Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

“Alexa, change the president.”

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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Memo to President Bush

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Dear Mr. President:

We all know that the military junta in Burma has been nightmarish for the population. We know that they’ve probably killed untold numbers of people in their crackdown on Buddhist Monks. We know that lives in that country are miserable. We know Burma is effectively under a dictatorship with little to no freedom for its people.

We also know that tens of thousands of Burmese have been killed in the past few days and they need our help. I’m very happy to see that you want to provide that help. Three million dollars won’t help much, but I know that’s probably all we can afford these days.

Still, if you really want to help, you should know that the best way to NOT be allowed to enter the country is to use phrases like “military junta”, “dictatorship”, etc when asking the government there to allow us permission to enter. Now, you’re right, the rulers of Burma are all that, but you’re not doing the suffering people of Burma any favors using this rhetoric during their time of need. By dong so, you’re ruining any chance you might have to get the aid to the people that you want to give.

For now, please keep your mouth shut. Just get the food, water, shelter, and other assistance to these people first, then go right back to putting the pressure on, just as you should.

Thank you,
Michael D.

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Clinton’s ATM Busted

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Obviously, the pleas for dollars aren’t working that well for the presumptive second-place finisher:

A campaign aide says Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned herself $6.4 million in the past month.

That makes about $11 million that Hillary has had to put into her own campaign because she doesn’t have enough support to get it elsewhere. Does anyone know how much money Obama has had to loan his campaign to make up for lack of support?

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Kinda Funny

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All the pundits on MSNBC are all punch drunk and redfaced and slurring their words from lack of sleep. Andrea Mitchell looks less animated than her 200 year old husband.

Christ Matthews looks like he slept in an NBC broom closet after 9 tequila fanny-bangers (woo Bloom County references- bet you all did not know I own every Bloom County comic ever written- Steve Dallas is kind of a personal hero. Or maybe it was Opus.) and just interrupted Howard Wolfson’s stream of bullshit (it never stops, it really doesn’t) to do a college tour with Hillary in WV.

As a West Virginian, god help us all.

As a side not, this has me almost physically aroused:

Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party’s message isn’t good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC’s money.

The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying aloud that the party’s electoral woes — brought into sharp focus by Woody Jenkins’ loss to Don Cazayoux in Louisiana on Saturday — have the House Republican Conference splitting apart in “everybody for himself” mode.

“There is an attitude that, ‘I better watch out for myself, because nobody else is going to do it,’” the member said. “There are all these different factions out there, everyone is sniping at each other, and we have no real plan. We have a lot of people fighting to be the captain of the lifeboat instead of everybody pulling together.”

In a piece published in Human Events, the Republicans’ onetime captain, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warned his old colleagues that they face “real disaster” on Election Day unless they move immediately to “chart a bold course of real reform” for the country.

Twenty years in the desert, you miserable failures. Maybe by then I will be ready to support a Republican again. Yeah, I am fucking bitter.

*** Update #2 ***

This may be the best comment ever:

The GOP let Alfred E. Neumann sit behind the wheel of their bus and drive it off a cliff. The fuckin’ thing is falling, Alfred’s grinning mug is turned to them asking “Hows that fellas?” and somewhere from the back of the bus a genius removes his tongue from the window and mumbles “Pssst, I think we have a message problem.”

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It Is Over

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So I got a whole two hours of sleep, and I am sure grumbling about insomnia will be the topic of another post later on today (really, is there anything more annoying than lying, staring at the ceiling, making deals with an invisible someone for just 2-3 hours sleep?), but now I am watching Morning Joe!, and apparently three of three talking heads state it is over for Hillary, and one of them is a former NFL player (when Tiki Barber switches careers, he switches careers, doesn’t he?). Joe Scarborough is effusive and almost gushing in his praise for Obama, and it is almost unseemly.

At any rate, I feel a profound sense of relief the whole nomination process is finally over. I guess I am just not used to the messy way you all do things here in the Democratic party, but these past few months have been excruciating. The primary, for me at least, was over after March 5th, when she failed to blow him out in the firewall state of Texas, but as a new member of the party I guess I am in the wing where “firewall” and “math” still mean things. So I endured another month of listening to certain wings of a party (that, again, I am a newcomer to) do their best NRO and Weekly Standard impressions and talk about electability, stealth Muslims, lapel pins, patriotism, new new delegate math, Rev. Wright, and whatever else they could dream up.

Whatever. She threw everything she had at him. He weathered the storm. Consider him vetted. Consider Rev. Wright kicked in the junk. Consider me relieved. Now, can we get to the very serious business of dismantling the GOP? I have a very serious axe to grind, and it is deeply, deeply personal for me. There are a bunch of frauds, crooks, and phonies with whom I have a serious grudge that I want to settle. You see, I still have my “Peace Through Strength” button from when I campaigned for Reagan. I believed in limited government, I believed in a strong national defense, I believed in fiscal restraint and balanced budgets and I believed in personal integrity and individual liberty and personal freedom.

I am pissed. I want the frothing nutters, the fraudulent hucksters, the race-baiters, the anti-science frauds, the anti-intellectuals, the gay-bashers, the big-money cheats, the torture fetishists, the religious nuts, the tax and spenders, the xenophobes, and the phonies to pay. I want payback. I want the people who ruined my former party relegated to permanent minority status. I know I am a newly minted Democrat, and, as such, it is ballsy for me to start telling you what I want from the party, but this is my website and you are just going to have to deal with my opinion.

I am under no illusion I will buy into everything Barack Obama puts forward, but I am damned sure convinced he is a decent man who, at the very least, will restore a sense of competence to the national stage. I am willing to meet most Democrats half-way, and I am already doing everything I can to get this man elected. I think Obama will act in good faith for this nation, and I am responding in kind. His policies are not outlandish or crazy or uber-left- they reflect a rational, and I would argue, a decent and progressive way forward out of the mess I helped to create. I won’t like all of them, and I will not agree with all of them, but there is no chance that I will ever be President, so perfect agreement is never a possibility.

And don’t get me wrong- I am not for Obama because of what I am against. I am for Obama because he is a decent man, a break from the past, and really a once in a lifetime opportunity. He has treated us like adults throughout this primary, and it is time to act like adults. There will be times we feel he lets us all down, but we are not electing a diety. We are electing a leader, and Obama is that leader. It is time to get past the bullshit of the last 20 years, the battles I am really tired of fighting, and time to turn our attention to the really important issues of the day- the economy, the budget, our international presence, our crumbling infrastructure, our military, medicare and medicaid and social security, and on and on and on.

If Barack Obama was not your your preferred candidate, I am sorry that person did not win, but it is time to remember that the target is John McCain and the Bush/Cheney way of doing things. If you can not accept that and help move us forward, please at least get out of the way.

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Another Primary Open Thread

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Goal Thermometer

I changed the goal, and let’s try for 5 more by the end of the month, on top of the 15k we have already raised.

A big win in North Carolina, and the margin is so close that it is a win in Indiana. We may finally be near the end.

*** Update ***

LMAO. Clinton is speaking- “Full speed to the White house, she says, but can you stop by the atm (my website) and dump some money so we can continue our journey?”

Too funny. Compare and contrast the two speeches. A gracious speech from Obama, a beg for donations from Hillary. If I donate $.01, will it cost her campaign more than the donation?

*** Update #2 ***

She looks flat, and for a fleeting moment, I had a twinge of sympathy. She is reading this speech emotionlessly, phoning it in, and she is broken. She knows it is over, and you can’t help but feel slightly bad for her. And then I remember all the crap she has pulled this campaign and my sympathy erodes.

*** Update #3 ***

This is sounding more and more like a concession speech and she is, in fact, dropping out. This may be the last hurrah.

*** Update #4 ***

Others are reading it the same way- this is over and she knows it, and that was as close as we will get tonight.

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Primary Results Open Thread

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Discuss.

Lisa Caputo, Clinton lackey, on MSNBC– Obama started ahead, people made up their mind a month ago, so Rev. Wright has not taken effect, and he spent more, so North Carolina does not count.

Welcome to the majority, North Carolina. You don’t count.

*** Update ***

Norah O’Donnell is quite clearly pregnant, which explains my prom dress comment from two weeks ago.

*** Update #2 ***

Harold Ford is babbling about Hillary being on Obama’s ticket as VEEP.

Not gonna happen. And then there is this, again:

*** Update #3 ***

From the speech- “thank you for a win in a ‘big state.'” Heh.

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