Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Not all heroes wear capes.

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

This fight is for everything.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Please don’t feed the bears.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

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  1. 1.

    Dr. I. F. Stone

    Breaking: The AP and the New York Times are reporting that Senate Democrats have come to a tentative deal to drop the public option. The Times had this update at 8:48 P.M.:

    The Senate majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, said Senate leaders “have a broad agreement” on dropping a government-run plan from the health care bill, and that the Congressional Budget Office would review the implications of such a move on the budget.

    “I told head of C.B.O. we would send him something he would have to score,” Mr. Reid said. He added that he had asked Senators Charles E. Schumer and Mark Pryor to work together with a group of liberals and moderates on making sure the health care bill has a vehicle to expand coverage to achieve the aims of the so-called public option.

  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    I’m just pondering what topic is up next for Sarah to shower us with her golden brilliance (get your minds out of the gutter!!). I just know when I think “Climate Change” or “Jewish Settlements”, I think “Now, what would Sarah Palin think about this set of circumstances?”

  4. 4.

    Punchy

    DKos is exploding in rage right now. Hate to say it, but this makes the Dems look like the spineless bastards many of them are. I suspect 2010 elections are going to be just catastrophic for the donkeys.

    In better news, it FINALLY snowed here.

  6. 6.

    Martin

    @Punchy:

    Yeah, I decided that GOS will be radioactive for probably the next 2 months. And it’ll be sad to see progressives abandon their party over such a minor issue.

  7. 7.

    blahblahblah

    It is time for National Strikes. It is time to shut this economy fucking down until the plutocrats call uncle.

    And I feel so much better about having Voted Nader in 2000 now. I’m glad to no longer call myself a Democrat. Both parties are wholly corrupt.

    We’re going the way of the Soviet Union. This is not just an economic collapse, it a social collapse as well. Our politics is bound within an ideological web of our own contradictions.

  8. 8.

    Sanka

    46%-44%

    Clearly, Marist is a racist, right-wing polling outfit. The obvious answer is that the President and the Obama Democrats have not pressed hard enough on the “progressive” agenda—-apparently the American people want more bowing to foreign leaders, a definitive push for single-payer, more radicals as czars, and more appeasement of our enemies.

    Either that, or Marist is just some bush-league polling shop…like kids with crayons.

  9. 9.

    Shoe

    @Punchy – what do you suggest the dems do? Under Democrat Rules, they either have to get 60 or use reconciliation. And reconciliation would be spun as fascism by the villagers. It’s no win. Spine doesn’t enter into it.

  11. 11.

    Brick Oven Bill

    A Day at The Facility: A Tale of Global Warming, and Redemption

    I tell people that it snows here, but it doesn’t stick. But yesterday morning it stuck, and it was also sub-zero. This is the first time in my living memory of this kind of weather.

    Worried about getting up the driveway, it was off to work forty-five minutes early. The Ford Focus successfully chugged up the driveway. Hooray.

    The Focus plowed through the better part of a foot of snow along the long gravel road. And as the road turned to pavement, a burning smell. Probably the tires, spinning to use friction up that last uphill stretch. But then a battery light.

    Happiness as The Facility neared, and I was within walking distance, should the need arise. Being early, there was time to go to McDonalds, and get a Sausage McGriddle. We burn a lot of calories, and it is important for Facility performance for us to eat. At the second window, the engine sputtered. Gunning made no difference. “You won’t believe this, but my car just died.”

    The chick behind offered to push the Focus with her Volkswagen Beetle, and did, but only part-way. Then the guy behind her got out of his car and offered to push. He might have been hungry. Out-of-state plates. He asked if I needed a jump. “What I really need is a ride to The Facility.” Sure.

    Into the car with this guy, and two females. Metallica on the music-system. These were nice people, but might have been borderline retarded. Then a good day at The Facility. Earned two ‘Work Hard and Win Prizes’ cards! But the car was still dead, and this made me sad.

    It wasn’t the tires.

  12. 12.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Punchy:

    I suspect 2010 elections are going to be just catastrophic for the donkeys.

    If you’re not fit to lead because you are batshit crazy or incapable of holding yourself upright, then you’re not fit to lead. I’m sliding back towards the “let it all fall down” stance from 2004 – if the fuckers can’t muster the wherewithal to do what they were elected to do, then out they go.

    Tell you one thing – the continued polarization of the political process by insiders and outsiders, millions unemployed and uninsured, the smothering presence of corporate lobbyists and dollars on legislation and the amped up craziness of the gun-toting, freedom loving knuckledraggers spells NASTY. People who think they have nothing left to lose will do some really stupid shit just to prove it.

  13. 13.

    valdivia

    Can we please stop using the construction Democrat Rules and such? its democratic, not democrat rules.

  15. 15.

    General Winfield Stuck

    This bill is just to get something out of the Senate. Most did not even expect the initial one to have a PO. ie conference. and reconciliation used for the end product. Geesh. Maybe Obama needs him some new nutroots.

  17. 17.

    freelancer

    Michael: I’m running the business a little bit differently.
    …
    Oscar: Well, you do the best with what you have. I have lemons, I make lemonade.
    …
    Michael: That’s a very positive attitude.
    …
    Oscar: But I hate the lemonade business, I hate the grind. You have to grind so many (bleep)ing lemons.
    …
    Michael: You’re not a very metaphorical person, are you?

    @Punchy:

    In better news, it FINALLY snowed here.

    eat it Punchy, we got 8″ with 6 more on the way. I got stuck going downhill and high centered in my driveway.

  18. 18.

    asiangrrlMN

    I haz snow. Not much snow, but snow, nonetheless. And, bitter cold. I haz a happy. If I could just have Tunchie, I wouldn’t even care that our country is fucked.

    Does edit now work?

    Yes!

  19. 19.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    Time once again to call our Congress critters and bitch them inside and out.

    And reconciliation would be spun as fascism by the villagers.

    And? When I first heard the term The Villagers I thought it was short hand for Village Idiots. Even though I now know what it is supposed to mean, I’ve seen no reason to change my initial impression.

  20. 20.

    blahblahblah

    Except for when the Republicans used reconciliation to force through the Bush tax cuts. Then it was “senate procedure”. But for a social services bill? Then it’s the Nuclear Option.

    Assholes.

    They’ve sold us all off to corporate vassals as a new serf class.

    Fixing this is going to require a real fight.

  25. 25.

    Punchy

    @Shoe: Not in a million years, if the political spectrum was reversed, and the GOP owned both houses with filly-proof majorities and the WH, would this same-party backstabbing, showmanship, and fecklessness rear its head.

    I’m not blaming Reid or the other leaders; I’m vexed that the Dem party really isn’t loyal to the leader of their party (Obama) the way the GOP was to Bush.

    Sigh.

  26. 26.

    jwb

    @BruceFromOhio: Yup and handing the reins of power to the batshit crazy will teach ’em alright. Seriously, this attitude is itself almost as batshit crazy as if you joined the batshit crazy yourself.

  27. 27.

    MikeJ

    Awfully trollish tonight.

    The xmas special with the heat and snow misers starts in less than an hour. Those are trolls I can deal with.

    I’m too much.

  28. 28.

    Sentient Puddle

    I am posting this on Chrome for Mac. Woot!

    Except the image for the reply button is broken. WTF

  30. 30.

    RedKitten

    Tomorrow, for the first time since August, I get a day all to myself. No baby, no hubby — just me. I’m going to go finish my Christmas shopping, and am then having sushi for lunch with my dad. It’s all very, very good.

    Oh, and as SiubhanDuinne noticed, there are new pics of Sam at my url — we have a new camera, and I was trying it out.

  31. 31.

    valdivia

    @RedKitten:

    enjoy your special day. good on you for doing this.

    and your sam is so so cute, the last pictures are amazing.

    @ Sentient Puddle–the icon reply thing happened to me too. But it is now working. I am not on a mac though.

  32. 32.

    ellaesther

    @General Winfield Stuck: I’m so glad to hear/read you say that! Because after reading here, I just looked at the reports again and thought “Huh?”

    I mean, let’s be clear: I rather suspect that the final product will not really look like what I want like to see — because, hell, that’s single payer, and well, that ship has not only sailed, it was never in the same ocean.

    But despair? I’m not at despair yet. (At least not over health care. Whee!)

  37. 37.

    ellaesther

    @RedKitten: Oh my goodness, your Sam! I especially love those last three. Those wee little fists! Gracious! (Though my FAVORITE favorites remain the hoodie shots…).

    Have fun tomorrow! Isn’t it funny how elastic time used to be, compared to time-when-you-have-a-baby?

  43. 43.

    jwb

    @Punchy: But would you really want the Democrats to be loyal to Obama the same way the Goopers were to Bush? Didn’t we spend eight years condemning them for that? Now we have the spectacle of the left turning on the Dems, and not in a productive, mobilize the people sort of way but in a resentful “fuck you” I’m not going to play if you won’t play the game the way I want you to sort of way. Really, elements of the left are turning as batshit insane as the wingnuts, and both seem rather too enamored of authoritarianism and cult of the strongman leader who brooks no dissent for my taste.

  44. 44.

    lamh31

    From TPM: Maybe Not

    As you know, the AP and NYT reported tonight that the new deal dumped the Public Option. Our Brian Beutler, up there on the Hill was not so sure. And Sen. Reid said definitively this was not true. And now the Times seems to be backing off their report. And we’re getting hints that those reports may have been premature.

    More soon.

  50. 50.

    valdivia

    @freelancer:

    me! btw I just found out they will be in NYC (where I live) in March and I am getting tickets. they are my favorite band.

    edit–that clip is pretty funny.

  52. 52.

    Radon Chong

    How about instead of War Bonds, we finance the war with lemonade stands?”

    That would never work. What we should do is pay for the war with war bonds, and then have our kids use their lemonade stand money to pay back the bonds. Problem solved!

  54. 54.

    Shawn in ShowMe

    If you want to know the inner workings of sausage making, ask a sausage maker. This is from an interview with Rep. Andrews in late September:

    Linkie

    …
    Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), asserted that the House’s health bill would include the public option, but would need the procedural maneuver to get it through the Senate.
    …
    “I don’t think so,” Andrews said during an interview on CNBC when asked if a bill containing the public option could pass the Senate. “I don’t think there are 60 votes for that in the Senate. But that’s why we have a conference, and a lot of things get hammered out there.”
    …
    Andrews predicted that the preliminary Senate bill would not include the public (or “government-run”) option coming into conference, but predicted “some accommodation” between the two chambers’ versions of health legislation coming out of conference.
    …

    So now the real fight begins.

  55. 55.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @BruceFromOhio:
    __

    If you’re not fit to lead because you are batshit crazy or incapable of holding yourself upright, then you’re not fit to lead.

    What does that even mean, if you’re not fit to lead then you’re not fit to lead? Tautology, much?

    @Punchy:
    __

    DKos is exploding in rage right now.

    This is news? The GOS has been exploding in rage for a long time; the rage is just directed at the particular target de jour until the next thing to be angry about comes along. The song’s the same as that at RedState, only the words are different.

    @General Winfield Stuck: this.

    @valdivia: And this.

    @jwb: Also,

  56. 56.

    Davis X. Machina

    The public option turned into an empty shibboleth four months ago and anyone who’s still treating it as a make-or-break is every bit as guilty of empty, gestural politics as Rep. Stupak.

    The announcement of its death, even if incorrect, has had the salutary effect of revealing who’s just in it for the theater.

  57. 57.

    BruceFromOhio

    @jwb:

    Yup and handing the reins of power to the batshit crazy will teach ‘em alright.

    Oops, uh, no. Allow me to elaborate on if the fuckers can’t muster the wherewithal to do what they were elected to do, then out they go.

    Substitute PRIMARY THE BLUE DOG BITCHEZ for that last bit. I got it made with a liberal Dem rep, a newly-minted liberal Dem senator, and want more of same everywhere possible, particularly here in the Buckeye.

    And let it all fall down favors abandoning this pursuit of bipartisanship happiness and running to the right to please … whoever the hell it pleases. It ain’t working. Time to try something different. Now, please.

    I stand by the NASTY comment, however.

  58. 58.

    Brian J

    @Punchy:

    Assuming what we’ve been hearing is true, which far from clear, we’d see the public option dropped in favor of (a) allowing people to buy into something similar to the health plan for federal employees and (b) allowing those 55 and up to buy into Medicare. So it’s different from the public option in a lot of ways, but it’s not as if nothing is being given in return.

    The details obviously matter, but in my mind, this is a pretty sweet deal. Perhaps a public option open to a greater range of ages would be great, but people know and like Medicare, so you wouldn’t have to get them to like a whole new public option. And maybe, if we’re lucky, the tanks won’t start rolling through the streets when people who between 55-64 sign up for Medicare, so they’ll be more pressure to expand the program to everyone.

  59. 59.

    meh

    @Midnight Maurauder

    Why bother? 40% of this country thinks that a public option is soviet style gulag medicine, 20% thinks obama is from Kenya – fuck it man. 2 out 5 take their marching orders from glenn beck and the wasilla hillbilly. harry reid is a gutless turd and even the progressive caucus in the senate caved. Is this place even worth saving anymore?

  61. 61.

    ellaesther

    @valdivia: Thank you! They’re 10 and 6 now, and still dang cute — and we all crack each other the hell up, all the time, so there is also still a lot of smiling! But nothing beats a baby, what can I say.

    I say: Scour the webz! You are likely to find much cute. And I wish upon you whatever cute you wish you had in your life.

  65. 65.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @El Cid: Are you up to date on the new series? I saw the first one a couple of weeks ago, but haven’t watched the last two yet. I thought this season started out with a bang: loved the drive through Romania.

  66. 66.

    valdivia

    ok here is a summary but we actually are not 100% sure this is what it really is in the bill. It seems to me that the trigger is stronger than anyone thought as it is not about time periods but about private insurance companies actually stepping up. But I do not know. Again, waiting on Ezra.

  67. 67.

    valdivia

    @ellaesther:

    I say: Scour the webz! You are likely to find much cute. And I wish upon you whatever cute you wish you had in your life.

    Thanks ella! working on getting that cute into my life. cats do it for me in the meantime and there is tons of that to partake in on the interwebs.

  68. 68.

    jwb

    @BruceFromOhio: Well if you can primary the blue dogs and the primary winners can beat the goopers, then I’m all for it (and I’ve been making my contributions). If you want to hit the streets and protest, I’m all over that as well. Just don’t let me hear you say that it’s just as well we had a gooper in as these Dems, because that is patently false. I certainly think the Dems could be playing much better politics than they are, but at this point I’m still much happier having the Dems messing up than having the goopers in charge.

  69. 69.

    Brick Oven Bill

    As my co-worker drove me to the social establishment after our shift, there the Focus was in the snow-bank, beside the drive-through window. We both looked at it. I again was melancholy. It sucks not having a car.

    The next morning, after an evening away from home, my friend at the auto-repair-place said to jumper-cable the Focus and run it for a long time, and then get back to him with my observations. But the hood of my Focus was seized shut by the ice! I kicked the hood repeatedly with my heel, but the problem was with a frozen locking mechanism. No jumping in this condition.

    The McDonalds lady was very nice and offered me free coffee refills. What this Focus needed was an internal heating device. I thought:

    ‘Hey, I am a heating device.’ And then sat in my Focus with a butane lighter and a cup of coffee. And after a long time, the ice on the windows started to melt. This was a result of:

    1. Me (biological existence releasing body heat);
    2. My butane lighter (fossil fuels);
    3. My coffee refills (stored thermal energy);
    4. And the rising sun (Alpha, Beta, neutron, and photon energy being absorbed by mostly dark areas of the car, exciting the atoms, creating increased friction and resulting warmth).

    I learned today that a car with a four cylinder engine cannot effectively charge batteries when idling, but full charge can only be achieved at an RPM of over 2000. This takes between 20 and 60 minutes, so I was told. In any case, 45 minutes of revving was enough battery-energy to get my car to the auto-repair-place.

    The whole engine compartment was stuffed with snow, which caused a belt to fail. There was thus no energy input to the fucking alternator and my Focus died at McDonalds. This is because of global warming. Tonight it is again sub-zero.

  70. 70.

    meh

    reminds me of the movie Moon Over Parador with Richard Dreyfus – vote for your “red” dictator or the “blue” dictator…

    At the same time the film pokes fun at the democratic process with the use of rigged elections, the “red” and “blue” party, which are actually just different colored posters with the same names of candidates written on them.

    this is all about getting anything, ANYTHING that this administration can call a win so that when they campaign, they campaign as “The Govt That Brought You Health Care Reform…sponsored by Novartis”. Irregardless of the fact that nothing is changed.

    Here drink this dirty water…I know it looks dirty, but really we cleaned it out for you. No that’s not grit, that super happy juice molecules…go on, drink up.

  72. 72.

    Comrade Mary

    I need some distraction.

    I’ve been playing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could play it for another twenty five minutes. I’m not proud … or tired.

    So we’ll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part harmony and feeling.

    We’re just waitin’ for it to come around is what we’re doing.

    All right now.

    Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah-ah!
    Roma-roma-maa!
    Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!
    Want your bad romance

  73. 73.

    Et Tu Brutus?

    Sorry Kids, there is no Santa, Easter Bunny, or even a tooth fairy- and not much, if any daylight between the rethugs and the dimocrats in anyway that might truly matter. HCR will be a big wet kiss for the Health Care and Pharma industry, while ole’ Johnny and Jane taxpayer will get a rectal exam sans the KY. Well gotta go now, Charlie Brown’s Xmas special is on the TeeVee ( makes a shitload more sense than anything I see in the news or blogs).

  74. 74.

    ellaesther

    @Comrade Mary: Not… entirely sure what to make of a verbal Arlo Guthrie/Lady Gaga mashup.

    I’m just sittin’ here on the bench, I meeaaannn, I’m just sittin’ here on the Group W bench, and you wanna know if I’m Lady Gaga enough to play music and wear bubbles?

  75. 75.

    Eric S

    @Punchy:

    In better news, it FINALLY snowed here.

    Do I recall correctly that you are a fellow Chicagoan? That dusting of snow we got yesterday was pretty and all but tomorrow is going to be The Suck!

  76. 76.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    Brick Oven Bill

    This is because of global warming. Tonight it is again sub-zero.

    Sniff… sniff… I feel sorry for ya… no… I really… why should such an UNFAIR thing happen to YOU?

  77. 77.

    Comrade Mary

    @ellaesther: I love it when other people are in the sweet spot to get both references. I … I feel like less of a freak now.

    Of course, I’m in a somewhat better mood in this thread than in the Palin/Kaplan thread, where I was all “Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL.” And I started jumpin up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL,” and he started jumpin’ up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, “KILL, KILL.” And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, “You’re our boy.”

    Didn’t feel too good about it.

  79. 79.

    Comrade Mary

    Forgive me for spamming two threads with this update:

    TPM offers this lowdown on the deal from an unamed aide.

    If this trade-off carries the day, the opt out public option is gone.
    __
    In its place will be many of the alternatives we’ve been hearing about, including a Medicare expansion and a triggered, federally-based public option, the aide said.
    __
    As has been widely reported, one of the trade-offs will be to extend a version of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan to consumers in the exchanges. Insurance companies will have the option of creating nationally-based non-profit insurance plans that would offered on the exchanges in every state. However, according to the aide, if insurance companies don’t step up to the plate to offer such plans, that will trigger a national public option.
    __
    Beyond that, the group agreed–contingent upon CBO analysis–to a Medicare buy in.
    __
    That buy-in option would initially be made available to uninsured people aged 55-64 in 2011, three years before the exchanges open. For the period between 2011 and 2014, when the exchanges do open, the Medicare option will not be subsidized–people will have to pay in without federal premium assistance–and so will likely be quite expensive, the aide noted. However, after the exchanges launch, the Medicare option would be offered in the exchanges, where people could pay into it with their subsidies.
    __
    It appears as if liberals lost out on a Medicaid expansion that would have opened the program up to everybody under 150 percent of the poverty line. That ceiling will likely remain at 133 percent, as is called for in the current bill.
    __
    In addition to the new insurance options, the group has tentatively agreed to new, and strengthened, insurance regulations, which the aide could not divulge at this time.

  80. 80.

    maus

    The Senate majority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, said Senate leaders “have a broad agreement” on dropping a government-run plan from the health care bill, and that the Congressional Budget Office would review the implications of such a move on the budget.

    Fucking primary Reid. I don’t care if we can’t get the votes, it’s his fault that we didn’t get the votes, and that he didn’t have the strategy until the last moment.

    It’s like the kid who slacks throughout class, does no homework, barely shows up, and crams like fuck for the final.

  81. 81.

    Aaron

    Holy crap,

    I always thought Conservapedia HAD to be satirical . . . apparently not. Colbert had the founder on tonight and I think it is physically impossible for the Schlafly fellow to be any more idiotic.

  82. 82.

    Aaron

    Oh, and he is doing the whole Conservative Bible thing, too.

    Wow, if there was a god, this guy would get killed by a meteor or some terrible penile fungus.

  83. 83.

    minachica

    @Aaron: He (Schlafly) actually said (paraphrased):
    “The parables of Jesus were mostly free-market parables.”
    I threw up a little in my mouth at that. (Finlandia)
    +3

  86. 86.

    Aaron

    @minachica:

    Yeah, that was some sort of craziness there. I guess free-market-colored glasses makes Friedman/Hayek the prophets profits of prosperity theology.

    So the real question is, are they liars, idiots, and/or cultists?

  87. 87.

    Midnight Marauder

    @maus:

    Fucking primary Reid. I don’t care if we can’t get the votes, it’s his fault that we didn’t get the votes, and that he didn’t have the strategy until the last moment.
    __
    It’s like the kid who slacks throughout class, does no homework, barely shows up, and crams like fuck for the fin

    I really, really want to see that son of a bitch go down**1. Honestly, I don’t know what else would see a message to the entire Democratic establishment and the Village**2 that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND THAT WE HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKIN’ SNAKES COWARDS IN THIS MOTHERFUCKIN’ PLANE SENATE!

    **1 This is all, obviously, based on the assumption that HCR–win, lose, or draw–will still result in more daily episodes in the perpetual gamesmanship of failure that is Harry Reid’s political career. Should he, for whatever unforeseeable reasons, “pull this thing out,” this will need to be re-evaluated. Maybe.

    **2 One can dream, right? +6

    Edit: Wow. Who knew using asterisks could be so intense? Last time I try and get fancy.

  89. 89.

    Yutsano

    @Mark: I’d say with a rusty pitchfork, but that would be an awful waste of a pitchfork. Since I’d have to destroy the poor thing afterward.

  90. 90.

    minachica

    @Aaron: Good question. In general, I’d say “cynical and greedy”. But Andy Schlafly has freaky eyes just like Doug Hoffman, so I’m thinking “profitably insane.”

  91. 91.

    parksideq

    Has anyone seen Rachel Maddow’s epic takedown of the myth of turning gays straight?

    Now, if only we could get her to thwack every conservative Senator (this includes Nelson, Lieberman, etc.) in the same manner with regard to healthcare reform…

    Apologies for my horrible grammar, but I ought to be asleep already.

  95. 95.

    YankeeApologist

    @Midnight Marauder:

    It’s not like Harry Reid is the only ineffectual Democratic leader to cross our paths in the last . . .I don’t know . . .fifteen years or so.

    I think it’s seriously past time that we drop the whole “holier than thou” bit and get as mean as the Rove/Cheney/Palin’s of the world. . . .

    Then again, I’m +6.

  97. 97.

    Darkrose

    I am not thinking about what an asshole Bart Stupak is, or how sick I am of the Democrats being spineless, or how much I hope Caribou Barbie gets stuck in a snowdrift.

    No, I’m going to fire up Aion and beat the crap out of a few ambulatory mushrooms and badgerbears, and I’m going to happily digest the awesome soup of great awesomeness (potato leek with bacon) that my wife made and that was just perfect for a night that’s cold enough for me to have to wear a hat.

  98. 98.

    NobodySpecial

    Peter Gammons leaving the Eastcoast SPorts Network?

    What next?

    Who have they got in the bullpen to repeatedly fellate the Yankees and Red Sox?

  99. 99.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    Wow. I’ve had a comment in moderation since 10:32 last night. I must have been a very bad boy, indeed.

  100. 100.

    BruceFromOhio

    @jwb:

    Just don’t let me hear you say that it’s just as well we had a gooper in as these Dems, because that is patently false.

    Did you hear me say that? Let me clarify – I have no use for Republicans now, ever, forever more. You put an R next to your name on the ballot, you may as well jump off the nearest bridge. I don’t give a damn if you piss wine and gold coins fall out of your ass. You call yourself a Republican in 21st Century America, you lose me forever.

    I certainly think the Dems could be playing much better politics than they are, but at this point I’m still much happier having the Dems messing up than having the goopers in charge.

    And that’s what I meant by “if you can’t…”: I want Dems that can play full-court press hardball with these morons. I also want a pony that makes martinis and rubs my feet. So my standards may need some realignment in the short term.

    Thanks for the whetstone, its helpful.

  101. 101.

    chopper

    @RedKitten:

    nice. i’ve had one such day this year, away from the wife and baby (who’s just approaching 1 year!).

    so i drove out to a vintage scooter rally, got drunk and i think set something on fire. good times.

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