It’s MUCH better to wake up on Saturday morning thinking it’s Friday.

That *never* happens, yet waking up on Sunday thinking it’s Saturday, which is an error of parallel structure, happens all too often.

You might not want to hear this but when the Democrats had control of the House, Senate and the WH, they made the same party that made them hold investigative hearings down in a basement when they were in minority point men on their crowning acheivement.

Similarish problems at the local level. WA state leg. had a D supermajority a few years ago, and a D gov. Lot’s of middle-of-the-road Ds, though, dubbed “the Road-Kill Caucus” and excoriated by the liberal weekly paper for being too scared to do any “freaky liberal shit” for fear of angering moderate voters and losing their supermajority. Of course, the supermajority is of no use if you won’t use it, and then they lost it anyway…

You might not want to hear this but when the Democrats had control of the House, Senate and the WH, they made the same party that made them hold investigative hearings down in a basement when they were in minority point men on their crowning acheivement.

Similarish problems at the local level. WA state leg. had a D supermajority a few years ago, and a D gov. Lot’s of middle-of-the-road Ds, though, dubbed “the Road-Kill Caucus” and excoriated by the liberal weekly paper for being too scared to do any “freaky liberal shit” for fear of angering moderate voters and losing their supermajority. Of course, the supermajority is of no use if you won’t use it, and then they lost it anyway…

Country Dick Montana is someone who’s young death I’ll lament. At least, his attempts to annoy and offend people were leavened with some humor.

I think that level of reflection and humility is VERY rare on the far right. It’s probably pretty rare generally, but when you’re that self-righteous and ideological, whoa doggy!

Well said, Bro

@32 You are SOOOOO persuasive. Go tell it on Pharyngula.

Unfortunately, alan, wishing not to finish equal to Breitbart will not make it so. All too often, good guys finish last, and there’s literally no reason to expect otherwise.

I’m a rationalist materialist, so I can’t believe any spirituality, karma, blah blah. Too bad, makes a good story.

Copied from a local Seattle blog:

Like Bette Davis said of the late Joan Crawford, “They say you should always speak good of the dead. He’s dead, that’s good!”

Third Way is too much of a loose cannon for them? I thought those guys were Collaborationist Central. Did they decide TW was too conservative, or just too redundant?

Nice. Another classic case of projection. Those willing to lie, cheat and wreck peoples’ lives for a buck can never believe, or at least admit, that not everyone has the same (lack of) standards of behavior, because they’d be admitting to themselves that they are the bad guys.

Regarding your 2nd-to-last paragraph, one could be pretty damned smart and still not be looking that great as POTUS. Who was the last one who looked really good? Clinton and Reagan could be endearing at times based on personality, at least to voters on their side of the aisle, but it’s a nearly impossible job, and not getting any easier as time goes on. Not that Obama hasn’t been worse than I’d hoped in several ways, but still, faced with an insane Republican party, warped corporatist media, a far-Right SCOTUS and the inherent desire to get re-elected and get other Dems elected in a money-intensive system, it’s fncking hard not to sympathize at times.

I’m normally an enemy of conspiracy theories, but I’m fairly confident the Repugs didn’t pull off a black box voting win in 2012 for two reasons:

1. Expectations for Dems were so good after the Bush fiasco that it risked exposing the potential for vote tampering to a wider audience.

2. More importantly (since the lap-dog media probably wouldn’t/couldn’t give the voting machine story legs anyway), they didn’t want it. With the economy in trouble on multiple levels and a slew (slough?) of foreign policy debacles in progress, why grab the hot potato? Let the Dems juggle it for a couple of years, then blame them. Which is what’s happened.

This is not 20/20 hindsight: I was saying the same in August 2008. Could be confirmation bias, but…

But to your final point, yes, Summers in particular was a WTF moment. If I’d wanted all the bad actors from the Clinton admin back, I’d have caucused for Hillary. Maybe I got that backwards!

Good luck. Her farm-welfare extended family has you surrounded!

Google an image of Ted Bundy and look at him and Bachmann side-by-side. Crazy, aye or nay? The “eyes” have it!

Is this kind of an open dare? “Catch us if you can”?

I fervently hope they have already emailed or FTPed the files to Wikileaks, and this is just a publicity stunt. Physically transferring the CDs seems like a lame move, even assuming they are backed up here and there.

5Bring the photographer along to catch Maureen Dowd*s latest extravagances, too. That image last go-round was priceless, and eminently captionable.

Missed that. Can you provide a link?