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Let me introduce the world to some new realities:
Karl Rove is not a genius. He is the author of the biggest GOP defeat in most of our lifetimes.
America really hates George Bush. Tonight, America said to George Bush, STFU and cut the dumb shit. Bring the troops home, pronto.
America is helping Democrats to pitch a shutout so far, holding all their seats, completely overturning the GOP revolution of 1994 in the House. The Senate looks to me like a 51 vote win for the Dems now.
Thanks, Karl.
What we talked about earlier this week is holding up: the Old Confederacy is the big loser tonight, relegated to the minority in the House. There is no reason, none, nada, zilch, to allow legislation in the House to be held hostage to Southern authoritarian Theocrats and racists anymore. Buh-bye.
Meet the losers, folks: Karl Rove, George Bush and the Republicans.
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Best. day. evah.
turdblossom!!!!!!
Victory!
But we still need to purge our own party of traitors. That starts tomorrow.
great job holding down the night shift, Pach
*singing*
Nah nah nah nah…Nah nah nah nah, hey hey…
CNN now saying there may not be a recount in Virginia.
Yes! Thank you, Pach! Did you see my question down thread re: Ms. Amy Walters?
Toobin is making sense, too.
#4 - Agreed.
Tester 125110
Burns 115968
Jacqrat @ 8
I’ll defer to Howie on that. He’s the expert.
Pach - you rock!
Tweety is such a dick! He just slammed Olbermann–said that it’s best to pick on someone bigger than you–like Keith does to Bill O’Reilly. Fuck you tweety. Your brother’s a loser and so are you.
How delicious.
How badly did Katherine Harris do tonight?
Yeah Dems…so happy but I must sleep. I am sending karma to the Webb campaign! I think he will put it out and we will have the Senate.
Now the Dems have to govern. Not fight each other govern and find some consensus.
foxhunter @ 10
It started with the Connecticut primary.
It started with Jane telling us about Ned.
nicemonster @
15
She lost 60%-38%.
Anyone have a better source than CNN/AP for CO?
Looks like Angie is closing on Musgrave. That would be sooo sweet!
U.S. House - District 4 - 382 of 446 Precincts Reporting
Musgrave, Marilyn (i) GOP 97,585 45.85
Paccione, Angie Dem 91,600 43.03
nicemonster @
15
Who cares? She probably still thinks she won….
Tweety is the Lieberman of poll
lickersreaders.Frank Probst @
7
And on MSNBC they were just discussing how there could possibly NOT be one.
And Tweety referred to Allen’s Presidential aspirations. I threw up in my mouth a little.
Can I please go to sleep now? Nearly 3am. I promise to get up and save the country/world again tomorrow.
Suzanne @ 18
Now there’s a bedtime story for you.
Once upon a time, there was a little blogger named Jane . . .
CNN all but calling Virginia for Webb.
Pachacutec @ 12
Thanks for the response: I thought since she was a local gal, you might know. Oh well.
Let’s not forget the other losers: THE NEOCONS
The Neocon agenda was rejected as clearly as the Rove/Delay GOP bullying tactics.
No matter what the Dems do to move the country forward, every minute they drill those two points home over the next few months will be a minute well spent.
Terrapin @ 23
I’d love for them to run Maccawitz!!!
Sweet dreams (((egregious))). not far behind ya
UptownNYChick @ 29
egregious @ 24
egregious - you’ve already done that
Hey, props to the Northern Virginia and Richmond City elections officials that are staying late and counting the vote. It’ll be great when people wake up, look at the tee vee or the paper and see Webb up by close to or more than 10K votes. That’s huge.
A lot different than 2K votes.
pac, thanks. this is the essential point — rove was NEVER a genius. he was just lee atwater’s most attentive amoral student.
that is, rove was willing to do what few had ever been willing to do before him, and certainly never on so large and so public a stage.
he was a sociopath, willing to degrade himself, his party, american politics and the entire nation in pursuit of his objectives, which were never anything more or less than those of any crook: power unlawfully gained.
maybe, just maybe, the fascination with this time of shameless behavior has crested;
maybe we can get a little more civil as we get a little more competent in trying to restore to all americans a greater sense of what this country has meant and could mean again.
probably not. but as much as any other part of an agenda moving forward, this effort — to restrain the worst impulses, the hatemongering, the triumph of the mob, the goon, the stupid — should be articulated and embraced by the democratic party.
let the repugs be defined by their worst behavior; the dems should pointedly embrace the best.
From Howie by email:
So… what if Loserman decides to caucus with the Repuglicans and we go to 50-50… then Cheney breaks the tie.
But at least for the next two years, Shooter is tied to his chair in the Senate and can’t be in his undisclosed location biting the heads off of puppies (or whatever ritual he practices there)!
Dover Bitch @ 28
Hell, even the NEOCONS have left their strategy behind. Did you read the latest Vanity Fair? “Neo Culpa”
Pach Woohoo! Pombo’s going down.
Check out the pin on my congressman’s lapel!!!
why is Shrum talking as if Pelosi can determine Lieberman’s fate in the Senate? (msnbc)
hey uptown…not a bad night, eh?
dmg @ 34
bless you and your thoughts, dmg!
Lukeness @ 36
Bonus: Joe Lieberman becomes the new Linda Tripp. SNL will have to get John Goodman to play him.
Allen is going to have to think long and hard about a recount. What with having the FBI investigation of robo-call intimidation gaining steam, not sure he wants to have those two stories goiong side by side. Especially with all that wire-tapping over at the CIA and their newfound spirit of intelligence sharing I bet it’s already been figured out who was making those calls….
Gang, I’m gonna let this thread carry through til the morning, when Christy takes over. I’m beat.
Much love!
How does it feel to win?
Pachacutec @ 35
Still breathing here…thanks for that Pac…
dmg @ 41
a beautiful BLUE night!!!!
Woohooo
Pachacutec @ 35
That’s a typo in the number of precincts reporting - it’s 75% not 35%!
Pachacutec @ 45
Night Pac…thanks for all the hard work! Course the thread will be at 150,000 by the time Christy gets to it *LOL*
Pachacutec @ 45
blissful!
g’nite Pach - thanks and props for your work.
Pach - Sleep well amigo.
From Howie by email:
well then: hot damn!
I wanna go to sleep, but I am waiting for Tester….
The Sec of Def angle seems so unlikely. Why would Joe leave a 6 year job for a 2 year one?
uptown, i’ve been waiting six years for one this sweet….
NOW the fun begins !
Hey George & Karl, time to start singin :
“A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt…” - Thomas Jefferson
Pach - how does it feel? awesome. major step forward.
Jacqrat @ 37
Yeah, but those guys are trying to suggest that their stupid 90s-think-tank schemes are still peachy, but the execution was poor. Democrats need to use this tidal wave as an opportunity to wash that myth away immediately.
History is written by the winners. The Dems need to start writing and the neocon nightmare deserves a particularly harsh closing chapter.
KO asks Tweety why he listens to the voices in his
headearDems picked up Ney’s seat!
We have pulled back the curtain and exposed Rove as a mere mortal. Oh, what a wonderful Wiz he WAS!
Lets hope he gets in a hot air baloon and leaves OZ
yes, montana is key — hell every race is…and most are going our way!
npr is live all night with updates from around the country….
fuck yes
foxhunter @
10
As much as I’m enjoying this evening, I find myself wanting to evoke the sentiment of Ezekiel 25 - 17 (even though I’m an atheist) upon those who failed to suport Ned
“The path of the righeous man is beset on all sides by the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who inthe name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers, and you will know my name is the LORD, WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE.”
Screw bipartisanship, screw party unity. Destroy the traitors. Our own party needs some cleansing.
daCascadian @ 56
some of my best friends are witches… :)
We won. Wow.
Tweety’s giving props to Olbermann. He has a little class….
Tweety giving earnest props to KO upon sign-off: “worthy of Murrow”
dover, right you are — the neocons have been banging that stabbed in the back drum relelntlessly since early this year. THAT’S why investigations are important…to get everything on the record. these mooks need to be discredited as long as people have memories.
did ko say something fabulous again tonight?
What’s with the donuts?
Pachacutec @ 45
Nice. Thanks.
kristinejoy @ 54
Ego? I agree, it’s not likely. It would have been more likely if he’d lost the primary and accepted defeat, or had lost in the general election.
I never quite got the reason why he was on the short list for the job, except that he would do whatever President Cheney wanted him to do. He certainly doesn’t know a damned thing about running the DoD (although I’m sure he’d know how to steer contracts to the Bushies’ friends).
Stem cell research wins in Missouri.
kristinejoy @
66
Kind of amazing, huh?
UptownNYChick @ 53
Amen, sister. I’m with you from lower Manhattan.
General Pach–
Take pride in your Blue Army!
Did we really win? Hey, my mood ring is no longer black. :)
Did she bother to concede?
Peterr @ 19
U.S. House - District 11 - 614 of 870 Precincts Reporting
Tracy
Name Party Votes Pct
McNerney, Jerry Dem 54,642 51.70
Pombo, Richard (i) GOP 51,057 48.30
Jane Hamsher @ 75
Its been a long fucking time coming, but it sure is sweet.
Jane Hamsher @ 75
oh, you know - all in a day’s work….
Pachacutec @
45
It feels awesome!
I haven’t felt this way since 1982, when we yanked back the Senate from the republicans and increased the majority in the house. Plus, Texas Dems swept the statewide offices.
montag @ 73
He’ll position himself as What This Election Was All About. He’ll work that bipartisanship theme and Changing the Tone until his lips are chapped.
He’s going to have allies in Schumer and Emmanuel to do it.
Joe’s not the only one we have to worry about.
Peterr is nearly right: Pombo is stuck at a 48-52 deficit, with 71% counted. GOP Boy is running out of room.
Also, it looks as if the two most vulnerable Dems (both in GA) have squeaked past, although a recount is always possible.
npr sounds like they’re going live to tester’s party…or maybe it’s just a report
Reynolds won in New York. :(
Nicely done, Ms. H.
@ things lost at the end of the last thread:
CBS:
(640 of 867 Precincts Reporting)
Party Candidate Votes V%
D Jon TESTER 149,922 50
R Conrad BURNS 142,764 48
LB Stan JONES 7,507 2
— and, seen on KOS:
Gallatin County probably won’t count absentee ballats until they start their day at 8 am. Same with my county (Flathead) Grat Falls (Cascade also has had equipment probs again. Ravalli County (south of Missoula) has equip probs.
Really folks, I’m in Kalispell and I plan on giving it up real soon. And I’ve got a guy in the election dept., and he’s going home sooon too.
RBG @ 88
hear, hear!
You know, I can’t wait to tell my youngest daughter–she’s away at 6th grade camp this week, and she was bummed she was missing election day.
I was going through the DEMOCRATIC WINNERS and REPUBLICAN LOSERS, and saw ‘Hatrack’ Of course I backtracked to where I’d seen it. Well, hell, I misread Katherine Harris’s name that way.
Funny the tricks a mind will play on a person…
night, Aquaria.
CBS has this for montana… YIKES
Jon TESTER 131,897 50
R Conrad BURNS 126,145 48
kristinejoy @ 91
My son went to bed with vigorous protests.
And as of now, Webb & Tester are still on top!
Pachacutec @ 35
Let’s Throw Dirty Dick Out!
And now montana itself catches up:
Tester 140883
Burns 132183
Just cruised by freerepublic. They’re spinning like little tops over there. It’s all too incoherent to quote, but my favorite is that the election results are good for RUSH!
Here’s another eye-opener cliffhanger:
With 96% of the precincts counted, Arizona is on the verge of REJECTING a same-sex marriage ban, 51-49%.
Dem won Gov. in Alaska
SteveAudio @ 95
In a SteveAudio kinda way, right? :)
Can we hoist Jane upon our virtual shoulders and carry her around the lake in honor of her epic and heroic efforts?
Can’t thank you enough Ms. Hamsher.
punaise @
52
Yeah! This is so sweet.
Really going to bed now.
really the worst bit in an otherwise sensational night is how lieberman, who has always been appallingly smug, will now jump to the top of the List of Insufferables as he becomes a kingmaker to either the dems or reps.
control of the senate, and its chairmanships, might come down to who he deems to caucus with.
imagine the po$$ibilitie$….
MSNBC: 8 precincts left to count for Webb. Dems think 6 are strong for Webb.
testaroo @ 93
Well, I did expect it to get really tight at the 85% or so mark. Looks like I’m kinda right.
Niters Testaroo. :)
The world was watching - and the world thanks you America!
Primordial Ooze @ 98
In a way, they are. He’ll have lots to bitch about for two more years. :)
thanks testaroo. Get some sleep.
Jane, Redd, Pac, TRex, etc, etc
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for doing all that you have done to make this all possible.
And.. on a local note, can we please sell North County/CA-50 to the OC? Or maybe to Texas? The Democrat there is down 10% to a guy who took money from Abramoff, who is under grand jury investigaton for lying himself and who succeeded felon Cunningham. I really don’t want them to be part of my metro area…
montag @ 108
The shrieking harpies will be raving for the next two years. Get ready for it.
Webb’s lead in VA down to 7,500 according to CNN and MSNBC.
And here’s the scaries quot of the night, from Hugh Hewitt:
My Gawd, what a frightening thought.
We’re ready. With subpoenas.
Blub @ 109
Uh–send him to South Carolina. We have some standards here in Texas.
Fun night! I’m sick of Matthews though.
Anyone know results for Minnesota Gov.? It was tied early.
This is the 73 percent mark. Egad.
Until the morning.
kristinejoy @ 101
Dang that TRex, I’m not gay!
de-lurking . . . Congrats, everyone! This is incredible.
Quick question, though — why on earth are Dems saying that they want to work with the other side, that they want to work with Bush?
Are they nuts? That’s not the message the American people sent tonight. These two years are about keeping Bush from screwing up more and cleaning up the crap the repub congress has spewed for the past 12 years.
They’re just stalling, right? I can’t imagine that the ranking members-turned-committee chairs (Waxman, Conyers, et al. - whoo hoo!!) are going to want to join hands, forget everything, and move forward. That’s how we got in this mess in the first place.
That’s probably what the media wants to hear right now, though (except Tweety. Gah, he annoys me. Let KO talk!!!!).
Quote from MSNBC: “Chafee did nothing wrong — except be a Republican.”
Damn straight.
Alaska Update:
US REPRESENTATIVE
Total
Number of Precincts 439
Precincts Reporting 288 65.6 %
Times Counted 182254/466258 39.1 %
Total Votes 179700
BENSON, DIANE E. DEM 71730 39.92%
CRAWFORD, ALEXANDER LIB 3011 1.68%
INCE, EVA L. GRN 1248 0.69%
RATIGAN, WILLIAM IMP 1184 0.66%
YOUNG, DON E. REP 102138 56.84%
Write-in Votes 389 0.22
The gubernatorial race is over. Democratic candidate Tony Knowles - who is a couple thousand votes behind Diane Benson - conceded to Sarah Palin about fifteen minutes ago.
Diane Benson hasn’t. However, we’ll be meeting tomorrow (it is still Tuesday in Alaska) to start Campaign 2008.
Thanks to all here for their help on this campaign which - being outspent 20 to 1 - could have given Alaska a seat in the new US House majority.
Hooray for DEMOCRACY!
SteveAudio @ 112
Uh… Baby Hughie… Have you seen what’s happening tonight? That Senate thing might not give you that chance.
I’m still nervously watching the race between Bowen and McPherson for California Secretary of State. Bowen is in favor of a paper trail, while McPherson thinks Diebold et al are A-OK. Getting rather close now, compared with the earlier results (which had McPherson out in front).
Crossing my fingers…
i love webb showing his framing skills — not unlike baker in 2000 did for bush.
“by the way, we won,” webb says, and that’s how everyone will think of it. anything allen does will look like the guy is a WATB loser trying to get the rules changed. which, of course, he will be.
SteveAudio @ 112
…and just *how* will an *ahem* “opening” come to be available???
Blub @ 110
Annex it to Camp Pendleton and use it as a gunnery range.
VIRGINIA reports:
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,169,809 49.56%
G F Allen Republican 1,162,089 49.23%
God. Tweety has consistently given voice to the Republican perspective tonight. Has he no shame?
What the heckfire are Smithers and the Henchfrogs doing with those vote counting machines under the Big Sky anyway?
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