Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

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

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Like a retreating army, Republicans are tearing up railroad track and planting legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern when they take power in Congress next month.

Already, the Republican leadership has moved to saddle the new Democratic majority with responsibility for resolving $463 billion in spending bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. And the departing chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Bill Thomas (R., Calif.), has been demanding that the Democrat-crafted 2008 budget absorb most of the $13 billion in costs incurred from a decision now to protect physician reimbursements under Medicare, the federal health-care program for the elderly and disabled.

Funny how our national guardians of the civility chalice tend to ignore spiteful behavior that actually has an impact on how our country runs. Is this crap really that much harder to comment on than society-page gossip about Nancy Pelosi disliking Jane Harman? Paging Atrios…

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  2. 2.

    RSA

    I thought the Republicans were the Daddy Party, not the Spoiled-Teenage-Kids-with-a-Credit-Card Party.

  5. 5.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    This isn’t “Republican Stupidity,” it’s “Republican Malevolence,” or maybe “Malfeasance.” I guess that’s what the KMBA tag gets across…

    Nothing’s shocking, anymore, as far as conservative indifference to American interests goes.

  11. 11.

    SeesThroughIt

    Spoiled-Teenage-Kids-with-a-Credit-Card Party.

    That is the Daddy Party.

    [stomps foot] “Daaaaaaaaaddy!”

  12. 12.

    TenguPhule

    The Democrats are worse.

    Of course. Because in retaliation for this they’re going to make Congress work 5 days a week instead of only 2 in the next session.

    You can already hear the lazy whiny ass righty bitches squealing on the Hill if you hold a Haliburton Stock Certificate up to your ear.

  14. 14.

    The Other Steve

    Of course. Because in retaliation for this they’re going to make Congress work 5 days a week instead of only 2 in the next session.

    I’m going to start working a Republican Work Week.

  15. 15.

    Andrew

    When the Democrats left in 1994 they trashed the House after a big keg party! This is nothing like that.

    A kegay party is more like it.

    N.b. Mark Foley caught the gay from a page boy who got stuck in a cloak room for two weeks after really rocking Ways & Means goodbye fiesta.

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    pie

    The Republicans are doing whatever it takes to minimize the damage the Democrats can cause to this country. If that involves a few rearguard actions, so be it. Our national security is at stake.

    Is there anything in the Constitution that lets the President and the Supreme Court impeach the Congressional majority, if they’re actively trying to undermine America’s freedom by holding hearings on Iraq or trying to pull us out prematurely?

  20. 20.

    Zifnab

    If that involves a few rearguard actions, so be it. Our national security is at stake.

    Why stop there? I say go total scorched earth. Level the capital building, set fire to the congressional offices, and litter the wreckage with trip-wires and landmines. Then spread out to K-Street and form an elite band of guerilla lobbiests to sabatoge legislation.

    The south shall rise again!

  21. 21.

    Jake

    Rearguard action? Premature pull outs?

    What does the Jeff Gannon/Karl Rove/Dick Cheney bizarre love triangle have to do with anything? Get a grip pie.

  22. 22.

    pie

    Why stop there? I say go total scorched earth. Level the capital building, set fire to the congressional offices, and litter the wreckage with trip-wires and landmines. Then spread out to K-Street and form an elite band of guerilla lobbiests to sabatoge legislation.

    We need to fight the insurgents and their Demoratic puppets with an insurgency of our own. If it works for them over there, it’ll work in DC, too.

    What does the Jeff Gannon/Karl Rove/Dick Cheney bizarre love triangle have to do with anything?

    Don’t ask, don’t tell.

  23. 23.

    Tulkinghorn

    If last year’s budget is unfinished, let’s get an estate tax repeal in ASAP, on the basis that we need the $$ for the war (which we do). It is a chance to hammer the White House on domestic issues… let him veto one bill per week if he wants to.

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    Punchy

    If last year’s budget is unfinished, let’s get an estate tax repeal in ASAP, on the basis that we need the $$ for the war (which we do). It is a chance to hammer the White House on domestic issues… let him veto one bill per week if he wants to.

    I agree. Just give him a completely FUBAR’d budget, with major Republican-favored shit cut out and huge increases for domestic programs to favor the poor and the Iraq “War” Veterans, and watch him veto one budget after another after another. I’m sure CNN would still somehow blame the Democrats for being “obstructionist”…

  25. 25.

    demimondian

    Actually, Tulkinghorn has it exactly right — bring in popular bill after popular bill that forces a filibuster by the R’s or a veto by the WH. The President does not have the power to control the legislative agenda, and so all the Congress needs to do is stick to its knitting: require the Executive to go to pay-as-you-go on Iraq, push for a sharp increase in the minimum wage (and, perhaps, even indexing it to inflation), fix Medicare Part D…

    The press will hate it. And it will work.

  26. 26.

    Darrell

    If last year’s budget is unfinished, let’s get an estate tax repeal in ASAP, on the basis that we need the $$ for the war (which we do). It is a chance to hammer the White House on domestic issues… let him veto one bill per week if he wants to.

    Do it. And propose other tax hikes too, all the while telling yourself that your tax hiking positions are “popular” with voters. I think you lefties should call your congressman and Senators ASAP on this important recommendation.

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