Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

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

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Wait, what?

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Republicans do not trust women.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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Rumor Update

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This time from Mitt Romney’s biggest fan:

If, as Bob Beckel asserted this AM on Fox & Friends, there is a political bombshell about to be dropped on the Obama campaign, it wouldn’t be coming from the McCain campaign as there is no upside for him to be hitting Obama now.

Team Hillary by contrast has every reason to throw everything into the fray before the superdelegates declare en masse for Obama.

I am not worried about any “bombshell,” but I am tired of hearing about one. Right now, we have been subjected to days of hype, and I don’t think that is an accident. It is as if folks are simply spending weeks prepping the ground preparing people to expect a bombshell, they can release some weak nonsense, and then pretend it is a big deal. While the “bombshell” will fizzle, the psyops will have been successful enough to make people think it is a big deal even when it isn’t. Right now, their goal is mainstreaming this and trying to get the chattering classes in the press and on the cable networks to talk about it. If they can get Chris matthews to speculate about the “bombshell,” they will have succeeded.

Additionally, were something legitimately troubling released before the convention that was damaging to Obama, it would be quite easy for the majority of the Democratic party to quickly rally around Hillary Clinton as the nominee, who, despite losing to Obama, will have earned about 49% of the delegates and 50% of the popular vote. It is not like all of the Democratic eggs are in the Obama basket- there is a quite popular fallback candidate, and as Obama voters, unlike some Clinton supporters, have repeatedly expressed a willingness to vote for Hillary in the fall (some of us less than others after the odious campaign she has run, but really- John McCain is four more years of Bush and no chance to clean out the bureaucracy and uncover all the rest of the crap the Bush clan has done), it is hard to get too worked up about this alleged “shoe drop.” Yes- Democrats will lose the Andrew Sullivan vote, but if there is something out there that is devastating to Obama, the party will continue on, and John McCain is STILL a horribly flawed candidate.

Sure, I will be upset if Obama is not the nominee, but I will get over it if there is something out there that legitimately disqualifies him from office. Not to mention, I think Obama cares enough about the country that if it became clear he could not win, he would drop out himself.

So bring it on NoQuarter. Bring it on Hugh. Bring it on Bob Beckel. No one cares.

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Not Everyone Is Insane

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Thank goodness for Eugene Robinson, who appears to be the only one to call this nonsense out:

Recall that the Michigan primary, like the Florida contest, was not legitimate. Period. As far as the party was concerned — and as far as Clinton herself was concerned, before she fell behind Barack Obama — the primary never happened. None of the candidates campaigned in Michigan. Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot.

Yet, in the interest of party unity, the rules committee came up with a formula that gave Clinton credit for 69 delegates that she “won” running virtually unopposed in a vote that technically never took place. Ickes and the angry Clinton supporters who protested the committee meeting objected to the fact that Obama was awarded Michigan delegates that he didn’t win. But Clinton, too, was awarded delegates she didn’t win, because — remember? — there was no legitimate Michigan primary.

One of the things that is so maddening about the Clinton campaign is their ability to reshape the media narrative, and then have everyone act and react to their alternate reality, rather than to the simple facts. This is yet another example of that- people running around having to react to the hysterical notion that delegates were “stolen” or “hijacked.”

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California Marriage Equality Update

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Really people, this is sooooo 2004:

Setting the stage for a political showdown, the California secretary of state today said an initiative barring gay marriage had enough signatures to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot.

The proposal would amend the state Constitution to define marriage as a union “between a man and a woman” and undo last month’s historic California Supreme Court ruling, which found that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was unconstitutional.

A coalition of religious and conservative activists submitted 1.1 million signatures for the ballot measure. Random sampling by Secretary of State Debra Bowen found that enough legitimate signatures had been collected.

Even though this is silly (in my gay-assed opinion) have you noticed that the California and New York decisions haven’t caused nearly the uproar they did a little over 3 years ago? No matter what the final outcome is, I think that’s progress. Still, the process is flawed. The California legislature has thought this through – twice – and has decided that allowing gays to marry is not going to be the downfall of civilization. Putting it to a popular vote is a process that the Founders of this country would likely balk at. To quote Al Gore from his terrific book, The Assault on Reason:

When reason and logic are removed fromt he process of democracy – when there is no longer any purpose in debating or discussing the choices we have to make – then all questions before us are reduced to a simple equation: Who can exercise the most raw power? (p. 244)

And that’s the question in California. Or, at least it’s a question the right-wing sponsors of this measure are hoping to answer.

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Pens/Wings Game 5

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I have a feeling the superdelegates are going to step in tonight.

***Update***

The Pens win West Virginia score first! There’s no stopping us now.

***Update 2***

And Kentucky! In fairness, the Pens had to play damn good hockey even to set up that own goal.

***Update 3***

Ugh. Tied up and Detroit won’t stop shooting on our goal. Unless the rules committee invalidates those first two games this isn’t going anywhere good.

***Update 4***

And the Pens win Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and PUERTO RICO!!

…maybe we should play without a goalie more often?

***Update 5***

Gadzooks. The Pens know that Detroit is a better team. They know that barring some miracle they won’t hold the cup this year. But for some reason they won’t give up and this game will go on forever. WHY WON’T THE PENS GIVE UP?

***Update 6***

GAME 5, PENS! We’re taking this thing to the convention.

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West Virginia In The News Again!

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I do so love it when West Virginia makes it into the national news:

The questioner jokingly asked the vice president if he and Obama were going to have a family reunion, to which Cheney replied he would “have no objections” though he said he doubted Obama would want one – “certainly not before November.”

Then came the offensive punch line. Cheney explained that during the course of researching his family lineage for Lynne’s memoir “Blue Skies, No Fences” last year, he learned there were Cheneys on both his father’s and his mother’s side of the family. There was a Richard Cheney on his mother’s side, the vice president said.

“So I had Cheneys on both sides of the family and we don’t even live in West Virginia,” Cheney quipped.

West Virginia politicians aren’t laughing at Cheney’s little joke, including his fellow Republican, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.).

“This is exactly the type of stereotyping that we don’t need from our elected officials,” Capito tells the Sleuth. “It’s disrespectful, and it’s certainly not funny. The Vice President should know better than to make a remark like this one. We all work hard to further West Virginia’s good name, only to have comments like this tarnish it. As a proud state, I can say we are disappointed.”

I got about eight instant messages from people linking to this, and I would have posted something earlier but I was in bed with my sister. Just kidding, just kidding- that was a joke. Everyone who knows me is aware she isn’t my type, besides, she is dating my brother.

In all seriousness, that gets to the heart of the matter- anyone who has lived in WV for more than, say, an hour, has heard and probably made (as a matter of a defense mechanism) every incest joke you can think of already. While it was a a stupid thing to say and I expect every WV politician to denounce it, I am betting most of us don’t care what that corrupt old bastard has to say about us.

At least he didn’t shoot someone in the face this time.

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Good On Bob Barr

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Bob Barr’s campaign, reacting to a Stormfront endorsement:

The Barr campaign is not going to be a vehicle for every fringe and hate group to promote itself. We do not want and will not accept the support of haters. Anyone with love in their heart for our country and for every resident of our country regardless of race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation is welcome with open arms.

Tell the haters I said don’t let the door hit you on the backside on your way out!

Good for him.

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