Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

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

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

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

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

Not all heroes wear capes.

Infrastructure week. at last.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    I am tempted to get petty and vulgur about merging the last two letters of Sally QUINN. But the result is effete and obscure, so I will resist.

  3. 3.

    tbogg

    Nobody puts Sally Quinn in the corner. Nobody.

    Honestly, do you think Quinn heard about Rogers leaving and immediately had her first orgasm since the Ford administration?

  7. 7.

    Dave C

    Until very, very recently, I was completely unaware of the existence of Sally Quinn. Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss.

  10. 10.

    baldheadeddork

    @goblue72: Yeah, doesn’t he have basset videos to edit? :-D

    Edit to add: Now, if only that could get the WH would hire Rogers back with a promotion (into a very visible position, say Secretary of Getting In Sally Quinn’s Grill) and a raise…

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    Wow, a lovely sexist joke about Washington not knowing her place. And here I thought I couldn’t dislike Quinn any more than I already did.

  13. 13.

    The Dangerman

    Why should I give a shit about Desiree Rogers resigning? A fucking Social Secretary? Now THERE’s an important position.

    Don’t tell me; she must be African American. Her and Van Jones departing after governing while Black is too much for some folks.

  14. 14.

    Citizen Alan

    How is it possible that a home-wrecking tramp could ever rise to such a level of social importance?!? The Village often gets compared to the courtiers from Dangerous Liaisons, but I think that’s unfair to the French courtiers — the Marquise de Merteuil was socially ruined when her affairs were revealed, but every in D.C. knows how Sally Quinn became Mrs. Ben Bradlee and it only seems to enhance her Queen Bee status.

  16. 16.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    The crowd is tense – it’s sudden death overtime.
    Sally Quinn plays THE JESUS KEY.
    THE JESUS KEY SCORES!
    GOOOOOOOOALLLLLL! ! !

  17. 17.

    gbear

    @tbogg:

    Nobody puts Sally Quinn in the corner. Nobody.

    Come all without, come all within,
    You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Quinn.

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    @tbogg: I wouldn’t say “immediately”.
    Pretty sure she checked to confirm the right freudes were being schadened first.
    Then it was all systems go.

  19. 19.

    Max

    I’ve said it before, but seriously, if I was Obama, I’d just say “fuck this, I quit”.

    Does anyone know who the fuck was the social secretary for any other presidents? Does anyone care?

    The lame press spent way too much time in today’s presser asking Gibbsy about Obama’s smoking, and Drudge is trying to imply he’s a drunk.

    I hope that every single one of these sorry excuse for a journalist (I’m looking at you Tapper, Chip, Chuckie T, Major) get fired fired fired.

    David Shuster should do all the news, on every channel and in every paper, with maybe some help from Jonathon Alter, who I like, because he’s the only one that has any fucking sense.

    Sorry for the f words, but I’m reached my bullshit threshold for the day.

  20. 20.

    AhabTRuler

    Sorry for the f words

    Use more. We need ’em.

    I think Obama needs to get his cabinet together and reënact the lineup scene from The Usual Suspects.

  21. 21.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @The Dangerman:

    departing after governing while Black is too much for some folks.

    FTW. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be absent while my laptop dries off. I should know better. Do not read B-J while drinking diet coke. I made it past T-Bogg @3 and thought I was safe.

  22. 22.

    Zifnab

    Zinged by a twitter feed. Ooo. I can’t wait to hear what Sally’s going to say next on her Live Journal.

  23. 23.

    Prattlehorn

    What’s the acceptable euphemism for “cunt”?

    Because I really want to call Sally Quinn a cunt; she is, in fact, one of the cuntiest cunts whoever cunted a cuntacious cunt.

    Even supercunts, who rule the Cuntiskistan and c#nt cuntly all over the cunting world, take a cunted look at cunty Sally and say “Now THAT’s a CUNT!!”

    But I realize that term is sexist.

    So what can I call Sally Quinn that has the same opprobrium and disgust as “cunt”?

  24. 24.

    Mnemosyne

    @Max:

    Drudge is trying to imply [Obama]’s a drunk.

    They really are trying to recycle every single complaint that the left had about Bush, aren’t they?

  27. 27.

    Gunner

    Twitter completes the transformation of Sally Quinn from vapid SOCIALITE to VAPID socialite

  29. 29.

    JD Rhoades

    My reply, via Twitter:

    Ms. Quinn, you are as obsessed with who’s in and who’s out as a particularly vapid middle schooler. Please grow up.

  31. 31.

    Kris

    She’s just mad that she doesn’t look as good as Desiree.

    Sally, black don’t crack–you do.

  32. 32.

    PeakVT

    Here’s the link I meant to add but can’t because the edit function didn’t appear.

    FYWP. Also.

    ETA: Now it appears, of course. Arrg…

  33. 33.

    Montysano

    @Max:

    I’ve said it before, but seriously, if I was Obama, I’d just say “fuck this, I quit”.

    Word.

    Obama pwnd Eric Cantor the other day, but the jerk-off gesture would have more than done the job.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    @Prattlehorn: Did you take a couple shots during the 5 minute edit period?
    Because I swear your original post wasn’t so forthright.

  36. 36.

    Corner Stone

    @Montysano: Oh man. A roll of the eyes to the Heavens along with the universal “jacking off” gesture…
    That would’ve been poetry in motion baby.

  37. 37.

    Alex S.

    Two things:

    – To be honest, it would have been disappointing if Quinn had not said anything

    – I like the labyrinthian background of her twitter page, an allusion to the Village?

  40. 40.

    Kryptik

    @The Dangerman:

    The only real reason to care is that she’s an example of the depth petty people and Republicans (but I repeat myself) will go to undermine the administration. If they’re willing to go after the goddamn Social Secretary, it’s not hard to imagine they’re going as deep as they can go to find SOMETHING that’ll stick, no matter how minor the position or how minor the offense.

    Oh yeah, and of course Governing While Black means that everything has some secret covert meaning, Beck told me so. So obviously even the Social Secretary is part of that damn Marxist agenda.

  41. 41.

    Ash Can

    And to think that, once upon a time, I had some respect for Ben Bradlee.

    Sally Quinn isn’t fit to be Desiree Rogers’ cleaning girl. If she were to come here to Chicago, she might learn some manners for once in her pathetic life.

  42. 42.

    Alex S.

    @Brian J:

    I think it means that Desiree Rogers was too social, meaning she gave access to too many people, all of them the wrong people.

  45. 45.

    ruemara

    I dunno about you, but I had to slap that woman back a bit. Any broad who made due to the ease that a rich man had getting her into the sack needs to kept in check for crap like that.

    And, oddly, this is the second place I’ve heard the meme that Obama is a drunk. In the HuffPo comments of all places, some twatensquatch was trying to tie his health problems to binge drinking. For the dude who was toasting at the governer’s ball with water. jackasses all of them.

  46. 46.

    Andre

    I just watched that episode of The West Wing where C.J pwns that society reporter, Sherri Wexler, who had previously tried messing with her. We need more of that kind of badassery.

  47. 47.

    Johnny B

    @Alex S.:

    I will always remember watching Charlie Rose in 1998 (or thereabouts) in which Quinn and Bob Woodward explained that the Clinton’s big mistake was failing to accept dinner invitations from Sally Quinn. I remember being completely floored at this complaint. The Clintons were certainly not faultless, but to complain that they didn’t hang out with them was so high school. I couldn’t believe it. They were completely oblivious as to how petty that made them look.

    Although not a huge Clinton fan, I remember yelling at the TV, “Why the fuck do they need to hang out with you losers. They went to fucking Yale Law School. They have a whole rolodex full of interesting people to have dinner. Why would they waste perfectly good Saturday night hanging out with you worthless turds.” It was years later that I learned that Quinn raised the same complaint about Carter and now, as we know, she has said as much about the Obamas.

  48. 48.

    Cat Lady

    Twittering their vapid high school kool kidz tweets is what occupies them when they got nothin’. Be grateful. They got nuthin.

  49. 49.

    Comrade Mary

    Oddly enough, Ed Whelan at the NRO gives that “moderate drinking” statement the proper context.

    The Drudge Report is currently highlighting the last sentence of a Guardian article that asserts that President Obama’s doctors “recommended ‘moderation of alcohol intake’” — an assertion that would lead the reader to believe that his doctors regard his drinking as excessive. But the actual recommendation from the released medical report is quite different:
    __
    Continue smoking cessation efforts, a daily exercise program, healthy diet, moderation in alcohol intake, periodic dental care, and remain up-to-date with recommended immunizations.
    __
    In other words, Obama’s doctors are recommending that he continue his moderate drinking.

  50. 50.

    Emma

    Johnny B.: I thought I was the only one who remembered that. I have hated Sally Quinn and everything/everyone she represents with a passion. “It’s not their town?” Listen you stupid woman, the American people said it was!

  52. 52.

    Hob

    @Mnemosyne: I don’t support that, because I think “quim” is a perfectly fine archaic dirty word which I’d rather not get mixed up with this person.

  53. 53.

    Silver

    Of course Sally Quinn wanted the social secretary fired. Did you know there’s been at least 2 niggers (not the cleaning/serving kind) at most White House events since the end of January 09? The horror…

  54. 54.

    GregB

    Sally’s just a little frustrated these days.

    Do you know how tough it is to get the smell of old man out of your fine silk lingerie?

  55. 55.

    ruemara

    I wonder how long until she leaves the twitters or at least makes it all private. It’s not like people will resist the urge to convey to ms. quim how worthless she really is.

  59. 59.

    Brachiator

    @Citizen Alan:

    How is it possible that a home-wrecking tramp could ever rise to such a level of social importance?!?

    Ego. Here’s a bit from a 2005 interview.

    I understand that the president needs eight or nine hours of sleep, I do, too. I want him to be well-rested but that doesn’t mean that he can’t stop by a reception and then go home. They say it is unseemly to be partying when we’re at war and I’m not saying the president should be out partying, but it is important for him to get other perspectives and for people to get to know his.

    Appropriately enough, tonight and over the next few weeks, some PBS stations are featuring an American Experience documentary on Dolley Madison, who set the standard for the White House social scene.

    The Village often gets compared to the courtiers from Dangerous Liaisons….

    Or even better, the French film, Ridicule.

    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one’s ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself. The story critiques the social injustices of late 18th century France, in showing the corruption and callousness of the aristocrats.

  60. 60.

    YellowJournalism

    a daily exercise program, healthy diet, moderation in alcohol intake, periodic dental care, and remain up-to-date with recommended immunizations.

    Since this is a general recommendation for everyone from most (reputable) doctors, we all must be alcoholics.

    I would like to personally kick the butts of the people responsible for teaching reading comprehension to Drudge and others like him.

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