Drudge’s headlines as of about 4:20 EST tell you all you really need to know (h/t Matt Browner Hamlin):
RAW: 'BLACK PANTHERS' BLOCK ACCESS TO VOTING STATION...
POLICE CONFRONT...
VIDEO: HILLARY POLITICKING INSIDE NY POLLING AREA, 5 FEET FROM BOOTHS...
TOLEDO, OHIO POLICE ISSUED RIOT GEAR...
VA VOTERS FACE WET BALLOTS...
REPUBLICAN ELECTION BOARD WORKERS THROWN OUT IN PHILLY...
MCCAIN SUES OVER MILITARY BALLOTS...
TAMPA: HUNDREDS OF VOTER SURVEYS SCATTERED ACROSS INTERSTATE...
Republicans like Drudge have written off this election. They figure Obama is the next President, and they want to deny him a mandate by saying he won through fraud. Call it the "Clinton play". A lot of Republicans never really accepted that Clinton had the right to govern, and they spent 8 years making sure he was able to do as little as possible.
Of course, Bush actually did steal the election, and he governed as if he had a mandate. But then Democrats aren’t, as a rule, borderline psychotic crazy. They don’t call Republicans "traitors" and tolerate violent racism. There’s a hard core of Republicans, the same people who still support George Bush despite his complete incompetence and his manifest failure, who really do live in a world where "liberal" is a swearword, and Democrats are evil traitors who want to betray the US.
And Drudge caters to such people, carefully crafting a storyline which allows them to continue hating and which will allow them to try and do to Obama what they did to Clinton.
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‘Black Panthers’ debunked with actual onsite reportage at dkos. Not that truth matters much in this case.
Oh you can bet that’ll be the meme pushed on Faux News for the next four years. It’s not that Republican ideology has proven to be a complete and utter failure, it’s that Acorn gathered a few registration forms that were not legitimate.
Oh yeah, I had no doubt it was BS. But most people it’s aimed at will never see the debunk.
They want to steal Obama’s power to govern….. and this has been gearing up since the Ayers/Wright smear and then throw in ACORN….. and you know how violent and hateful them Liberals are…..
Which Republic is the first to call for impeachment? I figure the date will be Jan 21, 2009. I just don’t know who’ll do it.
They’ll still be using the Newt Minority Party playbook.
The issue is that ACORN was following the letter of the law….. there were REQUIRED in many states to return EVERY registration no matter how bogus….. AND they sorted them too…..
NO ONE at ACORN actually registered a voter, they filled out forms and submitted. IT is the Election Board that ACTUALLY registers voters. IF fraudulent people are registered then it is that Election Boards fault.
Those are inconvenient truths that the Republic Noise Machines will ignore.
Folks waiting around the corner, about 40, at our Lower Haight polling station. There has never, ever been a line here in the more than ten years we’ve voted there. Opposite corner had NO-on-8 volunteers and a Cindy Sheehan volunteer. Folks were in a good mood, some working their way through our immense voter guide at the last minure — SF has, in addition to the 12 state initiatives, 22 city initiatives to plow through, including, of course, the infamous vote to name our Oceanside Waste Treatment Plant for the outgoing pResident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I predict an overwhelming vote in favor of that one, which will feed into Drudge’s wacky SF stolen election storyline.
Lots of NO-on-8 volunteers in the Castro this afternoon, a very festive holiday atmosphere. Hope the good mood has reason to hold through the evening!
PLEASE VOTE NO ON PROP 8
TPM debunked it too…!
With Clinton, they hung gays in the military around his neck between the election and inauguration, and Clinton didn’t know how to plow through it.
Not this time.
answered you downstais with
{{{{{hugs}}}}}
After the election, we should demand that the Mormons go after Reagan’s liberal CA divorce laws or keep out of the state.
ACORN, Black Panthers, subprime… GEEEEZ, wouldn’t it be a whole lot simpler for those folks to just admit out loud that they’re racists? Keeping up all these pretexts and rationalizations all the time must be so exhausting for them…
Drudge,is merely a TALKING POINTS distribution center for Rovians and other disfunctional wingnuts…period
Heh heh, you said “hung gays”…
Good luck on the No on Prop 8, Teddy! I’m definitely looking forward to seeing Shrub’s true Prez monument! ;-)
I’m with you in spirit.
Mahalo, Sadly! ;-)
OK, I can’t stand it…the anticipation’s getting to me!!!
You mean the Aumsement Park/Library? Condi’s slated to be one of the hostesses.
oh Shite,,i dont like this
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..41029.html
The rethugs will, of course, learn all the wrong lessons from being politically obliterated. The survivors will become nuttier, MORE hateful, and further divorced from reality.
O Joy.
Ah, yes, the Dolchstosslegende. Favored myth of right-wing turds since the days of World War One.
Hopefully, people have learned to ignore them.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20081031.html
Great article by John Dean and the Republican’s Authoritarian government.
Talks about that 25% crazy pop. that cannot be talked to and nothing will ever change their minds that Bush was a great president.
I don’t know why I’m nervous, maybe because I will NEVER trust republicans again.
GOD what a bunch of worrywarts!
Will the opposition to the renaming be able to break into double digits?
with any legitimacy to this count we have such a mandate that they can claim nothing of the sort
*crosses fingers*
Maggots like Drudge and Limbaugh [WTF was that sign-off yesterday to dittoheads that if you’re fearful, do what you gotta do????] deserve shunning and contempt. They are vile, low, bottom-feeding butt pustules.
And all the gold in the world can’t cover up the rot in their souls.
Hope everyone remembers GWB when John Ellis starts sniffing around.
Hi EvilDrPuma– I left you a response to your excellent question near the bottom of the last post, if you missed it.
GOTOV!
Get Out The Obama Vote…Pour It On.
Between the handwringing about Drudge and the upcoming screaming about Obama not being progressive enough. . .oy!
i hope he finally perforates his anal cyst
hehehehehehehehehehe
i might go take a inderal,im edgy ,verrrrrrrrrrry edgy
mebbe i turn off TV
Druck Fudge.
are wordy durds allowed?
ok nervous,going for the little tiny pill…brb
Live election results with an interactive map at TPM in ten minutes.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Can’t wring my hands like I used to. Arthritis, doncha know.
OMG the dogs barked, maybe Blackwater is taking the country over!
I heard that
OT — is this where I get tickets for tonight’s lurkfest?
Seriously, many thanks to the FDL’ers that do the heavy lifting around here. Their efforts allow someone as lazy as I am to know what’s happening within minutes of the event — and on a nationwide scale, too. You’d have to watch interminable talking-head TV coverage to be as informed — and then the coverage would be biased.
Anyway thanks to all those who grind this site out and greetings to the rest of the pups.
(The coverage here might be a bit biased, too, but at least it’s my flavor of bias.)
Thanks Ian.
digg
Can’t hear the dogs much anymore either :0)
What color are the helicopters?
You know the economy is bad when Harold Ford can no longer afford Botox !
I wrote earlier that my voting experience was hellish, lots of parking, friendly, helpful poll workers, quick short lines, lots of voting booths, paper ballots. I was the 585th voter about 10AM.
1,816 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Ian Welsh and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:
“…allow them to try and do to Obama what they did to Vlinton.”
Good luck with that!! Clinton’s “deal with the devil” that secured an alliance with Greenspan and the corporate game planners required Clinton to get the Dems to cut their throats on taxes and then abandon them from the White House when they went into the election in 1994. Thus Clinton gave away the Democratic majority without a fight with assurances from the fascists that they would leave ‘im alone and of course the rest is history.
For Obama, the first big threat of “deligitimacy” lies not from the right-wing over ballot and election issues but from the encumbant Democratics and corporatist party elders and the first battles between the Obama people and the old guard will be seen in the fight for leadership before the conveneing of the new Congress. Thus the only real election related element that will effect the legitimacy battle will be the size of the mandate and the number and politics of the new congress people who will be voting for leadership for the first time.
The next “legitimacy” threat will come from fascist loyalists embeded in the civil service in the last year during the transition in the first months of the new administration and whatever connections they will be abl;e to maintain with the right wing noise machine.
Let’s get a huge majority and fight out new congressional leadership and we won’t hafta worry about attacks on Obama’s bonifides.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION…ONE BATTLE ATTA TIME!!
Actually, the economy was beginning to tank and Bush appeared pretty subdued for the first 8 months. 9/11 gave him his “mandate.”
hand-wringing alert ! Drudge is just absurd and nothing else. He thinks he’s
Walter Winchell. Most of you probably don’t know who Winchell was. Radio guy,
connected to organized crime, loved McCarthy and began his program with “Attention Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea?” Did news, gossip, etc. The first time I saw a picture of Drudge I LOL because he wears a hat exactly like Winchell.
Now that’s somethin’ to call somebody!
‘Pustules’ was a new one on me, thanks for expanding my vocabulary.
As Ian points out Bush claimed a mandate without even winning the popular vote. Anyone who becomes President has a mandate. Obama’s will be a lot more legitimate is all.
Glad you brought that up.
I find most comments & posts around here ‘biased’ towards the truth, not ideology, unlike the other side that gets its playlist from some think tank trust fund wingnut.
708!!!!
Can you say
poo poo the Pew Polls
three times fast? I mean, while we’re waiting and all..
pustules
‘INFLAMED CARBUNCKLES’
In other News … Tweety begins his 2010 campaign under a new moniker … Captain America !
Rachel looks gorgeous
oy……….TWEETs off his meds again
omg, my leg is tingling!
he said McNasty was a WW2 hero
i shit you not
In other news, the Sun is very warm … *g*
his wife needs to get him a pill popper like I use on my cat Percy for his anti biotics
I musta missed that while mixing my last drink … Tweety obviously doesn’t even listen to Tweety.
this is what wifey poo needs to buy
http://www.petshed.com/images/graphic/P6000.jpg
hahahhaahahahhahaa
wait,wait,ill join you