Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

People are weird.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

The lights are all blinking red.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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Jim Alesi is a state senator from my area who was almost universally well-liked until he filed an idiotic law suit a few months ago. Bad publicity from the suit has effectively ended his political career, I don’t think he can get re-elected at this point.

He’s going out on top as the first New York State Senate Republican to vote for marriage equality in New York State, perhaps a far, far better thing than he has ever done.

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  2. 2.

    Whiskey Screams from a Guy With No Short-Term Memory

    until he filed an idiotic law suit a few months ago.

    That’s not idiotic. Well, it is in a sense, but mostly the suit is malicious and savagely vindictive, and for no possible gain that I can see. Sorry to see that he’s the first Republican who will cast the vote in favor of equal marriage.

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    geg6

    Is this actually, finally going to happen today?

    I’ve been on pins and needles over this vote by my neighbors for days now.

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    liberal

    @2:

    Sorry to see that he’s the first Republican who will cast the vote in favor of equal marriage.

    Actually, I like it. For the same reason I liked Schindler’s list: the protagonist in that case was in some ways a far far better human than most people, but in other ways (e.g. how he treated his wife) a complete asshole. A much more interesting story than a black and white one, and is true to the point that humans are morally complicated creatures.

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    Mnemosyne

    Along similar lines, Steve Benen has a story about the new senior enlisted advisor to the Marine Corps Commandant:

    “Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution is pretty simple,” he told a group of Marines at a base in South Korea. “It says, ‘Raise an army.’ It says absolutely nothing about race, color, creed, sexual orientation.
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    “You all joined for a reason: to serve,” he continued. “To protect our nation, right?”
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    “Yes, sergeant major,” Marines replied.
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    “How dare we, then, exclude a group of people who want to do the same thing you do right now, something that is honorable and noble?” Sgt. Maj. Barrett continued, raising his voice just a notch. “Right?”

    Congressional Republicans may be standing athwart history screaming, “Stop!” but we’re already past the crest of the hill and rolling down towards the other side.

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    OzoneR

    Will Skelos even allow a vote?

    Probably not, no. He’ll hold out until Democrats agree to weaken rent control and pass a property tax cap and then he’ll adjourn the Senate and go home.

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    alwhite

    So, in the immortal words of Jon Stewart, he will forever be known as “The Staten Island Ferry”!

  8. 8.

    Murc

    Do NOT count Alesi out.

    I live in his district, and you would be AMAZED how many people vote for him simply out of habit and have no idea about the lawsuit at all. Hell, my mother has been pulling the lever for both him AND for Louise Slaughter since 1996. And his district contains a lot of socially liberal suburbanites who will remember THIS a lot more than they remember any legal argey-bargey.

    I wouldn’t be surprised to continue to see him around for a long, long time.

    (For the record, if this thing passes, he will get my vote. ONE vote, once. He’ll have earned it fair and square.)

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