Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

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

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The revolution will be supervised.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

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

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

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  2. 2.

    asiangrrlMN

    Holy crap. I am glad you linked to anything but Politico, but unless Politico is snarking, that’s some major space-waster right there. Color me gobsmacked by the in(s)anity.

  3. 3.

    licensed to kill time

    Umm…it’s “breaking news” that Obama’s going to run for a second term? Whoa dude – I better place my bets now before this gets out..

  6. 6.

    Elizabelle

    In all honesty, do you think being acquired by a more conservative owner is in the game plan?

    The Post has been damn the torpedos embracing mediocrity and going all out to attract right-wing readers (with sometimes misleading headlines; read the story and there’s nuance or the headline just. does. not. fit the facts as presented.) It’s possible their online version and dead tree edition represent the same content very differently.

    The editorial page is psychotic. How surprised would any of us be to see Richard B. Cheney as their newest columnist?

    What’s happened to that paper is really a tragedy.

  7. 7.

    Common Sense

    But.. but…

    Just because Bush and Clinton did it too is no excuse! Why must you continue to blame Bush when Obama is the one who promised “change.” Tell me, is campaigning for an office you hope to win a big change from the way Washington works? Incidentally, I’ve also noticed that this guy keeps sleeping in the White House, which isn’t much of a change from Adams’ day when you think about it (barring a few years under Madison and Monroe when the Brits burned the place to the ground).

    Sigh. I hope you simpletons are happy with your change.

    /snark

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    Jesus. The headline on the Politico article is just jaw-dropping:

    Exclusive: White House privately plots 2012 campaign run

    Yes, definitely an Exclusive!. You crack journalists (or journalists on crack; hard to tell sometimes) dug up the unbelievable story that a President partway through his first term is starting to think about re-election, and further that he plans to turn to the same people who did a pretty good job with his first campaign.

    Start writing those Pulitzer acceptance speeches, boys.

    -dms

  9. 9.

    Dollared

    The real question is Politico v. WaPo. They are the two PR arms of the lobbying industry, and they are competing for mindshare and ad revenue from precisely the same audience of influence peddlers.

    Fox doesn’t care about the influence peddlers, except to the extent that the lies they promote tend to align with the prejudices of the Angry White Old Guy market that matters to Fox. The alignment of Angry Old White Guy Delusions with American Petroleum Institute lies is probably a pretty good descriptor of Mitch McConnell’s Virtual Reality.

  10. 10.

    Lev

    I posted this at OTB:

    Really? I thought he was going to resign a few months after the midterms, become a TV personality, and then try to become Supreme Allied Commander.

  11. 11.

    Balconesfault

    Start writing those Pulitzer acceptance speeches, boys.

    The Pulitzer committee really should keep a tally – and deduct points from any writers’ best work based on how many truly hacktastic pieces he writes in the previous year or so.

  14. 14.

    slag

    This only proves how out of touch Obama is. Only a real freak would want to be president of this country–not just once, but twice!

  15. 15.

    Elizabelle

    Re the WaPost’s online edition and how they slant it even more rightward:

    Today’s Michael Gerson column on healthcare, whatever you think of its content —

    The online headline is “The Democrats’ Path to Destruction” and it’s — surprise, surprise — the top-read opinion piece.

    The dead tree headline is “Obama’s health reform gamble raises questions of judgment.”

    The Post pulls this shit all of the time.

  17. 17.

    Crashman

    @Lev: +1. You get an extra +2 if you post this to the comment page on Politico. A comment like that is good chum; it’ll get the idiots over there stirred up into a nice feeding frenzy.

  18. 18.

    El Cid

    Scott Brown DROVE A TRUCK!!!

    As Arianna, the younger of his two daughters, told me, he originally purchased it not so he could haul lumber but so he could attach it to a trailer bearing her horse. He soon abandoned that plan. “It’s scary pulling a trailer,” he said, adding that he instead used the truck “for all of her horse stuff” and “it always smelled.”

    He ain’t like them damn ay-leetis faggortz in the Democrap party with their damn lah-tays and other ay-leet cultual habbits! No, he’s a sooooper hee-man!

  19. 19.

    dmsilev

    Of course, Politico missed the real big story of the day:

    It was then, witnesses claim, that there was a tearing of the heavens, and the skies receded as does a scroll when it is rolled up, and anecdotes about everyday middle-class Alaskan families were enunciated in down-to-earth tones.

    -dms

  20. 20.

    licensed to kill time

    Politico’s “Privately Plotting Plouffe plus President” piece portends possible Pulitzer Prize?

    Perchance piss poor Politico pusillanimous posturing poseurs..

  23. 23.

    inkadu

    OT: The boy had a good point today about Republican outcomes:

    As Democrats came to realize that they couldn’t get Republican votes for the bill by adding policies that Republican senators supported, they began trimming their ambitions in order to keep their caucus together. As they came to realize that they couldn’t pass the legislation without their most conservative members, they gave their most conservative members a veto card over the bill’s provisions. The result is legislation that’s not only much more conservative and incremental than what past presidents have proposed, but is also much more conservative than the major health-care reforms — namely Medicare and Medicaid — that past presidents have passed. And Republicans got these substantive concessions not by making a deal, but by not making a deal.

    I don’t even know who Sally Quinn is so I must refrain from the august conversation here.

  26. 26.

    Alex S.

    So did they get this Exclusive! from an anonymous staffer? Or do they have first hand information, like, uh, Obama?

  28. 28.

    Mike Kay

    I still think Kucinch can successfully primary Obama.

    I think Dennis can lead a unity ticket with a coalition of Firebaggers, PUMAS, and assorted Edwards Hippies.

  29. 29.

    Balconesfault

    I wonder if Politico is the basic reason the Wash Times finally went under? It became absolutely redundant…

  31. 31.

    Camchuck

    And Drudge has the new campaign logo.

    Haha, just kidding. He’s actually just suggesting the Missile Defense Agency logo is a combination of OFA logo and Islamic flag. (shoot me now)

  32. 32.

    Nellcote

    I think of Politico as a spin-off of the WaPo since it was started by ex-WaPostys.

    Sheesh, can’t even joke about Pulitizer’s anymore since VanderHei is on their board.

  33. 33.

    Redshirt

    I’m becoming convinced that one way we have out of this hole is to roll back the changes Bubba helped pass which did away with restrictions on media ownership. It seems more than obvious that we need to diversify our media and allow different voices to be heard, and wrest control from a few major corporations.

    Yeah, like that will happen!

  36. 36.

    Waynski

    @inkadu — She’s the wife of Ben Bradlee who was editor-in-chief of the Washington Post when they broke the Watergate story, back when the paper did, you know, journalism. He was also a pretty good friend of JFK.

  38. 38.

    Anne Laurie

    @Waynski:

    She’s the third wife of Ben Bradlee who was editor-in-chief of the Washington Post when they broke the Watergate story…

    It helps if you keep in mind that Sally Quinn is a failed Pamela Harriman. If she’d been born 10 or 15 years later, she might have been canny enough to go for the Arianna Huffington role, but Quinn was too late for real success at the old “courtesan” model and too early for the “power co-executive/ex-wife” slot.

  39. 39.

    Catsy

    @Michael D.: Sweet merciful FSM that’s hysterical. I guess The Onion found their groove again–it’s been tough being a satirist these last few years.

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