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Yeah, I voted. So what?
I expect Al Franken and Mark Dayton to continue the destruction of this state.
Damn. McConnell called in KY already, 54 – 42. That was supposed to be a squeaker.
So ClownCatastrophe announces his tyrannical amnesty tonight.
Maybe make that raw-fuckin’-raw as descriptive of America’s metaphorical squeak-holes, given the ass banging IWonPenPhone’s been doling out.
-I ended-up not voting for the crazed third party Socialist for Governor as I remarked I would [https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=55492#comment-1140608] and, instead, voted for the tech investment Fascist independent – I just couldn’t pull the lever for the Commie Bastard. Fascist businessmen can, at least, be bought-off.
-Also, I wrote a note to Reince:
https://twitter.com/BobBelvedere/status/529796865986809857
– Ok, so I’m not sure if this roaring case of sinus cold I have, added to the Nyquil I’m swilling, is making me delirious or if the RINO’s are actually winning this election and the Senate. Either way I hope this will also be “the later morning open thread” because I’m not sure how long I will remain awake, and polls don’t close for another 3 hours here in lalaland.
Dave Brat brought it home. For thems that wondered.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRREEEEEEEGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!
There is no curse I imagine vile enough to thrust on my fellow Californians who are voting a big huge “Please come commit crime in our state! We don’t mind! Here’s a fruit basket”
Prop 47 looks to pass, it knocks a whole bunch of felonies down to misdemeanors … including fraud and theft under $950 … and wipes out any of them being used as priors or allowing any aggregation of value.
Here’s a perfect example … It’s Christmas time and I decide to help myself to a bunch of free loot (hey, its just a property crime right?) … I hit the mall, go into 5, 10, 12 stores with my booster bag and wire snips. I make sure I “liberate” $949 worth of stuff from each store.
So what if I get busted … each theft is separate. I may have hauled in $10k that one day, but I cannot be charged with more than misdemeanor petty theft at $949 an occurrence.
I’m not going to spend more than 1 or 2 days in jail. I’ll just keep doing it cause I will get away with it some of the time and no matter how long my rap sheet, it will always be a misdemeanor and I’ll never do any jail time.
what.the.fuck.is.wrong.with.voters????
Darleen,
20% of voters don’t care about what they vote on. They flail.
20% are easily led.
10% actually want a nice boot on face, just not theirs
5% might well be fraud.
10% are playing long games that accomplish nothing.
10% are tying to fit in with their crowd.
Only 25% or so are serious and working out what they want and how to get it.
You have been SCIENCE!ED
“Wheels” Abbott beats Pink Sneaker McCatheter Abortion Martyr 52 to 36 with 12% still out.
So they raised money off of her but ultimately made Texas redder.
Yay?
David Dewhurst also narrowly defeated DEESE NUTZ in the “go home ya jerk” race.
Louisiana will have a run off. Landrieu 41% Cassidy 45%
Shaheen projected to beat Shaheen in New Hampshire, 52 to 48.
AoS seems to be down.
wisc
@7%
>
Mary Burke (D)
71,106
40.8%
Scott Walker (R)
101,313
58.2%
<
Hey KIDS!
Heh … looks like Charlie Crist, the man of every party, lost to Rick Scott
And Greg Abbott rolled over Abortion Barbi Wendy Davis in TX.
Gardener beat Udall. War on the War on Women is over. +4 senate seats to GOP
@10.7%
Mary Burke (D)
114,620
41.2%
Scott Walker (R)
160,503
57.7%
http://wisconsinvote.org/election-results
On Fox people are regularly talking over Karl Rove.
Restores my faith in Fox News…a bit.
Tell Me Governor Abbot have you stopped kicking Wendy Davis’ pink sneakered ass?
Montana Daines beats Curtis for Montana’s in play senate seat. +5?
@12.6
Mary Burke (D)
130,958
38.5%
Scott Walker (R)
206,121
60.6%
Gilespie is slightly ahead in Virginia. but it’s going to be close.
Beauprez is ahead of Hickenlooper slightly, still close.
Tilis is ahead of Hagan for the moment in NC,
Roberts is 50%, Orman is 46% in Kansas so far
Walker has had to stand for election now 3 times in 4 years.
Somewhere Chris Christy is crying in his cannolis
@13.6
Mary Burke (D)
140,715
38.6%
Scott Walker (R)
220,697
60.5%
The GOP has the Senate now. If they don’t act upon it (defund just about everything) then it’s time to salt the earth.
boring white guy from wisc 2016!
That’s some cogent analysis right there.
bh it’s still just +5, GOP needs +6 though Landireu is not favored in a run off.
@14.7
Mary Burke (D)
145,548
38.9%
Scott Walker (R)
225,226
60.1%
That’s what I’m referring to, paleo.
Landrieu loses that run-off. The Senate has flipped.
GOP gained perhaps 10 seats in the house.
>That’s some cogent analysis right there.<
resquacking some glenn beck
VA looking goods so far. Tight but only 7% left to report. If the Tenacious D pull fast one with magical ballots it will be soonish.
@17
Mary Burke (D)
166,803
39.2%
Scott Walker (R)
254,311
59.8%
Hickenlooper – Beauprez still unsettled. That’s one important race needs go GOP, for the 2nd’s sake.
GOP is +6 Rounds won SD.
Glenn Beck should maybe be a bit more a states’ man if he thinks that’s cool.
As far as I know though Glenn Beck had a bit of nuance or something along this point. I have no idea really.
Here in Wisco the man basically destroyed the public unions’ ability to own this state. He created hope by delivering change. This didn’t seem to be on the table just a decade ago and now even his opponents won’t even promise trying to appeal these structural corrections.
Walker stomped Burke. 60/40 Wisconsin is GOP-landia. Hat=trick for Union Slayer.
Gillespie isn’t likely to succeed. Nova is vicious left left.
So now I can be happy until Boehner and McConnel tell me that my ass is over their barrel now and Obama is their stick.
ABC is pretending Colorado is still too close to call, btw. They have it GOP+4 (AR, MT, SD, WV)
Hey Dems, we just kicked your ass, so let’s move to the middle. (leftward) because reasons.
Barf. Spit. Barf.
@21.3
Mary Burke (D)
213,062
37.7%
Scott Walker (R)
346,216
61.3%
Ernst that’s the Boulder vs. Every one else thing.
What’s up with Ga. Senate?
Austin Mayor’s race looks like a run off. Fuck.
So CO makes it GOP +5. Where’s the 6th flip?
I hope we’re not counting LA. Because if it comes down to a run off, I expect to lose.
>As far as I know though Glenn Beck had a bit of nuance or something along this point. I have no idea really.<
he surmised about a year ago that a "boring white guy" would be the one who tried to "right the ship" after the "kim kardashian prez"
We win that run-off, Ernst.
ABC just conceded that CO was lost by Senator Uterus.
@25.8
Mary Burke (D)
254,299
38.5%
Scott Walker (R)
400,234
60.5%
We’ve thought that twice before bh
Iowa?
if walker pulls 55-60 % tonite, no gop primary 2016!
Seriously, I’d like to finish tonight +8 so neither GA nor LA matters a shit.
I appreciate your proper sense of doom and oblivion, Ernst.
We win this one though.
Polls just closed in IA.
I guess +7 would be sufficient, wouldn’t it?
It’s all up hill for her.
@27.7
Mary Burke (D)
274,886
39.6%
Scott Walker (R)
412,503
59.4%
http://wisconsinvote.org/election-results
Hmmm. All GOP senators have suddenly disappeared. Vanished from the Earth. And it’s GOOD that Anthony did that! Yes.
Gillespie is behind, and toast. Still, nice run for him given little support.
If Brown had won in NH, I’d be as sanguine as you are.
Although, since I know nothing is going to change except who gets to sit on the sunny side of the lido deck on the good ship Titanic, I can’t think of why I shouldn’t be.
@30.3
Mary Burke (D)
302,042
40.6%
Scott Walker (R)
434,364
58.4%
EXTREMLY pissed off Warner won in VA. He’s up by 3k votes with the rest of Fairfax County to finish. Its a HEAVILY liberal county. Game over for Ed.
I didn’t like Ed as he’s too establishment GOP. But Warner’s been abysmal and I wanted him gone since he was the 60th Obamacare vote
@35.2
Mary Burke (D)
342,829
40.8%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
488,561
58.1%
Glen Reynolds is reporting that Fox is reporting GOP holds in GA & KS.
Well, to put all of this into context no matter what happens everyone you know and love will die. Sometimes painfully.
But, as to this? The GOP has taken the Senate.
Don’t see any call on Ga., but Purdue does lead by 8% with 77% of the vote counted.
Fox just called Ga. for Purdue.
>to put all of this into context no matter what happens everyone you know and love will die. Sometimes painfully<
boring white guy from wisc goes 3 for 3 .
Kool & The Gang – Celebration
Boy is Scott Walker kicking Mary Burke’s ass. Your +7 prediction is starting to look a little conservative there bh.
I maybe saw a bit of internal polling.
Greg Abbot is about to give his speech. Wendy is hopefully being brought lots of bourbon while she waits for a cab now.
UPDATE 6: The race is called in Wisconsin. “It’s over. We will stand with Governor Walker,” says Meade
“Thank you Texas! The people of Texas have spoken and I am deeply honored to be your next governor.” (some idiot yells some shit about republicans)
Keep it classy Austin!
He’d better get unboring. Boring white guy is going to have a helluvua time beating exciting historical first woman president in two years.
Unless old crazy white guy accidently beats exciting historical first woman president in the primaries somehow.
i said 10 forwhatitisworth good times no?
Greg Abbot just pointed out that his wife is hispanic. It’s okay Greg. We’re in Texas. Or are you explaining it for the neo-Austinites in the audience?
It’s funny to watch I’m neighbor Juan play the delusional freak on national tv. What a kook.
>He’d better get unboring<
nah folks know the gig is on its last legs. the bs bubble is popping with the baracky.
Ol’– goddamned autofill.
Good times, nr.
I reckon when we give these sorts of projections we’re trying to make sure that no one thinks it’s a super safe win. Thats what takes a ten to an eight or a seven to five or a one to a loss.
Greg Abbot sez” Contrary to what some people say, businesses DO create jobs. Texans get that.”
“I will do what our federal government failed to do, I will secure our border.”
My local heh moment. Populist Democratic Senate Candidate Rick Weiland outed as Progressive Populist Democrat at his concession speech.
Now Mary Landrieu plays the delusional fool on national tv. Must be money in it.
@47.7
Mary Burke (D)
463,612
42.1%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
626,797
56.9%
Der gon putchoo bakken CHAINZ!
Idiot dipshit is Progressive Populist Democrat is still going on about “taking the country back.”
Hey dipshit. We just did. Your party is out*.
You’re vote will stop another church from exploding. (Mayor subpoenas all sermons of churches)
Sorry, “your vote”. I’m eating chicken wyngz and that hurts my spelling brain.
So, have we officially won enough hope back to lose through betrayal now?
@51.3
Mary Burke (D)
519,496
43.3%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
668,107
55.7%
The blogs are all over election calls, meanwhile, msn and yahoo seem to be studiously avoiding saying anything.
Caution? Reservations about getting it wrong? Fingers in the ears while yelling “lalalalalalala, I can’t hear you” while their party, the Democrats get pummeled in this election?
I don’t find your evident lack of understanding of the structural difficulties the GOP has to overcome in order to win the White House at all disturbing. Not in the least.
But that’s because it’s entirely expected.
Boring White Guy doesn’t carry VA, and is going to have a hell of a time in NC, CO, OH, etc.
he shoots, he scores; walker with the hat trick!!11!!
>Boring White Guy doesn’t carry VA,<
scott walker is "boring" to the proggtared". the rest of us see someone who will go into battle against these clowns.
Mitt Romney: Boring White Guy
John McCain: Demented Boring White Guy
George W. Bush: mildly interesting White Guy
Bob Dole: Old Boring monotonal White Guy
George H. W. Bush Boring White Guy
Ronald Reagan: not a boring White Guy.
You get what I’m saying here?
Hickenlooper 47.2 Beauprez 48.5 (77%)
This.
fraud update
@57.4
Mary Burke (D)
615,504
44.9%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
741,677
54.1%
Ernst called winner Iowa
Jeb Bush: Boring White Guy
Chris Christie: Fat Boring White Guy
Scott Walker: Boring White Guy?
(I’m asking. Obviously he’s a seasoned campaigner having run for governor 3 times in 4 years. Does he have the vision thing? And can he communicate it in a way that turns low to middling propensity voters into high propensity voters?)
Iowa Braley 46.4 Ernst 49.7 (46%) GOP Pickup
For what it matters, as a Wisco voter, I don’t know why Walker should run for president.
Why is this considered a natural state of affairs? Maybe he just hangs out in Wisco for awhile. Maybe he pulls a Cincinnatus. That seems to be a very honorable path to me.
Everybody doesn’t have to be the president all the time. Maybe they just keep doing a good job where they are or maybe do a good job in a lateral move like our friend from Indiana decided upon.
That’s 6 Senate GOP pickups, not counting the LA runoff in December.
The pigs better run!
Ernst is the bright spot of the night for small government constitutional conservatives.
>You get what I’m saying here?<
so you sight a bunch of rockefeller rethuglicans and reagan and put that on walker? we be in badger country now dude.
Tillis called winner NC.
#ScottWalkerForPresident
Even though Illinois retains Durban-Oberweise is gonna go broke running for office-I believe I’ll have a diet coke.
Scott Walker won 3 times now, vs. #WiUnion, and vs. every Progressive fool, tool and fat filmmaker that could be lugged to Wisconsin.
Or, perhaps, Jeb Bush or Chris Christie ?
And the last I saw Hickenlooper was getting his balls handed to him. Couldn’t happen to a bigger douchebag.
Paul Ryan may have acquired a taste for the national office chair. If so, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Gov. Walker back his friend in a run for prezzy.
>Everybody doesn’t have to be the president all the time. Maybe they just keep doing a good job where they are or maybe do a good job in a lateral move like our friend from Indiana decided upon.<
(1st fraud update)
@63.40
Mary Burke (D)
695,614
46.0%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
798,925
52.9%
(2nd)
bh at this point we got start saving the republic.
>If so, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Gov. Walker back his friend in a run for prezzy.<
ryan sucks romney's cock which is attached to the rovebushbushchristie machine.
So you don’t like Gov. Walker after all then newrouter? That’s funny, you were just making his case a minute ago.
bh @7
@66.1
Mary Burke (D)
709,237
46.0%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
815,178
52.9%
I suppose I should try to see it from the Boring White Guy p.o.v.
Between Ebola outbreaks, ISIS, executive ordering the government a better class of citizenry, and reflexively seeking to appease any and all enemies of America, from Iran to China to Russia; two years of interesting times and Boring might be just what the country needs!
>So you don’t like Gov. Walker after all then newrouter?<
please site! after going 3 for 3 in wisc the party boys@rnc are pretty useless to walker. the dude is sarah palin without media bullshit.
If Thillis won, then I can’t help but wonder what might have been had the GOP run on something instead of trusting that Republican frustration would outperform Democrat fatigue.
Joni Ernst on MSNBC, giving her acceptance speech. That gal could be groomed.
I still maintain that he’ll win more by more than a straight 7. Counties bring their counts in at different times. These vote count shifts are expected, they don’t actually give you a real time view of the race.
fraud news
@71.9
Mary Burke (D)
767,561
46.4%
Scott Walker (R)
Projected Winner
870,004
52.6%
Heh. Earlier, someone tweeted “Chris Matthews looks like he has a gerbil in his pants”; someone else, “looks like the thrill is running down his leg”.
The dude is Sarah Palin without national media bullshit.
#MSNBC Presents:
I knew it was going to be a good day when we got a “clean” offer on our house we listed a couple of months ago. It got better when the would-be buyers agreed to move the closing date up a few days at our request. It got better still when I looked them up and found they’ll get along even better with our neighbors than we did.
As I write this the only Senate seats still in doubt, according to Fox News, are Louisiana (runoff next month), Virginia and Alaska.
No one is expecting a net GOP gain of ten seats. Just like no one expected Georgia’s Senate race to be settled tonight.
Cheers, McG. That’s great.
How about a cheerful waltz tune? Like so.
Well, just because the GOP has the majority, that doesn’t mean Harry Reid doesn’t run the Senate.
Unless Dick Durbin says it does.
So we FINALLY have a hill worthy of dying on. Right? Am I right? Guys?
Nah, sorry palaeo, there is no spoon.
“So we FINALLY have a hill worthy of dying on. Right? Am I right? Guys?’
Comment of the night, I say.
I’m far from happy that Mush McConnell will be majority leader, but I’m stoked that Harry Reid won’t.
Ok, if not a waltz, then a rag maybe?
>Unless Dick Durbin says it does.<
chuck u shumer disagrees
>So we FINALLY have a hill worthy of dying on.<
um no there's that one or this one or that over there – rnc
Mitch McConnell in the big boy chair? That’s the hill the GOP wants to die on?
I hold my country’s politicians in contempt, and sometimes my countrymen exasperate me, but I have never doubted America.
how about a fanfare then?
Does anyone have any pictures of Juan Willams almost crying? I might want to make a t-shirt…
Teach Utopia not to rape.
So, who’s the A.G. for Wisconsin? And does he or she have any plans for the criminous Milwaukee D.A.?
That’s Brad Schimel now.
And he’ll do exactly nothing along the way of proper justice in regards to John Chisholm.
There’s a chance that Chisholm might get a bit fucked in a recent lawsuit though.
When does AK come in? Like 2 am eastern or so? Meantime, a girl with flaxen hair.
Okay, we’re entirely off-topic now but it’s interesting to me how once again we get this odd time signature with such depressing work.
What I know about Debussy is null. But, I mean to say it reminds me of when you first linked Bartok.
On a related note, do you cook or clean the house to this music? I find it to be dreadfully true and not a bit peppy and Beatle-ish.
Oh hells no. I never clean house. I do occasionally spark to Widor though.
Glad to see Abortion Barbie go down so hard.
To put this properly, I’m not poo-pooing this sort of thing. Quite often I become rather desensitized to the obvious truth that these songs about our first born dying in a lake or the last time we saw that one girl. And then you can enjoy them. So much so that you listen to a great deal of Bartok over a few months.
I don’t mean to say that peppy and Beatle-ish is better. Just easier. Less conducive to melancholy.
How does Nimrod (Elgar, Var. XI) hit the souley bones? Uplift, or downcast? It ain’t peppy, granted, but I take it rather more cheery than not.
By a link I shall judge them. (Like by a dot I damn them from that one play.)
Link, please.
Nimnigma.
‘pologies for my dyslexic x-i crossup — it’s number nine, which was beatley after all.
Tangent here.
But in Shakes Spear with Orange Julius, what does Marc Anthony say.
With a jot I damn them?
And but with a dot I judge them?
Damned with a dot?
This is killing me now. A little help, please.
Flaxen-Hair’d Debussy is for cleaning your Mosin Nagant, because if you get hurried or jittery, you’ll easily lose the springenwerks.
Why the hell not?
Is it mark instead of dot or jot?
It’s not important but now it’s like a cut inside my mouth that I will keep bothering with my tongue.
I don’t know, Erst. It confounds me.
S’truth though, we ought not to reach for an entirely cheery accompaniment this evening, to the extent that there are terrible residual doubts in our political future, despite what apparent outcomes may fall tonight. We know our betrayal is in the works already, I mean — because our political future is in the hands of Americans, and Americans have been found wanting on just this score.
Colorado Hickenlooper 47.4 Beauprez 48.2 (85%)
Damn. I’m’a have to sleep past this call I suppose. Every cheating Democrat in Colorado is shuffling bits and ballots, cheating and doing indescribable things to push Brickenpooper over the top. And Bloomberg paid plenty to get a win.
Fluke-Flucked with a cherry on top.
A. IV, Sc. 1: “He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE6piCFYKEA
Oh man, thanks, buddy.
It was killing me.
Everything about this night has been perfect. Crist loses. Walker wins. Davis gets trounced.
But Maryland. MY MARYLAND?
WOW.
If it comes to Lenny, Make Our Garden Groan fits our circumstance a bit better, I thinks.
Lawfare goes away one of two ways:
The Democrats get hoisted on their own petard (a la Clinton and the Independent Council statute that no one wants to revive)
The law itself goes away (alea iacta est)
Right now, there’s no downside to engaging in it.
If you regularly thump the progg machine and make them cry despite being their #1 most reviled target, are you really a Boring White Guy?
The groan, I think I did some around and just past the 3:20 or so.
Voice(s). Don’t try this at home.
Let’s just call it a tittle and have a drink and some belly laughs.
No.
I’m not sure that makes you Inspiring White Guy though.
Steven Hayward was writing about payback time just today Ernst (yesterday), though on the subject of ClownDisaster’s potential court nominees. Still, there are many scores which can be taken up for settlement, if indeed the die have been cast. The Senate can easily play further into the game of lose the filibuster, for instance. We only hold our breath against an eventual coming of the GoPro Abrams squadrons churning our beautiful earth.
Repeatedly demolishing union goons and shrieking moonbats inspires me. YMMV.
“Let’s just call it a tittle and have a drink and some belly laughs.”
Good times.
Democrats caught in the wave.
the wave
Katrina and the Wave…s.
Where Miley at? I thought there’d be some shit talking. No?
Wave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiCszcc-FLg
Well, you know me, I’d vote for any Republican, even Mitt Romney, who’d take up the mantra of Frank Slade in his march on D.C.
I’m just not sure how makin’ teachers cry is going to play among the lo-info set that shows up when the Presidential election is on the ballot.
Look, maybe he can sell it. I hope he can, and if any can, it’s him. Assuming he wants to.
hypothesis speculating here.
Only Beauprez / Hickenlooper keeping CO from a severe course correction. Too close to call now. Which means I expect the D’s to steal it.
Hope I’m wrong.
Either way, it’s official: Coloradans may be over their faux column hopey-changyness. And if Hick is re-elected, you can bet your ass it was by way of illegals.
Since I no longer have the honor of working Wednesdays I guess I can listen to Glen Beck tomorrow morning. Hopefully Pat and Stu will have a wacky celebration similar to the one they did in 2010.
6:00AM Buckle up.
Hickenlooper 48.1% and Beauprez is 47.37 with 92.6% reporting.
Lawyers Guns and money, yo.
So, we marginally have the Senate.
We’re still doomed.
LaCivita said that he appreciated their suggestion but that the senator would not be changing course. “It’s all about Obama,” the strategist told them. “That’s the way we win.”
– An interesting analysis of the wave.
I shouldn’t have said “we.”
We have no representation beyond maybe Ted Cruz. There are probably a few others, but not many.
Last night I heard Brit Hume say that politics is a profession like any other and experience counts.
I raged a bit.
“I look forward to working with my esteemed colleagues, who, though defeated at the polls, still have input that I value. In the interests of comity, we expect to work quickly and efficiently with our Democrat colleagues.”
–Generic GOP Pol
Pablo wrote: If you regularly thump the progg machine and make them cry despite being their #1 most reviled target, are you really a Boring White Guy?
I still haven’t made up my mind if elections to the national government’s offices matter, but, I’ll assume they do…
If we want to win the Presidency in 2016, it seems to me that we must have someone who can inspire enough people to win the Electoral College [what’s left of it by then]. Scott Walker is boring, not soaring, when he speaks.
We would need a Sarah Palin / Ronald Reagan / Barry Goldwater type. Someone who can uplift the Soul and make people believe their voting for that person is an American Act, a good deed, as it were.
As some of you know, until recently I have been advocating Mrs. Palin very strongly at my site, but, in the past few months, I have begun to have serious doubts about electing a woman to such an office [a discussion, perhaps, for another time]. So, with those doubts in mind, I am wondering who can pick up the Torch of Freedom and Ordered Liberty, who can inspire people across the Fruited Plain, who will not betray us.
Ted Cruz has concerned me ever since I found out he’s been cavorting in The Hamptons. Rand Paul is a pandering power-seeker and, it seems, a ‘little off’. Mike Pence’s [who can be inspiring] flip on Common Core was tawdry. Etc…
It was nice to see Abortion Barbie get her ass handed to her on a platter.
Hopefully Pat and Stu will have a wacky celebration similar to the one they did in 2010.
Oh, LIKE you’re gonna keep Pat away from that.
Harry Reid has lost his job,
Because he is an evil slob,
Harry Reid has lost his corrupt job,
As the world’s most evil slob.
Thus resolving the question of whether Reid is a neat freak.
Last night I heard Brit Hume say that politics is a profession like any other and experience counts.
Someone with better knowledge of this proposition than I could fill in the gaps I’ll leave here, but it seems to me that this is more or less the teaching of public choice theory. Politicians are economic actors, says public choice theory, like any other economic actors, I think it goes — so they move to incentives and disincentives just as the bicycle shop owners or industrialists move, or for that matter workers in the labor market. And the public too — the voters — also move in these ways. But too often we take too little consideration of these motives, attributing other motives where they do not belong, or concealing from ourselves simpler economic explanations of behavior and substituting not so good explanations in their stead.
Friendship*, on the other hand, gets left by the wayside in modern political thought, where it was essential in, say, Aristotle’s view of the world of politics. That seems to me one big difference in our understanding of our political affairs as over-against the ancient’s understanding of theirs. With us, it’s just business. Which is both good and bad.
experience counts.
For what? In Washington, it only means that you’re more wedded to the machinery, more compromised, better at manipulation and trickery, more responsive to the flattery and vanity of the Hollywood aspect, better at shaking down donors, etc.
Washington is radioactive: the longer you’re there, the sicker you get.
As if we didn’t already know that.
Why on Earth would anyone want to work with people they describe as…
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For what? For winning. That’s it. There isn’t a plan for what comes next, because there is no next. It’s just business: a competition to win. And in this respect as we see by reading it’s very much about the money.
Geoffb sent me a link to this article which appeared in the WaPo last night. It has a nasty axe to grind (it’s establishment triumphalism through and through, celebrating their successes and hiding their miserable failures), but setting that aside for the moment, take a look at a little bit of what it says [my emphases]:
Train them to what? To be less human, less prone to speaking unguardedly. It’s just business. It for damn sure isn’t natural except for a vanishingly few examples, the sorts we can end up calling statesmen (Reagan) or natural politicians (Bill Clinton). These two latter are distinct types, by the by, but share the ease of association with electorates.
Winning is all there is for these. And winning for these requires the appearance of a certain sort of character. Not a genuine private character mind, raw, flawed, naked to view — not someone who is, say, in love with Plutarch’s Lives (just to pick one politically erotic attraction from the ether) and might blurt that out, or in love with some goofy hobby to which no-one in the vast muddle can relate and which can be easily spoofed or made to appear off-putting. Nope. Inhuman is the ticket. It’s just business.
Hickenlooper won? Shit. Jeff I’m sorry.
Quinn is refusing to concede.
The Dem from Alaska has refused to concede.
If Alaska goes our way that will make it 8.
What are the odds that Reid will change the Senate rules back to where a minority of 46 can block anything done by the majority? 46 is to ensure that the 45 now there can’t do anything and that the 46-47 Democrats after Jan. can.
Just how pissed is old Barry? Is payback coming – blanket amnesty? If he does, will immediate impeachment proceedings begin? Or will Republicans be too frightened to impeach the first “black” president, and thus the big-O will still have his pen and phone to do whatever he wants for the next two years?
He sees himself as President of the 2/3rds who didn’t vote and the >1/6th who voted Democrat so he has a 5/6th majority backing anything he wants. Right?
And in news from Behind The Lines:
New Hampshire flips one House Seat, but rejects the Carpetbagger. Amazingly, the metropolitan areas next to the Mass. border are voting red, while the boonies (My Place) are solid blue. Live Free or Not.
As to Rhode Island, never a state to notice cause and effect, 60 years of Dem control resulting in RI being last among 50 in most categories is validated by a solid blue sweep. Yes, Pablo, the Famous First Female governor Raimondo took a plurality of 40% to beat Alan Fung, with Cool Moose Party Bob Healey stripping off 22 % of the vote. Insanity – doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
BTW, Healy spent $35.00 on his campaign.
Linky fail. Insanity
Listening to ClownCatastrophe bloviate one gets the sense that he’s an eminently practical liar who figures he has to buy his own bullshit before anyone else will. This, despite that he never suffers a challenge from an even only ordinary skeptical press. What a clever boy his mommy was happy to pat on his head! What a sad sack.
Of shit.
– Every time a Lefty wins an election another little devil gets its horns.
– Obamafucker is going to try to snap the ball before Congress can get the challenge flag out of its hip pocket.
– Progressive Marxists are dangerous when they’re elected and even more dangerous when they’re rejected.
He can’t do that if they’re going to get anything done in a lame duck session.
And the rules of the present Senate aren’t binding on future Senates.
Although, it would be interesting to see whether or not McConnell would act as if they were.
The gains of republicans in state houses and senates were large yesterday, possibly offering greater promise of advancement on the convention of states under art. V. — Could be the very long game medicine our politics needs.
– Whats a good Hollywood Commie to do when even your local pets get kicked to the curb.
I did not know about this LA race. Shriver was backed by Hollywood against a liberal lesbian? Haters.
Go Zelda!
IRS Admits To Court They Never Even Looked for Lois Lerner E-Mails…
I knew that they weren’t but figured if Reid changed them back to something that gave back leverage to a minority, a minority which was the size his will be after Jan. then if McConnell changed them back he would be portrayed, by the Democrats and the press, but I repeat myself, as having changed the rules not as just using what was there before.
Yes, I tend to run-on sentences.
How very French of him:
McConnell pre-emptively surrenders
>McConnell pre-emptively surrenders<
because the 2013 shutdown hurt so bad in 2014
Because squeezing money out of peasants for the king to spend is what courtiers do.
EXCLUSIVE – Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden revealed: Rob O’Neill named as SEAL Team Six hero who shot 9/11 mastermind three times in head – and has already inspired series of Hollywood films
Headline News.
Republicans take Senate..Control Congress.
Senate Leader McConnell sues for terms of peace.
All is well.
Go about your business, Citizen.
I tend to run on meat, potatoes, and cheap Scotch.
[…] -Scott Walker was impressive in his Acceptance Speech [tip of the fedora to GeoffB]: […]
“I tend to run on meat, potatoes, and cheap Scotch.”
Man, just wait until you find out about cheese. Hoo boy. Buffets ain’t never gonna be the same.
Casting Crowns – Thrive (Official Lyric Video)
Casting Crowns – All You’ve Ever Wanted
Happy
Steely Dan: Black Friday
“A Time for Choosing” by Ronald Reagan
After he got reelected we all forgot about Obama’s dreaded voracious campaign bus …until he threw the whole damned senate under it, Tuesday.
I wonder what election night blogging was like on little green shitballs.
Chunks of provolone cheese, Melba Toast, and Bourbon: a little bit of Heaven.
Moribund regional rump party somehow kicks through impervious walls of soiled beltway hug box to stun gibbering addled drones of lightbringer mafia. Tea Party nods and braces for long long knives.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/05/what-schumer-wrought/
TL:DR Schumer’s Gang of 8 did not do so hot in the midterms. Probably it serves as a referendum on the popularity of “bipartisan” immigration reform schemes.
Moribund regional rump party
speaking of moribund Team R needs new leadership
McConnell is like 80 and Boehner is a cunt
Let’s rectify
melba toast just adds carbs plus it rhymes with smelba host
ClownDisaster declares: “What we have here is a failure to communicate”, while issuing himself a license to write into the 2/3s silence anything he pleases.
What’s that called?
‘Feets: melba toast just adds carbs plus it rhymes with smelba host
And pikachu’s smell like toe jam.
Palaeomerus:
And night begins to fall.
*** Democrats lost their majorities in the West Virginia House, Nevada Assembly and Senate, New Hampshire House, Minnesota House, New York Senate, Maine Senate, Colorado Senate, Washington Senate, and New Mexico House to Republicans, who also won enough seats to tie control of the West Virginia Senate, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reported on Wednesday.
“Everyone knew it was a Republican year, but they really blew away expectations at the state legislative level,” said Tim Storey, the bipartisan group’s election analyst. ***
Good control of State Legislatures statistics:
http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/statevote-2014-interactive-map-before-election.aspx
http://www.ncsl.org/Portals/1/Documents/Elections/Legis_Control_2014_Nov5_5pm.pdf
http://www.ncsl.org/blog/2014/11/05/republican-wave-capsizes-democrats.aspx
Article V, Away!
Even in California the Democrats lost something at the State level.
But the Democrats have identified the problem that they must fix.
Just a law away, total voter turnout.
BTW.
Republicans didn’t win and Obama didn’t lose.
Gimmie Shelter
Well, I’m a little bit dumber for reading that. Thanks geoff.
Next time I want to kill brain cells, I’ll just huff turpentine.