Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

So very ready.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

This really is a full service blog.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

All hail the time of the bunny!

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

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  1. 1.

    Myrtle Parker

    Most telling quote:

    “We don’t do well until we have a common enemy,” Mr. Dawson said. “Right now, our enemy is ourselves.”

    Other than that not much self-reflection amongst Republicans. They really see this as reality conspiring against them.

  2. 2.

    Dave in ME

    Digby concluded a recent post by saying:

    “perhaps the biggest problem for Republicans right now is that they have forgotten how to live in reality. Years of pretense and believing their own BS has left them very weak and disoriented. “

    and I would have to agree. They are beholden to a world that does not exist, except for in their imaginations. Now that Democrats have a foothold in Congress and can exercise true oversight, the Republicans are finding it tough to persist when the opposition party does not buy into their version of “reality”.

    You will know the nightmare is over for Republicans when they throw Bush, Cheney and the rest of the neo cons to the sharks, but it may take a while yet. Imagine being a Republican Congress critter right now – you choice is to continue blindly following the clearly delusional president and veep, or strike out on you own and call for a change. What do you do? See Collins, Susan for a prime example of confusion on this issue.

  3. 3.

    Jake

    “I just don’t know how they can run hard enough or fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the Bush administration.”

    George Bush, the black hole of political aspirations.

    “We don’t have any candidates in the field now who are compelling can open their gobs without ramming their foot down to their duodenums,” Mr. Edwards said, adding: “It’s going to be a tough year for us.”

    Yep. If people are too chicken shit to come out in strong opposition to President Event Horizon they will have a tough year. Perhaps I’m missing something but this seems pretty simple to the opportunistic political animal:

    The President’s policies are unpopular.
    People who oppose the President’s policies are gaining popularity.
    Therefore you can increase your popularity by opposing the President’s policies.
    And not lying about your life as a hardy man-o-the-woods.

    If you do support the unpopular policies, that’s your right. But don’t whine when you get your butt kicked at the polls.

  4. 4.

    Rome Again

    “It’s not that I have any particular problem with the people who are running for the Republican nomination. I just don’t know how they can run hard enough or fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of the Bush administration.”

    Their momentum is finally waning, yea!!!!!!!!! ::claps hands:: That was quite a show, wasn’t it? I am just concerned about if the rest of society will still be intact once we leave this movie.

  6. 6.

    cleek

    Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., a former head of the Republican National Committee, said the party needed to move away from criticizing Democrats and associate itself with one winning issue if it was to have any hopes of holding on to the White House in 2008.

    GOP = PARTY OF NO!

    still, what were the Dems’ prospects in 4/03? 4/05? pretty grim, IIRC.

  7. 7.

    Chad N. Freude

    party needed to move away from criticizing Democrats and associate itself with one winning issue

    The Democrats own all of the winning issues. The Rublicans only hope is to become Democrats.

  8. 8.

    Rome Again

    GOP = PARTY OF NO!

    Aha, my cat is learning to say no, he must be a Republican too! That’s it, I’m withholding his dinner tonight unless he confesses.

  9. 9.

    ThymeZone

    “We don’t do well until we have a common enemy,” Mr. Dawson said. “Right now, our enemy is ourselves.”

    No shit, Sherlock. Maybe trying to make other Americans out to be the “common enemy” wasn’t such a great idea?

    Like I said the other day, $100 bet:

    Dems = 58 Senate seats, and 250 House seats in the 2009 Congress. Takers?

  11. 11.

    p.lukasiak

    A New York Times scoop!

    The Scoop is that the New York Times is actually publishing a story that says that what is happening might be bad for Republicans.

    The usual story is that, whatever is happening, its bad/risky for Democrats, and good/presents opportunities for Republicans.

    So, while the story itself is “dog bites man”, the meta-story is “man-bites-dog”

  13. 13.

    grumpy realist

    What’s surprising to me is given the boat-anchor popularity of Bush et al. and their seeming determination to continue on the same path no matter how unpopular it becomes, that more Republicans haven’t been going against them.

    Are they all that beholden to Karl Rove? Makes one wonder what pictures are stored on those RNC servers…..

  14. 14.

    stickler

    I think I can answer this:

    You will know the nightmare is over for Republicans when they throw Bush, Cheney and the rest of the neo cons to the sharks, but it may take a while yet. Imagine being a Republican Congress critter right now – you choice is to continue blindly following the clearly delusional president and veep, or strike out on you own and call for a change. What do you do?

    What you “do” is crap your pants. Because the last time the GOP “did the right thing,” that is, turn on the sitting Republican President, was 1974. And the fall elections that year were a disaster for the GOP. I guarantee you that the memory of that meltdown is still vivid.

    And it leads to only one, doomed conclusion: to abandon the President, no matter how badly he’s screwing up, is impossible. So they’ll stick with him and trust to Fate. The Germans call this kind of fatalistic solidarity Schicksalsgemeinschaft. One suspects that the Democrats call it Schadenfreude.

  15. 15.

    Rome Again

    Makes one wonder what pictures are stored on those RNC servers…..

    Pictures of orgies between abducted run away children and powerbrokers at Bohemian Grove? Just a guess!

  16. 16.

    Cyrus

    grumpy realist Says:
    What’s surprising to me is given the boat-anchor popularity of Bush et al. and their seeming determination to continue on the same path no matter how unpopular it becomes, that more Republicans haven’t been going against them.

    Are they all that beholden to Karl Rove? Makes one wonder what pictures are stored on those RNC servers…..

    Unfortunate, yes, but I can’t say I’m too surprised. My guess is that it’s for one reason: primaries. With at least 28 percent of the country still willing to say they support Bush (and presumably some non-negligible number of wackos like Pat Buchanan who disagree with him because he isn’t corrupt and conservative enough), running against him would be a bad move in most primary elections. After that, candidates are hoping to win the general elections on mudslinging, incumbency, party loyalty, hoping for a pony in Iraq or maybe even that some pretense for a “change of heart” pops up, or just plain running against what they said in the primaries.

  17. 17.

    Chad N. Freude

    One suspects that the Democrats call it Schadenfreude.

    Somebody call me? One is right. At least in my case.

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