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Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

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

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Petty moves from a petty man.

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If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

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Just checked the link from DougJ earlier about the jackass scumbag who spit on Emanuel Cleaver:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) issued a statement late Saturday saying that he was spit upon while walking to the Capitol to cast a vote, leading the Capitol Police to usher him into the building out of concern for his safety. Police detained the individual, who was then released because Cleaver declined to press charges.

“The congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The congressman would like to thank the U.S. Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the other Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care,” said Danny Rotert, a spokesman for Cleaver.

I guarantee the wingnuts claim that Cleaver refused to press charges so it would not be known that the spitter was a Union or Acorn plant.

Anyone want to bet me any amount of money? Anyone? Bueller?

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  1. 1.

    Moses2317

    The health care reform voting does not begin until mid-afternoon on Sunday and a few votes are still up for grabs. Following are the list of Congresspeople who we should keep calling to make sure that we win this historic victory on Sunday!

    Brian Baird – Washington (Vancouver, Olympia) – (202) 225-3536

    Paul Kanjorski – Pennsylvania (Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Mount Pocono) – 202-225-6511

    John Tanner – Tennessee (Union City, Jackson, Millington) – 202-225-4714

    Earl Pomeroy – North Dakota (Bismarck, Fargo) – (202) 225-2611

    Lincoln Davis – Tennessee (Columbia, Jamestown, Rockwood) – 202.225.6831

    Marcy Kaptur – Ohio (Toledo) – (202) 225-4146

    Mike Michaud – Maine (Bangor, Lewiston, Presque Isle, Waterville) – 202-225-6306

    Bill Foster – Illinois (Batavia, Dixon, Geneseo) – (202) 225-2976

    Kathy Dahlkemper – Pennsylvania (Erie) – (202) 225-5406

    Chris Carney – Pennsylvania (Clarks Summit, Shamokin, Williamsport) – (202) 225-3731

    Steve Driehaus – Ohio (Cincinnati) – (202) 225-2216

    Stephen Lynch – Massachusetts (Brockton, Boston) – 202-225-8273

    Rick Boucher – Virginia (Abingdon, Pulaski, Big Stone Gap) – 202-225-3861

    Loretta Sanchez – California (Garden Grove) – (202) 225-2965

    Dan Lipinski – Illinois (LaGrange, Oak Lawn, Chicago’s southwest side) – (202) 225 – 5701

    Joe Donnelly – Indiana (South Bend, LaPorte, Michigan City, Kokomo) – (202) 225-3915

    Marion Berry – Arkansas (Jonesboro, Cabot, Mountain Home) – (202) 225-4076

    Jerry Costello – Illinois (Carbondale, Belleville, E. St. Louis, Granite City, Chester) – (202) 225-5661

    Nick Rahall – West Virginia (Beckley, Bluefield, Huntington, Logan) – (202) 225-3452

    Solomon Ortiz – Texas (Corpus Christi, Brownsville) – (202) 225-7742

    Alan Mollohan – West Virginia (Morgantown, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Parkersburg) – (202) 225-4172

  2. 2.

    auntieeminaz

    That’s not a bet I am willing to take. My team lost today. I am not willing to face another loss.

  7. 7.

    Jason Bylinowski

    Yeah, John Cole, I think Jim Treacher already had that base covered today, by implication at least. Can’t remember where I read that, may have been his twitter channel (feed? whatever), which DougJ or some such guy was referencing earlier in the day.

    I might be willing to take bets on the failure of the HCR reconciliation fix in the Senate though. Sorry to harsh on anyone’s buzz, man, but I just got a bad feeling from the smugness on display in the GOP today. It’s all tactics and FTW for their side, and I think somehow we are walking into some sort of process-related trap, though I have no actual clue what it could be. What I do know is that people would have much to complain about in the event that the House passes the straight senate bill but the senate is not able to keep their word on the fixes that they have promised. Let us not forget that it is Harry Reid who is the paragon of efficacy behind the passage of the fixes, right? I mean he’s not exactly known to be able to muscle things through.

    Somebody, tell me I’m trippin’.

  9. 9.

    fucen tarmal

    sure, the right wing wants a martyr, an angry oppressed default-american they can say was frustrated by process, and not at all meaning to lash out in any sort of racist way…

    now, to the important question, can we waterboard these people to find out who is paying them?

    (j/k) if you don’t know.

  10. 10.

    fucen tarmal

    sure, the right wing wants a martyr, an angry oppressed default-american they can say was frustrated by process, and not at all meaning to lash out in any sort of racist way…

    now, to the important question, can we waterboard these people to find out who is paying them?

    (j/k) if you don’t know.

    @zuzu, regardless of how this bill actually works, or what happens next with hcr, this legislation is historic for spreading naked ass pictures of everyone involved, and the institutions themselves, all across the internet to be dredged up at a later convenience.

    great name btw

  11. 11.

    Mark S.

    So let’s go to the scorecards:

    One teabagger called Barney Frank a fag.
    One called a black congressman the n-word.
    And one spit on a congressman.

    Did I miss anyone?

  12. 12.

    freelancer

    Hopefully, tomorrow, we will join the civilized world in providing heathcare for most everyone in our country. We are living in the future.

    So where the fuck is my fucking Jetpack?!

    Oh, Really? That’s fucking shiny!

  14. 14.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    No bet here John, no way. You know it’s going to happen.

    @Mark S.: @MikeJ:

    And that was only one day. Can’t wait for tomorrow. I hate to say this but I really hope they keep this shit up because the saner people out there are going to start getting very uncomfortable around these hateful people. It sucks but if we want to ever hope of marginalizing these people then we have to let them act out in public.

  15. 15.

    TenguPhule

    “If Brown can’t stop it, Browning can.”

    I want to see a bullseye on the picture of the idiot who held that sign being used for police sniper training.

  16. 16.

    TenguPhule

    It sucks but if we want to ever hope of marginalizing these people then we have to let them act out in public.

    Or we could have them quietly picked up in the night by the CIA and never heard from again.

    Lots of empty desert going to waste out there, just saying….

  17. 17.

    lamh31

    It feels like the nite before the election. I’m optimistic tat they have the votes, cause it makes no sense to schedule the vote for tommorrow if they don’t. Like someone else said I’m hoping they don’t postpone the vote!
    Later today is gonna be nerve wracking

  19. 19.

    John W.

    Glenn Beck already stated on Thursday and Friday on his radio show that any violence done during the weekend would be done by Communist infiltrators. So basically you’re already right.

    (via the awesome @stopbeck)

  20. 20.

    JGabriel

    TenguPhule:

    Or we could have them quietly picked up in the night by the CIA and never heard from again. Lots of empty desert going to waste out there, just saying…

    Now, now, let’s not get into eliminationist fantasies involving leaving people to despair in the desert. Deserts are fragile, pristine, and important ecosystems that should never be polluted with wingnuts.

    Dropping them into a quickly lethal environment – like the Northern Pacific Pollution Vortex, or the Gulf of Mexico dead zone – may not be quite as satisfying as imagining them dehydrating and starving to death in the desert till their dessicated corpses match their dessicated souls, but it’s much more environmentally responsible.

    .

  21. 21.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    Anyone who doubted that the entire Tea Bagger movement was basically one giant collective shout of “N—-r!” from stupid racist FOX News viewers should now be forced to face the facts.

    Despite those who will deny ownership (I’m not touching that bet, BTW, as someone above pointed out it’s de facto already) the fact that at least some Republican politicians had to spend part of yesterday and today denouncing them, even in a mealy-mouthed ho-hum way, is great news for McCain timing, actually.

    One last vile, racist, outburst so at least some people can see what motivates the right wing “opposition” to HCR.

  23. 23.

    anonymoose

    At work on Friday one of my so called independent/libertarian bent co-workers was kinda worked up about all the tea bagger whines and talks about law nullifcation/secession stuff and how it is all going to blow up when health care passes.

    Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a word in edgewise because I wanted to tell him it wasn’t gonna happen. When these guys really get worked up they overstep their bounds, and it is starting to happen fast in furious.

    Cheney with their lawyer witch hunt
    Beck with his social justice jihad
    Tossing the money at the guy with Parkinsons
    Follow that up with yesterdays “faggot” “n-word” and spitting.

    They only have a voice when people will listen to them and give them some air time. When they overstep, the news people will finally realize they are bat-sh1t crazy and won’t give them the time of day and suddenly become irrelevant.

    When health care passes, they will find something else to vilify.

  28. 28.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @BDeevDad:

    I saw at least two of the men in the CBC group walking with cell phones/cameras held out in front of them. Let’s hope they got everything.

  35. 35.

    Zuzu's Petals

    Looks like the jerks really got around:

    A staffer in Rep. Anthony Weiner’s office reported a stream of hostile encounters with tea partiers roaming the halls of Congress. The less harmful stuff was mockery. But they left a couple of notes behind. One asked what Rahm Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower, in a reference to mess around ex-Rep Eric Massa. It was signed with a swastika, the staffer said. The other note called the congressman “Schlomo Weiner,” among other hate-filled words.

  36. 36.

    Cara

    Sanchez is a NO. She’s facing a pretty stiff opponent for re election and I have a feeling she wasn’t a release vote since she is hiding out of town until time to vote. Rep Ryan went to the floor and denounced the actions of the protesters and called for the GOP to distance themselves from the Tea Party! The fringe right is already claiming ACORN plants did all that and decrying the pictures of the “few” nasty signs at the rally. I wonder if the GOP has become uneasy about the monster they allowed to flourish? It may be too late-the rage against Ryan’s words from the right are pretty harsh….

  37. 37.

    kommrade reproductive vigor

    Jesus Christ if those fuckers start a riot in this city I will shoot anything in a Gadsden flag t-shirt.

    They need to fuck off back to Kansas with that shit because contrary to the foamings of Glenn Beck, we surround them.

  38. 38.

    mclaren

    Gotta love it. The Repubs are destroying themselves in an exponentially worsening clusterf*ck.

    At this rate, by June the Republican base will be marching on Washington in full SS regalia and KKK white hoods. It’s been a neck-and-neck race to see whether the Demos could get spineless faster than the Repubs could get crazier, but right now, it looks like the Republicans are pulling away in the home stretch to win by a mile.

    Good news for liberals this fall, methinks.

  39. 39.

    Sanka

    @Zuzu’s Petals: Nice try. Too bad none of these acts actually occurred, or at least nobody can prove them anyway. It’s a knee jerk reaction that some right-leaning protesters take to the streets and the media and moonbats in the Congress start crying “RACIST!” and the media goes into convulstions.

    Funny, how WaPo or the media didn’t show any video of the anti-war rally that took place also in DC this weekend, with communist banners and slogans, anti-semitic flags with swastikas. But hey, they’re pretty virtuous those lefties, so let’s not talk about it….shhhhhhhh…..

  40. 40.

    Betsy

    @mclaren:

    At this rate, by June the Republican base will be marching on Washington in full SS regalia and KKK white hoods.

    …And acting outraged when someone calls them racist.

  43. 43.

    Rabble Arouser

    @Sanka
    Um, pics or it didn’t happen? Isn’t that the standard you just expected a couple of posts up from Zuzu’s Petals?

  44. 44.

    JenJen

    @Jason Bylinowski: Yeah, Treacher’s still at it on Twitter. I’d completely forgotten about that insufferable asshole until I somehow stumbled across his feed yesterday and shared it with everyone here.

    Oh, dear. I see Sanka’s carrying the mantle today. Just for the record, Sanka, both Michael Steele and John Boehner this morning denounced the behavior of certain teabaggers yesterday. Maybe your efforts to convince people this never happened would be better spent over on the GOP side of the aisle?

  45. 45.

    JenJen

    @Sanka:

    Actually, the only swastikas in DC this weekend were at the leftist anti-war rally. You betcha…

    Wrong-o, again.

    But they left a couple of notes behind. One asked what Rahm Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower, in a reference to mess around ex-Rep Eric Massa. It was signed with a swastika, the staffer said. The other note called the congressman “Schlomo Weiner,” among other hate-filled words.

  46. 46.

    AZPatrick

    Tea Partier: Epithets Were From Pro-Reform ‘Plants’
    moments ago

    From Evan McMorris-Santoro: An anti-health care reform protester from Connecticut named Mary tells me that reports of epithets thrown at members of congress by protesters yesterday are either false or the result of rumored “plants” by pro-reformers among protesters on the hill this weekend.

    Mary (the only name she would give me) was here yesterday and said that all the protesters she was with were “peaceful.” Though she suggested it was possible that some among the protesters gathered on the Hill this weekend may have used the reported language, she said it was very unlikely. Regardless, she said, it was much ado about nothing.

    “The media likes to overblow these things,” she said.

  48. 48.

    Zuzu's Petals

    @JenJen:

    Hey, anybody heard anything more about Treacher’s so-called hit-and-run knee accident?

    After all the bloviating, he suddenly fell silent…about the time the police report would have been released.

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