Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

I really should read my own blog.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

We still have time to mess this up!

This fight is for everything.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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

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

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

Republicans in disarray!

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“Squeaker” McCarthy

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Bark louder, little dog.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  2. 2.

    Jake

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    Jesus Christ riding on a rusty velocipede. Add Pelosi to the poll in the previous thread.

    Why? Why do they do this? Why must they play “Who likes God more”? And what the fuck is the message to the non-Bible believers among us? No SCR for you?

    I tell ya, it’s enough to make you spit out your snow-flake baby slushies.

  4. 4.

    Dreggas

    Jake Says:

    I tell ya, it’s enough to make you spit out your snow-flake baby slushies.

    I like the fresh squeezed cherry ones…

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    rilkefan

    Ennh – I’m as “militant” an atheist as the next guy, but this quote from Pelosi is just harmless mainline Catholic seasoning of the plain truth. If you object to this you’re unable to listen to _any_ political speech in this country.

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    Tsulagi

    Sure, Pelosi’s statement sounds lame to thinking people, but that likely wasn’t the audience she was trying to embrace and win over.

    She was trying to reach out to the other guys. The ones who visit the Creation Museum. The ones who think Eve played with raptors in her garden, shopped for dresses at the Eden Wal Mart, and saddled up a triceratops to ride to church. Those guys.

    She was simply trying to speak in a way that made sense to them. She’s a Speaker for all the people.

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    Janus Daniels

    “I reluctantly have to agree with Sullivan on this.” No! You agree with Tristero; skip the middleman. Having said that, put me with the “how to the ignorant” faction… not easy.

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    mrmobi

    Wow! Pelosi said something stupid.

    Please get back to me when she starts giving back rubs to members of congress uninvited, and unlearns how to pronounce nuclear.

    Clearly Tim, you needed something to distract you from Paris Hilton. I sympathize, but so what?

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    VidaLoca

    mrmobi,

    It’s true that what she said was stupid, but that’s not the problem. Hell, I said at least 10 stupid things today. The problem is that she was pandering. It’s also true that politicians pander the way fish swim, and not exactly breaking news — but the net result can only be to confuse and demoralize (or anger) her supporters, while gaining exactly zero traction among the zealots she’s addressing with her tactic.

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    tballou

    Not her finest moment, but on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being where Bush generally operates on the studid scale, this rates a 3 or 4 max.

  13. 13.

    RSA

    Sullivan also said this:

    Why Pelosi’s rhetoric is dumber and more insulting than Bush’s.

    I think that Sully’s main objection is that he thinks Pelosi’s rhetoric is dumb and insulting because it’s aimed at people who won’t be convinced by it. Which has the implication that Bush’s identical rhetoric, used to argue the opposite position, is less dumb and insulting because it’s more likely to sway the rubes who are on his side. Funny.

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    Russ

    Would someone clarify a seaming contradiction in Andrew Sullivan’s Pelosi criticism. He labels her remarks as pandering to a base that he insists they won’t be interested in. Why then, can he say this to Hugh Hewitt?

    No, because I’m only relying upon those sentences to make a point. How are you, as a Christian, able to support torture, Hugh?

    Can one say he is pandering to a base somewhere or should one be free to make a remark concerning their beliefs , as Pelosi did, without judgement?

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    The Other Steve

    I guess I don’t see the problem here.

    Bush would say in order to support science, we must ban science. Pelosi is simply saying science has opportunity we should try to realize.

    How are these the same?

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    Gus

    It’s just astonishing how fucking tone deaf the Democrats are. They’re pandering to people who wouldn’t vote for Jesus Christ if he was a Democrat while the vast majority of voters are sick of stupid rhetoric like this. I swear the Democrats are going to fuck up an election the Republicans are desperately trying to hand them gift wrapped.

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