Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

No one could have predicted…

This fight is for everything.

Bark louder, little dog.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

Cole is on a roll !

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.

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

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  2. 2.

    Genine

    @burnspbesq

    Sure! Such a thing can never be said too much. :-D

    And have a safe trip home, John.

  7. 7.

    burnspbesq

    Why is it that some people (apparently including my wife) can’t internalize a simple truth about cats, i.e., if you feed them, they own you.

    There have been two strays (who look like they must be from the same litter) hanging around by our front door for the last week. I got home from work at midnight on Wednesday to find them chowing down on a plate of dry cat food.

    And yet the spousal unit persists in saying “No, we’re not adopting them.”

    Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

    Going out to see if the little buggers are getting any less people-shy.

    In my mind, they already have names: Laettner and Hurley.

  8. 8.

    MikeJ

    @Pasquinade: The White House leaked the story of Ayers and Wright to discredit anybody who points out that George Soros and Louis Farrakhan had hot gay sex in the Lincoln bedroom.

  9. 9.

    kay

    @Pasquinade:

    It’s amazing, because the White House anticipated the “error”, and released a clarifying paragraph with the records.

    It’s just blatant, knowing misinformation. Amazing.

    I used to believe the trick was to get ahead of the lie, but not even that matters, because the White House did that, here. They’ll just tell it anyway, and hope it takes off.

  10. 10.

    Skepticat

    Safe home. Any chance you can walk through the front door at home with a video camera running? Lily’s joy ought to be a thing to see, and Tunch will be happy to see you, no matter what his outward demeanor. And we’re looking forward to more pics of them, this drought has been painful.

  16. 16.

    GregB

    White House logs also indicate visits by Fidel Castro, Louis Farrakhan, the ghosts of Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Michael Bolton.

    -G

  17. 17.

    geg6

    Safe trip, John. And I’m adding my voice to those begging for a Lily pic. She’ll be over the moon when she sees you. Tunch, however, will probably be showing you a lot of his rather large back.

  19. 19.

    HRA

    @burnspbesq:

    Never any doubt about Boehner. @Pasquinade:

    Any moment now my lawyer cousin will be sending me an email quoting Drudge and whoever else is being an A-H.
    The truth is I wish it would all stop.

    Have a safe trip home, John.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    John, I want to know precisely how many times you phoned your brother to check up on Lily. I’m guessing close to 30 all told.

  23. 23.

    donovong

    Well, let’s all hope that your pilots know when to land and that they know the difference between the runway and the taxiway. Also.

  25. 25.

    gbear

    @Demo Woman:

    John should arrive home in time to put Lily in her halloween costume.

    Shhh!! The dogsitters were going to dress Lily up as a surprise. You’ll ruin everything.

    WaPo has picked 10 finalists for their columnist competition. Wonkette is on top of it. I’m buying a car this morning so I’m too distracted to care.

  26. 26.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @burnspbesq: Aww, what a sweeeeeeet face! But I hate to have you blaming your wife for the fact that the esq family now own *two new cats.* I mean, she only put out food for them. She didn’t, you know, give them *names* or anything.

  28. 28.

    Jay C

    When I read this post I thought you meant you had been stuck in the airport for 24 hours, and thus (most assuredly) “out of the loop”. Say it ain’t so, John…..

    @burnspsesq: I agree: “John Boehner is a fucking moron” – simple truth as it is – can’t be repeated too often.

    @Pasquinade: As much as one hopes Drudge’s “epic fails” might eventually become realized by the public, these latest unfortunate examples will no doubt be quickly forgotten until the next outrage-du-jour; and the “fact” that “Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright” were guests at the WH will be accepted by the simpleminded right-wing as on a par with President Bush’s “greeting the war dead at Dover AFB”: i.e. absolute truths “suppressed” by the “liberal media”.

  29. 29.

    AhabTRuler

    @SiubhanDuinne: Huh, I always thought it was the Burns family? Pretty sure it’s to the esq. family, unless everyone has a JD (including the new kittys: Laettner went to Columbia, but Hurley attended CUNY-Queens College, the hippy).

  32. 32.

    GReynoldsCT00

    @donovong:

    and that they don’t overshoot the entire state because they are yakking with a flight attendant…and on the wrong frequency

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @AhabTRuler: Well, I’ve never been formally introduced, so I went with the safe choice. But from here on out, it’s Laettner Burns and Hurley Burns.

  38. 38.

    gogol's wife

    @burnspbesq:
    I know that facial expression from the three cats (then kittens) we adopted from our backyard. “I love you . . . I don’t trust you . . . I love you . . . I don’t trust you.” It never quite goes away.

  42. 42.

    Lavocat

    Those two sentences sound like a mix of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” and Pink Floyd’s “Waiting For The Worms”.

    That’s the weird earworm I flashed on anyway.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    Well, Obama is campaigning for Corzine this weekend. Wonder if he can add a stop in the North Country.

  49. 49.

    phoebes-in-santa fe

    @burnspbesq:

    Good for you and your wife feeding the “strays”. I hope you do adopt them. Littermates are so much fun to have around.

    I wish there were more people like you willing to adopt strays.

  50. 50.

    valdivia

    I think this drop out in NY 23 will be clusterfuck. Frist isn’t her name still on the ballot–how many people might be confused on election day and still vote for her? Also we have no idea if the GOP forced her out for fear of actually getting a dem elected to what is supposed to be a safe R seat.

  51. 51.

    Rekster

    @geg6:

    Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits

    October 31, 2009 11:00 AM by Michelle Malkin

    How bout that one?

  53. 53.

    burnspbesq

    @Rekster:

    That says more about the GOP than it does about Dede.

    Listened to EJ and Bobo’s weekly thing on NPR yesterday, and Bobo correctly pointed out that Dede’s policy views are almost exactly in the middle of the spectrum of current American political thought.

    But, hey, if the GOP wants to consign itself to permanent irrelevance, I’m down with that.

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