Friday, January 31, 2014

GO AHEAD, TRY IT THAT WAY.

Love seeing headlines like this at the Washington Times:
Is the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the 2014 midterms?
The author is Tammy Bruce, a radio nut, whose complaint is that Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the first of 57 official Republican respondents to Tuesday's State of the Union, did not froth at the mouth:
Criticism of the content of the GOP response has also been well-deserved. Within the first two minutes, the Republicans assured Americans that Mr. Obama (like the GOP) wants what’s best for everyone. Really? There are many people who legitimately have every reason to not believe that.
Among the reasons Bruce thinks Obama hates America and is "sending this nation off a cliff": Obummercare, Benghazi, and skree.

She also thinks Mia Love should have been selected to do the speech, because she has attained the exalted position of Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah,  and can froth with the best of them, but Love was kibboshed and Bruce suspects it's because the Republicans don't want to win in 2014:
Perhaps the current GOP leadership prefers things as they are: not enough power to do anything conservative of consequence, while watching (and applauding as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor did during the State of the Union) the liberal agenda, including de facto amnesty, become the law of the land...
Well, beats workin'. And if your emoluments of office aren't what they would be if you ruled absolutely, you can pick up the slack with advertising scams --  like the ad cluster that pops up when you go to Bruce's story at WashTimes.
We’re in this mess for a reason, and it’s because GOP leaders either doesn’t understand the conservative ideal (which is why they can’t articulate it), or they do understand it and simply don’t like it.
If that's true, it's probably the only thing "GOP leaders" and the American people have in common. Nonetheless I support Bruce's scheme to seize power by telling voters that the people most of them voted for are traitors. It's gotta work! And if it doesn't, well, can we interest you good people in Goldline?

UPDATE. smut clyde in comments: "Next year the official alternative SOTU speech will be delivered by a Siamese cat walking randomly on the keyboard of Stephen Hawking's speech synthesizer."

155 comments:

  1. zencomix1:15 PM

    Where's Ted Nugent when you really need him?!

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  2. As always chasing his own tail with a broken arrow.

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  3. Bethany Spencer1:35 PM

    He’s laid up with cat scratch fever.

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  4. Jay B.1:38 PM

    For the past 30 or so years, I've been watching the angry Republican dog chase its own tail, barking and screaming at it while it nips at its own ass. At first and for a long time it was horrifying. Then it was amusing, a little, if not for the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed for no fucking reason (one shouldn't actually have an angry, senseless dog ruling the country, IMO) and millions more suffering for God knows why. Now the poor fucking thing has broken its own back, is gnawing on its tail, drawing blood, screaming in pain and is convinced that if it just bites just a little harder and screams a little louder, it'll show everyone just how right it was all along.

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  5. Jay B.1:38 PM

    Amazing -- I was locked in on the chasing its own tail metaphor too. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

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  6. "We’re in this mess for a reason, and it’s because GOP leaders either
    doesn’t understand the conservative ideal (which is why they can’t
    articulate it), or they do understand it and simply don’t like it." I like the use of the word articulate. Dig deeper on that, Repulicans. And once you get THAT much right, try your hand at actual policy.

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  7. You're as drunk as me? in which case, my condolences to your family.

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  8. RogerAiles1:43 PM

    Mia Love? Was Ken Mehlman busy?

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  9. Gromet1:50 PM

    Conservatives! They pay a lot of lip service to the idea that Jesus died for our sins. But they act like he died of rabies.

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  10. Shirley you are thinking of "A Morning at the Mountain Meadows Massacre?"
    ~

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  11. I am so looking forward to Tea Party challenges in the GOP primaries. Go injuries!

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  12. zencomix2:41 PM

    No, it's where Mitt Romney goes when he wants to sing along with the jukebox at Desperate Annie's to"You're So Vain".

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  13. Bethany Spencer2:45 PM

    He means SKREEE!

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  14. Damn you, BBBB! I didn't even see that one coming.

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  15. smut clyde2:48 PM

    Mia Love should have been selected to do the speech, because she
    has attained the exalted position of Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah



    Next year the official alternative SOTU speech will be delivered by a Siamese cat walking randomly on the keyboard of Stephen Hawkings' speech synthesiser.

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  16. Bethany Spencer2:51 PM

    This is interesting advice, though. Really. Because obscuring your real goals and motives goes hand in hand with conservative messaging. Tammy Bruce says she wants conservatives to be honest about their goals, about what’s wrong with the country. But even Tammy Bruce knows what would happen if Republicans laid bare their souls: people would run away in terror, projectile vomiting and scratching out their eyes. It’d basically be like this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0643109/


    And, hey, we’ve seen how well conservatives KEEPIN’ IT REAL works before. Just asked that guy Todd Akin, who’s now serving in the Senate.

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  17. Bethany Spencer2:52 PM

    I WOULD WATCH THAT.

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  18. Bethany Spencer2:56 PM

    I’m pretty sure people like Bruce won’t be happy until the SOTU is treated like a showing of “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” only with everyone shouting things like “Kenyan Traitor!” at the prez.

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  19. Mark_B4Zeds2:57 PM

    Siameses can talk, you know.

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  20. Indeed, Republicans seem to pay a dearer price for accidentally being too honest than they do for their actual destructive, dysfunctional policies. Tammy Bruce needs to think really, really hard about whether that's what she really wants from her GOP leaders.

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  21. Mark_B4Zeds3:06 PM

    He won't be happy until the SOTU is treated like the gladiator scene in Idiocracy.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1w-cHBSZCo

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  22. Bethany Spencer3:07 PM

    Dammit, Janet Yellen!

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  23. I think this is what they were all hoping for.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4jrMwvZ2A
    ~

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  24. Objection! No one really needs Ted Nugent.

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  25. "... or they do understand it and simply don’t like it."


    Replace "GOP leaders" with "the electorate," and you might be on to something, Tammy.

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  26. Tammy Bruce needs to think really, really hard ...


    Yeah, I think I see the problem.

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  27. smut clyde3:23 PM

    In my experience they prefer to walk randomly on keyboards.

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  28. Doesn't that run the (admittedly slight) risk of producing something coherent and non-stupid purely by accident, though? Remember the thought experiment about all those monkeys with typewriters, aka the WSJ editorial department.

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  29. Mark_B4Zeds3:27 PM

    Yes, they can talk, but usually they choose not to. The rest of this post was composed by my gray tuxedo cat (not siamese) ; def;'o[frwpppppp5nhj;wtw';;;;;;;;wjrtio[wt\q

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  30. redoubtagain3:30 PM

    If your family name is DeVos (or the subsidiary from Prinz Erik von Schwarzwasser zu Abu Dhabi), this is pretty much why you exist.

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  31. MBouffant3:32 PM

    Gee, seems as if Cathy McMorris Rogers was certainly giving it the ol' Far Western Idaho try, but lying up & down isn't enough for Ms. Bruce.

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  32. smut clyde3:39 PM

    No WHEEEING here, catboy
    We have had occasion to say that to the Siamese but he keeps on doing it.

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  33. smut clyde3:43 PM

    But they act like he died of rabies.

    Has anyone filmed a mash-up of "Passion of the Christ" and "28 Days Later"? Christ resurrects, with the Rage Virus? I would watch that.

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  34. tigrismus3:51 PM

    You should teach him how to use the keyboard.

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  35. BigHank534:15 PM

    Mel Gibson is beating the shit out of a script right now. When he's done, he's going to have it loaded up with shit so he can do it all over again tomorrow.

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  36. M. Krebs4:16 PM

    He on a journey to the center of his mind. Come along if you dare.

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  37. M. Krebs4:19 PM

    Zombie Jesus is an idea whose time has come.

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  38. M. Krebs4:20 PM

    This sounds familiar.

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  39. Bethany Spencer4:20 PM

    Didn’t most of us see the 2012 primary?

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  40. There was actually a very nice moment in a Bones episode when the main character explains to David Boreanis that he can think what he wants, qua Catholic, but obviously Jesus was a Zombie.

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  41. Zombie Jesus but you are on a roll here, Bspencer.

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  42. smut clyde4:31 PM

    Well of course a spear wound in the side isn't going to stop him.

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  43. Bethany Spencer4:47 PM

    Yes, I upvote compliments.


    HINT, HINT.

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  44. True story: I once had a Siamese Cat (Sealpoint) named Herpes.

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  45. I was surprised to see how quick and effective the pushback on that one was. It made me uncomfortable because it seemed so close to a Malkinesque spying on her countertops. On the other hand Politicians ought really not to feel free to use "stupid shit a voter sent me by email" as a method of making policy or as the meat of a speech. If you wanted to use someone's photo you'd have to call them up and make sure you had their permission and you ought to have the good sense to contact any person you are going to quote in a major public address and just verify the facts.

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  46. Bethany Spencer4:57 PM

    This comment is so awesome, I want it to die, then rise again in 3 days. With rabies.


    Without is fine, too.

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  47. Howlin Wolfe5:18 PM

    Might even get some good physics out of that.

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  48. smut clyde5:21 PM

    Never give a cat a name that would cause the neighbours concern when you are wandering around calling it in the middle of the night.

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  49. Mark_B4Zeds5:25 PM

    I have a cat named Jar Jar. My neighbors just think I'm a Star Wars fan with bad taste.

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  50. Yes, this was in the late sixties, early seventies. We were very young. Like, under ten years old young. My brother had had the non-veneral kind, herpes zooster (?) or simplex, I can't remember. He was really little too and he chose the name. But we did, indeed, raise a few eyebrows when he would periodically go missing and we'd have to open the door and shout for him.

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  51. Mark_B4Zeds5:42 PM

    You're a fascinating woman. Now where's my upvote?

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  52. smut clyde5:46 PM

    Salome the Zombie Slayer.

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  53. Bitter Scribe5:53 PM

    I prefer Vampire Jesus.


    "He gave His blood for you...and now He wants it back!"

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  54. GeniusLemur5:57 PM

    "Is the GOP deliberately trying to sabotage the 2014 midterms?"
    No they're just that damn deluded.

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  55. The author is Tammy Bruce, a radio nut,

    I'd also like to note that she has a worse radio voice than anyone else, including Mark "Foamer" Levin.

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  56. Isn't Tammy Bruce the official Lesbian Liberal Hater on the right? I haven't seen her byline in quite a while but I have dim memories that she appeared in some kind of not exactly conversion narrative, but maybe as the token butch lesbian pro military speaker on Levin's show?

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  57. coozledad6:56 PM

    My uncle, who was born in 1905, use to tell a story about his father and some other men being recruited to keep watch over a young retarded man who'd been bitten by a rabid dog, He'd been strapped to a bed, and the room partitioned off.


    He was a large powerful person, and when he entered his death throes, he broke his restraints and started to climb the partition. The men, who'd been seated at a small table, getting drunk, panicked and ran out of the house.
    I have no idea if this story is true. The one rabid animal I've seen looked like there was nothing left in them to fight with.



    But a movie, with infected Jesus starting to come over the wall, and "Oh shit! It's Jesus! Run!"?
    I'd watch the hell out of that.

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  58. coozledad7:00 PM

    He isn't even hydrophobic.

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  59. M. Krebs7:25 PM

    Don't tell me an old boyfriend gave you Herpes.

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  60. What a story. I guess it could have been true--I think the tetanic convulsions at the end are supposed to be pretty terrifying.

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  61. We were too young to know how weird the name was--what my parent's excuse was I don't know but that's the kind of family I grew up in.

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  62. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts


    Dear Penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me, but when I agreed to spend the night in a haunted house ...

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  63. I agree with Mark_B4Zeds: truly a fascinating ... Wait, you're a woman? I thought your real name was "Kenneth."

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  64. Magatha8:21 PM

    Oh, hell, here I go, waiting for a message of some sort or another.

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  65. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:23 PM

    And you just know it would make more sense. :)

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  66. J Neo Marvin8:24 PM

    I'm surprised they didn't go with Mike Love.

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  67. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:25 PM

    Hell it's worth the name just to raise a few eyebrows - otherwise they get glued into place :)

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  68. coozledad8:26 PM

    ...and the Jezebel spirit took my Bulova Accutron.

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  69. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:27 PM

    The other day one of our 3 cats walked across my laptop and managed to trigger something (still not sure what) that made it so that every entry on the keyboards (built in and USB) just produced a beep :) I had to reboot to get everything back

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  70. JennOfArk8:29 PM

    I had a little black cat with a very elfin face; wanted to name her Puck but then considered that people might think I was yelling something else when I went out to call her. So I name her Ella Fitzgerald instead.


    I'd still like to eventually have a couple of male kitties and name them Vlad and Cleetus.

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  71. Magatha8:29 PM

    And not just once. She's takin it again. Again. Again! Takin it again.

    Shutting up now.

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  72. J Neo Marvin8:30 PM

    I bound you with chains of iron.

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  73. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:34 PM

    I was watching some science show on surviving the end of the world last night and in it they cut open the brain of someone who had died of rabies. It was truly ugly - big long gloppy strands of virus eating away the brain. Real zombie nightmare stuff

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  74. JennOfArk8:36 PM

    There's a pretty good description of someone dying from rabies in Their Eyes Were Watching God. From what I recall, it syncs up pretty well with your story.

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  75. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:37 PM

    Sadly only in another reality - lucky for them

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  76. JennOfArk8:38 PM

    I love the lack of subject-verb agreement in that sentence.

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  77. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:40 PM

    Just another day living under GOP rule

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  78. Smarter than Your Average Bear8:41 PM

    With luck the entire GOP slate will be nothing but TPers

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  79. I thought the official Lesbian (who hates liberals) was Camille Paglia.

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  80. Eat your own dog food long enough, it tastes just like pumpkin pie, to coin a phrase.

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  81. Bethany Spencer9:04 PM

    I'll leave to sharculese to discuss the issue of gender fraud.

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  82. Seven or eight keys across the board could be macro'd to yell "BENGHAZI!", "NEVER FORGET 9-11" or "SHOW US THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE." That should take care of the problem.

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  83. tigrismus10:05 PM

    It's all been a tissue of lies. I bet she doesn't even really have bunny ears.

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  84. M. Krebs10:15 PM

    Her full name is Mia Love Yulong Tyme.

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  85. M. Krebs10:18 PM

    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is pretty much where these people were coming from.


    David Byrne and Brian Eno were time travellers.

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  86. M. Krebs10:20 PM

    You should've been with me when I carted off the dead rat from my crawlspace today.

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  87. M. Krebs10:21 PM

    This seems like the perfect opportunity to say that Lord Chubbington is looking mighty handsome there.

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  88. M. Krebs10:23 PM

    Ya know, I really didn't expect that joke to fall so flat.

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  89. Jaime Oria10:42 PM

    No-will-whatsoever...No-will-whatsoever...Absolutely-No-Integrity...
    Hey! Actually relevant WRT the folks Roy reads so we don't have to.

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  90. Her "wikiwakiwoo" entry is bizarre- if it's accurate, she's all over the place socially and politically.

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  91. If you want a cat to blog properly, get a creamsicle cat, female or male, makes no difference.

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  92. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:29 PM

    Only one? Hell, we had four this time...

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  93. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:32 PM

    Bad taste? He was the star of the fucking movie.

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  94. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:48 PM

    When you're out of the spotlight a while, there's no telling what you might do to get back in...

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  95. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:51 PM

    The Left has no copyright on "Party Unity My Ass!"...

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  96. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:55 PM

    He's busy working on that self-fulfilling prophecy of his...

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  97. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person11:58 PM

    Yeah, his office is right between Sens Angle and O'Donnell...

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  98. AGoodQuestion11:59 PM

    You must have gotten some strange looks telling people you had to get home and feed Herpes.

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  99. AGoodQuestion12:01 AM

    Are you kidding? The dog has achieved the seemingly impossible and disappeared up its own ass.

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  100. Mark_B4Zeds12:04 AM

    She got that name because she was very annoying and right on top of everything as a kitten, impossible to ignore. She's grown up to be much the same.

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  101. AGoodQuestion12:08 AM

    Right across from Joe Miller, as well. I mean the guy from Alaska, not the book of old jokes.


    On second thought...

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  102. AGoodQuestion12:14 AM

    One heads the Smarmy Division and the other leads the Nutty Division. I'll leave it up to you to determine which is which.

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  103. glennisw12:16 AM

    The pub scenes with Judas and Lazarus are hilarious!

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  104. glennisw12:20 AM

    Wow, seriously, McMorris Rogers' office didn't even let the woman know she was going to talk about her?

    I mean, it's a shame the lady engaged in a little mean-minded hyperbole that got broadcast nationally, for fercrissakes, you would at least think the Congresswoman would get her permission first to cite her, and check the facts.

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  105. stepped_pyramids1:50 AM

    No, Paglia's gig is claiming to be a Liberal Democrat Feminist while sincerely hating everything that those words represent.

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  106. BadExampleMan2:44 AM

    I was going to post this last night but I was on my tablet and quoting was too much trouble.


    YOU HAZ STOLED MAI UPVOTES!

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  107. El Manquécito8:47 AM

    I wish Roy would make up some programs/scorecards. How you gonna tell 'em apart without a program?

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  108. TGuerrant9:25 AM

    We could rate them with peanuts - a four-peanut rating meaning crazier than those with three-peanut ratings, etc. The J.D. Power/A.C. Nielsen of political writing.


    National Review could use it in its final, desperate fundraiser - FIVE OF OUR AUTHORS RATED 6 PEANUTS OR HIGHER BY ALICU COMMIE TRAITORS WHO HATE WHAT YOU LOVE.


    Roy might even be able to build a decent IRA by accepting bribes honoraria from noob wingnut blatherers seeking nuttier ratings. I mean, really, how wrong is it to rate them up if they're aspiring to greater crazy? Make the free market earn its keep. 'Bout time.

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  109. TGuerrant9:32 AM

    Yessss. Never mind the decency and etiquette issues involved, how about just the self-serving conniving standard operating procedure of making sure the bomb you're about to lob at the opposition doesn't blow your arm off instead?


    But then, we were all trained by the Soviets back in our hippie days, so we know that stuff and they don't. They're just innercint Amarkins trying to stay free.

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  110. TGuerrant9:36 AM

    It's threads like these that have made me abandon Proust for Edroso et al.

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  111. Well, yeah, everyone knows you go for a head-shot. A crown of thorns ain't gonna cut it, though; gotta be the brains for some reason, or it doesn't happen.

    (off the record--wouldn't it be a kicker if real zombies happen and it turns out it's some other magical body part, like the left kidney, that needs to be destroyed to kill it? Lots of surprises and laughs if that happens.)

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  112. Ellis_Weiner11:03 AM

    (This isn't the whole song, which I can't find. There's another verse, with something like "We are from a residence in Siam/There is no finer cat than I am.")

    Sung (and co-written!) by Peggy Lee.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDla0QW844

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  113. Ellis_Weiner11:09 AM

    "But even Tammy Bruce knows what would happen if Republicans laid bare
    their souls: people would run away in terror, projectile vomiting and
    scratching out their own eyes."


    I'D TOTALLY WATCH THAT. (At first.)

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  114. Ellis_Weiner11:12 AM

    Love this. They come "in costume" (bones in noses, nooses around neck, etc.), and the Supreme Court have to up their game just to get noticed.

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  115. I thought the WSJ's official position was more in sorrow than in anger, then in hysteria than in sorrow, then in gibbering rage, than in anger but with a main focus on the cruelties done by the people to the job creators. I don't really see them as getting excited about things like 9/11 or the birth certificate or anything much. If it doesn't affect the bottom line they could give a fuck. Or rather, they have peggy noonan to express their magical mystery side.

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  116. Whereabouts are you from, CD? My daughter was in a repertory performance piece about Appalachia and the story telling that went on, sandwiched between the songs, was all very like your uncle's story. They told a long, shaggy dog, style story about two tiny old ladies muscling an enormous dead man in and out of his "two good suits" unable to decide which would be better for him to be buried in. It was incredibly grim and incredibly funny at the same time, plus bonus lying him out on the kitchen table for the night.

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  117. Sigh. Me too. I started last year, after the Marathon Bombing here in Boston, to do a little Proust blogging every day but alicublog is more fun.

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  118. willf1:44 PM

    I were gonna say that, but I doesn't know how to articulate my ideal properly.

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  119. montag21:59 PM

    It now seems to have reached the level of Kremlinology amongst the GOP faithful that an eyebrow arched at the wrong time (or an eyebrow not arched at all) is sufficient evidence of party line impurity (whatever that is likely to be this evening or tomorrow), and that the GOP, with its many splinters, adjuncts, loyalists, disloyalists, Tea Party variants of various gradations of purity, both traditional and nouveau Goldwaterites, closeted and out members of the White People's Misogynist Party, the Microwaveable Rapture-Ready GOPers, along with Bircherite holdovers both proudly displaying their banner and hiding behind the Gadsden snake, etc., etc., etc., it now seems that the GOP has finally reached the political atomization of, say, Algeria, in which purity of purpose has become such a precisely-defined and refined--and disagreed-upon--commodity that no single group may aspire to it without rhetorical bloodshed from all.

    Still, the difference between here and Algeria is that in Algeria, this impasse would be the signal for the various contentions to begin assassinating each other, while in the U.S., the carnage is largely collateral, and as election time approaches, a consensus begins to coagulate around the looniest possible GOPer.

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  120. fourmorewars2:01 PM

    Robin Goodfellow, time for dinner! Oh Robin Goodfellow!

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  121. coozledad3:20 PM

    I was raised in Durham county, but my dad's family came from Union county, near Charlotte. His brother entered the Army Air Force straight out of high school and purchased a farm in Orange county and paid it off with his military death benefits in 1944. My father ran a dairy farm there briefly before ceding his share to his younger brothers and moving to Durham in the early 60's. My mom was from Alamance county,


    The uncle who told the rabies story married my father's elder sister. They had a farm in Cedar grove, an old Presbyterian settlement outside of Hillsboro, which turned Baptist sometime between 1755 and 1961. Both sides of my family moved down from PA with the Daniel Boone. My mom was a Boone, descended from Daniel Boone's brother.


    My father's side= silly, stupid drunks.
    My mother's side= morose, scheming, violent drunks.


    My folks were teetotalers, but it didn't help.

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  122. My father's mother was a Boone and her family was from the same area. We're not direct descendants of Daniel Boone, though, and her bunch wound up scattered between Columbus and Jackson, MS. For what it's worth, my father and his mother were morose, difficult but generally placid drunks (or so I'm told, she died six weeks before I was born).


    So we might be kin. Sorry about that.

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  123. I don't bother anymore. From Rush Limbaugh on down to the random goober on Facebook with the questionable grasp of logic, history, politics, and grammar, it's all One Big Wingnut.

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  124. M. Krebs6:01 PM

    And if you listen very hard
    The tune will come to you at last.
    When all are one and one is all
    To be a prick on the wingnut dole.

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  125. coozledad6:32 PM

    They're cousins. Identical cousins!

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  126. coozledad7:31 PM

    I always thought she was the voice of the academy if the academy had an immovable section of iron bar stock wedged in their collective hypothalamus.


    She was the only part of Spy that was utterly unfunny.

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  127. KatWillow7:37 PM

    I'd watch it, and I'd make my cat watch it too.

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  128. KatWillow7:40 PM

    But now Americans are realizing that the billionaires who own our newspapers, tv stations, oil companies, manufacturing, are NOT job creators. All good will towards them will evaporate like the California reservoirs this summer. (PS: State of CA really ought to cover their canals and reservoirs. Even that tacky plastic used to covers pools would be better than nothing)

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  129. JennOfArk7:40 PM

    The Unified Theory of Wingnuttia.

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  130. KatWillow7:44 PM

    I thought zombie stories started about people with advanced leprosy?

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  131. redoubtagain10:17 PM

    One pair of matching boneheads, different as night and day

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  132. We're going to go to the wedding at Cana, have a few wines, and wait for all this to blow over.

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  133. Is Tammy bruce still pretending she's a "feminist Democrat"?

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  134. M. Krebs12:37 AM

    My ex was from Boone. Her mom was from Winston-Salem and her dad was from someplace south of Hickory--it's hard to remember where. My people apparently moved from NC to the piedmont of GA sometime in the 1800s. Somehow there's some French people way back on my mother's side, but evidence is very scarce.


    I was talking to an older brother of mine recently, and I mentioned reading an article that said that being raised around cow barns and such decreases the likelihood of allergies because of exposure to certain good bacteria. He said, "Well, it didn't work with me," and went on to remind me that my mother used to strain bits of manure out of raw milk before giving it to the children to drink. My memories of such things are extremely vague, as I was under five years old.


    Anyway, I'm just saying all this in case some asshole like chuckling, who thinks we're all coastal elitists or some shit, might read it.

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  135. M. Krebs12:40 AM

    It's really very Tao.

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  136. The WSJ has a description, today, of the people who are finally being seen by doctors under the new Kentucky/Obamacare mashup, specifically those in the Medicaid expansion. What people have been suffering with--the sheer mass of small and large health problems they have been treating with OTC medications and old home remedies, is just shocking.


    Its a tribute to how hard working and how desperate and how frightened people are that they have put up with grinding pain and small, degenerative things that have turned into major health issues-everything from ear infections to herniated discs to brain lesions to diabetes and depression. Good country living is a myth.

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  137. Maybe she's some kind of DUC--that would be Democrat Until Clinton or DUO, Democrat Until Obama?

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  138. coozledad8:45 AM

    It's the community health centers in NC that are leading the push for the ACA and medicaid expansion that McCrory, Art Pope and the teabaggers killed.


    These people even managed to shock the blue dogs down here. Both houses of the state legislature are run by white trash with high school equivalencies, or less, and they're proud of it. A lot of them were shat out of some Bible day care center masquerading as a college: they just topped them off with a little more ignorance before releasing them into the wild.

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  139. Does anyone here remember the "funny or die" video about the short lived right wing campsign "m4m"? It was really funny and i wanted to show it to my daughters but my google fu isnt up to it.

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  140. sigyn3:44 PM

    Now why can't I ever find anything good like that on TV?

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  141. sigyn3:59 PM

    What people have been suffering with--



    That reminds me of how infuriating it is/was when my co-workers had to deal with dental problems by getting drunk and pulling their own teeth.


    They still do. We live in a red state that won't expand Medicaid.

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  142. sigyn4:18 PM

    Crap! Philip Seymour Hoffman died.

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  143. Please watch Owning Mahowny if you haven't, or even if you have.

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  144. M. Krebs6:55 PM

    This also has reminded me of The Editors' Wanker-Wingnut Continuum.

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  145. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person9:25 PM

    I wonder if he feels about that song the way Kenny Rogers feels about Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Was In...

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  146. Halloween_Jack2:28 PM

    "Althousian" would just about cover it.

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  147. Halloween_Jack2:34 PM

    The usual Funky Walker Dirty Talker-esque double entendres aside, I really do want to copy-n-paste this comment every time someone fails to understand Why People Still Give Sarah Palin Money.

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  148. Halloween_Jack3:01 PM

    I shoot magic missile into the darkness!

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  149. Halloween_Jack3:02 PM

    I will raise them all up on the last day. That's what makes it the last day, idiots!

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