Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Second rate reporter says what?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Battle won, war still ongoing.

I was promised a recession.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

A consequence of cucumbers

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

It’s a doggy dog world.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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Not to go all Rand all the time, but he’s a gift that just keeps on giving. His official statement about the civil rights issue, posted on his Obama-clone website, starts like this:

In response to liberal media attacks, Dr. Rand Paul today released the following statement:

Rand and Sarah Palin have at least one thing in common: a reporter asking a question that elicits a moronic response from either of them constitutes a “liberal media attack”.

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  1. 1.

    Michael

    Just keep remembering – having a moron like Rand Paul win the Kentucky GOP primary to fill the seat held by retiring crazy-by-wingnut-standards Jim Bunning is “sea change” and great news for conservatives.

    I’m thinking that Paul and the Wasilla Wingnut should hook up – the pillow talk would be inspirational to all…..

  2. 2.

    WereBear

    I, too, find that anything I don’t like can be denounced as “liberal” and then I am right!

    Like cauliflower. All those little florets working together to keep me healthy as a cruciferous vegetable. It’s liberal, I tell you!

  3. 3.

    Lisa K.

    Jim DeMint seemed less than pleased, and I don’t think you can lump him in with the liberal media…

    (McConnell, on the other hand, could hardly contain his I-told-you-so snark. Noe THAT was funny.)

  4. 4.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    I thought progressives were the root cause of all evil now. So hard to keep up.

  5. 5.

    cat48

    Cracked me up when Wolf finally got him to say yesterday he would have voted for the CRA. All done without Dick’s waterboarding! The “looney left liberal elites” broke him. So, welcome to the NFL, Dr. Paul! heh

  6. 6.

    cat48

    Yes, my Sen. Deminted was truly pissed. He probably told him, “not in public fool!”

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    “Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

    But of course *private* businesses are free to segregate and discriminate as much as they please. Like, say, Woolworth’s lunch counters. Or, for example, the National City Lines bus company.

    dms

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    @Michael:

    I’m thinking that Paul and the Wasilla Wingnut should hook up – the pillow talk would be inspirational to all…..

    But think of the children. Are you *trying* to breed the Ultimate Wingnut?

    dms

  10. 10.

    Lisa K.

    @cat48:

    He probably told him, “not in public fool!”

    That’s exactly right. Save it for the voting, when bills come up supporting this type of stance, and couch it in the terms of individual liberty.

  11. 11.

    Ash Can

    That’s going to be just a great, great campaign. There’s plenty of popcorn to be munched between now and November.

  13. 13.

    Joey Maloney

    Gabriel Winant is tasty:

    But, lest Paul be allowed to escape, those of us who do want to make something of this need to broaden our argument. It’s not just that he screwed up and said something stupid because he’s so committed to a purist fancy. No, it’s worse than that. Libertarianism itself is what’s stupid here, not just Paul. We should stop tip-toeing around this belief system like its adherents are the noble last remnants of a dying breed, still clinging to their ancient, proud ways.

    The money shot:

    And that’s why the best rap on libertarians isn’t that they’re racist, or selfish. (Though some of them are those things, and their beliefs encourage both bad behaviors, even if accidentally.) It’s that they’re thoroughly out of touch with reality. It’s a worldview that prospers only so long as nobody tries it, and is too unreflective and self-absorbed to realize this. In other words, it’s bratty. And that’s bad enough.

  16. 16.

    superdestroyer

    Since the Republicans are irrelevant to policy, who cares what they go in Congress. Does their showing up to a pointless speech from the leader of a third world country affect policy at all.

    Maybe someone can point to a proposal that the Democrats have made in Congress to limit the movement of guns from the U.S. to Mexico. Given that Mexico does not bother to control its northern border at all, makes no inspections, and does not care who enters Mexico from the U.S., they have no right to complain.

  17. 17.

    JR

    Over at Volokh, the current thread on Paul is chock full o’ nuts, especially from people trying to explain how Rand’s comments on the Civil Rights Act are any different from Lester Maddox’s. Apparently, Paul echoing Maddox is a sign that liberals love abortions and communist speech, or something (why libertarians would object to choice or speech I can’t fathom, either–like I said, chock full o’ nuts).

  18. 18.

    Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill

    Paul says he “would have marched with King.” And, you know, early on, he might have. But when the going got tough…well, King had a few words about that, which echo to Paul’s back-tracking, as well as the overall “is he racist” discussion:

    I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

    I don’t give a damn if he loves or hates “Black” folk; I don’t need his love, and I’m more than used to the hate. I do give a damn that he doesn’t seem to give a damn about the real-world implications of his policy, about how it hurts people — yes, like me — in ways that history shows are brutally hard to overcome, and hinders the development and strengthening (economically, moral/ethically, militarily, and so forth) of the entire society he claims to give a damn about.

    And, in the process, he takes the discussion and flushes it down the toilet of political expediency, screaming “it’s just an idea!” all the way.

    He’s a spineless wanker of a pol, and the Tea Party 100% deserves his back-sliding, liberal-blaming ass.

  19. 19.

    Elisabeth

    I don’t give a damn if he loves or hates “Black” folk; I don’t need his love, and I’m more than used to the hate. I do give a damn that he doesn’t seem to give a damn about the real-world implications of his policy, about how it hurts people—yes, like me—in ways that history shows are brutally hard to overcome, and hinders the development and strengthening (economically, moral/ethically, militarily, and so forth) of the entire society he claims to give a damn about.

    This.

  20. 20.

    hilzoy fangirl

    This just further supports my theory that Dr. Rand Paul is actually a bioengineered automaton created by a mad scientist who thought that Dr. Ron Paul was insufficiently libertarian.

  21. 21.

    MaximusNYC

    OT: Acid-washed jeans and Topsiders are now so out of fashion that they’re becoming hip again. If you go to the uber-trendy Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and walk around for a few minutes, you’ll see both.

  22. 22.

    HE Pennypacker, Wealthy Industrialist

    Help those of us who aren’t up on all the hip irony you kids enjoy: what’s the meaning of the topsiders/acid-wash reference?

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