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Sat March 20, 2010
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(RealClearPolitics) Obvious Have Democrats gone insane?  (realclearpolitics.com) (288)
(Crooks & Liars) Followup GOP doubles down on hoax memo. Because that's what our founders would have wanted  (crooksandliars.com) (192)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Anthony Weiner (D-NY) reams Scott Garrett (R-NJ) for reading the hoax memo on the floor of the U.S. House, thus proving that some Democrats have balls  (dailykos.com) (88)

Fri March 19, 2010
(The Tennessean) Obvious Democrats take out $100 million provision in health care bill to buy Nebraska senator's vote, substitute it with $99 million provision to buy Tennessee representative's vote  (tennessean.com) (32)

Thu March 18, 2010
(The Hill) Asinine 222 Democrats vote to rip Article 1, Section 7 out of the Constitution  (thehill.com) (319)
(Politico) Amusing Thousands, or possibly less than 300, enraged Tea Partiers descend on the offices of the evil Congressional Democrats who are destroying their country and ..well, find them terribly polite and quite nice actually  (politico.com) (143)

Tue March 16, 2010
(The Atlantic) Interesting Democrats thinking passing health care reform is worth any cost should remind themselves of the catastrophe that was Cat Care (with video)  (theatlantic.com) (29)
(Telegraph) Interesting A bug or a feature? President Obama tells House Democrats he won't campaign for them if they vote "no" on health care  (telegraph.co.uk) (173)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Nothing in your high school civics class prepared you for the "hereby rule," the arcane legislative trickery House Democrats will use to pass health care reform without really passing it  (online.wsj.com) (518)

Mon March 15, 2010
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Democrats don't want to just PERMIT abortions as a matter of indivual liberty. They want to ENCOURAGE abortions as a matter of social policy -- that is, to save money  (online.wsj.com) (395)
(Slate) Unlikely Democrats should forget re-election and vote for health care reform, because "it will create a generation of Democrats who revere Obama the way their great-grandparents revered FDR"  (slate.com) (189)

Sat March 13, 2010
(UPI) Dumbass Showing the attention span of a goldfish, another GOP Senator wants Dems to "start over" on healthcare, even though it's only been stated about a gajillion times that will never happen  (upi.com) (410)

Fri March 12, 2010
(National Review) Asinine House Democrats tell Stupak that they can't pass his amendment because "more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more." Asinine tag stands in for non-existent Double Facepalm tag  (corner.nationalreview.com) (166)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious With health care finally coming close to passage, Republicans resort to concern trolling House Democrats  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (251)
(Washington Post) Obvious The polls are clear: Pass health care reform and the Democrats will be whacked this fall. "Wishing, praying or pretending will not change these outcomes"  (washingtonpost.com) (432)

Thu March 11, 2010
(Hot Air) Asinine The "drain the swamp" Democrats cancel all commitee meetings and go behind closed doors (again) to plot ObamaCare vote  (hotair.com) (131)
(Time) Interesting Democrats already vying to be Senate majority leader next term to replace Harry Reid, who has combined the excitement of vanilla pudding with the legislative effectiveness of, well, vanilla pudding  T-Shirt  (time.com) (76)

Sun March 07, 2010
(Michael Moore) Obvious Michael Moore wants to replace Rahm Emanuel, only wants a dollar a year, a cot in the White House basement, unlimited all you can eat buffets  (michaelmoore.com) (48)

Thu March 04, 2010
(Washington Post) Interesting Democrats choose Rep. Sander Levin to chair Ways and Means, passing over the more senior Rep. Pete Stark, a raving looney who makes Jim Traficant look sane  (washingtonpost.com) (50)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Old and busted: 30 Senate Republicans vote against anti-rape bill sponsored by Democrats. New Hotness: 153 House Republicans vote against anti-child abuse in schools bill sponsored by Democrats  (dailykos.com) (223)
(Yahoo) Sad Obama-era Bipartisanship: while Republicans are trying to dismantle his healthcare bill, Senate democrats are trying to neuter his financial reform package  (news.yahoo.com) (20)

Wed March 03, 2010
(Think Progress) Fail Step 1: Obama nominates highly qualified judge for Federal Court. Step 2: Republicans filibuster her for 124 days. Step 3: After 4 months, judge is confirmed by the Senate 99-0  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (180)

Mon March 01, 2010
(Some Guy) Unlikely The photo that could doom the Democrats  (thedailybeast.com) (135)

Sun February 28, 2010
(CNN) Fail Pelosi: Our bill is bipartisan. We've got both Democrats, and liberal Democrats  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (123)

Fri February 26, 2010
(Fox News) Cool When even 46% of Fox News viewers agree with Democrats on Health Care Reform, maybe its time Republicans get on board  (foxnews.com) (302)
(The Weekly Standard) Obvious Obama was so anxious to listen to GOP, he spent more time talking today than all GOP participants combined. Bonus: Also exceeded total of all other Democrats  (weeklystandard.com) (685)

Thu February 25, 2010
(NYPost) Obvious Democrats need to stop whining about GOP filibuster threats. "Besides, has a filibuster ever prevented eventual enactment of anything significant that an American majority has desired, strongly and protractedly?"  (nypost.com) (92)
(Washington Post) Obvious Conceding that today's health care summit will be as predictable as kabuki theater, Democrats work on strategy for the real negotiations to follow behind the scenes  (washingtonpost.com) (186)

Fri February 19, 2010
(LA Times) Interesting U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer files papers to run for reelection, rebellion  (articles.latimes.com) (78)

Wed February 17, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious Americans don't agree on much else, but 80% of Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike, agree that the current Supreme Court is a bunch of citizen-hating corporate whores  (news.yahoo.com) (106)
(PPP) Obvious The vast majority of opposition to healthcare reform and DADT repeal emanates from voters who'll pull the lever for Democrats sometime after the pigs flying from Reagan's corpse's ass brew some earl grey  (publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com) (62)

Sun February 14, 2010
(Washington Post) Obvious Cheney states he thinks Obama is doing a great job on national defense. Nah, just kidding, he says we're all going to die and we deserve it for voting Democrat  (washingtonpost.com) (176)

Sat February 13, 2010
(Washington Post) Cool Democrats intend to document Repubicans' obstructionist whining for use during election season  (washingtonpost.com) (297)

Fri February 12, 2010
(Fox News) Interesting Democrats resort to 'Plan B' in order to get a health care bill passed  (foxnews.com) (390)
(The Hill) Asinine Reid kills bipartisan jobs bill after Democrats complain it's bipartisan  (thehill.com) (141)

Thu February 11, 2010
(The Star Press) Obvious Remember how the Democrats in Congress would say that raising the minimum wage would help Americans and actually create jobs? Um, yeah, about that  (thestarpress.com) (180)
(Breitbart.com) Dumbass Americans are represented by two separate but equally different political parties: the democrats who advocate liberalism, and the republicans who have Michael Moriarty claiming John McCain is a secret democrat. This is his latest whargarrbl  (bighollywood.breitbart.com) (46)
(RealClearPolitics) Interesting "What, one wonders, will Democrats have to say about the filibuster when Sarah Palin is jamming through her first-year agenda as president?"  (realclearpolitics.com) (602)

Sat February 06, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting GOP proposes budget, including privatizing social security, slashing benefits. Democrats: "Okay, let's vote on it." Republicans: "Just kidding, LOL. You didn't think we were serious, did you?"  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (185)

Fri February 05, 2010
(Gallup) Obvious New Gallup poll shows that 36% of Americans, including 53% of Democrats and 61% of liberals, view socialism positively  (gallup.com) (213)
(National Review) Ironic Democrats 2008: Enlighted Americans have wisely chosen hope and change. Democrats 2010: Americans are evil morons  (article.nationalreview.com) (156)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass That blanket hold Senator Shelby (R-AL) is using to extort earmarks from the Democrats? It's to benefit a foreign company  (dailykos.com) (135)

Thu February 04, 2010
(Think Progress) Obvious In a surprise to absolutely no one except US Senators and people who were taught 3rd grade civics but never thought about it critically, the filibuster has actually never been a good idea  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (245)
(Wall Street Journal) Stupid Obama has a (carefully scripted) Q&A with (hand-selected) Democrats (who are in tough reelection races) to address their concerns (and give them lots of soundbites for their upcoming campaigns)  (blogs.wsj.com) (134)

Wed February 03, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Amusing Cue your flowcharts: Obama chides Democrats, telling them GOP doesn't have a 41-59 majority  (tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com) (172)
(Red State) Amusing Tied to Blago, Rezko, and The Mob. Looks like Illinois Democrats have found themselves a new Senator  (redstate.com) (45)

Mon February 01, 2010
(Examiner) Interesting "Many people ask me whether the Democrats are in as much trouble as they were in 1994. The numbers suggest they are in much deeper trouble"  (washingtonexaminer.com) (435)

Sat January 30, 2010
(Fox News) Interesting Obama meets with congressional Republicans; Fark political thread breaks out  (foxnews.com) (365)
(FDL) Asinine Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-eally in office way too long) threatens republican obstruction if the democrats don't try acting bipartisan for once  (firedoglake.com) (30)
(Time) Obvious Obama admits that Democrats let some provisions 'sneak into' health care legislation that violate his promises that citizens who like their insurance, doctors can keep them  (realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com) (64)
(Some Guy) Fail Only 32% Of Americans Know The Senate Bill Did Not Get Bipartisan Support  (fdlaction.firedoglake.com) (32)

Fri January 29, 2010
(Think Progress) Obvious The Senate took a vote on requiring Congress not to pass legislation that it can't pay for. All 40 Republicans voted no  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (291)
(Think Progress) Fail Ever wonder why the filibuster works so much and has no political consequences for the party which abuses it? New poll shows that only 26% of the public even knows that it exists in its current form. Tag is for our civic ignorance  (yglesias.thinkprogress.org) (81)

Wed January 27, 2010
(NJ.com) Spiffy Passaic County SWAT team gets a $400,000 armored vehicle. It's airtight, with a 10-hour air supply, making it especially useful for driving down the NJ Turnpike  (nj.com) (102)
(Hot Air) Obvious Desperate Democrats, after a drunken night of awkard fondling and waking up hung over, are scrambling to find Plan B  (hotair.com) (43)

Mon January 25, 2010
(Financial Times) Dumbass James Carville in November, 2008: 40 years of Democrats rule. 2010: Blame Bush for loss of filibuster-proof Senate  (ft.com) (140)

Sat January 23, 2010
(Mich News) Florida "It's more than a little ironic that Democrats praised Dred Scott when it was handed down over a hundred years ago, yet now stand opposed to fundamental freedoms such as free speech today."  (michnews.com) (294)

Fri January 22, 2010
(The New York Times) Interesting Paul Krugman to House Democrats: Hey, be a man  (nytimes.com) (94)
(Open Secrets) Obvious Want to know why Democrats are so up in arms about yesterdays SCOTUS decision? Maybe it's because it might take away their advantage in fundraising  (opensecrets.org) (426)
(Gallup) Interesting Fifty-five percent of Americans support putting the brakes on health care reform in order to obtain a compromise with Republicans, while 40 percent think Democrats should instead throttle up and just make the impending trainwreck happen already  (gallup.com) (415)

Thu January 21, 2010
(The Agitator) Fail DCCC attacks "right-wing extremist group" Cato Institute. You know, the same Cato that's to the left of the Democrats on national security, immigration, civil liberties, criminal justice, and foreign policy  (theagitator.com) (151)
(Politico) Cool Democrats come to stark realization: "Every state is in play"  (politico.com) (288)
(The New York Times) Fail Republicans refuse to join bipartisan budget deficit panel, on the grounds that fixing the problem would make the Democrats look good  (nytimes.com) (232)

Wed January 20, 2010
(Some Guy) Asinine Retarded voters elected Brown because they were pissed off the public option was taken out of the health care bill. I can't wait for him to put it back in  (act.boldprogressives.org) (98)
(Huffington Post) Asinine Jim Cramer: "Markets will rally if Dems lose Massachusetts senate race." He then clarified: "By 'rally,' i mean 'plummet by more than 150 points."  (huffingtonpost.com) (220)

Tue January 19, 2010
(Fox News) Strange As expected, GOP fully embraces TEA party activists and solidifies the party's base. Just kidding, RNC isn't returning their phone calls  (thefoxnation.com) (89)
(Washington Post) Interesting "If Scott Brown wins today, Democrats go from having the largest Senate majority since the 1970s to...the second largest Senate majority since the 1970s."  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (166)
(Some Guy) Sad "If Coakley loses, Democrats will only have an 18 vote majority in the Senate... A bigger majority than George W Bush EVER had in the Senate when he did whatever. The. F*ck. He wanted"  (thedailyshow.com) (331)
(Cato-at-Liberty) Interesting The list of tax hikes Obama and Democrats have proposed include higher income, business and excise taxes, a VAT, and a tax on soda. Not proposed: A tax on rapacious statism  (cato-at-liberty.org) (404)
(The Newspaper) Obvious Bipartisanship in action: both Republicans and Democrats in Indiana want cameras to give you speeding tickets  (thenewspaper.com) (79)

Mon January 18, 2010
(CNN) Amusing Even Obama's aides think Coakley is a lost cause  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (639)
(National Journal) Dumbass Democrats play the same tired old song, "Blame Bush" for Martha Coakley's failing Senate bid. Seriously, are you guys going to get a new tune before 2012?  (hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com) (300)
(Washington Times) Obvious MSNBC host advocates voter fraud in Massachusetts to keep Democrat seat  (washingtontimes.com) (245)

Sun January 17, 2010
(Yahoo) Obvious If Democrats lose Ted Kennedy's seat, Senate may bypass that whole "voting" thing on health care reform  (news.yahoo.com) (168)
(The Atlantic) Fail If the GOP wins the Massachussetts Senate seat, it will not only be a vindication of the nihilistic and destructive strategy of obstructionism, but it will be final proof that the American people don't deserve to keep their republic  (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com) (533)
(My San Antonio) Obvious Texas Board of Education moves to restore Christmas, study country music instead of hip hop, eliminate "global citizenship," and promote the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association  (mysanantonio.com) (194)

Wed January 13, 2010
(American Spectator) Obvious Yep, it's who you know: Democrats reward labor unions for their political support by exempting them from the proposed surtax on high-priced "Cadillac" health care plans  (spectator.org) (384)
(ABC News) Interesting Have Republicans already won in Massachusetts? Democrats already lost? Are 4 chicken nuggets enough, 6 too many?  (blogs.abcnews.com) (246)

Mon January 11, 2010
(Yahoo) Fail Double standard failing to work, Democrats now playing the race Card in their attempt to save the foundering USS Harry Reid  (news.yahoo.com) (877)

Sun January 10, 2010
(Boston Herald) Obvious Democrats make contingency plans to block Republican from taking office if he wins election for Ted Kennedy's seat  (bostonherald.com) (125)

Fri January 08, 2010
(Denver Post) Amusing Actual headline: Dem lawmaker questions Hick's rural credentials  (denverpost.com) (26)
(NYPost) Interesting That's a nice Congressional seat you got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it  (nypost.com) (73)

Wed January 06, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious Chris Dodd's retirement could actually help the Democrats hold on to his Senate seat  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (60)
(USA Today) Obvious In an announcement that has nothing whatsoever to do with three prominent Democrats "retiring", Obama wants to fast track a final health care bill  (content.usatoday.com) (254)

Tue January 05, 2010
(C-SPAN) Obvious Even C-Span thinks the Democrats may be hiding something in these non-televised behind the scenes "health care reform" talks  (c-span.org) (463)

Mon January 04, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass GOP House candidate puts things in perspective: The fight against the Democrats is bigger than the fight against terrorism  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (190)
(MSNBC) Dumbass Democrats plan to run against George W. Bush in 2010 and 2012  (msnbc.msn.com) (251)
(Hot Air) Obvious As Obama's descending approval rating sets new records, Democrats whine about the pollster  (hotair.com) (214)

Sun January 03, 2010
(Yahoo) Fail Even the AP is openly mocking Democrats' "jobs" bill  (finance.yahoo.com) (92)

Sat January 02, 2010
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Democrats plan to run against GOP record on national security. Wait, what?  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (114)

Thu December 31, 2009
(The New York Times) Scary Democrats move to change Presidential election rules. How conveeeenient  (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com) (144)

Mon December 28, 2009
(Politico) Interesting Senate Democrats tell the White House to drop any kind of effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill. You read it right  (politico.com) (89)
(Townhall) Hero Through their overreaching arrogance, Democrats have succeeded in awakening a sleeping giant - regular Americans. They now climb out of their recliners to have a little cheese dip, assault the Fortresses of Socialism  (townhall.com) (681)

Sat December 26, 2009
(National Review) Interesting The Democrats overreached. They have tried to push a centrist country to the left, and therefore they're going to lose a lot of seats in the November election  (corner.nationalreview.com) (529)
(USA Today) Asinine Republicans in 2003: It is perfectly fine to expand medicare without paying for it. Today: OMG Expanding Medicare and paying for it is the DEVIL  (usatoday.com) (205)

Wed December 23, 2009
(538) Interesting Fivethirtyeight identifies the most valuable and most useless Democrats. Here comes the math  (fivethirtyeight.com) (60)

Mon December 21, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine Traitorous Democrats delay troop funding... wait, we're getting a correction. Patriotic Republicans delay troop funding bill  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (240)

Sat December 19, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Stupid Democrats' 2010 election strategy is as fresh as their legislative ideas: Blame Bush  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (180)
(Fox News) Spiffy Sen. Ben Nelson bought off for number 60. Democrats are now free to subvert the will of the American people  (foxnews.com) (lots)

Fri December 18, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Dems wheeling in cots to burn the midnight oil on health care this weekend - but Lieberman skips town back to Connecticut  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (103)

Mon December 14, 2009
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious RNC Chair Michael Steele: "The Democrats are accusing us Republicans of trying to delay and stonewall their government takeover of health care. You know what? They're finally right."  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (171)

Sun December 13, 2009
(Daily Kos) Fail Four times as many Democrats view their party unfavorably as Republicans. Oh yeah? What Right Wing rag came up with those numbers? Fox? NRO? Nope. Daily Kos  (dailykos.com) (379)
(The New York Times) Cool Democrats override Republican filibuster on spending bill that also kills a school voucher program, overturns bans on needle exchange and abortion funding, promotes medical marijuana. It's good to be in charge  (nytimes.com) (225)

Fri December 11, 2009
(Politico) Unlikely Talk about damning with faint praise: Joe Biden calls Chris Dodd (D-irty rotten scoundrel) "the single-most gifted legislator in Congress"  (politico.com) (23)

Thu December 10, 2009
(CNN) Obvious Democrats and Republicans are now equally hated. So, congratulations on that  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (95)
(The Hill) Unlikely Obama demands Republicans stop scaring people, saying that's Democrats' job. Besides, he has charts showing everything is improving. As every Farker knows, charts bring stupid arguments to a screeching halt  (thehill.com) (105)

Wed December 09, 2009
(The Robalution) Hero United States Senator Jim Webb (D-ownright Awesome) to Obama: You're not emperor  (therobalution.com) (266)
(Washington Post) Stupid You may not have received a raise this year because of the recession, but the IRS employee who will be denying your claim that your cat is a dependent sure got one  (voices.washingtonpost.com) (79)

Fri December 04, 2009
(Think Progress) Spiffy Democrats in Congress: Hey, we'd like to co-sponsor your joke amendment to the health reform bill forcing Congress onto the public option, because we think the public option is actually pretty good. Republicans: Psych  (thinkprogress.org) (162)
(Wall Street Journal) Stupid Democrats who complained about Medicare Part D when the Bush administration enacted it are now going to address it in the health care bill. By making it worse  (online.wsj.com) (25)
(Hot Air) Asinine Senate Democrats seek to strip protection for citizen journalism from press shield law  (hotair.com) (163)

Wed December 02, 2009
(Political Wire) Followup Proving just as willing to blame others as their heterosexual counterparts, Log cabin Republicans blame Democrats for failure of marrige equaility bill that had zero Republican support  (politicalwire.com) (89)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe(R-ME)², realizing that their constituents are in favor of health care reform, decide to try to work with Democrats in the Senate to get to 60 votes since Joe Lieberman(I-CT) and Ben Nelson(D-NE) won't  (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com) (188)
(Crooks & Liars) Obvious "Has there ever been a bigger dick in the history of dicks than Karl Rove?"  (crooksandliars.com) (261)

Wed November 25, 2009
(Riehl World View) Obvious Gays: Hey Democrats, here's some money. Dems: Thanks. Gays: So when are you going to schedule a vote on gay marriage? Dems: What's that? Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of my sucking up to moderates  (riehlworldview.com) (282)

Tue November 24, 2009
(Huffington Post) Fail Democrats want to resurrect a government hiring program they used to help the economy in 1978. Remember how terrific the economy was in '78? And how well Democrats did in the '78 and '80 elections? You do? They apparently don't  (huffingtonpost.com) (124)
(CNN) Scary From the "be careful what you wish for, Democrats" department: Palin tied atop Iowa 2012 poll  (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com) (345)

Mon November 23, 2009
(RealClearPolitics) Scary "Everyone agrees that the nation is on an unsustainable fiscal path. So Democrats will add a $2.5 trillion entitlement to hurry us further along the path."  (realclearpolitics.com) (518)

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