Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

We still have time to mess this up!

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

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

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

T R E 4 5 O N

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

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

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

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I’ll tell you in earnest I’m a dangerous man

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Everybody else is laughing at this, so let’s you and me laugh at it too:

“This is a very frustrated Lindsey Graham. Which is a very dangerous thing.” — Lindsay Graham.

If Lindsey ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.

What’s he gonna do? Get Ron Fournier to tweet something mean about the people he’s mad at? Make threats on “Meet John McCain”?

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  1. 1.

    Patricia Kayden

    Lindsay thinks very highly of Lindsay. He needs to take out his frustration on Rafael Cruz.

  2. 2.

    piratedan

    ahhhh that unpleasant feeling when you wake up to find that you’re no longer relevant enough to even be the King of the Douchebags….

  6. 6.

    Hill Dweller

    Republicans still seem to believe they are in a position to demand concessions for doing their most basic job.

    I thought the Republicans would cave eventually, but it’s looking like the crazy people in the House are willing to default.

    eta: The Village is trying to prop up Sen. Collins again, but her offer was rejected by the House. Can’t blame it on the Dems.

  8. 8.

    dr. bloor

    When asked to comment, Bob Dole said, “When Bob Dole is angry, there’s nothing more dangerous than Bob Dole. I knew Bob Dole, and let me tell you Lindsey, you’re no Bob Dole.”

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    all together now:

    O, Lindsey! You’re so BUTCH!

    h/t Charlie Pierce

    I was thinking today as I read that Pittypat had joined with the hostage takers, we haven’t heard from the Villagers in a while that default and destroying the US economy would really be all too bad, but Lindsey Graham faces a possible primary challenge, so we must have priorities.

  10. 10.

    MP

    Trying to picture Huckleberry on a Vincent Black Lightning 1952, and just can’t quite get the images to mesh….

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    I like what he said this morning on one of the gab-fest shows:

    “Here’s what I’m worried about a deal coming out of the Senate, that a majority of Republicans can’t vote for in the House, that really does compromise Speaker Boehner’s leadership,” Graham said. “And after all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise John Boehner as leader of the House? I don’t think so.”

    Do we really want to compromise John Boehner as leader of the House? Oh my. Number one, why the hell not? Number two, calling Boehner the ‘leader’ is pretty much an Inigo Montoya “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means” moment. Number three, I’m not really sure caving to a bipartisan Senate bill (and by ‘cave’ I mean ‘allow to come to a vote on the House floor’) would be all that dangerous to Boehner at this point. I mean, it’s not like the House looks capable of passing anything on its own right now.

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    so let’s you and me laugh at it too

    What’s awesome is the comments. Graham has zero constituency at this point. The right hates him. He’s getting crushed between his fear and his reality.

  15. 15.

    Botsplainer

    The guy always struck me as the pussy who’d stand there with his fists balled up, tears running down his face, and yelling “stop abusing me before you make me do something!” if he got teased in grade school, middle school, high school, college, work, etc.

    Come to think of it, that seems to pretty much define most GOPers and their pundit fluffers these days – getting back at their betters.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    Maybe he’ll grab his blankie and sit in the corner holding his breath till he turns blue.

    That would be about the level of his maturity.

  17. 17.

    Hunter Gathers

    What’s he gonna do?

    He’s going to call them bastard people and then he’s gonna go home and bite his pillow.

  18. 18.

    dmsilev

    A very ‘frustrated’ Lindsey Graham should be informed that there are ways of …relieving that frustration.

    I’d suggest Craigslist.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Lindsey? Lindsay? You just know he’s frustrated and dangerous when he’s not even sure how to spell his own name.

  23. 23.

    Crashman

    We’re all screwed now, aren’t we? I mean at this point there’s no way we don’t default, right?

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Is Lindsay Graham (aka Huckleberry Closetcase) taking lessons from Bob Dole? Stealing Bob Dole’s schtick? Then ol’ Huckleberry is cruisin’ for a trademark violations suit.

  29. 29.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @dmsilev:

    do we really want to compromise John Boehner as leader of the House?

    Lindsey, do you see that smokestack on the horizon there? That’s that particular ship, well on its way to its destination.

    It’s gone, Lindsey. Gone. On its way to Constantinople. You missed the party boat, Lindsey. Now all you can do is whine about it.

    Damn, there goes my Schadenfreude meter again…pegged out!

  30. 30.

    dmsilev

    @Crashman: I don’t think we’re completely screwed yet, though there isn’t much room for maneuver. Chuck Schumer was more upbeat in his assessment of negotiations with McConnell, that basically all of the hostage crap is off the table and the question now is primarily for how long the debt ceiling should be raised and the continuing resolution be in effect. The Dems want a big increase in the ceiling (i.e. a year or more before we have to deal with this again) and a short CR so that they can quickly move to negotiating a full budget that hopefully can undo some or all of the sequestration pain. The Republicans want a long CR (the Collins plan from yesterday was a 6 month CR), locking in the sequestration cuts. That’s a gap which can be bridged, and hopefully will be.

    Then, said plan passes the Senate and presents Boehner with a stark choice. Either he lets the Senate bill get a vote on the floor of the House or he, personally, gets the blame for the first-ever US default. Hopefully (there’s that word again) he chooses Door A.

    It’s a narrow needle to thread, but it’s about the only path open right now.

  31. 31.

    Hill Dweller

    @Ruckus:

    Maybe he’ll grab his blankie and sit in the corner holding his breath till he turns blue.

    Nobody puts Lindsey in the corner.

  32. 32.

    Crashman

    @dmsilev: Thanks for that bit of optimism. Makes me feel a little better. I’ve been sitting here all weekend watching my 4 month old son babble away happily while I feel sick to my stomach thinking about what’s going to happen and the mess we’re going to leave for him.

  33. 33.

    Bob

    This from a comment at POLITCO:

    “If you can’t say something nice about somebody…You’re probably talking about Lindsey Graham.” Franklin Kochergin

  34. 34.

    elftx

    had Chris Wallace on for a bit this a.m., not once was Ted C. or Rand P. mentioned by anyone, but Ryan was a number of times…could not help but laugh

  36. 36.

    scav

    A good flounce is deadly at twenty paces. Thwacks with a closed fan are saved for close infighting and committeework.

  38. 38.

    Ash Can

    @Crashman: Maybe your son and all of his fellow happy 4-month-olds will grow up smart enough to fix any lingering shit and avoid repeating any more of it. Think about that instead, and you’ll feel better.

  39. 39.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @dmsilev:

    Indeed. Why doesn’t Huckleberry try holding his breath until he turns blue?

    Oh, wait. That won’t save his comfy Senate seat. So that’s out.

  40. 40.

    MattF

    @dmsilev: The problem is that any inference about the House Republicans that contains the premise “Only a complete lunatic would…” doesn’t work the way you might intend.

  47. 47.

    dmsilev

    @Baud: Oh, of course. I’m just pointing out that Lindsey Graham in a suit and with relatively normal skin coloration is every bit as detestable as a hypothetical Lindsey Graham who is green, swelled up, and is only wearing a loincloth.

  48. 48.

    Skippy-san

    Graham is under threat of a primary challenge from a tea party sponsored oaf-who I am ashamed to say has as her only main accomplishment in life that she is the first female graduate from my Alma Mater. She is seriously indebted to Jim DeMint and the rest of the like minded wackos-but S.C. being S.C. its a problem for Graham. So he has to act stupider than he normally would be.

  50. 50.

    Collin

    Glad to see a few commenters understood the Richard Thompson reference. Was worried for a while

  54. 54.

    Mustang Bobby

    “This is a very frustrated Lindsey Graham. Which is a very dangerous thing.” – Lindsey Graham.

    “Screw you, honey. Boy, if there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s a queen without a sense of humor. You can die with your secret… miserable piss-elegant fairy.” – Chris, The Ritz.

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