Don’t care myself. Watching back episodes of Worst Cooks.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.
“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.
Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.
Glad to see john eastman going through some things.
We still have time to mess this up!
Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.
“woke” is the new caravan.
Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.
Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.
… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!
American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
handy
Last chance for the NEWTMENTUM! Or so the bobbleheads my TeeVee sez so. I have a feeling he’ll stick around a little while longer regardless. After all, there’s that plum prize of [insert small state caucus here] just there for the taking.
dmsilev
Ahem.
Carry on.
Odie Hugh Manatee
“Watching back episodes of Worst Cooks.”
Same thing anyway.
Linda Featheringill
I heard a rumor that Newt might take Hawaii.
Exit polls abound. A late compilation of Mississippi exiting voters [via dkos]:
Romney: 33
Santorum: 31
Gingrich: 30
handy
@Linda Featheringill:
NEWTMENTUM is on the rise! Can you feel it?
Linda Featheringill
Also according to DailyKos:
What the hell is wrong with those people?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@handy:
Oh, I thought that was nausea.
@Linda Featheringill:
Some people are into S&M?
JC
Actually, given that both Santorum and Newt keep winning states, staying in the race serves two purposes for them:
a. A possible bigger payoff at the end, in terms of working out deals at the convention.
b. More influence, more speaker fees, more books to write, about the ‘2012 Horse Race – My Story”.
Seriously, neither of these guys is going to pull out, as long as they continue to win states.
Doing so, would mean leaving MONEY ON THE TABLE. And the one thing Republicans are very good at, is sniffing where the gravy train is at.
dmsilev
@Linda Featheringill: Those exit polls usually have a margin of error of +/-3% or so. So, that 2% is within one standard deviation of zero.
Beauzeaux
I actually thought “Results of what?”
Who cares anyway?
JPL
For those that are keeping score of basketball, Miss. Valley is up a point over Western Kentucky with 2 minutes left. The President and Prime Minister enjoyed hot dogs. There are now more folks from small schools who know who the Prime Minister of England is than Sarah.
Egg Berry
@JC:
Even if you didn’t mean to, I saw what you did there.
jl
@Linda Featheringill:
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!
Newt! Hang in there, Newt!
Clap your hands and pray for Newtmentum.
Newt is the only candidate who punctuates the lies, hypocrisy, distortions, racial dog whistles and self righteous ceremonial piety with uplifting grand great visionary schemes that inspire us.
His visionary schemes are all batshit insane, of course, but I’ll take what I can get in this GOP primary.
Hang in there Newt.
Omnes Omnibus
When I was out running early, I saw a heavyset man with a beard driving a Smart 4 2 with the license “4 2 BEARS.” That’s all I got.
kindness
Netflix?
JPL
W.Ky won after being 13 points down, pres looks perplexed..
Poor Miss Valley
Pres holding baby..aah
dmsilev
Hmmm. Pretty early in, but right now both states are Frothy/Romneytronic/Blowhard, with Mad Dwarf running a distant fourth. If that ordering holds, we might actually see the end of Blowhard and have the race come down effectively to Frothy v. Rombot.
Foregone Conclusion
@JPL
*wince*
Sorry, but it’s not the Prime Minister of England, it’s the Prime Minister of Britain (well, officially it’s Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but I’ll let you off). I wouldn’t normally be pedantic, but given that the Scots are showing an unnerving willingness to break away to form their own McStatelet at the moment, it’s a little bit significant.
lamh35
Could care less. I’m catching up on my DVR queue.
I do see on twitter that Romney was “caught” on camera saying what we all know to be the GOP man on Planned Parenthood.
Romney: “Planned Parenthood, we’re going to get rid of that.”
The ads should already be written.
Gravenstone
@dmsilev: Neuter will remain in the race precisely as long as his sugar daddy keeps cutting checks to his campaign.
redshirt
My prediction: Some idiot bigot wins.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: That’s a pretty flimsy limb you crawled out on.
pragmatism
commence venting: i have been at a galtian superhero conference in DC for the past few days for work. well, some are actual galts and others are functionaries who make galts richer but consider themselves galtian by osmosis or something. anyhoo, saw some funny things. during an advocacy session on tax reform issues for people doing hill visits some people started yelling that there should be no taxes at all. lots of moaning about raising the corporate tax rate. a brave EPA staffer came to talk about why they instituted a rule that adversely affects the participants (short story, the hippies sued the EPA and the EPA agreed with the participants but lost the court case). some attendees not so subtly implied that he was lying and did the “bullshit” thing from animal house. one attendee followed him out of the conference room and basically chased him from the premises yelling at him. there was supposed to be a donna brazile and dana perino discussion but brazile bailed. perino got some weird questions from the group. she talked about game change (she sorta liked it) and got some strange questions. one hopeful lady asked her if she thought palin ever had a shot. she said no a little too quickly and there was much disappointment in the crowd. she got off some good one-liners such as “gingrich and perry, what can go wrong with that?” and told a good story about Obama who charmed her by remembering sitting next to her at the gridiron dinner back in 2005. she said that she “considered” voting for him.
tomorrow, hill visits. which will accomplish nothing. the member of cong. or their staff will listen politely and ask for information and do nothing with what we propose. man i can’t wait to go home.
best part of trip: gigantic steak at Capital Grille. even the yahoo who was at our table that said unironically, “everyone should read atlas shrugged” couldn’t ruin it.
Maude
@lamh35:
Mittens, we’re going to get rid of him.
How offensive. He’s a goober.
Alesis
@Linda Featheringill: I’d hope it’s just Dems and Indys voting Santorum to screw Romney but more likely its just basic peer pressure. Whites here in Alabama are overwhelmingly (and overbearingly) Republican and some people go along to get along.
J.W. Hamner
Live blog! Live blog!
jl
@pragmatism:
Thanks for the inside glimpse into the celestial realms of the galtians.
Omnes Omnibus
@J.W. Hamner: Can one “live” blog back episodes of something?
pragmatism
@jl: i spend a lot of my time in these meetings dreaming up non-lethal ways to escape. i need a shoulder mount potato launcher and a grappling hook and i can make it happen.
J.W. Hamner
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well it’s live for him, right? I mean, yeah, I already know what happened but… still. Plus it seems like what you are supposed to do when there are exit polls.
amk
borowitz tweet:
Romney: “I love the South. I love putting on overalls, eating grits, and watching NASDAQ.”
chopper
VICTORY! UNLIMITED CASH!
wait, sorry. it just came out.
Omnes Omnibus
@J.W. Hamner: I fully intend to watch “Justified.” That’s what I do when there are GOP primary exit polls.
@chopper: No bolding?
TheOtherWA
Watching Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America while I wait for Justified at 10p. Might watch some more MI-5 on netflix. Season 10 showed up recently and I just noticed it this weekend.
I couldn’t even watch Maddow covering tonight’s clown car parade. Just. Don’t. Care.
ReflectedSky
Our go to silly cooking show (usually late at night when nothing good is on) is Chopped.
That is not at all relevant to what is probably going to happen to Newt tomorrow.
@Foregone Conclusion — I’m rooting for the Scots. Oh, and Harvard against Vanderbilt. Feel free to laugh/heap scorn upon me. I’m hoping to get one competitive quarter before they so far behind that the focus of the evening must turn to beer.
AliceBlue
Where’s Veritas??
SiubhanDuinne
@ReflectedSky:
Fight fiercely, Harvard,
Fight fight fight,
Demonstrate to them our skill.
Albeit they posses the might,
Nonetheless, we have the will.
Anoniminous
@AliceBlue:
I was just wondering that, meself.
Doesn’t seem to be an election night thread without the Veri-‘Take it to the BANK!’-twit.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
@AliceBlue:
I think his batteries ran down. He’ll be back as the energizer bunny for Mitt.
Mark S.
Politico earlier today:
It doesn’t look like that’s gonna happen.
Mark S.
BTW, has anyone else been getting Error 403 messages sometimes when they comment? Is there any way around them, because they pretty much prevent you from commenting.
Rita R.
Santorum seems to have picked up a Southern accent. Waiting to see if he says cheesy grits.
muddy
Last night Colbert’s early guest said that cheesy grits is not southern, the cheese part is yankee. Stephen nodded sagely, Wisconsin and Vermont!
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
byu is getting routed.
mitt is having a bad day.
ReflectedSky
@SiubhanDuinne: I was so not into sports and rah-rah stuff when I was younger that I have never sung that song and have no idea if those are even the real lyrics. Sounds good, though. Maybe I’ll make everybody who’s sitting through the game with me sing it once we’re all well lubricated by oh, probably the second quarter. I’m bringing Arrogant Bastard, Mississippi Mud (a Black and Tan), and some award winning something or other, so there will be something to enjoy over the course of the evening.
Both Alabama and Miss. have been called for Santorum. That’s pretty entertaining. I can’t work up any fear of him in the general election.
jurassicpork
I just downloaded on Frostwire and am now watching Game/Change. I hear Ricky Retardo took Alabama. Who cares about MS? Either way, you’ll never hear Willard talk about cheesy grits and saying “Ya’ll” ever again.
Anyway, sometimes, lightning does strike twice. A fellow liberal progressive needs help desperately.
ReflectedSky
@muddy: Representing for the Vermont-raised cheesy grits lovers!
I never had cheesy grits in the South. But I never really thought about it before.
Uuuuummmmm….Grits….(Stares at low carb dinner, sighs.)
muddy
@ReflectedSky: The first time my son went to the south he was amazed that they had a multi-pack of instant grits with 5 different flavors. He bought it to bring home and amaze his friends.
Omnes Omnibus
@muddy: Before I went into the army, I had never had grits. I had eaten both cornmeal mush and polenta, but never grits.
muddy
I was in the hospital and they offered grits. It was a thin puddle, personally I think they should have more body. The worst was when I slid my fork under what I thought would be a bite, and the whole thing came up, a rubbery sheet. Perfectly shiny smooth on the underside molded from the plate. It was kind of like that fake vomit kids like to buy.
ReflectedSky
I like thick, slow cooked, stone-ground grits with butter, cream, sharp cheddar and some hot sauce. I no longer remember where I first ate that.
But I also like diner grits, as long as they’re not like your hospital grits. Plain is fine. Watery and/or congealed is not.
The current Republican message is kind of like bad grits.
Pavonis
@Omnes Omnibus
As a California boy, my first grits were … in the Yale dining hall, which seemed to serve them pretty often. But a classmate from Tennessee kept complaining how Connecticut Yankees didn’t know how to make real Southern food. He didn’t approve of their “Southern” fried chicken, either. And apparently New Haveners kept making bad comments about the South.
Joel
I thought Santorum was illegal in the deep south?
300baud
@pragmatism:
It’s a cookbook!
Killjoy
Unlimited corporate cash sure ain’t worth what it used to. Maybe Ron Paul has a point…
Cacti
Mitt Romney would be a formidable front runner if anybody liked him.
WereBear
@muddy: Precisely the grits at the junior high lunch table in Florida.
High quality grits don’t have the powdery cornstarch of the cheap stuff, and tend to be more oatmeally. The jelly stuff is what happens when you overboil the cheap kind.
rea
@AliceBlue: “Where’s Veritas??”
In vino.