Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

T R E 4 5 O N

Second rate reporter says what?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

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

“woke” is the new caravan.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

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

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

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

Be a wild strawberry.

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Every one seems to be surprised and angry that Ken Lay declined to entertain the invitation to speak before the Senate today. I am not surprised, and here are two possible reasons he may have skipped the barrel-fishing session that would have taken place inthe Senate Chambers today:

1.) Ken Lay is innocent of criminal wrongdoing.

In which case, after every fat-mouthed hypocrite Congressman and Senator has attacked your character, attacked your integrity, and basically raped you in the media for political gain, would you go sit before them and let them ask you offensive, obnoxious, and ill-informed questions which you have to answer politely? I wouldn’t. In fact, with Ken Lay’s money I would hire a private investigator for every Senator and Congressman on one of these committees. I would then spend whatever resources were necessary to shred through every 1040 form, every campaign contribution, and every business dealing that each one of them has had, and I would publish any transgression or POSSIBLE transgression (which is what Lay is guilty of right now- POSSIBLE transgressions), and I would buy multiple full page ads in the NY Times, the WaPo, and the LA Times, and I would put them out there for everyone to see. Then, in my opening statement, I would air all their dirty laundry again. And then I would have a cue card on every Senator and Congressman, so that when they asked me a question, I could say, “Yes. Senator Lieberman, I may have been guilty of poor judgement. But it is in no way as bad as the judgement of Company X, which went out of business in 1992. I notice that they left 275 people unemployed, but not before funding your campaign with x amount of dollars. I also see that you claimed a capital gain of X amounts of dollars in 1991 from the sale of their stock, a mere few months before the company failed.”

2.) Ken Lay is a scum sucking bastard and IS Guilty.

In which case he could give two hoots in hell what Congress or you and I think of him.

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The other day, Ann Richards was the guest du jour on Larry King Live. Ann is still as rambunctious and offensive as always, and anymore she looks like the mutant offspring of a bizarre cross-breeding incident involving Barbara Bush, Tammy Faye Baker, and a brick Wall. Ann still has her soothing ’60 Marlboro red cigarettes a day’ voice, and the same twangy folksy accent that makes Molly Ivins such a treat to listen to. What really is scary is just how scared she is. About EVERYTHING.

Ann Richards’ Fear of Foreign Policy:

KING: All right. Now, let’s run down some issues. The State of the Union speech made by the man who followed you in office, the — he followed you. You were governor. He was governor, and now he’s president. What did you think of it?

RICHARDS: Well, I thought the performance was great. I think he’s really improved his speaking style. I thought the speech writer should get an “A”, because it was a very well-crafted speech. The criticisms I have is, No. 1, I’m a little bit afraid of being in a war in four places at one time. When he starts telling me that we’re going to be at war in Afghanistan, or we’re going to have peacekeepers there, and then we’re going to be in Iraq and we’re going to be in Iran, and we’re going to be in Korea, that makes me a little bit nervous. …But when we start talking about expanding wars, it scares me a little bit.

Ann Richards on Kidnapping:

KING: We’re back with Governor Ann Richards. We will be including your phone calls. What do you make, Governor, of this death threat made by this group in Pakistan against — they’re holding the “Wall Street Journal” reporter and the threat against all journalists, get out in three days or you’re all going to be in — have big troubles?

RICHARDS: Of course, I think — I think kidnapping and those foreign kidnappings are the most frightening things in the world because — and I’m sure this administration feels that. It sort of damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Heaven knows how one is supposed to react to that kind of threat. It is really, really scary. And we should remember that man in our prayers. Mr. Pearl is his name, isn’t it?

Ann Richards on the Camp X-Ray detainees:

KING: What about the detainees now and their treatment?

RICHARDS: Well, I looked at those pictures in the “New York Times,” and I thought it was really scary. I never had seen prisoners that had things over their ears, and blinders over their eyes, and their hands in mittens, and their wrists bound together with metal. And they may not be hurting. You know, they may be trying to keep those people in such total isolation that they break down.

But I think that when Colin Powell raises a question about the treatment in the fashion in which that they are being treated, then I think the administration ought to listen, and I think they’re going to.

Guess what? There was one thing during this interview that did not scare Ann Richards: living conditions in Castro’s totalitarian regime next door to Camp X-Ray

But the people were energetic. They were cheerful. They were healthy-looking. They were clean-looking. I saw no people that I would describe that were at the level of destitution, sleeping in a doorway, like we see some in this country. People are not wealthy. I didn’t meet a rich person. There is a vast middle. The literacy rate is at 96 percent. They are all employed. They all have roofs over their heads. In fact, it is a human right in Cuba to have a place to live and you cannot be evicted.

Everybody together: America sucks, America sucks!

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