Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Consistently wrong since 2002

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

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

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

When we show up, we win.

Fight them, without becoming them!

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

This fight is for everything.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

The revolution will be supervised.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

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

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

We’re not going back!

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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The Continuing Rehabilitation of Newt Gingrich

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Hilzoy has investigated Hillary’s “foriegn policy” experience regarding Rwanda, and has determined that she is (hold on to your seats) lying:

So, to sum up: the US didn’t just fail to intervene in Rwanda. Our government urged the withdrawal of the UN peacekeeping forces that were on the ground protecting Rwandans, for no better reason than to keep the Belgians from looking like cowards. It refused to jam the radio station that was passing on instructions for genocide. It blocked further efforts to reinforce the peacekeeping forces there. It also failed to do any of the much smaller things that might have shown that our government was not wholly indifferent to the people of Rwanda who were, at that time, being hacked to death with machetes.

It’s worth bearing this background in mind when you hear Hillary Clinton claim that she advocated military intervention in Rwanda. If you don’t, you might think: well, it’s perfectly comprehensible that she might have argued for military intervention but failed to convince her husband. After all, military intervention in another country is a big deal, not to be undertaken lightly. And it’s easy to imagine Hillary Clinton being in favor of it, and her husband reluctantly concluding that it just wasn’t something he could do.

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But if, in fact, Clinton missed the chance to urge her husband to help stop the Rwandan genocide, then she should not pretend that she was, in fact, right there on the side of the angels all along. That’s just grotesque.

And while Hilzoy, being Hilzoy, uses language to give people the benefit of the doubt, I feel no such need. Hillary is lying about her position on Rwanda. Not just lying, but a typical double-axel-triple-lutz with a twisting Clintonian dismount with a straight face added in for difficulty.

At some point, even the most diehard Democrats are going to have to admit that the acrimony of the 90’s wasn’t just caused by the Republican party and Newt Gingrich. There was another force at play.

Obligatory Troll/Hillaryis44 protection: No, I am not going to vote for McCain. Yes, I will vote for the Democrat.

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Karaoke Kills

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This is just bizarre:

A gunman in Thailand shot-dead eight neighbours, including his brother-in-law, after tiring of their karaoke versions of popular songs, including John Denver’s Country Roads.

Weenus Chumkamnerd, 52, put his gun to the head of a respected female doctor and seven of her guests as they partied at her home in Songkhla Province, South Thailand.

“When I began shooting nobody pleaded for his life because they were all drunk,” he said after his arrest.
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He said he was so furious with their awful singing that he did not notice he had murdered his own brother-in-law.

“I warned these people about their noisy karaoke parties. I said if they carried on I would go down and shoot them. I had told them if I couldn’t talk sense into them I would come back and finish them off,” he added.

I hope this guy never comes to Morgantown in the fall.

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Excellent work, Hillary

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So what kind of corner has John McCain’s new girlfriend painted herself into by making national security her big issue:

But her involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process was primarily to encourage activism among women’s groups there, a contribution that the lead U.S. negotiator described as “helpful” but that an Irish historian who has written extensively about the conflict dismissed as “ancillary” to the peace process.

The Macedonian government opened its border to refugees the day before Clinton arrived to meet with government leaders. And her mission to Bosnia was a one-day visit in which she was accompanied by performers Sheryl Crow and Sinbad, as well as her daughter, Chelsea, according to the commanding general who hosted her.

Awesome. Republicans aren’t going to be having fun with that one. On the upside of this idiocy, maybe Angelina Jolie will be her Secretary of State.

And for you Hillbot’s out there who think this is the right thing to do, well played:

Rasmussen Reports says this morning that when it surveyed Americans about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 3 a.m. ad and asked which candidate voters would want to answer the telephone when the White House is alerted to a crisis the answer that came back from the greatest number of folks was Sen. John McCain.

Idiots. Total fucking idiots.

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Self-inflicted wounds sting, don’t they Hillary? If there has been a dumber, baser, more self-destructive campaign than the one waged by Hillary Clinton this year, I am not aware of it. She isn’t content to go down alone. She is taking the party with her.

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Is Irony the Right Word?

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Lawmakers are grilling bank CEOs today:

In his opening remarks, Henry Waxman, the Democratic Congressman who chairs the committee, said the purpose of Friday’s hearing is to determine whether lofty compensation is justified when companies fail to perform.

Nothing too important here. I just think it’s funny when politicians have the audacity to criticize others for being well paid and failing to perform.

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