Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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

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

This blog will pay for itself.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

In my day, never was longer.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Let there be snark.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

You cannot shame the shameless.

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

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Late Night Open Thread

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Hat tip to commentor Burnspbesq for the best comment I’ve seen on tonight’s debate so far. From Mark Kleiman at Reality-Based Community:

Expert opinion by Mark Kleiman
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When Newt Gingrich says that a campaign has gotten “unnecessarily personal and nasty,” I think we should believe him.
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I’m just afraid, with all the clearly true things that Mitt Romney is now saying about Gingrich, that some low-information voters might be fooled into thinking that Romney makes a habit of telling the truth.

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  2. 2.

    Mnemosyne

    Any cooks around? I want to make something like a tater tot casserole, but use up my Aidell’s Pineapple & Bacon Sausage and Alexia Sweet Potato Puffs in the process. Any ideas what cheese and/or other binders I should use to hold it all together? For some reason, goat cheese and cream of celery soup are sounding good, but I’m open to suggestions.

    The pineapple and bacon sausage has an Asian-y taste and the sweet potato puffs are really sweet, almost dessert-like, if that helps.

  4. 4.

    freelancer

    @Mnemosyne:

    That sounds promising, but I’m half Irish and I like potatoes in any and all fashion. This is my favorite dish of all time. From your ingredients, you sound like you’re more than halfway there. Just remember you can substitute as needed. You don’t need Cream of Mushroom, any Cream of… soup will do.

  5. 5.

    Mark S.

    Chunky Bobo sniffs:

    Republican primary voters deserve a better choice than the one being presented to them

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    This is exactly what happens when you don’t police you insane members. And shut the fuck up about Daniels, Jeb, and Jindal. They wouldn’t be doing any better because the party is full of racist bugfucks.

  6. 6.

    TenguPhule

    Republican primary voters deserve a better choice than the one being presented to them.

    Cyanide or Arsenic? They’re lucky to get to choose at all.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    @Mnemosyne: Toad-in-the-Hole? Granted I watched Nigella make one the other night and I’m still drooling. And you can just incorporate the puffs around the sausages. Cook both first though: 20 minutes won’t get you a good sear on either in that amount of time.

  8. 8.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    If you ever have to deal with a Pauline bleating about the wonders that would occur after we return to the gold standard, it’s quite useful to know about this little gem:

    http://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/poll-results?SurveyID=SV_cw1nNUYOXSAKwrq

    Summary here:

    http://blogs.wsj.com/ideas-market/2012/01/23/survey-no-support-for-gold-standard-among-top-economists/

    One of the linchpins of Ron Paul’s insurgent campaign is a return to the gold standard. The Initiative on Global Markets, at the University of Chicago’s business school, asked its panel of economic experts — all of them scholars at the top research universities, Republicans and Democrats alike — whether they agreed with the following statement:
    “If the US replaced its discretionary monetary policy regime with a gold standard, defining a “dollar” as a specific number of ounces of gold, the price-stability and employment outcomes would be better for the average American.”
    The results were unambiguous, with the only disagreement among the experts lying in the degree to which they disagreed with the proposition. (Forty-three percent merely disagreed, while 57% strongly disagreed.)

  9. 9.

    4jkb4ia

    Win #1000 on the ATP tour for the one and only Roger Federer, and he absolutely rolled–6-4, 6-3, 6-2 over del Potro. I was expecting something more competitive.

  10. 10.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mark S.:

    Republican primary voters deserve a better choice than the one being presented to them

    Given how they behaved at the debate in SC last week, they’re getting EXACTLY the choices they deserve.

  12. 12.

    4jkb4ia

    My husband probably doesn’t really qualify as a low-information voter, but after having watched the last 40 minutes of that debate, in which he had only mild interest, he absolutely believed that Gingrich could debate Obama and could have done it better than McCain in 2008. All I could say was that these debates are between generic party labels, but Newt isn’t going to settle to be a generic party label, especially when he helped so much to create what the generic Republican label means.

  13. 13.

    4jkb4ia

    Very impressive how little Gingrich had to reach on the “Who’s a true conservative” question and how much Romney had to reach. And all those things Newt reeled off are true, too, although they may not help him in the general.

  15. 15.

    David Koch

    Preliminary inspection of Romney’s tax return shows he has a Swiss Bank account.

    Newt is gonna hang that around his neck like an anvil.

  16. 16.

    piratedan

    @4jkb4ia: well there’s one thing for sure, it’s not like any of these candidates are gonna allow anything like facts and common sense or a sense of moral or ethical responsibility for helping establish this ongoing clusterfuck that we all live in from their supposed anointed obligation to continue to sell the big lie and peddle fear and hatred to the American people.

  17. 17.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    @4jkb4ia:

    Not to be intrusive, but does your husband intend to vote for the Pudgy Perfesser if he gets the nomination?

  18. 18.

    MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson

    @David Koch:

    I wouldn’t put it past Gingrich to have a Swiss Miss on the side, so he might need to tread just a little cautiously here.

  19. 19.

    ruemara

    @4jkb4ia: I would wonder how in the hell your husband actually could be that far off the mark. Newt doesn’t debate, he lobs insults and bombs and lies. Damned far off from an actual debate.

  21. 21.

    Valdivia

    @David Koch:

    as I said in the last thread–this is a UBS repatriation amnesty related account. After UBS named names. This is where the damaging stuff is. Hope some journalist starts digging.

  23. 23.

    chopper

    i love how romney’s debate tactic is still ‘run out the clock’. he spends a full minute and a half not answering the question. when he does have an answer, it’s an answer to a question he flubbed at the last debate and got pitched a second time.

  24. 24.

    someguy

    The primary distinction between registered Republicans during election season and a racist lynch mob, is a lynch mob has a sense of purpose and direction, plus the lynch mob has put more thought into the matter.

  25. 25.

    SP

    Santorum seriously started a fundraiser called “Conservatives Unite Moneybomb?” He’s just fucking with us now, isn’t he?

  26. 26.

    Alex S.

    Go Newt! And drive’em down into the ditch with ya!

    If Newt wins Florida he’ll also win Nevada, his SuperPAC sugar daddy is a Las Vegas casino mogul. Romney will have to regroup for the late February/Super Tuesday contests.

    But I just can’t see Newt as the nominee, I never saw Romney winning either. I’m in brokered convention territory, i.e. Jeb Bush.

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @arguingwithsignposts: Maybe. I mean Santorum seems to be able to breathe without assistance. He has basic motor skills. That should mean that he is smart enough not to call his fundraising website “Ejaculate” – I mean, especially given his preexisting google problem.

  35. 35.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Omnes Omnibus: This is the man who said women who were raped and got pregnant should look at it as a blessing. So, yeah, some kind of mechanical lung or something.

  37. 37.

    Southern Beale

    I’m sorry but remember when liberals were TOO ANGRY to be elected? We were told to not be so fucking ANGRY all the time? Massive amounts of column space and airtime on the bobblehead shows were devoted to how ANGRY liberals are and how Americans don’t vote for ANGERY people.

    And then we’ve got these kunckledraggers of the GOP deciding they want Newt because he’s so angry he’ll KICK BUTT.

    Jesus. I hate these fucking people and their double standard.

  38. 38.

    El Cid

    I’m just afraid, with all the clearly true things that Mitt Romney is now saying about Gingrich, that some low-information voters might be fooled into thinking that Romney makes a habit of telling the truth.

    Well, if they know too many accurate things, they wouldn’t really fit into the category of “low-information” voters.

  39. 39.

    handsmile

    PeakVT’s comment above (#20) modestly proposing that GOP presidential candidates in Florida be strapped onto NASA rockets, prompted my curiosity about just how active NASA is now in the business of rocket launches.

    According to NASA’s Launch Schedule, there are only three possible ones from Cape Canaveral this year, two with tentative launch dates in August and December and another under review.

    I imagine that as a boy in the 1960s I must have believed that by the 21st century rocket launches and space flight would be as routine as aircraft travel
    . The words “NASA” and “Cape Canaveral” still hold much wonderment for me, and the eclipse of the agency is a source of true sadness.

    File Under: Where is my flying car?

    http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html

  41. 41.

    chopper

    seems newtie’s proposal to cut capital gains taxes to 0 went under the radar. even mitt the shit was agog at that one, pointing out that he himself wouldn’t pay a dime in taxes under that.

    newt of course quoted greenspan. yeah, people consider him to be a real genius these days.

  42. 42.

    Judas Escargot

    @handsmile:

    Blame Congress: There are at least 5 US companies that could get to ISS within 3-4 years. They just need the money to do so.

    But, alas, the Senate Launch System (which might even fly by 2020) must not be interfered with, so the commercial companies get only $450 million between them this year (the Obama admin asked for 850).

    To put it in perspective, the Russians will get ~$650 million this year from NASA, to fly astronauts to/from ISS.

  43. 43.

    J

    @Southern Beale: a telling observation, but then lying, slandering, xenophobia, bigotry and the like don’t qualify as anger or “anger” as it’s understood by by the exalted guardians of CW that make up the village–they’re just Republicans being their usual lovable selves–real anger is, e.g., pointing out that inspections have discovered no WMDs, that torture is an act of supreme wickedness and a crime against humanity, that ever lighter taxes for the wealthy aren’t doing the country any good and so on.

  45. 45.

    TenguPhule

    It would be nice if NASA could find a rocket to strap them to.

    Even facehuggers don’t deserve that sent to them.

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