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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

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

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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  2. 2.

    bg

    Please cite a few dems or libs who’ve said “Bush is gutting spending.”

    Everything I’ve read has said precisely the opposite: Bush is cutting taxes and NOT cutting spending, which is leading to massive deficits. Your post is contrary to my experience.

  3. 3.

    David Perron

    Lied to by Democrats, Blarn.

    You really ought to work on your reading comprehension.

  4. 4.

    David Perron

    I think the inestimable Tony Foresta started that “gutting spending” meme.

  7. 7.

    Andrew Lazarus

    The Kuttner article talks about some very specific (often stupid) cuts, and shouldn’t be interpreted as a complaint about across-the-board cuts. I don’t know where to assign blame in the Nathan Newman case, because I don’t know if Bush really did what he said he would. When I looked at the budget data myself, I did notice that the chart is selected to capture extreme cases. It isn’t all the data at all. And the third link is to a secondary source, and I don’t know if its summary of TomPaine.com is accurate.

    All in all, though, I’ll take a moment of rare agreement with John. Bush blinked when time came for the service cuts necessary to offset the tax cuts. He, and the Republicans, are too *chicken* to cut the programs the way John wants too. (Agreement was short; I like most of them.) They’re probably right: voters like tax cuts in the abstract, but biting the bullet on services might cost seats. Instead they told an absurd fairy tale about revenue recovery. They killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

    So, why aren’t Bush’s budget claims a lie again? ( Joe Klein has a great column today on Bush and truth.)

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    Thomas J. Jackson

    The hell with the Democrats, Bush is spending like a drunken sailor. pressing for big government programs that Clinton wouldn’t have dared ask for. What is Bush but Clinton Lite (though he isn’t a lying pile of fertilizer like the ole intern molester).

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    bear, the (one each)

    Bush is proving to be an even bigger Democrat than Richard Nixon. You remember Nixon: affirmative action, food stamps, wage and price controls, that sort of thing?

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