Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

Be a wild strawberry.

We will not go back.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

When I was faster i was always behind.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

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Village verdict on health care reform

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I thought it would be deficit scare-mongering, but it’s actually teh bipartisanship. Gergen (via Digby):

In my judgment it’s a tragedy for the country to have a bill this important, a historic piece of legislation, pass with only one party voting for it.

Broder tomorrow (no link from me):

But even those Republicans who were initially inclined to do that — and there were at least a handful of them — were turned away by the White House and the Senate Democratic leaders, who never lifted their sights much beyond the Democratic ranks.

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It would help a lot if he reached out personally to those few Republicans who might still want to improve the bill rather than sink it. And it would help even more if he shamed the Democrats into rescinding some of the crasser bargains they made to buy votes along the way.

The country would welcome even a few signs that this legislation has bipartisan support.

It makes sense when you think about it: deficit scare-mongering requires a little bit of number crunching or at least a few google searches.

But you can whine about bipartianship and all the Republicans that would have supported the bill if only Obama had sweet-talked them without even mentioning the name of a single Republican Senator. It’s just easier.

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Freak

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And now for something completely different- ten minutes of the greatest running back of the modern era:

For some reason, I remember a run on a Thanksgiving day game being outstanding, but I can not remember the exact run. And really, the only other argument I would accept is Sweetness.

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And Another Thing

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Another thing that really pisses me off about this jihad against Rahm Emanuel is that the message it implicitly sends is that Obama is not calling the shots- he’s just Rahm’s puppet. That is explicitly a Republican frame- that Obama is weak and an empty suit.

Idiots. We’ve got the Democrats so mad at Republican obstructionism that we actually got 58 and two independents to vote for HCR reform, even bipartisanship fetishists like Evan Bayh are spitting mad, and the left wing of the party ant to do whatever they can to destroy Obama because he hasn’t done everything they want in 11 months.

And you can not convince me that a lot of this isn’t just the same old PUMA bullshit. BTW- has Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild vented about the public option yet?

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Madder than a wet hen

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One of my local Congresspeople just came out against the current Senate health care bill:

Supporters of the weak Senate bill say “just pass it — any bill is better than no bill.”

I strongly disagree — a conference report is unlikely to sufficiently bridge the gap between these two very different bills.

It’s time that we draw the line on this weak bill and ask the Senate to go back to the drawing board. The American people deserve at least that.

This is Louise Slaughter, chair of the Rules Committee, which makes her the number 5 or 6 person in the House.

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I Don’t Understand

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How could this be:

Rebuffed this month by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.

As a result, officials now believe that they are unlikely to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and transfer its population of terrorism suspects until 2011 at the earliest — a far slower timeline for achieving one of President Obama’s signature national security policies than they had previously hinted.

While Mr. Obama has acknowledged that he would miss the Jan. 22 deadline for closing the prison that he set shortly after taking office, the administration appeared to take a major step forward last week when he directed subordinates to move “as expeditiously as possible” to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center, a nearly vacant maximum-security Illinois prison, and to retrofit it to receive Guantánamo detainees.

I’ve been told, repeatedly, that all Obama needs to do is say he wants something, and the House and Senate will give it to him. If only he would use the bully pulpit, I am sure the 90 some Senators who gave him the finger on this issue this summer will turn around and vote the way he wants on what he wants. And if that doesn’t work, there is always reconciliation.

At some point, people are going to realize that the problem is not this administration, but the Senate. There is a reason the House and Senate leadership have not introduced a bill regarding DADT and DOMA. I wonder what it is?

And yes, it is maddening. There is a whole list of things Obama has not done that I would really like for him to do, and many of them are inexcusable and rest wholly on his shoulders.

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