Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Everybody saw this coming.

Republicans in disarray!

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

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

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

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  2. 2.

    Immanentize

    As Atrios often says, “We just love love love our children so much!” General Kelly probably thinks they are sacred!

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    Brachiator

    Free Market Jesus loves the children,
    All the children of the world
    Be they yellow, black or white,
    They are precious in his sight,
    Free Market Jesus loves the children of the world
    As long as they are not refugees, Latinos, or Muslims, or trouble making blacks, and don’t need health insurance, the lazy moochers.

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    JPL

    @Mary G: The Congress will pass a budget tonight that cuts 1 1/2 trillion from medicare and medicaid tonight. It hasn’t been mentioned, but I blame Trump. He creates such chaos, that most journalists are running from one story to the next.

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    We can’t worry about children when some general officer somewhere might have a case of the sad feels…

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    p.a.

    Paging Anderson Mayhew*:

    CNN chyron says under Senate plan $ goes to consumers, not insurers (no sound on gym tv). CNN correct? If Y, any implications for plan offerings, consumer choices?

    *Excellent name for James Spader-like teen character.

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    SatanicPanic

    @Mary G: the USA right now is like a car we ignore all the funny sounds coming from it and refuse to do any maintenance on. It’ll keep running for a while, but sooner or later it’s going to fall apart.

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    Mr. Wu's Pigs

    Who knows if it helps or not, but I’ve made 30-50 calls about CHIP and other issues.
    @MaryG you nailed it!

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    Duane

    No level of hell is grotesque enough for the lousy Republican bastards who hold children’s health care hostage for their ideological evil. There’s nothing this filth does that doesn’t reek of the most vile of things.

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    Ohio Mom

    Portman’s interns have told me that he supports CHIP and will be voting for it — I’ve called every couple of days since it expired.

    At first, I took that as good news. I mean, if Mr. Typical Republican is for it, maybe it’s safe?

    But then I looked at myself in the mirror and shook my head. I am smarter than letting my hopes interfer with really seeing what is going on. It is silly to trust any Republican.

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    Ohio Mom

    @JPL: Yes, Trump creates chaos but that is not why the budget with its drastic tax cuts is not being highlighted.

    It is because journalists are in the business of selling stories. Weinstein sells papers/gets eyeballs, so they run with that. Not too many people want to read the details of a proposed federal budget.

    I am related by marriage to two newspaper people. I will never forget the state editor gushing about a local hatchet murder that was really bumping up the circulation numbers to new highs. In front of my then eight year old, who didn’t need to hear all the grisly details.

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