Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

We still have time to mess this up!

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

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

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

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Puppy Update

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The parents took the dogs to the vet yesterday, and they had their final “puppy” shots. They both have apparently doubled their weight since my parents got them, and based on the phone calls I have had with my mother lately, they are firmly into their “barking” phase. I can also report that my mother can not complete one sentence on the phone before having to attend to an ornery JRT. Most calls, she gets halfway through a sentence, I hear some gasp of horror followed by a “GINNY!,” and then the line goes dead. At any rate, some pics:

Guesly appears to be quite the ham, as he is always posing in every picture my dad sends me. It really is kind of funny, because our last JRT, Russell, was the least photogenic dog on the planet. Every picture he was half in the frame, and just looked unattractive (by JRT standards). Guesly, on the other hand, is quite photogenic.

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Reeling In The Years

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Dave Weigel, in a column examining the Republican playbook and noting the differences between the Clinton 1993 stimulus package and the Obama 2009 package, notes the following:

3. The Clinton budget raised taxes; the Obama stimulus doesn’t. I think this is the most important distinction. The Clinton budget reconciliation increased income taxes, raised the corporate tax rate to 35 percent, and raised the gas tax by 4.3 cents per gallon. Basically, every American paid more taxes after the budget was passed. The Obama stimulus package doesn’t raise anyone’s taxes. It includes $275 billion of tax cuts. Are they poorly designed? Arguably. But they’re tax cuts! I literally cannot remember a time when the entire Republican conference in either house voted against tax cuts. In that Republican poll mentioned above, upwards of 60 percent of voters want tax cuts right now.

First time in my memory.

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The GOP and Limbaugh

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Via the County Fair, this:

Apparently the GOP (or at least Rush), wants Rush Limbaugh to be the voice of the GOP, as he is proposing “his” stimulus package on the pages of the WSJ:

Yes, elections have consequences. But where’s the bipartisanship, Mr. Obama? This does not have to be a divisive issue. My proposal is a genuine compromise.

Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion — $486 billion — will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% — $414 billion — will be directed toward tax cuts, as determined by me.

To put this into perspective, imagine the reaction if Rhandi Rhodes was penning editorials in the NY Times dictating the course of policy for the Democrats, and the Democrats were embracing her pearls of wisdom. I can’t believe the Republicans are going to gamble their future like this, but then again, nothing they do surprises me. And, in fairness, considering I voted for Bush twice, I am not really in any position to say the country won’t be stupid enough to fall for this. I am living breathing proof that yes, we are that dumb.

BTW- the best part of the Limbaugh stimulus is that he supports a 900 billion dollar stimulus, so I expect that means he will shut up about the size and cost of the bill, as it is clear that he doesn’t care that it costs that much, but what bothers him is that his share isn’t big enough.

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Speaking of bending over and grabbing your ankles

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From Matt Yglesias, footage of Mike Pence admitting he’s so beholden to Rush Limbaugh that he won’t criticize El Rushbo for saying that “we have to bend over, grab the angles, bend over forward, backward whichever, because his father was black, because he’s the first black president.”

The mistake the Republicans are making here is a basic one: now they’ve admitted that they take orders from Rush, they’re on the hook for all the crazy ass things he says on the show. And that’s not a good place to be.

Yesterday, I was not optimistic about the politics of the stimulus bill. Now I think that it’s a Category Three Schiavo Political Event for Republicans.

Update: A conservative limey titles his column on the stimulus package Hollow Victory: Republicans deliver….wait for it…..SLAP IN THE FACE to Barack Obama. This isn’t really related to the first part of the post, but it didn’t merit a post of its own and I thought you’d all want to know.

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Armey’s Axiom: Don’t Take Me Seriously

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Watch Dick Armey on Hardball making some pretty astounding remarks to Joan Walsh:

Believe it or not, the most remarkable thing about that segment is not the snotty remarks directed at Walsh at the end, but rather the remarks he made about separating politics from economic policy. A transcript (starting at 52 seconds in):

Armey: The fact of the matter is there are income re-distributionists that think they are going to curry favor with voting blocs in both parties and it’s wrong policy whether it comes from Republicans or Democrats and it makes no sense. Armey’s Axiom- don’t let politics define your economics. Don’t let politics define anything. Politics is silly. Its inane and practitioners of politics are people to take what amusement you can from them but don’t take them seriously.

Why do I say that is the more remarkable portion? Because of this email “action” alert I was forwarded today from a reader:

Stop the Left’s Multi-Billion Dollar Handout to Liberal Allies

We knew it was coming, and it’s finally here.

After weeks and weeks of anticipating when and how the newer, stronger Democrat-led Congress would first strike against our individual liberties and expand the size of our already bloated government, the wait is over and we now know what we are up against.

This week both the House and Senate will be moving a massive $825 billion economic stimulus package full off wasteful spending, and worse still multi-billion dollar handouts to their liberal allies. Specifically, radical Left-wing groups such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) could have access to billions of dollars should this stimulus plan pass.

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Despite all the talk on the Left of bipartisanship and “reaching across the aisle,” fiscally sound approaches to boosting our economy such as tax cuts and tighter spending controls were ignored by the Democrat leadership.

Fight back against the Left’s first blow against our liberties. TAKE ACTION NOW!

Sincerely,

Dick Armey

Chairman

FreedomWorks.org

P.S. It’s critical that we generate a huge outcry against the wasteful, Democrat stimulus package and its multi-billon dollar taxpayer funded handouts to groups like ACORN. Please Forward this email to 5 friends and ask them to TAKE ACTION as well!

Dick Armey. Take his word for it- don’t take him seriously.

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Sure, We’re Idiots, But We’re Not Stupid

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Three quotes, from the three front page posters here, starting with me, yesterday:

This really is not hard to figure out, as the Republicans are not even trying to be subtle. They intend to get as much as they want in the bill, provide the screeching points for the wingnuttosphere (latest edition- ZOMG ACORN) so they can be whipped up into their usual froth, and then vote against the thing anyway and hope it fails. 2010, baby.

DougJ, last night:

Obviously, Republicans hope that the economy is deep, deep in the shitter in 2010. That’s the only way they get back into power. They can’t stop the stimulus, all they can do is fuck around and try to score a few political points about contraceptives or “Federal Performance Art grant or some such nonsense” and then hope that the thing fails.

At this point, they’re actively rooting for millions of Americans to be out of work. They’re barely even pretending not to.

Tim F., this morning:

If Republicans plan to deliver exactly zero votes for Obama’s stimulus bill, then why does the bill still have compromises in it? Screw them. Put the family planning stuff back in, take the tax cuts out. If we know for sure that passing a crappy bill won’t win any more votes then just pass a better bill. They won’t scream any louder. The political cost won’t be any greater. Also, and pay attention because this is the important part, a better bill is more likely to succeed.

There is literally no longer any reason to weaken the bill with provisions that only exist because otherwise baby Rick Santorum might cry.

And how did that vote on the stimulus bill go this afternoon? As expected:

In a swift victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House approved a historically huge $819 billion stimulus bill Wednesday night with spending increases and tax cuts at the heart of the young administration’s plan to revive a badly ailing economy.

The vote was 244-188, with Republicans unanimous in opposition despite Obama’s frequent pleas for bipartisan support.

Not one Republican vote. If you are surprised, you shouldn’t be.

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Perspective: These Guys Don’t Have It

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Another breathless email from the Opinion Times (and seriously, where did all these email lists come from? I didn’t sign up for them.), warning us of the following:

The “stimulus” package being forced by Nancy Pelosi down the throat of Congress, is laden with pork-barrel spending. This is not stimulus. It’s a major government expansion in the mold of The New Deal and an attempt by Democrats to recover the losses they took in the last 15 years since the Republicans gained Congress in 1994.

But here is an outrage you need to be aware of. Do you remember the radical, left-wing group, ACORN? There are dozens of cases of voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN all over the country. To advance their radical agenda, they have double and triple registered voters as well as submitting fake names.

Just so we get an idea of how pervasive this problem is, I submit to you the following statistics:

Number of votes cast in the 2008 Presidential Election: 129,391,683

Number of cases of alleged voter fraud as stated by the Opinion Times (they claim “dozens,” so let’s say three dozen, and give them the benefit of the doubt and call them baker’s dozens): 39

I think I need to delete my peak wingnut post before it is used against me every day for the rest of my life.

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Fail:

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said he had allegations last fall of widespread voter fraud – allegations a special prosecutor reported Tuesday were wrong, noting the only voter fraud found was from a Connecticut man who told on himself.

“Ultimately,” Special Prosecutor Michael O’Neill wrote in a report, “the investigators discovered ‘get-out-the-vote’ practices, sponsored by community organizations, which took full advantage of this unique absentee-voting period, but no evidence these practices violated Ohio law.”

“Told ya so,” Tim Burke, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party as well as chairman of the Hamilton County Board of Elections, said with glee of O’Neill’s report.

Too funny.

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