by Teh Puppet Mistress | Ah God. Well, you knew she wasn't going to be able to keep quiet once the rumors started going round that Hillary might still be asked to the prom. Here's some first rate concern trolling, along with my translation.
Full text: Team of Frenemies
Continue reading "Maureen Dowd: But I'm a Frenemy Tooo!(Mean Girls Part ####)" »
by Blue | The other governors present barely got a look-in, and great was the barely-concealed sullenness as a result.
She is so going to be their party's next presidential nominee. Princess Sparkle Pony has an excellent picture of them all looking disgruntled.
by Teh Nutroots & Damozel | Roy Edroso has a post up at The Village Voice about the division of opinion on the right about the end of the world as they know it:
When the end came, rightbloggers were at first torn as to its meaning.
Continue reading "More Tales from the Nutterdammerung: Are You a Socialist or a Dupe?" »
by Teh Puppet Mistress | Wingnuts all over the blogosphere are busily whipping themselves up into pleasurable extremes of terror. It's worrying---what do bloggers such as the one cited below intend to achieve, one asks?---but also, if you can preserve your detachment, exceedingly funny in a horrifying kind of a way.
From Scott at World O'Crap:
I thought the news of Obama’s victory would strike wingnuts in one of two ways. Either they’d sit, stinking and unwashed in a corner of their room, blinking rapidly and speaking in tongues to a headless Barbie doll — what we might call “the K-Lo Option” — or else they’d attach a hobby horse to their computer chairs, sort of like those Cowboy booster seats you used to sit on at the barber shop, and charge at full gallop into the World Wide Web on a suicidal crusade of blood and thunder, hacking at heretics and heathens and howling in rage and agony like a gutted Mel Gibson at the end of Braveheart. It never dawned on me that they would arise the next day, scratch their cat under the chin, pour a nice cup of tea, sit down at the keyboard, and in a prim, dainty, ladylike fashion, go quietly batshit insane, as though we’d entered an alternate universe where Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote was the star of Dexter. But color me abashed, because RenewAmerica is proudly offering Mary Mostert’s latest:
As we’ve said before, this wasn’t an election, it was the world’s longest Usenet thread, and Godwin’s Law is no longer an observation on probability, it’s a regulation imposed by wingnuts, sort of like those Homeowner Association bylaws that require everyone to landscape solely from the pre-approved list of shrubs, and to paint all exterior trim a uniform beige.....[More]
Continue reading "Snark O' the Day: Did Obama Crib His Acceptance Speech from Hitler?" »
by Teh Nutroots | From Liberal Hell, P.J. has penned: We Blew It
As Conservatives, we have tragically failed ourselves, our movement, and the rising generation through our inability to convince Americans that liberals (including all Democrats) and liberalism are by definition stupid, worthless, evil, venal, clueless, hateful and economically and ethically challenged, and that everything that has happened during the last eight years is all Bill Clinton's fault.
by Teh Nutroots | Oh man. Check out Sadly, No!'s two-minute version of the NRO symposium par excellence as they ponder the nation's Great Black Hope. Then click on the link to the real one and laugh even harder.
Continue reading "National Review Online Takes It to the Keyboards" »
by Teh Puppet Mistress | At Jesus's General:
by The Puppet Mistress | Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Nachos:
If you were worried the Republicans might finally wake up after two straight ass-kickings, and realize the right-wing schtick isn't working anymore, rest easy.
The House Republicans have just selected their new leadership team. John Boehner (R-Oompa Loompa) will stay in charge of the dwindling Republican minority, but the second and third in commands will now be Eric Cantor and Mike Pence, two congressmen whose loyalty to the far right is only rivaled by their own stupidity.
Otto Man has a February 2007 Tweety interview of Cantor to prove it!
There are many things to be excited about with the election of Barack Obama, but the emergence of Republican-on-Republican violence is certainly at the top of my list.
Ours too.
Continue reading ""When Will They Ever Learn?" Apparently, Never" »
by Damozel | I normally wouldn't draw our daily dose of snark from the same blog two days running, but TBogg is a master, and this---like yesterday's---is masterly, both in its ruthless efficiency and accuracy in identifying and lancing the latest unattractive inflammatory groundswell and its peerless use of pop culture references as the instrument of choice. Yesterday, it was Galaxy Quest. Today: one of my top five all-time films, Life of Brian.
Obama got elected three days ago and the wingers are all depressed, which they consider to be proof that they are also now, and destined in the future to be, oppressed. They're always mad, but now they're even madder---as well as in a panicky tailspin---and so the leading lights of the right are busily organizing a Republican Resistance movement.
Sadly, their defeat has forced them to confront how much they actually hate one another. None of them can agree even on the fundamentals of how to build a better GOP.
TBogg considers the struggle of the emergent warring sects to find some common ground, and their ensuing abject failure:
Divided we stand"...no...wait...um... "united we flail" ...no, that's not it. Crap, I think I wrote it down on a Wendy's napkin. Look in the back seat of my car.... Oh, here we go....
He's got the list, the clip, and the final word.
by Blue Stockings | Sadly, No! has published what might be the definitive post on wingnut rage, fear, and screeching.
Why are they so afraid all the time? What are they so afraid of? Is chronic craven fear really the trait that distinguishes the crazy-asses of the Republican base from normal people?
So it seems. I've finally worked out the answer to the question: Why, oh why do they hate us liberals so?
They hate us for our fearlessness.
They're in a perpetual state of bug-eyed rage and panic, alternating with fear and fury. How it must gall them that liberals don't share their fear of the monsters under the bed; that we have, in fact, put away childish things and moved on.
by Damozel | Here's a post by Roy Edroso at Alicublog. It's full of truth:
Matthew Yglesias observes that the cry of "he must govern from the middle" is already going up. But these people don't know where the middle is. The government owns a majority interest in several heretofore private banks, is embroiled in foreign adventures for which it cannot pay, and, from the looks of the various referenda results, is riven with significant cultural divisions. It looks more like Lord North's Britain than what we usually think of as America. The new President is better advised to seek solutions rather than some mythical center line to toe.
Have a look at the prominent conservative thinkers (I know, I know) who are working on a conservative "game plan", trimming like little Clintons in search of the Joe the Plumber vote that brought John McCain all the way to 163 electoral votes. They're looking for the middle because they have nothing else to do. It's a fittingly harmless occupation for people who are not going to be making policy anytime soon.
The fact is, the dialogue of conservatives moved so far to the right under Bush---driven by various blowhards and nutjobs, while the more tempered conservatives kept opportunistically quiet as long as they got tax cuts for this silence---that what these people think of as "The Center" remains far to the right of even a moderate Democrat---or even some moderate Republicans. They've lost any sense of where the true center lies. On the wingnut continuum, Andrew Sullivan is a wild-eyed liberal.
I expect that everything that the (according to Paul Krugman and me) far-from-far-left Obama does while in office will cause them to fume and rage impotently. Obama wasn't my first choice---I admit I initially preferred John Edwards and then Hillary---but now I've seen more of him, I'm all for Obama. I would like for his to be a popular administration. But here's the thing: he's never going to be able to please the wingnut base and I hope he won't bother to try.
Continue reading "Governing from the Center of the Wingnut Continuum" »
by Teh Nutroots | Angry wingers gird up their nuts to defend the honor of St. Palin. Check out TBogg's response: By Joe the Plumber’s hammer, by the sons of Wasilla, you shall be avenged.
by John Q | And great was the Snoopy-dancing and blowing of raspberries among these guys based on the results of one lone Zogby poll giving McCain a 1% lead.
To which Gavin M. replies:
It must be difficult not being able to draw continuities between DARK TIME and LIGHT TIME, such that when the sun unexpectedly goes down in the evening it’s EATED BY THE SUN-EAT SERPENT, and when it startlingly comes up in the morning it’s MIRACLE HOORAY LIGHT. And then ONO! IT’S EATED BY THE EAT SERPENT, and then O HAI, IT’S MIRACLE HOORAY LIGHT, and on and on throughout your whole gaping lessoff existence — a ‘lessoff’ being like a moron except not even one.
We can be thankful that for most of us, here in the most advanced civilization the world has ever known, with unparalleled opportunities for self-refinement and the pursuit of practical reason, when something weird and unexpected arises — such as an election poll that gives a result unreflected by any other such poll — we go “Dude, that’s actually weird,” and are like, “You know, maybe there’s a reason.”
At this point a prediction is in order, and we feel that we can give it with some confidence. Barack Obama may win the presidential election, or else not win. We predict that this will depend on two things: cause and also effect — and that it will not be the result of building an airstrip out of palm fronds and sitting in a wicker control tower wearing a set of headphones made out of two halves of a coconut shell, willing the planes to come and deliver a bounty of cargo.
Of this we are greater than 97.2% sure.
In the meantime, the McCain camp has sent out a memo on the surge that is occurring during the final hours of the campaign. Ambinder's got the whole thing right here. Read it your self. Ambinder says:
The last thing the McCain campaign needs on election day is demoralized Republicans. Hence this memo, which recapitulates what Davis and co. said on a conference call with reporters this morning.
I will tell you something that I probably shouldn't. It irritates my co-bloggers.
I for one wouldn't care that much whether Obama wins or loses if the times were even slightly less desperate. He's got plenty of presidential bids left in him.
McCain and Palin and the GOP deserve to have to unscramble the mess that Bush has made. If I thought there was a chance either one of them could fix even one of the problems without making it even worse, I'd be all for it. The best we can hope for is a president who can steer a steady course through a typhoon of Bush-related consequences. Whatever he does, whichever ticket occupies the Oval Office and environs is going to be damned if they do and if they don't.
Continue reading "The Right: Rage, rage Against the Dying of the Light!" »
by Blue Stockings | This is why I try to ignore polls and commentary on polls. What's the point in false reassurance NOW if it means that you are confronted unprepared with REAL reality later? What's the point in making yourself sick with anxiety NOW only to find later that it was all---to quote (partially) Palin---"for naught"?
Marc Ambinder reports on the jazzed up Rick Davis, all in a lather of excitement at the way McCain campaign dirty tricks are bringing it home.
A "jazzed up" Rick Davis enthused that John McCain is the middle of "the greatest comeback you've seen since John McCain on the primary."
Davis, on a conference call with reporters, said that the campaign has had "the best ten days of polling" since the convention.
"We think we've shaken off the effects of the financial collapse that have suppressed our numbers prior to the last debate. Our own data has us dead even in the state of Iowa."
The dead panned Ambinder remarks, parenthetically, "(Davis said that the Obama campaign's data was also close in Iowa -- although the Obama internal polling gives Obama a double-digit advantage.)"
Continue reading "Polling News for the Faint-Hearted Progressive" »
by The Puppet Mistress | I'm going to agree with Thers:
Pretty much all you need to know about why the GOP is losing this election is to be found in the high-fiving among "conservatives" about this interview where a ridiculous local TV host from Orlando asks Joe Biden completely asinine leading wingnut questions about why Barack Obama is just like Karl Marx. Biden came across like a grownup; the interviewer looked like, well, someone from the Onion News Network, only not funny and all too real.
The only part where I disagree is this: the self-satirizing interviewer was funny. I doubt it did Biden any harm with non-Republicans.
by Teh Nutroots | Ashley Todd, the McCain volunteer in Pennsylvania who alleged she was mugged by a black Barack supporter at an ATM---and that he carved a backwards "B" on her cheek (backwards like it would have been if someone was looking in a mirror while carving it)---was lying. At least that's what the police say.
Wonkette's been on it and all over it:
BREAKING: McCAIN CUT-NUT MADE IT UP!
A Children’s Treasury Of Ashley Todd Updates
McCain Cut-Nut Gains YouTube Pals
Racial Mugging Victim Helpfully Twittered Her Terrible Tale
GOP Gal Claims Savage Negro Mugged Her … For Obama!
Wonkette: "Happy Willie Horton Day, everyone. We will predict this story will fully unravel in about 48 hours. Weird times."
Continue reading "Backwards "B" Girl Lied About Mugging; Drudge Gets Pwned?" »
by Blue Stockings | ....and hints darkly at condign punishment to be inflicted upon its source. Via Memeorandum:
THE source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too. Bread and water would be too good for such disinformation. (NY Post)
I don't see why they're so upset about this particular piece of disinformation, but anyway. I wonder who told them it and what will happen to him or her? "[O]ur former source is going to regret it too."
Here's what the Murdoch-owned paper had published in its gossip column:
"Though he's battling GOP accusations that he's an Ivy League elitist, Barack Obama has a lifestyle of the rich and famous," the report read. "While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six." (Salon)
Which....come on. As Alex Koppelman says at Salon, really? Iranian caviar? Lobsters and champagne? That is so lame. It's like the person who made the story up picked the most obviously expensive food on the planet. (No arugula?) It's like...we all know we can't afford the lobster or the imported caviar. That's just dumb.
Continue reading "Oopsie: New York Post forced to Retract the Lobster-and-Caviar Obama Story" »
by Blue Stockings | Ken Layne at Wonkette noticed patrician right-wing princess Peggy Noonan's post arguing that McCain won the debate also spent several paragraphs arguing that Sarah Palin is as dumb as a brick. (He doesn't disagree with the part about Palin.) Noonan may be right wing, but she's also "an east coast" elitist. So hilarious that Republicans and Republican shills accuse liberals of elitism.....
Continue reading "Sarah Palin and the Wingnuts: "Proud to be Dumb & Easily Cowed"" »
by Teh Nutroots | As Jon says, Mahoney's old school. His dangerous liaison was a woman who worked as his, um, "staffer."
Thanks so much, Mahoney, for proving---as if John Edwards hadn't taken care of that---that Dems can be hypocrites just as much as Republicans. I'd say the whole thing was stupid, but if you make a selling point of your faith and virtuousness, you got to stand behind it.
Continue reading "A Local Story: Mark Foley's Replacement ---Now With His Own Scandal?" »
by Blue Stockings | David Frum----former speechwriter to Bush and the man who brought you "axis of evil"---is having to defend his conservatism from the likes of the Virgin K-Lo because he has dared to criticize the egregious Palin. Lord. "I Get So Weary of This," the piece is called.
Possibly it is bad form for me to acknowledge this reality....Perhaps it is our job at NRO is tell our readers only what they want to hear, without much regard to whether it is true. Perhaps it is our duty just to keep smiling and to insist that everything is dandy - that John McCain's economic policies make sense, that his selection of Sarah Palin was an act of statesmanship, that she herself is the second coming of Anna Schwartz, and that nobody but an over-educated snob would ever suggest otherwise. (Frum)
Glad you worked that out, David Frum.
Frum is waking up to the same reality as other conservatives: that the Corner is a blog for pushing Republican talking points and Republican propaganda with the sole goal of keeping a discredited regime (which Frum helped enable, and then turned on) in power.
by Teh Nutroots | The New York Times' "Slapshot" covered this, but we prefer Deb's piece: "Hockey Mom Gets Booed at Hockey Game." Deb's posted the video. Boy howdy, did she ever.
Wonkette comments:
Hey McCain-Palin campaign: not to say “we told you so,” but in fact to say “HA HA TROLLOPS, we told you so,” Sarah Palin was not received well by Philadelphia hockey fans tonight when she dropped the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers’ season opener. Liberal gotcha journal the New York Times describes the chorus of boos as “resounding (almost deafening).” This video is staggering. We’re fairly certain that the arena music is turned up louder in a vain attempt to drown out the SONIC WALL of booing.
But then...John Cole kind of put it into perspective. I hate it when that happens.
For the record, I would not read into anything regarding the booing. This is Philly. Remember this?
Atrios, calling it a "stupid stunt," also says it was inevitable.
Anyway, as everybody knows Philadelphia fans boo everyone. How much Sarah Palin's booing was political (as in, we hate Palin), how much of it was just booing the injection of politics into the game, and how much was simply booing because that's what Philadelphia fans do I have no idea. The point is that from the moment it was announced everyone knew she was going to be booed.
Whatever, there is now footage all over the internet of what sounds like every hockey fan in Philly booing Sarah Palin. So ha ha ha anyway. I felt kind of bad for the kid. Like Atrios said, Palin shouldn't have dragged her into it.
by Blue Stockings | From HillBuzz: Clinton supporters sharing evidence for RICO case against Obama campaign
Sorry; as a supporter of lifelong Democrat Hillary Clinton I followed the stories closely at the time, and while I would agree that some Obama operatives were a bit overzealous, I don't believe a word of it. And I love Hillary, so I believe she wants what's best for the country----which doesn't include attempts to destroy Barack Obama a few critical weeks before the election.
I accuse "Hillbuzz" of taking Hillary Clinton's name in vain.
Here's my latest correspondence from HillPac, sent out under Hillary's name (titled valuable allies):
I have three great friends I want to introduce you to. But John, Eric, and Rick aren't just great friends -- they're great leaders. They are honored veterans who will be valuable allies to Barack Obama and Joe Biden in Congress.
John Boccieri from Ohio is a friend and a genuine hero who served four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and who will work to bring the troops home. Eric Massa from New York served 24 years on active duty in the Navy, and served in every operational area the Navy sails in. Both John and Eric are running great races and can help us grow our Democratic Majority.
Rick Noriega from Texas joined the Army in 1979, and later served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Texas Army National Guard. After 9/11, he was deployed for fourteen months including one year in Afghanistan. I hope to have Rick alongside me in the Senate.
I know John, Eric, and Rick well. I know they'll provide valuable leadership on national security issues and help us end the war in Iraq responsibly, face new challenges abroad, and restore the reputation tarnished by eight years of George Bush and John McCain-style foreign policy.
That's why I'm happy to introduce them as the next three candidates on HillPAC's 2008 slate, and I hope you will join me in supporting them.
So I'd like to "thank" those "Hillary" "supporters," "Clinton" "Democrats," and McCain "Democrats" for doing their all to put increasingly erratic McCain and the truly egregious, Cheney-like-power-abuser Sarah Palin in the White House. It won't work, of course, but it certainly will make some people out there who don't know that this isn't being instigated by Hillary think less of her.
PS. See Deb's article on the Rezko "revelations" here.
Donate to HillPac to help support these candidates here.
Memeorandum has more hopeful nonsense from Obama's desperate/pathetically vindictive opponents.
