Not sure how things turned out last night (may not even be done yet). I decided to go to bed as soon as the good guy lost by less than 4,000 votes in my district, but wound up staying up for quite a while, thanks to the combination of my laptop, wireless, and beer. By the time I finally gave it up and crashed, the House had been called for the Democrats (final margin up in the air, but at least a +25 pickup), and the Dems had picked up 4 Senate seats, and control of the Senate looking likely, with Webb up in VA by 1% (there’ll be a recount in that one, either way), and Tester leading by 4% in MT.
It’s good to have the House, but I can’t tell you how bad I feel about my Congressional District. It’s not about the pickup of a seat, but that we lost the chance to have an intelligent, thoughtful, and genuinely good person represent us in Congress. I hope Dan Maffei is back again in 2008.
Elsewhere here in NY, Hillary kicked ass with about 67% of the vote, Howie got about 1% (I forget, is that a moral victory?), Eliot Spitzer did even better than Hillary, with 69%, Andy Cuomo beat crazy Jeanine Pirro easily, and Alan Hevesi won handily, despite his chauffeur problems (now we’ll see if he’s forced to resign).
Anyhow, how did everything go in your neck of the woods?
:crap::yippee::crap::yippee::crap::yippee:
:alc: whatever :sheep: le
So the Colorado reich won the state house from the Colo Reich
Muskrat, Tancredo and the thugbot to replace Hefley all won.
Given that the homophobes all won reelection it wasn’t surprising that the Colorado constitution now defines marriage as the union of a man and a women and that Gays were denied equal protection.:yuck:
good morning sheeple…. sorry about Colorado, Fred, and your congressional district, PJ… (also sorry about CT, blah)
What’s the matter with Colorado?
Almost all of my most-hated plug uglies lost last night [Weldon, Perro, Kat Harris] but it seems that Musgrave will be around to foul the bathub of state for two more years.
Went to bed content with a 50-50 senate, and now I WANT IT ALL.
People are so selfish.:sammy:
:yippee:Hi Susan :yippee:
Colorado has rethug ghettos ..Mostly retired military in Colo Springs and the opulent California transplants in there 8000 sq foot houses in the area in between Denver and Colorado Springs. Muskrat represents almost all of eastern Colorado the land of dried up farmland and rugged individualists living in their house trailers and double wides, on their five acre tracts, driving their Ford F350 diesel super duties that have junk cars strewn around their yards , pit bulls roaming their yards and burn their garbage in open pits.
They were going to take up arms when several counties mentioned the word zoning to them..:barf::crap::yuck::reaper::reaper:
They wait there knowing that any minute some developer will offer then a quarter of a mil for their 5 acres and they can retire in Arizona :bf:
:yippee::cool::yippee:
Cheers Fred, I got a whore for a Gov, but SF Pelosi as Speaker. Any Good to battle the 👿 for your state ?
Good Morning tired sheeple!!
Oy, I need a nap already.
Rahm Emmanuel on C-Span:
“I’m looking forward to working with president Bush”
“But there are some Democrats who want to impeach Bush”
“Ohhhhh no. That’s over with. We’re not going to do anything like that”
:fu: slime bucket
I just have these sudden bursts of GLEE :yippee::dancers::yippee:
I, too, need a nap.
Very happy for the country. But ‘Ole Georgia is in the hands of self-dealing thugs who not only hate children, but enacted the sub-below minimum wage law (yes, you read that right). My guy and wastemoran’s percentages never wavered all night – the amendments won by a landslide and things smell very bad with Diebold in our precincts.
Thank you, America, for diluting this state’s idiots and band of thieves.
Melina, liebermonkey – disappointment, too.
Thank you, America, for diluting this state’s idiots and band of theives.
Bunny Pants is supposed to have a news conference at 1:00 eastern :eek::yuck::paranoid:
Pleased with what happened in NC. Coulda been better but Charles Taylor (NC-11, R) was sent packing and Robin Hayes (NC-8, R) is headed for a recount with a differential of less than 500 votes. Regardless, North Carolina will now have more Democrats than rethugs in the House of Reprehensives. Now if we can take the senate seats in Virginia – my new home in seven days – and Montana.
GA did have two good things happen: the bush-puppet GA supreme court candidate who had never tried a case but was their ideologue, lost. Tommy Irvin, dem agriculture commissioner barely won. Irvin has done a good job for many years and a thug ideologue tried to unseat him.
Money matters here, for sure. my guy spent 70,000 wastemoron spent just shy of a million. same with governor race – huge dollars were spent by the thugs.
that is good news, NC. How are the moving plans coming together?
“MADAM SPEAKER”
:yippee:
It’s about damn time! NOW IF WE IMPEACH THE PRES & VP, WE’LL HAVE OUR FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT!!!
Moving – the living room looks like a Kroger stock room. We don’t pack the truck until Tuesday. Found an apartment in a nice neighborhood of Alexandria. Only two Metro stops from the office.
The way the American left works BushCo will be firmly established in Paraguay before the Dem congress can agrees on the lunch menu for the house dining room,:bf:
Did Anne find a new teaching job there?
Anne has to go through the background check and accreditation process in Virginia before she can even apply. Besides, she plans on taking off through at least Thanksgiving just to unwind.
Well, Madam Speaker isn’t a done deal just yet. So, with some big “ifs” out there…. If MT and VA go to the Democrats, that makes it 49-49-2. Sanders is with the Democrats, so that’s 50-49-1. That’s where Lieberman really scares me, though hopefully he understands that, even officially going to the dark side is only likely to get him two years with the “new” majority, and hopefully there’ll be a Democratic VP to break the tie in 2009 (of course, another third of the Senate and the House will be up for grabs at the same time).
:doh:sub-minimum wage? doesnt federal minimum wage supercede states? guess the ga rethugs figure that the feds wont enforce scumbags!
PJ, my Senate count has it 48-48-2 with 2 undecided. With the leanings of the two independents that makes in essentially 49-49. Dems lead in the two undecides before the recounts. I am afraid we won’t know the outcome today. Unless Allen and Burns fall on their swords.
:cat:madam speaker is a done deal unless i missed the part where the majority party in the house doesnt get to have the speaker of the house regardless of what the senate situation is
Latest rant about AAR and progressive radio by The Professor here:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/11/progressive_tal.html
:fustrate:i suppose i will just have to go check my handy “pocket constitution” you know the one thats all old and out of date like the fisa act
I see it at 47-49-2, with VA and MT still undecided (total of 100).
:nana:i see what PJ sees
The fun part of all of this will be Henry Waxman and his unwavering quest for the truth about what this administration has done to our laws. Regardless of what Nacy Pelosi says there are many who want that impeachment. It would be symbolic only since there are not enough votes for success. So, why waste the time and money. Let’s just start fixing everything the rethugs broke beginning January 20, 1981. We haven’t even gotten into that let alone all the secret things Cowboy George and the Ain’t Hill Mob have done.
CNN lists it as 49-49 with 2 undecided.
Well, I want John Conyers out there investigating things. At worst, he should be able to get the truth out there – in spite of the GOP media minions – and further demoralize these criminals. At best, enough shit will come out that Bush/Cheney will be impeached (only takes a simple majority in the House), and the Senate will be forced to convict (or they’ll resign the way Nixon did when it was obvious he was going down). I also want to see these signing statements declared unconstitutional (since they are), and therefore null and void. The way Bush has been using them amount to a line-item veto, and that’s not allowed.
I don’t see another resignation. Remember who we are dealing with. He hasn’t been in touch with reality most of his adult life.
Yeah, but CNN is counting Lieberman and Sanders in the 49. Flip Lieberman, and it’s 48-50 with two undecided. Both the undecideds go to the dems, it’s 50-50 (again, w/ Lieberman flipping, which hopefully he won’t, but…).
There are not enough votes to even pass legislation unless a thugbot senator or two decides to separate from the hive and vote with the dems. Then the dems will have to employ the “ripe” egg salad tactic to get the bills passed over Bunny pants veto.:bf:
If the congress starts using a lot of floor time for investigations the Reich’s media will go ape shit and all you will hear is obstructionists… obstructionists… obstructionists.. 24/7:bf:
Otherwise Conyers hearings will be on C-span at 3 am.:yuck:
o well im out of here finally figured out where i am REALLY supposed to be!
A lot of legislation that would have passed (that had a lot of popular support) never got to the floor of the House for a vote, because the Republicans killed it. They also refused to allow a lot of amendments to come to the floor for a vote, that would have passed, and they took a lot of shit out in the conference committee that did pass, ‘cuz they controlled that, too. So, at the very least, they can force Republicans to vote against some popular shit, which won’t look so good come 2008, or they can force Bush to veto popular shit, and then force the Republicans to vote against an override (from an incredibly unpopular preznit), and at best get some good things passed.
Other bright spots:
Abortion ban defeated in South Dakota
Gay marriage ban defeated in Arizona
Stem cell research gains support in Missouri
The dark light in the tunnel is the govenator has four full years to practice his sexual harrassment techniques.
im sure they are already saying “obstructionists” shit they have been saying it anyway not that we could ever get enough of a consensus in th senate to obstruct anything
I’m listening Colbert! :rofl2: :rofl2:
Well, the key is to just fucking ignore the media and the thugs, in the same way that the thugs ignore anything they don’t want to hear. The other thing is for all of us to keep them from forgetting that the people really have given them a mandate for change. That first hundred days stuff will be interesting to see how it works out.
The big losers will be big business and the ultra rich. They don’t need any more money. It is time they gave some of it back, like the looted pension plans that went for top management severance packages. Barry Diller made almost half a billion last fiscal year while the median wage actually fell. And the oil companies have a little bit of explaining to do, as do the pharmaceutical companies.
I hope to god that these dems move to investigate for impeachment right away….
Will and I are waiting for the late bus and watching the tape of colbert/stewart frmo last night…..
Mom says that Joe Trippi had a huge facelife and looks fabulous….
Well, we got rid of Hayworth but we’re stuck with Kyl. The million dollar vote lottery lost(which surprised me) and we have a smoking ban with no exceptions.
Tester up by 1,586 with 862 of 867 precincts counted.
Too bad, I’d have wanted an exception for smoking pot.
The preznit has invited Nancy Pelosi to lunch :rofl2: (Please don’t impeach me pleasedon’t impeach me.)
Harry Mitchell was strong against the war and won. Pederson was not strong against the war and lost.
The senate is the sole body that ratifies or deratifies treaties and trade agreements.
Unless we get out of NAFTA and GAFTA ASAP bad things will happen. The voter who has been waiting for government intervention to keep his job will have to resort to alternate means They won’t/can’t wait another two years. :gate::omg::fist::tommygun::tommygun:
1/3 of white evangelicals voted democrat because of corruption :yippee:
I think that maybe trippi just lost weight…..
MorningEvening :yinyang:
Any news on the senate, yet ❓
The Senate is also where judges are confirmed (or not) – and not just SCOTUS, which gets all the attention, but the lower federal courts, which decide the vast majority of the laws. Committee control is huge, and a simple majority takes the “nuclear option” off the table.
They would also have to confirm Cheney’s replacement, when he has to resign like Agnew, after the war profiteering hearings begin in the House.
Hey, KK. We might hear about Montana today, but Virginia is headed for a recount (this is where the Rove election-stealing machine really starts to shine).
Speaking of MT, 866 of 867 precincts in:
D Jon TESTER 194,914
R Conrad BURNS 193,179
Thanks for the heads up, PJ ❗
Wow, I’m listening to Goyette on KFNX and they have a show called “America, Armed and Free” 😯
According to the VA SecState site, with 99.8% of the vote in:
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,169,356 49.54%
G F Allen Republican 1,162,497 49.25%
Less than 7,000 votes – less than 3/10 of a percent.
Hey, Sam Seder is on instead of Dr. Mike :?::?:
Maybe Dr. Mike is :alc::alc: this morning
pjsauter re 48 :rofl2:
Kristapea re 49 :rofl2:
Another burst of GLEE:
:pup: 😎 :yippee: :dancers: :yippee: :cool::cat:
:dancers::dancers::dancers::dancers::dancers:
The Senate is also where activist conservative judges can be removed from the bench, too. Time for some law enforcement, not rubber stamping for big business.
881 :yinyang: see you soon
Well, turns out there are 13,000 absentee and paper ballots to be counted here in my district, so, by my reckoning, if they break 65.5% – 34.5% for the good guy, then he wins
Well I hope with the disgruntled state of the electorate that the senate understands it won’t be allowed to get grid locked with the Vice presidunce ( aka Darth Vader) having to break ties.. The thugs are just not the types that appear to be capable of compromising..:gate::omg::fist:
Hopefully this will give some cover to the “moderate” Republicans like Olympia Snowe to vote with the good guys once in a while.
Of course, no matter who Lieberman caucuses with, he’ll be a backstabber (well, unless it’s with the Republicans; to them he’d be loyal, I’m sure). I wonder if anything will come of his $387,000 in unaccounted for “petty cash” dispersals?
VA, 99.84% in:
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,171,813 49.55%
G F Allen Republican 1,164,667 49.25%
In Va., Win Declared, Loss Not Conceded
By BOB LEWIS
AP Political Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Sen. George Allen’s political career hung by a thread on Tuesday, as Democrat Jim Webb claimed victory – though fewer than 8,000 votes separated the two, and a recount was virtually certain.
“The votes are in and we won,” Webb said, though there were still votes to count. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Webb had 1,170,564 votes, or 49.6 percent, to Allen’s 1,162,717, or 49.3 percent.
A final count, including all absentee ballots, was expected later Wednesday.
There are no automatic recounts in Virginia, but state law allows a candidate who finishes a half-percentage point or less behind to request a recount paid for by state and local governments.
With a margin greater than that but less than 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can still seek a recount but has to pay the costs if the results are unchanged. Either way, a recount could not begin until after the State Board of Elections certifies the results Nov. 27; the losing candidate has 10 after that to request a recount.
Both parties have teams that plan to monitor and intervene in the event of a recount, anticipating the process could stretch into next month.
Re 66 :omg: Sarcasm is good :nod: and :pup: :cat: 😉
(This is suppose to be a joke kinda ;-).)
re 70 I heard Webb was proclaimed the winner :banana::yippee::banana:
fred , 😳 I didn’t see your blog :doh: but
:cool::banana::yippee::banana::cool:
Webb’s up by a little over 7,000 votes with 2439 of 2443 precincts counted.
House Democrats…now with Boost.
Don’t forget to fill your gas tanks before prices go back up.
Colette, Good Advice :nod: 😉
:dancers:
Sue Kelly does not represent my district anymore, NY-19.
Freakin’ excellent.
link :pup:
In case there was confusion:
The Presidential Succession Act of 1947, signed by President Harry Truman, changed the order again to what it is today. The cabinet members are ordered in the line of succession according to the date their offices were established.
# The Vice President
# Speaker of the House
# President pro tempore of the Senate
# Secretary of State
# Secretary of the Treasury
# Secretary of Defense
# Attorney General
# Secretary of the Interior
# Secretary of Agriculture
# Secretary of Commerce
# Secretary of Labor
# Secretary of Health and Human Services
# Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
# Secretary of Transportation
# Secretary of Energy
# Secretary of Education
# Secretary of Veterans Affairs
# Secretary of Homeland Security
NOTE: An official cannot succeed to the Presidency unless that person meets the Constitutional requirements.
sblueheron re 78 :rofl2: :pup::wink:
Farmerkat 😉 Thx
I knew # Speaker of the House was 3rd, but # President pro tempore of the Senate I did not know…:eek:
Republicans now need the rest of us since the South ain’t enough anymore…..that’s HUGE!
First time since 1952, we have Congress without holding a mojority in the South.
What sayeth Lawton Smalls?
Oh, how I wish Marc was on the air to take his call this morning.
good day
sunshine
the rain has stopped for the moment. the air is crisp and incredibly clean.
darcy and the sherrif still being counted. does’t look great but even if reichert wins, you can bet he’s gotten the message.
i’m so grateful for aar and affiliates, despite their failings (are you paying atention clearchannel?), all the blogs and bloggers, all the democratic orgs, office holders (except joe), workers, dem & other celebs, olbermann & stewart & colbert, HOWARD DEAN & his fifty state plan, on and on…
thankyou especially to all the republicants for being so arrogant, incompetent and hypocritical.
thanks to the 3 women of the year 2005: terri, cindy and katrina (TIME TO REBUILD THE 502!)
thanks be to the goddess, gaia. may we begin to repair the damage done.
sweet, sweet, sweet.
From the DCCC (let’s hope this doesn’t somehow change):
:yawn: roxieseattle re 84
:nod: :pent::knit: Blessings 😎 😉 :banana:
pj
have you slept?
also, the governorships tally is really exciting given that the first priority must be voting technology, getting rid of awful I.d. requirement, insuring fair redistricting, etc. democratic governors can have a huge effect on future elections.
I haven’t slept much. Got obsessed with watching the Senate last night, ‘and wound up waking up very early this morning. Don’t know how I’ll sit through my class this afternoon, but I think it’ll be an early evening for me tonight.
Hatebuzz in # 83
Maybe Springer will catch a cold tomorrow morning or have to attend some dance finals.
MSNBC announced that Rumsfeld will step down.
Tester has won Montana
:banana:
MSNBC announced that Rumsfeld will step down.
Comment by Sue P
WHOOOHOOOOOOO!!!
(I know it’s juvenile, but I just couldn’t help myself!)
(Thanks for the earl link, heron!)
8th congression WA
still 50% (31% according to cspan) reporting, reichturd ahead by ~1500 votes.
no new news still. WTF?
933 Prop Rites
FAILS. yeah!
Seattle Strip Club puritanical law FAILS!
excellent.
Estate Tax Repeal FAILS! yippee.
Alternative Energy Mandate too close to call but probably passing. keep fingers crossed.
ban on public subsidy of Sports Stadiums passing. cool.
lots of levy props passing! hooray for infrastructure.
too bad we didn’t have a gay marriage and a pot initiative on the ballot…maybe.
and, of course, Maria Cantwell CREAMED rethug challenger McGavick!
why didn’t sam have marc on this morning?
would have been sweet.
what’s happening elsewhere on these under-reported local issues fellow seditionists?
CSPAN JUST ANNOUNCED RUMYMY RESIGNS!!!!!! can it be true?
Ah, they called Tester. One more to go!
Now Rummy goes? I thought these Republicans were geniuses.
hey guys, i just woke up to the glorious news of Tester winning and Rummy biting the dust!!!:banana::yippee:
:dancers:
this day just gets better! poor georgia rethugs are going to be sooo confused sitting in the minority party and their man rummy gone. HA! :nana:
😎 Sue P, :yippee: (And I heard correctly.) I thought I would wait till someone else spoke of it, since I am :yawn: :rofl2:
But Can We The People still ARREST :evil:him after he leaves office? Or 😮 if he gets pardoned?\\(So many Rethugs get pardons :fist: )
Again :yippee: :dancers::yippee:
hey druid!
For the first time I can actually listen to the shrub. a little smack-down helps, doesn’t it?
WHAT MANDATE?
This Senate thing is really pretty incredible. 33 seats were up – 18 Dems and 15 Republicans, and (depending on how you count Lieberman) the democrats held all 18, and are picking up an additional 6, if VA falls our way. 24 out of 33 races. Unfugginbelievable.
pelosi’s good
impeachment off the table so no “she wants to steal the presidency” talking point.
investigations not mentioned…who knows where they might lead while pelosi looks more “presidential” than any of the cons.
Pelosi was great, roxie.
gotta run, but I’m like pj…no sleepy here…..
Ciao!
I’m at work listening to bu$h and it’s official Rummy is GONE!
Who the fuck is Bob Gates?
wvmc
from your lips…
did rummy just resign?
yay……!!!!
Former CIA director, okay.
Im stealing wifi at a friends house….helping move….
I dont know how good that is considering that Bush is gonna try to change now…..
Rumsfeld is OUT!
It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time :banana:
But it wasn’t the election that caused the President to not stay the course, this is only making new progress cause it’s hard work.
:sammy:
wooo…..Bush is getting angry!:banana: some one needs a nap…or a little:40::bong:
Okay, I’m ten thousand words behind in my Nano novel but I had to come here to celebrate.
:dancers: :yippee: :dancers: :yippee: :pup: :yippee: :dancers: :yippee:
Early :santacool: :menorah: and :cake: presents to so many of us.
Nancy Pelosi, You GO Girl!
And, in strangely related news, the Washington County Safety Levy passed so the Family Shelter (the agency I work for runs it) gets to stay open!!! And the Portland school levy and the Multnomah County library levy passed.
I have to breathe now. I can wait for word from Virginia. The House is our’s, the Senate is at the very least going to be a regularly scheduled tie vote, and NO MORE RUMMY! :yippee:
RUMMY’S GONE :dancers::dancers::dancers::yippee::yippee::eek:
Did GW say who is taking his place..??
Maybe Lieberjerk will get the job :yuck:
so who takes over?
Yeah, GATES. I’ve never heard Bush say “Democrats” this much ever!
Ha Fred! I just said that to the ladies here….
Any answer on Shays yet? Cant seem to get a good signal here…
Yup, Bush is nuts
who takes over? Robert Gates
here’s a wikipedia of him
i’m trying to find more
how lovely….Gates is an Eagle Scout:barf:
Gates sounds like he might actually know what he is doing for a change … naww …this is still the Bush admin.:eek:
Bob Gates and the Iran/contra affair
Gates was CIA director under King George I
Crap, back to work
Gates is obvious: Daddy Bush sending in another retainer to save Sonny Boy. Then we get the bipartisan committee, set up by Bush Sr., to extricate Junior from Iraq.
Imagine being 50 years old and still having Daddy propping you up? :sammy:
Op-Ed piece from former CIA station chief and staffer on the Senate Select Committee on Iran-Contra: “My objections to [Robert M.] Gates center on his performance during the Iran-contra affair…. Throughout it, Gates acted as if he was in a complete fog or was interested primarily in keeping the truth from being aired in public or from reaching Congress.”
-Polgar, Tom. “Gates: The Wrong Choice to Head the CIA.” Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 1-7 Jul. 1991, 24.
uh oh……:paranoid:
I guess privatizing Social Security is not going to happen.
That’s some Good Google work, QG!
Oooh, Sonny doesn’t like Richard Wolfe. :sammy:
Gates just proves that rethugs are still like the solid waste separation tank at the waste water treatment plant…. the big peaces rise to the top:yuck:
thanks travis!
maybe they brought in Gates to be a better liar?:paranoid::growl:
You know Fred, a few of us just spit our partially-masticated sandwiches out. Floating liquid waste; a lovely image. :sammy:
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
MY MONTANAN VOTE COUNTED!!!
AND IT COUNTED A WHOLE BUNCH!!!
I MATTER!!! I REALLY REALLY MATTER!!!!
I HAVE TWO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS FROM THE GREAT STATE OF MONTANA!!!!
I’M GONNA BE DRUNK FOR DAYS!!!!
Mean while back to reality
Hamas urges attacks on U.S. targets
Hamas’ military wing called Wednesday on Muslims around the world to attack American targets following reports that an Israeli tank strike killed 18 people in the Gaza Strip.
“America is offering political, financial and logistic cover for the Zionist occupation crimes, and it is responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre.
Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons,” Hamas said in a statement sent to The Associated Press.
http://tinyurl.com/w5h6k
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Al-Qaeda Planning to Hit All Major Cities of India: US
The US embassy has warned India of terror attacks by foreign terrorists – possibly the al-Qaeda. They say terrorists could be planning strikes in major Indian cities in the coming days.
US has said that airports, Government offices, hotels and market places are the possible targets.
US has warned its citizens in India to keep a low profile. All US companies’ offices in India will be shut on Independence Day for US authorties are not willing to take any chances.
Bomb disposal squads are on high alert and sniffer dogs have been deployed to key airports across the country.
http://tinyurl.com/uzkwc
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See what happens when democrats take over :eek::eek::eek: :roll::roll::paranoid:
WebHubble:
just got time to check out link on
post # 26
on history of AAR and talk radio in general.
good blog and comments. AAR sale and continuation must look a lot better today.
Hey Painting Girl
Drinks all around! Our votes, win or lose (Still have Schwarzenegger and Rohrabacher), really mattered yesterday. Rummy’s gone! We have the house! The Senate is Close…
:40:
Drink up, everybody!
Glass raised to you All
Sorry Crest I could not resist .. rethugs are :crap:
Rethugs are 👿
PG!!!! there you are!:40::alc:
you’re still gonna be drunk on Sunday!!:banana::banana:
OMG OMG :fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: OMG OMG :fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist::fist:
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
I stayed up until 4:00 am or so Central time… I had told myself that I wanted to stay up to see MONTANA’s race. I wanted to see TESTER WIN.
45 minutes after Montana polls closed, I called my Dad to see what news there was because I hadn’t seen ANYTHING on CNN/MSNBC/FOX. He wouldn’t tell me anything because there weren’t any “numbers that made much of an impact” on him. Meaning the %s of votes in being so low that he didn’t want to say anything… which is crap.
So I saw that early returns had Tester ahead 54/46 or so.
4:00 FRAKKIN’ AM. And it was MONTANA AND VIRGINIA!!!!
An hour or so before CNN projected it and when Tester talked to CNN, I realized that even if there WAS a situation where Montana might have a recount…. Burns (aka the Republican party) would have to call for it and PAY FOR IT. Thinking that if they were going to put their money ANYWHERE for a recount, it would be Virginia. If Montana went to Tester and Virginia turned for Allen, then Cheney would still tip the scales into the Red area. There was NO WAY (or nearly no way) that they would choose to put money and energy into Montana when Allen has had SUCH A HIGHER PROFILE.
That’s when I realized…. I HAVE TWO DEMOCRATIC SENATORS!!!! FROM MONTANA!!! TWO DEMOCRATS!!! FROM MONTANA!!!!
WHAT COLOR IS THE BIG SKY OF MONTANA?????
BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE
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I didn’ t get a chance to post this yesterday:
NEW YORK, Nov. 7 — The city wants to make it easier for transgender New Yorkers to switch the sex listed on birth certificates even without undergoing sex-change surgery, putting the city at the forefront of efforts to redefine sexual identity.
Under current city rules, only people who can show proof of surgery qualify for getting a revised birth certificate. Even then, the only change made is the elimination of any reference to sex on the document. The new plan, unveiled in September, would let birth records reflect the new sex. It would also allow changes for people who have not had surgery but can prove they have taken other steps toward changing sex, such as undergoing hormone therapy.
The policy change is one that advocates for New York’s sizable transgender community have requested for years. It has taken on greater significance since Sept. 11, 2001.
http://tinyurl.com/yynsha
the sky over the House is blue :dancers::yippee::banana::hubba::40::alc::fist:
painting girl:
time to plug my favorite beer again: Moose Drool Brown Ale from BIG SKY BREWING in Missoula, MONTANA!
have one from the source for me.
ROXIE!!!
I LOVE MOOSE DROOL!!!
THAT’S MY FAVORITE BEER AS WELL!!!!
Sadly I cannot drink my favorite beer for I live in Chicago at the moment (go absentee ballots!). I can drink all sorts of other liquors as well as wall paper my door blue. 🙂
Denver
Wednesday, November 08, 2006 – 1:24 PM……. Currently 80 °
:hot::hot:
And so was my ex-husband. Who has nine more years to go on his fifteen year sentence (federal) for being a lot like Mark Foley.
Okay, so who did AAR fire that was critical of Ed Schultz? I am listening to Ed because it’s my only option right now. But he’s starting to wear thin for me. And for Big Eddie to wear thin is pretty bad.
Shultz just opened up on Mike Malloy for criticizing his centrist positions
Please contact you local affiliate and object.
Shultz has better guests than Randi does and he doesn’t screech or rant as much but it’s centrists like him that cause people like Tancredo and Muskrat to get reelected to office too. He has the same positions on Immigrants as Tancredo and thinks our projection of military power is really a deterrent to terror. He also loves to think that the SBR is the greatest place on earth even though we are about 30th in most categories at the moment.:yuck::bf:
but ed shultz
speaks to lots of people – he’s a populist hero to them. I think it’s more likely that big eddy contributed a great deal to many of the red state pickups esp in the west.
most populists have been less progressive on social issues than shultz.
we need these guys, bad!
Yeah I know Ed speaks to a lot of people in Colorado .. Judging from the outcome of this election Colorado is also full of a lot of morons.:eek::bf:
So get this. It’s the third and final day of my mini-vacation, and I’m at work on my own time because Moe, Larry and Curly have the business center torn up and covered with plastic dropcloths, and this is the only place I can blog. But it’s worth it…
1) We got the House back!
2) Looks like we very well may get the Senate back!
3) Rumsfeld is TOAST!!!
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
What else? Ted Strickland beat Ken Blackwell big time. My dad will be thrilled.
Maria Cantwell won again, and this time it wasn’t by a thousand votes. Maria, let me know when and how you would like to thank me for my contributions to your campaign, and I’m there. :hubba:
I noticed that there were a lot of mentions on the election thread of candidates “going down.” Most notably in reference to Katherine Harris. Freud would have a field day with some of you guys. (Yeah, I know I just leered at Maria Cantwell. SFW.)
But we won’t have Cruella to kick around anymore. I guess God was wrong when he told her he wanted her to be in the Senate.
:rofl2::rofl2::rofl2:
This victory thing is fun! We should do it more often.
John Conyers, get those papers ready!
:fire::fire::fire:
Hey Kev. Does USF suck that bad this year that they’re only favored by 8 points at home against the #112-rated offense (out of 119) in Division I-A?
Comment by pjsauter — November 7, 2006 @ 10:49 am
They’re not that bad, just inconsistent. Plus their freshman QB Matt Grophe hurt his foot again last weekend. He should play but won’t be 100%. The line is up to 9 points as of today.
Speaking of lackluster college teams, Akron plays Buffalo tomorrow night. The Zips are favored by 17, which isn’t saying much because Buffalo has a horrible team year in and year out. Akron pretty much needs to win out for a bowl bid, and if they lose to Buffalo they can hang it up completely.
Buffalo, another one of my Alma Maters.
So, when does Rummy get the medal of freedom?
I couldn’t resist thinking of Marc when I read this: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Church-Snakebite.html
Have fun.
anastasi:
omata kintata!
send this to marc at his myspace (comments or messages or whatever they call it)
sad that someone could need so badly to believe in something, but in the end it’s just goes a little bit towards cleaning up the gene pool.
Ted Haggard took snake handling to an all-new level.
I am soooooooooooo happy! :grin::yippee::dancers::banana::banana::nixon::razz::nod::pup:
Rove is under his bed sucking his thumb! 😮 asshole. You’re a genius Rove! Ha Ha Ha
Now let’s all flood emails to Allen’s office. Sore loser!
We got that part done. Now for the fun stuff:
[…]Most of the new Democratic Party gains in the House were conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats who do not support immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Instead these new Dems, controlled by Bill Clinton’s Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), will steer the country on a basic status quo course. Their excuse will be – – hey we have a national election in two years and we want to take back the White House. So we have to go slow now so we don’t alienate the public.
My translation – the corporations will control the new Democratic Party Congress and we will see no real basic change.
So what does the peace movement do now?
We must continue to call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. We must call for a 50% cut in military spending and conversion of the military industrial complex. We must call for an end to Star Wars research and development funding which now stands at about $10 billion a year.
We must also call for investigations of Bush-Cheney for impeachable offenses. We must call for repeal of the Patriot Act and the recent Military Commissions Act – the torture bill…
B. Gagnon
http://www.counterpunch.org/gagnon11082006.html
“The Democrats took the House although several races are still undecided. In the Senate, control depends on who wins Virginia. Democrat Jim Webb currently leads by 7000 votes, but there will be a recount. This race could fester for weeks in the courts. Unlike Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, the Democrats control the Virginia electoral machinery.” Go here to view the site.
George Allen give up you asshole sore loser!
:tommygun::yippee::fist::fu::nana::rofl2::banana:
Dear SpeedRacer:
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
…aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaa…
…!
:fire:
Webb won. Who wants to wager otherwise?
Greetings fellow winners! :nod:
Divided government in Alabama. Incumbent Republican Bob Riley was re-elected Governor of the state. Democrat Jim Folsom was elected Lieutenant Governor. Thugs took the bulk of the state offices. 🙄 What ya expect? It’s Alabama for God’s sake!
BTW, there is a rumor that our beloved 🙄 (R) Gov. Bob Riley is a likely pick as Republican VP in the 2008 Presidential election. McCain and Riley v. Clinton and ??? This Alabama native is voting DEMOCRAT. As Fred would say: Rethugs are 👿
FYI: A Democrat (who happens to be a woman) took the office of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice a position formerly held by the :roll:Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore! He He He :nana:
Rumsfeld is out? Wow, I never thought that would happen
We must continue to call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Yeah, we have to tell them what we want – they do serve us.
I believe that Rummy sees the storm of investigations, subpoenas and God willing, impeachments, and is getting out of Dodge. This all happened within the last 24 hours, so there’s no planning to it. Rummy’s leaving town and perhaps enjoying a permanent vacation in Argentina.
RE 157 – Right on Nick! :fist:
I’m wondering if Rummy went to Bush to offer his resignation early this morning after the Rethug Rovian Debacle expecting Bush would turn him down again. After all Bush did say last week that Rummy and the Dickster were doing excellent jobs and would remain through the end of his final two years in office. Rummy caught Bush fuming over the unexpected election results. After all, Rove had promised Bush that it (the election) was “in the bag”. (wink, wink) So this time Bush in a state of rage canned Rummy. I guess we’ll never know huh? Regardless of the true sequence of events, the net result? No Rummy to fuck us and our troops. Just wondering if we’ll see any real change in this illegal war? Dems should take note of the disgust of the people of this country with this :yuck:war. Bush is still in need of intervention. He has obviously lost his mind. Keep the straight jacket ready! Soon to be Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi says the Dems will not cutoff funding of the war and will not impeach the President! I think I’m gonna :barf: be sick now. So maybe the Dems will at least investigate Bush and the Republicans? Goddamnit, I hope so. Can we now reverse any of this looney legislation passed by the Thugs and Bush? Get rid of the Patriot Act. Stop torture, abide by the Geneva convention. Stop Credit Card Companies from charging ungodly interest rates. What else? Damn . . . the list is a mile or more long . . .
:tommygun::yippee::rofl2::banana::nana::fu:
Dear SpeedRacer, wherever you are:
Bwaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
Where’s SpeedRacer when you need [to taunt] him?
I know Nick. I don’t know if what Pelosi says is binding or not. But this country will never, I mean never regain any semblance of trust in the rest of the world (forget respect I mean just trust) unless we impeach this crew and try them for war crimes.
On an interesting plus side, once Rummy is out of office, he could conceivably be arrested in a foreign country that wanted to try him for war crimes because he is now a private citizen. Or he will be come January. I hear the French Hate him! Ha!!
So I figure Little Georgie got himself in trouble in Iraq so it’s time for Daddy to call in his friends, the Baker/Gage cabal, to get wittle Georgie out of trouble. DADDY HELP!!!!
Murtha to vie for majority leader, urges leaving Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/y74hkv
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Things don’t seem to be cast in concrete.:paranoid:
AP just called Virginia race for Webb giving Dem senate control. ONLY AP has done this. None-the-less :yippee:
Sue, I just heard Keith say that on Countdown! Can it be? :omg:
TRIFECTA – HOUSE, SENATE, RUMMY WORLD
PS How is your daughter doing??
Oh and I heard Rangel say there’d be an “orgy of subpoenas!”
NBC CALLING WEBB NOW!!! YEAH! :pup:
Its bizarre how the media is again pushing Allen out the door, just as they did with Gore in 2000. This may not be popular to say, since Allen is a total shit and a rascist, but what’s the fucking hurry? Take a day or two to canvas the vote properly; they can’t take office for two months! Two million went to the polls in Va- why does rushing the count serve their interests? Or those of the rest of the country, which want to see if its a Dem Senate. In 2000, the media should have screamed bloody murder that all the votes weren’t counted. All these guys want is to change the story from day to day so they have something new to report. What degenerates.
That being said, what a great day this, and yesterday, are for this country. :sammy:
:shock:that chicks voice got me uhhhhhh yep
Crest, they’re so conservative (they being the media) with vote calling that I don’t consider it pushing ’em out the door like in 2000 (but I’d kick him in the rear on his way out if I were there!)
Seanie, so you wouldn’t have hung up like he did – when he realized he dialed wrong? hmmmmmm 🙂
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OHOH! this was good cnick:
A Democrat (who happens to be a woman) took the office of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice a position formerly held by the 🙄 Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore! He He He :nana:
Comment by cnickthomas
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Nightie Night all!
:love:
:nana::nana::nana:of course they will lose to buffalo kevin!
Dems take Senate!!!!
:yippee::banana::nixon::bong::40::fist::hubba::dancers::banana::love:
okay….i’m going back to celebrating:40::alc:
ummmm considering what those “services” cost yeah i would of hung up!!!!!
hey PJ i will be in utica on the 13th 14th and 15th if you want to stop on by………………………
D I T T O QuietGirl re your 176
:cat::yippee: :fist: :banana: :bong::dancers: :alc::banana::yippee::pup:
So :hot: or 😎 :rofl2: :lol::rofl2: :hubba: :boobs: :dancers: :pirate:
😳 Another burst of GLEE:
:banana::yippee: 😎 :yippee::banana:
:pup: :dancers: :dancers: :dancers: :cat:
:pirate::parrot::billcat::penguin: (U2, u funny wee:penguin:):nuts: (4 Rats 2:wink:):pirate:
AIV
:growl::fist: ARREST! IMPEACH! VIGILANCE!
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM )
VIGILANCE!
TeeHee 😎
I was just over at my old house and my friend and I were in the living room and heard 3 really really loud shots and a scream like next door or across the street. We stayed in the house a bit but then I had to go and Doug walked me out to my car and we saw 3 or 4 young guys at the neighbors house. One was coming out of the back door and when I got in the car to leave and drove by, 2 of them seemed like they were standing guard. I got a really bad feeling so i called my friend and told him he should call the cops, something bad happened. :paranoid::eek::omg::(
I do not know what to say. This is in S.D.:?: You did what was the CORRECT action. :nod: But still :eek::!:
I’m worried, I think someone might be dead. 😥
okay, i couldn’t help it.:roll: i made a good bye slide show for Rumsfeld set to “Yesterday” by the Beatles
go here to check it out
enjoy everyone:banana:
Krista, be careful. hopefully those guys didn’t see you. but i agree, you did the right thing:nod:
:paranoid:
They saw me and I saw them but it was dark and I don’t think I could identify them, nor they me. I don’t live over there anyways.
Krista you said this was your old house, are you home now?
Yeah, I’m home. I tried calling my friend but he said he was talking to the police so I hung up. I feel awful if people were dying in that house as I drove away. We heard the shots but that is sort of a regular occurance there, sort of so you get used to hearing them and not doing anything and I wanted to think those young guys in front of that house were friends of the neighbor or something but I had a really really bad feeling and it had to do with how they were moving around.
I always figured that was more of a “coast” problem, not so much in the interior of the country. I’m relieved you’re OK.
Phoenix is one of the most violent cities in the US. I hate that about this city. That’s one of the reasons I tried living in Portland. Their crime rate is pretty average or on the low side.
OK Krista, I am glad you’re alright. I’ve got to hit the sack. Working the polls all day yesterday, and then up late to watch returns. Take care.
Yeah, I did that too Andy, G’nite. :yawn:
I/we now live in a “Vic” and the neighborhoods go from horrid with shots fired to good but with hooligans surrounding the area.. But we are in the Time of Entropy. 🙁 I am glad you are safe and pray for good results regarding the police report and your friend.
Time for a good cup of tea:joe: and :pup: love. 😉
john elliott in his most sexy voice:
was it as good last night for you as it was for me?
:eek::eek::paranoid:
:eek::eek::eek::roll::roll::roll::fustrate:
Yep…most of the dems won over here…unfortunately Pawlenty got in again. :tommygun: Welcome to Minneapolis! Now…where’s my kevlar, I need to go grocery shopping…