As unconfirmed rumors go, this one’s a doozy.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.
Stay strong, because they are weak.
The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.
The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
After dobbs, women are no longer free.
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.
If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.
The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.
Everybody saw this coming.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.
Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.
“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”
That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.
Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
We still have time to mess this up!
Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.
Ozymandius
I predict that he’ll be dead in a week.
slide
I imagine there are more than a few sphincters puckering up on Capitol Hill right about now
Paul Wartenberg
Forget that! I’d start checking off all the countries that don’t have extradition treaties with us, and then check which flights out of Ronald Reagan Nat’l Airport to said countries for the number of congressmen and aides fleeing before Casino Jack flips.
Krista
What’s scary is the fact that we’re actually discussing this as a possibility…
Paul Wartenberg
It depends on how many hitmen are still on the payroll… hey they’ve already got one dead guy in this scandal, right?
Krista
I tend to think of Cheney more as “undead”.
The Other Steve
That is the way DC now operates…
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Nikki
Hardly. You have no idea what is going on in her private life to warrant such an attack. Could be an ex-husband or boyfriend, a stalker, an unpaid drug dealer. I’m quite sure the cops are looking at it more from that angle than as being related to her job. That would only pan out if more Grassley staffers were attacked or Grassley himself.
Perry Como
I’m tired of this criminalization of politics.
chef
Next Chapter: “The Hammer in the Slammer.”
Al Maviva
I’ll cheer publicly if he takes down a bunch of crooked pols and staffers with him. Poltiics is fucked up enough as it is without Abramoff adding his own brand of corruption to it.
BTW, the dead guy isn’t the only casualty. The chief (Republican) staff investigator was attacked in her driveway after work about a month ago, by a big guy with a baseball bat. It put her in the hospital. The attack resembles a spate of attacks on tribal government members that occurred in my original hometown back when some out-of-state native Americans – legitimate native American busy-ness-men, as Fat Tony would say – were attempting to open a casino. Big guys, wearing ski masks and carrying bats would show up, and beat on the tribal leaders. They got their (sovereign) casino, and the tribal council is still terrified of them.
Abramoff is organized crime scum, just with a better educational background than the average mafia thug. I’ll be applauding DOJ when the prison door slams on his crooked ass.
Graham Shevlin
There are plenty of well-spoken, college-educated criminals out there, and some of them even know how to use baseball bats… A Sopranos or Cockney accent is not always a pre-req for thuggish intimidation.
However, I see this overall landscape merely as continuing proof of the old Yorkshire saying “where there’s muck there’s brass” (and vice versa). (Neophytes in the Yorkshire dialect contact me off-blog for a translation to M-W English…)
Bill Arnett
I’m not sure exactly how Mothers and Fathers of Italian Ancestry (M.A.F.I.A.) figures in all this, but this is the MOTHER-LODE if Abramoff flips.
I don’t believe there has ever been such an expensive takeover of government in the history of man. Reminds me of the old saying (from Smokey and the Bandit, and I’m paraphrasing), “Goddamnit, it used to be that when you bought a politician, that son-of-a-bitch STAYED bought!”
It’ll be fun watching the rats (my apologies to rats) abandoning ship!