Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Petty moves from a petty man.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

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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.

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    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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