Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When I was faster i was always behind.

I really should read my own blog.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

Finding joy where we can, and muddling through where we can’t.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

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Oil For Food

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Judith Miller apparently had enough tie left over after dodging subpoenas to write this lengthy piece on the UN Oil for Food scandal. The heart of the matter:

Multiple investigations now under way in Washington and Iraq and at the United Nations all center on one straightforward question: How did Mr. Hussein amass so much money while under international sanctions? An examination of the program, the largest in the United Nations’ history, suggests an equally straightforward answer: The United Nations let him do it.

“Everybody said it was a terrible shame and against international law, but there was really no enthusiasm to tackle it,” said Peter van Walsum, a Dutch diplomat who headed the Iraq sanctions committee in 1999 and 2000, recalling the discussions of illegal oil surcharges. “We never had clear decisions on anything. So we just in effect condoned things.”

Better late than never.

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McGreevey, Part Two

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In my previous post about McGreevey, a commenter stated (I have deleted the comment because I don’t want that person to think I am picking on him/her):

The interesting thing will be whether any Republican finds the courage to criticize McGreevey, whether for infidelity or for homosexual sodomy.

Why?

What is there possibly to be gained?

Is there anyone on the planet who does not know that Republicans (in theory) are against marital infidelity?

Do you want to spend another month talking about Henry Hyde’s zipper and Newt Gingrich’s young girlfriend?

Maybe we can get Larry Flynt to spend another million outing some more Congressional hypocrites. That would be helpful in November.

Is there anyone in the country who does not know that the right wing of the party is against sodomy and homosexual marriage? Do you want tto spend another month before the general election being tarred and feathered by the press as a party of bigots?

And could some please explain to me one little thing? Why is it that every time the Democrats are about to shoot themselves in the foot with both barrels, the social conservatives in my party have to open their big, fat, moralizing mouths, and place all Republicans heads between the barrel of the gun and the Democrats big toe?

Can you people not learn? Do you not understand what people mean when they say ‘Bill Clinton was blessed in his enemies?’

For the love of everything holy, NJ could be a win for Bush in November- don’t blow it. McGreevey’s administration was hopelessly corrupt, he has now admitted to having an affair while being married, is about to be charged with sexual harassment, and rather than just give the Democrats all the rope they need, the right wing is tempted one again to take the rope away and give it to the media to horsewhip the entire GOP.

Just be quiet. Trust me.

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On the other hand, this characterization is laughable:

A dedicated, if occasionally inept public servant resigns because of his sexuality.

He resigned because he is about to get HAMMERED with a sexual harassment suit or something of the sort. Not because he is gay- the last time I checked, that ws not an impeachable offense. Anywhere.

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The Death of Irony

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Big Media Matt writes:

…There’s a broader problem. While I’m a liberal journalist, I’m also a liberal journalist and so I’m not going to pretend that Kerry’s stance on gay marriage is one of pure conscience and principle when it seems clear to me that it isn’t.

Which is fine. I don’t want to be a hack, I want to be a journalist — an observer, an analyst, a polemicist, but even on the latter point an honest one. But as an observer I can see that liberalism is structurally disadvantaged by the fact that a far lower proportion of our commentators want to be hacks, as an analyst I can see that this “hack gap” plays a role in creating bad policy for the United States of America, and as a polemicist it seems to me that closing the hack gap is an important step in improving policy. But while I’m happy to do what I can to close the hack gap by trying to shame rightwingers into being less hackish, I’m not going to close it by becoming a hack — it’s not what I do, and it’s not what I want to do.

I don’t think Matt is a hack (I do think he is a partisan, but so am I), but making broad, sweeping statements about the opposition while annointing your own side of the ideological is the definition of being a hack.

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The Race Card?

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Apparently, when Republicans attempt to talk to the African-American community, it is ‘using the race card:’

One of the radio ads addresses Kerry’s failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: “It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted — Kerry did not! It lost by one vote! Maybe Kerry thought the more of us who are unemployed and hurting, the more likely we would vote Democrat.”

Another ad attacks Teresa Heinz Kerry, who, at the Democratic convention last month cited her birth and upbringing in Mozambique and who has described herself as African American. In the radio commercial, the announcer says: “His wife says she’s an African American. While technically true, I don’t believe a white woman, raised in Africa, surrounded by servants, qualifies.”

The Kerry campaign denounced the ads, all of which are being aired on radio stations with largely black audiences. “It’s disgusting that the president’s political allies are now using race as a political weapon,” said Bill Lynch, deputy manager of the Kerry campaign. “First a group of right-wing Swift boat veterans began smearing John Kerry’s military service, and now another group has resorted to playing racial politics.”

Mighty timid, these Democrats. I wonder what they might say if someone ran a commercial claiming Kerry lynched a black man?

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