Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Bark louder, little dog.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

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I decided, early this morning, to leave discussion of our history with the atomic bomb for the Nagasaki anniversary, because today we’re all in Blood Eagle Mode.

Guardian liveblogging continues here.

ETA:

The crowd goes wild at the sight of 10 middle-aged, white men wearing suits, distinguished by a diversity of haircuts. There’s a bald spot, curls, a few glossy sheens and shades of grey, and then whatever it is on Trump’s head.

Moderator Bret Baier dismisses the candidates to their podiums, observing that the having them stand next to each other for a photograph “was awkward enough”…

ETAA — ?!?:

He starts off with a question about whether anyone is willing to run a third-pary campaign if they don’t win the Republican nomination – Trump raises both his hands, alone, as the only person who might not endorse the eventual nominee.

“I cannot say I have to respect the person if it’s not me,” he says. “I can totally make the pledge if I am the nominee I will not run as an independent.”…

“Comms Director / Paul Ryan”:

Reader Interactions

298Comments

  4. 4.

    Davebo

    It seems Carly Fiorina “unleashed a can” earlier this evening per the token blonde moderator.

    Did the can hurt anyone? I missed it.

  7. 7.

    JPL

    @raven: I agree.. Since they are having a pissing contest on who gets to have to post, I might just sign off.

    dumb, dumb

  12. 12.

    JPL

    WTF

    How much attention is everyone paying to this debate? According to Twitter, Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, waited until the beginning of the debate to announce he is opposed to President Obama’s Iran deal.

  13. 13.

    PsiFighter37

    Rand Paul trying to take down Donald and getting booed. LOL.

    And now Ben Carson getting shat on by Kelly. Hating on the black man, of course.

  19. 19.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    Ah good, they’re using that same damn bell, the cocker as already started barking.

  23. 23.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    What we have here, is a failure… to communicate!

    I’m not watching but my longshot bet is that it’s Kasich who lands a punch on Trump. He’s combative without being as much of a blowhard as Christie.

    @JPL: Fucker

  24. 24.

    JGabriel

    Fox has made it nigh near impossible to watch the debate unless you have a cable login id. I don’t even have a TV set much less cable.

    Fuckers.

    What the hell ever happened to making sure political events were covered as a public service?

  26. 26.

    Zinsky

    Marco Rubio thinks he has a better understanding of what it means to be middle class. Bizarre.

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    Somehow I don’t think the Fox gotcha questions to Trump are working the way they hoped.

  30. 30.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    Rick Santorum trying to make a point

    “With a strong right arm, and plenty of lube, no body cavity is out of reach.”

  34. 34.

    Kropadope

    @JPL:

    According to Twitter, Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, waited until the beginning of the debate to announce he is opposed to President Obama’s Iran deal.

    He accomplishes two goals, please his AIPAC masters and hide this news from as many voters as possible. He voted for the Iraq War too, naturally.

    Fuck Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ resident cowardly warmonger.

    ETA: At least Hillary is open about her hard on for war.

  36. 36.

    NonyNony

    @JGabriel:

    Well if it were actually a political event then, sure, covering it would be a public service.

    This is just a Fox News reality TV show. Hell NOT letting people watch it is probably a public service.

  42. 42.

    jl

    Jeb! has the political instincts and charm of moldy dog dump you step into while raking the leaves on a find autumn day.

    Edit: I know how that feels dammit. The best I can do for a Cole naked moping story.

    No, Jeb! the bar is not higher for you, you have managed to lower it, and not sure how much more slack you will get for what, by now, is the expectation for your future efforts.

  43. 43.

    PsiFighter37

    Now Bret Baier shitting on Christie’s record. Did the moderators want to do the oppo research for the Clintons?

    Christie blaming everything on his predecessors.

  46. 46.

    MomSense

    @dmsilev:

    They have no idea what to do with the monster they have created. Feed people fear, meanness, racism, and lies for 20 years and this is the result.

  47. 47.

    divF

    Speaking of dogs barking, the debate reminds me of Dave Barry’s characterization of Ross Perot as being like his dog that would intermittently go crazy, almost as if he was receiving instructions from a satellite as it went over.

    Except that for tonight’s debates, the satellite is in geosynchronous orbit over Cleveland.

  48. 48.

    PsiFighter37

    This is the first time I’ve ever heard Walker speak for any period of time. No charisma.

    Now Huckabee gets to serve up the red meat.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    He may give em the bafungul soon!

    I don’t know what that is, but I’m quite certain that (a) he could do it, and [2] they’d deserve it!

  51. 51.

    gene108

    Poor Christie…he got slammed by “gotcha” question about his lousy record…

    Dumb shit got away with glossing over the fact he got elected in 2009, in the teeth of the worst recession in 80 years. Those job losses goes against Corzine, but he has not done shit…

  54. 54.

    jl

    @dmsilev: Who is ‘they’? Fox News? The GOP? Fox News has ratings and $ on their minds. Get a big story out of this thing asap. ROI done and won.

  55. 55.

    Anne Laurie

    @PsiFighter37:

    And the biggest applause line goes to slamming Rosie O’Donnell…jeez

    Anyone under AARP age even recognizes her name, I’m guessing it’s for the animated cartoons she used to do on PBS (or playing Betty Rubble in that movie).

  59. 59.

    mai naem mobile

    I wish Kelly would ask what to do if Joshie Duggar got one of his sisters and daughters preggers.

  61. 61.

    raven

    @SiubhanDuinne: You’re from the West Side of Chicago and you don’t know??

    Sicilian-American evolution of the Italian expression “Fa’ un culo,” which literally means “Do an ass.” Many guidos and other not-really-Italian-but-really-wish-I-weres use this a lot. Also, some REAL Italian-Americans too :D

  64. 64.

    yet another jeff

    As a person that buys a lot of Buick parts, I resent that.

    The 5th amendment??

  69. 69.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @JGabriel:

    What the hell ever happened to making sure political events were covered as a public service?

    Not broadcasting this debate is a public service.

    I heard three lies just listening for a few moments.

  70. 70.

    PsiFighter37

    Kasich actually justifying getting people out of prison and taking Medicare money. Dude’s got no shot.

  74. 74.

    jl

    @raven: Hell if I know. Good chance Jeb! meant to say something else entirely and if this comes up, there will be follow-up confusing clarifications, walk-backs, explanation, ‘out of context’-ings and misstep ‘splaining, to follow, and a final surrender, delivered with an alarmed and resentful sneer.

    Gawd, this guy is as charming as dirty dishwater full of maturing kitchen scraps.

  75. 75.

    Smiling Mortician

    Whoa. Did Kasich show up to the wrong debate or what?

    But. He got a lotta applause . . .

  76. 76.

    PsiFighter37

    Jeb! trying to sell immigration reform. Good luck when Trump eats your dinner on this issue.

  77. 77.

    Anne Laurie

    @jl:

    No, Jeb! the bar is not higher for you, you have managed to lower it, and not sure how much more slack you will get for what, by now, is the expectation for your future efforts.

    Dumbfck lowered the bar, and now he’s trying to squeeze his newly paleo’d arse under it.

  79. 79.

    mdblanche

    And now we come to the part of the debate where each candidate will be given the chance to insult Messicans the most.

  81. 81.

    Nicole

    John Kasich makes me think of when you’re going through a bargain bin, and you find a cup that’s not, you know, a nice cup, but it’s not chipped, or cracked, or coated with some suspicious substance, so by comparison with the other remnants, it looks like a good deal.

  82. 82.

    yet another jeff

    Sure, it would be cheaper not to arrest people for doing drugs…but where’s the shaming in that?

  84. 84.

    bystander

    Kasich is tomorrow’s Miracle Boy. The only thing to enjoy is watching the extended humiliation of Jeb! Priceless.

  85. 85.

    dagon

    Did Megyn Kelly open this fiasco up by saying that Carly Fiorina “opened up a can” in the earlier debate?

  86. 86.

    Right to Rise

    Jeb just won the debate.

    He diffused the immigration issue in a compassionate yet logical way, skewering the demagoguery of Trump

  89. 89.

    Kropadope

    @Heliopause:

    Was Rosie O’Donnell in anybody’s drinking game?

    Gotta love how they haven’t updated their cultural references in 20 years.

    @Anne Laurie:

    (or playing Betty Rubble in that movie).

    You mean the documentary about how humans shared the world with dinosaurs 6000 years ago?

  90. 90.

    dmsilev

    Trump’s ego has gone supercritical. He’s not exactly the first Republican to obsess on illegal immigration or walls.

  98. 98.

    different-church-lady

    @Right to Rise:

    He diffused the immigration issue in a compassionate yet logical way, skewering the demagoguery of Trump

    You do realize this is the GOP debate, yes?

  104. 104.

    divF

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    I heard three lies just listening for a few moments.

    I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:

    ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE

    I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more…

    – Dashiell Hammett, The Continental Op

  106. 106.

    jl

    It was a very long set up, but the laff riot pay off of the new guy is worth it.

    No one diss DougJ’s chops at trolling no more.

  107. 107.

    Redshift

    @geg6: My best guess if that he was trying to claim that we only recently found out that a fetus has human DNA. Funny how he thinks “science” must not be questioned in this case…

  112. 112.

    ChrisH

    Trump seems to be fine so far, and the other candidates can’t decide whether to attack him or praise him and we get a bit of both.

  115. 115.

    srv

    All the other candidates understand, Jeb is out of touch, Trump has a real pulse on the pulse of Americans.

    @beltane: see the sky link above.

  120. 120.

    PsiFighter37

    Wow, Kasich just tried to pump up his credentials without even attacking Trump. They are scared of him…

  121. 121.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Kasich: “Mr. Trump is hitting a nerve”

    Wallace is going from candidate to candidate: “Please attack Trump. Please?”

  123. 123.

    kc

    “I can totally make the pledge if I am the nominee I will not run as an independent.”…

    Was he trying to be funny?

  130. 130.

    gelfling545

    @raven: I can only guess that Jeb means dullard in some esoteric foreign language. In that case, he’s earned it.

  131. 131.

    srv

    Wallace and FOX is clearly trying to gotcha the real conservatives and cuckold the cuckservatives like Jeb.

  140. 140.

    Central Planning

    Can we do a live blog for the next debate? Those were fun during the last election debates.

  141. 141.

    Right to Rise

    @srv:

    People who use terms such as yours are white supremacists.

    Real conservatives are colorblind.

  143. 143.

    Mandalay

    @Kropadope:

    He accomplishes two goals, please his AIPAC masters and hide this news from as many voters as possible.

    Looking on the bright side, he has also effectively fucked himself from rising any higher within the party.

    Fuck Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ resident cowardly warmonger.

    What you said. Schumer had a choice between supporting President Obama or Netanyahu, and he chose Netanyahu.

    p.s Sen Gillibrand is supporting the President.

  144. 144.

    Randy P

    Not watching, just reading live-blogs. Are we really half an hour into this thing and nobody has said the word “Benghazi” yet?

  146. 146.

    ThresherK

    @srv: I wondered how few seconds the secure manly-man in you would take to put that term in this space.

  147. 147.

    sharl

    @dmsilev:

    @Right to Rise: Bookmark it, libs!

    Hahaha, I do love the wingnut troll classics (though I had forgotten that one, tbqh).

  148. 148.

    Smiling Mortician

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, yeah. I forgot. For a minute there, I thought some Republicans maybe accepted that medicaid’s good and broken lives can be repaired. My bad.

  149. 149.

    Kropadope

    @Right to Rise:

    Trump is done by Halloween.

    You already went from currently imploding to two and a half months from now? That’s it, the nomination is Trump’s.

    Side question: How is Jeb blogging on Balloon Juice while also debating? He’s more talented than I thought.

  150. 150.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Walker is fast-talking and sharp.

    He reminds me of the guy who sold me the used Saturn with the faulty ignition switch.

    Christie: “You’re blowing hot air!” to Rand. Ouch!

  151. 151.

    yet another jeff

    I”m Rand Paul…and I’m not just the president of the Chia Hair Club for men…I’m also running for President.

  154. 154.

    dmsilev

    Christie with the first 9/11 reference. And apparently Christie and Paul don’t much like each other.

  155. 155.

    NonyNony

    @Right to Rise: There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – fool me once shame on you. If you fool me you can’t be fooled again.

  161. 161.

    Anne Laurie

    @Chris:

    SRV v. RTR: pistols at dawn.

    Paintballs loaded with liquid pig manure, I’m thinking.

    (Source them from Iowa, extra primary cred!)

  162. 162.

    dmsilev

    Ted Cruz: “The Joint Chiefs and the State Department both said something I don’t like, therefore I’m right”.

  164. 164.

    Kropadope

    @Right to Rise:

    People who use terms such as yours are white supremacists.

    Real conservatives are colorblind.

    Not to defend srv, but what did any of that have to do with race?

  170. 170.

    Anne Laurie

    @gelfling545:

    I can only guess that Jeb means dullard in some esoteric foreign language. In that case, he’s earned it.

    “Seriously”, the excuse for the JEB! logo (which goes back to 1994) is that he’s not just another Bush, he’s earned his own place in politics.

    That he can say this with a straight face proves he’s not very bright or self-aware.

  174. 174.

    Origuy

    Anybody a logical choice to primary Schumer? Hey, where does Amy Schumer live? Get her to run against her cousin.

  175. 175.

    NonyNony

    @Chris:

    SRV v. RTR: pistols at dawn.

    Hell, I’m still not convinced that srv and rtr aren’t the same person having a sockpuppet fight.

  176. 176.

    PsiFighter37

    Jeb equates Iran with ISIS. He was clearly fumbling at the end and getting on shaky ground. Not the smart Bush brother, at least not much.

    Walker sounds like a complete doofus.

  177. 177.

    ChrisH

    jeez Fox New’s streaming service sucks. I have 25 Mbs download and the player keeps stuttering

  180. 180.

    different-church-lady

    @srv: OK, I’m going to need a ruling on the allowable implementation of Poe’s Law here…

  181. 181.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Walker is fast-talking and sharp. Like a crooked used-car salesman. Like a scumbag middle manager. Like a cock-sucking rightwing internet troll.

  183. 183.

    Right to Rise

    Jeb: The war was won in 2008, but Obama shot us in the back by leaving Iraq. He created ISIS.

    Pwnd

  184. 184.

    PsiFighter37

    Ben Carson is so out of his depth right now. Why did he ever think he could be president.

  189. 189.

    Anne Laurie

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Cruz went after the Turtle. WTF?

    It means Cruz is no longer running for president, he’s running for God-King of the Talibangelicals. Mitch is at the top of their shit-list this week, cuz he says he won’t let them shut down the gubmint when Obama won’t drone every Planned Parenthood clinic into oblivion.

    Normal people, even most politically-oriented people, won’t have a clue. But I’m sure Twitchy is eating it up with a spork!

  190. 190.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Anne Laurie:

    Or, as President Obama famously said about his departing chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, “He lost part of his middle finger. As a result of this, he was rendered practically mute.”

  192. 192.

    Mandalay

    Jeb! does Bambi in the headlights. Listless and clueless, and looks like he just wants to take a nap. Cruz is a sick, deranged psychofuck but he looks far more presidential than Bush.

  193. 193.

    yet another jeff

    Privatize single payer healthcare!! Brilliant! Privatize it and get the insurance companies out of it!

  194. 194.

    xinark

    @Mandalay: Damn. Good on Gillibrand, but it sucks to see my district’s rep getting name-dropped as opposed to the deal.

    Think it’s too late to mount those phone-calling campaigns like what Tim did for the ACA?

  199. 199.

    beltane

    It’s nice to know that there is no daylight between Chuck Schumer and Jeb! regarding Iran.

  202. 202.

    NonyNony

    @different-church-lady:

    I’ve long thought that srv was just pulling our legs. Nothing posted tonight changes my opinion of that.

    I wasn’t sure if Right To Rise was UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH or someone pulling our legs. Tonight I’m pretty sure that Right To Rise is either stupider than UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH or he’s pulling our legs.

  207. 207.

    Kropadope

    @Right to Rise:

    Jeb: The war was won in 2008, but Obama shot us in the back by leaving Iraq. He created ISIS.

    A: The process of leaving Iraq started under Bush. Granted, Bush’s plan for leaving Iraq was suspiciously similar to then-candidate Obama’s.

    B: Should we have stayed in Iraq forever? Just delay and delay and delay the inevitable.

  216. 216.

    Right to Rise

    @Kropadope:

    We are still in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. If we stayed in Iraq long enough it would be like those democracies rather than half its territory as part of the Caliphate.

  218. 218.

    jl

    ” Jeb: The war was won in 2008, but Obama shot us in the back by leaving Iraq. He created ISIS. ”

    Nice to see Jeb! could spit out a standard GOP talking point cleanly. May be hope for him yet, even if he does seem to have the personality and affect of a sullen maladjusted teenager.

    Glad I could watch the first part of the debate to watch a Master at work (well, a Master at what he does, which is not pretty).
    Trump Tromps Twits will be a good headline for a sum up.

  227. 227.

    srv

    Jeb: blah, blah blah. Take on the unions?

    Walker smacked those unions like you and Christie can only dream of.

    They are clearly giving Jeb more time – which may be good, as he’s just sinking himself.

  232. 232.

    lgerard

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    he is a bit like this guy

    [url=http://postimage.org/][img]http://s5.postimg.org/t8eaivkyv/More_Washing.jpg[/img][/url]
    [url=http://postimage.org/]picture share[/url]

  234. 234.

    Another Holocene Human

    @Anne Laurie: Can’t you FPers coordinate or something? New thread every 150 comments? See you at Wonkette, I’m out of here.

  236. 236.

    Anne Laurie

    @Joel:

    Has Trump gone Elmer Gantry yet?

    That’s the Cruz / Huckabee slot.

    Trump’s not a bible-thumper, he won’t give anyone not Donald Trump that much credit.

  237. 237.

    dagon

    @Steeplejack:

    In the opening, I thought I was watching the runup to the opening of a pageant. Let’s just say that the proceedings were….awkward.

  239. 239.

    ThresherK

    @BillinGlendaleCA: No rouges for our Canadian Cruz? Or is that an unfair advantage?

    (PS Since the goalposts in CFL are 10 yards further apart, you can make your own “moving the goalposts” joke here.)

  240. 240.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @raven: FTR, “real Italian-Americans” know the correct form is fa in culo–idiomatically, “shove it up your arse.” Sloppy pronuciation (largely by medigani) & a preface of “aah” or “bah” turns it into bafanghul.

  242. 242.

    geg6

    @NonyNony:

    I still think it’s DougJ. I doubt that feeling every now and again and then he says something that makes me sure it’s Doug in fine trolling form.

  243. 243.

    jl

    @Kropadope:

    ” Those autonomous nations want us there. Not so much Iraq. ”

    Well after the Jeb! (or more likely, Trump) charm offensive, Iraq will want us too.
    Or, maybe there will problems in the other countries.. or..

    This debate is getting me disoriented. Time to go.

  245. 245.

    Mandalay

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    Carson is out of his element.

    Yep. Nobody told him you are supposed to completely ignore the question that was asked, but all the other clowns clearly got that memo.

  246. 246.

    MomSense

    @mdblanche:

    This shit certainly goes up to 11, and probably beyond.

    I am really losing it because I just read that like Buzz Lightyear.

  250. 250.

    Helen

    Every time Chris Wallace says “Gentlemen” it reminds me that there are no women there.

  251. 251.

    Kropadope

    @jl:

    This debates is getting me disoriented.

    One can only lose a certain number of brain cells in a short space of time before feeling the effects.

  254. 254.

    Nicole

    I don’t think you can say you’re exploring a subject in depth when the candidates only get 30 seconds to reply.

    And one of my husband’s (right-wing) friends is upset that FOX is using a doorbell for the buzzer, because he says his dog starts barking every time the candidates run long.

  255. 255.

    Kropadope

    @Helen:

    Every time Chris Wallace says “Gentlemen” it reminds me that there are no women there.

    She was banished to the kiddie table.

  256. 256.

    Redshift

    @Right to Rise:

    Jeb: The war was won in 2008, but Obama shot us in the back by leaving Iraq. He created ISIS.

    Yep, he can recite rote talking points with the best of them. Of course, he has more stake than most of them in denying that W’s little war of choice caused any of the problems in the Middle East.

  258. 258.

    PsiFighter37

    Impressed with how Chris Wallace knows exactly how Hillary’s going to run.

    Kasich keeps trying to pump his resume like he’s using a Swedish dick pump – he didn’t even attack Hillary at all.

  260. 260.

    yet another jeff

    My father was a mailman…so we should destroy the Post Office. Oh right…Hillary. I’ll help the poor by monetizing platitudes.

  261. 261.

    srv

    Reach out to the Shadow People… he’s starting to win me over. Not.

    Is Carson stoned or is he always like that.

  271. 271.

    NotMax

    Didn’t watch, but saw a picture of the “moderators” of Act I. Good to note that Bill Hemmer appears to be off the steroids.

  273. 273.

    MomSense

    Carson is on a roll. He managed to get secular progressive and Alinsky in one sentence.

  274. 274.

    JGabriel

    @Right to Rise:

    W. won the presidency twice against your candidates.

    Once. The first time W lost the election, but won the Supreme Court that his Daddy packed.

  278. 278.

    lgerard

    Anyone who uses the phrase “the left” is automatically disqualified from serious consideration

  280. 280.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Carson: “Our democratic opponents are out to destroy the country.”

    Brilliant…

    Imagine the democratic debates, if HRC or Bernie said “Our republican opponents clearly mean to purposely destroy our country.”

    NYtimes headline the next day: “LUNATICS and MANIACS”

  283. 283.

    PsiFighter37

    Walker is a numbnut. How did this dude get elected? Tom Barrett and Mary Burke must have had negative charisma.

  284. 284.

    Kropadope

    @lgerard:

    Anyone who uses the phrase “the left” is automatically disqualified from serious consideration

    The “left” is a powerless shell of a poorly defined political faction in the U.S. (Unless you believe Republicans or the MSM, but I repeat myself.)

  288. 288.

    Elizabelle

    DougJ and meetup buds: I am so close to you!! I am just down the street at The Diner, which has debate on and is way less crowded. It’s cooler too.

    Ventana whatever is so crowded that I could not even get through the door.

    Commute was effing horrible — two hours in via car and train — I could be in Richmond!! — wish I’d just driven. From below derailment site; they held our train for maybe 25-30 mins. and maybe up to 45 — didn’t check.

    Respond please!! Would you like to come here for dessert or a nightcap? They’ll have TV on for Jon Stewart.

    The Diner
    2453 18th Street NW

  289. 289.

    Elizabelle

    PS: They have booze here at the Diner! Am sipping a Malbec. Tullamore Dew and other spirits on the bar. They make boozy shakes too.

  291. 291.

    Anne Laurie

    @Redshift:

    Yep, he can recite rote talking points with the best of them.

    Jeb definitely reminds me of an old AKC obedience aphorism: The advantage to working with a not-too-bright dog is that, once you’ve finally imprinted a routine on his tiny mind, he won’t mind repeating it ten thousand times at the next thousand competitions.

  294. 294.

    Zifnab25

    @dmsilev: Honestly, my money is on Kashich now. He and Walker are coming out of this looking very solid. Them and Rubio.

    If anyone has flamed out here, it’s Jeb.

  295. 295.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Zifnab25: I thought Walker was horrible, but then I always think Walker is horrible, but then that is because Walker is, objectively, horrible.

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