It's Alive! It's Alive!!

I see the wingnuts simply can't help themselves. A little time in the minority status, and they immediately rush to their laboratories, eager to create new Wankenstein monsters.

Our Wankenstein Monster of the day is indeed lumbering and dumb as a sack of hammers, my friends.

Let me introduce you to Patrick Ruffini, who has a gripe with the Democrats. See, he's a little upset about this "First 100 Hours" thing. The Democrats fully completed their 100 Hour Agenda, and Ruffini has nothing but scorn for them.

Why, you ask? Well, because they completed it early, of course!

Consider this a lesson in how not to make news.

So, it was going to be the First 100 Hours.

Then it was going to be the first 100 legislative hours. It’s been 342 hours since the Democrats took over — plenty of time to squeeze in those 100 hours.

But no. It turns out we are actually in the 42nd hour of the Democrat 100 Hours — with all the agenda items complete.

Is it 100 hours? 342? Or 42? I’m thoroughly confused.

Talk about a monumentally mismanaged rollout. First, come up with a benchmark that means something different than it says. Then show people how little grasp you have of Congress by actually working less than half as hard as you promised over the “100 Hours” period.

And the 100 342 42 Hours is supposed to get people all excited and singing “Happy Days Are Here Again?”

You really have to wonder what's going through the head of a person that's upset because the Democrats kept their promises, finished in less than half the time they said it would take, and he's quibbling that they didn't take long enough.

Oh, that's right. Absolutely nothing.

I suppose when you're used to seeing the people you elected into Congress and your President do absolutely nothing to help Americans for the last six years, seeing something accomplished might be just a little baffling.

Update: Because this graphic is simply too perfect to not use, Shakes and I award Patrick Ruffini the coveted Shakespeare's Sister Wankstain Award, given to sparkling examples of true wankers that can't help but stain the internet with their sticky leavings.




Y'all get some, just don't get any on ya!


(For the record, I'm not exactly dancing a jig over the completion of the agenda; the Democrats have a lot of hard work ahead of them, and there's still the possibility of veto, etc. I think "celebrating" is slightly silly... they're doing their jobs, after all. However, I do applaud them for keeping their word and accomplishing this; keep it up, Dems! Tip of the Energy Dome to Oliver.)

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