Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Giving up is unforgivable.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

Consistently wrong since 2002

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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Awww.

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Poor Michael Moore has had his website hacked. This is what appears now:

Mr. Moore, your documentary “Bowling for Columbine” is fictitious, not factual. David Hardy’s Truth About Bowling is simply damning. You deliberately deceive your viewers, who are only expecting a slightly biased factual report. Mr. Moore, my personal hope is that you publicly apologize, not for your ideas, but for dubbing your lies the truth.

Please see revoketheoscar.com

Love always,
NHA Crew.

OK- new game. Be the first kid on the block to find a liberal claiming this is an example of the suppression of free speech in Ashcroft’s Amerikkka. Let me know when you see it so I can link to it and laugh with you.

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Bob Hope and Arlington

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Bob Hope will be turning 100 on the 29th of May, and it made me wonder whether it would be possible, if he desired, for him to be buried in Arlington National Cemetary. I don’t believe he ever served officially in the military, but I would be hard pressed to think of someone who has done more for our military over the years than Hope.

Does anyone know what the requirements are? Are there loopholes/exceptions?

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Reading Assignment

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Hitchens reviews that bilious pile of twaddle that is Sidney Blumenthal’s The Clinton Wars:

Not long ago in this magazine David Brooks mapped a political sociology elaborating on the notion that the country was in theory divisible between heartland “red” districts and more coastal “blue” ones, the colors showing (rather counterintuitively, perhaps) a respective difference between Republican and Democratic areas. Soon afterward one of Bill Clinton’s reliable yes-men, Paul Begala, issued a response, asserting that it was in “red” districts that gay men like Matthew Shepard were lynched, or black men like James Byrd were dragged behind pickup trucks until they died.

If this meant anything, it meant that the difference between a donkey and an elephant was the difference between democracy and fascism, or between pluralism and absolutism. But just wait for the good people’s party to be caught doing something shady or vile; at once you will be told that it’s no worse than what the bad people’s party would do or has done. Immediately, in other words, the apologist will admit that the game is up, and that he is judging his own team by a standard (of ghastliness in others) that he himself helped to set. “They all do it” means, in this circle, “We all do it.” But the apologist won’t concede this consciously or honestly. Faced with the task of explaining the Clinton pardons, including one to Marc Rich, Sidney Blumenthal, a former senior Clinton adviser and friend of Dick Morris’s, immediately responds, in The Clinton Wars, that Richard Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa; and as for the $190,000 in gifts accumulated by the Clintons, it was “roughly the same amount as the preceding Bushes had accepted.” Since he elsewhere accuses the Republican Party of being essentially lawless and segregationist, he might admit that he’s setting himself a low standard.

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Like I Said

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Reports of the demise of the ‘road map’ to peace in the Middle East are premature:

In a historic vote cast under intense U.S. pressure, Israel’s government narrowly approved an internationally backed “road map” to peace Sunday and for the first time recognized the Palestinians’ right to statehood. But it left itself an escape hatch from unwelcome parts of the plan.

The Cabinet vote cleared the way for a possible three-way meeting – as early as next week – between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and President Bush.

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UnHinged Liberals

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This is not a parody:

After reading the paper this morning I’m so depressed that I just want to crawl into a hole and go to sleep forever. I’m afraid that there are days when I just can’t stand to watch any longer as the Republican party continues its ceaseless, step-by-step quest to destroy a great country and a decent society, and today is one of those days.

I guess that means I should pick up the LA Times and celebrate. Let’s see, let me check my agenda today:

1.) Taunt poor, attempt to steal bag lady’s change jar from her grocery cart.

2.) Attack the environment- I think I will drive my car really fast for a while in a circular route around town. Then I will change my oil and throw the old oil into the woods out back. When I am done, maybe I will do some random littering and shoot some small animals.

3.) Next in my ‘ceaseless, step-by-step quest to destroy a great country’ I will try to screw up our international relations. I think I will visit every messageboard on a French web domain and post “America hates cheese-eating surrender monkeys!- Go to hell, George Bush.”

4.) I better do something homophobic- maybe I will squirt KY jelly on all the door handles of the gay bar downtown.

5.) For my final step in ruining the country, I will do what Democrats hate most- I will go to work. Yep- I will work hard, and then earn money. Maybe a lot of it- then they can really hate me and call me greedy, selfish, and unfair. You see, there is nothing noble about earning a living and wanting to keep it.

Seriously- I don’t mean to be picking on the Calpundit (how could I- have you seen his cats?), but if this post is not proof of Jane’s Law, I don’t know what is.

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Go read the comments section this to Yglesias’s post. Pay special attention to the unhinged Zizka. Dearest Zizka- I was not attacking Kevin – I was poking fun at him. This post looked like it was written by Stuart Smalley, not the straight-forward, unabashed moderate that Kevin normally is. Also, this post was typical of the silliness that is always reported about Republicans. You know the drill- we are all mean, we hate the poor, we love to trash the environment, etc. That is what I was making fun of- not Kevin, not his politics, not the issues close to him. Got it?

Nice Zizka quote for you:

The core constituency of the Republican Party consists of neo-Confederates, Armageddon Christians, promoters of a Fourth World War, and anti-government, anti-tax fanatics.

Which one are you?

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Unbelievable…

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This really pisses me off:

Robert Torricelli is back on the federal payroll.

Less than six months after Torricelli left the U.S. Senate, a federal judge named him as Special Master to oversee Honeywell International Inc.’s cleanup of a chromium-contaminated site on the banks of the Hackensack River in Jersey City.

The order by U.S. District Judge Dennis Cavanaugh does not say how much Torricelli will earn, only that he and people he hires “will receive reasonable compensation for their time and expenses,” and that Honeywell will pick up the tab.

Now we know why he stepped down so quietly in the last election- he had a Soprano-esque make-work job lined up for him- welfare for corrupt Democrats, if you will. Presumably he will not be paid in Italian Suits and wide-screen televisions.

(via Drudge)

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