Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

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

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

This fight is for everything.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

We still have time to mess this up!

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

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Yelling When They Are Weak

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I am so ready for this election to be over:

They wouldn’t yell if they weren’t weak. They would exhibit an air of quiet confidence.

And if they felt they could win FL and MI fair and square, they would have taken Carville’s $15 million in a heartbeat, and stomped Hillary in both states.

They didn’t, so Carville called their bluff* not only on whether they care about doing the right thing and making disenfranchised voters whole — Answer: they don’t — but on how confident the Obama campaign is that they’ve got the nomination in the bag. Answer: They’re not confident at all.

On the other hand, in Clinton land we are supposed to assume a sign of strength is losing the delegate count, losing the popular vote, trailing in the national polls, making up bogus arguments about disfranchisement, trying to get credit for two states that everyone agreed would not count (one of which Obama was not even on the ballot), running low on cash (again), and throwing every piece of dirt at Obama the NRO thinks is clever and witty while hoping late night calls to super-delegates can wrestle away the nomination. Talk about a sign of strength. Woo boy. Hillary is gonna wrap up this nomination any day now, isn’t she?

Who is it again who is yelling because they are weak?

We aren’t yelling because we think Obama is going to lose. I can’t think of a realistic scenario in which Hillary wins, and neither can her campaign staff. We are yelling because we think the Hillary campaign is gift-wrapping the November election for McCain by destroying the party in an attempt to gain that which she failed to earn through the normal voting process. This is over, and only Hillary, her campaign, and the Hillary supporters (who are beginning to resemble Red State diarists when discussing Iraq) don’t seem to get it.

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Stone and Spitzer

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While I still have no sympathy for Spitzer, it looks like my instincts were not far off. Roger Stone may have been involved after all:

Almost four months before Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in a sex scandal, a lawyer for Republican political operative Roger Stone sent a letter to the FBI alleging that Spitzer ”used the services of high-priced call girls” while in Florida.

The letter, dated Nov. 19, said Miami Beach resident Stone learned the information from ”a social contact in an adult-themed club.” It offered one potentially identifying detail: The man in question hadn’t taken off his calf-length black socks “during the sex act.”

Stone, known for shutting down the 2000 presidential election recount effort in Miami-Dade County, is a longtime Spitzer nemesis whose political experience ranges from the Nixon White House to Al Sharpton’s presidential campaign. His lawyer wrote the letter containing the call-girl allegations after FBI agents had asked to speak to Stone, though he says the FBI did not specify why he was contacted.

”Mr. Stone respectfully declines to meet with you at this time,” the letter states, before going on to offer ”certain information” about Spitzer.

I am sure Digby will have more on this, as she is a one-woman Roger Stone encyclopedia.

*** Update ***

Horton:

The comparison of this case with the handling of the “D.C. Madam” case produces a very curious bifurcation. Eliot Spitzer is worthy of being a target, and the dedication of massive resources to nab him. But G.O.P. Senator David Vitter and Bush Administration Director of USAID Randall Tobias are not. What, other than the fact that the latter are Republicans and the former Democrats, provides the basis for distinction? This investigation increasingly looks like a political hit.

It may be a political hit, but Spitzer is still a monumental hypocrite.

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The Humane Society

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At risk of being accused of posting the “lamest post evah”….

I’ve been volunteering for the past few weeks at the Atlanta Humane Society. It’s honestly been one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve ever had – and I’ve done a lot in life. My first surprise when I started was how immaculately clean the place had to be. You can’t do anything there without sanitizing afterwards. Unlike a lot of people who volunteer and gravitate to the puppy kennel, I prefer the adult dog kennel. It’s like an orphanage, I suspect. People who come to adopt come for the puppies. The adult dog kennel is never busy. And it’s a shame really. When you adopt an adult dog, you’re getting a dog you don’t have to worry about. It already knows not to piss and shit on your floor.

Today was amazing. I was doing my rounds in the kennel – I usually go from pen to pen and just give the dogs a bit of attention. If the dog has pooped, I’ll clean it up (rule #1: No dog should have to go for more than 5 minutes with a mess in its cage.) If the dog needs water, I’ll do that. But mostly, I just spend five minutes with each dog, scratching its ears, playing, whatever. Today, a dog really had an impact on me. It was a small hound (think Bassett, but all yellow.) She was baying and baying and, frankly, getting on everyone’s nerves. I stopped at her pen and went inside. She immediately nuzzled right into me as though she was a puppy doing the same thing to her mother (she’s 4.) When I put my arms around her, she was shaking a lot. I stayed with her for about 15 minutes – just paying attention to her and letting her know someone was there.

For the rest of the afternoon, she didn’t make a sound.

The Atlanta Humane Society is an amazing place. Basically, I clean up poop all day and make sure things are immaculately clean – and I LOVE every minute of it. When I get home at dinner time, I smell like bleach! The best part is that you know you are doing something wonderful for animals that were unwanted by someone.

I’m so impressed with how incredibly well-run the place is. Seriously, you could (almost) eat off the floors. You handle one dog – you sanitize before you touch another. You work in the clinic with sick animals? You can’t touch puppies available for adoption. Everything is done to maximize the safety of the animals – whether they’re dogs, cats, rabbits, gerbils, or whatever.

The only bad part is coming home at the end of the day. Charlotte (my Labrador) completely shuns me after she smells the dogs I’ve been playing with all day.

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Profiles in Wankery- Fact-Checking Edition

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This is impressive, even for the Confederate Yankee. In fact, this is so impressive I am hoping the Poorman comes up with a whole new category for his annual awards (and for some reason I can not find last year’s winners/losers). At any rate, the rundown:

First, he accuses Anderson Cooper of “making things up” in regards to a Rev. Wright speech, without a shred of evidence that he is in fact, you know, “making things up.”

Then he asks his readers to prove Cooper is making things up, because, as we have noted, he doesn’t have a shred of evidence to back up his claim.

His readers, dedicated souls that they are, inform him that Anderson Cooper didn’t make any claims, it was Roland Martin posting at the AC360 blog. The Yankee changes the name in the title, and charges forward.

Then his readers cough up the video in which all of the things Martin claimed are actually said by Rev. Wright are, you know, actually said. He then condemns Roland Martin FOR BEING RIGHT ALL ALONG:

Wright does indeed invoke Peck, and in particular, where Peck invokes the specific Malcolm X speech cited above.

In short, Martin is being duplicitous when he claims that Wright was citing Peck, he was instead citing Malcom X through Peck.

You wouldn’t get that from Martin’s blog entry, but then, I don’t think you were supposed to

Who needs the mainstream media when you have citizen journalists, I say.

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