(Language NSFW) And that's how government works...

OK. Here's where we are at now, and why we still have a chance:

The House passed a bill that gives a huge tax cut to the rich and, for every $1 million in taxes they save, a 1%er gets a coupon that forces a working class person to perform analingus on them. (Tossing their salad, if you prefer.)

The Senate passed a bill that gives a huge tax cut to the rich and, for every $2 million in taxes they save, a 1%er gets a coupon that allows them to sodomize a working class person.

Now, the House and the Senate will pick a select group from their finest brain trusts and hammer out the differences between the two. Maybe it should take $2 million to get your ass eaten instead of $1 million, maybe $5 million gets your balls jiggled in exchange for dropping the butt-fucking altogether, maybe, maybe, maybe...

Anyway, you end up with a sloppier bill that gives both houses a little and really completely satisfies no one (kind of like an orgy at a conservative's house) which goes back to both the House and the Senate and gets voted on... all over again. Maybe the House won't like the compromises, maybe the Senate won't. Who's to say?

If they do agree on and vote to accept each other's compromises (and with the marital track record of most politicians, that would be a miracle), then we are, unfortunately, doomed, because it then goes to the desk of a President who is 1) desperate to show that he does anything besides play golf and obstruct justice and 2) happy to be able to prove that he can sign his own name.

And that's how government works.

Keep the pressure on your members of Congress; it's not over yet.

Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt...

I need to get this out there, mainly just for some perspective for myself.

In October of 2008, the money that I had worked hard all my life for, that I was going to use to buy a house with, came under attack from the housing market, the stock market, etc. all going to hell all at once; on one very bad Friday, I lost over $40,000 in one day, just as if I had had it in a big pile of cash in front of me that I set on fire. That, dear friends, sucked. Hard.

Today, Matt Lauer was told that, due to his reprehensible behavior, he could stick the rest of his contract where the sun doesn't shine. His being a perv to women just cost him 30 MILLION DOLLARS.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Couldn't of happened to a nicer son of a bitch.

I eventually got my house anyway. Good luck with that career, you dick.