Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When we show up, we win.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

No one could have predicted…

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

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When Will He Become a Republican?

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I’m really sick and tired of this man:

But Nelson later told reporters that his amendment would not be ready for a vote until after the weekend, postponing a floor showdown over abortion rights.

The defeat of his amendment would be politically significant because Nelson has pledged to vote with Republicans to filibuster the health bill if it did not include the Stupak language.

“I’ve said at the end of the day if it doesn’t have Stupak language on abortion in it I won’t vote to move it off the floor,” Nelson told reporters.

Look, I understand the need for a big tent and all that, but you simply can not have members of your caucus threatening to filibuster a bill that everyone else in your party supports and not suffer repercussions. You just can’t. Maybe he is just grandstanding, and will say this, then very publicly agonize over it, and vote for the bill without the Stupak legislation. I understand the games these guys need to play in states like Nebraska.

But if Nelson does filibuster the health care bill because the Stupak language is voted down by the majority of his party, at the very least he needs to lose his prized chairmanship. At the very least. You simply can not have members of your caucus siding with the minority to filibuster your signature legislation. There is a time when it is better to have someone outside the “Big Tent” pissing in, and if Nelson filibusters, it is his time to be kicked outside.

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The Bottom

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Are we finally there:

In the strongest employment report since the recession began nearly two years ago, the government said Friday that the nation’s employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November, taking some of the pressure off of President Obama to come up with a wide-ranging jobs creation program.

The Labor Department reported that the United States economy lost 11,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell to 10 percent, down from 10.2 percent in October.

The government also significantly revised its September and October job loss estimates. September’s data was adjusted to show a loss of 139,000 jobs instead of 219,000, and in October 111,000 jobs were lost, instead of 190,000. Even allowing for the November loss, the revisions added 148,000 people to the list of those employed in the United States in November.

Though the pace of job loss has been declining since a peak in January, the November number was surprising. Economists had been expecting a turning point to come in the late spring or summer, with employers finally adding workers as a recovery takes hold. The last time the number was so bright was in December 2007, when the economy added 120,000 jobs.

Only losing 11k jobs is hardly something to cheer about, but considering the past year, it at least warrants a sigh of relief that the end might be near.

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Thanks, John McCain

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Sarah Palin, birther:

Speaking to the conservative talker Rusty Humphries today, Sarah Palin left the door open to speculation about President Obama’s birth certificate.

“Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?” she was asked (around 9 minutes into the video above).

“I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don’t have a problem with that. I don’t know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers,” she replied.

“Do you think it’s a fair question to be looking at?” Humphries persisted.

“I think it’s a fair question, just like I think past association and past voting records — all of that is fair game,” Palin said. “The McCain-Palin campaign didn’t do a good enough job in that area.”

The modern GOP is just all class.

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Open Thread: Thursday Night Menu Edition

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From Bad Horse’s Filly:

Continuing our theme of quick and easy recipes for the holidays, here’s a slow-cooker meal you can set up the night before and have ready at the end of a busy day of holiday events. This is a recipe from a restaurant in Ouray, CO that was in an old bank. They gave it to me 15 years ago on my honeymoon and I make it all the time. This was my first experience at having to change a recipe for 60 into one for 6-8. It’s spicy, so ease up on the cumin and chili powder if needed, you can always add more during the last 30 minutes if needed. On the board tonight:

1) Spicy Black Bean Soup
2) French Bread
3) Red Grape Salad
4) Apple wedges & Cheese

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Shameless nutpicking

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I figure everyone could use a laugh today, so I’m linking to this ridiculous post based on some kind of a right-wing chain-email hoax about a recent AirTran flight that was delayed. The gist of it is that someone’s been sending around an email saying that there was a bunch of Muslims watching porn, screaming into their cellphones, and calling people “infidel dogs” before take-off and that this indicates that the whole thing was a dry run for a terrorist attack. Because that’s what terrorists do: they try to draw attention to themselves when they’re preparing for an attack. Steve M. does a good job of dissecting all the craziness.

The comments are predictably funny in general, but this one stood out:

There’s far too much detail here for this to be a fabrication.

Maybe this is just the Diet Dr. Pepper talking, but I think that phrase may have legs.

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This is central to his point, I guess

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My therapist told me to stop reading the Kaplan reporter Q&As. But Flounder pointed me to a real doozy:

Taxes are killing us.: The US at 26.1% pays less tax than any other industrialized country except Japan at 25.8%. Sweden is at 50.2%, the UK at 35.8%, and Spain at 35.5%, for example. BTW each of these three countries had higher growth (average per capita growth 1995 – 2005) than we did. 2.5%, 2.4% and 3.1% resp. compared to our 2.1%. Also Japan’s was 1% growth.

Frank Ahrens: But did you know our corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world? That makes a real difference if you’re a business and you’re thinking about locating in the U.S. or, say, India.

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But did you know our corporate tax rate is among the highest in the world?: Dead wrong. Our nominal tax rate of 35% is among the highest, but because of loopholes our real tax rate of 18% is among the lowest real corporate tax rates.

Frank Ahrens: Back atcha.

Back atcha?

And this is an economics reporter at one of the country’s three most important newspapers? You know, I feel bad saying this when I hear about all the reporters getting laid off, but I can’t think of any other profession where someone this inept could rise to near the top. So I say this with all due respect to all the good, smart, tough hard-working reporters out there: we’ll be better off when this whole clown show goes bankrupt.

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