Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

You cannot shame the shameless.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Let there be snark.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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  2. 2.

    gene108

    How do we get Democrats to start talking about jobs and quit yapping about the deficit?

    Sen. Ben Cardin was on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and he was talking about how the Democrats had to bring the out of control deficit under control.

    There seems to be no will to push for any kind of jobs bill, other than cut taxes.

    They need to be reminded that 6% unemployment rate means more revenue for government and thus automatically lowers the deficit.

  3. 3.

    TheOtherWA

    That’s the way to start a Wednesday! Thanks, JC.

    My week has been made miserable by people at work doing idiotic things, so to be able to laugh at anything helps.

  4. 4.

    WereBear

    @gene108: One thing that might work is to get all the unemployed to clog the Congressional Switchboard.

    800-828-0498

    It’s a toll free number, and they got nothing else to do, dammit.

  5. 5.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @gene108:

    It’s never going to happen. Because 1/3 of Dems agree with the GOP wholeheartedly, another third will go along simply for ‘bipartisanship’, and the final third cares about governance too much to let things stall, even if it means eventually giving away the fucking farm.

    Face it. The GOP wins, every fucking time, because they’re a fucking monolith, and the Dems splinter whenever a GOPer goes ‘BOO!’.

  9. 9.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik

    @Southern Beale:

    But that’s because the Minimum Wage, workers rights, all that stuff, that’s SOSHULIZMMMMZZ!! And we can never dare have that, what we need is MORE Supply-Side, MORE Trickle-Down, don’t you see just how fucking hard the rich are getting fucked in this country, they need more money dammit, otherwise how will the rest of the country ever see prosperity, if the rich are suffering so much?! What are you, a monster?! Or worse…a HIPPIE?!!!

  10. 10.

    Rosalita

    @TheOtherWA:

    My week has been made miserable by people at work doing idiotic things, so to be able to laugh at anything helps.

    in my AO too. is there a full moon??

  13. 13.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    What will be the ratio of Firebaggers to Obots at Netroots Nation? Will there be riots? Vicious taunting about hamsters and elderberries?

  15. 15.

    Josie

    @Citizen_X: It might be a little more successful if all progressive bloggers (hint, hint) would front page the story and give it more prominence.

  16. 16.

    piratedan

    oh I dunno, maybe because we’ve had two whole weeks about Weinergate when no one can even find a law that’s been broken, just bad behavior and worse judgement stealing the spotlight. The MSM only talks about the deficit when they can allude to it as being the president’s personal responsibility and only then if they can shorten it to a consumable 90 second news bite then they’ll have to focus on the next water skiing squirrel or panda birth.

  18. 18.

    gene108

    @The Snarxist Formerly Known As Kryptik:

    Face it. The GOP wins, every fucking time, because they’re a fucking monolith, and the Dems splinter whenever a GOPer goes ‘BOO!’.

    I never assume Republicans are always winning. They do better damage control / have a bigger media presence, but they don’t always win.

    If they did oil drilling in ANWR would be a reality, Social Security would be privatized, etc.

    Republicans just don’t go all emo, when their side wins or enough of them tow the party line that the emo spazzes get pushed to the margins, where they belong.

    Some conservatives didn’t approve of Bush, Jr. passing Medicare Part D, signing McCain-Feingold into law, etc., but the big boys, who run things made sure those guys didn’t dominate the discussion on the right, i.e. Limbaugh, Hannity, et. al. weren’t giving George Will a platform to vent and they kept the right-wing wurlitzer focused on topics that would benefit Republicans like drilling in ANWR, etc.

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    eemom

    Mitt Romney said something that made sense about Afghanistan, thereby “stunning” his supporters, according to They Who Must Not Be Linked.
    I.e., he said we should GTFO.

    The remark is a “disaster,” according to a “flood of e-mails” received by some twat at AEI.

    This shit. It cannot be made up.

  21. 21.

    spark

    Last year, I read “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail” back to back with “Nixonland”. Good juxtaposition.

  22. 22.

    Jay

    I got a big smile from the “Countdown” ad in this blog’s left margin. Cole, how’d you get K.O. to the Juicers a personalized shout-out?

  24. 24.

    Tuttle

    Soldier: It’s so rough in the field the boys have been brewing hooch out of glass cleaner!
    Duke: Heh.
    Soldier: What?
    Honey: Mr. Duke starts every day with a gallon of aviation fuel.

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    BruceK

    I just hope that the protestors in Wisconsin don’t go the way of the hooligans here in Athens. It’s almost never quite as bad as the news reports, but I’m sorry, people who throw firebombs never get the benefit of the doubt, I don’t care how righteous their cause is.

    (May 5 of last year, during a protest march with hooligan outriders, a bank got burned out, with protestors blocking the fire brigades from trying to put it out. Three people died. That was one and a half blocks away from my office, where I was working right as it happened.)

    On the other hand, less than three hours after the concussion grenades stopped going off, the tear gas had cleared from the air, the fires had gone out, and I almost got run over by a motorcycle driving on the sidewalk while going to get a bottle of Coke from the corner kiosk, so I guess life’s back to (ab)normal here.

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    Joseph Nobles

    In my more cynical moments (which last longer and longer the older I get), I think that all of Clinton’s work (fine, give the GOP Congress credit as well) to pay down the debt and deficit was just getting the credit card ready to go to war with Iraq. Bin Laden fucked it up a bit by forcing us into Afghanistan first, but since the ultimate prize was Iran anyway, having troops on both sides of Iran was just fine and dandy.

    And now here we are, ready to toss Grandma to the predations of the insurance market so that we can start drastically paying down the credit card again. In other words, the war with Iran is on, motherfuckahs, and Obama may well be happy to be a one-term president if he doesn’t have to lead us into that round of utter BS with his Nobel prize held high.

    Ugh.

  28. 28.

    evinfuilt

    @Southern Beale:
    Love that link. Republicans really would love to force Americans to work for $5 a day, poverty be damned. I hear in Maine they’ve got a bunch of kids able to work at a younger age than before, time to ship them to Georgia.

    I expect someone will find a way to pass a law that allows these farmers to legally pay American Citizens on quantity harvested, and get away with $5-$10 a day in pay.

  32. 32.

    Juicetard (FKA Liberty60)

    Quote of the week-
    [News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey] “Our rights are our backbone. It can’t just be the Wild West … you have to do a structure within which you do business,” he added.

    Soooooo….Fox News wants the business world to be structured, regulated, tamed….none of this Wild West stuff!

    eta- Here is the article- more hilariously, it states that News Corp and other cable operators are worried that declining household income threatens their business model.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/14/us-cableshow-idUSTRE75D6IA20110614

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