Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

In my day, never was longer.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

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

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Wait, what?

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Oh, They Will, Dan

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Dan Savage, reacting to the above footage of Romney getting caught in the middle of yet another damned lie:

Thank you for that, Glen Johnson. I’m sure it won’t be but… gee… wouldn’t it be nice if Johnson’s stand marked an end to the kind of reporting characterized by leads like this: “Leading Democrats-today contested the president’s assertion that the moon is made of green cheese.”

Oh, they will, Dan. As soon as Obama or Hillary are President.

BTW- For fun, watch that a few times and watch Mitt walk back his claim from “I don’t have lobbyists tied to my campaign” to “so and so doesn’t sit in on senior strategy meetings” (but other strategy meetings, maybe). He is such a sack of shit. I am actually shocked he does not work for the Bush administration, as he is the perfect blend of bald-faced liar, cynical bastard, and privileged shit.

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Economic Stimulus?

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Why does an economy that we’ve been told is doing just fine require a “shot in the arm?”

President Bush urged Friday for “direct and rapid” tax relief for both U.S. consumers and businesses, calling such a plan the country’s “most pressing economic priority.” Returning money to consumers and firms would be “a shot in the arm” that would boost the economy, he said.

B-b-b-but the economy is doing peachy! It seems as though even Pelosi is on board with this.

Pelosi told reporters Thursday morning that the package could be completed within 30 days. Her Republican counterpart, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio, echoed that sentiment during his own briefing minutes later. “It needs to happen quickly,” the Republican leader said.

Personally, I think this is a joke. But it’s nice to see ol’ Nance standing up to the Administration again, isn’t it? This will get bogged down of course. Pelosi will insist (like Hillary did today on All Things Considered – where she also admitted she doesn’t read important contracts) that much of the money go to those who need it most (a.k.a. people who don’t pay federal taxes.) If it’s going to go through, I would prefer to see any money go to the middle class. But I think this ain’t going anywhere in 30 days. Watch. I’d like to see the whole idea scrapped. Ride it out.

The economy is either doing great, or it isn’t. Which is it? And what will you do with your $800? I plan on going to the sidewalk next to The Home Depot and paying an illegal alien the whole shebang to paint the inside of my house. I will then force him to sit though a lecture on why it is he, not the incompetence of the current administration, that is responsible for the woes of this country.

Not that he’ll be able to understand me.

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And His Flop Sweat Reeked Faintly Of Cheetos

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At Sadly, No!, Clif has the sorry job of responding to Jonah Goldberg’s latest load of crap.

Okay, so Jonah, a contributing editor of National Review, fer chrissakes, is throwing an accusation of racism against progressives and the left. That doesn’t just take the cake, it takes the fucking cake platter, the table under the cake platter, the whole fucking dining room, the house too, and the block on which the house is located, and the city, state, nation, planet, galaxy and universe. At it’s inception, the whole point of the National Review, the magazine that pays for Jonah’s triple bacon cheeseburgers, was the virulent racism of William F. Buckley and his cohorts, all of whom spilled truckloads of ink over the virtues of segregation.

If you don’t believe me, let’s take on instructive trip down memory lane and read stuff that was printed in the National Review in its halcyon days. Here’s what NR had to say about the Birmingham church bombings after they occurred:

The white triumphalism on display in the Review‘s archives is nauseating to read today, and I’ll leave it up to readers to click through rather than post it here. These are the guys who carried the banner for American conservatism. When racist Democrats quit the party over civil rights and became the Republican South the Review welcomed them with open arms.

Or read Dave Niewert. For a guy who cannot or will not take his own argument seriously Jonah sheds astonishing amounts of ink and tears lamenting why nobody else will.

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We Are All Subprime, Now

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The deeper I dig into this mess, the more I understand the phrase ‘We are all subprime, now.’ Auto loans:

In the waning days of the housing-market bubble, lenders lowered their standards, and that made the downturn worse. There is growing evidence that standards also came down for auto loans, and rapidly rising default rates could be the next dilemma for the staggering financial sector.

The amount of auto loans that were past-due or written off as a loss moved sharply higher in the last part of 2007, according to analysts.

Two of the big reasons for the deterioration have been easy to spot. The economy has been slowing, leading to job losses and depressed wages. And the mortgage downturn has prompted banks to cut the availability of home-equity lines of credit, which borrowers have used to pay down car and credit-card loans.

It is becoming clear that several auto lenders let lending standards slip substantially in 2006-07. This increased the chance that loans were made to borrowers who couldn’t really afford them — even at the outset. There is also some evidence that credit-card companies made the same mistake.

“The problem of lax loan-underwriting standards was not just concentrated in the mortgage sector; it’s looking like it took place across the consumer-finance sector, from credit-card loans to auto loans to motorcycle loans,” says William Ryan, consumer-finance analyst at Portales Partners, a research firm.

We are just so fucked. I don’t know what else to say.

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Unfit For Command

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The economy is melting down, the real estate market is tits up, the dollar is sinking, the war drones on, and this is what the Republican candidates are debating in South Carolina:

The Republican presidential candidates on Thursday moved to appeal to different types of conservative voters before the South Carolina primary, with Mike Huckabee using colorful language to declare the Confederate flag a states’ rights issue and Senator John McCain embracing a supply-side tax cut proposal.

“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.

“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole; that’s what we’d do.”

These are not serious people, this is not a serious party, and we are in serious trouble as a country. The entire GOP field is Unfit for Command.

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RIP, Ernie Holmes

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This sucks:

One of the original members of the Steel Curtain, Ernie Holmes, has died following a one-car accident near Beaumont, Texas, officials say. He was 59.

Holmes, who was an eighth round pick out of Texas Southern in 1971 by the Steelers, resided in Texas.

He played for the black and gold from 1971 to 1977, and finished his career with the New England Patriots in 1978.

I am not old, by any stretch of the imagination (I am only 37), but I am soooo tired of people from my youth dying. Too much death going on.

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The Continuing Slide

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This is really starting to scare the crap out of me:

MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group Inc., the two biggest bond insurers, have a more than 70 percent chance of going bankrupt, credit-default swaps show.

Prices for contracts that pay investors if Armonk, New York- based MBIA or New York-based Ambac can’t meet their debt obligations imply a 73 percent chance the companies will default in the next five years, according to a JPMorgan Chase & Co. valuation model.

Ambac shares plunged 52 percent yesterday and rose 11 percent today to $6.94 in early trading on news the company was scrapping a plan to raise equity. MBIA dropped 31 percent yesterday and rose 0.9 percent in early trading today to $9.30. Credit-default swaps on the companies, which rise as confidence erodes, are trading at record highs.

I think what scares me the most is that from everything I have read in the last week, no one knows where the rot is- remember, I am a layman, but apparently this stuff was sliced, diced and repackaged so much that there is no telling where all the bad loans are- which means everything is vulnerable. Again, if I am mis-characterizing this, please correct me.

And I really don’t see what a piddling 150 billion stimulus package is going to do.

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