Hey remember yesterday? You should, unless you took a nice dose of smack to block out all the awesome that was perpetrating all over the place? Well, the one thing that made us feel less actually insane was the sight of MAD BAMZ bein' MAD. Like, wrath-of-God-styley FURIOUS. It made us feel less alone, his righteous tirade, and put nice, ranty words to what we too were feeling. (Also, pretty sure he didn't have a TELEPROMPTARZ, but maybe?) He even called people liars and threatened to campaign against the shithead senators who put the NRA ahead of 90 percent of the American public. And it felt gooooood.
I suspect the calculus here was nothing to do with votes and everything to do with donations. The four will clearly now get zero ActBlue dollars but apparently figure the merchants of death will more than make up for that by sharing some of their blood money.
THIS ISN'T A DEMOCRACY IT'S A DERPUBLIC!!! arglebargleglarrrrrh!!
Seriously, though, the Senate was intended to be totally undemocratic, because the Founding Fathers were totally awesome enough to realize the American people are fucking idiots who can't be trusted, which is why they also didn't let poorz, wimminz or non-whites vote.
Aw, Jennifer Rubin, that's a nice imagining of "how things might have been!" Quite fanciful indeed.
In my version, I have the Republican President saying stuff like " I picked Harriet for a lot of reasons. One reason was because she had never been a judge. I thought it made a lot of sense to bring a fresh outlook of somebody who has actually been a successful attorney. And not only a successful attorney, but been a pioneer for women lawyers in Texas. I remind you that she was one of the top 50 women lawyers in the United States, consistently ranked that way." In my version, he says these things after withdrawing a very shitty nomination for the Supreme Court.
And in my version, I don't even have to turn righteous anger into "petulance" by being a fucking lame hack.
The word &quot;liar&quot; definitely needs to be accurately applied more often in American politics. Because our political discourse is <em>lousy</em> with lies, which don&#039;t get called out nearly often enough because &quot;civility&quot;, which is bullshit, because most of the lies are truly obscene.
I suspect the calculus here was nothing to do with votes and everything to do with donations. The four will clearly now get zero ActBlue dollars but apparently figure the merchants of death will more than make up for that by sharing some of their blood money.
Macbeth: Oh, full of scorpions is my mind
Had a Republican president lashed out as petulantly as President Obama did yesterday
That&#039;s funny, Jennifer Rubin. No Republicans ARE President.
DO YOU KNOW WHY?
That&#039;s practically the textbook definition of terrorists.
It also holds up a dead animal pelt.
*Leans closer to monitor* Oh, that&#039;s ... a face.
My apologies (to animal pelts)
THIS ISN&#039;T A DEMOCRACY IT&#039;S A DERPUBLIC!!! arglebargleglarrrrrh!!
Seriously, though, the Senate was intended to be totally undemocratic, because the Founding Fathers were totally awesome enough to realize the American people are fucking idiots who can&#039;t be trusted, which is why they also didn&#039;t let poorz, wimminz or non-whites vote.
3/5ths!! WOLVERINES!!!!
Aw, Jennifer Rubin, that&#039;s a nice imagining of &quot;how things might have been!&quot; Quite fanciful indeed.
In my version, I have the Republican President saying stuff like &quot; I picked Harriet for a lot of reasons. One reason was because she had never been a judge. I thought it made a lot of sense to bring a fresh outlook of somebody who has actually been a successful attorney. And not only a successful attorney, but been a pioneer for women lawyers in Texas. I remind you that she was one of the top 50 women lawyers in the United States, consistently ranked that way.&quot; In my version, he says these things after withdrawing a very shitty nomination for the Supreme Court.
And in my version, I don&#039;t even have to turn righteous anger into &quot;petulance&quot; by being a fucking lame hack.
That&#039;s always the subtext, even though there&#039;s not much sub about it.
Or Albert.
Defacated.
given all the poisonous nonsense that she has spewed over the years, it would probably kill your plants
with the world&#039;s most sour pickle
Your brain was probably distracted by thoughts of how defective she is.
Our local talk radio gasbags were incensed that Obama was incensed. So I am going to burn some incense. And some pot also too.
The word &quot;liar&quot; definitely needs to be accurately applied more often in American politics. Because our political discourse is <em>lousy</em> with lies, which don&#039;t get called out nearly often enough because &quot;civility&quot;, which is bullshit, because most of the lies are truly obscene.
Fred Hiatt.