Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

No one could have predicted…

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Let’s finish the job.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

People are complicated. Love is not.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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  1. 1.

    Bulworth

    This brings to mind the worst of the post-911 “fifth column” rhetoric that poured from the mouths our political “leadership” and punditry. Truly disgusting.

  2. 2.

    4tehlulz

    Between Jim Bunning destroying Medicare and putting people out of work and the Cheneytards undermining the American justice system, it’s wonder anybody would proudly call themselves a traitor Republican.

  3. 3.

    Sue

    When are we going to have our “Have you no decency” moment? I’ve been waiting and waiting, and no one steps forward. We are so far past Joe McCarthy it’s embarrassing.
    This week, on Meet the Press… I’m assuming we’ll see a Cheney or two.
    Oh. Maybe that’s why.

  6. 6.

    A Mom Anon

    They really want to see us turn on each other and start killing each other en masse on the streets. I don’t know how they can sleep at night or even call themselves human.

  7. 7.

    Five Deferment Dick

    I am SO going to be singing “Ding Dong The Witch is Dead” when this POS finally is shipped to his undisclosed location for the final time. (Hope they remember the stake through the heart). What really annoys me is that he is still probably getting Secret Service protection and there will NEVER be any V.P. in history who’s needed it more.

  8. 8.

    Osprey

    The fact that Cheneys still go out are allowed out without being arrested in public makes me despair for this country.

    Fixt.

  9. 9.

    Bulworth

    I wonder if Keep America Safe has commented on the terrorist who flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, TX recently?

  10. 10.

    Rick Taylor

    It’s no longer reminiscent of McCarthyism, this really is McCarthyism. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.

    Meanwhile, when Cheney was in the hospital, Obama called him to wish him a speedy recovery.

  11. 11.

    freelancer

    @Five Deferment Dick:

    I am SO going to be singing “Ding Dong The Witch is Dead” when this POS finally is shipped to his undisclosed location for the final time.

    Pissing on your grave! Pissing on your grave!
    Imma look a hero while I pissing on your grave!

  12. 12.

    Michael

    OT, but I can’t get a call in to any of Bunning’s offices anywhere.

    As a courtesy to the Senator, I’d suggest that everybody stop to advise his son as to their disappointment with his father’s lack of integrity or accountability, considering that his son gets a lot of Federal largesse, courtesy of daddy and George W Bush.

    The Honorable David L. Bunning
    United States District Judge
    35 W 5th St.
    Rm. 410
    P.O. Box 232
    Covington, KY 41011
    Phone: (859) 392-7907

  13. 13.

    Rick Taylor

    They pretty nearly destroyed Acorn using with a racist smear, now this. And this is the right wing is capable of when they’re out of power.

  14. 14.

    twiffer

    Amendment VI

    In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
    ————————-

    just in case anyone forgot. and one that really needs a reminder:

    Amendment IX

    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

    a good response to all those numbskulls claiming “i don’t remember the constitution saying you have a right to ‘x’!”

  15. 15.

    benjoya

    twiffer, what is that marxist claptrap you’re foisting on us? don’t you know the terraists hate us for our freedoms, so to defeat them we must eliminate said freedoms. QED.

  16. 16.

    Mike in NC

    “Keep America Safe”? Guess that sounds better than “Keep The Cheneys Rich”. Freakin’ parasites.

  17. 17.

    thomas Levenson

    The Cheneys are the worst of the worst — but the key to this story is that Grassley is carrying their water as a sitting senator. Remember that he is supposed to be one of the reasonable ones. Kind of like saying as raving hordes go, Attila’s crowd was a little better mannered than Tamurlane’s.

    The Cheneys should not be able to get service at a McDonald’s, much less deference on my teevee. Where is the social art of cutting dead when one needs it?

  19. 19.

    joes527

    @twiffer:

    In all criminal prosecutions…

    There’s your problem right there. These weren’t criminal prosecutions. They were *enemy* *combatant* prosecutions.(1) TOTALLY different thing.

    And if we have modern day John Adams’s amongst us, who would defend the enemies of this great country…. then I say: Burn the witches!

    (1) The fact that the constitution does not provide for enemy combatant prosecutions may not be commented on, as it would reflect badly on folks who regularly wrap themselves in the constitution.

  22. 22.

    Dork

    Not only does she presume that all suspected terrorists are guilty before due process,

    They’re not?

    Who cares! Looks who’s on DANCIN WIF DA STARZ!

  23. 23.

    Breezeblock

    I wouldn’t piss on any Cheney if they were on fire.

    Tis a waste of good urine.

  24. 24.

    danimal

    It’s outrageous, and it’s supposed to generate outrage. They rely on the outrage of liberals to give them oxygen. I wonder if just ignoring them in a condescending manner would be a better approach. “Oh, I thought you understood the constitution…pity”

    They are despicable people, but Liz C doesn’t look so bad on the teevee, so most ‘Merkins don’t realize that Cheneys wipe their rear with the constitution when they run out of old flags.

  28. 28.

    Bloix

    This isn’t about “nasty.” These people are fascists. They believe that anyone they target as an enemy of the state should be executed without trial and that anyone who contends that such people have legal rights are also enemies of the state. They are not simply spilling hateful rhetoric. They mean it.

    These fascists came within an inch of taking over the government permanently. They will be back sooner than we think, and Obama’s refusal to prosecute and imprison them will be his greatest failure.

  30. 30.

    Punchy

    Obama’s refusal to prosecute and imprison them

    Oh fucking Christ. Obama’s now a judge and jury? Do you REALLY think in these times of insanely poisonous, partisan, and hyperridiculous politics Obama could actually try and secure a conviction of a former Vice-Pres….based on……what, exactly? What docs do you think Cheney hasn’t shreded or classified that could be used? What jury is taking this case?

    Sometimes you libs get angry over the mostest stupidest things. No offense, but come on. Fight battles you might have a chance to actually win.

  32. 32.

    GregB

    Chuck “They’re Gonna Kill Grandma” Grassley is one of the reasonable ones.

    This nation is in such deep shit it is astonishing.

    Dick Cheney and his children are rotten to the core fascists.

  33. 33.

    Elizabelle

    People write plays about lawyers who follow their conscience and do the right thing — whatever the times. People who help justice to prevail.

    A play with Dick or Liz Cheney in it? Do you think they would appear as heroes?

    PS: I find the language in Prattlehorn’s comment 9 offensive. He or she could make the point without it.

  35. 35.

    Liz

    Jon Stewart always makes me a little happier.

    But the level of crazy is really starting to burn.

  41. 41.

    tc125231

    @Osprey: I don’t want them arrested unless Obama develops the balls to actually investigate what went on in the VP’s office during the Bush Administration.

  43. 43.

    jayjaybear

    Punchy’s right, actually. The time to get this done was in 2007, when there might have been a chance of actually subpoenaing some kind of actual evidence. You can lay the lack of any reasonable punishment for the crimes of the second Bush administration at the feet of Nancy Pelosi.

    She’s done a lot since to balance that debit, but “off the table” is a heavy weight to mitigate.

  44. 44.

    jl

    Certain inftantile stupid and vicious white people believe with all their heart in the Big White Stern Daddy who will keep us all save and snug forever, and we do not need or care, or can stand to know the truth about what He does, for He is good and our (white right thinking peoples’) side.

    Obama represents the terrifying occultation of the BWSD by, in a very mild and halfhearted way, partially restoring some traditional due process to those at Gitmo.

    Unlike other countries who have the guts to just give suspects due process from the start.

    Obama should have prosecuted US officials who authorized war crimes.

    Then the BWSD worshippers, a kind of homegrown cargo cult, would go so apeshit, they might discredit themselves.

    in edit: and there should be some investigation to those who tolerated and facilitated war crimes, which, much as I hate to say it, would extend to past and presnet Congressional leadership.

  45. 45.

    tc125231

    @Rick Taylor: That’s because Obama turns out to be short on backbone.

    He can’t even criticize investment bankers when Warren Buffet is doing so.

    Very disappointing.

  46. 46.

    gwangung

    PS: I find the language in Prattlehorn’s comment 9 offensive. He or she could make the point without it.

    But don’t you have to name the targets you’re mad at?

  47. 47.

    Kryptik

    Saddest thing is that this really doesn’t surprise me. I’m sadly convinced that if it was put up to popular vote, waterboarding would be legalized and encouraged for use in interrogations even in municipal police depts. :/

  48. 48.

    Tsulagi

    Cheney and Grassley, our retarded American AQ at work.

    Someone should build them a really big sandbox so they can perform pure research. Keep them busy.

  49. 49.

    Nick

    @tc125231:

    He can’t even criticize investment bankers when Warren Buffet is doing so.

    Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth;
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126073152465089651.html

    President Barack Obama lashed out at Wall Street, calling bankers “fat cats” who don’t get it, in an escalation of tensions with the industry.
    Mr. Obama, speaking on the eve of Monday’s meeting with the heads of major banks at the White House, said he would try to persuade bankers to free up more credit to businesses, with the aim of boosting job growth. But the president also expressed frustration with banks that the government has assisted.
    “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,” Mr. Obama said in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program on Sunday.
    “They’re still puzzled why is it that people are mad at the banks. Well, let’s see,” he said. “You guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it’s gone through in — in decades, and you guys caused the problem. And we’ve got 10% unemployment.

    He can’t even criticize order to public beheading without a trial of investment bankers.

    I think that’s what you meant.

  50. 50.

    hal

    @ tc125231

    That would be the same Warren Buffett who wants the Health Care bill scrapped so everyone has a say?

    I would try to get a unified effort saying this is a national emergency to do something about this. We need the Republicans, we need the Democrats.

    Yeah, he needs to take Buffett’s lead.

  51. 51.

    FormerSwingVoter

    I thought I had run out of rage for these people. Apparently, I was wrong.

    From here on out, every single time a Republican says that they care about the Constitution or our founding principles, my immediate response will be “Fuck you. You are a fucking liar, a fucking coward, and a fucking traitor. You are not allowed to fucking mention our Constitution if you support torture.”

    The time for treating these people like they deserve a seat at the grown-ups table is over. Treat them like the worthless piles of shit that they are.

  52. 52.

    Jim Once

    @thomas Levenson:
    What Spencer Ackerman said about Grassley:

    Grassley knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s taking one of the strengths of the American justice system — the fact that everyone is entitled to legal representation — and implying that it’s unseemly. It’s a testament to the weakness of his character that he will never forthrightly accuse these attorneys of what he’s implying — sympathy with accused terrorists — in a way that they could refute. What a pathetic excuse for a man.

    What I sent to “my” senator, Chuck Grassley:

    See blockquote above.

  53. 53.

    SenyorDave

    Cheney and Grassley, our retarded American AQ at work.

    Tulagi,

    I hope you were using satire when you used the word retarded. Otherwise Sarah Palin will be coming after ou.

  55. 55.

    danimal

    @hal:

    That would be the same Warren Buffett who wants the Health Care bill scrapped so everyone has a say?

    Hal, Buffett said he would vote yes for the HCR bill. Don’t buy the spin.

    “If it was a choice today between plan A, which is what we’ve got, or plan B, what is in front of — the Senate bill, I would vote for the Senate bill,” Buffett said. “But I would much rather see a plan C that really attacks costs…

  56. 56.

    cat48

    @Rick Taylor:

    Well if O called him, everything is fine now then because all the Villagers on my teevee tell me that they bet that if the prez just called the asshole and talked to him man-to-man that everything would be honkey dorey and he would automatically stop being an asshole. Guess that didn’t include the daughter though.

  57. 57.

    WereBear

    Only by destroying the society around them can the Cheney’s and their ilk see themselves as decent people.

    Thus, how they struggle to do so.

  58. 58.

    asiangrrlMN

    I am not outraged at the Cheneys because I expect nothing less from them. I am outraged that much of our Congress, our media, and our society fully supports this bullshit. Defeated. I just feel so fucking defeated.

    P.S. Senator Bunning needs a good rusty pitchforking.

  59. 59.

    licensed to kill time

    The Cheneys, Liz ‘n Dick, are nasty frightened people and they want us all to be as nasty and frightened as they are. Piss your pants, America! That’ll show those terrorists how tough we are. We don’t trust our own justice system, even though we are the bestest strongest most awesome country in the world and we will shock and awe you into believing that, mofos!

    What’s that you say? Cognitive dissonance? Naw, just steely-eyed realists donchaknow. They love the smell of fear and loathing in the morning, in America.

  60. 60.

    PaulW

    The Cheneyites do this because they fear they will get charged with crimes sooner or later, so they want to lay the groundwork now so they can say to their supporters “oh poor us, they’re coming after us because they don’t like what we say!”

    It’s the “Help Help I’m Being Repressed” Defense.

  61. 61.

    KG

    @Sue: I think the problem is, for a “have you no decency” moment to happen today, it would have to be someone on the right doing it. I’m not sure there’s anyone out there with the gravitas to pull it off.

    It will eventually, maybe someone like Ted Olsen or some other high profile lawyer in the movement who still believes in the system will do it. But, right now, I have little faith in either the conservative movement or the Republican party righting themselves.

  62. 62.

    geg6

    @Elizabelle:

    PS: I find the language in Prattlehorn’s comment 9 offensive. He or she could make the point without it.

    Hmmm. Well, I don’t. I thought it was as fucking hilarious this afternoon as it was this morning in the Sally Quinn thread.

  63. 63.

    Jenn

    @hal:

    No, Warren Buffett’s been misquoted (or rather is being selectively quoted). While he would prefer a better bill, he would absolutely vote for the current bill over the status quo.

    ETA: oops, looks like danimal beat me to it!

  64. 64.

    Michael D.

    Wow. I’ve never seen anything quite like this. These nuts are trying to get people killed.

    Holder should come out and say, because of the rhetoric and nastiness of conservatives, he’s had to ask for protection for these nine lawyers at the DoJ.

    Nasty in the extreme. This is so sad to see.

  65. 65.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Elizabelle:
    __

    PS: I find the language in Prattlehorn’s comment 9 offensive. He or she could make the point without it.

    So? This isn’t the GOS. It’s either suck it up, or do something like this:

    “@Prattlehorn:
    __

    Because I can’t say that Liz Cheney is the cuntessence of cuntly cuntiness whose cuntry ways and cuntbag charms would charm the cuntumely out of the she-mother c#nt of all…

    “Prattlehorn, you are a sexist, misogynistic pig. Shut the fuck up with the “cunt” remarks.”

    Don’t waste time being all offended. It sounds whiny.

    Me? I kinda agree with Prattlehorn. If one doesn’t have a brick close by, Liz deserves nothing but the most unsavory remarks hurled in her direction.

  67. 67.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Mike E:
    __

    Bricks are so ‘one-off’, I’d rather hit her repeatedly with a sock filled with manure.

    I’m not sure what effect that would have. What good does it do to use a sock of shit to hit a sack of shit?

    At least bricks would leave dents.

  68. 68.

    Elizabelle

    OK. Majority rules here. Will not filibuster the point.

    But I think one can make the point that Liz Cheney is a nepotistic sociopath without referring to her genitals.

    Just sayin.’

    Carry on.

  69. 69.

    Kryptik

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I know what you mean. And on this and so much else, it seems like for every step forward taken, we’re dragged 10 back because of neanderthals like Liz Cheney, and then all of a sudden it’s the DFHs fault for destroying the country because we’re trying to fix a broken health care system and actually follow fucking rule of law.

    I’m honestly glad my parents are long naturalized, because god help me if something happened to them in Cheney’s world if they were LWN (Living While Non-American).

  70. 70.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Five Deferment Dick:

    What really annoys me is that he is still probably getting Secret Service protection and there will NEVER be any V.P. in history who’s needed it more.

    Cheney will be the first VP in history to need Secret Service protection after he’s dead and buried.

  72. 72.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Kryptik: No shit. My parents have dual citizenship, and that’s a very good thing. It just makes me so very weary that a huge hunk of our society thinks along the same lines as the Cheneys.

  73. 73.

    Mike E

    @Elizabelle:
    My apologies for any offense. Words truly cannot describe my loathing for this execrable person, and the cabal that has propped up her family for, like, generations. This is why Colin Powell worship sends me up a fucking tree!

  74. 74.

    kindness

    How long before people start getting shot because of the rhetoric? No, I mean it. How long do you think it’ll be before some nut with a gun starts killing people?

    I can only pray to the FSM that it won’t happen and if it does it starts with the idiots stoking the fires.

  76. 76.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    @Kryptik:
    __

    I’m honestly glad my parents are long naturalized, because god help me if something happened to them in Cheney’s world if they were LWN (Living While Non-American).

    That naturalization thing worked out well for American citizens of Japanese descent who were moved into internment camps in War II.

  77. 77.

    slag

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Don’t waste time being all offended. It sounds whiny.

    And telling people what “sounds whiny” sounds whiny. We could go on like this all day.

    As regards the Cheneys…They hate us for our freedom.

  78. 78.

    pattonbt

    They have no choice. They know history is ready to crucify them. They know historians are already writing that they were in control when the US empire officially jumped the shark.

    So they have to double, triple and quadruple down now and pray for more and bigger terrorist attacks against the US so that, while maybe not exonerating them, the can that is the demise of the American Empire will be kicked far enough down the road to potentially shift the spotlight to someone else.

    What choice do they honestly have otherwise? This is all about saving face at the cost of all else. Vindication or death. The best defence is a good offence. Etcetera etcetera.

    Scumbags of the first order.

  79. 79.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    I can’t imagine this is going to go over well in the legal profession. I wonder if Dick’s been swapping notes with Pervez Musharraf.

  80. 80.

    kdaug

    @kindness:

    Or flying planes into IRS buildings…

    There is something deeply wrong here. Something deeply evil – not in a religious sense, in a empirical sense.

  84. 84.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    Here’s a thought exercise: If some fReichtard finds out who represented some of the detainees* and blows up the building where the practice is located, would CthCheney & Co. start a witch hunt for that person’s attorney?

    *It isn’t that hard so the desire to name names is just more grandstanding. See also: Every asshole who has ever made a big stink about the ACLU.

  85. 85.

    Allan

    I for one am offended at the use of the C word in this thead.

    Of course, I am referring to “Cheney.”

    Please try not to use that word because it’s the filthiest, most disgusting profanity in the world today.

    Thanks for understanding.

  86. 86.

    The Moar You Know

    PS: I find the language in Prattlehorn’s comment 9 offensive. He or she could make the point without it.

    @Elizabelle: You are so right. It is important to be polite to people who would imprison and execute you for no reason, without even a second thought.

    So dies the Democratic party.

  87. 87.

    SGEW

    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again:

    Shorter everything Liz Cheney says: “Please do not investigate my father’s wartime atrocities and prosecute him for his crimes against humanity. I am fond of my father, in my fashion, and would not like to see him executed. Additionally, I am complicit in his war crimes.”

  88. 88.

    Zuzu's Petals

    I just did one of the few things that makes me feel a little less powerless in the face of such disgusting tactics.

    Called up Grassley’s office and left a long message expressing my repulsion at the McCarthyesque tactics he’s employing. And noting that I was sending $50 to whichever Dem was running against him.

    Now off to ActBlue.

  89. 89.

    Tazistan Jen

    @The Moar You Know:

    It isn’t a problem because it insults Liz Cheney. The problem is that it insults women. Our parts are good things. They should be kept far away from that evil orc, even in metaphor.

  90. 90.

    Drive By Wisdom

    You know what is really repellant? People who do not understand loyalty and honor, and the people who appoint them.

    To wit, Mr. Emanuel trying to remake his image. As expected, we will not see any Obamanauts falling on their swords for this master.

  92. 92.

    Splitting Image

    Captain America would probably weep at a country so far separated from the ideals he symbolizes.

    Captain America barely understands the America he claims to symbolize. He hasn’t even heard of Myspace.

  93. 93.

    gwangung

    Captain America barely understands the America he claims to symbolize. He hasn’t even heard of Myspace.

    Bucky-Cap, yes, Steve-Cap a little more hip.

  94. 94.

    Uloborus

    I gotta say, guys, personally I think Cheney is flat-out honest, in the sense that he does not misrepresent his motivations. Everything he does seems to to line up with his sincere belief in American Exceptionalism and the rightness of its destiny to empire. Some of the stuff he’s said since he left office actually puts him in more danger. He’s not protecting himself. I just think it baffles and infuriates him that we don’t all see how he’s always right and only our boot on the necks of the rest of the world will keep us safe. Especially since they’ll thank us!

  97. 97.

    Uloborus

    @gwangung:
    Kinda, yeah! I don’t see him as evil because he’s corrupt, or evil because he’s *incapable* of empathy. He’s evil because he has absolute tunnel vision in service of this ideal of American Hegemony. He seems to be kind of a bastard too, but it’s hard to tell, because this ideal lets him cleanly separate humanity into ‘allies’ and ‘people who deserve absolutely any punishment’. He really seems to BELIEVE it. Every time he talks, he’s like ‘Look, we made the US safer, and Obama’s ruining it!’ and we’re like ‘What are you smoking, old man?’

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