Posts by jason330

Thanks to Roger Ailes, there are now two classes of GOP candidates. The Children's Table Losers and the Prime Time Losers. I think it is safe to say that the longevity of the Children's Table Losers has taken a hit. So who should be happy and who should be sad?

Division 1 Jason330: Huckabee (117), Christie (36), Cruz (161), Carson (118)| 432 Pandora: Walker (23), Paul (145), Rubio (140), and Santorum(72) | 380 AQC: Jindal (46), Bush (55), Fiorina (118), Ehrlich (0) | 219 Division 1A Newton: Paul (145), Rubio (140),Carson (118), Santorum (72) | 475 Prop Joe: Cruz (161), Jindahl (46), Walker (23), Perry (65) | 295 Del Dem: Bush (55), Christie (36), Huckabee (117), Graham (69)| 277

Turns out, with 4 in the Prime Time, I'm the winner of the Roger Ailes follies. Del Dem, Pandora and Newton, both with three did well. Prop Joe has two Prime Time Losers, and AQC is the Rick Perry of this round.    

The GOP is going all in to turn Planned Parenthood into the next ACORN. In response to completely debunked and discredited videos that conservatives collectively pretend show Planned Parenthood officials…

Former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. told the Boston Globe that he's not running for president, making him the only Republican in the country not running for President. This means nothing to the universe of political punditry - except to one person, AQC, who is going into the second phase, the drop phase, of DLGOPFP a three legged chair. (scroll down for updated standings) Don't cry for AQC though. He (she?) has Jeb Bush, so points will be accumulated while candidates like Newton's Rand Paul will fall to the ground like overripe and unwanted apples in an abandoned orchard. It is still anybody's game, and other sports related cliches. [An aside... I wonder if all this attention to the Buffoon Bus (tm) is helping the GOP in some perverse way? They do get to claim that they have an "embarrassment of riches" and while you and I certainly agree that these candidates are embarrassing, they are all getting a lot of earned media, and pushing the Dem candidates into the shadows. Also - since they all agree on all the issues, they get to continue to spout their utter bullshit unchallenged. Certainly the media is not going to call them on their floating of fact impaired fucktardy. ]

Nice job Bushie. (also, nice job Obama keeping it rolling).

While American military trainers had gone to great lengths to protect the initial group of trainees from attacks by Islamic State or Syrian Army forces, they did not anticipate an assault from the Nusra Front. In fact, officials said on Friday, they expected the Nusra Front to welcome Division 30 as an ally in its fight against the Islamic State. “This wasn’t supposed to happen like this,” said one former senior American official, who was working closely on Syria issues until recently, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential intelligence assessments. The Nusra Front said in a statement on Friday that its aim was to eliminate Division 30 before it could gain a deeper foothold in Syria. The Nusra Front did much the same last year when it smashed the main groups that had been trained and equipped in a different American effort, one run covertly by the C.I.A.

h/t eschaton

I thought I knew how screwed up the GOP is. Turns out...I had no idea how mightily screwed up the GOP is right now.

“Cuckservative,” you see, is short for a cuckolded conservative. It’s not about a Republican whose wife is cheating on him, but one whose country is being taken away from him, and who’s too cowardly to do anything about it. OK, that’s gross and sexist enough already, but there’s more. It apparently comes from a kind of pornography known as “cuck,” in which a white husband, either in shame or lust, watches his wife be taken by a black man. Lewis explains it this way: “A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor. This is not merely a new way to shout “RINO.” It’s a call to make the GOP an explicitly racist party, devoted to the defense of whites…. ”

More on this when I update the Fantasy standings, but it looks like we are transitioning to the drop phase.

Either that, or he is simply clueless. Just read this and be aware of the fact that he has never voted for a budget. He is simply against budgets. He is a pumpkin-headed know nothing when it comes to budgets, and he is proud of it.

I think of the DNC as being staffed by a bunch of dingle-berries and dipshits, mostly because historically it has been staffed by a bunch of dingle-berries and dipshits. But that might be changing. This GOP Debate Watch Party Pack actually seems funny.

These (more or less) were the remarks I delivered last night at the PDD event honoring PDD's "Bob Stachnik Progressive Courage" awardees. Thanks for having me here to say a few words about Bob Stachnik on the occasion of awarding these first Bob Stachnik Progressive Courage Award. Having worked with him through the Howard Dean meetup days and into the founding of PDD, I can say one thing with absolute authority - Bob would hate the name of this award. This I know for sure. That is an objective fact.

Some dude, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, announced today. Who cares? Not us. Nobody has Kasich and also... additionally, he is no LeBron James. Will Kasich make it to the Fox News debate and thereby and legitimize his candidacy? If he does I'll talk about him then.

It had to happen sooner or later. With his sneering and cynical remarks about John McCain's service and captivity in Vietnam, Trump has brought his candidacy to a close. It…

Four Marines and a gunman were killed in shootings at multiple military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mayor Andy Berke announced at a Thursday afternoon press conference. The gunman was believed to have acted alone.

No matter what you think about gun control, it is impossible to dispute the fact that our gun laws make it easy for people, who are so inclined, to inflict a lot of damage.

According to this Daily Beat piece by Michael Tomasky the ostensible reason Coons is down on diplomacy because it doesn't solve all problems in the middle east tomorrow. That's some transparent bullshit, because nobody ever said that this deal was supposed to solve all middle eastern problems (or even the ones caused by George Bush) with the stroke of a pen. But I think we all know the real reasons. 1) AIPAC says so. and 2) He thinks there is some political/career gain from building up this image as some kind of Dem hawk. I don't get #2, but his track record is pretty clear. h/t a commenter for the link