Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

This fight is for everything.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

I really should read my own blog.

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

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

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  1. 1.

    John Cole

    I am not going to overlook Gov. Ryan’s many crimes, but, IMHO, his behavior regarding the death penalty means, to me at least, that he has paid his debt in full.

  2. 2.

    Zifnab

    Enjoy your “journey!”

    So he’s living after the fall?
    Do you think he feels “I’ll be Alright Without You?”
    Perhaps he’s just a victim, having been caught in the line of fire.
    I bet he’s even planning an Escape.

  3. 3.

    Pb

    Uh-oh, that story doesn’t list his political affiliation at all! Quick, someone call Newsbusters, yet again the dastardly liberal media is… what’s that, he’s a Republican?! Uhh… nevermind!

  4. 4.

    Dennis-SGMM

    I am not going to overlook Gov. Ryan’s many crimes, but, IMHO, his behavior regarding the death penalty means, to me at least, that he has paid his debt in full.

    Rev. Duane Willis and his wife, Janet, might disagree. Their six children were killed in a crash caused by a truck driver who’d obtained his commercial license by bribing an Ohio official. One of Ryan’s rackets was the issuance of commercial trucker’s licenses to anyone who paid a sufficient bribe – regardless of their qualifications to hold the license. A portion of each bribe was routinely funneled into Ryan’s campaign coffers.

    Chicago Sun Times

  5. 5.

    Punchy

    I am not going to overlook Gov. Ryan’s many crimes, but, IMHO, his behavior regarding the death penalty means, to me at least, that he has paid his debt in full.

    Shorter Cole–he exercised common sense and identified a blantantly obvious injustice; therefore, I absolve him of all his crimes.

  6. 6.

    Bruce Moomaw

    Well, it’s more than most American politicians (in either party) have been willing to do. It doesn’t absolve him of everything he did, but it definitely absolves him of part of it (unless, that is, he did in return for a payoff, which I suppose is possible). In any case, given the horrendous number of seriously doubtful verdicts turned up by that investigation of Illinois’ Death Row before he did it, I still regard what he did as completely justifiable.

  7. 7.

    Leland Milton Goldblatt

    I will remember him (George H Ryan)being called worthy
    of a Nobel Peace Prize for emptying death row in Illinois when it became clear so many cases were deeply flawed, or for traveling to Cuba to try to engage Fidel Castro.

    One of the finest men I know. He bought peace to the
    Illinois state house.

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