Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

No one could have predicted…

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

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

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

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

I really should read my own blog.

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Bill Paying Moms

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For whatever reason, Republicans don’t like to admit that most of their support comes from white men. So right on cue, we’ve got a new non-male demographic group that will propel Republicans to victory in November, Bill-Paying Moms (h/t Commander Guy). Never mind that the reality is a huge gender gap, with women tending to vote for Democrats and men tending to vote for Republicans.

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  1. 1.

    Culture of Truth

    Republicans block legislation to create tax breaks for companies that move foreign-based jobs to the U.S. and penalize those that send jobs offshore. Four Democrats and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut voted with 40 Republicans against allowing formal consideration of the bill.

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    Martin

    Bill paying moms are supposed to help the GOP? Heh. They’re the ones that stress most over the cost of health care, whether their kids’ doctor bills will be covered by insurance, and so on. Good luck with that one.

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    mistermix

    It’s just a way to call women who vote for Democrats welfare queens. They don’t pay their bills, the government does.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    @mistermix: Good point. The Repubs know their base.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.
    The polling is from NY. I’m sure females will just love to vote for the guy who told his wife hours before their son’s funeral, that he had a 9 year daughter.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    So, since my husband stays home and does the actual bill-paying (and childcare) while I go out to the office to bring home the nitrate-free meat substitute product, does that make him a girly man, or make me Not A Real ‘Merkin Mom, or both? I’m so confused – please, big Republican Mommy, tell me how to vote against my own self-interest here!

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    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    First it was Soccer Moms, then Security Moms, now Bill Paying Moms?

    My wife pays all the bills and manages all the finances. We decided not to breed. Do the 8 cats and 3-legged dog count?

  11. 11.

    Dork

    You’ll burden them with so much debt they won’t be able to buy a house

    Not able to connect the dots here.

  13. 13.

    geg6

    I don’t know a mom who doesn’t pay the bills and I also don’t know one who’d vote for a Republican.

  14. 14.

    El Cid

    So, the non-working wives of insta-Mansion, golf-course located rich husbands support Democrats?

    Because, you know, they’re not bill payers?

  15. 15.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @mistermix:

    But we know the biggest welfare queens wear overalls. Oh wait, that was the 80s.

    Now the biggest welfare queens wear Armani suits and drive very expensive cars

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    Rick Massimo

    This is what Republicans do. They make up names for things. They don’t come up with ideas to fix stuff; they make up names for things (and people). It’s all they do.

    Imam Obama, Obamacare, cap and tax, etc., etc., etc.

    All they do. Ever.

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    Martin

    @JPL: He’ll get credit for that. After all, if Cuomo had the affair, he would have insisted on having the pregnancy terminated at taxpayer expense and then surrendered NY State to Canada.

    Thems the rules in Wingnutland

  20. 20.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    @Rick Massimo: … and Right to work, freedom to farm, free forests…
    I guess Newt and Frank Lutz and the rest don’t actually have to be smart, just smarter than the average resentment-fueled white male?

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    JPL

    OT.. The Rolling Stone interview with President Obama is getting a lot of attention. As someone pointed out FOX News is highlighting his rap music but of course took it out of context. duh. Anyway the entire interview is worth a read.
    I’ve always said that he is less concerned about reelection than he is with doing what’s right. I thought this paragraph was interesting

    I just made the announcement about Elizabeth Warren setting up our Consumer Finance Protection Bureau out in the Rose Garden, right before you came in. Here’s an agency that has the potential to save consumers billions of dollars over the next 20 to 30 years — simple stuff like making sure that folks don’t jack up your credit cards without you knowing about it, making sure that mortgage companies don’t steer you to higher-rate mortgages because they’re getting a kickback, making sure that payday loans aren’t preying on poor people in ways that these folks don’t understand. And you know what? That’s what we say we stand for as progressives. If we can’t take pleasure and satisfaction in concretely helping middle-class families and working-class families save money, get a college education, get health care — if that’s not what we’re about, then we shouldn’t be in the business of politics. Then we’re no better than the other side, because all we’re thinking about is whether or not we’re in power.

  23. 23.

    Linda Featheringill

    @JPL:

    I’m sure females will just love to vote for the guy who told his wife hours before their son’s funeral, that he had a 9 year daughter.

    Jimminy Cricket!

    One wonders why marriage is still around.

    Or, perhaps, why marriage to political animals is still around.

    I probably owe the male half of the human species an apology. Most people [men and women] are not so insensitive. Probably most politicians are not that insensitive, either, although I’m just guessing here.

    But still . . . .

  24. 24.

    Mark S.

    The vast majority of conservative women I know are conservative because of social issues, not fiscal ones. I realize that isn’t very scientific, but there aren’t a lot of Megan McCardles running around.

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    JPL

    @Martin: The timing of his mea culpa is unforgivable. Old white men will think he was being honorable but believe me that’s it. I’d donate to an ad that highlights his treatment of females and minorities. I don’t think Cuomo has it in him to run one though.

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    Chat Noir

    @JPL: I just finished reading it a few minutes ago. I thought it was good. For me, one of the key quotes is this:

    But the delays, the cloture votes, the unprecedented obstruction that has taken place in the Senate took its toll. Even if you eventually got something done, it would take so long and it would be so contentious, that it sent a message to the public that “Gosh, Obama said he was going to come in and change Washington, and it’s exactly the same, it’s more contentious than ever.” Everything just seems to drag on — even what should be routine activities, like appointments, aren’t happening. So it created an atmosphere in which a public that is already very skeptical of government, but was maybe feeling hopeful right after my election, felt deflated and sort of felt, “We’re just seeing more of the same.”

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    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    @JPL:

    Then we’re no better than the other side, because all we’re thinking about is whether or not we’re in power.

    I knew it, Obama’s a fucking firebagger! Veal Pen Flapdoodle!

    @Mark S.: Yeah, half a dozen of my aunts and most of their friends, all on Social Security, Medicare, a lot of them with some kind of gov’t pension, and they’re all single-issue voters on abortion.

  31. 31.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @Martin:

    My wife is much too honest to try and do that. OTOH, if I thought I could get away with it…

    Given our vet bills, some months they feel like dependents.

    I’m sure people with actual human children will take offense at that statement.

  32. 32.

    JPL

    @Chat Noir: That was good. Maybe later we can convince the BJ business and economic editor to have an open thread and we can discuss the entire interview.

  33. 33.

    daveNYC

    I realize that isn’t very scientific, but there aren’t a lot of Megan McCardles running around.

    At last, some good news.

  36. 36.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Are Bill Paying Moms being forced to use long division? Get the government out of our maths!

  37. 37.

    freelancer

    @Jim, Foolish LIteralist:

    Yeah, half a dozen of my aunts and most of their friends, all on Social Security, Medicare, a lot of them with some kind of gov’t pension, and they’re all single-issue voters on abortion.

    This describes so many voters I know that it is just mindblowing.

    I suggest the Bill Hicks’ solution to contentious issues amongst low-info voters:

    I think an attitude of compassion might help us alot more than fear, personally. Y’know? And I figured out a way to perhaps make everyone happy about drugs Abortion, are ya ready? How about this? Here’s a way we can do it, make everyone happy. For those people who believe drugs Abortion should be legalised, legalise them. And, for those people who believe they shouldn’t be, they’re not, they never were, don’t worry, we’re cracking down. There! Now everyone is happy. I am the weaver.

  38. 38.

    Kristine

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Yeah, half a dozen of my aunts and most of their friends, all on Social Security, Medicare, a lot of them with some kind of gov’t pension, and they’re all single-issue voters on abortion.

    Did they tell you why?

  39. 39.

    Steve

    I don’t want to stereotype, but since the whole frickin’ notion of Bill-Paying Moms is a stereotype, you’d think that maybe a few of these deficit hawk moms would be interested in balancing the budget by cutting defense spending. Mothers aren’t exactly known for being thrilled as their kids go off to war, after all, nor did most of them play with tanks as children.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    @Kristine: Me personally, no, but my parents and other relatives have had a lot of awkward to tense conversations. My mom and her three sisters were having lunch last fall, one aunt was shocked to find out the other three were all for Obama. She actually said “But what about Life?” in a tone of disbelief. That’s how they talk. Old school Catholics. Some of them still go to Novenas (I think –one of those old fashioned, mid-week services), a couple are members of something called the Rosary Society.

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    DonkeyKong

    “Soccar Mom’s” went into hibernation and emerged as “Grizzly Mom’s” that would break into peoples homes in North Lake Tahoe and tear off freezer doors eating frozen bunt cakes and costco packs of frozen burrito’ only to leave a basketball size crap in the garage.

    Nobody has seen the “Grizzly Mom’s” after that. However, if you cup your ear into the media windscape you can hear the howl of the “Bill Paying Mom’s” in the middle distance.

  42. 42.

    Zifnab

    Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
    Five words that should win over every working woman’s vote to the Democratic party for a dozen electoral cycles.

    Course, I’d be surprised if one American in ten even knew what it was.

    I blame the liberal media.

  44. 44.

    JPL

    @DonkeyKong: Are we sure that scientists did not screw up and implant mice brains into grizzly moms. I wonder what O’Donnell would think about this possibility.

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    WereBear

    @someguy: I wouldn’t tab all guys that way; they have an amazing ability to focus, while women have an amazing ability to multitask. (On a standard Bell curve, of course.)

    However, this makes men less able to handle situations with a lot of nuance and missing information. In some ways, they can’t handle suspense; they would rather make a wrong decision and get out of there.

    So today’s Republican party, “often wrong but never uncertain,” appeals to men who never learned that skill.

  48. 48.

    someguy

    @WereBear:

    So today’s Republican party, “often wrong but never uncertain,” appeals to men who never learned that skill.

    So the 80% of us white males, who vote Republican, are basically somewhere between autistic and profoundly mentally retarded, depending on whether we’re high functioning or low. Explains a lot, really, when you think about it.

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