Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Republicans don’t trust women.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Please don’t feed the bears.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Bogus polls are all they’ve got left. Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls a year from now.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

People are weird.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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Knit Your Congressman a Snatchel

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I realize this is ABL territory, but could there be a better gift for Members of Congress than a knitted representation of their obscure object of desire, shame and regulation? The Snatchel Project’s premise is “if they have their own, they’ll leave ours alone”, and their site has patterns for a womb, snatchel, felt cervix, knitted vulva and three different uteri. (via MJ)

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  2. 2.

    c u n d gulag

    Knowing most of our closeted Republicans, they’d secretly prefer a knitted dick.

  4. 4.

    Omnes Omnibus

    I sent the link to the only person I know who knits and is politically involved.

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    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    if handicrafts aren’t enough, how about a fake stuffed beaver in the style of big mouth billy bass that sings lesley gore’s “you don’t own me”

    it could be the novelty gift of the century.

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    jibeaux

    I am going to do the uterus. I am a bit worried what some of these guys might try to do with replicas of actual genitalia. I haven’t looked at the pattern yet, but it doesn’t look too complicated. The best part is that every knitter has a “stash” of leftover yarn and never enough small projects to use it up. This is both awesome political action and a stash buster, so win-win.
    Can I also say how much I lurve people posting to Rick Perry’s and others’ facebook wall to ask about their lady problems and trying to schedule a pap smear?

  14. 14.

    General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)

    In other news, Bloody Bill haz a sad and is feeling kinda blue

    Nor did listening to Gen. John Allen testify to the House Armed Services Committee reassure me that President Obama won’t announce a further, irresponsible, troop withdrawal in Afghanistan for 2013 at the NATO summit in May in Chicago.

    And Kristol laments, the scurrilous Obama is going to pull out of another perfectly good war, woe is he, this peace craze is more than a neo con can take. And then there is Iran, another perfectly good opportunity to bomb/invade/KILL, gone down the unicorn tubes.

    And nor did reading the leak (presumably from the White House) in the New York Times about the Israel-Iran war game reassure me the Obama administration won’t also spend the next few months trying to make it more difficult for Israel to stop the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

    On the glass half full side, at least some ‘normal’ republicans are still with us, that aren’t panty sniffing, uteri minding perverts. Just ordinary wingnuts wanting to spread feedom and democracy via the business end of an M16 assault rifle. Ode cologni, the good old days are slipping us by.

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    jibeaux

    Okay, I think I can do that pattern. I love reading “form cervix” in the directions. No way I’m sending yarn as nice and as pricey as Lamb’s Pride to a Congresscritter, though. They’re getting whatever acrylic I have lying around.

  20. 20.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    I sent Anne a picture of a plush uterus I found at a store in Dallas. The Puzzle Store in North Park Mall sold different internal organs, including a mammary gland.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    I’ve never learned to knit or crochet, but it would be worth a few lessons in order to make these adorable uteri and vulvae.

    The Snatchel Project organizers really need to broaden their scope beyond male members of Congress, though. After all, most of the reproductive mischief is being done in state legislatures. And there must be tens of thousands of worthy recipients in those #cough# distinguished assemblies around the country.

  26. 26.

    beergoggles

    Make sure to put some itching powder in there in case those assholes actually decide to use it.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @jibeaux:

    I’m thinking Red Heart Super Saver, myself.

    “In the event of an apocalypse, the only things that will survive are cockroaches, Twinkies, and Red Heart Super Saver” — Stephanie Pearl McPhee

    (Fixed because I am slowly forgetting how to touch type)

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    Mnemosyne

    Also, too, I live near Los Angeles and have Dem reps for everything, so if someone less fortunate needs a uterus sent to their cave-dwelling Republican rep, let me know here.

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    Dee Loralei

    you can join them on FaceBook at government free vjj. They have patterns for crocheting and sewing them too. And they are also sending them to state legislators as well. And Governors too!

    I was thinking about making on into a pinata and filling it with candy for my next Obama party.

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    eemom

    Sorry to rain on the knitting parade — and the thing IS cute — but these gimmicky kinds of “protest” are worthless at best, and trivializing at worst.

  35. 35.

    PurpleGirl

    @Mnemosyne: Time to get out the old “Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society” button.

    I agree that Red Heart Super Saver is the perfect yarn for this.

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    Beth in VA

    This is good. I think a tangible representation is really good because these knitted things clearly look like an organ, part of the inside of someone. This is why I’m so incredibly pro-choice. It is part of me. Inside my skin.

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    El Cid

    You also need to knit them an instruction manual, and maybe a knit body for the uterus to fit in, so that they won’t be wondering how the stork carries the snatchel.

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    ShadeTail

    This sounds a lot like that “SEND ROCK-SALT TO OLYMPIA SNOWE!!” joke that the red state trike force took so seriously a couple years ago. I.E. a completely meaningless gesture that doesn’t actually accomplish anything and looks stupid to anyone outside the bubble.

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    cckids

    @Rosalita:

    if handicrafts aren’t enough, how about a fake stuffed beaver in the style of big mouth billy bass that sings lesley gore’s “you don’t own me”

    Oh please somebody do this

    Seconded.

  41. 41.

    Clime Acts

    @eemom:

    Sorry to rain on the knitting parade—and the thing IS cute—but these gimmicky kinds of “protest” are worthless at best, and trivializing at worst.

    Damn, eemom, I keep agreeing with you today.

    Bingo again!

  42. 42.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    I am slowly forgetting how to touch type

    I find it troubling that someone whose nym comes from the Goddess of Memory cops to forgetfulness.

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