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Pissing Off Liberals
Eschaton — It's long been the case that what really gets the Republican base excited is anything that pisses off liberals. There are genuine policy differences, of course, but to get an audience of Republicans on their feet and cheering you need to mention something, no matter how pointless, which pisses of liberals. It's the glue that keeps them together. ...

Spitegasm
Sadly, No! — Atrios: Pissing Off Liberals It’s long been the case that what really gets the Republican base excited is anything that pisses off liberals. There are genuine policy differences, of course, but to get an audience of Republicans on their feet and cheering you need to mention something, no matter how pointless, which pisses of liberals. It’s the glue that keeps them together. Above: Manatee Spite Caucus frolics in celebration of elevating your blood pressure. Pod Person fils demonstrates, adds MOAR: Choke On It, Part Deux Earlier this week, I suggested that there ...

Sammy Hagar, Thou Art Refuted! Or Avenged! Or Whatever...
Hit & Run — The burden of bad ideas falls upon us unequally. Here's a bad idea that would hit drivers more than non-drivers, courtesy of Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Kent Sepkowitz. Writes Yglesias: Thus, via Ezra Klein comes Kent Sepkowitz's suggestion that we design cars so as to make it impossible for them to drive over, say, 75 miles per hour. This seems reasonably sensible to me. Sepkowitz's idea, as put forth in The New York Times recently, is the triumph of smart-boy thinking over anything as pedestrian as about 30 seconds' thought and research: Speeding is the cause of 30 percent of all traffic deaths in the ...

Nanny Nazi Demands Cars That Can't Exceed the Speed Limit
Moonbattery — ... On a tip from Lt Nixon. Update: Lefty bloggers Matthew Yglesias, Ryan Avent, and Ezra Klein all agree that hobbling cars is a great idea. Next the principle might be applied to people. We could cut hamstrings to prevent them from being able to run from the police. Lobotomies could avoid the problem of anyone objecting to our steady strangulation by ever increasing government control. On a tip from V the K.