Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

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

He really is that stupid.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

The willow is too close to the house.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

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  1. 1.

    singfoom

    Wow. The cognitive dissonance, it burns. Though I’d put money on the MSM going along with the R narrative on this.

  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    As long as you understand that, for Cantor, “working together” means “giving Republicans 100 percent of what they want,” it makes perfect sense.

  4. 4.

    Spaghetti Lee

    I think a lot of these “Are they really this self-unaware?” moments are intentional, and owe their existence to Karl Rove, whose tactics I’ve thinking about a lot lately, and have recently clicked as to how much of a rhetorical superweapon they really are. So Eric Cantor, king of dickheaded intransigence, starts whining about how Democrats refuse to work with him. When the Democrats (correctly) say that Eric Cantor is refusing to work with them, the Republicans can say “Look, the Democrats are playing politics!” and the mainstream media swoops in to agree. It’s like antimatter for rational argument-everything it touches gets destroyed.

  8. 8.

    KG

    @Mnemosyne: I use to listen to Limbaugh in the first half of the last decade, and always remember him saying how for Democrats “compromise means you give us everything we want and you get nothing”… They are projecting again, and it isn’t a shock at all. They have been conditioned to believe that politics is a zero sum game so “compromise” is a loss, even if you get 60% of what you want.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    The only help President Obama should give Eric Cantor is a friendly boost into the tumbrel that takes Cantor away to his well deserved fate.

  12. 12.

    Tom Hilton

    Do you have a cat? Does your cat get cheesed off at “all or nothing” demands like expecting it to use the litter box? Does your cat define “working together” as feeding it the second it wants to eat?

    Think of Eric Cantor as your cat.

  13. 13.

    CJ

    com·pro·mise 1. Democratic capitulation to all Republican demands followed by an apology for taking so long.

  15. 15.

    jl

    Well, sub 40 approval rating aint much for Obama, but is sure as hell is better than anything Cantor, or his buddies can get.

    The public trusts Obama, and he is starting to take good stands that public strongly supports with good reason, that are also good policy. Like taking Social Security off the table for the Super duper Congress whatsit show.

    Obama has the facts, and public trust and support on his side. I think if he presses those advantages, the GOP will have to change tactics.

    Hey, I trust Obama a little more today. Go figure.

    Hope he keeps it up.

  18. 18.

    Cat Lady

    @jl:

    They like him a lot too, and that’s his most powerful weapon. You know why people like him? Because he’s conciliatory, and it’s genuine. It’s his best quality IMHO, in spite of what all the squawling emobaggers want from him.

  19. 19.

    Social outcast

    Even after all these years of the Republican inversion of reality, I’m still amazed just how brazenly they can torture the truth. I almost admire them in the way one admires people who are exceptionally skilled or disciplined in their line of work.

  20. 20.

    Gilles de Rais

    Think of Eric Cantor as your cat.

    My cat is smarter, has far more dignity, and is less of an obvious manipulator.

  22. 22.

    Swishalicious

    What the hell is he getting at by using “communicators,” especially given that he is… communicating. That Obama is all talk? How can the only person who has put out a jobs plan be all talk?

    I realize these are entirely rhetorical and have been written for the sole purpose of venting.

  26. 26.

    MarkJ

    While an all or nothing approach might make sense to some communicators, I hope Trotsky realizes it would be better to work together.

    Joseph Stalin

  28. 28.

    Svensker

    @Tom Hilton:

    Think of Eric Cantor as your cat.

    You may want to rub Eric’s belly and ears and skritch him under the chin. Me? Nuh uh. Ain’t doin’ it.

  29. 29.

    hrprogressive

    All Barack Obama has done in 2 years in office is TRY to “work together” with rampant turds like Eric Cantor.

    The Fascist Republicans have rebuffed (to put it politely) the President at every turn.

    Eric Cantor is so full of shit it’s amazing he hasn’t burst at the seams yet.

  30. 30.

    fuckwit

    Step 1: Lie
    Step 2: When caught lying, lie harder!
    Step 3: Keep lying! Have fun with it! Lying is fun, because it pisses off your enemies.
    Step 4: Make the lie bigger! Make the lie bigger!
    Step 5: Whomever lies the most, wins.

  31. 31.

    Satanicpanic

    This kind of reminds me of what I read about Airplane- it was funny because all the veteran actors played it like they weren’t in on the joke.

    Not that this particular joke is all that funny.

  32. 32.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Aaaand there goes another irony meter. And I paid extra for the Mk VII tubes (guaranteed to stand up to a bogon flux of 4.2e^7^ bg/m^2^/s).

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    What is Cantor a complete idiot? There is no way in hell he can tar Obama with the “partisan” brush, even the conservatives think Obama shouldn’t compromise with the Republicans so much.

  35. 35.

    fuckwit

    @efgoldman: Exactly. Way too many of these Rethugs are like a spoiled 2-year-old pissing off mommy on purpose because it is fun to piss off mommy.

    You can see it in their eyes, the sparkle of fun they’re having, when they lie on purpose, completely self-consciously, because they know it will piss people off, and for no other reason really. It’s sociopathy. It’s abusive.

    You see it in O’Lielly, in these smug idiot corporate shills, in Limblow, in Coulter, in all those turds.

    It’s all a big game to them. Piss off the adults, just to piss them off.

  36. 36.

    gnomedad

    @efgoldman:

    ABL’s link is blue, but it doesn’t work.

    I don’t think it’s intended as a link, I think she just likes blue and using her formatting skillz.

  37. 37.

    Mino

    Mabe someone should ask Cantor if he prefers the Republican Jobs Bill–you know, Gohmert’s American Jobs Bill.

    I hope that really gets some traction.

  38. 38.

    Cris (without an H)

    More Open Threadness: this has probably already been posted, but I got it via cleek:
    The Tea Party’s Million

    Canadian rockers the Tea Party […] are considering hawking their teaparty.com domain name to the right-wing group because the site is understandably racking up a lot of misdirected traffic.
    __
    “It’s easy to expect teaparty.com to go for well over $1 million,” speculated Warren Adelman of the web hosting company GoDaddy.com.

  39. 39.

    A Mom Anon

    He’s begging for someone to punch him in the neck. I’ve said this before,bullies will not quit until someone stops them.There’s really no other way. Along the way the bully keeps pushing and daring someone to push back harder. It’s what they do.And yes,it requires the good guys to get their hands dirty,which sucks,but it has to happen in order to stop the madness.

    I’d also add that allowing bullies and abusers to continue isn’t healthy for them either. It makes The Sickness worse and worse the more time is allowed to pass.

  43. 43.

    Roger Moore

    @Tom Hilton:
    From the sound of it, my cat is much better behaved than Eric Cantor. He doesn’t mind using the litterbox, is willing to wait when his food bowl isn’t filled instantly, and is friendly to people just because that’s the kind of cat he is. I think Eric Cantor is much more like Rosie back when John Cole was whining about how bad she was.

  50. 50.

    Spaghetti Lee

    @Cris (without an H):

    Heh, sorta related. I remember a while back, Reggie Bush was having a good year (can’t remember if he had gone pro already or was still with USC), and one of the ESPN anchors said something like “This is one Bush whose approval ratings are way up!”

    Can you imagine that now? He’d have teabaggers calling for him to be shot and killed within minutes.

  55. 55.

    Samara Morgan

    Heres one of my favorite Eric Cantor quotes.

    Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told Christian Zionists that U.S. policies in the Middle East must be “firmly grounded” in Judeo-Christian principles.
    __
    “Reaching out to the Muslim world may help in creating an environment for peace in the Middle East, but we must insist as Americans that our policies be firmly grounded in the beliefs of the Judeo-Christian tradition upon which this country was founded,” said Cantor (R-Va.), the House minority whip and the only Jewish Republican in Congress, in a speech to the Christians United For Israel annual conference in Washington.

    haha, and you juicers thot i was making that judeochristian nation shit up.
    :)

  56. 56.

    dmsilev

    Would it be an abuse of Presidential powers for Obama to sign an executive order authorizing the Secret Service to give Cantor a wedgie? Preferably on the House floor during the next State of the Union speech.

  59. 59.

    RosiesDad

    @dmsilev: I’d rather see some Xe mercenaries contractors stand him on a box in a hood with electrodes connected to his testicles. Just saying.

  60. 60.

    MattR

    @Samara Morgan: Pretty much everybody on this blog knows that Republicans believe that this is a Jeudeo-Christian country, that we would be better off if we returned to those roots and that that attitude extends to the rest of the world as well. For your next trick are you going to post a link to a picture of the sky and tell us that we thought you were making that blue sky shit up?

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I don’t see asiangrrlMN anywhere in this crowded room, but if anyone catches a glimpse of her, please tell her I just came across a nifty-sounding forthcoming program from the BBC America website that I think may possibly interest her:

    As Alan Rickman recently triumphed as Top British leading man in BBC America’s first Anglo Fan Favorites tournament, this is a great time to talk about The Song of Lunch, coming to Masterpiece this November. Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, the one-act poem from the point of view of a man meeting a former lover for lunch after fifteen years of estrangement makes a cinematic tour-de-force for Rickman. She (Emma Thompson) looks fabulous and serenely satisfied with her marriage to a bestselling author, with her affluent life and even with the radical makeover of what had once been their favorite Italian restaurant. He is the promising poet fifteen years on, dissatisfied with his dead-end job in publishing. His observations reveal less and less of the lyrical poet and more and more of the burgeoning curmudgeon. Beautifully filmed and very funny, The Song of Lunch is what Masterpiece executive producer Rebecca Eaton calls one of the “little jewels in the crown.” Little as this jewel may be, it’s flawless. The DVD will follow early next year.

    Alan Rickman! Emma Thompson! It just can’t get any better than that. I can’t wait.

  64. 64.

    tones

    This is the same game they ALWAYS play.

    They learned this a while ago and their dull witted [uh, low information] voters fall for it every single time.
    The other comment was right -Rove started this crap years ago.
    You think secretly to yourself “if they were to accuse me of what I am doing what would they say?”
    Then you quickly run out and go on the tube and specifically accuse them of EXACTLY what you yourself are doing.
    Because it is such complete BS the other side can only stand there , mouths gaping in astonishment…byu then it is kind of late to say “I know you are but what am I?”

  65. 65.

    Samara Morgan

    @MattR: wallah….there were people on this very blog that denied the term judeochristian had any meaning, and claimed i made it up.
    nice to see how the juicitariat has evolved.
    now if only you, MattR, could overcome your slavish worship of the “freed” market and stop fetishizing glibertarian rent boiz, i could believe in Santa again.
    :)

  67. 67.

    KG

    @Samara Morgan: um, isn’t part of the Judeo-Christian, or at least Christian world view to love your neighbor? And as a general rule to not make war? Isn’t the goal of the religions to bring peace to the world?

    I mean, what the fuck?

    ETA: and, the hell? What Judeo-Christian founding is he talking about? The one by Deists such as Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton, or maybe that devout Christian George Washington who was asked to not return to church because he refused to kneel in prayer? Or Thomas Jefferson who rewrote the New Testament by taking out all the hocus pocus? And which founders were “Jedeo”?

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    @RosiesDad:

    I’d rather see some Xe mercenaries contractors stand him on a box in a hood with electrodes connected to his testicles.

    Assumes facts not in evidence. I demand proof that Eric Cantor has testicles.

  70. 70.

    The Sailor

    @jl: He’s not below 40%, he’s about at the same place (mid 40s) that he’s been since the inauguration bump.

    The MSM keeps saying his numbers are falling, but that doesn’t make it true.

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    @The Sailor:

    But the NYTimes just sent me a breaking news alert, to tell me Obama is in trouble.

    Obama’s Support Is Slipping, Poll Finds, but His Jobs Plan Is Well Received

    President Obama’s support is eroding among elements of his base and a yearlong effort to recapture the political center has failed to attract independent voters, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

    The president’s effort to seize the initiative on the economy was well received by the public. But despite Mr. Obama’s campaign to sell the plan to Congress and voters, nearly half of people said they feared the economy was heading for a double-dip recession, and nearly three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

    Cue the Sunday shows.

    Maybe that nice John McCain will show up.

    Or some astute political analyst. Karl Rove.

  72. 72.

    opal

    @KG:

    From the wiki:

    By 1952 Dwight Eisenhower was speaking of the “Judeo-Christian concept” being the “deeply religious faith” on which “our sense of government…is founded

    It’s a good thing Ike spent most of his presidency playing golf.

  73. 73.

    Strandedvandal

    If Cantor is my cat, he’s due for a trip to the Vet to get nutted tomorrow. I hope they put a friggin e-collar on that nasty SOB.

  76. 76.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @KG:

    The “Judeao” part was added after a certain event in Central Europe took place in the 40’s that made it inconvenient to not include them in the entire “this is the invisible sky buddy basis for this country” schtick.

    Before that particular ethnic cleansing event, they were as reviled as the other Abrahamic religion was now.

  77. 77.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    That is, after all, the entire raison d’etre of the infotainment (once called “news” divisions) of the Ferengi controlled broadcasting and cable networks.

  78. 78.

    The Sailor

    @Omnes Omnibus: “@The Sailor: How else do you create a horse race?”

    I’m trying to not fold my aluminum foil into a hat, but it seems the ‘librul’ media has a stake in this game.

  80. 80.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    Obama should take him up on the offer.

    Submit all the stuff the Republicans have shot down in one big bill and invite them publicly to compromise on it.

    If they say no, well, he shrugs his shoulders and says “I guess Cantor was just blowing wind.”

  84. 84.

    clayton

    @gnomedad:

    I don’t think it’s intended as a link, I think she just likes blue and using her formatting skillz.

    So. Very. Tired.

    Are you one of the people — and the other who responded another — who type these same lame words every damn time?

    It reminds me of the dieharders who bitched about having to click on the WORDS instead of the header. WATBs all.

  85. 85.

    handy

    The ball is obviously in Obama’s court and Cantor knows it. But he also knows that Obama’s hallmark as president has been “bipartisan/working across the aisle.” Please O don’t take the bait.

  87. 87.

    The Sailor

    jl, thank you, that was very gracious.

    I try to admit it when I’m wrong too and it seems thankless so I’m trying to correct that impression.

  91. 91.

    asiangrrlMN

    @SiubhanDuinne: Do I hear my name being taken in vain? I got the word that you had an Alan Rickman/Emma Thompson hook-up for me. I’m so excited, I could just burst! Thanks!

    To be a bit more on topic, I have a nice rusty pitchfork ready for Eric Cantor and his backside.

  93. 93.

    SenyorDave

    @RosiesDad: Just because Cantor was born Jewish and considers himself Jewish does not mean he is Jewish. He doesn’t seem to have any recognizable Jewish values. Cantor is a Jewish version of these so-called Christians, the ones who ignore everything Christ said about the poor.

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