Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Five sacks, stupid penalties, no offense, we can’t stop the run, and are being outgained by a wide margin in total yardage by the worst team in the NFL (although now that we are poised to lose to the Browns, have lost to the Raiders and the Chiefs, we might own that title now).
This about sums up the mood in the Cole household:
It isn’t just that we are losing, but that we are just really, really bad. I mean, bad as in Pirates bad, where it isn’t even fun to watch the game.
You probably all already saw this on Washington Monthly, but since we pride ourselves here on making fun of Randers, we would be remiss if we didn’t pass this along:
Lloyd Grove: Tell me a little bit about what the show is going to be.
John Stossel: It will be one subject. The first subject will be maybe Atlas Shrugged or global warming — Atlas Shrugged because I think 50 years ago, Ayn Rand predicted today. It sort of sums up what I’m going to be reporting about.
Lloyd Grove: Ayn Rand predicted what?
John Stossel: Big government, nice-sounding legislation like “The Preservation of Livelihood Law,” which mandated that Hank Rearden’s production must not be bigger than any other steel mill, to make it a level playing field. It’s silly.
Lloyd Grove: Is that a new law passed by this Congress?
John Stossel: No, but it’s what Wesley Mouch, the evil bureaucrat in the book, passed. And what Tim Geithner and what Barney Frank might like to pass.
Not that I like Ayn Rand’s work, but even it deserves better than this.
The Salahis came in and trashed the place and it wasn’t their place (via Digby and Atrios):
When Ms. Salahi sidled up to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., she was faking a friendship she didn’t have. She was also cutting ahead of thousands of people who spend years trying to win entry into gatherings of Washington’s elite.
“At most parties in New York or Los Angeles, a bouncer will make a snap decision about whether to let you in depending on your looks or some shtick that that sets you apart,” says Juleanna Glover, a Washington hostess and a founder of the Ashcroft Group, a legal and consulting firm. “In Washington, there are no snap decisions. It’s a lifetime of wise decisions that make it so that you receive a state dinner invitation.”
[…..]When the Salahis put their collection of digital snaps of the state dinner on Facebook, they flouted all the unwritten rules of power-wall etiquette. (Including a new one that nobody had thought to mention: Don’t put your power wall on Facebook.) As an enhancer of prestige, these photographic menageries always target a certain audience — constituents in the case of politicians, potential clients in the case of lobbyists. It tells those audiences, “I know how to get things done.”
For letting this happen, Desiree Williams deserves to be waterboarded, I’m sure.
Terrible towel- check.
Heath Miller jersey- check.
Beverages- check.
Cat fed- check.
Lily fed and walked and rocking her Steelers collar- check.
I’m ready. The only thing missing is the Steelers 4th quarter defense, which hopefully will show up tonight.
*** Update ***
Also, out of respect to TNC, I’m going to be rocking my ghetto name tonight- Jahn Coale.
I’m begging:
INGRAHAM: Would you agree to a debate with Al Gore on this issue?
PALIN: Oh my goodness. You know, it depends on what the venue would be, what the forum. Because Laura, as you know, if it would be some kind of conventional, traditional debate with his friends setting it up or being the commentators I’ll get clobbered because, you know, they don’t want to listen to the facts.
So help me ALLAH, if Gore sighs once in this debate I will punch him in the neck and kick him in the junk. But wouldn’t you love to see that moron up there just winking and blushing and making shit up?
Tommy: Did you hear I finally graduated?
Richard Hayden: Yeah, and just a shade under a decade too, all right.
Tommy: You know a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Richard Hayden: I know, they’re called doctors.
*** Update ***
And as I am post this, MSNBC is reading Sarah Palin’s twitter feed. Shoot me.
No wonder they support Palin so much. Much like their goddess, they don’t know what the Bush doctrine is, either:
The Bush doctrine isn’t about the President unilaterally defending the country. The problem with the Bush doctrine is that it upended years of practice and established a policy of preventive war, which means that it is just kosher to invade anyone you perceive as a threat, so long as you can get five Weekly Standard interns together in the Office of Special Plans to agree a country was a threat and needed to be invaded because they might do something to us one day. Or Saddam looked at us funny.
No wonder these guys love Palin. It’s the blind leading the stupid.
And while we are at it, let me remind you all that Bill Kristol is still on the Washington Post payroll but they didn’t have the funds for Dan Froomkin.