Ok, I'm here now. Hey y'all. Here we go with our interactive live-blog of today's debate. Simply leave a comment (Again, you can do so anonymously) and you are an insta-pundit PinkDome style!
We'll add our two cents in the entry after the 'read more' jump (just hit refresh on your browser to see new posts). Now, if it weren't for the teenage cheerleaders wandering around we could concentrate.
Comments are currently open and unmoderated. However, if we catch you being obscene (more than we are) or speaking Spanish we'll delete. That's just us being arbitrary and bitter because we know later tonight we'll have million 'texas hold'em' spam comments to delete.
5:12 p.m. We're going to happy hour and get a drink. And dammit, y'all do something about the wireless signal. It's like 1998 over here in the gallery. We're having to use bluetooth and that is HARD. Jeesh, buy a repeater at radio shak for chrissakes.
"Emplow-ee" - Otto is killing me here.
my boyfriend Mark Strama is talking.
bluebonnet...are you a boy or a girl?
um - does it matter? He's not my real boyfriend. . .
hmm.... it's more like emplo-eeys.
wonk, I can hear that too.
It's so much easier to pay attention to the debate watching the live stream. I can hardly pay attention because there's so much distraction. We're going to get whiplash watching everything in here.
Is it just me, or are people repeating themselves?
They're trying to make sure their sounbyte gets a quote in the newspaper.
Rep. Puente is like, man, I've been here all afternoon and y'all are saying the same crap over and over.
Okay, I paraphrased. A little.
"reform franchise tax"?
Rep. Eddie Rodriguez says it's the word of the day. Except, it's really three words. We won't hold it against him - or his pink tie.
Alright, I'm out. Hasta.
Rep.Eddie is one of the best members in the House, his pink tie rules!!!!
Talton is an evil son of a cow! He hates poor people
Keffer is stalling to get his substitue bill and Gallego is attempting to get an answer to whether the House can move forward on amendments to the rest of the bill. He is not getting a cleae answer.
Looks like they dont have the votes
dude, I said "spammish"!!