Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

How stupid are these people?

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

The National Guard is not Batman.

Books are my comfort food!

When we show up, we win.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

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

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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  4. 4.

    patroclus

    Man, I was planning on voting for Obama and the Dems until Hilary Rosen opened her mouth. Now, Hillary Clinton is dancing – a voting issue for sure.

  5. 5.

    General Stuck

    I remember Niles Gardner on my teevee in the run up to the Iraq invasion. Pallid cheeked little chickenshit quasi fascist was my first impression, and remains so. Wingnuts here, and across the pond are scraping the barrel bottom for memes to wank, so as to get the Kenyan braniac out of the Oval Office, and a pig fucking dog torturer in it for the next round of stupid wars.

  6. 6.

    RalfW

    That POS otherwise known as The Hill headlined their story “Hillary Clinton swills beer in Colombia.”
    I know no Romney Secretary of State would drink beer (because, pasta willing, there will be no Romney as President…), but for FSM’s sake, what the frunk is that headline? It would ever be used with a GOP SOS, nor even a Dem one who has a penis.

    The Hillary-hatred, the misogyny, the bullshit oozes out of it like an evil, infected sore.

  11. 11.

    Dork

    Phony conservs p.o.’d with a Dem having a good time. Man bites dog. Next up: Hannity outraged that libs use makeup and deodorant.

  12. 12.

    KG

    @PeakVT: ever is a long time and includes a rather impressive list; though how much of what made them impressive happened while SoS, is tough to say… Though I’d probably go with George Marshall and his plan

  13. 13.

    TheMightyTrowel

    My favourite comment off the Torygraph article (because it’s true dammit):

    A British newspaper is attacking Clinton because she went out for a beer? Really?? Where is this writer from? What a joke of a column.

  16. 16.

    AA+ Bonds

    I will rarely miss an opportunity to make fun of the Clintons but don’t we basically pay the Secretary of State to go dancing, among other things, in other countries? I mean, it’s the international relations arm of the federal government

    I imagine she has to drink a lot of wine too even if it is terrible

  17. 17.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    I’ll tell you how cynical I’ve become. I looked at it and thought “Damn, that’s a helluva security risk. Good God, we don’t need to lose Hillary – or anybody – that way.”

    Everyone’s talking about Mitt’s VP thinking. If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.

    It’s weird how things work out. I’m not a huge fan at all of “dynastic” elements in our government, but damn if this one hasn’t worked out fortunately. Just a phenomenal woman who has a phenomenal life story and career if you stand back and look at it from a distance.

  18. 18.

    Yutsano

    @Martin: If you’re that desperate to make your deadline…miss your deadline. Pissing off your boss by embarrassing your paper is a much worse sin.

  19. 19.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Evolving Deep Southerner:

    If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.

    Eurgh that would be terrible to do for them, it would make it look like they thought there was a serious problem on their own ticket

  20. 20.

    eemom

    @Evolving Deep Southerner:

    If the President wanted to change the game, he’d talk her out of this “at the end of this term, I’m done” thing and name her his running mate for 2012.

    Commenter needz moar evolving.

    Lots moar.

  21. 21.

    AA+ Bonds

    Is it a scandal if you are halfway through a beer and are named Secretary of State but then you finish the beer

  24. 24.

    suzanne

    Good LORD. They get their panties in a wad about EVERYTHING. If I was guessing her crime based on the level of freak out, I would have guessed that Hillz was dropping it like it’s hot.

  25. 25.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    Now I’m concerned that, if that 3am phone call comes, Hillary will be off cha-cha-ing, and not sitting by the phone waiting.

  26. 26.

    Cris (without an H)

    I’ve never been able to jump on the whole “how dare (politician I hate) smile/relax/crack jokes/dance/sing when there is SERIOUS PRESIDENTING to do” outragemobile. Not even when W played geetar during Katrina. I just don’t see how anybody could actually believe that putting on a somber face 24 hours a day until all problems are solved is going to help.

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    If you’d told me it was the gaddam Telegraph, I wouldn’t have wasted my time looking. The best sports section of any English newspaper, but its politics are wack, plain and simple. They still worship at the altar of Saint Maggie.

  28. 28.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @AA+ Bonds:

    it would make it look like they thought there was a serious problem on their own ticket

    How so? She’s the Secretary of State, for God’s sake. She’s done well. How the hell would it do anything but be a net gain for the President?

    Joe Biden’s done fine, all “gaffe” shit aside. The guy’s not said anything crazy/evil. Obama will win this one in a walk doing nothing different.

    But, Hillary, now, if you wanted to suck the oxygen out of the political room …

    Oh, and eemom, suck it, you sour bitch.

  29. 29.

    Citizen_X

    @AA+ Bonds:

    don’t we basically pay the Secretary of State to go dancing, among other things, in other countries?

    No. Dire threats of imminent bombing, that’s what we pay her for.

    And consider Kissinger, who actually was big on the dire threats etc etc: wasn’t he known for dating stars and such?

  30. 30.

    Suffern ACE

    In all, a pretty dismal meeting. I hope they don’t have any more of these regional meetings before the election. So far, all I can tell is that the Secret Service loves some prostitutes, Argentina wants help getting the Falklands, and everybody but the us and Canada wants Cuba back in this club. I favor the latter, but isn’t it like Hillary’s job to make certain that there is some guano treaty that everyone can agree to before the meeting takes place?

  31. 31.

    burnspbesq

    @Suffern ACE:

    At least she wasn’t bitching at Ecuador about trying to make Chevron bear the costs of cleaning up the environmental Armageddon it created there.

  34. 34.

    Martin

    @Suffern ACE: Yeah, for an administration that’s has put few steps wrong at least on the basics, the GSA and the hooker thing in close proximity is cringeworthy. I suspect the Clinton photo never would have gotten attention without those other things softening the ground. Hopefully this little chapter is over with.

  36. 36.

    Suffern ACE

    @burnspbesq: Someone has to clean that up. Well I know the alternative would be Bolton threatening to drop a bomb on anyone who offers him a cigar, while Romney gooses the president of Brazil in that way that endears Republicans to foreign leaders.

  37. 37.

    David Koch

    Digby racing to defend Hillary.

    I’m shocked! I’m shocked!

    Digby’s whole shtick is railing against Dems for not being liberal enough. Which is cool. Nothing wrong with that. But then she idolizes a centrist DLCer like Hillary.

  41. 41.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn

    “Getting jiggy with it”? Dang, Cole, you old. May as well have posted that she was cutting a rug, Lindy hop style.

  44. 44.

    kay

    I think it’s probably good. Clinton is well-liked. She (actually) polls really well.

    If they say one word we should all immediately start screaming that they hate women.

    It’s what they would do.

  48. 48.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Steeplejack: As someone noted on the Twitter machine yesterday, the reporter on the HuffPo has a long history as a journalist at traditional outlets, and the series on returning vets is pretty solid, something that would have been just as much at home in the Times or the Post. Also, the Pollitiho award went to an editorial cartoonist, not any of their hack reporters.

    Naturally, HuffPo and Politiho will crow about their Pulitzers, but it’s not like they were rewarded for their overall hackery.

    The bigger, brighter story is the 24-year-old reporter from the Harrisburg PA paper who won for the Sandusky story.

  49. 49.

    Bruce S

    I’m not sure which “Hillary Scandal” is a bigger deal – Rosen’s or Clinton’s – but surely these blockbusters, in tandem with Romney declaring stay-at-home moms “lacking the dignity of work”, will help Willard quickly close this gap among the majority of voters:

    Relative to Romney, Obama is buoyed by strong support among women: 58 percent of women hold favorable views of the president; 36 percent unfavorable ones. By contrast, Romney is deeply underwater there, with about twice as many women expressing unfavorable as favorable views (52 to 27 percent).

    27% favorables among women? Wow! And I thought he was the Mormon Don Draper.

    washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/poll-romney-rallies-gop-faces-big-popularity-defici…

  50. 50.

    deep

    As has been pointed out before: wingnuts evaluate a woman by her fuckability. Doesn’t matter if it’s some dumb broad from a frat house party, or Elena Kagan, they’re always getting up ins her business.

  51. 51.

    Steeplejack

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Yes, the specific awards are not bad, but there will be the inevitable–and insufferable–crowing about “the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politico,” etc. Ugh.

  52. 52.

    Skippy-san

    Sure, Hillary can get pretty liquored up with the girls and that’s OK-but a hard working Secret Service agent can’t get the kinks rubbed out of his neck by a comely Colombian girl.

    Talk about a double standard. :-)

    Here is the real question to ask that asshole Issa-did they both show up to work on time the next day? I think the answer is yes, and anything else, therefore, is just BS.

  54. 54.

    forked tongue

    The New York Post went with a simple, elegant one-word headline: “SWILLARY”

  56. 56.

    Tone In DC

    @Martin:

    If this is as scandalous as this Administration gets, there’s nothing to worry about.

    The Secret Service guys are grown men. They made their collective bed, let them lie in it.

  58. 58.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Citizen_X:

    And consider Kissinger, who actually was big on the dire threats etc etc: wasn’t he known for dating stars and such?

    Yup, none other than Bond Girl Jill St. John.

  60. 60.

    Paul in KY

    I think you’re supposed to spell ‘with’ as ‘wit’.

    Other than that, I say: ‘Go on with your bad self, madam secretary!’.

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