Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

No one could have predicted…

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

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

You cannot shame the shameless.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Come on, man.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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Randy Newman Writes The Last Romney Reboot Campaign Ad

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Randy knows how to write till it hurts:

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(Via Greg Mitchell.)

I liked the Taft tree climbing line best, meself.

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  7. 7.

    Kane

    There are 49 days until Nov 6th. Throughout the entire 2012 presidential campaign, has there ever been a time where Romney has gone 49 days in a row without offering a gaffe or committing an unforced error or offending someone or looking completely unpresidential?

    It only gets better.

  9. 9.

    danimal

    If it weren’t Randy Newman, the parody may be lost and the song deeply offensive. IOW, Romney may bite on the campaign reboot ad if another singer covers.

  13. 13.

    Hal

    So is Romney going to dump his campaign manager, or is it too late to do that?

    Speaking of re-booting:

    http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/09/17/christine-odonnell-pondering-another-senate-run-because-why-not/

    Adorable dumbmuffin Christine O’Donnell is having a “thought” about reapplying for that job she didn’t get back in 2010 because apparently there are some people in Delaware who are willing to give her money so that she can stay in hotels and eat at restaurants while “campaigning” instead of sleeping on a friends couch and living on Hot Pockets and RC Cola:

  14. 14.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @danimal:

    Those not familiar with Randy Newman often miss the point. I recall when “Short People” came out (Newman’s first and greatest honest-to-Kirshner hit) some people missed the message, thinking it was intended as a slam on short people.

    People also didn’t quite get that Mark Knopfler’s “Money for Nothing” was being sung from the perspective of a working class furniture and appliance store worker, who actually inspired some of the lyrics.

  16. 16.

    Citizen_X

    @danimal: Covers? Bah! A real Republican just uses the recorded version without permission.

    You think the 27%ers are going to pick up on this “irony” thing, anyway?

  17. 17.

    MattF

    I mightn’t have noticed it before, but now I suspect those guys were all Photoshopped to look… so… well… you know what.

  18. 18.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    He should also redo his old favorite, “Short People”. Just change it to “Dark People” and Mitt really could use it on the campagin trail with the type of audiences he’s playing to.

  20. 20.

    @VividBlueDotty

    @Kane: An earlier thread referred to it as the “drip, drip” but I prefer to think of them as contractions. They’re getting closer together.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    I’m still kinda partial to “Sail Away.” I remember the first time I listened to it (vinyl, of course), and thinking “Ho-ly shit.” Actually, “Political Science” and “God’s Song” are pretty damn good, too, and certainly appropriate for Mitt’s “Modern” Rethuglican Party.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwwhHI_IMog

  27. 27.

    catclub

    @Kane: Remember the Romney guy who said the plan was to put pressure on Obama and force errors? In September? Amazingly prescient.

  29. 29.

    SFAW

    Re: all the “Can Mittens go for more than two days without an unforced error?” comments:

    Y’all are deluding yourselves: he’s using the rope-a-dope tactic, letting the Lieberal Media take shots at him until they’re too tired to do any more, then he’ll come in for the kill/knockout.

    See, he’s taking it right outta the playbook (so to speak) of the man who invented the tactic, the greatest Mormon boxer of all time – Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.

  30. 30.

    Randy P

    OT for politics, on topic for Randy Newman: I’ve just discovered Audra McDonald via “Porgy and Bess” interviews. She does a killer version of, wellm everything but especially Newman’s “Think it’s Gonna Rain Today”, one of my favorite depressing songs.

  36. 36.

    Brachiator

    @SFAW:

    Y’all are deluding yourselves: he’s using the rope-a-dope tactic, letting the Lieberal Media take shots at him until they’re too tired to do any more, then he’ll come in for the kill/knockout.

    Romney’s version of rope-a-dope seems to consist of him tangling himself in the ropes and knocking himself out.

    Meanwhile, his corner is The Three Stooges, a bunch of dopes bickering among themselves about what their fighter’s best strategy should be.

  40. 40.

    SFAW

    @Brachiator:

    Romney’s version of rope-a-dope seems to consist of him tangling himself in the ropes and knocking himself out.

    I must be getting old or senile: when I read this, the image that first came to mind was the scene in Bored of the Rings where Stomper (or “Shtomper”, for you Teutonic twits – although he had many names) attempted to fight the Nozdrul.

  41. 41.

    Hungry Joe

    In America you get food to eat
    Won’t have to run through the jungle and scuff up your feet
    You just sing about Jesus, drink wine all day
    It’s great to be an American …
    Ain’t no lions or tigers, ain’t no mamba snake
    Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
    Everybody is as happy as a man can be
    Climb aboard little wog sail away with me.

    — Randy Newman, “Sail Away”

    If I could write just one song (which I can’t), that might be it.

  42. 42.

    opie jeanne

    Who is the guy jumping into the pool, near the end? I don’t recognize him and haven’t seen that clip before.

  44. 44.

    Mountain Girl

    For Randy’s take on foreign policy check out “Political Science”. Written in the 70’s, but could have been written yesterday.

  46. 46.

    kyrol

    Randy Newman’s “Roll With The Punches” needs some love:

    There’s all these boring people, you see ’em on TV
    Making up all these boring stories
    About how bad things have come to be
    They say “You got to, got to, got to feed the hungry”
    “You got to, got to, got to heal the sick”
    I say, “We ain’t gotta do nothin’ for nobody,
    ‘Cause they won’t work a lick.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_esw-Ik2GQ

  47. 47.

    Kevin

    @Villago Delenda Est: Actually, “Mama Told Me Not to Come”, covered by Three Dog Night, was his first “Big” hit. A lot of performers loved his stuff; he himself was considered by the industry to not be commercial enough…Sigh…I’ve considered him one of America’s greatest geniuses since Rolling Stone magazine turned me onto his “Sail Away” album. Almost every song on it blows away “Short People” for me.

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