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if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Infrastructure week. at last.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

T R E 4 5 O N

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

This really is a full service blog.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

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

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

Let there be snark.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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  4. 4.

    scav

    Might even be a safe bet at this stage of the game. Haven’t I seen those generic hypotheticals winning before?

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    sounds like someone is going to take them out to the sand……

    and then they’ll wonder, is THIS what they fought all night for? a trampy Sarah Palin (doing Deborah Van Valkenburg 30 years later) and a disastrous GOP Party (Coney Island). Although I do think that Rand Paul would make a perfect Luther and perhaps you could cast Cantor as Vermin. I just cant see Rincypoo as Cyrus tho….

  8. 8.

    eemom

    Also too, did you ever notice Tarantino’s nod to that film in Pulp Fiction? In the “Son of A Preacher Man” scene when Uma Thurman speaks into the microphone.

  9. 9.

    gocart mozart

    No link to Bobo? What did he say. Doug don’t go Galt on us. Get out of the boat and report back so we don’t have to. That’s why you make the big bucks.

  10. 10.

    beltane

    As a professional wanker, David Brooks should have no problem taking himself on in this battle.

  12. 12.

    nickgb

    I just hope David Duke or a Westboro Baptist member sign up. It’ll be like one of those Onion “Opposing Viewpoint” editorials. “The GOP must seize the center or die” vs. “The GOP must become a Fourth Reich or die!”

  20. 20.

    Frankensteinbeck

    Rush. And not only will he win, he may never even know Brooks challenged him. Whenever you ask if the GOP will tack back to the center, ask ‘Who will the base listen to, this guy or Rush Limbaugh?’

  21. 21.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    They really are dumb. They’re fighting over something that they already sold to the devil.

  26. 26.

    Citizen_X

    Will they be allowed to bring AR-15s to this event? You know, for Tree-of-Liberty watering and the like.

  29. 29.

    Violet

    Okay, I went to the website for the “Intelligence Squared” organization that is hosting this crap. Their header has a quote about them from the Wall St. Journal: “Always intelligent and provocative, as well as disciplined and civil.” If you asked Bobo, Sully, Frum, etc. to write their own epitaph, that’s exactly what they would come up with.

  30. 30.

    El Cid

    At least some people are pretty good at acting like the Soul of the Republican Party is some sort of desirable thing rather than something closer to inheriting an old bag of barf.

  31. 31.

    The Dangerman

    @p.a.:

    They can’t even spell ‘center’.

    They might be able to do so if you spot them the consonants.

    C_NT_R

    Oh, fuck, they’d think that was ‘Cantor’.

    Nevermind.

  32. 32.

    Citizen_X

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: I wanna see Obama say “CAN. YOU. DIG IT?” at a rally before I vote for him a third time.

    (PS: Let’s make “Obama/Biden 2016” bumper stickers, just to fuck with the wingnuts.)

  34. 34.

    Steve M.

    I’m surprised Doughy Pantload hasn’t signed on. His mom lives within walking distance. (Well, walking distance for people with sub-400 cholesterol.)

  35. 35.

    jl

    Is the title shorthand for ‘The GOP must seize the center and strangle it in a bathtub or die?’

  36. 36.

    srv

    Doug,

    You are really wasting your digerati skills – I suggest you get on FB Graph and do a search for “Likes a Bobo post” AND [insert obminable belief]

  37. 37.

    scav

    @The Dangerman:
    don’t give up so easily, you may be onto something. No We Can’t! or No We Cant!

    cant 2 (knt)
    n.
    1. Monotonous talk filled with platitudes.
    2. Hypocritically pious language.
    3. The special vocabulary peculiar to the members of an underworld group; argot.
    4. Cant See Shelta.
    5. Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
    6. The special terminology understood among the members of a profession, discipline, or class but obscure to the general population; jargon. See Synonyms at dialect.
    intr.v. cant·ed, cant·ing, cants
    1. To speak tediously or sententiously; moralize.
    2. To speak in argot or jargon.
    3. To speak in a whining, pleading tone.

    plus the tilty thing, especialy viv-a-vis the playing field.

  39. 39.

    Bokonon

    What… you mean, following Bill Bennett’s brave new plan to simply seize control of the movie studios and universities, and change the way that our youth are indoctinated to think … that won’t succeed??

    This is interesting, because lots of the GOP’s efforts are aimed at changing PERCEPTIONS of their policies rather than actually changing the policies themselves. Finding the correct smiling pitch man. The new buzz word. The new advertisement. Rebranding. The next culture war episode.

    And when all else fails? Gerrymander the hell out of the voting public.

    If Brooks is really asking for more than window dressing, spin, and political hardball, then good for him. Although I doubt that he is offering this argument in good faith.

  40. 40.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @imonlylurking: Does Bobo have empty glass bottles on his fingers?

    God, I love that scene, only with Bobo and X, I think it will look more like the ‘cat fight’ on Cheers between Woody’s girlfriend Kelly and a pre-friends Lisa Kudrow

    Kelly; “You stay away from my man or I’ll… I’lll… HURT YOUR FEELINGS!”
    Pre-F LK: “I’ll hurt yours right back!”

    Remember when little Richie Lowry called liberals wimps, and a pre-Senate (post Harvard wrestling team) Al Franken offered to take him on, any time, any place?

  43. 43.

    Ash Can

    I’ll be rooting for whatever winger goes mano a mano with Bobo…

    I’ll be rooting for a murder-suicide.

  45. 45.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    I’m guessing this whole debate will go by without anyone actually defining “center.”

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Citizen_X:

    (

    PS: Let’s make “Obama/Biden 2016″ bumper stickers, just to fuck with the wingnuts.)

    Double-checking my Café Press password even as we type.

  48. 48.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Speaking of pie, colossally snarky Charlie Pierce is colossally snarky:

    The next time “Bobby” Jindal, governor of Louisiana and warped slab of putative Republican presidential timber, gets up in public and tells an audience how much Jesus really means to him, he should be hit in the face with a pie full of eels.

    That’s just great stuff. Ninety-seven out of 100 columnists would have written “cream pie” or “custard pie” or some variant thereof, but “a pie full of eels”? That’s fcking inspired.

  49. 49.

    danielx

    Betcherass that there will be no elected Republican who will publicly agree with Bobo’s position…

  50. 50.

    brad

    I’m half tempted to buy a ticket, since I still have a student id that appears recent and valid. Let’s see who else ends up booked. If Loadpants gets in on this I might have to subject myself.

  51. 51.

    de stijl

    Everyone knows that Pi day is March 14.

    The problem with Pi day is that it just seems to go on forever and ever.

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