Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

The words do not have to be perfect.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Democracy cannot function without a free press.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

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

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    Rahm out to destroy WaPo. Rahm had Massa set up to lower the bar for passing HCR.

    If only I could really believe this administration were cutthroat and competent enough for these to be true…

  2. 2.

    Warren Terra

    An html version of DougJ’s link for people to follow.

    Edited: now that I’ve read the (very brief) piece, it is essentially perfect DougJ-bait. I’m sure there are no actual dark machinations involved in these events, in the real world – the people in this administration seem neither so vindictive nor so effective – but, evil plot or no, bad things couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of people than Fred Hiatt’s enablers and most of their employees (Ezra Klein, of course, excepted).

  3. 3.

    Joseph Nobles

    Well, no need for two clickable links…

    ETA: And now for actually going to the link – the Department of Education has been investigating Washington Post’s parent company and now the Dick Whisperer and other WaPo reporters are promoting Rahm-was-right stories which have the realtime effect of driving a major wedge into the Adminstration? Fred Hiatt does play to win, doesn’t he?

  6. 6.

    Martin

    Well, all I can say is that the WaPo is the most respectable part of that whole enterprise. Take that as you will.

  7. 7.

    Warren Terra

    @Joseph Nobles:
    @gbear:
    @freelancer:
    Indeed, indeed. And Frist! (Well, Frist link, anyway).

    I’d have put this in my comment above, as a 2nd edit, but for some reason I didn’t have permission to re-edit the comment despite there being 25 seconds still on the clock.

  8. 8.

    Kryptik

    So how long until Eugene Robinson and E.J. Dionne are shown the door as part of ‘restructuring’?

  9. 9.

    Joel

    I had my test prep done with a local guy. He was awesome.

    Thought about getting a job from Kaplan to supplement my income in college and couldn’t believe how little they paid. No wonder they suck.

  10. 10.

    slag

    @MikeJ:

    If only I could really believe this administration were cutthroat and competent enough for these to be true…

    I read the Massa stuff and thought the very same thing. Believing it would definitely make me think better of this administration.

  11. 11.

    Mike Kay

    Rahm framed Ben Roethlisberger !!!

    Roethlisberger responds: “I did not have sex with that woman! The Rahm set me up!”

  13. 13.

    demkat620

    Would it be responsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

    Hahahaha! How will Krauthammer and Kristol make ends meet with just Foxnews paychecks?

  14. 14.

    Mike Kay

    OMG!

    Rahm just chased me around the gymnasium shower, NAKED, screaming at me for Not voting for pubic option. Lemme tell ya, Rahm has a hard-on for anyone who voted against it.

  15. 15.

    Max

    Rahm, apparently, does not sleep because he is controlling everything up and down I-95.

    Rahm should get Ari Gold to represent him so he can get better press.

  16. 16.

    Zifnab

    Hey now, I worked for Kaplan for a summer, teaching SAT Prep to high school students. From what I saw, it wasn’t the worst business in the world, by a long shot.

    And never once did my boss or any of my coworkers piss on my shoe and tell me it was raining, right before they busted out the pom-poms for a glorious Iraq War Adventure.

  22. 22.

    Mike Kay

    Outgoing Rep. Eric Massa went on a rant regarding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel today during a radio interview calling him the “son of the devil’s spawn.”

    Massa (D-NY) went on to say, “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”

    Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”

    Massa went on to say that Emanuel would go to the Congressional gym to intimidate members of congress.

    I like this version of Rahm. And this testimony puts a lie to the conspiracy theories that Rahm didn’t want to pass the public option and that he’s soft on moderates and conservative dems.

  27. 27.

    demo woman

    What a difference 24 hours makes… last night some of us were staring into Clooney’s eyes, tonight were staring at … nevermind…

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mike Kay:

    I’m waiting for the 11th-dimensional conspiracy chess explanation from Greenwald or Hamsher about how this is all just a cover to make the left think that Rahm was leaning on moderates and conservatives when he was actually spending all of his time punching hippies in the face.

  33. 33.

    NovShmozKaPop

    I really hate to give them any more clicks but Fox has the best coverage of the Naked Shower Fight With ‘Son of the Devil’s Spawn’

    I also noticed on this page, under “Most Active In Politics”:

    N.C. Man Accused of Carving ‘Mine’ on Rape Victim
    Kentucky Student Reportedly Wrapped in Toilet Paper, Set on Fire
    6 Women Hospitalized After Botched Butt-Enhancing Procedures
    Woman Charged for Squirting Breast Milk at Deputy
    N. Korea Says It Is Ready to ‘Blow Up’ U.S.

    Presumably the Democrats are responsible for all of this.

  34. 34.

    Martin

    @Zifnab: SAT scores correlate to income precisely because of groups like Kaplan. Yeah, it’s a bad test, yadda, yadda, but it’s turned into a very effective way to suck money out of nervous parents.

  35. 35.

    Gwangung

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    I am continually amazed at the way Rahm has become the latter day Karl Rove, complete with his own weather machine, apparently

    I’m not. It’s part and parcel of the American tendency to reduce complex forces into simple matters of good and evil, preferably in the package of a person.

    We share much with our wingnut brethren.

  37. 37.

    Georgia Pig

    @Mnemosyne: Yeah, that ‘s the Rahm I hoped we were getting, a guy who would get up in the grill of guys like Massa, naked or otherwise. Greenwald’s conspiracy theory would be that Rahm forced Massa out so that Massa would tell that story on FoxNews. More effective for the FoxNews audience than a horse’s head in Massa’s bed or some more traditional intimidation because it has homoerotic overtones (e.g., the jabbing finger). The guy is Kayser Soze.

  38. 38.

    Phoebe

    @Joel: I applied to work for Kaplan years ago and they turned me down for whatever reason. I ended up working for The Princeton Review, and got a very high LSAT score using their methods. All of my Kaplan experiences [as a TPR mole] confirmed my bias — they were creepy alpha-douches. This makes me happy.

  39. 39.

    Anya

    @Mike Kay: I am tempted to go to FDL to see how conflicted they are about this whole thing. Someone is confirming their worst believes about Rahm, yet that same someone is claiming that Rahm harassed him about not voting for the public option. What a quandary.

    What does “son of the devil’s spawn” mean? Rahm is the devil’s grandchild?

  40. 40.

    Walker

    Note that this is not Kaplan Test Prep they are talking about. It is Kaplan University, an “online university”. Think University of Pheonix without the quality.

    The reviews of this university are something to behold.

  43. 43.

    No Joy in Mudville

    I’m pretty sure if Hiatt will just hire a few more conservative columnists for the Opinion Page he can turn everything around for the Post.

  45. 45.

    someguy

    Every time some poor old politician wants to blow a staffer, we try to throw the guy out of office. Sometimes even if he’s in our own political party. Shit, this country is a tough crowd. It’s like Woodstock II when they ran out of bottled water.

  47. 47.

    ...now I try to be amused

    @Mike Kay:

    I like this version of Rahm.

    Really. It reminds me of LBJ intimidating guys while sitting on the can.

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