Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

When we show up, we win.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

No one could have predicted…

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Trump should be leading, not lying.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

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  1. 1.

    mrmobi

    Good Morning Juicers!

    Last week I read something about Turkey beginning preparations for an incursion into Iraq. Anyone seen any more about that?

    As if the wheels could fall any further off!

  3. 3.

    Paul Wartenberg

    mrmobi Says:

    Good Morning Juicers!

    Last week I read something about Turkey beginning preparations for an incursion into Iraq. Anyone seen any more about that?

    As if the wheels could fall any further off!

    They’re having issues with the Kurdish insurgents in Turkey, and so they think invading the Kurdish territories in Iraq would solve their problems. We were warned before going into Iraq that something like this would happen if the Kurds in Northern Iraq were capable of splitting off in any civil war that the Bushie neocons thought would never happen…

  4. 4.

    Krista

    For anybody else who’s having trouble keeping track of who hates who, vis-à-vis the Middle East, Slate has created a handy-dandy interactive chart. (If you click on each icon, it gives you a bit of background…)

  5. 5.

    Perry Como

    I hope all good conservatives will stand with me in support of secret earmarks to defend our national security.

    Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the imprisoned former California congressman, took advantage of secrecy and badgered congressional aides to help slip items into classified bills that would benefit him and his associates, an independent inquiry has reported.

  6. 6.

    Rusty Shackleford

    Paula Zahn is presenting a special on the Rapture retards tonight on CNN.

  8. 8.

    Nutcutter

    Remember this story.

    Remember it the next time stupid asshole Darrell sits here and shits talking points about how we dasn’t let “the government” make our healthcare decisions.

    Remember it the next time you see Bill Frist talking about anything that has to do with healthcare in this country.

    The endless, bludgeoning lying campaign to put American healthcare entirely at the mercy of large corporations has paid off handsomely for the Frists.

    How you doin?

    Hospital Giant HCA Announces a Record Buyout
    E-MailPrint Reprints Save

    By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
    Published: July 24, 2006
    HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital operator, said today that it had agreed to be acquired by consortium of private investors for about $21 billion. The investors will also take on about $11.7 billion of HCA’s debt.

    The deal would rank as the largest leveraged buyout in history, eclipsing the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco in 1989 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.

    The group of buyers is led by the family of Senator Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader. His father, Thomas Frist Sr., and his brother, Thomas F. Frist Jr., founded HCA.

    The other investors are Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the private equity arm of Merrill Lynch.

    The deal appears to be driven by trends both on Wall Street and in the health care industry. For one thing, the private equity business — in which investment companies pool capital from investors in order to buy companies and then resell them or take them public — is swimming in cash. And privaty equity firms are eager to invest in a company like HCA, which generates a lot of revenue and, judging by its stock price, is seen as undervalued by investors.

    NYT July 24 2006 (excerpt)

    More and more expensive health care, affordable and available to fewer and fewer citizens.

    That’s your Republican legacy here.

  9. 9.

    Punchy

    The latest infamous James Inhofe:

    Inhofe added that every claim in An Inconvenient Truth “has been refuted scientifically.” He also admitted he’d never seen the movie.

    (emphasis mine)

    That’s some amazing skill. Knowing exactly the content and context of every claim in a movie, yet never having seen that movie. Almost a clairvoyant ESPer on steriods.

    Man, I know the blue ribbon for worst, most outrageous Congressman is like picking the hottest Miss Universe contestant, but I really think Mr. Inhofe takes it hands down. Oklahomians should be hugely embarrassed by this fool.

  11. 11.

    Par R

    More and more expensive health care, affordable and available to fewer and fewer citizens.

    A major factor behind this result are people like Nutcutter who are constantly gaming the existing system to get as much out of it as they can.

  13. 13.

    Nutcutter

    A major factor behind this result are people like Nutcutter who are constantly gaming the existing system to get as much out of it as they can.

    In case anyone really wondered any more whether this butthead is a spoof.

  14. 14.

    Nutcutter

    The switch of American and British media attention to Lebanon and away from the rapidly deteriorating situation in Baghdad is much to the political benefit of Mr Blair and Mr Bush

    From the story linked by Punchy, above.

    Does anyone still really doubt that these cocksuckers will do anything to divert attention from their endless string of gaffes and fuckups?

  15. 15.

    Punchy

    Nut, this is what I think is the money-shot quote from that link:

    “Iraq as a political project is finished,” a senior government official was quoted as saying, adding: “The parties have moved to plan B.” He said that the Shia, Sunni and Kurdish parties were now looking at ways to divide Iraq between them and to decide the future of Baghdad, where there is a mixed population. “There is serious talk of Baghdad being divided into [Shia] east and [Sunni] west,” he said.

    Their own gov’t is saying that. Not some left-wing newspaper editorial, not Al Franken, not some respected, honest, heartfelt war-protestor like Cindy Sheehan (dig!), not even Dems in Congress. Their own government is on “plan B”.

    Devestating. And not one US media outlet will broadcast it.

  16. 16.

    Nutcutter

    Devestating. And not one US media outlet will broadcast it.

    Eventually they will have to.

    Iraq is now basically back to where it was when the British said fuck it 75 years ago and threw in the towel.

    It’s not like nobody tried to warn these guys. And as recent histories are revealing, the feckless stupidity that insured the failure of this thing runs deep into the Bush administration. They are literally like the dog that caught the car, when it comes to Iraq. Once they had the thing by the tire, they had no idea what to do with it.

    British Occupation of Iraq Holds Lessons for U.S.
    by Mike Shuster

    All Things Considered, July 8, 2003 · Britain’s experience in Iraq after World War I offers a cautionary tale for the United States and its forces in the country. Like the United States, Britain promised to “liberate” Iraq, not to “occupy” it. As with U.S. forces, British troops were attacked by Iraqis not long after the occupation began. And British forces in Iraq were stretched too thin. NPR’s Mike Shuster reports on these and other parallels between then and now.

  18. 18.

    Nutcutter

    Hardball today has Joe Loserman saying this, with a straight face, right to the camera:

    “If they are questioning whether I’m a real Democrat, then the Democratic party is in big trouble.”

    Is Joe’s material now being written by DougJ?

  23. 23.

    demimondian

    the Nutcutter trailer

    Is that like the _Snake on a Plane_ trailer? I hear that was pretty good…

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