This is too, too much. The schadenfreude! The sheer, sheer joy! CNN: President-elect Joe Biden has decided to nominate Judge Merrick Garland as attorney general,Continue Reading
What are these assholes even talking about? Now, I knew they’d be pricks about this regardless, but isn’t a little convenient that they’re both onContinue Reading
President Obama has weighed in on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the confirmation battle that’s sure to ensue. Here’s his statement in itsContinue Reading
Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died of complications from cancer. In a statement dictated to her granddaughter Clara Spera days beforeContinue Reading
Senator Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday expressed regret that he “used the words I used yesterday” in warning Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh andContinue Reading
I’d love to see this for three reasons: 1) I love Barack Obama, and his presence in public life simply makes us better, 2) itContinue Reading
Okay, so they appear to have changed this headline since Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall screen-grabbed it. But it raises an important question — andContinue Reading
Republicans proudly advertised their radical ways during Wednesday's impeachment hearings into Donald Trump, wallowing in conspiracies and embracing debunked claims. The question now: How does theContinue Reading
Huffington Post is reporting that there is this Republican memo that states the following: The Republican leadership issued a memo Saturday clarifying that the SenateContinue Reading
You all are going to hear about this from plenty of other diarists, but Joltin Joe Biden just can’t quit digging his own grave onContinue Reading
Laurence Tribe is a Harvard constitutional law scholar, co-founder of the American Constitution Society, a former judicial adviser to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and,Continue Reading
Why? Because he’s the worst (er, second-worst) human being on the planet. A random conservative goober tweeted out these photos of Mitch McConnell, memorializing theContinue Reading
Fuck you, Mitch McConnell. Fuck you in your scurfy chelonian exoskeleton. ThinkProgress: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday ignored his past condemnations ofContinue Reading
So, yeah, Mitch McConnell thinks the Democrats are engaging in mindless obstruction. The Democrats. The Democrats. In fact, he’s so fired up about this heContinue Reading
Mitch McConnell, ladies and gentlemen: x As I’ve said time and time again: Mindless obstruction is unacceptable. The only way this divided Congress will beContinue Reading
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, earlier today: “The president wants this process to come to a vote because that’s what’s supposed to happen. In every single oneContinue Reading
The Democratic Coalition, and its chairmen Jon Cooper and Scott Dworkin, have filed a criminal complaint for perjury against Bret Kavanaugh with the Dept. ofContinue Reading
Whenever my astonished eyes alight on one of Hugh Hewitt’s sprightly jaunts down the cobblestone courts of Crazy Town, I wonder how The Washington Post chooses itsContinue Reading
Expecting moral consistency out of Republicans is like trying to wring a human soul out of a Trump, but the hypocrisy over the GOP’s handlingContinue Reading
