I, for one, welcome our new fiscal conservative overlords.
Because this time, they really mean it.
Archives for November 2010
What He Said
Some Sterling Analysis
I didn’t bother to stay up and watch last night’s trainwreck. It’s tough enough to click through the House maps this morning. That said, the message is obvious — it’s another disappointment from Obama:
Although I wonder just how bad it would have been if the White House didn’t do what White Houses always do and pretty much sit around and watch their Party lose, to preserve their precious Cult of the Leader? Changey.
Clearly, the biggest wave election since the 30’s could have been stopped by a little more bully pulpit.
Early Morning Open Thread: Declawed, Still Fighting
From commentor Monza:
In the pic I’ve attached is my buddy Jack. About 7 years ago, he started showing up at my workplace every day. He was coming from the woods behind the building. I didn’t pay him much mind, until I saw him fight off a mama fox. I was really impressed after I realized that he was de-clawed in the front and fixed, so someone had dumped him and he could still take care of himself. After letting him hang around me at work for a few days, I realized that he was really a great cat & I wanted to take him home. I knew he was smart because after a couple of days he learned to hide from us in the building after the afternoon UPS truck arrived because he knew he would be put outside after that. (Couldn’t leave him inside with the alarm on). I pleaded with the wife for days, always getting a no from her. I promised her that she would love him if she just met him. Finally she relented & agreed to meet him. The rest is history…
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After two $350 vet bills, we finally figured out why they dumped him. If he doesn’t eat the right food, he gets crystals in his urine which plug up his bladder. He does his best to let out a little spray of urine in front of you as his way of saying that there is something wrong. His previous owners either didn’t like the vet bills, extra expense of his food, or his spraying, so they left him to fend for himself.
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When we first got him, he looked healthy. The vet said he was about 12 pounds and about a year and a half old. (The pic dates from about 2004). Now he’s right around 20 pounds. He’s not just fat either, he really is “big boned”. His skull is like twice the size of his mini-me Clover, our 2 year old rescue. And his favorite place is either in a lap, or right next to you.
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We’ve got 3 cats and 5 rats altogether. Clover, and two of our rats, were rescues from the humane society.
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Late Night Open Thread: Schadenfreude
Just got a press release from the self-proclaimed “pioneer [of] political direct mail”, who boasts that he “has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation magazine), one of the “conservatives of the century” (The Washington Times), and one of 2008’s “top 25 influencers” among Republicans””:
Manassas, Virginia – “Voters have given Republicans one more chance to get it right,” Richard A. Viguerie said today. “They are on probation, and if they mess up again, they won’t get another chance.”
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“The last time the Republicans were in charge, they became the party of big spending, Big Government, and Big Business. They abandoned the philosophy of Ronald Reagan and cozied up to lobbyists and special interests. And they paid a price at the polls.
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“This year, the Democrats under President Obama and Speaker Pelosi drove millions of voters right back into the arms of the Republicans. But if Republicans return to their bad habits – if they start working for K Street instead of Main Street – they will pay a terrible price. Tea Party voters and conservatives will turn them out in the 2012 primaries.
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“People will say: Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, and the Republican Party is dead,” Viguerie said.
The upcoming, ongoing battles between the common Republican careerists and the wackaloon true believers are going to make the internecine sniping between Obots and firebaggers look like a… garden fete.
I’m just a little giddy that my beloved Commonwealth of Massachusetts has stayed solidly Democratic. Incumbent Governor Patrick held off Charley Baker, aka “Mitt Romney with a functioning neocortex”, and Barney Frank defeated our own version of “Joe Miller Lite”. The local newsbots are already babbling about “the end of the Scott Brown effect” — Cosmo Boy is now reduced to another quirky swamp yankee anomaly, not the much-ballyhooed John-the-Baptist foretelling a new regime of Masshole Republicanism. I wonder what the 2011 version of those Watergate-era “Don’t Blame Us, We Voted for McGovern” bumperstickers will be?
Alaska is the New Minnesota
Shenanigans are afoot in Alaska. After last week’s ruling that a list of write-in candidates could be provided to Alaska voters to help them figure out how not to vote for Joe Miller, the Miller-Palinites added over 150 new candidates to the race in the hopes of diluting any votes that would go to Murkowski:
As votes were counted in America’s tumultuous midterm last night, nowhere was there more scope for chaos in the complex counting process than in Alaska, where election supervisors were warning that declaring a winner in the US Senate race may not take a few hours, but perhaps days or even longer.
The problem is the Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski and her exotic name. After losing the Republican primary contest to the Tea Party candidate Joe Miller, she decided to keep running as a “write-in”: her name did not appear on ballots last night but voters were free to write it down anyway.
Officials said that the law gives them 15 days to certify a winner. The last polls suggested that Mr Miller, Ms Murkowski and the Democrat candidate, Scott McAdams, were in a dead heat.
But there is worse: after the courts in Alaska ruled last week that election workers could hand voters a list showing the names of write-in candidates as they enter the voting booths, Miller supporters rushed to register themselves as last-minute runners just to dilute whatever advantage the lists might give to Ms Murkowski. Suddenly there were well over 150 write-in candidates in the race.
Derp.
Back From The Bars
No idea what is going on with the election other than that Russ Feingold, a civil libertarian hero, has lost. Maybe he could have used some help from those principled libertarians at Reason magazine, but they were too fucking busy attacking Cuomo to notice much of anything else.
Bob Barr endorsed Feingold. Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, and other Koch stalwarts- not so much. They do have time for a farewell, though. Thanks for all the help, principled libertarians! Maybe a couple more smooth Nick Gillespie videos about Obamacare could have made the difference. Wait, what?
But don’t you dare call Reason magazine a bunch of ineffectual Koch stooges, though. Because then you are just OVER THE FUCKING LINE QUESTIONING THEIR INTEGRITY.
BTW- I see that McKinley is ahead of Oliverio. Again, this would not surprise me at all, for reasons I have mentioned before. I predicted he would lose, as he was an asshole through and through. Thanks for the Republican majority, Mike, you douchebag.