Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

“Squeaker” McCarthy

We still have time to mess this up!

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

This really is a full service blog.

In my day, never was longer.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Infrastructure week. at last.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

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  1. 1.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Will that shoulder be healed enough to audition for next years Bloggers On Ice roadshow?

    ETA: BTW I measured the heights of both of my daughters last night. My 7.5 year old daughter is 19 inches shorter than me. I’m 6’2″. Hoo boy.

  5. 5.

    Susan Kitchens

    Called my rep. again. David Dreier (R, CA-26), formerly Rules Committee chair, responsible for all the deem and pass bills that were shoved down our throats over the last decade. He had the temerity to go whining (whining! I tell you! like a bloody fool concern troll!) about the Rules used to pass the bill in the house.

    Spoke earlier this week with his field rep; called his DC office to again offer my wholehearted support for a bill that I know he’ll vote against.

  6. 6.

    The Dangerman

    Best weekend of the year for hoops junkies; some good ball played yesterday all around. I may OD on it by tonight, talking in my sleep about “sweet little kisses off the glass”, but I’ll be ready for tomorrow somehow.

    Best thing? After 4 days of hoops, HCR will pass on Sunday and the Right can commence Operation Shitfit.

  8. 8.

    artem1s

    vandy, marquette and murray state completely f’d my bracket. i had my alma mater OU to loosing in the first round (its a liberal arts school and i hate it when they try to do division one sports) but didn’t care too much about g’town as i had them out in the next round anyway.

  10. 10.

    stevie314159

    Do you think the whitey tape is going to show up right before the health care vote on Sunday?

  11. 11.

    Sentient Puddle

    I like how my crazy-ass bracket is scoring. I’m 6 for 16, but that’s good enough for 46th place!

  12. 12.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    @stevie314159:

    Do you think the whitey tape is going to show up right before the health care vote on Sunday?

    I’m betting on Orly finally releasing Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate. I think she may be a closet liberal, because that is the only reason I can think of why she hasn’t made it public yet.

  14. 14.

    rob!

    Hey, turns out Sean Hannity might be bilking veterans and their kids through his bullshit Freedom Alliance charity:

    Andrew Sullivan

    …thinking about Hannity getting caught doing something like this literally makes me hard.

  15. 15.

    dr. bloor

    @Mike Kay:

    Hey, we’re talking about a guy who was saavy enough to put a birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper just days after he was born. Bracketology ain’t nuthin’ but a thang for him.

  17. 17.

    mr. whipple

    After 4 days of hoops, HCR will pass on Sunday and the Right can commence Operation Shitfit.

    I can’t wait to wake up on Monday to my new socialist medicine overlords!

  19. 19.

    jibeaux

    Do you really think the a goes before the e in Judean? I would’ve thought the reverse. But I’m no Hebrew scholar.

  20. 20.

    The Dangerman

    @rob!:

    …Sean Hannity might be bilking veterans…

    Hannity and Palin, two peas in a pod. Fucking grifters.

  26. 26.

    Corner Stone

    Both Minnesota and Xavier are two of the worst teams I’ve seen this year. From their play here, neither deserve to be in the tourny and whoever wins will be quickly ousted.

  28. 28.

    Paul L.

    I want to be a wingnut and find some Unconstitutional Republican laws need repealed. (other than mccain-feingold)
    Can someone cite the Laws that the Republicans used deem and pass “demon pass” to enact?

  32. 32.

    Admiral_Komack

    “Best thing? After 4 days of hoops, HCR will pass on Sunday and the Right can commence Operation Shitfit.”

    -Don’t forget about the Hamsherites.

  33. 33.

    Warren Terra

    Stopped by Congressman Capuano’s Cambridge office today, to say that as a voter, Senate primary campaign contributor, and former fan of the Congressman I was really upset that he wan’t a strong supporter of the health care bill. The person behind the desk – who was fielding about one call per minute – was happy to hear from a bill supporter, but didn’t promise his support. On the other hand, when I said how upset I was that he was against the bill, she said that he wasn’t against the bill “but had some concerns about the process”. So maybe he won’t go full metal asshole on this one.

  37. 37.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    Just when you though wingnuts couldn’t get any more cynical and depraved.

    Most of what senate Republicans say they’re going to try to do is fight like crazy to keep the least popular parts of the original Senate package in the bill. That’s right. They’re going to go to the mat for the ‘Cornhusker Kickback.’ They’re going to do everything they can to prevent the “Cornhusker Kickback” from being overturned. Same with the “Louisiana Purchase”, the tax on “Cadillac” Health Care plans and a bunch of other stuff.

    As we know, what happens in reality doesn’t matter in politics. What matters is how reality is portrayed in 30 second attack ads. But I think, on both sides of the political spectrum, the implications of this effort haven’t been adequately thought through.

    The loyal opposition/snark

    I am sure now with Citizens United the wingnut wurlizer will run round the clock on concentrated high performance pixie dust, with Malkin head steam afterburners.

  38. 38.

    Sentient Puddle

    @General Egali Tarian Stuck: What this means is we let them bring the amendments up for vote (and failure), and then in November, run commercials saying “Richard Burr voted for the Cornhusker Kickback and Louisiana Purchase.”

    [insert standard disclaimer of how Democrats can’t strategize their way out of a paper bag here]

  41. 41.

    MTiffany

    Just read the reputedly-Democratic-authored ‘doc fix memo‘ and I have to say, if someone on the Democrats’ side did write this memo, it’s the cunningest trap the Republicans have fallen for in a very long time. And if it’s a Republican fake-out, well, Michael Steele is the ‘moran’ that just keeps giving.

  42. 42.

    burnspbesq

    I am Georgetown, Destroyer of Brackets.
    Look upon my works, and fear me.

    Over 4.4 million people submitted brackets to ESPN’s contest. Less than 60 went 16-for-16 yesterday.

    I went 11-for-16 yesterday, and I am 5-for-7 so far today.

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