Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

We still have time to mess this up!

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

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

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

This fight is for everything.

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Let there be snark.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

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  2. 2.

    Napoleon

    Remember, Mike Allen is one of the number of so called MSM who if you pay close attention to him you realize he is all but a paid Republican operative.

  3. 3.

    Patricia Kayden

    “Manhunt DC”. Ha! Are there no gorgeous Dems that Mike and Jim can drool over? (Not including Obama, of course).

  4. 4.

    Betty Cracker

    Wow, I’m not sure Rubio’s hairline is going to make it to 2016. He’ll be the Senate Combover Caucus within the year from the looks of that photo…

  7. 7.

    Princess

    O/T Per the Washington Post Pew Poll out this morning, only 27% of Americans think President Obama will be to blame if the fiscal cliff negotiations fail.

    27%. It’s uncanny.

    ETA: Jinx!

  13. 13.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Years ago I saw a profile on someone – maybe Tom Delay, I forget – by Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei wherein they described their subject as “born again” with no scare quotes, no explanation of what it means to be born twice, just insider speak from Jesus-insiders.

    I immediately knew we had a problem.

  17. 17.

    Mudge

    Just saw at KOS that 27% would blame Obama if we get onto the fiscal incline after January 1. The Kung Fu Monkey 27% strikes again.

  21. 21.

    General Stuck

    Gergen has another case of vapors. This time cuz the mommy party isn’t nurturing the daddy party to make them feel loved and shit. Never mind, The drinking, drugging and whoring, mommy has had enough and now mommy got herself a divorce attorney. Daddy is fucked rat.

  24. 24.

    Hal

    On what platform is Paul Ryan going to run in 2016? He was summarily rejected this year, his plans for Medicare and Social Security are massively unpopular, and that’s not going to change, and he really isn’t known for anything else.

    Rubio’s entire appeal is that he will somehow bridge the gap with Latino/Hispanic voters, but that seems largely a fantasy. He’s not massively popular in Florida, where he only one in a three way race, and by 2016 is Obama has signed any sort of Dream Act, what limited appeal and use he would have had will be done.

    Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.

  25. 25.

    1badbaba3

    C’mon, you guys! They are dreamy. Or are they hunky? I cannot decide. Help a brother out, y’all.

  26. 26.

    Bulworth

    Well, Politico should be writing edgy, heteronormative stuff about Vice-President Elect, Paul Ryan, and Secretary-of-State nominee, Marc Rubio.

  28. 28.

    Punchy

    OT: anyone notice that TPM has really cut back on their blogging? It’s 10 AM EST and their last post was from 9pm last nite. What kind of pseudo-top-line political blog goes this many hours between posts?

  30. 30.

    ruemara

    @Hal: Let’s be honest here. Have you seen anything in the modern GOP that could pass for reflection and self-assessment? Do they strike you as people with a good relationship with reality?

  34. 34.

    magurakurin

    @japa21:

    I just saw that. Was going to post it. I am convinced now that the pollsters are just trolling with that 27% number. It’s uncanny.

  36. 36.

    karen marie

    Next time, please, put those smirking faces below the fold. I’m trying to keep down my food here.

  39. 39.

    Lurking Canadian

    @MattF:

    And, don’t forget, 27% is a majority of the the entire set of people who matter

    Fixed for great Real American Center-Right Nation justice.

  40. 40.

    dmsilev

    Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.

    No word yet on whether she’s “hiking the Appalachian trail” if you know what I mean.

  44. 44.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @dmsilev:

    Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.
    No word yet on whether she’s “hiking the Appalachian trail” if you know what I mean.

    She’s probably picking up another supply of Tana leaves.

  45. 45.

    flukebucket

    @Hal:

    Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.

    Well, I guess McCain and Graham are getting a little bit stale.

  46. 46.

    aimai

    @flukebucket:

    If “stale” means “like the lees found at the bottom of a lost Roman Wine amphora dug up from the silt at the bottom of the Adriatic.”

    aimai

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    @Hal:

    Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.

    Because they look like what young, up-and-coming Republicans are supposed to look like and are capable of mouthing the right phrases. That’s what it takes to move up in Republican politics.

  49. 49.

    R-Jud

    @dmsilev: It could be she is off having a Thelma and Louise-style adventure with Sarah Palin. But I doubt we’re that lucky.

    Instead, she’ll probably come back from her break looking really “well-rested” and maybe even noticeably curvier in the chestal region.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @dmsilev:

    Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.

    Would she know what to do with a man if she managed to catch one? And aren’t you supposed to have your partner lined up before going hiking on the Appalachian Trail? In any case, I’m pretty sure this is about her being out of town for a secret wingnut conclave, i.e. the double secret ALEC replacement, rather than anything personal. This will be obvious when she brings back a whole set of new legislation to propose.

  51. 51.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Hal: “Why the GOP would hitch their cart to these two fools is beyond me.”

    Desperation from having a Presidential bench so shallow that if it were a wading pool it would be ankle deep? If it were a gene pool it could be depicted with a stump of a limbless tree that had burnt down?

  52. 52.

    slag

    @General Stuck: I wish the WH would have thrown 2 or 3 written plans at the Repubs in the first round. I always feel like presenting people with more than one option changes the nature of the conversation from “Yes or no” to “Option A, B, or C”. I’d be surprised if studies didn’t back me up on this. Giving people binary choices rarely helps negotiations, I think.

    That said, maybe they did that, and I just don’t know it. Or maybe they have specific reasons not to do that, and I just don’t know them.

  55. 55.

    Suffern ACE

    @Hal:

    On what platform is Paul Ryan going to run in 2016?

    Pot legalization. They’ll never go for the ghey, but they’ll hope that keeping everything the same and allowing for pot legalization (at some unspecified future date) will inject new life into the Party.

  56. 56.

    JGabriel

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    dmsilev:

    Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.

    I suspect Otis is drying out in rehab:

    … most of the main stream media, is unaware Governor Brewer’s nick name around the State capital is Otis, a reference to the town drunk from Mayberry.

    .

    .

  57. 57.

    phil

    Is Ryan wearing colored contacts? You can see a very dark circle around his irises.

    blue, green, as well as hazel eyes results from the Rayleigh scattering of light in the stroma, a phenomenon similar to that which accounts for the blueness of the sky. Neither blue nor green pigments are ever present in the human iris or ocular fluid.

  58. 58.

    hitchhiker

    @slag:

    I wish the WH would have thrown 2 or 3 written plans at the Repubs in the first round. I always feel like presenting people with more than one option changes the nature of the conversation from “Yes or no” to “Option A, B, or C”.

    That’s how they teach you to deal with balky toddlers (all of them, that is):

    Wrong: Good morning cupcake, here’s your sugar-bomb cereal.
    Right: Good morning cupcake, would you like blue sugar bomb cereal or yellow sugar bomb cereal?

    Makes ’em feel like they have some authority. :)

  59. 59.

    slag

    @hitchhiker: Indeed. And it’s not just balky toddlers. We all need to feel a sense of control and authority, no matter the age. It’s just, in this case, the toddler analogy is probably the most appropriate.

  60. 60.

    Cacti

    @dmsilev:

    Speaking of manhunts, apparently AZ Governor Jan Brewer has vanished.

    Maybe she’s made that long overdue trip to the Betty Ford clinic.

  63. 63.

    Ash Can

    So far, I’ve seen no indication that the GOP learned anything from this election, so there’s no reason they wouldn’t double down and regard these two overhyped frauds as the wave of the future. Some of them, anyway — I still wouldn’t be surprised to see Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich get the nomination in 2016.

    As for Jan Brewer, count me among those whose first thought was that she must have gone to some dry-out tank.

  65. 65.

    Judas Escargot, Bringer of Loaves and Fish Sandwiches

    @handsmile:

    Elizabeth Warren will be tapped to serve on the Senate Banking Committee:

    Prediction: If Reid doesn’t nix the filibuster (for at least nominations), she gets blocked.

    For whatever reason, Wall Street is terrified of that woman. Part of what made it so enjoyable to vote for her.

    Do it, Harry. I still have the Bush Years’ chorus of “Uppordownvote! Uppordownvote!” echoing in my ears. Only you can cure me of this earworm.

  66. 66.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Allen and Vandehei need to be in the lead tumbrel.

    Which will be very crowded, what with Dancin’ Dave, BoBo, the Moustasche, and assclown extraordinaire Hiatt sharing it with them.

  67. 67.

    handsmile

    @Judas Escargot, Bringer of Loaves and Fish Sandwiches:

    Given the arcana of Senate rules, I may well be wrong but I don’t believe that committee assignments can be blocked by the other party, i.e., the Senate leadership of both the Democratic and Republican parties is permitted to assign committee membership without challenge. I think the deployment of a Senate filibuster would only apply in the case of certain nominations to the Executive branch or to the judiciary.

    How fortunate for you that you had the chance to vote for Elizabeth Warren and to benefit from being her constituent. I had to settle for simply donating to her campaign (though I too may very well benefit from her advocacy of consumer financial protections).

  71. 71.

    johnny aquitard

    @dmsilev:

    No word yet on whether she’s “hiking the Appalachian trail” if you know what I mean.

    Naw, I say someone finally got her drunk ass to rehab and told her to dry the hell out.

  74. 74.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Sometimes a person’s face really works against him/her. Santorum always has that slight sneer that, I think, is less a hint as to his feelings than it is just the geography of his face. Cheney, by contrast, was probably pure malice. Rubio looks young, a little dumb (or at least like someone who doesn’t know as much as he thinks he does). Romney looked soooooooo much like a glad-handing, back-slapping banker (vulture capitalist). Ryan, on the other hand, is blessed with features and expressions that seem to convey sincerity and intelligence. (Oh, how looks can be deceiving!)

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