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  • Apr. 24th, 2009 at 2:27 PM
keith stern

The Minnesota Supreme Court will not hear Norm Coleman's appeal of the Senate election result until June.

June?!
Are you serious????

How can they let this drag on two more months? My God, Bush v. Gore didn't go on this long!

Meanwhile, poor Senator Amy Klobuchar soldiers on as the only senator representing her state. Basically as she explained to Rachel Maddow a while back, she and her staff are doing the work of two senators. There's a reason each state gets two, people.

Give it up already, FFS.



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A come-to-Jesus moment

  • Dec. 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 PM
keith WTF
Via Balloon Juice:

This is, quite honestly, the first semi-sane thing I have seen written at Red State in several years:

We Lost Because We Suck: There’s no conspiracy, really.

So, we have this great big circular firing squad going about whether to purge moderates, or socons, or fiscons, or libertarians, or Methodists, whatever. No, Virginia, there isn’t a smoke filled room somewhere where a bunch of Ivy League, Wall Street, K Street elitists conspired to deprive the Republican Party of a victory in the last two elections. We lost because nobody in their right mind would trust us to run a government. That we did as well as we did is a tribute to the fact that they don’t trust the Democrats much either.

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In seven years we demonstrated to the American people that we really didn’t mean what we’d said for all those years; we weren’t against spending, we were against Democrat spending. We weren’t against big government, we just wanted it big in the places we like. The people caught us in the lie and held us responsible for it.

Hey, it's a start, and a pretty amazing one.


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mike says huh
You may have heard about this already on the Intertubes, but I have to share. It is simultaneously one of the grossest AND most hilarious things I've ever seen. Tucking away for sensitive viewers )


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They said this day would never come!

  • Nov. 18th, 2008 at 8:54 PM
wiggum simpsons yay cheer
But at long last... change has come to Alaska!

WASHINGTON - Convicted Sen. Ted Stevens lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Begich after the last large batch of votes was counted Tuesday.

The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count.



That's an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.



Congratulations Senator-Elect Begich!

BYE BYE TEDDY!

And BYE BYE SENATOR PALIN!!!


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Linky linky

  • Nov. 9th, 2008 at 6:40 PM
eccleston smiling
I'm sitting in the comfy chair, sipping wine and smelling the lasagna baking in the oven. I love this recipe! Here's what I've been reading today:

NY Times article on voting in Levittown, PA. My parents live there, but I doubt they would have spoken to the interviewer:
...I traveled again to Levittown on Election Day to see how people would vote and how they would respond to what looked like an imminent Obama victory. The contrast from the spring — and, in fact, this new vision of Levittown compared with what I had known in my childhood — was almost breathtaking.

“Obama,” said the ironworker, when I asked how he’d be voting.

“Obama,” said the plumber.

“Obama,” said the chef.

And on and on. Military moms. Vietnam veterans. Abortion opponents. College students and retirees. Bank tellers, pipe fitters, officer workers, machinists, meat cutters, boilermakers and carpenters....
"Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team." I'm dreaming, right? Am I dreaming?

Gee, and I thought I was excited: Antigua plans to rename highest peak after Barack Obama!

A center-right country? Yeah, right:
The Concern Trolls are roaming free in the Village these days: John King, Laura Ingraham, Charles Krauthammer, Tom Brokaw, Karl Rove, Ruth Marcus … I don't know how many talking heads I've heard claim that "America is still a center-right country" in the past few days, but if it were a drinking game, I'd have alcohol poisoning.

I guess I'm confused. I keep hearing from a lot of conservatives that McCain lost because he wasn't conservative enough -- that is, he was essentially a center-right candidate. And I think that's the consensus about where he sat on the political spectrum.

So if America is a "center-right country," then why didn't they elect the center-right candidate?

It's all bullshit, of course. As a CAF/Media Matters study found last year: "Media perceptions and past Republican electoral successes notwithstanding, Americans are progressive across a wide range of controversial issues, and they're growing more progressive all the time." In fact, as CAF's Robert Borosage points out, "Voters didn't just elect Democrats, they elected progressives." This is a liberal mandate.
Via Boing Boing:
Over at Ethicurean, there's an extensive post exploring what the newly elected American president might do differently about food, farms, and related systems of energy and technology in the United States:

According to Speech Wars, between April and October, John McCain uttered the word “agriculture” only twice, and “nutrition” just once. Barack Obama did slightly better, referring to “agriculture” twelve times and “nutrition” four times. He gave farms a passing mention in his speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. But let’s face it: for the most part, food was a quiet issue, sacrificed to our discussions about race and religion, gender and sexism, oil and bailouts.

Meanwhile, food prices continued to rise. Our nation continued to lose farms daily. We continued to spend billions of dollars treating lifestyle diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Rural towns continued to wither. Fertilizer runoff continued to damage our drinking water.
There’s no way around it: the Obama administration will need to address food issues head-on....

Hey, I agree. I'm looking forward to a food pyramid not written by the meat, milk and sugar lobby. But I think we can all agree that the economy needs a quicker fix.

Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times:
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.

Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far either.
And finally: a guy took his wife out on a date, and the world press followed them.


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Has anyone seen

  • Nov. 8th, 2008 at 8:04 AM
rachel will stop you right there
Has anyone seen vote totals for either Bob Barr or Ron Paul this year? If any of the newsies have mentioned it, I didn't catch it. And neither Keith nor Rachel have said anything. I thought perhaps in the South or Midwest they might draw enough away from McCain to give Obama a chance.

If you find anything like that, please point the way. Thank ya!


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Eugene Robinson : Amazing moment

  • Nov. 5th, 2008 at 10:58 PM
rachel grin

I've been looking for this clip all day, and finally found it on the YouTubes. When Gene starts talking about how he wishes his in-laws had lived to see this... scuse me, I have something in my eye again!


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One day

  • Nov. 5th, 2008 at 7:25 PM
rachel grin
Remember that great picture of teenaged Bill Clinton shaking the hand of President Kennedy, and how Clinton points to that as when he first thought of public service?

I wonder if one day, the little boy in this photo will say this was the day he decided what he'd be when he grew up?

Click for luvs )



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Going to go pass out now

  • Nov. 5th, 2008 at 2:09 AM
obama08
I...

Just...

It's too much. I didn't dare dream this could happen. My mind is reeling.

It's a new world. I'm going to go sleep for a while, and wake up to marvel at it again.

My GOD.


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Happy New Year

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 11:46 PM
rachel grin
Hubby and I busted out a bottle of sparkling wine. It feels like New Year's!

Hubby said it even feels like the millennium has really started. This decade has sucked so hard!

And I echo Wil Wheaton: I feel like I got my country back.

Thank God for Barack Obama.

unitin


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Gracious

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 11:30 PM
eccleston smiling
Senator McCain's concession was extremely grateful and warm. And suck it to the people who BOOED Obama through the whole thing. Even McCain had to tell them to shush.

I don't know how much of the shit the campaign slung was due to him personally. I can't forgive him yet for a lot of that junk. But this speech helped.


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*cries*

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 11:07 PM
rachel grin
OH THANK GOD!


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Simple mistake or something more sinister?

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 3:14 PM
keith WTF
Either way, not smart to mess with (A) a famous actor who is also (B) about 6'4" and in pretty good shape. From UPI:

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Police were called to a New York polling place Tuesday after film actor Tim Robbins allegedly got into a verbal confrontation with an election worker, TMZ said.

Robbins apparently became upset when the people working at the polling place at which he has cast his ballots for years said his name wasn't on the register, the entertainment news Web site said.

The star of "City of Ember," "Mystic River," "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Bull Durham," who is a vocal Democrat, reportedly was instructed to complete a provisional ballot, but he said he didn't want to do that, leading to an argument with a poll worker.

TMZ said Robbins accused the poll worker of attempting to intimidate him so he wouldn't vote. He then went downtown to the New York City Board of Elections to get proof he was registered to vote.

No criminal charges were filed in the incident.


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Fired up!

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
obama08


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Listening

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
obama08
I'm listening to Obama's victory speech after winning the Iowa caucus. If you're feeling freaked out, I recommend finding some video or audio of Obama. It's helping me calm down!


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This made me laugh

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 10:16 AM
tina lol
which I desperately needed!



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AAAAAAAAAAAAAH

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 9:53 AM
kermit the frog
My nerves are shot.

I keep thinking about all the people Twittering about going to vote for McCain.

And [info]yendi talking about a friend of his who was phoning Ohio, and talked to a whole bunch of people who said they just can't vote for a black man.

And all the righties who are bound and determined to prove the librul media pollsters wrong.

Every McCain/Palin sign on my way to work freaked me out just a little bit more.

Guy I know on Facebook said he didn't know whom to vote for. "Both are crooked," he said. BOTH? Both??? One may have exaggerated slightly about his health care plan. One has called his opponent a terrorist, implied he was a radical Muslim, and has been calling him a Marxist for the past month. BOTH?

I don't know how this will play out. I have nightmares about 2004. I've been awake since before 5:00 this morning, and not just to get up and vote.

It's taking all my self-control not to devour all the chocolate in my desk drawer.


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VOTED!!!

  • Nov. 4th, 2008 at 6:45 AM
obama08
I have NEVER seen such a long line at my polling place. There were probably about 30 or so people in front of us when we arrived, and the line behind us quickly grew to probably 40 or more.

A lot of people in our area take the train to NYC for work. Looked to me like that accounted for a fair amount of the line.

OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE.

I'm going to be a mess all day today.

ETA: Thanks, [info]lunaris1013 for the sticker!



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