Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

When I was faster i was always behind.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Let there be snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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  1. 1.

    Brandon

    Some of it is desperation. But I think that a lot of them consider it vengence for the Clinton years.

  2. 2.

    David Perron

    I’m sure this will swiftly be countered with the idea that the new Republican tactic is to claim any lie is a mistake. Probably already has in the Atriette chorus (thanks for that label, John. I really, really enjoyed it) or over at Hesiod[sic].

  3. 3.

    Dean

    And moral equivalency lives on.

    With this tactic:

    EITHER Dubya is as bad as Bubba (they both lied);

    OR Bubba is not nearly as bad as Dubya, since they both made mistakes of fact.

    And, remember, Bubba ONLY made mistakes about sex, while Dubya’s lying about national security. Rehabilitation AND political coup-counting in one fell swoop!

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    HH

    Bubba ONLY lied under oath about something he clearly, no-doubt-about-it KNEW was true, in regards to a law he himself passed, in order to deny an American citizen a fair day in court.

    Bush may have said something inaccurate that, thus far, no one has offered a sliver of evidence he knew was inaccurate, and last I checked, the oath is not administered before the SOTU. (Should we now comb Clinton’s SOTU speeches for statements he knew to be inaccurate since this comparison has been started?) And it was around 1% of the case he made in the SOTU about Iraq… and it wasn’t included in his Secretary of State’s more important speech on Iraq… and this information is still being held up as accurate by the British government, which is where Bush said he got it in the first place.

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    mj

    Dean,

    I can’t tell if your post is sarcastic or not. It certainly starts out that way, mocking moral equivalency while engaging in it. But then you appear to move on to the standard “it was only about sex” excuse.

    Maybe Bill Clinton didn’t know he received a blowjob?

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    Dean

    Sorry, mj, I should’ve been clearer, I was being sarcastic.

    I believe that the effort to equate mistakes with lies is related to a separate effort to rehabilitate Bubba. If mistakes=lies, the Left will then try to create the false dichotomy of either everybody is mistaken, or else Dubya lied. And, they will claim, even IF Bubba lied, it was “only” about sex.

    The thing is to hold the Left’s feet to the fire. The proper comparison will be the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, and whether Bubba “lied” in attacking it, or was mistaken.

    Hope that clears things up?

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