Farewell to Bush cocktail recipes w/ poll

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 4:22 PM PST

2009/01/19 · 16:22

It's time to celebrate the end of a bad presidency - and what better way to thumb your nose at the world's most hated dry drunk than to invent cocktail recipes?

Turns out this is nothing new - this tasty variation of the Negroni was created to celebrate the resignation of Richard Nixon:

Dirty Dick's Downfall

* 1/2 oz. Campari
* 2 oz. Gin
* 1/2 oz. Vermouth, dry
* 1 twist Lemon

Stir ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a twist of lemon.

Here's one that my wife and I came up for George W:

George's Relapse

* 4 oz. Jack Daniels' Tennessee Whiskey
* 1/4 tsp powder cocaine (substitute powdered sugar if you aren't well connected in the GOP)
* 1 frosty glass Lone Star Beer

Coat rim of large shot glass in cocaine (or sugar). Fill shot glass with whiskey, and drop into beer. Drink in one gulp.

And here's another one:

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86 votes Show Results

What are you drinking to celebrate the end of Bush?

86 votes Vote Now!

What are you drinking to celebrate the end of Bush?

Champagne/American sparkling wine/ Cava/ Prosecco

21 votes

Manhattan

4 votes

Martini

6 votes

Negroni

1 vote

Whiskey, up or on the rocks

4 votes

Old Fashioned

0 votes

Gimlet

0 votes

Whiskey Sour

1 vote

Boilermaker

0 votes

Rum & Coke

4 votes

Cosmo

3 votes

Red wine

9 votes

White wine

1 vote

Beer

17 votes

Other

15 votes

David Broder IS Marie Antoinette (poll)

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Saturday June 14, 2008 · 4:47 PM PDT

2008/06/14 · 16:47

In the midst of some boilerplate crap about Tim Russert (he faced down mean 'ol Ross Perot!) we get a true Inside-the-Beltway gem. I honestly thought this was a joke:

But as soon as the camera lights went off at 10 a.m. on Sunday, he relaxed. Ali, the NBC butler, brought out the platters of shrimp and glasses of juice, and the reporters who had been on the roundtable (and sometimes the last interviewee) would join Tim and executive producer Betsy Fischer for a lengthy exchange of political gossip. When a birthday or anniversary was imminent, there would be cake. And at Christmas, a brass ensemble would play carols.

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David Broder most resembles which historical/literary figure:

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David Broder most resembles which historical/literary figure:

Marie Antoinette, lackadaisical Queen of France and noted guillotine rider

8 votes

Scarlett O'Hara, fatuous and ill fated southern plantation belle

2 votes

Madame Bovary, slutty and frivolous society maven

8 votes

Prince Prospero, cloistered palace partier as the Red Death knocks at the gate

24 votes

Other

3 votes

Andy Sullivan STILL a worthless hack

HeavyJ

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Friday March 21, 2008 · 12:51 PM PDT

2008/03/21 · 12:51

Sorry, but the rehab effort of Andy Sullivan isn't cutting it. Sullivan today:

When I heard the usual complaints from the left about how we had no right to intervene, how Bush was the real terrorist, how war was always wrong, my trained ears heard the same cries that I had heard in the 1980s. So I saw the opposition to the war as another example of a faulty Vietnam Syndrome, associated it with the far left, or boomer nostalgia, and was revolted by the anti-war marches I saw in Washington.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...

Poor baby. A little "revolted" conservative, so lots of people had to die.

HeavyJ

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Thursday March 20, 2008 · 5:01 PM PDT

2008/03/20 · 17:01

You just can't make this stuff up. The current headline on WaPo

President says Tehran has "declared" a desire for a nuclear bomb to "destroy people." White House later backs away from the comment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Is it just me, or has the fun gone out of phony warmongering for the GOP? Where's the effort, guys?

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23 votes Show Results

Why is the Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran PR blitz teh suck?

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Why is the Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran PR blitz teh suck?

Lying is hard work

5 votes

Maureen Dowd can't spell "Ahmadinejad"

5 votes

Tough to get behind post-attack $30/ gallon gas

7 votes

This would never have happened if Karl Rove was still alive!

6 votes

John Kyl is a bald-faced Liar (Poll)

HeavyJ

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 8:05 AM PDT

2008/03/15 · 08:05

Just listening to Weekend Edition on Nice Polite Republicans. Ever so mild mannered Scot Simon gently questioned Sen. John Kyl on the Iraq war. Was it the right decision to invade?

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38 votes Show Results

John Kyl:

38 votes Vote Now!

John Kyl:

Blessed by St. McCain, so incapable of lying

1 vote

Won his re-election by TEN POINTS, so cannot tell a lie

2 votes

Lying sack of shit

35 votes

Why is Cokie Roberts always wrong? (poll)

HeavyJ

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Monday March 03, 2008 · 9:36 AM PST

2008/03/03 · 09:36

Cokie Roberts, this morning on NPR (rough transcript):

A longer primary season will be bad for the Democrats. Because the candidates will keep talking about Iraq. And voters are not talking about Iraq.

Right. To obtain the White House, Dems should ignore Iraq.

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268 votes Show Results

Cokie. Wrong. Why?

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Cokie. Wrong. Why?

She's a Republican

57 votes

She lives in DC and works in the media. Thus, there are no consequences to her wrongness

193 votes

She's a woman, and all women are dumb. Tha Washington Post Outlook says so.

18 votes

Roger Clemens is washed up (Poll)

HeavyJ

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Monday October 08, 2007 · 3:26 AM PDT

2007/10/08 · 03:26

The best sentence I have read in the New York Times for Some time:

Is this the end of Roger Clemens? If it isn’t, it should be.

Now let me say that I don't want to gloat too much about a guy who once struck out 20 guys for the Red Sox.

But the fact that he's a fat ass, ugly, obnoxious redneck means that his downfall pleases me. And the fact that I was forced to watch his tearful retirement years ago in front of a bunch of gullible Texans - also a plus.

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80 votes Show Results

Number of pitches Clemens has left in his MLB career

80 votes Vote Now!

Number of pitches Clemens has left in his MLB career

57 votes

< 10

5 votes

10 - 20

2 votes

20 - 30

0 votes

30+

16 votes

Richard Cohen, tiresome clown

HeavyJ

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Tuesday July 24, 2007 · 6:57 AM PDT

2007/07/24 · 06:57

Is there a more pathetic figure in the D.C. pundit set than Richard Cohen? Here is the sentence from today's WaPo that should be engraved on the man's tombstone:

You do not talk about your hairstylist like that.

Then we have the failed court jester routine:

HeavyJ

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Tuesday May 01, 2007 · 8:54 AM PDT

2007/05/01 · 08:54

Here she is four years ago today in the most graphic display of editorial onanism I have read anywhere, ever:

HeavyJ

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Friday February 02, 2007 · 8:01 AM PST

2007/02/02 · 08:01

The report has been released. On first glance, it's not as glossed over or as opaque as one might expect.

But it is extremely brief.

Here's a little tidbit, though, that highlights how complicit folks at the New York Times have become with Bush spin.

From the report:

Iraq’s neighbors influence, and are influenced by, events within Iraq, but the involvement of these outside actors is not likely to be a major driver of violence or the prospects for stability because of the self-sustaining character of Iraq’s internal sectarian dynamics.

From the NYT reporting:

The general conclusion was that the biggest security problem is of a sectarian nature but that outside Iranian involvement makes the situation worse. Nonetheless, Iranian lethal support for select groups of Iraqi Shia militants clearly intensifies the conflict in Iraq.

Nice to see the helpful NYT reporter spin this for the Bush crew.

UPDATE: Well that line I omitted is my fuckup, and makes the NYT reporting much more solid. Mea culpa.

Wanker of the Day - John Chait

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Monday January 15, 2007 · 3:45 PM PST

2007/01/15 · 15:45

As if we needed more evidence that The New Republic is a laughing stock, here's todays inadvertenly hilarious nonsense form John Chait, via Digby:

Or go back to the last war we fought with Iraq. Schell insisted that we could force Iraq to leave Kuwait with sanctions alone, rather than by using military force. But the years that followed that war made it clear just how impotent that tool was. Saddam Hussein endured more than a decade of sanctions rather than give up a weapons of mass destruction program that turned out to be nonexistent. If sanctions weren't enough to make him surrender his imaginary weapons, I think we can safely say they wouldn't have been enough to make him surrender a prized, oil-rich conquest.

I had to read that a few times to make sure Chat wasn't being sarcastic.

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Sunday December 10, 2006 · 10:48 AM PST

2006/12/10 · 10:48

So what was the last election about? What did all of our effort really accomplish? Aside that is, from increasing Joes Lieberman’s power and profile in the Seanate?

Henry Waxman will have subpoena power, and John Conyers will more than likely end some of the more egregious abuses of Buscho, and end a few Republican careers. Even Dianne Feinsten may slow the demolition of the EPA.

But here’s an example of the fundamental corruption of stupidity at the top in Washington D.C.: "Our" pick for House Intelligence Committee charman lacks the basic understanding of Al Qaeda, of, say, an average poster on dailykos.

Ladies and gentlemen, the smart, hard working Sylvestre Reyes:
http://public.cq.com/...

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

"Al Qaeda, they have both," Reyes said. "You’re talking about predominately?"

"Sure," I said, not knowing what else to say.

"Predominantly — probably Shiite," he ventured.

Ah yes. BinLaden is a Shiite, like the rest of AlQuaeda.
Supported by, Iran no doubt. Black turban, white turban, Farsi, Arabic, whatever. Bombs away. (More)

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Rep Reyes lacks fundamental knowledge of the Mideast because:

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Rep Reyes lacks fundamental knowledge of the Mideast because:

Texans revel in stupidity.

46 votes

He gets his news from Fox.

16 votes

Reading the newspaper is hard work.

43 votes

He knew - he just punched out at 5:00.

13 votes

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