Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I had to turn away when Moe Rocca came on. He just annoys the hell out of me. (Yes I know there’s no “e” on the end of his first name but if I type just the first two letters the compose software turns it into “month” and I don’t know a workaround short of disabling the whole feature.)

    I did see the last few minutes of Sunday Today, and I’m glad I did. KITTEHS! Gorgeous ones, including a Maine Coon, a red Rex, and the blackest shiniest cat I’ve ever seen — a breed called Bombay, known as “the patent-leather cat with copper penny eyes.” Perfect description; the fur was black-hole blackety-black, and the eyes were huge, round as saucers, and a lovely golden orange. I was thinking of asiangrrlMN during the segment and imagining her reaction :-)

  3. 3.

    Halffasthero

    Football is becoming a fun Sunday pastime now that the Vikes are showing some actual promise. Its going to be fun to see them go 7-0 if they can win this week since they will most certainly win next week.

    Just sayin’.

  4. 4.

    smiley

    Today’s right-wing blog/chain email inspired letter to the editor:

    TARP expenditures questionable
    A couple of items have made me leery of how the TARP money is being spent. Al Gore has received $529 million to start a sports car company. Sounds great until you read the fine print: The cars will be luxury cars (base model $89,000.) made in Finland.
    Google Al Gore and Finland car company for the “Gorey details.”
    Next is the Captain Morgan Rum Co. getting $2.7 billion of TARP funds (not a loan!) to move the company from the Virgin Islands to St. Croix (both U.S. islands).
    Sounds OK until you read the fine print: Captain Morgan Rum Co. is a British company.
    Wonder how many of our public servants got a few bottles of the rum for a Christmas present for the “gift” of $2.7 billion to a UK company?
    Google Captain Morgan Rum and $2.7 billion for the details.
    Kinda makes you want to buy a bottle and toast those great minds who so drunkenly spend our tax dollars doesn’t it?
    I wish someone would explain to me how these two giveaways help the employment and economy of this country.

    I took the writer’s suggestion and did the Google, but I don’t think the author did. First, Al Gore did not receive $529 million to start a sports car company. A California company backed by a venture-capital company of which Gore is a partner received the funds. And the goal is for the company to eventually build a cheaper car here in the U.S.

    The second story has a bit more truth to it. However, it’s a lot more complicated than the letter writer suggests. Plus, he got some basic facts wrong, which is why I think his information came from somewhere other than a “real” news source.

  6. 6.

    Betsy

    Forgive me if you’ve already posted on this; I’ve been traveling and haven’t seen all the threads. But on the front page of the Santa Fe newspaper this morning is a McClatchy investigative report into Moody’s investment ratings service, and it starts with this sentence:
    “As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody’s Investors Service, whose investment ratings were widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge the country into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.”

    Since John Cole has been pointing out for months now that the ratings agencies ought to be coming under the microscope, I thought you’d be glad to know that someone at a news service agrees with you.

  8. 8.

    Halffasthero

    The debt is a huge concern to me, however, I have a hard time listening to these guys act all concerned now. Peggy Noonan and George Will seem like pure concern trolls regarding the deficit. I don’t seem to recall they were that worried back when the treasury was being looted under GWB.

  11. 11.

    Leelee for Obama

    @Halffasthero: This is the worst of the BS they are spewing. As well, GWB wasn’t just raiding the Treasury, he ran the borrowing up to ceilings unimagined even by “deficits don’t matter” Reagan and Cheney. The problem for Will and Noonan is that this President is raising the debt to try to help the Little People, not just the Banksters; and he’s trying to end the best reason to go into debt, in their opinion, Iraq. I have issues with Afghanistan, as many do, but at least AfPak can be perceived by citizens as a problem.

  12. 12.

    WyldPiratd

    Maria Shriver is on Press the Meat. She looks like an anorexic Skeletor.

    David Gregory is a smarmy, taint-licking asshole and journalmalist. He’s the poster child of how fucked our society is because large dollars are shelled out for his butt-licking lunacy.

  13. 13.

    Max

    I must admit that I am loving the White House pummeling of Fox News. Axe and Rahm flat called them out this am and Chris I’m a disgrace to my last name Wallace is still a whiny baby.

  15. 15.

    Demo Woman

    @WyldPiratd:
    And you watched MTP, why?

    For all those Brady haters, no more worries. According to a Church in North Carolina, he’s going to hell. From NBC Sports news that..

    Report: Tom Brady is going to hell
    Posted by Mike Florio on October 18, 2009 8:39 AM ET
    The title says it all. Yes, Tom Brady is going to hell.
    Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald pointed out to us this rather critical nugget (for Brady at least) earlier in the week. It seems that the Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina has usurped the duties of St. Peter and declared Brady’s eternal damnation.

    Guess the minister doesn’t like New England.

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Betsy:

    Forgive me if you’ve already posted on this; I’ve been traveling and haven’t seen all the threads. But on the front page of the Santa Fe newspaper this morning is a McClatchy investigative report into Moody’s investment ratings service, and it starts with this sentence:
    “As the housing market collapsed in late 2007, Moody’s Investors Service, whose investment ratings were widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge the country into its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” Since John Cole has been pointing out for months now that the ratings agencies ought to be coming under the microscope, I thought you’d be glad to know that someone at a news service agrees with you.

    Shorter McClatchy: Moody’s went public.

  17. 17.

    WyldPiratd

    Demo Woman asks:

    And you watched MTP, why?

    I suppose I have a masochistic streak, Demo Woman.

    Watching Press the Meat and that 6’6″ prick with ears Gregory also stokes my rage at the lunacy that passes as journalism,, politicians of both parties and the damage that each are doing to the nation.

    Rage keeps you warm and cuts down on heating bills, also. Too.

  19. 19.

    WyldPiratd

    The Tom Brady hate from the FSM-damned god-botherers in North Carolina is no surprise, either. You can’t swing a dead cat in North Carolina without hitting a house of superstitution full of fucking knuckle dragging cretins,

    Canton is in the western part of the state. The whole area smells like rotten eggs due to the paper mills, so that exacerbates the typical biblebabble idiocy. In the eastern part of the state where I live, the jeebus freaks are just as bad if not worse. Their lunacy is enhanced by the piquant odor of turkey, chicken and hogshit from the factory farms.

    North Carolina is a dismal damned place to live outside of the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) and Asheville. The rest of the state is overrun with fucking ignorant bigots and rednecks of the worst sort.

  20. 20.

    Demo Woman

    @WyldPiratd: What would the church prefer, an abortion? By all accounts, Brady is taking care of his son. Some on the blog think that he should go to hell for beating Oakland. lol

  21. 21.

    WyldPiratd

    demo woman asks;

    What would the church prefer, an abortion?

    It really wouldn’t matter with some of these superstition-mongerers. They love nothing better than going into an apoplectic rage over anything connected to human being’s crotches.

    I think most of the Jeebus-freak rage can be traced directly back to them not getting laid enough. A secondary hypothesis is that they are afraid that their house of superstition “brethren” are worried about them finding out that they getting laid too much or in an unacceptable manner.

  22. 22.

    Martin

    @Cat Lady:

    The gass ellipses now make me want to write all balloon boy comments in haikus.

    The balloon got away…
    No television show for his family…
    He’ll go smack his wife…

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