Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Dear elected officials: Trump is temporary, dishonor is forever.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

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

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

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Consistently wrong since 2002

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Books are my comfort food!

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

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

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

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

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The Gathering Storm

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More good news for the GOP:

Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the contentious 2006 election cycle and that they should brace for the possibility that an unfolding investigation could uncover financial improprieties stretching back several years, according to GOP sources briefed on the members-only discussions.

The National Republican Congressional Committee has retained a forensic auditor to review its accounting for the last several election cycles, the sources said.

All together, wingnuts: “I QUESTION THE TIMING!”

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Running On Empty

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A few excellent paragraphs from Harold Meyerson:

It’s not just that the conservative vote has been split between Romney and Huckabee. It’s also that conservatives have run out of agenda.

With his preemptive war and seemingly permanent occupation in Iraq, and his attempt to privatize Social Security, George W. Bush pushed American conservatism past the point where the American people were willing to go — pushed them, in fact, to the point where they recoiled at the conservative project. And with that, American conservatism shuddered to a halt. In the 2005-06 congressional session, Republicans still controlled both houses of Congress, yet they introduced no major legislation.

This exhaustion of conservatism has been apparent all along in the Republican presidential contest, where the chief point of agreement among the leading candidates has been to make permanent both the Bush tax cuts for the rich and our occupation of Iraq. The conservative agenda has been winnowed down to supporting what remains of Bushism. That’s not only a losing formula for November, it also means that intellectually, conservatism is running on empty.

I fully expect the upcoming CPAC to be little more than a forum for constructing enemies lists.

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Obama takes The Lead

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Last night, after I claimed Obama was the big winner for the Democrats, many of you dismissed me:

Boy, John when you drink the Koolaid you really drink the KoolAid!

No. Obama was the big winner:

In a surprise twist after a chaotic Super Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) passed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in network tallies of the number of delegates the candidates racked up last night.

The Obama camp projects topping Clinton by nine delegates, 845 to 836.

NBC News, which is projecting delegates based on the Democratic Party’s complex formula, figures Obama will wind up with 840 to 849 delegates, versus 829 to 838 for Clinton.

Clinton was portrayed in many news accounts as the night’s big winner, but Obama’s campaign says he wound up with a higher total where it really counts — the delegates who will choose the party’s nominee at this summer’s Democratic convention.

Obama won more states, won more delegates, improved his numbers with key groups, widened his lead among minority voters, and over-all, outperformed Hillary. Period. The fact that the Clinton established machine has not been able to pull ahead should be a real clear sign of how much trouble they are in right now. This race was Hillary’s to lose, and last night she may have started doing just that. You will hear the Clinton camp talking repeatedly about winning the big prize- California. Winning California is irrelevant, as a Democrat is going to win Cali in the general regardless who it is.

Obama now has a clear financial lead, momentum, and the delegate lead, and we are heading in to a number of states where he can compete. I am not drinking the kool-aid, folks, I think I have a pretty clear grasp of where we are right now. Obama is surging and the Hillary camp is worried. You will be able to see it in their faces over the next few days.

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So Much for Harriet Meiers Mitt Romney for President

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Despite Hugh’s best efforts, Michael is right– Mitt Romney is done. As such, I think this calls for a sketch:

Cya, Mittens. We don’t need another empty suit pushed by the big money guys screwing things up for another four years- we have a lot of work cleaning up the mess from Bush, the guy whose boots were licked profusely by Hewitt and company for the past 8 years.

The best thing about this guy going down in flames is that the right-wing talk show hosts will not be able to control themselves for the next nine months. They will bash McCain no matter what he does, and then they will talk down their audience for not seeing the wisdom in choosing Romney. It will be glorious. And don’t forget to listen to the Rush meltdown at noon today.

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The Coming Apocalypse. (i.e., I’ve Been Reading Hewitt)

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I know it’s asking a lot, but you should be reading him, too. Last night, 9:14pm

It is stunning that Fox cannot call Arizona for John McCain. In the very unlikely event that McCain loses his home state, I don’t think his campaign could recover any more than Romney could survive a loss in Massachusetts or Huckabee a loss in Arkansas.

Given the Rush blast, the Dobson declaration, and Huck’s strength in the south, McCain can’t be considered a frontrunner by any conventional standard.

All eyes on California.

Which McCain won. He also won his home state by 14 points. My personal opinion on the “Rush blast, the Dobson declaration” is that they’ll only help McCain. I believe moderate conservatives are getting sick to death of getting talked down to by these clowns. A little later:

Rush and Dr. Dobson are aligned against the front-runner, which complicates McCain’s task enormously.

Not enough so that it’s complicating his ability to uhm, win. My feeling is that the far right is going to become very marginalized in this election which, one can hope, will cause them to re-evaluate how they’ve behaved over the past 7 years (ok, I actually chuckled and laughed at myself when I wrote that.)

Republicans like to whine about how Democrats are out of the mainstream. They say the same thing about McCain – that he doesn’t represent mainstream conservative thought. If the definition of what’s mainstream is what most people think, then clearly McCain is becoming the new mainstream in the Republican party. I agree with him on only a few things, but it’s fun to watch the apocalyptic writings of the right, isn’t it?

But hey! Keep wishin’, Hugh. Normally, I read your blog and just roll my eyes. Now, it’s just downright entertaining. Delegate count as of this posting:

McCain: 615
Romney: 243
Huckabee: 169

And if it turns out to be a brokered convention, don’t expect Huckabee to throw his support behind Willard. Judging from WV, it looks like McCain and Huckabee have been talking.

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McCain’s Night

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They just called California for McCain. Romney is over.

Make sure you listen to Rush tomorrow. Should be fun.

And Obama was the clear winner tonight on the Democratic side- most states, split the delegates, is surging in national polls, and most importantly, he won in places where Democrats struggle. There will be lots of Hillary spin, but I think it is clear Obama is the big winner tonight for the Democratic party.

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A Complete and TOTAL Outrage

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Lying liars in the pursuit of indefinite detainment for innocent people:

Another fighter was still alive inside the Afghan compound where Omar Khadr was captured at the time a grenade killed a U.S. soldier, casting doubt on allegations that only the teenage militant could have been responsible for the soldier’s death.

It has long been assumed by many that Mr. Khadr was the only combatant alive during the firefight, and so must have been the one who threw the grenade.

The revelations, mistakenly released in never-before seen documents, came during a military tribunal hearing for Mr. Khadr Monday at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Documents that were supposed to be censored in their entirety were accidentally handed out to reporters in the courtroom, taking both defence and prosecution lawyers completely by surprise.

I bet it did surprise some people. I really don’t know what to say, other than it is imperative we get to the bottom of all this crap once the current filth is swept out of Washington.

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