Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

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

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

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Let there be snark.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Republicans in disarray!

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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McCain: No More Aid to Israel

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Well, he didn’t quite come out and say it, but it’s implied:

…McCain is one of the few in Congress not to indulge in pork, we again are cautiously optimistic with his pledge to stop earmarks by promising to veto every pork-laden spending bill “and make their authors famous.”

Either McCain just made a mistake, or he doesn’t know that foreign aid to Israel is attached as an earmark (which would call into credibility his knowledge of one of our most notable funding packages year over year.)

And now, back to your regularly scheduled primary programming…

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Election Open Thread

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Post your results here.

I have had the tv on for 2 minutes and am already ready to scream as Joe Scarborough asks why “obama can not close the deal.”

Gee. I dunno. Because he is running against an exceedingly popular candidate who has a 16 year advantage building a political machine who just a few months ago was Mrs. Inevitable?

Idiots. That is like bitching at the Giants for only beating the Patriots by a few points.

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Make It All Stop

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Via Memeorandum, more idiocy:

Policy differences between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been far and few, but a new one emerged on Monday over a proposed gas tax holiday. Obama says he’s against while Clinton says she’s in favor, putting her on the same side as John McCain, who proposed such a holiday last week.

Gas prices could hit $4 this summer, raising the ire of voters and putting pressure on presidential candidates to promise immediate action.

Speaking on Larry King Live on Monday night, Clinton outlined a series of steps to address the issue at the beginning of the show, reflecting the growing importance of pocketbook concerns among voters. “I would also consider a gas tax holiday, if we could make up the lost revenues from the Highway Trust Fund,” she said, without specifying how to make up those lost revenues.

Earlier Monday at a community college in the Philadelphia suburbs, Obama rejected a tax holiday as bad economic policy. “I’ve said I think John McCain’s proposal for a three-month tax holiday is a bad idea,” Obama said, warning consumers that any price cut would be short lived before costs spike back.

“We’re talking about 5 percent of your total cost of gas that you suspend for three months, which might save you a few hundred bucks that then will spike right up,” Obama said. “Now keep in mind that it will save you that if Exxon Mobil doesn’t decide, ‘We’ll just tack on another 5 percent on the current cost.’”

The cause of our current gas price problem is not the gas tax, and a tax holiday makes no sense. If you think the gas tax is the problem, permanently revoke it. Otherwise, quit pandering.

Seriously- there are so many things out there that have a real impact on gas prices- the weak dollar, increased demand in developing economies (think China and India), refining limitation, tensions in the Middle East, peak oil, and so on. A gas tax holiday solves no problems. Period. I guess this pandering from Clinton and McCain should not surprise me- I remember being livid when Bush, Harry Reid and Kerry were spewing nonsense about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Our energy problems are long-term, and they are big. Cosmetic bullshit like a brief pause in the gas tax will do nothing other than to continue to erode my faith in our elected officials. This being an election year, I can see some sort of bipartisan stupidity pushed through both houses in no time.

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Good Times at the Pittsburgh Rally

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Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll, who has a history of, umm, interesting comments, made her presence known at the Clinton rally in Pittsburgh yesterday by grabbing the microphone as it was being handed to President Clinton and claiming that several prominent PA Democrats “hate women”:

Getting elected in this country is such a total pain in the ass- everyone of your supporters is a potential liability, so you have to tap dance through a minefield of idiocy. At any rate, my father called to tell me about this one, and according to him, Lt. Gov. Knoll went on to state that she had “loafed” with Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea for 25 years, and later on, when asked to respond, Bill stated he had never “loafed” with “that woman,” which I thought that was a pretty amusing response. For some reason, the only video I can find is the one above without the “loafing” bit.

I really feel sorry for anyone running to have to go through this crap.

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Audio here with “loafed” commentary.

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Why Avoid The Media

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This latest nonsense (Wafflegate), ginned up by the Talk Left crowd and others, is positively absurd:

What’s the big deal? Why is this news? Because, as Jay Newton-Small at Time’s Swampland explains, Obama hasn’t given a press conference in 10 days and the reporters had no other opportunity to ask him.

I dunno. Campaigning for a year solid for 16 hours a day, criss-crossing the country while morons question you about the deep thoughts of your former pastor, and whether or not your pastor is patriotic enough for you to be President, and I can’t imagine why someone would just want to eat their damned waffle and not talk to Jake Tapper and his friends.

Maybe the press could spend some time digging into Cindy McCain’s tax records if they are so damned bored.

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I concur. Thank GOD he was not eating French toast.

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Election Open Thread

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If you live in PA, do your thing. I say Clinton by 8-10.

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And now, starring in the role of Ricky Ray Rector, Iran:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton confirmed Monday that as president she would be willing to use nuclear weapons against Iran if it were to launch a nuclear attack on Israel.

Clinton’s remarks, made in an interview on MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” clarified a statement she made last week in a Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. In that debate, Clinton, D-N.Y., said an Iranian attack on Israel would bring “massive retaliation,” without defining what the phrase meant.

Three thoughts:

1.) She will simply say anything to get elected.
2.) Are the roles reversed anywhere else in the civilized world- is there some place where candidates, on their respective national television channels, play out their war fantasies in which they nuke the United States?
3.) This is why I am not watching any more news until this person is dispatched from the race.

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Snow Job?

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Speaking as the house loony liberal, cheers to CNN for hiring Tony Snow. I don’t even know what they’ll pay him to do, though I’m guessing that conveniently forgetting the indelible link between supporting the president and supporting the troops will play into it. Well enough; every network will have a Kristol or, god save us all, Michelle Malkin to cry on a daily basis about the depredations of Democratic government. At least Snow is a communications professional, engaging and not obviously retarded.

In fact, that is why I think it was a good choice by CNN. I don’t mean that in any ironic snarky way, it just was. Look at it this way: Snow might be the one, singular high-level Bush appointee who showed a basic ability to do his job. He ran the press in circles of bullshit and empty phrases, but one could say that is the Press Secretary’s primary job. He didn’t out any CIA agents. If the cable channels must pay someone to repeat right-slanted nonsense every few hours, and it’s pointless pretending that won’t happen, I honestly prefer Snow to most of the alternatives.

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