Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The revolution will be supervised.

In my day, never was longer.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

The words do not have to be perfect.

So many bastards, so little time.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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

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

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

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  1. 1.

    Cat Lady

    I’ve stopped paying attention to anything news related on my teevee. If he’s not punching back at Cheney or Demint then he can die in a pants fire too.

  2. 2.

    demkat620

    My comment about that is why I am in moderation.

    I loved it. About time somebody called that assclown out.

  5. 5.

    demkat620

    @Violet: Oh it was soooo good. He told Schultz if Cheney would only debate him on FoxNews he would me him on his home court. It. Was. Schweet.

  6. 6.

    smiley

    Cheeney is a coward. A very rich one. And that was his only goal. He’s a republican.

    /some literary-style reference that I don’t remember.

  9. 9.

    Mike Kay

    Meanwhile, watching CNN last night I noticed media whores Larry King, and perhaps the biggest media whore, ever, Anderson Cooper were on vacation.

    Now, can you imagine if Lindsey Lohan had committed suicide, would they have remained on vacation? No.

    That just shows you how no body is tuning in. No eye balls = no Anderson.

  10. 10.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Cat Lady:

    Same here. I will check the headlines to see if anything new has happened overnight. But watching the food fights and meme wanking is like hitting yourself repeatedly with a stupid stick/ I will watch congress when they come back, because that is where news is really made. But the bobbleheads can bobble themselves without me to suffer thru it.

  12. 12.

    beltane

    NPR, while pointing out all the “finger pointing” in the underwear bomber case, managed to point a pretty big finger at Jim DeMint. Let the New Year be heralded in with some truth for once.

  14. 14.

    Violet

    @demkat620:
    That’s excellent. Cheney is a serious coward. Along with all those fear-mongering Republicans. They want everyone cowering all the time.

  16. 16.

    danimal

    @Violet:

    Calling the Republicans cowards should be standard MO for the Dems

    Agreed, with the caveat that there should always be a bedwetting reference thrown in as well.

  17. 17.

    Cat Lady

    @demkat620:

    Well, a Dem is on Ed Schultz’s barely watched show calling out Dick “6 deferments” Cheney, who IS a fucking coward, a fact established long ago. BFD. What will make anything different?

    Everyone knows anyone appearing on MSNBC is a lying libtard.

    /howie kurtz

  19. 19.

    Eric U.

    I’m watching two football teams from schools that shouldn’t have football teams play on a blue carpet. Cheney can go Cheney himself as far as I care.

  20. 20.

    burnspbesq

    I gave money to Massa’ campaign through ActBlue.

    This is the return on my investment that I had in mind.

  21. 21.

    AhabTRuler

    Cheeney is a coward. A very rich one. And that was his only goal. He’s a republican.

    Let’s be clear: he wasn’t very rich until late in his life. As Wikipedia states:

    Cheney’s net worth, estimated to be between $30 million and $100 million, is largely derived from his post at Halliburton, as well as the Cheneys’ gross income of nearly $8.82 million.

    Prior to that he had worked in various appointed and elected government positions, which ain’t no way to get rich.
    Cheney got into the political arena for the power.

  22. 22.

    r€nato

    Dick Cheney passed up five opportunities – FIVE – to fight for his country.

    If this were a decent nation, he should not be able to appear in public without being pelted with tomatoes, eggs, large stones, and any other handy object that’s not bolted down.

  27. 27.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @AhabTRuler:
    While it wouldn’t be technically “rich,” as in $30 million rich, he was a Rep., and likely had a large warchest, and the sec. def salary is nothing to sneeze at.

  28. 28.

    Mike Kay

    I can’t believe Massa and Schultz are wasting their time attacking cheney when they could be attacking obama for failing to repeal the federal christmas holiday, which is nothing more than a betray of his promise to keep church and state separated and a sellout to his Big Christmas masters on wall street.

  35. 35.

    Tomlinson

    OK, so I’m watching Tweety, and Cheney’s ex-chief of staff is on, whining that Obama isn’t “showing enough emotion” and is acting like “Dr Spock.”

    I think my head may explode.

    What do these people want, a fucking bedtime lullaby from Obama?

    P.S. Oh, now it’s because this happened on Christmas! And Obama didn’t come out to comfort us on Christmas, that most holy of Christian days!

    Please.

  36. 36.

    Mike Kay

    @Tomlinson:

    OK, so I’m watching Tweety, and Cheney’s ex-chief of staff is on, whining that Obama isn’t “showing enough emotion” and is acting like “Dr Spock.”

    That’s funny, considering how emotionless cheney is/was.

  37. 37.

    Mike Kay

    @Seebach:

    Can someone bump off Maureen Down, too?

    She’s STILL alive? I thought continued Botox use was lethal? Anyways, where does she work these days?

  39. 39.

    Tom

    And Matthews and Joan Walsh smacked down that Cheney toady on Hardball. Walsh had a rant on there that needs to be looped on its own Web page for quick reference. It was brilliant.

  40. 40.

    Betsy

    @Tomlinson:

    Cheney’s ex-chief of staff is on, whining that Obama isn’t “showing enough emotion” and is acting like “Dr Spock.” making it easy for us to mock him as a scaredy-cat, unlike us brave republicans

    Fixed it for ya.

  41. 41.

    beltane

    @Seebach: Please, please, no violence. Just put MoDo behind the firewall where she belongs, and have her take Douthat, Brooks, and Friedman with her. I don’t even mind if they have fancy caterers bringing them food and wine, just as long as they’re behind that firewall.

  42. 42.

    Tom

    @Tomlinson

    That was pathetic. He literally said (with some help from Tweety) that Obama wasn’t showing the “right” emotion. It’s like they’re a collection of psycho girlfriends who freak out because they don’t think their boyfriend says “i love you” with the right sincerity.

  44. 44.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    I am late to the blog (and of course all of the threads) so I shall be brief.

    Sully is a fucking idiot, he, like I lived through the terrorism of the IRA and he knows damn well what it is like, you don’t fire a cabinet head because someone wearing an explosive nappy manages to get on a plane in a country in which you have no fucking control over security. He manages to piss me off on a level that makes me ashamed to be a Brit.

    Today there was “a van” in Times Square, it was “suspicious” I was delighted to see that it was quickly surrounded and Times Square was evacuated. This is terrorism people, not a spectacular event that kills hundreds, you kill one at a time, that instills fear.

    The fucking republicans are a bunch of pants wetting pussies, I mean really I thought the US of A was the biggest baddest son of a bitch on the block, what is with all the “we issssssss skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd” shit?

  45. 45.

    Tomlinson

    Um, hey, Tweety?

    Did you just say that it is insane that there is no train between Washington D.C. and New York. With a straight (albeit deeply concerned) face?

    What.the.fuck?

    Yeah, it’s insane alrighty.

  46. 46.

    Tomlinson

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I mean really I thought the US of A was the biggest baddest son of a bitch on the block, what is with all the “we issssssss skeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerd” shit?

    See above. The Republicans just want to make sure we’re in touch with our softer sides.

  47. 47.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @r€nato:

    How do we cut off his supply of freshly-killed infant blood?

    It won’t do any good. He’ll just move on to puppies.

    (Think Renfield from Dracula…)

  48. 48.

    beltane

    @Tomlinson: There’s no train between New York and Washington? But I’ve been on that train. Or I thought I’ve been on that train. Am I losing my mind or is Tweety an idiot?

  49. 49.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    @Tomlinson: So to recap. Within the past 24 hours:

    A dipshit repeats dipshitty older comment about Hawaii seeming all exotic and weird.

    Another dipshit repeats dipshitty new comment about the Admin. needing to show more emotion.

    Can there be any question that we’re rushing towards the WEH?

    (No.)

    It’s like they’re a collection of psycho girlfriends who freak out because they don’t think their boyfriend says “i love you” with the right sincerity.

    Or soldiers in the War for Christmas freaking out because the cashier doesn’t say Merry Christmas like she really means it and there isn’t any wrapping paper with Baby Jesuses on it and the music system is only playing non-Jesus specific Christmas Muzak!

  54. 54.

    Rey

    @Tomlinson & beltane

    Tweety is an idiot.

    I live in Tennessee and even I know there is a train between DC to New York. If anyone has ever had a conversation with anybody from NY or DC knows that the train takes 1-2 hours tops.

  55. 55.

    Cat Lady

    I love how Dick “dick” Cheney pops his head out between Lynn and Liz’s fat asses, snarls at Obama, then retreats behind their skirts. He has to hunt on a stocked game farm, then shoots a man point blank. He only talks to Fox. He let Scooter take the fall. He hides in an undisclosed location for 8 years. He profits from wars he promoted while he had “other priorities” during Vietnam. He had to have Bush sit with him to testify to the 9/11 Commission. He ok’d secret hit squads so he wouldn’t get his soft pink hands dirty. What a man.

    You’d think there would be some enterprising reporters who would like to revisit some of those events. You’d think wrong.

  56. 56.

    Nick

    Ed asked Eric Massa who no one was talking like him…the answer to that question is that Ed (whom I not a big fan of btw) is one of the few people who let them.

    When the last time you’ve seen Eric Massa on Meet the Press? Yep, exactly.

  57. 57.

    Mike Kay

    @Tomlinson:

    Did you just say that it is insane that there is no train between Washington D.C. and New York. With a straight (albeit deeply concerned) face?

    Maybe he meant lear-jet-taxi.

  58. 58.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Tomlinson: My boss and I discussed this this morning and the basic result was “Americans are fucking pussies” I mean really, you get your pants in a knot because a person can’t adequately explode his under pants on a plane? If this was a Monty Python sketch I would say that it was unbelievable.

  60. 60.

    demimondian

    @Tomlinson: The best part of all this? Christmas is actually a very minor Holy Day. (No, seriously, folks, baby Jeebus and all that…I mean, I loves me some Midnight Mass as much as the next -religious nutcase- devout person, but, um, yeah… Clue? Christmas is really unimportant. It’s what FOLLOWED that mattered.)

  61. 61.

    AhabTRuler

    If anyone has ever had a conversation with anybody from NY or DC knows that the train takes 1-2 hours tops.

    The regular train takes ~3.5 hrs, while the Acela takes ~3 hrs. Ooooooh! High-speed!

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @litlebritdifrnt: YES, that!! Good catch! This entire episode has been Pythonesque. (Bonus: if the Bloomer Boomer Bomber did the kind of damage to himself that I think hope he did, he’s a shoo-in for a job in the Ministry of Silly Walks.)

  63. 63.

    Mike in NC

    He’ll just move on to puppies. (Think Renfield from Dracula…)

    I can totally picture Dick Cheney sucking the life juices out of rats and cockroaches for nourishment. There had to be a reason he liked those underground bunkers.

  64. 64.

    Tomlinson

    @Mike in NC:

    I can totally picture Dick Cheney sucking the life juices out of rats and cockroaches for nourishment. There had to be a reason he liked those underground bunkers.

    I always sort of figured that he emerged from the bunkers only at night, to feed.

  65. 65.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Tomlinson:

    I always sort of figured that he emerged from the bunkers only at night, to feed.

    Dick Cheney feeds upon the nectar of death.

  66. 66.

    RedKitten

    OK, so I’m watching Tweety, and Cheney’s ex-chief of staff is on, whining that Obama isn’t “showing enough emotion” and is acting like “Dr Spock.”

    Well, Obama HAS to act like Dr. Spock, what with all of the whiny-ass-titty-babies surrounding him.

  68. 68.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @Cat Lady:

    He had to have Bush sit with him to testify to the 9/11 Commission.

    Rumor has it they were holding each other’s hand under the table… for support, mind you…

  69. 69.

    Anne Laurie

    @beltane:

    The discussion regarding Sully’s obsession with Napolitano and other women was held this morning. It is one of his more unpleasant quirks.

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    His Palin panty sniffing was more creepy than quirk, Imo/

    Anybody bring up the classic politically-incorrect 1970s tee shirt “You don’t have to hate women to be gay, but it can’t hurt” ?

  70. 70.

    Anne Laurie

    @demimondian:

    The best part of all this? Christmas is actually a very minor Holy Day. (No, seriously, folks, baby Jeebus and all that…I mean, I loves me some Midnight Mass as much as the next religious nutcase devout person, but, um, yeah… Clue? Christmas is really unimportant. It’s what FOLLOWED that mattered.)

    The historical re-enactors at sites like Old Sturbridge Village and Plimouth Plantation are always running into trouble with aggrieved tourists who don’t believe that Amurka’s Founding Fathers(tm) didn’t send out Christmas cards or decorate trees, preferrably with Jeebus-heavy references. Even during the Civil War, imitating the trendy European fads for splashy gift-giving was considered rather noveau, and of course the “saintly” Puritans actually punished any heathen attempting to “celebrate” that very minor Holy Day (such celebrations being considered Papist, and worse, non-British). It’s not quite Adam-on-a-dinosaur level of stupid, because people who pay to visit historical sites have some concept of actual ‘history’, but their inability to buy replicas of George Washington’s tree ornaments or Thomas Jefferson’s favorite ugly Xmas sweater remains a persistent irritant.

  71. 71.

    SteveinSC

    @Litlebritdifrnt: While I don’t like the tone of your post, nevertheless, I will have to say that in my part of the country, where there are more guns than shoes, it never ceases to amaze me that the rednecks and their masters, e.g. DeMint and the Lady Lindsay, are afraid of a few “wrag heads” The mother fuckers around here are letting their white republican baby daddies make them out to be cowards. Cowards! Them’s fightin’ words there, bud! And as a redneck once told me the only thing he liked more than fuckin’ was fightin’. So we have the hilarious spectacle of the huntin’, fuckin’, fightin’, good old boys hiding under their beds from camel fuckin’ A-rabs.

  72. 72.

    Darryl

    Too bad Dems don’t have the message discipline of the GOP. 15 dem commentators saying, all week on TV, “Dick Cheney is a coward” would really work wonders…

  74. 74.

    Liberty60

    @Darryl:
    Exactly-
    As a former Repub, I think the Dems need to get their act together, and work on message discipline, party discipline, and go for the attack.

    People like Grayson, Franken and now Massey are sorely needed.
    Cool wonkery might be fine for Harvard School of Government debates, but in politics you need to be able to go for the throat.

  75. 75.

    Steaming Pile

    @Cat Lady: Well, that’s because (1) unlike Fox News, not all cable subscribers get MSNBC, and (2) most people are watching the freakshow that is Glenn Beck.

  76. 76.

    Darryl

    “December 30th, 2009 at 11:48 pm Reply to this comment

    Liberty60

    @Darryl:
    Exactly-
    As a former Repub, I think the Dems need to get their act together, and work on message discipline, party discipline, and go for the attack.”

    Back when i used to bother to watch cable news, it was astonishing. Something would happen on thursday. I’d hear Rove or somebody put out a smear phrase about it on Friday. Late Friday, then Saturday, Sunday, and into next week, I’d hear no fewer than a dozen conservatives repeat the smear phrase everywhere from Hardball to Meet the Press. The repitition was amazing, and effective.

    When everybody’s pulling in the same direction, it adds up.

  78. 78.

    MelodyMaker

    doesn’t this president still rule the D party? I remember it being a big deal when he secured the nomination. Pulling Lieberman by the hand from the Senate cameras. That was cool.

  79. 79.

    DZ

    @Liberty60:

    I agree with your post in general, but the Democratic Party has long been a weird coalition of people with fundamentally incompatible views. On what basis do liberals/lefties craft a common message with DLC scumbags? How can there be party discipline when we don’t agree on anything? About all we really have is to say that we think we’re an improvement over the GOP whackjobs but we can’t tell you how because we don’t agree on anything.

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