Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

He really is that stupid.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

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Happy Loving Day

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It’s the 40th anniversary of the decision that ended one of the last slave laws – the criminalization of mixed race marriages. NPR’s John Ridley:

In 1912, Congressman Seaborn Roddenberry of Georgia tried to introduce an amendment to the Constitution banning such unions. To his colleagues in Congress, he lectured:

“It is contrary and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. … No more voracious parasite ever sucked at the heart of pure society and moral status than the one which welcomes or recognizes everywhere the sacred ties of wedlock between Africa and America.”

Aren’t you glad we’re living in a time when politicians don’t use relationships between consenting adults as wedge issues?

Indeed. Ridley goes on to note that this anniversary is particularly important because we may very well have our first president who is not only African American, but is the product of a marriage that, just 40 years ago, was considered criminal in many states.

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Heckuva Job, Bush

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Worthless till the very end:

FEMA gave away about $85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, a CNN investigation has found. These items, stored by FEMA, were meant for Katrina victims but were given to state and federal agencies.

The material, from basic kitchen goods to sleeping necessities, sat in warehouses for two years before the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s giveaway to federal and state agencies this year.

James McIntyre, FEMA’s acting press secretary, said that FEMA was spending more than $1 million a year to store the material and that another agency wanted the warehouses torn down, so “we needed to vacate them.”

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Martha Kegel, the head of a New Orleans nonprofit agency that helps find homes for those still displaced by the storm, said she was shocked to learn about the existence of the goods and the government giveaway.

“These are exactly the items that we are desperately seeking donations of right now: basic kitchen household supplies,” said Kegel, executive director of Unity of Greater New Orleans. “These are the very things that we are seeking right now. FEMA, in fact, refers homeless clients to us to house them. How can we house them if we don’t have basic supplies?”

Just fucking worthless.

If you want a Katrina-related story that will cheer you up, go here.

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Who Will Vet the Vetters of The People Vetting the People Vetting Obama’s VP?

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Via Memeorandum, Jim Johnson steps down:

Obama and his campaign staunchly defended Jim Johnson against the charge that his ties to troubled mortgage lender Countrywide disqualified him from sitting on Obama’s vice presidential search committee, but Johnson just pulled the plug: He resigned as chairman of the steering committee just now.

“Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept. We have a very good selection process underway, and I am confident that it will produce a number of highly qualified candidates for me to choose from in the weeks ahead. I remain grateful to Jim for his service and his efforts in this process,” Obama said in a statement.

If prior to reading this post, you had no clue who Jim Johnson was, don’t worry, you are not alone. In fact, if you polled the country, about half of them would ask if you were talking about the former Cowboys coach, the other half would have no clue. Which is to say this is a story about nothing. The cable news channels might talk about it for a minute or two, and I am sure someone in the GOP will gloat over this before strapping on a wetsuit tonight, but this is really no big deal (although probably a sign of what is to come in the next few months- it will be hard to keep up with all of it). The only thing that matters is who the VP choice will be, not who vetted the choice. Quick: Who vetted John Edwards? Al Gore? No fair using google. The only reason some people remember who vetted Dick Cheney is because it was… Dick Cheney. How is that working out for the country?

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I Guess We Can Rule Out A Supreme Court Appointment

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Stupid:

One of the highest-ranking federal judges in the United States, who is currently presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles, has maintained a publicly accessible website featuring sexually explicit photos and videos.

Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a sexually aroused farm animal. Some of the material was inappropriate, he conceded, although he defended other sexually explicit content as “funny.”

Judge Kozinski, if you will remember, is the fellow who issued the scathing dissent in the US v Ramirez-Lopez (.pdf) that was so effective that even though the government won the appeal, they dropped the case. More here on Kozinski.

As a side note, I really don’t care what kind of freaky porn people are into, but if you are in public office you should probably know better than to do stuff like this. Even by accident.

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I do like this quote, though:

Kozinski told the LAT that he didn’t think any of the material he posted on his website would qualify as obscene. “Is it prurient? I don’t know what to tell you,” he said. “I think it’s odd and interesting. It’s part of life.”

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More Fun at the McCain Store

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This place is the gift that keeps on giving. Via the comments section at the GOS, we see that you can also purchase the McCain Nautical Lapel Pin for the modest price of $200.00:

Take it away, GOS:

The flippin’ $200 boat lapel pin (what’s this, a yacht tax?), spells his initials with nautical flags. Thing is, nautical flags also refer to conditions. The flags mean:

J – Juliet – On Fire, Keep Clear
S – Sierra – Engines Going Astern
M – Mike – I Am Stopped

Perfect metaphor for the whole dang campaign.

We rate this a “Heh-Indeedy!”

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I Don’t Remember This John Kerry

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Maybe it is because I am wholly and completely in the tank for Obama and I am filtering things differently, but I do not remember John Kerry being this aggressive:

John Kerry, who’s served in the past as Obama’s heavy-hitter on national security, expressed incredulity at McCain’s remark this morning that the timing of troops return is “not too important.”

“It is unbelievably out of touch and inconsistent with the needs of Americans and particularly the families of troops who are over there. To them it’s the most important thing in the world when they come home,” he said. “It’s a policy for staying in Iraq.”

Kerry and Obama aide Susan Rice also both said McCain is “confused” — a line some in McCain’s camp will surely take as a shot at the candidate’s age.

I remember him making a comment last week that sounded strident (I forgot to blog about it, but I remember saying “ouch” when I heard him utter it), and then there is this conference call in which Kerry was again on the attack. Is this a new and improved aggressive John Kerry, or am I predisposed to think of his comments more positively now that he is an Obama surrogate? Did he learn from 2004, or is he just a better surrogate than he was candidate (I know some people are terrible at defending themselves, but great at defending others).

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More aggressiveness here.

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I just watched Kerry rip into him on MSNBC- “John McCain admitted he does not know much about the economy, but now he is proving he does not know much about our Middle East policy.”

And I swear he looked like he was enjoying himself. More of this, Democrats.

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