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  1. 1.

    The Watcher

    No Compromise! No Peace with the Kenyan Mooslim Usurper!
    Now on to victory!

    /teabagger

  3. 3.

    Hunter Gathers

    He won’t be missed. He’s easily one of the most loathsome politicians I’ve ever seen.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Wasn’t he one of the Republican “Young Guns” a few years ago? Could he pull a Lisa Murkowski and run as an Independent?

  11. 11.

    Hill Dweller

    The House leadership reportedly held off on allowing a vote on immigration reform in order to save Cantor. Oops…

  13. 13.

    Hunter Gathers

    In a sane world, Cantor’s beatdown would kill the whole ‘GOP establishment > Teabagger’ meme, but we don’t live in a sane world, do we?

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    @Baud: Ain’t that the truth. You can see the hate in Weepin’ Cheetoh’s eyes every time Cantor opens his yap…

  15. 15.

    Debbie

    Glenn Beck’s been praying for this. I think this points to real division in the GOP and can only be good news for the fall elections.

  16. 16.

    Turgidson

    I wish I could be there right now to personally laugh in Eric Cantor’s dimwitted yet somehow obnoxiously smug and extreeeeeemely punchable face.

    I wonder what the Weeping Orange thinks. Is he cackling with glee, or afraid he’ll be next?

  19. 19.

    RoonieRoo

    Holy cow! So the guy who beat him must be a unbelievable nutbar to beat Cantor in that district.

    On the running as an Independent, I’m pretty sure that ship has sailed for the election.

    WOW!

  22. 22.

    Pogonip

    If I may interrupt, my family has an urgent problem. My mom is senile but can still go to the bathroom by herself. My dad would like to keep her at home but she keeps trying to flush washcloths and underwear down the toilet, and it’s getting expensive. We can hide the washcloths but can’t figure out what to do about the undies. Any suggestions?

  24. 24.

    Davis X. Machina

    That’s Eric “First Jewish Speaker of the House” Cantor to you, bub.

  25. 25.

    PsiFighter37

    EW Jackson barely lost this district in VA-LG last year, so apparently that’s the barometer for peak wingnut in this district.

  28. 28.

    RSA

    Wow. A Washington Post article from about 8 hours ago was talking about whether a 20-point Cantor win would be enough to quell questions about his leadership. How the mighty have fallen…

  29. 29.

    beth

    My husband and I voted today in SC – he took the Republican ballot and I voted Democratic. His ballot questions were about abolishing the income tax and conferring personhood at conception. Mine were about legalizing online gambling and medical marijuana. Hubby says we Dems are much more fun.

  30. 30.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I had a close friend who swore Cantor was going to be the first Jewish president. This prolly woulda killed him but he died in December from a heart attack.

  31. 31.

    Comrade Mary

    And what is up with these ridonkulous internal polls?

    A poll conducted late last month for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) shows him with a wide lead over challenger David Brat heading toward next Tuesday’s Republican primary election.

    The poll, shared with Post Politics, shows Cantor with a 62 percent to 28 percent lead over Brat, an economics professor running to Cantor’s right. Eleven percent say they are undecided.

    The internal survey of 400 likely Republican primary voters was conducted May 27 and 28 by John McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates. It carries a margin of error of +/-4.9 percentage points.

  34. 34.

    Anoniminous

    Repeated from last thread:

    Sitting here laughing my ass off. Cantor has not only lost the primary he’s lost any power he had in the GOP caucus, nobody is going to give a damn what a lame duck says.

    ETA: Brat: 56% Cantor 44%. Cantor not only lost he done got drubbed. (he-he-he)

  35. 35.

    Baud

    Go Cole!

    John Cole ‏@Johngcole 1m

    You sir, are a moron. RT @David_Gergen With @GOPLeader Eric Cantor upset, House loses one of its best Republican thinkers & reformers.

  38. 38.

    Patricia Kayden

    Cantor is so smarmy that he won’t be missed. Hope the Dems can knock off the TBagger candidate in November.

  39. 39.

    J

    One of the most hateful and loathsome figures in public life today defeated because his party didn’t think he was loathsome enough.

  41. 41.

    shelley

    Holy cow! So the guy who beat him must be a unbelievable nutbar to beat Cantor in that district.

    So..tried going to his website to see just what this guy stands for…and the page won’t load. Guess there’s a lot of people trying to do the same. Thing is, tea party candidate. Why is it a good thing that somebody worse than Cantor won?

  45. 45.

    hildebrand

    Brat is an economics professor who thinks that Cantor is far too liberal on immigration.

  46. 46.

    Comrade Mary

    @Pooh: We’re looking at an Ontario election this Thursday. I have no trust in the polls right now, and we run the risk of Tea Party North getting in this time.

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    Holy f*ck! Wow.

    My sister’s in his district. She’s not a Republican. She’s elated. She promised to send me a pic of a Tea Party anti-Cantor sign — will follow up on that.

  48. 48.

    Davis X. Machina

    @El Caganer:

    He’s running to Cantor’s right? Who the fuck is this guy?

    Damn skinny. That’s not a big gap to run through.

  53. 53.

    MattF

    This is what Cantor gets for showing signs of rationality on immigration. Here’s a hint of where the GOP is headed: Hispanics ain’t stupid. They’re well aware of what’s going on here.

  55. 55.

    Schlemizel

    @Pogonip:
    I have no clue, sorry, that sounds horrible for your family. I would try the county welfare people first, they may have some home nursing help with experience. My sister was a Nurse with a local county, had an MS in geriatric Psych and helped a lot of people stay in their homes. I will give her a call and see if she has an idea for something you could do.

  57. 57.

    Hill Dweller

    Am I imagining things, or did Cantor’s wife look repulsed when he leaned in to kiss her?

  58. 58.

    JMT

    @Pogonip: Is your family working with the local Area Agency on Aging? In my area they have staff to come in and consult, to help figure out how to make your home work for someone with memory deficits, and they can assess whether home health aides would be appropriate to help with the personal care chores (and to give the main caregivers a break from constant vigilance).

  64. 64.

    Turgidson

    This is hilarious, and it pretty much bakes into the cake that most GOPers will feel compelled for the foreseeable future to sound as hateful and batshit about immigration as Steve King and nutbar emeritus Tom Tancredo. All the Dems need to do is stand aside and let them step on rakes and that’ll do as much for Hispanic turnout as the ground game, maybe more.

  66. 66.

    bemused

    Eric, you guys never had any “conservative solutions” except for obstructionism and siccing the teaparty dogs on the country. Unfortunately, they turned on ya.

  67. 67.

    Hill Dweller

    That smarmy fucker couldn’t stop lying in his concession speech. If he gave a shit about sick people they wouldn’t have made massive cuts to medical research in the sequester.

  68. 68.

    SarahT

    @Pogonip: Disposable panties and /or a commode by the bedso she won’t have to worry about making it to the bathroom. I feel for you – getting there with my Mom. Good luck.

  69. 69.

    Elizabelle

    @Pogonip:

    Check if your local hospice program has a comfort care component (for those who need services, but are not terminally ill). Maybe you could get them in, even if your mom does not formally meet hospice requirements.

    Good luck.

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    Glad to see him lose his position as Speaker-in-waiting.

    Leery that he will re-emerge as Santorum 2.0.

  72. 72.

    shelley

    And the champagne corks are a-popping over at Free Republic. Memo to Chris Christie who’s been trying to rehabilitate his image for 2016. Don’t bother. The rabid Tea Party base hates your guts as much as Cantor and Boehner and McCain. It’s hard to think who isn’t a RINO in their eyes, beyond Cruz.

  73. 73.

    mouse tolliver

    Listening to his concessions speech. Sounds like he’s been crying . Whah-whah-whah-whaaaaaan!

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Weren’t there some people just recently predicting that Cantor would be the next Speaker?

    Hahahahahahaha!

  82. 82.

    David Koch

    a combined 278 elected Republicans in the House and Senate and there are now ZERO Jews in their caucus.

    That’s a Big WHITE Tent.

  83. 83.

    Fair Economist

    @Pogonip:

    If I may interrupt, my family has an urgent problem. My mom is senile but can still go to the bathroom by herself. My dad would like to keep her at home but she keeps trying to flush washcloths and underwear down the toilet, and it’s getting expensive. We can hide the washcloths but can’t figure out what to do about the undies. Any suggestions?

    Disconnect the chain from the flapper valve, and flush it manually by opening the tank and flipping the valve yourself.

  86. 86.

    PhoenixRising

    Is there a Dem candidate on the ballot for the general, or is this whackaloon who is apparently just right for this district’s registered Rs going all the way to DC?

    Fun times ahead either way.

  88. 88.

    Pogonip

    Thank you, Schelimizel and JMT! We did not know about commissions on aging, we’ll see what they have to say.

    She was a loyal Fox Geezer, it was on nonstop whenever she was home. I honestly don’t know if Fox contributed to her senility or if it was a symptom, but I can’t see where having poison poured into your mind 12 hours a day is going to do you any good, one way or the other.

    Regarding the actual topic, don’t rejoice yet; Cantor’s replacement may be a change for the worse.

  89. 89.

    RSA

    @Pogonip: I’m sorry to hear about your situation, Pogonip. Here are a few thoughts. Some older people use bedside commodes, when it’s too difficult to reach the bathroom in the night. Even though it doesn’t sound as if that’s the case with your mother, you might be able to convince her that this would be better than the regular toilet. (True for you, and maybe a white lie for her–it could become out of order.) Cheaper than a plumber call over time, I’m guessing. Another possibility is direct supervision in the bathroom. That’s a trickier issue, of course, but it might eventually become necessary. (It might help if it were treated as a medical issue, if you could swing that.) My last thought is that you might visit care.com, a set of online communities for caregivers; they’re nice people and may have better ideas.

  90. 90.

    Roger Moore

    @Comrade Mary:

    And what is up with these ridonkulous internal polls?

    My guess would be that their likely voter models for primaries suck. Likely voter rather than registered voter seems like a great idea, but it’s only helpful if your idea of who’s likely to vote is correct. If you overestimate how likely casual voters are to vote or underestimate the importance of crossover voters in an open primary, you’ll get epically wrong answers.

  91. 91.

    lukeallen1

    ..and who’s the other guy? My guess is an even bigger a$$h0le. That’s all GOP primaries are now a days. A$$h0le fesitivals where the biggest a$$h0le wins.

  92. 92.

    Baud

    OT: Congrats, Canada!

    Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has made good on a promise to renounce his birth country’s citizenship — doing so amid speculation he could make a run at the White House in 2016.

    Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Cruz’s action became official May 14 and that Texas’ junior senator received written confirmation at his home in Houston on Tuesday. She said the tea-party-backed Republican “is pleased to have the process finalized.”

  98. 98.

    MattF

    @shelley: Good question. One should be skeptical of any ‘worse is better’ argument. In this case, the Teepers had already made Cantor a liar, now it’s just out there for everyone to see.

  99. 99.

    Anoniminous

    @Suffern ACE:

    Oops. My bad. Thanks for the correction.

    A loath as I am to put another Southern Blue Dawg shithead in the House, flipping Cantor’s seat would be delicious. I shouldn’t say that since I know nothing about the Dem.

    Talking strawberry shortcake with whipped cream and amaretto sauce.

  100. 100.

    Ethan's Mom

    @Pogonip: What about a toilet lock? We had one when my son was a toddler and I had the hardest time getting it undone sometimes.

  101. 101.

    dmsilev

    @Baud: No no, Gergen is perfectly correct. Eric Cantor _is_ one of the intellectual leading lights of the GOP. Compared to Louis Gohmert, for instance…

    It’s just grading on a curve, that’s all.

  102. 102.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Good. Cantor is a despicable human being. Not that it couldn’t happen to someone more deserving, like the utter shitstain Ryan, or the gormless Gohmert.

    Another glorious victory for the teahadis. Kick that Jewboy out of Congress, stat!

  103. 103.

    Gravenstone

    Looking for a VA resident to chime in, but apparently they have a “sore loser” provision on the books. So the smarmy little fuck couldn’t even run as an Independent if he wanted to. Not sure whether that precludes him from going the write in route, or not.

  105. 105.

    Southern Beale

    Remembering Chuck Toad this morning basically patting Brat on the head and telling him to run along and come back when he’s grown up a bit. Hilarious. HILL-fucking-arious.

  106. 106.

    tavella

    Pogonip, maybe one of those toilet seat locks for children? I don’t know if you can find one she can’t open, but it might be worth looking into.

  107. 107.

    brendancalling

    @shelley: because he may be so crazy we win a formerly unwinnable seat. See: Angle, Sharon; O’Donnell, Christine; Akin, Todd; and Mourdock, Richard.

  109. 109.

    Ken

    @PsiFighter37:

    He should’ve shivved Orange Julius when he had the chance.

    He’s still got seven months, and no particular reason to hold back, so we can still root for injuries.

  111. 111.

    gf120581

    Immigration reform is now utterly dead. The GOP will not only renounce it, they’ll be trying to top each other to bash Hispanics for fear of ending up like Cantor.

    Cantor’s loss may have just made the GOP’s future much more bleaker.

  113. 113.

    Fair Economist

    It *is* kind of surprising that the leadership guy who played “conservative cop” was the one who got teabagged. I always thought the hardline Cantor-negotiator Boehner show was an act and maybe the primary voters thought the same, but it’s still a surprise.

  114. 114.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Pogonip: Can you somehow get her to start using a commode chair instead? Maybe something like this?

    Best of luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  115. 115.

    Villago Delenda Est

    OK, who at The Onion put up a guy named “David Brat” to run against Cantor in the GOP primary? Someone needs to ‘fess up!

  116. 116.

    J.D. Rhoades

    @Anoniminous:

    Democrats don’t have a declared candidate.

    And one would be unlikely to win in Cantor’s district.

    It reminds me of the old thought experiment: if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you put someone worse in his place?

  117. 117.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @efgoldman:

    Because the crazier/TeaHadier he is, the more the chance that he’ll commit an Akins/Mourdock moment and swing the district to the Dems.

    There isn’t a Dem candidate.

    Urgh, as Howard Dean said, you gotta buy a ticket. The DCCC ought to be spending its money on making sure that someone files for every damn district, because politics can always spring surprises.

  118. 118.

    helping hand

    @shelley:

    I dislike Cantor more than most, and I can articulate why this is a positive development: Cantor, for all of his odious qualities, is actually pretty smart. Replacing him with a anti-intellectual neophyte xenophobe isn’t likely to change the abysmal dynamics of the house but it is another lurch to the right for the GOP that is out of step with most of the population. Oh, and if there’s any truth that Ben Jones share some responsibility for this then it is probably the best story of the 2014 primaries:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html

  119. 119.

    srv

    So we have to support an independent run by Cantor to split the vote enough for a Demoncrat write-in.

  120. 120.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @gf120581:

    they’ll be trying to top each other to bash Hispanics for fear of ending up like Cantor.

    GOP outreach to the Hispanic community continues on is path of glory!

  121. 121.

    James E. Powell

    @Turgidson:

    All the Dems need to do is stand aside and let them step on rakes and that’ll do as much for Hispanic turnout as the ground game, maybe more.

    I think the Dems need to do more than stand aside. They need to make a reasonable proposal with DREAM act provisions for children and path to citizenship for adults. Most of the country agrees with it; Republicans will go crazy over it. Make the proposal, make them respond to it in public. Lather rinse repeat.

  122. 122.

    RandomMonster

    Cantor can wipe his tears with a Gadsden Flag. You made your bed, now it eat it! (Mixed metaphors now seem appropriate.)

  123. 123.

    shelley

    Just saw his campaign website, and two photos stand out. One of Cantor talking calmly to Obama; obviously an impeachable event. And a nice big one of St Ronnie.

  124. 124.

    Elizabelle

    Only time I’ve ever happily clicked on Politico.

    Banner headline.

    CANTOR LOSES

    Tell it, journamalists.

  125. 125.

    Bokonon

    Ahh … Eric Cantor, the Snidely Whiplash of American politics. Stabbed in the back by the Tea Party that he helped promote and grow, and introduce to power.

    Man, what an epic tragedy. Gosh. As a former Virginia resident, let me tell you … I am really choked up. NOT!

  126. 126.

    Fair Economist

    @helping hand:

    Oh, and if there’s any truth that Ben Jones share some responsibility for this then it is probably the best story of the 2014 primaries:

    OK, that’s making more sense. Jones was pushing Dems to vote against Cantor in the open primary.

  127. 127.

    sdhays

    @efgoldman: Also, there’s not much difference between “Cantor” and “worse than Cantor”. Cantor would sacrifice his own mother to the Tea Party gods if it would give him power; how is that any different from having a “real” Tea Partier? If the Tea Partier wins, he will have 0 power and be another 1 of 435 whining farm animals, not the House Majority Leader (or, if we’re allowed to dream, House Minority Whip).

    Cantor’s district is propped up by a lot of government spending (as is my district). Losing someone with juice and replacing him with another Gohmert might make certain people there very unhappy…

    Ah, this just made my night!

  130. 130.

    Hal

    So how’s Lindsey Graham doing?

    Also, didn’t the cooch lose because he was too far right for Virginia. I wonder how Da Brat’s going to do if he proves to be super far right, which I assume he is.

  131. 131.

    Mandalay

    @Comrade Mary:

    And what is up with these ridonkulous internal polls?

    Only having a sample of 400 may be one reason they went off the rails. That seems like a very small sample to obtain any meaningful conclusions.

    The company doing the polling have savaged their reputation by being so absurdly inaccurate.

  138. 138.

    maeve

    @Violet:

    Don’t know the laws in Virginia, but in Alaska when you lose a primary you have to run as a write-in – so you can’t be on the ballot.

    Lisa Murkowski won as a write-in in Alaska after she lost the primary basically because she took the primary for granted and didn’t pay attention. or actually campaign. The Republican primary in Alaska is closed – you have to be registered R to vote in it – but more than 50% of voters in Alaska are unaffiliated. I disagree with Lisa but she is good at making personal connections with people (which is not my impression of Cantor) and that is important in a small population state. For the write-in campaign she pulled out all the stops including a campaign to get people to spell her name right!

  142. 142.

    Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)

    @Baud:

    Tonight, Boehner drinks in celebration rather than in misery!

    Simplified it for you.

  144. 144.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Suffern ACE: No, there is no Democratic candidate on the ballot. At least according to Mediaite:

    During his appearances, Fox labeled Dickinson as “(D-VA), Running For Congress.”

    Just one problem with that: He’s not. At least not as a Democrat.

    On Thursday morning, the Virginia 7th Congressional District Democratic Committee announced that it would cancel this year’s nominating convention, because no one had filed to run against incumbent Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

    The filing deadline — Thursday, April 10th, at 5:00 p.m. — passed by without any forms submitted by Dickinson. The committee’s chair tells Mediaite that he notified the party at “last minute” that he was not going to file.

    None of that was disclosed by Dickinson when he appeared on Fox News last night. (UPDATE: The committee chairwoman provided us with emails that show her requesting that Dickinson “let the show know that [he is] not a Democratic candidate.”)

    FWIW.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  147. 147.

    helping hand

    Anyone outside the village shedding tears over this? Looks like both democrat and republican websites are happy with this outcome…

  148. 148.

    Emma

    @Pogonip: Keeping her at home will be very difficult, Pogo. But your Dad might try to put locks on drawers and make sure he moves the laundry basket out of reach. Best of luck. My heart goes out to your family.

    (edit): it might come to direct supervision in the bathroom, I’m sorry to say.

  149. 149.

    Mandalay

    @Hal:

    I wonder how Da Brat’s going to do if he proves to be super far right, which I assume he is.

    I don’t know about that, but I’ve been watching him on YouTube. He’s confident, a good speaker, and likeable. It’s easy to understand how he thrashed someone who is a clueless, a poor speaker and not likeable.

  152. 152.

    Lyrebird

    @Southern Beale: I like this part especially, for all that he could use a media consultant maybe for his campaign page:

    DickinsonForCongress @VoteMike2014 · 27m
    Im a unapologetic left wing @BarackObama @SenWarren style liberal. I love the ACA. Not apologizing for it

    ETA: Apparently he’s also an HRC style “needs improvement in the campaign management dept” Democrat. But here’s hoping for some serious write-in action!

  153. 153.

    Southern Beale

    So, latest I’ve heard is that Mike Dickinson missed the filing deadline and won’t be on the ballot as a Democrat. And apparently the Dem challenger will be Jack Trammel but who the fuck is that?

  154. 154.

    Ken

    @TF79:

    CV pretty much what you’d expect for a small regional liberal arts college.

    Dear Penthouse Letters, … ?

  155. 155.

    Penus

    @Comrade Mary: He’s worked with my employer on a couple of projects I’ve been involved with. As a person, I like him a lot. Very friendly, very funny.

  157. 157.

    JoyfulA

    @Schlemizel: A free-standing bedside commode that can be emptied (after anything unflushable is removed).

    Wire or plastic mesh draped under the toilet seat.

  162. 162.

    sdhays

    He knows that Washington’s uncertainty and gridlock coming has crippled the ability of our job creators to expand and plan for the future.

    Mike Dickinson is an “unapologetic liberal”, but he uses the Republican framing of “job creators” on his home page. And, apparently, he had some difference with the local Democratic committee, which is why he didn’t bother to file (I don’t really understand that logic, but there you are). I’m not sure this guy can swing this district. As others have said, THIS is why Howard Dean and his true commitment to a 50-state strategy was one of the main architects of the 2006 Democratic wave. While everyone was saying it was hopeless and he was bankrupting the party, he laid the groundwork to take maximal advantage of a change in the wind. How quickly the Democratic establishment went right back to forgetting that lesson.

  163. 163.

    Lyrebird

    @Comrade Mary: Oh but Trammell’s better than your average Some Professor Dude… Quoting below from that book link (thanks Sister Rail Gun), seems like he’ll rile up anyone whose head explodes when they hear/read the word “reparations”… Could be fun! Can’t be too shy to teach this subject in VA*.

    Few people appreciate the extent to which the American slave economy fueled national industrialization and an encompassing continental economic growth. After the ban on the international slave trade in 1808, the North American slave trade gravitated and eventually centered along Wall Street in Richmond, Virginia. The capitalized value of slave labor became as important as the dollar itself, a commodity to be loaned, bought and sold, speculated on, and eventually even serving as a means of financing a fratricidal Civil War. Learn more about this trade, and in the process, challenge some of the sacred myths that still persist about the history of slavery in America.

    *Many non-Virginians also like to avoid learning any truths about slavery, but Virginia was (arguably) the epicenter.

  165. 165.

    some guy

    Amnesty for brown people. Abortion for Constitutional Conservatism. Acid for real Americans.

    Cantor was Not Right for us.

  166. 166.

    Dolly Llama

    @Anoniminous: They need another one other than this guy. ETA: The fucking golden moment comes, unexpected, and we’re not ready. God damn it. It’s hard being a fucking Democrat sometimes.

  168. 168.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @gf120581:

    Cantor’s loss may have just made the GOP’s future much more bleaker.

    Awwwww. Heartbre… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

  170. 170.

    sdhays

    I just got a DCCC email with subject “BREAKING: Eric Cantor LOSES!!!” complete with link to a “If you’re also glad to see Cantor go, let him know!” farewell card. As if they had anything to do with this. They clearly didn’t, otherwise they wouldn’t be so caught with their pants down!

    Trammell isn’t mentioned anywhere. No talk of “flipping the district”. Just “sign a farewell card” (and send us money). Why should anyone donate to these idiots? WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO PAY FOR??? Morons.

    I think President Obama is the best President in my lifetime (an unfortunately low bar), and I never went starry-eyed for the guy (although I always liked him), but my biggest disappointment has been how little he has chipped away at the stranglehold of our awful elite establishment, both in DC and in the Party as a whole. I never expected him to revolutionize things, but I had hoped for a bit more rebalancing. Unlike other things, he has pretty much complete control over who runs the DNC; he should have left Howard Dean in charge, or one of his proteges. 2010 may have turned out quite differently if he had.

  171. 171.

    Comrade Mary

    Why, oh why, did I not stock up on popcorn tonight?

    RICHMOND — As if the political drama were not powerful enough, chaos erupted at the election night headquarters shortly after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor conceded his stunning defeat to tea party backed conservative David Brat.

    Cantor addressed his supporters for about four minutes at a suburban Richmond hotel ballroom, then boarded SUV without taking questions from supporters scurrying after him.

    Then it got really rambunctious. In the room of downcast Cantor supporters, a new energy suddenly erupted — but not the kind they wanted election night. A group of immigration activists stormed the ballroom, screaming and waving a flag. “What do we want? Immigration reform! When do we want it? Now!”

    A few Cantor supporters tried to block their entrance into the ballroom, and pushing and shoving ensued. And before they reached the microphone, one Cantor supporter threw his glass of wine onto a female protestor. She swore at him in return.

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    Schlemizel

    @Pogonip:
    Talked to sis & she strong suggested you see what the county can do for you, some of them do a good job. She said it might take a professional evaluation to see if they can understand why she is doing this. Other than that she didn’t know much about what you can do.

    She did say that you might want to get a ‘cap’ which is sort of like commod that hangs inside the toilet. The down side is someone will have to dump it after it gets used but it would save the plumbing.

    Good luck.

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    agorabum

    @shelley: because it gives the Dems a chance to pick up the seat, because this rando isn’t going to be the #2 in the GOP Congress, and because the votes all end up the same anyway (Rs vote for R priorities). And it helps the Village realize the GOP base is crazytown.

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    Cervantes

    @efgoldman:

    She doesn’t know Cassius’ Iago’s Cantor’s district well enough to know if this is a possible Dem takeover.

    Extremely unlikely.

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