The Other McCain

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‘Uncle Choo-Choo’ Biden Unsure Just Where He Is

by Smitty Poor ol’ Uncle Choo-Choo, so tragically misunderstood by the peasantry. In his defense, North Carolina and Virginia are adjacent. It’s just that those pesky details, well, they kinda matter in a role as consequential as VP:Then again, maybe Biden is crazy like a fox, and prepping his decision to withdraw from politics to […]

Ohio-Bound: Hitting the Road With Mitt

By the time you read this, I’ll be about halfway to Beallsville, Ohio, where Mitt Romney has the first of his three campaign stops today: 12:30 p.m. ET: American Energy Corporation 43521 Mayhugh Road Beallsville, Ohio 3:30 p.m. ET: Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl 532 Mcintire Avenue Zanesville, Ohio 7:00 p.m. ET: Ross County Court House […]

‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran: Collectivist Way Ahead Of Warren And Obama

by Smitty Patrick Murray on FaceBook brings up an old chestnut, featuring my bloody-minded Congresstool in fine form. Here he anticipates the famous Elizabeth Warren diatribe, which also pre-figured #OccupyResoluteDesk’s “You didn’t build that” in Roanoke, VA. Virginia led this country to independence. Jim Moran, living in the shadow of Mount Vernon, would cheerfully lead […]

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.14.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Romney: Time To Be “More Like America” Mocks Obama’s record, praises Olympic team and Mars landing while campaigning solo in Florida. Meanwhile, in Iowa… Morsi’s Coup Against SCAF: The Hows And Whys Analysts discuss Egyptian President’s move for Al Ahram; junior officers silently back President Shooting Kills Three Near […]

Caught! CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Uses Liberal Blog TPM for Show-Prep

America’s Least Popular Cable-News Personality™ graduated from Harvard, but Soledad O’Brien is so ill-informed that, when she got flustered during an interview with Republican spokeswoman Barbara Comstock, she resorted to reading a Talking Points Memo blog post to find some decent . . . well, talking points. Ali Akbar caught this while watching CNN, and if you look […]

All Right, Everybody Quit Making Fun Of Matthew Yglesias

by Smitty via (JWF) Yglesias cannot be held to account for mistaking the Paul Ryan for the Congressman who engaged in insider trading after the 2008 housing meltdown: Public Servant Drool Bucket To the best of my knowledge, ‘Gentleman’ Jim Moran has offered no explanation, much less an apology, for the allegations of day trading […]

The Onion: “Don’t Even Try To Pretend You Haven’t Imagined Me Being Elected President One Day.’

by Smitty Your NSFW potty mouth of the day, via AllahPundit on Twitter, is a faux Paul Ryan in the Onion: Admit It, I Scare The Ever-Loving S**t Out Of You [Lefties], Don’t I? This is one of the key aspects of Ryan: he’s young enough that, after 8 years of executive tutelage under Romney, […]

Is ‘Pansexual’ a Synonym for ‘Slut’?

“Any port in a storm”? “Love the one you’re with”? There are some people whose only requirement is friction, and I suppose it would be accurate to describe them as “pansexual,” although another suitable synonym would be “Texas Democrat“: Democrat Mary Gonzalez was the first lesbian to openly serve in the Texas House of Representatives, […]

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