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8:38

LatoyaPeterson - Morning. I woke up with Kid Cudi's "Poke Her Face" stuck in my head, so I'm not sure what kind of day this is going to be.

8:40

Megan - Well, if it's going to be in your head, now in mine, it might as well be in everyone's.

8:40

LatoyaPeterson - Ha! How much have you talked about Sotomayor this week?

8:42

Megan - Four days of liveblogging the entire thing, plus Crappy Hours. Let's say that I've reached the point where I am obsessively consuming any and all other remotely interesting political news so that I can think about anything other than gun rights, abortion and how hard white men in American have it these days.

8:42

LatoyaPeterson - Okay, I just want to make one point and then we can move on.

8:44

Megan - By all means. At least Pat Buchanan admitted it's all about stoking white men's rage at their minimal (if any) loss of privilege. He'll be on Maddow tonight talking about that shit.

8:45

LatoyaPeterson - Yeah. You know I talk about race all day every day. And everyone has jumped on the GOP for being racist. The 'Splainin comment, etc.

8:46

Megan - Have to say, I sort of doubt that was the most racially insensitive thing Coburn said yesterday.

8:47

LatoyaPeterson - True! But here's my thing. I always thought the Republicans were good for complaining about how tax dollars are always being wasted for some reason or another. They cry and cry about pork barrel spending and programs that would fund social services. And yet it's totally fine for them to waste my money asking the same fucking questions over and over?

8:48

LatoyaPeterson - What the fuck is that? Can these motherfuckers coordinate? One abortion scenario per day, one reverse racism scenario per day and that is IT! If y'all don't have shit else to talk about, GO SIT DOWN.

8:50

LatoyaPeterson - You know they're on the clock for this.

8:52

Megan - Oh, Latoya, it's only now that cognitive dissonance in the GOP is gonna get ya? What about spending money to promote marriage? Creationism in schools? Faith-based initiatives? The GOP is only opposed to government spending for programs that benefit poor people -- but ones that indoctrinate us are just fine.

8:53

LatoyaPeterson - No, I've hated that from the jump - it's why I'm not a Republican. But I did have a hope that Republicans had some sense. I knew some of the small gov, fiscal responsibility Repubs back in the day. I know they have died out, but some small part of me hopes...

8:54

Megan - I mean, my issue with it is that they spent all the good camera time (Days 1 and 2) bitching about the Wise Latina shit that doesn'te ven poll well and it wasn't until Day 3 that they even got around to asking about abortion -- let alone Grassley basically stumped her with the earlier Supreme Court ruling on equal protection and same sex marriage, but that was at 5:30 last night, well after normal people stopped paying attention. It's the stupidest fucking strategy ever unless their only strategy is to appeal to pissed off white guys. Which, apparently, it is.

8:55

Megan - Small government fiscal conservatives havne't died out: they've been called RINOs and worse and pushed out of the limelight by the fundies and their issues. And you can take "issues" however you like.

8:56

LatoyaPeterson - Meh - I understand the RINOs. We may disagree, but I can understand as they normally take the time to have a point and an argument. This new bat-shit crazy? Does not compute.

8:57

LatoyaPeterson - But yes I am pissed about them wasting my money. It's bad enough the recession hates everyone, but it *really* hates minorities.

9:02

Megan - The economy hates minorities, SINCE WHITE PEOPLE DON'T TEND TO HIRE THEM, but, hey, we live in a post-racial society and shit, it's cool.

9:04

LatoyaPeterson - It's ok. I was at the library yesterday - that's where you can find us. We're all waiting for computers since our cable got shut off and browsing the books. Oh wait...the WSJ seems to think only the elites read for pleasure.

9:06

Megan - Oy, Mark Penn. Didn't the universe of thinking people conclude that Mark Penn's a f'idiot unworthy of time, media oxygen or ink?

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