Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

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

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

T R E 4 5 O N

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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That was just entirely too close for comfort. I am sure in years to come people will call it a “great’ game, but it was stressful as hell. Gotta hand it to the Cards, they played tough and I thought they had won it. I didn’t trash talk them this week because I thought they were better than most people thought, and after my antics earlier this post-season, I didn’t want to go overboard.

Unbelievable.

What a roller coaster. I won’t sleep tonight.

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And Chris Collinsworth, you can SUCK. ON. THIS.

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Super Bowl Open Thread

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Shocking. Collinsworth picked the Cards. Who would have guessed he would bet against the Steelers. Again.

At any rate, hope it is a good game. Tunch has been fed and brushed and is perched on his Steelers blanky, so it is go-time. I will check in from time to time. Good luck Cards and Cards fans.

GO STEELERS!

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That version of the national anthem sucked. I felt like I was watching a bad lounge act. Halfway through, I looked around for a place to order a vodka tonic.

6:39 pm- And, as usual, TD with a challenge. Wouldn’t be a Steelers Super Bowl otherwise. And for you haters who do not understand why we love Hines Ward, you notice he chose to hit the DB rather than run out of bounds. That is why we love him.

Looking at the slow mo, that did not look like a touch down.

6:42 pm- They made the right call.

7:02 pm- Solid 1Q for the Steelers. Fitzgerald and Warner can’t score from the bench.

7:09 pm- Touchdown. I didn’t even see him squirt through, I thought he was down on the one in the pile. Then I saw the replay and he was a yard and a half in the end zone. Go Steelers. Three and out for the Cards, now. Don’t let them get any confidence.

7:22 pm- Good drive for the Cards, 10-7 ballgame. Helluva catch by the Cards TE.

7:54 pm- Wow. Just Wow. I am winded from watching Harrison’s run back. And, of course, like every Steeler touchdown, it must be reviewed.

8:01 pm- When they are done giving Harrison oxygen, I would appreciate it if they swing by my house.

Your kids will be watching that play on highlight reels for their entire lives.

8:20 pm- Best Superbowl Halftime Show in my memory. Bruce can still bring it, and Born to Run is as close to an unofficial national anthem for my generation as anything I can think. Was that Clarence Clemons up there? Thank Allah he didn’t show any nipple.

Don’t remember the last time I enjoyed a Super Bowl show so much.

8:37 pm- Turnover, for now. That didn’t look like a pass or a tuck, but that is such a formless rule that takes the shape of whatever the refs want that I have no clue whether it will stand as ruled on the field.

8:41 pm- Called back. I will never understand that rule, but then again, I think half the plays in football are holds, so what the hell do I know?

8:58 pm- That may have been the ugliest three points in SB history. Good D by the cards, although I am starting to wonder if the Steelers replaced Arians with Don Nehlen.

9:27 pm- 20-14 Steelers. Nice grab by Fitzgerald. This game is too close for my comforts, with a scary offense like the Cards on the other side of the line. We need points this drive.

9:49 pm- Stupid Penalties, Fitzgerald scores. That is ballgame.

God damnit.

10:19- I’m alive. Apparently the site was going through the same thing my heart was. Oh ye of little faith. What a comeback. What a game. I never have to listen to meatheads say Big Ben is not a big game quarterback or the defense carried him or blah blah blah.

I took a baby aspirin just to be safe.

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Game Day Part Two

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Running out of things to clean to keep my mind off the game (currently cleaning the freezer). NBC is offering five hours of non-stop Bob Costas and Chris Collinsworth, which is kind of like being offered five hours of unmedicated root canal surgery. Tunch, however, is resting on the Steelers blanket on the couch. NBC just reported that both teams spent the night in an undisclosed location. I wonder who Cheney is rooting for tonight.

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Amity Shlaes Horror

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The Washington Post is out with yet another Amity Shlaes piece today claiming that the New Deal was a big failure. I won’t analyze the piece itself, since I am not an economist, but I will revisit a piece she wrote last July, titled, auspiciously enough, “Phil Gramm Was Right”:

Consider what happened this week. While speaking with the Washington Times, Gramm said that the country was not in a true recession but a “mental recession.” He also said, “We have sort of become a nation of whiners” and “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline.”

Gramm was right about the recession and stood by his recession comments on Thursday. A recession is two consecutive quarters in which the economy shrinks, and last quarter it grew. But no matter. Voters feel they are in a recession, and so they are, at least according to Campaign Econ.

I wonder why voters thought we were in recession last July? Is it because they are ill-informed whiners? Oh, that’s right, it’s because we were in recession last July and had been been for seven months:

It took seven economists 11 months to decide what should seem obvious given all the foreclosures, bank failures and layoffs – the United States is officially mired in a recession.

Still, Monday’s declaration by the National Bureau of Economic Research that the economy has been in retreat since last December (2007) sent Wall Street into a bearish fit that knocked nearly 9 percent off the S&P 500 index.

The pronouncement by a committee of academics led by Stanford economist Robert Hall should have come as no surprise.

“We’ve been saying the economy has been in recession for months now,” said economist Brian Bethune of IHS Global Insight, a Boston consulting firm.

Obviously, no one could have anticipated that we were in a recession this summer, no one other than 71% of economists surveyed in March 2008, anyway.

Why on earth does the Washington Post see fit to publish a pseudo-economist who was completely wrong about the big economic issue of the year? It’s probably the same reason, of course, that they exclusively (except for Meyerson) publish columnists who were completely wrong about the Iraq war. Or maybe it’s just because Fred Hiatt is such an influential liberal.

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Doug Feith’s wiki

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Commnter WEC points me towards a section in Doug Feith’s wiki titled “Professional Praise”. Get ready:

Former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

“Doug Feith, of course, is without question, one of the most brilliant individuals in government. He is – he’s just a rare talent. And from my standpoint, working with him is always interesting. He’s been one of the really the intellectual leaders in the administration in defense policy aspects of our work here.”[17]

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine General Peter Pace

Doug Feith is a patriot. It irritates me, not that anyone would question his thoughts or his policies – that is absolutely fair game – but that anyone would question his loyalty or his motives. I have watched this man for four years. He cares only about what is best for the United States. He works hard to understand as much as he can about the policy arena, and he works hard to articulate what he believes to be true.[20]

I guess the question is this: would anyone who wasn’t a colossal fuck-up have a section in his Wiki titled “Professional Praise”?

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It’s too bad the “Boiler Room” sucked, because this trailer tells the economic story of the last however many years in 70 seconds better than anything else I’ve seen, and the Biggie quote is right on the money as far as capturing the zeitgeist. (The Ben Affleck as Alec Baldwin scene is truly unforgivable, though.)

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