Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Bark louder, little dog.

American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

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

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

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

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Let there be snark.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

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

After roe, women are no longer free.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

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  1. 1.

    Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable sock puppet

    Translation for us at work who are ‘Tube impaired? Is it Grayson going off like Old Faithful, or a less-usual Dem suspect?

  3. 3.

    John Dillinger

    I think the public is ready for day to day derision of Republicans in the House, though of course the media will tut-tut it.

  5. 5.

    rdldot

    He was pissed off last week, too, and that time he wouldn’t yield to the other Repub. Good on him for saying it out loud. Bet he’ll be on Tweety’s show tonight. He was last week. I just found my new favorite legislator.

  6. 6.

    c u n d gulag

    YAY!

    And now I look forward to seeing this exchange on all of the network and cable news shows for the next few days – especially, on FUX Noise!

    ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Sorry.
    Sometimes I even crack myself up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. 7.

    andy

    Awesome. This is the second time I’ve watched it today. I wonder if these GOPers would be reasonable if more people tore open their bubbles and told them to fuck off already? One thing I’ve noticed about these people is that if you give them enough pushback they run like the little bitches they are.

  8. 8.

    piratedan

    hey come on now John, Representative Griffin is “just asking questions” about how practical it would be if we could simply go back and remove all of this nonsensical ACA stuff that isn’t working because of these faulty websites and dropped coverages and these people could just magically save all of this bother by using money they don’t have and putting into an HRA that doesn’t provide the coverage that they need. Can’t you be reasonable about this?

  10. 10.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    Let’s hope so. The majority of the public is behind the Democrats on 90 percent of what they want to do. It’s time they stopped being scared and started fighting, unapologetically, for those things.

  11. 11.

    srv

    All this incivility just makes things worse.

    We’d have had much more money for TARP if Krugman hadn’t been such a a-hole.

  14. 14.

    Tone in DC

    @andy:

    LULz.

    Yes! Pascrell couldn’t be more Jersey if he tried. This pleases me.
    I’m waiting for someone like Grayson or Grijalva to cut loose with a “FUCK ALL Y’ALL”.

    …I know such colorful use of metaphor won’t happen. I just like the thought of it.

  15. 15.

    Nora Carrington

    @andy:

    Don’t diss bitches by associating us with hated Republicans. Please! :-)

    Awesomesauce, as TNC would say. I have a feeling the gloves came off behind closed doors during the shutdown so no one has any illusions about who hates whom. Still pissed that Durbin backed off his claim that a Republican dissed President Obama. You *know* that got said.

  16. 16.

    RaflW

    I’m not sure that Republicans realize that Democrats can get mad. But we can. This dude shows one good way of doing it.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish LIteralist

    Just saw this on MSNBC, Griffin looked like he’d been smacked up side the head with a flounder

  19. 19.

    Tone in DC

    These wingers barely have the nerve to insult anyone to his face to begin with. They utterly lack the intestinal fortitude to stand up and say “Yes, I said it”.

  21. 21.

    srv

    Black robed men and their death panels:

    The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed its earlier ruling that the state’s 2011 restrictive abortion law is unconstitutional.

  22. 22.

    El Cid

    The GOP style is all that of the bully. They don’t know what to fucking do when people stand straight up to them in their faces and challenge them right back.

    I’m god-damned tired of these fucks being let to wave their asses in the face of everybody and all non-right-wingers are supposed to be all intimidated and caught off-guard and nervous and/or super-civil-polite (‘Ssshhh nobody mention Uncle so & so is way too drunk so we don’t get into an argument!’).

  23. 23.

    Tone in DC

    Don’t diss bitches by associating us with hated Republicans. Please! :-)

    Moar LULz.

    At times like this, I especially miss General Stuck. He’d love Pascrell’s rant.

  27. 27.

    catclub

    This sounds like… Benghazi! I mean the real story in both cases is:
    State Dept asks for more money for security, GOP congress turns them down.
    Something bad happens. GOP congress complains about Administration errors that they helped to cause.

    HHS asks for funds to implement Obamacare website and rollout. GOP congress refuses any money.
    Bad things happen to website rollout. GOP congress complains about website problems that they caused.

    … and the media isn’t exactly sharp at connecting these points.

  29. 29.

    kindness

    Yea….the Serious Village Elders will frown upon this exchange. No doubt there will be posts (Freidman, Brooks, NPR) but go suck eggs repubs. You’ve been a succubus for too long now. Let the truth set your people free (and maybe get some of these fine citizens to vote for democrats).

    Can you identify what part is snark?

  30. 30.

    Trollhattan

    Whoo, that’s as fine a dressing-down as I’ve heard in ages. “Are YOU going to tell them?”

  31. 31.

    Ash Can

    @Nora Carrington: Thanks for the link! Sounds to me like an actual miscommunication. There’s no reason Durbin would suddenly get bashful about calling out that kind of assholery, and there’s no reason any GOP leader would want such a badge of True Conservatism to get wiped.

  35. 35.

    catclub

    @JPL: If Obama had said: “If you like your policy _and it meets certain minimum standards_ then you can keep it.”

    Would have saved some of the problems being brought up today. … Instead there would be some different problems brought up today.

  37. 37.

    kindness

    @catclub: What kills me is all these people screaming about having their completely crappy and worthless policies canceled. Not one of these people sees that a current policy will cost them less out of pocket than what they pay now after all the deductibles and the subsidies are factored in.

    I can deal with a nation of dummies but whining intentionally stupid dummies is a hard dummy to swallow.

  42. 42.

    danielx

    Have we finally reached the point of exasperation in which Democrats will simply refuse to roll over any more?

    What is that low but increasing-in-volume sound I hear?

    Why, it’s a chorus of millions screaming “About Fucking Time!”

  43. 43.

    Mezz (fpa Michael2)

    FUCKING. LOVE. IT.

    I’m increasingly so exasperated, that I find that I can’t any longer avoid referencing the insanity in the history courses I teach. (We just, e.g. covered the Constitutional Convention and the levelers and the “better sort.”)

    MOAR. MOAR. MOAR!!!

  44. 44.

    mclaren

    @Tone in DC:

    At times like this, I especially miss General Stuck. He’d love Pascrell’s rant.

    You mean that ignorant clueless asshole with the fake name who did nothing but scream insults? The guy who never provided any facts or any logic to back up his empty name-calling? The guy whose sum total contribution to this forum was “you have butt rabies” repeated over and over again?

    That’s the guy you miss?

    No wonder politics in America has gone down the shitter.

  47. 47.

    tybee

    @Tone in DC:

    I’m waiting for someone like Grayson or Grijalva to cut loose with a “FUCK ALL Y’ALL”.

    i think you’ll need to look a bit further south to find someone to utter those exact words.

    i don’t think too many people above maryland use “all y’all” in common speech.

  48. 48.

    mclaren

    @gwangung:

    Provide three (3) posts in which I indulge in name-calling without providing any logic or evidence to back up my assertions, or stand revealed as a liar who uses Karl-Rove-style smear tactics.

  50. 50.

    mclaren

    @tybee:

    No, that post gives a specific reason why the sociopath who called himself “General Stuck” was an asshole, and clear evidence that he was clueless. The guy’s posts consisted of name-calling and almost nothing else.

    No facts. No links to, say, the New York Times, or the Washington Post, or government reports, or anything like that. Just “You’re off your meds” and “You have butt rabies.”

    That’s not a debate. That isn’t productive. It’s a grown man screaming insults in the manner of kindergartener.

  51. 51.

    El Cid

    @catclub: I’m thinking it’s not an accident that they didn’t give out pictures.

    I mean, this is one of those places where you only get in with an invitation.

  57. 57.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Shakezula: Wouldn’t it be nice if each and every Democratic Congressperson had the guts and fortitude to challenge Republicans every chance they got?

    Looking forward with bated breath for the Republican healthcare plan. /not

  60. 60.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @kindness:

    What kills me is all these people screaming about having their completely crappy and worthless policies canceled.

    I PAYED $10 FOR TIGER REPELLENT AND NO TIGER BIT ME OBUMMERCARE SUX.

  62. 62.

    HL_Guy

    The thing to know about Pascrell is that he is among the most well-liked Congressmen in DC… not by his colleagues, but by elevator guys, security guards, id-checker ladies, etc… real actual human people. They call him The Mayor because he was the mayor of Paterson NJ before becoming a Rep, glorious job that that must have been. He actually gives a damn about peoples’ lives. When he got redistricted into the same District as fellow (D) Rothman, he absolutely destroyed him in the primary, over 60% of the vote. He has the personal touch, and people at home in Jersey know he will stand up for them.

  63. 63.

    JasperL

    @Patricia Kayden:

    The *plan* Griffith waved around is real. If you’ve not been comatose for the last 30 years, you can predict what the core of it amounts to – mor tax cuts for the wealthy, a few crumbs for the poor.

  64. 64.

    Pogonip

    @tybee: Blacks as far north as Michigan use “all y’all.”. Haven’t heard it from any other ethnic group north of the Mason-Dixon line.

  66. 66.

    catclub

    @JasperL: No, no no. GOP Health plan is: tort reform, free-for-all interstate insurance sales (the Mississippi insurance commissioner is now everyone’s), self-extinguishing (they always go bankrupt) high risk pools.

  68. 68.

    priscianus jr

    @kindness: Not one of these people sees that a current policy will cost them less out of pocket than what they pay now after all the deductibles and the subsidies are factored in.

    True, but at least the old policies didn’t have death panels.

  69. 69.

    White Trash Liberal

    @mclaren:

    You are the epitome of insufferable. Robespierre would call you insufferable. Bakunin would call you insufferable. Roger Ailes would put you on the air just so every viewer could associate left wing ideas with your insufferable presence.

  70. 70.

    White Trash Liberal

    @mclaren:

    When she wears a Free Mumia t-shirt, everyone else turns theirs inside out.

    Her puppets are bigger than yours.

    The NSA hits mute whenever she places a call.

    She is…

    The Most Insufferable Progressive In The World

    “I may not always post on Balloon Juice, but when I do, I must piss on a grave.”

  71. 71.

    catpal

    @HL_Guy: Yep. Rep. Pascrell is the awesomest, and a really nice guy. so happy I got to vote for him when I was a NJer. so is Rep. Pallone who also used a Repub clown-convention hearing to call out how Bad the Repugs really are.

    MORE of this from Dems please.

  72. 72.

    Dream On

    Have we finally reached the point of exasperation in which Democrats will simply refuse to roll over any more?

    Do bears fly rockets to New Guinea? No.

    If you’re a Democratic congressman and you aren’t rolling, you’ve probably expired. Rolling is what modern Democrats do.

  75. 75.

    Fred

    The finish was the best: “Are you serious? After three and a half years and all we’ve been through, are you serious?”
    Stupid is as stupid does.

  78. 78.

    Lex

    The only way this could have been better would have been if Pascrell had described the GOP’s so-called alternatives to the ACA as “codswollop.”

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