I refuse to allow the courts to arbitrarily determine who my friends, neighbors, and constituents are…

— Michele Bachmann, openly misunderstanding pretty much everything about everything.

9:42 am - 22 Feb 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #politics #Michele Bachmann

No delegates for the GOP nomination will actually be awarded in any of these three states based on today’s votes. So, essentially, what’s going to happen tonight is a complete farce that will be manhandled into importance by campaign managers and political reporting.

— Gawker reminds us that no delegates were actually awarded last night. Also, a Mitt Romney Robot joke.

7:15 am - 8 Feb 2012
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literallyunbelievable:

How exactly did you get elected?

9:25 am - 6 Feb 2012 - 7,178 notes
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Filed under: #politics #John Fleming

So to recap: Romney and his aides were against context (for the ad attacking Obama) before they were for it (for his own comments about the poor) before they were against it again (for Obama’s exchange with the engineer).

— Greg Sargent on Mitt Romney’s attempts at slipperiness. The hell of it is that I’ve come to believe Romney is genuinely a data-driven guy who believes in reason — he came to different conclusions about how life works because his experience is different from mine, but his history seems to indicate he’d actually thought through a lot of this stuff! — yet his current data is telling him that the way to win the GOP nomination is to be a caricature of right-wing drivel and display unceasing contempt for Barack Obama, no matter how weird the optics might be to people outside the intended audience.

4:37 pm - 1 Feb 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Mitt Romney

We need someone who can do away with ridiculous organizations like the EPA, and Muslim unions.

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Charles Oliver, of Jacksonville, FL, interviewed by NPR at a Mitt Romney rally. (Starts at 3:29 in the audio)

Poor guy’s been smacked by life and doesn’t know who to blame.

9:49 am - 31 Jan 2012 - 1 note
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At least he’s taking it in stride and with the utmost grace*.

*Fooled you! Completely untrue!

11:25 am - 30 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Allen West #Florida #wingnuts

Last year Stefan Hankin of Lincoln Park Strategies threw Craig James into a statewide poll and found that James was less popular in West Texas than Barack Obama. ‘It’s not that people in West Texas don’t like him,’ said [GOP political consultant Brian] Mayes. ‘It’s that nobody likes him.’

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Ladies and gentlemen, Craig James!

Via Deadspin

1:54 pm - 27 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #football #Craig James #Texas

Via CLT Blog

9:34 am - 26 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Bev Perdue

Forget seasteading. There’s already a libertarian paradise, where no one is responsible for anything but their own property, out in the California desert.

10:11 am - 25 Jan 2012
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Filed under: #politics #Slab City

By the [Wall Street] Journal’s logic, if I give you a dollar and you have to pay 15 cents of that dollar to the IRS, then your tax rate isn’t 15 percent. It’s 15 percent of whatever was left after I paid my taxes, and after my friend George, from whom I won five bucks in a poker game, paid his taxes, and after his Aunt Sally, who gave him twenty-five bucks for shoveling her walk, paid her taxes, and after Aunt Sally’s customers at the local diner, who gave her fifty bucks in tips the week before, paid their taxes, and … tra la la. It’s a wonder, after all that upstream taxation, that there’s any money left at all.

— Timothy Noah on what should be, I think, the last word on the “capital gains are taxed twice” nonsense. Sure, we should find ways to incentivize investments, but the current 15% tax rate is far below historical norms.

9:15 am - 25 Jan 2012 - 1 note
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Filed under: #politics #taxes #Mitt Romney