Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

No Justins, No Peace

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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Late Night Open Thread: Barney Frank “Endorses” Rick Santorum

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… because “I think we can beat Santorum even if the Devil stays out of it.” Representative Frank always gives good interview, bless him.

If your dead soul stern personal philosophy forbids you to take pleasure in other peoples’ wedding plans, the relevant question is at the 3:50 mark.

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  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    @Suffern ACE:

    Norris, who starred in the hit television series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” commonly features in jokes told in the central European country.

    Okay, so, maybe it’s not all bad…

  3. 3.

    MonkeyBoy

    While I like Barney Frank on a lot of issues, isn’t his 30 year younger spouse-to-be a typical trophy wife? Does he put on a hard-hat and sing the YMCA song to act cute and sexy?

  4. 4.

    Alison

    @MonkeyBoy: Just because there’s a big age difference doesn’t mean the relationship isn’t real or whatever. I don’t know how old Frank’s previous male partner was, and I don’t think it matters. What if Jim was only 15 years younger? 10? Who gives a shit? They seem happy.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    @MonkeyBoy: At 71 and 42, I think they squeak into half-your-age-plus-seven territory. And a 42 year old typically has some life experience, backbone and resilience compared to a typical twenty-something, so this doesn’t set up my Queasymeter the way, say, a 43 year old dumping a spouse for a 25 year old does.

  6. 6.

    kimp

    My understanding is, Frank is not seeking re-election. Why not spill the beans on how corrupt and untenable this body of the goverment is? Burn the bridges, and become loved, and reviled, in your retirement.

  7. 7.

    MikeJ

    @kimp: You assume he believes that. I doubt he does. There’s nothing untenable about the House, it just has some shitty people in it.

  8. 8.

    JGabriel

    BoBo Today:

    First they went after the Rockefeller Republicans, but I was not a Rockefeller Republican. Then they went after the compassionate conservatives, but I was not a compassionate conservative. Then they went after the mainstream conservatives, and there was no one left to speak for me.

    A vicious right-wing founding editor and former foot-soldier of The Weekly Standard, David Brooks considers himself a Mainstream Repupiblican(tm).

    Sadly, he is right. The far right of the late 90s and early 00s is the GOP mainstream.

    And yet, somehow, Brooks still fails to comprehend and/or acknowledge his own role in the GOP’s regress from far right to proto-fascist. Ah, David, you hardly know ye.

    It’s almost schadenfreudey.

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  9. 9.

    amk

    @JGabriel: The cognitive dissonance here burns, doesn’t it ?

    Yet another ‘we kiss gop ass shamelessly’ shill – roger simon of gopolitico whining today.

    I would say only that all these guys running for president are out of touch. Even though most brag about their humble beginnings, all now lead lives of privilege and comfort and come in contact with average Americans only when their water heaters give out. (And their spouses usually handle that.)

    Sure they grip and grin on the rope lines with average Americans, but that lasts for about 2 seconds or however long it takes somebody to snap a cellphone picture.

    If these guys did not live in a bubble before they entered politics, they certainly live in one now. And they have large staffs whose job it is to keep the candidate away from the public (and press) as much as possible unless the situation is highly controlled.

  10. 10.

    JGabriel

    @amk: It has ever been thus. Who can forget the halcyon days when the GOP standard bearers were … wait for it … Barry Goldwater and Dick Nixon. The days when Ronald Reagan declared that Medicare would destroy America. That glorious past when the GOP was Mainstream and Moderate.

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  15. 15.

    Linda Featheringill

    @JGabriel:

    Brooks:

    This article is actually coherent and well written. It is also a public admission that the whole party has gone to hell. I did enjoy his complaint about the cowardice of “professional” Republicans and their willingness to do/say just about anything in order to be reelected. And his observation that the Right Wing is not interested in governance.

    Self awareness? Probably not. But then I don’t care about his character development, do I?

  16. 16.

    Linda Featheringill

    Tuesday is my Monday, the beginning of the work week. And I really don’t want to get all this started. Maybe I could say that I misread the calendar? Probably not. Well, I guess I’d better start to work. Ugh.

  17. 17.

    Linda Featheringill

    Tomorrow is Sadie Hawkins Day [for folks old enough to remember such a thing], the day when the ladies may properly propose to men. So here goes:

    Barney Frank, will you marry me?

    What? Already taken? Darn!

  19. 19.

    JGabriel

    @Linda Featheringill:

    [Brooks’ op-ed] is actually coherent and well written. It is also a public admission that the whole party has gone to hell. I did enjoy … his observation that the Right Wing is not interested in governance.

    Yep, parts of it are well-written, particularly the mid-section. But ultimately it amounts to Brooks bitching about a Republican migration to the far right, and beyond, that he spent the better part of his career advocating and enabling — which makes it hard to take seriously. Brooks doesn’t have a lot of credibility here.

    It would be different if Brooks had, like Cole, ever publicly said: I was wrong. I am so, so, sorry.

    Absent such a Come to Sanity moment, Brooks’ complaint about the GOP’s increasing dominance by wingnuts is like the complaints of some Republican north-eastern flood victims last year, over the lack of federal funds for rebuilding. You sympathize with their plight, but you can’t help thinking, “You got what you voted for.”

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  22. 22.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Yutsano:

    Norris, who starred in the hit television series “Walker, Texas Ranger,” commonly features in jokes told in the central European country.

    Back in the days of WoW Barrens Chat, Chuck Norris jokes were also quite common and frequent. So, I guess Slovakia is like The Barrens, but with Slovaks instead of Orcs and Taurens.

  23. 23.

    JGabriel

    I would actually consider Dick Nixon a ‘moderate Republican’.

    So much of what is wrong with the country today is embedded in the concept that Nixon was a moderate. If Dick Nixon is a moderate by today’s standards, then it’s the standards that are wrong.

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