Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

So many bastards, so little time.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Reality always gets a vote in the end.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

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

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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LMAO

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This Scrappleface entry is the funniest thing I have read in a long time:

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) insisted today that the French-made Mirage F-1 jets, which constitute most of the Iraqi air force, will not fight.

“War is always an acknowledgment of failure,” Mr. de Villepin told the New York Times. “The French people are not failures. Therefore, the jets we made will not work in a war. They are strictly for sight seeing and target shooting. They are useless for combat.”

According to a Washington Times story, a French company has continued to supply Iraq with spare parts for these ‘pleasure craft’ during most of the U.N. debate about whether to disarm Iraq.

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Michael Savage

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Did anyone other than Atrios watch this clown? I have never heard him speak, but the quotes I have seen lead me to believe he is just a reprehensible person of the first order. Note to Atrios and others- watching him helps him, even if you are doing it to expose him.

On another note, I am more disgusted at having to watch Pat Buchanon, sometimes twice a day, during the week.

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The UN

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Josh Marshall (via Matt Yglesias) describes an intelligence officer that he knows stating his biggest fear:

His greatest worry was not in the neighborhood, but the world: the costs — unreckonable to some degree — of wrecking the international state system to get this done. The pros and cons of handling Iraq have never been separable from how you do it, the costs you rack up in the doing of it, calculated against the gains you’ll get in having accomplished it. At this point, we have truly the worst case scenario on the international stage. And I think the those costs now outweigh those gains.

I do not understand how it can be stated that we are wrecking the international system, when the international system is already so broken that we have gotten to this point.

Imagine this: You are a doctor with a dying patient, the conditions as such:

Kidney Failure (Iraq chairing the Committee on Disarmament)
Liver Failure (Libya chairing the Human Rights Commission)
Internal Hemmoraging (the cold war era make-up of the permanent votes on the security council)
Memory Failure (Hitler, Srebencia, the previous 16 Security Resolutions)

and worst of all, the 10,000 paper cuts (Why can a sensible foreign policy be hamstrung by Chile, Cameroon, and Mexico? Why do the French have any say in anything? Why are we pretending that because China sits on the Security council they are somehow a moral authority?).

At any rate, you are a doctor, and that is your patient. Does it make sense for you to be worrying about saving this patient, or should you just look forward to the other patients you can help?

If the UN dies, it was not murder. It was suicide- more accurately, if you consider the cynical French behavior- assisted suicide.

More thoughts on the UN, from a liberal perspective. (Via Michael Totten).

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Tears of the Sun

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I guess I will not be wasting my money on Tears of the Sun. here are some selected quotes from the NY Times review:

The audience’s tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer’s wretched fake-world-music score and inadvertent amusement at the thunderously earnest dialogue and Ms. Bellucci’s awkward line readings. (She has now made movies in three languages; whether she can act in any of them is an open question.)

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All of this aside, the film’s bogus, deliberately na

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Curtain Call for a Bad Act

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The usual suspects all have their panties in a bunch over the snub of their lunatic press goddess, Helen Thomas. Atrios claims that this is proof that Bush is a “spoiled little child,” Kos merely mentioned it in a sort of stream of consciousness/rambling missive whose only overall themse is that Bush sucks. In another shocking revelation, Kos was not impressed with Bush’s speech. Who ever would have guessed that?

At any rate, as far as the Thomas snub- who cares. If anyone deserved to be treated with disrespect, it was/is that cackling old hag, a partisan hack who has not had an original or independent thought in thirty years. I wouldn’t call on someone who has labeled me the “worst President ever,” and Helen has not had a coherent question for ages (“Why do you want to bomb babies, Ari?” is typical fare).

Would Bill Clinton call on Rush Limbaugh if he were sitting in the front row with a press badge?

Oh, and before I forget, read the comments at Kos- they are deep and inciteful, running from the ‘Bush is drunk or was right before’ to the ‘Bush was popping pills.’ These guys are so desperate that a style critic is now their opinion leader.

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