Good question...

...from Digby...

Republicans admit to being liars in order to get elected all the time. Why doesn't anyone believe them?

Hat tip of the day...

...to Gordon, for this.

Good question.

Markos wonders...

Who is going to break it to the conservatives that Romney is still on the ticket?

From the "Why we can't have nice things" file.

It's why we can't have nice things, and why, like I always say sometimes, that...



Hat tip to Ron Chusid.

From the "Grow up and get over it" file.

Hat tip to Fixer.

Sunday Funny.

Via Chipsticks...

Maybe the best thing I can say...

...about Eric Holder is that he's contemptuous of John Boehner's House of Representatives. He's hardly exceptional in that respect, of course, but now he's got the papers to prove it.

I confess to a degree of jealousy.

Good question...

...from Steve M....

Can the GOP win the Presidency with two Vice Presidential candidates on the ticket?

I'm dubious myself, to a pretty extreme degree, but it sure looks like they're gonna try.

From the "Proudly Partisan" file.

Scanning Meteor Blades overview of the latest Pew Survey, this caught my eye...



Think about it. Who are the people who can't take care of themselves? Not won't, can't. They're folks who are too young, too old, too injured or too ill to care for themselves. They're your neighbors, your relatives, and, faster than you might care to imagine, it could be you.

Those are the people that most Republicans would abandon to fate. Those are the people that most Democrats believe we should join together to assist.

And that's just one reason that I'm a proudly partisan Democrat.

Heh™.

Via Fixer...

Chart of the day.

Via Hart Williams...

Me too, also...

Heather, on the Gentlelady from Spokane...

I find it sad and disheartening to listen to the likes of McMorris Rodgers make excuses for her party being on the wrong side of bigotry, sexism, hatred and allowing for violence to escape prosecution if you believe the person the act was committed against is a second class citizen.

Me too. Sad and disheartening, but not the least bit surprising.

Which is sort of sad and disheartening, too.

From the "Me too" file.

Neil Sinhababu...

As an institution, the Republican Party has decided to sacrifice a few Senate seats in the name of ideological purity.  I'm pretty happy about this, because I like it when they lose Senate seats. 

Me too.

Chart of the day.

The Republican war on kids...

She may be elected to the House...

...but Cathy McMorris Rodgers isn't very representative of a lot of folks in her district. Publicola, via Carl...

...Republicans in the House, led by Washington State Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA, 5) are pushing an alternative proposal—which McMorris Rodgers, incredibly, said will protect “the true victims of domestic violence and sexual assault”—that does not provide any of the Senate version’s protections for Native American women, gay women, rural women, and some illegal immigrants. (The latter provision is aimed largely at protecting so-called child and mail-order brides brought into the country illegally and under false pretenses.)

It's noteworthy that in addition to vast tracts of rural land, McMorris Rodgers' district encompasses the reservations of the Consolidated Confederated Tribes (including the Sapoils, Nespelems, Okanagons, Sinkisuses, Nez Perces, Colvilles and Seijextees), the Spokane Tribe and the Kalispel Tribe.


Seems to me the gentle lady from the far side of the Cascade Curtain has a lot explaining to do to a lot of constituents.

From the Department of Redundancy Department.

Rob McKenna is a deeply partisan Republican and a liar.

From the "Not Exactly News" file.

It's Mitt.

But you knew that, even before you knew this...

Ricky's out.

Meanwhile, Newt, like Charlie, is staying in.

Elsewhere, Allen West has gotten so far out that he should think about checking himself in.

Sunday funny.

Via Chipsticks...

Good advice.

From Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, for those who doubt there's a Republican war on women...

"If you don't feel this is an attack, you need to go home and talk to your wife and your daughters."

This presumes, of course, that men who sincerely doubt there's a Republican war on women allow their wives and daughters to talk. That's possible, I suppose, but almost certainly not universal...

Hunter, on Republican "liberty and freedom..."

The liberty is the liberty to let people die on the streets; the freedom they speak of is the freedom of not giving a damn if it happens.

Entirely true, and exactly why...