I really don’t understand why I even bother anymore:

NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly: “I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.”

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Bear witness to the bright young minds at Liberty University who are trying to make conservatism hep and happnin’ for the YouTube generation.  They got real good idears, they do:

Travis Korson… suggested framing marriage as an economic issue. “Gay marriage undermines that basic family unit,” he said, and that, in turn, hurts the economy.

Um, what? (4 comments)

The Guardian has a brutal, though not really all that unfair, take on the soon-to-be-senator. I must admit that Booker inspires a lot of ambivalence in me. He’s an impressive person in many ways, and obviously we know all about the minuses. I doubt he’d be a Lieberman-esque embarrassment, and his voting record would most likely not > more ... (2 comments)

Republicans now making with the man-brains, for crying out loud. From Lawmaker Says Man’s Brain More Concerned About Costs on PoliticalWire:

Maine State Rep. Ken Fredette (R) declared that he and most of his Republican colleagues oppose accepting federal funds to expand health care coverage because the genders think differently. > more ... (1 comments)

Certain quarters keep spoutin’ the same ol’ song. From GOP congressman: Rate of pregnancies from rape is ‘very low’:

“Before, when my friends on the left side of the aisle here tried to make rape and incest the subject — because, you know, the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low,” [Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)] said. > more ... (0 comments)

Here’s an Xbox rep addressing the controversy over Microsoft’s decision to require an internet connection for its new Xbox One console and hobble used game sales:

“This is a big change, consumers don’t always love change, and there’s a lot of education we have to provide to make sure that people understand.” > more ... (5 comments)

From ‘Proud wacko bird’ Ted Cruz calls Obama biggest obstacle to immigration reform on Yahoo News:

As the immigration debate begins before the full Senate for the first time, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has become one of the most vocal opponents to the current bill. But Cruz says the true obstacle to immigration reform is not him, but President Obama. > more ... (2 comments)

From I Am So Fucking Over This Already by John Cole onna BJ, in re: the citizenry of these United States acting all surprised at getting what they voted for, state-surveillance-regime-wise:

And for the record, Obama is not the villain here, he’s just dealing with the laws as they were passed, and it looks like they did everything correctly and followed the letter of the law. > more ... (0 comments)

“Republicans care just as deeply about the environment as Democrats but we also care about jobs,” he added. “We want common sense regulations to be balanced with economic growth and jobs.” — Rand Paul

Um, yeah, how’s that working out?  I guess not so well.  5 out of the 10 most polluted states are deep-red > more ... (1 comments)

“I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” – Texas Tea Party Jackwad

Also too, remember the past:

At the close of the Civil War … some three-quarters of a million of Negroes, the mass of them densely ignorant > more ... (4 comments)

I was rooting around in the dusty Post Cellar and wanted to offer up some delicious vintages of years past.

• Mittmentum!
• Cute Animal Battle
• I Fixed It! Ban Sitting Politicians From Running For Another Office
• Fake GOP ‘Budget’ Calls For Massive Tax Cuts for Wealthy
• Once-conservative Appellate Court Now Liberal
• Step One Is Admitting You Have A Problem
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From 2-Year-Old Boy In Texas Dead After Shooting Himself In The Face on TPM:

Correction: This post originally gave the wrong caliber for the the weapon involved. It was a 9 mm handgun.

But everything else in the story was accurate, I guess. > more ... (0 comments)

…if I had some cheese. Via AB, the Slog quotes WA State Representative (R-Kalama) and apparently Zen Master Ed Orcutt‘s latest email-koan:

The bridge would indeed be standing today had the truck’s load NOT rammed the super structure of the [I-5/Skagit River] bridge. In fact, 11 of the 12 sections of the bridge are still standing.

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So the Michelle Bachmann lustbuch has already been making the rounds — Jezebel, Wonkette, Balloon-Juice — but I couldn’t resist quoting the blurb on the e-book’s own cover graphic:

He touched the void inside her, pollinating her pink flower like a master bee.

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Saw this headline in the RSS reader, with no additional information:

Lawmaker Says Woman Should Carry Brain Dead Fetus to Term

And my immediate thought was Louie Gohmert, then I second-guessed myself and said it was Steve Stockman. Shoulda trusted my instincts! Also acceptable guesses: Steve “Esteban” King, Michele Bachmann, Rand Paul. (2 comments)

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), makin’ with the insightful diagnosis of current events y’all, via TPM:

“The President’s speech today will be viewed by terrorists as a victory,” said Chambliss, who recently golfed with the president, in a statement. > more ... (1 comments)

Sorry, folks, work has gotten crazy, and I realize I’ve been missing my (self-imposed) quota. But I’ll be back at you soon. Try to post something substantial tomorrow. (1 comments)