Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Everybody saw this coming.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

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

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

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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Damnit, Dean!

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Everything was going according to plan- Clark is proving to be a babbling idiot and keeps getting caught in lies, the Democrats are too stupid to actually nominate someone electable like Lieberman or Gephardt, and the rest of the field, other thanJohn Kerry, are distant memories. You are leading Howard- and it looks like you are well on your way to the nomination. If you would just please STFU for a few months, everything will be going precisely according to Karl Rove’s plan. As Dodd Harris notes:

Howard Dean has blown a fuse. There’s no other explanation for the fact that he “told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on ‘race, guns, God and gays.'” Dean, widely described as extremely intelligent, says he is trying to “reassemble a coalition of conservative southern voters like President Franklin Roosevelt had.”

Dean needs to just be quiet for a few more months until he has the nomination, and then he can say whatever he wants- in fact, I beg him to talk whenever and wherever.

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Where is the Plame Brigade Now?

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I found it interesting and thought you all might like to know that to date, Kevin Drum has written close to 70 posts about Valerie Plame, including this one titled NATIONAL SECURITY VS. PETTY POLITICS.

Matthew Yglesias wrote 22 posts on the subject. I am not going to bother counting the posts from the always hyperventilang Atrios and Josh Marshall. Searching Oliver’s site comes up with three google pages linking to Oliver posts about Plame.

I am not even goign to bother with Kos or Mark Kleiman or the other ‘moderates’ out there. My point is that these ‘straight-shooters’ wrote a helluva lot about the Plame affair, most of it gaseous eruptions which turned out to be unfounded. Most of them were written with a tone “That this is just outrageous! This is National Security.” They care nothing abuot national security- they care about elections. Remember this, right before Calpundit latched onto the Plame affair as his new battlefront:

If Josh Marshall and Chris Nelson are to be believed, the shit is about to hit the proverbial fan this week. After two weeks of softening up George Bush’s credibility via African uranium and the ever changing explanations for it, we’re now set for brand new battles on two fronts:

Do I really think all of these guys don’t care about national security and are just opportunistic partisan hacks? I doubt it, but it sure looks like it when they manage with all this huffing and puffing about Valerie Plame, and still, three days after the story broke, have failed to even acknowledge this story:

Congressional Republicans were livid yesterday over a staff memo in which Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats lay out a plan to gain politically from the probe into prewar intelligence.

The memo, first revealed by the Fox News Channel, outlines a plan by Democrats to cooperate with Republicans on the Intelligence Committee to squeeze information out of the Bush administration – and then surprise them next year by calling for a new independent probe while accusing the Republicans of foot-dragging.

On the Senate floor, Intelligence Committee member Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said, “I never saw the kind of blatant partisan politics that has apparently emerged as revealed in this memo.

“It is a disgusting possibility that members of the Senate would try to politicize intelligence, especially at a time of war . . . it is reprehensible.”

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), the top Intelligence Committee Democrat, tried to focus on the leak of the memo, claiming it was taken from a waste bucket or through unauthorized computer access.

“The memo clearly reflects staff frustration with the conduct of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation and the difficulties of obtaining information from the administration,” he said.

I guess leaking classified information and launching partisan investigations is ok if you are a Democrat. How the hell else am I supposed to interpret their collective silence? Why can’t I find one mention of this on any of these ‘moderates’ websites?

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Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit

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This is infuriating:

The investigation of strip club owner Michael Galardi and numerous politicians appears to be the first time federal authorities have used the Patriot Act in a public corruption probe.

Government officials said Tuesday they knew of no other instances in which federal agents investigating allegations such as racketeering and bribery of politicians have employed the act.

“I don’t know that it’s been used in a public corruption case before this,” said Mark Corallo, a spokesman for the Justice Department.

An attorney for one of the defendants in the Galardi case said he researched the matter for hours Tuesday and came to the same conclusion.

“I have discussed this with lawyers all over the country, and if the government has done this before, then this is definitely the first time it has come to light,” said Las Vegas attorney Dominic Gentile, who represents former Clark County Commissioner Lance Malone, Galardi’s lobbyist.

This is how you lose my vote with lightning speed.

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So Predictable

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As I predicted yesterday, the usual suspects are all in a tizzy because the Reagan mini-series has been moved from CBS to Showtime.

Let’s go through what a ‘biopic’ is supposed to be, why this is not censorship, and what they hysterics are saying.

Part One: The BioPic Itself

According to the Internet Movie Database, a biopic (a Biographic picture) is defined as “A filmed story of a person’s life story.” So we don’t get lost in the words, a biography is generally regarded (at least according to dictionary.com) as “An account of a person’s life written, composed, or produced by another.” Thus, we would assume that a biopic, or at least the final product, would have some semblance of reality, and would be a semi-accurate portrayal of an individual’s life story. Did the “Reagans” pass this smell test? Not according to some informed sources.

According to Michael Reagan, someone we would presume to have a little bit of knowledge on the topic, the picture was a smear job and had no basis in reality:

“I’ve seen eight minutes of the broadcast myself, and I do not recognize the two people who play Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan in this TV miniseries as anybody I’ve ever come in contact with,” Michael Reagan said in the Fox News interview.

Reagan added that California liberals “have always seen my father as a buffoon,” and he said their outrage only grew as Ronald Reagan became governor and later, president.

Michael Reagan said he was particularly upset about CBS putting words in his father’s mouth – including profanity – and making him look like he’s not compassionate. “That’s not the Ronald Reagan I know,” Michael Reagan said.

Another individual we would assume knows something about the personal lives of Ronald and Nancy Reagan also stated the portrayal of her parents did not even resemble the people she knew:

Reading the script actually made me feel better in some ways. It is, quite simply, idiotic. Everyone is a caricature, manufactured and inauthentic. My father is depicted as some demented evangelist, going on about Armageddon every chance he gets. My mother is cast as a female Attila the Hun, and I and my siblings are unrecognizable to me. There are absurdities, like depictions of Mike Deaver and political aides camping out at our house during my father

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Terry Power!

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I see that DNC Chairman Terry McAullife’s winning streak continues- the Kentucky governorship has gone to the GOP for the first time in 32 years, and with 82% of the votes counted in Mississippi, Haley Barbour is leading Ronnie Musgrove 53%-45%. And before the Democrats try to claim they were not attempting to make this an election a referendum on Bush, let’s look at what the NY Times has to say about that:

Mississippi Democrats criticized Barbour as a “Washington insider” as President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top GOP officials came to campaign for him.

In Kentucky, party activists argued that a vote for Chandler would tell the White House its economic policy is a failure.

State Republican Chairwoman Ellen Williams said Bush helped swing the race in western Kentucky, a conservative Democratic area which both campaigns said was crucial. Bush “lit that district on fire,” she said. “The people in that part of the state are in line with Bush’s conservative values.”

The WaPo filed this report:

President Bush invested his own political capital in yesterday’s two gubernatorial elections a year before he will face the voters himself. Bush, Vice President Cheney and other Republican luminaries raised money for Barbour and Fletcher. Saturday, in a final push, the president appeared at rallies in Mississippi and Kentucky with the two GOP hopefuls at his side.

National party organizations also weighed in. The Republican Governors Association (RGA) donated $4 million to Barbour’s campaign, more than any candidate for governor of Mississippi had ever raised. The Democratic Governors’ Association (DGA) countered by giving Musgrove $2 million. The two campaigns spent almost $18 million, triple the previous record for a gubernatorial contest in Mississippi.

All together now- the reason Democrats are losing is because voters don’t know what Democrats stand for and they just have to do a better job selling themselves. Snicker. Plus, this is the South, and everyone in the South is racist and therefore votes for the GOP. Why, Gosh Durn IT, some Dixiecrats became Republicans! The Democrats are being punished for being so good about Civil Rights by all those damn racist rednecks! If only the Republicans did not have a stranglehold on the Klan vote- why, then Democrats would win in the South!

Personally, I blame the losses on too few appearances from Nancy Pelosi and other national Democrats. That and the fact that they simply did not print enought ‘Bush = Hitler’ or ‘Bush Lied, People Died’ bumper stickers. Maybe they should have promised to rescind the tax cuts more, or tried harder to pin Enron on Bush. I thought they were really getting somewhere with the faux yellowcake scandal. Let’s give Joe Wilson and David Corn a couple more weeks!

Seriously, though. I predict the Democrats will have more success once they get their real message out- withdrawal from Iraq (they dont really want everyone to leave- they just want the UN in! It’s that simple!), raising the minimum wage to $10.00, giving the UN veto rights on the military and national security, abortion on demand, ending the death penalty, adding layers of regulations on landowners to appease the environmental lobby, raising taxes (cuz you don’t pay your ‘fair share’), killing school choice, increasing handgun controls, insisting all southerners are racist, enabling all illegal aliens nationwide to have driver’s licenses, and all their other issues. Once Democrats get the message out- why- the sky is the limit! They might win…. Boston and Manhattan.

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Cat Update

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I forgot to mention- Oliver came back this morning after 40 hours missing. I was driving around town looking for him this morning for about an hour, came back, and there he was on the doorstep, sassing me for having the audacity to lock him out.

BONUS- No one has urinated on anything in three days.

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