Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Everybody saw this coming.

Not all heroes wear capes.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Second rate reporter says what?

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

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

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

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  1. 1.

    Surreal American

    If Obama wins and the House doesn’t flip over to the Dems, expect impeachment during the next four years.

    It’s the GOP’s Plan B. Always has been.

  3. 3.

    General Stuck

    We need to win the presidency this fall or face the prospect of very serious proconsuls Ryan and Cantor. It’s that simple.

    Or Conciliaries.

  4. 4.

    amk

    Yup, american voters are like stupid kids. They’ll keep shoving their hands into hot stoves 2010 style.

  6. 6.

    mai naem

    Yeah,I know Obama and the House and Senate is important but TAP’s in big financial trouble. If you can afford it send a few bucks there. We are talking closing there doors trouble. TAP’s one of the few liberal organizations that you not only see talking heads from but their talking heads seem to do a pretty decent job.

    https://prospect.org/donate

  7. 7.

    Clime Acts

    We need to win the presidency this fall or face the prospect of very serious proconsuls Ryan and Cantor.

    When did this become the Democratic Party Headquarters web site?

  12. 12.

    Clime Acts

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity:

    Your hyper partisanship, however, clouds the accuracy of anything you report or opine upon, especially on the Dem side. You’re so emotionally invested that you can’t possibly be reasonably critical when it’s called for; you’re a cheerleader.

    I don’t see how that makes your blogging valuable to anyone but the DLC. Are you auditioning?

    If I vote at all this fall, I will vote for Obama. No chance I’ll vote for any republican; I never have. But I like people who call it as it is rather than as they choose to pretend to see it.

  13. 13.

    Clime Acts

    @amk:

    Ah, the birther, deather, racist pig 3-fer chimes in.

    You are a child. And it’s cute that you stalk me and murmur adorable little epithets.

    Here, have some candy…

  15. 15.

    BarbCat

    Working in Nevada, from California. Swing states, swing states, swing states.

    A President Romney, with a majority in both houses, can pass the Ryan budget using reconciliation. That’s their favorite move since they did it for the Bush tax cuts. High fives all around in the House Members Gym.

  16. 16.

    Upper West

    Doug — You made my morning with the Eric Kaz/libby Titus/Bonnie Raitt title reference — one of the all time great rip-out-your heart lost love songs. Just the lyrics give me goose bumps

    For you youngsters out there, listen to “Love Has No Pride:” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWOms2MwNX8

  19. 19.

    Clime Acts

    @Yutsano:

    Your concern, as always, is duly noted.

    I understand that you think you are clever with that cliche, but what exactly do YOU think you mean by it?

  23. 23.

    Another Halocene Human

    Doug, with all due respect, what does any of this matter if the Dems can’t get control of the legislature. What in **** is the plan?

    In my state it looks to me like the Republicans are playing the long game. The AFL-CIO spent millions getting an anti-gerrymandering law passed, but the GOP threatened to break up the judiciary and roll back every reform from the 1970’s (the brief period when we actually HAD fair districts, lol!!!) and now they are kindly refusing to do much about the GOPs smoke-filled-room district plans in court. The only good news is that lobbying works, the bad news is that our governor is a cray-cray thief with a line-item veto.

    We’ve got US House districts with no Dems running… I will, depending on the district lines, be switching parties to vote in a primary. We’ve got other districts with four Dems running but the district is in play so this could end in a Dem loss. OFA is everywhere but you know lots of voters won’t vote a straight Dem ticket and what if they actually can’t? Many important races will be decided at August primary. Organizing is really important. These young kids at Occupy, I know some of them have done some PR, actions, lobbying on a local level, but they are very naive vis a vis national politics. When Obama wins, OFA will pack up and everyone will go home. How stupid. You don’t get your agenda passed by sitting back and whinging about the old days of comity. I don’t just mean Big O but the entire Dem machine. Obama made a big mistake in not continuing to campaign in 2009.

  24. 24.

    Clime Acts

    @Yutsano:

    That you’re obviously too stupid to realize when you’re being mocked.

    You might consider that I simply don’t care when you or any other mindless bot mocks me. It has no impact, else I would have stopped commenting here long ago.

    Which is the BJ bot strategy in a nutshell: To bully all progressive thinkers into the Obama camp or out the door.

    But unlike you,I don’t comment on this blog in search of emotional affirmation, so I’m good, thanks.

  25. 25.

    xian

    aka “help I’m being bullied into reading a blog and endlessly preening my purer-than-thou politically illiterate version of both sides do it.”

  26. 26.

    Clime Acts

    @xian:

    No, little xian, it’s rather quite the opposite: Bots attempt to bully me and many other OUT of reading this blog, but their efforts are for naught, at least in my case.

    Both sides do a lot of shitty stuff. I want to hear about it all. If the Pukes do a lot MORE and worse shitty stuff, as I believe to be the case, that will be self evident.

    What are you really afraid of? That you’ll lose a place to be safely, childishly tribal?

    It’s fine that you’re not politically/intellectually curious though

  30. 30.

    Clime Acts

    @xian:

    i’m just waiting for another rectum-oriented outburst from our resident concern troll.

    You into scat? I try not to judge, but ew.

  32. 32.

    gbear

    Clime Act has no pride
    As we scroll past his name.
    Clime Act has no pride
    As he gives everyone else the blame.
    And we’d give anything
    To never see him again.

  33. 33.

    Clime Acts

    @gbear:

    Clime Act has no pride
    As we scroll past his name.
    Clime Act has no pride
    As he gives everyone else the blame.
    And we’d give anything
    To never see him again

    Thank you!

    I mean, that is really, really, BAD…but at the same time I feel bound to acknowledge your tribute.

  36. 36.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    and in the mean time, Romney campaign signs on to Gays Have Cooties agenda

    Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s newly appointed spokesperson on national security and foreign policy, has resigned, reports the Washington Post. In a statement obtained by the Post, Grenell thanks Romney for “his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.”
    Conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin concludes that the resignation occurred because of pressure from anti-gay right-wing groups that resulted in Grenell being sidelined just as the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death and otherforeign policy issues are dominating the news.

  37. 37.

    RalfW

    @Clime Acts:

    You might consider that I simply don’t care when you or any other mindless bot mocks me.

    Utter bullshit.

    You come here all the time so it’s blatantly obvious you crave the mocking.

    I suppose your dominatrix makes you do it.

  38. 38.

    RalfW

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    “his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.”

    Wow, what a toady.

    Is the clear message Romney giving a few bills (cash, untraceable) to Log Closet Republicans and suggesting Grenell sashay over there to find them?

  39. 39.

    Clime Acts

    @RalfW:

    Idiot.

    I enjoy Cole, and two other front pagers.

    I have enjoyed Cole’s evolution and his writing, and now his masterful trolling of his own blog.

    You ever notice HE’S not in comments insulting me or banning me? I think maybe he mocks YOU. :D

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