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Well, it may not have been everything we could ask for, but it was a truly good night.
The Republicans forgot that you cannot win with just your base.
Hopefully the Democrats have learned that leason now.
Its time to be adults. Lets show them what people who do not hate their government can do.
from (dem-heavy) Philly: …”inside several voting locations,individuals have poured white out onto the polling books and the poll workers are allowing voters to go into the polls and vote without first registering. Several individuals are on hand demanding that voters vote straight democrat.”
SHAME.
JDB @ 1: “Its time to be adults. Lets show them what people who do not hate their government can do.”
Does this mean that you guys are finally going to have the vet give Roger Rabbit that shot that’ll put him in Permanent Sleepy Time? ;-)
Congratulations to “your side” are in order. From what I see, the DNC did exactly that I’d hoped the RNC would do — ran a bunch of Moderates (“Blue Dogs” and “Clinton Democrats” on your side). Hopefully, this will shut up the NeoCons, Far Righties and Evangelicals that thought they had some mandate. In the Senate, it makes Moderate alliances like the Gang of 14 all the more powerful.
Personally, I was glad to see the couple of Dems I voted for win (mainly because the Republicans in those races were way too arrogant and/or sell-outs of true GOP ideals).
Here’s to hoping that Howard Dean, JDB and the rest are being honest when they say that they’re looking to act like adults. The aforementioned NeoCons, Evangelicals & other Far Righties sure didn’t. Though, God help us with some of the equally kooky and arrogant Lefties you guys apparently have planed for chairs.
And, worst case scenario, if the Dems decide to follow BunnyBoy’s plan, at least we can count on the country doing a major What-The-Hell-Was-I-Thinking and swing the pendulum back in ’08.
Right on JDB.
Little Eddy Orcutt take notice: the Wise Use Butt Boy Richard Pombo CA-11 has gonbe down. Better watch out about your fondness for Chuck Cushman, and Abramoff…voters are thinning the herd it is only a matter of time before they look under your rock.
One thing to new Congress and the President can accomplish together at once – real immigration reform with a guest worker program. Putting that on the front burner, in front of bills that the House Dems know will either not pass the Senate and/or will get vetoed, would show some real maturity on their part.
Good morning wingnut traitors. How does defeat taste?
Pbj shill? WOS? Mark1? YO?
Cheerleaders for the worsening meat grinder Iraq. Cheerleaders for borrow and squander. Cheerleaders for trampling on the rights of Americans. Cheerleaders for the arrogance of power. Cheerleaders for corruption.
Now that the children have been sent to their room (the “room” is jail for some), the adults are going to have a serious discussion on how to clean up the mess you all have helped make.
real immigration reform with a guest worker program
In other words, you want a large work force who cannot vote. You want the wet dream of the Preznit in the White House. You want the policy of a model democracy like Saudi Arabia. Sorry not going to fly. Demagoguery.
Go back to your room. Let the real adults who have thought out a realistic policy over the years work it out.
Your Right Clueless
All the soldier’s families can now plan festive christmas coming home parties.
Our troops are coming home !!!!!
If constructive policies are going to prevail the Dems must first conceive strategies to overcome the resistance of seriously deluded man and his radical circle in the White House together with his remaining enablers in Congress.
It’s a tall order.
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”
— Winston Churchill
This is a TIDAL FUCKING WAVE – we now control the majority of Governorships. That’s huge. Thanks to the dirty trucks of about to be felon Tom Delay, Governors have absolute authority when it comes to redistricting. This means we can do the same things Tommy did and there’s nothing the righties can do about it.
This is a perfect example of be careful what you wish for motherfucker!
Even if we don’t get the Senate, we’re going to reduce the GOP majority there. We can at the VERY least completely derail the Bush regime’s agenda to ruin this country.
And the cherry on top?
That freak POPEADOPE got his ass properly kicked!
Man this is better than Christmas!
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities.”
– Winston Churchill
Commentby Ken In Seattle
I’ve always liked that one, but right now I’ve got to go with:
All your base are belong to us
Potty mouth at #20
Now you have to actually prove yourself. That means work, fulfill those promises, back up your word.
You got 2 years to accomplish this without whinning. Winners don’t whine, they have a plan and they make it work.
First order of business, and expected by millions of Americans is to Bring The Troops Home. Most expect Immediate Withdrawal.
Good Luck
The Republicans are looking like a regional political party with a strong base in the deep dumbland. They should deliver their speeches at NASCAR events.
They should deliver their speeches at NASCAR events.
Have you watched NASCAR? They already are GOP campaign rallies.
Commentby Truth
Under which of your many pseudonyms did you predict the GOP would maintain control of both houses of Congress?
More lessons and milestones…
First ever defeat of a gay marraige amendment in Arizona
The Neo-Cons are doomed and have lost their power
Karl Rove – the antigay gay republican has been shown he can’t keep beating a dead horse and win
Running against Bill Clinton no longer works for the GOP – someone should remind them he’s not running for office
Lush Flimbaugh has proven you can’t mindlessly lie and attack a guy with Parkinsons and get away with it
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I have to wonder how much the Oxy-Moron’s antics helped Claire McCaskill. He’s become such a joke, it’s incredible. One of his latest missives was, and I paraphrase, the terrorists have involved themselves in this election, and that must mean that the terrorists want the Democrats to win. Gosh, Rush. You’ve involved yourself in this election, so that must mean you want the Democrats to win too.
Some of the Faux News favorite right wing asshole talking heads were among the victims in last night’s romp over the Bush regime and its ilk…including gasbag JD Hayworth.
Man even the best liars (and they’re all GOP members) will have a hard time spinning this blowout.
And to all you righties who keep asking what we will do now that we have control?
ANYFUCKINGTHINGWEWANT assholes!
Oh yes and it gets better. Freedom is preseved in South Dakota where the toughest anti-abortion bill in the country was beaten back badly.
And it’s official Mikey’s drubbing by Maria was one of the worst on record. Few US Senate candidates have ever been beaten by such a wide margin.
Stupid @ 32
Plenty of U.S. Senate candidates have been defeated by wider margins than Mike!(TM) McGavick lost by. Cantwell is defeating McGavick by 58% to 39%.
For example, Hillary Clinton (D-NY) defeated her Republican challenger by 67% to 31%. Kay Hutchison (R-TX) defeated her Democrat challenger by 62% to 36%.
God bless this world
22 kiroking
If the vast majority of citzens want us to withdraw from iraq, then we should withdraw. This is a democracy.
WAS ONE OF THE WORST on record Dickie – not THE worst. Jeesh no wonder you can’t get elected.
And look at how low you’ve gone. You’re stuck crowing about your guy being drubbed by nearly 20 points!
Man that’s desprate.
Good work Goldy! My hat is off to you. I had like to have you and the drink liberally crowd to a 5th district meeting soon to see if we can mobilize the forces a little. We did not have a single candidate for the legislature and I think that hurt the Burner campaign.
First things first. First, after the first one hundred hours, we re-fund the GAO. It doesn’t sound like much, but in six months the political landscape will be littered with corpses. . .
Commentby Truth— 11/8/06@ 2:20 am
Other than the other anonymous coward troll that posted this yesterday, I haven’t found any references to this.
If you’ve got some evidence beyond your own vivid imagination and a desparate need to find some explaination for the results of this election that does not include the American public wanting honest government, please post it.
Good news flows from the 26th District over on the left side of the Sound. Derek Kilmer, Pat Lantz and Larry Seaquist all won by what could only be called landslides.
The sleaze campaign by the Speaker’s Roundtable against Derek Kilmer didn’t even get his opponent above the 40% mark, and even with Lois McMahan’s shock troops voting as a block for Ron Boehme, Larry Seaquist sailed to victory. Whew! Apparently, clean campaigning can win.
Even better, this may spell the end of the far-right Republican block having control of the local Republican party. While this may make them harder to beat, it will also (hopefully) result in their fielding better candidates that won’t embarass my district if they do get elected.
One side point. Thank you, Goldy for all the work you do in keeping this site together and giving us a space to discuss, rant and vent, along with encouraging us all to support good candidates and discuss issues.
we re-fund the GAO.
Absolutely. The Dems MUST restore accountability. The corrupt rubberstamp Republicans have stomped on it throughout their reign.
Just a little note I left for the Snark over at (u)sp.
Guppy, Guppy Guppy;
I know the bad weather means you have more windmills to tilt at, obvious to every one but you, this was a Tidal wave.
Captain Snarkansky of the Poseidan.
“WTF is that coming our way?
Is judge Bridges in Chelan still available, to show you the only cheaters you ever find are for the GOP?
You now get the “nom de plume” that Mr Cynical received…….Mr. Irrelevant.
You too never get it, that you need to talk about the positives that the GOP bring to the average guy. I know it must be tough to find anything really to work with from them, but that’s the point.
If there is nothing good coming out of these guys, then it’s time to change. Winning elections by fear alone doesn’t work anymore. The American people can not be distracted anymore. They see the man behind the curtain, and he is Scr*wing them every chance he gets.
Any chance that you might start with a little Critical thinking?
Did you repent for the false witness that you bear on Yom Kippur?
Or are you just planning on being one of the converted when your pals all rapture up?
Were you promised something in the neighborhood of 72 virgins?
Just be nicer to Mrs Shark, tell her you want more than Donna Reed as a partner. Then and only then will you find enjoyment in THIS lifetime.
Hey Mike!,
Kiss my ass.
Man, the spammers are active today. How about a few deletes, Goldy, when you wake up?
Miscellanious, “train of thought” comments:
1. Well, at least McGavick left the building on a classy note, congratulating Maria on her victory in a manner which was quite a bit better than the usual pro-forma fashion.
2. I’d love to see the details of where the outstanding ballots are in the Reichart/Burner race, but by the time we get that info they will probably already be counted. I’m hoping that there are still a lot of “early” absentee ballots which haven’t been counted yet, as they may trend more in her favor. I wish she had been able to respond better to the attack ads which swamped the airwaves the last week of the campaign. I’m convinced now that the way to respond to negative advertising is to call them on it, the faster the better. Then the negative ads have to be pulled, or they will work against them, not for them.
3. I can’t believe Conrad Burns still is in the race in Montana. I felt certain that idiot would have lost in a landslide, but then I don’t really know much about Montana or his opponant. I only know what Burns did in public which made him such a laughinstock.
4. When is Ted Stevens/Alaska Senator up for re-election? I wonder how he will be viewed after (a) he intentionally targeted a fellow north-west senator for defeat at the polls and failed, (b) his political pull in the Senate might be dramatically reduced if the Republicans are in a minority there. Just goes to show how important control of the Senate really is.
5. I knew the Virginia race was going to be close, but I never imagined it would be this close. Let the recounts/lawsuits begin!!!!
6. Dang, Ford lost in Tennessee. The fact that he came this close is actually pretty impressive. He is quite young, black, and Democrat in what has become a pretty solidly Republican state. I think he’s got a future at least as bright as Obama.
I didn’t like Corker because he is a former Chattanooga Businessman/Mayor, and a Republican. I didn’t see anything good that could come out of that combination (and I grew up in Chattanooga, so I know a bit about the local politics there).
From a Legislative District ballot count:
Rodney Tom, who left the Rs because they got too insane even for him, won the Senate seat for LD No. 48. His campaign challenger was Luke Esser.
Has anyone else noticed the eerie similarity between Britney Spears’ new look and Darcy Burner?
they just called montana for tester
web is a head to 8,000 votes in verginea to
But Macacawits hasn’t consided yet in verginea
OH an Howerd Dean Deserves all the credit
I worked in a polling place for my first time yesterday. I was very impressed with the other pollworkers and the King County Elections system.
But I was impressed with our voters even more. People whose houses were flooding out because of the rain took the time to cast their ballots. People who were recovering from back surgery made sure their voices were heard. Made me glad all over again to be an American.
along with all the liberal yes I sead liberal voters that worked so hard and donated money to campans.
And allot of the cresit should go to liberal radio shows like goldy and our new Air America nationel Radio that can actuily get the truth out about the republican crimanels.
oh my gawd rummy is stpping down
it just came over the news whoo hoo
56.
yes and the voters once agien voted the right way as far as I am conserned on most of the enisitives. And they were not fooled bye all the lies and diseptions.
The voters are a lot smarter then they are given gredit for. At let demercratic voters are :-)
And I think the republican voters are starting to wise up and relize there leaders are 99.9 percent of the time lieing to them
exhausted.
Thank you for your servise.
I am disabile and I can not tell you how much I wish I could help more.
Thank gawd rumsfield is going. I hope that Bush will appiont someone that knows what there doing and not just one of his butt buddys.
oh there going to recount in verginea
God i feel a tree that was just about to fall over and is suddenly straightend.
How times have changed! On the Eastside of Lake Washington, the 48th District that had never had a Democrat elected in the history of the state until 4 years ago, now has three. Senator Rodney Tom, Rep. Debby Eddy and Rep. Ross Hunter (who broke the R’s strangle-hold 4 years ago. And now also have the 45th District with 3 Democrats for the first time in history, Senator Eric Oemig, Rep. Larry Springer and Rep. Roger Goodman. Take that all you insular Seattleites!