"What have you guys been debating, John? You've been debating a commemorative coin for baseball."

[bigtree]

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____ President Obama scolded Congressional Republicans for spending time on a vote to reaffirm "In God We Trust" as the country's official motto rather than working on his legislation to create jobs.

In a speech touting his $447 billion American Jobs Act in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Obama jabbed, "I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work."

"If Congress tells you they don't have time, they have time to do it," remarked the President.

He then called out House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) by name.

"What have you guys been debating, John? You've been debating a commemorative coin for baseball. You have legislation reaffirming that "In God We Trust" is our motto. That's not putting people back to work," he added.


read: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-slams-gop-decision-vote-god-trust-motto-job-creation-bill-article-1.971640

[barbtries]

1. it's almost funny

the way the republicans are thinking up ways to waste time and our dollars while the country goes down the shithole. on the other hand, it's tragic. actually tragic.

[lonestarnot]

6. Not even fucking close to funny, so just what the fuck are you about?

Wierd sense of humor I guess.

[barbtries]

7. just what the fuck.

so trivial it's absurd. you've never found humor in the absurd? what the fuck is with what the fuck.

[lonestarnot]

10. I just looked at it from living the result of their bullshit. They are not funny and neither is the

devastation they are creating.

[barbtries]

11. i agree

as i said, it's tragic. peace.

[Laluchacontinua]

13. Black humor.

Black humour (from the French humour noir) is a term coined by Surrealist theoretician André Breton in 1935,<7><8> to designate a sub-genre of comedy and satire<9><10> in which laughter arises from cynicism and skepticism,<7><11> often about the topic of death.<12><13>

Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humour (Anthologie de l'humour noir), in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humour and gallows humour, and included excerpts from 45 other writers. Breton included both examples in which the wit arises from a victim, with which empathizes, as it's more typical in the tradition of gallows humor, and examples in which the comic is used to mock the victim, whose suffering is trivialized, and leads to sympathizing with the victimizer, as is the case with Sade. Black humour is related to that of the grotesque genre.<14>

Breton identified Swift as the originator of black humour and gallows humour, particularly in his pieces Directions to Servants (1731), A Modest Proposal (1729), A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick (1710), and a few aphorisms.<8><11>

The terms black comedy or dark comedy have been later derived as alternatives to Breton's term. In black humour, topics and events that are usually regarded as taboo, specifically those related to death, are treated in an unusually humorous or satirical manner while retaining their seriousness; the intent of black comedy, therefore, is often for the audience to experience both laughter and discomfort, sometimes simultaneously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy


Black humor is very funny, imo.

[Firebrand Gary]

2. We can debate baseball coins and moto's but we can't pass a resolution to honor seal team 6?

Go figure fuckin boner.

[yellowcanine]

3. This is a good tactic on Obama's part. Point out the absurdity that is the Republican Party.

[zbdent]

4. trying to make illegal abortions more illegaler ...

(to paraphrase George W. Bush)

[surrealAmerican]

5. I'm glad to see he's calling them out on this.

The republicans are wasting time while people are suffering.

[JNelson6563]

8. They keep millions out of work to put 1 out of a job.

[bigtree]

12. unreal

surreal even

[Arctic Dave]

9. Nice, that's how you use a bully pulpit.

To point out the absurdity of your opponent and slap them down for it.