Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

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

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

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

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Let there be snark.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Text STOP to opt out of updates on war plans.

The National Guard is not Batman.

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

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

How stupid are these people?

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Zombie lies

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Al Gore said he invented the internet, the Clinton people trashed the White House before the Dubya moved in, etc. (Krugman via Atrios):

There’s a persistent delusion, on the part of many pundits, to the effect that we’re actually having a rational political discussion in this country. But we aren’t. The proposition that the Community Reinvestment Act caused all the bad stuff, because government forced helpless bankers into lending to Those People, has been refuted up, down, and sideways. The vast bulk of subprime lending came from institutions not subject to the CRA. Commercial real estate lending, which was mainly lending to rich white developers, not you-know-who, is in much worse shape than subprime home lending. Etc., etc.

But in Dick Armey’s world, in fact on the right as a whole, the affirmative-action-made-them-do-it doctrine isn’t even seen as a hypothesis. It’s just a fact, something everyone knows.

It’s often said that journalism is the first draft of history. I hope the final copy has better fact checking.

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Red, Red Whine

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Gimme a break:

Republicans Monday had new hope that they could influence health care deliberations — influence that’s so far eluded them — as the debate moves to the Senate, where the rules and the politics can work to their advantage.

Some Republicans are trying to win Democratic support for more help for small business, different medical malpractice policies and changes in how the health care overhaul would be funded.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, one of three GOP senators to vote for the Democratic-authored economic stimulus plan earlier this year, said moderates from both parties are discussing potential areas of agreement.

The odds are still long, and probably insurmountable, against the Senate’s 40 Republicans having significant input into the biggest decisions, notably mandates on employers and individuals and the plan’s funding. They continue to complain that, as Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., put it, the bill “is being drafted behind closed doors.”

You want to have some say in the bill? Become constructive negotiating partners. Show that there is some reasonable expectation that you will vote for the bill if your changes are implemented. Offer amendments designed to make the bill better, not tank it. Slap down idiots like Palin and McCaughey and Bachmann who are running around lying and screaming about death panels. Stop holding rallies on the Capitol steps waving pictures of emaciated corpses from Dachau. You worried about cost containment- stop doing everything you can to protect profits for your big insurance buddies. Until then, stfu.

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Campaigns That Stick

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Tuesday is trash day around here, so I was gathering up all the trash to take it outside for the garbagemen. Afterwards, I went in and replaced the garbage bag in the kitchen, and as I grabbed the box of trash bags, I saw the Hefty logo and immediately said HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY as I remembered an ad campaign they had years ago:

HEFTY HEFTY HEFTY! For those of you too young to remember, there was a whole string of these commercials.

What other commercials stand out years later for you? I also remember the Bud Light “YES I AM” series, and obviously the Wendy’s “Where’s the beef” group, but what others are there?

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A 360 degree turn-around for the GOP

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I love stuff like this, from TalkingPointsMemo:

Today in fun word choice, from Politico: “Few political observers or elected officials doubt that an energized GOP has a headwind at its back.”


This from a Kaplan political chat cracked me up too:

Silver Spring, Md.: I wonder if you could state the evidence for your premise of a “Republican resurgence”. I see a Virginia that did what it’s done since 1977 (vote against the party in the White House) in the presence of an epically bad Democratic candidate… a governor in New Jersey who was wildly unpopular since even before the “2008 debacle” (your baseline)… and – oh yes – a district in NY that went Democratic for the first time since the White House has featured a bath tub. With two unsurprising (from the vantage point of a year ago) gubernatorial results and one historical flip toward the Dems in NY, isn’t it as valid to call last Tuesday a further shift leftward?

Dan Balz: I don’t think I used the word “resurgence” in the piece that ran on Sunday.

The chat itself had been titled “The Republican Resurgence.”

Update. Because I’m a nice person, I emailed the Politico reporter who made the headwind/tailwind mistake to tell him to fix it. But I got this reply: “I will be out of the office on Tuesday, November 10.” So this should be up there most of the day.

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Another Steelers Open Thread

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All I had to do was put the towel down, and he knew what to do. I’ve had that towel since the late 80’s, I think.

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I will say it again- I used to hate Gruden as a coach, but hands down, he is the best football color guy out there. This MNF crew is as good as the old Vern Lundquist/TNT crew from the early 90’s.

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