Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

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

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

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

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

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

T R E 4 5 O N

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

You cannot shame the shameless.

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Food For Thought

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The folks at Spinsanity explain why Hesiod, NPR, and the rest of the lunatic fringe are wrong again.

In a commentary on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” yesterday [Real Audio], Daniel Schorr cited a proposed change in the federal school lunch program as evidence that President Bush is dismantling anti-poverty programs. But the charge is presented without adequate context, implying that Bush is actually cutting funding rather than changing the verification procedures used to evaluate eligibility.

Expect to hear the nitwits and the ideologues repeat the ‘Bush cut School Lunches” mantra throughout the election, despite the fact it is nonsense.

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Osama Returns

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Osama is back, just in time for the Oscars, releasing a new collection of his greatest hits:

An audio tape purported to carry the voice of Osama bin Laden called on Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against Americans and defend themselves against a U.S. attack.

The tape was broadcast on the Al-Jazeera Arab satellite station on Tuesday, the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. The speaker also urged Iraqis to dig trenches and engage in urban warfare to fend off U.S. troops.

“We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before,” the speaker said, using a term often used by militants for suicide attacks.

Before the broacast, Secretary of State Colin Powell told a Senate panel Tuesday that he had read a transcript of the statement and that it shows why the world needs to be concerned about Iraqi ties to terrorism.

This will no doubt fluster the Democrats, who have been whining for months that there is no connection between Al Qaeda and Osama. Well, is this tape is real, there is now a connection. In short, loudmouths, here are your options:

1.) Claim the tapes are fake, and quit claiming Osama is alive. This will upset the anti-war crowd a great deal, as one of their favorite responses to the Bush Iraq policy has been to wail “What About Osama?”

2.) Claim the tapes are real, and endorse an attack on Iraq.

I am betting they will go for the third option, which is to sputter incoherently, call Bush the ‘selected’ President, scream something about unilateralism, and then go write domestic spending projects while yelling at Bush for ruining the deficit. Daschle and Kerry, of course, will have some more serious questions.

*** UPDATE ***

I was just reading Atrios (need to check in daily to find out who is a racist, you know), and I found that the Democrats have chosen option #4, which goes something like this:

The tape is a fake, planted by the CIA to prove a link between Osama and Saddam. Despite the fake nature of the tape, however, do not assume that we think bin Laden is dead. On the contrary, this tape shows that BUSH has failed to kill Osama and is a unilateralist bully who will do anything to go to war with Iraq.

My head hurts.

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Fiscal Conservatives, My Ass, (part 2029378)

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Mr. Greenspan spoke today, and here is what he had to say:

He characterized as “sobering” recent budget estimates from the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget, which forecast deficits well through the balance of the decade.

“It is necessary to extend budget enforcement rules promulgated in the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990,” he said. “I am concerned that, should the enforcement mechanisms not be restored, the resulting lack of clear direction and constructive goals will allow in-built political bias in favor of growing budget deficits to again become entrenched.”

The rules set in place under the Budget Enforcement Act, which was passed to restrain spending, expired in the House last September. They were partly extended in the Senate through mid-April of this year.

Mr. Greenspan said that while there seems to be a “large and growing constituency” for holding down the deficit, “I sense less appetite to do what is required to achieve that outcome.”

Translation: Congress is a bunch of tax and spend REPUBLICANS. Or to borrow a term from the left- BORROW AND SPEND REPUBLICANS.

Less appetite to do what is required, my ass. Try no appetite for anything but spending. I never thought my party would make Robert Byrd look like a spendthrift.

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Feel the Heat of Cold Fury

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Mike at Cold Fury is just unloading on people today:

One more thing I’d like to leave you with on this topic:

PRINCETON, NJ — Americans have a sharply more unfavorable image of France than they have had at any point over the past decade. Favorable opinions of the country have dropped 20 points in the last year, while unfavorable opinions have risen by 17 points. Americans’ attitudes toward Germany, which, like France, has balked at approving the U.S. position on the necessity of military action against Iraq, have also become substantially more negative since last year. The image of North Korea in the minds of Americans, already quite negative, has become even more so this year compared to last.

Voila, Pierre; there you have it: the Voice of the American Street. Hey, snail-eaters, can I get a puling, sniveling “Why do they hate us?” Got that in a French accent, plus-size?

Didn’t think so.

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