Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

T R E 4 5 O N

Come on, man.

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

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The revolution will be supervised.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Bark louder, little dog.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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  1. 1.

    dmsilev

    Via Think Progress and Steve Benen, I see that the GOP Senators have dug deep and managed to become even more assholish than they were previously. I didn’t really think it was possible, but apparently they’ve done it:

    There is a little-known rule in the Senate stating that hearings can’t happen after 2:00 p.m. each day without unanimous consent. However, every day, at the start of business, the Senate generally agrees, by unanimous consent, to waive this rule and continue with the necessary business of holding hearings.
    …
    Republicans, however, are now refusing to give unanimous consent and are blocking the hearings. Today, during a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on transparency, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) announced that he had to stop the proceedings because of Republican blocks.

    They’re like a bunch of screaming toddlers throwing tantrums because they didn’t get an ice-cream cone.

    Maybe Harry Reid should put in a bulk order for some juice boxes and stuffed animals. Or pacifiers.

    -dms

  2. 2.

    Pigs & Spiders

    @dmsilev: Even better, Harry Reid should pass a Senate rule that says if you DON’T work past 2p.m. you don’t get your government run Health Care. See how long John McCain holds out on that…

  3. 3.

    jeffreyw

    Much too early to look it up but the rethugs pulled the same thing a while back over some other snit they were in at the time. Couple of years ago iirc.

  4. 4.

    Robin G

    @dmsilev: Hell no. You never reward the toddler with juice. He needs to order the materials to construct a giant playpen wherein they are made to sit for their time outs.

  5. 5.

    Violet

    Such children. Harry Reid needs to get Joe Biden in there to smack them around with some more colorful language. Heh.

    Tim F, thanks for the donations reminders. I donated yesterday and might even donate some more today. Still so excited about health care passing and feeling all hopeychangey. It’s a good time to hit people like me up for some financial support for the Reps that made it happen.

    I occasionally peruse the anti-Palin blogs and Palingates had an interesting post on Palin’s thoughts on health care passing. She tells her supporters via Twitter not to retreat, instead “RELOAD.” And there’s a map of Reps that voted for health care that are their targets in this next election – identified by rifle sights on the map. Yeah, those Republicans aren’t advocating violence.

    The map and list might be useful, though, because it makes it pretty clear who the Republicans will be going after. If anyone is in any of those districts, they might want to send their Rep a few dollars.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    Completely nonpolitical: Sometimes, the institution where I work scares me:

    There are still plenty of nerds at the University of Chicago. Dombrowski has come across Reg graffiti written in Arabic (“a lot of it, actually”), Chinese (“a reasonable amount”), German, Turkish, Greek, Russian and Serbian. But that’s not the nerdy part, of course. The nerdy part is: the graffiti she has found scrawled in dead languages; the graffiti that use the letters of multiple dead languages; and the graffiti scrawled in hieroglyphics. As with every piece of graffiti she locates, she took a picture of the hieroglyphic graffiti. Then she brought it to an Egyptologist at the university for translation.
    …
    Translation: “We did it twice in the morning.”

    -dms

  10. 10.

    nevsky42

    Just to show what we’re up against, a teabagger (mistakenly) published the home address of Congressman Perriello’s (VA-5) brother on Facebook…

    link

  12. 12.

    jibeaux

    How can I petition to add Bob Etheridge (D-NC) to that list? He represents a red-leaning rural district where the polling was pretty heavily against, despite being one of those places where the farmers and other hard luck folks who live there will probably benefit a lot more from the law than, say, San Franciscans. It took him a little while to decide to vote for it, but he didn’t pull any Stupak bullshit and he never said he was going to vote against it. It took some guts.

  13. 13.

    Napoleon

    Re: the Republican temper tantrum. Anyone who wants to see the filibuster go should pray everyday for the Republicans to pull stuff like that. If they keep it up come January you will have Robert Byrd introducing a rule to do away with not only the filibuster, but holds and stupid rules like the “we don’t work after 2pm even if the Majority Leader wants us to”. I truly believe all of them have to go if our country has any chance of adequately addressing the issues that face it, and the Republican temper tantrum may actually help us get there.

  15. 15.

    some guy

    @dmsilev:

    Republicans get very crabby if they don’t get an afternoon nap. Maybe, in retaliation, Reid should threaten to prohibit the Senate cafeteria from selling juiceboxes and little baggies full of cheerios.

  17. 17.

    DBrown

    Normally I only donnate to charities but this time, I have to aggree that these people deserve our help. They came through on the most important – i.e. affects me directly in the best way – law since the 60’s (and the amazing passage of so many critical and good laws.) Great job BJ – you helped, too.

  18. 18.

    PT&S

    With regard to ActBlue campaign donations, what holds me back is that the last time I did this, I was put onto email lists and snail mail lists for a lot of the recipients’ campaigns. With my donation being divided up, a lot of the folks were spending almost as much on postage than they got from me. And of course, I really don’t want the spam of either kind.

    I’d love to make one of these donations, but please tell me there’s a way to participate without the spam!

  19. 19.

    DBrown

    @PT&S: Don’t use your e-mail or, if it is required, add a few extra letters/numbers. The idea is to get them money and if you don’t want their spam (good point), just don’t give the correct information. Only proper address/name and card info is what they have to have.

  20. 20.

    PT&S

    @DBrown: OK, that’s a start. But using correct address for credit card also leads to snail-mail spam! There really ought to be a check box for “no mailing lists”.

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