Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Bark louder, little dog.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

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

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  5. 5.

    Senyordave

    Time to stop blaming McCain for Palin, maybe we should have feared McCain’s finger on the button.

    BTW, does McCain actually know how to work one of those newgfangled automatic televsion channel changers?

  6. 6.

    valdivia

    OMFG.
    Is this Peak Vapid yet?

    Speaking of: A few weeks ago I bet here in this blog that Palin would be one of the final two at Dancing and everyone who watches the show (I don’t) told me I was wrong. I see she is still around and will bet now that she will win the thing. Because the ‘liberal’ MSM company that runs the program sees her winning as a good thing. Not to sound all conspiracy or anything!

  10. 10.

    Bnut

    As ashamed as I am to say it, I watch Jersey Shore. Snooki is wwaayyyy to good for McCain. But she is starting to get rich, so maybe he’s buttering her up for when he pushes Cindy down the stairs for making that It Gets Better video.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    McCain is preparing for another run at the presidency and is just trying to appeal to the MTV crowd.
    Before everyone rejects this explanation, what else would cause Cindy to support her husbands defense of DADT except for the possibility of becoming first lady?

  22. 22.

    Shalimar

    Is it mean to hope the old bastard sleeps with Snooki and gets a venereal disease that finally kills him off?

  24. 24.

    Bnut

    @El Cid: From his tactics, from the sex boat to hitting on teachers at bars, I think that O’Keefe a)thinks he is much better looking and suave than he really is and b)he is still a virgin.

  25. 25.

    Shalimar

    @4tehlulz: Yeah, right. Does anyone seriously think Snooki would say no to a man whose wife owns a beer distributorship? Free booze for life!

  27. 27.

    Violet

    @valdivia:

    Speaking of: A few weeks ago I bet here in this blog that Palin would be one of the final two at Dancing and everyone who watches the show (I don’t) told me I was wrong. I see she is still around and will bet now that she will win the thing. Because the ‘liberal’ MSM company that runs the program sees her winning as a good thing. Not to sound all conspiracy or anything!

    I think she’ll be one of the Final 3, but not sure if she’ll win. I think the judges are giving her higher-than-deserved scores in hopes that the viewers’ votes will be enough to keep her around. For ratings, of course.

    Her mother’s insane fans are power voting for her. Multiple phone lines, multiple email addresses, etc. If you read the Sarah Palin fan blogs you’ll see that they consider Bristol winning DWTS as a proxy for Sarah winning the Presidential election. What the seem to forget is that one person can vote an unlimited number of times on DWTS, but it’s one person, one vote (voter fraud cases excepted) during actual elections.

  28. 28.

    BerkeleyMom

    According to Wiki, it isn’t her birthday until the 23rd. The old man’s done a premature congratulation.

  30. 30.

    R-Jud

    @stuckinred:

    $150 for the entire Beatles Catalog on iTunes

    Really? That’s it? Wasn’t the U2 back catalog like $300 a few years back?

    /runs off to buy “Revolver”.

  31. 31.

    valdivia

    @Violet:

    This makes a lot of sense to me. It seems the WaPo also thinks Palin winning is a proxy for the Presidential election as they have an article saying something like “the Palin that wins the popular vote”. Kid you not!

  34. 34.

    dr. luba

    @stuckinred: $150? That’s about $146 more than I paid for it. Legally. Overseas. Several years ago.

    ……….This post can’t be traced back to me, can it?

  35. 35.

    El Cid

    @Bnut: Sure, but in this case the guy doing the undercover scumbag work on this poor lady wasn’t O’Keefe, it’s some other citizen journalist prikk who then gave his recordings to O’Keefe.

    Why aren’t we all engaging in seditious conversations with every conservative we can find, secretly recording them, and then releasing them on YouTube?

  41. 41.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Erik Vanderhoff:

    I’m afraid I’ve come to that conclusion as well.

    Fortunately, our elites are doing all they can to cause this to come to pass. They make Mayan nobility look downright prudent.

  42. 42.

    ShowME

    @BerkeleyMom:

    You’re right, the real Snooki’s birthday isn’t until the 23rd. But also according to Wiki…

    JOHN BOEHNER’S BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROW.

    Methinks the anonymous, lowly staffer charged with updating the old coot’s Twitter feed was making a funny…and a pretty good one, at that.

  43. 43.

    GregB

    Cindy better watch out, grumpy old John must be getting ready to trade her in now that she’s reached her mileage limits.

  44. 44.

    Violet

    @valdivia:

    It seems the WaPo also thinks Palin winning is a proxy for the Presidential election as they have an article saying something like “the Palin that wins the popular vote”. Kid you not!

    Well, it is the Washington Post. Not exactly a brain trust. I’m not sure they’ve figured out the difference between one person voting a thousand times for Bristol on DWTS and one person voting once for Sarah Palin during an election.

    Power voting can swing reality shows for sure. Anyone who thinks DWTS somehow speaks to Sarah’s ability to win an actual political election is woefully uninformed about how reality show voting works.

  45. 45.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Violet:
    OTOH, if Bristol out-polls McCain/Palin then she would be wise to hire a food taster.

    Edit: At least when she visits Mom.

  50. 50.

    Comrade Darkness

    @Bnut: Well, that elucidated absolutely nothing. Except it was kinda funny.

    Added: soft-core cartoon pron for the win.

  51. 51.

    Juror #7

    @valdivia: I missed your prediction a while back, but I agree–I’ve thought all along that BP would last much longer on DWTS than her dancing skills would warrant. She’ll make the finals, for sure–either Kyle or Brandy will be sent home tonight. I think she’s got a good shot at winning. (Gag.)

  52. 52.

    R-Jud

    @Shalimar:

    Is it mean to hope the old bastard sleeps with Snooki and gets a venereal disease that finally kills him off?

    It is mean to plant the mental image of John McCain attempting coitus with anyone or anything.

  54. 54.

    debbie

    Since I’ve seen Bobby Moynihan’s Snooki impression of her on SNL more often than I’ve seen the actual woman, the mental image of them together is most unfortunate.

  55. 55.

    Noonan

    What. The. Fuck.

    Also, this reminds me: I’m really looking forward to the fallout from a politician mistakenly tweeting something he thought was a private message. Like Ray Allen did a couple months ago.

  56. 56.

    Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)

    Looks like Meghan decided to play around with her dad’s phone… At least I tell myself that must be the logical explanation, but given the Palin pick, I’m not so sure.

  59. 59.

    valdivia

    @Juror #7:

    This was my point as well. All the people who think she can’t dance said she would be out and yet she is still around and I am pretty sure she will win.

    I think we are seeing the first Reality TV Presidential Run unfold live: BP wins DWTS and Snowbilly Snooky with her own show about Alaska all after the midterms! See she can be president, she is on TV!

    Shoot me now.

  61. 61.

    Martin

    Ok. McCain has no fucking idea who Snooki is. Everyone knows that. The guy’s never surfed the web, remember, and has always has a complete incapacity to follow pop culture. Which is fine – I’d rather Senators spend their evenings reading DOD reports than watching Jersey Shore.

    So why pretend in this case? How fucking craven is that? Somebody needs to retire, stat.

  62. 62.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Senyordave: maybe we should have feared McCain’s finger on the button.

    I sure did!

    But I still think he was the least batshit insane choice among the ’08 Redoublechin primary crop.

  65. 65.

    Mike in NC

    @valdivia:

    I think we are seeing the first Reality TV Presidential Run unfold live: BP wins DWTS and Snowbilly Snooky with her own show about Alaska all after the midterms! See she can be president, she is on TV!

    With each passing day this sad country is more and more devolving into what was depicted in the movie “Idiocracy”.

    President Palin will appoint all of her dysfunctional children to cabinet posts, and Todd will trade in his flannel shirt for a robe on the Supreme Court, where he’ll show up to work at least an hour a day if the fish aren’t biting.

  66. 66.

    The Moar You Know

    At least ancient Rome fell with a great deal of debauchery and spectacle.

    We just seem to be going down in a orgy of stupid and fail.

    Too bad “Reverse Ace” McCain didn’t miss the deck back in training.

  67. 67.

    Maody

    It would be wingnuttery to think EW would follow our fearless pow onto the Jersey Shore, but that would/could make Palin the GOP ticket holder. Can you imagine how PO’d the baggers would be that he was upstaging SarAlaska’s new show?

    No, I meant *ew* and in *ick, I want to barf*.

  69. 69.

    El Cid

    James Blunt, singer, former British officer in Kosovo, and the guy whose refusal to attack and take a 200 member Russian battalion may have prevented a NATO-Russian war.

    Singer James Blunt has told the BBC how he refused an order to attack Russian troops when he was a British soldier in Kosovo.Blunt said he was willing to risk a court martial by rejecting the order from a US General.
    __
    But he was backed by British Gen Sir Mike Jackson, who said: “I’m not going to have my soldiers be responsible for starting World War III.”
    __
    Blunt was ordered to seize an airfield, but the Russians had got there first.
    __
    In an interview with BBC Radio 5 live, broadcast on Sunday, he said: “I was given the direct command to overpower the 200 or so Russians who were there.
    __
    “I was the lead officer with my troop of men behind us…
    __
    …”The direct command [that] came in from Gen Wesley Clark was to overpower them. Various words were used that seemed unusual to us. Words such as ‘destroy’ came down the radio.”…
    __
    …Blunt, who was at the head of a column of 30,000 Nato troops with his unit, told Pienaar’s Politics it was a “mad situation…
    __
    …”And the practical consequences of that political reason would be then aggression against the Russians.”…
    __
    …”And after a couple of days the Russians there said: ‘Hang on we have no food and no water. Can we share the airfield with you?’.”

  70. 70.

    Mike in NC

    @Martin:

    The guy’s never surfed the web, remember, and has always has a complete incapacity to follow pop culture. Which is fine – I’d rather Senators spend their evenings reading DOD reports than watching Jersey Shore.

    I was flipping channels late one night and there was Gramps on Leno or Letterman, saying his ideal VP running mate would be Dwight Shrute from “The Office”. Of course he hadn’t a clue what he was talking about, but he had to prove how “hep” he was. Pity the poor staffer who has to prep the old fool every time he goes on TV.

  71. 71.

    John PM

    @valdivia: #6

    I am convinced that if Bristol Palin wins Dancing with the Stars, we will end up with President Sarah Palin in 2012. BTW, Bristol looks like she is putting on weight; pregnancy #2, anyone?

  73. 73.

    geg6

    Heh. Grumpy McGrumpypants has a whole new piece of tail all picked out now that Cindy is getting all uppity about DADT, I guess. Guess he forgot who holds the purse strings.

  74. 74.

    asiangrrlMN

    You know, three months ago, I had no idea what/who a Snooki was. In fact, I discovered who she was on this very damn blog. Damn you, Balloon Juice! ::shakes fist at BJ::

    @El Cid: I read that in the thread below (righteous rant, by the way), and I am furious. This shit is just sickening to me.

  76. 76.

    Death Panel Truck

    @Culture of Truth:

    Does this mean Snooki will be on Meet The Press?

    You mean the soon-to-be-retitled program “Meet John McCain,” renamed in honor of its most frequent guest.

  77. 77.

    valdivia

    @John PM:

    I am not there yet, I really don’t think her winning means anything for the political arena. But I do think Palin is trying to run via Reality TV instead of policy & usual channels (like debates). Will have to see if the powers that be let her win the nomination that way.

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