Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

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

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Tick tock motherfuckers!

And so it is for the politically and morally bankrupt Kevin McCarthy.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

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

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

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

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

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

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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Score One for Free Speech

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I missed this too– the FEC has decided to protect fully and completely political bloggers:

I am pleased that it appears we have a consensus today and will establish several important protections for online political speech. This has been a very difficult rulemaking on multiple levels. However, if the Commission adopts the proposed final rules before it today, I think a number of positive things will be accomplished.

First, the proposed rules totally exempt individuals who engage in political activity on the Internet from the restrictions of the campaign finance laws.

Huzzah, and thanks to Mike Krempasky and the folks at the DKos who worked to make this happen.

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  1. 1.

    Alaskan_Pete

    Yeah, you’re missing alot these days Cole. Like logic, reason, etc.

    But you’re a helluva stunt driver. Cleared that pit of makos by at least a body length.

  2. 2.

    Pb

    thanks to Mike Krempasky and the folks at the DKos who worked to make this happen

    Pretty amazing–a *real* bi-partisan issue!

  3. 3.

    BumperStickerist

    The language in the act that requires political bloggers to use their amazing blogging powers only for good and not evil is a bit fuzzy, but otherwise it was a solid bipartisan effort.

  5. 5.

    Ozymandias

    The language in the act that requires political bloggers to use their amazing blogging powers only for good and not evil is a bit fuzzy, but otherwise it was a solid bipartisan effort.

    With great power comes great responsibility.

    Or, you know, not.

  6. 6.

    The Other Steve

    Oh this is a riot… GOP guy running for Cunninghams vacated seat has a picture on his website claiming it is from his trip to downtown Baghdad.

    http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008026.php

    Only problem is. It looks like a picture from a city in Turkey.

    Guys at dKos and DU have been played Find Waldo, and have noted all the signs are in Turkish, and even the taxi cab, pay toilet, and planters appear like ones in Turkey.

    Sorry to interupt the cheering about FEC ruling. :-)

  10. 10.

    Krista

    Good, now we need more tits on TV.

    No – that is a real bi-partisan issue

    I think it would only serve to lift and separate the two sides of the debate, though.

  13. 13.

    Ancient Purple

    This thread is rather titillating.

    It keeps you abreast of everything going on.

    But, sometimes, people milk it for all they can.

    Others only give you the cream of the crop in the discussion.

    Could be cheesy to some; like butter to others.

  17. 17.

    The Other Steve

    Mr. Furious – Oh, nice find on that other post with the picture from Istanbul.

    What’d that take? Like 14 hours from first news to identifying the location. That’s amazing! The Blogosphere can be an amazing tool.

    Looks like the offending website has been taken down, or at least it’s overloaded. Not responding.

  18. 18.

    The Other Steve

    Oh, wait. I’m sorry. Apparently I just got word from the tiny gremlins in my mind that by identifying this picture as not being from Baghdad, we were inadvertently calling this man a liar.

    Being a liar is a harsh crime, punishable by impeachment. One shouldn’t use the term loosely in mixed company.

    So I wish to apologize for any implication that the guy is a liar.

    He simply used the best intelligence he had available at the time in identifying this picture as being from his trip to Baghdad.

  19. 19.

    Steve

    don surber Says:

    Krempansky and Kos are on the FEC? I did not know that. Thanks for the information, John Cole.

    Don, please stop making DougJ look stupid.

  20. 20.

    Zifnab

    Being a liar is a harsh crime, punishable by impeachment. One shouldn’t use the term loosely in mixed company.

    Being a Democrat is a harsh crime, punishable by impeachment. Being a liar is just fine, so long as the terrorists can hear you.

  21. 21.

    Pb

    The Other Steve,

    Heck, he even named the photo “DowntownBaghdad.JPG” — it doesn’t get more blatant than that. And the webmaster defense doesn’t fly with me–does no one in his campaign even look at their own website, to say nothing of vetting it for potentially embarrassing gaffes, or taking some personal responsibility for said gaffes when they invariably occur? And this after ridiculing *the media* for getting things wrong?

    However, it doesn’t surprise me if they said “pick the best looking picture from our trip to show that Baghdad is a bustling, enlightened city” — that the picture picked wouldn’t even be in Baghdad! :)

  22. 22.

    Davebo

    Thank god that Red State and Daily Kos were able to join together and work to prevent an attack on free speech.

    To bad the John Cole’s of the right were to lazy to lift a freakin finger to help eh?

  24. 24.

    Richard 23

    Where’s the ‘moretitsontv.jpg’s? I need to see the uninhibited investigation of this important issue.

    We need more of the good news about tits on tv.

  25. 25.

    BIRDZILLA

    A few years ago several collages posted speech codes that said students could,nt use certian words that might be insenitive or offend minorities however courts struck them down as unconstitutional

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