Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Dear legacy media: you are not here to influence outcomes and policies you find desirable.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

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

We will not go back.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

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

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The lights are all blinking red.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

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Why should we believe he can run the world’s largest economy???

Because SHUT UP! That’s why!

Update: This…

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska’s governor to John McCain’s political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit any embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.

It’s not like she’s actually been answering questions anyway.

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  1. 1.

    dbrown

    McSame is ready to run this economy – straight down to ruin; just like that dumb cu*t on the tube did to HP. Tax the middle class, cut rates for the rich – McCain for robberbaron.

  2. 2.

    Laura W

    I forgot to read this yesterday but am glad I saved it for this morning. It’s Anne Lamott on Salon (and it’s one very direct page). I disclose that because “some people” seem to have issues with her for reasons I don’t get. Worth muting the sound for after Joe Blow asks Joan Walsh, who is there in person: “Why isn’t Barack ahead by more?” Surely one of the most original questions, and minds, in cable news.

  3. 3.

    chopper

    ….and she’s out.

    not gonna miss havin you on the tube, carly, but the damage you were doing was pretty nice to watch.

  4. 4.

    TheFountainHead

    Heh, “Get off my lawn, you damned kids!” has literally become, “Get off my VP pick, you damned press!”

  6. 6.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Nothing instills confidence more than a woman who says she is ready to lead our nation, from day one if necessary, so she hands her life over to a bunch of handlers.

    They are making a sympathy play for their base. The big mean librul press is attacking this poor woman, so vote for McCain so he can stand up for her!

    They are drilling her nonstop for the debates, you can bet on it. Their Hail Sarah pass hits the air then and there is nothing they can do about it. You can bet they are ginning up lines to cover for her mistakes during the debate.

    What they are doing is strange, to say the very least. It is contrary to everything you would think you would need to do to win a presidential campaign. Indeed, they are making this about personalities and perceptions, not issues that matter to our nation.

    They are in it for themselves, not for our nation. Cynical McCain indeed.

  7. 7.

    chopper

    apparently, mccain thinks that by being on the commerce committee he “oversighted the entire economy”.

    so i guess this whole mess is *his* fault.

    what i love about the mccain campaign is every time they have a bad day the wheels come off. seriously, this is like the third time they’ve had a day like this. doesn’t speak well to the quality of a mccain cabinet, does it.

  8. 8.

    DonnaInMichigan

    On November 5, 2008..

    Sarah Palin will be seen boarding a plane….going back to Alaska.

    Where she will have to face her constituents.

    Don’t be surprised if the citizens of Alaska, start a re-call campaign…..or impeachment hearing is called for.

    Enjoy your next 49 days, Sarah…because your 15 minute national political career, is about to come to an abrupt end. Your political career in Alaska, well that will be up to those citizens in that state.

  9. 9.

    oh really

    These days CEOs are not known for their accomplishments while leading corporations, but rather for the size of their severance packages.

    Therefore, Carly was a huge success.

  10. 10.

    Rick Taylor

    Bush the younger was a failed businessman, as a few people pointed out feverishly, warning what a President he would be. It wasn’t a disqualification then.

  11. 11.

    DonnaInMichigan

    We can go back and forth on the issue of “gaffes” each will make, I am sure in the next 7 weeks.

    In the end it all comes down to this:

    Does the citizens of this country want to jump on the Straight Talk Express, on the road to nowhere?

    OR

    Do they want to take another route THIS TIME…on the road called Change

    Do we want the next four years, the same as the last 8 yrs? Because that is what we will get with Johnah McPalin.

  12. 12.

    Rick Taylor

    Atrios’s deep thought:

    Now that the government is running the biggest insurance company in the world, shouldn’t we elect a president who is qualified to run a large company?

    Digby as usual has a few choice comments:

    Yes, that’s right, you’ve got a troubled insurance giant with billions of dollars tied up in worthless pieces of paper masquerading as securities. Yours for the low low price of $85 billion dollars!

    . . .

    To be clear, AIG perhaps was too big to fail. And the hash that has been made of the financial markets cannot plausibly be worked out without government intervention. But can this be the end of the “drown government in the bathtub” rhetoric we’ve heard from conservatives since Goldwater? They eliminated regulation and oversight, ignored the maddening decisions made by the big banks who gambled with borrowed money and lost, and then obliged as the corporations came begging for a handout.

    By the way, this could have been handled for $45 billion less three days ago. The shorts battered AIG’s stock so mercilessly that they put taxpayers on the hook for twice as much.

    I’ve said it before, but given the circumstances I don’t know why anyone would want to be the President right now. But whoever gets the job is going to have to roll back all the deregulation initiatives that caused this mess. This has cost taxpayers and investors dearly, and the ones responsible are largely getting away with it; the CEO got a $47 million dollar severance package back in July.

    Their debt, the result of their horrible choices, is now our debt. The risk has been socialized. And to top it off, this is an INSURANCE company who couldn’t manage their own risk.

    And a bit more Atrios:

    . . .People who prattle on about “the free market” are usually too stupid to have a clue how complicated and pervasive the “rules” had to be to to get a well-functioning modernmarket system: sophisticated concepts of contracts and enforcement, property rights, legal entities, proper accounting, bankruptcy, limited liability, etc… etc…, did not descend from the heavens but were, in fact, created.

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