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

“But what about the lurkers?”

No one could have predicted…

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

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

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The revolution will be supervised.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

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

Come on, man.

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

After roe, women are no longer free.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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  4. 4.

    Bill Murray

    Were I to watch Fox News, I too would not want to cuddle. Cuddling and nausea should not mix

  5. 5.

    Turgidson

    @4tehlulz:

    I was about to say: “not to defend Kelsey Grammar’s devotion to Fox News, but I wouldn’t want to cuddle with that synthetic approximation of a woman either.”

    But yours is better. More succinct.

  7. 7.

    Ella in New Mexico

    Yes, but knowing some of these types personally, I would posit that loss of sex drive, virility and generalized impotence came first, closely connected to internalized rage and feelings of hopelessness, which were THEN demonstrated by obsessive right-wing victim news program devotion and inability to function in the real world.

  12. 12.

    Mark S.

    Maybe if she looked more like Sean Hannity. . .

    Wow, it’s hardly news that Richard Cohen is an idiot, but he’s usually a middle of the road idiot. Today, he goes full Mark Levin wingnut on Egypt. He doesn’t hedge his bets at all: “The dream of a democratic Egypt is sure to produce a nightmare.”

    This is a smart move on Cohen’s part. Kaplan is soon to realize that letting Hiatt pay five dozen ex-Bush administration officials six figures a year is not very profitable, and will soon be making the necessary cuts. This is an excellent opportunity to begin auditioning for Townhall.

  14. 14.

    Amir_Khalid

    @freelancer: Bad Company is not a musical pleasure to feel guilty about. Paul Rodgers is one of the greatest rock vocalists EVER. Your dad has great taste.

  16. 16.

    Ash Can

    The Dear Abby rule of divorce decisions comes into play here: she’s obviously better off without him.

  18. 18.

    Midnight Marauder

    I think we can put the Jon Huntsman 2012/2016 presidential campaigns to bed now:

    On Obama’s $787 billion stimulus: “I guess in hindsight we can all say that there were some fundamental flaws with it,” the potential GOP presidential candidate told Politico two years ago. “It probably wasn’t large enough.”

  21. 21.

    trollhattan

    @freelancer:

    Bad Company is a guilty pleasure of mine. I blame my Dad.

    Was Dad in a frat? The only BC fans I knew were frat boys, who put them on equal footing with “Free Bird!” Not my cup of…Miller.

    For more tolerable Paul Rogers material I recommend Free.

    As to Grammer not “cuddling” with those her, well, the less I know the better.

  25. 25.

    eemom

    my revulsion with the erstwhile Dr. Frasier is now complete.

    It was pretty close to there anyway after he backed the Ghoul in 2008.

  26. 26.

    Warren Terra

    @Midnight Marauder:
    As someone who will never vote for a Republican but feels we need a sane other party in our first-past-the-post ingrained two-party system, Huntsman is just about the only active Republican left for whose sanity I retain some hope (Chuck Hagel having retired and the Maine twins lacking almost all courage; Scott Brown might qualify, as he seems to have realized after his vapid Tea Party-esque election win that he needs to appeal to the whole state of Massachusetts more than he needs to remain the masturbatory fantasy of the Camille Grammers of the world). I was impressed by Huntsman’s decision to go to China – get the hell out of the US for a couple of years of Teh Crazy, do a highly responsible and a patriotic job, stay out of the partisan warfare and establish some bipartisan and some foreign-relations cred – and I thought Obama was setting Huntsman up to be his possible successor in 2016. So I wasn’t pleased to hear Huntsman was returning home in early 2010 with possible 2012 presidential ambitions. Glad to hear he’s refusing to bow down to the Palin crowd.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    @eemom:

    Funny how his “Simpsons” and “Toy Story” characters are perhaps the closest to his actual personality. He and Cliff Clavin must have kept one another company on the “Cheers” set as the two resident wingnuts.

    Purgatory with Lilith might be a proper fate.

  30. 30.

    cleek

    @freelancer:
    in my case it was: time spent in bars waiting for my mom to go home and cook me some fucking dinner.

    and now… i’m a classic rock lover. there, i said it.

  31. 31.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Bobby Thomson:

    Is he planning on primarying Obama?

    As Huntsman is a Republican, such a situation is not a realistic thing that can happen. But yes, he is in the midst of gearing up for a run at the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

    Poor chap. Poor sane, rational, anachronistic chap.

    @Warren Terra:

    As someone who will never vote for a Republican but feels we need a sane other party in our first-past-the-post ingrained two-party system, Huntsman is just about the only active Republican left for whose sanity I retain some hope (Chuck Hagel having retired and the Maine twins lacking almost all courage; Scott Brown might qualify, as he seems to have realized after his vapid Tea Party-esque election win that he needs to appeal to the whole state of Massachusetts more than he needs to remain the masturbatory fantasy of the Camille Grammers of the world). I was impressed by Huntsman’s decision to go to China – get the hell out of the US for a couple of years of Teh Crazy, do a highly responsible and a patriotic job, stay out of the partisan warfare and establish some bipartisan and some foreign-relations cred – and I thought Obama was setting Huntsman up to be his possible successor in 2016. So I wasn’t pleased to hear Huntsman was returning home in early 2010 with possible 2012 presidential ambitions. Glad to hear he’s refusing to bow town to the Palin crowd.

    I agree fully with your sentiments about a future sane Republican Party and people like Huntsman. The thing to note about his quote on the Stimulus, however, is that it came two years ago. The reason it is starting to bounce around now is that opposition researchers and news orgs are getting active in seeing what they can stick on the “sane Republican” to incite a reaction that gets him to double down on sanity (which is a surefire bet for losing) or renounce his moderate ways and embrace Greater Wingnuttia (another surefire bet to lose). Thus, we get outlets like Politico churning out quotes from his old interviews with them, like his remarks on the Stimulus and other sane, normal human sentiments like this:

    On winning the ‘intelligentsia’: We’ve drifted a little bit from intellectual honesty in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt, for example, where they would use rigorous science to back up many of their policies, and in this case many of their environmental policies. Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. We declared the war on cancer.
    __
    A lot of intellectual rigor went into the policies of those days, and we’ve drifted a little bit from taking seriously the importance of science to buttress much of what we’re doing today.

    Dude has no chance. In 2012 or 2016.

  32. 32.

    Alwhite

    Wife’s brother is a dittohead. His wife was commenting one time that he had gone a couple of weeks without listening to the anal cyst and that this had made a big difference in his behavior towards her. In addition to being more help around the house it seemed he was a more attentive lover when he was not high on hate.

  33. 33.

    Amir_Khalid

    @freelancer: I’m old enough that Bad Company was part of what I heard on the radio in my teens. (At least until disco came along. Blech.) But I don’t really consider Bad Co “Stuff White People Like” since I’m not a white people myself. :)

  34. 34.

    rob!

    Its amazing to me Grammer is such a conservative, since A)he worked with a gay man for many years, which tends to soften the whole “I hate teh gays!” thing, and B)he has lived a completely non-conservative-approved personal life, with its drug use, line of stripper/porn star girlfriends, etc.

    I know, I know, that sounds like The David Vitter Story, but in theory that’s not the sort of stuff conservatives are supposed to be okay with. No one has benefited more from Hollywood’s liberal views on marriage and personal conduct than Kelsey Grammer.

  35. 35.

    Alwhite

    I heard Kelsey on some show one time complaining how he couldn’t get work after “Cheers” because of his political beliefs.

    Of course the interviewer was kind enough not to ask how he was getting by since he never had work after “Cheers”!

    Nope, no more TV sit-coms or movies after, that were there. And you with the big coke & hooker habit and those nasty single car crashes – however did you get by?

  38. 38.

    Dr. Squid

    So now it can be said… Fox News is for immoral fucks that turn in their trophy wives for a younger model every few years.

  39. 39.

    Wallis Lane

    @Ella in New Mexico:

    No, first came the loss of essence due to fluoridation sapping and impurifying his precious bodily fluids. Then the impotence, then the devotion to Fox News.

    Kelsey should have just stuck to rainwater and pure grain alcohol.

  41. 41.

    Midnight Marauder

    @Paula:

    I dunno. Obama sounded like the center-left equivalent of Huntsman now and he won, despite many people’s dire predictions.

    Probably because Obama ran as a member of the Democratic Party, and as such, had a realistic shot at being elected as a center-left politician.

    Are you claiming that a moderate politician of any kind has a realistic chance any time in the immediate future at being elected president by running as a Republican?

  42. 42.

    J. Michael Neal

    @Warren Terra:

    So I wasn’t pleased to hear Huntsman was returning home in early 2010 with possible 2012 presidential ambitions.

    Put me in the camp that thinks that Jon Huntsman has no intention of winning the GOP primaries next year. He’s struck me for a while as a guy with a pretty clear-eyed view of reality, which would mean that he knows damned well he can’t run and hide from all of his comments, such as that about the stimulus.

    His only hope is for the GOP electorate to come to its senses. That may never happen, but that’s the event he’s making sure he’s ready for. But to take advantage of it, he’s going to need more name recognition than he has now. Running now is a way of throwing his hat into the ring for the future, whether that’s in 2016 or later.

    Then again, he could just be an egomaniac that accidentally made a smart choice in becoming ambassador.

  43. 43.

    salacious crumb

    he didnt wanna cuddle because he was too busy imagining doing Rupert Murdoch in the ass

  44. 44.

    Stefan

    I heard Kelsey on some show one time complaining how he couldn’t get work after “Cheers” because of his political beliefs.

    ??? He was on “Cheers” and then on “Frasier” from 1985 to 2004 — a nineteen year run! He’s probably had more screen time than any other actor of his age.

  45. 45.

    Mako

    The picture in that link made my sex organs shrivel.
    Norm was always the sexiest guy from Cheers.

  48. 48.

    Paula

    @Midnight Marauder:

    I’m saying I wouldn’t be surprised about Obama losing in 2012, given various (entirely possible) factors like unemployment still being pretty high or the ME self-destructing or Fox News being allowed to keep on being crazy.

  50. 50.

    Tehanu

    Friend of mine hates ol’ Kelsey because he was best buds with her ex-husband back in the day and encouraged ex-h. to go drinking and cheat on her. Admittedly, ex-h. was already a jerk with women, so a lot of the blame belongs solely to him. Nonetheless, I do wonder how a guy with no morals justifies supporting the Holier-Than-Thou (formerly Greedy Old Poops) Party.

  51. 51.

    4jkb4ia

    Now, Romeo and Juliet,
    Samson and Delilah,
    Baby, you can bet,
    Their love they didn’t deny

    (Runs away in shame)

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