Well, as much as I hate to admit it, the rumor appears to be true: there is a limit to Lyin’ Paulie’s douchebagginess. According to this report from Politico by Rachel Bade and Kyle Cheney, that limit is being reached by Paulie in response to efforts by unlimited congressional mouth-frothers Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim…
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Why I’m voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton in November 2016
Actually, I won’t be, because I live in the District of Columbia, which always votes Democratic, giving me the luxury of voting my conscience. But if I were living in a swing state, I’d be pulling that lever for Hillary and pulling it hard, just the way she likes it. Because Hillary, bless her heartless…
The Budget Deal: same old same old, same old
The budget deal that President Obama will soon be signing is in fact so old-fashioned that the Republicans are apologizing for it, claiming that either 1) they’re going to get their pound of flesh before raising the debt ceiling next year (probably sometime in March, depending on Uncle Sam’s cash flow) or 2) they’re just…
Government Spending, the Climate Change of the Tea Party Right
To function properly in Washington, everyone needs a bogyman. One of the first things a newcomer learns in the nation’s capital is that the Chinese ideogram for “danger” also means “opportunity.” Whether this ubiquitous device exists anywhere outside the text for Motivational Speaking 101 is a moot point. What is not a moot point—what is…
Heritage Foundation not entirely a Republican shill machine
Yeah, I’m surprised as you are, but Heritage staffer Daren Bakst puts the wood to House Republicans for passing a farm bill that, in both style and substance, violates just about everything the “new Republicans” are supposed to stand for. The Republican leadership brought the new bill, a mere 600 pages* long, to the House…
Diva down—the bailing of Bachmann
Democrats are surely dismayed, though hardly surprised, to see Michele Bachmann dodge a bullet if not a fusillade by deciding not to run for re-election in 2014. That slow-motion train wreck that was the public career of La Belle Michelle has finally ground to a halt, and the Republicans will have the luxury of running…
Sequesterfuck
I don’t have much to say about the sequester, but I did have a joke, and I wanted to use it. I guess I could say I predicted this—see “Republicans who want to break something”—because I did. The Republican Party is approaching nihilism these days. They don’t believe in anything, but they do hate President…
The Hagel Hassle: Everybody wins? I don’t fucking think so
Dave Weigel, who raps for Slate these days, is one of my favorites, but he comes a cropper with his too clever to be accurate take on the failure of Senate Democrats to force a vote on Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. According to Dave, it’s win/win/win/win. Republicans get to act tough, Likudist…
Republicans whine, Vanneman laughs
It’s true: politics is a spectator sport, but a spectator sport with a difference. Even when the home team is screwing up, you can still laugh at the opposition. Never was that old adage, which I just made up, more true than today. I am emphatically not a fan of President Obama, and his second…
Tampa strippers ready for Republicans—there’s a First Amendment too, ya know!
Over at the New Republic, Emily Witt lives up to her name with a hilarious take on the doings at Mons Venus, 2,500 square feet of fun in Tampa, Florida, site of this year’s Republican Convention. Joe Redner, owner of the Mons, who doesn’t believe in God and thinks g-strings are optional, and his long-time…