Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

So many bastards, so little time.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

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

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

Second rate reporter says what?

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

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  3. 3.

    Brian J

    Did everyone read the profile of Paul Krugman in The New Yorker? The overall picture was one that I was already familiar with, since I read a lot about Krugman over the years, but it did contain new information. For some reason, I find it very amusing that he’s so at home at sci-fi conventions.

    But more than anything, I once again found myself appreciating how out in front he was of criticizing the Bush administration. According to the article, among other things, people egged his house. I remember reading somewhere that The Times had to assign someone the task of dealing with the mountains of hate mail he received. That’s not exactly like running his car off the road, but still, considering how nuts some–and only some–on the right can be about stuff, you have to think it might have shaken him a little. But he didn’t stop. If only more people at been like him.

  4. 4.

    gbear

    Cheney is in the hospital

    Sorry, but now I’m doubly cheered up.

    How come that band is wearing leaf bags?

  6. 6.

    Zam

    Sorry, but now I’m doubly cheered up.

    I was gonna comment on that angle but I assumed some people would throw a fit over being more mature than them.

  7. 7.

    mcc

    5 Republican votes. Harry Reid actually pulls something off.

    Reid claims that he’s going to be passing the rest of the House jobs bill in chunks and that this was just chunk 1. Let’s see if he just sticks to that. I’d be curious if they can do a screw tightening thing and convince everyone who voted for one part of the jobs bill to vote for the others… and then when the Republicans start balking, attack them in the press and jump to reconciliation. This one sounds simple enough even Harry Reid can do it!

  9. 9.

    freelancer

    @Zam:

    I make no bones about it, I’m popping champagne the day that fucker returns to hell, and it is a life goal of mine to one day piss on his grave.

    Concern troll away.

  10. 10.

    jl

    Late breaking cosmological gravity science stunner flash news alert! Sirens!

    Paul Krugman’s cat, Einstein, might be bigger than Tunch.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/03/01/100301fa_fact_macfarquhar?currentPage=all

    I note that Krugman’s petite and delicate wife has been delegated to hold this massive entity, not the strapping male professor.

    And, for some mysterious reason, I would guess due to the same kind of optical illusions that plague B-J’s Tunch pics, the ginormous fat cat appears to be slightly smaller than everything else in the universe combined.

    Odd, but good science always leads to amazing new questions as well as amazing new answers.

  12. 12.

    Nellcote

    Any Bollywood fiends in here? Looking for spectacular dance scene stuff. Any recommendations for youtubes?

  13. 13.

    General Egal Tarian Stuck

    @mcc: They are learning. Stripped down bills with just a few popular provisions and dare the wingnuts to block them. Leave out, for now, ideological boogymen the wingers can demagogue. I see Mr. Plouffe smarts at work here.

  14. 14.

    KG

    @matt: I had to go to Drudge to figure out what you are talking about (the LA Times apparently things a story about Congress and the President using Twitter is worthy of the front page/headline). But now that I see what it is, all I can do is laugh. Especially after having a discussion this morning with a friend who works for Congressional Republicans, this is just awesome – the savior of the Republican Party has already betrayed them.

  16. 16.

    jacy

    @freelancer:

    Agreed. I don’t care if it makes me a bad person or not, I have a short list of people I intend to outlive just for the purpose of dancing on their graves, and Cheney is one of them.

  17. 17.

    Zam

    @freelancer: Yea I’m in the same boat as you. The fucker lied us into a horrible war in which many better people than him lost their lives, his constant torture advocacy is destroying our image and politics. Him and his people have done more to destroy this country and our principles than Bin Laden could ever hope to do.

  22. 22.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Laura – in case you are lurking, just wanted to let you know that Evelyn sent me a really nice note today to thank me for the coupons. I really hope her and her group can use them. I am pickled tink with the card she sent me, it made my whole week and it is only Monday.

    PS) I am eating Liquorice Allsorts, all is right in the world. That is all.

  23. 23.

    Zam

    Susan Page on Hardball seems to be arguing that DADT will not be repealed because the 25% who do love it love it more than the others hate it. I’m certain all gay service members are completely indifferent.

  25. 25.

    matt

    For those of you not knowing what I’m talking about, there’s some epic rage because Scott Brown voted with the democrats on the jobs bill test vote.

  27. 27.

    r€nato

    Dick Cheney is a malevolent shit. As far as I am concerned, he is the American Pinochet.

    I sure didn’t know too many people who wished Pinochet a speedy recovery from his illness.

  31. 31.

    freelancer

    @John Cole:

    I know you don’t like being nutpicked, anymore than you don’t like trolls showing up here to gloat and pick nonsense fights when someone like Teddy dies. (Good God, did that suck [not just his death, but the sanctimonious chest-thumping from the right wing seagulls chirping “chappaquiddick” all fucking week])

    So in that spirit, I will try to contain my rational exhuberance.

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Litlebritdifrent: last year during the “Cutest Dog” competition, I sent Evelyn a donation. She responded by return mail with the sweetest personal note. At any time, but especially in these text-email-IM days, that is class.

  34. 34.

    jl

    I will not follow moment by moment what is happening to Cheney, unless he gets into office again (in which case I won’t be able to because everything will be secret).

    I don’t see anything on the internet news yet, re Cheney. (in edit: should concentrate on his official public life and misdeeds, not personal)

    Discuss this story instead:

    Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:48 pm EST
    Canadian curling fans leave Danish player in tears
    By Chris Chase

    http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Candian-curling-fans-leave-Danish-player-in-tear?urn=oly,221320

  36. 36.

    Linda Featheringill

    Remember the King story “Riding the Bullet”? The young man has to come face-to-face with his own desire to live, even if his mother does not?

    Anyway, I am apparently living that story today. A friend went in for rather simple surgery about 10 days ago and has had multiple complications, with two more admissions to the hospital. It is beginning to look serious.

    But my main emotional reaction is thankfulness that I am not the one doing a tango with death.

    Perhaps we are never as wonderful as we would like to be.

  37. 37.

    4jkb4ia

    OK, I have been given instructions that UConn is to win so that Pitt gets the double bye in the Big East tournament. Such tournament will be the appropriate place to send UConn to the NIT.

  38. 38.

    Bruce (formerly Steve S.)

    I’m really going to hate it when Cheney dies, because our national discourse will spend the next few days solemnly proclaiming that he wasn’t such a bad guy. I hereby pre-emptively forgive Obama for all the nice things he will say about the mass murdering prick upon his demise.

  39. 39.

    jl

    Yoohoo Scott Brown, liberal hero saves JOBS BILL!

    The narcissm and projection of many US voters is nearly infantile. I am sure many tea partiers will feel betrayed, and let us hope they do not listen the counsel of Beck and Limbaugh and act out.

    Just occured to me that soon we progressive Nazi liberals will not be able to call them ‘tea partiers’. If I R C, from my book larnen’, didn’t ‘tea’ ‘mean’ something a long time ago?

    Well, I gotta go, I suddenly feel the munchies coming on.

  40. 40.

    General Egal Tarian Stuck

    Dick Cheney is no longer in power but is the best living reminder of the Bush Administration and let’s the world know that on a regular basis. Good news for dems if he sticks around a little longer with his blood soaked puke funnel set on rock and roll.

    The devil is patient and is waiting when it’s time.

  41. 41.

    4jkb4ia

    @Zam:
    Either a) Cheney will have the best medical care and it is nothing
    or b) Cheney knows what happened to Bill Casey.
    So there is nothing to be cheerful about.

  43. 43.

    Tax Analyst

    OK, then you’ll see no heartless grave prancing or pissing from me.

    But can I at least hope for a incredibly long, long, excruciatingly painful hospital stay that never really ends? Preferably with tubes stuffed everywhere and a breathing mask so he cannot speak.

    And then in about,oh, 40-50 years he gets “well” for maybe 10 hours and then has a relapse. Rinse, lather, rinse, repeat.

    Oh, and also a succession of presidents who during his hospital stay all thoroughly denounce every miserable thing Cheney did as VP and all the lies and distortions he kept spreading afterwards.

  44. 44.

    Mike Kay

    If cheney dies, it won’t be that big of a deal. It’ll mean he’ll only be able to come out at night, but he also won’t have any reflections, which means he won’t be able to be photographed, which will prevent him from going on tee vee.

  45. 45.

    Comrade Mary

    @Nellcote: Dekho Ab To from the 1965 film Janwar is still one of my favourites. So 60s, so bizarre, so wonderful. It’s performed by the legendary playback singers Mohamed Rafi and Asha Boshle. (Bollywood virgins: the actors you see are lipsynching to the masters.) There lots of info about them in the YT sidebar.

    There’s lots of Asha and Rafi on YouTube, but don’t forget that Asha was also paid lavish tribute in this song.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    For work-related reasons, I subscribe to several news. Alwert services (including WaPo). As of now, not one of them hhas sent me anything on Cheney hospitalization — although they normally send an alert if a roll of toilet paper runs. Out in the Senate rest room.

  49. 49.

    gbear

    @matt:

    Did you see that Ben Nelson voted with the republicans against cloture? WTF. He should get tossed into the harbor too.

  52. 52.

    demo woman

    This is the Headline at Abcnews

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney in the Hospital With Chest Pains…………………………………………
    Expert insists sudden acceleration is an electronic problem, despite automakers protestation to the contrary.
    Full Story |Related:

    did Toyota have something to do with his heart problem?
    I don’t have photo shop but if you hurry you can see the head line

    *AH Shit… they already fixed it

  53. 53.

    ellaesther

    Oh lord, lord. The hair, atop the shiny orange dashikis! To say nothing of the gentleman dancing off to the right in a green get up that has his trousers attached to his shoulders via the manly criss-cross of two wisps of fabric across his chest…!

    But the music is fairly awesome.

  54. 54.

    Mary G

    Only the good die young; I’m sure VP Cheney will be with us at least 50 more years.

    I just got back from my monthly IV at the hospital. I am proud of myself for finally speaking up. Usually I just stay quiet while all the other patients repeat whatever Rush Limbaugh said this morning on the radio. They’re all really old, they have terrible cancers, it’s Orange County blah blah blah.

    After bonding over Olympic curling, though, I felt brave enough to say, when the umpteenth lie about death panels came up, that no, that is not what President Obama and the Democrats want.

    After a long but civil discussion (the infusion nurse is from Holland where her sister had to wait 3 months for an X-ray), amazingly enough, all of us agreed that Medicare for all is the best idea! Whoo hoo, public option by a different name.

    They probably went home thinking I was a brainwashed O-bot, but at least we talked.

  56. 56.

    Brian J

    As funny as it is to joke about Cheney suffering some sort of horrible death, I’d have to say the best way for him to go would be at 10:00 on a Friday night of some major holiday weekend, when almost nobody is thinking about politics, or at whatever point would get the least television coverage and attention paid to his ideas. Denying him and his supporters a chance to spread their garbage would probably drive them crazy.

  57. 57.

    Comrade Mary

    Just to add to today’s WTFuckery: Shatner will be the star in a tv show based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says.

    “I didn’t live to be 73 years old so I could eat kale. Don’t fix me your breakfast and pretend you’re fixing mine.”
    __
    “The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He’s a god damned dog.”
    __
    “How the fuck should I know if it’s still good? Eat it. You get sick, it wasn’t good. You people, you think I got microscopic fucking eyes.”
    __
    “Here’s a strawberry, sorry for farting near you…Hey! Either take the strawberry and stop bitching, or no strawberry, that’s the deal.”
    __
    “I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it…No, I’m not gonna stop, I’m just saying yes, I get that concept.”
    __
    “That woman was sexy…Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.”
    __
    “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”
    __
    “Been thinking for a while, and I’d say there’s 1.5 pounds of shit in the dog. Tried to get the vet to weigh a sack of it. No dice.”
    __
    “A parent’s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed.”

  58. 58.

    Comrade Mary

    FYWP: I posted this earlier, you never showed it, then when I retried, you whined that it was a duplicate. FYWP!

    Just to add to today’s WTFuckery: Shatner will be the star in a tv show based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says.

    “I didn’t live to be 73 years old so I could eat kale. Don’t fix me your breakfast and pretend you’re fixing mine.”
    __
    “The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He’s a god damned dog.”
    __
    “How the fuck should I know if it’s still good? Eat it. You get sick, it wasn’t good. You people, you think I got microscopic fucking eyes.”
    __
    “Here’s a strawberry, sorry for farting near you…Hey! Either take the strawberry and stop bitching, or no strawberry, that’s the deal.”
    __
    “I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it…No, I’m not gonna stop, I’m just saying yes, I get that concept.”
    __
    “That woman was sexy…Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.”
    __
    “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”
    __
    “Been thinking for a while, and I’d say there’s 1.5 pounds of shit in the dog. Tried to get the vet to weigh a sack of it. No dice.”
    __
    “A parent’s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed.”

  59. 59.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jl #10

    I hereby propose a fundraising event, the Annual Tunch-Off.

    (It’s times like this that I really miss the cat of my youth — a 26-pound grey and white altered male whose name, I kid you not, was Gay. [Today I would spell it Ghey, of course.])

    Anyhow, properly marketed, I think a Tunch-Off could raise a lot of money for animal rescue. Or, you know, a nice prezzie for John so he doesn’t feel sorry for himself.

  60. 60.

    Comrade Mary

    The end is nigh: Shatner will be the star in a tv show based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says.

    “”The dog is not bored, it’s a fucking dog. It’s not like he’s waiting for me to give him a fucking rubix cube. He’s a god damned dog.”
    __
    “Here’s a strawberry, sorry for farting near you…Hey! Either take the strawberry and stop bitching, or no strawberry, that’s the deal.”
    __
    “I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it…No, I’m not gonna stop, I’m just saying yes, I get that concept.”
    __
    “That woman was sexy…Out of your league? Son. Let women figure out why they won’t screw you, don’t do it for them.”
    __
    “The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain’t like he knows the cure for cancer and he just ain’t spitting it out.”
    __
    “Been thinking for a while, and I’d say there’s 1.5 pounds of shit in the dog. Tried to get the vet to weigh a sack of it. No dice.”
    __
    “A parent’s only as good as their dumbest kid. If one wins a Nobel Prize but the other gets robbed by a hooker, you failed.”

  62. 62.

    JGabriel

    Am I the only person here who, whenever I see the acronym “DADT”, thinks “Defense Against the Dark … oh, yeah, not that, different context, right” ?

    It’s just this mental tic. It’s especially noticeable, for some reason, whenever it shows up in proximity to Cheney’s name.

    .

  66. 66.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Comrade Mary:

    The end is nigh: Shatner will be the star in a tv show based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says.

    And thus Canada gets its revenge for yesterday’s hockey loss. It took you guys a whole day to go nuclear. IT’S JUST A GAME.

  67. 67.

    cat48

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Is this based on kitteh weight? I have a contestant here at home. I don’t think Krugman’s cat would be be a winning entry because several yrs ago I had a kitteh who looked almost identical to his. It looks like fur to me that makes him look huge–look at his tail. All very long and fluffy. My kitteh like that was a lightweight consisting of fluffy fur. Tunchie is a shorthair kitteh so he really is “muscular.”

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    @Brian J:

    But more than anything, I once again found myself appreciating how out in front he was of criticizing the Bush administration.

    When I watched him being interviewed during those years, I could see the toll it was taking on him. He was clearly under a tremendous amount of pressure and stress, and his eyes would blink rapidly. He looked terrified, but he held his ground, and I gave him a tremendous amount of credit for that.

    I lost a lot of respect for him during the primaries when he was clearly pushing for Hillary and his economic views seemed influenced by his preferred candidate for president. But I still give him credit for talking about the disastrous Bush economic policies.

  69. 69.

    Skepticat

    Do I see a teeny tiny glimmer of hope that perhaps a teeny tiny bit of what Scott Brown said about being independent and not necessarily voting in lockstep with Rs might actual be … true?
    Nah, probably not. The blowback will frighten him into full teabag mode.

  71. 71.

    trollhattan

    ZOMG, either teh Krugman kitteh is a feline monstrosity or frau Krugman is a tiny li’l thang.

    In unrelated, open thread news, who in the greater Tennessee region would care to share their thoughts on “the role of blogs and social media in civility in the political process” with Putz himself? March 23 is your, er, chance. Note: he’ll be armed.

    http://www.utk.edu/events/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=44350

  72. 72.

    Brian J

    @J. Michael Neal:

    For some reason, for the past few days, I’ve been thinking of the episode of The Simpsons entitled “A Star is Burns,” where William Shatner appears for a few seconds auditioning to play Mr. Burns and says, “Ex…cel-lent!”

    Cracks me up every time.

  73. 73.

    jenniebee

    Oh happy day – my state did crap that got us on the Maddow show, and not in a good way.

    And it’s not like we don’t have some serious competition right now – a SC legislator just proposed legislation to outlaw federal currency and replace it with a state issued currency backed by gold. That’s the wacky shit we have to compete with right now.

    For the record, we managed to jump to the front of the line with a principled stand against about $35K/year in medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood and by replacing an executive order that forbids discrimination on a whole bunch of bases including sexual orientation with one that forbids discrimination on a whole bunch of bases explicitly not including sexual orientation.

  78. 78.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Cat48 #65: Well, I haven’t worked out all the qualifying rules yet, but I think there should be a formula that balances weight/BMI against kitteh furritude. Tunch is the standard. Whoever outweighs, outsizes, outfluffs, outstares or out-‘tudes him gets through the qualifying rounds. Maybe a special award for the Greatest Amount of Furmination Generated in a 10-minute period.

  81. 81.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tax Analyst #73

    I agree. I think he’s of the old school, where there was still room for decency. I certainly don’t wish him ill.

  85. 85.

    SIA

    @freelancer: In that case, no worries. One man, responsible for thousands – perhaps millions – of needless deaths, not to mention ripping the soul of this country to pieces and pissing on it…is one of the few human beings whose death I would not treat with respect. Trouble is he’s leaving toxic spawn behind.

  86. 86.

    Zuzu's Petals

    I’m sort of wondering why it’s so quiet on the Jim Treacher “hit and run Secret Service I mean State Department jaywalking ticket conspiracy” front.

    I mean he and his pals were waiting with bated breath for the police report, which should have been issued at least a week ago. And then …. nothing.

    Gee.

  87. 87.

    Xenos

    @John Cole:

    I’m going to have to deal with wingnuts linking to you all gloating about Cheney forever if you keep it up. Please just stop.

    Now the WashPo is nutpicking GOS diaries and using them as counterpoint to CPAC headliners, I feel rather self-important and empowered. If I can be obnoxious enough I get to be elevated to the level of, say, Liz Cheney.

  88. 88.

    Platonicspoof

    It is a cover story.
    I saw Darth Vader Cheney on the Death Star International Space Station in the background of a live feed a couple days ago. You could just see his face then.
    The only clip I can find now just shows the back of his head.

    Why now? The D.S. I.S.S. is 98% complete . . . .

  89. 89.

    Annie

    My oh my. Isn’t good that Cheney has government sponsored health care….He certainly has used it enough…

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