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From Howard Dean's briefing at the National Press Club this morning:
Question: What role did the liberal blogosphere play?
Howard Dean:
That’s a growing influence on politics in general. There is also a conservative blogosphere, not only the liberal blogosphere, of course.
The netroots community can be very proud. They’re playing a bigger role.
Without the blogs, Jerry McInerny and Carole Shay (NH-1), would not have won. Entirely grassroots effort, without support form the Party, including us.
A big deal.
Here’s an even bigger deal. As you know, robocalls, flyers, low-ball election techniques. We knew about that instantly because of the blogs. We are not sure (Repubs) did it more than in the past, but we knew about it faster. Updates every 10 minutes from people who called 1-888-DEM-VOTE. (or whatever). We were able to get lawyers to polling places immediately.
The instantaneousness of the blogs, of people who read the blogs, who get that information to us, is a huge improvement over 2004.
Huge thank you to Prof for transcribing this for all of us. And an even bigger thanks to Howard Dean, whose 50 State Strategy brought us a whole lot of great surprises. Here's to the politicians remembering that they work for us.
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DEAN!
DEMOCRACY!
Christy you were AMAZING last night on CNN. Just the right take-home message about the contribution of Lamont.
Dean
Howard Dean was right about Iraq and right about the 50 state strategy. He’s a great leader in the old-fashioned sense: blessed with common sense, vision, and the courage of his convictions.
No wonder the Republicans worked to hard to discredit him.
Bullsmith @
5
Bingo!
Howard Dean struck them with the fears…and they only know how to attack that which they fear.
Bless Howard Dean, he is a great man.
-GSD
What are the odds that the sleazy Republican Corker will face legal problems over his corrupt land deals in Chattanooga? If he were to be indited, the Democratic Governor could then appoint Ford to the Senate, which would get us past the Lieberman problem.
Tactical question: This issue has been raised before, but it seems perhaps a firewall against the Dem Senate getting Lieberized (either by threat, outright betrayal, or just more smarmy attacks on Sunday mornings) would be defections of Snowe and/or Collins. Do you all think it would be good for Schumer et al to take this approach? He can point at Ned (that man rocks!) and Sheldon Newhouse, and the NH congressional races.
This is no pan full of flash.
It’s the Vermontster Mash!
New version of the Daou triangle, let’s call it the FDL quadrilateral: voters/donors/blogs/civil-liberty-defending-volunteer-lawyers.
Skip those costly middlemen.
Nice work, Dr. Dean! You are soo much one of us.
Amen Dean…and it was great meeting you Christy. What a treat!
Thanks for all the hard work, insight and opportunity to contribute and feel part of the process.
Off topic, but how likely is it that Lieberman will switch from the Vanity party to the Repulican party to prevent our take over of the senate? Just thought I’d ask.
Good thing the rethugs had that last minute surge in the pools that PNN, New Pravda, Potomac Pravda, MSGOP, Faux, the Shrinking 3, and almost every other corporate shill media outlet kept telling us about. Without it things might have really been bad for the juanta.
Net Nutrality should be another line that can’t be crossed.
If someone takes it away it should be clear to them, and clear to the public that they will lose 2 generations of computer savey people (which in about 10 years will be a ton of people).
People also have to be informed of the issue since cable/telecom companies are running the repub playbook to pretend their side is the other side (the working person’s side).
Governors undecided:
Minnesota
Rhode Island
Senators undecided:
Virginia
Montana
House races undecided: I list Dems
ok one of these doesn’t count, because there are only supposed to be 13. Help me out here. Will try to pull up some analysis before leaving for work.
CT02 Courtney
GA08 Marshall
GA12 Barrow
LA02 Carter
NM01 Madrid
NC08 Kissell
OH02 Wulsin
OH15 Kilroy
PA06 LMurphy
PA08 PMurphy
TX23 CRodriguez
VTal Welch
WA08 Burner
WYal Trauner
CNN just updated their Tester numbers. Tester lead increases to 3,128 votes.
Great job on CNN Christy.
urrrbody sing along:
“this is the dawning of the end of the hopelessness,
the end of the hopelessness…”
one huge step towards taking our country back.
Who the hell is Rahm Emmanuel, and how do we clip his wings?
What a smarmy-looking SOB!
This morning the sun is out, a slight breeze is blowing the leaves from the trees, the birds are singing and air is clean. It’s a fresh new wonderful day.
Thanks to all the FDLers (and many others) for all your hard work. Thank you all. . . .It paid off.
And all the netroots who got involved in these campaigns will be watching what happens with the new congress oh-so-closely.
This is the era of accountability. (I think about the spinning re: premature caving, etc., in previous post)
If they still don’t get it that our voices have been heard, we’ll keep going until they REALLY get it.
Thanks for the post, Christie. I wonder how this page would look in my promotion and tenure file.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. I topped out on promotions and got tenure 24 years ago.
Still, glad to see the Dean live-blogging show up on the front page, even if I still have some typos (”form,” misspelling Jerry McNerney’s name and Carol Shea-Porter’s name).
Now, back into my comment-cave, where I’ll be looking over election re-count laws and posting information on them if I find anything interesting.
Rahm, Schumer and Bill can try all they want to steal credit for this landslide. They think its triangulation and running to the right of Hitler. They are wrong. The credit belongs to Dean, Chris Bowers, lefty bloggers and the tube people. We are coming to take our party and our country back. HERE US? Better listen up Pelosi and Reid. CORRUPTION = Politicians who sell themselves for campaing money from corporations, lobbyists and other fat cats. People are sick of it. Slowly we turned. Step by step………..
tpres2000 — heh. My nine-year-old just asked much the same thing when he saw Rahm on C-SPAN a few minutes ago. Too funny…he said Rahm didn’t look like a person he should trust.
From the mouths of babes…
FWIW- this is the most concise explanation I’ve seen on the electoral validation processes in MT and VA [from TPM]:
Montana Process: When the counting phase is completed, a canvass will verify the vote tallies. That process could take as long as 48 hours, and must begin within three days and end within seven. Unless the canvass shows the margin to be within of 1%, there is no recount. As the loser, Burns would have to request the recount. When the votes are all counted, we expect to be outside that recount margin.
Virginia Process: A canvass is underway to verify the results and we expect that process to finish within a day or so. To be in recount, the margin needs to be less than 1% and Allen (as the loser) would have to request it. Because of Virginia voting laws, the margin would have to be much tighter than it currently is to see any change in the outcome. Given the current margins, that is highly, highly unlikely.
One important lesson learned last night came from how Jimmy Webb handled himself. He stormed the podium and CLAIMED VICTORY. He didn’t contemplate his navel, consult The Marquis Queensbury Rules or ask the networks permission. Damn, it was refreshing to see a Democrat seize the moment. In so doing, he has made it a much steeper hill for Allen to climb.
As Democrats, we have to learn to play offense. This was a good start.
where do I sign up for the 2012 Dump Lieberman effort?
BTW, thank you, Christy, for this post.
This one means a lot to me personally.
punaise @ 22
Who shot eeyore?
God I can’t stand Joe Lieberman. And I am very sad this morning because Charlie Brown lost by less than 2100 votes. I knew it was a long shot and that’s an amazingly close vote. But it’s still disheartening to me that so many of my fellow citizens could vote for that crook/slime Doolittle.
And did I mention I loathe Joe Lieberman?
But I am thrilled about Nancy Pelosi!!
VT House race comes off undecided list: victory to WELCH, the Democrat, at 53%.
My undecided list may or may not coincide with what’s on television.
Go DEAN! I’m already tired of listening to Rahm, Can’t Pelosi kick him off the stage.
Someone on TV started a “Grandma Pelosi” meme. I like that. I think it is positive. Everyone loves grandma, right? Do you think we should start using it everywhere?
We’ll remember you, Reid, Rahm, Schumer, Hillary … if it takes two years, or six, you will find out that we have long memories for those who won’t support democracy or the grass-roots.
And Joe – start planning your retirement, now.
Pelosi up on CSPAN now
LindaR @ 36
Nate was giving us a lot of hope late last night that a pending indictmect of Doolittle would present a special election opportunity in the very near future, and Charlie Brown is poised to step right back into the fray.
Dean/Lamont in 2008
Waking up to a beautiful sunny day after a nasty wet evening…kinda symoblic!
WE DID IT! This was all about the 50-state strategy and grassroots/netroots enthusiasm and hard work. With the exception of Keith O., the mainstream talking heads are full of worthless hot air. God do we need our own cable channel, full of intelligent beautiful bloggers who know the intricacies and issues.
F Rahm and Schumer. Go Madame Speaker!! I want that 100 hours combined with Waxman and Conyers coming down hard on these mothers. Make ‘em sweat and tremble for the last 6 years of incompetence and arrogant hubris.
Progressive legislation combined with hard-hitting investigations. If the Senate holds up (which I think it will), put populist middle class legislation on Shrub’s desk that he must either sign or doom the GOP to the backwaters of the south. And force the war criminals to resist every subpeona all the way to the SC if need be.
livetoad at 8: Yes, you can be sure Dem senators will be working on Maine sisters.
Harry Reid is a master strategist. He was the main negotiator w/ Jeffords in 02, when Dems pulled him in and in fact, Reid gave up his own committee chairmanship to Jeffords. (Reid was no 2 Dem at the time, like Durbin is now.)
Already noted elsewhere, these kind of jumps happen during big wave elections. Maine sisters see nothing but bleakness down the road. 08 is going to be big for Dems, because
the Dems in that cycle are secure seats and more repubs are in jeopardy. We need to re-win 08 solidly (and the whitehouse) to secure a generation of Dem leadership. Reid again is a master strategist and Durbin, Schumer, etc are very smart people.
Shout out to Ed*ard Teller, for all his hard work in AK for Diane Benson. While Benson wasn’t able to boot Young out of office this time, she did a wonderful job getting 40% of the vote in what has been a red state.
And our Ed*ard Teller was a big reason she did so doggone well, along with Dean and the 50-State Strategy.
From sea to shining sea, baby, take our country back!!
punaise @ 42
This is true. Charlie’s concession speech was wonderful, and in it he promised he would not go away. He was perfect, just the perfect candidate and would be such an excellent representative. It’s my fellow CA-04’s who voted for Doolittle who have me down.
Rayne @ 46
Nome wasn’t built in a day. good job, ET.
Just what the good doctor ordered!
Thank you Howard!
punaise @ 47
Does ET phone Nome?
VA site updated numbers. Webb lead increases slightly from 7,050 to 7,133. I like that direction. :)
Rushton @ 13
livetoad @ 8
I lay in bed this morning thinking about both those things. Some thoughts:
Lieberman has four options:
- Stay as a D in the Senate, with an influential committee position.
- Switch to R in the Senate, making it 50-50 with Cheney as the tie-breaker, and having an influential committee position.
- Get appointed SecDef, which allows CT’s Republican governor to appoint a Republican to make the Senate a 50-50 tie, Cheney as tie-breaker.
-Bush has Cheney retire, Lieberman is appointed Vice-President, a Republican is appointed to his Senate seat, and he becomes the 50-50 tie-breaker as well as VP.
I think that his own personal interests would make the first the most attractive option. His wife gets high lobbying income with either option one or option two, but if he takes the second option and becomes a Republican Senator, the unions in CT will really howl, and his new “friends” in the COP (Corrupt Old Party) won’t actually trust him anyway.
If he is appointed Secretary of Defense, he inherits a mess and will get no credit for it, and be out of a job in two years.
If he is chosen to be VP, he has a shot at running for President (as a D, as an R, as a USA-for-Lieberman candidate), but I think he would be eaten alive by all the aggressive other candidates in the primaries in both parties.
So he stays in the Senate as a faux-Democrat.
As for Collins and Snowe, who from Maine can help us out on what it would take, and what they would gain and lose?
Sad for Charlie Brown (and Nate), but ecstatic over McNerney knocking out drity Pombo!! Voisin didn’t fare too well, but we kept Walden’s money here where he had to spend it. It didn’t go to help Pombo and it isn’t sitting in the bank for his next campaign.
We also voted down an abortion measure! Kept the Gov in the D column and it looks like we turned the OR House from red to blue.
Policy is key now and how people will go to work. Its not all just a game of defeating this person on that person, the reason to win is so they can do what the US wants them to.
Chris Matthews was TERRIBLE last night:
Ex:Clintons clapping “looks, uh, looks Chineese”
Dems love “chaos, everyone know that”
Olberman is “one sided”, and thanks for “stopping by and runing how great I am”
and on, and on.
I had to turn back to CNN to take a break from the idiot and try to come back to catch the other speakers.
I also tuned to Fox, and they were HORRENDOUS. It was a joke. And they talk about Bitter and clueless.
punaise @
32
I don’t think he lasts that long.
Personally, I want to see an investigation of his “Petty Cash” expenditures pursued. His conduct needs to have some consequences. With his allegiance deciding the majority privileges of the Senate, don’t expect Harry Reid or the Dem caucus who helped subvert the primary process in CT to be the ones to deliver them.
Let the Man-Dog marriage ceremonies begin!
_
punaise, Peterr, you made me laugh for the first time in a day.
I’ve been so stressed out and worried we weren’t going to pull this off that I haven’t relaxed, have a massively sore neck and shoulders from tension and a tight jaw from clenching my teeth.
But you just made me laugh.
Thank you, you silly goofballs.
Looks like my track lighting needs adjusting again.
Jack Murtha said he is running for majority leader. If you are lucky enough to have a Dem rep call and ask her or him to support Murtha. He deserves it on his merits but the alternative is Steny Hoyer. Pick up November’s Washington Monthly for a profile on Hoyer(D-Big Banks)to see why we need a strong loyal Dem as majority leader.
Christy, I want to commend you on getting me to lift my wingnut filter on the dish long enough to catch you. You did a great job. I slammed it shut as soon as you were done, and turned back to the FireDogs, who were giving everyone a way better update than the heads on sticks were.
gleex @
48
agreed. he let down his guard, however, at the sign-off with an earnest recognition of KO’s work, comparing him to Murrow. “Your special comments are, uhhh, bracing“
Rayne @ 56
We aim to please.
As for your neck and shoulders, I hear you can get a good massage somewhere around Denver or Colorado Springs . . .
Tim Mahoney is on MSNBC and looks as tired as I feel. I am still floating over Sestak winning over Weldon.
Rayne @ 51
someone’s got to do the heavy lifting around here…. :~)
Still rubbing my eyes this morning. It’s nice to finally wake up after an election and not have the wind knocked out of me.
Peterr, you know I’d be more haggard-looking after a trip to CO from MI for a massage.
Besides, I hear that they cater to male clientele there.
Rayne….you are a big reason that I read the comments obsessively. Your comments are solid bedrock and intelligent and the work that you report doing is inspiring. Thank you.
Pelosi just said impeachment is definately off the table.
Live-blogging Grandma Nancy Pelosi:
“Democrats are not about getting even. Democrats are about helping the American people get ahead.
…
Impeachment is off the table. . . .
We will go forward with an agenda on issues that are relevant for the American people.
. . .
I will be the Speaker of the House, not of the Democrats.”
gleex, thanks for the reminder. I fired off an email supportive of Keith and critical of Matthews to:
“hardball@msnbc.com” ; “countdown@msnbc.com” ; “letters@msnbc.com” ;
Watching Pelosi on C-SPAN makes me feel so much better. I like her more every time I see her. I bet she could chew Rahm Emanuel up for breakfast and spit him out for lunch.
I like Murtha on his call that he wants Congress to work 5 days a week rather than 2 days.
With 5 days you could have 2 days of proceedure/law, 2 days of oversight, and still have an extra day left over.
All the people that came out to vote for Dems should be reminded now and over the next two years that the Dem congress is going to work a hell of a lot more than 90 days a year. Of course they need to make positive changes happen during there time as well. Policy is key after these last votes are counted.
egregious – The Democratic Party of North Carolina just released this statement for Kissell’s undecided race. Sorry for the long quote.
“Since last night, Larry Kissell has picked up 122 additional votes. With only 346 votes separating the candidates and many provisional ballots uncounted, this race is clearly undecided. Under North Carolina law, a recount can be requested if the margin is less than one percent. The North Carolina Democratic Party is working closely with legal counsel to make sure that every vote is counted. As provisional ballots tend to favor Democrats, we are very optimistic about our chances in the 8th District.”
Rayne, it is a hopeful omen for turning Columbus blue on the 18th! Back to the seminars with you Dick! YOU TOO CAN MAKE LOTS OF MONEY SELLING OVERPRICED SHIT (results not typical)
I have been looking for reports of which State Legislatures converted from R or R/D to all D. Anyone have a link?
Howie’s upstairs, gang, go and thank the man for a fabulous job.
millerfisk @ 62
That’s OK. Look at the Watergate #’s: went from numbers hugely against impeachment to hugely for it in no time once the facts came out. Investigate and let them lead where they may…
LindaR . . .
I’m with you lady. Do you think Dootie might look good in say an orange jumpsiut? Just sayin’
rat bastahd @ 71
I suspect he’ll wind up being impeached for something he hasn’t done yet. He doesn’t play well with others, and he’s going to be REALLY pissy now.
NZ Expat, you are too kind! Thank you!!
I’m only one of many people who worked very hard to get this done. The chair of our small Dem organization was still up at 5:00 am this morning, watching the local officials hand count ballots, for example.
What dedication; I cannot wait to campaign for her in 2008 when she runs for office.
Great work everybody!
I have some questions that probably were already answered, sorry if so. Please direct me to the info if that is the case.
Is it *for sure* that Pelosi will be speaker?
Is it for *sure sure* that Waxman and Conyers will be chairs of those committees?
How does the business of selecting speaker and chairpersons work?
A question for all the experts here at firedoglake, will Lieberman switch to the Republican Party so the GOP keeps control of the Senate?
One would suspect not. A switch would brand him as a traitor and assure a spirited campaign to unset him in six years. Plus, won’t Harry Reid give Joe some powerful chairmanship to keep him in the caucus?
Prof – I don’t have a link to the other states. NC’s was already blue but in a year when we thought we would lose some seats we turned our state legislature even bluer.
The more I think about it, the more Rahm thinks we are even dumber than the fundies.
The Republicans never, ever go to the Washington Post and complain that the fundies are driving them off the cliff–except in this last week when it became clear they’d lose. To do so after a big win (”moral values” anyone?) is inconceivable. The GOP may simply decide not to actually implement the fundie agenda, but they always, always publicly support it.
Rahm won’t even give us that much. If he won’t acknowledge us in public, he sure as hell won’t in private.
We shouldn’t wait for Rahm to try to knife Waxman. We should be in his face now.
DCCC offices: (202) 863-1500
Emanuel’s DC Office (if you keep it to House committee chairmanship issues it’s legal for them): 202-225-4061
And call your blue reps for Murtha. Hoyer is Rahm’s boy.
Howard Dean is a visionary, plus he has the logic and the brains to figure out how to get there.
Thank you Chairman, Governor, Doctor Dean! You’re in charge (as far as I’m concerned).
Thanks to Jane, Christy, TRex, Pach, and all other FDLrs for every moment and every dime you spent making this election victory a reality! We’ll repeat at higher speed in a few years. And in the meantime we’ll hold Lieberman’s feet to the fire. And, I also hope he gets what’s coming to him for his corrupt campaign tactics.
Tester’s lead has now grown to: 198032 to 194904.
For those concerned about the federal judiciary, this is HUGE.
{{{{LJ/Aquaria and Grandma J}}}} from below thread.
I think GSD & angie should repost the 136 too – that is a great small slice summary of some of the best.
Charlie Brown is a heartbreak, but don’t you have this niggling little feeling that Doolittle might be looking at having to resign his seat a bit early? Rayne/Dean etc. are right on the fight for 2008 starting now, but some of those fights may even hit before 2008. I’m hoping some kind of structure stays in place around Brown, bc Doolittle may not serve a long term – in office.
Same with Laesch and several others. Any planning should include B plans for the Repubs who got elected but may have a few legal issues in their near future.
I’m no expert, but this option just doesn’t make any sense. Bush is *radioactive*. There is no incentive for him to switch and align himself with the *loser* party. He’s already organizing with the majority.
Stunning victory!
We did it!!! Hooray!!!
Almost everything the GOP tried BACKFIRED!
And, Keith Olbermann now sits at the table with the “grownups” as of last night!
Losers, and there are many….
Karl Rove
Rush
Fox News…
America has spoken. Yes, we’ve had enough
Oakland @
23
We are coming to take you away, take you away, la, la.
klyde @53: A Murtha/Hoyer battle for majority?
Interesting. That could be where AIP^C looks to gain a foothold in the Senate.
meant House (long night…)
I’m sorry, but impeachment should not be “off the table” Ms Pelosi.
This president has lied to the American people repeatedly, he has sent thousands of American soldiers to their unnecessary deaths in Iraq, and has overseen and approved of the torture and deaths of thousands of innocent civilians.
Yes, we want to get on with the business of America, but for god’s sake woman, don’t make an unequivical statement like that.
I, for one, would like to see Bush, Cheney, and plenty of documents supboened in order to find out – and prevent again from ever happeneing – what went wrong in the lead up to 9/11, the rush to war and faulty intelligence that led us there, the secret energy task force, the outing of Valerie Plame, and the billions lost in Iraq – to name only a few.
The American people deserve answers to these questions and these criminals cannot be allowed to walk away from these heinous crimes.
The world is watching.
I think she’s being sly. She didn’t rule out investigations. Later on, she can always say, “it’s sad that these investigations have led us to consider impeachment”.
Small VA site update again. Webb lead increases slightly from 7,133 to 7,312 votes.
Rob Zuber @ 88
Won’t happen and if it did we’d get our clock cleaned and shown the door, again, in 2008.
punaise @ 55
I just wanted Keith to stop and say, “We all can’t be you, Tweety.”
Eureka Springs,AR @ 91
Not correct. It depends on what those investigations show. The public is more than ready to believe that serious crimes have occurred. We have the Nixon history to guide us. That gave us the White House in 1976.
Frankly, I’m really tired of this scaredy-cat approach to politics. I’m tired of being afraid to upset conservatives.
Pelosi is just being coy about the impeachment issue. She is putting the horse before the cart, which is the right way to travel anyway. Of course the House Democrats will have to look into a few “irregularities” AND if it just so happens that (surprise) something really, reallly bad comes up, well, then all bets are off and previous statements to the contrary are no longer applicable, right? (Nod, nod, wink, wink, say no more…..).
RUMSFELD STEPPING DOWN!!!!
OMG!!!
Rob Zuber @ 95
Linky?
Ron Zuber @95,
No shit?
Thank God. Officials said Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, would replace Rumsfeld.
I was fearful of Sec. Lieberman.
There’s a way to keep goin’
Step by step
Try to fix what’s been broken
Brick by brick
While your life will keep comin’
Year after year
Drain the pain, tear by tear
Drain away the pain
Tear by tear
~Sister Hazel
amen, sister!!!!
“Welove you Hooowwward,
Oh yes we dooooo
We don’t love anyone
As much as youuuu.”
If we officially take the Senate, I’m gonna sing some more.
You’ve been warned.
Don’t celebrate Rummy’s sudden departure too quickly. Look for Bush to appoint a Democratic Senator (cough…Lieberwuss…cough) to be able to keep control of the senate. Just a thought.
Thank You, Christy!!!
It’s sites like yours that are only hope for maintaing our democratic form of government.
Thanks again
Now have a good nights sleep and let’s keep ‘em on the run
It is disturbing how Howard Dean is being ignored in the media and by the press. HE is the reason this win was possible and it should be acknowledged by pelosi and company. It really diminishes them in my mind. He was the intelligent one that called this war a disaster right from the start. He was the one with the 50 state strategy. He has the vision and smarts to do the right thing. He is a great American. We are lucky to have him.
I thought Matthews was good most of the day, but then he insulted Scarborough, who gave him the look of death and withdrew for a time, then the Clintons and Keith. I attributed it to being very tired and not thinking very well. So I am more forgiving.
I sent thanks to Dean. The media is ignoring him, I hope Keith will boost him later today, and we know about Emanuel. In two more years, we have another opportunity to make sure some well-exposed candidates are elected.
In my campaign (NY-19) both the netroots and the DEAN DOCTRINE have been certified 100% effective. We’ll need to keep getting smarter, better, quicker, stronger to move beyond the gains of ‘06 … the basic infrastructure and strategic approach are now in place … onward and upward.
You are very correct but did you see the main media players on MSNBC(Tom Brokaw & B.Williams)trying to fuse it that it’s because of DLCERS Emanuel and Sen Schuler work.Folks they rae going and try to deny that it’s because of Howard Dean that the Dems have finally won an election .
Here is my slogan when I talk about the great election of 11/7/06
“Howard Dean Did It”
Bullsmith @
5
vachon @
101
Go ahead, Vachon. Today anything is A-OK.
I may even join you. If that doesn’t shut down the thread, nothing will.
BIG THANK YOU TO HOWARD DEAN.
BIG THANK YOU TO BILL CLINTON.
BIG THANK YOU TO SENATOR JOHN KERRY (for stumping for Ned Lamont).
BIG THANK YOU TO SENATOR KENNEDY (for stumping for Ned Lamont).
A REALLY BIG THANK YOU TO NED LAMONT. (The second time will be the charm).
Thank you, Howard. You had a game plan and it was well-executed.
Oh and I forgot to mention.
HEY GEORGE W.
NO ONE LIKES YOU ANYMORE.
NOT EVEN YOUR OWN PARTY. ESPECIALLY THEM NOW.
IN FACT, THEY MIGHT EVEN NAME ABU GHRAIB AFTER YOU AS A REMINDER OF HOW BIG A FAILURE YOU ARE.
And to the Swift Boaters.
YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES IS UP AND YOUR EXPIRATION DATE HAS EXPIRED.
IT WON’T EVEN WORK NEXT TIME IN TENNESSEE AGAINST HAROLD FORD.
Why’s a Texas Home Builder Financing a Tennessee Campaign?