Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

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

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

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

This fight is for everything.

I was promised a recession.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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

Republicans in disarray!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

He really is that stupid.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

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  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mary G:
    There’s also a picture taken slightly later, which shows a few more bottoms on those seats. But not a lot more excitement.

  3. 3.

    Mike J

    @Amir Khalid: I saw the second pic, and got the idea that after the first one hit twitter somebody went out and rounded people up and made them sit for the picture. Perhaps they actually were all in the room earlier, just over at the buffet table. Perhaps they were homeless people dragged in to counter a bad twitpic. I guess we’ll never know.

    Even if they were all real Bush supporters, pretty telling that they weren’t interested in actually watching the debate at a debate watching party. That would have been very, very unusual on any campaign I’ve ever worked on.

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    Rashi

    I thought Bush took it to Trump and revealed him for the clown he is. Watching Trump make 13 year old girl “gag me” faces while Bush did so was priceless and depressing at the same time.

  6. 6.

    David Koch

    War on Xmas

    23,812 words during the debate and not one candidate mentioned Christmas.

    Shocking! Shocking!!

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    Baud

    I love this.

    One of Ted Cruz’s flaws on the trail is that he can come across as unlikeable if he is not careful. He did that tonight a few times.

    So understated. And I’m not used to Erick² saying something that comes that close to reality.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    Josh Marshall with Jeb’s new talking point.

    This was a good debate, in as much as a number of the candidates were either on their game or more on their game than they’ve been in previous debates. Jeb Bush was more spirited and didn’t let Donald Trump slap him around quite as badly as he did in previous debates.

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    Zinsky

    I didn’t see a minute of it, but it sounds horrific. We have become so partisanized (is there such a word?), that people are unable to see real evil (Cruz) and incompetence (Carson, et al) in evaluating future leaders. It’s all about my team vs. your team. This does not bode well for our collective future….

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    Sherparick

    @Zinsky: I did not have enough booze in the house to watch the thing. Between them and moderating panel with Hugh “Happy Face when more torture and bombing thousands is promised” Hewitt on the panel.

    All the cable news networks currently have a pro-war (or at least pro-start the war/invasion) bias. However, once the first few weeks of shock and awe are done and the guerrilla war of convoys, ambushes, and IEDs blowing up settles in, they move on to other shiny objects. I don’t think Fox had a correspondent in either Iraq or Afghanistan the last 10 years, and Richard Engle was doing “independent” stories that got picked up by MSNBC’s by Olbermann and Maddow.

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    debbie

    @Baud:

    Was there a moment in the debate that you would consider Hammertime? I haven’t heard anything about anything decisive this morning.

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    D58826

    I gave up after Christie said he would shoot down Russian jets (didn’t comment on what happens if they shoot down one of ours) and one of the other Goopers wanted to punch Putin in the nose. Other than Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan , and Russia are there any other countries that the GOP wants to go to war with?

  14. 14.

    debbie

    @D58826:

    Other than Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan , and Russia are there any other countries that the GOP wants to go to war with?

    Obama’s America.

  15. 15.

    danielx

    @D58826:

    Other than Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan , and Russia are there any other countries that the GOP wants to go to war with?

    Let’s see: China, North Korea, Mexico….

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    Chyron HR

    @debbie:

    No, Hammer Time was a flop. That’s why the mendaciously fanatical Jeb Bush supporter disappeared around 10 PM last night and the mendaciously fanatical Bernie Sanders supporter mysteriously returned from his hiatus a few minutes later.

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    scav

    @Rashi: I somehow assume the “gag me” faces will be greeted with giddy screams of glee as devestating riposts of anti-pc revolt by the faithful base. Only pointy headed intellectual elites use their ‘words’ let alone logic.

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    Citizen_X

    Oh, Erick-of-Erick. “One of Ted Cruz’s flaws on the trail is that he can come across as unlikeable” …if he shows up, or speaks, or does anything at all, really.

  22. 22.

    feebog

    Did not watch, and could not stomach watching Tweety sum it up on MSNBC. I assume they all sucked. Still waiting for the Graham surge.

  23. 23.

    skjellyfetti

    Ah… nothing like a “blog post” consisting of nothing but a bunch of tweets.

    Way to phone it in.

  24. 24.

    mclaren

    @Zinsky:

    We have become so partisanized (is there such a word?), that people are unable to see real evil (Cruz) and incompetence (Carson, et al) in evaluating future leaders. It’s all about my team vs. your team. This does not bode well for our collective future….

    Alas, this works equally well for the 1980 presidential election:

    We have become so partisanized (is there such a word?), that people are unable to see real evil (Ronald Reagan) and incompetence (George H.W. Bush, et al) in evaluating future leaders. It’s all about my team vs. your team. This does not bode well for our collective future….

    The rot has been going on for a long loooooooooooong time…

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