popular, if misguided alternative on the other side of the aisle…
*fingers.
(damnit)
I can haz tax credit?
Hysen’s insight: Saying “capital gains tax cut” is the only way to get Republicans to applaud.
John Boehner’s face is hilarious. I can’t decide if I should mock his fluorescent orange skin, or his sarcastic fifth-grader expression…
MSNBC appears to have a camera dedicated to a group of brightly dressed Democratic members of the House.
Distracting fact: listen for Obama’s hands thumping on the podium
Bit of inter-house rivalry going on here…
Obligatory fashion comment of the evening: The ladies of the house are rocking some pretty amazing/ridiculous neon yellow and red suits — totally representative of the more “colorful” chamber…
You’ve been told all those things, and they are true. Sorry.
Or, at least while we have this Senate Majority Leader.
Sorry for the noise y’all…
P.S. Wanna know the real reason House Minority Leader John Boehner opposes the Health Care Reform bill?
10% Tax on cosmetic tanning.
It’s natural. I’m sure of it.
I realize it’s a good applause line, but can we realize “I do not accept second place for the United States of America” doesn’t really mean anything?
Dustin next to me is noting, with dismay, the lack of mention of health care yet.
hahahaha I love lines designed specifically to force the republicans to clap.
South Eastern High football rules!! Whoo!! *massive applause at blatant populism*
It appears that Chris Dodd’s recent political troubles have taken a serious toll on the vitality of his eyebrows.
SCIENCE IS IN A STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS. I am crying on the inside.
In a good way. Sorry, Ev.
Nuclear power plants: GOPers leap to their feet, Dems are verrrrryyy slow to follow.
Soon, Obama will give a shout-out to women in brightly colored suits, and we will have the best partial standing ovation EVER.
“Bipartisan effort in the Senate” means nothing, because it is not true.
“Get your s*%t together Senate!” comment #2 of the evening!
Also — thinly veiled “really ppl?’ comment #1
A good comment from my left: The Dems are wearing more colorful clothing because they have far more women.
I will dedicate the next year of my life to lobbying for Joe Biden to wear a bright purple suit to State of the Union 2011.
Hey, he’s already rocking the tie!
Looking forward to a buzzword count on this speech – I feel like we’re at several dozen “jobs” mentions right now.
Did Nancy just tell Joe it was time to stand up?