Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

They are not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Let there be snark.

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

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Your Senators Wonder Why You Never Call

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Things look better for HCR than they have in a long time. Nancy Pelosi has the votes to pass a Senate-fix’d bill, or at least she says she does. Harry Reid clearly plans to run something through reconciliation in the next 60 days. Even the public option has a pulse!

This is the home stretch for HCR. Everything will depend on whether Harry Reid can round up 50 votes for reconciliation. If he had it already someone would have leaked the fact, but he wouldn’t get this feisty if he wasn’t close. Please phone your Democratic Senators today to find out where they stand on reconciliation. Our goal is to complete the whip count put together my mcc, so if you hear back from any Democratic Senator please note it in the comments. You might as well plug the public option as long as you have them on the phone.

Switchboard: (202) 224-3121.

Guide for first-timers here.

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Late Night Open Thread: More Music

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Blessings to Andrew Sullivan’s blog, and to the vast and glorious YouTube, without which I would never have discovered Russia24-TV’s ethnic-themed Olympic tributes…

Altai

Yamaal

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Grover gets Beck’s blackboard.

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I have to say that I didn’t bother following CPAC very much this year, but this evening I was out running errands and caught the very end on C-Span radio and it made me laugh out loud.

I had missed all of Glenn Beck’s talk. As I tuned to C-Span there was applause and then a C-Span announcer noted that Beck was signing his blackboard. The wrap-up music started and then stopped. A voice came on and was identified as uber-wingnut David Keene, who–among his many roles–is the Chair of the CPAC conference. He finally gets a mike and says of the blackboard signed by Beck:

“Every Wednesday in Washington all the Conservatives meet in Washington to decide what they should be doing in the week ahead: this is going to go to the site of the weekly meetings to remind us of what we should be doing in the weeks ahead and will be put it to use there.”

The Wednesday morning meeting at Grover Norquist’s front for grifters (AKA ATR) has been a conservative tradition since it began in 1993 to coordinate efforts to block HCR. It looks like Beck’s board will grace the room as the group meets this week to work on blocking HCR and any effort to make Government work again. CPAC has become a way for Norquist to demonstrate the power he has over the modern conservative movement. I thought it was funny to hear the conference end with an offering and a bow in Grover’s direction.

The scribblings of a mad carny gracing the digs of a grifter as he meets with his gang of theives. Somehow, it struck me as funny.

Cheers

dengre

ps: you can watch it at the 4:15:56 mark in this C-Span clip of the afternoon events at CPAC. I would bypass the rest if I were you (it is far better to kill your brain cells with a nice beverage than to do it by actually watching this mindless drivel). It would be great if somebody with the skills could post this bit on YouTube.

And yes, you should use this as an Open Thread…

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