Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

T R E 4 5 O N

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

We’re not going back!

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Let’s finish the job.

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

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans in disarray!

Trump’s legal defense is going to be a dumpster fire inside a clown car on a derailing train.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Bark louder, little dog.

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  8. 8.

    freelancer

    The ads write themselves.

    ETA: Jesus, they are so fucked. They have an entire political party shackled to a propoganda arm of Roger Ailes, and they are inexorably linked to the batshit craziness of their nightly audience of 1-2 million people.

  9. 9.

    Alex S.

    Someone mentioned this in a previous thread: there’s the possibility that Rush Limbaugh, Fox News et al. want the Republicans to lose because it increases their ratings. And looking at this, it’s hard not to believe that the free market is devouring the GOP right now. I guess it’s karma.

  11. 11.

    HRA

    How low is low? Let me carry your water. No, let me carry your water.

    They have lost their minds.

    OT – the POTUS is in Afghanistan.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Quis teabagiet ipsos teabages? (Anybody know the Latin for teabag?)

    Excellent thread title, Tim F.

  14. 14.

    Ash Can

    This was basically the money quote from the article:

    When it comes to the network and the party, it appears one is an adjunct of the other, though the roles are less than clear.

    And, I should point out, this summary of Benen’s paraphrases a quote from David Frum at the beginning of his article.

    This is what’s news to me, too. I always thought it was the GOP pulling Fox’s strings, not the other way around. At this rate, we really will see a bona fide, foaming-at-the-mouth batshit insane teabagger as the GOP presidential candidate in 2012. I’d better start stockpiling popcorn now.

  17. 17.

    geg6

    I think the GOP National Committee should keep Michael Steele as chair forever. I think he does an absolutely stellar job. I read the other day that the DNC has hugely outraised the RNC so far this year. And concentrating on selling merchandise for FOX News is an especially good plan to have that trend continue. I’m fine with FOX taking over the entire GOP, I think. They aren’t interested in winning elections, just in stripping the rubes of their cash and putting it in the pockets of Murdoch and his stable of rnating demagogues. I love it. Michael Steele forevah!

  20. 20.

    geg6

    gbear: I am very happy to see Governor Rendell among that group. The state legislature is threatening to cut off funding for PA AG Tom Corbett’s office over this.

  21. 21.

    BDeevDad

    There is a new method of dealing with the Westboro Baptist Church. Donate in their name to gay and Jewish orgs.

    Phelps-a-thon

    I wonder if there could be an equivalent TeaBag-a-Thon?

  22. 22.

    Jake

    Tim, just FYI, the excerpt makes little sense without reading the linked page first. You might want to provide a little more context for your readers.

  24. 24.

    geg6

    OT but I have a food question. What would go well as a sandwich or side with lobster bisque? I have some fabulous bisque from my sister’s restaurant but I can’t figure what would go well with it for a light supper.

  28. 28.

    JasonF

    geg6 — I would sautee some shrimp (or maybe some scallops), perhaps with some white wine, and toss with a pasta primavera.

  29. 29.

    Martin

    @geg6: I’d go for a fairly hearty sandwich alongside lobster bisque – to balance it out. Something along the lines of a beef dip on the simple side to a more rounded steak sandwich with greens. I’d even give my favorite pastrami and cream cheese on a french roll a run at it.

  31. 31.

    Bill E Pilgrim

    @geg6: If you have bread, tomatoes and a clove of garlic or two:

    Dice the tomato into small squares. Make toast, nice and brown, not too light, then peel a clove of garlic and rub it directly on the toast, just sand it down until it’s gone. Then spread the diced tomato on the toast.

    Something they do in Spain that i just love. In fact I wish I had the ingredients tonight but I don’t.

  32. 32.

    Svensker

    @geg6:

    OT but I have a food question. What would go well as a sandwich or side with lobster bisque? I have some fabulous bisque from my sister’s restaurant but I can’t figure what would go well with it for a light supper.

    Something simple that doesn’t take over, cuz you want the bisque to be the flavor centerpiece. Maybe grilled portobello or steak sliced thin on some toasted buttered french bread? With a simple salad on the side — just a variety of crisp fresh lettuces with a light balsamic dressing?

    Mmmmm. Lobster bisque.

  33. 33.

    Carrie

    @geg6:

    Lightly toasted garlic bread and a spinach salad with pine nuts or walnuts sprinkled on.

    Now i’m hungry again.

  35. 35.

    geg6

    Damn. All the suggestions sound delicious. Spinach sounds especially lovely though. I’m thinking maybe sauteeing the spinach with some garlic and olive oil and putting it and some diced tomatoes and precorino on some French or Italian bread crostini. Mmmmm. I think that’s it.

  39. 39.

    Cacti

    @Ash Can:

    When it comes to the network and the party, it appears one is an adjunct of the other, though the roles are less than clear.

    No, I’d say the roles are pretty clear. Right wing media runs the Republican Party.

    That became painfully apparent when GOP Congressmen kept having to crawl to Rush Limbaugh to beg forgiveness.

  41. 41.

    Redshift

    @HRA: I would translate it as “sacculus theae” (little bag of tea, using an alternate word for “bag”), with the note that the Romans of course didn’t have tea bags, and apparently didn’t have tea, either just medicinal infusions like chamomile, but not as a beverage. (Apparently ‘thea’ as a Latin word for tea was created by British writers in the 19th century.)

    Turning that phrase into a verb and an actor to create the “who watches the watchmen” form is well beyond my twenty-years-stale Latin knowledge, but if you’re willing to abandon the strict “tea” association, I’m sure the appropriate terms for the act could probably be found by reading Catullus.

    /pedantic

  44. 44.

    Robin G.

    @Cat Lady: Indeed, thank God. I threw up for 17 hours yesterday, but I had Palm Sunday brunch today and have drunk my weight in cranberry juice. I live to fight (though not drink) another day.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    @Robin G.: Yes, this would do very nicely. Good suggestion. In fact, I have some very nice thick-cut pepper bacon in the refrigerator right now. Might make that for lunch. Pulled pork sandwiches for dinner. A little redundant, but it’s 80 degrees out and I’m hot from working in the garden all morning so I’ll eat what I want, damnit.

  48. 48.

    HRA

    @Redshift:

    Thank you. My 20+ years of Latin are even staler.

    I am led to believe by my own ancestral lore of those tea bushes or plants on the mountain of my paternal land that the tea was originally used for medicinal purposes according to the knowledge of my grandmother being the herbal medicine woman. The tea they did drink socially was green tea.

  49. 49.

    licensed to kill time

    OT, but this is funny:

    Across Japan the arrival of spring is bringing out the cherry blossom but it is also making people reach for their handkerchiefs as, at this time of year, hay fever is rife.
    __
    A company called the Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory has developed what it claims is a cure.
    __
    For relief, sufferers need only wait for a call on their mobile phone. The sound is supposed to dislodge pollen if the user holds the handset up to their nose.

    I wonder if they could market a ringtone for Beckians that converts your pennies to gold when you hold them up to your phone?

  50. 50.

    Redshift

    @licensed to kill time: Heck, I bet they could market a ring tone that works like a virtual tin foil hat!

    I have to admit some slight sympathy for Beck’s former advertisers — it must have been hard to give up access to that big a pool of extraordinarily gullible people. (Then again, most of them are still advertising on other Fox shows, so I suppose they haven’t given up much of it.)

  51. 51.

    Tex

    Speaking of Amway…Amway has ripped off millions of people for several decades, to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars.

    Amway is a scam, and here’s why: Amway pays out as little money as they can get away with, so they support the higher level IBOs ripping off their downline via the tool scam.

    As a result, about 99% of IBOs operate at a net loss, while the top 1% make several TIMES more from their Amway tool scam than from the Amway products. This was made illegal in the UK in 2008, but our FTC is unable to pull their heads out of their butts to stop it here.

    Read about it on this website: http://thenetprofitgroup.yolasite.com and forward the information to everyone you know, so they don’t get scammed.

  52. 52.

    licensed to kill time

    @Redshift: I think it’s the ringing tones of Beck’s hysterical voice that functions as a tin foil hat, no need for an extra app ;-)

  53. 53.

    Craig Pennington

    @SiubhanDuinne, @HRA and @Redshift Y’all are missing the obvious — stop trying to be literal. Drop the “tea” and go for the image. “Scrotum.” Literally means “lesser.” I would then look for “Who lessens the lesser themselves? — Quis scroteat ipsa scrota?” I make no guarantees that my twenty-year stale Latin is any better than Redshifts.

  54. 54.

    Bob K

    Oy Vey.
    If Michael Steele was Jewish he’d be the poster child for Hebrews For Hitler.

    Reverse OREO – Also

  56. 56.

    morzer

    But who will read the books to the donors and the teabaggers? Is we putting enough education on our kids? Will there be literacy rationing? Are there going to be bibliophile death panels?

    @Craig Pennington – I think you mean:

    Quis scrutabitur quos scrota sua scrutantur?
    “Who will scrutinize those who scrutinize their scrotums?”

    BTW, scrotum means “pouch” not “lesser”. Lesser is “minor”.

    Morzer – Fedaykin of Emperor Obama Atreides Muad’dib

  57. 57.

    Bob K

    @ morzer

    read books? where we’re going we DON’T read books – they do however make good kindling to start the fires that will keep us alive

  59. 59.

    morzer

    @Bob K:

    Ah, the McCain-Harkonnen literacy plan for America.

    Morzer – Fedaykin of Emperor Obama Atreides Muad’dib

  60. 60.

    Craig Pennington

    @morzer Thanks! Don’t know where I got my translation. I am certain of my memory on “sheath” though.

  64. 64.

    Comrade Mary

    Here’s beltane’s link again re those militia raids.

    The reason it didn’t work earlier is because this site shortens long URLs that are pasted in naked.

    This following URL looks good to me in preview:

    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/3/28/851762/-FBI-Raid-Militia-in-Michigan

    But when it’s posted, you can see that a big chunk in the middle is replaced by …

    Short URLs often survive naked posting, but long URLs may get shamed and spanked and truncated. So when in doubt, type a word or words (even “Click here” is fine), highlight the words, click the link button above, and paste the URL in the pop-up box.

    OR: if you paste in a naked link from another site that includes a … in the middle, it won’t work at all. I just tested my truncated link above and it seems to work, so maybe this was the problem.

  65. 65.

    morzer

    Shamed and spanked, Comrade Mary? Next you’ll have them hiking the Appalachian Trail!

    Morzer – Fedaykin of Emperor Obama Atreides Muad’dib

  67. 67.

    Ash Can

    @Cacti: Oh, I knew that Limbaugh was running the show, all right. I’m talking about Fox specifically. I’ve always figured that the GOP was using Fox, not the other way around.

  68. 68.

    moja31

    @Ash Can:
    I generally think of the GOP as the legislative arm of Fox news; whatever crazy idea gets cooked up by Fox’s bobbleheads, inevitably gets packaged into an amendment which gets brought to the floor of the house or senate by whatever wingnut legislator drew the short straw at the previous caucus meeting.
    Anita Dunn was on the right track with her comments about Fox & the GOP, but she got the flow of influence a bit backwards; Fox doesn’t just spout republican talking points on a 24hr loop, it dictates the republicans’ legislative agenda. it’s amazing how pretty much any crackpot theory put out by hannity or beck over the past year has been repackaged and tacked onto whatever piece of semi-relevant legislation is working its way through congress on any given day.

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