Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

This fight is for everything.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

No one could have predicted…

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

This really is a full service blog.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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

This blog will pay for itself.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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  5. 5.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @ABL:

    Coincidentally, I was checking over here and contemplating posting this video of Julian Assange doing something that looks like dancing.

    That looks like torture.

  6. 6.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @Yutsano:

    has no idea if Doug; is Dutch

    That’s a good guess based on the Jones surname, but he said in a thread a week or so ago that he’s filthy Irish.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    What’s the deal with all the ‘sign the petition’ ads from across the political spectrum? Is it just email address harvesting, or is there something else going on as well?

  9. 9.

    hep kitty

    Fucking fuck Dick Cheney, who is the luckiest most undeserving malevolent bastard alive to still be standing and free to walk the earth. But he still can’t STFU. Especially today.

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    @schrodinger’s cat: Obama is sometimes briefed on intelligence issues in person, sometimes he reads the briefing himself. He can read and understand things on a level that allowed him to kill bin Laden, something Cheney and Bush couldn’t do in eight years. This upsets Dick Cheney, and for some reason he thinks the rest of us give a shit.

  12. 12.

    dmsilev

    @schrodinger’s cat: Something about Obama ignoring national security briefings and that’s why Obama felt entitled to claim some credit for the killing of bin Laden.

    Given the Bush administration’s attitude towards al Qaeda-oriented intelligence pre-9/11, it’s a truly impressive display of chutzpah.

  13. 13.

    Narcissus

    this blog oughta have a function where if you make a front page post too soon after someone else does you get a message like “hey douchebag check the front page”

  16. 16.

    Rome Again

    Hey John Cole: Orly Taitz is suing a gazillion people (including media companies like CNN, MSNBC, Clear Channel, Forbes and The Daily Beast – oh and she’s suing a Georgia Judge too!) to try to get the state of California (CA District Court) to change the West Virginia Primary. :P

    Just thought you’d like to know!

    http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Judd-v-Obama-final-draft-11.pdf (Final Draft PDF file of a soon to be filed lawsuit in District of California on behalf of the Texas prison inmate (Keith Judd) who won a bunch of Democratic Primary votes.

    She seriously believes California can change West Virginia law? LMAO

  17. 17.

    Anya

    Good job, Mittenz! Via TPM:

    “I’m grateful to him (Romney) for formulating his stance so clearly because he has once again proven the correctness of our approach to missile defense problems,” Putin told reporters, according to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
    ____
    “The most important thing for us is that even if he doesn’t win now, he or a person with similar views may come to power in four years. We must take that into consideration while dealing with security issues for a long perspective,” he said, speaking after a meeting with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, according to Interfax news agency.

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    @TK421: Troll fail. Michael Hayden is swiftly covering his ass for whatever wrongs he has perpetrated in the past. But it never occurs to you that he MIGHT not be an unbiased source?

  28. 28.

    Baud

    @TK421:

    I was really starting to consider abandoning Obama and supporting Jill Stein. But now I see that her key supporters believe Bush’s minions are credible when they speak about Obama. I could never support anyone whose base has so little integrity.

  36. 36.

    ? Martin

    Heh. Redstate will ban anyone who references fact checkers:

    I’ve pretty much had it with the grotesque turn the various “fact checking” organizations have taken. “Politifact” is little more than a bunch of shills, devoid of even the vestiges of integrity, that sling about “pants on fire” ratings to any GOP or conservative politician. The Washington Post is no exception.
    …
    In the past we’ve had a policy of banning people who argue in bad faith. As Politifact, and the whole menagerie of “fact checking” organizations have demonstrated themselves to be slavishly attached to the Administration’s nether regions I will consider quoting any of them, in a non-ironic way, as being evidence of arguing in bad faith and worthy of a ban.

    Apparently, Colbert is no longer satire.

  37. 37.

    Hungry Joe

    Here in San Diego, developer and pro-Prop 8 guy Doug Manchester, who recently bought the Union-Tribune, has now purchased the North County Times, giving him control of the only two dailies in the county. Some gems from last Sunday’s U-T editorial, warning what will happen if Obama is re-elected:

    The U-T sees $8- to $10-a-gallon gasoline in 2016.

    We predict Israel will be attacked by the surrounding Arab terror states as the U.S. retreats from Israel’s defense. Israel’s very existence will be in jeopardy.

    We predict that, with Obamacare, if you are over 65 a ride to Mexico will become commonplace, as there will be rationed care in the U.S. Death panels and other rationing plans will limit care.

    As Obama’s war on God and life continues, we predict an effort to have late-term abortions paid for by taxpayers – even at a time when more than 60 percent of America believes there should be restrictions on abortion. We ask: Who stands for the life and rights of the child?

    We even predict an effort to get “In God we Trust” removed from U.S. symbols, including our money. …

    America is a great country. We love our country, but we are frightened as well. We do not want America to drift toward European socialism. We want an America built upon these principles of our Founding Fathers.

    (Damn blockquotes giving me fits … )

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    @MikeJ: One of the reasons Shrubb liked Condi so much was because she reduced security briefings to one page summaries. I swear I remember a story that she used to read them to him while he ran on the treadmill, but that may have been a parody. It was always hard to tell the difference

  39. 39.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Embassies under attack in Libya and Egypt, just on MSNBC news. Possibly one American killed.

    Shit.

  41. 41.

    Baud

    @Odie Hugh Manatee:

    Strikes me like isolated unrest, but we’ll see.

    Cairo (CNN) — Angry protesters attacked U.S. diplomatic compounds in Libya and Egypt on Tuesday, citing in both instances an online film considered offensive to Islam.

    In Cairo, several men scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy and tore down its American flag, according to CNN producer Mohammed Fahmy, who was on the scene.

  45. 45.

    Narcissus

    We even predict an effort to get “In God we Trust” removed from U.S. symbols, including our money

    Was this on Rush or some other Winger daily memo or something?

  48. 48.

    Little Boots

    “In God we trust” has to be one of the lamest slogans ever.

    we don’t trust in god. we trust in the marines. and missiles. and pretty much everything except God.

  51. 51.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    Rachel Maddow just now on Marc Reuel Gerecht and the rest of PNAC “no, they haven’t been run out of Washington on a rail to find work they’d be better suited for, like coloring. No, they are briefing the Republican vice presidential candidate on foreign policy”, and yes, that happened today.

  52. 52.

    Hungry Joe

    The Union-Tribune is still a large daily, mind you, with Sunday circulation probably still over 200,000 (and falling, but still … ). It’s jarring to see wingnuttery of that caliber in what used to be a respectable newspaper.

    (Reluctant disclosure: I was a reporter/editor there for 20 years.)

  54. 54.

    Ann Rynd

    I’m carrying around a big gasbag of contempt for Jennifer Ruin Rubin ever since I saw a video of her. Believe me folks, this woman is a Mrs. Demento. Her face has an insane puppet show of it’s own going on that has nothing to do with the words she says. Verbally, she is just another mediocre Republican operative, shuffling cards with nutty stuff written on them but watching her on tv, I had a powerful urge to turn on the radio and to shove the remote up someone’s butt like that viral kid who couldn’t watch WoW.
    I’m also not loving Chuck Todd either, but that’s been going on for a long time.
    so, can we please, please have an entire thread dedicated to imagry of the two of them doing gross and obscene things to each other and then DingIAF?

  55. 55.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    @The Klown: Well if you are a Sufi in Libya or a bookseller in Alexandria, or anyone in Syria its going very poorly in the past week.

  56. 56.

    Hill Dweller

    Maddow is about to have Kurt Eichenwald(he wrote the NYT op-ed on the Bush briefings) on her show.

  58. 58.

    FridayNext

    Anybody else revved for the Sons of Anarchy premier? What act of senseless, blinding violence will they open with this season?

    The testosterone must flow.

  60. 60.

    Randiego

    @Hungry Joe: I finally gave up this week and called in to cancel my subscription. I love getting a newspaper – lately though it’s been just for the UT Sports news. When I saw the story in Politco about the UT giving GOP candidates seminars, I pulled the plug. Now they have the North County Times too. Strange times in San Diego media. I also have an LA Times subscription too, so I guess that is my dead tree media fix from now on.

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