Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

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

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

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

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

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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  1. 1.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Oh, lord> Tweety is hosting still another discussion of birth control featuring three dicks, his own, EJ Dionne’s, and Andrew Sullivan’s. Sully to his credit points out that Benny The Roman Rat With The Fabulous Hat is interested in nothing more than controlling other people’s sex lives. His words.

  5. 5.

    beltane

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s a pretty sad day for MSNBC when Andrew Sullivan is the only one advocating for women’s human rights on a 3 man panel where the other two men are the supposed liberals. EJ Dionne is truly pathetic. As the bishops take an ever more radical stance, Dionne contorts himself even harder to craft excuses for them.

  6. 6.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @beltane: and EJ still has concerns, I’m sure they are very grave concerns, that the White House just doesn’t get how Catholics feel about his issue. I can never look at him the same way again.

  7. 7.

    Deb T

    Yeah well I’m from Missouri – home of Senator Roy Blunt, the douchebag who wants to simply remove all contraception from healthcare at the employer’s request. There’s a brain trust for you.
    Of course we have a long legacy of idiot politicians. Even our Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill, is kind of a light blue dog.

  9. 9.

    Brachiator

    Great link about an impressive photo taken with a humble cell phone camera (iPhone User Apologizes For “Cell Pics,” Snaps One Of Finest Photographs Ever).

    Nice pics of doggies and people, too.

  10. 10.

    beltane

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: EJ Dionne should consider the possibility that he is the one who doesn’t get how Catholics feel about this issue. In this instance, it is Andrew Sullivan who seems more in tune with how non-wingnut Catholics feel.

  11. 11.

    pragmatism

    also too, the colonel.

    I hated the Colonel. With his wee beady eyes. And that look on his face. “You’re gonna buy my chicken, Oh!”

    Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?

    He puts addictive chemicals in chicken, making you crave it fortnightly, smart-ass!

  15. 15.

    kth

    Nearly every mainstream ‘liberal’ pundit seems to feel obligated to periodically demonstrate that he isn’t in lockstep with liberals or Democrats. Thus Dionne, way out in front of the vast majority of actual Catholics. Odd that mainstream conservative pundits show no such compunction.

  17. 17.

    pragmatism

    @BGinCHI: de face palma. *rimshot* whew, lucky i dodged that gigantic hook that came at me from offstage.

    as a failed screenwriter i can attest to the difficulties of act III.

  21. 21.

    honus

    @Felinious Wench: “90% of Texans give the other 10% a bad name.”- Doc Holliday (by Maria Doria Russell)

    But Zandar- a pig fucker and a Dukie? That’s an almost impossible combination to overcome.

  23. 23.

    Suffern ACE

    Ive been at the wkc today. My breed royalty has now shifted to mastiffs from bloodhounds this evening.

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    EJ still has concerns, I’m sure they are very grave concerns, that the White House just doesn’t get how Catholics feel about his issue.

    I suspect that the White House gets, in ways that EJ obviously doesn’t, that the USCCB is way, way out of step with the faithful on this issue.

    I need a bumper sticker that says “The Bishops don’t speak for me.”

  28. 28.

    pragmatism

    Simpsons quote selector sez–
    George Washington: “We had quitters in the Revolution too. We called them Kentuckians.”

  31. 31.

    honus

    @burnspbesq: Hunter Thompson, Johnny Depp and Muhammad Ali tip the scales a bit in the other direction, though. And Dwight Yoakum, from beautiful Pikeville.

  35. 35.

    handsmile

    @Suffern ACE: (#23)

    Cosmic injustice once again as the supreme breed of dog in the Known Universe (Pembroke Welsh Corgis, obviously!) was stiffed by corrupt and feeble Westminster judges. Of course, I’ve come to understand that the show’s sponsors demand that other, lesser breeds be given a chance.

    Some tiny measure of comfort is offered by the fact that no damned Poodle will win this year. But if it’s that nuclear-experiment mutation known as Pekingese, well then, the Mayans were right!

  36. 36.

    ET

    Zandar – I am from New Orleans, my dad is from Mississippi, and I went to college in Tuscaloosa so you have nothing to be ashamed about.

  37. 37.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @honus:

    from beautiful Pikeville.

    Please tell me this is sarcasm. I lived a year in Pikeville and the only thing beautiful about it was leaving…and the Taco Bell which was the only non-smoking establishment in town. Got a lot of great stories out of that year though.

  40. 40.

    Mark S.

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    and EJ still has concerns, I’m sure they are very grave concerns, that the White House just doesn’t get how Catholics feel about his issue.

    I would be really surprised if any of these deeply offended Catholics planned on voting for Obama regardless. It would be a little odd if they were that concerned about birth control but didn’t mind that Obama is pretty unabashedly pro-choice.

  46. 46.

    YellowJournalism

    Love the soundtrack to So I Married an Axe Murderer. It was playing in my car most of my high school years, rotated with the Reality Bites one.

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