Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

We will not go back.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

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  1. 1.

    General Winfield Stuck

    My life has turned into a g-rated Eastbound and Down.

    Could be worse, you still could be a republican. Or, Southbound and Sideways.

  4. 4.

    demo woman

    @General Winfield Stuck: Wouldn’t it be easier to be a repub. Of course one would just have to put their head in the sand and pretend that the Bush years didn’t happen.
    I want to know how he’s watching Chuck. Chuck has been preempted because of the Olympics.

  11. 11.

    thejoz

    Speaking of the Tunchian one, why isn’t your overlord mentioned in this little “poor me” fest?

  13. 13.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    News on in the background. State Dem Senators want a tax cut/credit for small businesses who rehire laid-off workers. Repubs say this is just a political ploy and what we really need are no new taxes. Waaaa? So now tax cuts are not okay. Oh, wait, Democratic tax cuts are not okay.

    People believe this shit? I just don’t know how.

  14. 14.

    thejoz

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    As I said on my other site;

    If Obama supported a bill declaring America to be the best country in the history of the universe, Republicans would still filibuster it and decry it as being too liberal. They’d probably call it un-American too, for good measure.

    Yeah….

  17. 17.

    thejoz

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    Which would then get watered down further to the best country that we live in, right now, under current circumstances, but could change at any moment because a terrorist could nuke it or Jesus could rapture all the “real Americans” away at any minute, thus reducing its stature.

    And then they’d all still vote against it.

    Assholes.

  18. 18.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: Taxes and War are the only issues left for them. And the war thing ain’t what it used to be after Iraq, and also Afghanistan. Can’t have libtards stealing your only issue, so they will just call them something else to make it go away. It’s just words, and words are all they have. Look for something like “liberal pot money” cuts soon to replace the T word.

  19. 19.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @jeffreyw: People who do bad things to animals have a special level of hell waiting for them. I’m being extra good so the FSM will allow me to be warden of that level.

    BTW, that one is too handsome. I vote Ranger.

  23. 23.

    Mark S.

    How can anyone, even someone as dumb as Mark Halperin, think that the Republicans have any interest in working with Obama?

    Obama needs to conduct some sort of face-to-face intervention with amenable senior Republican legislators, to convince them that it is possible to make a deal in one or two important areas without agreeing on every issue or laying down their arms for the next election.

    Hey, Mark, remember that deficit commission? How did that work out?

    via

  25. 25.

    Annie

    @Cat Lady:

    Dam. You stole my line…That’s what I get for living in Northern Virginia. Just got home from work. It took 2 hours to get into the city this morning, and almost as long to get out. I want to purge the DC city government. Snow removal is clearly not their strong point…

  28. 28.

    soonergrunt

    OH. MY. HOLY. GOD.
    gawker.com/5472882/cpac-gets-radical-offers-pizza-and-hiphop

    “We’re gonna have the most popular games. There’ll be Guitar Hero. There’ll be Dance Revolution. There’ll be Call of Duty,” said Kevin McCullough, the radio host who created the XPAC Lounge with actor Stephen Baldwin.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature came in three times a day to come in and rally the kids,” CPAC spokesman Ian Walters said.

    So Joe Sam The Plumber The War Correspondent The Tax Cheat will be there. Because when you are talking about “somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature” you’re talking about Sam. Because there IS NO ONE ELSE of that “stature.”
    This is just sad, on so many levels.

  30. 30.

    Warren Terra

    @freelancer:
    You don’t rewind your DVDs? That explains why none of the Netflix DVDs I’ve been getting were rewound. Selfish behavior, I call it.

  33. 33.

    WaterGirl

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: I got one of my dogs years ago because I knew someone whose next door neighbors packed up the kids and the car and one of the dogs and moved to CA, leaving the other dog and the cat standing there in the dust as they drove away.

    I’m with you. If there’s not a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals, there should be.

    Edit: In case you’re not sure they were evil people, I called every vet in the county trying to figure out who their vet had been, and there were no records of a dog by that name or owner’s with their names. So this 2 or 3-year old dog had never even been taken to the vet!

  34. 34.

    Honus

    okay, I got it now Robbie, Amy Bishop is a liberal because she got her degree from Harvard, where Bush got his MBA.
    All you have to do to completely undress these assholes is to get them to vote on a tax to pay for their wars. Then watch that filibuster.

  37. 37.

    Honus

    And could somebody borrow a set of balls and point out that everybody could have free health care and we could make a significant dent in the deficit if we cut the defense budget in half, and that would still leave us with something like 10x the defense budget of #2?

  38. 38.

    Honus

    And could somebody borrow a set of balls and point out that everybody could have free health care and we could make a significant dent in the deficit if we cut the defense budget in half, and that would still leave us with something like 10x the defense budget of #2?

  39. 39.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature came in three times a day to come in and rally the kids,” CPAC spokesman Ian Walters said.

    I just love that. You couldn’t make it up.

  40. 40.

    rootless_e

    Seems like he just left out the key phrase

    Obama needs to conduct some sort of face-to-face intervention with amenable senior Republican legislators, WITH A FUCKING BASEBALL BAT, to convince them that it is possible to make a deal in one or two important areas without agreeing on every issue or laying down their arms for the next election.

  43. 43.

    Annie

    @AhabTRuler:

    A little!!!! I know, I know. DC gov. is probably doing the best they can.

    But, it is fun to bitch…Tomorrow, I will take the bus to the metro. And then back. Feeling self-absorbed right now — although my first glass of wine is helping — the problem is that I teach at night, so busing and metroing is a bit more difficult for me…However, I am sure that after my second glass of wine, I will see the experience in a whole new light…I am a humanitarian aid person after all, and I have survived worse.

  47. 47.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @Juror #7: One of the things I like about the Westminster Dog Show is they tell you both the origin of the breed and WHY you shouldn’t have one. They really hit home on breed peculiarities and what kind of person they need.

    It’s also where I learned my beloved Great Danes are an ancient cross between Greyhounds and Mastiffs. And when you look at them after that, you can clearly see the front half is mastiff and the back half is greyhound.

  48. 48.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    We adopted (okay to be honest we stole him) Buddy, from the next door neighbors eons ago. He was a Springer Spaniel mix and used to give us some love through the chain link fence for a long time. Said next door neighbors found him by the roadside and brought him home and then basically left him in the back yard and ignored him. One day while I was talking to him over the fence I scritched his ears and he was so loaded with ticks it was not even funny. Neighbors had gone to DC for the weekend (leaving Buddy of course) so DH jumped over the fence and *ahem* stole him. I sat with Q-tips and flea and tick spray and got most of the ticks out of his ears, took him to the vet that Saturday and got him further de-ticked and de-flead. When the neighbors returned on the Monday we told them what we had done and told them they could have Buddy back when they reimbursed us for the $400.00 vet bill. He was with us for 10 wonderful years and I still miss him today.

  49. 49.

    daryljfontaine

    @jeffreyw: I was shopping at a local PetSmart this weekend, and as I always do, stopped by the kittehs they have in the back for adoption. Can’t take any more home with my two, but I always go and look. ALL of them this week included a tag with some variant of the story “my family could no longer take care of me, please adopt.” Breaks my fuckin’ heart, every time.

    Every. Time.

    The caption under that beautiful pup reminded me of that. For some reason, he looks like a Rowdy to me, but you risk instant personality graft from a name like that (my mom still regrets naming her latest cat Mischief).

    D

  50. 50.

    cat48

    DIAF Mug is cute. Ordered BJ t-shirt this month. Tunch next month. Hope my kittehs are not jealous.

  59. 59.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @SIA:

    It is a nice one. I still miss him, he who would chase any squeaky toy, and who adored his best pal Sox (our female boxer mix from the local rescue society), after Sox died (she slipped a disc which paralysed her back half and despite our signing her up for a “wheelchair” she could not handle it) Buddy reckoned that life without Sox was not worth living. They died within a year of each other, cause that is how they rolled.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Gail Collins is on Rachel right now. I think she is the first print journalist I have ever seen who looks *EXACTLY* like the photo that runs with her column.

    She talks and seems just like her column, too. Very likable.

  61. 61.

    Annie

    Breaks my fuckin’ heart, every time.

    Every. Time.

    Me, too. I can’t think of what is worse — not being adopted or being abandoned. I think of what my two kitties would think if suddenly we weren’t there to care for them…No matter how annoying they get at times — particularly at 5:00am on a Sunday — when the “choir” is purring in my ear for breakfast — I can’t imagine leaving them. EVER. For better or worse, they trust me to take care of them. And, I would sacrifice almost everything to not betray that trust.

  62. 62.

    RedKitten

    Dog on my lap, ice on my shoulder, Chuck on tv.

    Doesn’t sound like a bad evening to me, frankly.

    SamKitten is developing his first fang, by the way. When it breaks through, pictures will be forthcoming.

  65. 65.

    madmommy

    @Juror #7:

    Love the Westminster show! My problem is I want one of nearly all of them, except maybe the purse-sized dogs. And the poodles. But the giant, hairy, lubering, slobbery beasties? Yes, please!

  66. 66.

    Beeb

    @Bad Horse’s Filly: Way to make a girl feel old. My early memories are of my mother yelling at the TV, too — the Army-McCarthy hearings. By the time Watergate came along, I was seven years out of college and could yell at it all by myself. :>)

  67. 67.

    Juror #7

    @madmommy: Poodles…ick. I’m not a fan of the toy group, as a whole, but I want one of most of the rest. Terriers are my overall favorite, though.

  69. 69.

    SIA

    @Litlebritdifrnt: That brings tears to my eyes. They were fortunate to have such a loving family to take them in. And what a happy lass Ms Dweebe appears to be!

    @SiubhanDuinne: I was just going to post how much I have enjoyed Rachel’s show the past few nights. I always learn something, and she is able to put the facts out there without being unpleasant. Sometimes she gets a little too cutesy, but then, she’s young. :)

  73. 73.

    Martin

    My dog’s cousin won best of breed but didn’t go anywhere in the group. His uncle was best of breed a few years back.

  75. 75.

    SIA

    John they quoted you on GOS – from over a year ago, and unfortunately quite accurate.
    dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/16/837399/-The-year-in-bipartisanship (apologies if this has already been posted)

    I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

  78. 78.

    J. Michael Neal

    Fuck NBC. I mean, really, fuck ’em. WHERE ARE MY WOMEN SPEEDSKATERS! They were advertised as being on the afternoon broadcast on CNBC. They didn’t show. Now, women biathletes are pretty damned good; hot chicks, head-to-toe spandex, prone position, with a gun. However, they are not women speedskaters.

    Give me my fucking (I wish) speedskaters, NBC.

  83. 83.

    gbear

    @jeffreyw:

    Given that you picked him up from the side of the road, maybe you should name him ‘Hitch’?

    He looks like one big bundle of unconditional love.

  84. 84.

    jeffreyw

    @gbear: I like that. Hitch has a nice ring to it. Wasn’t I that picked him up, tho, a nice lady brought him and his bro into the shelter where Mrs J works. Mrs J says there was an entire litter, the lady found homes for some of them, the shelter took the last two.

  85. 85.

    Darkrose

    I really wanted the Tunch DIAF mug, but I decided that might indicate that I have a non-customer service-oriented attitude, so I went with Our New Pet Overlords instead.

  86. 86.

    asiangrrlMN

    Oh sure. Break out the new swag AFTER I ordered. Harumph. It’s really sweet, though. I will have to ponder it.

    All puppehs on this thread are so cute. And, yes, people who do cruel things to animals….can’t even go there. Makes me too mad.

    Anyone have any good news? I need to hear/read something cheerful.

    @SIA: Yeah, Steve Benen linked to that BJ post as well. It’s so fucking true.

  88. 88.

    SIA

    @asiangrrlMN: Heh. Re JC’s post, sad, true, but not completely devoid of humor. Great image:

    and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax

  89. 89.

    soonergrunt

    @J. Michael Neal:
    It’s the Vancouver Organizing Committee’s fault, not NBC.
    The long track venue was using two new ice surfacing machines based on ‘green’ technology, and they don’t seem to be able to consistently repair/resourface the ice. They’re having a lot of problems, so they are shipping in an old-school Zamboni from Calgary. It should be here tomorrow. They have postponed the events until Thursday.

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