Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

In after Baud. Damn.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“But what about the lurkers?”

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The revolution will be supervised.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

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Lost of interesting stuff on the Taylor/Baucus gay ad today:

To their credit, The Daily Kos and Ted Barlow have essentially ‘come out’ (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) against the ad.

Andrew Sullivan notes, quite correctly, that if the roles were reversed, the libs would be screaming bloody murder.

Jane Galt thinks the whole problem could be solved by giving the Democrats a wedgie.

As expected, Josh Marshall describes himself as equivocal. Depends on what the meaning of the word is, is, I guess.

Nothing yet from The New Republic, although I am willing to bet that they will continue to defend the Lautenberg/Toricelli switch using this exact case as evidence that candidate switching will not happen frequently. Of course not- Mark Racicot believes in the rule of law.

John Fund reports this isn’t the first time Max Baucus has dabbled in sleazy campaign tactics:

That’s pretty much what political observers also said in 1978, when the Montana AFL-CIO decided to unload on Republican Larry Williams, an investment adviser who was running against Mr. Baucus for the Senate. The union distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of a photo, taken when Mr. Williams lived in California, that showed him wearing love beads and with an unkempt hairdo, a sharp contrast to the buttoned-down image he tried to convey in his Senate race.

Mr. Williams claimed the photo had been taken after he had finished a long flight, but the damage was done. Charles Johnson, a journalist for the Lee newspaper chain in Montana, says that “at the time, some election observers credited the move as a factor in helping Baucus win the tight race.”

Apparently homophobia is only bad when it hurts Democrats.

Orrin Judd asks:

When nuts blow up a government building in Oklahoma City we are told it is because talk radio is anti-government. When a black man is dragged to death in Texas we are told it is because George Bush didn’t sign a hate crimes bill. The next time some gay kid is beaten to death will we hear that it is because the Democratic Party has made gays into objects of derision?

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Meet Sour Bob’s Best Friend:

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My Best Friend Is The Most Annoying Person In The World

I didn’t plan to end up with this guy as my best friend.

He’s painfully uncool. He watches wrestling for chrissakes. He loves video games and insists on discussing their nuances in agonizing detail, even as I’ve assured him repeatedly that I do not give a fuck. His wardrobe is an odd mix of items that should have died on the Old Navy

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Check out this new strategery from the New Republic weblog, which last week spent a great deal of time screaming about how unfair it would be for New Jersey voters not to have a choice, even to the point of stating this whopper:

All of which is to say, you can argue that it’s not fair to allow Democrats to sub in Frank Lautenberg at this late date. You can argue that it violates some cherished abstract principle like rule of law. But, please, spare us the gloom-and-doom talk about what future elections holds if this precedent stands. The answer is nothing appreciably different from the present.

So, what do our fearless defenders of the franchise offer up for us today? A plausible way to UNDO the results of the 2002 election if it does not go the Democrats way:

Conventional wisdom holds that Democrats can’t afford to lose even one seat from their 51-49 (technically 50-49-1) Senate majority. That’s because, in the event of an effective 50-50 tie (49 Democrats plus Jim Jeffords), Republicans would reclaim Senate control by virtue of Vice President Dick Cheney’s tie-breaking power. But we’ve long wondered whether the Dems have some margin for error–namely, Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island. Soon after Jeffords’s party-switch last year, Chafee also dropped hints (albeit in typical flaky fashion) that he might be the next to defect.

Surely the New Republic would not want to overturn an election in this manner, disfranchising all those Rhode Island voters. Yeah, right.

New Democrat Slogan- If you can’t beat ’em, cheat ’em.

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Sniper Advice From Tony Woodlief

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Tony Woodlief is living with the fear of being shot by the disgusting D.C. Sniper, and is tired of being told to ‘go about business as usual.’ Here is what he thinks officials should be saying:

Far worse than pronouncements of public officials, who have to say something, after all, if only because voters won’t tolerate Tony’s version of a press conference (“Guy out there with a rifle. If he’s aiming at you, you’ll probably get shot. If you see him first, aim for the upper body and save the taxpayers some money. Have a nice day”)

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Who Will Be The First Democrat Hack to Make This Claim?

If you have not heard already, the Republican candidate Mike Taylor, who was running against Max Baucus(D-MT), has withdrawn because of a negative ad campaign:

State Sen. Mike Taylor, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, will withdraw from the race this afternoon, saying a Montana Democratic Party television ad has destroyed his campaign.

Taylor, who has scheduled a press conference in Helena for 2 p.m., said the ad, which he said insinuated that he was a gay hairdresser, had pushed his poll numbers through the floor.

Unconfirmed rumors have Taylor being replaced by former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, who is now chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Although the ad was placed by the Democratic Party, Taylor blamed Sen. Max Baucus for it.

“We have zero left to fight with,” Alan Mikkelsen, Taylor’s campaign manager, said Thursday morning. “The ad has destroyed the campaign. We have no money left and we don’t want to stoop to the same level.”

Here is a description of the ad:

“What bothers me,” Taylor said, “is they are using a picture to assassinate my character. Why use that picture? Are they saying someone from my field in not qualified to be senator?”

What incensed Taylor was the film clip accompanying the ad. Taylor had a twice weekly segment in the early 1980s on a Denver television station. The clip shows Taylor applying lotions to the face of a man siting in the barber chair and discussing techniques. The ad shows Taylor, then slender, sporting a full beard. He is wearing a tight-fitting, three piece suit, with a big-collared open shirt ala John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever.” Taylor’s top two or three shirt buttons are unbuttoned, exposing some bare chest and a number of gold chains.

“I cannot believe they would stoop to that level,” Taylor said.

State Sen. Ken Toole, D-Helena, and program director for the Montana Human Rights Network, said Thursday morning the ad “is an overt and obvious appeal to the homophobic (voter) that is playing to that stereotypic imagery.”

Toole, who has fought for homosexual rights for years in the Montana Legislature, said he had complained to the state Democratic Party.

Now, it is obvious what the ad was trying to insinuate. However, Democrats being hypocrites, liars, and extraordinary spinners, I want readers to look for the first Democrat who makes an argument like this:

“The ad was not playing to homophobic fears- it was just showing how inexperienced Taylor was and showing some of his past. What is clear is the obvious homophobic nature of the Republican party, who felt it was necessary to pull their candidate because someone misinterpreted that he might be homosexual.”

Beieve me, it will be uttered by some hack. Democrats aren’t bigots for running the ad- Republicans are for interpreting that a hairdresser must be gay. Trust me on this, and if you see someone argue this before I do, please e-mail me.

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