Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The words do not have to be perfect.

He really is that stupid.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

So many bastards, so little time.

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

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

You cannot shame the shameless.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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

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Shooting up the GOP

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By now you have heard about this:

A shot apparently was fired at the Republican Party headquarters in downtown Huntington while President Bush’s speech accepting the GOP nomination for president was being televised.
No one was hurt in the 10:30 p.m. Thursday incident.

“We heard a pop. We realized it was a gunshot and we were kind of scared,” said Gayle Adkins, a volunteer of Huntington.

Others said they didn’t see anything except for some of the banners jumping as the bullet whizzed over their heads. Police could not locate where the bullet landed.

From this we can learn one of two things:

1.) The bullet was a message, and no one intended to shoot anyone.

-or-

2.) The shooter was from out of state.

West Virgnian’s do not miss what they are aiming at.

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Fast Food, Fast Women, Fast Living

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The “Big Me” almost had the “Big One:”

Former President Bill Clinton today checked himself into New York Presbyterian Hospital where he will undergo heart bypass surgery in the next few days after complaining of shortness of breath and chest pains, his office said.

Mr. Clinton, 58, went to Northern Westchester Hospital on Thursday after he experienced “mild chest pains and shortness of breath,” his office said in a statement released to the news media.

Tests at that hospital were “normal,” his office said, and Mr. Clinton spent Thursday night at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. But after additional tests today, his doctors advised bypass surgery, the statement said, although it did not indicate when the surgery would take place.

Heart attacks are just soooo sudden. It was only a few days ago I was watching him in some recent video footage and I thought to myself that he looked tanned, rested, and the best he has looked in years. He probably hates the fact he can not run again.

At any rate, I hope things go well- no family needs to go through this.

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Kerry Meltdown

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Wow. I just read Kerry’s rebuttal. It sounds like Michael Moore and Terry McAwful co-wrote it:

For the past week, they have attacked my patriotism and even my fitness to serve as commander in chief.
Well, here is my answer to them. I will not have my commitment to defend this country questioned by those who refused to serve when they could’ve and who misled America into Iraq.

The vice president called me unfit for office last night. Well, I’m going to leave it up to the voters to decide whether five deferments make someone more qualified than two tours of duty.

Let me tell you in no uncertain terms what makes someone unfit for office and unfit for duty. Misleading our nation into war in Iraq makes you unfit to lead our country. Doing nothing while this nation loses millions of jobs makes you unfit to lead this country. Letting 45 million Americans go without health care for four years makes you unfit to lead this country.

Letting the Saudi royal family control the price of oil for Americans makes you unfit to lead this country. Handing out billions of dollars in government contracts without a bid to Halliburton while you’re still on the payroll makes you unfit lead this country.

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Fiscal Conservatives

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Earlier today, fellow Milblogger Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette observed:

Emerging theme of the Democratic response to the Republican convention speeches:

Schwarzenegger is not a Republican
McCain is not a Republican
Zell Miller is not a Democrat

After listening to the spending proposals in the first half of Bush’s speech, we can now add to that:

George Bush is no fiscal conservative

Bush could have saved us from having to listen to an hour of his grating diction by walkingto the microphone and stating:

I accept the nomination, and if I win, I intend to fund every imaginable program possible so the Democrats can’t say I am mean.

Simply indecent.

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Red State Blogging the Convention

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Red State is really getting the job done with their coverage of the Repulican National Convention, and you owe it to yourself to take a quick look. Today alone, they have secured interviews with:

– Zainab al Suwaij

– Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele

– JC Watts

– Pat Toomey

– Michael Barone

Also, both DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe and RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie have stopped by to do some guestblogging.

I can’t tell you how proud I am of the effort being made by Krempasky, Tacitus, and Augustine, and I am equally thrilled to be a small contributer to the operation.

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Shame on Richard Cohen

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I guess the editors at the Washington Post are on vacation:

On the very day that George Bush changed his mind and said that the war on terrorism was in fact winnable, the following things happened: Suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel; 12 Nepalese service workers (dishwashers, etc.) were massacred in Iraq; five Afghans were accidentally killed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan; nine people were killed by a suicide bomber at a Moscow subway station, and five more American servicemen were reported dead in Iraq. For worldwide terrorism, it was not a bad day.

You would be hard pressed to fill more nonsense into two sentences.

A.) Bush never ‘changed his mind’ about the war on terrorism. What he stated was that he is not sure that, in the abstract, it is possible to win in the sense that you will stamp out all terrorism. There will always be someone with a gun or a bomb somewhere. The Waron Terror, however, is a fight against organized terrorism with global reach. Cohen knows this- the NY Times knows it, and everyone who is not selling their credibility to buy John Kerry an election knows that.

B.) The next time someone tells you the left is not hostile to the American military, bring up this Cohen piece. Other than overt hostility, is there any way to describe why the accidental shootings in a combat zone of civilians (which has not even been verified yet) would be treated as terrorism?

Cohen’s words again:

Suicide bombers killed 16 people in Israel; 12 Nepalese service workers (dishwashers, etc.) were massacred in Iraq; five Afghans were accidentally killed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan; nine people were killed by a suicide bomber at a Moscow subway station, and five more American servicemen were reported dead in Iraq.

Shorter Richart Cohen: “The United States Air Force. Worldwide Terrorists.”

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Coy Andy

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I see Sullivan is having a gay old time bashing Zell Miller.

Hey Andy- you know what it is called when someone ascribes false characteristics to an individual based solely on stereotypes? It is called bigotry.

Hack. How did he even manage to write this line:

That macho invocation of the Marines was a classic: the kind of militarist swagger that this convention endorses and uses as a bludgeon against its opponents.

Did he even see the DNC? The left will try to spin this as ‘over the top,’ or venomous. And once again, the left and the Democrats will completely be blindsided by how this was accepted by independents and undecideds (Jay has similar remarks).

Miller’s speech was not ‘venomous,’ or ‘hate-filled.’ It was a harsh attack on Kerry’s VOTING RECORD and PUBLIC STATEMENTS, but that is completely fair game. What you saw was measured rage- anger based on an insider’s view of the Democrats gaming foreign policy for partisan benefit. There is a reason Miller stated the folowing:

Where is the bi-partisanship in this country when we need it most?

Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat’s manic obsession to bring down our Commander-in- Chief.

What has happened to the party I’ve spent my life working in?

Does anyone doubt this? All the Democrats have done in the past three years is snipe, whine, coplain, obstruct, fabricate lies (16 words, the President doesn’t attend funerals, they doctored the intelligence, etc.), and they are on record as trying to game the Senate Select Intelligence committee forpartisan gain. Zell Miller was notmaking things up. The reasons the Democrats are mad at Miler is because he has the goods on them.

And as far as Andy stooping so low as to attempt to inject racism and racist motives with his ‘dixiecrat’ slur- well, I used to think better of you, Andy.

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