Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

I was promised a recession.

The revolution will be supervised.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I really should read my own blog.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

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  1. 1.

    Violet

    From the previous thread, a comment from Lolis:

    TPM reported that the Dan Choi bitchfest about Obama was jam packed and the discussion of the netroots and the WI protests was not close to full. Kind of sad.

    Definitely sad.

  3. 3.

    DougJ in Damascus

    I just don’t have that much jam.

    Win.

    (What the hell happened to the reply button?)

  5. 5.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    Violet:

    Definitely sad.

    Not really. Bloggers have long been an inaccurate sample of the rank and file liberal base.

    The Democratic poll firm PPP did a poll on Weiner and self described liberals only gave him an 18% approval, while giving him a 62% disapproval rating. (see page 2) That’s devastating. Those numbers are as bad as Gingrich, Ryan, and Palin. Yet, unlike rank and file liberals, Weiner is wildly popular with rank and file bloggers.

  7. 7.

    Lev

    I must not have seen the thing about Dan Choi. Is he not happy with the speed of DADT repeal? I’ve long had an ambivalent reaction to him, in that I’m sympathetic to his plight but I basically think he often is bufoonish. I could be off on that, but I don’t think so.

    Anyway, I just put $35 in the recall kitty. I’m feeling good about it, and about kicking Scott Walker out next year. Every time I worry that Walker won’t be recalled, I remember that this guy is such a zealot for very unpopular ideas that he just can’t help himself.

  8. 8.

    beltane

    Speaking of democracy, The Guardian had a little slideshow of pictures from the protests in Greece. There is something very moving about the clouds of smoke and tear gas rising up around the Parthenon, but maybe that is because I’m a bit of a history geek.

  9. 9.

    Violet

    @ Mike Kay:
    Not really sure what Weiner’s approval number have to do with attendance at sessions at Netroots Nation, but since you brought them up, it seems he’s still pretty popular in his district, which is probably the approval rating that matters.

    My comment of “sad” was directed at the NN attendees. They’re clearly more interested in listening to liberal “stars” bash the president than they are in going to session about actually, you know, doing something. That’s what’s sad.

  11. 11.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    Violet: What I’m saying is that true progressive are completely different than the rank and file bloggers, like the one who attend NN, and that difference can be demonstrated thought the vast difference in Weiner’s polling numbers among general liberals vs his standing in online blogs.

  15. 15.

    BO_Bill

    Democrats always want somebody else’s money. Get off your butts and make your own money.

    Here is a good idea for a Democrat fundraiser. The folks down Mexico-way have developed a new form of entertainment, which we have on good authority, is called ‘‘Who Is Going to Be the Next Hit Man?’. More people would watch a reality show based on this competition than American Idol or Dancing with the Stars as it involves gladiator fights with the loser being quartered.

  19. 19.

    Joel

    @ stuckinred:

    150 injured, 1 in critical condition. I believe that merits more than sarcasm.

  20. 20.

    stuckinred

    Joel

    It’s a picture from the fucking Vancouver paper, write them and complain.

  21. 21.

    Joel

    @ stuckinred

    I didn’t realize that the Vancouver papers were describing the riots with scare quotes.

  23. 23.

    stuckinred

    1. Nika riot, 532

    More than 30,000 citizens of ancient Constantinople (now Istanbul) died in January after a chariot race in the Hippodrome between the Blues and the Greens, two of the four prominent factions in the empire. After the race, Emperor Justinian accused some faction members of murder and sentenced them to death. Citizens reacted by invading the emperor’s palace after a second chariot race in the Hippodrome, where thousands of faction members died in the five-day riot. Throughout the rioting, people yelled, “nika,” Greek for victory or conquest.

    Richard Ginsburg, a professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of “Whose Game Is It, Anyway?” says such actions mimic primal and tribal behavior. “When your tribe gets beaten by another tribe, it can be very threatening,” he says.

  24. 24.

    Mike Kay (True Grit)

    I thought the picture was hot. It looks like a scene from a Bernardo Bertolucci film.

  27. 27.

    kideni

    Thanks, Doug, for reminding everyone about the BJ Wisconsin fund. It’s been a tough week here (the supreme court reversing Sumi with extremely suspicious timing, the budget going to votes, general assholishness from the Republicans all over the place), and it just makes the recalls more important than ever. People are motivated and we have good candidates for all the districts, but the Republicans are making sure the recalls are going to be as painful and expensive as they possibly can.

  28. 28.

    Mnemosyne

    Morons get drunk and fuck shit up after a championship. What a news flash.

    Actually, it is a little ass-backwards because — if I understand this correctly — the Vancouverites rioted because they lost. US-ian sports fans are more prone to victory rioting.

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