Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Books are my comfort food!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Let me file that under fuck it.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

No one could have predicted…

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

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

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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Open Questions

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I have two open questions for the readers:

1.) I just heard Frank Rich refer to Iraq as an artifical state with deep internal divisions. I had always been under the impression that although the geographic boundaries from the mandate were artificial, Iraq was a very contented, cosmopolitan, and very ethnically inter-married nation until Saddam Hussein used people’s differences for his own political gain. Am I way out in left field here?

2.) I have become addicted to a fruit salad that comes in a can (it is the tropical one, with red and white papaya, passion fruit, and pineapple). I would eat the fruits fresh, but mangos are a pain in the arse to eat, and a whole papaya is a lot of fruit. Nutritionally, how much do I lose by eating the stuff out of a can/jar as opposed to eating them fresh?

Just throw your responses in the comments. Thanks in advance.

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The Groucho Marx Party

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Sen. Robert Byrd, in the well (not the sewer well, which would have been fitting for the former Klansmen) of the Senate, on 6 May:

“To me, it is an affront to the Americans killed or injured in Iraq for the President to exploit the trappings of war for the momentary spectacle of a speech.”

and

“I believe that our military forces deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, and not used as stage props to embellish a presidential speech.”

Have the Democrats become the Grouch Marx Party? Who are we to believe? The left-wing, or our lying eyes?

The faces of sheer exploitation. It makes me want to cry, they look so abused. How dare Bush?

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Big Money Democrats

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Now I know why Democrats were in favor of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation- it was just like any other law they write- it was for other people to follow. Clearly, they have no intention of adhering to the letter or the spirit of the McCain-Feingold bill:

Democrats are kicking off a backdoor way of financing their 2004 congressional campaigns today with the very type of unlimited donations from corporations, unions, and individuals that many party leaders had vowed to flush from the political system.

The strategy involves setting up two new groups unmistakably aligned with the Democratic Party’s longstanding campaign organizations for the House and Senate. Technically, the two groups are not arms of the Democratic Party, a key distinction, because the nation’s new campaign finance law bars lawmakers from soliciting ”soft money,” the unlimited money that politicians still crave.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and minority whip Steny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, will headline a fund-raising event tonight at the Hotel George for a new group called the New House PAC.

Tonight, the group will raise ”hard money,” a limited, regulated type of donation that lawmakers can legally solicit. But the group plans to ask donors for soft money later this year and to serve as a sort of shadow campaign committee for the Democratic Party, according to sources familiar with the effort.

The overt blessing of Pelosi, Hoyer, and other party leaders is crucial to the group, which hopes to convince potential donors that it is the new surrogate for the Democratic committees no longer allowed to take soft money.

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A Reasonable Compromise?

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All economic sanctions against the former Hussein regime should be lifted, period. Punishing the people of Iraq simply makes no sense. With that in mind, and knowing that we are going to have to do something to appease the treacherous French, this seems to be a reasonable compromise:

The resolution would allow for a partial payout of the existing $10 billion in approved contracts for food, medicine and industrial goods authorized by the United Nations before the war. It also would allow for a United Nations special representative who would act as a nominal partner in the political reconstruction of Iraq, Security Council diplomats said today.

The two moves seem designed to solicit Russian and French support

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The Sensible Left

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The sensible left is finally starting to get it- but hey- I told you this months ago when you guys handed the reins to the likes of Pelosi and company. At any rate, here is Matthew Miller’s take:

Every so often you come across evidence that a political party is losing its mind. Something like that is happening to Democrats over President Bush’s fabulous “top gun” photo-op aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. It’s a case study in how Bush and Karl Rove have left so many Democrats undone.

Rep. Henry Waxman of California has asked the General Accounting Office to provide a full accounting of the landing’s costs, since the event had “clear political overtones.” Sen. Robert Byrd, who, as longtime appropriations czar, is in no position to throw stones over dubious uses of taxpayer money, lashed out at Bush instead for “flamboyant showmanship,” saying the White House had no business using the carrier “as an advertising backdrop” for the president’s speech. Democratic staffers are working overtime to gin up media interest in the “scandal.”

Go read the whole thing.

*** Update ***

Richard Cohen says Jeanne Kirpatrick was right (via BOTW).

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