Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I would gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.

The revolution will be supervised.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Petty moves from a petty man.

This fight is for everything.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

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

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Be a wild strawberry.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Come on, man.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

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A Contrast

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Check the “fact-checking zeal” of the right-wing blogosphere regarding Beauchamp, and compare it to their intrepid coverage regarding Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman.

Discuss.

*** Update ***

Uncle Jimbo at Black Five hoping Beauchamp is physically assaulted:

Well just take a look at this little pissant’s previous literary efforts, and I’ll be honest I would pay good money to knock that freakin’ smirk off his face.

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Your character, or more accurately, your complete lack of it has already been noted and your experiences, being mostly fiction matter little. If any of them happened, you will face punsihment, but as we know telling BS stories is not a crime. As far as writing under your own name, as I noted above JD Johannes had already identified you down to Company (100+ troops) level and you used your first and middle names as your pseudonym you freakin’ pinhead. You were already fronted out and I would assume it was some members of your unit that “politely” invited you to name yourself. You are a disgrace Beauchamp, a wannabe intellectual lacking the brainpower to do much more than embarrass yourself in public. Well Bravo, you have shown yourself to be a back-stabbing petty BS artist. Congratulations on that. Now you need to get busy watching your back, ‘cuz if you think you were disliked and unloved before……Heh.

Being lectured by Uncle Jimbo about intellectual brainpower really has got to sting. We’ll file this under supporting the troops.

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Uncle Jimb0 responds:

Where in the hell did the notion that I have called for anyone to actually hurt this pissant. You have to stretch my quote pretty far for that and I certainly didn’t mean what you imply.

It is simple common sense that having called the people in his unit complete scum, he would have a need to watch his ass. Odds are he will be removed from the unit just so he doesn’t take a beat down he certainly earned.

Fat drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Jimbo.

Not only do you cop to wanting to “knock that freakin’ smirk off his face,” you also state that now he has to “watch his ass.”

That is a threat, and not a stretch to interpret it that way, you bloviating scumbag.

The funniest thing in all of this is that there is no way to prove one way or another Beauchamp is lying, but now, even if Beauchamp is lying, he comes out looking better than the asshole armchair commandos attacking him.

** Update #3 ***

Oh no. I will be savaged ‘manana.’

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Great Moments In Political Hackery

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This is exceptional:

Buying Time…

…but not much. Rasmussen’s latest survey suggests that the administration has convinced most Americans that we should wait until General Petraeus reports in September before deciding on any change of course in Iraq: 51% hold that view, compared to 38% who disagree.

That’s good, I guess. The problem is that September is right around the corner. How realistic is it to expect conditions in Iraq to change enough in the next eight or nine weeks to convince Americans, most of whom are now pessimistic, that a corner has been turned? If the Democrats were smart, they would have joined with the administration in identifying September as the key date, rather than trying to undermine the surge from the opening gun. In September, it won’t be hard for them to argue that any improvements are modest and the surge, having been given a fair chance, should be terminated.

You see- things are going badly because the DEMOCRATS ARE UNDERMINING our efforts. Just last week, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi were spotted placing IED’s near Baghdad.

You will have to forgive Hinderaker for this one. First, he is an idiot and can not control himself. Second, let’s face it- with Bush guttered out at 26%, any time they see a poll number over 50% they are going to get a little full of themselves.

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One Nation Under God, GODDAMNIT

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And all you heathen Hindus better recognize or GTFO:

Christian activists briefly disrupted a Hindu invocation in the US Senate on Thursday, marring a historic first for the chamber and showing that fundamentalism is present and shouting in the US too.

Invited by the Senate to offer Hindu prayers in place of the usual Christian invocation, Rajan Zed, a Hindu priest from Reno, Nevada, had just stepped up to the podium for the landmark occasion when three protesters, said to belong to the Christian Right anti-abortion group Operation Save America, interrupted by loudly asking for God’s forgiveness for allowing the ”false prayer” of a Hindu in the Senate chamber.

“Lord Jesus, forgive us father for allowing a prayer of the wicked, which is an abomination in your sight,” the first protester shouted. “This is an abomination. We shall have no other gods before you.”

Democratic Senator Bob Casey, who was serving as the presiding officer for the morning, immediately asked the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. But they continued to protest as they were headed out the door by the marshals, shouting, “No Lord but Jesus Christ!” and “There’s only one true God!”

Zed, clad in saffron with a prominent tilak on his forehead, then nervously went through the invocation.

Lunatics. Remember who these festering scumbags are when the GOP engages in recreational gay-bashing in a few months to get their votes. This is playing real well abroad, btw.

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