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Are they keeping you well supplied with pudding cups, paste and exotic tryptamines?
Jeff–
Make that sticky, so we don’t have to keep on pointing out your actual location to readers jonesing for some real PW goodness.
TW: hot69
Maybe this is my lucky day, after all.
There is a God: As of this hour, it’s pouring rain in the socialist paradises of Detroit, Seattle, and Portland. <Chuckle.>
I’m in a no-win situation here.
My Democrat girlfriend has said that the only way I’m getting any lovin’ tonight is if the soundtrack is CNN reporting a Dem takeover of both houses….
It’s not FAIR!!
(mutters)
Goddamn crypto-commie croissants…
****SPOILER ALERT****
That twenty minutes of
under a never-loading blank white page is the ending.
BECAUSE OF THE EXISTENTIAL INSIGHT.
I don’t know how I got there. Perhaps in an ambulance…
I just voted. Is there more than one type of Diebold electronic machine? B/C for two years I have heard about the dangers of not having a paper trail, but my machine was printing a backup receipt.
Oh, and for the first time in my life, Straight <bold>R,</bold> baby! It feels good to be a reactionary.
LOL…Same here sockpuppet. I did hesitate at Governor, however. Here in Ohio, our repubs have had their troubles, but not Blackwell. And at the same time, the democrat (Ted Strickland) is a real fiscal conservative and being a federalist, I thought I might give a little love to the democratic side. However, I went with the R because I wanted to try on the straight party ticket for size. It didn’t fit too well, but what’s done is done.
Pretty good turnout in my ultra-Republican precinct this morning, and I don’t think they were voting Democrat.
– Tell you the truth I liked our new electronic machines here in So. Cal. So simple even a
SecProggCaveman could do it, and they print out a ballot stub showing exactly how you voted on every line item that you inspect, and then approve, which is then sealed in a container,and blasted into spaceand sent to the registra of voters for counting. I’m sure even the dead voters on the Dem roles will love this new approach.Techie,
Two words: new girlfriend.
I claim voter disenfranchisement because my polling place this morning smelled like B.O. Perfect for the self-loathing, non-self-lathering progressive, but not so much for a Northern California conservative like myself. Should I call the Dem hotline?
Pouring rain in Seattle and especially Portland doesn’t mean shit because most people in Washington vote by mail and everybody votes by mail in Oregon. Plus, other than Dave Reichert’s race with some dimwit whose only qualification is she managed to get Microsoft stock options when they were worth something–there is really not on the ballots in Oregon or Washington that is going to affect national issues (Maria Cantwell, whose qualification was she got stock options from RealPlayer, has it in the bag, unfortunately, for the Senate).
LionDude, is this you?
Voter Fraud Hotline Call
Techie,
Two words: hand job.
Here in Boston where the Son-of-Dukakis, Deval Patrick is looking to be the one to take it, my polling place ( the library ) was full of poll workers who all seemed to be out of their minds.
First, when I asked if they wanted to see indentification they said no. I do understand the court struck down the i.d. requirement, but it is odd.
Second, when I went to feed my card into the machine, the second card didn’t go in and was being spat out by the machine. The poll worker says “here, I’ll trick the machine” and he sticks a pencil in a hole in the front of the machine and it accepts the card.
None of this will likely change the onset of creeping socialism in Massachusetts, but my in my experience of the polling center… it didn’t feel like a very rigorous, or professionally run process.
At least they let you vote still in Massachusetts. Our current governor got into power because King County decided it could not tollerate a Republican winning. So they made some votes up to cover the difference.
What election? There’s an election today?
You know, if you people had these conversations over at PJM under my posts, I wouldn’t feel quite so isolated, alone, disconsolate, and naked.
Well, I’d still feel naked—but only because I’m not wearing pants. So that’s just incidental.
Yes, but are you offering free cocktails?
Or cigarettes?
No. But thankfully, I’m getting writing pointers from something named “Hamburglar.”
Makes me miss doing this all the more!
Techie,
Two words: Bitch slap.
Oh, wait…cock slap.
Well y’know, Jeff, you can never really have too much advice from madison-avenue-created McDonald’s characters. That’s pretty much a given, dude.
Try and keep up, huh? And put on some pants. Nobody wants to see that shit.
.
BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF PIE!!!1!11
LOL
I just talked to my daughter. The person doing exit polls at herplace was an 18 yr old Jr.
college brat who had an ugly raggedly cut cardboard box sloppy block lettered “EXIT POLL.” Her approach was to stand perfectly still and, as people walked by, exclaim, “So,you wanna do this?”
Is there a problem with exit polls? Just askin’…
You know, I personally thought that the dems would score this time around just because the republicans seemed to get too girly about everything.
Not that the dems aren’t girly.
Anyway, I hope this proves to all of my socialist buddies that the elections really aren’t rigged.
Or is that what ROVE wants them to think?
BTW, who is going to start the “I’m sorry, I voted Republican” website for the Iraqi’s?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
Get used to it, bitches.
Now that they are in charge of Congress:
Why haven’t the democrats found Bin Laden?
Why haven’t the democrats defeated the Iraqi ‘insurgents’?
Why are troops dying on their watch?
Pelosi dyed and troops died!
Oh yeah?
What’s Nancy doing about North Korea?
Huh!?
What hasn’t Pelosi gotten us out of Bosnia!?
(goddamnit this next two years is gonna be fun!)
C’mon world: Please love us now….
Looks like the Senate will stay “R” so Pelosi can bellow and stomp all she wants…
What!? The House is Democrat and we’re still in Iraq?!
Pelosi dyed and people died!
A little sumpin’ to cheer you guys up…
Sing along!
A little bit of Nancy in my life
A little bit of Debbie by my side
A little bit of Amy is all I need
A little bit of Maria is what I see
A little bit of Jennifer in the sun
A little bit of Claire all night long
A little bit of Hillary here I am
A little bit of you makes me your man
http://tinyurl.com/y98x7n
So! How about that Britney-Kevin thing, huh? If those two crazy kids couldn’t make it, who can?
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—A Democrat took the House seat once held by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who resigned earlier this year following a series of scandals, networks projected Wednesday. Democrat Nick Lampson, a former congressman, defeated Republican Shelly Sekula-Gibbs, who was running a write-in campaign. Democrats have captured 23 Republican seats, more than enough to take control of the chamber.
Dig it, bitches!
So running on an anti-corruption platform, we now have John Murtha as Majority Leader and Alcee Hastings as Intelligence Chair.
My irony meter is shot.
I pray for the people of Iraq. If the Senate falls into Democrat hands, they will do just as they did in Vietnam, only this time the repercussions will be horrendous.
In Vietnam, by the time the Democrats deserted the troops by cutting funding for the war, other nations in the region had developed economies that allowed a firm rejection of the horrors of Communism. In the Middle East, where oligarchies breed terrorists and always have, there are no regional economies that will withstand the Islamofacist onslaught. If Democrats cut and run, as they seem wont to do, the only nation in the West capable of defending the West will indeed be revealed as unable to fight its enemies resolutely.
Oh well, it is not my children who will be the victims of the Islamist state to come, since I have no children. But Nancy Pelosi has five grandchildren, and they will suffer the consequences of her political deeds in this Congress.
Oh, and since the House has flipped, I fully expect the Senate to flip. That is the historical precedent.
We’re going to see a lot of triumphalism, followed by a fair quantity of flatulence.
Its the Democrat way.
PS. Unlike you fucks, we’re good winners AND losers. Congrats.
Guys,
Get ready for some of the best political theater of the Century!
Watch Bush offer up a “Support the War on Terror” Bill in the next six months, or a request for a funding increase for the WOT, and let’s see how our “New Course” Congress reacts.
Or, imagine what our “new” congress does when Bush escalates US military involvement in Iraq’s troubled regions, or the Punjab. What will his loyal opposition counter with?
Will it be “more troops,” “less troops,” “strategic redeployment to Okinawa?” Speaker Pelosi will need to have an answer when the new Congress gets tapped for its opinions on Iraq. What will she say?
My guess is, the Dems’ll vote with Bush, but use their media organs to obfuscate their pro-War votes for their anti-war base. It’ll be a Masquerade Ball, with the theme being all things “New,” and the NYT is catering!
This should be real good!
-Steve
Welcome back. WTF is a typekey identity, are they insane? How much crap am I supposed to remember in order to make dick jokes on the internet?
Good morning you backslapping, self-absorbed jerkoffs. I just stopped by to say : the last few months, while you guys were here busy making juvenile inside jokes, Dem supporters were out doing the work to win back Congress. Maybe you guys should get off the couch, stop reading this stupid website, and do something you can be proud of : get sterilized.
Hey heet, shouldn’t you be filing a lawsuit or something?
Nope, too many subpoenas to fill out.
Well if it’s not filled out by now it’s just never going to grow, so stop playing with it.
Get sterilized? Is that a new Dem proposal?
I have to say, I like the idea better than tossing fetuses in the medical waste bin, but we conservatives are really fond of our children, which is why we raise them instead.
Indeed.
Curiously, the Dems elected may not be the rabid DU/KOS variety, since to be elected, and to stay elected, they have to be conservative or moderate in approach to the big issues of today. The reason the Repubs failed in this election was that they strayed from their conservative roots (a la The Gang of Fourteen, failure to contain spending, and so forth). If Pelosi thinks this is a mandate for socialist escalation, she – and the DU/KOS crowd – are in for some choppy times.
Remember the first few weeks of Bill Clinton’s first term? His popularity plummeted into the 30s until he moderated and threw his gay constituency under the don’t-ask-don’t-tell bus.
When I come back, it’s going to be fun being on the side that no longer bears responsibility for keeping the whole fucking world safe.
Have at it, heet, et al.
Of course, how many hawkish Dems did you have to elect to take control of Congress?
Triumphalism? Hell, many of us here would have voted for moderate, hawkish Democrats or hawkish libertarians. It’s the far left that we despise—and why not? They are power hungry buzzards who’ll do and say anything to take control, and their agenda is anti-American in the clinical sense: they are quasi-socialistic and anti-individual, and they promote policies of collectivism, wealth redistribution, etc., while brooking no dissent and using any and every deplorable tactic to whitewash both history and their own horrific records.
I voted for republicans, democrats, and an independent yesterday. None of my choices won… But, the candidates that did seem solid moderates and consevatives.
I also note that Wisconsin passed a gay marriage ban and voted to reinstate the death penalty. Not bad for a blue state….
I’m glad the trend went the way it did. Conservatism appears to have prevailed. The Nutroots got the boot yet again…
One more thing….. DIEBOLD!!!!1!!11!
But I thought it was a mandate, that this is a sign the majority clearly want change. You mean it was a purely political victory and only a sign that the democratic machine was more efficient? Wow, guess that means the Iraqi people may not be as fucked as I had feared.
I think you could say this was the first victory of Information Warfare. I have perfectly nice friends who voted Dem yesterday and are completely clueless about the real issues involved. They get all their info from the MSM. If the Reps want to win, they’ll have to get serious about use the media better. Hell, even the terrorists know how to use the media better than the administration does.
Enjoy your moment of schadenfreude, assholes. In two years, it’ll be another story entirely. Time is on our side.
And I never, ever, want to hear anything about Republicans being fascists out of your lying mouths ever again.
President Bush needed a kick in the ass about Iraq. Change is fine, Rumsfeld is an asshole who has screwed things up, it’s what change our new Democratic Overlords have in mind that scares me.
Bush better realize more than his legacy is on the line here–he needs to win Iraq by 08. He started this war, he had better win it. Reach out to Joe Leiberman and Jim Webb and other moderate commonsense Dems and come up with a plan that works. And stop listening all the time to Cheney and Rumsfeld.
I do not want to see helicopters lifting our embassy personnel off roofs in Iraq in a few years and us running in defeat from Jihadis.
What Jeff said. Also, to capitalize on what DWB (and Jeff) stated, it’s true, the moderates won. How’d that lamont guy do?
Does anybody really believe that the dems will cut and run in Iraq, though? I don’t. They lied to fire up their lunatic base, imo. If they really do decide to try and cut off funding for Iraq and/or just decide to pull up, I will be very stunned. And for the moonbats out there, I was NEVER a proponent of the war. Just for different reasons than your fairy tales of war for oil, blood, cheap turbans, etc…
Triumphalism? … Erm, would that be in grand support of the hard Lefts brilliance, in which they managed to come up with the ONLY loss in this Dem take over? *snort* – gawd those people are so fucking delusional….
Open Letter to Repubs
You. Morons.
This is your fault, and nobody’s but yours. Not the Dems, not the Alien Media Nation, not the “ignorance” or “stupidity” of the electorate.
They ran on a campaign in which they proposed exactly nothing, and they still won. Which means that you guys were running on less than nothing.
Let me tell you why you lost…
(submitted to both my sentators and rep)
well, I for one would feel better if we could get a Speaker of the House that knew my husband and a few thousand of his brothers in arms were still in Afghanistan.
To be fair, that’s also what we saw from the Rebulican side in 2002 and 2004.
The big difference will be that no celebrities on the republican side will talk about emigrating. The right side blog comments won’t be full of losers opining that the election was stolen and they’re gonna get out before the camps open for business. The republicans will roll up their sleeves, correct the deficiencies in theirt message, and come back on the platform that they are republicans and not that they aren’t democrats.
Short form – the war on terror is not lost yet.
Jim Webb isn’t so Bad wrote,
“Bush better realize more than his legacy is on the line here–he needs to win Iraq by 08.”
I thought America needed to win, Jim. Not Bush. I sense you are politicizing the war, and setting the Dem’s up to gain from failure in Iraq.
Is what we have to look forward to from the Dem’s “New Coarse” for the next two years? And how is it any different from their last course?
Waiter!
-Steve
Dicentra, you’re right on the money. The Dems have been foolish at best for the past… well, since Reconstruction at least. And what did the Republicans do? Nothing. The Dems deserve to be told what idiots they are, and the electorate needs to hear that. Yeah, the Republicans were fighting the Six Year Itch, but they were also fighting against the most annoying, deluded, and crazed Dems I’ve seen in years.
If all goes well, the Congress will remain divided, but this election will send a message to the Republicans who will wise-up, remember what they were given power to do, and FUCKING DO IT. Shit, at least talk about it. The Dems will have two years to embarass themselves and the Republicans have just as long to renew that contract.
We’re not going to cut and run!
We’re just going to redeploy somewhere else and not fight!
Man, how would you like to be a minority Iraqi Sunni today? They are going to get theirs hard….