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Dear fellow bloggers,
Mr. Howie Klein of BlueAmerica and http://downwithtyrrany.blogspot.com has been kind enough to let us use his campaign song for our District 36 Florida House race. He's posted about it here:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/11/had-enough-in-central-florida-time-to.html
Howie has asked me to forward this link to everyone on my reading list, so here goes! Hope to see great things on Tuesday night!
Darren Vierday
http://vierblog.blogspot.com
Mr. Howie Klein sure does rock.
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Fitz!
Another 0, woo hoo!
I better go play the lottery.
BTW: Is anyone else having trouble getting Crooks and Liars to load?
Keith Olbermann and FDL!
Scarborough is saying Republican hopes for keeping control of the House AND the Senate are fading.
Howie is one of my new Heroes!
FDL Rocks!
Triple whoa for Keith O’s ‘Special Comment’ tonight.
Wowza. He’s definitely been working on that one. His commentary and the visual montage that matched his points was intense and smart.
A must see/read.
[ update: Here it is - “Where are the the Checks and Balances?” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15595139
Wow.
-Monk
Brokaw is saying on Scarborough that American voters are wanting accountability on Iraq tomorrow. Can you smell and taste the victory yet? I sure can!
I just received a call from Gen. Clark asking me to vote for Mary Beth Harrell. She would replace Republican Congressman Carter from Texas. I voted for her during Early Voting.
Let’s keep pushing — ignore the polls like someone suggested earlier today, and just concentrate on GOTV! Thanks everybody.
Monk @
7
Monk thank you for the Keith graphic, it was really wonderful. Everyone loved it.
I’ve been singing that song all day. Anybody else a nervous wreck besides me? Dang cheaters got me sitting on pins and needles.
Speakout @ 11
I am verrry nervous and just finished a crying jag after visiting MFI.
fingers and toes crossed– GOTV.
Now they’re talking about a possible Democratic “landslide” tomorrow on Scarborough.
I just went to a local board meeting of our county’s Democratic Party- Even though we have totally kicked butt in our election efforts, there were some seriously cranky people there. I think lots of folks are on edge. There is so much at stake!angie @ 12
I just went to a local board meeting of our county’s Democratic Party- Even though we have totally kicked butt in our election efforts, there were some seriously cranky people there. I think lots of folks are on edge. There is so much at stake!
It’s interesting that Pat Buchanan is on Da Tube now. I so very MUCH enjoyed reading this in his magazine, American Conservative:
http://www.amconmag.com/2006/2.....ature.html
God, life is good!
Jane Hamsher @ 10
It was my pleasure Jane.
-Monk
He did it again tonight ……
Here’s the address one more time :
http://thank-you-keith-olbermann.blogspot.com/
I’ll have the clip latter.
Go on Rickie, it’s “The Last Chance”
Its her last chance
Her timings all wrong
Her last chance
She cant idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin out of the last chance texaco
The last chance
Curious in Central Texas @
9
Voted last week, even though I needed to be at home. So if I can drag my ass out of bed to vote when I have a 102 fever and can’t breathe without ODing on albuterol, nobody else has an excuse!
Watching Larry King now- My favorite lizard man- Carville is on as is JC Watts, David Gergen and Wolf Blitzer.
Norah with a scoop on the second edition of Hardball tonight…
The GOP doesn’t have a 72 Hour Strategy in place in Virginia. They never thought they’d need one. Whoops!
Cozumel @
21
Ha
ha ha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You’re kidding! No frickin way!
That is a monumental cockup.
So Rove’s a genius ya say?
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Cozumel @ 21
What was it Jane said earlier?
Comic Gold.
I can’t decide if Jane has not been back on Olbermann’s show because she is to smart or to purty. Could it be both reasons?
Not to be a buzz-killer, but what will we all do for humor when Katherine Harris augers in? Wait for her book?
OOOH, and for those of you who couldn’t make yesterday’s KO book discussion, he’s going to come out with a book of Special Comments! FDL heard it first, maybe…
Good point from Carville on CNN a bit ago… he pointed out that in the 94′ elections the Republicans were polling only 6 pts above the Democrats on election day and that yielded them 50 seats.
Regardless of the difference in the current polls, they average out to give democrats a 11 point lead.
[ knock on wood ]
-Monk
Hey SharonW!!!
Nice to see Chairman Dean’s 50 state strategy talked up on Larry King, by Leslie Blitzer no less. And did anybody else think JCWatts looked terribly conflicted about his buddy Harold Ford — I could tell JC wants him to win and couldn’t say so, good GOPer that he is.
It’s so wonderful to see that old chestnut, first used by the GOP to take control of a senescent Congress in 1946, come out of retirement for a spin around the block at every level of Democratic campaigns. I have to wonder if my co-champion of the slogan has seen any of these wonderful videos, and what Newt thinks about them.
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Had Enough?
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angie @
12
Angie, I could go off with another Goat’s Head soup angle, but flip ain’t in it when the stakes are high. Take a deep breath, we’ll make it home somehow. There’s gonna be a reckoning, if not now, just bigger and better later. If the authoritarians are smart, they’ll take it now. Even the true neocons want it that way. Did you read the Vanity Fair article with Richard Perle laying it out? True conservatives are sick of the shite too. The question is whether or not the message has gotten to the back rooms.
Marion in Savannah @ 25
Umm, do wait until it hits the remaindered bins. Shouldn’t take more than a week. :)
I have a feeling that her need for public attention will cause her to have many, many arguments with God (”but, Jesus, if I take off all my clothes and run through Disney World naked, I’ll be popular again”).
Eureka Springs, AR @ 24
Given Keith’s response to the Stephanie Miller questions yesterday, I imagine his girlfriend keeps him on a pretty tight leash. Do you suppose that’s why Countdown has mostly male commentators?
EPU’d
egregious @ 225
Marion in Savannah @ 219
Scarborough has a lot to answer for, yet as self-reflective people, don’t we all? But you know, he is an evolving human being which should be an inspiration for a lot of other people on TV.
I would like his physical features to be not the issue. We have a lot of fellow bloggers with physical disabilities and deformities. [I’m not saying he has a physical deformity, only that his looks shouldn’t be our issue.] Let’s look at inner beauty.
I will give him the benefit of the doubt, as we wait on the other side of the Looking Glass for people to come thru once they GET IT. Let us show mercy for them. People make mistakes. It is painful to admit one has made a mistake as I am newly aware this very week.
Marion in Savannah @ 25
I’d be as eager for that book as you are, but for the sake of accuracy, I’ll note that KO said there were discussions under way for such a book…it’s not necessarily a done deal.
TeddySanFran @ 31
That definately crossed my mind as well as Ms. MSNBC co-workers.
Monk in the house!!!!
I have a hunch JC Watts will be a whole lot nicer to Democrats come Wednesday.
This from Digby re Rove’s comments in Florida this morning before Bush’s Pensacola speech which featured - ta-daaa - Katherine Harris:
One can only imagine what kind of tongue lashing he just took from the spoiled brat in chief over this bungle. The pictures of this trainwreck of a rally with the all-star team of George and Jeb up there alone with nutty election fixer Katherine Harris are going to be precious.
’bout the only things that would cure my nerves would be a crystal ball or a v*li-um…
geez, this is a hard wait!
Markos is on Larry King. With Frum? Wow. He can barely talk without drooling.
TeddySanFran @ 28
Dean’s 50 State Strategy is probably the best thing that has happened in politics in the last 20 years. And, by the way, IT’S WORKING!!!
And I believe it will keep on working. GO ROOTZ!
Kos on Larry King
I have to share with you all that my Election Day present for TRex arrived in the mail here today from the Clare Booth Luce Institute — the Great American Conservative Women calendar for 2007. I wonder whether his favorite pinup will be Miss May (Michelle Malkin) or Miss December (Annthrax)?
I’m going over to spend the night with my almost 100 year old Auntie in a bit. And will be taking her to the polls early before I go to work. She’s voting a straight Demo ticket (always has) tomorrow, and doesn’t need me or anyone else to tell her how to vote. This old girl knows right from wrong. And she ain’t nervous either. This woman is amazing. She’s articulate, and knows the issues and the candidates. How many 99 year old Progressives do you know?
OldCoastie @ 37
I found a way to at least divert the Election Eve jitters: screen “Dead Man Walking” for a university evening class. It’s not that I’m free of nerves, it’s just a little different right now.
TSF @41 - 707!
“We were wrong about the number of weapons of mass destruction we found?”
Yeah, zero. He doesn’t want to have “archaeological discussions” about what went wrong. Translate: Doesn’t want to talk about how wrong he was.
Woo hoo! Markos hit him well. “Not strong enough to admit they were wrong.” Good way to say it.
Jane Hamsher @ 45
This has nothing to do with archaeology, and I’m not going to have him blaming me for this fucking quagmire.
Hope I’m doing this right…
EPU’d from last thread, thought you all would want to see this.
Tom Mathieson @ 242
Oklahoma kiddo @ 42
Oh, how wonderful… both that you have her, and that she’s a Dem. I just got a little “good shiver” about tomorrow if people like your Auntie want to get out to the polls. Give her a wink for me!
Markos to Frum, over Larry: That’s NOT what I said!
That, folks, is how it’s done.
angie @ 12
angie–
I would worry about your soul if you could go over to mfi and back and NOT have a crying jag after reading what he writes about the deaths of civilians that WE are responsible for. Welcome to the human race, where we feel that the deaths of innocents is something VERY WRONG.
Speakout, re is anyone else a nervous wreck? I think I can safely speak for all fdl folk who have ADHD and/or bipolar manic/depression when I say HELL YES!!!!!
We hope to re-establish our equilibrium and rejoin the various AA and ALanon groups at some point after the recounts have commenced and finished. Good luck with that, all.
Look at it this way, if you weren’t already mentally ill, this administration would push a great many people over that line. Heckuva job! Some of us *cough* were there to begin with. Welcome to our world.
It’s so great to hear someone like Kos on a show like Larry King, even if he can’t pronounce his name. He really presents himself well. AND he seems to look a bit older this evening. Not sure why. He usually looks so young. Maybe it’s the suit.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 42
Lucky you. My grandmother is 104 and always knew I was a Democrat by the way I walked. Whatever the hell that means.
It has been mentioned on Scarborough a few minutes ago, that there is expected a large turnout from Native American reservations. I will be interested in this.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 53
Cool.
EvilDrPuma @ 52
It means you generally went forwards, rather than backwards. :)
egregious @ 32
Egregious, that is a beautiful comment and one that I agree with 100%
EvilDrPuma @ 52
My guess is that she saw that you walked with your back straight, and your eyes on the prize… not shuffling along with your eyes averted because you were a Republican who was trying to hide something… (don’t they ALL have something to hide?)
montag @ 55
It means you generally went forwards, rather than backwards. :)
I tried to tell her that wasn’t how gaydar worked, but she was already too senile.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 34
It’s not like they are in the same room together. Most guests are a couple 100 miles away.
Ricky’s robots look uncomfortable as he goes on his Iran rant. Then smarmily happy again for his closing line. They know, though, don’t they MoDog,,,
Marion in Savannah @ 57
in other words, your knuckles weren’t dragging along the ground
Ana Marie Cox (time.com) just blistered Joe Scarborough’s butt. Whew!!!
EvilDrPuma @
54
And Alaska Natives - for one of their own.
ET - what’s the latest Benson buzz?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 62
Linky? Or was this on Da Tube?
Nate @ 6
Nate, we voted on who should get the BlueAmerica money for Had Enough ads, and it was a narrow victory for Charlie Brown, and it was because of…ready?…YOU and your incredibly inspiring example of quitting your job and moving to California to support him. Upon that inspiring example we donated to BlueAmerica, and therefore Charlie Brown got the Had Enough ads when he did.
No pressure there Nate :) just know that what you did was AMAZING and many of us are just grateful to help you and Brown in some small way.
Ed*ard Teller @ 63
Cool again.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 62
She knows butts., doesn’t she.
egregious @ 50
Egregious- Well, if we do win, hopefully the dems will make mental health issues a priority. Hey, a girl can dream, can’t she?? BTW- What is MFI?
Selise, LisaDawn, scarecrow, RevDeb and i were just at HQ, received our cardboard boxes with poll standing palm cards, buttons, maps, and a warm knit cap!! and now everyone is retiring with alarms set to 4:30 and 5 AM. hope to get a bite before hitting our polls at 6.
Sorry i missed Dab from CT, SharonW, TRex, Tommy Yum, …. gadzooks!
Well, we’ll meet up again when we see that spotlight on the clouds.
night, all.
Well, I can already see I’m not going to get squat done at work tomorrow.I’ve noticed a case of nerves creeping up as time goes by.I have to wait until after work to vote, so I will be closely watching the day progress.GOTV! And lets start cleaning house tomorrow!
P.S.
KKKKKarl?
KKKKKiss my ass.
joysness @ 47
Wow thanks for reposting that, I did not see it the first time.
Maybe we need to have Tom write a post about how they did this. Pretty interesting.
Speakout @ 11
I’ve been saying for the past year or so that there ought to be some kind of class action lawsuit against the Bush Administration for all the damage they’ve done to the collective mental health of Blue America.
I’m kind of not kidding.
Ed*ard Teller @ 63
It’s 15.6% of the population and I want to see EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM at the polls tomorrow. This is for all the marbles.
Er, next commenter, please start afresh so we don’t break the ziggurat.
egregious @ 32
Funny– I was checking out my Freshman Register from the Univ. of Alabama 1981- Guess who was a classmate of mine? Joseph Scarborough from Pensacola, FL. Much skinnier version. Come to think of it, so was I. :(
Speakout, I’ll bet we ALL were much skinnier in 1981… Me by about 20 pounds….
Pectopah @ 59
Yes but the woman force is strong with that one. I felt the chills just knowing we watched Kos together on LK. There is a power there, a power to be reckoned with.
punaise @ 64
The sound of buzzing from twenty feet away comes out more clearly as chattering teeth as you get closer. It is cold here! Probably down almost to 10 below tonight.
The Daily News, rather than endorse Young or Benson yesterday, damned Young and wished him a change of heart over the next two years.
Kris Pierce, diane’s CM, and a couple of political savants are predicting Diane by 2 to 2.5 percent. The AK state house and Senate will go a bit less red. Knowles and Palin is a toss-up. Polling all over the graph - like a lot of other places.
Agree!
Anybody else notice lately how bad Ken Mehlmann looks lately. HE’s on Larry King now, and actually doesn’t look as bad as he has in the past few weeks, but still. Must be hell to be Republican. Not to mention closeted.
Speakout, mfi is markfromireland, http://markfromireland.blogsome.com and related blog http://gorillasguides.blogspot.com he writes firsthand about what is going on in Iraq, people being blown up and the like. His job is dealing with unexploded ordnance, iirc. He was recently severely wounded and his driver killed while on duty in Iraq.
His history in the middle east includes being an eyewitness to I****** atrocities in Lebanon in the 1980’s. His son is currently serving in Afghanistan.
Speakout @ 80
It’s not hell to be Republican. The truth catches up, and they think it’s hell.
That’s not far enough to dull a competative edge. I do hope it’s not the reason. ‘Twas just a thought.
Ken Mehlmann prolly has a massage guy/meth salesman on hold. Prayin’, scared sh*tless.
Ed*ard Teller @ 78
thanks - good luck!
OT - Sun-Sentinal.com has up early returns from parts of Florida. Heavy dem majorities, but I have no idea how significant this is. The site is referenced on Drudge - so that may also mean something.
This is from Pat Buchanan’s magazine, American Conservative:
GOP Must Go
Next week Americans will vote for candidates who have spent much of their campaigns addressing state and local issues. But no future historian will linger over the ideas put forth for improving schools or directing funds to highway projects.
-snip-
The war will continue as long as Bush is in office, for no other reason than the feckless president can’t face the embarrassment of admitting defeat. The chain of events is not complete: Bush, having learned little from his mistakes, may yet seek to embroil America in new wars against Iran and Syria.
-snip- (but you should read it)
On Nov. 7, the world will be watching as we go to the polls, seeking to ascertain whether the American people have the wisdom to try to correct a disastrous course. Posterity will note too if their collective decision is one that captured the attention of historians—that of a people voting, again and again, to endorse a leader taking a country in a catastrophic direction. The choice is in our hands.
Does anybody else feel like we’re having a party? The phone keeps ringing with robocalls and I keep running back and forth from the teevee to the computer to the kitchen. I am making pre-election night chickeny goulashy stuff:
Boil three chicken breasts with bones for broth to use later and yummy tender chicken for this stuff. Throw in some parsely sage rosemary and thyme (or whatever herbs you like).
In big huge pan saute in olive oil:
onions, mushrooms, garlic, red peppers, yellow squash, zucchini. Add some stewed tomatoes. Put in a bunch of spices (make sure there is some oregano in there). Cook for a long time. Bone the chicken, add it (the chicken, not the bones) to the goulash (oops, I forgot the eggplant; guess it isn’t goulash). Cook forever, Later boil some pasta — shells or bowties or something fun — then drain the pasta, add the pasta to the other stuff. Put some in bowls, top with romano cheese. Have a glass of red wine with it (unless you are TRex).
yum.
So I’m running back and forth and it just feels like a party.
Early voting numbers from S. Fla.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne.....-headlines
Speakout @ 80
The six year cycle haha. He’s already writing the rough draft of his LOSER speech. Forget the issues, it’s that damn cycle! LOL
Early voting & absentee figures for Broward, Palm Beach & Dade counties
sun-sentinel.com
November 6, 2006, 4:30 PM EST
Elections Offices in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade County released these figures on Monday of early voting and absentee ballots that have been cast in Tuesday’s elections. In the tri-county area, 12.7 percent of all registered voters have already voted:
Broward County
# Early voting by party — 45,638 Democrats and 18,735 Republicans & 13,414 other. TOTAL: 77,787.
# Absentee ballots (thru Thursday, Nov. 2 only) 13, 584 Democrats, 13,746 Republicans & 3,128 other. TOTAL: 30,458
# Countywide, 12.5 percent of all voters have voted with 8.4 percent by early voting, 4.1 percent by absentee. That includes 12.7 percent of the total registered Democrats in the county; 13.4 percent of the registered Republicans in Broward; and 7.7 percent of the third-party voters that had cast ballots by Monday.
Miami-Dade County
# Early voting by party — 32,094 Democrats, 23,547 Republicans & 10,538 other. TOTAL: 66,179.
# Absentees: 17,390 Democrats, 36,248 Republicans; & 7,191 other. TOTAL: 60,829.
# Countywide, 11.7 percent of all voters have cast ballots with 6.1 percent by early voting, and 5.6 percent by absentee
Palm Beach County
# Total votes available as of 9 a.m. Monday were 59, 727 votes in early voting and 50, 579 absentees ballots cast. No breakdown was immediately available.
# Countywide, 14.4 percent: with 7.8 percent by early voting, and 6.6 percent absentee
Richmond @
86
egregious @ 81
Thanks- The blog looks very interesting. I’ll be checking it out.
Ed*ard Teller @ 78
Fingers crossed.
Toes crossed.
Brain wires crossed. Ok that’s just the stress talking.
Fingers crossed, it’s a Christian symbol, sign of the cross. Not too many people know that.
Young was quoted as saying he didn’t think any Republicans would lose their seats. My reaction: wait til you wake up Wednesday and realize YOU hae lost YOUR seat.
Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
If we pull this off….Oh man you are such a hero. And fdl gets the credit too.
egregious @ 81
Wow. All of a sudden MFI is on my prayer list. Thanks, egregious, for letting some of us newer folks know.
LindaR -
Sounds delish.
Party on.
I’m resting up tonight so I’ll be in it for the long haul tomorrow.
Marion in Savannah @ 65
Da Tube. But basically what Cox said was (in so many words) was ‘the reason you are no longer in Congress Joe, is that you’re stupid.’ Joe did NOT like it.
LindaR @ 88
YUM, YUM, YYYYUUUMMMMMM… I can’t WAIT to try it. Sound delicious!
Remember that part of the Mary Tyler Moore show opening - where she turned and tossed her beret up in the air?
Howie has the re-inactment, here.
Mary/Hat
Kathy/brain
You be the judge!
egregious @
93
fdl gets a lot of credit for a lot of races. Like I’ve said before, “firedoglake is to the brain what talk radio is to the lizard brain.”
BTW - last Young internal poll had him at 48%.
raven @ 91
Anybody know if Broward is heavy Dem, and, if so, how much?
If it’s not a heavy Dem county, the GOP has to be shitting right about now. They turned out a higher percentage of their voters early/absentee, and the Dems crushed them anyway.
raven @ 91