Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Let there be snark.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

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

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Elections aren’t won by handwringing, cowering, and/or bashing your own candidates.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

In after Baud. Damn.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

It looks like winning debates is a black job!

I am pretty sure Katy Tur wasn’t always such a bootlicking sycophant.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

Fuck that bum, let’s go Joe!

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

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

People are complicated. Love is not.

Second rate reporter says what?

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  2. 2.

    Punchy

    My smartphone just completely shit the bed hours before a big work travel meeting. Guys at Sprint just stared at it and kept repeating, “I’ve never seen a phone this f’ed up before”. Now I’m a guy stuck facing customers with a Palm Pre, which is all sorts of emasculating. Fuckin christ on a pogo stick….

  3. 3.

    JayJohnstone

    Re: Rmoney/Bain:

    I think a good spin is :

    Romney took the profits and salary, had legal responsibility but claims no moral responsibility.

  4. 4.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    The President will have a town hall here this afternoon and sadly, I cannot attend, or even be in the general vicinity due to an unavoidable conflicting work thing north of town. I hope JenJen can report from the scene, or maybe Zanadr (the 2 area folks I know by nym). There is also a “Protest President Obama, the Outsourcer in Chief” rally scheduled for Fountain Square. I know this because we received a robocall yesterday urging us to attend. ::spit::

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    peach flavored shampoo

    Been paying some attention to TPMs running Senate matchup polls, and somehow, at some point, Ben Nelson went from +6 to -2 in Florida. And Kaine went from about +4 to -2 in Virginia.

    If Republicans can get both houses, well, I suspect there’ll be 4 years of absolutely nothing but radical shit passed and a record number of vetos by Obama.

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    BGK

    The President is coming to Fort Myers on Friday, and details are frustratingly hard to get. I’ve been working my party contacts and am getting nothing but dead air. I’m sure our DEC, which couldn’t organize a cup of coffee in a Starbucks, will screw up the ticket distribution yet again.

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    Steeplejack

    One thing that has mildly surprised me in Romney’s Bain Capital crisis is the revelation (to me) that he was the sole owner. For some reason, perhaps related to the “no risk, working with a safety net” deal he struck when he left Bain & Company, I vaguely thought Bain Capital already existed or was founded jointly by Romney and some other guys (the ones waving the benjamins in that now famous photograph).

    . . . Hmm, looking at the Wikipedia article, it seems Romney did have some founding partners, T. Coleman Andrews III and Eric Kriss. No mention of ownership shares or when/if Romney might have bought out the others. And Kriss’s Wikipedia entry is suspiciously surprisingly light on his Bain Capital period.

    Also some interesting information in the Bain article about how many of its deals were unsuccessful. Not necessarily out of line for a venture-capital firm, but also not a ringing endorsement for an allegedly can-do presidential candidate. Actually, someone once told me that a respectable record in venture capital is one-third bombs, one-third break-evens and one-third hits. And sometimes it’s skewed even more than that. A few home runs can cover a lot of whiffs. Again, maybe not the best model for running a country.

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    General Stuck

    Of all the memes the wingnuts are throwing against the wall for something that sticks, the most amusing to me is this kind of post from right wing press people. This one is from our neocon friend Jennifer Rubin, that the Romney/Bain epic meltdown only shows Obama is desperate And Romney republicans haz the money. also too.

    Few Democratic pundits are as sharp or as honest as William Galston, who concedes:

    Sometimes, triangulating with your opponents can work, but not when the you don’t have at least the perceptions of reality on your side. Just ask Hillary Clinton about that, when she decided to cozy up with Mccain and Fox News to attack Obama.

    And When you feel the need to describe the current political state of play in military terms, by comparing the first black president with the Confederates in their defeat at Gettysburg, then you have jumped jaws with both feet and no where to land.

    “President Barack Obama’s campaign has spent nearly $100 million on television commercials in selected battleground states so far, unleashing a sustained early barrage designed to create lasting, negative impressions of Republican Mitt Romney before he and his allies ramp up for the fall.”

    Think of it like the Confederacy’s artillery barrage on the third day of Gettysburg before Pickett’s charge — you have to in essence disable the other side before the charge begins or its curtains. Think of it like the Confederacy’s artillery barrage on the third day of Gettysburg before Pickett’s charge — you have to in essence disable the other side before the charge begins or its curtains.

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    Steeplejack

    The Tour de France is a nice “screen saver” on TV right now. I don’t know (or care) that much about bicycle racing, but the scenery is gorgeous, and I would love to be (leisurely) biking or driving through that countryside, with liberal rest and refreshment stops, of course.

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    Steeplejack

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’ve got the audio on. Both guys are very knowledgeable, and their accents are soothing.

    One of them quickly nailed it (pun intended) on the “tacks on the road” fiasco yesterday. Immediately said no way there could be that many flat tires in one location without some shenanigans.

    And I had to laugh at the phrase “cycling hooligans.”

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    Gin & Tonic

    @Steeplejack: Liggett is a Brit, who lives mostly in South Africa. Sherwen lives in Uganda, last I checked, and during at least part of the year “commutes” to New York every weekend. For TdF they go to France, of course, but taking a 20-hour flight each way every weekend is really something.

  13. 13.

    Steeplejack

    @Gin & Tonic:

    [. . .] taking a 20-hour flight each way every weekend is really something.

    Well, if you were sitting in an expense-paid first-class seat on your way to get paid for yakking about something you love, you could probably suck it up.

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