Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

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

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

All hail the time of the bunny!

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

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

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

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

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

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

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Sarah The Governor

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Republican hero worship was annoying when they fixated on Saint Ron, and puzzling when they chose George Bush’s least son from a batch that includes Neil. What passes for a shining white knight these days has reached the point that a true friend would stage an intervention. I will illustrate two vids in the news these days.

First, Samuel “Joe the figurehead” Wurzelbacher on reporting in war.

Second, Sarah Palin on what went wrong in November (short version: not her).

Please tell me how this sounds like the future of anything. If I knew this was the future of my next bus trip I would splurge on the train. Neither of these clips even rise to the coherence standards of a local TV man on the street montage. The average wingnut who thinks that America can’t be safe unless we sodomize some terrorist children outclasses both of them by an order of magnitude. There just isn’t any affirmative reason to let these guys represent the party.

The only possible motivation seems like a negative one. As Atrios points out Republicans love crazy people spouting horseshit as long as it pisses off liberals. ‘Reasonable’ rightwingers love to argue that clowns like Hannity and Ann Coulter represent an embarrassing sideshow, but if that’s true, the main act keeps itself awfully well hidden. George W’s administration will die without an heir and 50% of the John McCain movement is registered Connecticut for Lieberman. Setting aside Sarah Coulter Palin, the messiah bench is pretty thin for the charismatic GOP cult. The perverse instinct to piss off the people who hate them, which seemed like a sure bet when most of the country was terrified of burning a flag and pissing on the embers criticizing a Republican, won’t pay off as well now that everyone hates them.

It’s really kind of amazing. Even after Republicans decided that the media, edumificated ‘experts’ and wide majorities of the American people all hate them (they do), the GOP still thinks it can win by childishly spiting everyone on its enemies list. Maybe they’re the allegorical scorpion who knows that stabbing the frog won’t win any national elections; but, on the other hand…frog. Stab.

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I May Regret This

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I know full well I may be jinxing my team, but I can’t control myself. Sorry in advance for what follows:

Hey Editors, you ready for the big Patriots game this weekend?

Oh, wait, that is right. While your nancy boy quarterback was canoodling with his eurotrash super-model bride to be (technically she is Brazilian, but with a name like Giselle, she might as well be French) this weekend, a real football team was working towards their SIXTH Super Bowl ring.

Suck. On. TUCK. RULE. This.

PS- Belichick is a cheater.

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My first mission as part of the Red State Strike Force

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I joined Red State Strike Force a few days ago. I just received word of my first mission:

XXXXX:

Would you mind taking the time to go vote for RedState in this year’s Weblog Awards. Much appreciated.

Sincerely yours,


Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

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Update: Another picture of their insignia, just because I think it’s funny.

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Not fade away?

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There’s little doubt that George Bush looks like a broken man at this point. But the larger question remains: what will become of him when his term is over? Bush talked about making “ridiculous money” on the lecture circuit but his biographer, Richard Draper, deems that unlikely in the short term:

“My feeling is that for the first year there probably will be minimal interest in him,” said one agent who works in the public speaking business. “There have been other former presidents who’ve been unpopular leaving office, but nobody’s ever been this unpopular. After a year, though, people forget and then he’ll have a very lucrative career.”

I’m not sure people will forget within a year. And then there’s this from Stanley Fish:

How will he occupy his time? Roving ambassador? Baseball commissioner? University president? (Don’t groan; he’d probably be good at it.) I don’t know, but I do expect that one night in the not-too-distant future, some TV host will be calling for the drum roll and announcing, with pleasure and pride, “Heeeere’s Georgie.”

Let’s not forget that Fish fell for defended those who fell for the greatest spoof in recorded history. Which probably makes piece of credulity a bit more understandable:

And the fact is that he’s likable. I don’t mean on the superficial level of being someone you’d want to have a beer with. It’s deeper than that. He comes across as a basically decent man who is at peace with himself. Despite the fun poked at his verbal maladroitness, he is actually quite skillful (certainly more skillful than either Al Gore or John Kerry) in conveying his positions succinctly and persuasively. (He didn’t win two national elections — well, maybe one — by accident.) He may not be an intellectual, but he isn’t dumb and he is shrewd enough to play his “aw shucks” personality for all it’s worth. And he has a really good sense of humor (something Barack Obama seems to lack) and a comedian’s ability to make capital out of his own malapropisms. Putting aside the agendas for which he will no longer be held responsible, what’s not to like?

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Prediction

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I am betting that the Bush press conference, which is playing live right now, will be a youtube classic in no time, in particular the portion where he answers the question “What did you do wrong” and then debates whether or not his real failing in the Katrina debacle was not landing Air Force One in Baton Rouge.

Also, Jake Tapper is apparently now part of the WH press corps, sitting front row and center (next to Helen Thomas, of all people), so I predict four years of questions about Obama’s smoking habits.

As to Bush- he just looks old and worn down and really just wants to get out of there. He really looks like a broken man.

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Globes Wrap-up

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Big night at the Globes last night, and unlike other years, I simply have not seen many of the movies in contention for Best Picture this year. In fact, other than The Dark Knight, I don’t think I have seen any of them. I guess the election, travel, this blog, and other stuff had me occupied. After last night, I think I am going to have to make an effort to watch Slumdog Millionaire, which really looks pretty fun. Of the rest of the movies featured, the only ones I am interested in are Doubt, the new Woody Allen movie, and the Mickey Rourke wrestler flick.

Speaking of Rourke, this was mentioned in another thread, and I thought it was sweet:

Mickey Rourke won the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Drama at the Golden Globes this evening for his lead role in The Wrestler.

He gave a surprisingly eloquent and heartfelt speech, noting that he is not used to speaking in public and that he was almost “out of the business” (Hollywood) a few years ago. (The critics are calling his speech “interesting.”)

Rourke thanked his agent, producers, co-stars, etc. and then he asked the audience if he could thank his dogs–both the ones that are still with him now, and those that had passed on.

“Sometimes when you’re alone, all you got is your dog and they meant the world to me.”

Also, Freida Pinto from Slumdog Millionaire may be the most naturally beautiful person I have seen in years.

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