Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Books are my comfort food!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

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  2. 2.

    myiq2xu

    It’s only class warfare when the rich are being criticized.

    Otherwise it’s speaking truth to power(less.)

  3. 3.

    Jen

    Since when did Republicans stop screaming “class warfare” at any mention of anyone’s economic difficulties?

    Oh, never. My bad.

  4. 4.

    Grand Moff Texan

    Moran is right. For Republicans, class warfare is supposed to go on under the radar, while they distract the yokels with bullshit like abortion and gay marriage.

    Ignorant fucking bone-in-the-nose freaks, they deserve to get taken. Unfortunately, they take us all down with them, or at least they did before 2006.
    .

  5. 5.

    merciless

    Moron is right, it isn’t usually a conservative campaign tactic. It’s a conservative governing principle.

  6. 6.

    Philip the Equal Opportunity Cynic

    For Republicans, class warfare is supposed to go on under the radar, while they distract the yokels with bullshit like abortion and gay marriage.

    Exxxxxxxxactly! With a lot of snide innuendos about Kerry’s windsurfing and the price of Edwards’ haircuts and a million other ways of saying, “They’re just a bunch of pansy Ivy League intellectuals.”

    There’s some merit to painting the political class, across the spectrum, as well-off and with little idea how the working class lives. (Yes, I realize there are exceptions of politicians from working-class families, but even then many seem to drift away from their roots.) I can even understand why paternalistic do-goodism from the Left inspires contempt.

    The preposterous part is the idea that one can show those effete Massachusetts liberal intellectuals a thing or two by voting for an equally effete, equally rich, equally Ivy League, but not equally intelligent son of privilege who thinks that being one with the common people means clearing branches on his West Texas ranch.

  7. 7.

    wasabi gasp

    Last night on the tube I saw my first local Mike Huckabee ad. I think Nipsey Russel must be his copywriter ‘cuz that cat was bustin’ the wicked rhymes.

  8. 8.

    myiq2xu

    I wonder what kind of counter-tops Mike Huckabee has?

    Don’t most trailers have Formica(c) counters?

  12. 12.

    Zifnab

    The preposterous part is the idea that one can show those effete Massachusetts liberal intellectuals a thing or two by voting for an equally effete, equally rich, equally Ivy League, but not equally intelligent son of privilege who thinks that being one with the common people means clearing branches on his West Texas ranch.

    But he found Jesus. So it’s all good.

  13. 13.

    Dennis - SGMM

    What a bunch of liberal Sissy-Mary’s. This is still a country where a person can hit town with a few million in their pocket and a head full of dreams and make something of themselves. It’s a proud land of give and take between the rich and the poor. The poor give and the rich take and that’s the way God wants it.

    You’re lucky I don’t call out the guards and then charge you for the beating you’ll get.

  14. 14.

    jrg

    “Since when is initiating class warfare a conservative campaign tactic?”

    When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?

    “What’s the Matter with Kansas” describes in great detail the lengths to which “conservatives” have gone to exploit the Red State/Blue State “divide”.

    Now that voters are lining up to ride the unity pony, Moran is pretending that divisive class warfare is not a core Republican strategy?

    The more desperate these “conservatives” get, the more transparent their bullsh-t becomes. See you in November, Moran.

  15. 15.

    Grand Moff Texan

    When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?

    “Sodomy for everyone!”

    [crowd boos]

    “OK … sodomy for no one!”

    [crowd hesitates, then boos louder]

    “Hmmm. All right: sodomy for some, little American flags for everyone!”

    [crowd cheers]
    .

  16. 16.

    rawshark

    Just another variation on the same theme, ‘since when have we ever done any of the things we do’.
    When you have a base of supporters who care less about agreeing with you than they do about not agreeing with your opposition, you can get away with a lot.

  17. 17.

    The Other Steve

    Obama might pick up California on February 5th, he’s 3 points away in the polls and Kennedy is campaigning with him out there particularly with latinos.

    “Only two senators marched for immigrant rights on May 1, 2006, one in Washington and the other in Chicago. I marched in Washington and Barack Obama marched in Chicago. He was not afraid to stand up when others wouldn’t.” – Ted Kennedy

    Someone put myiq on a suicide watch, stat.

  18. 18.

    Cain

    When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?

    Spoofing Simpsons aren’t you?

    cain

  19. 19.

    Darkness

    “Since when is initiating class warfare a conservative campaign tactic?”

    Oh, man, can we get a difficult one? I feel like a challenge today.

    1972. Reagan. Campaign for the presidential nomination. Introduced the term “welfare queen” and used it repeatedly to long-running success.

    Well, unless that’s not class warfare but, um, economic viability warfare. In which case, the republican war on all of us, seems to have succeeded brilliantly, given the economic numbers coming out this month. Uncle! Uncle! We surrender!

  23. 23.

    libarbarian

    Since when is initiating class warfare a conservative campaign tactic?

    It’s only class warfare when the rich are being criticized.

    Otherwise it’s speaking truth to power(less.)

    Actually, demonising poor people would be just as demonizing rich people – if you could do it. The thing is that you can’t really demonise poor people because they really are a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing slobs who mooch off their betters when they aren’t smoking crack and robbing their betters.

    For instance, look at the sub-prime housing crisis. All these innocent lenders decided, out of the goodness of their own pure hearts, to simply trust the loan applicants to tell the truth regarding their income and ability to pay. Sure, they could have asked for documentation, like a pay-stub or something to actually verify the ability of the applicant to make payments, but they were just trying to be nice and respect the privacy of the poor applicants. How did the poor people repay them for their generosity? By lying, cheating, and stealing from the poor defenseless rich people.

    Its such a shame. Class warfare is so unfair.

    /snark.

  26. 26.

    ThymeZone

    Wow, Rick the Moran’s blog is as dead as a doornail.

    Almost as dead as the idea base from which he operates.

    I love these guys who talk wistfully about “conservatism.”

    The whole thing was smoke and mirrors from the get-go. There never has been a conservative movement, unless doughy pantloads count.

  27. 27.

    Darkness

    Its such a shame. Class warfare is so unfair.

    /snark.

    Speaking of shame… It’s a tragic day in blogland when you have to qualify comments such as yours as tongue in cheek. Eeh gads.

    I give the sub-prime mess good marks for being an across the board f–k-up with a proper morass of fingerpointing. Some are trying to make the case you make here, but it isn’t sticking so well because even the reddest redstater cogitates that banks are traditionally paranoid with their money and if they weren’t in this case then something fishy is goin’ on.

    The welfare queen scenario I found utter egregious. Especially since that mantra carried them through the S&L debacle when Reagan’s buddies and Bush’s sons made out like bandits with a public bailout while blaming the truly powerless for the financial mess the country was in. It was pure spiteful irresponsibility. The second place award for spiteful irresponsibility was Gingrich standing up and blaming welfare for murderous domestic violence. What a f–khead that guy is. Where is that guy, anyway? He was supposed to get his hypocritical, lying arse handed to him along with Giuliani. Dang.

  28. 28.

    Zifnab

    The whole thing was smoke and mirrors from the get-go. There never has been a conservative movement, unless doughy pantloads count.

    The conservative movement = something soft and brown = liberal minorities = islamofascism. Ergo, the conservative movement is actually islamofascism. QED.

  29. 29.

    Zifnab

    Wow. Just… fucking… wow.

    The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed severe stress on the Army, caused in part by repeated and lengthened deployments. Historically, suicide rates tend to decrease when soldiers are in conflicts overseas, but that trend has reversed in recent years. From a suicide rate of 9.8 per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2001 — the lowest rate on record — the Army reached an all-time high of 17.5 suicides per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2006.

  30. 30.

    cmoreNC

    The second place award for spiteful irresponsibility was Gingrich standing up and blaming welfare for murderous domestic violence. What a f—khead that guy is. Where is that guy, anyway? He was supposed to get his hypocritical, lying arse handed to him along with Giuliani. Dang.

    Gingrich has just as enormous an ego and is just as enormously filled with hypocracy as Giuliani – but Gingrich is smart and self-aware enough to have absorbed the lesson from it that smart folks whose grasp for power is fueled with hubris usually wind up shitting humble pie. He was sorely tempted to throw his name in the Presidential ring this time around, despite his denials, but he had enough insight to realize that he’d end up with his own unique variation of the kind of humiliation Giuliani got in the end. By not running, his status as a think-tank level pundit and wise elder of the republican party stayed intact, and he remained free to do what he really likes best (remember, he was once a college professor) – analyize and pontificate (and even get paid for it).

  31. 31.

    HyperIon

    ThymeZone Says:

    Wow, Rick the Moran’s blog is as dead as a doornail.

    yeah, he went through a phase where he shut down the comments, which must have driven some folks away. i visit occasionally because he is so often…moronic. and he cannot take any critcism. really thin-skinned. a few days ago he actually inserted his abuse into a rather mild comment i made about what he wrote on the SOTU speech. he seems to think that name-calling is a substantive argument.

  32. 32.

    JF

    Republicans wage class warfare to get more money to themselves and their rich friends, but trash is still trash. I just remember stories about Duke Cunningham going to super expensive steakhouses and ordering his steaks burnt, or never changing the water in his yacht, letting it get all dirty and liking it that way. Or Rush Limbaugh going to expensive steakhouses and spending the night stuffing his face.

  33. 33.

    milo

    Darkness Says:

    “Since when is initiating class warfare a conservative campaign tactic?”

    Oh, man, can we get a difficult one? I feel like a challenge today.

    1972. Reagan. Campaign for the presidential nomination. Introduced the term “welfare queen” and used it repeatedly to long-running success.

    Well, unless that’s not class warfare but, um, economic viability warfare. In which case, the republican war on all of us, seems to have succeeded brilliantly, given the economic numbers coming out this month. Uncle! Uncle! We surrender!

    It’s not class warfare: it’s racial warfare, gender warfare and class warfare all rolled up into one delicious disgusting rightwing bon-bon pile of shit.

  34. 34.

    Zifnab

    It’s not class warfare: it’s racial warfare, gender warfare and class warfare all rolled up into one delicious disgusting rightwing bon-bon pile of shit.

    Racial warfare and gender warfare are just forms of class warfare. Republicans have absolutely no problem with rich blacks and women. See: Powell, Colin; Dole, Liddy; Rice, Condelezza.

  35. 35.

    ThymeZone

    he seems to think that name-calling is a substantive argument.

    It’s not? Now you tell me.

    What’s next, frowning is not the same as thinking?

    Jessh.

  36. 36.

    LiberalTarian

    Grand Moff Texan Says:

    Spoofing Simpsons aren’t you?

    cain

    No, just trying to get laid.

    You?

    You can do that here? Wow. Your virtual world is much, much better than mine.

  37. 37.

    John Cole

    Rick Moran is actually not a bad guy, and really does try to be fair. His problem is that no matter what, the Democrats are always worse to him, and it really clouds his judgement. If you go through his archives, he has genuinely been outraged over many of the same damned things that infuriated me- the right wing response to Abu Gharaib, teri schiavo, etc.

    But then something happens, and some little voice in his head says “the Democrats are worse,” and you find him looking the other way or getting over the inexcusable behavior from the GOP.

  38. 38.

    LiberalTarian

    But then something happens, and some little voice in his head says “the Democrats are worse,” and you find him looking the other way or getting over the inexcusable behavior from the GOP.

    It’s the dog brain I tell ya.

  41. 41.

    rawshark

    he has genuinely been outraged over many of the same damned things that infuriated me- the right wing response to Abu Gharaib, teri schiavo, etc.

    But then something happens, and some little voice in his head says “the Democrats are worse,” and you find him looking the other way or getting over the inexcusable behavior from the GOP.

    *cough*

    When you have a base of supporters who care less about agreeing with you than they do about not agreeing with your opposition, you can get away with a lot.

  43. 43.

    jrg

    When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?

    Spoofing Simpsons aren’t you?

    No, proofreading snafu. s/blue/red.

  44. 44.

    ThymeZone

    Rick Moran is actually not a bad guy

    I think it’s demonstrable that one can be an idiot, without being a bad guy.

    Let’s keep it real. The history of the last three years here has been your own history of intellectual integrity trumping ideology. I will go out on a limb and say that this is the thing that drove you away from the GOP.

    Well, intellectual integrity is not rocket science. It’s really just a matter of being honest. Rick doesn’t get that. His posting history on these pages alone proved that a long time ago. He may be a good guy, whatever that means, but his approach to ideas is dysfunctional and toxic.

    The notion that one can hold the belief in a 6000 year old earth, or in the imminent recovery of Terri Schiavo, or in the idea that waterboarding is okay if we think that “lives will be saved,” or whichever cockamamie and insane crock of shit those people are peddling at the moment, and be welcome in a place where intellectual integrity has any value, is just nonsense.

  45. 45.

    The Other Steve

    Bush Wants $200 Billion In Medicare Cuts

    Isn’t that what the prescription drug plan costs?

    The link I saw was a $200 billion cut in the 2009 budget. And I was thinking… Isn’t that what Iraq costs?

  46. 46.

    The Other Steve

    Rick Moran isn’t a bad guy.

    GW Bush means well.

    Darrell argues in good faith.

    I think I’m sensing a pattern. :-)

  47. 47.

    ThymeZone

    I’d just like to say, I think I really am a good guy. I argue in good faith, and I mean well.

    I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.

    Not people I know, but …. people.

  48. 48.

    Rudi

    On a related note on Republican stupidity, gotta love this from Human Events.
    InHumanEvents

    With John McCain’s all-too-easy road to the nomination paved through Florida and now nearly complete one thing is clear: The Republican Party has been hijacked. Over the past month a new Axis of Evil has emerged — not one based in Damascus, Tehran or Pyongyang — but instead in Cedar Rapids, Charleston, South Carolina, Derry, New Hampshire and Boca Raton, Florida. It is the liberal and “independent” voters in these 4 states that have nearly completed a deed that makes Kim Jong Il envious — the near crippling of the American Electoral System. These four states have combined their native liberal populism with an imported liberal electorate and have forced the GOP to accept a nominee so distasteful that in more than one poll — the numbers of voters choosing not to vote and those choosing to vote third party actually exceed those who will hold their nose and vote for Maverick, War Hero, Amnesty Supporter, John McCain.

    South Carolina – Republicans – Liberal (WTF).
    If a high school student wrote this slop in a current events/history class I doubt if a passing grade could be expected.

  49. 49.

    Darkness

    PaulW Says:

    Probably as far back as 1843 with the formation of the American Republican Party, also known as the Know-Nothings, who were horrified by the wave of Irish Catholic immigrants arriving to our shores.

    The know-nothings… I like the part where they, the only patriotic americans suitable for the job, hijack the construction of the Washington Monument for four years. And what little they completed in that time was so substandard it had to be torn back down and rebuilt properly to withstand the planned height. Probably by a bunch of catholic-loving foreign-borns who knew how to get crap done.

    Boy, is that a perfect historical symbol for the Party of Katrina or what?

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