Why Not The Best?

If Washington is really committed to becoming a full time Snooki & Company DC Shore reality show, let's dial it up!

Obviously progressive It-girl Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is too young to be Constitutionally eligible for the Presidency in 2020. So what?!? And some hidebound traditionalist states may have ballot rules for the Democratic primaries that require a primary candidate to be eligible for the office they seek - change the rules!

Democratic strategists should make a real push to get her on the primary ballots and give her a chance to accumulate delegates prior to the Democratic convention. That will let her be a formal power-player and ought to energize Democratic efforts to register and rally the youth vote, the way Barack and Bernie did and Hillary did not.

If the DC governing class doesn't want or expect to be taken seriously, then embrace the new reality. If they're just going to give us a show, give us a good one. Run AOC!

Comments

[Account Deleted]

Felosi is making a tactical error with this tit for tat approach to the Donald. all she's going to get is pushback and embarassment.

her job is to get POTUS off his square. and the only way to do that is to negotiate.

someone should send Nancy the fable about the man in a trenchcoat on a cold day in Chicago. the wind and the sun make a bet as to which could force the man to take off his coat.

wind blows and blows. man just grips his coat and hunkers down. the sun takes over. comes out. beating down the man with heat. the coat comes off.

POTUS has self-interests relative to his position, Felosi. give to get. didn't your peawit daddy or whomever mentored you teach you anything?

flouncing about with a big gavel makes for a poor rendition of penis envy.

[henry]

Epoch Times has Baker leaks to counter NYT’s Baker leaks:

https://twitter.com/epochtimes/status/1086424804448702464?s=21

[henry]

Former top FBI attorney James Baker admitted to House lawmakers in October last year that the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was riddled with abnormalities.

“Riddled with abnormalities”

Why isn’t anyone in jail?

[Pinandpuller]

Extraneus

Is it sexist to ask if Laura Bush made the SS a salad?

Let's head on over to CNN...

[Account Deleted]

TK: i feel your pain. :D

[Account Deleted]

the CODEL luggage shoulda been delivered to the White House and locked up.

Tweet: Hi Nancy! Great news. Your luggage has arrived. Come and pick it up. We can have a meeting and end this shutdown right now while you're here.

[bubarooni]

I just had a good chuckle.

About 7 years ago my oldest daughter went to the March for Life. Before she left I admonished her 'You'll be on the National Mall all day so you better dress warm. Double socks would be a good idea.'

She scoffed at me.

Froze her azz off.

A couple of days ago my 17 year old daughter was leaving for the March for Life. Before she left I admonished her 'You'll be on the National Mall all day so you better dress warm. Double socks would be a good idea.'

She scoffed at me.

She phoned her lil bro this afternoon and said she was dying, hadn't felt her feet since about 11 AM.

It's always nice to be right but it's awesome to be 'Dad Right'.

I'm really looking forward to picking her up in the morning and asking how things went.

[Extraneus]

Salads are now off limits, Pin. No one vying for political office will ever talk about salads again, or probably even an ingredient of a salad, such as bacon bits.

[Narciso79]

This was referenced in the voluminous assessment of the Iraq war, recently published:

https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/iraq_wmd_2004/chap1_annxB.html

[Threadkiller]

bubarooni, for your daughter:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHVyayHXOdY

[Extraneus]

This is great (if it's the first time it was linked).

Ace:

Jonah Goldberg Plagiarizes My Political MacGuffin Insight Without Attribution

[Jim Eagle]

From my lurking bed, I love salads.

Chopped salads done correctly.

Chef's Salad with homemade Russian dressing

Lobster salad, Shrimp salad to name a few.

And of course, A classic Ceasar salad done correctly in front of you by the matre'd

[bubarooni]

Thanks TK! That was awesome!

[Jane]

Janet,'
The right (here) hates the left as much as the left hates the right. It's no retry obvious if you read here (and it drives me crazy).

[Jane]

I have no idea what that last sentence was supposed to say, but you know who you are and you remind me of liberals.

[bubarooni]

JiB, I like salads too. As long as there is some protein in it.

Last year I mentioned to my Significant Other that I really liked Russian dressing and we hadn't had any forever.

Since she worries about my bowel movements a lot more than I do and is convinced that veggies are a key to doing that in an efficient manner she picked up a bottle of Russian dressing for me.

It's about 3/4 gone but there is nothing to worry about. There are more bottles of Russian dressing in the pantry.

I actually pulled her aside a couple of weeks ago, placed the upopened bottles on the kitchen counter and said 'Stop it.'

I like Russian but not that much. I'm stuck with Russian dressing until mid 2020 at this point.

[Narciso79]

That may be true, Jane, but the left has the institutional footprint to inflict their pain, most recent example ezra levante rebel outlet in canada.

[Narciso79]

I'm basic on salads lettuce tomato cucumbers as little dressing as possible or caesar

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--I don't get the angst over TomR.--

It is peculiar.
More so than his opinions, which I often find implausible, I think it stems mostly from his tendency to punch in the teeth whoever just punched him, rather than ignoring it or being deferential.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--If you ignore his reply where he insults people then you are signaling to him that that kind of behavior or reaction is ok.--

Maryrose, sometimes you remind me of the irritatingly perky girl, usually played by Natalie Wood or Sandra Dee, in the late fifties, early sixties coming of age flicks who eggs her buttondown boyfriend on to take down the greaser punk from the wrong side of the tracks [who she secretly has a crush on];
"Come on Biff, are you gonna let that white trash humiliate you in front of all our friends?"
"Oh Johnny, I'm secretly rooting for you..."

Maryrose and Tommy sittin in a tree...

[Momto2]

So is asking a female to make a salad a sexist thing now?
I thought that only applied to "sammiches!"

[Threadkiller]

I think it stems mostly from his tendency to punch in the teeth whoever just punched him, rather than ignoring it or being deferential.

During the Birther wars, this bothered some.

They mostly left.

[Extraneus]

Bitches can no longer make salads, Mom. Even healthy ones.

[Momto2]

Trump's big border statement tomorrow has to be about an Executive Order, no?

The big kerfluffle between Gorka and Abilio happened because he (Gorka) had been invited to the White House with several other talk-show hosts. They could not reveal the contents of their off the record meeting. I think this is related to his announcement tomorrow. (Hope so!)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Janet,'
The right (here) hates the left as much as the left hates the right.--

I absolutely confess to this.
I do hate the left as much as they hate me just as I also hate Nazis just as much as they hate me.
The difference is they both are trying to destroy not only our constitutional republic but Western Civilization itself, both of which are good things. Very good things.
I am hated for trying to preserve those things and standing in their way of that destruction.
Some hate makes sense and is justified. Some is not.
Now, I don't hate them individually or personally. But I hate what they believe, what they do, what they are trying to do and their way of going about it.

Now you may say they say the same thing about me. Here's the problem; they are wrong and their aims are evil.
I am right and my aims are good.

Case. Closed.

[MissMarple2]

Catsmeat,

Years ago I read a novel based on Ignatz Semmelweiss. It was called "Sometimes a Great Notion."

[Account Deleted]

ANGST"a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general."

i'm not so sure angst is what's operating here wrt Tom R (hi, Tom! in case you're in the room).

[Dave (in MA)]

PMSNBC poofter/sooper genius:

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes

Nixon was literally impeached for this

(links to Buzz Feed nothingberder)

[Jane]

Not gonna get you anywhere Iggy. But go for it if you want.

[Narciso79]

How could that dweeb be beating tucker, I know shep is a quixotic exercise.

[Tom R]

Iggy @8:59

As a hardcore Ttump supporter, I have adopted his approach. I won’t ever start a fight but if someone punches me I will indeed punch back harder.

In regards to OL’s comment today that were critical of Trump, i’m genuinely surprised I was the only Trump supporter here who called him out for his comments.

[peter]

enjoy and relax:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai2Ci3q7wHo

[Captain Hate]

In regards to OL’s comment today that were critical of Trump, i’m genuinely surprised I was the only Trump supporter here who called him out for his comments.

I was out of commission most of the day or I'd have fired back.

[Another Bob]

“surprised I was the only Trump supporter here who called him out”

That’s because we aren’t *blind* Trump supporters.

[MissMarple2]

Thanks, peter! That was a nice piece.

Meanwhile, Rudy has this to say:

Rudy Giuliani
‏Verified account @RudyGiuliani

I commend Bob Mueller’s office for correcting the BuzzFeed false story that Pres. Trump encouraged Cohen to lie. I ask the press to take heed that their hysterical desire to destroy this President has gone too far. They pursued this without critical analysis all day. #FAKENEWS

[Dave (in MA)]

Tush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPd1jSiGQa8

[Captain Hate]

Here you go, TK:

https://mobile.twitter.com/davereaboi/status/1086442420361928705

[Catsmeat]

I've heard of that book, MM--poor Semmelweis--before his time, and operating in what was then very close-minded Vienna (they shunned Freud too, but with more justice)...

[Threadkiller]

LOL, CH!

[boatbuilder]

If Trump is what OL seems to think he is we are indeed well and truly screwed.

I agree with Captain that it is long past time for a few real scalps, but Trump is the best fighter we've had since Reagan. Who would you prefer, OL? Cruz?

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sometimes a Great Notion was one of only a handful of logging movies and was based on a novel, bizarrely by that flaming green nutjob Ken Kesey.

[Account Deleted]

Well. I do hate the leftist agenda.
I have never cursed out an Obama supporter.
I have never grabbed an Obama supporter's Obama gear & set it on fire.
I don't see Republicans hiring people to incite violence at Dem. rallies.
I didn't ever hear of a high school kid getting kicked out of school for wearing Obama stuff.
I never went to a Dem. POTUS inauguration with signs that had 'Fuck ______' written on them.
I don't know Republicans that set fire to our flag.
I don't know Republicans that vandalize businesses & tear up cities for their agenda.

The two sides are NOTHING alike.

[Captain Hate]

LOL, fat fuck Ben Smith quadruples down:

And of course Ben Smith is sticking by his guns, God bless him!

"In response to the statement tonight from the Special Counsel's spokesman: We stand by our reporting and the sources who informed it, and we urge the Special Counsel to make clear what he's disputing."

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/status/1086434282921287680

Seriously, Peter Thiel needs to fund an effort to make BuzzFeed's fate the same as Gawker's.
Posted by: Thrawn at January 18, 2019 08:48 PM (Ta69/)

[boatbuilder]

The Cohen thing to me was BS from the get-go. If Cohen had this on Trump, why didn't he use it when he was agreeing to mouth whatever the Feds wanted him to say when he was squirming for his plea deal? When he was telling Steffi how sorry he was for being such a lying slime (all because of that big meanie Trump!) and he was never going to lie anymore. Why wasn't Lanny Davis telling us about it?

And now Mueller publicly refutes it. I would say "Hah!" but the Dems and the MSM will use it to "raise questions" nonetheless.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Not gonna get you anywhere Iggy.--

Where is it you think I'm trying to get?

[Dave (in MA)]

I saw an ad for a Mueller action figure, $19.99 ea.

There wasn't much of a description in the ad, but I'm guessing the way it works is you take it out of its box, and then you spend 2+ years speculating on what it might eventually do.

[boatbuilder]

I remember reading Sometimes A Great Notion by Kesey (who also wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) when I was in high school and liking it. He's a talented nutjob--as documented by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

[Captain Hate]

Anybody who employs Lanny Davis isn't an innocent man trying to get the truth out.

[boatbuilder]

Dave--...while the charge on your credit card goes from $19.99 to $19 Million.

[Rocco]

DiGenova claims Mueller fessed up because...Barr!

Caught that Kev, thanks and good lookin out!

[Narciso79]

Mueller could have clarified anytime in the last 12 hours, this isn't an accident I thought they were going to fall back on sater (I got it from vox) and his Russian contact, watch that angle in the future,

[boatbuilder]

Anybody who employs Lanny Davis isn't an innocent man trying to get the truth out.

Posted by: Captain Hate | January 18, 2019 at 10:09 PM>

This is Michael Cohen we're talking about. I'm not sure anyone was confused on that point. I think the left's take on this is that Cohen is a sleazy liar who once was Trump's sleazy liar so anything he says can be used against Trump, even if it's a sleazy lie. Or something.

[Dave (in MA)]

That's $18,999,980.01 for shipping and handling, mentioned in the fine print.

[jimmyk]

“The right (here) hates the left as much as the left hates the right.”

Janet beat me to it, but I’ll say it anyway. I don’t know how you measure emotions, but I don’t think anyone here would get liberals thrown out of a restaurant, or get them fired from their job for their views (other than throwing politicians out of office, of course), or belittle their children, or riot if they came to speak at your university. Do you think any of us would do those things, Jane?

[Rocco]

Here's DiGenova at the 42:00 min mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWeA7tRgUKM

[MissMarple2]

Here's more on what Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing think:

Lisa Mei Crowley
‏ @LisaMei62
26m26 minutes ago

Joe diGenova told Hannity the only reason Mueller issued the statement refuting the BuzzFeed story tonight is because he knows Bill Barr, once confirmed, would've fired him if he hadn't issued that statement.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
25m25 minutes ago

Remember it was Buzzfeed that released the totally discredited “Dossier,” paid for by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democrats (as opposition research), on which the entire Russian probe is based! A very sad day for journalism, but a great day for our Country!

[Narciso79]

Meanwhile the 'Canadian national' helped carry out the attack:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sas-hero-who-stormed-kenya-13865997

[MissMarple2]

Two posts by Geraldo retweeted by President Trump:

Geraldo Rivera
‏Verified account @GeraldoRivera
51m51 minutes ago

At what point in fairness-after 2 years do Americans of good will say enough already? If the #SpecialCounsel had collusion don’t you think we would have heard it by now? This is history’s longest running smear job. Free @realDonaldTrump Reflect. Negotiate. Open the government.

This is just the most egregious example of the rampant unfairness that has tainted this partisan witch-hunt from the beginning. The utter hatred for @realDonaldTrump has empowered a legion of back stabbers wielding flamboyant falsehoods to undermine @POTUS

[boatbuilder]

Commenter "Puesto Loco" on that Ben Smith BS tweet:
Replying to @BuzzFeedBen
1st time Mueller speaks out in almost 2 years, is to make sure he doesn't have to report to a Dem House as @SenBlumenthal & Sen @ChrisMurphyCT were starting to demand. Mueller obviously wants to hide all this from the American people to protect Republicanism. Remember Comey 2016?

5:59 PM - 18 Jan 2019

Hahaha--Now the lefties are worried that Mueller is playing 4D chess on them. If this wasn't my country gone stark staring bonkers I suppose I would find all of this more highly amusing than it is.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
6m6 minutes ago

Fake News is truly the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

[Narciso79]

I would believe that, except he made a similar affirmation re ths previous Cohen in Prague story

[Rocco]

I was glad to hear DiGenova and Gorka praise Barr, I was worried about him.

I hate liberals too!

Good nite all

[Captain Hate]

Now the lefties are worried that Mueller is playing 4D chess on them. If this wasn't my country gone stark staring bonkers I suppose I would find all of this more highly amusing than it is.

It's been an over two year temper tantrum encouraged by the propagandists at the MFM. To say they lack critical thinking is just the tip of the iceberg.

[boatbuilder]

There's a whole lot of stuff that Joe D knows with absolute certainty that he doesn't actually know, when you get right down to it.

[MissMarple2]

MSNBC correspondent:

Looks like @SpeakerPelosi won’t be staying in DC for the weekend. She and her detail just passed me at Reagan National Airport. pic.twitter.com/g2UV8hwYql

— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) January 18, 2019

Picture at link.

[sbwaters]

I read 125 pages of Kesey’s "Sometimes a Great Notion" in college. Had to put it down. Didn”t like it.

Picked it up later and read the rest.

Fascinating. The first 125 pages were actually the last 125 pages of the book. Brilliant. he had, in a literary exercise, put the end of the story at the beginning.

[MissMarple2]

Heading for bed.

Nytol!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I found this comment by arch-anarchist and environmental whack job extrodinaire Edward Abbey of The Monkey Wrench Gang and Earth First! infamy pretty darned amusing;

In an essay called "Immigration and Liberal Taboos", collected in his 1988 book One Life at a Time, Please, Abbey expressed his opposition to immigration ("legal or illegal, from any source") into the United States: "(I)t occurs to some of us that perhaps ever-continuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to human happiness, that simple gross quantitative increase of this kind creates only more pain, dislocation, confusion and misery. In which case it might be wise for us as American citizens to consider calling a halt to the mass influx of even more millions of hungry, ignorant, unskilled, and culturally-morally-generically impoverished people. At least until we have brought our own affairs into order. Especially when these uninvited millions bring with them an alien mode of life which—let us be honest about this—is not appealing to the majority of Americans. Why not? Because we prefer democratic government, for one thing; because we still hope for an open, spacious, uncrowded, and beautiful—yes, beautiful!—society, for another. The alternative, in the squalor, cruelty, and corruption of Latin America, is plain for all to see.

I was going to bold the good parts but almost the whole thing was dark. The Dem party - to the left of a radical anarchist. They're just like us. A little bit of reasoned discussion and they'll lose their desire to put us in an American gulag.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

I don't hate liberals. I hate the left, and the left aint liberal.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It made actually a pretty good movie SB.
Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, the always excellent Richard Jaeckel, Michael Sarazan and Lee Remick.
Originallt title Never Give a Inch I think it's now named after the book.
Surprisingly understanding if not sympathetic to a family of hardass, anti union loggers.

[Narciso79]

Was this referenced before:

https://americanmind.org/features/what-democracy-requires/neoconservatism-the-lessons-learned/

[clarice]

https://www.theblaze.com/congressional-black-caucus-demands-sheila-jackson-lee-step-down-over-intern-rape-allegations?utm_content=buffer724de&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=theblaze

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

This match should last about another 10 minutes tops. Ain't no way I'd ever wear that green mess Serena's sporting. Damn fat jiggles on each shot. Yuck!!!!

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

ASOFB:

The Beatles join Trump in a tribute to Pelosi:

Yesterday
Your flight was just a blink away
Now it looks as though you're here to stay
Oh, I Trumped you, yesterday...

Suddenly
I am twice the man I used to be
Though Deep State's hanging over me
But yesterday came suddenly

Why you couldn't go
Well, I know
But I won't say
I said "Stop that plane!"
And stopped you yesterdaaay...

Yesterday
That was such an easy game to play
Now you need a place to hide away
Oh, I laughed hard 'bout yesterday

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, YESTERDAY!

[Texas Liberty Gal]

I’ve been thinking the same thing Stephanie. I mean does she not take a look in the mirror at her back side. And that dumb black raincoat she wore when she first entered the court looked completely out of place.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Yep. I was disgusted by the baby fat that is still jiggling round her middle. Her arms are toned, but from the boobs down, it looked like green jell-o.

LOL just listen to Serena kissing ass trying to get back on the good side of tennis fans after her disgusting display at the USOpen last year raining all over the newbie that beat her. Such a fake!!!

[Narciso79]

Having learned no lessons:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/01/18/theresa-may-leaves-diplomats-disbelief-presenting-eu-leaders/

[Narciso79]

Ruh roh:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1074571/Mexico-pipeline-explosion-how-many-dead-injured-burst-gasoline

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Amen. I will always be cheering for her opponent

[Narciso79]

How does one say oops:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1074382/Macron-news-bodyguard-alexandre-benalla-yellow-vests-protests-france

[rich]

test

[rich]

now i gotta work on catch up. we ought to encourage AOC running ... even more media exposure.

[rich]

Posted by: Narciso79 | January 18, 2019 at 11:52 PM

someone shouldn't have been smoking when they were bunkering that ... oops. so what's mexico's problem ... having people tapping off oil and gas lines is usually a pretty bad sign of underlying problems.

[Narciso79]

Well apparently they shut down all the pipelines at once, guess what happened next.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

One of my favorite Top Gear segments of all time;
Jeremy Clarkson "drives" the Robin Reliant.

Hilarious.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Sorry; Reliant Robin.

[rich]

Posted by: Narciso79 | January 19, 2019 at 12:11 AM

good grief ... during our election, i was worried about a coup in KSA, but think i should change my worries to a coup in Mexico (still worried about a French Revolution style collapse in KSA, anyway) ... maybe not so much a coup but a devolution into Venezuela. Sitting on an ocean of oil and can't even fill a gas tank.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Still looking fwd to PL Week In Pics :) :)

[Narciso79]

Yes they are criminally incompetent this cant possibly go wrong, I think they borrowed this technique from nigeria.

[Narciso79]

The four horseman were taken?

https://amp.ft.com/content/e9fd0472-19de-11e9-9e64-d150b3105d21?desktop=true&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR0UnwcW64nki2a2qfM4vwx5EHeqwBVyX1adqsdxfn1CXvLfE8IlLkxbw6w

[rich]

we should also encourage Warren to get out their more ... making campfires, setting up the teepee.

[rich]

>>>And if that is true, it tells us things about other big campaign promises like repealing O'Care, draining the Swamp, Transforming our tax code permanently, and building a 2,000 mile wall.

Posted by: Old Lurker | January 18, 2019 at 12:33 PM<<<

that is about where i am at.

[jimmyk]

I don't hate liberals. I hate the left, and the left aint liberal.

Whatever you want to call them, as I said, I don't think that hate translates into harassing their children, getting them fired from their jobs, kicking them out of restaurants, etc. So I have to disagree with Jane's assertion of symmetry or equivalence. There's no comparison.

[Narciso79]

She was the first to run out in front and was trampled like by those creatures from John carter.

[rich]

>>>That triage and the possibilities therein might look different from an internet blog than it does from the WH.

Posted by: The Infamous Ignatz | January 18, 2019 at 12:50 PM<<<

what? we're not the center of the world? that is a dirty lie, sir!

[Narciso79]

We see this at a distance, up close it makes no sense, it's not supposed to.

[Narciso79]

If you wanted to root out the vipers wouldn't you pick someone like a sessions, yes we thought guiliani but we see the downside there. On health care, on paper price made sense.

[Dave (in MA)]

Narciso79 | January 19, 2019 at 12:34 AM

Paywall, or Narc'ed link?

[Narciso79]

Yes Tillerson didnt make a whole lot of sense.