Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

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

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

This really is a full service blog.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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  5. 5.

    Blue Jean

    Brave Ms. Malkin ran away
    Brave Ms. Malkin ran away, away
    When debate reared its ugly head,
    Ms. Malkin turned her tail and fled,
    Brave, brave, brave, brave Ms. Malkin

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    atari_age

    The trick is how to deal with the falling livestock and (later) poop. Is it ok to fling some of it back up at them? Or should we just use it to our advantage as food and fertilizer? And can I take this Python analogy and further and still have it make sense politically?

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    jcricket

    It’s basic physics. A right-wing commentator with an 8 oz brain simply cannot fathom the facts of a 10-lb debate about healthcare.

    I don’t love TNR, but I was reading their summary of this issue. After the TNR author found out that the Frosts had tried and failed to get private healthcare on their own (rejected for pre-existing medical conditions), the response by the supposed healthcare expert Republicans were using to question the Frosts’ healthcare cost estimates was priceless:

    I e-mailed Vineyard to see whether the cheap policy he quoted might have covered pre-existing conditions. Vineyard, who is also a private health insurance agent, declined to answer my questions. Instead, he responded thusly:

    “I’m not sure why you would try and divert the issue away from the point of my blog, but that is your prerogative. Have a nice day.”

    Do none of them have the spine to stick behind their statements when questioned?

  11. 11.

    jcricket

    Money quote from the same TNR article:

    Maybe that’s why polls show large majorities of Americans supporting S-CHIP expansion and, increasingly, the creation of a universal health care system guaranteeing coverage as a birthright.

    And maybe that is why the right is getting so desperate. They know they are defending a hopelessly dysfunctional system–a system in which even the middle class can struggle.

    Much like their response on any number of issues where they are hopelessly out of the mainstream (Iraq, stem cells, global warming).

  12. 12.

    Jess

    jcricket–

    that is a very good point. I think this may backfire on the right even more spectacularly than I hoped it might.

  13. 13.

    jcricket

    that is a very good point. I think this may backfire on the right even more spectacularly than I hoped it might.

    Don’t forgot about their opposition to gay rights, womens rights, minority rights, etc. Poll after poll shows the trends on these issues solidly in line with the Democratic party. Yet when they find their “gambit” has put them in a deep hole, what do Republicans do? Double down and get more unhinged.

    They’re basically like a football coach that at one point had a novel strategy that worked against unprepared teams. Then all the other teams wised up, changed their game plan and started beating that Republican team soundly. But the coach and his staff are so wedded to/enamored of the strategy they can’t see it’s a loser. I think I saw this in Varsity Blues or something.

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    Rome Again

    Don’t forgot about their opposition to gay rights, womens rights, minority rights, etc. Poll after poll shows the trends on these issues solidly in line with the Democratic party. Yet when they find their “gambit” has put them in a deep hole, what do Republicans do? Double down and get more unhinged.

    Yeah, except the Dems don’t know how to bluff either, so, unfortunately, the strategy still has some steam to it.

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