Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

The willow is too close to the house.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Come on, man.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

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

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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I am reasonably sure the childrens book “Why Mommy is a Democrat” will be horrible in ways I can’t even imagine, but is the weekend that Tom Mark Foley was just exposed as a predator and pervert and the GOP House leadership looks to have gone a long way to cover it up really the best time for Red State to poke fun at liberal values?

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  1. 1.

    scs

    Hey what are you doing posting this late? I just wrote a really long post about Clinton at the bottom of the first page and your new post just bumped it off to the next page – or off to ‘the void’. I thought it would at least last until tomorrow!

  3. 3.

    scarshapedstar

    Christ. Now the wingnuts start frothing when kindergardeners are told that sharing is good?

    If only I’d realized just how Marxist my indoctrination was, back at Christ Episcopal School.

  4. 4.

    Paddy O'Shea

    So those “share days” my kids had at parochial school when they were little were really a form of Marxist indoctrination?

    So what do they have at Red State school? “Give me that it’s mine, f*ckface!” days?

  6. 6.

    Pb

    Don’t tell them about those “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” books, either! It’s all total pinko commie Liberal hippie Marxist anti-Bush, anti-Republican, anti-Iraq war propaganda!

    * Share everything.
    * Play fair.
    * Don’t hit people.
    * Put things back where you found them.
    * Clean up your own mess.
    * Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
    * Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
    etc.

    The whole concept of the ‘state’ having ‘schools’ and therefore ‘shared toys’ is probably way too ‘Marxist’ for them as well.

    “I am not a Marxist.” – Karl Marx

  7. 7.

    srv

    Nothing makes me laugh harder than when I see the New Red Youth saying their socialist Pledge of Allegiance.

  8. 8.

    Pb

    srv,

    Yes, but it is somewhat watered down–they even managed to get the Knights of Columbus to tamper with it!

  9. 9.

    rachel

    Maybe they decided you were right; I get a “Not Found” message when I click on the link.

  11. 11.

    PeterJ

    Maybe they decided you were right; I get a “Not Found” message when I click on the link.

    From http://redstate.com/:

    You are seeing this page because the current DNS service has expired.
    This is usually just a temporary error while the DNS service is being renewed. But you will want to ask your system administrator to make sure they are aware of this error and payment is made.

    If your system administrator is having you use the wrong resolving name servers you will want to notify them of this mistake right away.
    If you are looking for free resolving name servers (for desktop and personal computers) we suggest you use the free service at Resolving Name Server.

    Funny.

  14. 14.

    Paddy O'Shea

    Tom Foley will be spending his newly found free time writing a book called “Why Daddy is a Republican.”

    I’m certain the evil liberal media will make some predetermined judgements as to its content.

  15. 15.

    Paddy O'Shea

    Anybody following this one? Apparently almost all of the U.S. command in Afghanistan will now be answering to a British general. Wasn’t the issue of U.S. troops serving under foreign command a big screaming deal with the righties when Clinton was president?

    Then again, a president who could turn control of our ports over to Dubai is
    probably capable of doing anything, even farming out our troops.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15085146/

  16. 16.

    The Other Steve

    Wasn’t the issue of U.S. troops serving under foreign command a big screaming deal with the righties when Clinton was president?

    Yeah, but you didn’t think the Republicans actually meant their criticism did you?

    It’s perfectly acceptable to have US troops serving under foreign generals, or have Congressmen trying to engage in sex acts with little boys if you are a Republican.

  17. 17.

    Andrew

    Wasn’t the issue of U.S. troops serving under foreign command a big screaming deal with the righties when Clinton was president?

    It’s okay, because the chain of command goes like:
    American troops -> British general -> Tony Blair -> W. -> Cheney

  19. 19.

    D. Mason

    Sorry to say, and much more sorry to agree with red state in any capacity, but that book is so mocking and condescending to children that it deserves to be poked fun at constantly and without mercy. The author of that book should be ashamed of himself for that entirely pathetic attempt at indoctrination. No doubt his children will grow up to be authors aswell, they will likely pen many titles about how fucked up their childhood was.

    Also I would like to express my resentment towards the author for making me stand in agreement with red state. Now I have to go take a shower.

  20. 20.

    Paddy O'Shea

    “For the first time in military history, U.S.
    military personnel are not under the control
    of U.S. Generals.”

    -Rush Limbaugh on Bosnia

  22. 22.

    Tsulagi

    but is the weekend that Tom Foley was just exposed as a predator and pervert and the GOP House leadership looks to have gone a long way to cover it up really the best time for Red State to poke fun at liberal values?

    Hey, never let irony get in the way of reinforcing delusional self image. Plus true warriors for Dobson/Cheney never miss an opportunity for their echo chamber disco. The beat pulses, the manly men beat their chests, and all are thinking “Do I make you a little horny?”

  23. 23.

    lard lad

    Tom Foley was just exposed as a predator and pervert

    Tom Foley will be spending his newly found free time writing a book called “Why Daddy is a Republican.”

    Mark Foley, guys. MARK Foley.

    Didn’t Tom Foley get picked on enough by Newt Gingrich without you schmucks adding to his suffering? ; )

  24. 24.

    DougJ

    Do you know for a fact that Tom Foley and Mark Foley are different people? Isn’t it possible that George Soros set this whole thing up by paying Tom Foley to change his name, switch parties, and become a pedophile? (Channelling commeters from Tom Maguire)

  26. 26.

    Andrew

    Doug, that’s crazy!

    It’s FAR more likely that Soros used his Jew gold to start a eugenics program to clone pedophiles. So, Mark Foley is not Tom Foley, but they are GENETICALLY IDENTICAL. Plus, they were grown in the same sort of Axolotl tank, so that settles the nature versus nurture thing.

    Occam’s razor, bitches.

  27. 27.

    Kirk Spencer

    Paddy quoted Limbaugh saying

    “For the first time in military history, U.S.
    military personnel are not under the control
    of U.S. Generals.”

    Proving again that Limbaugh doesn’t know history. Common wisdom, yes, but history…

    I’ll open with 369th from WWI.

  28. 28.

    DougJ

    You’re right, Andrew, that is simpler. But where do Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame fit in, if that’s the case?

    Off topic: that’s one woman I would have liked to get mash notes from when I was 16.

  29. 29.

    VidaLoca

    But where do Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame fit in, if that’s the case?

    The Clenis, don’t forget the Clenis!

  30. 30.

    tBone

    But where do Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame fit in, if that’s the case?

    They carried out the Clinton train murders to shut up a couple of teenage pages who wouldn’t go along with the Foley entrapment. And then they killed Vince Foster, who had flown into a jealous rage upon discovering that Hillary was sending suggestive faxes to female pages.

  31. 31.

    KC

    Actually, the first time I saw that book advertised on Kos, I thought it was pretty funny. I sure can’t see it being a big seller.

  32. 32.

    Gold Star for Robot Boy

    Anyone catch the morning chat shows? It’ll be interesting to hear the CW come together. From what I gather, the weathervane is pointing toward “Bad news for GOP.”

  33. 33.

    SeesThroughIt

    That RedState thread is predictably hilarious–I had no idea things like sharing and going to school were “degenerative” and “self destructive.” Even funnier is that in their zeal to decry partisan children’s books, they completely forgot about Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under my Bed! and its thigh-slapping sequal, Help! Mom! Hollywood’s in my Hamper!. Idiots.

    But really, the world does not need partisan children’s books. Is there something wrong with Harold and the Purple Crayon, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and the works of Dr. Seuss? Well, to RedStaters, there probably is. To much sharin’ and carin’, not enough gay bashin’ and Reaganomics.

  34. 34.

    capelza

    I simply can not bring myself to go to Red State anymore.

    But as for “sharing” and being nice to people being somehow bad…I’m sure my Southern Baptist preacher grandfather would be very perplexed if he was still alive. Do they not allow “Love thy neighbour as thyself” in Sunday School anymore?

    That’s where I learned it…who knew that a SBC church in the Ozarks was a hotbed of liberal indoctranation.

  37. 37.

    Andrew

    When are the right-wingers gonna print pop-up versions of Ayn Rand’s screeds?

    Stop waiting for handouts and do it yourself, commie.

  38. 38.

    capelza

    Well…I did finally click on that RS link.. :(

    What I find really sad is that suppssedly conservative people are suddemly twisting themsleves into pretzels about whether a guy who is doing what Foley did is “okay” because in some states the age of consent is 16. I wonder how many of these people would have been so eager if Foley was a Dem. They’d be citing Foley’s own law. The one poster, Steve gets it.

  40. 40.

    DougJ

    Let them make fun of “Why is Mommy a Democrat”. I know I will. Jesus, I hate that kind of garbage. I know I shouldn’t but I do.

  41. 41.

    tBone

    I know I shouldn’t but I do.

    I’m with you. I don’t who the audience is for that crap, and I hope I don’t find out.

  42. 42.

    Quickrob

    Ya gotta admit: the book is total propaganda…and its aimed at kids.

    That’s pretty much endenyably foul.

  43. 43.

    demimondian

    So “Why Mommy is a Democrat” is real? I assumed that it was a parody of the self-help books of the nineties: “Why Daddy Doesn’t Live Here Any More”, “Why We’re Eating Oatmeal (Again)”, and the like.

  44. 44.

    Rusty Shackleford

    Isn’t this the the 3rd or 4th Republican to be nabbed for inappropriate conduct with minors? Which guy am I missing?

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