Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

All hail the time of the bunny!

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

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

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

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

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  2. 2.

    ThymeZone

    Thanks mainstream media!

    I applaud the sentiment behind this. However, when the blogosphere descends to the level of MSM, which it pretty much has, it will need to elevate its game before it can stand in snarky criticism of MSM on these grounds.

    We’ve watched MSM remain mostly silent as Mister Magoo has separated himself from almost every principled “position” he has ever taken as he goes after the presidency.

    Blgoville has managed to turn into the Gotcha Machine on Obama, has taken this approach both on the right and the left.

    We knew that MSM was useless, we have always known that. Who knew that the blogosphere was going to become just like them, only worse?

  3. 3.

    nightjar

    Looks like panic has struck GooPerville. Karl Rove in a speech tries to maintain the party meme of Obama as a Abotion loving Latte Liberal. Pleads not to believe the dem candidate on his so called moderating to the middle.

    Mr. Rove also took aim Mr. Obama’s recent efforts to court “pro-life and values leaders” and try to “convince them that he’s a reasonable person.”

    “I understand what he’s trying to do,” Mr. Rove said. “But there is a difference between talk and action. And in this instance, his actions over the years are far more important than any reassuring words that he can offer in a private conversation.”

    I bet he does understand Obama using Rovian tactics against republicans. And for all the progressives currently prostrate on their fainting couches, Obama is playing to win, no not just win, but to destroy his opponent.

    Yes, it’s triangulation, but against wingnuts, not his own party. And if you read closely his supposed flip-flop statements on the Supremes decision on guns and the death penalty for non-murders you will find he couches them in a Federalist framework, or states rights, and not necessarily his own beliefs. I say brilliant, and though others will disagree, they will get over it when he wins.

  4. 4.

    ThymeZone

    I say brilliant, and though others will disagree,

    You misspelled “others are far too stupid to get what a national election is really all about,” but, who’s quibbling?

    The Democrats have failed pretty much since WWII to get a real majority (more than 50.4 percent) of popular votes in a national election (Johnson being the exception, AFAIK) while the GOP has been pretty adept at it. We scoff at Rovian politics, but the fact is, it is effective at keeping the base committed and getting the vote out. Those are things that are necessary to win at this level.

  5. 5.

    Libby Spencer

    Quote of the day on this theme that I picked up in some comment section:

    Things I learned this morning from NPR: Wesley Clark attacked John McCain’s military service; Swift Boat Veterans “changed” the perception of Kerry…

    I have nothing to add to that.

  6. 6.

    nightjar

    You misspelled “others are far too stupid to get what a national election is really all about,

    I leave the hyperbole to you TZ.

  9. 9.

    DannyNoonan

    The MSM doesn’t do nuance. Neither does the Republican Party. Meanwhile the Dems can’t even get everyone in the room at the same time for an evening of cheese, grapes and Snapple to decide what nuance means. My party sucks.

  10. 10.

    Jody

    The Democrats have failed pretty much since WWII to get a real majority (more than 50.4 percent) of popular votes in a national election (Johnson being the exception, AFAIK)

    A quicker way to say this would have been “Not since Johnson have the Dems been able to get a real majority,” etc.

    More truthful, too.

    Just sayin’.

  11. 11.

    The Other Steve

    K.Lo’s House of Crazy.

    A totally crazy Saturday-morning thought: Wouldn’t George W. Bush make an awesome high-school government teacher? Wouldn’t it be something if his post-presidential life would up being that kind of post-service service? How’s that for a model? Who needs Harvard visiting chairs and high-end lectures? How about Crawford High? (Or wherever?) Reach out and touch the young before they are jaded, or break them of the cynicism pop culture and possibly their parents have passed down to them. Whatever you think of President Bush, he’s a likable guy in love with his country with some history and experience to share.

    Like I said, crazy. Saturday. Have a good one.

  12. 12.

    scarshapedstar

    Wouldn’t George W. Bush make an awesome high-school government teacher?

    He didn’t even make a very good kindergarten teacher.

  13. 13.

    ThymeZone

    A quicker way to say this would have been “Not since Johnson have the Dems been able to get a real majority,” etc.

    More truthful, too.

    Just sayin’.

    Uh, no, I think it’s more accurate (which I think means truthful, at least here in Arizona) to say that it has happened once since Truman.

    That’s 15 presidential elections, with one really solid majority for Dems.

    That tells the true story, which is that Dems suck at uniting behind presidential candidates, and then getting out the vote for their candidate.

    Markos Moulitsas, who advanced this idea about a week or ten days ago, followed it closely with an announcement that he was withholding his personal campaing contributions from Barack Obama over the FISA issue.

    Which just shows to go you, even the bright Dems can be completely asinine idiots at election time and figure out ways to shoot the party, and thereby the country, in the groin.

  14. 14.

    TCG

    Checkout K-lo’s Kraziness at the Korner, here.

    She seems to think that GWB would make a like totally awesome High School History Teacher in his post presidency.

    It’d be a public service for Bush to get a hold of the younguns before they get all jaded and such.

    She’s gotta be joking.

  16. 16.

    TCG

    Tyson Homosexual Gay had a bad day at the Olympic Trials.

    The American Family Association’s website has learned from its mistake and is reporting the headline straight this week.

  17. 17.

    Johnny Pez

    is reporting the headline straight this week

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  19. 19.

    rz

    I feel it necessary to defend German Media here. When Spiegel writes “Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip” tehy want to say “Obama Refines Plans for Germany Trip”. There is no hidden meaning.

  20. 20.

    dslak

    I feel it necessary to defend German Media here.

    The joke isn’t on the German media; it’s on the US media. Of course the headline means just what it says. That’s the point.

  21. 21.

    Lindamc

    In North Carolina, we don’t appreciate people who pretend to be something they are not —- Obama won the primaries based on his liberal agenda, but now he feels to win this election, he has to move to the center. So who is he? Once elected will he “flip flop” back to his original positions? Can we trust a person like this. I think not!! I stand in John McCain. Better a devil we know than one we don’t know. 143 days in the Senate? and he bases his creds for being the President on that??? Wake up, America!!

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