Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

This fight is for everything.

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

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

No one could have predicted…

The words do not have to be perfect.

Let there be snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

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

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

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

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Republicans in disarray!

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

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No one knows why he went to the phone bank. Maybe he was lost?

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This is really a lot of fun:

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Incredible moments in politics: Romney visits OH GOP phone bank to rally troops opposing SB5 repeal, but refuses to take a position on SB5

It doesn’t matter what he says. Romney has already come out in favor of race-to-the-bottom “Right To Work”, although no one has asked him in the last twenty minutes, so who the hell knows. Even Mitch Daniels wasn’t stupid enough to keep pushing that (publicly, anyway) after he discovered his statehouse was filled with outraged working people.

So far, so good:

According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, Ohioans now oppose Issue 2 by a margin of 57% to 32%–a whopping twenty-five point margin two weeks out from the election, essentially back to where Quinnipiac showed the campaign in July before the ad wars and campaigning began in earnest. In September, the margin was thirteen points, meaning opposition has nearly doubled as Kasich has taken to the road and campaigned across the State on behalf of Issue 2.

If you’re in Ohio, vote.

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Open Thread: “War Is Like Lemonade”

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Andrew Sullivan’s on the “We Read These Idiots So You Don’t Have To” beat:

Mitt Romney’s embrace of the dusted-off nostrums of the Iraq war architects as his foreign policy – more defense spending! more! where’s Max Boot? which Kagan are you? – is a sign of how tenacious neoconservatism is. Just as none of the leading neocon figures have suffered an iota of prestige-loss in Washington because they concocted a foreign policy disaster that cost tens of thousands of lives to no serious effect, so they have, almost to a man, refused to cop to a single error in the process. Their partisan discipline is only matched by their unchanging Stalinist ideology. So what if the Iraq war was a disaster? It’s time for a new war with Iran!
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If you think I’m exaggerating the chutzpah, check out the Bill Kristol piece that woke Les Gelb up. It’s a carbon copy of the memo to invade Iraq. Worse, actually:

[Iran] is a brutal dictatorship. And it’s seeking nuclear weapons while denying it’s doing so. It’s long since been time for the United States to speak to this regime in the language it understands—force. And now we have an engraved invitation to do so. The plot to kill the Saudi ambassador was a lemon. Statesmanship involves turning lemons into lemonade.

Let us pause to note that for Kristol, war is like lemonade. It’s a good thing: delicious, refreshing, innocent…
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Repeat after me: Romney = Cheney’s return. And if your purism demands staying home next year, do not complain when a global religious war breaks out. They’ve told us quite plainly that’s what they want. Like a cold, sparkling drink on a hot summer day. War as a cocktail.

To be fair, I think Romney=Cheney is only true in the foreign policy arena. Willard Romney doesn’t seem to have Darth Cheney’s delight in other peoples’ suffering, if only because he doesn’t pay that much attention to other people. But true north on Romney’s moral compass is “What’s best for Mitt Romney, at this point in time?”, and since the Neocons can promise the best short-term gains on the foreign policy market (while blithely ignoring any horizon beyond the Friedman Unit), their arguments interlock nicely with his MBA vulture capitalist training.

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Open Thread: GOP Electoral Booty Call

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So, the Nevada GOP blinked, according to the Boston Globe:

Nevada today moved its caucus date back a month to Feb. 4, ending a cross-country power struggle with New Hampshire and paving the way for the Granite State to schedule its traditional first-in-the-nation primary in early January.
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Nevada Republicans had originally scheduled their caucus for Jan. 14, infuriating New Hampshire officials, who said the date would throw the election calendar into chaos and force them to hold their primary in early December…

The NYTimes adds an interesting fillip on “bring[ing] a sense of order to an otherwise chaotic primary calendar“:

Nevada’s initial plan to hold its caucuses on January came, in part, at the request of the Mitt Romney campaign. But the decision touched off a wave of controversy, including pledges by most of the Republican candidates to boycott the Nevada caucuses…
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Mr. Romney, who won the Nevada caucuses four years ago, had worked behind the scenes to try to nudge Nevada Republican officials to move up the date in hopes of creating a friendly spot on the calendar.
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“It was just friendly encouragement to accelerate,” said Robert List, a former Nevada governor and member of the Republican National Committee. “It’s my understanding that they were feeling that if he were to do well in Nevada and New Hampshire that there could be sort of an escalating effect as he moved toward South Carolina and Florida. It could give them some momentum and could be helpful.”
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But the effort backfired and touched off a storm in New Hampshire. That state’s largest newspaper, The Union-Leader, called on Mr. Romney to boycott the Nevada caucuses and uphold the tradition of the New Hampshire primary…

It has been widely assumed — not least by Willard ‘Mitt’ Romney — that New Hampshire was a “gimme” for the Romney campaign, where he has a multi-million-dollar “summer cottage” on Lake Winnipeesaukee. But the NHampsters hold their grudges almost as tightly as their wallets. If they get the impression that Willard only pays attention to the Granite State after last call, when he’s failed to hook up with some younger, cuter state that’s got something flashier to advertise than a natural rock formation which doesn’t even exist any more, well… the Manchester Union-Leader is still bragging about killing Ed Muskie’s candidacy back in 1972. They’ve always been pro-Rethuglican up there, but of course plenty of people in the current GOP don’t consider Romney a real Republican. (And plenty of normal people find Willard less than convincing in his impersonation of a real human.)

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