I can only assume (hope?) they are backing him because they have bigger fish to fry in terms of the cabinet nominees (like they’ve made a deal that they’ll back him if so-and-so doesn’t back someone else?). This still feels like a betrayal, but there are worse cabinet picks, imo.

In a statement delivered on Sunday night, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told the WSJ, “We have absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such an investigation.”

A few of my favorites from the Santa Ana march (20,000 people! In Orange fucking County!):

I think they just stopped believing.

The Prosperity Gospel is, in my mind, one of the most foul, twisted incarnations of Christianity ever to spring forth. There have been incarnations of Christianity that are noble (liberation theology) and those that are relatively harmless. This is not one of them. This is so antithetical to the message of sharing and…

... And OMG wait, is the Cyrillic transliteration of “Trump” REALLY “Tramp”?? On that bookcover?

Push ups? One year at Alabama, Bear Bryant brought in a big kid he recruited over the summer. An assistant coach asked Bryant where he found him. He said he saw him plowing a field and stopped and asked him if he knew where Tuscaloosa was located. The assistant said “You brought him in because he knew?” Bryant said…

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is…

I am a Cowboys fan and I wasn’t all that sad when it was over. I mean, what can you do? Rodgers was just out of his mind and there was no way to defend him. It was amazing and there is no way to begrudge them winning the game.

God, I would have died that first night if they made me keep the baby in my room. :D

What are yuan about?

Seriously. If you want to fucking read it yourself, here’s the goddamn book, you little shit...

I really love this one on many levels

shhh....please, commenters, don’t spoil this article for me. I’m going to catch it later on NBC as it’s intended.

In my own personal experience, I find anecdotal evidence to be the best evidence.

The intel community being wrong about Iraq WMDs is going to be the new McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit thing isn’t it? By which I mean it’s a shibboleth that identifies the invoker as someone who knows absolutely nothing about what they’re talking about.

There’s a lot of money and media attention in being Putin’s preferred method of disseminating agitprop.