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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.
Let there be snark.
Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!
Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.
People are complicated. Love is not.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.
There is no right way to do the wrong thing.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.
SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.
When we show up, we win.
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
Sandi
Wilfred McClay over at Democracy Project has a pretty good take on it and cited her column.
Brian Linse
Hey John:
Couldn’t make it very far through the Nooner column. Once it turned into a swooning rememberance of Nixon she lost me… she’s embarrassingly bad most times out of the gate. But hey, at least she wasn’t going on about Reagan – again.
Check out Matt Welch on Rather:
http://www.reason.com/links/links112904.shtml
I think Matt really nails the psychosis that was Diamond Dan.
Terry
The Matt Welch take on Dan Rather is far, far more damning than the worst comment made by Peggy Noonan. However, disagree with Brian that Noonan’s “bad most times…” I suspect that’s a non-objective political judgment on both our parts, however.