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When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

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We still have time to mess this up!

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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What about the common courtesy of a reach-around?

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That’s the only thing I could think of when I read this idiotic Kudlowism (via Oliver Willis):

Am I the only one who saw weakness when President Obama and his departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel gave each other big, fat, full-bore hug following their speeches at the resignation event in the White House’s East Room on Friday?

[…..]

Why not just a dignified, stand-up, serious handshake? That’s what Reagan would have done. A strong handshake shows friendship, respect, and even affection. But a big fat hug seems to go over the line.

Will this kind of thing ever end? Will our failed media ever stop talking about hugs versus handshakes, about presidents’ manly characteristic, about male presidential candidates “lactating”?

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  1. 1.

    Dave

    Yeah…and if Obama shook his hand Kudlow would say it was too “street” and why oh why isn’t there any humanity in the White House??!?

  2. 2.

    TooManyJens

    Will our failed media ever stop talking about hugs versus handshakes, about presidents’ manly characteristic, about male presidential candidates “lactating”?

    No.

    SATSQ.

    They’re simply too stupid and lazy to talk about anything that actually matters.

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    Gawd, somebody else resurrecting Reagan’s now-quite-dessicated corpse to score a Big Point. Hasn’t about half the country’s population been born since he left office?

    “Mistah we could use a man like Herbert Hoovah, again.”

  5. 5.

    noncarborundum

    I still wish we could have seen Giuliani square off with Ahmedinejad in a street fight. That would have been like way cool.

  7. 7.

    El Tiburon

    Cue the McCain hugging Bush picture please.

    And for the love of God, can the right ever stop skull-fucking Reagan.

    Talk about embarrassing man-love PDA.

  8. 8.

    KCinDC

    Interesting he had to go back to Reagan because Bush clearly was a hugger (though of course no conservative ever imagined anything weak about that). But I imagine someone will be finding photos of Reagan hugs pretty soon.

  9. 9.

    Blotto von Bismarck

    If Barack Obama insists on hugging, his advisers should encourage him to at least have the outside. Just as the President should be the one to terminate the hug, so America should be the only country to terminate relationships without repercussions.

    I don’t like the handshake. It allows the recipient too much freedom. I think that Obama needs to greet each person by handcuffing them, to show them that he’s the one in control of the debate.

  11. 11.

    El Cid

    President Reagan would have slapped him heartily on the back, and Dick Cheney would come around the corner to shoot him in the face, and then stuff him in the man-sized safe.

  12. 12.

    TheStone333

    Rahm would beat the shit out of Reagan. (And then tag Obama in for the elbow off the top turnbuckle.)

  13. 13.

    Erik Vanderhoff

    @Jim Crozier: That would have been awesome. And then Rahm could have raised his fist high and yelled, “Jewish rage!” and then shot the correspondent from Fox News.

  15. 15.

    Ash Can

    I saw this when someone — was it morzer? — commented on this in one of the morning threads. Kudlow’s a bloviating horse’s ass. In many of those foreign countries that he says were watching this display, a hug in this context would be quite restrained. This, however, would likely never occur to him, since all right-thinking people around the world must surely see things exactly the way he sees them.

  17. 17.

    Martin

    @El Tiburon:

    And for the love of God, can the right ever stop skull-fucking Reagan.

    No. Hugs are what gheys do. Skull fucking is seriously hetero.

    Someone really should come up with a Fleshlight/Reagan head combo and put the ads in Google Ad rotation over at the wingnut sites. I mean, if we had to put up with 3-armed Pam, I think they could handle a Skull-fuck Reagan sex toy.

  19. 19.

    Zifnab

    That’s what Reagan would have done.

    Oh sweet baby Jesus, do these people even have a gag reflex anymore? Just tattoo WWRD on your forehead and save the column space for someone with something to actually say.

  20. 20.

    Ash Can

    @Martin:

    a Fleshlight/Reagan head combo

    I choose to believe that this was not a typo, and none of your so-called “facts” can dissuade me. So there.

  21. 21.

    jl

    @cleek: But those were manly man hugs. And with weird aliens (pointy headed professors and presidents of foreign lands), where Reagan had to follow weird foreign protocols. Kind of like when Bush danced to savage drum music in Africa on a state visit.

    And a handshake would have been stiff and weak, distant and cold, or as commenter above said, too ‘street’.

    And a slap on the back would have been to casual, and demeaned the office, something fit only for sports bar.

    Cheek kisses would have been too French. And a French kiss would have been… very interesting.

    Probably an surprise Obama resignation would have been just the right touch, in fact, the only right thing, in Kudlow’s view.

  22. 22.

    Mr Furious

    The bro-hug is the standard now and is perfectly acceptable, and it wasn’t even invented in the 80s…

    I’m sure Biden was in the wings giving Rahm the double finger-guns and a wink. Is that okay with these fucking media jackasses?

    Why don’t we dispense with the pretense of all of this shit being political analysis and just have Joan and Melissa Rivers cover the fucking White House from now on.

  23. 23.

    jl

    How about giving Rahm a wedgie? That would work for several political factions.

    Edit: “I’m sure Biden was in the wings giving Rahm the double finger-guns and a wink. Is that okay with these fucking media jackasses?”

    No, that is definitely NOT OK. Hope they didn’t get pics, or there will be another scandal.

  24. 24.

    cleek

    Remember, this is on global television. And it has to do with the very top of the United States government. Our friends and enemies were all watching.

    our friends and enemies who all live in countries where a male-male embrace is not considered the epitome of OMGwuttaFAGGort! ?

    i’m pretty sure they were all like meh.

  26. 26.

    Kyle

    I’ve found that the only men who should worry about whether something is manly enough are those men who worry about whether something is manly enough.

  29. 29.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Mr Furious:

    Why don’t we dispense with the pretense of all of this shit being political analysis and just have Joan and Melissa Rivers cover the fucking White House from now on.

    Because that would actually improve the quality of the analysis.

  30. 30.

    SpotWeld

    I think the current crop of right-bloggers”…Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks. “

  32. 32.

    Arclite

    What are the odds on Larry Kudlow having a Larry Craig incident over the next five years?

  33. 33.

    jl

    Kudlow should try to get Obama on a small private boat, out in the water by a shoreline, of a lake, for a very private interview, Maybe Kudlow could get Obama to relax enough to explain his very unpresidential behavior.

  34. 34.

    Tonybrown74

    These are the same people whose lips were all a-pucker at Commander Codpiece in his flight suit.

    Apparently, worshipping GOP cock doesn’t make you gay …

  35. 35.

    jl

    @SpotWeld: And I think that they will be angry if any should be so bold and rude as to write them down an ass.

    Ossifer Kudberry, for example would be outraged to be writ down an ass, and rightfully so. Standards of civil behavior have fallen so low, you see.

  36. 36.

    morzer

    @Ash Can:

    Yes, it was me. And no, I didn’t get a DougJ reach-around either. Alas, the cruel fate of those of us who are not Jay Cutler!

  37. 37.

    John S.

    And for the love of God, can the right ever stop skull-fucking Reagan.

    In my household, we refer to it as humping Reagan’s corpse. YMMV.

  40. 40.

    Allan

    Am I the only one who saw weakness starbursts when President Obama and his departing chief of staff Rahm Emanuel gave each other big, fat, full-bore hug following their speeches at the resignation event in the White House’s East Room on Friday?

    Fixed.

  43. 43.

    FlipYrWhig

    Psst! Mr. Kudlow! I heard some countries even have _girls_ running the government. Eeew!

  44. 44.

    GregB

    I am outraged by the these faggy leftists and liberals and their touchy-feely-huggy-pauncy ways.

    Signed, A Sturdy and Manly Conservative Man.*

    *(Taps foot on restroom floor while texting underage pages and requesting them to measure their penii while they are on the way to get meth from from the gay hustler and adjusting the two dildos inside of the wetsuit.)

  45. 45.

    birthmarker

    @cleek: Well worth the click, cleek, Exactly what I was thinking. Better a hug than kissing and holding hands like little girls. (No offense meant to little girls.)

    BTW, a repeat from this morning–if you can give to John’s ActBlue page, do so soon so the candidates will have time to utilize the funds.

  46. 46.

    someguy

    I for one am disappointed that this has taken us away from our politically vital discussion of Hillary Clinton’s hair, and Sarah Palin’s womb.

  47. 47.

    Tonal Crow

    That’s just point-and-laugh stupid. Even below Dowd’s earth tones-level stupid.

    The guy ought to be in a travelling freak-show.

    Oh wait, he is.

  49. 49.

    daryljfontaine

    It was lost in the wee hours of the early morning of the Open Thread, so I’ll just leave this video of Rahmbo and President Obama here.

    D

  58. 58.

    Cat Lady

    @Lukeness: Gawd that idiot was such an embarassment to endure for so long in so many ways. I forgot about that one. My personal favorite. Imagine Obama being caught doing this. Fucking frat boy psychopath, but Obama hugged Rahm. I don’t know how Obama keeps from calling in an air strike on the DC press corpse.

  60. 60.

    r€nato

    If Obama hugging Rahm emboldens the terrorists… I wonder what they thought when Bush actually held hands with a Saudi prince.

    Don’t even get me started on how the constant parade of prominent Republican politicians caught having gay sex, makes the US look like a nation led by effeminate butt pirates…

  61. 61.

    El Cid

    @Maude:

    Ronald Reagan wouln’t have remembered who his chief of staff was.

    Reagan would have stepped off the plane in Bolivia, and welcomed him to Brazil.

  62. 62.

    AZERTY

    Where were these sort of comments when Bush was photographed holding hands and walking with Saudi Prince Bandar?

    Oh, right. Bush was macho–and had the packet to prove it–but Obama’s gay.

    They’re so goddamned fixated on this shit, I’m really beginning to think they’re ALL gay.

  63. 63.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @AZERTY:

    Oh, right. Bush was macho—and had the packet to prove it—but Obama’s gay.

    Did you mean “package”?

  65. 65.

    Nutella

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Oh, right. Bush was macho—and had the packet to prove it—but Obama’s gay.

    Did you mean “package”?

    A packet is a small package. I think @AZERTY’s meaning was clear.

  67. 67.

    Michael G

    The #kudlowstrength twitter tag is seeing a lot of hilarious action right now.

    “Larry Kudlow punched my dad in the chest after heart surgery and told his heart to stop looking weak.”

    “Larry Kudlow carries hot coals at all times to throw in the faces of crying people. He does this barehanded.”

    “Kudlow is a beast. He can eat so much raw meat in one sitting that Chuck Norris’ Y chromosome prolapsed.”

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