Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

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

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

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

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

White supremacy is terrorism.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

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

the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

Nothing worth doing is easy.

How stupid are these people?

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

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

In my day, never was longer.

In after Baud. Damn.

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  1. 1.

    geg6

    What do you expect from dinos, John? They, according to my biology book in high school, have very, very, very small brains.

  2. 2.

    John PM

    These guys have “put country first” Tourettes.

    Obama should announce the abolition of Congress and the Supreme Court – then he can get some shit done! That would be putting country first!

  3. 3.

    soonergrunt

    Please, please, please tell me that our resident WaPo chat-tweaker got at least one good one in on these assholes.

    Please?

    Lie to me if you have to.

  4. 4.

    kdaug

    Is it obdurate of me to wish these cretins limit themselves to one term of writing idiotic opinions? And that, perchance, that one term has just expired?

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    Oh, the stupid in this:

    And we wrote this article in the hopes that President Obama would put country first — and our nation’s problems ahead of its politics. …

    Obviously this is meaningless tripe. But it’s especially mindless because if these morans knew anything, actually substantively knew things and had thoughts, then they’d instantly recognize that “our nation’s problems” as well as its “politics” ARE our country.

    And we should be precisely “putting first” our problems and solving them. And you know who isn’t trying to do that? Yeah, these two, the pinhead pundits who listen to them, and the GOP.

    Assholes.

  6. 6.

    Ash Can

    From the poster’s commentary at the link:

    Even by the low, low standards of Post Q&As, this is particularly lazy.

    No, it’s not. Schoen and Caddell aren’t being lazy, they’re being so blatantly bigoted — whether anti-black or anti-Dem or both — that they’re floundering for words to use as a figleaf for their true intentions. As a result, they fall back on the same bullshit meme over and over again. It doesn’t really work as a figleaf, but when you’re trying to hide that much, nothing really will, or can.

  7. 7.

    suzanne

    Who was that right-wing troll who used to hang out here and would end all his posts with “Country First”? That dude was awesome. I should go sneeze on his door handle.

  10. 10.

    rickstersherpa

    Although the WaPo was fairly neo-conservative and generally seethed with hatred for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, they seemed neutral on Obama until the Education Department like started applying standards and accountability to all the tax dollars going to Kaplan in the form of student loans who then ended up unemployed and not employable with their so-called credentials. Since then, Schoen and Caddell have become regular visitors ot the WaPo editorial pages. The WaPo editorial page is actually completely non-apologetic for using its space to flog the corporate interests.

  11. 11.

    Face

    this Q&A with Schoen and Caddell was pathetic and nonsensical.

    It would have been considerably better if it was T&A.

  15. 15.

    licensed to kill time

    Well, I refuse to read it and thus will never know what bullshit they are projecting onto Obama now.

  16. 16.

    harokin

    Srsly, what does “this specific time of unprecedented crisis and division” mean? What is the crisis? High unemployment? Is this a rule, that any time unemployment is at or about 10 percent for 18 consecutive months, the commander-in-chief must announce he is a lame duck?

  18. 18.

    phantomist

    1 Michael Vick, QB PHI 125 76 60.8 1017 105.3
    2 David Garrard, QB JAC 180 125 69.4 1440 104.9
    3 Philip Rivers, QB SD 329 215 65.4 2944 102.9
    4 Tom Brady, QB NE 304 196 64.5 2176 98.8
    5 Vince Young, QB TEN 140 81 57.9 1090 97.6

    –Why do I think Schoen and Caddell would politely request 3 of the top 5 NFL quarterbacks retire and “put the NFL first”.

  19. 19.

    Anne Laurie

    Dave Weigel’s take:

    … isn’t the point of the column that Schoen does work for Michael Bloomberg? Editors are only so interested in publishing endless “Michael Bloomberg should run for president” columns, and they are less interesting in running those columns from people with financial ties to Bloomberg. But package your argument for a wealthy liberal politician to save America as a contrarian “argument” for Obama to quit, and voila — instant interest!

    As the DC proverb goes: Follow the money.

  20. 20.

    beltane

    I thought I was familiar with all the well-known DINO hacks, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that I had never heard of Schoen and Caddell until about a month ago. They must be D-listers, the Rosenkrantz and Guilderstern of malevolent wankery.

  21. 21.

    danimal

    Since opinion mongering and Fox News increase the partisan divisions in America, I call on Schoen and Caddell to quit their jobs immediately…for their country!

  22. 22.

    beltane

    @Anne Laurie: Virtually all of the Beltway media establishment are nothing better than court eunuchs who are thoroughly invested in serving the interests of the ultra-wealthy. In exchange for their devoted service, the media are showered with expensive trinkets and baubles and are hand-fed exquisite delicacies from their masters’ tables.

    Once you realize who these asshats really are, and what their function in society really is, nothing they say or do will be able to surprise you. The word “corruption” doesn’t even begin to describe what is going on in Washington these days.

  23. 23.

    Bob Loblaw

    @phantomist:

    I would instead ask what the fuck kind of list are you trying to pass off where David Garrard and Vince Young are better quarterbacks than Peyton Manning, myself…

  29. 29.

    Lev

    @Tonybrown74: I wish he’d kept the line about being “The American President Americans Have Been Waiting For”, which is shockingly upfront with its assumptions.

    The funniest thing? McCain seems to be more influential among Republicans than ever before.

  35. 35.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Jeff: Because the QB rating formula is moranic. It heavily weights the TD/Int ratio, which is a terrible measure. The next biggest component is completion percentage, which is another almost useless stat.

    Among the simple stats (staying away from Football Outsiders type stuff, since that makes TV analysts’ heads explode), there is one of them that is head and shoulders above the rest: yards per pass attempt. That’s it. A QB who goes 3 for 3 for 15 yards total is almost exactly as valuable as a QB who goes 1 for 3 for 15 yards.

    TDs and interceptions happen in sufficiently small numbers that they are subject to a lot of non-explanatory noise. On top of that, some interceptions are really the same as a punt. If it’s third down, the QB throws the ball 35 yards downfield and it’s picked, you really just punted. It’s not a big deal.

    Any amalgamated stat that doesn’t have yards per attempt as its primary component is no good. Allan Barra has been going on about this for years. I haven’t read him recently, but a decade ago, he claimed that the best QB in NFL history was Bart Starr. Football is enough of a team sport that I don’t think we can sort out who was really the best at any position (except, of course, that Jim Brown was the best running back evah), but Barra’s position is hard to argue with.

  36. 36.

    Remember November

    NO they have it all wrong- It’s

    Zillionaires first,
    Wall street Second,
    Justice third,
    Ethics fourth,
    Country fifth.

  37. 37.

    Kryptik

    What I still have not gotten clear from these two dipshits is ‘How does insisting he will not run in 2012 somehow put Country First?’

    They never quite get around to explaining it, they just seem to treat it as a given that it’d be ‘putting Country First’. And how does this ease away the divisions in this country? If anything, it’d make them stronger by completely and utterly reinforcing the impressions of ‘REPUBLICAN RIGHT! DEMOCRATS WRONG! CONSERVATIVES STRONG! LIBERALS FUCKING HATE AMERICA!’

    What bullshit.

  39. 39.

    cckids

    They never explain how Obama announcing he’ll only stay 1 term will magically change the Republicans & make THEM put country first. The idea that suddenly the GOP will hold hands, sing Kumbayah & stop being oppositional asshats is pretty far-fetched.

    If he stated he wasn’t running, the only story line would be “told you he was weak”, then they’d carry on selling out “country first” to the highest bidder.

  40. 40.

    Nick

    @cckids:

    They never explain how Obama announcing he’ll only stay 1 term will magically change the Republicans & make THEM put country first. The idea that suddenly the GOP will hold hands, sing Kumbayah & stop being oppositional asshats is pretty far-fetched.

    They won’t, but it isn’t about that, it’s about getting the negro out of the way.

  41. 41.

    ricky

    Speaking of things never explained, can anyone name a Democrat who has paid either of these two for anything resembling professional services in recent memory?

    I ask because my inner progressive voice cries out to scream “Primary his ass.” Or at least boycott his away games.

  42. 42.

    iLarynx

    The entire Republican contingent of the 112th congress should put the country first and resign. You’d avoid much of the partisan bickering, get more done, and the place would smell a lot better too.

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