Tonight, the Liveblog will keep me informed AND sane!
Another night, another debate, and once again, I cannot watch, for basically the same reasons mentioned in this diary. (I also thought the Town Hall was the foreign-policy debate, so my comments about...
View ArticleThis video should be in every "In" box of every undecided voter...
...but since I don't have their email addresses, the least we can do is make this sucker go viral! Check it out below the socialist tangerine beignet.
View ArticleThe other side of GOTV: Who's staying home Tuesday... and who that might help
We've all been rightly focusing on GOTV, and how we need every able-bodied carbon-based life-form who's registered to vote to get to the polls -- either on Tuesday, or (if you live in a state that...
View ArticleMA-Sen: Scott Brown is a chicken/weasel hybrid!
Per TPM, Scott Brown simply cannot reschedule his fourth debate with Elizabeth Warren because... well, Sandy! Bus tour! And she ducked out first, anyway: "It is unfortunate that nature intervened in a...
View ArticleAnd now, let's check the numbers for the "Re-Defining Rape" slate:
Joe Donnelly (D) - 49.9% Richard Mourdock (Redef. Rape) - 44.4%Claire McCaskill (D) - 54.2% Todd Akin (Redef. Rape) - 39.7%Suzan delBene (D) - 53.6% * John Koster (Redef. Rape) - 46.4% * (*47.7% of the...
View ArticleAllen West: "The Thing that Wouldn't Leave!"
That was the title of an old SNL sketch featuring Bill Murray, Jane Curtin, and the late great John Belushi. But now we have a new Thing That Wouldn't Leave, and it looks like it'll be hanging around...
View ArticleBREAKING: What John Boehner MEANT to Say (if he wants to keep his gig, that...
Did you ever have one of those days where you just want to crawl inside a tanning booth and cry your eyes out? John Boehner's having one, according to TPM. Check out the humor under the Socialist...
View ArticleBREAKING: A Villager gets it (AGAIN)!
As was pointed out by Mark Sumner, The Washington Post op-ed page is one of the funniest things around this morning, because a good chunk of it is dedicated to the various "reasons" why (GASP!) the...
View ArticleMizz Lindsey tells POTUS, "If you agree to Simpson-Bowles, we'll... let you."
Earlier today, I wrote about Dana Milbank's excellent WaPo column on how the GOP is going through the Five Phases of Grieving. Well, according to TPM, Sen. Lindsey Graham (Closet Case-SC) is apparently...
View Article*Update x2* AZ-09: GOOOOOAAALLLLLLLLLLL!
Per the AP via TPM, Kyrsten Sinema is the new representative for the 9th District of Arizona: In Maricopa County, where the 9th District is located, there are still 260,000 ballots left to be counted,...
View ArticleOld Man Won't Stop Yelling at Cloud!
This was Sen. John McCain (Bitter Old Man-AZ) yesterday, after retired general David (Weiner 2.0) Petraeus disabused him of the notion that there was some kind of sinister cover-up about the attack on...
View ArticleBREAKING: Rep. Tom Price (Teahadist-GA) didn't get the memo...
Already smarting from losing to John Boehner's choice for #4 GOPher in the House, Tom Price went on CNN this morning and demonstrated why he doesn't seem to believe the Republicans have lost the upper...
View ArticleSC-Sen B: Popcorn! Popcorn! My Kingdom for some popcorn!
As Jim Ross used to say, "Business is about to pick up!" It seems that outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint has already set his sights on his first target (Hint: He looks like an Oompa Loompa in a bad suit), and...
View ArticleCathy McMorris Rodgers: The GOP's new Concern Troll
About five seconds after Cathy McMorris Rodgers was picked over Tom Price to chair the House Republican Conference in the next session, she was instantly deployed to all chat shows that would have her...
View ArticleWayne LaPierre on MTP this Sunday: Questions We Should Hear, and Questions...
When BOTH Murdoch-based papers put your face on the front page and call you variations of "insane", you've definitely touched a nerve. National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre did all that and...
View ArticleAssault Weapons Ban 2.0: Beware "the Table"!
Since the horrific shootings in Newtown, CT, we've seen innumerable stories and diaries trumpeting a new movement towards either a new, stronger assault weapons ban or, at the very least, common-sense...
View ArticleAttention Sunday Talk Show Hosts: THIS is how you deal with NRA Spokes-Zombies!
Let me say right up front that I am not a huge fan of Lawrence O'Donnell. I think he's got all of Keith Olbermann's pomposity but none of Keith's devilish sense of humor or satire. What's more,...
View ArticleCliven Bundy: Doubling Down... or "Just Wondering"?
It seems Cliven Bundy is not pleased at the coverage his latest Sermon on the Mound has been getting, and would like the New York Times (among others) to kindly cut it out: In an interview with...
View ArticleJoe the Plumber sez, "When you're already in a hole... FULL SPEED AHEAD!"
As we all know, Samuel "Joe the (not really a) Plumber" Wurtzelbacher displayed his fine sense of subtlety and decorum earlier in the week with his response to Elliott Rodger's murder of 7 people...
View ArticleSen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahomastan): "Obama broke the law... AGAIN!"
You'd think everyone would rejoice at the fact that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- the last American prisoner in Afghanistan -- has been freed. You may not like the price we paid (5 terrorists that had been in...
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