Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

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

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

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Let there be snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

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

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

“But what about the lurkers?”

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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  3. 3.

    Chat Noir

    @Pasquinade: I vote for the current version of the Republican Party. Every member oozes toxins.

    As for St. Patrix Day, happy green to all. The only Irish in my household is the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terror.

  4. 4.

    gbear

    Failblog has their St. Pat’s Day tribute up too, although it’s not strictly Irish.

    There will be much noise on the sidewalks and streets of St. Paul today.

  5. 5.

    Maude

    OT
    Just had a look at Atrios and his commentators. Any way we can get the banner line up on that site?
    Does anyone understand what is wrong with these people?

  8. 8.

    licensed to kill time

    Funny FYI:

    The shortest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork.The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village’s two pubs. …

    Lift a glass for Dripsey today!

  10. 10.

    jl

    @MaximusNYC:

    “During one all-day drinking session in Limerick, Ireland, he fell over a wall, smashing his teeth on a pile of bricks.”

    MacGowan is still alive at 51?

    Strong work on his part, I say.

  11. 11.

    Keith G

    Un fucking cool guys!

    The new tag line surprised me at my lunch time. I think I aspirated some rice pilaf.

    Erin go Bragh!

  15. 15.

    mr. whipple

    Just had a look at Atrios and his commentators. Any way we can get the banner line up on that site?
    Does anyone understand what is wrong with these people?

    A lot of the sane have left long ago, leaving the 3%-ers to howl and rant.

  16. 16.

    Maude

    @Mike Kay: No, I don’t think that they are rational enough to be haters.
    I can say that I think they have boulders on their shoulders. Life isn’t fair. It’s all someone else’s fault.
    I don’t understand it. No, I do not.

  18. 18.

    Violet

    Did the O’Bamas dye the White House fountain green again this year? Didn’t some village in Ireland trace Barack’s family line back to them?

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Maude: I had thought Atrios had calmed down lately, instead of wallowing in the Shit Sandwich from a few months ago. I never read the comments there because they all seem to be straight out of some really weird bar at closing time, all awkward flirtation and incoherent rage. What are they on about now?

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Maude: I don’t know which thread you’re looking at, but I just skimmed that latest one, and that’s pretty grounded for that place, especially in the last few months, as half a dozen PUMAs and a like number of Naderites have joined forces to denounce Obama’s super-double-secret alliance with Republicans and Blanche Lincoln to undo everything Hillary Kucinich would have done, and shout down everyone who disagrees.

  26. 26.

    Redshift

    @mr. whipple: Even in the old days, I rarely read the comments there because they seemed to be nothing but an ongoing blather that had no connection to the posts. It was kind of like being invited to a friend’s house for a movie-watching party, and when you get there, there’s a crowd of people talking incessantly about inside jokes and people you don’t know, loudly enough that you can’t hear a word of the movie.

    If it’s gone downhill from that… geez.

    (On the plus side, it’s the one site I can read before leaving for work, because between the short posts and the lack of any real discussion, I know I won’t get sucked in and end up being late.)

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Violet:
    Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own

    By Mary Jordan
    Washington Post Foreign Service
    Sunday, May 13, 2007
    MONEYGALL, Ireland — Here they call him O’Bama.

    Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, Democratic candidate for president, is the talk of this village because recently unearthed records indicate that he is a son of Moneygall.
    Stephen Neill, a local Anglican rector, said church documents he has found, along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall, then left for America in 1850, when he was 19.

  28. 28.

    cleek

    Atrios comments – yeah, nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.

    it’s fucking cesspool, is what it is.

  29. 29.

    FlipYrWhig

    @mr. whipple:

    A lot of the sane have left long ago, leaving the 3%-ers to howl and rant.

    I have a bad feeling they’re going to be the left’s answer to the libertarians. Disproportionately present and vocal online as compared to their prevalence in, like, actual life. And of course self-congratulatory and mutually reinforcing.

  33. 33.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @FlipYrWhig: Disproportionately present and vocal online as compared to their prevalence in, like, actual life. And of course self-congratulatory and mutually reinforcing.

    But on the bright side, every bit as electorally influential as the Libertarians, too.

  35. 35.

    geg6

    Well, I have managed to show, proudly, my American-ness today. Even though I do have a small portion of Irish ancestry (1/4), I did not and will not wear any green today. And green beer should be grounds for waterboarding.

  36. 36.

    lamh31

    Been at work all day, has anyone posted this yet?

    “…Dennis Kucinich signed a pledge to vote against any bill that does not have a public option,” FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher emailed the Huffington Post. “Online supporters donated over $17,000 to him over the past two days as a direct response to his reiteration of that promise this week. It would be deceitful of him to keep that money now, as well as the $8,000 raised after he signed that pledge in July.”

    Going even further, Hamsher floated that idea that Kucinich, too, would face electoral repercussions for his decision (though, it should be noted, the deadline for launching a 2010 election bid has already passed in Ohio).

    “Kucinich is voting for a bill he has repeatedly called corrupt and harmful to the people of his district,” Hamsher said. “If the unions are threatening to go outside the party and challenge Democrats so PhRMA can have their deal, I imagine others will be considering that option too…”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/dennis-kucinich-health-care_n_502182.html

    A swipe at unions???

  37. 37.

    Mike Kay

    @FlipYrWhig: ya know, back on election eve in 2006, Senator Man-On-Dog was about to go down in a 20 pt loss to Casey. And instead of savoring the defeat Tricky-Rick, Atrios was going all Emo, lamenting that bob Casey wasn’t pure.

    Well, here we are, over three years later, and Casey has been a reliable vote for the cause.

  40. 40.

    Dannie22

    @lamh31

    Jane needs to STFU!! Kucinich was doing what he always does, getting his 15 minutes. It’s too late for him to be primaried this year and I doubt if he will be primaried in 2012. Jane just got suckered by someone who is a bigger poseur than she is.
    Kucinich has always looked out for Kucinich. And I’m sure the ride on Air Force One with the President and Sherrod Brown gave Kucinich a lot to think about.

  42. 42.

    Mark S.

    Don’t know if this has been brought up in another thread, but wow

    Meanwhile, in a rare public disagreement that will reverberate among the nation’s 70 million Catholics, leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 nuns sent lawmakers a letter urging them to pass the Senate health care bill. . . “Despite false claims to the contrary, the Senate bill will not provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions,” said the letter signed by 60 leaders of women’s religious orders. “It will uphold longstanding conscience protections and it will make historic new investments … in support of pregnant women. This is the real pro-life stance, and we as Catholics are all for it.”

    Way to go, Sisters.

  43. 43.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Mike Kay: I’m amazed at how decent Casey has been (though, to be fair, I haven’t kept close track). When I lived in PA I had made a point never to vote for any member of the Casey family. I’m pleased to have been wrong.

  44. 44.

    beltane

    @lamh31: Yes, Jane and her fellow 3 percenters are going to take on the unions and every other Democratic constituency in her crusade to purge the Democratic party of its traitors, sellouts, shills, sheeple and groupthinkers. They might be few in number but they are mighty in spirit.

  45. 45.

    Redshift

    @lamh31:

    A swipe at unions???

    Yes, but even more, building self-justification for going “outside the party” (i.e., third-party candidates, most likely Paulites at this point.)

    I know some unions have been threatening to support primary challengers against congressional Dems who don’t vote for HCR, but have any of them actually threatened to support non-Democrats, or is this just made up?

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    @Mark S.: And now we see yet another reason why Pope Palpatine has been trying to return nuns to being seen but not heard, and especially not engaging with the world.

  49. 49.

    beltane

    @Mike Kay: I’m waiting for her people to go on strike like the PUMAs did. Daily Kos was a much better place immediately following that strike and so will it be with the firebaggers.

  52. 52.

    geg6

    @Redshift:

    Completely made up. I spent a large portion of my lunch hour yesterday with local union officials (USW, UMW, IBEW, iron workers, pipe fitters, et al) and they are ready to primary any Dem who votes against HCR, especially those who have taken their money in the past. They are being especially tough on Blanche Lincoln, apparently in a national effort among them to support the Arkansas AFL-CIO, who Lincoln pissed off with her anti-union stance in her latest ads.

  54. 54.

    freelancer

    @Martin:

    eh, they have their limits and are quite stubborn.

    John Munch: A million people died in the potato famine. Ireland is an island. An island by definition is surrounded by fish. A million people died because they didn’t like fish.

  55. 55.

    FlipYrWhig

    @geg6: I really like the idea of primarying Lincoln, because I think there’s a space for “better Democrats” even in places like Arkansas by going _populist_ instead of _liberal_.

    The difference between Lincoln and Halter, from what I understand, is like the difference between Baucus and Tester in MT. You can show that you’re independent and common-sensical without being that odd kind of pro-business corporate-friendly Democrat that has been such trouble on HCR: Lieberman, Bayh, Lincoln, et al. So you can run locally as not one of those typical Democrats — which you sort of need to do to win — by triangulating against _corporate_ Democrats.

    In blue states I want to see liberals, and I’m OK with corporate-friendly liberals like Schumer and Dodd and Corzine. In red states I’d _like_ to see liberals, but I’ll settle for populists.

  56. 56.

    jl

    If the O’Bamas were really Irish, it would be green beer fountain, available for public dipping and drinking.

    Need to tweet bomb that idea out in time for next year!

    In edit: also need to bring back public eating of a ‘great cheese’ in the WH. If it was good enough for Jefferson and Jackson, should be good enough for the O’Bamas? Or are they snooty?

  57. 57.

    Mark S.

    From the Corner:

    All this is explained by the Left’s Lakoffian tendency to view all conservatives as either cynical puppetmasters or hypnotized Tea Party drones — as either evil or stupid.

    Why does it have to be either/or?

    (And I have no idea who Lakoff is.)

  58. 58.

    cleek

    @Mark S.:

    And I have no idea who Lakoff is.

    that can’t be true.

    the piece you linked to links to a Corner essay on teh Left and Lakoff, the first paragraph of which is:

    If the American Left believed in sainthood, they would have resolved to beatify George Lakoff by now. They adore the Berkeley linguist as an intellectual hero. His brilliant innovation, as they see it, has been to harness the power of cognitive science to unlock the mysteries of conservatism — that dreaded mental disorder that plagues the brains of half the country.

    since it’s well-known that you (and all the rest of teh Left) adore him and believe he is a brilliant innovator, it simply defies belief that you don’t know who he is !

  59. 59.

    asiangrrlMN

    Saw Doctors, Bitches. And, thanks to Max on Twitter, I have an insatiable craving for a Shamrock Shake. So, to celebrate my black (hair) Irish history, I may have to drive to Mickey D’s for the first time in….six months? Something like that.

    @cleek: Well, that I am not from the American Left, either, as I have never heard of the guy.

  61. 61.

    Marc

    Somehow I doubt that Hamsher would be enthusiastic about moving to Cleveland. Granted, the people of Cleveland would be even less enthusiastic about voting for her…

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    As liberal sociaIist Democrat commies, we should be waging a WAR on St. Patrick’s Day, not celebrating it!

    Harumph.

    .

  67. 67.

    Jager

    At one in the morning on a St Patrick’s Day, C, my lovely Irish-Portuguese girlfriend and were I drunk in a parking lot in South Boston. C’s best friend was attempting to un lock her car and had plans to drive it. We stopped her, we hailed a cab. I woke up in the morning in bed with the both of them. Sadly, the three of us had only removed our shoes. And to think, I could have had a St Patrick’s day story for the ages! BTW, have you ever had anyone sit in your lap facing you? That was my lovely C’s favorite thing to do while drunk in a public place…should have married her!

  69. 69.

    Paul in KY

    Back around 1990, I saw The Pogues in concert at Bogarts in Cinn, OH. Shane McGowan & whole band (must have been about 8 or 9 of them).

    Great concert, had a mosh pit, etc.

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