Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

This fight is for everything.

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

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

“But what about the lurkers?”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Infrastructure week. at last.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

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  8. 8.

    CaseyL

    This time I am out of here for reals. I swear:

    Sure. I totes believe you.

    [laughs uncontrollably]

  9. 9.

    Darryl

    I think everyone at balloon juice should locate a few bloggers who promoted the Going Galt idiocy, and email them, asking them “Why haven’t you Gone Galt yet? Could you please Go Galt and spare us your ideas?”

  10. 10.

    Midnight Marauder

    After this post, I plan on leaving for 10 minutes, coming back to my computer, hitting “Refresh” and seeing at least 4 new John Cole threads on the front page.

    At least.

    And don’t think people are going to be fooled because you slipped a picture of the Tunchinator in there this time. WE ARE ON TO YOUR SCHEME, JOHN COLE!

    Edit: Can you slap a post with the “Going Galt” tag, even though said title of post is “I Still Suck At Going Galt”? It would irresponsible not to speculate?

  14. 14.

    beltane

    Than you for not going Galt. This place has become a refuge of sanity. Can you believe there is a front page story on GOS that claims the health care bill will be better if Coakley loses her Senate race? I fear the crazy has spread from FDL and is infecting all the other “progressive” sites.

  16. 16.

    HRA

    awww! You have to enter that one in a photo contest, General.

    All of you with these classic photos could open up a screen saver site.

  17. 17.

    RedKitten

    Well, even if John does wind up going Galt for reals, at least his last little fit of blogging left us a bunch of shiny new threads to play with.

  21. 21.

    beltane

    One of my cats has not left her spot by the wood stove in over a month. She’ll get up a couple of times a day to eat, drink, and relieve herself, but other than that she’s been curled up in the same exact spot. I’ve never know a cat to hibernate like this.

  23. 23.

    jl

    Thanks for the pic, Tunch. You look great.

    That blog character, John Cole, you and DougJ created is great, what a riot.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    Great, it looks like the compromise for dropping the tax on “Cadillac” plans is that the employer mandate will be dropped, which means that Wal-Mart will continue to get to use taxpayer dollars to fund their obligations to their employees.

    I can’t see any possible way that could go wrong!

  28. 28.

    beltane

    @Mnemosyne: Seems unfair to mandate that individuals buy insurance while their employers can continue exploiting at will. But, hey, what do I know.

  36. 36.

    handy

    @kommrade reproductive vigor:

    “I’m really going this time. I mean it! You’ll be sorry! Okay here I go. This is it. No, this time for real. I’m going. GOOOD BYE!!! No turning back. Nothing you can say will stop me!…”

    etc.

  37. 37.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne:

    Wow, that’s really fucking stupid. With no mandate, the whole structure is unworkable. What genius came up with that idea?

  38. 38.

    valdivia

    @burnspbesq:

    This is an AP article that seems to me to be speculating. I have not seen anything on this from the reliable blogs that do health care reporting. So better take this report with a grain of salt.

  39. 39.

    Mark S.

    @Mnemosyne:

    From that article:

    On another high-profile issue, the negotiators are discussing a hybrid of a proposed national insurance exchange contained in the House bill and the state-by-state approach favored by the Senate. House Democrats are pressing for a national system to apply pressure to the insurance industry after their proposal for a new government-run insurance option was ruled out due to opposition from Senate moderates.

    Wait, the national exchange got stripped in the Senate? Wasn’t that a pretty important component? What the fuck is still in the Senate plan?

  44. 44.

    Darryl

    @Mark S.: Yeah, the senate bill provides for state exchanges. Not as good as a national exchange, but not terrible. Kinda what Massachusetts has.

  47. 47.

    Keith G

    @RedKitten: My Lord, that is the cutest “kid” expression I have seen.

    A thread with Tuncher, Charlie, and Sam. If Lily would show up, I would collapse into a cuteness coma.

    Note: Lily would be necessary since cute is not Tunch’s bag.

  50. 50.

    Mark S.

    @Darryl:

    Huh, I missed that one. But I’ve kinda gone Galt on HCR the last couple months. My blood pressure has gone down because of it.

  51. 51.

    Darryl

    Lots of bloggers advocated Going Galt. None of them ever wound up doing anything remotely like what John Galt did in Atlas Shrugged. This is because what John Galt did only works in badly-written fantasy novels. In the real world, it would be an incredibly stupid thing to try to do. If the Galt tards are asked, often enough, why they didn’t actually do anything like John Galt did, well, maybe they wouldn’t face that fact, but maybe fence-sitting observers would see the light.

    ETA: this shouldn’t be construed as any commentary on Mark S.’s use of Going Galt, I was more referencing my original comment in this thread.

  52. 52.

    burnspbesq

    The dumbest thing I have ever read in a publication for tax professionals appeared in Tax Notes Today yesterday.

    Did you know that Amity Shlaes is opposed to a VAT because she thinks it will turn us all into Eurotrash?

    Srsly.

    I will see if I can find a link that doesn’t run into a subscription wall. Must be seen to be believed.

  53. 53.

    HRA

    @Mark S.:

    Until today I was not afraid of a national insurance exchange and/or a state by state approach.

    A little past history needed to help see the current problem. My son-in-law passed away 3-4 years ago from ALS. My daughter’s employer does not provide health insurance. She has coverage from the state for her 2 children. My grandson needs counseling and his meds. The payment for the insurance to the state is $15. Last month the bill was 0. They said she had overpaid. This month she received a notice of the children being dropped from the insurance. Pending is a call to advise her of an appointment with a new psychiatrist and the meds have to be changed. I can step in and pay for the office visit and the meds. Can everyone do it?

  63. 63.

    Tax Analyst

    burnspbesq said:

    Did you know that Amity Shlaes is opposed to a VAT because she thinks it will turn us all into Eurotrash?

    I couldn’t find it under the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) site she posts on, and that has a current post from today.

    Maybe it’s a piece she wrote a while back that was just published in that “Tax Notes” pub.

  66. 66.

    daryljfontaine

    Damn, Cole’s in a Galt Spiral (going Galt from going Galt from going Galt from…).

    Nice Tunch pic, thanks for obliging us.
    Stuck, Charlie is a handsome pup. So’s yours, RedKitten. :-D

    D

  69. 69.

    Annie

    With pictures of Tunch, Lily, Charlie, Smudge (with the beautiful smile and well cleansed teeth), and Sam (the cutest child everrr), plus Raven, Shadow, Chompers, the 5 black and white kitties, and all the others, I think we are prepared to survive our forced withdrawal from John.

    All we need is for Tunch to upload some rescue stories — coupled with copies amounts of alcohol — and, we will all be here, bright and eager, when John returns to us.

  72. 72.

    mistersnrub

    Just tuned in for a few mins of Mr. O’Loofa (yes, yes masochistic, I know). Oy vey. Palin still ain’t ready for primetime. Falafel was handling her with kiddie gloves and she was stammering and looking at her notes like a high schooler giving a presentation.

  74. 74.

    Chat Noir

    @MattR:

    I think my favorite thing about the Tunch pics are the file names.

    Totally. Half the fun of John’s pix are the file names.

    Tunch rules.

  75. 75.

    CaseyL

    Oh, and another thing. Tunch is on a different piece of furniture than we’re used to seeing. Has His Tunchness decided to move his Favorite Lounging Spot to a different room? Does he now have a different view of his realm – and where does Lily figure into it?

    How are they getting along these days, anyway?

  80. 80.

    Delia

    John, you can’t go Galt til you post the pic of the little dog in the bucket. That’s probably what’s holding you up.

  81. 81.

    Cain

    God.. what a fat cat. The pattern on that chair is not helping either. Hey Cole, when did you get a whale for a pet?!

    j/k John! (well not really.. )

    cain

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Red Kitten #27:

    Your little Sam is adorable with the messy mouth, and he’s suddenly looking a liitle bit less like a baby and more like a boyperson, but RK: you seriously need to have him wear a different bib or he’ll get all confused and never learn his holidates. There’s no Hallowe’en in January! Lessee, the next big holiday is . . . Groundhog’s Day. Get him a bib with a picture of Wiarton Willie and have a Bill Murray fest for a few days (over and over and over again). Or skip right to Valentine’s Day, dress him all in red, and embroider his bib with lots of little hearts. But *no pumpkins in January!*

  84. 84.

    wasabi gasp

    Sarah Palin just confirmed what we, America by God, all believe. Everything everybody has ever said about her is untrue. All lies. The bad stuff only. Everything.

  86. 86.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Demo Woman #62

    You can’t ask John any questions for a few days. Didn’t you hear? He’s mad as hell and he isn’t going to take it any more. Or something like that.

  88. 88.

    AkaDad

    Cole is going Galt perfectly. He’s producing all these threads now to show us all what we’ll miss when he’s gone.

  89. 89.

    mistersnrub

    @valdivia: Well, first off, Billy boy was asking her toughies like, “Is Pelosi further to the left than Obama?” and “Why is Obama so hesitant to protect us from terrorists?”

    A typical Palin answer: “Most Americans are feeling unsafe and we need commonsensical common sense, in order to buck up the common sense of the people who are yearning for conservative commonsense principles.”

  91. 91.

    Tattoosydney

    @ asiangrrl a few theads ago

    Hello. Still in lisbon. This is the holiday that never ends apparently. Sorry for intermittent posting – internet access is sporadic.

    @ all

    Hello. Best wishes to all. Lisbon beautiful as ever. Having Portuguese lessons every day which is scary to say the least. Drinking too much good cheap red. All good.

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Pasquinade #83:

    I read a bunch of those comments. It sounds as though one very good thing about the Palin-on-FOX gig is that the bloom is off the O’Reilly rose. Those FReepers really don’t like BillO.

  96. 96.

    RedKitten

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Your little Sam is adorable with the messy mouth, and he’s suddenly looking a liitle bit less like a baby and more like a boyperson, but RK: you seriously need to have him wear a different bib or he’ll get all confused and never learn his holidates. There’s no Hallowe’en in January! Lessee, the next big holiday is . . . Groundhog’s Day. Get him a bib with a picture of Wiarton Willie and have a Bill Murray fest for a few days (over and over and over again). Or skip right to Valentine’s Day, dress him all in red, and embroider his bib with lots of little hearts. But no pumpkins in January!

    When we’re trying out sweet potatoes, it’s any port in a storm when it comes to keeping the stuff off of him. Half the time I just tie a receiving blanket loosely around his neck, kerchief-style, to catch the splatter when he decides that a fun trick is to go “pbbbbtt!” right after taking a mouthful. Of course, then he smiles like an angel. Damn kid already knows how to play me like a violin. He puked in my hair this morning, and then smiled with his thumb in his mouth and the most innocent, “aren’t I adorable?” look in his eyes.

  97. 97.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @RedKitten:

    to catch the splatter when he decides that a fun trick is to go “pbbbbtt!” right after taking a mouthful. Of course, then he smiles like an angel. Damn kid already knows how to play me like a violin. He puked in my hair this morning, and then smiled with his thumb in his mouth and the most innocent, “aren’t I adorable?” look in his eyes.

    Best time in life when you can get away with anything. Too bad we don’t remember it later on.

  98. 98.

    valdivia

    @RedKitten:

    At least he is not running after girls sans pants throwing toilet paper at them ;-)

    (Sorry I *so* enjoyed that story I had to use it again!)

  100. 100.

    NoFanOfAyn's

    Haven’t you heard? “Going Galt” is what conservative bloggers think long-term employment is.

    Cats are the only Republicans I can love: selfish, demanding, limited vocabulary, and just know the world exists to serve them. I have two.

    cheers!

  101. 101.

    Montysano

    @mistersnrub:

    A typical Palin answer: “Most Americans are feeling unsafe and we need commonsensical common sense, in order to buck up the common sense of the people who are yearning for conservative commonsense principles.”

    I fear that Sully may not survive this.

  103. 103.

    Comrade Mary

    Aww! SamKitten looks wonderful! (I’m ignoring the pukes-in-hair part. Don’t ruin my crushes with reality.)

    That picture of Tunch looks like a Renoir, I swear. Soft kitty on a soft couch with everything in soft colours. Love.

  104. 104.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Keith G: Tunch is SO cute! You take that back!

    Tuuuuuuuunch! Looking as sleek and svelte as always! And, Cole, I like the way you go Galt–especially when it includes a picture of my beloved Tunchie.

    AWS, GWS–Smudgey with her toothbrush and Charlie with his worry stick are the cutest things evah!

    @RedKitten: SamKitten is one of the healthiest, handsomest, happiest babies I’ve ever seen!

    This thread is full of teh cuteness!

  107. 107.

    EdTheRed

    @Toast:

    Well I’m A Six Point Seven On The Richter Scale
    Got Rhymes Gallot And Then I Never Fail
    Like Gravy To Potatos Luke To Darth Vader
    I’m A Souped Up Sucker And I’ll See You All Later
    Let’s Do It Ah Let’s Do It
    Ah Let’s Do It Do It Do It Do It
    Ah Let’s Do It Ah Let’s Do It
    Ah Let’s Do It Do it Do It Do it

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