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Now this is the type of hilarious bullshit that makes me love Erick Erickson:
Posted by Erick Erickson
The race has now been called for Democrat Bill Owens.
This is a huge win for conservatives.
Except the “win” in this case is a humiliating loss where you drummed a winning Republican candidate out of the race and handed the Democrats a seat they haven’t held since the 19th century.
First, the GOP now must recognize it will either lose without conservatives or will win with conservatives. In 2008, many conservatives sat home instead of voting for John McCain. Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.
And what was the final result? Oh right! The Democrats won the seat! A seat they hadn’t won since the 19th century! A seat that they would have assuredly still lost had not the right-wing freak show descended upon rural New York. Please, please say you’ll make this a blueprint for other races, Erick. Please, please…
For all intents and purposes, NY-23 is a trial run for Florida.
There is a God. Erickson and his goon squad are now going on a jihad to replace all semi-non-insane Republicans with unelectable assholes. Could I just die today? Because I don’t think I’ll ever have more fun for the rest of my life.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:00
There is a God. Erickson and his goon squad are now going on a jihad to replace all semi-non-insane Republicans with unelectable assholes.
How many are left? Five? Six?
~
The Tragically Flip said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:03
As much as I enjoy the electoral rebuke to the tea party pukes, a lot of this had to do with Hoffman being from out of the district, and the inelegant way the Republican candidate was run out of town on rails. If there had been a primary, and Hoffman had won it, he probably would have won the seat.
So this idea that their wingnut candidates will be unelectable isn’t quite true.
Ted the Slacker said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:04
Brad, in case you missed it – and also Son of Erick related – I went all-in on the previous thread.
DAS said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:09
Actually no matter who won in NY-23, it would have been a Dem win. A Dem win is a Dem win and if the wingnut won that would have further marginalized all semi-sane GOP voters thus paving the way for further Dem wins.
The big issue is will the Dems be able to properly spin the Christie win? My fear is that even the liberal media will spin this win as a sign that voters are not happy with Obama (it means nothing of the sort, of course) leading the wanker caucus to further “compromise” with the GOP, resulting in bad bills for which no GOoPer votes anyway so that way by 2010, people will vote in droves against Dems for passing such bad bills.
How do we keep the wanker caucus from using the GOP’s wins as an excuse? Perhaps if we in the base weren’t so busy dismissing trolls claiming Christie would win but instead being prepared for such a win, we would be in a better position?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:10
For Red State, LOSING is the new WINNING.
Edmund Schluessel said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:14
It’s very simple:
If Scozzafava had won, it’s a win for Republicans because she’s a Republican.
If Hoffman had won, it’s a win for Republicans because he’s even MORE a Republican.
And with Owens winning, it’s a win for Republicans because the Republicans CHOSE to keep the Republicans from winning and therefore ONE REPUBLICAN DEFEATED ANOTHER REPUBLICAN AND THEREFORE A REPUBLICAN WON.
Calvinist politics, Calvinball rules.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:15
Hoffman win or lose, moderates like Snowe have got to be crapping their pants now. The teabaggers have demonstrated that they will purge moderates, even hard right conservatives, if they are not tin foil bug shit crazy enough. I mean, NEWT GINGRINCH ISN’T FULL GOOSE BOZO ENOUGH?
I once said that I didn’t think Peak Wingnut was a serviceable theory, and damn if this doesn’t provide supporting data for that. They can always find new crazy; Wingnut is the perfect renewable resource; regardless of the intensity, we will never run out.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:15
Doubleplus Ungood, EriksonofErik.
Conservatism can not fail you.
You can only fail Conservatism.
That would make you a dead losing failure.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:18
First, the GOP now must recognize it will either lose without conservatives or will win with conservatives.
Like I said in the last thread, which was this an example of? To receive credit, please show your work.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:21
Hoffman had blank, soulless eyes.
J Neo Marvin said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:24
The real message of that election was that the voters repudiated intimidation tactics. Can’t remember where, but I was reading yesterday that a mob of screeching teabaggers was actually harassing voters, so it’s gratifying to see that this is the result.
Meanwhile, yes, CNN was going on and on and on last night about how the Virginia election is a sign that Obama is in trouble and health care is doomed. You’d think Troofy was on their writing staff or something.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:26
Pointed out late in the last thread was the idea that this “big win” in NY-23 might actually make the Republicans re-think the whole purity purge movement as it relates to Florida and beyond. Mebbe. But I don”t think these folks like Erk are going to give up. This is their moment in history. This is personal. It’s all about them. These people are stalkers.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:28
They can always find new crazy; Wingnut is the perfect renewable resource; regardless of the intensity, we will never run out.
And this. Also.
Burn, etc.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:28
Let’s see…..The Virginia race ended up about the way everybody predicted it would. In the New Jersey race, the Republican won, though his 20% lead from the summer narrowed to 6%. And in the NY23rd? FAIL.
Certainly a referendum on the President.
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:29
This is exactly how God would speak to Erick.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/11/02/faithful-flock-to-see-virgin-may-in-bird-poop/
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:29
Hoffman had blank, soulless eyes.
So should he have been on the ballot as “Hoffman (Z)?”
Brad said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:34
Mebbe. But I don”t think these folks like Erk are going to give up. This is their moment in history. This is personal. It’s all about them.
Yep. It’s not even about winning. It’s more about hearing the sounds of their own voices. They’re actually happy losing as long as they get to nominate an unlikeable wingnut they can rally behind.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:36
I can’t believe Macon lets people who are clearly clinically insane serve on their city council.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:41
Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.
Let me point out that the “rallying” and “destroying” that the conservatives accomplished was actually doing nothing more than answering pollsters. Dede dropped out because of polls.
When it came time to actually DO something, like go vote, the conservatives didn’t follow through.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:45
They’re actually happy losing as long as they get to nominate an unlikeable wingnut they can rally behind.
Here Comes Sarah!!
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:45
David Frum, Personal Fluffer to Emperor Ronaldus Magus :
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:47
Dede dropped out because of polls.
and money. and harassment. It’s saying a lot when someone makes political office more trouble than it’s worth.
But look; Scozzafava stays in; right wing vote is split; Owens wins also.
The only way the results would have been different is if Hoffman had dropped out.
And stop assigning wingnuts as Zombies. It’s hurtful, truly it is.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:48
This is what you call a conservative politics that is “working”? What would it look like if conservative politics were failing?“
Conservatism can only BE failed, david.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:50
This is just too juice! We should rename Erk Erksson, “Baghdad Erk”.
In other news from the 23rd, pity poor Palin.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:56
Has Sarah updated her Facebook page yet?
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:57
The real message of that election was that the voters repudiated intimidation tactics. Can’t remember where, but I was reading yesterday that a mob of screeching teabaggers was actually harassing voters, so it’s gratifying to see that this is the result.
Something had to happen between Sunday, when Hoffman was winning by four points, and Tuesday, when Owens won by three.
Scozzafava pulled 5.5%, so there’s your winning margin there for the Republicans. I’d call this a steal as opposed to an outright win, but hey, a seat is a seat.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 16:58
It was the ACORN beer bottle that did it.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:02
The time for vehement psychotic turn arounds have really been getting pared down. As recently as October 27 Scozzafava was in the good books. Oh well, I guess we’ve always been at war with Scozzafava.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:03
And stop assigning wingnuts as Zombies. It’s hurtful, truly it is.
I always saw him as a ZINO. Or in upstate NY parlance, a “cauliflower.”
Deedee Scozzazzazzazzazzazza Nov. 04 said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:08
Oops.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:08
I always saw him as a ZINO. Or in upstate NY parlance, a “cauliflower.”
I believe Max Brooks calls these guys “quislings.” Insane posers who think they can escape being eaten if they just act like zombies.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:11
Be on the lookout for dead Trike Force volunteers being borne home on their cute little shields:
How long before they start with the 300 quotes?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:12
Thank you truculent, that’s perfect.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:13
It was the ACORN beer bottle that did it.
Looks like TPM commenters read S,N!
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:14
I always saw him as a ZINO
ZINO was a crappy drink.
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:15
The term they’re using for moderate Republicans has changed from “DINO”, which sounds a little too cute, in a Flinstones/Barney the Dinosaur way, to DIABLO–Democrat In All But Label Only.
Gotta love the “holy-war” overtones. They won’t be satisfied until the GOP is down to the last 2 “pure” conservatives–and those 2 will be eying each other with distrust…
Honus said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:19
So tweety Mathews last night was saying how Obama hasn’t translated to a movement, like Reagan did, because he lost the governor’s race in Virginia.
So I guess that when Virginia elected a democrat in 1981, (after republicans had held the statehouse for the twelve previous years) it was a the beginning of the repudiation of Reaganism? (Especially since Virginia had three consecutive democratic governors during the Reagan-Bush era)
I also don’t recall that Reagan reversed the majority in both houses of congress during either of his landslides.
mmy said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:22
Erickson is the best. “A is A! Except when A loses. Then B is A! Wait, that means B would still lose. B is C! Yeah! Wait, what the fuck is C again?
“Look, let’s make this simple. D is E. And E is for Evil. Yeah! Now we just have to find some people where R is D. Then we win!
“Wait, we just lost? Shit. F me in the A.”
PeeJ said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:23
This is excellent news! FOR SARAH!!!!
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:23
UPDATE: Irky Irksome continues playing in crazy-land:
c.f.
chocolatepie said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:25
In other news, Beckenridge, CO’s decriminalization of pot is a win for conservatives and a repudiation of Obama’s islamofemifascist ideals because shut up, that’s why.
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:26
Pat Boone Godwins himself.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114547
“And they will do just that, drastically … unless we act, decisively and powerfully. Our White House is being eaten away from within. We urgently need to throw a “tent” of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside. And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.”
“We must clean house – starting with our own White House.”
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:27
Bill Owens, the man NY-23 sent to Congress last night, campaigned against the public option.
That is not exactly a ringing endorsement of Obamacare by the voters up there.
Even if this was true, what the fuck is he on about? Who the fuck were they supposed to vote for instead?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:29
Wait, Pat Boone is talking about pitching a tent?
If he reaches for a box, be wary!
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:29
Yeah, Honus, I was watching Tweety when he said that. It was seconds after Sabato had pointed out to him how Virginia had voted in the Eighties. Tweety is a bird, not a cheetah.
Paul said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:30
So we just saw 15 years of the GOP putting power ahead of principle and now Erk Teabaggersson wants to principle ahead of power. I’m OK with that. You go, you marginalized rump of a party.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:32
Who the fuck were they supposed to vote for instead?
They were supposed to write in Socialist McHitler.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:32
Pat Boone Godwins himself.
He’s just trying out for a gig on Radio Rwanda.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:38
Can’t remember where, but I was reading yesterday that a mob of screeching teabaggers was actually harassing voters
I saw something on Crooks & Liars yesterday.
Yep. It’s not even about winning. It’s more about hearing the sounds of their own voices. They’re actually happy losing as long as they get to nominate an unlikeable wingnut they can rally behind.
Yeah, I think Urk’s and KLo’s responses show that these guys aren’t going to learn any practical lessons, and the “I’d rather be righteously pure and lose than compromise on even the tiniest stance” mental pathway is so well-worn it has long since ceased to have forks.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:39
Nice photoshop…but after what happened in NY-23 yesterday, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to depict Ewik as Robespierre?
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:40
For your enjoyment, the roll of l00zurs. Incidentally, I don’t think a single one of them is actually from the riding.
kiki said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:40
DIABLO–Democrat In All But Label Only
Somebody call the Department of Redundancy Department.
Stupid fuckers.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:41
They won’t be satisfied until the GOP is down to the last 2 “pure” conservatives–and those 2 will be eying each other with distrust…
Three, not two. Three is the magic number.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:41
So we just saw 15 years of the GOP putting power ahead of principle and now Erk Teabaggersson wants to principle ahead of power.
That’s not the crazy part.
The crazy part is somehow equating the past fifteen years not with a naked grab for power, but with some bizarre validation of the principle that no one bothered to govern with.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:41
And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.
Razzle frazznick snarble foo?
Done Wid Dat said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:43
Of course all of the media are shouting only about VA & NJ, and how these races are ringing repudiations of Obama… even though these races were being discussed as in the can for the Republicans even before last year’s general election.
Not so much being said about Garimendi’s win in CA-10 or the debacle in NY-23, or the pot legalization in Breckenridge, CA. Why bring facts into the debate?
But I still have concerns about these teabaggers (no I’m not wearing a tin foil hat). They are stark, raving loons, to be sure, but they do GOTV. Didn’t work in NY-23 bc of how stupidly they ran that with Hoffman being out of the district and really bashing Scozzafava in a nasty & unnecessary way.
But these loons can learn, and so, I just say: Dems better be better at GOTV. And stop thinking that these loony wingnuts are all gonna die soon (a meme I read often in left blogistan), because all of the teabaggers I know are a lot younger than we might wish. Plus the really elderly are living longer than you might think; they listen to loon radio & watch loon tv all day every day; and they vote.
Just saying…
kingubu said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:45
The faster fake-infected-zombie will never overtake the slower fake-irradiated-zombie ’cause there are always an infinite number of brains between the two. ZINO’s Paradox.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:46
Heh, massive voter gas.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:46
Yes it is.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:48
Plus the really elderly are living longer than you might think
Goddamn socialist medicine.
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:50
DIABLO–Democrat In All But Label Only
Somebody call the Department of Redundancy Department.
Palin wants to change it to DIABLA–Democrat In All But Label Also
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:50
So when a Republican state reverts to form and votes for a Republican, it’s a national repudiation of Obama. When a district that has never voted for a Democrat votes for a Democrat, it’s…something else, but nonetheless proof that everyone hates Obama.
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:51
We may now officially conclude that any event or non-event will be used by the Establishmentarian media to conclude that AMERICA REJECTS THE WAY TOO EXTREME DEMOCRAT AGENDA, and that what America wants is less government for regular folk, lower taxes for the wealthy, cut the social programs, and in general just do all the stuff the crazy teabaggers want but without all the shouting.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:52
You’ve got it, jennifer.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:52
OR;
This Is Good News For John McCain.
Gary Ruppert said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:53
The fact is, NY23 means that Obama is finished. Repuditration of teabaggers just makes us more angry and we will defeat socialism one way or another and restore the constitution.
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:55
We have not yet begun to repuditrate!
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2009 at 17:58
“And they will do just that, drastically … unless we act, decisively and powerfully. The Fatherland is being eaten away from within. We urgently need to throw a “tent” of public remonstration and outcry over that hallowed abode, to cause them to quake and hunker down inside. And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.”
“We must clean house – starting with our own Jews.”
Pat only changed two words from the original German.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:02
So when a Republican state reverts to form and votes for a Republican, it’s a national repudiation of Obama. When a district that has never voted for a Democrat votes for a Democrat, it’s…something else, but nonetheless proof that everyone hates Obama.
Yes, and 20% of Americans constitute The American People and dudes who wear hats with teabags on them and make veiled and/or blatant secession and/or assassination threats are True Patriots.
The Tragically Flip said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:02
Conservativism is, at heart and soul, an incoherent mashup of evolutionary leftover instincts and biases, so the wingnut quest for purity is ultimately impossible. There is no “pure” conservativism any more than there is “pure” pizza. If you break it down past a certain point, it stops being pizza.
What’s even better, is that in this analogy, they’re not trying to reduce pizza to pure pepperoni or cheese, but to the pure insect parts that crawled into the pepperoni before it was ground into sausage.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:02
Again, I note: henceforth, Ewickson should be depicted as Robespierre.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:03
Yes, N__B, three is the Magic Number.
Arky said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:03
Please stay. You’ll miss out on the next great “I was just holding this guy’s cock in my mouth because he looked cold, and I’m a compassionate conservative,” scandal.
Willy said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:06
massive voter gas
Pat’s just trying out his Swankatizer.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:07
When a district that has never voted for a Democrat votes for a Democrat, it’s…something else, but nonetheless proof that everyone hates Obama.
Now yer gettin it. A little more practice and you could be a anchor for CNN. You’ll of course have to scrub the sarcasm from your tone, but the pay is pretty good…
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:07
what America wants is less government for regular folk, lower taxes for the wealthy, cut the social programs, and in general just do all the stuff the crazy teabaggers want but without all the shouting.
Cut all social programs except the ones that benefit old people, white people, rich people, etc.
Coach Urban 'The Fool' Centre Left Rrrruppert, the Ultimate Troll said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:09
The fact is, in point of fact, punk sux lol! Urban out.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:09
I’m not just trying to be contrarian here, but I DO think that Jersey and Virginia are a repudiation of Obama. What happened? The youth vote that swept Obama into office stayed home. Under 30′s dropped their vote share by half in those states.
It’s not that the Repubs managed better GOTV – Deeds and Corzine were incumbents and had big systemic advantages there. It’s that the Dems failed to fire up their base. My reading is that the loss of both Govenors seats is directly due to Obama’s namby-pamby hands-off compromise-the-ever-loving-fuck-out-of-it approach to health care reform.
Yeah, I said it. It’s the Anti-Erickson axiom: Dems lost NJ and VA because Obama wasn’t anti-conservative enough.
Exception, with 57% voter turn-out in Maine, I don’t know what the fuck happened there. Seriously – What. The. Fuck. Maine?
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:10
When Pat Boone sees “little hanging sacs” his “tried and true” response is “tenting.”
cletar said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:10
Arky, don’t say that–just think of Palin’s crazy, incoherent 2012 concession speech, with the flop-sweat and the gesticulating and the sentences that don’t have nouns or verbs! You don’t want to miss that.
Coach Urban 'The Fool' Centre Left Rrrruppert, the Ultimate Troll said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:11
The fact is, in point of fact, punk sux lol! Urban out.
<3land lol
Ted the Slacker said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:13
Ooh, let’s play the Diablo game…
Republican Enjoying Teabagger Affection Resoundingly Defeated?
Republican Of Teabagger Fame Luring Massive Asshole Opportunists?
Substance McGravitas said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:13
The Onion picks on Glenn Beck.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:14
Deeds was not the incumbent. His party was, but Virginia’s governorship has always been opposite to the party sitting in the White House, at least since the Clinton years.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:16
Yeah, I said it. It’s the Anti-Erickson axiom: Dems lost NJ and VA because Obama wasn’t anti-conservative enough.
And neither were the candidates on the ballot. ConservaDems don’t have enough brand differentiation to bring people to the polls these days, not when the Repub Party they’re emulating has popularity levels in the 20′s.
But somehow this is a repudiation of progressive politics and the DFHs.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:18
Exception, with 57% voter turn-out in Maine, I don’t know what the fuck happened there. Seriously – What. The. Fuck. Maine?
I’m going to speak heresy, and I say this despite the fact my statement will run counter to every principle I stand for.
Gay marriage should be thought of as a dead issue. At least for now.
If we couldn’t carry California…CALIFORNIA!…how could we have expected to carry Maine, which is not exactly a hotbed of liberalism?
I can’t explain Iowa. Perhaps the Obama coattails worked there, don’t know, and not sure it matters. It seems pretty clear that gay marriage is an idea whose time has not come, just yet. We have to work harder at laying the groundwork for it and then bring it back, maybe after 2012.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:18
Dems lost NJ and VA because Obama wasn’t anti-conservative enough.
And neither were the candidates on the ballot
You’ll have a hard time selling me that Corzine was not liberal enough.
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:22
“The irony here is that Glenn Beck is everything the “Onion” thinks they are: funny, cutting edge, unafraid, and in the arena ready to mix it up.”
Every day is opposite day at Big Hollywood
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:23
You’ll have a hard time selling me that Corzine was not liberal enough.
Fair enough Corzine, just sucked, but Deeds definitely went right and I’d say that’s a big part of what depressed base turnout. In the end, it’s the same sort of problem: you gotta put candidates on the ballot that are worth people’s time.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:29
Deeds was a state senator thrust into a race he had no business being in, and then running it badly. That much I agree with. That the White House walked away from an open governor’s seat in the state next door speaks volumes of how pitiful Deeds was.
Also, in both elections, voters were very clear that Obama had neither a positive or negative effect on their vote. It’s abundantly clear that to call either of those races a repudiation of Obama’s administration is, well, deeply insane. Those races were won/lost based on statewide issues, like property taxes. No one was sending the Feds a message.
Indeed, you can pretty much chalk those losses up to Bush’s policy of tax cuts, which forced states to have to raise revenues to pay for the unfunded mandates that the Republican congresses have rammed down their throats like No Child.
In this area, Obama might be wise to pay some heed, and reverse some of those rules, or at least fund them.
Dr. BDH said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:33
NJ was an historic election: the first time a former Goldman exec lost political power. This is bad news for Obama and Bernanke. Of course, you can look for Corzine to get a position either on Wall Street or in the Treasury Dept.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:33
Corzine fell into the Mario Cuomo trap of having the economy and the reality of governance create a discernible gap between beliefs/rhetoric and actual policies. Most governors – see Patterson, David for my favorite current example – avoid this by not having beliefs.
Bill Thompson, who is basically a warm bucket of spit, would have won if he had promoted any actual policies or described his own beliefs, instead of spending every dime reminding us that Bloomberg lied about seeking a third term. Hell, if Thompson espoused any beliefs, I might have actually listened to him.
The Tragically Flip said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:35
I’m surprised at the lack of analysis of Bloomberg’s near loss, and Corzine going down primarily for being a Goldman guy.
The big money people are not so popular right now.
Bloomberg must have known it, which is why he spent so damn much to win – including that world series ad, which seemed excessive because everyone else thought he was sailing to victory.
What a missed opportunity that was, to remove a fucking kleptocrat like Bloomberg from office.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:36
In this area, Obama might be wise to pay some heed, and reverse some of those rules, or at least fund them.
I’d say that getting some funding back to all of the states would be a pretty popular thing right now. And paying for infrastructure projects (real ones, not the little ones that are “shovel ready”) that provide people with jobs and a tangible and lasting benefit (like light rail transportation or whatever a given area needs) would be really helpful. We’ll see what the administration does.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:36
Deeds was not the incumbent.
You’re right of course, but central to my point – yadda.
If the goofball moderates and Blue Dogs had been whipped like they should hvae been – if Obama had spent more time beating down liars and shitbags instead of making nice with Crassley – if wishes were horses.
Remeber this? That’s what I think happened yesterday.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:38
What a missed opportunity that was, to remove a fucking kleptocrat like Bloomberg from office.
The Dems were fragmented and had a shitty bench.
Coach Urban Meyer said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:41
Badoodle-BOMBED-yeah! You see the CONSERVOMENTUM last night, loony libs? You see how your Obambi clones in New Jersey and Virginia got CLOWNED under a SPREAD Of teabaggery? Not only that, but if you combine the conservative and the republican in that New York race, they slap around Ugly Owens like it’s going out of style! Ding dong dilly!
Da Cool Coach warned you Sadly, D’oh!ers that Obambi was doomed, and this just proved it! A CONSERVATIVE SWEEP! Take that to the bank and smoke it, you dumb Dumbocraps! We rollin! We rollin now! Urban out.
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:42
How about: Citizens On Board Against Government Spending
Ted the Slacker said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:43
Gay marriage should be thought of as a dead issue. At least for now.
Not while the Equal Protection Clause stands there, like a giant middle finger aimed in the direction of the anti-ghey bigots.
Basically, keeping the issue alive any which way possible is important, because that will keep pushing the bigots to the eventual, logical conclusion of this process, an attempt by them to overturn the 14th Amendment. Because that’s when these assholes get decisively routed, that’s when this becomes a dead issue. Not before, and definitely not because of an adverse referendum result.
gocart mozart said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:44
“CLOWNED under a SPREAD Of teabaggery”
Keep your sex life out of the comments. This is a family blog.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:46
It’s abundantly clear that to call either of those races a repudiation of Obama’s administration is, well, deeply insane.
Sort of. I mean, yeah the vast majority of voters said that Obama didn’t factor into their voting. The only contests that the GOP won were the ones where their candidates where hiding their Republican status as much as possible. Hell, there was even this.
But what I’m saying is that Obama’s desire for unity and bipartisanship and other bullshit killed the Democratic ground game. Well maybe not killed, but hurt it plenty enough.
Maybe Deeds was lost anyways, the final gap was like 18% and even in an off-off year special election, 18% is hard to cover with volunteers knocking on doors – but Jersey could have stayed (D) if the activists for the progressive side had
a bit moreany motivation.actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:48
Flip, N__B, this was the first election Bloomberg won with his money.
He could have beaten Mark Green, a man so odious he not only lost to Mike Bloomberg in 2001, but went on to lose every election he’s run in since, with one hand tied behind his back.
He could have beaten Freddie Ferrer, an unctious ugly little man who’s only raison de courir was that he was Hispanic and therefore entitled to be mayor while wearing a dress and blowing paramecia.
Thompson, by any measure except money, should have had Bloomberg on the ropes. While Bloomberg has done a competent job, especially with difficult circumstances…really, what other mayor has had to handle two economic recessions in two terms?…he’s fallen woefully short in improving the lot of the least of New Yorkers.
Just look at how he gouged out healthcare for the poorest NY children, an issue Thompson promised me he’d run on, but never once mentioned.
Now add the fact that NYers overwhelmingly (and stupidly, I thought) voted for term limits, and Bloomberg should have been conceding last night. But he outspent Thompson by….get ready for this and keep in mind this is a fucking citywide office, not even Federal level…$80 million dollars.
He paid $1,600 per vote for that margin of victory (roughly 50,000 votes).
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:49
What a missed opportunity that was, to remove a fucking kleptocrat like Bloomberg from office.
The Dems were fragmented and had a shitty bench.
Christine Quinn is an asshole.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:50
Jersey could have stayed (D) if the activists for the progressive side had a bit more any motivation.
I can’t argue with you there. I’m not sure what happened to the youth vote…after all, Corzine’s policies and positions make Obama look conservative…but there’s your margin of victory.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:52
We should focus on the fact that Palin’s Presidential campaign may have just sunk into the Alaskan sunset…
Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:52
The Daily Dash: Dashiell puts on his jauntiest hat and debates introducing himself to the Farley Twins over at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:52
Hey, libs.
We crushed Deeds in Virginia.
We won, WON in New Jersey (has Corzine been thrown under the bus yet?)
And homos can’t get married in Maine anymore.
All in all, a good night,
McDonnell/Christie 2020?
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:54
And now the blue dogs are going to feel real pressure not to go along with the Socialist agenda on health care after seeing what happened to Christie, Deeds, and how even in ultra-liberal Maine they’ve had enough of Socialist notions like gay “marriage”.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:57
Actor –
I think we agree on most of this. If an left, non-clubhouse Dem had run, he would have beaten Bloomberg. For example, Weiner, if he lost interest in the national stage. Thompson was a better candidate than Ferrer or Green (who I truly despise), but he never bothered to say to me, as a voter, why I should care that he was running. I was not outraged by the 3rd term issue, so not a single piece of Thompson advertising – and I saw a lot – said anything to me.
Mrs. __B was going to vote Bloomberg regardless.. She was a lost cause to Thompson. But he pissed away a lot of votes like mine.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:57
This is a family blog.
Yeah, but which family exactly?
Some unholy union of the Compsons and the Adams?
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:57
A CONSERVATIVE SWEEP!
Is that what they call it when the outcome means the Dems pick up another seat in the House?
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:59
LDMMM –
Dash seems to spend a great deal of his time lying on his back waiting for service. A political philosopher on a previous thread opined that those who do not work should not eat. I believe you have an opportunity at hand to put this idea into action.
DAS said,
November 4, 2009 at 18:59
Conservativism is, at heart and soul, an incoherent mashup of evolutionary leftover instincts and biases – The Tragically Flip
The thing is if I say “I am a conservative”, the natural response is, “what exactly is it that you want to conserve?”.
Depending on how I answer this question, it might mean I am, given today’s Overton window, that I am a lefty-loon moonbat who wants to conserve the New Deal (c.f. Viereck) or I am a whacko-wingnut or I am just full of phlegm and would benefit greatly from getting my lungs checked (c.f. Burke), if only I could have access to some sweet socialized medicine.
Thus, there is no way “conservatism” as a whole can be a coherent political philosophy. Given that ‘Murkins don’t trust coherent political philosophies, this is not a big disadvantage for the GOP.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:00
Dash is a cutie.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:00
All in all, a good night,
If losing a seat the Repugs have held since the Civil War is a good night, I’m hoping for many more.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:00
The only reason Dems won in NY-23 is because the spoiler lib was still on the ballot. That was the margin of victory.
Next up: taking down Charlie Christ.
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:01
We should focus on the fact that Palin’s Presidential campaign may have just sunk into the Alaskan sunset…
Don’t you believe it, Actor. I stand by my prection that La Palin will in fact run as a third-party spoiler. The new party will be called, of course, the “Tea Party”, and will feature Palin-Huckabee at the top of the ticket, as well as a number of down-ticket races. A few of these TP candidates will probably actually win, but for the most part will split the GOP vote and ensure even bigger Democratic majorities across the board. Bookmark it, Libs.
UNLESS a significant number of Democrats also jump ship for a liberal/left party like the Greens. As long as Nadir stays out of it, a genuine leftist party could siphon off enough votes to make 2012 a fascinating year.
IM said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:04
<I’m not just trying to be contrarian here, but I DO think that Jersey and Virginia are a repudiation of Obama. What happened? The youth vote that swept Obama into office stayed home. Under 30’s dropped their vote share by half in those states.<
But! according to exits polls, Obama retains a popualrity of 53% in virginia and 57% in New Jersey.
Regarding Robespierre:
Come on, that's unfair. Like him or not, Robespierre achieved things.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:04
The only reason Dems won in NY-23 is because the spoiler lib was still on the ballot. That was the margin of victory.
We won cause Sarah Palin led the teabaggery mob in foot-targeted marksmanship.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:04
the spoiler lib
Oh, you mean the Republican? the one the NRCC endorse, the one that Newt Gingrich campaigned for?
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:05
We’ve sent the message as Republicans that we won’t blindly follow RINOS like Scozzafava–endorsed bye the Working Families (ACORN’s party!) no less–and will take our party back.
Again, next on the agenda is dumping limp-wrist Christ.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:08
We’ve sent the message as Republicans that we won’t blindly follow RINOS like Scozzafava–endorsed bye the Working Families (ACORN’s party!) no less–and will take our party back.
Oh noez B’rer Fox, don’t through me in that briar patch!
In the most sincere and unsnarked statement, I really hope you guys continue with this strategy.
Please.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:09
Palin’s Road Trip!
I cannot wait!! Do you really think she’s going to make all those interviews? Also. Too.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:12
I notice Actawh and the other libs aren’t saying much about New Jersey.
Butthurt?
cletar said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:12
“Next up: taking down Charlie Christ.”
Next up: Learning to spell.
Willy said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:12
In the most sincere and unsnarked statement, I really hope you guys continue with this strategy.
Resorting to cannibalism to increase their numbers = WIN
roseyviolet said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:13
“And then treat the invaders, the alien rodents, to massive voter gas – the most lethal antidote to would-be tyrants and usurpers.”
Um, not to nitpick, and granted I know very little about politics, but wouldn’t the time for this have been, you know. During the election? You know, the one Obama won by pretty significant margin? Is Pat suggesting that the best way for the people holding a minority of votes to correct the error of the majority is simply to have, I guess, the majority of votes next time? Or — what?
Gary Ruppert said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:13
The fact is, the faggots the fucking faggots the dirty fucking faggots cannot get married in Maine. The people have spoken. When will the faggots shut up?
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:13
Dashiell puts on his jauntiest hat…
It’s a fine hat, don’t get me wrong, but its jauntiness cannot approach the jauntiness of yesterday’s hat.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:14
Or — what?
Yeah, that one.
Shorter Troofy said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:16
Winning two local elections while losing two national ones means conservatives are nationally viable again. Oops, gotta make poopie.
Gary Ruppert said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:16
The fact is, when will the faggots faggots faggots fucking gayass faggots fucking shut up? And use some logic and facts and civility and reasoned discourse in their arguments for the gay instead of emotion and “shut up”?
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:17
Again, next on the agenda is dumping limp-wrist Christ.
Now that race will be interesting, because you’ll have a primary fight between 2 Republicans – unlike NY23, where Hoffman didn’t have to actually challenge Dede. So there will be a period of time when they go toe to toe with one another.
And Florida politics are certainly not a mirror of national politics, not when it involves South Florida Cubans.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:17
There was a TWENTY SEVEN POINT SWING in Virginia in the space of TWO YEARS against the Democrat Party.
And a similar number in New Jersey.
What do you think that means, libs?
Obama’s agenda is in deep trouble.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:18
When will the faggots shut up?
Sometime shortly after you let go of your bigotry.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:18
I guess the homos are going to have to go back in the closet.
Bring back the closet!
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:19
I had to change my name.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:20
Wheres all the New Jersey libs like Actawh? What happened to Corzine, libs? Hmmm??
He’s a L-O-S-E-R. LOSER.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:20
I notice Actawh and the other libs aren’t saying much about New Jersey.
gosh, how about – The Republican who was polling 20 points ahead of the very unpopular Democrat three months ago managed to squeak out a win by a 5 point lead?
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:20
Check this out:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124076/Political-Climate-2010-Not-Favorable-Democrats.aspx
FlipYrWhig said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:21
“Next up: taking down Charlie Christ.”
I have a feeling he’ll rise again.
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:22
Hoffman got beat like a rented mule. My predictions were faulty. I was wrong.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:22
Only 364 some days until the Republicans take back the House!
Say “hello” to Speaker Boehner in less than a years time! And perhaps even Majority Leader McConnell.
2010 will be a fucking bloodbath for the Democrat Party.
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:22
If the Democrats do not immediately begin acting like Glenn Beck says they should, then in 2010 they will be punished with even larger Congressional majorities, just like happened last night. You better shape up, people.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:22
I will put the goalposts wherever the fuck I want.
Jon Corzine said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:23
Obama should have thrown me under the bus earlier like he did to Deeds, huh?
Bill Thompson said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:24
I was never even on the Obama Bus!
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:24
Only 364 some days until the Republicans take back the House!
Take it from me: predicting the outcome of Congressional races is a fool’s game.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:24
2010 will be a fucking bloodbath for the Democrat Party.
I’ll bookmark it. I’m sure I will wonder how you were able to call this.
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:24
Creigh Deeds by the end was running against Obama’s agenda, including fear-mongering about cap-and-trade and against labor rights.
Clearly his loss means Obama should now simply repeat all of Reagan’s reforms.
Bill Thompson said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:25
Just like when you bookmarked when I said MONTHS ago that Deeds and Christie would win, right g?
What happened to those bookmarks?
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:26
And use some logic and facts and civility and reasoned discourse in their arguments for the gay instead of emotion and “shut up”?
…
Bring back the closet!
Yeah, I wonder, when will logic, facts, civility and reasoned discourse enter the conversation?
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:26
We crushed Sarah Palin. You can thank New York state for saving the Republican party, Troofie.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:26
Deeds tied himself to Obama right at the end, even running an ad that compared his campaign to Obama’s. Hopey campaigned for him twice, and Deeds was even repeating “yes, we can!” like some kind of magic word.
Hopey was repudiated in VA and NJ. Face it.
Will NJ be a swing state in 2012?
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:27
What happened to Corzine, Actawh? What happened?
You told me he would win. And that Christie was such a bad candidate he could never get elected!
What the fuck happened, Actawh?
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:28
Will NJ be a swing state in 2012?
By all means, sink a bunch of cash into NJ in 2012. Things will be different this time!
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:28
I am shocked, shocked that the Virginia and New Jersey races were such upsets!
Next up, the troll predicts that the sun will set this evening.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:28
*snort*
NJ and VA have traditionally been Republican when a Dem’s in the White House.
meanwhile, we picked up a House seat that hadn’t been Democratic since the days of Franklin Fucking Pierce!
SUCK IT, TROOFIE! YOU LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:28
Will NJ be a swing state in 2012?
Oh God, I just choked on my turkey sandwich.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:29
Reagan won NJ twice and H.W. Bush won it once, and with Obama being the New Carter, it’s more than doable. Especially that now with Christie we control the state apparatus and get out the vote machine.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:29
Poor Troofie. He’s like the head on the cyst on Rush’s ass.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:30
Especially that now with Christie we control the state apparatus and get out the vote machine.
Assuming the corruption charges are thrown out, you mean.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:30
Meanwhile, interesting little factoid – for New York and New England there are 51 congressional districts. How many are represented by Republicans?
2
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:30
Could we get some disemvowelling action, mods? This is getting out of hand
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:30
I predict a clean sweep for the conservatives in 2010, just like the one that happened yesterday.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:31
shorter liberal bloggersphere:
aww shit look at dem cute lil’ vultures swarmin’ around the boyking. they must wanna be friends with him just liek everyone else! ain’t dey cute?
looks like y’all aint gonna get your healthcare bwahaha.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:31
Dashiell puts on his jauntiest hat…
Jauntier than yesterday? No way. [click]
.
OMFG! Jauntier than yesterday!!!
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:31
Poor Actawh, liberal Jon Corzine LOST FUCKING LOST even though he outspent his opponent (the one Actawh said could never be elected) many times over.
New Jersey is RED, baby, RED!
And a Democrat represented NY-23 as recently as 1993:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NY-23
Look. Suck it!
The Republican Party said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:32
The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerated.
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:33
Just two days ago I stated over and over again that Hoffman would win NY-23. What happened?
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:34
When the Democrats increase their majority in the House, we win.
The House said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:35
You won’t have a majority in us for long:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/124076/Political-Climate-2010-Not-Favorable-Democrats.aspx
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:37
Hoffman is still going to pull it out in NY-23, you’ll see.
My predictions are never wrong.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:37
well shitfire what has that there “majority” done for y’all lately? a few more brokedick dems who ain’t rilly gonna do nothin’ to offend us down here in god’s country? shore we gotta git rid of ‘em quick because they still ain’t as good as what we got in mind, but i ain’t too worrked ’bout it neither. whoops and hollers and laughs
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:39
The purge strategy is working great for us so far. We’re sticking with it.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:40
And now it seems you won’t get your health care bill passed this year.
Which means its dead.
We’ll have a few more “Town Halls” over December recess, and the blue dogs will be so scared of passing anything in an election year that might cost them their seats that they will join Republicans in blocking Socialist health “reform”.
Suck it! Even when you have a majority, we block you at every turn! Just when you Marxists think you will fly, we clip your wings again!
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:41
Hoffman stands for the will of the majority, the Real Americans. The hardworking TEA partiers who watch Glenn Beck and love Sarah Palin.
That’s how he won so handily.
SomeNYGuy said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:41
Everything Troofie knows about winning her learned from the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And that cute little VICTORY dance he’s doing? Personally choreographed by Charles Krauthammer.
Ted the Slacker said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:42
Daily Dash sounds a little too much like crazy Andy’s haunt…
Can we try out a different name, one that plays to Dash’s righteous awesomeness rather than connecting him to a bit of a pompous asshat blogger?
Clean Sweep said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:42
In addition to purging and gay-bashing, we’re going to go with some old-fashioned obstructionism. These are the keys to certain victory.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:42
And a Democrat represented NY-23 as recently as 1993
Not as it’s currently districted today. We now have parts of upstate NY that we haven’t held in over 150 years.
Tommmcatt said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:42
Killfile! Yay!
Will 2010 be 1994? said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:44
I think it will be. All over again, libs, perhaps even worse for you.
BIG majorities we can use to cut government spending, bring is smaller government and less taxes. And block Hopey’s agenda at every turn, just like we did with Clinton.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:45
Killfile! Yay!
In the low, quiet tones of the “Amityville Horror” tv ads from the 70s: so many badgers…
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:47
just like we did with Clinton.
I do hope you revive the Gingrich crybaby thing. That was priceless! And Bohner’s already such a natural.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:48
Predictions are like opinions. Something something asshole something stink
Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:48
Can we try out a different name, one that plays to Dash’s righteous awesomeness rather than connecting him to a bit of a pompous asshat blogger
I hadn’t even thought of that. Suggestions?
Will 2010 be 1994? said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:49
The last time conservatives (real conservatives, not Bush-era RINOs) controlled the Congress we gave American less taxes, shrank the government, balanced the budget, and gave America the longest period of prosperity in our history.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:53
I hadn’t even thought of that. Suggestions?
The 35mm Dash.
And Now, Your Moment of Dash.
And Now for Something Completely Dash.
SomeNYGuy said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:54
THe Dash Board.
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:54
And Now for Something Completely Dash.
Presented by L-D Em Em Em
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:54
The Diurnal Dash
Steerpike said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:55
Studie Hall
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 19:59
Once a week photo: Dash Wednesday
SomeNYGuy said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:00
Exclusively for Gavin’s photos of soiled baby: Your Father’s Mussed Dash.
D.N. Nation said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:01
Wow. Troofy and Goober whacking it in the same thread. All over…um…winning two local elections. While losing two national ones. Including one that a Democrat hasn’t carried since the 19th century.
Cool story, bros. If this is what you guys consider winning, I’d hate to see losing.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:01
Andrew Sullivan Blows Goats, and Here’s a Cute Picture of My Baby.
DAS said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:02
We’ll have a few more “Town Halls” over December recess, and the blue dogs will be so scared of passing anything in an election year that might cost them their seats that they will join Republicans in blocking Socialist health “reform”.
Suck it! Even when you have a majority, we block you at every turn! Just when you Marxists think you will fly, we clip your wings again!
Perhaps if the Blue Dogs don’t get scared, then we’ll maintain our majority in 2010?
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:06
From way way way upthread:
I’m surprised at the lack of analysis of Bloomberg’s near loss, and Corzine going down primarily for being a Goldman guy.
The big money people are not so popular right now.
I think this is correct. However, we will not hear this trenchant analysis from any of the liberals in the media because they resemble Bloomberg and Corzine more than they resemble most of ‘Murka and because it doesn’t fit into their neat little narrative about “liberal” vs. “conservative”, never minding that none of the winners or losers in any of these races were “liberal”, and “conservative” has become a coda for “crazy enough”.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:08
This is a family blog.
Yeah, but which family exactly?
Some unholy union of the Compsons and the Adams?
We’re probably more Royal Tennenbaums around here.
Over at Red State, though? Definitely Snopeses.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:09
Charlie Christ: ultra-tan brother of Jesus Christ
Will 2010 be 1994? said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:10
Hey Jennifer, Blanche Lincoln is already 20 points behind.
Arkansas looks like a solid Republican pick up, baby!
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:11
Hey Troofie:
You know, with all that queer bashing and “suck its” (notably directed at male commenters) wouldn’t it make a whole lotta sense if you just came out of the closet? I mean, you’d be happier, you’d probably be able to find your ability to post in a way (here and other places) that wouldn’t have you called an asshole all the time (that’s gotta hurt, deep down inside, a lot) and maybe be able to find some dignity and happiness. I mean, it really is kinda painful to watch such a self-loathing individual so completely demonstrate their unhappiness day in and day out. Think about it. Seriously.
Will 2010 be 1994? said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:12
I’m straight and have probably fucked more women than you have, Looch.
But notice how even in ultra-liberal Maine and California the voters send the message “stay in the closet, homos.” How does that make you feel? Mad?
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:12
OT: via TBogg, not a good day for the Goldbergs, either
Maybe he shouldn’t wear Jonah’s stretched-out shirts in campaign ads.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:14
y’all’s had this so called “majority” and “mandate” ever since hopey the boy king won the election and y’all still ain’t done nothin’ with it. if we ever git a majority of any kind y’all know you’s gonna be takin’ it up the pooper. but i guess lots of y’all might like that. gives a rebel yell
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:14
such a bitter, bitter little man
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:15
Dash Wednesday
Doug Hoffman said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:15
Which way to the unemployment office?
Jon Corzine said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:17
Hey—wait–no—don’t throw me off the bus! Please, Obama, please!
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:17
Maybe he shouldn’t wear Jonah’s stretched-out shirts in campaign ads.
I’m saddened that this will probably dissuade Doughbob from ever throwing his hat in the ring. Man, that would make for funny times.
SomeNYGuy said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:17
I’d love to help you out, but i notice your eyes are pointing in two different directions.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:18
I’m straight and have probably fucked more women than you have, Looch.
Dude. Seriously.
Get. Out. Of. The. Closet.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:18
OT: via TBogg, not a good day for the Goldbergs, either
Is that really him???? Maybe he should also try not looking like a child molester.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:18
Don’t expect anyone to shed any tears over Blanche Lincolns all-too-timely demise. She’s always been a Republican anyway, and I’m sure her reflexive support of the big businesses that have always owned her has resulted in her getting at least thousands of emails similar to the one I sent her several months ago, to this effect: “As much as I loathe Republicans in general and your likely opponent in particular, if you vote against cloture on health care I’ll be voting against you in the next election. If we’re going to have a Republican senator, he might as well have an (R) by his name.”
I wouldn’t read anything into Blanche Lincoln’s situation other than her slavish devotion to the interests that have had their feet on the necks of her constituents for her two terms finally catching up with her. She’s never been all that popular with anyone other than the Farm Bureau, Wal Mart, Tyson Foods and Blue Cross. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say.
Doug Hoffman said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:19
I’d love to help you out, but i notice your eyes are pointing in two different directions.
They tell me it’s a temporary side effect of the ass-pounding I took yesterday.
Seriously though, spare change? It’s for food.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:19
I “gay bash” because it makes liberals pissed off, and because I think we should bring back the closet. Enough of this crap being put in our face. No “marriage” for homos.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:20
the voters send the message “stay in the closet, homos.” How does that make you feel? Mad?
Mostly just sorry for my friends who are gay.
Though it does also make we wonder about someone who seems so angry at gays and mentions the closet so much. You’re sounding a bit like R-Kelly in that Southpark episode…
N__B said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:20
Looch –
You’re a better man than I am. When confronted with his type, I just point and laugh.
Brandi said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:22
I’m straight and have probably fucked more women than you have, Looch.
How many of them required patch kits?
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:23
I “gay bash” because it makes
liberals pissed offme feel better about myself.Fixt.
VICTORY said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:24
I’m NOT insecure okay, NOT. You hear me? I am TOTALLY COMFORTABLE IN MY OWN SKIN. Some things just make me feel icky. AND I WANT THEM TO STOP MAKING ME FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE!!! You know.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:24
I “gay bash” because it makes liberals pissed off, and because I think we should bring back the closet.
Getting a bit lonely in there, is it?
The Late Great Roy Scheider said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:25
I’m saddened that this will probably dissuade Doughbob from ever throwing his hat in the ring.
We’re gonna need a bigger ring.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:27
I’m straight and have probably …..
Yes, and I’m sure they think of you fondly, given your gallant manners in speaking of them.
Doug Hoffman said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:27
They told me that in a traditionally conservative district, with the support of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and the TEA partiers, I’d be a shoo-in.
WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?
q said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:32
troofie,
I would say that I pity the horrible, nut-twisting disappointment you’re going to get every early November for the next 7+ years. I would, but I’m just not that good a person, I fear. I must admit, wingnut tears will probably taste just as sweeeeet next year as they do now. Hoffman. heh. heh ha.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:32
In 2008, many conservatives sat home instead of voting for John McCain.
I call bullshit!
Doug Hoffman said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:34
I was up FIVE PERCENTAGE POINTS the day before the election. Jeezum Crow!
I sure hope H&R Block is hiring.
Troofy Classics, Vol. 1 said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:35
In Summer ’08, Troofy was hyping the line that Obama was going to lose Minnesota and Wisconsin. When a S,N! regular, after he finally stopped laughing, asked Troofy how he came up with that one, Troofy responded with a link about the Bradley Effect. The link’s conclusion was actually that the effect wasn’t real. When it was noted that Troofy didn’t even read his own link, Troofy left for a couple of days.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:35
Oh, the lesser Goldberg brother - wow, what a sad sack!
Here’s his resume at his website for his City Council campaign.
42 years old, and he’s still listing the summer jobs he had in high school, to pad his resume.
works for his mom now.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:36
Someone should have told Hoffman about teeth bleaching.
Troofy Classics, Vol. 2 said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:37
After a summer of blubbering about how Obama was going to lose, Troofy popped into the election night thread with a promise that he was going to have some shocking news for liberals later on that night. When it became obvious that Obama had won the election, Troofy came back in the thread with this huge zinger: “Obama = Jimmy Carter.” After being roundly laughed at, Troofy left for a couple of days.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:38
tell me one thing y’all’s gotten since the boy king has been in office that y’all have really cared about. even when my side loses y’all still can’t win. hell yeah.
Bigby said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:38
No one could have predicted the studies that show the most self-loathing, completely and absolutely irrationally homophobic assholes on the earth, like ’1994′ (who was probably 7 years old then) here, proved conclusively that They Wants Cock Real Bad, Like. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but man, if there is one thing that self-loathing people really, really hate (and really, how can you *not* be a self-loathing piece of shit to a) hate on total strangers and b) gloat on a liberal site about fairly petty off-year election results in the grand scheme of things when the Big Black Man still rules the Free World and Democrats still hold all the important positions in government and c) be happiest when people, including conservatives with NO health care or prospects of getting it under ANY GOP government, to actually *suffer*. What a strange visage must stare back at it from a mirror…) it’s being unable to truly act upon the whispering in their loins.
Troofy Classics, Vol. 3 said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:39
Troofy really went bonkers in Spring ’09, when it became apparent that Obama wasn’t exactly going to stink out of the gate. Troofy got so enraged at our laughter that he made several IRL threats toward S,N! regulars. Tintin decided to put Troofy in timeout for a little while, but not before revealing to everyone that Troofy had been making the entirety of his posts from his home, at all hours of the day.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:40
I’m so vain, I thought that song was about me.
Damn you D.N. Nation!
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:40
g
I think that resume needs a little padding…..
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:40
Here’s his resume at his website for his City Council campaign.
That is the saddest resume I have ever, ever seen. I almost feel bad for him.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:40
Someone should have told Hoffman about teeth bleaching.
Someone should have told Hoffman about the dangers of hitching your wagon to Glen Beck, Fred “Still Not Dead” Thompson, and Sarah Bailin’.
D.N. Nation said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:41
What’s wrong, Goober? No funny S,N! cartoons? Anyway…
Lilly Ledbetter. Among many more, but you only asked for one.
Aren’t they having their weekly Fart-Off at AoSHQ today? Better go over there, elsewise you’ll miss it! Schmuck.
q said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:43
hom,
A steady diet of sweeeeet wingnut tears, for one.
hillbilly parody troll (abject failure) said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:43
i have had extensive carnal knowledge of my multifarious siblings and cousins as well as assorted livestock. this is because I am a resident of a rural or semi-rural area.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:44
So when Chis Christie gets sent to Big House, does Sen. Cody get to be Gov., or will there be Special Election?
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:45
ultra-liberal Maine
I, um, wow. Never been there, then, I take it?
Daily Dash
Aaaaand now I want a pooh-bear hat, that is BADASS.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:46
A steady diet of sweeeeet wingnut tears, for one.
well now hang on a second there son ain’t all y’all always goin’ on ’bout how damn funny it is when all us conservatives have to brag on is how upset we make y’all pinkos? but then y’all turn around and say the only thing y’all really have got out of boyking’s administration so far is seein’ conservatives gettin’ angry? does spit take, hoops and hollers well SHITFIRE, son, it must take years a therapy t’arrive at liberal positions huh?
Doug Hoffman said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:47
Ooooh, sale at Old Navy!
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:49
…but you only asked for one.
Ledbetter was the first that popped into my mind, since it was signed in January. There’s tons of small things – here’s a recent example. That plus Health Care Reform is actually on the table and Americans travelling abroad don’t have to stitch Canuckistani flags onto their luggage any more.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:50
Studies show that fully 75% of homophobic men are sexually aroused by gay porn, while 65% of non-homophobic men are not.
Roy Scheider said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:50
So when Chis Christie gets sent to Big House…
We’re going to need a bigger house.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:50
The scent of corn-pone is nauseating.
D.N. Nation said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:51
Nyuk nyuk nyuk! Teh Acer made a funnay.
No, really. Fart contest, AoSHQ. You’re needed there.
q said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:51
hom/goober/parody troll,
I said ‘one’ thing. Not the ‘only’ thing. Go on, ask me for more things. Do it. Send me some more of that delicious rage. Nom. heh.
hillbilly parody troll (abject failure) said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:52
another goblet of molasses, mater dear?
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:53
2001: Democrats win in both NJ & VA governors’ races.
These are un-important off-year elections and the American people stand strongly behind George W. Bush Jr. and the Republican agenda.
2009: Republicans win in both NJ & VA governors’ races.
AMERICA HAS REJECTED NANCY PELOSI OBAMUNISM.
1983: Two years into office, Reagan has approval ratings wavering at 50% and unemployment still at 9.8%.
This means America supports Reagan’s bold leadership.
2009: Nine months into office, Obama has approval ratings wavering at 50% and unemployment still at 9.8%.
AMERICA WILL NOT PUT UP WITH ANY MORE OF THE OBAMUNIST MENACE !!! TEABAGGERS AWAY !!!! RURAL AMERICANS WILL LEAD !!!!!
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:53
…but you only asked for one.
Here’s another one: we aren’t going to waste time going after medical marijuana users or vendors in states with legalized medical marijuana. That’s a good step in the direction of ending the nation’s longest-running and most unwinnable war – the War on Drugs, or as most sentient persons think of it, the War on the Rights of American Citizens.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:54
Wait, there was a study that involved watching gay porn while researchers measured penile circumference?
When’s the next phase of the study? I’m asking FOR SCIENCE!
Ted the Slacker said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:54
You can’t script this. Irk’s trike force fatwa:
“We are legion. And we will crush them.”
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:56
What’s really sad about Joshua Goldberg is that throughout the Bush years, when the children of conservative pundits were getting plum jobs with the government, or being hired to rebuild Iraq and embezzle pallet-loads of wrapped currency with absolutely ZERO prior experience, Lucianne’s boy was working as a tow-truck driver and tour guide.
What? No sweet sweet Green Zone jobs for him? No staff position in some federal agency? No Fox News or Heritage Foundation internship? No coattails from his brother?
So sad.
Of course, since 2008 he’s been editing his mom’s website.
Bigby said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:59
That’d be the study, Jennifer…as fag hag Alanis says: Isn’t it ironic, doncha think?
P.s. nicely done, El Cid, though the only ones that appreciate it are liberals. Those are several of those cognitive dissonance whatchamadoos that even if you show it right to them, they’ll look at you and say “I don’t see anything wrong with what you’re showing me, what’s your dimmicrat problem?”.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 20:59
We are legion.
Hey, just like the demons possessing the guy in the NT! Jesus sent all the demons into pigs and sent them of a cliff…
Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:00
I, um, wow. Never been there, then, I take it?
A-yup.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:00
Here’s one of his issues:
OTOH, I think he’s in favor of decriminalizing pot, so he’s not all that bad a guy.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:04
People on personal scooters must not speed on sidewalks. Just because one can travel 15-20 mph in a motorized chair does not mean one should.
Joshua Goldberg, Nanny Stater
N.C. said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:04
One thing about New Jersey: while Christie will be governor next year, the state legislature will be held by a comfortably Democratic majority, so at least damage will be kept to a minimum. I imagine the extent of Christie’s activities for the first year or so will consist of ribbon-cuttings and taking new photographs to hang in the Turnpike rest stops.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:06
Well, I guess that answers my question. About half a day.
I get so confused trying to follow their narrative. Are they Persia now or they SPARTA!?
N.C. said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:07
They’re the Spartans that actually won because shut up, that’s why, of course.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:08
I imagine the extent of Christie’s activities for the first year or so will consist of ribbon-cuttings and taking new photographs to hang in the Turnpike rest stops.
And stonewalling FOIA reqeuests about his campaign and his time with the DOJ.
N.C. said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:09
And stonewalling FOIA reqeuests about his campaign and his time with the DOJ.
Well, yes, but that was a given.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:10
Are they Persia now or they SPARTA!?
Depends how homoerotic they’re feeling that day.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:12
so at least damage will be kept to a minimum
Debate about a second stimulus is ongoing but there’s no way funds will be available until after Christie is sworn in. The current Senate Health Care bill has a state opt-out process – details of which aren’t especially available for perusal. Plus I expect he’ll use his first year, and every subsequent one to wage war on the Dep’t of Environmental Protection. Because if there’s a state that needs looser enforcement of industrial emissions, it’s Jersey.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:13
Well, yes, but that was a given.
I think there might be a New Jersey joke in there somewhere…
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:14
Crap. Just used “looser” in its actual literal meaning. Pretend I said “less stringent”.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:14
Why did the troll run away after I pointed out that Democrats don’t really give a shit about what happens to Republican Blanche Lincoln?
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:19
Why did the troll run away after I pointed out that Democrats don’t really give a shit about what happens to Republican Blanche Lincoln?
Don’t discount the effect your post about gay porn and homophobia might have had. That troll is such a bundle of anxiety, repression, and rage that there’s really no reason to limit yourself to one cause.
N.C. said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:22
Eugh, I forgot about Christie’s stance on the DEP. Well, there goes my delightful Pollyanna-esque optimism.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:23
He went out on a Cheeto run. It’s his turn.
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:23
Jennifer,
I kinda sorta like your argument. But, wouldn’t a real “R” actually be worse than Lincoln? I mean, here in Texas, we usually run DNC-type Dems and they lose anyway. And we end up with a horse’s ass like Cornyn.
q said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:24
Jennifer,
It’s just trying to deprive us of the nectar of its desperate troll blubbering. Inconsiderate.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:25
such a bitter, bitter little man
He’s not a man- he’s a vaguely man-sized, vaguely man-shaped hole in the fabric of the universe… a total zero.
I “gay bash” because it makes liberals pissed off, and because I think we should bring back the closet.
His use of “we” is a tell. Straight people cannot bring back the closet, they can only make things miserable for gay people so the gay people bring back the closet.
I can’t explain Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa has a large underground homosexual population.
N.C. said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:28
I kinda sorta like your argument. But, wouldn’t a real “R” actually be worse than Lincoln? I mean, here in Texas, we usually run DNC-type Dems and they lose anyway. And we end up with a horse’s ass like Cornyn.
The assumption the Republicans are making is “if a Democrat has a low approval rating, that means voters are crying out for a Republican”, where it might just mean that Lincoln is really vulnerable to a primary challenge. I’m pretty sure Blanche Lincoln isn’t eggsy enough to form the “Arkansas for Blanche” party if she’s ousted, either.
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:35
Help us out, here, Jennifer. Does Arkansas have a Ned Lamont?
LittlePig said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:35
I imagine with all that cheese and cabbage that massive voter gas is a real issue in Milwaukee.
LittlePig said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:36
Does Arkansas have a Ned Lamont?
Sadly, No.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:37
I kinda sorta like your argument. But, wouldn’t a real “R” actually be worse than Lincoln? I mean, here in Texas, we usually run DNC-type Dems and they lose anyway. And we end up with a horse’s ass like Cornyn.
Well, if Blanche was a DLC-type Dem that might be true – but she doesn’t even rise to that level. Her voting record is pretty much indistinguishable from the voting records of Senate Republicans. Why worry about whether the person holding the seat has a (D) after their name or not, if you aren’t going to get even a vote for cloture on health reform out of them? I can’t see the advantage of having someone who calls themselves a Democrat holding the seat if they always vote the way the Republicans do…and Blanche pretty much always does.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:38
Is Troofie still trying to weasel some good news out of yesterday?
LOL! What a little shit…
LittlePig said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:40
I can’t see the advantage of having someone who calls themselves a Democrat holding the seat if they always vote the way the Republicans do…and Blanche pretty much always does.
But the state Democratic party does, and they will fight like hell to prevent an interloper from giving Republicans a shot at the seat. This way they have their cake and eat it, too.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:41
Does Arkansas have a Ned Lamont?
Sadly, No.
JenofArk 2010! I forsee “yucca” drinking fundraisers, and an endorsement from the Shithouse Troll.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:44
This way they have their cake and eat it, too.
Kind of like they did with Governor Jim Guy Tucker, whose indictment led to 10 years of Governor Mike Huckabee.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:45
We are legion.
Hey, just like the demons possessing the guy in the NT!
It’s the sort of thing that the possessed character says in the movies when the exorcist commands the possessing demon — in the name of Christ! — to tell him its true name. Then there is vomiting and head-turning-round and general hilarity.
No-one could possibly have foreseen, when “Exorcist” was announced as one of the top ten conservative horror movies, that Erick’s fan-base would watch it and identify with the forces of evil.
jim said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:47
“Dash Board” wins.
Trolls clapping harder & harder, trying to pretend they didn’t just give Dems two more congressional seats (or that losing a Gooper stronghold they’ve held for more than a bloody CENTURY isn’t a major political Falcon-Punch) & that Tinkerbell will somehow miraculously come back to life in 2012?
Not so much.
Funny how if Obama’s ratings slide all the way down to 50% it means he’s doomed, yet GOP numbers stuck at all-time lows (we’re talking twenty to thirty fucking percent here) mean that, uhhh … Obama’s still doomed.
I know a lot of folks on Teh Left™®© passionately loathe her, but face it: Sarah “The Alaskan Monkeywrench” Palin is possibly the greatest thing that’s happened to the Democrats since Nixon B&E’d the Watergate – & just think, she’s still so young! She can bugger up the Republicans with her anti-civilizationist rhetoric, deranged tic-like winking routine & buzzsaw voice for years & years & years to come, you betcha! Also.
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:47
Sorry, Jen. But if you can’t see the difference between Lincoln and Cornyn, well, then, we will just have to agree to disagree. Did you see that, not only did Cornyn vote against the Franken rape amendment, he defended it in a letter to the Austin American-Statesman by decrying how much money lawyers would make if rape victims got their day in court. Lincoln voted for the Franken amendment.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:49
I always saw him as a ZINO. Or in upstate NY parlance, a “cauliflower.”
How does that work? Looks like a brane but no flavour?
White on the outside, white on the inside, and covered with white sauce?
t4toby said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:51
Also. Indeed.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:53
The scent of corn-pone is nauseating.
What is this “porn-cone” of which you speak? I imagine that is somehow connected to measuring penile diameter.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:54
TEDISCO WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS!
Suck it, libs! Suck it har….
wait, what?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:55
She can bugger up the Republicans with her anti-civilizationist rhetoric, deranged tic-like winking routine & buzzsaw voice for years & years & years to come, you betcha! Also.
Don’t forget her larcenous ways. Super Sarah will be a drain on the incomes of lonely wingnuts for years to come- the more money they throw at her, the less they have to spend on real candidates.
“Make it rain” indeed.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:55
Just because one can travel 15-20 mph in a motorized chair does not mean one should.
Yeronner, my client’s defense is that he was was fleeing from zombies.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:57
What is this “porn-cone” of which you speak? I imagine that is somehow connected to measuring penile diameter.
It’s an obscure subgenre of “tentacle porn”, for those fetishists obsessed with rugose iridescent cones.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:57
Sarah Palin will cease to be a force in American politics as soon as her face begins to sag and the inevitable middle-aged spread kicks in. Which is to say, she’s got 5 years, tops.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:58
The Daily Dash: Dashiell puts on his jauntiest hat
I would look perturbed too, if a bear had opened its mouth like a snake and was engulfing me head-first.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 21:58
those fetishists obsessed with rugose iridescent cones.
Lovecraft cosplay DO NOT WANT.
stryx said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:00
What is this “porn-cone” of which you speak?
It’s sort of like a glory hole, only more complicated.
Jeffraham Prestonian said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:03
Ruprecht! Put the cork on the fork!
.
t4toby said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:07
Porn Cone
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:11
Lovecraft cosplay DO NOT WANT.
This is very insulting to the “Scaly” community.
Jennifer said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:16
Put the cork on the fork!
Didn’t you mean too much pork for just one fork?
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:17
Michele Bachman this morning:
“The number one thing people can do is come [to tomorrow's 'house call' gathering], see their member of Congress, look at them in the eyes, especially with other freedom fighters in tow, and let them know that the lessons of August, they should not forget, at their peril.”
She shore has a purty mouth, don’t she Twoofy.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:19
This is very insulting to the “Scaly” community.
It’s always the same; everyone wants to dress as Wilbur Whateley (or his brother).
Ooh, let’s play the Diablo game…
WOMBAT.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:21
let them know that the lessons of August
What were those? That blowing in, blowing up, and blowing out doesn’t change shit?
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:22
Wonder how many teabaggers are going to take a Thursday off work and come up to the big city so they can mill around the halls and be thrown out of the gallery.
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:22
I’m kind of liking Nancy Pelosi’s newer, bigger, more liberal House majority. Not only is there one new Democrat where there was a Republican, now there’s a progressive liberal in place of the conservative Ellen Tauscher.
This is clearly a complete victory for Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers.
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:25
I always saw him as a ZINO. Or in upstate NY parlance, a “cauliflower.”
How does that work? Looks like a brane but no flavour?
White on the outside, white on the inside, and covered with white sauce?
Looks like a dead brain but is actually just a lifeless vegetable?
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:26
@ smedley
I’d forgotten all about the super-bowl of freedom. Wonder how preparations for that are going? [off to teh googles]
Hm… all I could find related to Bachmann was this:
Obviously this is good news for teabaggery.
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:28
Wonder how many teabaggers are going to take a Thursday off work and come up to the big city so they can mill around the halls and be thrown out of the gallery.
Is it too late to organise a DC Zombie Walk to coincide with them?
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:28
It’s an obscure subgenre of “tentacle porn”, for those fetishists obsessed with rugose iridescent cones.
Damn, those marketing geniuses over at ABC TV thought of everything trying to hump this new “V” tv show…
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:29
It’s always the same; everyone wants to dress as Wilbur Whateley (or his brother).
The guy who dresses as Wilbur Whateley’s brother never shows up!
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:29
Is it too late to organise a DC Zombie
WalkShamble to coincide with them?Fixed
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:31
Well, the result in Maine sucks. My sympathy to everybody who fought so hard for it.
It’s still close, but it’s pretty certain that we here in Washington have upheld Domestic Partnerships with all the rights of marriage for same-sex couples—or any two people at least one of whom is 62. Think about that. Could be a brother and sister, or two brothers, or two sisters, or a mother and son. [wingnut] Could marrying your dog be far behind? [/wingnut] I hope it explodes some heads in the wingnuttosphere.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:31
I always saw him as a ZINO. Or in upstate NY parlance, a “cauliflower.”
How does that work? Looks like a brane but no flavour?
White on the outside, white on the inside, and covered with white sauce?
No.
Real Zombies would never mistake cauliflower for real branes. This one would.
Although white through-and-through works. Also.
jim said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:32
Correction: Dems only have one more national seat, not two.
Which just means Obama is even MOAR doomed than evar!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111!!!!!!!one1
Pols like Steele & Boehner can only wish this were so.
History says otherwise.
Do the names Margaret Thatcher or Phyllis Schlafly ring a bell?
Age confers wisdom my ass.
The idea of a pinhead like Palin being looked up to by her equally clueless peer-group in fifteen or twenty years as an eminence grise just adds to the fun!
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:34
Do the names Margaret Thatcher or Phyllis Schlafly ring a bell?
You aren’t seriously suggesting that either of them had any influence in American politics?
The most Schalfly could have wished for was a seat at the kids table. Thatcher, while powerful and a stateswoman, would have no sway over American politics. If she had, we’d have universal healthcare already.
cyntax said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:36
eminence grise
Palin’s doing covers of the Who in French? The wingnuts are so confusing.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:37
Do the names Margaret Thatcher or Phyllis Schlafly ring a bell?
did I miss the part where Phyllis Schlafly actually achieved anything?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:37
History says otherwise.
I dunno- I think a major part of the “appeal” of Sarah Palin to the Rich Lowrys of the world is the “maybe she’ll leave her husband and for me” factor. I doubt anyone ever saw starbursts emanating from footage of Iron Peg on the BBC.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:38
Lost the word go there.
Turbine Yukon Palin said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:40
Shorter Erick:
Lastday, Capricorn 29′s. Year of the City: 2009. Carousel begins.
(It . . . sounded funnier in my head, in that voice the PA system has)
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:42
I doubt anyone ever saw starbursts emanating from footage of Iron Peg on the BBC.
You overestimate the physical charms of middle aged English women…
Smut Clyde said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:44
I doubt anyone ever saw starbursts emanating from footage of Iron Peg on the BBC
That was the ?erenkov radiation.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:49
Meh, Palin. She’s a grifter and a quitter. She’s so lazy she even makes George W. Bush look like an over-achiever.
The difference between her and Bush, though, is that while both of them are intellectual dullards willing to be puppets for those who’d like to put them in power, she’s had to scramble for the bucks most of her life. Bush was always confident someone would bail him out – that’s why he could take the risk on being governor and then president.
Palin got to be governor because that sweet, sweet state salary and benefits were alluring, but when she saw how much more money there was to be made elsewhere, she got out of public service.
She’s not drawing down a paycheck now, so she’s got to hustle the bucks as she can. she won’t be willing to take the pay cut for the Presidency, not while she’s still lining her pockets with her fame.
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:57
“she won’t be willing to take the pay cut for the Presidency”
I don’t know about that. How many Rich Lowry’s are out there who would pay big bucks to hear the snowbilly ex-President give a “Motivational” speech? This, of course, must be thought through from Sarah!’s egotistical POV, wherein she could actually, you know, WIN.
bdc said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:57
“The Cubs don’t win the pennant! The Cubs don’t win the pennant!”
M. Bouffant said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:57
I dunno, she might be willing to take the Presidential pay reduction, thinking she could really rake in the bux as an ex-Prexy.
And gawd knoes how much of a crap she really gives about her family, but they could start raking it in even while she’s President. (Billy Carter, anyone?)
Not that I think she has a chance at it, mind you, but obviously she doesn’t live in the same world as actuality & fact.
M. Bouffant said,
November 4, 2009 at 22:59
I cannot tell you all how much I despise people who type faster than I do.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:01
Lucky!
smedley said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:01
And I even had to clean up a little vomit from thinking about Lowry wanking at a Sarah! “Motivational” “Speech.”
Sockpuppet #47 said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:03
Being a president doesn’t mean taking a paycut.. If you have no scruples whatsoever. A little banana republic style corruption and graft will go a long way.
I’m fairly sure that Palin is well aware that she can get plenty of “perks” out of being president.
She may see running for president as a win/win situation. If she looses the republican nomination, she can do the professional victim schtick, if she gains the nomination and looses the election, she can walk away with millions in campaign funds, and if she wins the presidency, she can go on an almighty power trip.
Palin definitely likes power as well as money. I still think it is quite possible her resignation was about avoiding some imminent scandal, or because she is stupid enough to think it was a good career move.
actor212 said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:03
And I even had to clean up a little vomit from thinking about Lowry wanking at a Sarah! “Motivational” “Speech.”
*sigh*
*reaching for just-recapped bottle of Brain Bleach*
B/N said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:05
Nagging feelings the last few days. My brain trying to compute all the parallels, intersections, inflection points between the way the conservative base is acting right now and how liberal activists approached ousting Lieberman in ’06.
On the basic premises, the analogy sucks.
Lieberman — long-time incumbent; former VP candidate; miserably complicit in the Iraq adventure; blah, blah.
Coleman — entrepreneur; local politician; won primary contest
Every NY-23 Candidate — total unknowns
Other than that, this whole exercise is meaningless. QED. Troofus sux and is a lozer.
B/N said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:07
Oops. Meant “Lamont”, not “Coleman”.
g said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:08
Palin definitely likes power as well as money.
I think she’ll prefer the perks but won’t much want to actually DO the job as Preznit. So much more easy money just speakin’, pageant walkin’ and going on Fox News as a paid ‘consultant.’
What’s interesting, too, is that a funny thing happens when you become President, whether it’s president of the local garden club or the US. Everybody starts to dump on you. She really won’t like the criticism. She’s way too thin-skinned. Look at all the crap they’re throwing at Obama. Look at the crap George Bush got. Bush, for all his faults, didn’t let it get under his skin until the very end – and even then he just reacted by receding into the background.
She will not be able to take the criticism. She couldn’t take it as governor.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:12
Every NY-23 Candidate — total unknowns
*ahem*
From teh Wiki:
First elected in to the New York State Assembly in 1998, Scozzafava is the current Ranking Minority Member of the Codes Committee, as well as a member of the Education and Local Government committees. For the 2001-2002 session she served on the Standing Committees on Economic Development, Education, and Social Services. She is one of 41 Republicans in the 150-seat Assembly. She is also the first-ever female Minority Leader Pro Tempore in the history of the New York State Assembly. Prior to her election to the Assembly she served as a member of the Gouverneur Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1993 and as Mayor of Gouverneur from 1993 to 1998.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:13
I think she’ll prefer the perks but won’t much want to actually DO the job as Preznit.
The perfect Republican candidate!
tigrismus said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:27
I don’t know about that. How many Rich Lowry’s are out there who would pay big bucks to hear the snowbilly ex-President give a “Motivational” speech?
They’ll pay it now, why should she muss her hair?
Sockpuppet #47 said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:29
g- I don’t doubt she would be a terrible president in every way, but I am just not sure if she has the self awareness to recognize that she wouldn’t necessarily enjoy being president.
I can quite imagine that she thinks it is an easy job, since dubya never worked hard at it, and you can delegate as much as you like.
And lets be honest, the presidency IS an easy job. Being a piss poor excuse for a president doesn’t require a lot of work at all. Doing a proper job of it needs a shitload of work of course.
After all, she didn’t turn down Mcain’s offer, even though that would give her the VP position and at least a 1 in 10 shot at the presidency, if the old man pops his clogs.
She made a LOT out of being a failed VP candidate. It turned out to be better than being Governor of a state with a lower population than the average city. So she probably thinks that losing an election can gain you just as much as winning can.
Looch said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:31
She will not be able to take the criticism. She couldn’t take it as governor.
Or the scrutiny. Washington, D.C. has layers of treachery and backstabbing that make Alaska look like pre-school. She would screw someone (politically, for starters) in favor of someone else and the screwee would find ways to make her life hell. And I assume that she would conduct her graft operations with all the skill of her resignation, leaving even the torpid Washington Press Corpse with no choice but to report on the doings. And all those mainstream Republicans she jumped over? I think she would have to fear them more than the Democrats.
But this is kinda moot, as the campaign would be revelatory for both voters and funding outfits. She’ll melt out in the spotlight. There’d be no Daddy McCain to protect her. She may run, but I think she self-immolates. The only important question is; does she go long enough to really load up the bandwagon? This would have an impact on the height of the bonfire flames.
SomeNYGuy said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:36
Mayor of Gouverneur from 1993 to 1998.
I think i’ve spotted the problem here.
B/N said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:48
As of the first of this year, there had been 10 edits to the Scozzafava Wiki article.
Superstar!
stogoe said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:53
I was unaware that we had an abandoned subway- or hollywood-scale-sewer system that could house any sort of underground population, nevermind one that was entirely homosexual. Nevertheless, I expect that when I do eventually stumble upon their subterranean lair their ruthless lesbian overlord will be sporting either a rad-to-the-max mohawk or at the very least an eyepatch.
eidos said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:53
Apparently, Carly Fiorina, Charlie Criss and Newt (!) all have RINO targets painted on them. Newt will no doubt come up with some crazy guano to regain his conservative cred. The other two are toast.
I see the next couple years of the GOP playing out like John Carpenter’s remake of The Thing.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:57
I was unaware that we had an abandoned subway- or hollywood-scale-sewer system that could house any sort of underground population, nevermind one that was entirely homosexual.
They live in the abandoned holes of burrow owls, obviously you never read that pamphlet from Pueblo, Colorado.
El Cid said,
November 4, 2009 at 23:58
The Iowan homosexual population is known both for its burrowing skills and for its poor eyesight. Many rural Iowans report burrowing homosexuals can damage lawns, gardens, and even crops. Homosexuals erupting from dens underneath patios and gazebos can interrupt parties and ruin flower beds (though the burrowing homosexuals will typically pause to repair and/or improve the flower arrangements before vanishing back into their underground tunnels).
Center Left Gerrrrbl said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:01
burrowing homosexuals
wut does bein teh ghey hafta do with it. lol
actor212 said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:03
Homosexuals erupting from dens underneath patios and gazebos can interrupt parties and ruin flower beds (though the burrowing homosexuals will typically pause to repair and/or improve the flower arrangements before vanishing back into their underground tunnels).
Indeed, spotters report the best way to identify the Burrowing Homosexual is to listen for its cries of “FABulous”.
eidos said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:06
.. and going on Fox News as a paid ‘consultant.’
No doubt she’ll have a go at it at some point. I fear it would be a sorry spectacle, like the QB who had his bell rung too many times trying his hand in the broadcast booth. Judging by those Couric interviews she may be too dumb and inarticulate to function even on Fox News. I’m sure Fox will try very hard to come up with a format that works for her. Obviously, she would be a huge draw for them, at least as long as her looks hold out. Maybe they could write “special comments” for her to read and try to pass her off as a sort of anti-Olbermann.
homespun common sense (getcha sum of it) said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:06
well check it out libs. cnn is reporting reid is saying health care reform “may not happen this year.” BOO-YAH does a rootin’ tootin’ victory dance
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:08
AARP endorses the radical Kenyan Obamunist health care plan in the House. This is completely the result of the MASSIVE victories conservatives had yesterday increasing Nancy Pelosi’s share of the House of Representatives.
One Ton Chicken Lung said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:08
Ted the Slacker said,
“definitely not because of an adverse referendum result.”
Getting back to gay marriage, I also think that it should be dropped for now (along with gun control) not because of AN adverse referendum result–but because it’s lost EVERY SINGLE referendum that’s ever been put up for a vote. The only things gained by keeping it alive are more state constitutional amendments banning it, so I think that it would be best to lay low for a few years.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:10
BBBB-
Dead Milkmen Ref FTW. See Dash for your Intertrons.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:12
I am just not sure if she has the self awareness to recognize that she wouldn’t necessarily enjoy being president.
In her next career, Palin will become a fund-raiser for the Narcissistic Personality Disorder Foundation. Please give generously. Wear a reflective ribbon.
Looch said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:12
does a rootin’ tootin’ victory dance
Meanwhile, AARP has a big press conference tomorrow. Could be a rootin’ tootin’ good time.
TruculentandUnreliable said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:13
The only things gained by keeping it alive are more state constitutional amendments banning it, so I think that it would be best to lay low for a few years.
Hafta disagree here. We’ve made headway in some states–it’s always going to be two steps forward, one step back on issues like this. The only way to keep going forward is to push and push and push.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:13
I like you, zombie, you’re not like the other people, here, on the intert00bz.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:16
The newly conservative counter-revolutionary Congress thanks to yesterday’s MASSIVE teabag victories continues — the Senate votes 97 – 1 for cloture so that it can move forward with extending unemployment benefits for 20 weeks. The fact that Jim DeMint stood alone against the vote is yet another VICKTRY for ERK ERKKKKKKSN.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:19
Rare photo of Jonah Goldberg feeding.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:22
I like you, zombie, you’re not like the other people, here, on the intert00bz.
Careful, he bites.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:22
Thank god that here in America people are free to innovate with their own private and home and charter schools because boring old government learning would likely frown on this:
I would have thought the name alone would have prompted additional scrutinitization.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:23
Meanwhile, AARP has a big press conference tomorrow.
Serious question – what do you expect from that? Haven’t they been defenders of the status quo because they sell insurance?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:27
Rare photo of Jonah Goldberg feeding.
No way Jonah would eat a giant squid with that many vegetables!
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:27
Are lap dances an effective therapy for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or drug addiction?
If I were not so whacked out on Ritalin, I would think of a snarky response.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:31
Haven’t they been defenders of the status quo because they sell insurance?
I thought so far they’d been making puppy-eyes at Obama? The website seems to come down pretty much on the “we need reform” side, though I don’t feel like hanging around to check out the details; it smells funny.
pedestrian said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:33
Getting back to gay marriage, I also think that it should be dropped for now (along with gun control) not because of AN adverse referendum result–but because it’s lost EVERY SINGLE referendum that’s ever been put up for a vote. The only things gained by keeping it alive are more state constitutional amendments banning it, so I think that it would be best to lay low for a few years.
1) You are factually wrong when you say that the only thing keeping gay marriage alive is a series of state constitutional amendments banning it. What keeps it alive is the blood, sweat and tears shed in door to door campaigns, phone banking for progressive candidates, and uphill battles through the judicial system. Yes, they took back CA and ME, but we still have VT, IA, NH, MA, and CT. A few years ago we had nothing. Furthermore, every year the margins get closer and the polls creep in our favor. We are winning and they know it.
2) Even if we had won nothing, even if we had lost every single battle at every single level and found ourselves without marriage equality in any place in the country, I still wouldnt be able to “drop it for now”. Once people realize that they deserve the same rights that everyone else has, you can’t expect them to forget it. If you can’t put yourself in those shoes, if you have no equivalent experience in your life – well I don’t know how I can explain it to you.
I do know this: we will never never never give up. If straight America tries to do to us what white America did to black people after Reconstruction, we will just keep finding ways to remind you that we still exist. It’s that simple.
Xecky Gilchrist said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:35
The website seems to come down pretty much on the “we need reform” side, though I don’t feel like hanging around to check out the details; it smells funny.
Pretty much exactly my reaction to it.
pöplikid said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:35
Don’t know if you’ve seen this, but…
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113599
Even Whirled Nut Daily thinks Andrew Schafly’s Conservative Bible project is insane.
When insane people are calling you insane it’s a safe bet that you’ve lost the plot.
Looch said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:38
Serious question – what do you expect from that? Haven’t they been defenders of the status quo because they sell insurance?
There’s a quick hit up at TPM on the presser. All they say is “hints” at support of the Democratic bill–but no confirmation. I am hoping for the best.
Rusty Shackleford said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:38
I am for allowing pedestrians to marry. Although I’m a driver, I don’t see how it will affect my marriage.
SomeNYGuy said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:41
This. And most excellently stated it is too, also.
OneMan said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:43
“I like you, zombie, you’re not like the other people, here, on the intert00bz.”
B^4 is a self-loathing shambler lover.
q said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:45
hey goober,
The House will be passing their healthcare bill at about 6:00 on Saturday. Want a spitoon to weep into?
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:45
Re: gay marriage initiatives, pro and con: I can’t see where they are either advancing or stifling the issue at the current time. This is the nature of civil rights advances – at the same time gay marriage recognition initiatives continue to lose (by increasingly shrinking margins) in the states, we finally have federal hate crimes legislation that extends to affording additional protections/penalties for bias crimes motivated on the basis of sexual orientation. Folks, that’s a battle we’ve been fighting for 15 years. These things occur in a continuum…10 to 15 years from now, the gay marriage issue will be settled in favor of equal rights. In the meantime, it really doesn’t matter how many shitheaded state legislative initiatives or public referenda to outlaw gay marriage in state constitutions or whatnot are passed…someday, 10 to 15 years hence, we’ll have a supreme court decision that will render discriminatory addendums to state constitutions moot and overturn any extra-constitutional state legislation banning equal recognition of same-sex marriages by the state. And note that when above I say “it really doesn’t matter” I know that in fact it really DOES matter in the here and now to those persons whose rights are being denied and those of us who are enraged by casual bigotry and injustice…what I’m getting at is that in most places, these initiatives have made gay marriages no more non-legal or unrecognized than they were before and so have not changed the status quo, and the tide of history is very much running against them.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:47
B^4 is a self-loathing shambler lover.
Preparing a batch of black-pudding popcorn now.
One Ton Chicken Lung said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:48
pedestrian said,
“1) You are factually wrong when you say that the only thing keeping gay marriage alive is a series of state constitutional amendments banning it.
2) Once people realize that they deserve the same rights that everyone else has, you can’t expect them to forget it. If you can’t put yourself in those shoes, if you have no equivalent experience in your life – well I don’t know how I can explain it to you.”
Regarding #1, you are factually wrong when you say that I said that the only thing keeping gay marriage alive is… I said that the only thing GAINED is…
Regarding #2, I’m a pedophile so that’s more than equivalent to your experience. I’m part of the last group of people in America who EVERYONE wants to have no rights, and we get thrown under the bus by the gay community at every opportunity.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:49
B^4 is a self-loathing shambler lover.
Nah, I’m just leading him on with my big, shiny melon.
I’m a zombie-tease.
Looch said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:49
And this on AARP:
So. I guess we’ll see.
Looch said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:54
Want a spitoon to
weep intodrink out of?I like this’un better.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:58
Question: Is this N. Carolina congressional candidate real or a spoof? Warning: Insane color combinations on his website may cause nausea or suicidal ideation.
http://www.georgehutchins.com/
N__B said,
November 5, 2009 at 0:58
I’m just leading him on with my big, shiny melon.
Veiled unitesticle reference.
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:01
Oh, and a Star Trek Captain Kirk PENIS.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:02
Preparing a batch of black-pudding popcorn now.
Recipe? This totally sounds like something I’d go for.
There’s a pub next town over that makes bacon popcorn. I am also partial to pesto popcorn.
It has generally supported revamping the system but has also lost tens of thousands of members over concerns about how the current proposals in Congress would affect Medicare.
Medicare for all would really solve the problem. The great Errol Louis had a Cato Institute flack on his show last Friday. Predictable, the jerk claimed that a public health care option would “redistribute” money from young, healthy persons to older, sicker persons. To me, it’s increasing the risk pool, which is necessary to all insurance. It’s also filling the coffers, as the additional, younger recipients would need less care, on average, than their elder peers.
Sockpuppet #47 said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:06
If they didn’t let the over 40s vote, then gay marriage and universal healthcare would be passed in a week.
But you don’t get anything in American politics without fighting long and hard for it. But every day, old bigoted shitheads die, and babies without any prejudice whatsoever are born.
Cerberus said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:07
I should also point out that we are 0 for 31 on referenda, but it’s worth noting that only 2 were triggered by positive gay rights gains. The other 29 occurred when we were “biding our time” for the right time for equality and playing good soldiers to the demographics.
The worst thing we could do is hang up now on the crusade for equality. Bored theocrats don’t go “oh there’s no gay rights bills, guess I’m safe”, they invent a new way to fuck us, because their leaders make a living on whether or not they’ve riled up the 20 percenters.
So my idea is we should spam everywhere with every civil right we can pass and every referenda we can. I want them chasing us around the country until the wins are dominating the board. This last election, there were three gay rights ordinances, all but one passed and openly gay mayors won in several cities. Already this year, we added 4 new states to the column of the good and only lost the most conservative one by a prop h8 margin.
It sucks that this will change the perception of momentum on gay rights, but the very real momentum from after prop h8 is still with us if we don’t let this stop us.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:07
Jennifer FTW
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:12
Sockpuppet – yep. The haters eventually die off and progress can be made. 40, 20, even 10 years ago a black man would not have been elected president for the simple reason that he was…black. The only age demo that went against Obama were people who were young adults in the dying days of segregation and Jim Crow. For everyone younger, that was never one of their battles; the question was decided before they were ever old enough to vote. And so it goes.
Sockpuppet #47 said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:13
It is worth noting that you HAVE to kick up a fuss at the state level before the supreme court is going to have to pay attention. Without all of these ballot measures, the supreme court can keep on ignoring gay rights issues.
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:15
BBBB-
well, really, NOBODY likes hair in their food.
N__B is still smarting over the engineer discussion back a ways, and is obviously looking to hurt others, though.
Looch said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:16
More on AARP from ABC News
So…at least the early signs are positive.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:19
Did someone say zombie-tease?
What would be fun would be an Icelandic-saga / Zombie crossover novel… I’m thinking of the scenes where the zombies have cornered Egill Skallagrimsson but find they are unable to bite through his big, bald, Paget’s-syndrome-strengthened skull.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:21
Nah, I’m just leading him on with my big, shiny melon.
I’m a zombie-tease.
Lich-tease.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:23
Has the copyright expired on the sagas?
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:26
What would be fun would be an Icelandic-saga / Zombie crossover novel…
Didn’t Grettir’s Saga cover this territory sufficiently?
I’m thinking of the scenes where the zombies have cornered Egill Skallagrimsson but find they are unable to bite through his big, bald, Paget’s-syndrome-strengthened skull.
No doubt he’d be extemporizing poetically about the situation the entire time. The novel would have to include a scene of zombies taking the brain out of the mare’s head on Eigil’s níðstöng.
N__B said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:28
Has the copyright expired on the sagas?
Not if Disney has anything to say about it.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:28
tigrismus receives her own internet simply for being the first person since Clark Ashton Smith to use the word ‘lich’.
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:30
@ Cerberus:
Hate to repeat myself, but I’m gonna….
Our Domestic Partnership law we upheld here in Washington should be perceived by the nutjobs as worse than gay marriage per se, because it includes any two people at least one of whom is over 62 (and how long can an age limit like that stand?) Could be a brother and a sister, two sisters, two brothers, a mother and son—there’s your “slippery slope” right there, and it’s written into the law!! These people are too stupid to pick their battles. Five years and they’re history.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:33
tigrismus receives her own internet simply for being the first person since Clark Ashton Smith to use the word ‘lich’.
Computer says no
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:42
Eff you, pal; you’ll get this internet back as soon as Sarah Palin gives back the million+ advance on her 5$ remainder fodder AND NOT BEFORE.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:44
http://www.lich.com/
I beg to differ BBBB, at least in Long Island. Not sure what this has to do with zombies or penis’s or zombie penis’s . . . I think we are way OT.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:51
I didn’t want that internet anyway… it’s like, got Erick Erickson all over it.
I think we are way OT.
Is there ever a topic?
N__B said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:51
I didn’t want that internet anyway… it’s like, got Erick Erickson all over it.
Intercooties.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:56
Didn’t Grettir’s Saga cover this territory sufficiently?
Grettir was no dumb Bare-Sark;
He could rune from his Fu to his Thark.
But his life took a slam
when he killed the lich Glam,
Who cursed him with fear of the dark.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 1:58
“Is there ever a topic?”
No, but it should never be Long Island Computer Help unless they get run over by zombies.
“I didn’t want that internet anyway… it’s like, got Erick Erickson all over it.”
I know, a few jackoffs have to ruin it for the rest of us.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:05
I stand in awe, Smut!
Surely, you are not a draug at parties.
OneMan said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:07
“Our Domestic Partnership law we upheld here in Washington…”
<Heavy> I love this law! </Heavy>
The beauty of this, beyond what Rev. Sir Mr. Battleaxe has pointed out, is that the wingnuts bitched that “marriage” was a special word with its own meaning and that teh ghey couldn’t use it ’cause they’d get gay cooties all over it or something (never could really unnerstand what they were on about).
So the WA Leg created a law that said, OK, couples could get all the benefits of being married without that word being used. Win-win, everybody happy, right?
Nope, the usual pants-pissers and cretins came out from under their rocks to oppose it and force the referendum.
And the people of Washington, those beautiful bastards, turned on the kitchen light and sent them scurrying. Now and again, I see just a little glimmer of hope.
kingubu said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:10
There’s a quick hit up at TPM on the presser. All they say is “hints” at support of the Democratic bill–but no confirmation.
Things change but back in August our House Rep’s pro-reform town hall featured a representative from the AARP whose remarks were uniformly pro-reform/pro-public option (and who was was handing out shiny AARP-produced brochures with the same message). Where there’s been any skepticism at all from them its been limited to making sure that their members don’t get screwed by any changes to Medicare.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:12
I was going to post a comment regarding the confusion that would result when the brain-eating zombies encountered the brain-eating Icelanders, but the Icelanders apparently remove the brain from the Svið before cooking it.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:15
Bleitblart declares that this true crime against conservatizm must not be allowed to stand:
Apparently there is no imagined slight beneath their panickness.
You know what would make the conservatard movement universally loved? For them to go after Sesame Street. That would really play well among the 4 – 9 year old crowd.
Right after Rush Limbaugh’s advice to take candy out of kids’ bags on Hallowe’en and tell them it’s an “Obama Hallowe’en” because, well, because you’re an obnoxious tea party dick.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:19
TALK TO THE HAND.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:20
El Cid, good point but alas, see previous thread.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:23
Also, just to fuck with Bleitblart, Google has put Big Bird on its logo today. Damn Marxist Google.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:25
We need to start carrying little Oscar the Grouch puppets, complete with can, with no explanation whatsoever to the tea partiers. Leave little tiny Oscar the Grouch figures lying around their offices. Make them paranoid.
The Sesame Street Revolutionary Front WILL NOT BE DENIED, and you can tell it to that petty bourgeois Mr. Looper. Or Mr. Cooper.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:25
In a related and equally off-topic thought, the arrival of the Zombiepocalypse will enliven a number of paintings in the National Gallery.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:27
Actually El Cid, I would rather talk about Cookie Monsters than Zombies monsters or Republican monsters.
Joe Max said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:27
Boxer would stomp Fiorina flat. Boxer’s still popular in California, and spending tons of your personal cash on a statewide election (which Fiorina would do) never guarantees the outcome here. It didn’t work for Feinstein, or for Al Checchi or for Jane Harman.
So far as GOP infighting goes in Cali, moderate LA mayor Richard Riordan got “primaried” by “staunch conservative” Bill Simon in 2002. Simon then had his lunch eaten by Gray Davis even though Davis had negative approval ratings at the time of the election!
Boxer’s “negative” ads will write themselves: “Carly Fiorina drove Hewlett-Packard almost into bankruptcy, and then got fired. Do you want to send her to the US Senate?”
Boxer will get re-elected easily, especially if the Teabaggers attack Fiorina from the right during the primary and she manages to survive. On the other hand, if they succeed and nominate a wingnut, Boxer will bury them, just like she did with Bruce Herschensohn and Matt Fong.
Bookmark it, cons!
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:30
Liberals love Sesame Street because almost nobody seems to have a job. Except for Grover, who occasionally seems to work as a waiter.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:30
The blogger Stage Right
He got his start by complaining that Snagglepuss was a tool of the gay agenda… plan, even!
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:31
The Sesame Street Revolutionary Front, a subsidiary of ACORN.
Overfed Longhaired Leaping Gnome said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:31
Is California not as liberal as I imagine? Why is it that conservatives like Boxer, Feinstein, and Pelosi keep getting re-elected?
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:31
Hong Kong? Phooey.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:32
I think you mean “Sponsored by ACORN, and by the letter ‘X’, and by the number ’1968′, mother f***er.”
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:32
PENIS helmet.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:33
I would rather talk about Cookie Monsters than Zombies monsters or Republican monsters.
If Cookie Monster loves to eat cookies… well, let’s just say bring on the Republican Monsters.
And Kermit has a job, reporting the goings-on of people in nursery rhymes and fairy tales.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:35
And Grover also occasionally worked as a super-hero.
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:36
Liberals love Sesame Street because almost nobody seems to have a job
No wonder Beaker has time to maintain a blog.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:37
It is high time that we broke Roosevelt Franklin out of prison.
El Cid said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:37
And Sesame Street tries to destroy traditional marriage.
Big Bad Bald Bastard said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:39
PENIS helmet.
It would be irresponsible not to send that picture to the good people at “accidental dong”.
Overfed Longhaired Leaping Gnome said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:39
El Cid said,
“And Sesame Street tries to destroy traditional marriage.”
Not to mention those homos Bert and Ernie.
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:52
PENIS helmet.
He wanted to make sure everyone through the ages would know he was a dickhead.
That Girl said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:53
…Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.”
This still cracks me up. We’re supposed to be outraged children are being taught about service and volunteerism by the President. This is the “office of the President,” the “Commander In Chief” who we are supposed to respect, even if the office and its occupant are mired in corruption and criminal activity… Oh wait… There’s a caveat to that, isn’t there?
No wonder they think Sesame Street is a communist terror group looking to lead their children into some sort of liberal cult. They’re INSANE.
But, worse, for people who are supposedly so rugged and individualistic and pulling themselves up from their bootstraps, they sure do whine abuot being victims of freaking everything. I think whining about being victims of Sesame frigging Street is a new low for them, though.
g said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:54
The Sesame Street Revolutionary Front WILL NOT BE DENIED,
this is not the first time Sesame Street has aided the enemies of America.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 2:56
‘And Sesame Street tries to destroy traditional marriage”
SHUSH. Many of those Chritians want to keep that option open so therefore, divorce doesn’t count. (I hope this thread doesn’t turn all gay and shit again ;)
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:02
Perhaps this explains the cheetohs fixation. Also.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:02
That girl, we agree but why so serious? Loved your sixties T.V. show by the way. Don’t take EVERYTHING so seriously. If we can’t laugh at this stupidity, what can we laugh at?
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:04
g. heh.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:07
I think Jennifer is spending way too much time on the “accidental dong” site. What do you think?
OneMan said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:10
“I think Jennifer is spending way too much time on the “accidental dong” site. What do you think?”
I don’t think it’s an accident.
Jennifer said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:10
Hey, I gotta keep up with PENIS.
IMHO, this is the best PENIS of all time, see #4. It’s the caption that puts it over the top.
Miss California's 16" Rubber Horsecock said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:17
BREAKING: Carrie Prejean drops suit against Miss California USA after an “extremely graphic” XXX tape is aired for the presiding judge.
According to TMZ, once the defendants’ attorney pressed Play, “it took about 15 seconds for Carrie to jettison her demand and essentially walk away with nothing.”
[LOL!]
This is going to be the most sought after porn video since Hidden Obsessions.
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:23
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=uscc_part1
Miss California's 16" Rubber Horsecock said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:25
Oh – my error, the viewing party included only the pageant’s lawyers and Carrie, according to the TMZ story. No judges.
Center Left Gerrrrbl said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:25
The Sesame Street Revolutionary Front WILL NOT BE DENIED
In point of fact, they are legion. They’ll crush you, also.
pedestrian said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:42
Regarding #2, I’m a pedophile so that’s more than equivalent to your experience. I’m part of the last group of people in America who EVERYONE wants to have no rights, and we get thrown under the bus by the gay community at every opportunity.
I agree with you that pedophiles are subjected to greater intolerance and suffer more legal barriers than those faced by gay people. I don’t understand how that justifies denying equal rights to gay people, or makes that struggle a lower priority than other items on the progressive agenda.
D.N. Nation said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:43
OT: Holy shit, how did we ever miss this?
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:49
Jack Tapper is a tool of the liberal media?!?! WAAAH!
gocart mozart said,
November 5, 2009 at 3:52
Bert and Ernie are the are the Will & Grace of the pre-school Liberal Fascist gay agenda.
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 5, 2009 at 4:08
Holy figgity fuck. That must be one helluva video:
TMZ thought the tape was too much.
pedestrian said,
November 5, 2009 at 4:48
BREAKING: Carrie Prejean drops suit against Miss California USA after an “extremely graphic” XXX tape is aired for the presiding judge.
Why can’t she be more like Stormy Daniels or Ilona Staller?
Smut Clyde said,
November 5, 2009 at 4:54
No doubt he’d be extemporizing poetically about the situation the entire time.
Shorter version [stripped of kennings and alliteration]:
Egil Skallagrimsson poses for Accidental Dong.
Bitter Scribe said,
November 5, 2009 at 5:28
TMZ thought the tape was too much.
Yeah, and the hell of it is, according to TMZ, it’s a solo performance.
I guess to be a pageant contestant, you have to really be in touch with yourself.
Senorita Bonita said,
November 5, 2009 at 5:31
Let him know exactly you feel
erick.erickson@macon.ga.us
contact@redstate.com
Erickson,Erick-[NOTE: STREET ADDRESS REDACTED BY TEH MG'MT'T. SIGNED, TEH M'GM'TT.]
VICTORY said,
November 5, 2009 at 5:34
Why don’t you fucking fags shut up?
Substance McGravitas said,
November 5, 2009 at 6:10
I laugh the evil laugh of the suddenly quite interested.
Substance McGravitas said,
November 5, 2009 at 6:10
Shit! Went straight to Big Hollywood to see if they had it and they’re down.
tigrismus said,
November 5, 2009 at 6:13
I laugh the evil laugh of the suddenly quite interested.
Mwahahahmmm?
zombie rotten mcdonald said,
November 5, 2009 at 6:14
Umm, calling Tintin or other mods.
I believe posting IRL addresses is a banning offense?
Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita said,
November 5, 2009 at 6:39
I believe posting IRL addresses is a banning offense?
Gav is on it.
g said,
November 5, 2009 at 7:10
You know, after going here , I get the feeling maybe Erick Son of Erick is probably NOT one of Macon’s most well-respected councilmembers.
I got the feeling he’s the guy who everyone rolls their eyes when he gets up to speak.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2009 at 7:51
Why don’t you put a lip-lock on my love-muscle, if we’re going jr. high here.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2009 at 7:56
Above vulgar sentiment meant for Victor Victoryson.
Also: Note that Erik son of etc is from the only all honky ward, along w/ a pair of what appear to be wingettes.
handy said,
November 5, 2009 at 8:02
Hey what happened to Erick’s campaign to save his city from the all the unionist-soshalist alleged “cops.” Did he succeed? I regret admitting I’m not up on my local Macon, GA politics.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
November 5, 2009 at 8:37
So, on the ‘youth vote’. One has to realize that we are basically discussing an off-year election and sadly, the youth are pretty fucking lazy when it comes to off-year elections.
Not that everyone else isn’t, just that the youth are as well.
Christ, I’m 26, and I’m not even sure if we had an election in Florida the other day. I’m guessing no, since they’re holding onto the scrap of Florida as their security blanket, but hell if I know what stupidity runs through their brains.
Presidential elections are easier to get out the vote youth-wise, since it’s rather noticeable, rather like the Olympics, but there was other shit to do this year.
Like take a nap, or have dinner at Outback, or something.
a different brad said,
November 5, 2009 at 8:45
I’d just like to rudely interrupt and yell the following;
YANKEES
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 5, 2009 at 13:37
Not that everyone else isn’t, just that the youth are as well.
And they dropped their share of the vote in half. Under 30′s were disproportionately unmotivated, although to be fair – that’s in comparison to last year when they turned out in record numbers.
Still, here’s the point – Obama is credited with being preternaturally awesome at turning out diaffected twenty-somethings. That didn’t happen Tuesday, despite all the time he spent stumping for Corzine. Why?
There was nothing for you to care about. This past year, despite all the progress that’s been made, the Obama administration has been playing to the Village with their quest for civility and bipartisanship. They are behaving like the geezery and stale Washington insiders that they are. No wonder the activist wing of the Democrats phoned it in – what the hell was the point?
Dragon-King Wangchuck said,
November 5, 2009 at 13:44
OTOH, If you young ‘uns were all at home, trying to find uploads of the Carrie Prejean sex tape, all is forgiven – after you post a link.
Makhno said,
November 5, 2009 at 14:24
Re: the Domestic Partnership law in Washington: never underestimate the stupidity and inconsistency of the homophobic right. When we introduced Civil Partnerships here in the UK, the right objected to it precisely because it WASN’T open to any two people like the Washington law. “Why shouldn’t two unmarried sisters be allowed to make an agreement like this – why is it reserved for teh ghey?” was the cry of every Tory rag.
actor212 said,
November 5, 2009 at 15:43
I’d just like to rudely interrupt and yell the following;
YANKEES
As a Mets fan, I congratulate Team Steroid on yet another tainted championship. Cheat to win, a shining example of Republican values.
DAS said,
November 5, 2009 at 15:54
As a Mets fan, I congratulate Team Steroid on yet another tainted championship. Cheat to win, a shining example of Republican values. – actor212
My daughter is learning well: she already refers to the Yankees as “the Stinkees”.
Although I must admit that I was rooting real hard for the Yankees to win game five … because if they won that game, it would have met that I wouldn’t have had to deal with Yankees traffic on my commute home yesterday (instead I just stayed really late at work).
Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind the Yankees so much if more of their fans took public transport instead of causing huge delays on the GW Bridge or if, alternatively, there was viable public transport between my workplace and the city so that I could take public transport on game days.
Maybe my beef ain’t so much with the Yankees as with NJ Transit and the MTA/NYCTC who have constructed public transport routes almost for the sole purpose of getting commuters into lower/mid-town Manhattan in the morning, commuters out of lower/mid-town Manhattan in the evening and party-goers between lower/mid-town/Times Square Manhattan and the ‘burbs at night. Ya know people go to Yankees games in the Bronx or might live in the city and work in the ‘burbs?
Nah — it is the Yankees and their fans that bug me. Somehow a bunch o’ people drive into Mets games yet it doesn’t kill the Grand Central Parkway when there is a Mets’ game.
actor212 said,
November 5, 2009 at 18:20
DAS,
There is the the fact that Yankee Stadium has one, count ‘em one, major highway leading to its immediate vicinity while
SheaCitifield has three, if you count the LIE and the short ride on the GCP.Andrew N.P. said,
November 5, 2009 at 18:41
This is excellent news for the Philadelphia Phillies.
OneMan said,
November 5, 2009 at 19:00
SUCK
</Mariners fan>
Tilting At Windmills said,
November 5, 2009 at 19:57
Somehow a bunch o’ people drive into Mets games yet it doesn’t kill the Grand Central Parkway when there is a Mets’ game.
3,000 fans aren’t going to cause that much traffic.
actor212 said,
November 5, 2009 at 20:36
3,000 fans aren’t going to cause that much traffic.
He’s right. Most of us take public transportation.
a different brad said,
November 6, 2009 at 4:06
Hmm, I’ve only ever taken the subway to Yankee Stadium(s), and there is now an MTA station, so…
The Mets could use more steroid users, and not past-prime ones like Sheffield. Didn’t their team leader have 12 hrs? Maybe they should go back to having their entire team on coke.
And, of course, only the Yankees have players who have made use of advanced chemistry. Every other team in the MLB is clean, it’s just A-Rod, oh and Manny and his sneaking of ‘roids into Big Papi’s Wheaties. Why would anyone, say, suspect Ryan Howard?
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
November 6, 2009 at 7:11
Well, to be fair brad, it isn’t that other teams don’t use drugs, it’s that it’s the fucking Yankees. My father undergoes the Niagra Falls vaudeville routine every time he even hears the word Yankees.
Sloooooowly I turned!
not a gator said,
November 6, 2009 at 20:44
Can’t wait for the coming War On Crist (-mas?). In classic IOKIYAR style, I see online commentators wondering what’s the big deal about his sexual orientation. Well, it wouldn’t matter to us at all if Crist hadn’t been the highest profile politician in Florida (by a longshot) who supported Florida’s anti-gay marriage ballot question in 2008. It wouldn’t be an issue if marrying a beard just as he contemplated mounting the national stage didn’t say volumes about his character.
Crist has done only one thing as governor that I supported, and that was ordering the racist state song shitcanned for his gubernatorial inauguration. Other than that he’s been a pusillanimous puke who fades away if he can’t take the easy way out. He’s past denial–he just doesn’t care. There’s a reason in Fla. he’s known as “Good-Time Charlie”.
St. Trotsky, Pope-in-Avignon said,
November 7, 2009 at 7:38
I miss Lawton.
Josh Fulton said,
November 7, 2009 at 17:59
Delaware beats Switzerland as most secretive financial center
http://joshfulton.blogspot.com/2009/11/delaware-beats-switzerland-as-most.html