Chuck Schumer, levying a bold charge against Republicans in January 2009:

“If they oppose even something so suited to their tastes ideologically, it shows that they’re just opposing anything that helps create jobs,” Schumer added. “It almost makes you wonder if they aren’t trying to slow down the economic recovery for political gain.”

Oops, we’re sorry — that was yesterday. What we meant to say is that Rush Limbaugh showed his hand in January 2009:

“I hope Obama fails.”

The GOP strategy from the start has been no secret: Prevent Barack Obama from scoring any political or practical victory, by any means necessary. The Party of No didn’t emerge from Principled Opposition — that’s no Democrat healthcare reform that barely passed, and that’s no Democrat cap & trade program that failed — but from fear that if Obama actually fixed the economy, his re-election would be guaranteed.

Hell, Mitch McConnell would have taken a bullet for Osama bin Laden, just to stop Obama from getting credit for the hit.

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Provocateur Ian Murphy, who played David Koch for Scott Walker, punks James O’Keefe with the offer of a $100 bill earned from “selling” crack pipes: “And he fucking took it. He took my crack pipe money, slipped it in his coat pocket, shook my hand and bolted back the way we came. I rode the elevator down to the first floor, cackling like an absolute madman. Best hundo I’ve ever spent.” [Buffalo Beast, via Raw Story]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLMNZ6xY6YY

What do you do when life hands you a Republican senate and Shelly Silver?

If you’re gov Andy’s gal pal, Sandra Lee, you make yummy cocktails! And go heavy on the vodka as we wait for a vote to happen. Or not.

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“Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have taken her through the Midwest and Southeast at some point this month. But those travel blueprints are now in limbo, RCP has learned, as Palin and her family have reverted to the friendly confines of summertime Alaska, where the skies are currently alight for over 19 hours a day and the Bristol Bay salmon fishing season is nearing its peak.” [RealClearPolitics]

 You know that $500,000.00 Tiffany’s line of credit that everyone’s favorite joke of a presidential candidate, Newt Ginrich, spent the last few weeks playing down? Well apparently there’s another Tiffany’s line of credit he totally forgot to mention, and this one was good for a cool million. So gone are the days of Pat Nixon’s “respectable cloth coat.” $30,000 diamond tennis bracelets are what the smartly dressed Republican wife is wearing these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibEdgQJEdTA

We spent ten hours Tuesday on the geek equivalent of disassembling and reassembling a lawnmower engine. This is what it felt like by Hour 6.

[via Nerdist]

Sad that John Edwards crops up in this video … but we must unite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t59oL00nyw