Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

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

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

I really should read my own blog.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

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

In after Baud. Damn.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

People are complicated. Love is not.

People are weird.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

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  4. 4.

    Amir Khalid

    I think Christine O’Donnell and Alvin Greene would make a lovely couple.

    (Remember Alvin Greene?)

  5. 5.

    c u n d gulag

    “Honey, I just found out that CPAC is here for a 3-day Convention.
    HIDE THE CHILDREN AND THE DOG!!!!!!!!!
    What?
    Santorum already got the dog?
    That poor ravaged, beast.
    No, not Santorum!
    Remember, he said it was man ON dog sex.
    Fido’s a fucking goner…”

  7. 7.

    Fuzzy

    Have so many failed candidates and pundits ever assembled in one place? Lets hope everything said at CPAC is videoed for future (2016) use in campaign ads.

  14. 14.

    shelly

    The last afternoon of a 3-day conference. What’s on for today? Book signing for Alex Epstein’s “Fossil fuels improve the planet”.A’Meet and Greet with Grover Norquist”

    I envision a lot of empty ballrooms.

  16. 16.

    Elizabelle

    Sad to report that DC has sparkling warmer weather today, so many CPACers are probably out and about enjoying our area’s beautiful publicly funded architecture, parks and grounds — spectacular, even when glimpsed from a car, free museums, sculpture, and city streets teeming with restaurants (immigrants built a lot of them!) and people of color in evidence all over the place.

    And deploring they have had to pay for a penny of it. This is not their America!

  17. 17.

    WereBear

    I am both sick and astonished that there is no amount of fail that trips up these Wingnut Grifters.

    Though Joe the Plumber obviously didn’t have The Right Stuff.

  19. 19.

    trollhattan

    This is an interesting soft-peddle of Angle, whose lunatic pronouncements are the only reason we have Senator Harry Reid.

    Angle, 64, a soft-spoken grandmother and former homeschool instructor from Reno, Nev., said she is at CPAC to reconnect with former supporters and to remind them of her interest in speaking to conservative groups, however small.

    What is a “former homeschool instructor”? Does that translate to “mom” or am I missing something? In case anybody forgot, let’s revisit her most famous quip.

    Well it’s to defend ourselves. And you know, I’m hoping that we’re not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack

    @Bob:

    From a news story quoted in TBogg’s piece:

    [Sharron] Angle, 64, a soft-spoken grandmother and former homeschool instructor from Reno, Nevada [. . .].

    “Homeschool instructor”? Isn’t that like “parent”? Or if, as the thought came to me, it’s someone who home-schools a group of kids for other parents, isn’t that like a “teacher”—someone who should be certified and her “school” accredited?

    Okay, I got this from the Wikipedia:

    After graduation [from college], she worked as a substitute teacher in Ely, Tonopah and Reno for 25 years, ran a family fitness gym in Tonopah, tutored juvenile offenders for Nye County, and for two years was the lead-teacher/administrator for a small “one-room” Christian school.

    Interesting that all that boils down to “former homeschool instructor,” rather than just “former teacher.” Playing to the base, I guess.

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    Jindal and O’Donnell would be great running mates; an exorcist and a witch hunter. They might alienate the snake handler vote, however.

  23. 23.

    GxB

    @Amir Khalid: Miscegenation! Why thy monocle has just fallen from mine eye and into my morning tea. Thou owest me a new lens!

    In seriousness, wasn’t he the comic book writer or some such? He’s too good for her.

  25. 25.

    trollhattan

    @Steeplejack:
    GMTA and such. Angle’s main accomplishment was to make the “just pay your medical bills with live chickens” lady seem less nuts.

  26. 26.

    Amir Khalid

    @GxB:
    Monocle? You actually went and got one? Don’t you realise The New York Times is just trolling people with those trend stories?

  28. 28.

    Eric Lindholm

    Maybe O’Donnell is famous because the very day she announced her candidacy, her IRS records were leaked to the press. Four years later, there have been no answers from the IRS nor any accountability. But, rest assured, there’s “not a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS when it comes to political retribution against conservatives.

    Ask Lois Lerner. Or not.

  29. 29.

    trollhattan

    @Eric Lindholm:
    Nope. Not why she’s “famous” (if, by “famous” you mean “can walk around a Delaware CVS unnoticed unless she’s wearing makeup and has her hair done”).

    Can we get better trolls around this joint, please? I pay good money, GOOD MONEY I tell you, for fresh trolls.

  31. 31.

    dmbeaster

    @Eric Lindholm:

    Maybe O’Donnell is famous because the very day she announced her candidacy, her IRS records were leaked to the press. Four years later, there have been no answers from the IRS nor any accountability.

    Like so much right wing blather, this allegation is just crap Oh Noz,!! a Daily Kos link, which itself links to all the primary source material, so shut up. The true details are well known despite so much lying by O’Donnell and the rest of right wing noisemakers. The facts are that on the day she announced her candidacy (in the Republican primary when she was a total nobody), a Delaware state official accessed her IRS records. No one from the IRS did. No records were divulged to the press. The state tax official who did it (his identity is known as he was investigated) was able to do so because the IRS allows state tax officials easy access to its records.

    Two weeks later, a story ran in a local Delaware paper based on a search of publicly available records. There were no leaked IRS records to the media. O’Donnell has simply invented most of the story from these true facts.

    As for covering it up, the House thought to investigate it, but dropped it. As if Darrell Issa would let it go if he thought there was something there.

    As always, we need better trolls.

  32. 32.

    Chyron HR

    @Eric Lindholm:

    Do you even comprehend that the Democratic party has an extra seat in the Senate solely because you guys ran Sarah Palin Jr. instead of someone who was actually capable of winning an election?

    Gee I wonder WHO exactly has a motive to persecute Christine O’Donnell and try to keep her out of politics?

  33. 33.

    Cervantes

    @Eric Lindholm:

    Maybe O’Donnell is famous because the very day she announced her candidacy, her IRS records were leaked to the press. Four years later, there have been no answers from the IRS nor any accountability. But, rest assured, there’s “not a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS when it comes to political retribution against conservatives.

    You’re mistaken, Eric, in almost every particular. Find out who Dennis Martel is. Then find out what he told O’Donnell, and when he told her.

  34. 34.

    StringOnAStick

    @Steeplejack: My younger sister works in state gummit in Nevada; she’s usually fairly evenhanded about politics but she says Sharon Angle is a barking loony and incompetent as well. Her work with juvenile offenders is legendary for the level of crazy in it, and this is in a state where ‘crazy’ is pretty much tolerated and expected.

  35. 35.

    Heliopause

    Oliver North is rightly famous, as he has done much more tangible damage to the world than the other two.

  36. 36.

    Eric Lindholm

    @dmbeaster:

    “The facts are that on the day she announced her candidacy (in the Republican primary when she was a total nobody), a Delaware state official accessed her IRS records.”

    Ah, yes, what a careful distinction. And on that very same day a lien was placed on O’Donnell’s former home. All very normal.

    Pop quiz: can you name a single Democrat exposed to the same level of scrutiny? Even a smidgen?

  37. 37.

    dmbeaster

    @Eric Lindholm: There was no level of scrutiny. Glad you admit that her story is a pack of lies since you cannot address the many points. Did you ever check out who Dennis Martel was as suggested by Cervantes? No?

    He was the IRS agent that called her right after that moron at the Delaware tax office improperly looked at her records in order to alert her that there appeared to have been improper access. That is how she found out. How devious of the IRS to do that!

    As for the mistaken IRS lien (which was removed promptly), how prescient of the IRS to have the lien paperwork prepared and approved in advance so that they could rush and record it on the same day that a complete nobody announced for the Republican primary for Senate!

    And let’s resort to some basic logic. The only people who had any interest in knowing about O’Donnell when she announced her run were her fellow Republicans who wanted info on who they were running against. that is almost certainly the motive of the moron in the Delaware tax office. No Democrat in the country gave a hoot about her at that time. Furthermore, Dems were delighted that she later won the primary since it guaranteed a Democratic hold on that Senate seat. So silly of teatards to not understand these things, and invent a phony story about it all afterwards.

    We need better trolls.

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