Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Republicans in disarray!

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

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

So very ready.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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Patting Myself on The Back

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By the way- all of you can now stop by the comments and heap praise on me for my political prowess. On May 23rd, I wrote the following:

Dean seems to have a shot because he is strident and angry, and he appeals to the fringe elements of the Democrat party who are just bitter and angry. That counts, for now.

A few weeks later I predicted that Dean would definitely win the nomination- which puts me two-three months ahead of the media and the Boston Globe’s man on the blogstreet, Oliver Willis, who just jumped on the Dean bandwagon a few days ago.

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Dean on King

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Howard Dean was on Larry King Live, and it was the typical lovefest that Larry King showers on everyone:

“Would you like a chocolate, Howard? How about I rub your shoulders? Tell me why you are the best candidate.”

Seriously, it was the same sort of fluff that King dishes up to everyone, regardless of political persuasion. Has this guy asked a worthwhile question in 40 years? At any rate, I was just curious with what is wrong with Dean’s jaw- he seems to have some sort of click. I had a friend who had something like that- he was always moving his jaw back and forth. Weird- might explain why Dean always looks pissed off- the weird jaw and the pursed lips.

There was one really funny moment when Dean compared himself to John F. Kennedy. A caller was asking Dean about his stance on the war (ever the bumbling fool, King accidentally disconnected her in mid question and stated that “Well, you get the gist of the question, Governor.”). Dean went on to state, and I must paraphrase:

“I don’t think a Democrat can win having been for the war. This goes to my judgement, blah blah blah, and shows that I can stand on principle even when the American people think differently, just like John F. Kennedy did during the Cuban Missile Crisis.”

I snorted Cherry Garcia on my shirt at this point. At any rate, as Matt at a Fearful Symmetry quipped to me on AOL IM, Dean and Kennedy do share one similarity- a bad back:

“Jack Kennedy hurt his back during a heroic turn in the Pacific during WWII. Howard Dean got a draft deferrment for a hurt back, then made an athletic turn on the slopes of Aspen during Vietnam.”

Snark.

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Blinded by the Right

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Poor Atrios- Josh Marshall, the NY Times, and even the Democrat candidates and senior Democrats are coming to the realization that Democrats have been blinded by their anger and seething rage that they are directing towards George Bush. Atrios, in all his glory, remarks:

I find the comparisons between “Clinton hating,” which started before the guy even took office and was associated with numerous bullshit conspiracy theories and fake scandals pushed by congressional committees and mainstream journalists/opinion writers and “Bush Hating,” which have everything to do with his actual policies, rather silly.

Ask a wingnut why they don’t like Clinton and they’ll claim he’s a rapist, a drug runner, a communist spy, etc… etc… It rarely has much to do with any consistent or sensible evaluation of his policies. And, to the extent that they ever did they’ve been rendered moot by their unwavering support for Dear Leader’s embrace of many of the things they claimed to hate Clinton for.

Welcome to the la-la-land that is the loony left. The left has been leveling the chimpy/shrub/dumbest man ever remarks since well before the election. Claiming otherwise is merely delusional.

Also note the strain of condescension- they hate Bush for his policies, Clinton haters hated the person. This is more of the “Democrats are nuaanced nonsense.” Most of us disliked Clinton for his policies and the fact that he is a scumbag.

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Democrat Stategery

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Oliver links to a Joe Klein piece in which an anonymous San Francisco woman at a Dean rally (party activist per chance?) states the following:

Several weeks ago, at a Dean speech in San Francisco, a woman approached me and said, “I’ve been a moderate, Clinton-Gore Democrat, but no more.” I asked her why. She said, “Grover Norquist,” referring to the Republican taxophobe lobbyist who helped forge the President’s tax cuts. “He said, Bipartisanship is date rape.’ Well, I don’t like being raped.”

The fact that Klein had to explain who Norquist is should be telling enough- there will be no Grover Norquist backlash in 2004. Amusing the stretch these guys go to, though. I like Dean’s attitude on bipartisanship- remember that the next time the Democrats try to launch a salvo about Bush not being a ‘uniter.’ You can not unite the unwilling, as we have learned from day one o this administration.

One of these days people are really going to understand the rage of the left- THEY are supposed to be in power in Washington- not this right wing maniac Bush.

BTW- Abortion, as I write this, is STILL LEGAL in all 50 states.

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Good Riddance To A Bad Man

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Great News for the GOP and the country:

Sen. Fritz Hollings of South Carolina will announce Monday that he plans to retire when his current term expires, according to several Democratic sources — a decision that offers Republicans a significant opportunity in the South in 2004.

Hollings, who was first elected to the Senate in 1966 but has been South Carolina’s senior senator only since Sen. Strom Thurmond retired in January, has scheduled a press conference at 3:30 p.m. EDT in Columbia, South Carolina, to discuss his political plans. Hollings is 81 and his current term expires in early 2005.

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass. I have no desire to act magnanimous- this guy was a petty tyrant when it came to your civil liberties and a number of other issues, and I won’t miss him one bit.

In a related note- how lucky is Lyndsey Graham- wins Thurmond’s seat and less than two years later he is the Senior Senator.

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Maybe Because It is True

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This is why I hate diplomacy– or at least the winking game in regards to tyrants and outlaws that civility seems to require:

President Bush is standing behind a senior U.S. official’s recent criticism of North Korea’s communist government.

A White House spokesman said Monday that Undersecretary of State John Bolton was speaking for the Bush administration last week when he described living conditions in North Korea as a “hellish nightmare” and called leader Kim Jong Il a “tyrannical dictator.”

Well, no SCREAMING EAGLE shit. He is a tyrannical dictator, and he needs to get the message that he is not going to roll over us in the next round of talks.

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Starting From Scratch?

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I am not sure if this is feasible, but it sounds like an appealing idea:

Simply put, the C.I.A. is not suited to the mission of homeland security. Its tradecraft is imbedded in everything from its training manuals to its computers. For example, because the agency deals in sensitive secrets, you need C.I.A. clearance, including a polygraph exam, to log on to its computer network. Even officials from other agencies with the highest government security clearances are banned. Thus if the Terrorist Threat Information Center answered to the C.I.A., it would be very hard for someone from a state or local government to get information unless a C.I.A. official decided the person had a “need to know.”

This sort of impediment to information-sharing is exactly what the recent Congressional report says contributed to the Sept. 11 intelligence failure. It is why Congress correctly wants the secretary of homeland security, not the director of central intelligence, to have authority over collecting and releasing intelligence for our domestic defense.

Moreover, making sure the new agency gathers and assesses information efficiently may not be our greatest challenge

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