Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

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

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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

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

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

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

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One Day, Everything Will Be Socialist

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Rep. Steve King, one of the craziest of the crazy, explains to us how gay marriage is a socialist plot:

So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there’s a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation. They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that’s the direction we’re going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.

A couple of quick questions:

1.) Does this mean marriage is socialism?

2.) You know what actually is the most socialist thing in the state of Iowa? Farm subsidies. I wonder what Rep. King thinks about them?

3.) He spewed this gibberish on WorldNetDaily. Looks like that boycott of WND is really paying dividends. Will the folks at the Next Right show they are serious and work to primary King?

It is worth repeating- until recently, this is the type of moron who was running out country. Why does anyone care what these people think about health care reform? They are insane.

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This is terrible

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Obviously, it’s too early to say anything other than that this is a terrible tragedy:

The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official says the word “fed” was scrawled on his chest.

The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky.

Update. A little bit more detail:

Lucindia Scurry-Johnson, assistant director of the Census Bureau’s southern office in Charlotte, N.C., said law enforcement officers have told the agency the matter is “an apparent homicide” but nothing else.

I would still caution against assuming that this was anti-government right-wing violence unless and until more details emerge.

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Open Thread

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Anne Laurie must have been a busy bee over night, because when I woke up there were a bunch of definitions in the dictionary. I’ve revised a few, and added a dozen or so more, so check it out and make any corrections or additions in the comments. Are there any notable omissions?

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THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY EVAH

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The Kaplan Daily devotes a whole Q&A to the UNFOLDING ACORN SCANDAL.

In the interests of bipartisanship, I am going to name off the top of my head a bunch of Democratic scandals that I find much more troubling:

  • Jack Murtha’s institute for self-enrichment.
  • That big fund-raiser who took out the fraudulent loans.
  • The various back-door deals the Obama administration cut with special interests on health care.

I’m not suggesting all three are important. I tend to think that the first one is without a doubt quite bad. The other two I’m less sure. But I can’t see how, in a sane world, all three stories aren’t much more important than the pimps and hos stories.

I’m not suggesting that ACORN is blameless, but their biggest crime is, of course, that they employ a lot of black people.

From Woodward and Bernstein to Malkin and Beck. Quite a descent.

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Day six of the Kaplan Daily’s silence on the Norton story

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As I said before, I think the Gale Norton investigation is pretty serious stuff:

The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department’s 2006 decision to award three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado to a Shell subsidiary. Over the years it would take to extract the oil, according to calculations from Shell and a Rand Corp. expert, the deal could net the company hundreds of billions of dollars.

The story was first reported on September 17 in the LAT and Chicago Tribune (there’s some form of joint operating agreement and they are owned by the same company). The NYT and WSJ did stories on it shortly thereafter.

It is now nearly a week later and the Washington Post has yet to mention aside from an item in one of Howie Kurtz’s blog piece, and a link to an AP piece. This may be why:

Post Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli said he worries “that we are not well-enough informed about conservative issues. It’s particularly a problem in a town so dominated by Democrats and the Democratic point of view.”

To guard against it, he said, “I challenge our reporters and editors with great frequency to look at what is going on across the political spectrum . . . at the extremes, among the rabble-rousers, as well as among policymakers.” He said he pressed the National desk this week to provide more ACORN coverage.

I realize I’ve touched on this before, but it’s remarkable: the Post, in effect, pulled reporters off of a story involving criminal misconduct at the cabinet level involving hundreds of billions of dollars to put more reporters on a story about a gag video involving kids dressed up as pimps and hos. And now we know that the evil ACORN worker who played along with them later spoke to the police about the incident.

It’s Glenn Beck’s world, we’re just living in it.

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Angling To Be the Next Turdblossom

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From the NY Times write-up on Palin’s speechifying overseas:

A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which was closed to the media, said Mrs. Palin spoke from notes for 90 minutes and that she was articulate, well-prepared and even compelling.

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Accompanying Mrs. Palin to Hong Kong was Randy Scheunemann, the former foreign policy adviser to John McCain, who lost the 2008 election to President Obama.

Mrs. Palin did not take questions from the media after the speech, and there was a high degree of security and secrecy around the event. Only invited guests and a handful of employees from CLSA, the brokerage house that sponsored the event, were allowed inside the ballroom.

What is great about all this is that in a few years, she will present herself as new, and the village idiots like David Gregory will crow about how much she has grown and Chris Matthews will say that she has gained some gravitas and on and on. They’ll never look into the big money boys who started propping up Palin websites and making sure her book sales do well and the astroturf campaigns that start appearing in the letters to the editor at your local city rag. And then, as the wheels start to churn, the Palkin team will snub the media and attack them on the rare occasions that one of them does manage to get a question off.

And the whole time, they’ll pretend to not see the strings in the puppet show, even as it is winking right at them. You betcha.

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More here.

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