Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Bark louder, little dog.

Let there be snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

T R E 4 5 O N

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Second rate reporter says what?

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Consistently wrong since 2002

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

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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Gerrymandering

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Via Jeremy Dibbell, this story on a possibly very important piece of legislation:

Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) became the first Republican to join a Democratic effort to limit gerrymandering.

Wamp yesterday signed on as a co-sponsor of a bill introduced by Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) that would establish bipartisan commissions to redraw state congressional districts every ten years.

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  1. 1.

    Rick

    A laudable effort.

    Can’t help noting that Democrat interest, and ‘pubbie disinterest, seems to follow the Reversal of Fortune of 1994. My party’s wonderful Clinton Years.

    Cordially…

  3. 3.

    Stormy 70

    Please, Texas Democrats took gerrymandering to a whole new level. The Dems lost Texas, and now the districts reflect the political make up of the state. By the way, Delay’s district was carved up, and it makes his reelection harder, not easier. Welcome to politics the Texas way, it’s not for the faint of heart.

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    dave s

    I think it’s a good think to require contiguous districts, non-partisan drawing of boundaries, etc. But I don’t think it’ll do a whole lot for bringing competitiveness back into the process in the districts – there’s been so much shift towards ideological soulmates living in the same districts in the last 20 years. All over the country, people are more and more living in predominantly-Reep or predominantly-Dem communities. Nothing you do in districting is going to get you a Reep from the SF Bay area, nor will you get Dems from Biloxi.

    Cities are full of Dems, collar counties full of Reeps. In swing states you may get some real contests – Washington, Minnesota, Michigan. But I still think it’s a good thing to do.

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