Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

This blog will pay for itself.

Republicans in disarray!

Everybody saw this coming.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Come on, man.

Please don’t feed the bears.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The jury literally has a bell they can ring to force Trump to show up on command. Greatest thing ever!

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

If marriage is the equivalent of selling yourself into slavery, women with self respect should reject the offer.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

The willow is too close to the house.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

If West Virginia and San Francisco had a love child.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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Maddy Talks Again

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Note to former Clinton officials- Shut the F— Up.:

US President George W. Bush’s foreign policy “is not good for America, not good for the world,” Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state under Bill Clinton’s presidency, told French radio.

In an interview with the Europe 1 station Albright heavily criticised the actions of the Republican leadership that replaced the Democratic administration she worked for, and notably the “chaos” that reigns in Iraq.

“America is much stronger in a multilateral system, we must be on the same side, work with other people in the world. It shouldn’t be America versus the others,” Albright said, speaking in French.

“It’s difficult to be in France and criticise my government. But I’m doing so because Bush and the people working for him have a foreign policy that is not good for America, not good for the world,” she said.

Yeah, it must be REALLY difficult to criticize the United States while relaxing in Paris. Has to be KILLING you. BTW, Ms. Albright- when are we going to have elections in Kosovo? This graf just infuriates me:

On Iraq, Albright said “I fear that there really is chaos there. We don’t know what’s going to happen. One or two Americans a day are killed.”

Bush’s insistence before and after the war that Saddam Hussein had ties to Osama bin Laden failed to convince her — “I didn’t really think that there was a link” — but, she said, the situation was getting to a point that Iraq was becoming a magnet for anti-US militants.

HUNH? Bush’s insistence that Osama and Hussein were tied together? Did I miss something?

Every time I am so damn sick and tired of Republicans (like I was about 2-3 weeks ago), the Democrats just start saying and doing whatever the hell they think they have to in order to get elected, and it invariably pushes me back to the GOP. Why can’t there be a viable Libertarian party?

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Cats and Dogs

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This will raise some eyebrows:

VV: I’m curious. What did you think of the Rush Limbaugh incident? I wrote an article [in Slate] essentially in support of what Limbaugh said, that Donovan McNabb was in fact overrated and that a lot of sportswriters were rooting for him to succeed because he was black. I admitted that it was certainly true in my case. My liberal friends were horrified. Several of them won’t speak to me now. That’s certainly an indication that in one form or another, the subject of race is still a hot button in sports.

LR: I think that’s true, and I thought of that when I heard about what Limbaugh said. Of course a lot of people, myself included, rooted for black ballplayers because they were black. I don’t know why that should be considered a controversial statement. That leads, inevitably, to overrating certain players. I’m not defending Limbaugh’s politics, but I think he just said out loud what some people were thinking. I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it.

VV is Allan Barra of the Village Voice, LR is Lester Rodney, described in the piece as “the sports columnist and sports editor for The Daily Worker, the largest and most influential Communist newspaper in the U.S. For more than a decade he was one of the leading agitators for the breaking of baseball’s color barrier.”

Communists to the defense of Rush Limbaugh. It’s a mad, mad, world out there.

(Via Max Sawicky)

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That Will Leave a Mark

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Allan Colmes, the liberal half of Hannity and Colmes, just made Zack Exley, a smirking, condescending twerp from MoveOn.Org, look like an utter fool and a babbling idiot on national television. I can’t wit for the transcripts. Exley did not have one serious respnse to Colme’s questions, and instead had all sorts of cutesy words and phrases like ‘misunderestimated,’ etc.

In other words, it was like listening to Alec Baldwin without the acting talent.

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Odd

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Not sure what to make of this, but I notice that my referral logs show a number of hits from John Kerry’s blog. Oddly enough, it was not simply a mistake.

Also, it is important to note that Kerry has posted an explanation on his blogsite why he is against the 87 billion request for Iraq. it is the standard DNC boilerplate:

The best way to support our troops and take the target off their backs is with a real strategy to win the peace in Iraq – not by throwing $87 billion at George Bush’s failed policies. I am voting ‘no’ on the Iraq resolution to hold the President accountable and force him finally to develop a real plan that secures the safety of our troops and stabilizes Iraq.

The Administration has wasted every opportunity to build an international coalition in Iraq.

They sure are sticking to the talking points- they still think there is no plan, and they still refuse to admit there is an international coalition. The unanimous Security Council vote today probably really pissed them off, but why let reality get in the way of rhetoric.

With our soldiers dying on a daily basis, the President needs to change course. But rather than putting in place a real plan, he has spent months drifting and zigzagging.

From dictionary.com:

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Dick Gephardt

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A grown-up Democrat does the right thing- which means there is no chance in hell he will win the nomination:

Democrat Dick Gephardt, siding with President Bush on his $87 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan, pledged Wednesday to finance the war on terrorism even if that posture undercuts his presidential bid or ensures budget deficits for years to come.

“We’re in a military situation, we’ve got a lot of foreign obligations, we’re fighting terrorism in many places around the world, we’ve got homeland security needs,” the former House minority leader said. “In light of that, I don’t think it’s possible to get to a balanced budget.”

In an hourlong interview with Associated Press editors and reporters, Gephardt criticized Bush’s postwar policy in Iraq, but argued that it would be irresponsible to vote against reconstruction money for two war-torn nations.

“I think we’ve got to send the right signal to our troops in the field, and we’ve got to send the right signal to people in Iraq who both don’t want us to succeed and do want us to succeed,” Gephardt said.

For years I railed against Gephardt when he was in a leadership position, and it is clear now how loyal a Democrat he was. Clearly, he does not believe the crap that the far left flank of his party tries to advance, but he did it because it was his job in the leadership. That is the only way I can explain his having morphed over the last 12-14 months into a respectable moderate Democrat.

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