Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  4. 4.

    Billy K

    Wow, BJ has been a dense read the last few days. If I wanted a lot of words I’d go back to reading Digby every day.

  5. 5.

    jcricket

    Via the Great Orange Satan, this post at Media Matters

    During the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed to have “once” participated in the kind of “destructive reporting and behavior” that, according to him, reporters “dish out.” Limbaugh said his target was a reporter, whose name he said he would not “mention,” who was writing “a cover story on me coming out of one of the big news magazines, and it was going to totally mischaracterize me and what I do and how I do it.” Limbaugh continued: “[W]e found out who was writing it and made a couple phone calls to the person writing it. And we said, ‘You know what? We’re going to find out where your kids go to school. We’re going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We’re going to find out what drugs you used. We’re going to find out where you go to drink and do — we’re gonna find out how you paid for your house. We’re going to do — and we’re going to do exact — and we’re going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate.’ “

    (emphasis added).

    Not, “we set out to tell them we would sue for libel/slander”, but “we’re gonna find out where you go…”. Fucking stalkers is what they are.

  6. 6.

    Jake

    Oh noes! Now China is mad at US.

    “We solemnly demand that the U.S. cancel the extremely wrong arrangements,” said Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi in Beijing. “It seriously violates the norm of international relations and seriously wounded the feelings of the Chinese people and interfered with China’s internal affairs.”

    Quick! Kick the OutRageMachine(TM) into overdrive and churn out many a stinging rebuke against the President. How dare he make an unecessary gesture certain to annoy an important ally at a critical point in US histroy?

    Everyone got their pearls?

    Ready….

    CLUTCH!

  7. 7.

    Lee

    Since this is an open thread, I have a question for the group. Specifically, any Ron Paul supporters (or those that want to play one).

    How would he have handled the tsunami disaster in 2004?

    Would he have sent the military to help? Any federal dollars?

  8. 8.

    Billy K

    How would he have handled the tsunami disaster in 2004?

    Would he have sent the military to help? Any federal dollars?

    My guess is he would’ve sent them warm wishes.

  9. 9.

    srv

    How would he have handled the tsunami disaster in 2004?

    It’d be nice to think that all the US aid and Navy made a huge difference there. They didn’t. Most of those forces wouldn’t have been around if we weren’t occupying certain countries over there.

    Ron wouldn’t subsidize your need for warm fuzzies. He’d tell you to donate all that tax money you shouldn’t be paying to subsidize oil prices, war and what-not to foreign charities that really made a difference.

  11. 11.

    RSA

    Great minds think alike.

    Where, where? /three stooges

    I agree about Ron Paul. He might have offered to divert a tiny amount of government effort to managing private charitable contributions, but that would go against his principles, so maybe not.

  12. 12.

    Lee

    It’d be nice to think that all the US aid and Navy made a huge difference there. They didn’t.

    You do realize we sent food/water/shelter to the most remote areas that were devastated, correct?

    So while the US could do nothing to reduce the death toll from the initial devastation, we helped reduce the secondary deaths.

  13. 13.

    Punchy

    Here it is, John. Just what everyone expected.

    At this point, it reminds me of someone who fake-throws the ball, only to see the dog dance around like an idiot, completely unaware of the ball’s location, while the owner laughs his head off.

    Malkin is just pathologically unable to shut her hole. Of course, it drives web traffic, and thus pays her bills. At this point, I’d gotta believe she’s being intentionally phony.

  14. 14.

    srv

    You do realize we sent food/water/shelter to the most remote areas that were devastated, correct?

    It looked great on TV. If you think maintaining a couple of carrier battle groups and associated infrastructure permanently in the Indian Ocean is worth the expense to prevent an undefined, small number of secondary deaths for future disasters… Well, best of luck for that. That IS exactly the scenario you are proposing, because none of those resources would have otherwise been anywhere near the disaster to make any real difference.

    Instead of constructing some weird anti-Paul straw man, why don’t just really say what you want to say? That Reps. or Dems. care more about the little people when the Navy just happens to be nearby, and libertarians and american private groups (that donated > 2X the money the US gov’t did) are heartless or incapable?

  17. 17.

    chopper

    BTW, i’d like to congratulate the bloviators and stalkers on the right side of the blog world. by completely decimating any sort of republican response to the SCHIP debate by preemptively going after a 12-year old kid with disabilities, you’ve completely killed any chance of the GOP to get any leverage at all on the issue.

    so not only did you raise the chances of an expansion happening, bush’s approval has dropped to around 25%.

    good work! let us know if you want to screw up any more issues.

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