Did you see that Dr. Cornel West supports the re-election of Hussein Obummer?

Why does Dr. West love drones and support death from the sky?

Joel Pollack’s favorite song: A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

Yeah, if there’s one thing Chris Christie doesn’t have to worry about it’s tipping the scales.

I have yet to meet and/or read from a non-white, non-reasonably well-off Jill Stein supporter.

Funny that. It’s actual poor, non-white people who will suffer the most under President Romney/Vice-President Crazy Eyes. White privilege will insulate many from the actual horrors of a GOP win on Tuesday.

Here is Pollack’s theory: Christie is praising Obama because Mitt Romney is so far ahead that it doesn’t matter.

“But the truth about Christie’s outreach to Obama is blindingly obvious: Mitt Romney is now running away with this election, freeing Christie to praise the president without fear that doing so will tip the scales.”

The cognitive dissonance is thick with this one.

Matt Boyle is living proof you can teach anybody how to type.

White privilege will insulate many from the actual horrors of a GOP win on Tuesday.

At least until Mitt rolls their 401k into his ‘Blind Trust’.

Now I know why you didn’t post all day! You’ve been wrestling with yourself ala Steve Martin in “All of Me”, trying not to join that firebagger thread!
Excellent self-control, T!
I have a feeling they won’t show the same discipline.
Call the clean-up crew and tell’em to get ready for a lot of pony shit.

Pat Caddell can’t live forever … can he?

He’s been dead for years. Those Villager brains didn’t just eat themselves, you know.

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more speculation that Obama might make her his next Supreme Court nominee

Too old. What’s Chelsea up to these days?

Pareene also quotes the totally-not-racist RS McCain as saying that Obama’s visit to New Jersey “merely highlights the fact that he abdicated that leadership on 9/11.”

So the term “9/11″ refers to the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya now. Update your wingnut dictionaries.

What am I saying, “update”? That’s all it has ever referred to. It has totally never meant anything else. Never. I don’t know what I was thinking there. Sorry.

the most amazing wingnut freakout that I’ve seen since Hillary murdered her lesbian lover, Vince Foster, in Fort Marcy Park with a candlestick.

You are misinformed. That murder was actually committed with a stainless steel dildo, as any denizen of The Corner will be happy to tell you.

1.Attack on America’s homeland, freedom, blah blah blah=9/11
2.Attack on America by terrorists aided by the failed Democrat(bleh) president= 9/11

I guess they do need an update.

I always suspected that West and Chomsky were closeted right wing authoritarians. Now all we have are true visionaries like Stoller to lead us to the promised land.

Also too, this post is filled with such bloggy goodness that it more than makes up for the two day dry spell. Lurve the Aquarius reference.

One of the ‘Dimmer Twins’ (Tallest? Cutest? Dimmest?) pipes in on ‘the great librul freakout (so far)’?

One of my wingnut FB pals told me that Rmoney is gonna get 300 EC votes- easy! Worse than the McGovern asswhipping!

I continue to be fascinated by weirdness.

Also, Menendez having to buy pussy is SOP for rich, white guys. Just another cost of doing business and all that.

Goddam quadrennials, doncha wish every day wuz a ‘lecshun day?

All we need is another 65 attacks like Benghazi and Obama will beat St. Ronnie’s record of failing to protect American lives abroad. He’ll have to hurry though as Our Patron Saint of Narcolepsy managed to allow a Marine barracks to be blown to smithereens and not one but two attacks on our embassy in Beirut in less than 17 months.

Nope, it was Big Bird in a binder with a bayonet. Ya know, the Clintonque ability to time travel.

TBogg, how is your daughter?

In other news, I saw that Michael Brown was criticizing Obama’s response to Hurricane/Superstorm/Apocalyptoblow Sandy … which is like Joe Pisarcik criticizing Eli Manning’s game-ending kneel-down technique. Although in fairness to Joe, handing the ball to Larry Csonka Herm Edwards was not his idea.

The weird bubble the right wingers live in is kind of creepy. The place where Romney is ahead in all of the polls and where people still care about Benghazi after Romney neutralized the issue with his horrible debate flub a couple weeks ago. I can’t wait until that bubble gets burst next week.

Dear Chef Newt;
You’ve been boiling the Benghazi spaghetti for an hour and a half, and it still ain’t sticking to the wall. Time to make yourself a bowl of Fruit Loops for dinner.

Dear Fred Gwynne of Deadbreitbart;
Revelations and insights you have written down on the back of an old pizza box after an all-nighter filled with blue meth, sloe gin, and listening to the Pat Boone box set, does not make you the Nostradamus of the Neo-right.

Dear Matt Stoller and Minions;
In the immortal words of one of the great political minds of the 20th century, Bill the Cat: Ack!

Dear Matt Boyle;
Your shocking story has caused David Vitter to shit his diapers. Please phone the Romney campaign so they can re-route some pampers to Louisiana from their campaign event hurricane fund raiser in Ohio.

I saw Michael Brown. I don’t know why he doesn’t crawl back under whatever rock he has been hiding under. When your name has become a tag line for incompetence, you probably want to keep a low profile.

I’m seeing right wing trolls all over the place type “Obama lied and people died,” about Benghazi, and I’m trying to understand what it’s supposed to mean. The administration made a statement after the attack that may not have entirely explained the motivations behind the attack, although they corrected it later. And this caused the deaths that had already occurred prior to the statement? Someone help me out here!

That would also be the same Matt Stoller who pre-annointed Al Franken to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senator from Minnesota a full twelve months before our primary. Never mind that Al was the most conservative of our three candidates, never mind that no one involved in the Netroots Franken movement was from Minnesota.

But that of course worked out well because the national party stepped in and saved Al’s campaign from itself and then, after only six months of vote recounting, we had a Democratic Senator! (Nevermind that those six months were ones in which the party was denied a super majority in the Senate….)

I wondered about a Hillary SC nomination both times Obama’s had the chance to appoint. It wouldn’t surprise me. Most delicious would be the fact that someone who assisted in bringing down Nixon (the alleged root of all modern rightwing butthurt) was sitting on the court. Suck it, wingtards!

I have to cut Matt Boyle some slack, because judging from the photo above, he clearly has Down Syndrome. Pollack, however, lives up to the not-politically-correct name.

Forget it, Jake. It’s Crazytown.

To paraphrase Dr. Hibbert of Springfield, USA:

Joel Pollack – too crazy for Boys Town, too much of a boy for Crazy Town.

Feeling feisty and doing a little troll baiting today, TBogg? Not that I blame you, mind you.

Mr. TBogg will have to sit at the little table this Thanksgiving. He’s with us, now.

The entire conservative movement can be defined in two phrases:

1) “No, YOU are!”

2) (With finger poised an inch from your eye) “I’m not TOUCHING you!”

As for the fact that most people grow out of using these two phrases by the time they’re 10 – well, I’ll let you work that out.

your comment made my day!

Glad to help!

i have reread it several times, still can’t decide which “dear ____” makes me laugh harder.

well done, “weird little internet friend”, well done!

The Christie thing is bizarre. It sure as shit didn’t happen because Romney is so far ahead, but I put it in the same category as the latest “Mitt Romney: not as bad on abortion as you might think” campaign commercial — inexplicably weird.

This from the same campaign that early on flooded the airwaves with the Obama welfare queen ads. Last minute advertising is usually turnout advertising aimed at the base, not persuasion advertising aimed at the mushy middle. Yet here is Christie, one of the most calculating politicians in existence, toeing the “reasonable Republican” line, too.

Did some GOP pollster suddenly discover that sounding like a foaming nut is no longer the best way to win the White House?

Did some GOP pollster suddenly discover that sounding like a foaming nut is no longer the best way to win the White House?

it’s inexplicable, i can’t imagine a GOPer discovering anything involving common sense.

That’s right — I’d forgot about his backing Franken over Ciresi.

He must have used this to get the gig with Grayson. Who, by the way, is regularly savaged by the usual suspects, the same ones that worship Stoller, whenever he tries writing a MyFDL post.

I think that Christie figured out a long time ago that a) Mittens was toast and Ryan was the boat anchor (i.e., that which pleases the Southern-Strategy-inflamed GOP base turns off folks in the general), and b) since Christie’s got next for the 2016 GOP nomination, he might as well start acting the part, dialing down the brass knuckles and allowing what is probably his genuinely-felt gratitude to Obama to show through, getting points with the general public even as he pisses off the base.

The really slick operators know when not to be slick. Or when to be genuine in a slick and calculated way.

It really is shocking, and I speak as a New Jersey resident. I certainly wouldn’t put it past him that this is all a calculated move for 2016 and/or he has written Romney off as a dead man walking, but I am willing to give him some benefit of the doubt.

He has stepped up and I would like to think that the enormity of the devastation has awakened some semblance of empathy inside of him for the common folk. I’m telling you, pictures do not do justice to what has happened here. Entire towns up and down on the coast are basically destroyed, and we really won’t know the toll for some time.

Now, the liberal in me could say that – outside of Atlantic City – the majority of the houses wiped out are second vacation homes for the wealthy and he knows who butters his bread in this state. But again, at this point he has earned a good deal of leeway by how he has handled this so I’ll bite my tongue.

Lights and heat just on, and here I am. Christie is a swing-high blubber vote, and the destruction of my roof and the barn door meant that no horses (3) got out. My sister -in-law is still bitch, but after the black eye that I gave her not long ago, I’m not expecting affection. Survival.

Say what? Who is “us” and WTF does this have to do with what I said?

We need to remind ourselves that New Jersey, like Virginia, has that weird elect-a-governor-the-year-after-the-presidential election thing. Obama’s clearly carrying New Jersey next week, and Christie needs to show his constituents he is able to work with Democrats to get re-elected in a devastated blue state.

I think it’s entirely possible Christie knows the presidential stress will kill him, so he’s decided getting re-elected as governor is the best he can hope for.

Or he’s had a Grinch-like epiphany, which in the face of his state’s disaster is also possible.

Unlike most Republicans, Christie is not dumb enough to cut his nose off to spite his face. He knows he needs to respond to this situation quickly and effectively and that requires coordination with the federal government and the Obama administration.

Kentucky likes their gov race the year before the presidential race, just to be different (of course, there is an election of some sort every year in KY)

Hard to calculate what got into Christie’s calculation of how to behave & speak during this disaster for NJ. Don’t trust him but will grudgingly “accept” that Christie spoke well in the pinch of the crisis… and appeared to behave like a mostly mature adult rather than a stark raving lunatic. Of course, I understand that El Lushbo rushed forth to carry water for the raving lunatic crowd, so no worries on that score.

Time will tell, and my bet’s that the clock’s always ticking towards 2016 in Christie’s big fat mind.

If you listen to Christie’s words, he approves of Obama’s actions as … “what any CinC would do”… clearly setting up his run in ’16.

We haven’t elected a FAT president since Taft.

Then maybe it’s time to give it another go.

The commenters on the Daily Caller site pretty much sound like the same sort of people who think Tucker Carlson is a journo.

We haven’t elected a FAT president since Taft.

No, but GeeDub Codpiece was phat.

Are you calling The Good St Dr President Jill Stein fat?

St Stein is just too good to be fat.

Just a mirror (projection) of “Bush lied, people died,” which was accurate. Doesn’t matter if it’s sensible or true, the important thing is they get to say it right back at us.

I have yet to meet and/or read from a non-white, non-reasonably well-off Jill Stein supporter.
Ah, I was wondering where the Christian Science vote was going this election.

Same with “worst president ever,” which they started saying about six hours after the inauguration.

I think you, TBogg, would make an excellent secretary of business.

They’re stealing the phrase used to describe Bush’s war of choice in Iraq: “Bush Lied, People Died.” Which means we get to bring Bush back into the conversation.

Something else to remember. When the fringe started accusing Dubya of a conspiracy to let 9/11 happen, liberals across the country mocked the conspiracy.

Conservatives are using the same basic conspiracy to inflate their bubble.

Was talking with a physical therapist about Christie the other day. He was of the opinion that the extra weight and the way Christie carries himself indicates a heavy stroke possibility. Lots of repressed anger, therapist said, not so repressed, I replied.

As usual, words are jumpy, squirmy things in the hands of wingnuts. “Bush lied, people died,” follows the logical sequence of events in Iraq. It’s beyond their grammatical grasp to understand they have it backwards in gtheir attempt to subvert/co-opt the original.

But can we not forget that a) Franken wasn’t the one holding up his own proper election; b) he has been a stalwart and articulate supporter of the president; and c) there was never a Super Majority, as long as Lieberman, Lincoln, Bayh, Nelson et al were doing the Blue dog best to help Republicans?

Don’t know about purchasing felines, here or abroad, creature, but Menendez is a pretty good Senator, and was a good Congressman before that. Consistently liberal, hard-working, all that stuff. He paid taxes on just over $170K taxable income last yr (I looked it up and everything), and grew up poor. Not ALL members of our august bodies arise from the primordial ooze of the Money River.

Conservatives dabbling in meta. As if bullshit wasn’t enough.

No, Franken did hold up his own election. He did so by not running a good campaign early on, and then later when he failed to take on Norm Coleman’s negative ads. Coleman was not well regarded and another candidate would have walked all over him. But because the Netroots stepped in so early, they eliminated Franken’s competition which meant Franken went into the general election untested and then just barely scraped out a win.

Vigorous primaries have always helped Democrats win in the fall. The notion that we should anoint candidates and save our money for the fall is a new strategy, and one developed by losers who don’t understand how elections work.