The Wild West-flavored criticism of the Senate Finance Committee’s health bill offered Tuesday by Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., inspired Stephen Colbert to extend the metaphor on Wednesday’s “The Colbert Report.” Donning a cowboy hat and fancy boots, Colbert said: “You see, folks — we’re on a runaway stagecoach of big government, being chased by the coyotes of increased deficits and heading right into an ambush by the Comanche in chief and his hope Hopis. And unless the marshal of fiscal responsibility arrives on the noon train of free-market principles to drive these saloon girls of new taxes out, the pickup truck of high premiums will get eaten by the death panel prairie dogs and the Boot Hill tumbleweed sarsaparilla varmint six-shooter cattle-rustling. . . .” — you get the idea.
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Way to go WE Blog! Another waste of a thread!
Who do you guys have working over there, chimps?
wtf cares what Colbert thinks.
wtf cares what Colbert thinks.
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Monkeyhawk and Linda, that’s about it.
Colbert = journalist.
War of the Worlds = Documentary.
Awesome. Hard hitting news as always.
The difference is Colbert is an intentional joke.
(Cluster)Fux Noise channel, on the other hand, is…
…okay, bad example.
I care. I get enough static from the rest of the world for living in Kansas without our esteemed senator coming off like a B western extra. Selling art from a cultural backwater is hard enough without our politicians yelling “Cut ‘em off at the pass!” at every opportunity.
If Mark Twain were alive today, he’d be Stephen Colbert . . . or John Stewart.
“There’s a new sheriff in town, dedicated to fiscal responsibility.” Worst President Ever
Eight years later, the national debt had nearly DOUBLED.
Well, who cares what you cons “think”? But the sure and certain knowledge that no one does doesn’t stop you bothering us with it here.
Colbert is a comedian.
Roberts is a joke.
What real cowboys think about Pat Roberts:
When I see a horse’s ass, I don’t want him to be wearing a suit and tie.
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Jed
Posted October 15, 2009 at 3:10 pm | Permalink
I care. I get enough static from the rest of the world for living in Kansas without our esteemed senator coming off like a B western extra. Selling art from a cultural backwater is hard enough without our politicians yelling “Cut ‘em off at the pass!” at every opportunity.
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Wuhl just hold your horses there Jed. Is this “cultural backwater” you are trying to sell art anywhere near downtown? Ya know, where the storm sewer backs up? Maybe you should move to Old Towne. Ya know that’s a classy place becuz of the extra “e”.
Anyway, ya can’t spect an old Western Kansas guy like Pat Roberts to talk big city. And we think fellers that complain too much is lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
“outlander” gives us –
“…lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.”
If we’d wanted Gabby Hayes as a Senator we would have elected him.
“I am terribly concerned that we are riding hell for leather into a health care box canyon, full of spending quicksand, cactus tax hikes, policy briar patches, complete with CMS regulatory scorpions rattlesnakes, and bad news bears.
“Something like riding your pickup over a whole tangle of barbed wire, and getting out of this Mr. Chairman and back on solid ground to make Medicare solvent is going to be a mighty rough and long ride.”
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D’oh!!!
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Way to go Roberts, you tool, make fellow Kansans look the fool.
Our good congresspeople are such inspiration and fodder for the late night comedians.
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abo3Zo0ifzJg
When are you Obaaama noids going to address this?
And oh yeah, fuch Robertson.
And Roberts.
Outie,
“Wuhl just hold your horses there Jed. Is this “cultural backwater” you are trying to sell art anywhere near downtown?”
I currently sell very little of my work in the state. Most of my buyers are on the coasts or in Europe. Kansas has an ongoing image problem, and I have to work hard to convince them that good work can actually come from Kansas. Most of them were aware of BTK, and the state’s 30 year Keystone Kops lack of success in catching the guy. During the Kansas Kreation Wars I caught flack from customers as far away as Germany and Spain! I don’t think I’ll ever hear the end of Dorothy and Toto. I really don’t need our esteemed Senator coming off like Slim Pickens in “Blazing Saddles!” If these problems can affect my one-man enterprise, I hate to think what they do to major business dealings for the state!