Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Everybody saw this coming.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Republicans in disarray!

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

We still have time to mess this up!

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Is trump is trying to break black America over his knee? signs point to ‘yes’.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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New Wingnut meme: Obama is more of the same

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I didn’t see this one coming…the problem with Obama is that he is too much like Bush (via Red State):

Change? That’s what the dumb masses voted for, but they will just get more of the same, if Barack holds true to what he said in his speech today. It will be realized to be, after all, politics as usual. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

I didn’t know George W. was a Muslim socialist who faked his birth certificate.

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Eternal Sunshine

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For no reason that I can think of, the following song has been stuck in my head since I woke up this morning:

Still one of the best theme songs, I think.

I saw a show on the National Geographic channel a while back that said that a series of Air Force tests on human reactions to extreme G forces years ago offered evidence that when people experience the “light at the end of the tunnel” in near death experiences, that it was actually the brain shutting down non essential functions due to oxygen deprivation. I have read a couple of books on memory for various classes, but I simply don’t remember any theories as to why songs get “stuck in our head.” Anyone know?

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Via the comments, this, which is just all sorts of excellent:

Listen to it a couple times, and spend one just listening to the guy singing “big baboon.” Reminds me of the background riff (the musical name is escaping me atm) to “Hey Ladies.” I had never heard of Moxy Fruvous before.

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What Drives Republicans Insane About the Media

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This sort of nonsense:

But the most telling moment of the whole event was not that rehearsed display of unity—it came when Chief Justice John Roberts accidentally rearranged Obama’s oath of office by putting the word “faithfully” in a different spot. Obama smiled broadly at this display of judicial privilege, even as his eyes flashed with some newfound—and very telling—presidential steel.

You can almost smell the fanboy, and this is the sort of silliness that drives Republicans INSANE. This just isn’t what happened. Let’s roll the tape, compliments of High Command at the Great Orange Satan:

Transcript via First Read:

ROBERTS: I, Barack Hussein Obama…
OBAMA: I, Barack…
ROBERTS: … do solemnly swear…
OBAMA: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear…
ROBERTS: … that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully…
OBAMA: … that I will execute…
ROBERTS: … faithfully the office of president of the United States…
OBAMA: … the office of president of the United States faithfully…
ROBERTS: … and will to the best of my ability…
OBAMA: … and will to the best of my ability…
ROBERTS: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
OBAMA: … preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
ROBERTS: So help you God?
OBAMA: So help me God.
ROBERTS: Congratulations, Mr. President.

It is pretty clear what happened, and anyone who has ever been nervous can understand. Obama jumped in early, interrupting the first part. Roberts was then thrown off, and misplaced the word faithfully. Obama then started to recite the portion, got to the part where faithfully should have been, smiled at Roberts, Roberts corrected, and then they kind of just said to hell with it and went forward.

It was nice. It was charming. It was a very human moment. I wouldn’t even be surprised if one of the things Roberts and Obama talked about last week in their private meeting was a quick discussion of how they would do the oath, and then when they screwed it up, they both knew it immediately, hence the smiles on the stage.

But to pretend it was some sort of super-human Presidential moment on the part of Obama is as silly as the earlier comments on PUMA websites that ZOMG OBAMA MESSED UP THE OATH HE AIN’T REALLY PREZNIT! There really is no fault on the part of either one, and the smiles on both of their faces show that they know what happened. They both sort of goofed, and that really should be the end of that. Fortunately, Obama is an adult, and had the following to say:

Robin Roberts: During the taking the oath of office, Chief Justice Roberts inadvertently switched some words up. You were trying to help him out there a little bit, it seemed, with your look.

Pres. Obama: Oh, listen, I think we’re, uh, we’re up there, we’ve got a lot of stuff on our minds, and he actually I think helped me out on a couple of, uh, stanzas there. So overall I think it went relatively smoothly and I’m very grateful to him.

That is how I saw it, too- two guys were nervous and mudded their way through it.

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No One Could Have Predicted

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Because I am at heart, a jerk, this post at FDL struck me as kind of funny:

So, I don’t even know how to write about this without it sounding like bitter grousing, and frankly, I’m a little embarrassed to have to report that after five hours of standing in the bitter cold, getting pushed and shoved to the point where you start to feel for your safety, and being herded to and fro, the most I can report about the inauguration is that the 21-gun salute is really loud.

So loud, in fact, you can feel it outside the security perimeter.

That’s right, despite having in hand magic purple tickets, and lining up hours before the gates opened, I saw nothing. I heard, beyond the guns, nothing.

I followed all the signs, I went to the appointed spot. . . and what? There was almost no one who had a clue of what was to happen next. Some people who seemed to know what they were talking about stood on the back of a garbage truck and shouted–sans any amplification–so that all anyone could make out was that they were pointing in a certain direction. Most of us followed.

Read the whole kvetch and recognize how very smart you were to stay at home and watch the inauguration in HD. Don’t get me wrong, it does suck that these people went through this, and it would have been nice if things had gone better for some people, but it didn’t exactly take a visionary to predict this would suck for most people who went to see it in person. Someone asked me if I was going, and my response (via memory, as I can’t find the email) was: “There is no chance in hell. Half the roads are shut down, every hotel for 100 miles will be booked and charging 300 a night, and no one in their right mind would be in DC that day.”

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Potential Problems With The Stimulus Bill

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Via memeorandum, this study of the stimulus bill:

The government wouldn’t be able to spend at least one-fourth of a proposed $825 billion economic stimulus plan until after 2010, according to a new report that suggests it may take longer than expected to boost the economy.

A Congressional Budget Office analysis of President Barack Obama’s plan found that most of the approximately $355 billion in proposed discretionary spending on highways, renewable energy and other initiatives wouldn’t be spent before 2011. The government would spend about $26 billion of the money this year and $110 billion more next year, the report said.

About $103 billion would be spent in 2011, while $53 billion would be spent in 2012 and $63 billion between 2013 and 2019, the report said. Republicans said the analysis showed that the plan, unveiled last week by House Democrats, won’t get money into the economy quickly enough.

Discuss.

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Change I Can Believe In

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One of his first moves:

In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.

The instruction came in a motion filed with a military court in the case of five defendants accused of organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The motion called for “a continuance of the proceedings” until May 20 so that “the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically.”

The same motion was filed in another case scheduled to resume Wednesday, involving a Canadian detainee, and will be filed in all other pending matters.

On top of the news that Marty Lederman will be joining the OLC, this is a solid day.

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What A Strange World We Live In

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Poor Tim Graham is confused:

Beyond the traditional drop-the-D reporting, there is the question if the national media will find this newsworthy. The easy guess is that if the politician is openly gay and the teenager is consenting, they will find it’s not.

In 2005, when the mayor of Spokane, Washington was a conservative “anti-gay” Republican and a teenager said he was unwilling, it was a big national story, including an NBC interview on Today and an entire Frontline documentary on PBS.

Imagine that. According to Tim, one story involves a mayor having sex with another willing adult, the other involves a a man forcing himself on a minor. For some strange reason, the media treats the rape of a minor differently from consensual sex with an adult, and the folks at Newsbusters just can’t figure out why.

I swear to God, the past eight years has created a super-breed of logic resistant Republican idiots.

(h/t via email)

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