Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

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

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A dilettante blog from the great progressive state of West Virginia.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

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

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Consistently wrong since 2002

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

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

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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  1. 1.

    beltane

    But look, the teabaggers are sending people gay pride bracelets with Hebrew writing now http://wonkette.com/422149/tea-party-group-sending-homosexualjewish-bracelets-to-liberals-for-some-reason

    I think we also need another Paladino post. First it was Al D’Amato calling him “unfit” and now it’s the Republican AG candidate refusing to endorse or stand on a stage with him. What is New York’s crazification factor?

    Eeek! That video should only be seen on Halloween night.

  3. 3.

    Remember November

    These ladies obviously have an oral fixation.

    You know sometimes the best medicine has to be rammed down a throat.

  4. 4.

    Leo

    Are they actually calling this thing a “Citizens United Production”? That’s an amazingly unselfaware name for a company that’s in the business of bankrolling political advocacy films.

  5. 5.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Motherhood is a political act? Period? I don’t know who many of the women are. Usually if I discover I don’t know something, I want to learn about it. Not in this case. No sir/ma’am.

  7. 7.

    Jbird

    (barn bursts into flames)
    (government is too underfunded to put it out)
    (barn burns as sun goes down)
    (fade to black)

  11. 11.

    Leo

    On second look, I see that the Supreme Court case was in all likelihood named for this production company, so that explains that.

  13. 13.

    Steve

    Speaking of conservative women, some interesting developments up in Alaska. (Link)

    Lisa Murkowski is widely expected to announce this afternoon that she is mounting a write-in campaign. Fortunately for her, Alaska law seems to require only that you be kinda close on the spelling.

    Tea Party favorite Joe Miller responds by telling the media Mitch McConnell said that if Murkowski wins, she’ll be stripped of her seniority and committee assignments. Now, why couldn’t we get that deal with Joe Lieberman, you might ask.

    Only thing is, as the linked article points out, Mitch McConnell doesn’t have the power to strip anyone’s seniority. So it might happen, but it sure sounds like Miller is just making stuff up. Maybe this race will get interesting.

  14. 14.

    CT Voter

    That is just wrong.

    I feel sorry for people who truly believe that the AntiChrist is now governing…the world must seem like a very dark and scary place. I strongly recommend that such individuals move off the grid, and stay away from the voting booth in November.

  16. 16.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @beltane:
    @TooManyJens:

    I may have been a little flippant there. Per the film, it appeared that they are arguing that that motherhood is a conservative political act. To me, it seems that it is something that some/many women do. To the extent that it is political, I would imagine that the choice to be, or not be, a mother is involved. That is antithetical to conservative ideology.

  17. 17.

    Daddy-O

    Nearly every word these cretins choose is a buzz word.

    Fire. Grizzly. Mama. Shove. Throat.

    Frank Luntz is smiling somewhere as he checks his online bank accounts…

  18. 18.

    Chat Noir

    @slag: It’s only two plus minutes long but I don’t dare play the clip. I trust it’s bad.

    And DougJ, I remember seeing the raunchy version of the “Girls on Film” video. That was during my 1984 Duran Duran phase.

  19. 19.

    beltane

    @Steve: If Murkowski wins and it’s a 50/50 senate they won’t do a damned thing to her. What she is really seeking is revenge on one of the crazy ladies in Doug’s video.

  21. 21.

    slag

    @Chat Noir: You’re smart. I kept waiting for the punch line. It never came. Though DougJ is right about the grizzly bear footage…it was pretty funny. Just not funny enough.

  22. 22.

    beltane

    @Omnes Omnibus: Still. I doubt they feel motherhood is a politcal act when it is undertaken by non-white women, liberals, or non-Christians. Not to go all Godwin, but this video reminds me of Nazi propaganda films which portrayed Aryan motherhood as forming a key pillar of the Reich.

  23. 23.

    Jbird

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Other conservative, pro-Republican acts you can do yourself:
    1) getting a job
    2) going to church
    3) marrying a member of the opposite sex
    4) buying a product
    5) eating meat

  24. 24.

    SIA

    Motherhoood is a political act.
    Hell yeah! And La Palin took hers on the road!

    HEY MAMA GRIZZLIES! FUCK YOU BITCHEZ!

    (‘scuse me)

  25. 25.

    Michael

    It takes a lot of conservofeminists on film to make Dick Vigorous begin to feel a twitch below the belt these days.

  26. 26.

    Jbird

    @Steve:

    Well, my guess would be that your Department of Law there in Congress would look at Murkowski’s seniority and things of that nature and throw them out.

  29. 29.

    Jewish Steel

    Wow. Image salad. Thanks for that. How do I go about unseeing things again?

    Is this a call to arms against Geithner? Obama? “The Culture?” It’s “The Culture”, isn’t it? Stupid “The Culture.”

    I particularly like Tea Harpy #7’s hand wringing over the future of grandchildren and children over stock footage of soldiers marching along. Wha? I can think of one good way to extend lots of people’s future. How about less military adventurism?

  30. 30.

    SIA

    I love the way they framed Michelle Bachman – Tim Geithner. He’s looking all perplexed and befuddled at her hard line questioning! Wait…no! It’s because her question was REALLY STOOPID! Christ. On a cracker.

  31. 31.

    slag

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’m with you. That was weird and creepy. People who claim to be anti-government and all about individual rights are saying that something as personal as reproduction is political. Cringe-worthy stuff there.

  32. 32.

    sukabi

    @slag: someone needs to mount that grizzly… it’s clearly not doing it’s job… not knocked up or in the kitchen… although it is bare-footed.

  35. 35.

    Bob L

    @Jbird:
    Moer Conservative pro-Republican acts

    6. Having a credit card
    7. Owning and driving a vehicle
    8. Watching the TV
    9. Speaking English

  38. 38.

    slag

    @sukabi: I’m trying to understand the recent Republican fascination with bears. Weren’t they, during the election, bitching about government spending money on a bear DNA study? And I’m pretty sure “Mama Grizzly” herself was part of that presidential campaign.

    At this point, Colbert Nation is essentially a reality show.

  39. 39.

    DonkeyKong

    All the women in the video live and make ther “living” in the manhatten/DC circle of islamobuttsecksshoshalism.

    Glenn Beck lives in a castle in Connecticut fer chissakes!

    It’s like a reverse snipe hunt were the rubes are the hunters.

  40. 40.

    Bullsmith

    Nope. this works. I live in a neighborhood filled with mothers who have post-graduate degrees but don’t work and have full time, live-in Phillipina nannies who have mostly left their own kids back home to be raised without mothers. This is their rallying call. Okay not the cheesy video or even the moron spokesPalin, but the message of “why do you hate me for being selfish, greedy, ignorant and spoiled? Don’t you understand, God made me superspecial!” resonates.

  41. 41.

    El Cid

    Women are about to rise up and stop the un-Constitutional results of people having voted wrong. They’re going to do it by honoring really dumb female politicians and mean ass juvenile bloggers, and by holding rallies where people wave teabags around. They are our last line of defense.

  42. 42.

    Peter VE

    Of the 14 women named on the website as examples, one is from Texas, two are from St Louis, 3 are Congresswymmyn, and the rest are from DC or New York. I may be a little off base, but I always thought the “Heartland” specifically excluded DC & NYC, and Representatives lost their “Heartland” credentials after a couple terms.

  43. 43.

    Jewish Steel

    It’s also a coincidental preview of how Palin will assert her alpha female over O’Donnell. Fecundity.

    Since O’Donnell is more cutsey-poo, it’s all Bible Spice has on her. Just watch. It’ll happen

  44. 44.

    Villago Delenda Est

    “Motherhood as a political act” was very popular concept in a certain Central European country some 75 years ago.

    Just sayin’.

  45. 45.

    Steve

    Motherhood is a political act. Every last voter had a mother at some point. Some mothers have gone so far as to plant fake birth announcements in the paper so their child could become President someday.

  47. 47.

    ruemara

    Considering that just working on my little text ads on my 10 year old mac makes it feel faint, I say that whatever equipment this dreck was produced on should be confiscated and given to filmmakers who have a busted camera and an senior laptop.

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    That’s two minutes forty-two seconds of my life I will never get back. And that kinda givez me a big sad.

    I just had a small moment of gentle pushback against my cousins and siblings. I love them all dearly (obligatory stipulation) but I’m distressed at how easily they buy into a lot of the kneejerkery out there. Earlier today I got one of those supposedly funny, supposedly hugely ironic emails that reads (summarizing and paraphrasing):

    Let me see if I’ve got this straight — if you cross the (North Korean/Afghan/Iranian/Saudi/Chinese etc.) border illegally, you will be (shot/jailed/detained/branded a spy etc.), but if you cross the Canadian border illegally you will get a job/a credit card/welfare/social security/health insurance/free education/documents in your language, and the right to carry your country’s flag while you protest that you don’t get enough respect.

    A Canadian relative sent it around. An American relative replied to all saying “Yup, it’s all true in the United States, too!”

    So I wrote back (to all, including a bunch of people I’ve never heard of) and said: “You’re outraged by this? Now here’s what outrages me and makes me sick” and then I pasted in the chart showing the Iraqi civilian casualties that mistermix (I think it was) put up earlier today. That’s all. No other comment.

    So far — nobody has responded :-)

  49. 49.

    Bob L

    @Jbird:
    15) Set an American flag as background on computer.
    16) Use Twitter
    17) Presetting an AM station on a car radio
    18) Order a side of ranch dressing at Applebees.

  55. 55.

    Dave Fud

    @TooManyJens: I couldn’t help it. I’ve seen it a lot and usually hate it, but then it was so inconspicuous in its absence that I couldn’t resist. And, I admit to some curiosity as to how it would be received.

    Humble apologies.

  58. 58.

    Jbird

    @Bob L:

    19) Stand next to a motorcycle
    20) Send your kid to war
    21) Have running water
    22) Wear a Captain America T-shirt
    23) Go fishing

  62. 62.

    sukabi

    @Jewish Steel: Palin will pull out her fertile uterus as PROOF!!1!! that she’s better than the junior grifter from Delaware… can’t be a REAL WOMAN unless you’ve spawned with your man.

  63. 63.

    sukabi

    @slag: Not sure where the bear fascination comes from either… I wonder when Colbert will address this THREAT from the bagger crowd.

  65. 65.

    Paris

    Babies are produced by political acts (i.e. motherhood is a politiccal act)? I think I’ve been doing it wrong.

  67. 67.

    Phoebe

    @TooManyJens: What would their reasoning be?

    Ok, anyone: Why is the barn plopped into the middle of a field? Aren’t there usually roads leading to the barn door, so the tractor or whatever can get in?

  69. 69.

    Citizen_X

    Why is there an armed robbery in the middle of the clip? Why is there a rampaging grizzly threatening to eat my face right after that? Am I supposed to think the latter’s a good thing?

    Non-sequitur fail, ladeez.

  70. 70.

    YellowJournalism

    I never knew Sex and the City 2 was a threat to my femininity. An insult to my intelligence, maybe, but it has no effect on me as a woman.

    The language used in this trailer is far more offensive to my feminine sensibilities than a movie that is a pale imitation of its TV origins ever could be. “Motherhood is a political act” and “Women are the last line of defense” are statements grounded in the philosophy of putting women back in their “place” in society.

    And to equate Sarah Palin to Margaret Thatcher is beyond an insult to Thatcher.

  71. 71.

    YellowJournalism

    @Citizen_X: That grizzly footage is the exact same footage Colbert uses in his Threatdown when he mentions bears as a threat. It’s eerie the way the right starts to resemble a parody more than The Colbert Report does.

  72. 72.

    Bullsmith

    O’Donnell is unmarried and unproductive and not a nun. By her own value system, doesn’t that make her something of a failure to carry out God’s mission to procreate? God’s command isn’t stay home and don’t reproduce.

  74. 74.

    oklahomo

    @Phoebe:
    Real Americans despise the inherent socialism in tax-funded roads. And tractors and monster trucks don’t need no stinkin’ roads.

  75. 75.

    Vtr

    I believe the bear is the late, lamented trained movie star, Bart. Ironically, Bart was a Daddy grizzly, not a Momma grizzly.

  76. 76.

    Malron

    @Peter VE: My feelings exactly. I do not think the word means what they think it means.

    By the way, is there a cameo of porn star Lisa Ann in that trailer? I’d swear there is…

  77. 77.

    Wilson Heath

    The producers of this film owe American women an apology for associating them with such monumental, profound, s***-flinging stupidity.

  79. 79.

    Wilson Heath

    @kirkaracha: See immediate preceding comment regarding s***-flinging stupidity. The conservative women featured in the trailer — that’s the way they roll.

  81. 81.

    Rabble Arouser

    It’s funny, but when you wrote “stick with it till the stock grizzly footage comes in”, I thought you were talking about Mooselini herself.

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