Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Everybody saw this coming.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let there be snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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Chris Dodd’s stature just edged up a notch in my eyes (like he cares):

“Words can sting and hurt,” Dodd told The Associated Press Wednesday. “If in any way, in my referencing the Civil War, I offended anyone, I apologize.”

He said he was trying to make the point that Byrd would have been a good senator at any point, and “I was not thinking of the KKK or his vote against the Civil Rights Act.”

It took him a while, and it is still sort of wormy (“if… I offended anyone” as opposed to just admitting they were offensive remarks), but this is a straight-forward, head-on, candid apology, and not like the Clintonian nonsense we got from Lott for weeks.

Sen. Dodd- I accept, and the issue is over as far as I am concerned.

(via Ricky West)

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    HH

    Now we see the AP refusing to even quote what he said, trying to downplay it, and the NAACP saying the apology wasn’t necessary. The larger point here has been proven and then some…

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    S.W. Anderson

    A tip of the cap for acknowledging that a good man can make a bad remark. And, of course, I agree Dodd was right to come forward with an apology for what was definitely a bad remark.

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    CadillaqJaq

    So Dodd screwed up in his use of inappropriate remarks: he apologized. Way more than many of his leftist political associates would have done. He’s not a favorite of mine but a decent sort none the less.

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