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Friday Open Thread [5.2.14]

My apologies for being incommunicado this week. My real life job had me traveling everywhere and working late nights. So let’s get caught up on some polling goodness and good job numbers:

The latest jobs report has a clear and comforting message for the White House and nervous Democrats: the economy is not tanking again. The April report, showing a bigger than expected gain of 288,000 jobs, should quiet fears of another spring slowdown and revive hopes for faster growth the rest of this year.

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Monday Open Thread [4.28.14]

“Usually when I get up this early, I get up to kill something.” — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), at an early morning church service to a congregation not familiar with his passion for bowhunting. Yes, such a Christian thing to say. So is Sarah Palin’s statement that that “Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.” Out of all the dumb and offensive and idiotic things she has said since bursting onto the scene in 2008, this is the most outrageous.

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Saturday Open Thread [4.26.14]

Crystal Wright:

“The entire Bundy affair just makes the Republican Party look bad. Are all Republicans racist? Absolutely not. But many overwhelmingly came out in support of this lunatic. I think it’s an awful day for conservatives. I think we need serious reflection because we’re not going to win 2016 with this attitude, keep doing things the same old way. We have old white men saying offensive things to women and minorities, and I’m tired of it.”

These old white men just need to die off over the next two decades, then the Republican Party can win again once they are cleansed of their poison. Unless of course some unwise young white men get infected…

But there is some hope, because here is a conservative old white man, Charles Krauthammer:

“It isn’t enough to say I don’t agree with what he said. This is a despicable statement. It’s not the statement, you have to disassociate yourself entirely from the man. It’s not like the words exist here and the man exists here. And why conservatives, or some conservatives end up in bed with people who, you know, he makes an anti-government statement, he takes an anti-government stand, he wears a nice big hat and he rides a horse, and all of a sudden he is a champion of democracy …

Look, do I have the right to go in to graze sheep in Central Park? I think not. You have to have some respect for the federal government, some respect for our system. And to say you don’t and you don’t recognize it and that makes you a conservative hero, to me, is completely contradictory, and rather appalling. And he has now proved it.”

Maybe most conservatives are just dumb. Not evil, just stupid as f*ck.

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