Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

You cannot shame the shameless.

This fight is for everything.

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

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

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Everybody saw this coming.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread

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(Tom Toles via GoComics.com)

A cartoon especially for John Cole’s mom.

Speaking of women who tick Cole off (although I’m sure the two have nothing else in common), NYMag has a news update from World Salad Sarah:

And here, we thought today’s award for the most ridiculous Clinton theory would go to Lynne Cheney for suggesting that Vanity Fair would only agree to print Monica Lewinsky’s essay as part of some Clinton-orchestrated plot. In an Extra interview on Tuesday night, Mario Lopez asked Sarah Palin to weigh in on whether becoming a grandmother will make Hillary Clinton more electable in 2016. “I think it will kind of broaden her world view,” Palin replied, rambling for a bit about the national debt. Then, she found the perfect attention- grabbing remark: Perhaps Chelsea’s baby will make Hillary change her views on abortion, though it appears being pregnant herself didn’t do the trick…

Also, if Hillary keeps bogarting all the media attention, Sarah may just have to run for President her own self, so there. But Palin’s really annoyed that Chelsea didn’t surprise her mom with an “oopsie” pregnancy annoucement during the 2008 primaries. Waiting until ya finish fancy advanced college and have a big expensive wedding before gettin’ knocked up — what a snob!

Speaking of GOP candidates who hate ‘snobs’, Paul Constant has a Fox News video of Rick Sanctorum talking up his new ‘economic solution‘ — marriage, the traditional kind, between a man and a woman — with Neil Cavuto:

… Santorum’s major problem as a candidate is that his hate comes shining through at every opportunity. When Republican voters start to cozy up to him, and when he begins to get comfortable, he says terrible things. Santorum’s hate problem is only getting worse as he gets older. He’s trying to be the genteel, friendly candidate here, but hate keeps crawling up his throat. He forces it down. He’s uncomfortable — you can watch his mouth slide around his face as he talks, like he’s got a bad case of acid reflux—and he wants to let it out. But he doesn’t. Not just yet. Soon, though. This is a man who is composed of about 95% hatred. He’ll say something terrible soon. He just can’t help himself…

Because it’s breakfast time, I spared you the actual videos. You can thank me later.
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Apart from holding down the bile, what’s on the agenda for the day?

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  2. 2.

    raven

    My sister-in-law posted this on her facebook:

    Shout out once again for Obamacare. It saved the Johnson family about $500 a couple weeks ago for my daughters’ annual exams which weren’t covered before and now is saving us $700 a day for my hospital stay over what our prior policy wd have paid. And that’s on top of the hundreds of dollars per month it is saving us on our premiums. I’ve heard it hasn’t worked so well for some others and then there are other people who just want to talk shit about it because they don’t like Obama. $700 a day is a lot of money. I will take all the good news I can get these days!

  3. 3.

    Central Planning

    In election news, from USAToday:

    Thom Tillis won the GOP Senate nomination in North Carolina on Tuesday, delivering a big win to establishment Republicans over Tea Party insurgents.

    The NC TP reaction should be interesting.

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    Patricia Kayden

    So according to Mrs. Palin, since I don’t have children (although married for 13 years), it makes sense for me to be pro-choice? But if I had a child, that experience alone would make me anti-choice?

    Thank you, John McCain.

  12. 12.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: Wait who’s out here? Never been to Valley Pres, Hollywood Pres. on the other hand, was there about 54 years and change ago.

  13. 13.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    The President is supposed to land at LAX this afternoon and the complaints from the westside will immediately commence.

  14. 14.

    raven

    @BillinGlendaleCA: My entire family. Sis in Hawthorne, brother in Sherman Oaks. Nieces scattered in “The Southland”. My family moved from Chicago to Whittier in 57. I left in 62 but everyone else but me and my old man stayed.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    @raven: They thought a friend of mine had your average every day diverticulitis. Turned out they were wrong. She was on death’s door when a surgeon with balls went in and removed several feet of intestine/colon and saved her life. It ain’t nothing to mess with.

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    Matt McIrvin

    Watching my wife go through pregnancy and childbirth made me way more extremely pro-choice than I had been before.

    Somebody did try the gotcha argument that people referred to the fetus as a baby when I posted the ultrasound picture online. Forget it, man. Having one of those growing inside you is serious business. No way should the law restrict your options because of an argument over semantics.

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    Randy P

    @Patricia Kayden: People have raised the point before that Republicans lack empathy (I think somebody even did a scientific study) and there’s something to that. There was the recent story of the Congresswoman who, as I recall, was opposed to insurance paying for cancer treatment until she got cancer. Now she’s in favor.

    We think of empathy as an innate human characteristic, but apparently at least 27% of the population doesn’t know what empathy is and completely lacks that gene. A Republican is somebody who can watch me getting hit in the head with a hammer without cringing, without the thought even crossing their mind that I might be in pain or that my pain is something that should bother them.

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    NotMax

    Glad I don’t live in the Eastern time zone any longer. Encountering both Palin and Santorum first thing in the morning would drive me right back to bed to try starting the day on a better footing later on.

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    Betty Cracker

    @Matt McIrvin: My hubby said the same thing when wingnut family members tried to use our impending parenthood to convert us to the forced birth camp. It made us realize just how risky and deeply personal a health issue pregnancy is. It’s unfathomable to me that anyone experiencing it would think, “Hey, the state should have a stake in this!”

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    A Humble Lurker

    @Randy P:
    I think it’s specifically that they don’t ever think something like that’ll happen to them. That whole ‘you get hurt ’cause the cosmos thinks you deserve it’ deal-io. They’re not troubled by somebody else in pain because that person must have deserved it to be in pain. It’s the same reason they’re for capital punishment; if you’re getting executed, even if you’re innocent of the crime you’ve been said to commit, you must have done something to deserve being in your current predicament. However when they get hurt they realize bad things can happen to someone (they consider) undeserving.

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    C.V. Danes

    You know what else might make someone change their views on abortion, Ms. Palin? A sixteen year old girl who is pregnant because she was raped.

    Oh, wait. She deserved it.

    Whatever.

  30. 30.

    Belafon

    OT: I have noticed that when I visit Balloon Juice, my browser is warning me about a popup from voicefive.com. Is this supposed to be happening?

  31. 31.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    During the recent tornado outbreak, someone told me that living in Florida makes you insular about weather. “Is it coming for us? No? Then I don’t really care.”

    Because I value the relationship for other reasons, I managed to choke back my immediate reaction of “No, that’s just part of being a Republican.”

  34. 34.

    gogol's wife

    I know this thread is dead, but I just had to say: Mario Lopez interviewing Sarah Palin? I’m glad I missed that show.

  35. 35.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Randy P: So true. How many Repubs have embraced marriage equality ONLY after finding out that their beloved son/daughter is gay? See this phenomenon all the time on Joe.My.God.

  36. 36.

    lymie

    Patrick Lown is a nice white boy from SUNY, and the research and his study has nothing to do with eyes and emotions.
    “…… and my colleagues and I are conducting an online survey about people’s personal characteristics and beliefs, and how people are able to read emotions in other peoples’ eyes.”

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