Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The revolution will be supervised.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

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

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

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

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

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

People are complicated. Love is not.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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I Am So Disgusted

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I am getting to be so disgusted with this new ‘compassionate’ Republican party that I don’t know what to think anymore. The deficit is what, 400 billion? I can’t even keep track of the damn thing, it is growing so fast. I am all in favor of tax cuts, but could I please see ONE PROPOSAL to cut spending? Just one? Pretty Please?

On top of that, it seems like we are trying to outspend the Democrats. Look at this story in the NY Times:

Legislation providing prescription drug coverage under Medicare won strong bipartisan approval Thursday in the Senate Finance Committee as part of the most far-reaching changes in the government’s health care program for the elderly since its creation in 1965.

“Both parties have promised for years to add prescription drugs to Medicare,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, as he presided over a daylong debate carried out in front of dozens of health care lobbyists. “Today we’re here to deliver.”

“We’re about to pass landmark legislation,” added Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the senior Democrat on the committee and Grassley’s partner in crafting the bipartisan bill.

The reported price is 400 billion over ten years, which means that if it is anything like every other federal program, it will costs 1.2 trillion over ten years. Oh- and that laughable ‘tax cut’ for the poor who are not paying taxes. Tack that onto the deficit- hell- let’s give everyone a $5,000 rebate. What the hell? What is one more torpedo in a sinking ship?

I feel like I need to go to some bizarro self-help group, where I stand up and have to say:

“Hi. My name is John Cole, and I still think running deficits is bad.”

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Graphic from Yahoo via Oliver Willis

Fiscal conservatives, my ass.

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Congo Update

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I will have a full-fledged Congo update tomorrow, but for now, try Gary Farber’s experiment:

Substitute the word “Jews” for “Lendu” or “Hema.”

Then say, gee, gosh, it would cost a lot to save them.

Tough luck if millions die, because it’s expensive, it’s awkward, it’s tough, to save them.

Bye, bye, Jews. Too bad. It’s expensive to save them. It’s expensive to save you black people, you Hema, you Lendu. It’s tough to keep track of your names, even. Even your clan, your tribe, your people.

Bye-bye. Die in peace. Die by the thousands. Die by the tens of thousands. Die by the hundreds of thousands. Die by the millions. I have fast food. Bye-bye. I don’t need to go to trouble. Bye-bye. Die well. Bye-bye. My conscience is untroubled. I could have saved you for a few days of work, but I don’t want to be troubled. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

Why don’t these people matter?

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I Apologize

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I take back everything bad I have ever said about John McCain:

“If anyone came to my hometown in Phoenix, AZ and set off a bomb on a bus and killed 18 people and injured 100 of them, my citizens would expect us to respond,” US Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, told reporters in answer to a question about whether he approved of Bush’s condemnation of Israel’s attempt on Hamas leader Rantisi’s life.

“Do you want to call that a cycle of violence? You can call it what you want, but these acts of terror, these organizations, funded by the Saudis, at least encouraged by Yasser Arafat, are inexcusable in their tactics

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Death of the Boomer Left?

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Via Michael Totten, this interesting post by Sean LaFreniere:

A political conversation with Boomer lefties these days is like a conversation with (a tomb)stone. They never give my comments serious consideration. They simply repeat a few of the latest chestnuts (the Jessica Lynch story was overblown, where are the WMD, its all about oil, and ipso facto the war was wrong) and walk away. The conversation is dead.

When I bring up contrary evidence (actually the best way for Texas oil companies to have acquired access to Iraqi oil was for Bush to have declared Saddam in compliance with the UN and dropped the sanctions) or arguments from another direction (what about the mass graves, the torture, and the past wars led by Saddam, isn

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You Got Off Light, Dick

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I don’t know what to make of this:

The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the Arkansas governor’s mansion. At the time, Bill was worried that he was falling behind his democratic primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved. Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked out of the room.

Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and, yelling at him to stop and get control of himself, pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with your arm around me, saying, “He only does that to people he loves.”

Most of the time when Bill tackles people (women, volunteers, interns, etc.), that is when the real ‘fun’ starts.

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WTF?

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This will go over like a lead balloon:

Sen. John Breaux expects to wrap up a bipartisan agreement soon to reform Medicare using private insurance plans and then, he said, he is ready to begin persuading his centrist colleagues on Capitol Hill to support the idea of mandatory health insurance for all Americans.

The Louisiana Democrat has teamed up with the New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy group; the Commonwealth Fund, a non-partisan public health research group, and Blue Shield of California. Together, on Wednesday, they outlined a strategy to provide the nation’s 41 million uninsured with health care coverage — while preserving choice for consumers who want and can afford more, and making the private sector a key participant.

Mandatory insurance. Grumble.

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Good News In Iraq

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Via Tacitus, we see there is some good news coming out of Iraq:

In a city so sacred that its soil is used to make the stones on which Shiites bow their heads in prayer, the American occupation of Karbala — 1,110 U.S. troops in a city of 500,000 — has emerged as a rare example of a postwar experience gone right.

In gestures large and small — from reopening an amusement park with free admission to restoring electricity to twice its prewar level, from stopping looting with a rapidly reconstituted police force, to a conscious effort to respect religious sensitivities — Karbala seems to have avoided the bitterness and disenchantment that has enveloped Baghdad and other cities.

Go read the whole thing. Iraq will not be rebuilt overnight, and we are still losing soldiers, but we are making progress.

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