1,000 Words: Home Alone Edition

H/T to Christopher Roughton, who alerted me (via Twitter) to this AP Photo. It shows House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers holding a Capitol Hill news conference today on health care legislation:

Roughton’s suggested caption:

Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?

Related Topics: cathy mcmorris rodgers, mike pence, 1,000 Words, Congress, Health Care
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  • gysgt213

    Okay! Hold it! Hold it! You 2 please! One question at a time. Next.

  • spob

    A bit of a cheap shot KT . . . .

  • http://fourlegsrgood.wordpress.com fourlegsgood

    Turn the machines… BACK…ON!!!!!!

  • gysgt213

    They kinda of look short on lighting too. Poor things.

  • billiecat

    He who smelt it, dealt it.

  • palininatowel

    “Cathy and I are here today to announce our engagement. I just think she’s the hottest Republican I’ve ever met!”

  • palininatowel

    Scherer shouting from the second row: “I love you guys!”

  • palininatowel

    You’re right, spob. The picture speaks for itself. It doesn’t need a caption.

  • allthingsinaname

    Are we late?

  • jsfox

    This coming from the master of cheap shots.

  • mni08

    Life as a looser not pretty.

  • nflfoghorn

    “We have a 40% off sale on American flags here at HSN.”

  • earljr1

    If you are not left wing and radical, we refuse to acknowledge you. (big surprise) That’s okay, come November, the public will garner all of the headlines when we start voting the left wing loonies out of office!

  • spob
  • square1

    Actually there are only two journalists there. The guy in the back is a teabagger disrupting the proceedings.

  • square1

    That’s the whole point of having a liberal media, spob.

  • spob

    name one, jsfox

  • spob

    jsfox, is this a cheap shot?
    .

    .
    pointing out another corrupt Dem? Why does Nancy give him a spot on any committee? Dems could boot him from the caucus.

  • grape_crush

    Fox News Exclusive: Hundreds of Journos Covering Pence-Rodgers Health Care News Conference On Capitol Hill

  • spob

    Is this a cheap shot?
    .
    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/23/why-is-holder-appearance-to-congress-delayed/
    .
    Wondering whether Holder can be as bad as Abu Gonzales (H/T DailyKos).

  • square1

    Yes, because the American people are going to rush out and put the GOP back into power when they have no plan and want to “start over.”
    .
    The American people want leadership. The cost of health care keeps going up. People are denied coverage and denied benefits.
    .
    You might not like the Dem’s plan, but it is a plan. And the public will always choose something over nothing. Before the GOP rolls out its campaign to “repeal” HCR, they might want to come up with an alternative to sell.

  • ilvoternew

    If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears …..

  • square1

    FTW!

  • nflfoghorn

    Cracking News!

  • jnb987

    The GOP announced that lapel pins are no longer acceptably patriotic enough; they now intend to feature one full-size American flag for every attendant at their press conferences.

  • tstar3

    Reporters: Where the he$$ are those free donuts you guys promised.

    In all honesty the GOoPers did this to themselves..without anyone spitting, calling someone the n or f word, or even making cute hitler-obama photos..the press, and the population, are really not that interested..

    Why tease us with Filet Mignon if you are just going to order a happy meal.

  • repzak

    Cathy: “Number 30 – that’s number 30″
    Scherer: “Bingo! Wooo. As thanks for letting me win I’ll make sure to put a partisan slur on the Dems in my next post about HCR.”

  • grape_crush

    Pence: “We’d like to offer you an opportunity to own your own business…the Republican Party is not like other Multi-Level Marketing systems that you may have encountered…”

    Rodgers: “Where did everyone go?”

  • newfreedomblog

    “You might not like the Dem’s plan, but it is a plan. And the public will always choose something over nothing. Before the GOP rolls out its campaign to “repeal” HCR, they might want to come up with an alternative to sell.”

    .
    Have you ever in your life heard or read a more stupid, asinine statement in your life?
    .
    I guess when they shouted out “who wants a train?”, square1 thought they said brain.
    .
    I guess when Napoleon decided to attack at Waterloo, that was a “bad plan, but it was a plan none-the-less”. Well wing-nut sometimes it is a better choice to go back to the drawing board, to re-look at the situation and say to everyone, “this won’t work, we need to start over again”.
    .
    This has been another segment of rational replys for stupid statements.

  • http://jcufaude.wordpress.com/ jcufaude

    So this is what Boehner meant when he said we were 24 hours from Armageddon.

  • bobell

    “We’re here today to auction off three American flags and two others, all in excellent condition.”

  • alexvallas

    This is great. Right after there was extraordinary coverage of the President signing the Executive Order stating that no federal funds would be used for abortions, Pence got up and blasted the bill as FUNDING ABORTIONS. The guy is clueless. The bigger question is how do so many of these people get elected to Congress? Male congressmen who want to tickle their male staff. Members who want to play footsie in toilet stalls – hiding $100,000 (kickbacks) in cash in freezers — not paying taxes due — and the list goes on and on and on and on. It is really scary.

  • http://flounder73.wordpress.com pafro

    At least they only have to fear getting hit by 8 shoes.

  • http://fourlegsrgood.wordpress.com fourlegsgood

    spob’s tears are sweet indeed.

    As Peggy the Nooner might say, “SAVOR”

  • sacredh

    Pence: Are there any questions?

    Guy in front: Yeah, when do we get our $20 for showing up?

  • sacredh

    Guy in white shirt: Hurry up mom. We’re going to be late if you insist on talking to everybody. You’ve never drawn a crowd this big before.

  • deconstructiva

    Memo to R’s: next time bring food. Those reporters don’t work for free, even FOX.

  • deconstructiva

    Next time this happens (no crowds), fill the seats with inflatable fake reporters, sim. to the inflatable Otto the Autopilot from Airplane! No one will notice.

  • sacredh

    I like the idea of inflatable fake reporters. Fill them with helium and tie them to the seats by a continuous string. Cut the string at the end of the news conference. Here’s the headline when the video is shown:
    .
    Fox News has exclusive footage of today’s Republican News conference followed by the Rapture. See the faithful ascend to Heaven. Godless Democrats still earthbound. Beck squirts then cries at 6. Stay tuned.

  • klystronfm

    Mike Pence or ‘Not Much Mike’ as he’s known in his district… another one of the GOP Brain Trust (along with fellow intellectuals Eric Cantor, John Boehner and John Cornyn.

    Pence could not pour urine out of a boot with the directions printed on the heel.

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