Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Be a wild strawberry.

When we show up, we win.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

“They all knew.”

We still have time to mess this up!

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

You cannot shame the shameless.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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  2. 2.

    Dork

    Maybe this has already been discussed here, but whomever penned this screed just nailed it.

    A more succinct, dead-on, pulls-no-punches non-Taibbi undressing of the fraud that are the teatards has not been written.

  4. 4.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @JPL:

    Yeah, I know. I always think these blegs accomplish nothing, then five hours later, I see that we netted a few G.

  5. 5.

    R-Jud

    @Dork:
    Thanks for that. My favorite bit:

    The Tea Partiers belong to a different tradition: a tradition of divisive fundamentalism. Like other fundamentalists, they seek refuge from the complexity and confusion of modern life in the comforting embrace of an authoritarian scripture and the imagined past it supposedly represents. Like other fundamentalists, they see in their good book only what they want to see: confirmation of their preexisting beliefs.

  8. 8.

    Punchy

    OT:

    Where was I when this all went down?

    Wow:

    According to the Washington Independent, al-Kidd was detained in high-security prisons for 16 days, strip-searched and shackled. When they released him, he was ordered to live with his in-laws, restrict his travel to four states and submit to home visits for a year. He was never charged or called to testify.

    Under what pretense did Ashcroft use to pull this on an American citizen? Did this not violate about 3 or 4 Constitutional Amendments? Just stunning that the media ignored all this.

  9. 9.

    John Bird

    I’ve been reading the present into the past lately.

    H.L. Mencken, accidentally describing John McCain in William Jennings Bryan’s obituary:

    But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thing? Was he, in his day, of any dignity as a man, and of any value to his fellow-men? I doubt it. Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment’s notice. For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting.

    And the ominous feeling I get when I look at Sarah Palin is perfectly described in Thompson’s obit for Richard Nixon:

    He had the fighting instincts of a badger trapped by hounds. The badger will roll over on its back and emit a smell of death, which confuses the dogs and lures them in for the traditional ripping and tearing action. But it is usually the badger who does the ripping and tearing. It is a beast that fights best on its back: rolling under the throat of the enemy and seizing it by the head with all four claws.

    Remember, Nixon’s political career was declared dead in 1960.

  10. 10.

    R-Jud

    DougJ@ Top:

    Update. A classic 70s music video to validate your fee fees while you give.

    You know what would validate my fee-fees? Not using the expression “fee-fees” anymore.

  12. 12.

    John Bird

    @R-Jud:

    I heard “fee fee” exactly once before this blog, in a YouTube video, when it was used to describe a rubber glove, lubricated and turned inside out in a towel for purposes of masturbation in prison.

    I can’t really imagine it meaning anything else, now.

  14. 14.

    R-Jud

    @John Bird:

    I heard “fee fee” exactly once before this blog, in a YouTube video, when it was used to describe a lubricated condom turned inside out in a towel for purposes of masturbation in prison.

    You know, that’s actually an improvement.

    One wonders how DougJ would validate those fee-fees. A stamp, maybe?

  19. 19.

    YellowJournalism

    They even travel to Colonial Williamsburg and ask the actor playing George Washington how to topple a tyrannical government.

    If that really works, I’m heading to Disneyland to get Snow White’s advice on how to get woodland creatures to clean my house for me.

  24. 24.

    p mac

    I’d like to see the total number of contributors go up more than the total contributions go up.
    451 contributors just isn’t that many for a blog with ~1M distinct views a month.

  26. 26.

    p mac

    Very sorry about that broken post — looks like still another problem on this site with IE-8. (I wasn’t able to delete the copies; there were sextuplets originally before I deleted the original.)

  29. 29.

    Koz

    “Yeah, I know. I always think these blegs accomplish nothing, then five hours later, I see that we netted a few G.”

    Yeah, but this is going to be overran by the foreigners at the Chamber of Commerce by 100-to-1 or something. Be sure to welcome your new overlords warmly.

  31. 31.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @YellowJournalism:

    If that really works, I’m heading to Disneyland to get Snow White’s advice on how to get woodland creatures to clean my house for me.

    LOFL! Hey wait–could I really get woodland creatures to clean my house for me–that would ROCK!

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