Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The willow is too close to the house.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Everybody saw this coming.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

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

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Glad to see john eastman going through some things.

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Football Saturday

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WVU takes on Va. Tech about a mile from my house, and I am going to sit on thecouch and watch it in HD rather than brave the crowds. I am hopeful about the outcome, but I have a feeling how this is going to end up. I hope I am wrong.

For those of you who wonder why I write about so many sports but little attention to baseball, the standings say it all. The Pirates are going to finish below .500 for the 14th year in a row, and all that remains unanswered is whether they are literally the worst team in baseball.

I like the sport of baseball, I really do. But it is going to take more than a pathological hatred of the Yankees to pique more than a cursory interest in the sport.

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Breaking The Law

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And the administration hit parade continues on:

Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush’s education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party.

In a blistering report, the investigators, from the Government Accountability Office, said the administration had disseminated “covert propaganda” in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.

The contract with Mr. Williams and the general contours of the public relations campaign had been known for months. The report Friday provided the first definitive ruling on the legality of the activities.

Lawyers from the accountability office, an independent nonpartisan arm of Congress, found that the administration systematically analyzed news articles to see if they carried the message, “The Bush administration/the G.O.P. is committed to education.”

The auditors declared: “We see no use for such information except for partisan political purposes. Engaging in a purely political activity such as this is not a proper use of appropriated funds.”

Again, my main reaction is I simply can;t believe they thought this was a good idea. I can’t believe Armstrong took the money, which is degrees less serious than offering it in the first place, but the whole thing just leaves me aghast. It was just stupid, illegal, and well, stupid.

Not to mention Armstrong Williams was already a supporter of vouchers and the Bush education policy. Why pay him at all?

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