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

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

People are weird.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

When we show up, we win.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

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  1. 1.

    Zifnab

    Bart Stupak and Sarah Palin get to take to the NY Times and the Washington Post to lie through their teeth, while those trying to correct the record are left struggling to get the word out on blogs and any old way they can.

    Those bloggers are so shrill.

    I wonder what Dick Cheney and John McCain think about all this? I can’t wait all the way till Sunday to hear their input.

  3. 3.

    MikeJ

    Capps is over 70 years old. Nobody will want to fuck her! Why should newspapers be cluttered with women that don’t cause starbursts?

  4. 4.

    Zoogz

    It would have been better received if she had Mike, Crow, and Tom provide snarky pop-culture references with all that humdrum policy wonkery.

  5. 5.

    El Cid

    By suggesting that every newspaper not publish each and every Sarah Palin eructation on any subject whatsoever, you are worse than a million Hitlers raised to the power of a billion Pol Pot’s, and I thought libruls were supposed to support free speech and not censor all our thoughts?

  8. 8.

    Noonan

    Fred Hiatt has two rules for his op-ed page: 1) say something that Dick Cheney would approve of and 2) say something that will create controversy. Sarah Palin satisfies both of those qualifications.

  9. 9.

    Bubblegum Tate

    If it didn’t work that way, then surely you would admit that would constitute horrible liberal media bias, right?

  12. 12.

    Tax Analyst

    you are worse than a million Hitlers raised to the power of a billion Pol Pot’s, and I thought libruls were supposed to support free speech and not censor all our thoughts?

    Oh yeah? Well, I’ll call you and raise you a gulag and several Kim Jong II’s.

  13. 13.

    Kryptik

    Like I said, John. We’re at the point where liars and morons are given all the credibility and exposure they can ask for, precisely because they’re liars and morons. Whereas people who know their shit are left to languish because they use fancy words, and thus ‘YOU WERE PAID OFF BY BIG GREEN AND BIG ABORTION! COMMUNIST FUCKERS GET OUT, THIS IS AMERICA!!’

  14. 14.

    geg6

    Nothing the media does surprises me anymore. Darth Cheney was on teevee last night saying the preznit “gives aid and comfort to the enemy.”

    So if saying our president is a traitor, using language straight out of the constitutional definition of treason, is not called out by anyone, then why is anyone surprised that the NYT and the Kaplan Daily give a giant megaphone to idiots like Stupak and Palin?

  15. 15.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    John, if people are well informed and vote for their own best interests there will be less misery in the world and that means less news to report, and the transcriptionists might be forced to go out and find things to write about and they’ll have to do it well because their work will be judged by well informed readers. That could mean less time on the tire swing and newspapers might have to cut advertising space. Plus, leading legal lights like Nancy Grace might have so little to shriek about her show would get cancelled.

    Why do you hate capitalism?

    Oh that’s right; you’re the love child of Hitler, Pol Pot & Lucrezia [sic?] Borgia.

  16. 16.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @geg6:

    Terrific. From the right we get Obama is a traitor soshulist, and from the left a wingnut in waiting.

    Clowns to the right of me and jokers to the left
    And I’m stuck in the middle with you :-)

  18. 18.

    asiangrrlMN

    @GregB: I like this. I second this.

    My bottom line to Stupak is this: If it’s entirely consistent with the Hyde Amendment and does not further restrict abortions, then why the fuck does it need to be added? Every single fucking member of the media should be asking him this. Every time he opens his fat yap to talk about his amendment, someone should ask, “Rep. Stupak, why are you wasting taxpayers’ time and money with this amendment if it doesn’t do anything that the Hyde Amendment doesn’t already cover?” Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

    Pangloss FTW (right above me).

  20. 20.

    Xanthippas

    It would be a lot easier to support some of these Democrat’s “principled” stands on issues like these, if they didn’t lie through their goddamned teeth.

  23. 23.

    mds

    (via Amanda Marcotte)

    Holy shit. Cole’s journey to the Dark Side is complete.

    Terrific. From the right we get Obama is a traitor soshulist, and from the left a wingnut in waiting.

    Based on data points such as Afghanistan, Larry Summers, health care reform, assertion of state secrets privilege, etc, etc, the latter is a smidgen closer to true than the former, and demonstrates just how far the center has shifted. As you are no doubt aware, “If both sides are pissed, I must be doing something right” is known in philosophy circles as the Third Broderian Fallacy.

  24. 24.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Bart Stupak and Sarah Palin get to take to the NY Times and the Washington Post to lie through their teeth, while those trying to correct the record are left struggling to get the word out on blogs and any old way they can.

    Which means that people trying to correct the record are better off now than they were pre-Web. It still sucks, but samizdat ain’t what it used to be.

  27. 27.

    The Raven

    The case was defended on the squarest, most idealistic, and most foolish level imaginable, and on the other side the dirt was so filthy that the defense refused to believe it existed, or, as in my case and probably in others, actually believed it.–Kenneth Rexroth, An Autobiographical Novel, p. 199. The events described apparently took place, if at all, in 1924.

  29. 29.

    Montana

    I cannot believe any of you are putting Sarah Palin down. She is the most known woman republican ever. She almost made it to the White House, but now all she is trying to do is put food on the table, you think her husband can keep up with the lifestyle to which she has become accustomed.

    And so what if she took two different planes back to Alaska from Dallas, Texas when she was in labor with Trig. I mean so what if Alaska Airlines spokesman said that they were not aware that she was in labor.

    She is not a quitter, she is reloading, so watch out she will be your President, like it or not.

  30. 30.

    catclub

    mds @ 23

    I like that.

    Is the First Broderian Fallacy “Sure a land war in Asia
    is a great idea, two if possible.” ?

  31. 31.

    mds

    Is the First Broderian Fallacy “Sure a land war in Asia
    is a great idea, two if possible.” ?

    Basically, yes. The Second is “Always seek bipartisanship with a Republican when death is on the line.”

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