Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

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

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Good lord, these people are nuts.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

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

In my day, never was longer.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

People are complicated. Love is not.

Let there be snark.

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  1. 1.

    Joey Maloney

    Code monkey like!

    P.S. the only ASL I know is “we’re fucking” and “eat shit and die”.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Doctor Science: I’m glad it’s quiet at the moment so I can tell you how much I like your site. Haven’t spent much time there yet, but the puzzle images are always striking, and I’m just waiting for the opportunity to troll through all the archived book reviews. Nice site!

  4. 4.

    HIram Taine

    California gives up on trying to enforce anti-rescission law against Blue Cross.

    LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
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    California regulators admitted Thursday that for more than a year they didn’t even try to enforce a million-dollar fine against health insurer Anthem Blue Cross because it feared they would be outgunned in court.
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    In early 2007, the Department of Managed Health Care pledged to fine the state’s largest insurer for “routinely rescinding health insurance policies in violation of state law.” But they never did.
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    The department’s director, Cindy Ehnes, told The Associated Press on Thursday that, when it comes to rescissions, the agency has had success in forcing smaller insurers to reinstate illegally canceled policies and pay fines, but Blue Cross is too powerful to take on.
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    “In each and every one of those rescissions, (Blue Cross has) the right to contest each, and that could tie us up in court forever,” Ehnes said of the approximately 1,770 Blue Cross rescissions between Jan. 1, 2004, and now.

    Our “justice” system would come to a shuddering, grinding halt if every single defendant demanded and exercised all their rights and had the ability to hire a powerful law firm to protect those rights.

    The big insurers have just that ability.

  5. 5.

    WereBear

    @HIram Taine: Blue Cross vs California is why I think they should have their charter revoked; I’m sure they are in violation of even more laws, but as you pointed out, they have a money to make the state prove it over and over…

  7. 7.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Grace Nearing: Indeed. asiangrrlMN’s rusty garden implements are needed in Gulivornia.

    Combine that with the news that the “pre-existing conditions” ban may be limited to those 19-and-under, and HCR is getting less and less “R” by the hour.

  9. 9.

    Doctor Science

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Ooo, thank you so much for saying that! Made my day.

    Making the puzzles has really been a revelation for me, especially when the image is a work of art. No matter how familiar the picture is, I’ve never before spent 20 minutes just *looking* at it. I always see things I’ve never noticed before.

  11. 11.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I have developed a superior Republican theme song.

    Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown
    Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown

    Clean, articulate, dresses not in drag
    Selling lots of Cosmo mags

    Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown

    Martha wondered how he had the gall
    Now Michelle is throwing dishes against the wall

    Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown

  13. 13.

    jwb

    OT, but I loved this comment by Krugman: “Wow. Harold Ford’s op-ed in today’s Times has to set some kind of new standard for cluelessness.”

  14. 14.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @jwb:

    It’s a good sign that the Obama administration is following the advice of Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Evan Bayh of Indiana and other Democratic fiscal pragmatists who embrace the idea of a bipartisan commission to recommend spending cuts to rein in deficit growth. But we must be sure that the administration and Congress heed the commission’s advice.

    F**k that.

    Ford is a tool. Krugman is right. That op-ed should have been laughed out of the office. Of course, these people publish chunky David Brooks on a regular basis, so … I guess I’m not surprised.

  15. 15.

    me

    Mmm mmm mmn; Scott Philip Brown

    Health care reform is getting the block.
    Scott Brown, what a huge cock!

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    And on the subject of Scott Brown, new evidence emerged yesterday in the form of a WaPo-Harvard poll, that even many of the people who voted for him basically want him to be a Democrat. (I’m linking to the DKos article — which I assure you is devoid of hyperbole and heavy on facts and statistics — because I don’t want to jump through the WaPo’s registration hoops.)

    We all know what’s going to happen, don’t we? Pretty Boy will get to hanging out with all his fellow Republicans on the Hill and show his true colors, and in doing so make himself about as popular as the clap back home.

  18. 18.

    jwb

    @arguingwithsignposts: Actually, for whatever reason, the Times hasn’t seemed particularly thrilled by Ford, and I wonder if they didn’t accept this piece for publication because it was so clueless. If they’d sent it back and asked for changes, it might have made him look better.

  19. 19.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @jwb:
    You’re probably right. But to return to the quote i excerpted previously:

    It’s a good sign that the Obama administration is following the advice of Senators Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Evan Bayh of Indiana and other Democratic fiscal pragmatists who embrace the idea of a bipartisan commission to recommend spending cuts to rein in deficit growth. But we must be sure that the administration and Congress heed the commission’s advice.

    Here’s an idea, why don’t legislators do their f**king job and make those kinds of decisions, instead of sloughing it off on a “bi-partisan commission”? It’s not a good sign that Conrad and Bayh came up with a way to avoid their own responsibility. That’s why we are where we are to begin with. F**k, Ford is so clueless. Bite me. Where are those rusty garden tools asiangrrlMN is selling. We need a few for Mr. Ford, stat.

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    KCinDC

    @arguingwithsignposts, I think you’re misunderstanding something. Do you have a link? My understanding is that the ban on preexisting condition exclusions for 19 and under is what kicks in immediately. The ban for everyone doesn’t kick in until a few years from now when the mandate does, because you can have one without the other if insurance companies are going to stay in business.

  21. 21.

    Evinfuilt

    That was a wonderful start to the week, and yes you’re Anne, the dems would open the door and start to compromise.

    The repubs have repeated over and over ad naseum, and yet Obama and the dems think they’ll compromise somewhere.

  22. 22.

    Rick Taylor

    Via a commenter at talkleft, I found this article on Coakley’s involvement as District Attorney in persecuting the Amirault family, who lost everything in a modern day witch hunt, accused of bizarre acts of child abuse based entirely on testimony of children coaxed by prosecuters. It makes it easier for me to understand why she lost.

  23. 23.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @KCinDC:
    Via the NYT:

    Lawmakers, Congressional aides and health policy experts said the package might plausibly include these elements:
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    Insurers could not deny coverage to children under the age of 19 on account of pre-existing medical conditions.

    If that is the extent of pre-existing condition reform, then I’m tempted to switch to the “kill the bill” side.

    Again, we have no idea wtf is in the legislation. Thanks, Congress, for proving that representative democracy is neither.

  24. 24.

    roseyv

    I’m not really in the mood to blow my branze out right now (I’m at the office, and it might get me fired), but I would still highly recommend people checking out Mr. Coulton’s website and listening to (and paying for!) some of his tunes. He is quite, quite wonderful. The Soterios Johnson song is one of my favorites, although last I checked — which was admittedly a while back — the version on the website is not the better, more current version, but still.

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