Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Republicans do not trust women.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

This fight is for everything.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

An almost top 10,000 blog!

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

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Today’s Playoff Games

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I quit watching the NHL several years ago, but I will still occassionally watch playoff hockey, which can be really exciting. I still consider myself a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but they are so awful lately it is impossible to watch them. Some may call me a fair-weather fan- but it is not like I am rooting for other NFL teams. I just refuse to watch any hockey when the Penguins suck.

At any rate, the main reason I quit watching hockey started in the mid 90’s with the New Jersey devils and that hideous neutral zone trap. IMHO, it ruined the game. If I wanted to watch several Russians carry each other across ice for several hours, I would watch Ice Dancing. After the Devils were successful, it seemed like the clutching and grabbing and hooking just went through the roof. I would try to watch the Pens to see the stickwork and passing between Jagr and lemiex, instead I would see Lemieux trying desperately to remain graceful while a large Slav named Igor and Ivan and a last name with more z’s in his last name than he had teeth in his head rode him piggy-back across the ice.

The game, to me- has been ruined, and even though evey year the NHL says officials are going to really clamp down on the nonsense, they don’t. So I quit watching. Life is too short for that kind of boredom.

Why am I bringing this up? Because of today’s NFL playoff games. I am a diehard Steelers fan, so I know a little bit about defense and a running game. However, the officiating today, and this attitude of ‘just letting them play’ has got to go. I did not watch the Colts and the Patriots this afternoon because I wanted to spend the whole damn afternoon watching Ty Law try to rip the jersey off marvin Harrison. Watching Todd Pinkston piggyback Manning down the field is no fun. I don’t care if it is the playoffs- call the damn game the way you called it all year long. What we saw today was not good defense by the defensive backfields of the Panthers and the Patriots in their respective wins. What we saw today was a clinic on cheating.

If the NFL wants this to be the way the game is played, do us all a favor- change the rules. Let the defenisve backs mug, push, shove, trip, clutch, grab, and grasp the receivers all the way down the field- but let it be like that in the regular season, too. At least then we will all know to quit watching by the time the playoffs roll around.

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Three Things That Piss Me off

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1.) The term ‘Deaniac.’ It was tedious and stupid when it was McCainiacs in 2000, and that had the benfit of being somewhat original. Stop using the term, please.

2.) The fact that Al Gore gave a speech on Global Warming on a very cold day. The speech was demagogic and stupid- but what does that have to do with seasonal cold weather?

3.) People cheering the arrival at court of an accused child molester.

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Paging Henry Waxman

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Uh Oh!:

Gov. James Douglas on Thursday urged Vermonters to save power to help avert rolling blackouts that could be needed because of electricity shortages in southern New England.

Douglas said the power shortage was caused by a shortage of natural gas used to power electric generating plants in southern New England.

Steve Costello, a spokesman for the Central Vermont Public Service Corp., said a number of plants that produce a total of 4,000 megawatts of electricity had been shut down because they were out of fuel.

How long before Rep. Waxman issues subpoenas to Enron and Ken Lay?

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The Real Bush Vulnerability

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Forget the economy, which will continue to chug along comfortably. Forget Iraq, which will slowly become more and more stable. Here is Bush’s real vulnerability:

National leaders of six conservative organizations yesterday broke with the Republican majorities in the House and Senate, accusing them of spending like “drunken sailors,” and had some strong words for President Bush as well.

“The Republican Congress is spending at twice the rate as under Bill Clinton, and President Bush has yet to issue a single veto,” Paul M. Weyrich, national chairman of Coalitions for America, said at a news briefing with the other five leaders. “I complained about profligate spending during the Clinton years but never thought I’d have to do so with a Republican in the White House and Republicans controlling the Congress.”

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I Love It

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In all honesty, Chalres Pickering and I probably share very little in common politically other than we are both registered Republicans. However, after watching Schumer, Leahy, Kennedy, and Clinton launch their vile personal jihads against this guy in the nomination process, all I have to say to this is “RIGHT ON!”:

President Bush bypassed Congress and installed Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court Friday, opening an election-year fight with Democrats who had stalled the nomination for more than two years.

Bush installed Pickering by a recess appointment, which avoids the confirmation process. Such appointments are valid until the next Congress takes office, in this case in January 2005.

Pickering, a federal trial judge who Bush nominated for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, has been waiting for a confirmation vote in the Senate.

“I’m grateful to the president for his continued confidence and support,” Pickering told The Associated Press from his home in Mississippi. “I look forward to serving on the 5th Circuit.”

The President chose him- vote up or down, or deal with this recess appointment.

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The fact that it pisses Atrios off makes me even happier. And, btw, Atrios- Would you quit lying about the outcome- SCOTUS agreed Bush did not lie.

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Odd Decision

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Unlike Oliver, I don’t think that CBS refusing to air the MoveOn.Org commercial during the SuperBowl is a sign of the decline of Democracy. Here are CBS’s reasons:

A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super Bowl or the ad’s specific issue but was because the network has had a long-term policy not to air issue ads anywhere on the network.

If that is their policy, fine. What I do not understand, and where I agree with Oliver wholeheartedly, is how the government is able to air their hideous anti-drug agit-prop (like they did last year). How is that any different from what MoveOn.Org wants to air (and having some media experience I know what a Public Service Announcement is- it is a government sponsored issue ad).

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As was pointed out by Dimmy in the comments, last year the drug ads were on ABC, and not CBS.

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Pond Scum

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So the President decides to visit the grave of the greatest American civil rights leader on his birthday, and this is his reward:

.S. President Bush arrived in Atlanta Thursday afternoon for a controversial visit to Martin Luther King Jr.’s grave that drew nearly 500 protesters.

Carrying signs and chanting to rhythms pounded from conga drums, members of the crowd resisted efforts by police to move them to a designated protest area about 150 yards from the reflecting pool of the King Center, CNN said, where Bush was to lay a wreath to commemorate King’s 75th birthday.

As Bush arrived just before 4 p.m., the crowd booed and chanted “Bush go home!” WXIA-TV reported. Drums beat loudly as protesters chanted “In 2004, Bush no more,” and held printed signs that displayed King’s image and said “War is not the answer.”

There are times and places- Bush has a fund-raising event tonight, and I have no problem with protestors there. This, however, is disgusting.

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