Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

The willow is too close to the house.

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

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

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

Their shamelessness is their super power.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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Green Shoots, Justice Division?

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According to the NYT City Room blog:

A federal judge on Tuesday revoked bail for Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York police commissioner who is facing conspiracy and fraud charges. Judge Stephen C. Robinson of Federal District Court in White Plains said Mr. Kerik could not be trusted to honor the consent order that prohibits any involved party from revealing confidential information pertinent to the coming trial…

Before revoking the bail of Mr. Kerik, Judge Robinson described him as a “toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance, and I fear that combination leads him to believe his ends justify his means.”

“He sees the court’s rulings as an inconvenience,” Judge Robinson said, “something to be ignored, and an obstacle to be circumvented.”

Of course, this is no doubt good news for President McCain, but is it also good news for Governor Guiliani?

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Looking Out for the Little Guy

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Way to be, Max:

Fewer middle-income families would qualify for tax credits to purchase health insurance, under a little-noticed change to the Senate Finance Committee health bill made just before the markup began in late September.

Under the bill, eligible individuals and families with annual incomes of between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty line would receive tax credits to cover the cost of insurance purchased through state exchanges. As part of a package of managers’ modifications, Finance Chairman Max Baucus changed the definition of income from “modified adjusted gross income,” or AGI plus investment interest, to simply “modified gross income.”

That is a departure from the way all other federal tax credits are calculated, and it means when determining eligibility for the credit, the IRS would have to disregard a household’s usual above-the-line deductions, such as for individual retirement account contributions and college tuition.

It really is awesome how these guys think- make everything more complicated, save very little, and screw the folks who need the help while mandating they buy insurance. About the only thing missing is mandating they give up their first born. Well played, President Baucus!

There seriously are days I think half the Democrats in the Senate are Republican moles.

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Killing People is Expensive

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And yet another study pointing out what we all already know:

At 678, California has the nation’s largest death row population, yet the state has not executed anyone in four years.

But it spends more than $130 million a year on its capital punishment system — housing and prosecuting inmates and coping with an appellate system that has kept some convicted killers waiting for an execution date since the late 1970s.

This is according to a new report that concludes that states are wasting millions on an inefficient death penalty system, diverting scarce funds from other anti-crime and law enforcement programs.

“Thirty-five states still retain the death penalty, but fewer and fewer executions are taking place every year,” said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. “But the overall death row population has remained relatively steady. At a time of budget shortfalls nationwide, the death penalty is turning into an expensive form of life without parole.”

I just don’t think the folks at the Death Penalty Information Center understand how important it is to some people to be allowed to kill. It is such a priority in manly Texas that sometimes they kill innocent people for the hell of it.

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It’s Called Common Sense, McCormack

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When wingnuts attack:

I spotted Scozzafava later as she was walking to the parking lot, and asked her: ” Assemblywoman, do you believe that the health-care bill should exclude coverage for abortion?” She didn’t reply. I asked her twice more. Silence.

After she got into her car, I went to my car and fired up my laptop to report the evening’s events.

Minutes later a police car drove into the parking lot with its lights flashing. Officer Grolman informed me that she was called because “there was a little bit of an uncomfortable situation” and then took down my name, date of birth, and address.

“Maybe we do things a little differently here, but you know, persistence in that area, you scared the candidate a little bit,” Officer Grolman told me.

“[Scozzafava] got startled, that’s all,” Officer Grolman added. “It’s not like you’re in any trouble.”

But is that really what happened? Not according to a Scozzafava aide who wrote Ben Smith:

Agree or not with Dede Scozzafava’s positions, she should still be afforded a basic level of respect. Asking tough questions is one thing, but acting like John McCormack did tonight shows a complete lack of decency. This self-described reporter repeatedly screamed questions while our candidate was doing what she is supposed to be doing: speaking with voters (remember, those who will decide this election?). And then this “reporter” followed the candidate to her car, continuing to carry on in a manner that would make the National Enquirer blush. That’s the truth, but maybe that doesn’t matter to your readers.

These morons spent the whole summer fighting for the right to pack heat at political events, and then are surprised that when you chase a politician screaming at them to their car, they might call the cops. I’m not surprised McCormack, who apparently was hired by the Weekly Standard to make Goldfarb look smart by comparison, wouldn’t understand that. But for the rest of us, we call that self-preservation and common sense.

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