Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

“Cheese and Kraken paired together for the appetizer trial.”

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Bark louder, little dog.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Republicans in disarray!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Come on, man.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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  4. 4.

    JoeTx

    Its not time to gloat for the winners, its time we start putting this country back together and move forward restoring our pride and standing in the world.

    The Dems are going to have the spotlight and we need to hold them more accountable than the reigh-wing have held the republican party…

  5. 5.

    Baby Jane

    I agree with JoeTx, in spite of the fact that I just got back from Redstate after doin’ a little Santorum gloatin’.

  6. 6.

    Perry Como

    The Dems are going to have the spotlight and we need to hold them more accountable than the reigh-wing have held the republican party…

    Cheers to that. I really, really, really, really, really want the Dems to win big tonight. For no other reason than to hold people accountable. That doesn’t mean the Dems get a free, or even easy ride.

    But I’m a far left moonbat, so what do I know?

  7. 7.

    yet another jeff

    Yeah!!! No more Santorum, no more DeLay…mmm, tequila is tasting good tonight.

    Now, to apply the first rule of holes to this mess.

  8. 8.

    Sherard

    Now THAT I can agree on. An ignorant bigot is no more. Nothing wrong with that, no matter what party they belong to.

  13. 13.

    Krista

    Delighted for you guys that Santorum’s gone. There are plenty of people with whom I disagree, politically. But that man — I couldn’t even begin to understand the mind-set that would lead to some of the things he’s said and done.

  14. 14.

    yet another jeff

    Me too. I don’t understand how anyone is in favor of Allen…he’s just a slightly saner Katherine Harris.

  15. 15.

    Krista

    Whoo-ee…you should see them bellyaching over at RedState about how CNN is calling results with only single-digit percentages being in, because that’ll “suppress voting” in western states.

    That’s right — the GOP is losing seats not because they’re a corrupt, incompetent bunch of miscreants. Nope. It’s all the fault of Lou Dobbs.

  17. 17.

    yet another jeff

    No more “Count” Chocola to kick around!

    Hmm, Chafee wasn’t nearly as close as the polls…weird…not sad, but surprised by the blowout.

  18. 18.

    Tsulagi

    Santorum’s career in the Senate is done, and I want to be one of the first to say that is a good thing.

    Amen.

  19. 19.

    MJN

    Baby Jane:

    For the good people here, post a link to your comment at Redstate. I’ve seen it, and it’s priceless.

  21. 21.

    yet another jeff

    Yeah, Krista…they’ll not vote for the local GOP guy because the GOP lost in the East.

    I feeling something odd…like…what is the feeling you get when a long car accident finally seems to be stopping?

  25. 25.

    Pb

    I agree that in general it is foolish to call elections with single-digit percentages in, and probably bad form to call them before the polls close too. In short: “Dewey Wins!”

  27. 27.

    yet another jeff

    Yeah, I don’t like calling races early…and a lot of these races are swinging 8% or more depending on reporting…craziness.

    Dewey Wins indeed. Good point. Ohhhh! Santorum’s speeching on CSPAN about how he’s going to spend more time with his family. His son doesn’t look happy.

    And Pooh, yeah…Katherine is way smarter than George Felix Allen.

  28. 28.

    Krista

    Pb – it is bad form. Unfortunately, it’s not going away anytime soon. They do it up here too, and western provinces were getting pissed off, because they felt like their votes didn’t matter after Ontario and Quebec had been counted. So, our last election, the satellite companies blacked out non-local CTV and CBC affiliates. So you could only get news from your own time zone, or from the U.S. I mean, if you really wanted to know how it was going, you could find it, but it wasn’t right in people’s faces.

  30. 30.

    Otto Man

    Oh, it’s looking like a good night. I broke out the Woodford Reserve bourbon. I’m liveblogging at my place if anyone needs some surly, drunken schadenfreude.

  31. 31.

    Krista

    My heavens, James Carville is one fugly son of a bitch, isn’t he? (Apologies if any of you are related to or good friends with him, but he’s just not an attractive man.)

  32. 32.

    Tsulagi

    Awww, reading through some of the comments by the ass-uppers for Bush over at RedState they seem a little down. I’ll have to remember to feel sorry for them.

  42. 42.

    ThymeZone

    Welp, CBS News is calling the House for the Dems.

    In AZ, we have a shot at getting rid of the despicable JD Hayworth, King of Bombast.

    Republican incumbent senator and profoundly empty suit Kyl appears to be headed for narrow reelection. This is really too bad.

    Dem Governor Napolitano wins with nearly 70% of the vote. She’s a quietly gay woman who wins big in a mostly red state.

    And it looks like we have a shot at sending the idiotic DOMA measure down to defeat, still too early to call.

    All in all, despite the disappointment over the hideous Kyl, I am proud of Arizona tonight. We are going to add one, of not two, important Dem House seats to the new Dem majority.

  44. 44.

    Faux News

    in spite of the robocall nonsense, my new congressman Chris Murphy has picked up the seat. :)

    Baby Jane:

    New Britain is my hometown!(although sadly I no longer live in CT) I am ELATED that Murphy has won and that fucking old hag Johnson is FINALLY gone!

    :-)

  45. 45.

    Jess

    My heavens, James Carville is one fugly son of a bitch, isn’t he?

    He used to be kinda sexy-ugly, I thought. But maybe I’m warped. I liked his nasty grin.

  46. 46.

    metalgrid

    Didn’t Santorum move to Virginia? Guess this won’t be the last Mr. Cole will hear of him in that case.

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