Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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

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

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

All hail the time of the bunny!

Republicans in disarray!

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Most of you should go to bed and try to be better Jackals in the morning.

We will not go back.

Wait, what?

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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The Fix Is In

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Speaking of cynicism, it is worth remembering that John McCain is not the only member of Congress to repeatedly stab the American people in the back (how do you Republicans like that accusation thrown back in your faces?). Numerous Democrats, including the despicable Majority Leader Harry Reid, have been in on the game:

TURLEY: Well it‘s not just Republicans. In case you noticed, there‘s more than 31 Democrats in the Senate. But only 31 people voted against the immunity provision. The fix has been in for some time on the unlawful surveillance program and the torture program.

Many Democrats and Republicans were aware of the program and they are actively helping the White House to try to shut down any confrontation on the issue. And this is also helped by the fact that the telecoms are one of the five most powerful lobbying forces in Washington. And many of these members have close ties to those lobbyists.

Turley also singles out Clinton for her cowardly refusal to participate in the vote:

TURLEY: Well it‘s going to be harder to get this cat to walk backwards once you grant immunity. The question about the next president is a good one. But you‘ll note that in the vote on immunity, Hillary Clinton didn‘t even show up to vote. She was in the area campaigning. Her opponents, McCain and Obama showed up.

But it really, I think, is symbolic of this disconnect between—here you‘ve got someone who is campaigning for the president of the United States, making pitches of civil libertarians, but even doesn‘t show up when she‘s in the neighborhood to vote against telecom immunity. And I‘m not just dumping on her. The fact is that there‘s been a lot of—really duplicitous work being done, by both parties, to shield what has been a very fixed deal from the beginning on telecoms.

The rest is just a rehash of what you already know. Reid needs to go, and that should be the first order of business after the elections.

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Wow.

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I mean, just, well, WOW:

House Republicans, at the bidding of the Bush White House, are upset that House Democrats are voting on contempt citations for Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton today. So the House GOP members are disrupting proceedings in the House today, calling for “protest votes” and the like that eat up 15 minutes of the day at a time. Well, they just called one such protest vote in the middle of recently-deceased Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos’ memorial service, which they certainly knew was taking place. This is akin to forcing people to leave a wake on purpose. The House Republicans and the White House couldn’t wait for Lantos’ service to be finished before forcing everyone back to the House floor to vote for something silly. They intentionally disrupted a dead man’s memorial service for political gain.

What does it say that I am not even remotely surprised?

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This Politico piece claims the Democrats are to blame through incompetent scheduling. Democratic incompetence would not be very surprising, either.

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Naivete Alert

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Sully, reacting to McCain’s failure to vote to ban torture:

I’m heartbroken. Torture is illegal and immoral whether it is conducted by the military or the CIA. That was McCain’s original position. It appears it is no longer.

I like Andrew, but has he not followed ANYTHING the past 7 years? McCain, Graham, Specter, hell- there are a number of them- have spent the last two administrations running cover for this President. They say all the right things and then roll over and play dead, or are appeased with some last minute non-concession concession from the administration, and the President gets his way. It is an extremely cynical game, but it hasn’t been very well-hidden. Hell, Tim even created a category for it- Spectering.

This is why there is simply no chance in hell I will vote for a Republican this fall. The party is simply rotten to the core, and a vote for McCain will be a vote to continue this crap. The party needs to be destroyed, and I would vote for Cynthia McKinney for President over any Republican.

At least this time the bill passed. Most of the time when McCain stabbed us in the back the result went the other way.

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I really wouldn’t vote for Cynthia McKinney. It is called hyperbole, folks. You all should be familiar with it if you read this website.

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Of Course She Will

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This is just silly:

Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.

The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in “pledged” delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.

But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson.

No shit. And she would be completely within her rights to do so. Would it be sleazy, and a sure way to make sure she depresses Democratic turn-out and probably make her so disliked her legislative agenda would go nowhere, even with a friendly Congress? Quite possibly. But this is the Clintons we are talking about, and winning is everything (and don’t tell me that statement is Clinton hate- the dynamic duo have always considered themselves to be the pragmatic winners of the Democratic Party).

The Clinton campaign is banking on this scenario. This is why we are getting with lubed up with all sorts of stories like this from Clinton surrogate Lanny Davis:

There is certainly a valid concern expressed by those who fear that the 796 “superdelegates” to the August 2008 Democratic National Convention — Democratic elected officials, party officials and VIPs – might make the difference in delivering the nomination to the candidate who wins fewer pledged delegates out of the primaries and caucuses. To some, such a result would seem “undemocratic.”

But let’s not rewrite history. When the superdelegates were first created by the Democratic National Committee in 1982, they were intended to be independent, able to vote for any candidate, regardless of the outcome of the primaries or caucuses in their own congressional districts or states.

And this from Clinton pollster Mark Penn:

Again and again, this race has shown that it is voters and delegates who matter, not the pundits or perceived “momentum.” After Iowa, every poll gave Barack Obama a strong lead in New Hampshire, but he ended up losing the state. And after a defeat in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton went on to win by large margins in California, New York, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

As history shows, the Democratic nomination goes to the candidate who wins the most delegates – not the candidate who wins the most states. In 1992, Bill Clinton lost a string of primaries before clinching the nomination.

And this nonsense from Clinton surrogate Harold Ickes:

The person I spoke to paraphrases Ickes, who is spearheading Hillary’s super-delegate hunt, this way: “We’re no longer using the phrase super delegates. It creates a wrong impression. They’re called automatic delegates. Because that’s what they are.”

The worry appears to be that the phrase “super-delegates” implies that “they have super-powers or super influence when they don’t,” the source says, describing Ickes’ thinking. In other words, the phrase suggests that they have greater than average clout and that they have the power to overrule the democratic process, giving it the taint of back-room power politics.

The new term “automatic delegates” appears to be ostensibly a reference to the fact that these folks are super-delegates automatically, by virtue of their office or position.

It is right there in front of you- they intend to win this nomination even if they lose the popular vote. They are just setting the groundwork for it right now, and anyone who is even remotely surprised that the Clinton camp would literally crawl over glass to win needs to have their head examined.

Which, of course, is why it is so important that you make sure you go out and vote for Obama. Try to get him to win every state from here on out, and make the margins smaller when he loses. Make the super-delegates think about going against the popular will. A clean, undeniable win is the only thing that will stop her, as we KNOW they have no scruples about taking this nomination any way they can.

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And this does not even delve into the bullshit they are going to try to pull with Florida and Michigan.

*** Update #2 ***

An almost identical post from the Poliblogger.

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From the other side of this issue, Tom Watson.

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This is Just Odd

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Weird news from the McCain campaign:

ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: On Wednesday, a top adviser to John McCain said more definitively than he has in the past that he will step down from the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.

“I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama,” said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR’s “All Things Considered.” “I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.”

I would fire him. Right now. This is just really, really weird.

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The Madness Continues

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Turned the the tv back on, and CNN is now broadcasting the post-Clemens interrogation interview with the lawyers. I simply am stunned that our Congress, who has rolled over and played dead and abdicated every opportunity for meaningful oversight of this administration, actually is making a stink about Roger Clemons and steroid use and the NFL tapes.

Stunned. I really don’t know what else to say. The day after rolling over and giving the administration precisely what they wanted, congressmen come out with puffed up chests, red-faced, screaming at a pitcher about whether or not someone shot him in the ass with steroids.

It is obscene and beyond absurdity. It has to be a sick fucking joke, but there it is, on the television.

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