Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

The willow is too close to the house.

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

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

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

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

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Allen West’s Big Medicare Lie

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Allen West is getting desperate. So desperate that he is accusing his opponent — who has never been elected to Congress — of cutting Medicare.

Yes. Allen West is telling Florida voters that his never-been-elected opponent Patrick Murphy cut Medicare.

He thinks you’re stupid, Florida, and he thinks he can get away with bald-faced lying.

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  2. 2.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    They’re all pulling pages from the Rmoney Campaign Playbook:

    Be a lying sack of shit 24/7 and count on the press to

    a) Not call you out on it, and
    b) Be afraid to call you out on it because they’re scared of the wingnuts.

    Wash, rinse, repeat.

  3. 3.

    peach flavored shampoo

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida

    With respect to disturbingly large portions of the Florida populace, he’d be dead-on correct.

  5. 5.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida…

    There is a solid precedent at play here, you know…

    After all the state did elect Lex Luthor as its governor…

  6. 6.

    feebog

    I’m hoping we hit the national trifecta on November 6, Walsh, Bachman and West all out on their collective asses. And for a bonus, King from Iowa out as well.

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    I threw some money at Murphy a few weeks ago. If you can spare it, give him 5 or 10 bucks.

    I’d so love to see West go down in Nov.

    Steve King has a solid opponent too (Vilsack), so if you want to try to defeat that asshole go and give her a few bucks too.

  8. 8.

    max

    What peach flavored shampoo said.

    The DCCC has decided to support Jim Graves against Bachmann. It’d be nice if they’d help out Murphy too.

    max
    [‘Would I be a bad person if I admitted that I’m kind of enjoying watching the R’s openly display all that crap that I figured was floating around their degraded souls?’]

  15. 15.

    John

    @lacp:

    But it’s a different group of people, thanks to redistricting, and turnout is very different in presidential years than off-years.

  17. 17.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @John:

    From a NYT piece back in July:

    The newly drawn 18th Congressional District voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 and for Alex Sink, the Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for governor, in 2010. In 2004, George W. Bush won with 51 percent.

  18. 18.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    If the media doesn’t come down hard on West then we know what future elections are going to look like. The hands-off attitude towards Romney/Ryan’s lies is disturbing enough, this takes it to a whole new level.

  21. 21.

    Roger Moore

    @Chris:

    It’s not war crimes if you’re American.

    I suspect that it would be war crimes if he were a Democrat. Or is that saying the same thing because everyone knows Democrats aren’t Real Americans(TM) anyway?

  23. 23.

    Scratchie

    Um, not to rain on anybody’s parade, but did anyone in this comment thread actually watch the commercial in question? Are you unfamiliar with the meaning of the word “would”?

  24. 24.

    Chris

    @Roger Moore:

    Or is that saying the same thing because everyone knows Democrats aren’t Real Americans™ anyway?

    Prezactly.

    @Davis X. Machina:

    The usual Democratic war crime is not enough providing enough war… even when we try to meet them half-way, as in the Balkans. (Cf. McCain and Co, ca. 1998…)

    Actually, our big crime in the Balkans was that we didn’t side with Milosevic. Because he would have exterminated all those stinking hajjis in Kosovo and Bosnia, and then the world would be a better place.

    No, really. That’s not a parody. That exact argument crops up on wingnut blogs now and again.

    (I suppose it would be too much for them to scratch their heads and riddle me WHY it is that al-Qaeda & co have had so much less success recruiting from the Balkans than from other parts of the world for their Death-To-America crusade. Whatever the reason is, we can be certain Bill Clinton’s policies had NOTHING to do with it).

  25. 25.

    sacrablue

    @jo6pac: They are NRCC ads, all dark and scary. They never mention that Republicans voted to cut the same money when they voted for Ryan’s budget.

  26. 26.

    Mnemosyne

    @Scratchie:

    I didn’t realize that Alan West has infallible powers of precognition that allow him to say ahead of time what his opponent would do if elected. I guess that was how he knew those Iraqi prisoners were terrorists who had to be shot in the head while in custody.

  27. 27.

    Triassic Sands

    He thinks you’re stupid, Florida,

    History would say he’s correct.

    and he thinks he can get away with bald-faced lying.

    Once again, history says he’s right.

    Those are the two main reasons Republicans are still competitive in elections. Americans (many, many of them) are stupid. And lying works.

  29. 29.

    Drew

    @Mnemosyne: I in no way mean to defend West, but it is not at all beyond the pale for politicians/candidates to use the subjunctive (Candidate X would do this!). Now, I suppose it becomes questionable when its not derived from the candidates own platform/history/party platform. But West would not be the first, and Republicans not the only ones.

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