Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

The words do not have to be perfect.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

A consequence of cucumbers

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

This blog will pay for itself.

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

Bye Bye, Cardinal Law Not

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Bye Bye, Cardinal Law

Not too often these days that I wake up and check the NY Times and find good news, but today is a rare exception. Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Catholich church’s Richard Nixon, has resigned in disgrace. Now, maybe he will free to cooperate with authorities and make things right for the hundreds? of lives he and his compatriots have ruined.

I just hope this does not take any heat off of Lott, that unreconstructed redneck needs to have his ass handed to him as well. You hear me, hillbilly boy? I am not gonna stop carping on you until your pillow-case wearing, cross-burning, cofederate flag waving ass is thrown out of office. Because of your unrepentant racism, we now have opportunistic jackals like Krugman trying to paint the entire party as the inbred, backwards-ass haters that you and your Council of Concerned Citizens have shown themselves to be.

If Lott does not step down, that is it for me and the Republican party. I am only a registered Republican so I can vote in the primaries, and that doesn’t really matter here in WV. Time to just go Independent, which is how I have been voting for 8 years or so anyway. I just refuse to be associated with a party that accepts overt racism (let alone latent) from the leader of the Senate. And the Democrats are no better- they manage to bridge the gap of racism in a manner only Democrats can- they somehow accept white racists like Maxine Waters, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton while still keeping Robert K.K.K. Byrd and Fritz Hollings mollified. Explain that to me…

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Lott Must Go, Part 2

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Lott Must Go, Part 2

He should be fired for no other reason than the fact that he now has me aligned with Hesiod, Josh Marshall, the bankrupt black leadership (including Jesse ‘Hymie’ Jackson and Al ‘Tawana’ Sharpton), and EVERY online left-leaning blog, magazine, and journal. I am afraid to check Common Dreams, because if I agree with them I might have to end it all. But check out this gem in the NY Times. He has said it before:

Trent Lott, the Republican Senate leader who faces mounting criticism for his comment last week that the nation would have been better off had Strom Thurmond been elected president in 1948, expressed a nearly identical sentiment two decades ago.

After a fiery speech by Mr. Thurmond at a campaign rally in Mississippi for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Mr. Lott, then a congressman, told a crowd in Jackson, “You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today.”

That is officially a pattern of disgusting behavior. Goodbye, Mr. Lott. I don’t even give a shit if you have to resign and the Democrat governor of your state appoints a Democrat and it goes back to 50/50 in the Senate. You have done more to damage race relations than 50 Jesse Jacksons. Good Riddance- and hey, don’t worry- David Duke found a job when his political career ended.

Also, speaking of the bankrupt black leadership, check out this little bit of internecine racism directed at Harold Ford from members of the Congressional Black Caucus as reported in Time (link via Sullivan):

“Democrats have to come up with some answers. Voters are tired of hearing us just say no, no, no, no all the time,” Ford declares. “Even when we’re right, they don’t want to hear it.”

The quotation also describes the hostility Ford’s bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness

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The Daily Kos’s Political State

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The Daily Kos’s Political State Report:

I will just quote Kos for what he is looking for:

The concept is simple: to have ground-level correspondents covering political events in their neck of the woods. As such, I’m looking for politically astute individuals that can provide the occassional report on political ongoings in their states.

I am looking for writers from across the political spectrum — people who can steer clear of empty rhetoric and focus on the “Inside Baseball” aspect of politics. Ideological diversity is meant to provide diverse interpretations of certain events, not to spur pissing matches between ideological foes. This site is intended to be cerebral, not emotional.

Translation- He is looking for volunteers who will be able to report locally, and he is looking for a diverse group of writers. If you have not visited the Daily Kos yet, you do not understand how convinced I am that this will turn out to be a historic and wildly successful endeavor.

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Goodbye, Trent Lott As soon

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Goodbye, Trent Lott

As soon as I read Lott’s latest apology, I realized it is just simply time for the man to go. As I have stated below, I am not a huge fan of the man to begin with, but his incessant bumbling and babbling is a source of embarassment and ridicule, and he is nothing more than a political liability. Why did this latest apology annoy me so much? Let’s take a look at the text of it:

“A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past,” Lott, R-Miss., said in a statement. “Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.”

Why does that sound so obnoxious and annoying and EERILY familiar? Let’s see if this rings a bell:

“I want to let you know how much I regret the fact that alleged comments by the German justice minister have given an impression that has offended you.”

That was the non-apology apology issued by Gerhard Schroder after Justice Minister Herta D

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I see while I was

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I see while I was gone that Trent Lott said something stupid and that some people want him to step aside as Majority Leader for his remarks. Couple of quick notes:

1) I want him to step aside too, but not for these remarks. Hell, as far as I was concerned the capitulation and power sharing two years ago was reason enough to force him out.

2.) I love how Democrats have Republicans so gay and race-conscious that they immediately start bashing themselves at every perceived slight. Listen up, Republicans- Democrats don’t care about race unless it means a vote on election day, a blocked confirmation of a judge, or money. There is no reason to keep beating Trent Lott for being a moron- that is not going to change.

3.) After two years of Daschle, I thought saying stupid things publicly was almost a job requirement. The proof will be when Trent Lott starts to raise “serious questions.”

** UPDATE **

My opinion of Lott’s comments has changed dramatically now that I have seen the video.

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