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Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

I desperately hope that, yet again, I am wrong.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

with the Kraken taking a plea, the Cheese stands alone.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

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

The revolution will be supervised.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

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  4. 4.

    General Winfield Stuck

    If Obama had left it open, then the question would be “Why doesn’t Obambi take tewwism serious?”, or, “Why is Obama putting diplomats lives at wisk?”

    Different day, same picked poison.

  6. 6.

    Dork

    So one bozo from Nigeria, by way of Yemen, cosmically fails to light his junk on fire, and now suddenly the country of Yemen is, like, the Soviet Union^2 multiplied by North Korea and divided by GOP “yea” house votes?

    Did Yemen get nukes overnight, or are they still trying to pick sand out of their mashed taters?

  10. 10.

    amk

    France seems to have joined UK & US in the stampede. Be prepared for unbearable rw noise in the coming days.

  14. 14.

    Zandar

    I’m gonna take a swing at the third tier Wingers wanting some press and go with Gateway Drug Pundit.

    Susan “Wake Up America” Duclos will at some point as well, but she won’t be first.

  15. 15.

    Michael

    Deb Schlussel and Michelle Malkin will tag team it – they’ll call it “retreat” while screaming bloody murder over why it was even there in the first place.

  16. 16.

    Col. Klink

    And who would be the first to blame him were the U.S. embassy actually bombed and U.S. personnel killed while he had actionable intelligence and chose to keep the embassy open?

    The great thing about Wingnuts is that whatever Obama does, it is always going to be horribly wrong.

    This may (may) have been true about W. to a certain extent as well, but I always got the feeling that even if Bush publicly executed small children his base would have his back so long as the were swarthy foreign looking kids. The same certainly cannot be said about Obama.

  20. 20.

    John PM

    Along these same lines, will the “winner” of this contest say something to the effect that Reagan never would have closed a US Embassy or withdrawn US troops from a foreign country, in the process completely forgetting Beruit?

    I will actually pick “no one,” because embassies are for p_ssies and should be replaced by military bases.

  22. 22.

    cat48

    Bill Kristol won on Fox News Sunday already I think:

    And I would add one last thing. Closing the embassy in Yemen last night — I mean, I don’t — you know, no one wants State Department officials to be put at risk and all that, but that is a sign of weakness.

    Closing the embassy? We can’t protect our own embassy in Yemen, a place we have Special Operations forces, a place we say we’re working with the government on the front lines of the war on terror, and there’s a terror threat and we close the embassy? That’s a victory for Al Qaida. This last week has been a victory for Al Qaida in that region, I’m afraid. WILLIAMS: I disagree. I don’t think that there was any smoking gun. I think what Mr. Brennan was talking about was a specific failure that you could backtrack and say, “Here is the moment when there was such derogatory information that would have led you inescapably to say we definitely want to crack down on this individual

  25. 25.

    Leelee for Obama

    @jeffreyw: Best line EVAH! FTW! Funny how I still love that film, especially the scientist thinking nature should start over with the Bees! Thought of that a lot with all the talk about Colony Collapse.

  26. 26.

    SGEW

    My quote for the day, from this very interesting NYT Magazine article (worth a read!):

    It is moments like these when [Deputy National Security Advisor John] Brennan’s disaffection from the last administration becomes evident. “I much prefer talking with someone who is interested in understanding the situation and responding to it appropriately,” Brennan told me.

    All I wanted for the new year was a president who could understand the situation and respond to it appropriately. Hooray!

  27. 27.

    jeffreyw

    @PeakVT: LOL, I can imagine it if it was written by the Deadwood character.

    In a sternly worded statement, Griffith Chief of Staff Sharon Wheeler announced the exit of herself, along with legislative director Megan Swearingen,

  28. 28.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @cat48:

    It’s temporary, and the US closing is not the only western country closing. This is routine during times when intel of imminent attacks is present. Usually, a skeleton crew of senior diplomats stays on however.

  30. 30.

    Mike Kay

    Mitten will say, “I want to double the size of the embassy!”

    Hamsher will say, “this is all Rahm’s fault!”

  34. 34.

    aimai

    I’m not surprised that closing the embassy is seen as a sign of weakness, but its a serious misreading of who gets hurt when an embassy is attacked. When an embassy is open its a magnet for travellers from your own country needing help, but its also a magnet for locals/indigenes looking for visas and help coming to the US. When the embassy is targeted, those people are targeted too. I have a friend whose husband, a Kenyan national, was killed in the Kenyan bombing–he was inside getting his passport and she was waiting for him in the car. He was blown to bits standing in line. If you thought the embassy was a serious target you’d have to shut down all those services which bring the public inside the embassy *out of concern for their safety* as much as out of concern for your own staff.

    aimai

  37. 37.

    cat48

    The embassy in Yemen was attacked in Sept 2008 and 18 people were killed. That is a lot of people to lose to show how tough you are. Let us send Kristol over & he can run it alone until it is safe for others to return. Such a brave man. Heck take the entire staff of the Weekly Standard & Fox News. They are all really tough.

  39. 39.

    GregB

    Meanwhile in Uganda, the fruits of the American evangelical agenda are ripening quite well.

    From the NYT:

    “Human rights advocates in Uganda say the visit by the three Americans helped set in motion what could be a very dangerous cycle. Gay Ugandans already describe a world of beatings, blackmail, death threats like “Die Sodomite!” scrawled on their homes, constant harassment and even so-called correctional rape.”

    I wonder when this technique will migrate to the US?

    -G

  40. 40.

    asiangrrlMN

    @cat48: Agreed. In general, I think anyone advocating war or bombing the whomever should be drafted to fight in whatever capacity. Or, we reinstall the draft. If we must fight, then everyone should have to sacrifice (roughly) equally.

  44. 44.

    Joey Maloney

    OT, but did anyone have the intestinal fortitude to watch the Malkin (n., archaic. 1. a cat. 2. a mop made of rags. 3. a low-class or uncultured woman. 4. a prostitute.) 3-hour torturethon on BookTV yesterday? Did she get any tough questioning from the audience? Like about her countertops?

  46. 46.

    J Price Vincenz

    DougJ,

    I tried posting this last night a couple of times but it never showed up: Did you see that Deborah Howell got hit by a car and died?

    JPV

  47. 47.

    Ash Can

    @asiangrrlMN: The trouble with a draft is that none of the people who really should serve actually would serve. Think of how many of today’s big-talking Republicans dodged the draft one way or another back in the day. It would be Vietnam all over again, with everyone except the assholes responsible for the war actually fighting it.

  48. 48.

    danimal

    Since Limbaugh is probably out of the public eye for a bit, I’ll take Beck, with a tear in his eye, weeping for the fallen superpower.

  49. 49.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    @danimal:

    Since Limbaugh is probably out of the public eye for a bit, I’ll take Beck, with a tear in his eye, weeping for the fallen superpower.

    Do you mean Beck weeping for Limbaugh, his spiritual ‘father figure’?

    ***Shudders at the thought of ANYONE seeing Rush as a father figure…***

    Oh… you meant Beck weeping for the US of A…

  51. 51.

    Violet

    @Ash Can:
    If they re-instituted the draft, they should take away all reasons you can get out of it, except for a very small number of actual medical problems – and they’d have to be big problems, like dying of cancer.

    Small kids at home? Single parent? College student? Flat feet or eyesight problems? Here’s your uniform – no getting out of it.

  52. 52.

    kay

    “Yemeni government forces killed two suspected Qaeda militants on Monday and wounded others in a firefight 25 miles north of the capital, Yemeni officials said, tying the militants to the continuing threats directed against the United States and British Embassies here.
    Those embassies remained closed on Monday for a second day, and the French, German and Japanese embassies also closed. ”

    Oh, it was probably prudent.

    If it was a dumb idea, it’s certainly catching on, anyway.

  53. 53.

    tootiredoftheright

    @GregB:

    Isn’t that correctional rape involving supposedly straight men raping the gay men? Aren’t these the same guys that repeat the dogma from US conservatives that a guy being raped by a guy turns the rape victim gay? Wouldn’t the rapist be turned gay and the gay guy being raped remain gay?

  54. 54.

    Sly

    @tootiredoftheright:

    Correctional rape refers to the rape of a lesbian, typically by groups of men who often kill her afterwards. Watch the video here if you’re in the mood for a few hours of scalding-hot rage.

  55. 55.

    licensed to kill time

    What, no Facebook pearl of word salad post from Palin yet? I’m breathless with anticipation!

    I’ll take Palin for $200, John.

  56. 56.

    Ash Can

    @Violet: Oh, to be sure; I just don’t see that happening in this country. The pols in both parties would make damned sure they and their kids had loopholes so they could stay out of harm’s way. And frankly, as a parent myself, I can’t honestly blame them. What I do blame them for is starting shit and then telling other people and their kids to go do all the heavy lifting for them. That’s where they and basic human decency part ways.

  58. 58.

    calipygian

    Bill Kristol did on Fox News Sunday but it got lost in Brit Hume’s affirmation of Christian Talibanism.

  59. 59.

    Bob Cesca

    We have a winner! Someone called “haystack” at Red State:

    Today’s entry in the “Epic Fail Diaries of Barack Obama” leads us to consider Al Qaeda in Yemen. The Al Qaeda he is sending 30,000 American troops to fight against in Afghanistan is the very same Al Qaeda he promises to inflict justice on in Detroit and ALSO just happens to be the Al Qaeda he means to tuck tail and run from in Yemen.

    Bonus points for the use of “tuck tail.”

    http://www.redstate.com/haystack/2010/01/04/barack-obama-a-president-that-wasnt/

  62. 62.

    tootiredoftheright

    @Sly:

    From what I have read the Afgan men do it to other men and it also occurs in Iraq. The men that do the raping aren’t considered homosexual.

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