Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

People are complicated. Love is not.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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

DeSantis transforming Florida into 1930s Germany with gators and theme parks.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Everybody saw this coming.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Giving up is unforgivable.

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Caroline, No

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Lots of wacky high-jinks with Caroline Kennedy last night. I think it’s fair to say that her withdrawl from the race was badly bungled by her and her team:

The Paterson administration scrambled to respond to the news, providing contradictory answers to reporters’ questions. Just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, Errol Cockfield, Mr. Paterson’s press secretary, said the governor had dismissed reports that Ms. Kennedy was withdrawing as “just the rumor of the day.”

More than an hour later, Mr. Cockfield asked that that statement not be published, and suggested that more information would be provided by the governor’s office. But neither he nor the governor’s communications director, Risa B. Heller, would respond to further questions about Ms. Kennedy.

And this AP News alert sums up the confusion quite well:

Source: Caroline Kennedy remains in contest to fill Hillary Clinton’s NY Senate seat. (Corrects APNewsAlert with source saying Kennedy had withdrawn.)

It goes without saying that this is why it doesn’t make sense to have a completely untested candidate take over a Senate Seat. When rookie candidates make asses out of themselves on a smaller stage — say a House or State Assembly race — it ain’t no thang. But screwing with this much fanfare isn’t good news for anyone….except Rudy Giuliani, of course.

Update: Just to clarify, she is out now, per the first article I linked to. As demi notes:

This is, of course, great news for the Republican leadership in the New York State Senate, since Democratic women who are so scorned will never support to party again. (See, Clinton, Hillary.)

Given that New York is a center-right state and that Democrats will have a trouble capturing the Jewish vote now that they’ve put an Israel-hating Muslim in the White House, this pretty much guarantees a Rudy Guiliani cakewalk into the Senate.

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Obama’s First Act as President

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According to MSNBC, Obama was administered the oath of office again today, in an act that probably should be called the Andrew McCarthy Full Employment Act of 2009, as no doubt he will spend the next four years seeking to prove that Obama is not technically the President, just as he dedicated the previous few months to proving that Obama was not actually an American citizen.

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A Complete Lack of Self-Awareness

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Lisa Schiffren, in February of last year, wondering if the miscegenation that led to the birth of B-Rock the Islamic Shock Super Husssein Allah Obama was in fact a communist plot:

Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics.

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Time for some investigative journalism about the Obama family’s background, now that his chances of being president have increased so much.

But that was then, and my how things change in a year. Just a moment ago, as I was reading the newest comedy stylings from my favorite improv troupe, “the Corner,” and I noticed this gem from Lisa:

Was the Reverend Lowery’s little race rhyme racist? I don’t know. I personally found it more than a little jarring—because of where I had previously heard a version of same. During various water shortages in California in the 1970s signs appeared in public bathrooms with the conservationist suggestion: “If it’s brown, flush it down. If it’s yellow, let it mellow.” Yes: yuck, gross, ick. Flushing toilets always seemed like a reasonable use of water to me. I understand that there is some cultural debate about this. Actually, the original jingle was a personal favorite of former California Governor Jerry Brown—an early ‘conservationist.’

It just never stops. Openly musing that the birth of someone of mixed race is a plot of the commies is perfectly acceptable for Ms. Schiffren, but apparently our delicate flower gets the vapors from a harmless quip by a civil rights legend.

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Open Thread

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Something you probably didn’t know about me- counting all the live albums, the JB’s and some Bootsy and Maceo albums, I easily have three dozen James Brown related cd’s/lp’s/recordings. Why do I tell you this?

Because I never figured out why that was not one of his most famous tracks.

And, because I can, this:

This is well worth the money. Have at it.

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Who needs investigations?

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There’s a pretty remarkable chat with Ruth Marcus up on WaPo today. Marcus came out strongly against prosecuting Bush for torture so a reader asked about investigations:

pursuing criminal prosecutions: But many of us do not want criminal prosecutions which would be almost impossible to achieve since most of the evidence (e-mails, et al) has been “lost.” We simply want the facts about torture, illegal spying, habeas, etc. made public so the next time a President seeks to break the law, he will think twice.

Ruth Marcus: That’s a different question. I’m more agnostic on investigation in a non criminal sense. What I’d like to know is, What needs investigating that has not already been investigated? What information that could reasonably be made public has not already emerged? But do you really think the prospect of investigation would have deterred Bush? Didn’t seem so.

This is insane, in my opinion. Don’t investigate because it wouldn’t have deterred Bush anyway.

I liked this question too:

Re: investigations: You write “People can reasonably disagree about the importance of pursuing investigations without amping up the hyperbole this way.”

I agree completely. Why people would get so mad about something like torture is beyond me. I mean, it’s not like Bush had an affair with an intern or anything, right?

Ruth Marcus: I’m going to keep trying here. It’s possible to find torture abhorrent, as I do, without thinking that there is much to gain, and a signficant amount to lose, by pursuing criminal prosecutions.

Update: I may as well add that I have no idea how feasible it is to prosecute anyone for torture. But I just can’t see how anyone could think it shouldn’t at least be investigated. I may as well also add that I asked the second question up there and I am shamelessly pimping my own question here. Sorry.

Also, don’t forget the real reason Obama shouldn’t investigate: this is still a right-center country and right-center people love torture.

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Fifty-Two Thousand Words

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A really interesting photo series of members of the incoming Obama administration and key members of Congress in the NY Times magazine that is worth your time. Several things stood out to me, chief of which is just how attractive many of the people are- Reggie Love, Mona Sutphen, and Eugene Kang all look like models. The other thing that struck me was how many people with red hair there were. Additionally, you really do get a sense of who they are just from a picture. The seriousness of demeanor and posture of Jones, Gates, and Shinseki, contrasted with the relaxed pose of Reggie Love and the intriguing gaze of Samantha Power.

Finally, of all the people pictured, only one of them really looks to me like he has no business in politics whatsoever- David Axelrod. Every time I look at him, I just think he is the prototype of what I have in mind when I picture the private detective in crime novels. Or maybe the guy who announced old boxing matches.

Check it out.

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