Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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

Optimism opens the door to great things.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

In my day, never was longer.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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

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

Bark louder, little dog.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

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

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

This blog will pay for itself.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Everybody saw this coming.

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

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Stones:

Also too, Via Michael D:

“Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR, and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah.. Me neither.”

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  2. 2.

    TooManyJens

    I just got email from Andrew Breitbart. Apparently I made the mistake of commenting on one of the Big Bullshit sites at one point, and now they’d like to add me to their mailing list. Can’t decide whether “keep an eye on the enemy” or “preserve your sanity” is the better option here.

  3. 3.

    Left Coast Tom

    @TooManyJens: As an email subscriber, would you be likely to receive BreitMissives any faster than Fox News? If not, I’d go with the sanity in a heartbeat.

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    Apparently the GOP has decided that budget negotiations are fine, as long as they’re one-sided and involve no tax increases on millionaires. Otherwise no debt ceiling limit increase, world markets be d***ed

    Meanwhile, the Dem/Obama message machine is snoozin’

    I can haz ticket to Canada or Europe, please?

  5. 5.

    Left Coast Tom

    By the way John, we didn’t burn your blog down while you were gone. TBogg rewards his minions with Shakira’s ass, I don’t think Rolling Stones will cut it.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    So is Michael D. the Balloon-Juice proto EDK or ABL?
    I think the argument leans toward a front running of ABL.

  11. 11.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    Left Coast Tom, you forget those amazing rolling booties Sarah Proud and Tall gave us. Mmm.

  15. 15.

    Nutella

    Just picked up the mail and there’s a big envelope with a red stamp “OFFICIAL BUSINESS” and visible through the window “VOTER REGISTRATION” and some data fields.

    I got 10 seconds into wondering why the local elections commission had changed their style for mailed notices when I looked more closely at the back to see that it came from the Republican National Committee.

    I love it when even the damn envelope is a lie.

  16. 16.

    Martin

    Beck To Visit Auschwitz To Figure Out ‘How Did This Happen?’

    What happens when he learns that it was all planned out on a series of blackboards full of elaborate conspiracies.

  19. 19.

    Martin

    Tsunami cleanup in Japan.

    That’s astonishing. Why couldn’t we do the same thing in NOLA?

  20. 20.

    Cat Lady

    I tucked that Michael D comment away in my email months ago, and it was the first post on my Facebook page when I joined a couple of months ago, since (1) it’s awesome, and (2) it let everyone who wanted to friend me know I might end up unfriending them. It cuts to the chase.

  22. 22.

    Violet

    Tsunami warning in Alaska.

    The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a major earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has been recorded in the Pacific Ocean off Alaska’s remote Aleutian Islands.

  24. 24.

    Anne Laurie

    CS: I always enjoyed Michael D’s posts, even when I didn’t agree with them. When us commentors got all up in his factuals, Michael D didn’t whine that he was gonna tell Cole and then we’d be sorry. Also, when he decided to stop front-paging, IIRC he left one very gracious exit post, not a series of increasingly reckless self-injury threats and/or cheap-farce revolving-door ‘I wouldn’t give you people the satisfaction’ re-runs.

    But then, Michael D wasn’t trolling for a paid gig, AFAIK.

  25. 25.

    Mark S.

    Richard Cohen is too low-rent for even Doug J to bother reading, but I’m a bit mystified by this piece. I guess Cohen defines national greatness as sticking with an unwinnable war indefinitely. I know that Cohen’s an idiot, but this almost seems like it was written by Bill Kristol.

  28. 28.

    Admiral_Komack

    Yep, I’ve been to weeseeyou.com:

    “Al Gore Attacks President Obama for Failing to Do Al Gore’s Job”

    Al Gore takes some shots at President Obama in a new Rolling Stone essay, grumbling that he has “thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.” Wait: Isn’t that Al Gore’s job? The president’s job is the action, not the case-making. And while I don’t plan to spend all my time defending him against unfair attacks from the left, his actions on climate have been a lot bolder than Gore suggests…

    http://swampland.time.com/2011/06/23/al-gore-attacks-president-obama-for-failing-to-do-al-gores-job/

    Dear Al Gore:

    If the bully pulpit was so powerful, why didn’t you use it as Vice-President…to become President?

    Don’t trip over an inconvienent truth.

    C-ya.

  30. 30.

    EvolutionaryDesign

    Fantastic tune. I’ll still take the Beatles, but these guys know a thing or two about whiskey.

  31. 31.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    @ cat lady

    A whirl with teh google unearthed this gem about Cole’s encounter with God Todd. I’m jealous.

    Jesus. I clicked on that link then forgot I had (I’m old. Fuck off.) and then spent five minutes wondering why the fuck all the new posts were from Thanksgiving 2005.

    I need another drink.

  33. 33.

    John Cole

    Thanks, someone, for pointing out that Cole shares his birthday with Todd Rundgren. Been groovin’ on “I Saw the Light.”

    I’ve met Todd Rundgren. He called me an asshole.

    I’ll tell the story some time.

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    joel hanes

    >> Tsunami cleanup in Japan.

    > That’s astonishing.
    > Why couldn’t we do the same thing in NOLA?

    Oh, we could have.

    But Bush 43 put Karl Rove in charge of the NOLA recovery (see paragraph 9), and Rove’s goals are always purely political goals.

    So today NOLA, formerly a majority-black and strongly Democratic city, is much less black and tilts Republican.

    Mission Accomplished !

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    Tsunami cleanup in Japan.

    Amazing photos. Many of the comments on the pictures are thoughtful and eloquent, and it is interesting to note the goodwill still coming from all over the world.

  40. 40.

    Nylund

    I put on Sticky Fingers during a recent road trip with my wife. She had never heard this song before and loved it, especially the long sax-filled instrumental section at the end. I was mainly just flabbergasted that she’d gone her whole life without hearing it before.

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