Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

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

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

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

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

The revolution will be supervised.

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

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

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

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

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  2. 2.

    General Winfield Stuck

    but I still find movies like this kind of creepy. Whatever, though. I’m weird.

    I absolutely cannot stand them. Creepy is a good enough word.

  8. 8.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Drat. Paula beat. My lead on JSF is tenuous.

    Meanwhile back on Planet Wingnut, The Red State Trike Force, lead by Viking Warrior Erick the Bleg, shoots foot again.

    On his third trip to the polls, a Hoffman supporter and poll watcher had his tires slashed this afternoon —as you can see he had a hoffman sign in his back window.

    Yes, dude has flat and the fiendish libtards strike again.

    [updated:] Local police are not willing to confirm it was a tire slashing and say it could be that the poll watcher ran over a bottle.

    Maybe not. But facts don’t stop the wanking.

  9. 9.

    Zam

    Well whatever is on other channels has to be better than watching the election tonight with Republicans claiming NY-23 and VA prove that everyone hates Obama. In fact I’ve been hearing all day that this is just like before 94, ignoring the major difference between 92 and 08.

  10. 10.

    Mnemosyne

    I don’t know that I would call it “creepy” so much as “WAAAY too soon.” Did HBO really have to contribute to instant nostalgia?

  11. 11.

    Zam

    @Zam: I’d also like to add to myself, that I do love how republicans just love to ignore local politics, every districts problems can be solved by a tax cut for every millionaire and a gay in every tree.

  13. 13.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    There’s more schadenfreud to be found watching Right America:Feeling Wronged, a littel doc Nancy Pelosi’s daughter cooked up and was released after the election.

  15. 15.

    Max

    Via Joe Scarborough on the Twitter-

    But how many votes can D’s mine from Newark? Answer: A lot.

    Cause, they’re black, get it?

    I’m betting the whole prognosticating scene this evening involves some subtle and not so subtle racism.

    Any takers?

  16. 16.

    D-Chance.

    Hoffman poll-watcher runs over bottle… Erickson has a hissy fit. Photos posted of the pick-up. Screams of “ACORN!” abound (because black folk slash tires and stuff, y’know).

    In the meantime, BOTH sides were already screaming “Fraud!” before voting even opened this morning.

    Good grief, this country’s become one steaming big pile of crap. It’s freaking embarrassing to call oneself an American anymore.

  17. 17.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Zam:

    VA seems like a wingnut lock. But NY 23, history is against it, really against. But the Traveling Tea Bag Circus has never played there, so who knows fer sure.

    If Corzine loses NJ, then the winger afterbirth will be loud and louder still.

  19. 19.

    FlipYrWhig

    @D-Chance.:

    BOTH sides were already screaming “Fraud!” before voting even opened this morning.

    Sure, but _that_ was about Alex Rodriguez.

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    @cleek:

    Obama wins.

    A black guy with a Muslim name? *shakes head, mutters to self* S’pose that’s Hollyweird for ya.

  22. 22.

    Max

    This is must see tv to look forward to…

    Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards.

    I mean that snark-free. I like these guys.

  23. 23.

    cat48

    I’m watching it. I’m bored with everyone evaluating his first 10 months as his first yr in office. Maybe black presidents only get 10 mos. instead of 12 for their first years (joke). Almost every blog and channel is doing it along with how he doesn’t have any coattails for the Dems running. What does it mean for Obama if he (he?) loses tonight? Got to get away from this.

  24. 24.

    Zam

    @General Winfield Stuck: Yea if NY-23 goes for the Dem you would really think it would throw a stick into the spokes of the media’s general impression of this hard right group. These people seem to think that a good percentage of the teabaggers originally voted for Obama and days after he took office were suddenly surprised and angry.

  26. 26.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Zam:

    It’s still a new phenom, so I wouldn’t bet against the wingnuts in this one. But if they win, the wingnuttery will go critical mass and soon blow up in their faces. A lot of Texan carpetbagging will have a short half life in libtard New England, I expect.

    Upstate New York ain’t the Texas Hill Country.

  27. 27.

    bobbo

    I have mixed feelings about it. I suspect a little hagiography, or at least an upbeat, feel-good story that reminds me of how much happier I was about the state of American politics on Election Night than I am now. And feeling nostalgia for a year ago makes me feel old.

  28. 28.

    slag

    I’m extremely curious about it (even though I don’t have HBO). Explain why it’s creepy please. I’m curious about that too.

  29. 29.

    Ed in NJ

    I figured that the wingnuts would be screaming about HBO’s documentary, conveniently forgetting such documentaries as Journeys with George, Unprecedented, and The War Room, which all documented previous presidential elections.

    I now see that the ignorance apparently isn’t limited to wingnuts.

  31. 31.

    Rey

    I will be watching the documentary, just as drunk as I was this time last year. I will probably cry and thank God- once again for Barack Obama and Ballon Juice. BTW, fuck – CNN, Fox, John McCain, Sarah Palin and all the wingnut Rethugs. I need to go eat something before I puke– that is all……..

  32. 32.

    geg6

    Well, I, for one, have no problem reliving the campaign. It was a year and a half that, for a long suffering Dem, I’ll never forget. I’ve worked many elections since my first in 1976 and I’ve never experienced anything like that. It was a happy and fulfilling thing that I was fully invested in. And since the film is purportedly more about the people who made it happen than an paen to the man, I think it will capture that for me. Nothing creepy about it and I’m more than a little puzzled at the cynicism of saying it is. I thought I was cynical, but apparently not as much as I thought. Oh well, to each their own, I guess.

  33. 33.

    slag

    @John Cole: Yeah. But I always figured those were creepy because GW was creepy. You’re saying it’s actually the format and GW isn’t creepy? Or maybe Obama’s creepy too?

  35. 35.

    Rey

    p.s. I want to slap the swamry (can’t spell, I’m tipsy) smile off of all the Repubs on my TV tonite. God- I hate them, McDonnell got all the votes in VA, did anybody vote for Deeds? besides his mother and wife?

  37. 37.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @slag:

    Usually, these things are mostly shot on the run with hand held cameras that give it a Blair Witch Project aura. That and all the shallow campaign mentality, half eaten donuts and styro cups of coffee laying around, is what gives me the creepies.

  38. 38.

    geg6

    Laura W @33: No, but I’m glad you have now. I’m drinking champagne (well, spumante) and enjoying myself. I met the most incredible people during the campaign, some of them rather famous, celebrities you could say. And I need to remember that time and how it felt.

  39. 39.

    The Saff

    I plan to watch it. There was a teaser about it before “Curb” on Sunday; a 9- year old boy who was phone banking for Obama. The kid kept repeating “Obama” but the other party didn’t understand. Then the kid says, “hello? hello? um, ok, thanks. Have a good night.” The person he called obviously hung up. It was cute.

    And I plan to buy David Plouffe’s book tomorrow.

  40. 40.

    Dream On

    the documentary is not WAAAY too soon – it really is WAY too late. The bloom is off the Obama rose – we know better now. Meh!

  41. 41.

    Rey

    The bigot JOP in Lousiana just resigned, you know the one that wouldn’t marry the interracial couple. I guess someone told him– Hey, our President is a product of an interracial marriage and look he turned out pretty damn good. What a dumb ass….

  42. 42.

    General Winfield Stuck

    The bloom is off the Obama rose – we know better now. Meh!

    Word has it. Malkin is using the dead pedals to fertilize her Venus Fly Trap.

  43. 43.

    geg6

    The Saff @38: It’s even better than that. They show the phone log he’s working from and in the place where you write whether or not they will vote Obama or not or other comments, the kid has written “crazy.” The kid is perfect.

  45. 45.

    slag

    @General Winfield Stuck: Yeah. I guess the standard documentary film format is kind of creepy, in a certain light. And I can empathize with not wanting to be reminded of how shallow the process can be.

    But being afraid of half-eaten donuts? Not following you there. Is it more disturbing that they eat the donuts or that they eat only half? Or are you saying the half-eaten donut serves as a symbol of some sort? Does it symbolize Marxism, by chance?

  46. 46.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Or are you saying the half-eaten donut serves as a symbol of some sort?

    Wasted food. I’m on a diet and hungry.

  50. 50.

    slag

    @General Winfield Stuck: That’s true. But I think I may be starting to understand the creepy issue. Is it a kind of a Masters of the Universe concern? That the documentary will actually place the Obama campaign in too gentle a light, thereby reinforcing the bizarre notion that some people have that there’s some extraordinary amount of genius now at work in the Executive Branch? If so, I can kind of buy that. Assuming that’s how the documentary will portray them.

  51. 51.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @slag:

    The creepy word may not be the best to describe my lack of interest in re-watching a political campaign. The real thing is OK, I guess, because even though shallow, in real time it portends a serious event which is election day. Without that end game as unknown, it is mostly just a rehash of the same stump speech and often mindless tit for tat politicking I find boorish, at least to replay it.

    But Keith G. makes a good point of it’s teaching value for young people, and I would never disparage the value of that. It’s just a personal lack of interest mostly.

  52. 52.

    Batocchio

    I watched The War Room again last year and it was very interesting (and wild to see all the Clinton crew looking so much younger). The same goes for A Perfect Candidate. One of the filmmakers for the Obama doc was on Democracy Now this morning. I’m not sure how good it will be, but I’m looking forward to seeing it. But to each their own…

    On the other hand, I am dreading the inevitable crappy op-eds and posts the docs will spawn. I’m guessing Richard “Obama doesn’t know himself the way I know John McCain” Cohen might use it to crap out a column.

  54. 54.

    ruemara

    @cat48:

    When I was last black, I got an accelerated timetable of failure. We had to do 8 hours work in 4, stay celibate until 20 and do a blood test for pot every hour, otherwise we were “blackityzomgneegrowwelfarians!” You get used to it.

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