Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

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

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

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

Innocent people do not delay justice.

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

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Be a wild strawberry.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

It is not hopeless, and we are not helpless.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Fear and negativity are contagious, but so is courage!

Not all heroes wear capes.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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  2. 2.

    Bob Loblaw

    You’re getting a little spendthrifty here with guys like Frank or Grijalva, don’t you think?

    Like William Goldman said about Hollywood, nobody knows anything about the House races this year. It could go in literally any direction, there may be no unified pattern to which people lose at all. You’d be better off staying focused on the big money Senate seats, where things are more coherent and stable, and the individual stakes are much higher.

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    Xecky Gilchrist

    I early-voted today! Everybody who can, do it! Then tell everybody else to vote.

    Especially if they’re on your team! Arrr!

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    Steve

    In a post-Citizens United world, Barney Frank has to give money to his campaign. You’d almost think that he’s not in the pocket of Wall Street, the way the Republicans say.

  10. 10.

    Daddy-O

    @Bob Loblaw: All fifty states, every single seat contested and fought for.

    That’s the only Democratic strategy I’ve ever been interested in. And it brought us the last four years of government.

    Not too shabby. I won’t ever say surrender some ‘small’ House seat to shore up a Senate seat. Fund them all. Dr. Dean sez…

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    mai naem

    I believe Barney’s seat is in as much danger as the Deep South non black congressional seat of some nutcase Republican whose opponent has pictures of said Republican f#@ing a dog.

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    MikeJ

    Would somebody please tell the fuckwits on TBS that “God Bless America” doesn’t “honor America”? It is a request. It’s is not a statement about how good or nice America is.

    And somebody tell the PA announce at fucking yankee stadium that you needn’t remove your cap for a prayer to somebody else’s god.

  13. 13.

    FreeAtLast

    John,

    To cover all the close Senate races, you need to add CO, NV and IL. No matter how awful the House results are, I think we have a decent chance of 53 Dems in the Senate – maybe even 54. I know … the pickup opportunities in AK and KY seem a bit too much to hope for but the schadenfreude for the Teapartiers would be so delicious.

    I’m going to spread some money around for Senate candidates and volunteer for the endangered Dem Rep in the district next to mine.

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    hilzoy

    I cannot imagine Barney Frank actually being in danger of losing. And fwiw, this is where I’m from. In other parts of MA — the South Shore, for instance — he might lose. Not in Newton and Brookline.

    (I will, of course, be prepared to cook, dress, and eat a hat if I’m wrong.)

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    Mike in NC

    @hilzoy:

    I cannot imagine Barney Frank actually being in danger of losing. And fwiw, this is where I’m from. In other parts of MA —the South Shore, for instance—he might lose. Not in Newton and Brookline.

    South Shore? Highly unlikely. Go west to Worcester and Springfield, maybe.

  17. 17.

    hilzoy

    Mike: Hmm. I would have thought that Springfield, while more Republican, also appreciates competence and is less teaparty-ish than the South Shore. But probably I’m just rusty.

  18. 18.

    feebog

    Barney is going to be fine. If you want to make a difference. drop a dime on Alan Grayson or Jerry McNerney out in California.

  20. 20.

    parsimon

    @hilzoy:

    With 15% still undecided. Still, though, good news.

    On the Mass. voting front, yeah, I’d put Springfield in the camp of the suspicious, and likely angry, people, but while I’m from Mass. as well, I’m pretty rusty also. You’re right, though, Frank in his region will probably be fine. It’s just difficult to forget the shock that was Scott Brown.

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    hilzoy

    I still think Frank is going to be fine. But his CD extends a lot further south than it used to. (For comparison, here are the returns from the special election for Senate.)

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    parsimon

    Wow, I’d never actually reviewed the Brown results in detail. I don’t know that southern area of Frank’s district well myself, but hadn’t realized it went that far south.

    Word from some quarters is that the gubernatorial races this season are arguably more important than any given the redistricting that will be going on in the wake of the 2010 census.

  23. 23.

    Roy G

    @Steve, thanks for the reply. Like many youngsters, you probably don’t realize the significant damage that Pollard did to our national defense efforts. Not only did Israel trade Pollard’s secrets to the Soviet Union, severely compromising our national defense, many US intelligence assets were, in fact, killed as a result.

    I realize that you may have been replying with tongue in cheek, however, this connection deserves more attention. I urge readers here to check the ugly facts of the Pollard case, and realize that what Frank is doing here is downright traitorous. If you have any doubts, there are many intelligence assets from that era, like Col. Lang, who I linked to above, who will speak to the damage done.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

    Politics is politics, however, defending this traitorous act is something else.

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    Mike in NC

    Bravo Zulu to Joe Sestak. Keep it up and we’ll splice the mainbrace on election day.

    During my daily hour-long commutes I have to look at all the roadside litter: signs for Richard Burr (R-NC), an empty suit good old boy who’s apparently been collecting a paycheck for the past six years for doing absolutely nothing in the Senate.

    And don’t get me started on Iliario “Psycho” Pantaro, the bastard who got kicked out of the Marines for shooting Iraqi civilians in the back and became a hero to the teabaggers as a result. Nobody would hire a murderer so he decided to run for Congress. Mega-scumbag.

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    Steve

    @Roy G: I am very familiar with the facts of the Pollard case. I disagree that it is “traitorous” to lobby for his release – that’s wingnut rhetoric. I also disagree that it trumps everything a progressive like Barney Frank does to help the cause of millions of working-class Americans. Finally, I think calling me a “youngster” is an immature Internet-type insult that doesn’t really enhance your stature in this discussion.

  26. 26.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Steve:

    Finally, I think calling me a “youngster” is an immature Internet-type insult that doesn’t really enhance your stature in this discussion.

    Oh snap!

  29. 29.

    JD Rhoades

    @Mike in NC:

    During my daily hour-long commutes I have to look at all the roadside litter: signs for Richard Burr (R-NC), an empty suit good old boy who’s apparently been collecting a paycheck for the past six years for doing absolutely nothing in the Senate.

    Meanwhile, Elaine Marshall, the Dem-establishment candidate running against him, has apparently been asleep till last week, when she began running tepid, boring ads that are just her talking head lecturing the audience.

    I actually know and like Elaine, but I’m so mad at her right now I could spit.

  31. 31.

    Gus

    Yeah, times are really tough for Dems. My childhood Congressman, Jim Oberstar in Minnesota’s 8th district is actually vulnerable. He’s represented the district since 1975, and it’s a heavily union (mining) area. He generally wins with about 65-70% of the vote. A Republican commissioned poll has his competition within like 3 points.

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