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Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

This fight is for everything.

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  2. 2.

    Rosalita

    Definitely voting today. And tomorrow, peace on the airwaves of the radio, no more political sewage from Linda McMahon. Bitch has been running ads since last fucking March.

  4. 4.

    Chris

    If you’re really still thinking about not voting today, watch this video, check out what the fuck Obama has done so far, and vote.

    Or better yet, check out what the teabaggers have done so far and intend to do if elected, and vote.

  5. 5.

    Uloborus

    Off to Democratic Headquarters to drive voters to their polling places! Paul, you are a fruit loop and Dems outvoted Republicans in the primary here by 150k. Please, Baal, let the media be just as accurate about this election as every other I can remember!

  6. 6.

    EconWatcher

    Just voted for Gerry Connolly, who’s in a tight race to keep his seat against a garden-variety wingnut here in Northern Virginia.

    People were lined up, but then they always are right when the polls open. We’ll see.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Oy. Blue Dogs, watch and learn. Learn what really happened over the last two years, and how to run in the future. The “loud-mouthed comedian” (cite: guess who?) knows what he’s doing.

  10. 10.

    stuckinred

    Mornin Joe just all snarky about the idea that Bob MacDonald is seen as a right-wing extremist!

  12. 12.

    Maody

    I love Al; hits nail on head. Voted on the 1st day of early voting. Going to work then headed to the polls to hand out Dem sample ballots and talk to folks here in NC. From what I’m hearing, the turnout is big in some places like Ohio… what are y’all hearing?

  16. 16.

    Phyllis

    I have the day off (Yay!). Fixing to head out to vote for Sheheen and write in Nathalie Dupree for Senate. Who wouldn’t want her for a senator?

  17. 17.

    Phyllis

    I have the day off (Yay!). Fixing to head out to vote for Sheheen and write in Nathalie Dupree for Senate. Who wouldn’t want her for a senator?

  18. 18.

    harlana

    Well, I just voted, now off to the unemployment office. My benefits will end today. Wish the President and Congress had done more about jobs instead of that long list of accomplishments which could have been addressed AFTER a lot of us went back to work. Still, I much appreciate the benefits I HAVE received under Obama, but now compassion is totally out the window.

  19. 19.

    bemused

    Warning: watching Morning Joe this today may result in vomiting. The panel of the usual suspects including Noonan, blech, wisely pondering the very serious question, will Obama be able to work with people he loathes. They didn’t puzzle over how Obama or any Dem should work with people who believe bipartisanship is just another form of date rape.

  20. 20.

    Nick

    @harlana:

    Wish the President and Congress had done more about jobs instead of that long list of accomplishments which could have been addressed AFTER a lot of us went back to work.

    I wish they did too, but let’s be real, they’d still be facing decisive defeat. There’s no way the so-called base would have accepted a “Everything else has to wait until the unemployment rate goes down enough” excuse.

    Especially since there is nothing that could have brought unemployment to a reasonable level by now.

  21. 21.

    Uloborus

    @harlana:
    Guess who’s been blocking votes to extend them? Would that be ‘the bastards we’re voting against’, Alex?

    Remember it. The Republicans are not only screwing you, they’ll do anything it takes to screw you.

  22. 22.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Voted over a week ago (Oregon), same for the wife and daughter. My grower and I are hoping Measure 74 passes. It expands medical marijuana program, makes it easier for cardholders to buy and growers to sell to the clinics via the state. My grower is all for it and while all of the details aren’t worked out it gives a good starting place.

    The county sheriffs are against it so it must be good…lol!

  25. 25.

    Emma

    Voted. Steady stream at my polling place but not crowds. They tell me a lot of people show up after work. I live in Florida, where often a Democratic vote is a show of defiance, but every one helps.

  26. 26.

    Violet

    Tried to vote early but the lines were so long I couldn’t afford the time to stay. I’ll vote today after at my local polling place after the early crowds have died down.

    I got a phone call last night from a nice woman named Rose reminding me to vote. I think I made her day by telling her I was going to vote straight ticket Dem. I’ve never voted straight ticket before, but after the previous Dem GOTV guy phoned and asked me to, and I told him “No!”, I’ve been thinking about it. I’ve looked at all the candidates, and believe me there are a ton because we’ve got judges on the ballot, and figured I’d be voting Dem anyway. So why not vote straight ticket.

    If there has ever been a year it feels good to vote straight ticket Dem and wash away that tea-slime, then this is the year.

  27. 27.

    homerhk

    For the love all that is holy, please vote but also please vote Democratic!

    Whether or not a republican branch of congress will actually make the next two years better or worse legislatively (I know where I am on that decision), I just want to be spared the inevitable circular firing squad of anonymous democratic congressional aides complaining more about Obama and his political team (y’know, the same political team that steered Obama to a famous defeat in the democratic primary and an even worse one in the general…oh yeah, maybe not)

  29. 29.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Eric Lindholm:

    For every election that one side gets to gloat at, there will always be another where the situation is reversed.

    Do your parents know you are up and on their computer?

  30. 30.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Heading out now to vote for every Democrat on the Georgia ballot. Hope at least the gubernatorial goes to a runoff.

  32. 32.

    geg6

    Walked up to the machine and pressed the “Straight Democratic” button for the very first time in my life. Not that I haven’t voted a straight ticket before, but never did it by just pressing the button. I always considered every race in every election and voted Republican a few times when it was the right thing to do (usually local offices with candidates I knew personally and respected).

    Well, no local races today. Just governor, state house, and Senate and House. Didn’t even have to think about it, even that disgusting Blue Dog, Jason Altmire. Much as I hate him, he’s head and shoulders above Rothfus.

  34. 34.

    Brian J

    It’s interesting how Franken has taken his job seriously and tried to be a senator instead of a celebrity. I wonder what it would take someone like Sarah Palin, the half-term governor, to do the same.

    Anyway, I’m about to go vote before I go to work, and I think I am going to vote entirely for the Democrats. There’s no point in voting for Republicans this year, even if some New York ones are better than others. Contributing to any sort of success enables the national party. But before I vote, I wanted to post this about Ray Fair’s election predictions, copied from what I wrote at Swing State Project:

    I found Ray Fair’s prediction of the Democratic share of the congressional vote. I won’t describe his equation here, but as you can see from clicking on the link below, his prediction is that the Democrats take 49.22 percent of the congressional vote. (In contrast, his prediction for the House vote in 2008 was 55.8 percent, and the actual percentage was 54.8 percent.) He doesn’t make any predictions about the number of seats that will fall, but assuming that there isn’t any serious third party effect and that Republicans take about 51 of the congressional vote, that puts the fate of the House into tossup status according to the link from CBS. Of course, he off by a point in 2008, so perhaps he will be off again.

  35. 35.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Ash Can:

    I think it’s cute when a winger acts shocked. The only time you ever see it is when someone who isn’t one of them does something that most anyone else would consider normal. Wingers embrace the abnormal but only when it conforms with their warped world view. It’s the normal stuff that drives them nuts.

    Much like putting them in a round room and telling them to go piss in a corner. Still, it’s cute in a way.

  37. 37.

    Alwhite

    REALLY? Is there anyone that reads & comments on BJ that is not going to vote today? Even a die-hard “we are all totally fucked” guy like me is going to vote; knowing full well it will not slow down the crazy train to destruction one wit.

    We have the ‘Wizard of Oz’ team:
    Republicans have no heart
    Democrats have no courage
    Teabaggers have no brain

    The wizard is just a gasbag & con man (NO! I am not referring to Obama)

    The flying monkeys will take us all

    But I am going to pretend I can put my finger in the dike. I’ll vote.

  38. 38.

    Eric Lindholm

    Well, I expect profanity in comments, just not on the front page. But, hey, if it makes you feel better: let fly.

    And, yes, I’m gloating a little: it’s my turn. You’all had your fun two years ago when you elected that community organizer with no legislative or executive experience. Today’s election will be the culmination of a nation’s “buyer’s regret.”

  39. 39.

    PurpleGirl

    Voted at about 8:15 this morning. Voted straight democratic but on the Working Families line (except for one person who wasn’t also endorsed by WF, they didn’t have an alternative either). My polling place is just across the yard between my building and another in the complex; it takes like 4 minutes to get there (if that).

    Now to get into other activities for the day.

  40. 40.

    Skalite

    Now, I love me some Al Franken. But dude sounds like he’s drunk here. Not that he’s saying anything wrong or stupid, but that he actually sounds like he has been drinking. Slurred words and shit. “Now let me tell you…about this Mark Zandi fellow…”

    I do that all the time when I’m hammered…which is pretty much all the time.

  41. 41.

    Bruuuuce

    Just like PurpleGirl, I voted straight Working Families where they corresponded to Democrats (except for Comptroller), at about 7:55 AM. There were people in the polling place, but no lines as yet. The machine claims it scanned my ballot, but I truly wish I had a hardcopy record/receipt of what it thinks it recorded. (You bet I miss the lever machines.)

  42. 42.

    Uloborus

    @Eric Lindholm:
    I’m guessing no one has ever explained ‘midterm patterning’ to you or compared Obama’s popularity numbers to Reagan or pre-9/11 Bush.

  43. 43.

    Spokane Moderate

    No fair that Minnesota gets both Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken. You’re not THAT special, Minnesota!

    I had the pleasure of voting against David Vitter this morning, so at least I have that. (Clearly, I’m not in Spokane these days.) Charlie Meloncon isn’t my idea of a Democrat, but Vitter isn’t my idea of a human being.

  46. 46.

    Brian J

    @Bruuuuce:

    Heh. When I went to scan my ballot in, it said there was an error at first, so it came back out, and the woman asked me if I filled everything out correctly. It honestly wouldn’t surprise me if I didn’t, since I am an airhead like that, and there was also the possibility that a circle which went slightly outside the line messed with it, or so I thought. It went back in the second time, but like you, I was wondering, “What if…”

    Anyway, I voted almost entirely for the Democrats, except for one local race where I voted for the Independence Party candidate whom I believe used to be a Democrat before she lost the primary.

  47. 47.

    PurpleGirl

    @Bruuuuce: Yeah, I miss the lever machines too. My problem with the scanner system isn’t the scanner… it’s the size of the print on the paper ballot. Could they make it any smaller? And those magnifier sheets are so hard to hold. Next election, I’ll try to bring my own magnifying lens with me.

  48. 48.

    Brian J

    @Spokane Moderate:

    You have to wonder if the thought of putting up some billboards with Vitter in a diaper ever crossed Melacon’s mind with the words “Hey, do you really want THIS GUY as your senator?” After all, he was never really within striking distance, so what did he really have to lose?

  49. 49.

    Uloborus

    @Eric Lindholm:
    Yes, they did. It was called ‘Obama’s election’. This… well, we’ll see, but at worst it’s ‘normal’.

    Normally I say to ignore the trolls, but this one’s kind of fun. It’s like arguing with a second grader. Every time he goes ‘nuh uh! MY dad is tougher!’ you have to grin.

  50. 50.

    Bruuuuce

    @PurpleGirl: Fortunately, my eyes aren’t yet QUITE that bad. But they probably will be, soon. Must get a half-circle magnifier like the one distributed with Filthy Pierre’s Microfilk, lo these many years agone.

  51. 51.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Spokane Moderate:

    Spokane as in WA? Ex-Spokanite here, gave up on it back in ’92. Unfortunately the rest of my family hasn’t but it can use the few liberals that are left.

  52. 52.

    Brian J

    @Eric Lindholm:

    I try not to be this way, but…. blow me. My party may have a lot of problems, including some which exacerbated the losses we are about to see today, but we are grown ups trying to govern responsibly. Have you ever heard of how little Henry Paulson thought of congressional Republicans during those scary weeks in 2008 when the financial crisis was hitting and nobody was entirely sure of what was going on? He felt the Democrats were class acts, while the Republicans were anything but. And today, you guys are putting up candidates who, for the most part, are going to be even worse. They pledge to do little else besides try to deny Obama a second term. For them, it’s party first, country second.

    I won’t deny you your fun. The losses we are about to take, which will probably be a lot less severe than many think, will be difficult for us and great for you, but it’s temporary. The long-term trends favor the Democrats, and there is very, very little you can do to change that.

  53. 53.

    PurpleGirl

    @Bruuuuce: I remember Filthy Pierre, not from Filk Cons but from Luna Cons and Trek Cons way back when. I haven’t been to a con in ages…)

  54. 54.

    Spokane Moderate

    @Brian J:

    I wouldn’t be surprised at all. To be fair to Meloncon, they actually ran some pretty hard-hitting ads against Vitter. One by a rape victim who got the Brush-off from Diaper Dave was particularly rough (on Vitter, and tough to listen to because it was so raw – odd how actual human emotion can be so uncomfortable to face these days, but that’s for another time…). But it’s Chinatown Louisiana. Whatareyagonnado?

  56. 56.

    jwb

    @Nick: “Especially since there is nothing that could have brought unemployment to a reasonable level by now.”

    I disagree with this assessment. A whomping big stimulus that would have closed the output gap could have done it. I’m not saying it was politically possible—it was not—and it would have undoubtedly spawned other severe economic problems, but unemployment in itself is not an impossible problem to solve.

  57. 57.

    beergoggles

    Just got to work after voting. The voting building had about 3 voters in it including me. Then again, I live in fabulously liberal MA. I voted for Deval but the only worry I have is that if the Rep candidate for governor wins, he’s going to cut a whole bunch of state jobs and budgets so he can give raises to his cronies like he did as ceo. I swear to bob, I will never ever vote for a candidate who’s electability stems from ‘running a business’ or being a CEO.

  58. 58.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Eric Lindholm:

    “historic turnaround unseen since the horse-and-buggy era.”

    Really? Were you driving a horse and buggy in 1994? in 20006? (Not that this will be that big– the GOP isn’t gonna take the Senate). Are you one of those guys that clomps around Central Park? How are the tips? Do you ever feed your horse Chef Boy-R-Dee?

  60. 60.

    Dennis SGMM

    I always vote. This time it’s nice that two of my choices (Brown, and Boxer) will actually count. Anyone down-ballot from that gets washed away here in CA-26 (It’s David Dreier’s district).

    No, I won’t be following the returns other than reading what people post here at BJ. Two years’ worth of leaving the television off, other than the occasional Turner Classic Movie, has done wonders for my state of mind.

  61. 61.

    Nick

    @jwb:.

    A whomping big stimulus that would have closed the output gap could have done it. I’m not saying it was politically possible—it was not—and it would have undoubtedly spawned other severe economic problems, but unemployment in itself is not an impossible problem to solve.

    A stimulus needed to bring unemployment down to 6% would have cost somewhere above $3 trillion. Such a stimulus would have required either massive tax hikes, not only on the rich, but the middle class, and/or unprecedented deficit spending. (Neither of which I’m opposed to, btw) Such a move would sent the bond markets haywire, which would have send shockwaves through the financial and business communities, causing them to tighten their belts in anticipation of a potential debt crisis, which would mitigate whatever help the stimulus gave anyway.

    We could have gotten unemployment to 8%, maybe 7.5%, but the electoral consequences of 7.5%-8% unemployment and a $3 trillion deficit would have been the same, perhaps worse, than 9.6% unemployment and a $1.3 trillion deficit.

  62. 62.

    Nick

    @Brian J:

    There’s no point in voting for Republicans this year, even if some New York ones are better than others.

    I actually voted for Harry Wilson for Comptroller and I’m not sorry I did…but I voted for him under the Independence Party line. Everyone else I chose WFP.

    I would never and have never voted for a Republican under the Republican Party line, if he/she doesn’t get the line of the Democratic, Independence or Working Families Party, they don’t get me vote…period.

  63. 63.

    Bruuuuce

    @Nick: The real key with the stimulus would have been to have it be large enough to push economic confidence into the positive zone, and to have businesses hire, so that the government would both be able to slack off spending and then recoup in taxes its costs. But it wasn’t large enough to get to that point (and I certainly don’t know how large it would have had to be to get there, though I don’t think it would have had to be quite as expensive as you state). Add to that the horribly inefficient way it was administered (often by state governments reluctant or poorly prepared to use the money properly), and it’s no surprise that it presents as a clusterfsck.

  65. 65.

    Origuy

    KGO is reporting a problem with the way the ballots were printed in California. Some of them had toner smudges that affected the optical scanners. They had people with erasers cleaning off the extra toner. On the absentee ballots, this means that they had to clean off the toner without affecting the vote. The elections guy they interviewed said that they were being closely supervised. I hope so, although I think most people use ink on the ballots.

  66. 66.

    Steeplejack

    Just got back from a leisurely voting expedition (VA-11). In and out at 9:00, only one person in line ahead of me. Voted for Gerry Connolly (while grimacing), was mildly surprised to find only four other items on the ballot–three constitutional amendments and a transportation funding thing. For some reason I was expecting state reps and/or something else. Electronic voting (WinVote).

    Election worker outside told me that as of 8:30 a.m. 15 percent of the voters registered in that precinct had voted already. He thought traffic was a little higher than usual, especially for a midterm election.

    It felt good to vote, regardless of the outcome. I always choke up a little when I step into the voting booth. Always.

  67. 67.

    Nick

    @Bruuuuce:

    The real key with the stimulus would have been to have it be large enough to push economic confidence into the positive zone, and to have businesses hire, so that the government would both be able to slack off spending and then recoup in taxes its costs.

    That would never happen because the larger the stimulus, more businesses would fear the debt and the deficit and act reactionary, which would hurt economic confidence.

  68. 68.

    Bruuuuce

    @Nick: I suppose, though I would have liked to see it tried. The idea certainly was never to have the fed carry the entire burden, but to have it do what was necessary to reverse the negative economic momentum.

    I suspect that there’s a number of other factors at play here, including outsourcing and reduction of jobs and other disincentives to hire by businesses whose profit margin and ROI are the only metrics meaningful to them, added to the political factors I already mentioned. But the lack of jobs contributes to lack of consumer confidence, and around we go in the direction that the stimulus needed to overcome.

  69. 69.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Spokane Moderate:

    My wife and I considered moving to Shreveport, even drove down there from Spokane in ’89 to check out a job at a boat plant in Vivian, but decided that their production practices (building and designing electrical systems in the parking lot) left a lot to be desired. It was a memorable trip and not one I would ever consider doing again.

    Decided to move to the south Oregon coast instead, deciding to get out of marine electrical systems and into computers (which up to that point was a hobby). It was a very wise decision. The wife and daughter were born there, I was born in Boise, Idaho and raised in Spokane. Not a lifer myself but was damned near one.

    As much as I loved Spokane, the city council and cops made the town a miserable hellhole to live in. Remember the detective who went undercover, got addicted to coke, ripped off the drugs and money from the property room, got fired, then sued and won something like $160,000? Then the gypsy raid that they screwed up by taping it on video, which later proved that they raided the house before they had a search warrant? A clock they taped had the time on it, as did several watches.

    Ahh, good times…lol! We don’t miss it one bit. It’s run and ruled by incompetents.

  70. 70.

    Nick

    @Bruuuuce: I’m not saying it should not have been tried, although truth be told, it would be harder for us to make economic decisions now if we had spent $3 trillion to bring unemployment to 7% only to lose Congress. The cuts we’d be forced to make would be so intense and so damaging, it would re-trigger a recession

    What I’m saying is there would have been no way to prevent this debacle. We were facing this defeat no matter what we did. There was no way to avoid it.

    Especially considering, as Gallup pointed out, Democrats aren’t losing because of the economy, those concerned about it are voting Democratic, they’re losing because they’re been slaughtered by voters concerned about “government spending/power” which was ranked third in most important issues.

  71. 71.

    Tax Analyst

    Voted by Absentee Ballot out here in California. Mailed it in last Friday evening – making sure that I filled out the envelope thing correctly and signed it where it needed to be signed (and dated). Went straight Dem down the line – although I’ve occasionally voted for a Republican in the past I’ve taken a “No Republicans” vow over the last few years in response to their actions. It looks to me like Brown is going to win somewhat handily over Meg Whitman – although I was a bit worried early on when I saw that by August the best Whitman could do was to pull just about even – after $119 million spent to virtually $0 by Brown to that point – I was pretty certain she had peaked and would gain no more as people got around to taking a good look at her as a person and the policies she was going to back. Boxer’s race with Fiorina is going to be a bit closer – which I expected, but I think Boxer will once again prevail. Every six years the pundits try to bury her with the “too liberal” tag and every six years she dispatches whoever the Republicans throw up against her. Her campaign was nicely directed towards Fiorina’s most vulnerable area – her time at HP and all the jobs sent elsewhere during that time. So I’m mostly confident about CA, but have no idea how many seats will be lost elsewhere. Hoping for the best – prepared for less than that.

  72. 72.

    Alwhite

    @Spokane Moderate:

    You can have Amy any time. She was a strong supporter of every bad thing Boy Blunder wanted for 2 years and one of the milquetoast Senate Dems that have hurt the whole effort for the last two. I donated & worked my ass off for her & won’t do it again.

  73. 73.

    Alwhite

    If you are looking for reasons things may not go too well this first Tuesday in November I read a story that may provide clues. I just tried googling it but can’t find the thing.

    A woman was complaining that the election is a fraud and she KNOWS that Obama/Acorn have rigged the results. She know this for a fact because she was going to vote for Michele Bachmann but could not because the nefarious bastards had deleted her name from the ballots!!!

    She was unable to comprehend that she did not live in Bachmanns district so her name would not appear on the ballot.

  74. 74.

    Brachiator

    @harlana:

    Well, I just voted, now off to the unemployment office. My benefits will end today. Wish the President and Congress had done more about jobs instead of that long list of accomplishments which could have been addressed AFTER a lot of us went back to work. Still, I much appreciate the benefits I HAVE received under Obama, but now compassion is totally out the window.

    Yesterday, I watched a company Webinar on my company’s health benefits. I noted a number of things that simply would not exist (coverage for children up to age 26) had it not been for health care reform.

    Obama and the Democrats fought hard to have the first $2400 to $4800 of unemployment benefits excluded from taxable income. Obama, Pelosi and the other Democrats fought hard to get unemployment benefits extended. There are a significant number of expiring tax benefits that would help both workers and the unemployed which Congress had indicated they would approve.

    But they may not happen if the Democrats lose the House and if the new and returning GOP continue their obstructionist ways.

    I truly understand how many people have been ground under as they attempt to deal with this long, lingering recession.

    But anyone too tired or fed up to vote, or who foolishly is going to make the Democrats’ failure to achieve absolutely perfect health care reform the hill that they die on, or who has bought into the nonsense that the Obama Administration’s achievements are weak and insubstantial, may one day look back on today as the last of the good old days, because the mainstream Republicans don’t have any ideas at all, and the Tea Party morons are the willing tools of oligarchs and right wing elitists who can bring nothing but fear, division, bigotry and ignorance to this country.

  75. 75.

    PurpleGirl

    @Alwhite: A low-information voter…? doesn’t even know who her representative is…? idiot voter is more like it. She deserves to be laughed at, loud and very long.

  77. 77.

    Gus

    @Spokane Moderate: Sure we are! Just ask us. We haven’t voted for a Republican for Pres since Nixon. Minnesota is definitely changing, though. My childhood Congressman, Jim Oberstar is in big trouble. I never thought I’d see a Republican elected to that seat in my lifetime, but it looks about 50/50.

  78. 78.

    brantl

    @Eric Lindholm: It’s always fun to watch idiots like you try to rewrite history. Barak Obama got a bill, that he authored in Illinois passed by a unanimous vote in the legislature. How many people can you say that about, pinhead?

  79. 79.

    fasteddie9318

    @Nick:

    That would never happen because the larger the stimulus, more businesses would fear the debt and the deficit crazed Kenyan Negro Marxist voodoo witch doctor Muslim with the bone through his nose in the White House and act reactionary, which would hurt economic confidence.

    FTFY

  83. 83.

    BlizzardOfOz

    You left a few out …
    * Bailed out crooked Wall Street bankers with trillions of taxpayer dollars, while doing nothing for ordinary workers laboring under conditions of 20% unemployment.
    * Passed bill mandating everyone purchase junk insurance from vulture health insurers. Dealt away any public option in a backroom deal with said insurers, proceeded to lie for months to voters that he actually supported it
    * Revived the Republican party in 24 short months, after it appeared that their disastrous policies might discredit them for a generation

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