Snipitty Snip Snip

Typical.

Monday Evening

Rock on.

Just Who Do They Think The Idiots Are?

With stuff like this the question is...who is the intended audience? Or, more specifically, which people are the people they imagine to be complete idiots, because they're the intended audience? Or is the speaker the idiot? Mysteries.

Happy Hour Thread

Apparently DC goes back to work tomorrow. Huzzah!

Afternoon Thread

enjoy

Not Comforting

You know, I appreciate one of our corporate overlords being against the corporate SuperPACs, but this isn't any better.

President Obama's supporters have created a Super-PAC called Priorities USA. Cohen says he and other Comcast executives don't contribute to Super-PACs or so called 527 groups that shield donors.

"We participate actively in the process but we participate through candidate PACs through full disclosure (and) through party PACs and party committee PACs with full disclosure of our participation," Cohen said.

Cohen noted that he's also raised money for Republicans including House majority leader Eric Cantor, and he follows the same rule in those efforts.

A world where company policy can dictate how and where their executives send their political bucks isn't a very awesome world either.

When The Dust Settles

We'll all know that, once again, the hippies are too blame.

I'd love to write post after post about how Republicans suck and it's their fault for not implementing the president's agenda. Or if we want to maintain the fiction that all legislation emanates from Congress (yes the legislation does just not the impetus for it), we can write post after post about how the Democratic agenda, supported by the president, is being thwarted by the Republicans.

And that agenda is? Apparently reducing regulatory uncertainty.

ah.

Too Dumb For Words

No, getting bumped to a higher tax bracket does not mean all of your income is taxed at that higher rate.

Remember Stupid Liberals

Everyone that mattered thought the Iraq war was an awesome idea.

So suck on that!!!

Always Playing On Their Field

So weird.

AMANPOUR: Well, let me ask Carol on that in the last 30 seconds. This business of walking away from the EPA regulations, I mean, is that a vision for the future? Or is that just a one-off?

LEE: I think you're very likely to see more of these. The White House is -- the Republicans have been very effective at tagging the president as being very pro-regulation. This was clearly a move -- business welcomed it. The Republicans welcomed it. And if you talk to people in the White House, they say there's more of these to come.

Morning thought

If Obama wins the election, he has to spend four more years pretending to lead the country.

But if Obama loses, he gets to make speeches to rich people for a pile of money and maybe join the Carlyle Group or one of those other things that you get as a reward for making sure that no one saves your national economy.

So, if you're Obama, do you really want to win the next election?

If the answer is "No," his policies make a lot more sense.

Signed,
Not Atrios

More Sunday Thread

Rock on. But not on the cat.

Wanker of the Day

Jon Chait.

Pre-Holiday Happy Hour

Enjoy

The Worst Person In The World

It quite possibly is Matthew Vadum.

Lunch Thread

Enjoy.

Gotta Have People Who Care About Stuff

I get that in politics you're going to have a few likely useful people around who are basically sociopaths, whose job it is to win and who don't give a shit about anything or anybody else. These people should be listened and then frequently ignored. They are sociopaths after all.

Sunday Bobbleheads

Face the Nation has Bachmann and Huntsman.

Meet the Press has The Moustache of Understanding, Paul Gigot, Maxine Waters, and a double dose of Kearns Goodwins.

This Week has Krgthulu and Bernstein, DeMint, Jonathan Karl, Dana Loesch, Michael Gerson, Clarence Page, Holtz-Eakin, and Carol Lee. Sounds like a party!

Happy Labor Day!

Document the atrocities!

Dead of Night

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