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Because egregious wanted a Snoopy Dance.
AP Calls it for WebbBy: Jane Hamsher Wednesday November 8, 2006 6:16 pm |
AP Calls it for WebbBy: Jane Hamsher Wednesday November 8, 2006 6:16 pm |
Because egregious wanted a Snoopy Dance.
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HELLUVA DEAL!!!
oh.. and FITZ!
just ’cause
Woo Hoo!
Thanks for the Snoopy dance.
Go Webb!!!
WOOHOO… SNOOPY DANCE!
Yes!
SO who is Bush going to fire tomorrow to try and change the subject?
Her’s to Duke Cunningham, Safavian and Abramoff having a lot of company in the very near future.
get on top of that doghouse snoopy and bark like you never barked before.
Ha ha!
We won, Republicans, and you didn’t. Sore losers!
I hardly dared to hope.
Let the hearings commence! Subpeonas all ’round, please.
Goddam this is fun. Wathing the talking heads tonite, and I didnt even want to throw anything. Well, ok I did, but only a few times.
Where am I going to direct all this venom?
Am I destined to become a placid lamb?
Should I take up golf. :)
Subpoenas, bitches!
And Mike Stark, wherever you are, THANK YOU. You da man. I owe you a really big wet sloppy kiss.
When things are calm again, can we please please please put our campaign hats back on and get some help down to Ciro Rodriguez? He has a chance to unseat Henry Bonilla in TX-23 in December.
Arf!
hey Rightroots: turf luck. your seed(y) money is scattered by the four winds
Macaca - another YouTube casualty. The truth shall set you free, bitchez.
Now, if we can just replace Joe with a Stepford-Leiberman who will act like a Democrat.
Special congratulations to the state of Virginia for rejecting the uncloseted son of the confederacy. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
When I was 12 I got to interview the Snoopy Charlie Brown. Now I work for the political Charlie Brown.
SNOOPY!!
Thanks for the graphic. It makes me very happy.
Like I wasn’t already happy enough with the WEBB VICTORY!!!
Life is good! Sometimes the good guys DO win.
weeeeeee!
what fun :)
It’s not over until it’s over. Fox hasn’t called it for Webb yet ;)
Tomorrow Bush will fire himself!
Details at 11.
Can we have a ticker-tape parade for Joe - except this being the 21st Century, we drop a bunch of computer monitors on him?
yabba dabba doooo
Maher on Larry King (I’m paraphrasing):
“The Republican Party is now the old Confederacy. That’s Karl Rove’s legacy.”
A toast, to Virginia attorneys, who have been all over this election, and at the ready for any funny stuff.
now that santorum lost, maybe he can pull the window shades up and cut the grass at his penn hills home. after that he can read the ten million newspapers piled up on his stoop.
This is the best birthday I’ve ever had!
Rick
LJ/Aquaria @ 12
Yes. We will do this. Ciro will get a lot of attention.
good day sunshine
Republicans are furious with Dubya. The cannibalism begins. Fealty rewarded with betrayal.
Thanx George.
rickeagle @ 27
Happy Birthday, Rick!
Maher on larry king just said Ken Mehlman is gay.
hooray for us all!
let’s give ourselves muscle strain patting ourselves on the backs!
we worked hard! it paid off!
in your face, limbaugh!
.
.
Patrick 4/4 @
22
Oh! thanks for the LOL. Not that I’m not happy about “things” but I am writing a lecture due soon, and every laugh helps. And Dana, thanks for the laugh earlier about the mountain falling on Bush. Wish I could remember exactly how you put it, but it WAS funny.
Y’all want proof that the tables have turned?
Ready?
Dallas went Dem. Yes, that Dallas. A majority of County offices went Dem, including the DA, County Judge, County Treasurer, County and District Clerks, and some 46 judges. Forty-six… Holy Toledo, who wouda thunk it?
http://www.dallasdemocrats.org/default.aspx
Paraguay waits
Hooray all! I do think having the Internet as an alternative to top-down corporate media made a difference in this election.
Al Gore invented it just in time!
Cute!!! Thanks for the laugh.
Chairpeople!
rickeagle @ 27
Happy birthday! Hope every birthday of yours coincides with enormous progressive advances.
Hope it’s a good one.
Oh baby, yeah, that needed a Snoopy dance!!
You know, we really do need to do some prep work on Charlie Brown’s district very soon, within days. I’m sure egregious and Nate will get us up to speed, but I think we very much need to get one more seat to take Joe out of play. If the shoe drops soon on Doolittle, we need to be ready to rock!! Lots of blog coverage on Doolittle’s shortcomings, more coverage on Brown’s capabilities.
But a Snoopy dance for now!
scarecrow @ 28
Great! Thanks! He could really use the help. Dems combined took 49% of the vote, which was more than Bonilla got.
We can take him. It can be done. But it will not be easy. I’ll shut up now, so everyone can have fun. We deserve it.
when quoting Frank Zappa last night I forgot the most important line:
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
(Yippy-Ty-O-Ty-Ay)
not to drop a turd in anyone’s oatmeal, but anyone else wondering why Holy Joe didn’t get the SecDef nod? my fear is that he’s holding out for something much bigger. imagine Chenron has “medical issues” (maybe from his “hunting trip”)and resigns, (especially since he got the same ringing endorsement that Rummy did last week) aWol appoints HoJo in an effort to appear a “uniter, not a divider” (commence wanking motion) and he gets in (will need 2/3 approval in both chambers for this to happen.) Gov Rendell appoints a repug replacement and it goes 50/50 with HoJo casting the deciding vote. how much stroking will HoJo’s ego need to keep him in his bff’s pocket?
Ed*ard Teller @ 24
Beautiful and TRUE.
Oh, and happy birthday Rick.
Y’know, I can feel my sense of humor returning. Gradually, but, it is.
I think the next two years are going to be fun….
I’ll join in that Snoopy dance! I’ve spent too much of today on my own. What I really want to do is hold hands with somebody and jump up and down and scream at the top of my lungs. Group hug time!!!
I keep having flashes of the prologue of “Fellowship of the Ring”, when Isildur cuts the ring from Sauron’s hand and he implodes and all his followers are left powerless and defeated.
OK, maybe that’s a little overdone, but it is a cool scene.
If this holds it will take some serious wind out of Holy Joe’s program. I was not looking forward to him having the swing leverage that was seriously developing. We need a righteous sword and not one compromised by Lieberman.
twolf1 @ 32
well, he was looking quite Haggard last night
Any comments on whether or not we want Cheney to remain as
V.P. for the next two lame duck years or root for the Fitz to snag
him. Any professional comments on the feasibility of this”
It truly is a great day in America. Now Bush will not get through
any more right wing judges to the Supreme Court. The damage is
truly there and we will have to live it for a long time.
We must win the White House in 08. Less than two years away.
Two years of IN YOUR FACE BUSH—NO BIPARTISAN CO-OPTATION
CBS: Webb Takes Virgina, Dems Take Senate
Looks like Ken Mehlman might the be the next victim into the cannibal pot.
-GSD
Go Webb, even though he’s one of those crazy netroot supported socialist whackos.
“The Republican Party is now the old Confederacy. That’s Karl Rove’s legacy.”
Confederacy of Snoopy* Dunces
*(NSA kind of snoopy)
Damn, I need more sleep or more caffiene. Just remembered Doolittle’s in the House, not Senate.
Oh well — we still need to get a 2/3rds House as our next target.
Come on, Ciro Rodriguez…Come on, Charlie Brown!!
twolf1 @
32
It’s bad enough that the most serious reporting on television is on “The Daily Show”. Now we have a comedian on CNN telling us what every TV journalist doesn’t have the guts to say.
preznit giv me turkee @ 43
Nah, won’t happen. If Bush were to nominate a Dem (even one as shallowly so as Lieberman) as VP, the raving loonies in the `pug party would be calling for Lieberman’s immediate impeachment (and would that be a fine howdy-doo turnabout’s-fair-play for Lieberman :) ).
Those of us who are praying folk have repeatedly begged God to smite this evil that is killing our nation.
Many prayers have been answered yesterday and today. Not always on our time: I want patience and I want it now…but in good time, and in His plan for us.
Matthew 25 is the to-do list for my professional life; Ephesians 6 is the inner guide: Put on the full armor of God…Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world…Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit.
I’ll bet Justice Stevens is sleeping better tonight.
montag @ 56
Hmmm. Confirm and impeach. Could be fun.
Hey, does anybody have a subscription (free registration) to http://www.tnr.com/ ? Howie mentioned an article by Rick Perlstein that mentioned Blue America.
~~Did Rahm’s strategy work?
Who really deserves credit for the Democratic comeback?
by Rick Perlstein~~
Howie talks about it at: http://downwithtyranny.blogspo.....but-i.html
(but his link doesn’t work).
Anyway, I am too stressed right now to go through the “free” registration process at TNR, but maybe if someone is alread registered, they could check out the article and post the bit about Blue America. Ta!
Encore!
U2 beautiful day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Fjh5utC2s
YEE FUCKING HAWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
egregious wasn’t the only one who wanted a “happy feet” Snoopy dance! The only thing I ever in my life drew that looked like what I saw in my mind was a Snoopy happy dance “short timer” calendar for my first hubby after we sweated out our 3rd Vietnam levy in Germany. Snoopy, he be special for me!
Here’s some theme music…..
Now dance those webbed feet off!
-GSD
A week or two ago, I read a reference to GOP Senators party-switching in the event of a Dem takeover. Anyone else hear that, or rumors of switchers to make Dems have 52 or 53 votes in Senate?
Hey Lakers.
I just paused to consider what happened Tuesday, culminating with KO’s announcement that Webb won.
Fucking A.
Everyone take a bow. Hug yourselves. You all are awesome.
GSD @ 52
There is already talk of Michael Steele for head of the RNC. WAPO has it here: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/
preznit giv me turkee @ 43
We’ve always known that the fight would be ugly. This is only the first round of many.
Egregious!!!!!!!!!
Wait a minute– what about the missing petty cash from Liberman’s campaign?
We’re not just forgetting about it, are we?
montag @ 55
well, for impeachment to happen it’d mean that John Conyers would have to initiate it. not likely IMHO
Hi mods -
Is the refresh comments button taking the night off? (if so, I hope it enjoys the well-desrved rest and returns to us - well - refreshed.
(this thread and others aren’t showing the “refresh” button - the pages just keep loading but never finalize…)
Most of all, thanks for your work and for the fdl community!
You ain’t kidding Frank.
montag @ 45
I like this guy. We can learn from this.
Riesz Fischer @ 69
Trust me, the group here isn’t forgetting ANYTHING when it comes to Joe Lieberman.
Jane, you totally rock!” Webb, Tester, McInerny! Christy! Snoopy! Yes!
To coin a phrase: “It’s morning in America!”
Sam @
50
Don’t know what the pros think, but personally I have had enough of blackguards sliding by.
pontificator @
5
LJ/Aquaria @
12
I think we’re all taking a day off, but we all know that the real work begins again tomorrow for 2008. I’m hoping that BlueAmerica PAC goes from strength to strength, as I trust it will. But, Firepups gotta howl at least once a year…
AAARROOOOO…..
Bonnie @ 46
[holding hands, jumping up and down and screaming at the top of our lungs: WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Looks like Bush has the curse of Tecumseh.
preznit giv me turkee @
70
Disagree. I think he is more than likely to initiate it. Maybe in babysteps, but it will be a slippery slope.
mlk @ 66
Ken Mehlman, why the long face?
-GSD
egregious @
18
Charles Shultz? Another great Minnesotan, by the way.
ccmask @ 80
And we thought that only applied to physical death.
PeteCO @ 47
Not overdone at all. We must use all our weapons. Stories, myths, songs–Had Enough? They are part of our power.
Today on the radio here in N.Va. I heard, in succession, We Are the Champions and then Takin’ It to the Streets….
doing the investigation dance….
into the tru comm salsa
finale with a waltz to the Hague
next election tango for true progressivism (is that close to a word?) :~}
Balrog @ 80
I was referring to a possible HoJo impeachment, not aWol/Chenron
Valley Girl @
60
Send me an email and I’ll be happy to send you a copy of the article.
cl
caoimhin at
sover dot
net
All those who knew that today the Dems would control the House and the Senate, and that Rumsfeld would be unemployed, raise your hands.
OK, me to me and rwcole, but who else?
woot
No Dr. Evil. It applies to any kind of death.
Lieberman has become very powerful. If Lieberman switches over to the Repugs, the senate goes 50-50. Cheney’s vote turns it Repug. Historically, when the senate is 50-50, the chairmanships are split between the parties, but there is no law to enforce that. The Repugs, who would have control of the Senate, could choose to retain all of the chairmanships.
Lieberman can hold this over the demos heads. He can force a vote to go his way with the threat that he will switch parties. The only thing stopping this would be an internal moral compass where Lieberman sees himself as a Democrat. Is there any reason to believe that this exists?
The 51-49 lead in the Senate makes Lieberman very powerful indeed. Heckofajob Chuck.
kirk murphy - try clearing your cache
kirk murphy @ 71
I’m seeing the refresh comments button and comments are coming up quickly. Browser issue? Try clearing cache? Get DSL?
rickeagle @
27
Wow! Happy, happy birthday, Rick… I hope you have MANY, MANY, MANY more….
just like this one!
Before dancing too much, revoltin’ Joe Lieberman, who drew so much energy blogwise, came out of this with more power than ever before. He’s the swing vote in the Senate and, given his trackrecord, will make the Dems grovel for his miserly support. He’ll be perfectly positioned to sabotage the Dems, during a time when the public is going to start increasingly blaming them for how things are going. The Dems ‘control’ Congress, so why shouldn’t they blame them.
Long term Joe will be a continued poison for the Dems.
Eureka Springs,AR @
36
And I feel really sorry for Paraguay…
JohnSwifty @ 83
Hey Jonathan Swift,
Does it seem weird to look at the ocean of Blue on the US map, only to see two Red lakes in the middle of Minny?
Happy the consolation prize is what it is. And I plan to make life miserable for Cruella DeBachmann.
EvilDrPuma @ 84
For the BFEE, political death is pretty much the same thing…. :)
Balrog @ 88
I only got a third of the way. It was pretty clear that the Dems would control the House. I hoped that they might take the Senate. I hadn’t thought about Rummy jumping the ship immediately after.
Looks like we hit the trifecta!
Pacifica @ 90
Agreed, but Joe is going to be most happy as a member of the majority. He’s not going to vote with a lame minority.
RevDeb @ 58
Bullseye
This one has better sounbd!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....mp;search=
I think the curse was broken by Reagan when he was shot and lived right?
In light of Webb’s sweet victory I thought it would be a good time to point out L’il Debbie’s column from last Sunday in which she laments over the bad treatment the WaPo gave poor Senator Macaca and other worthy Republican politicians. My e-mail to her (apologies for the length), is below the link to her screed. No answer from her, no doubt because I’m way too impolite and feverish.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....01462.html
Dear Ms. Howell:
I am a long-time Post subscriber and reader. I was appropriately appalled by your inauspicious and embarrassing debut as ombudsman a number of months ago, when you bent over backwards to prove how “objective” and “fair” you were by blaming Democrats for Abramoff-related Republican corruption and slamming Post columnists you felt weren’t “fair” enough to Republicans (Froomkin, Milbank). At the time, you were justly chastised by readers and since then seemed to retreat to a richly deserved oblivion and irrelevancy, mostly doing harmless surveys and wondering whether the Post was writing enough about local transportation issues and the like. You easily could be ignored. One might even have hoped that you had undertaken some self-reflection and had taken the criticisms to heart.
Now, however, you have waded back into the subject of “Balance and Bias on the Political Beat,” and once again you have written a column (Sunday, November 5) that is remarkable for its craven and abject willingness to accept and echo Republican complaints about Post campaign coverage. You really never do learn, do you?
How dare you describe both James Webb and Sen. George Allen as “two less than sterling candidates?” Are you now ombudsman for voters’ choices? What is your basis for saying that both Webb and Allen have been “mired in controversy,” as if reports of Webb’s past statements about women in the military have reached anything like the crescendo of serious charges against Allen for both past and recent behavior? Quoth Debby Howell: “Allen supporters think he can’t catch a break; I empathize.”
Then you go after Style political profiles because you think readers are too dumb to distinguish feature pieces in Style from news coverage. Just as you thought readers would confuse Froomkin with a Post White House reporter? Nothing like respecting the intelligence of Post readers, eh, Ms. Howell? You are all aflutter that Style has been too favorable to Democratic candidates and not favorable enough to Republicans. You interrogate the Style section deputy editor. Again, quoth Debby Howell: “I longed for a more critical eye, especially in the Cardin piece, which seemed relentlessly positive. Several readers thought Steele’s profile should have mentioned that he flunked the bar exam, but lots of folks do that. Pro-Steele readers were right to say the Post underplayed the story about several prominent black Prince Georges County Democrats endorsing Steele. It was given one-column display on the Metro section front page.” In Debby Howell’s world Republican complainers are always right, Democratic complainers reliably wrong, if even mentioned.
You then go on to elevate and “sometimes agree” with readers’ complaints that even the Post’s photos are biased against Republicans! You say the photos show Democrat Martin O’Malley “smiling, looking chipper” and his opponent, Governor Robert Ehrlich “looking grim.” Did it ever occur to you that “grim” is exactly, precisely the dominant facial expression of Maryland’s current governor so that in fact the photos portray him accurately? No, in Debby Howell’s world it’s better that the photographers wait for a rare photo of Ehrlich smiling (as was on today’s front page) to create that false “balance” with which you are so constantly and reliably enamored.
Ms. Howell, with “friends” like you (journalists who regard themselves as personally liberal and then overcorrect to the point of being ridiculously over-sensitive to perceived “liberal bias”), we don’t need enemies.
You remain an embarrassment to the Post and to the profession of ombudsman.
Sincerely,
John Casper @ 101
I’ll bet he’s even thinking of a creme brulee for dessert this evening….
Around here we’ve already gotten used to saying Speaker Pelosi.
I don’t want to jinx anything–now that it’s been called for Webb, how long until we can practice saying something similar for the other chamber?
rickeagle @ 27
Happy Birthday! I found out that a friend of mine had a birthday yesterday. I sent him a message saying “I got you a new government. Do you like it?” :-)
egregious @
57
and get up and boogie, too!
Thou hast turned me from mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
Psalm 20, verse 11
Balrog @
89
Not me, admittedly. I had the House, and am hardly surprised at Rumsfeld, especially after the commencement of hectoring Mr. Wolf through press conferences began, but I didn’t dare hope for the Senate. It’s a wonderful surprise.
And with so many Dems elected at state and local levels, a lot of the GOP machine’s precious networking has been disrupted.
Balrog @ 99
Agreed. Lieberman will always do what gets Lieberman the most attention. Jumping to the GOP and making Cheney cast tiebreaker votes puts the attention on Cheney. Ergo, Lieberman will not do that.
He may have power, but he’s hamstrung by his own predictable narcissism.
fallenmonk @
48
Not so much - the 51 includes Joe.
Without him it’s a tie.
ccmask @ 102
Maybe, unless you count the death of neurons. In hindsight, it’s not hard to see the Alzheimer’s setting in during his second term.
Raw Story headline: Right-wing icon: Republicans have failed country… Soon…
Hey ET! I haven’t been around much, so you may have already commented- reaction to the AK outcome? Benson’s numbers looked impressive, considering the battle she had to fight.xxxooo Will she run again?
Balrog @ 100
Yeah, if he switched parties he would no longer hold anything over on the Dems.
But I would think the decision to pursue the missing petty cash from his campaign would be up to the attorney general of Connecticut. So his position as a triangulator would not help him. Am I right?
Ergo, Lieberman will not do that.
take the “R” out of Lieberman and you get “ego”
CityGirl @ 104:
Testify, sister! Well spoken!
twolf1 @
113
link is up now:
Right-wing icon: Republicans have failed this country