Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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  3. 3.

    gbear

    For the pet lovers here, MPR has a call-in, email-in show about pet care on right now (12:00-1:00 central)

    MUCH better than Rush.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Jake

    I could only stomach a few minutes. Reminds me of a quote, I can’t quite remember it… oh yeah:

    “It’s almost like these people take pride in being ignorant.”

  6. 6.

    The Moar You Know

    One hundred new nuclear plants in 20 years!

    I am 100% for this, and would be totally all for it if we had the engineering skill base to build them, the infrastructure to maintain and supply them, and people educated enough to run them safely.

    Sadly, we have none of those things. Maybe we can import them from France and other countries that decided that being prepared for the End of Oil would be a good idea.

  7. 7.

    Demo Woman

    Did I miss Mike Pence? Now they are talking about smoking in the military. We already covered that this morning.

  8. 8.

    peach flavored shampoo

    I am 100% for this, and would be totally all for it if we had the engineering skill base to build them, the infrastructure to maintain and supply them, and people educated enough to run them safely.

    But didn’t Reid scuttle the Yucca Mountain project? Where does all this waste go?

  9. 9.

    Comrade Jake

    There seems to be this widely-accepted notion that Nancy Pelosi is hated by the vast majority of Americans, and if they can just get people to think of it as the “Nancy Pelosi recession”, they win. These people are simply not particularly bright.

  11. 11.

    steve s

    Are they having a Who Can Say The Dumbest Thing? national championship, or something?

  12. 12.

    inkadu

    @The Moar You Know: I have a friend who is working on designing six atomic plants in the next ten years… for China.

    So at least we have the engineering base.

    Unfortunately, what we will never have is the regulations to keep the plants safe.

  14. 14.

    Dork

    I have a friend who is working on designing six atomic plants in the next ten years… for China.

    I bet they will grow some awesome weed! The whole joint will glow!

  15. 15.

    Keith

    On a more outrageous note, anyone else catch the Washington Monthly post about the Texas schoolboard re: civil rights leaders’ prominence in textbooks?
    The part that had me hit the roof (being a resident of the state) was this:

    Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy, the proper adjective for identifying U.S. values and processes should be “republican” rather than “democratic.” That means social studies books should discuss “republican” values in the U.S., his report said.

    Remember, these are the same folks who freak out over alleged liberal doctrination in college.

  17. 17.

    JK

    OT

    Witness List for Sotomayor Hearings

    Majority Witnesses

    Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
    Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
    David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
    JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
    Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
    Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
    Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
    Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
    Robert Morgenthau, former District Attorney, New York County, New York
    Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
    Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York 16th District
    Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
    Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
    Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

    Minority Witnesses

    Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
    Sandy Froman, Esq., Former President, National Rifle Association of America
    Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
    Tim Jeffries, Founder, P7 Enterprises
    Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
    David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
    John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
    Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
    Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health)
    David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
    Nick Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
    Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
    Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
    Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life

    h/t http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/07/sotomayor-hearings-the-witnesses.php?ref=fpb

  18. 18.

    JK

    OT WTF

    The federal government’s most secure prison has determined two books written by President Barack Obama contain material “potentially detrimental to national security” and rejected an inmate’s request to read them. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: “Dreams from My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope.” But prison officials, citing guidance from the FBI, determined that passages in both books contain information that could damage national security.

    h/t http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_12801164?source=commented-

  23. 23.

    geg6

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    One hundred new nuclear plants in 20 years! Yipeeeeeeeeeee

    That reminds me. My local County Emergency Management sent me a letter the other day to remind me to pick up my new supply of iodine pills. The ones we picked up in 2003 have expired effectiveness dates.

    Love having that nuke in my backyard!

  24. 24.

    slag

    For those of you who need a laugh, Mike Pence is about to appear on the Rush Limbaugh show.

    You have an incredibly morbid sense of humor.

  28. 28.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Gus:

    Sotomayor saved baseball of course, ending the 95 strike with a court order siding with players. She gets my vote just for that.

  29. 29.

    anonevent

    Waiting for PaulL to show up complaining about how liberals didn’t throw a fit when Richard Clarke showed up on the Rachel Maddow show, or some dumb shit like that.

  31. 31.

    Gus

    Ah, yes. David Cone was the Yankee player rep. I forgot about that. Thanks, General Winfield Stuck!

  33. 33.

    arguingwithsignposts

    Minority Witnesses

    Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity

    Sort of like Rick Santorum and the Center for Ethics and Policy, i don’t think that word means what she thinks it means.

  35. 35.

    JK

    On a hunch, I reviewed online lists of all the men and women who’ve been elected governor of their state since the year 1900. Pored over them for a few hours. Over 1200 politicians have taken that first-term oath of office. Some soon died in office. Many resigned to accept other positions in government, including Spiro Agnew who was ‘tapped’ by Nixon after being the Governor of Maryland for about five minutes. On a handful of occasions, a first-termer was dragged off to the slammer or impeached. One was incapacitated by a nervous breakdown and one left just as impeachment came knocking on his door. So — how many out of over 1200 just up and quit before the end of their term?
    Three: Jim McGreevy, Eliot Spitzer and Sarah Palin

    h/t http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/09/first-term-quitters-hall-of-fame/

  36. 36.

    Tom

    I am 100% for this, and would be totally all for it if…

    (best Butthead voice) Uh…

  37. 37.

    Punchy

    @Bostondreams: Ha ha! Holy shit! Look at this winner:

    Barton, a former vice chairman of the Texas Republican Party, said that because the U.S. is a republic rather than a democracy, the proper adjective for identifying U.S. values and processes should be “republican” rather than “democratic.” That means social studies books should discuss “republican” values in the U.S., his report said.

    Oh fucking christ, is this quality wingnut.

  38. 38.

    linda

    i just can’t… i will rely on other brave and far more tolerant souls for the recap.

  39. 39.

    A Mom Anon

    @Bostondreams:

    Jesus Christ on a dancing pole. Don’t these morons realize that they’re crippling their kids’ future by depriving them of an actual educaton?

    If these buffoons hate the public schools so much,there are a metric asston of churches they can use to start their own schools. I’m sure most churches would love the revenue a school could produce. They’ve got no business dumbing things down for the rest of us who are fighting to give our kids a decent education. I live in GA,I have to add to my son’s classroom materials all the time because the textbooks suck and it’s hit or miss as far as his teachers go. Hell,I just found out(because foolishly I took it for granted he knew)that my kid has not been taught why the 4th of July is celebrated. So I had to get out my history books and do a little online research so he could find out.

    I really hate these people. It’s one thing to be stupid,but don’t take pride in it and try to spread the disease to my kid. Gah!

  40. 40.

    geg6

    Has anyone read the TPM article re: Ensign’s pitifulness? Fracking hilarious. Worse than an adolescent.

    http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/hampton_religious_buddies_drove_ensign_to_fedex_to.php?ref=fpa

    That said, I think I’m gonna have to pick up the book “The Family.” It’s all sounding so weird and cultlike, but ridiculously powerful. I need to know more.

    Just an OT note about reading since I mentioned reading. I just started “Bloggers On The Bus.” And I’m devouring it like candy. I’ll be done with it by Sunday at the latest because I’m totally hooked. Highly recommended. Sadly, only one mention of our Mr. Cole (pg. 120 re: the primary fight):

    “What a contemptible wretch Sen. Clinton has turned out to be,” wrote the pro-Obama blogger John Cole at Balloon Juice. “What an asshole.”

    Short, but succinct and totally in character. ;-)

  41. 41.

    Dreggas

    @JK:

    I heard Ricci was out, turns out he sued the same fire department for discrimination several years ago.

  42. 42.

    Bender

    The Fascist Party is back at it:

    H.R.1966

    a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

    ‘(b) As used in this section-

    ‘(1) the term ‘communication’ means the electronic transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received;

    ‘(2) the term ‘electronic means’ means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.’.

    This bill would make it a felony to be mean to someone on a blog or Facebook. It would be the end of blogging as we know it. For example, I could no longer point out that amateur gynocologist Andi S. clearly suffers from AIDS-related dementia! LA Times “journalists” could no longer blog that they hope old Republicans die before the next election! I don’t want to live in a world like that…do you?

    The Free Speech Chillers:

    Rep. Linda Sánchez [D, CA-39]
    and 14 Co-Sponsors

    * Rep. Timothy Bishop [D, NY-1]
    * Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
    * Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
    * Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
    * Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2]
    * Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
    * Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
    * Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
    * Rep. Brian Higgins [D, NY-27]
    * Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
    * Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10]
    * Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D, CA-34]
    * Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3]
    * Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]

  43. 43.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Worst kind of knee jerk legislation. I think this was spawned by the My Space teenager who committed suicide when a grown woman harassed her posing as another teenager. And probably a few other cases.

    If it passes I guess we’ll need to be nicer to our trolls.

  44. 44.

    Betsy

    @A Mom Anon:
    Srsly??? I would have thought that the hist of Independence Day would be prominent even in a conservative curriculum!

    Anyway, that stuff in Texas makes my brain huuurrrttt. I’m from Texas and I’m a historian, so reading that was like having my eyelashes pulled out slowly. The thing that kills me is this: we don’t *not* teach about people who did stuff we disagree with; we don’t try to erase important defenders of slavery from the history books, for example. Even if you think Chavez was terrible, he still *existed.* It’s like they’re afraid that simply acknowledging that left wing activists existed in America will somehow taint the students’ minds.

  45. 45.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @The Moar You Know: I didn’t listen, but found it interesting that this thread dovetailed into information I was just reading (in a chemistry textbook no less):

    Even when we consider the issues of the safety of nuclear power and the waste it produces, the fourth problem – the economic cost of nuclear energy – may be the most significant restraint to commercial production of electricity….At the current rate of energy production (we) would exhaust the world’s supply of inexpensive fissionable fuel in 50 years.

    They go on to talk about how expensive it would become to use more expensive fuels and add to that the cost of building the plants. They were neither pro or con nuclear, they just outlined the issues around both arguments.

  47. 47.

    Anne Laurie

    Don’t these morons realize that they’re crippling their kids’ future by depriving them of an actual educaton?

    Seriously? I sometimes wonder how many of these “For-the-Children” conservatives actually hate / resent / despise non-rhetorical live children, including their own. Sure, they love the idea of children, at least insofar as that golden archetype of purity & innocence gives them a weapon to beat the reality-based community with — but actual kids? With all their whining, needy, boring demands for time, and attention, and breathable air, and expensive education that will just enable them to talk back and demand still more DFH crap… not so much. I’ve met a couple of libertarians who actually said they didn’t want their kids to have it “better” than they did, on the grounds that “rationality” meant not giving up any advantage however slight even to one’s own offspring. The Conservapedia anti-intellectuals act out this kind of “rationality” even as they pretend they LUUUV the next generation, as long as ‘love’ is defined as ‘just as dumb, mean, craven, and narrow-minded as their parents’.

  48. 48.

    Political Pragmatist

    @Anne Laurie:

    The Conservapedia anti-intellectuals act out this kind of “rationality” even as they pretend they LUUUV the next generation, as long as ‘love’ is defined as ‘just as dumb, mean, craven, and narrow-minded as their parents’.

    That is seriously, utterly, completely depressing. That it’s true is beyond the pale. We are doomed as a species.

    “I have only been disappointed in three things: the Church, the State, and the species.” George Carlin

    Imagine all three in government.

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