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Their freedom requires your slavery.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Second rate reporter says what?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Petty moves from a petty man.

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

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

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

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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!

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    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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