Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

In my day, never was longer.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

T R E 4 5 O N

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

Peak wingnut was a lie.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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  5. 5.

    Shinobi

    Me too, but I’m sure we’ll never know. You know how reserved those people are about giving opinions on topics that they are not qualified to opine on.

  8. 8.

    mgordon

    1. Is it constitutional?

    2. Is is socialism?

    repeat until next segment which involves something about Britney Spears partying too much.

  9. 9.

    Ryan S.

    Somehow I don’t think deep thoughts are accurate.
    More like shallow puddles of vitriol and bile.

  11. 11.

    Laura W

    @DougJ: Obama is speaking in less than two hours. I prefer to focus on "The politics of optimism" (someone on Tweety just said that) — the intelligent, the serious, the appropriate-to-the-moment, the capable — for a few brief hours.

    Let’s leave the regurgitated, vacuous stoopid for the morning. It’s not like there’s any shortage.

  12. 12.

    DougJ

    I prefer to focus on “The politics of optimism” (someone on Tweety just said that)—the intelligent, the serious, the appropriate-to-the-moment, the capable—for a few brief hours.

    I think we’re all going to be stunned by how stupid the questions Obama gets will be. I think we’ll get at least one question about him joking too much.

    Don’t say I didn’t try to prepare you for what’s coming, okay?

  13. 13.

    GambitRF

    Mika: Some are saying that this is too similar to the previous plans under Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and that it overvalues the toxic bank assets and leaves the taxpayer with too much liability–
    Joe: RARRRRRGHHH NO LIKE LIBERALS RARRRRRRGGGHHH MUST FEEEEEED
    Mika: I mean, uh… uh… is this further proof that Obama is an Islamo-communo-fascist? Oh God, don’t hurt me!

  14. 14.

    Andre

    I thought "cast" should only be used to describe actors?

    Shouldn’t the term for the front-of-camera staff of a non-fictional news show be "hosts"…oh, wait, never mind.

  15. 15.

    Laura W

    @DougJ: I promise to hold you harmless.
    And just to clarify, I was referring to President Obama when I wrote this: the intelligent, the serious, the appropriate-to-the-moment, the capable…
    not the preening junior high school pranksters hoping to "trip him up". You didn’t seriously think I meant the people sitting in front of him?

    Please to remember that I believe I was the first to mock (in thread) "Chip" Reid in the last outing for his "What went wrong" pearl.

    Several reporters based their queries on the presumption that the president had gotten off to a rocky start. CBS’s Chip Reid asked bluntly "what went wrong" with Obama’s efforts at bipartisanship: "Did you underestimate how hard it would be to change the way Washington works?" (Obama’s answer filled 26 paragraphs in the transcript.)

    I promise I won’t be stunned.

  16. 16.

    DougJ

    You didn’t seriously think I meant the people sitting in front of him?

    You had me worried when you started quoting people from Tweety.

  19. 19.

    TheHatOnMyCat

    I wonder what the casts of “Morning Joe” and “The View” think about the Geithner bank plan.

    I wonder what FrankLeeMyDear, the cat, thinks about when I am listening to Glenn Gould ?

  20. 20.

    Xenos

    Joe does not know what he thinks about it either, until Grover Norquist’s office gives him a call. He has just twelve hours to come up with a position that squares the faux-populism and the pro-wall-street-ubermenschianism memes in a sensible fashion.

    He is probably just hoping for Obama to stumble on his words again or to utter a gaffe so that can be the Wednesday Issue.

  21. 21.

    passerby

    What’s astounding to me is that people are already demanding Geithner’s head on a platter. Obama has made it clear that Geithner is not going anywhere–even if he wants to.

    What’s with Huffington calling for his removal? Reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode with a young Bill Mumy (from Lost in Space fame) as a petulant child with supernatural powers who just wishes away anyone who doesn’t please him.

    I expect this kind of crotch grabbing from modern republicans but I thought Arianna was more politically sophisticated than that.

    60 days into the job of cleaning up a catastrophic Bush mess and people want him out. Oh that’s mature.

    p.s. We won’t know what Joe Scar will say yet. He’ll probably zero in on some minor gaff from Obama’s press conference tonight (8pm EDT, be there.)

  23. 23.

    Zifnab

    @passerby:

    I expect this kind of crotch grabbing from modern republicans but I thought Arianna was more politically sophisticated than that.

    Wow, you’re wrong.

    To be fair, there’s a lot of Bushophobia at Huff Po, and they see a lot of Paulson in Geithner. So they’re hoping if they can slam the reset button, they can get in someone in the vein of Krugman – someone they support.

    I mean, that’s ultimately fine. People should be pissed at Geithner for not coming up with a better plan. He’s flying by the seat of his pants and we all know it. Huff Po doesn’t exactly rock the political landscape, let them shout. It’s nice to see some actual angry lefties so long as they don’t dive off the Hillaryis44 deep end.

  25. 25.

    Unabogie

    Meh.

    Arianna Huffington used to be a right wing Republican calling for Bill Clinton to resign. Now she’s calling for Geithner to resign.

    Perhaps, and I know this is grasping for straws here, she just opposes everything to get page views?

    Nah, silly me.

  27. 27.

    Ricky Bobby

    I wonder what the casts of “Morning Joe” and “The View” think about the Geithner bank plan.

    In order to answer this query as stated I would first be forced to agree to the presupposition that the hosts of these shows do indeed think. Even ocassionally.

    I’m not willing to concede that point.

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