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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
We still have time to mess this up!
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
Battle won, war still ongoing.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
The GOP is a fucking disgrace.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Nothing worth doing is easy.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
James Hare
It was in the last comment block — George Zimmerman will be charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
It’ll be nice to see what the charges are (hopefully not some bullshit like “discharging a firearm improperly”) but at least some justice seems to be coming.
ABL
I really wish half the country wasn’t batshit insane. This election should be a cakewalk. But it won’t be.
Violet
Liberal media gotcha questions.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
“The most important job women have is staying at home to raise the kids, and they do it for love, not pay.” – Mitt Romney
KG
@ABL: I have a feeling that this election ain’t going to be close. Romney can’t seem to flip any of the States Obama won last time (Iowa and Indiana may be exceptions), but polls lead me to believe that North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania along with the upper Midwest are solidly in Obama’s column).
DougJ
Testing
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Romney has the same reaction when asked about foreign policy. Asked to make a statement with more depth than “This president has failed to show leadership…” he goes to blinky **searching…. searching…. searching…. the webpage you are seeking is not responding…. please try again later….** mode
c u n d gulag
Tomorrow, Mitt could propose “The Keep the Little Ladies Barefoot and Pregnant Act,” to much cheering from the Conservatives, and the MSM saying it indicates Mitt’s shift to the center on women’s issues.
Violet
I hope the President not only wins but has very long coattails.
TooManyJens
WaPo and MSNBC are reporting that George Zimmerman is to be charged in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Announcement today at 6pm EDT.
Edit: oops, I see I’m late.
schrodinger's cat
@DougJ: Square root of 568934? You can use long division.
Roger Moore
It’s such a gotcha question. Not only is the Lilly Ledbetter Act old enough news that it’s unfair to bring it up now, it’s also too recent for Romney to have formulated a policy response. Completely out of bounds for the lamestream media.
gex
Of course he doesn’t have a position. The woman in his relationship that has the “more important job” doesn’t get paid shit for doing that job. Room and board, subject to being kicked out at anytime if you don’t botox enough.
Violet
@TooManyJens:
Does anyone have any idea where Zimmerman is?
beltane
Mitt Romney is a bad caricature of a spoiled, obnoxious rich person. The guy is so stuck-up that he would even consider it beneath him to pass the Grey Poupon to anyone lacking the proper pedigree.
rikryah
because the MOMENT Willard opens his mouth about that…they’re gonna hang Scott Walker on him…
like I said before, just because his ass beat the amateurs, clowns and grifters of the GOP Clown Car.
means nothing….
he’s going up against TRUE PROFESSIONALS
and NOBODY IS PLAYING WITH HIM at the Prudential Building in Chicago.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
question for you law-talkers: Does Scottie Walker’s bill overturning WI’s state law on equal pay invite a court challenge under Ledbetter?
MikeJ
@Violet: Of course you need down ticket people smart enough to hop on the Obama train. Arkansas senator Mark Pryor:
“As much as I may love all of our presidents, I just don’t really get involved in those races. My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn’t matter, my view is I’m in Washington to try to work with people,”
“And whether it’s a President Romney or whoever it may be next time, or President Obama next time, or whether the Senate is majority-Democrat or majority-Republican or same with the House, that is totally secondary to me. I just try to work with people, work together.
“I’m a Democrat, but I’m really bipartisan — some people might say nonpartisan.”
gex
@Violet: Having a sleepover at Hannity’s?
ETA: The other option is at Glenn Beck’s compound.
beltane
@gex: During the 2008 campaign Romney made an incredibly tasteless comment about his wife, one that I will never forget. He “praised” her for being a “starter wife” and a “trophy wife” all in the same package.
To me, this boasting of the fact that he considers his wife to be little more than a piece of equipment was more even offensive than John McCain calling Cindy the C-word.
Egg Berry
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wonder what the rombot’s 404 page looks like?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MikeJ: I have to say, compared to a lot of his ilk– Lieberman, Bayh, McCaskill, Landrieu, Nelson– at least Pryor for the most part keeps this shit to himself
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
Sam will need his own tire swing. Romney’s not sharing and McCain’s is still full from the last campaign.
Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937
@Egg Berry: blank
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Violet:
This. Otherwise, his reelection is meaningless. If we manage to regain the House and hold onto the Senate, he might get something accomplished during the 2-year window he’ll have.
If the Repups get both houses, the Prez might as well resign cuz nothing will get done.
Culture of Truth
What the police have look for him? It would be interesting if the guy was not charged for a month but was later considered armed and dangerous.
gex
@beltane: I’d have to agree, that’s worse. Just barely, but that’s worse. It’s the right though. Only straight white men of the Christian tradition are fully human. Everyone else is mostly property.
Mark S.
Has anyone been reading the Fox News mole at gawker?
wasabi gasp
All sketchy, no etchy.
Even Chauncey Gardner would have a word or two.
Can’t wait for the debates.
jibeaux
@Violet: That’s the thing…an arrest warrant for a guy they can’t find. Although I think they’ll find him sooner or later.
mai naem
@MikeJ: I don’t like Mark Pryor but at least he’s from Arkansas and he has an excuse. I find Manchin more problematic and the one who drives around the bend is Joe Lieberman who is an unparalleled scumbag.
jl
That is funny. I assume that is a phone conference with some Mitt campaign hack who says ‘We’ll get back to you on that.’
The hack sounds like an aircraft controller reporting back to a pilot asking if a runway is open for landing after recent reports of severe turbulence for that approach.
“This is flight 320, what is status of Ledbetter approach path?”
Controller looks at weather info and scans recent pilot reports, and can’t figure them out.
“……. yep, check, we’ll get back to you on that.”
The theory that the national corporate press corps will smooth Mitt’s way will run into one very severe problem, which is the Mitt campaign. The campaign has to play along and provide some kind of material to work with.
The press needs to retain some credibility, and cannot make itself laughably ridiculous and contemptible in the public eye, since bad for ratings and their conception of their own dignity.
Same problem occurred at some points in 2008 from both McCain and Palin, at times when both made such public fools of themselves that the press just had to say outright, or implicitly ‘Aww, eff it, this is a joke’.
Will happen more during the Mitt campaign, and I predict press will have less patience with Mitt, since what are chances he can produce any good BBQ and good ‘ol boy and gal smooth and sophisticated schmoozing as McCain? Zero, I would say.
Tonybrown74
I am going to love it when Zimmerman is charged and Hannity receives a subpoena to testify.
If it weren’t for the fact that we have a dead teenager, I would be totally enjoying this fabulous shitshow.
And as for the topic, I still do not understand HOW Mitt Romney was even voted governor of Massachusetts … and I live here! The only explanation is that people here still believed at the time, that crap of governor should have been a different party than the State Legislature.
Tom Q
@beltane: That’s actually a classic Romney joke. He wants desperately to do regular-guy humor, but he has a painfully tin ear for it. We’ve heard this sort of thing over and over.
No one thinks it because their looks are so different, but Romney has a lot of Nixon in him.
Hill Dweller
Chris Christie was, reportedly, caught sleeping at a Springsteen concert.
As an aside, it’s in the NY Post. This is the second time in as many weeks they’ve went after Christie. Last week, they literally called him a ‘whale’ in a headline. Seems weird considering it’s largely a winger paper.
beltane
@Tom Q: The difference between Romney and Nixon is that Nixon’s political career was fueled by his own personal resentments, which gave him the unique ability to channel the resentments of others. Mitt Romney, having lived his whole life on Easy Street, cannot ever hope to achieve this.
jibeaux
He was! This is profoundly un-American. The man may be 60, but in a live show he is crystallized energy.
Culture of Truth
@beltane: Interesting point. In this sense he is more like HW Bush
beltane
@Hill Dweller: NJ politics are byzantine to say the least, with politicians of both parties prone to knifing their own in the backs. Perhaps Christie offended some other powerful wingnut for reasons we outsiders are not privy to and the Post is an ally of the aggrieved party.
TooManyJens
@Violet:
Good question. I don’t know.
Martin
@ABL: Actually, it will be. Everyone will stress to the 9s over it, but it’s going to be a massacre. Obama is leading Romney by 55% among latinos. That’s 20 points better than he did with McCain. If he can hold it, that’s high enough for Obama to win Texas. If Obama is competitive in fucking Texas, it’s going to be a massacre.
David Koch
but, but …. the Professional Left® tells me Lilly Ledbetter is insignificant legislation.
El Cid
Chris Christie is tired of all you lazy fat-ass Americans sitting on the couch and waiting for your gubmit check.
The Bush Institute is a prestigious research center, along the lines of such independent academic endeavors as the Tobacco Institute.
David Koch
@Hill Dweller:
See, I told ya he’s too fat to be president.
Only someone so exhausted from carrying 200 extra pounds on his frame could fall asleep at springsteen concert. He was probably from walking to his seat. Do they make Hoveround chairs in his size?
David Koch
@Hill Dweller:
See, I told ya he’s too fat to be president. And he has the nerve to talk about couch potatoes?
Only someone so exhausted from carrying 200 extra pounds on his frame could fall asleep at springsteen concert. He was probably out of breath from walking to his seat. Do they make Hoveround chairs in his [email protected]Violet:
Schlemizel
@Tom Q:
I could see that joke as being funny from the right guy – sort of like the “let me introduce you to my first husband/wife” joke.
The problem with that type of humor is you have to have just the right personality to pull it off. Willard does not. In fact he really is too still to pull off any joke.
He is so stiff that when having sex he has been heard yelling “I’m arriving, I’m arriving!”
catclub
@Roger Moore: Except you can frame it as: Scott Walker – your hero in Wisconsin, who has no doubt endorsed you – just signed a bill to effectively repeal the Lilly Ledbetter Act there. Do you approve of that?
Lee
@Martin: Interesting.
Any word on how is is doing with latinos in Texas (I can’t seem to find anything)? Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised with him being competitive in Texas.
catclub
@Hill Dweller: I thought they just said in Israel he was seen at the Whaling wall.
David Koch
@El Cid:
It’s hilarious he would say that at the “Bush Institute” considering Bush is a trust fund baby, who had everything, including the presidency, handed to him.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Violet:
I’m gonna say Peru.
catclub
@David Koch: The lesson that Obama can give from the Bush Institute is that they are saying, “unless you were born into the hereditary aristocracy, don’t bother to dream, don’t bother to strive, because some mediocrity who is rich is going to get the best spot.”
mai naem
The Mittster is a maroon. Dumbfuck. Idjit. Has a brain smaller than an immature gnat.
David Koch
The Obama rapid response team put out an immediate statement from Lilly Ledbetter, herself, denouncing Romney’s lack of support for equal pay for women.
Gawd, the Obama team is good.
catclub
@David Koch: wow
Ruckus
@gex:
Everyone else is mostly property.
Only if he can sill make a buck off them. If not they are less than worthless, they are a drain.
Ruckus
@David Koch:
Do they make Hoveround chairs in his size?
They are called forklifts
nellcote
Idaho Woman Arrested For Abortion Is Uneasy Case For Both Sides
http://news.opb.org/article/idaho_woman_arrested_for_abortion_is_uneasy_case_for_both_sides/
shortstop
Ask El Tiburon, nonstop screecher about the worthlessness of the Ledbetter Act during his tiresome tirades against Obama’s performance, what said act actually contains. His ignorance will amuse you as much as it doesn’t surprise you.
shortstop
@KG: Iowa’s a probably, Indiana’s a lost cause (which kind of makes me sad because my two little feet and my one big mouth helped in a small way to turn it for Obama last time). There are 10 or 11 states that are true tossups at this point. It should be a blowout, and in electoral votes it will be solid, but I think ABL’s right that the popular vote will be much closer than it would be in a remotely sane nation.
Jonny Scrum-half
This video would be more effective in making fun of Romney’s campaign if it didn’t mis-state what the Lily Ledbetter Act did. It did not “guarantee equal pay for equal work.” It simply changed the rules regarding when the statute of limitations began to run on wage claims under the Equal Pay Act.
lol obamabots
So any of the bots here want to defend the Fierce Advocate in Chief? Tell me that queer folks should STFU about
their human rights“getting ponies”?David Koch
@Ruckus: Hah!
Porlock Junior
@beltane:
As Pooh-Bah said,
“I’m not in the habit of saying ‘How de do, little girls, how de do?’ to anybody under the rank of a Stockbroker.”
The rank of a Stockbroker has always tickled me. But on a more serious plane, we can see that Romney waaay outranks Pooh-Bah, pre-Adamite ancestry or none.