Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

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  1. 1.

    Warren Terra

    Fun, but not as good as Mitt telling the Latino audience that not only is he proud to have originated Obamacare, he lied to the Republican base all through the primaries:

    “Now and then the president says I’m the grandfather of Obamacare. I don’t think he meant that as a compliment, but I’ll take it,” [Romney] said at a Univision forum, adding, “this was during my primary we thought it might not be helpful.”

    I can’t wait for someone braver or stronger than myself to find out what the son of Erick thinks about that one.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    Bring it, DougJ. I’m not on “twitter”, but if you replied to him, didn’t it automatically show up on a screen he owns?

    @Warren Terra: I was surprised at that, those comments aren’t dissimilar to the ones by a staffer that made Laura Ingram go ballistic and all but call for a conservative write-in candidate, Laura Ingram who can’t figure out why the Corn tape is such a big deal.

  10. 10.

    taylormattd

    Also, am I the only one that hates the fuck out of supposedly witty, but actually eye-roll-inducing hashtags like the one Lane used?

  16. 16.

    geg6

    Man, this Rmoney machine makes the McCain team look like geniuses. I can’t take my eyes off it.

    And I swear, I’ll kill you, DougJ, if you force me to start doing the whole twitter thing. I’ve been avoiding it like the plague because it’s not my sort of thing at all. I have no desire to tweet anything ever and I don’t want to follow or be followed by anyone ever. But if you’re doing some of that good ol’ DougJ trolling, I fear for my sanity as I may not be able to resist.

  17. 17.

    hep kitty

    Look, this fucking debt clock. I remember being horrified seeing that thing for the first time whirling during the Bush presidency. It was on the internets, but it was not common knowledge.

    And now here they are, the war supporters, with the fucking debt clock. I’ll tell you what you can do with that debt clock, Ryan. Bend over.

  21. 21.

    Anya

    DougJ, if you want your tweet to be public, you have to put something before his twitter address. Example: [email protected] or hey @ChuckLane1. Now your twitter is private, which means, Lane and your followers are the only ones who will see it.

  22. 22.

    Nicole

    Wow. That op-ed piece was truly horrific. He was lapdancing all over La Palin and the woman who foisted C Plus Augustus on the nation. Bleah.

    Good for you, Doug.

    And the snarky hashtag thing was dead eight months ago.

  24. 24.

    KG

    @Warren Terra: Jesus Joseph Mary and Moses, that’s some Grade AA++ amazing. I hope this gets massive play because I want to see the RW freak the fuck out that they’re stuck with this guy or start defecting to Goode or Johnson “on principle”. Ok, I know the won’t defect, but it’s fun to imagine

  26. 26.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @geg6:

    Twitter is great for the purpose of being on top of things every minute of the day. I am one of those people who has to know what is going on immediately, without twitter you are perhaps hours behind of a story until you see it on a blog or a newswire. With Twitter, you get the up to the minute information the minute it happens. I like that.

  29. 29.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    @DougJ: You’re more generous than I am– which ain’t sayin’ much. I think the lack of embarrassment these people have about being wrong is just another symptom of their pathological arrogance. A few months ago Friedman was on Maher with Rachel Maddow. I thought things would get at least a bit heated, but the only time Iraq came up was an off-hand reference Maher made to Friedman’s support of the war. Friedman kind of shrugged and grimaced as if he had said the Patriots were gonna stomp Eli Manning into the ground. And on we moved.

  30. 30.

    jl

    @Warren Terra:

    I will try out a theory that Mitt is so pissed that he has to work at this getting elected president thing that he is just going to act out.

    So, the forty 47 percent tape comes out, and first Mitt stands by it, then he says he was talking electoral tactics (obv fib), then he tries to explain it is about Obama not the voters (laffable). What the hell?

    Maybe some aide wrote down the order in which you go through your walk back in the wrong order, or Mitt reads them off in random order. Should have gone with the ‘electoral tactics’ story first.

    Now looks like we are going to get the same with Obomneycare.

    The way this is going we will be able to pre order the tell all infighting books before the election. Or maybe actually buy them and have some GOTV BJ book club posts before the election.

  31. 31.

    Hal

    Listening to Talk of the Nation today with Neal Conan and Ken Rudin, and Rudin spent some time talking about how Romney should be in the lead but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth. What kills me about Rudin’s analysis today was that he basically was saying Romney had ideas and talks about the important things, but in between, is interrupted by Clint Eastwood’s chair or his 47% remarks.

    This is what slays me about NPR political analysis. Who says Romney should by default be in the lead? It’s not just a likability question, it’s Romney’s shit policies and his embracing of an ideology he obviously does not agree with, but is go along with it because he’s desperate to be President.

  32. 32.

    Violet

    @DougJ: How did he indicate he wouldn’t?

    Your tweet is hilarious. I wish there were some website that tracked pundit idiocy and subsequent flip flops. Like a spreadsheet type website. Maybe pundits grouped by the rag they write for, or something. Just to track which paper or magazine has pundits that are the worst.

  33. 33.

    jl

    And tactical puzzle for Obama. How can you do effective rapid response when Mitt changes his story before you can get anything out? Good news for Republicans? Hmmmm? Think about that, huh?

  34. 34.

    PsiFighter37

    I was going to respond on Twitter, but damn, that is awesome. I think being a pundit means you are obliged to forget all the stupid-ass shit you wrote at one point.

    @Warren Terra: Let me know when they start freaking out at Erick, son of Erik’s place. I can’t bring myself to go visit those sites and check out the glorious carnage for myself.

  35. 35.

    jl

    And for DougJ, is internet stalking on Twitter ‘stweelking’ or ‘twalking’? I can’t keep up with the lingo.

  37. 37.

    geg6

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    For me, that’s exactly the problem with it. I can wait an hour or two. I have information overload as it is between my job and my politics addiction. And I prefer the whole story rather than the short blurbs on twitter.

    All the shit I have to wade through just because I’m on FB is bad enough. I don’t need twitter cluttering up another part of my life. YMMV.

  39. 39.

    Violet

    @Anya: I’m not logged into Twitter and when I click on DougJ’s Twitter feed, I can see that tweet. That seems like it’s as public as it can be. Hmm…

    @geg6:
    I LOVE Twitter and detest Facebook. Facebook seems full of clutter. Twitter is fast and to the point. And hilarious.

  41. 41.

    Violet

    @DougJ: Ah, well, that was good of him. At least he isn’t such a special flower that he blocks anyone who points out his hypocrisy.

  42. 42.

    aimai

    @Hal:
    I think I heard that piece. The “expert” seemed to have a slight lisp due to faulty dentures and kept glossing over the parts of the story that made him uncomfortable, like the fact that Romney is a terrible candidate with a terrible message from a lousy party that no one likes.

    aimai

  43. 43.

    Anya

    Okay, so maybe this 47% smear might hurt Romney after all. Watch this DNC video (Mitt Romney: Outside the Circle) in one of the clips, CNN’s resident moron, John King admits that at one point in his childhood his family was on food stamps. I was skeptical before but I am beginning to believe this story has legs.

  44. 44.

    jl

    @geg6: FB, that is a racket. I only use it when I have register for some event where you have to use facebook. I got so pissed off at blizzard of difficult to understand settings and offers and come ons and stuff you have click through to get the thing set up, I decided to disguise myself.

    That was a few years ago. Not sure if it is still that bad.

    So I my name is male, and anagram of my real name, my sex is female, I was born after I graduated from college. All my information is absurd. And I still get regular friend requests. And names I do not recognize that FB says might know me. Guess I should check some of out sometime.

  45. 45.

    jl

    @Anya: Many parasites have very interesting and complex life cycles. Poor Mitt has, is, and will be discovering that in a few high profile interviews. Hope that keeps the 47 percent gaffeforce strong.

  46. 46.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Hal: Bland, mindless political “analysis” like NPR’s isn’t about the actual candidates. They say “The race should be Romney’s for the asking” because they understand that as a general rule, the incumbent has a tough re-election bid in a time of high unemployment — as if a rutabaga could win as long as it’s the challenger and unemployment is over 7%. The answer to any such lazy punditry need only be “Have you seen Romney? Have you heard him?”

  49. 49.

    Violet

    @Anya: Oh, okay. I see what you mean. I thought you meant it was only visible to Lane and Doug’s followers, not the public at large.

  50. 50.

    geg6

    @jl:

    I keep in touch with current students, former students I was close to, and far flung friends and family there. The one thing I had to finally do (because I was getting a ridiculous number of invites) is tell them all to not send me those invites to stupid games or whatever they are into.

    Otherwise, it’s okay for me there. I only have one wingnut crazy always posting about “Obummer” like that’s the wittiest thing ever (an old not-really-friend-but-we’ve-known-each-other-all-our-lives kind of thing). I blocked an old friend because she came onto my page and had a fit about me being an atheist because she always thought I was a good person and now she knows I am not. I haven’t blocked the wingnut yet simply because he sounds so stupid that it’s kind of sad and funny at the same time.

  51. 51.

    Warren Terra

    @Hal:

    Listening to Talk of the Nation today with Neal Conan and Ken Rudin, and Rudin spent some time talking about how Romney should be in the lead but he keeps sticking his foot in his mouth.
    __
    ….
    __
    This is what slays me about NPR political analysis. Who says Romney should by default be in the lead? It’s not just a likability question, it’s Romney’s shit policies and his embracing of an ideology he obviously does not agree with, but is go along with it because he’s desperate to be President.

    There’s a pretty good case to be made, based solely on economic statistics, that a completely generic and inoffensive candidate should beat Obama. But the Republican brand is so tainted by having wrecked the economy and by all the craziness it represents that this isn’t clear, and then you add Mitt’s own special awfulness as a candidate …

    The offensive part isn’t really when Rudin says that Romney should be in the lead if he could stop fouling up – it’s where he pretends Romney’s got all these great ideas he’s not communicating properly.

  54. 54.

    Violet

    @Anya: Oh, okay. I see what you mean. I thought you meant it was only visible to Lane and Doug’s followers, not the public at large.

  59. 59.

    Political Observer

    BREAKING TODAY:

    One to two minutes on Romney tape, see here.

    Did the Obama campaign or the DNC knowingly manipulate then lie about the context of the 47% quote? Were laws broken?

    Race STILL too close to call in Gallup and Rasmussen daily trackrs.

  60. 60.

    jp7505a

    Oh this one hurts – Faux News, with no sense of shame or irony is reporting that one of the embassey attackers used to be a guest at Gitmo – ‘Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. His Guantanamo files also show he has ties to the financiers behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

    Notice the date when he was returned to Libya – 2007. I think the guy in charge that year was named Bush!!! So if you want to assign blame for the deaths of the diplomats (which in the real world I don’t) to a president it looks like W is a much better nominee!.

  61. 61.

    PsiFighter37

    @Political Observer: Oh, so you’re back again. David Corn already said the device accidentally turned off, and he turned it back on. And since Romney already owned up to the remarks…well, you can’t put the cat back in the bag.

    Fail, just fail. And did you see all those polls coming out and showing Romney getting his ass kicked?

    ETA: If Romney actually had anything additional to say about that segment, then he would’ve DENIED it during his presser. That Monday-night jaunt sure made it look like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

  62. 62.

    Warren Terra

    @Political Observer:
    Hey, Troll,
    (1) The Obama campaign and the DNC have learned about the tape the same way you did, and used it entirely consistent with its meaning.
    (2) There are two half-hour segments of Mitt being a jackass because he thinks it will stay secret between him and his rich friends. Unless the missing two minutes are where he explains it’s all a high-concept performance art piece and he means none of it, you and your Mitt-fellating friends are S.O.L.
    (3) I recommend you go to this site instead. You might be happier.

  63. 63.

    Tom Q

    @Smiling Mortician: Another answer would be that FDR got 60% and carried all but two states with 16% unemployment, and Reagan 59% carrying all but one state with 7.5%. So maybe the raw unemployment number isn’t as goddamn definitive as our pundit class seems to think. (Compared to direction of the economy, among other things)

  64. 64.

    Political Observer

    @Warren Terra:

    Kicking ass? The daily trackers are, as usual, too close to call, and Obama is falling behind in Colorado and New Hampshire. He’s already all but ceded North Carolina, Missouri, and Indiana as well. Wisconsin is now a battleground, remember.

  65. 65.

    PsiFighter37

    @Political Observer: You’re a fucking clown. 2 Wisconsin polls, from REPUTABLE pollsters (not Rasmussen or your fucking clownish pop-up right-wing pollsters) showed him up by 6 and 14 points.

    As the Mustache of Understanding would say, SUCK. ON. THAT.

  66. 66.

    eemom

    Speaking of FB, Cole started a page for BJ, but it’s been kind of dead so far.

    Back in the ancient days when FDL was cool, folks connected on FB. So go over and Like the page, y’all.

    Oh yes — and the above is nicely done DougJ, very nice indeed. Hate that twat Lane — he’s like the Platonic form of emmessemm suckery.

  67. 67.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Violet: I wish there were some website that tracked pundit idiocy and subsequent flip flops.

    It could probably be pretty much automated; just save off each of their articles as it’s published, then repost it a year later. The interval might need tweaking or maybe there’d need to be a few like “Here’s what X said last month, and three months ago, etc.” but I bet it would pretty often hit.

  69. 69.

    Political Observer

    All we have to do is move the national numbers just a LITTLE bit higher, one or two points, and we’re back in the game motherfuckers! The debates will do it!

  71. 71.

    PsiFighter37

    @Political Observer: Yes, I just read their Twitter. It could also very well mean that Obama is up by less than what Marquette and NYT/CBS put out. Go ahead and hang your hat on being down in the polls.

  73. 73.

    PsiFighter37

    @Political Observer: Have you ever seen Mitt Romney debate? He won the GOP ones because he didn’t say anything stupider than challenging Rick Perry to a $10k bet. He’s going to be knocked off-kilter once Obama rope-a-dopes him, and he’ll spend the rest of the night stammering his way through his responses like he always does…because he knows he’s a lying sack of shit and OH WON’T ANYONE JUST PLEASE, PLEASE LIKE ME?!

    ETA: And it’s nice to know you never have mentioned anything positive about Romney. Good to know you’re solidly behind your man there.

  74. 74.

    Anya

    @Smiling Mortician: Colbert is hilarious! I loved it!

    People, please leave Political Observer alone. Just remember his delusions are real to him. He can’t help it; bless his little heart.

  75. 75.

    Chyron HR

    @Political Observer:

    All we have to do is not be losing and we’ll be WINNING MOTHERFUCKERS!

    The sad part is, this incredibly obvious analysis easily makes you the smartest person in the Republican party.

    Are you going to brag about your KKK the Vote lynch mobs some more tonight? Because your complete contempt for the electoral process is so cute.

  76. 76.

    jl

    @geg6: I might have been too harsh on. Anyone know of any up to date reliable third party guides or how to advice about FB? Maybe I should put up a real FB page.

    Edit: on other hand, some new techie weird things are cool. Some super cool hip artsy fartsy SF Bay person had my current cell phone number before I did. Still get interesting message invites to interesting events around here. When I first got it and was looking around for something interesting to look into on a free night, I would just check my messages.

  77. 77.

    Emma

    @Political Observer: Really. You really believe that two missing minutes in the middle of a tape negates all the poison he spewed before and after? HE HASN’T EVEN DENIED IT, you moron. He said it. There could be a hole the size of the Marianas Trench on that tape, and he still said what he said.

  78. 78.

    xian

    @Hal: it’s a fallacy repeatedly debunked by Ezra Klein, that the fundamentals of the race indicate that Romney should be winning. They actually indicate a close race at worst.

  79. 79.

    jwb

    @Dougj: yes, but you need to add a “.” in front of that @ so the rest of us who follow you but not all the folks you are writing barbs at can see your comments in our timelines on Twitter.

    ETA: Also what Anya said.

  81. 81.

    jl

    @Emma: I agree with you, but I would like to see what those missing one to two minutes contain.

    If there is anything that changes the context, there were a lot of people at that event, and I would imagine by now we would have heard something about what is not on the tape.

    This is bad news for me personally, until it comes out, since I will waste quite a bit of time trying to think up any context that might possibly make any difference.

  82. 82.

    xian

    @Smiling Mortician: and of course “as a general rule, the incumbent has a tough re-election bid in a time of high unemployment” simply isn’t true. It’s the direction the economy is going – not some arbitrary absolute figure (that only make sense if you ignore FDR).

  87. 87.

    Triassic Sands

    Charles Lane considers “…remember when people thought Palin might run for president?” a random thought.

    Funny, it looks and sounds (and smells) more to me like mere cranial flatulence.

  88. 88.

    Emma

    @jl: Short of:ha.ha.ha. it was all a joke, thanks for coming, try the veal what context would create a sea change in what he said? If they were missing at the beginning, it could have been: My opponents say that I… but they’re missing in the middle, AFTER he has spewed a hell of a lot of poison into the air.

    And if there are extenuating circumstances, why aren’t some of those donors coming forward and screaming bloody murder?

  92. 92.

    Comrade Mary

    @Political Observer:

    All we have to do is move the national numbers just a LITTLE bit higher, one or two points, and we’re back in the game motherfuckers! The debates will do it!

    Too many question marks. Too much desperation. Over the top. Either POP has been outsourced, or Doug is fucking with us again.

    Remember, PO’s old voice was just plain snotty. He didn’t get all het up.

  97. 97.

    Emma

    @jl: Won’t matter to anyone. Liberals will say “so our suspicions were correct.” Conservatives will say “find the messican waiter who slipped it to him.”

  98. 98.

    Comrade Mary

    @Comrade Mary: (Of course, I meant “too many exclamation marks”.)

    This shrill PO is defective. Isn’t he still under warranty? If not, can someone whip up a pie filter that will translate him appropriately?

    Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Rmoney R’lyah wgah’nagl fhtagn! THE LUCKY ONES WILL BE POLLED FIRST!

  104. 104.

    different-church-lady

    What can you do, Doug? When someone deserves something, that thing should be given to them.

  105. 105.

    dww44

    @Hal: Didn’t read rest of the comments, but thanks for this about NPR and specifically about “Talk of the Nation”. I get so angry that I simply cannot abide listening to it any more. I also wish someone would explain why Romney should be in the lead? He has nothing to offer the country. Nothing.

  107. 107.

    FlipYrWhig

    @dww44: It’s not a claim about Romney, it’s a purely deterministic view that bad economy = incumbent losing, irrespective of any qualities held or lacked by either candidate.

  110. 110.

    TS

    @Anya:

    Anya – thank you so much – I have often seen that half explained – now I understand

    if you want your tweet to be public, you have to put something before his twitter address. Example: [email protected] or hey @ChuckLane1. Now your twitter is private, which means, Lane and your followers are the only ones who will see it.

  111. 111.

    Wahrheit

    @hep kitty:
    It is not a debt clock, it is the National Savings Clock. All those bonds are someone’s assets. Ryan tells me that my share is $50,000. Cool!

  114. 114.

    JustRuss

    @Hal:

    Romney’s shit policies and his embracing of an ideology he obviously does not agree with

    Hal, if you’ve been able to determine exactly what ideology Mittens does agree with, you may be the smartest man on the internets.

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