Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

đŸŽ¶ Those boots were made for mockin’ đŸŽ”

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

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

We still have time to mess this up!

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

You cannot shame the shameless.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

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

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

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

The revolution will be supervised.

A consequence of cucumbers

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

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  3. 3.

    Elizabelle

    The “Florida Family Association” that targeted the TLC “All American Muslim” show’s advertisers is one guy.

    One guy with a website.

    Who used to be addicted to pornography, before he was born again. David Caton pays himself $55,000 to lead the FFA, its only employee. Out of FFA 2010 donations of $172,000.

    He honed his skills working against gays, then switched to Muslims.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/us/on-religion-a-one-man-war-on-american-muslims.html?ref=us

  7. 7.

    Lojasmo

    The republican senate majority leader in Minnesota just announced that she would not be running for reelection, and stepped down as majority leader. The next day the other shoe dropped, as rumors of an inappropriate relationship with a staffer started circulating.

    Turns out she was snagging Michael broadcorb, Minnesota’s version of kkkarl rove.

  8. 8.

    El Cid

    The fact that Republicans are blocking the appointment of two people to the National Labor Relations Board, thus denying it a quorum to act, is the fault of Obama for not nominating people that Republicans want to approve. Worst of all, Obama has nominated pro-labor types, thus terrible extreme partisanship:

    UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on the National Labor Relations Board, which protects collective bargaining, are vacant, and on Dec. 31, the term of Craig Becker, a labor lawyer whom President Obama named to the board last year through a recess appointment, will expire. Without a quorum, the Supreme Court ruled last year, the board cannot decide cases.
    __
    What would this mean?
    __
    Workers illegally fired for union organizing won’t be reinstated with back pay. Employers will be able to get away with interfering with union elections. Perhaps most important, employers won’t have to recognize unions despite a majority vote by workers. Without the board to enforce labor law, most companies will not voluntarily deal with unions.
    __
    If this nightmare comes to pass, it will represent the culmination of three decades of Republican resistance to the board — an unwillingness to recognize the fundamental right of workers to band together, if they wish, to seek better pay and working conditions.
    __
    But Mr. Obama is also partly to blame; in trying to install partisan stalwarts on the board, as his predecessors did, he is all but guaranteeing that the impasse will continue.
    __
    On Wednesday, he announced his intention to nominate two pro-union lawyers to the board, though there is no realistic chance that either can gain Senate confirmation anytime soon…
    __
    …William B. Gould IV, a law professor at Stanford, was chairman of the National Labor Relations Board from 1994 to 1998.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    @Samara Morgan:
    Pssst!
    Hey, m_c:
    ED Kain doesn’t blog here anymore. Go argue with him at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen. If you can present logical, factual arguments while remaining civil, I’m sure Kain will be happy to engage with you.

    Oh, wait …

  12. 12.

    Samara Morgan

    yup, pimping Ryan turned to pimping willard and now hes flirting with Paul.
    Paul is unelectable because he is a crank.
    Sully is a conservative elite.
    Hes gunna be a Romney man in the end. I predict a future diatribe against the “christianists” for screwing Romney’s chances.

  13. 13.

    El Cid

    I think I’d like to see every principled conservative libertarian small gubmit type voting for Ron Paul.

  14. 14.

    Samara Morgan

    @Amir Khalid: nah, he banned me again during his Jennifer Rubin phase, when ipointed out that movement conservatives were largely white christian nativists like Anders Breivik.
    so touchy he is.
    ;)

  15. 15.

    Samara Morgan

    @El Cid: i do not know a lot about Ron Paul i confess– is he a freed market worshipper like Kain?
    How about immigration?
    Is he a white christian nativist?

  17. 17.

    Baud

    @El Cid:

    But Mr. Obama William B. Gould IV is also partly to blame; in trying to install partisan stalwarts on the board create a false equivalence in the media, as his predecessors did all elites do, he is all but guaranteeing that the impasse will continue.

    FTFY

  18. 18.

    Samara Morgan

    @El Cid:

    I think I’d like to see every principled conservative libertarian small gubmit type voting for Ron Paul.

    lol! was Ross Perot a libertarian?

  24. 24.

    harlana

    republicans love libertarians because republicans want to destroy the country and libertarians want to destroy all remaining impediments to the rape and pillage of whatever little is left to rape and pillage

    i swear these people get hard-ons over impoverishment and despair

  25. 25.

    Samara Morgan

    @Gin & Tonic:

    about 7 years older than Reagan, the oldest President so far.

    lol! and Reagan was an Alzheimers zombie the last two years of his presidency, and everyone knew it.
    But Democrats were too spineless polite to push for his removal.
    touché, catsy.
    /sideways smile

  26. 26.

    Samara Morgan

    ahhh more webby goodness.
    wat i say.

    Perhaps the most telling indicator of the Brotherhood’s theocratic outlook were the future parliamentarians’ comments on whether they would permit those who do not believe in the sharia to criticize or challenge it. The answer was, without exception, no. “It’s not allowed for Christians to come and say that the sharia is wrong,” said Abouel Fotouh. “They are not specialists.” Mukhtar agreed. “There is no ultimate freedom, because your freedom ends at the freedom of other people,” he told me. “And if I humiliate things that you respect, I violate your freedom.”

    The concept of mufassir is simply impossible for westerners to understand.

  28. 28.

    Samara Morgan

    spec1al1sts?

    Perhaps the most telling indicator of the Brotherhood’s theocratic outlook were the future parliamentarians’ comments on whether they would permit those who do not believe in the sharia to criticize or challenge it. The answer was, without exception, no. “It’s not allowed for Christians to come and say that the sharia is wrong,” said Abouel Fotouh. “They are not spec1al1sts.” Mukhtar agreed. “There is no ultimate freedom, because your freedom ends at the freedom of other people,” he told me. “And if I humiliate things that you respect, I violate your freedom.”

  31. 31.

    chopper

    @Amir Khalid:

    it’s much easier to stalk a dude on a blog that isn’t his.

    as i’ve mentioned before, it’s like when homer simpson called up a sports talk radio show to ask guest sandy koufax if he thinks flanders is ‘a big jerk’.

  32. 32.

    Linda Featheringill

    Good morning, Samara. You have mentioned that the Republicans have to win 65% of the white vote in 2012 to win the presidential election. I realize that you have moved on to other topics now but I found the idea interesting. I looked into that idea and did some basic research.

    I found out:

    1. Minorities make up about a third of the population in the US, 35% actually.
    http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/10/minorities-make-up-35-percent-of-u-s-and-over-50-percent-of-fou/
    This is not the primary source, which is the census bureau but the official statistical layout confused me. So I used this predigested source.

    2. Minority voters participate in elections at close to the rate that white voters get involved, at least in California. Some ethnic groups vote at higher rates and some at lower rates but it all seems to average out close to the White Anglo rate. I chose to assume that Californians are much like the rest of us and so I will not bother with that variable. The California numbers:
    http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_CAMinorityVotersJTF.pdf

    3. In 2008, apparently Obama got 43% of the white vote. So that would leave 57% for McCain.
    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/2008/11/what_we_didnt_overcome.html
    [I know this isn’t a primary source. Shut up.]

    4. There is a mathematical method for taking all of these numbers and grinding out the proportion of voters the Republicans need to get in order to win the presidency. I could do this [mumble, mumble] years ago but now I have no idea how to do it. Maybe someone else can do it.

    Does all of this make that 65% figure reasonable? I’m not sure. But it might.

  34. 34.

    chopper

    oh, and for those of you who keep forgetting that democrats in congress don’t have obama’s back, the senate just passed a 2-month extension of unemployment and payroll tax cuts, with the stupid FU Obama oil pipeline shit in it. 89-10. goes to the GOP house next week. 2 months more of payroll tax cuts and unemployment for their magical pipeline that won’t do shit for our energy crisis.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    with the stupid FU Obama oil pipeline shit in it.

    The bill doesn’t require the pipeline be approved, it just requires a decision up or down. It would have been hard for Dems to make a stand against the payroll tax cut because they didn’t want Obama to make a decision.

    I’m not sure how this will play out. Obama punted on the decision because (IMO) the pipeline pitted labor and environmentalists against each other. Now, it’s possible that Obama can use the deadline as the excuse for denying approval of the pipeline, and deflect the blame to the GOP. I guess we’ll see in a couple of months.

  37. 37.

    Suffern ACE

    @El Cid: I have to laugh a little. He could nominate DeMint’s cookie-baking grandma to the board and the appointment wouldn’t go through. Our appointment system is completely broken and it isn’t broken because the appointments are too partisan.

  42. 42.

    chopper

    @Baud:

    the GOP has been making a deal over the pipeline and trying to get it put in to unrelated legislature as a rider for two reasons, first because it’s good for the oil industry, and second because it’s a finger in the eye of the president. you’d think a democratic senate would be able to slice out something that’s clearly put in there out of spite for obama (even if it doesn’t carry a lot of weight), but congressional dems don’t give a shit about their president.

  43. 43.

    Suffern ACE

    @Samara Morgan: Shorter ED Kain – if I look past Paul’s paleoconservative goldbuggery, I can define him as the anti-war candidate I want him to be.

    Personally, I think the poleoconservative goldbuggery is the most important part of the definition of Ron Paul.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Suffern ACE: Kain has a romantic vision of how the world should be; he wants to live in the Shire. As a result, he views everything through hobbit-colored glasses.

  46. 46.

    Suffern ACE

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah. I suppose. He’s tired of having to make that trade off for social welfare in a warfare state. Or something like that. Sure a lot of people are helped, but what’s the point of that? (he seems genuinely confused by that).

    Sullivan, however is just being an fool. Someone needs to tell him that Harold Wilson is dead and he won’t be coming back to lead the Labor party. Only Ron Paul can save us from the specter of Harold Wilson’s Labor Party!

  48. 48.

    RalfW

    @El Cid quoting the NYT:

    But Mr. Obama is also partly to blame; in trying to install partisan stalwarts on the board, as his predecessors did, he is all but guaranteeing that the impasse will continue.

    Oh, the Times and their shit-stained both-sides-do-it hands.

    .

    Hmmm. Maybe Obama could appoint Christine O’Donnell? Or some similarly suitable Tea Party moran.

    They’d have a quorum, and a 3-1 vote on all matters before them.

    If the GOP won’t approve a member of their own party, then Holder files a case post-haste in Federal court that the Senate is attempting nullification and the President uses his unitary executive authority (per Bush, Rove, Cheney & Co) to make the appointment of someone of actual caliber and standing.

    If the roles were reversed, you know the Republifvcks would try some such maneuver or another.

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jerzy Russian:

    I suspect Harlana’s winner is #19, an Australian tycoon named Georgina Rinehart.

    I’d say her anti-environmental activities are a great deal more reprehensible than her ill-fitting undergarments, but that’s just me.

  51. 51.

    RalfW

    @Lojasmo: And here’s the TPMCD post about our latest Minnesota GOP scandal.

    So Koch suddenly resigned Thursday, Brodkorb was fired or resigned just as suddenly Friday.

    Two weeks ago, the State GOP Party chair set the trend:

    Minnesota Republican Party Chairman Tony Sutton abruptly resigned his position today [Dec 2] setting off speculation as to who will lead the party headed into the 2012 elections. (via MinnPost)

    Under his watch, the party was at least $500,000 in debt (possibly up to $1M, depending on how one adds in the Governor’s recount work). And while Sutton was in charge, the FEC fined the MN GOP $170,000 for violations ($100,000 of the fine is yet to be paid months later…).

    Brodkorb had been angling for the GOP Chair job, but his abrupt departure seems to end that idea. Meanwhile, the leading contender for MN GOP Chair, hearing aid company executive Brandon Sawalich, dropped out of the race late this past week when there were indications he had had a Cain-like moment some years ago.

    With the MN lege headed back into session in mid-January, it’s looking like disarray and chaos may be the watch-words!

    So. Sad.
    I’m welling up.

  52. 52.

    bemused

    @RalfW:

    The gays made them do it. Looks what happens without a marriage between a man and woman in MN amendment!

    Two key people in the MNGOP Senate are out. Doing a happy dance.

  53. 53.

    Hill Dweller

    @Baud:

    I’m not sure how this will play out. Obama punted on the decision because (IMO) the pipeline pitted labor and environmentalists against each other. Now, it’s possible that Obama can use the deadline as the excuse for denying approval of the pipeline, and deflect the blame to the GOP. I guess we’ll see in a couple of months.

    The State Dept. warned Republicans, before this was ever put in the bill, that if they demanded an immediate answer, it would be ‘no’. I suspect/hope Obama will use the same rationale to kill it.

  54. 54.

    Samara Morgan

    @chopper:

    it’s much easier to stalk a dude on a blog that isn’t his.

    yes, because he just banns people that disagree with him on his blog.
    Exactly like a conservative blog.
    :)

  56. 56.

    Samara Morgan

    @Linda Featheringill:

    So that would leave 57% for McCain.

    McCain actually got 55%. 2% went to “other.”

    Consider the historic campaign of 2008, when President Barack Obama bested John McCain by a solid margin of 7.2 percentage points. According to the authoritative exit polls, the vast majority of voters (74 percent) identified themselves as “white,” and McCain won a landslide among this segment of the electorate, thrashing Obama by a resounding 12 points (55 percent to 43 percent). This was the same margin that George W. Bush commanded among white voters in his 2000 victory over Al Gore. In fact, because of the larger electorate, McCain’s losing effort actually drew 9.5 million more votes overall than Bush’s victorious campaign of eight years before.

  57. 57.

    Samara Morgan

    @Suffern ACE: haha, warfare state. im stealin’ that.

    I have known Kain and de Bore 2 years longer than anyone here, i think. Kain never changed a hair. He is a “freed” market libertarian no matter what trendy liberal-friendly buzzword du jour he calls himself.
    I was mortally offended that Cole let him post his scammer bulshytt here and engaged in the reality show fakery of Kain supposedly discovering his liberal tendencies.
    It was purely disgusting to see how the cudlips lapped up the drench.

    Freddie OTOH actually did change– from a liberal to a civil glibertarian.

  58. 58.

    Samara Morgan

    so i have to answer my own questions…sigh.
    Paul is apparently a White Baptist Nativist. That should get him some points

    Paul believes illegal aliens take a toll on welfare and Social Security and would end such benefits, concerned that uncontrolled immigration makes the U.S. a magnet for illegal aliens, increases welfare payments, and exacerbates the strain on an already highly unbalanced federal budget.[53]
    Paul believes that illegal immigrants should not be given an “unfair advantage” under law.[54] He has advocated for a “coherent immigration policy”, and has spoken strongly against amnesty for illegal aliens because he believes it undermines the rule of law, grants pardons to lawbreakers,[55] and subsidizes more illegal immigration.[56] Paul voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, authorizing an additional 700 miles (1100 kilometers) of double-layered fencing between the U.S. and Mexico mainly because he wanted enforcement of the law and opposed amnesty, not because he supported the construction of a border fence.[57]
    Paul believes that mandated hospital emergency treatment for illegal aliens should be ceased and that assistance from charities should instead be sought because there should be no federal mandates on providing health care for illegal aliens.[57]
    Paul also believes children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens should not be granted automatic birthright citizenship.[58] He has called for a new Constitutional amendment to revise fourteenth amendment principles and “end automatic birthright citizenship”,[59] and believes that welfare issues are directly tied to the illegal immigration problem.[60]

  59. 59.

    Samara Morgan

    ahhh yesssss
    Paul is another free market fantasist.

    Paul endorses defederalization of the health care system. Paul also states that he has an opposition to virtually all federal interference with the market process,[135] even though he has inserted Congressional earmarks that specifically direct spending into such projects, including the aforementioned projects which appropriated millions of dollars for the renovation of a defunct movie theater and millions in subsidies for the American wild shrimp industry[92] as well as Federal spending to improve shipping in Texas[136] among the many projects for which the Congressman has requested funding.[137][138]
    Paul was one of only three members of Congress that voted against the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: it “imposes costly new regulations on the financial services industry [that] are damaging American capital markets by providing an incentive for small US firms and foreign firms to deregister from US stock exchanges”.[139]
    In an interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Paul said he favors ending the United States Post Office legal monopoly on first class mail delivery by legalizing private competition.[140]
    Paul argued against the $700 billion bailout proposal to purchase toxic debt during the economic crisis of 2008. His vote was among the majority of “nay” votes cast to defeat the initial measure in the U.S. House of Representatives.[141] The House passed a “sweetened” version of the bill, against which Paul voted a second time, later in the week.[142]

    That is prolly the greater part of his appeal to Hobbit Kain, not his anti-war position. Paul is perfect for Hobbit Kain. He’s another free market fucktard.

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