Analogy of the day.

John Cole...

Romney’s style of politics is that of his dressage horse in the London competition, an elite ballet set to classical music during which the hoi polloi are not supposed to talk.

Good advice...

...from John Cole.

Folks, if you see Cory Booker in the wild- RUN. Someone is about to be seriously injured.

Heh™.

Map of the day.

Hat tip to John Cole.

From the "Me too" file.

John Cole...

Palin elicits feelings in me I am not proud of having...

Me too.

I forgive myself, though.

Worth repeating.

Over and over.

To everyone.

Everywhere.

All the time.

John Cole...

Whenever you are confused as to why the Republicans seem to be doing something that makes no sense or is crazy, you really need to come back to this. The goal of the Republicans is not good governance. The goal of the Republicans is to make governing by a Democrat impossible and to beat Obama in 2012. It’s the only thing they really, really care about.

From the "Me neither" file.

John Cole...

I just don’t understand how anyone could vote for any of the current Republican candidates. I just don’t.

Me neither.

From the "Me neither" file.

John Cole...

I honestly don’t know why anyone wants Obama’s job.

Me neither. Sometimes, in fact, I think that the desire for the job should be an automatic disqualification.

As far as The Speech goes, what John said.

What John Cole said.

Here…

Anyone dumb enough to pay money to Charlie Sheen deserves what they get. End of story.

From the "Me too" file.

John Cole...

Personally, I’m not satisfied with the job they are doing (unemployment is horrible, they’ve spent too much time negotiating with Republicans, the drone wars, the civil liberties issues, Lloyd Blankfein is still a free man, etc.), and think there have been some real failings and some real let-downs. But I will belly crawl over broken glass while someone pours lemon juice and rubbing alcohol on me to vote for the Democrats in November.

Myself, as well.

John Cole's right...

...about John McCain.

Exactly right.

Worth repeating.

James Joyner...

We’re simply going to make people miserable for no apparent reason. There have been precisely three attempts over the last eight years to commit acts of terrorism aboard commercial aircraft. All of them clownishly inept and easily thwarted by the passengers. How many tens of thousands of flights have been incident free? And, yet, we’re going to make hundreds of thousands of people endure transcontinental flights without reading materials or the ability to use the restroom?

As much as I once loved to fly, if you can't conveniently and affordably get there by car, bus, train or boat, I can't imagine going there anymore, which means I'll probably never go to some places I'd really like to go, places that would really like people like me to come.

Guess I'll scratch the return trips to Ireland and Vietnam from the bucket list. The crazy people have won.

Hat tip to John Cole.

From the "Since you asked…" file.

John Cole inquires...

I’m seriously sick of wingnuts and Republicans. Or is that redundant?

Since you asked, yes, it is.

Yes, it does.

John Cole…

Simply mentally replace the phrase “tea party” with “hissy fit” and it really clears things up.

Thanks for that.

From the "Me neither" file.

John Cole...

I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane.

Nor do I.