Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

This fight is for everything.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

In my day, never was longer.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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Oh, Come on Now

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For the life of me, I do not understand why smart people say stupid things so frequently, but here is a whopper from Matt Yglesias:

Once again it looks like the administration may see the light and get the UN involved in Iraq. I really hope they stop dragging their feet on this, because the longer they wait the harder it’s going to be to get it done.

Sheesh- talk about re-writing history. This administration has ALWAYS wanted the UN involved in Iraq (Despite the objections of many people, including myself). Where we have been at odds was with the UN failing to follow through on their own resolutions, and in the post-War era, the issue is not UN involvement, but how much control we would have to cede to the half-wits. Remember, these are the same people who turned down our offers of security and then blamed us anyway for not guarding their compound.

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Cheney On The Hot Seat

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I have been ignoring all the usual scandal mongering by the Dems, but via Oliver I see something that if true is outrageous and utterly unacceptable (not to mention illegal):

Despite receiving this letter, Cheney still claimed to Congress, a few weeks later, on August 2, that responsive documents had been produced.

Of course, Cheney is a busy man. Yet there can be no question as to whether he was aware of the July 18, 2001 letter from the Comptroller complaining about the 77 pages of documents’ being unresponsive: He even attached it to his own August 2 letter to Congress, as part of a chronology. And again, he personally signed that August 2 letter.

Nor can there be any question that Cheney knows what it means to produce responsive documents – and not to do so. In the same paragraph of the August 2 letter in which he claims he was responsive to the Energy Task Force request, he makes a lesser claim with respect to another GAO request – stating that there, he had merely “provided substantial responses.” (Emphasis added.)

Plainly, Cheney knows the difference between being responsive; offering a substantial response; and sending insulting non-responsive materials, featuring unexplained phone bills, columns of unidentified figures, and a pizza receipt.

Stay tuned.

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Weird

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Go read Joe Conason’s defense of himself, written in third person:

In other words, you declare that you own past was “ultra-left” without using those exact words and then call “Mighty” Joe Conason a “Big Liar” for doing the same. (Odd that you don’t argue with Conason’s statement that you give “stark, simple and demagogic” advice.)

Strangeness, indeed.

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More Good News

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Sayeth the NY Times:

The American economy grew at a revised annual rate of 3.1 percent in the second quarter, the government reported today, and the unexpected strength is leading economists to raise their forecasts for the rest of the year.

Among the positive signs are the continued strength of consumer spending, the bounce-back in business capital investment, the leanness of business inventories and a jump in corporate profits.

A surge in military spending connected with the war in Iraq was also a big contributor to second quarter growth.

Inflation as measured by the gross domestic product is still low, rising at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the second quarter, a fact that analysts said would reinforce Wall Street’s belief that the Federal Reserve would keep short-term interest rates low for a long time.

What scares the hell out of me are the rising gas prices- high fuel costs could really slow the recovery.

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