Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Bark louder, little dog.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Republicans would impeach Biden if he bit into a whole Kit Kat rather than breaking the sections apart.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

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

“But what about the lurkers?”

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

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

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Let me file that under fuck it.

I really should read my own blog.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

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Strangely Enough, The Weekly Standard Had No Comment

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Silent wingnuts the world over just “missed” this testimony:

Army chief of staff Gen. George Casey, testifying on troop strain before the Senate Armed Forces Committee Tuesday, said there is “no reason to doubt” Sen. Barack Obama’s military shortage story during CNN’s debate in Austin, Texas, last week.

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War supporters have challenged the story, but Casey said he had “no reason to doubt what it is the captain says.”

“We acknowledged and we all worked together to correct the deficiencies with equipment that we saw during that period, not only Afghanistan but in Iraq,” he said in response to the question posed by Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham, a longtime supporter of GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.

Both Sen. Graham and Sen. Warner tried to play politics with this, and the Army Chief of Staff backed Obama. That has to smart.

So, to recap, Obama didn’t make the Captain up, he most likely was telling the entire truth, and Iraq did distract us from Afghanistan. In other news, water is wet. But hey, nutters- someone just emailed me something claiming Obama was a stealth muslim!

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Lack Of Oversight Leads To Incompetence And Abuse

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Same old story, one small difference. Instead of screwing the country Republicans shat their own bed for once. Apparently the geniuses didn’t exempt their internal bookkeeping from the right’s ideological hatred of good management practices. If the GOP was a roofing contractor nobody in their right mind would go near them.

Point and laugh. As small and pathetic as Republicans seem today, wait until we get kiddie locks back on the levers of power.

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Same As It Ever Was

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Weird. John Aravosis is shocked to find out that the National Review is behaving exactly like the National Review behaved forty years ago.

In other news the GOP is freaking out that people will think that they’re racists. Or maybe they’re worried that their blatant f*cking racism will hurt the tribe in November, who knows. Sounds like a distinction without a difference.

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A Portrait of Futility

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The Politico reports a secret super-duper RNC study:

Top Republican strategists are working on plans to protect the GOP from charges of racism or sexism in the general election, as they prepare for a presidential campaign against the first ever African-American or female Democratic nominee.

The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate, according to people involved. The secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior GOP operatives see for a party often criticized for its insensitivity to minorities in campaigns dating back to the 1960s.

Umm, yeah. Good luck with that, guys. ThinkProgress reports the following:

Florida state Rep. Donald Brown (Republican) introduced a bill last week to create a “Confederate Heritage” license plate for the state. Saying “it would give motorists a way to show pride in their heritage,” Brown proposes a $25 charge for motorists to purchase a plate with “a shield displaying the rebel battle flag symbol surrounded by several flags from the Civil War era.” The money would benefit “educational programs run by Sons of Confederate Veterans,” which considers the Civil War to be “the Second American Revolution.”

It is going to be a long, long year for the GOP.

*** Update ***

Here is the actual plate.

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The Politics Of Fear

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Every class has one of those kids who opens his mouth and says what everyone else is thinking. The GOP has Bill Kristol.

“[Obama’s] riding a wave of euphoria. She [Clinton] needs to puncture it. The way you puncture euphoria is reality, or to be more blunt, fear. I recommend to Senator Clinton the politics of fear.”

I sincerely promise to stop pointing out that Republicans and terrorists want exactly the same thing (you, scared shitless) as soon as it stops being so blatantly true.

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Lapel Pin Patriotism, Round Two

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I thought we had already dispatched this nonsense once, but it appears to have resurfaced with Nedra Pickler’s insightful piece:

Sen. Barack Obama’s refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin along with a photo of him not putting his hand over his heart during the National Anthem led conservatives on Internet and in the media to question his patriotism.

Doing due diligence to get the story right, Nedra goes to an expert for his opinion:

The AP’s Nedra Pickler asks disgraced Republican dirty-trickster Roger Stone for his opinion. Stone you’ll remember is the guy who got caught making threatening phone calls to New York Gov. Spitzer’s (D-NY) elderly father and last month set up an anti-Hillary group with the acronym C-U-N-T.

Surprisingly enough, Stone thinks the answer is yes.

Since Obama and the Democrats seem to have such a big problem with patriotism and lapel pins, I guess we need to have yet another photo montage of prominent Republicans demonstrating how to wear a lapel pin. Here goes:

Rick Renzi (R-AZ), recently indicted on multiple counts of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and insurance fraud, looks positively patriotic with his lapel pin.

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Always the dapper and patriotic dresser, Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) displays his lapel pin after having his house raided by the Feds after a two-year investigation.

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No one can deny that Rep. Randall “Duke” Cunningham (R-CA) doesn’t make a statement with this lapel pin. Sadly, the Duke’s fashion choices are now limited as he is incarcerated for up to ten years after pleading guilty to tax evasion, conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Come 2016, the Duke will no doubt be modeling his patriotism in the form of a dashing lapel pin once again.

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Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) looks tanned and very patriotic with his red hair and blue suit and patriotic lapel pin. Sadly, his red hair might be gray before he can once again get the perfect tan, as he is currently serving a prison term for conspiracy to defraud the United States and for a charge of falsifying financial disclosure forms.

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Former Governor Bob Taft (R-OH) is dressed to impress with this lapel pin. Taft plead no contest to multiple misdemeanors.

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Larry Craig looks positively magnificent as he models this doubly patriotic lapel pin during his mug shot for a widely discussed bathroom incident.

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You know, now that I think about it, maybe it isn’t that big of a deal whether or not Obama wears a lapel pin.

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Oh NOES! Obama may or may not have worn “Muslim-like gear.” I sure hope the sweet dears at Sweetness and Light don’t see this:

President Bush in Africa, embracing brown people doing a “Death to America” tribal dance.

Seriously, these people are ridiculous.

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The GOP Nightmare

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Isn’t terrorism, despite all the hand-wringing from the serious people and their bedwetting allies in the blogosphere. This is the real GOP nightmare:

Hillary Clinton apparently thought that she had a killer sound bite during Thursday’s debate when she ripped Barack Obama as a promoter of “change your can Xerox.”

Instead, the audience booed, critics winced and once again the New York senator’s attempt to demonize her rival fell flat, another illustration of how 2008, at least so far, is the year that negative campaigning just doesn’t work as it once did.

“It looks like people are just burned out on that stuff,” said Peter W. Schramm, the executive director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs in Ohio.

In state after state, voters said they moved from Clinton to Obama — or, on the Republican side, from Mitt Romney to John McCain or Mike Huckabee — partly because they were tired of what seemed like politics as usual.

Without negative campaigning, the GOP has- well, nothing, really. They have no new ideas. They have unattractive candidates. Their standard-bearer is someone who can easily be tied to many (if not most) of the disastrous policies of the Bush administration, someone who has gone out of his way to seek part ownership of the extremely unpopular war in Iraq, and someone who gets less attractive by day as reporters suddenly begin to examine his record. No amount of straight talk can insulate McCain from the party of Bush, Cheney, and DeLay, and now negative campaigning, dragging down the Democratic candidate, may not work.

And that has got to scare the shit out of them.

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