Budget talks: This is getting nasty

Call me cynical, but how can we trust these assholes not to pull some stunt like that?

And let's face it, it did work to some degree.

 

OK. Weekend at Gabby's.

 

Page 1 to here, it's like watching "Crossfire." Two sides armed with different, opposing sets of facts. Both sure they're right. Both sure the other side is wrong.

Sometimes entertaining. Mostly noise pollution.

And we all look this way while we're being hosed over that way. It is a brilliant game that has us fighting over pocket lint as if there is any payoff, while the rich keep getting richer, companies keep moving abroad and outsourcing, and we have no idea who we are or how to unite for the common good.

Barf.

 

GOP still has to nominate somebody, and morning-line frontrunners are all either epic fakes, yahoos and/or borderline psychopaths. Good luck with that.

 

That's one of those stories that gets done from time to timt.

All the New York papers did it in 2008, with a focus on Charlie Rangel:

Even when the taxpayers don't pay for their cars, don't expect them to pay for them:

Mostly because it's just easier if the campaign pays:

 

You know, if it's going to be like the Republicans are in charge anyway, you might as well put the Republicans in charge. If there's nothing else you can say about them, it's that they're better at being Republicans.

 

I say the same thing about our side all the time.

No one wants Democrat Light.

 

Taibbi:

Alley thugs. Nice.

 

Uncle Joe always delivers. He had two gems yesterday:

1. WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden yesterday condemned Tea Party Republicans for "acting like terrorists" during the debt fight, sources said.
Biden made the shocking statement during a closed-door meeting with House Democrats to try and whip up support for the debt-limit deal, according to the sources.
The vice president was reacting to an irate Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.), who said Democrats "have negotiated with terrorists," Politico.com reported.
"This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money," Doyle added.
Biden agreed, saying, "They have acted like terrorists," the report said.

2. Vice President Joe Biden, who was on hand for the vote, said he told Giffords that "she's now a member of the cracked-head club like me," a reference to his two brain surgeries.

 

The worst part of the Politics Board being shut down was losing the Joe Biden running gaffes thread.