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[Please welcome Joel Silberman, a fantastic person and PFAW advocate. And one of the most amazing people that I know. -- CHS]
America’s true democracy lives in a coffee house in the Adams Morgan section of DC. Tonight I am the guest of CNN where I’m in the company of some of the most read bloggers in the country. The election of 2006 will go down in history as a moment when the netroots changed America’s political conversation; when the mainstream moved from the far right of center to the center.
While Ned Lamont may have lost his race to be the Senator from Connecticut all Democrats who are winning tonight owe him a debt of gratitude for being the first candidate to make Iraq the center of this electoral season. And it was the blogosphere that fueled that conversation turning it into a referendum on accountability and the need for checks and balances on a President run amok.
When we win tonight we will see Democrats who are unapologetic progressives leading the way. And I believe this is only the edge of the progressive wave of people powered politics. I write tonight in admiration of every individual sitting at their computer participating in tonight’s political dialogue. This is 21st century democracy at its best.
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Scharborough on MSNBC: Waxman is making a list and checking it twice
subpoenas for 2007
Got the Zed! For Ned!
Epu’d.
R- Hayworth in AZ is GOING DOWN!! This bodes well for the AZ Senate race too! D- Napalitano is leading something like 64% to 34% over the R- Munsil. This is in a very “red” state. Hope this means Kyl could go down too in the Senate. Keep an eye on AZ!!!
CNN calls the House for the Dems!
CNN calls House for Democrats. Huzzah!!!
Frank Probst @ 4
Call your lawyers, Scooter!
Oversight!
Investigations!
Subpoenas!
Minimum wage!
We win the House!
Frank Probst @ 4
Congrats “quick fingers”. *g*
CNN Beard sez: Helloooooooo, Grandma Speaker Pelosi
richmond city is still out by 16 precincts and Webb is winning 72/26.
EPUd.
VA numbers here:
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm
These numbers are from the Virginia elections page.
Precincts Reporting: 2352 of 2443 (96.28%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,683 Total Voting: 2,215,736 Voter Turnout: 48.64 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,100,751 49.68%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,088,293 49.12%
And, while I’m here: Hillary Clinton can bite me.
Well a high-five and you’re spot on Joel! Yea for all of us!
Prof @ 7
…and spankings all around!
IMPLEMENT THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA, NOW
Welcome Joel!
and welcome House subpoenas……
“the old liberal lions in the House,” my former classmate Jeff Greenfield says on CNN.
Huzzah Joel!!! Please ask Christy and TRex if they’d perform an honorary Snoopy dance at the Tryst for all of us Firepups!
SUBPEONA TIME BABY!!!
Last thread: G_P_B @ 191
Precision Fretless,
G & L,
Upright
I like Tele’s too
HOMOS, WE NOW CONTROL THE CONGRESS!
So that’s what it’s like to be EPU’d. I’m no longer a virgin.LOL
3 senior Repub house seats have gone Dem.
All the closely contested senate seats which have been called have gone Dem.
It’s still looking good even though it’s mostly been the so-called “low-hanging fruit” which has been called so far.
Drink coffee or tea, but stay up. The VA race looks to be a nail-biter, along with MO and perhaps even AZ.
Hopefully, our long national nightmare may soon be over.
Although I’m not sure it will.
My god, the shrieking harpies of the right will be in an uproar for the next two years.
Speaker Pelosi! Damn. A woman in the third highest elected office in the nation. We are almost in the 20th century!
LJ/Aquaria @
12
Agreed. Can’t someone in power just tell her if she runs for president she’s giving power to the republicans?
Hello Speaker Pelosi, goody by Denny “cover up” Hastert
So… lemme guess here… they put KO on MSNBC doing election coverage just to be a beard for Tweety? I intend to let MSNBC know that I will only watch them for one hour in the evening, and only if KO is on during that hour… SNARL….
EPU’d
The Senate will depend on Virginia. Virginia will go to a recount that will take a long time, and then come out with a tiny lead by the Republicans. Riots will ensue. People will begin to take sides for ‘08.
I hope to be wrong. But the main thing is that people have awoken, and they have HAD ENOUGH. They will not easily be lulled to sleep again. We are now deep into the race for the country two years from now.
And in the meantime, we have SUBPOENA POWER, and INVESTIGATIONS.
GOOD BEGINNING!! KEEP WORKING!!
I do like the sound of “Speaker Pelosi”!
Christy, you were great earlier. Good job. Well done.
TeddySanFran @ 14
Wait a sec – I thought we’d defeated the GOP House leaders….
jeff greenfield is a bu**plug.
Va Senate
Precincts Reporting: 2360 of 2443 (96.60%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,681 Total Voting: 2,227,314 Voter Turnout: 48.89 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,106,775 49.69%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,093,722 49.10%
This one needs to stay under 1% so Webb can call a recount.
I salute Ned Lamont and all those who fought for him.
Love ya, Joel.
TeddySanFran @ 9
we need to get her back…
Rahm thinks he’s earned this post
Murtha thinks he could do better…
Gramma will be attacked.
Bring on the San Francisco Liberal.
Could someone explain the New Have numbers to me on this page?
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/20…..y.003.html
How can there only be 20000 votes or so in New Haven?
SPEAKER WHO?
SPEAKER WHO?
SPEAKER who?
say it louder, boy
TeddySanFran @ 20
Poppers for everyone!
Oh yeah, and welcome, Joel.
Key precincts out in VA
Richmond City
Norfolk
Newport News
All three districts Webb is winning by a large margin.
This one is still in the toss up territory.
cl
TWO wins in NH????
NH-01 Shea-Porter (D): 52% Bradley (R): 48% n/a n/a 93% 11:05 pm EST
NH-02 Hodes (D): 53% Bass (R): 45% n/a Dem 81% 11:03 pm EST
LJ/Aquaria @ 23
Ear plugs… they do work….
Candy Crowley is a GOP buttplug.
Thank you everyone here at FDL. You have changed the country, and each of us. Also locally the Service Workers Union in MA made a huge difference in this election for Deval Patrick. They are a wonderfully active union – in every way.
Our house, is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy ’cause of you
La la la la la la….lol roflmao-707
I’ll light the fire
You place the flowers in the vase
That you bought today
Staring at the fire
For hours and hours
While I listen to you play your love songs
All night long for me
Only for me
Come to me now
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is done
Such a cozy room
The windows are illuminated
By the evening sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you
Only for you
Our house, is a very, very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy ’cause of you
La la la la la la….lol roflmao-707
1,326 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Silberman:
“This is 21st century democracy at its best.”
No, it would be better if we won Connecticut and best if we took the Senate too!
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, THIS IS JEST THE END OF THE FIRST BATTLE IN THE WAR FOR OUR DEMOCRACY!!
Its starting to look like tomorrow will be a new day in America tomorrow! I’m still holding my breath for the Senate.
punaise @ 34
With you on that, punaise.
Hello, guys – re Ned Lamont conceeding – here’s why = there were poll standers in every district (i was one). We all stayed at our assigned voting place until after 8 PM and witnessed the counting of the votes. Then we called in to the Lamont headquarters. So, headquarters got all the districts, precincts within 1/2 hour. So Ned had the numbers right away.
He gave a classy speech. it will resonate as to what we are all about. And we will keep fighting for these values.
TeddySanFran @ 20
Fabulous! Homo sapiens replace cro magnon man to control the congress!
TeddySanFran @ 14
Oooh. A spanking, a spanking!
I thought homos already do. Or is this now the cycle for homos who are out? Nice homos.
I’ve been glued to FDL all day–skipped work! Thank you everyone! On my USMC son’s 21st birthday, I couldn’t be happier to be a part of the change and taking of the House. Let’s not waste time “Changing the Course!”
Fairfax Co. has over 1 mill. people…has three precincts out….webb getting 60% there.
Roll up our sleeves and let’s get to work. The Mighty Wulitzer will be in full swing tomorrow. We will need to fight tomorrow.
Get Ready.
So’s jeff greenfield. I used the **’s earlier. Pachacutec @ 44
Is anyone else imagining the scene in the WH as W is faced with the reality things didn’t go the way he planned?
LJ/Aquaria @ 33
The FBI was in there early. These guys are real professionals..right?
Pachacutec @ 45
Fitting quite neatly into Bill Bennett’s butt.
VA Senate
Precincts Reporting: 2365 of 2443 (96.81%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,681 Total Voting: 2,234,421 Voter Turnout: 49.05 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,109,958 49.68%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,097,561 49.12%
It’s now getting close to .5%!
shooogarp @ 57
=========
WHO’S NEXT?
=========
Think Bush left for Paraguay yet?
By my count, there are now officially 24,605 asshats in VA. :)
Pachacutec @ 45
A perfect fit for the enormous a$$holes in the GOP.
Well, someone please tell Ned we love him and thank him for going through all this nonsense for us…
It’s been a real pleasure and HONOR to support him…
Again…. I am still amazed at these numbers:
http://election.cbsnews.com/ca…..sdiction=0
Such big cities with so few votes?
weird.
OldCoastie @ 29
I like the sound of Denny Hastert’s stomach acid starting to work him over from the inside.
Stunning upset in NH.
Carol Shea-Porter wins in NH beating incumbent (R) Jeb Bradley.
-GSD
Well, looks like R- Kyl has the early lead in AZ Senate race but R Hayworth in the house is a GONER!
T- @ 58
Ew.
The only asshole that can take a butt plug that big is Rove. Maybe Mehlman.
Missouri
Precincts Reporting 1628 of 3746
Talent, Jim REP 467,581____51.7%
McCaskill, Claire DEM 404,004____ 44.7%
Tweety is being a prick because he is a prick and he is worried. Keith just looked much more professional and Tweety looks like the small man that he is.
Don’t say buttplug too loud, Ana Marie will delurk!
Kathryn in MA @ 51
Thanks for explaining. I wondered.
Rob: I’m at 24679 of them. Idiots.
I know we all know, but the more i see Ricky get buried the more I smile, and we can all use a smile(with 57%):
CASEY, BOB JR (DEM) 1,247,075 60.0%
SANTORUM, RICK (REP) 830,046 40.0%
Rob Zuber @ 65
At least.
ccmask @ 64
What’s that? I couldn’t hear you over the all the ruckus from the paper shredding machines at the WH and on the Cap.
Kathryn in MA @ 51
Ta Kathryn! That Ned helped kick off this whirlwind will not be forgotten!
UPDATE:
Senate DEMS 44 GOP 47 WINS 0-R, 8-D (1-I)
House DEMS 198 GOP 165 WINS 9-R, 17-D
She should show up at Denny’s office tomorrow with a measuring tape and drapery fabric.
Please let Ned know, no matter what, he gave this race heart: and gave the entire democratic party a spine.
Though I am still watching the numbers. Call me Sisyphus.
Thanks for the explanation, Kathryn in MA.
I hope TRex is doing his “Speaker Pelosi” happy dance. I sure am!
Rob Zuber @ 65
LMAO. (and crying at the same time)
Cantwell called.
Candy Crowley is a So. Beach Diet HO and Hillary is burnt toast.
Ned you are a great man. You made me proud.
OK lake dwellers celebrate tonight.
Manana we start looking for progressives to run against Schumer et al.
They are disgusting.
No more Clintons they destroyed our party.
Thank you all who worked so hard to regain the house for the people of this great country.
Yes I am angry about Ned.
They’re calling it for Gillibrand!!!
VA has some precincts not reporting all across the commonwealth, if I’m reading these maps right. This one is gonna be ugly.
Pachacutec @ 45
Ouch! That must hurt like hell….
LOL GRS @80
Suzanne @ 85
bring on those San Francisco values!
don’t give up on mccaskill — just like virginia, it’ll be the urban precincts that come in late in missouri
All of Chris Matthews’ friends are losing.
sweeney is not conceding yet…..moron
gregariousred @ 87
AND?
egregious @ 89
Yippee!!!!
Bustednuckles @ 97
yeah – what’d she say?
Pantload hastert speaking
Tweety knows Sweeney so Sweeney shouldn’t have lost! Bold Print Republicans! Guys he knows! Tweety, get that cat out of your mouth!
We need to win the Senate.
yeah GILLIBRAND
oppo: Matthews on MSNBC, these are Republicans I know going down… these are people we’ve had on…
Well Chris, perhaps you should have expanded your horizons a bit! Gillibrand would have appeared if asked…
I’m going to miss Hastert. Another page turned, as my nana used to say.
oops: eschew the ziggurats, damn, I forgot.
Webb is under .5!!!!
Precincts Reporting: 2375 of 2443 (97.22%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,681 Total Voting: 2,243,548 Voter Turnout: 49.25 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,112,116 49.57%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,104,413 49.23%
Webb down 8,000. 3% to go
Hastert conceding on CNN on a Dem House!
Oh Pac-ha . . .
NY 24
Meier (R) 45
Arcuri (D) 54
Re Webb in Virginia – could it be that areas that had evidence of the fraud and voter supression are not going to be called right away tonight? After all with all the hullabaloo today and the FBI sitting on everyone’s counting machines, there just might be some people counting once, and then counting thrice.
Well that is my spin for now anyway.
Go, Webb!
And Hastert should just go.
Down to 8,000 vote difference between Webb/Allen.
Arlington Co, still out (webb winning…Fairfax still out (webb up)…Halifax still out (an Allen Co. but only 10,000 people)…Loudoun still out…half of Prince William still out…
shooogarp @ 108
Apparenty Hastert’s wife is wearing the drapes….wtf is that material.
Webb within 8000. Go baby go.
Now is when things turn into a nail biter. I’m almost scared to hope we can take the Senate.
Pelosi=First Woman Speaker
Chicks Rule.
Precincts Reporting: 2376 of 2443 (97.26%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,681 Total Voting: 2,244,475 Voter Turnout: 49.27 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,112,169 49.55%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,105,270 49.24%
Down 7K!
I know we all hate Lieberman but I think it’s time for Howard Dean to make a deal with the little prick.. a senate majority would be a beautiful thing.
this could be an historic event…if the two georgia races hold, it will be the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY a party has failed to pick up a single seat!
UptownNYChick @ 114
Barfed Canvas
Well, in KS it looks like we had a good night. Besides the Gov’s re-election which was expected, it’s likely we elected a Democrat, Nancy Boyda, in KS-2, defeating a Repug incumbent who Bush flew in to try to salvage on Sunday (ha!) It’s not final yet, but looks good. And we re-elected our one Democratic incumbent congressman, Dennis Moore, for a 50/50 split.
We also elected a Democrtic attorney general for the first time in 32 years, beating a real slimeball incumbent who liked to seize women’s (and girl’s) medical records from abortion clinics and ran a really dirty campaign.
So things are looking good here–IN KANSAS!
Eyes on the prize people, we have WON THE HOUSE, which means Speaker Pelosi, investigations, and subpoena power.
MANY of the candidates we have supported in BlueAmerica are winning. The Lamont primary victory electrified progressive races across the nation. Tonight’s victory is in large part due to his courage in battling the current pro-war, pro-stay the course Congress.
Teddysanfran,
High five dude.
Virginia’s nasty anti-gay Amendment just passed. I just sent my folks (who live in northern Virginia) an e-mail saying I won’t be home for Christmas. I’m kind of annoyed that I already have tickets for Thanksgiving.
cbl @ 109
This is great news. Blue America candidate. So glad he won- and there were some really really nasty GOP doings there.
VA Absentees:
From Washington Post.com tonight:
Marc Fisher: Ok, I got a quick primer on the Virginia absentee ballot situation from our Richmond bureau expert on these things, Michael Shear. Absentee ballots are counted as an extra precinct in each county in the state. Some of those counties have already fed their absentee ballots into the machine and those votes are reflected in your statewide totals. Others, such as Arlington, have not yet posted their absentee results, but all counties are expected to do so tonight. So any impression I gave earlier in the evening that absentees would have to wait some days to be counted is incorrect. (That delay does happen in many other states, but Virginia is getting them all done tonight.)
So…stay tuned.
(Courtesy Billvabeach at nls)
wini-
Yes – I think Matthews in cranky because his buddies are getting their fannies kicked.
And he has to share his desk with the guy who’s poised to take his star at MSNBC.
Suzanne @ 116
If we don’t, it looks like we’ll cut it close. The Thugs can forget their nuclear option.
ccmask @ 104
I’m tempted, but I’m going to leave that one alone. Nice set up, but the punchline wouldn’t let me sleep tonight ;)
You too punaise.
UptownNYChick @ 100
What an ugly slunking hulk of mumbling sweaty hog-human.
shooogarp @ 108
that hasta hurt
I would dearly love to see a 28K jump right now in Webb’s favor to make up for those goofy ones we saw for Allen tonight.
If the Dems don’t win the Senate, Lieberman should be kicked out of the party caucus. Won’t happen. But, it should.
I hope Peter Daou is reading tonight.
Yo Pete keep collecting those big checks (you deserve it)but tell the Clintons no way, nada, never more.
Jay @ 120
Maybe Haggard could give him a hand job…
How can we take the Senate if MO goes for Talent, and Arizona goes for Kyl (I read he is ahead)? The only ones left are Montana and Virginia, but that only makes 5? Maybe I cannot count.
Hoorah for all the Blue Voters!
This is just the beginning. We’ll take more ground in 2008 and start that battle tomorrow.
I’m so sorry that Ned didn’t win but all that he did do for our country will never be forgotten. He brought back reality and truth and hope and was the catalyst that helped to restore our democracy. Better days are ahead because of Ned Lamont.
GrandmaJ @ 110
good to see the bunnies are working for you
so glad to see your early apprehensions are now optimistism
we’ll do well, maybe not winning all, but think back to what happened two years ago… we’re on the right track
Jay @ 120
Lieberman already has said he’ll support the democrats
…We’ve heard him say this before…
I was never so vocal before Firedoglake.
cbl @ 109
Yeah, Arcuri a nice win.
RagingGurrl @ 129
Insightful observation, Ms Rage
punaise @ 134
alhastlavita baby.
I’m sorry, but I don’t believe that anything is going to change.
Mr. Bush has all the powers that Hitler had and if you think he won’t use them then your not really living in reality.
Only the World standing up against him will stop the death and destruction that he will bring upon the World in his quest for more power.
Cheney already said that him and bush don’t have to answer to congress even if the congress supeonas them to testify before them.
You did a terrific job trying to get the american people to wake up and attempt to take our country back, but it appears they don’t want the freedoms our forefathers fought and died for it give it too them.
Only time will tell if I am right or wrong and like Bush said about the War in Iraq my opinion will only be just a comma.
God Bless American.
If Bush is the motivation for the end of this dark era, and it looks like he may be, we should thank him. If no Bush is ever elected again anywhere, we should praise him.
He’ll hold ‘em so the knife in the back doesn’t miss.
neurophius @ 123
Really good news! I am so glad that AG is history!
Webb less than 5K down.
OMFG Webb within 5K now
Precincts Reporting: 2380 of 2443 (97.42%)
Registered Voters: 4,555,681 Total Voting: 2,248,377 Voter Turnout: 49.35 %
Candidates Party Vote Totals Percentage
G F Allen Republican 1,113,013 49.50%
J H Webb Jr Democratic 1,108,291 49.29%
Long time
trollerlurker, some-time commentor…I am drunk from a martini on an empty stomach (yes, I AM a lightweight) since I am about to go on vacation for a month tomorrow for my long awaited honeymoon, seven years in the making… and not only will I be celebrating my marriage to my husband.. I will be ECSTATIC about how well the Dems did tonight and the pendulum FINALLY swinging back in a more sensible direction… and as a drunken person is prone to say…
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Repugs losing D*ck’s state
WY-00 Trauner (D): 51% Cubin (R): 45% Rankin (L): 4% n/a 64% 11:22 pm EST
Guess she shouldn’t have said she’d slap the guy in the wheelchair…
Exit polls in Missouri report that Talent won in the rural areas, McCaskill in the cities, and they split the suburbs. Rural votes in MO come in first, so that’s what we’re seeing.
The stem cell issue on the ballot there is mirroring the Senate race. It’s leading, largely due to the rural vote.
Stay tuned, folks. This is the state of Harry Truman we’re talking about here!
8 precincts in Richmond still out..I think we are going to win
World Wide Webb
Virginia is pissing me off.
So, in the House, we’ve constructively torn their head off and shit down their neck???
j.cro @ 152
cheers!
Jay @ 144
and his brother lost tonight
UPDATE:
Sen DEMS 45 GOP 47 WINS 0-R, 9-D (1-I)
Hou DEMS 203 GOP 166 WINS 9-R, 22-D
South Dakota anti-abortion amendment failed.
Come on, Webb…
Over at Talking Points they have Tester ahead in Montana….
Frank Probst @ 162
is that good or bad?
Frank Probst @ 163
That means they can’t ban it, right?
punaise- thanks for all of your efforts to keep comments running smoothly. I haven’t commented much this eve, bec. I’ve been closing prior threads, and also trying to stave of some flu thing. many thanks. xxxxx
j.cro @ 153
This wins for post of the night
Im drinking milk and eating leftover reases cups on sale from halloween
Another potential House pick-up for the Dems in Kansas – Nancy Boyda(D) is leading the horrid Jim Ryun 88,367 to Ryun’s 76,501!!!! That is 590 of 819 precincts reporting. Gawd, I hope this holds up so we can be rid of that self-righteous SOB! Boyda’s held a 10,000 – 12,000 vote lead all night. I’m a nervous wreck!
oh richmond please baby…
Frank Probst @ 163
Dumb question, but I’m assuming that’s good…
LJ/Aquaria @ 167
Correct.
Hello from Florida. We’re waiting for more numbers here.
I am sick to my stomach. Thrilled for the House victory, and exhilarated to hear Chris Matthews say that tonights Dem victories already amounted to what was, at the very least, a “reasonable tsunami”, and possibly something even more sweeping.
And I’m from MO and I feel like McCaskill will win. VA is the important race right now.
aw, poor shrubya is “disappointed” in the vote tonight…
AHAHAHAHA!
j.cro @ 151
My dear, you are not a troller. A lurker perhaps, but not a troller.
May you and yours have the honeyiest of moons!
delicatecutter @ 158
It’s pissing me off too and I live here.
As my wife left work last night, a co-worker told her to vote Allen. She said there’s no way in hell she’d vote for bigot. Her co-worker was shocked. And I’m shocked at how accepted and pervasive that Allen mentality is down here.
Kentucky woman: I’m glad you’re here.
j.cro @ 153
Hmmmm….I think that makes you a lurker, not a troller. ;)
OldCoastie @ 176
Hey shrubya
FUCK YOU
Oh man, MSNBC just gave a run down on VA and said only 97% of the precincts reporting in NOT 97% of the vote.
What’s Denny gonna do?
Pull a Gingrich?
Frank Probst @ 161
FABULOUS!!!!!!! Wow, that is a MAJOR decision for everyone!
The VA website is hanging again. That means numbers are coming…
J Cro, from me to you!
norfolk webb won
newport news city still has two precincts
fairfax has three out
arlington has one more
CNN saying Karl Rove was the one to call W and break the news to him. I can imagine how that conversation went. “Hi, George! You’ve signed that pardon for me, right? Okay, great! Are you sitting down?”
ccmask @ 180
You just went and choked me up!
Where are you getting these numbers?
LJ/Aquaria @
106
Kentucky Woman @ 142
Ditto.
Mehlman wants to work together now.
Play with yourself, Kenny Boy.
Mehlman on CNN talking about his principles. hahahahahahaha!
Oh, wow. Shrubya seems to be up WAY past his bedtime…. He must be worried about something…
Precisely, Sharon
Brett @ 168
YESSSS!! LURKER… that’s the right word. Sorry, brain not working so good thanks to the fine folks at Absolut
i LOVE reece’s peanut butter cups!!!
Have a FANTASTIC night tonight everyone!!!!
CHEERS!!!
Frank Probst @ 163
and a woman as Speaker in one day……this country is really becoming progressive (sarcasm)
Jay @ 119
Joe has already said he will caucas with the Dems.
If Dems only get to 49, Joe may go over to GOP.
If Dems get to 50, it’s a lot more likely imvho that Joe will go over to GOP, or take Rumsfeld’s place and let Jodi Rell (CT’s GOP governor) appoint a GOP replacement, same difference.
If Dems get to 51, it’s worth it to give Joe whatever he wants to keep him from going over to the darkside. (50 50 means DeadEye casts the tiebreaker). To really castrate Joe, Dems have to get to 52 and I think both Webb and Ford have to win, along with everyone else, for that to happen (since Kyl won in AZ). I’m guessing at the numbers here, welcome input.
testaroo @ 190
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm
testaroo: VA sec. of state
Lovely to see crazy Curt Weldon go down in flames……couldn’t happen to a more deserving twit!
VA numbers are here:
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm
I wonder how Libby is taking the news?
I just got to Fitz!!
testaroo:
http://sbe.virginiainteractive.org/index.htm
Richmond @ 183
Great news indeed, but a real statement about how much work we have to do. That friggin amendment was straight out of the middle ages, and shouldn’t need to be dignified with an actual vote.
Valley Girl @ 167
cool – does that make me a deputy dawg semi-mod for the day? :~)
(
oh, but for a peak behind that curtain)Marion in Savannah @ 159
LMAO,
Are we related?
MSNBC said something about having to pay for the recount, do we need to start donating for that? I want GOOD lawyers this time.
Treacle on a cold day would move faster than the results coming in from Montana. There are about 56 counties in the state and results have come in for 7.
Tester 7538
Burns 6331
http://www.sos.state.mt.us/ELB…../index.asp
Now that I’ll awaken to prospects of a blue House in the morning and all the investigations and oversight that will follow, I’m off to bed for some sweet dreams.
The last 4 days of GOTV have been worth the sleep deprivation and sore muscles. Goodnight all.
VG, thank you for all your FDL work, too!
Go Trauner..I get tears in my eyes when I remember the four years I lived in Jackson Wyo. About two miles from chez Cheney(YUK). (BTW the wife got the house)
We’ve been at these numbers quite a while now (relatively speaking for this site). Wonder what’s up with those remaining precincts, if it’s as Grandma speculated upstairs.
Bush is pulling up the floorboards in the Lincoln bedroom right about now looking for those missing WMD’s….
George A. @ 146
Please, my training is primary education, so I’d ask you to check your grammar and then your history. After those corrections, perhaps I’ll consider your pessimism.
Thank you! Any similar site for Missouri / Montana?
ccmask @ 213
He’s not looking for WMDs, he’s trying to find the stash of Wild Turkey he has hidden from the LauraBot2000.
Excellent news about SD!!
IA 02 Loebsack is still ahead with 50% of the vote . Johnson county absentee ballots are delayed 4 hours by machine counting glitch. Johnson co is heavily democratic. 51% to 49% Culver has won the Governor race over Nussle!!!!! Yay!
Frank Probst @ 186
“And oh btw Junya, I’m afraid you can’t pardon yourself. Have you closed on Paraquay yet?”
Valley Girl @ 167
Hey VG -
the well-groomed kitties and I hope you chase off the viruses soon!
thanks to you and all the mods for looking after the lake tonight….
30000 absentee balletts in fairfax county!; how long do those take to count?John Casper @ 198
Youre pretty much right i think, but it assumes that some more moderate republicans will STAY republican- if they see that in 08 theyre screated they might jump ship; theres been alot of silent angry republicans who’ve jsut been voting with the status quo but really theyre republicans for social change- if the democrats create social change they might run on over
Twisted Martini @ 185
from your sips to god’s ears
punaise @ 205
Punaise- you’d be a great mod. Do you want to take that on? Prepare to be consumed…. still? You are a TRUSTED MEMBER!!! (I dare you to get going on that one…) No, please don’t…. ;)
My next donation is going for a pedicure…for me!
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I believe that Dr. Bloor. If Dumbya got caught driving drunk, Laura wouldn’t know whether to call AA or AAA.
For Missouri:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/enrweb/a…..sp?eid=189
U.S. Senator Precincts Reporting 1930 of 3746
Talent, Jim REP 548,338 51.4%
McCaskill, Claire DEM 481,240 45.1%
The sad thing is that anti-gay marriage ammendments seem to be approved my more and more states. Have any states actually rejected it?
The VA race is way closer than it should be. Allen is a jackass and I am shocked that anyone would actually vote for him. I know the South is tough for Democrats, but Allen is hardly a decent GOP candidate; he’s the Anti-Christ.
dr. bloor @ 219
I think its some of that crystal meth he bought on paypal (tracts) from the right reverend Haggard.
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 210
And thank you for all of your great comments. The downside of being a mod is that it becomes hard to follow conversations on particular threads in a reasonable way- just reduced to looking at incoming comments in WP “comments” thread, w/o context.
Minimum wage raises are going to pass in Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and Ohio, with Colorado and Arizona just starting to count.
Matt’s going to be happy, as are a bunch of minimum wage workers!
(from CNN)
punaise @ 34
Thanks – it was a pleasure working for him. He is a very decent and deserved much better than the treatment he got from many.
is my tv screen failing? it’s tuned to MSNBC and …
Ken Mehlmann is losing his hair and has lost weight, now Ed Gillespie appears to have lost about fifteen to twenry pounds too?
ccmask @ 213
nope, he’s looking for the little crystals the nice preacher man gave him….
dab from CT @ 233
I hope Ned seeks political office again – he’ll have a built-in following. Thanks, dab: it was the good fight.
I will be so angry if McCaskill doesn’t win. I will have to leave MO, even if just in spirit.
John Casper @ 198
No no no. If the last six years have taught us anyone, it’s that you shouldn’t make a deal with the devil. Just ask Colin Powell. If it’s 50 Dems, 49 Repubs, and 1 Joe Lieberman, Joe should be told that he’s welcome to caucus with the Dems as a freshman Senator. If he wants to jump ship, hand him an anchor and let him go. A 50-50 split means that the Shooter has to come our of hiding to break all ties. So your choice is: (A) Cut a deal with Joe and take the Senate, knowing that Joe will stab you in the back on a daily basis for the next two years, versus (B) lose the Senate, get Joe to show his true colors, and know exactly where the Shooter is. I’ll take Plan B.
Lieberman will caucus with the Democrats because he knows that the Senate will go Democratic in 2008 and he would not want to end up in the minority. Joe thinks about Joe first. Of course he will vote for Bush judicial nominees as usual and keep doing the bidding of the credit card companies and other various bloodsuckers out there.