Aloha, Water Tiger!

hahahaha that is a great forkin photo – cillizza is gonna hate it

excellent pushback on the talking points watertiger

The MSM just can’t help it. They get a chubby everytime the Republicans win. Because gosh darn it they would all love to return to the good old days of the last 8 years.

hallooo, pibbles.

“2, 4, 6, 8”

I don’t think that the Republicans can follow a logical progression that far.

It is simply asinine to consider that two completely predictable wins in the “R” column so soon after a Democratic sweep translates into a Republican rebound for 2010.

But, Watertiger, everything is good for the Republicans…!

unless it is good for the peeples – then it is bad for america

Especially losing.

Btw, why are the odd numbers so unmelodic…? One little quibble with Jefferson’s loss… A Repug was last elected to his house seat in the 1890’s…!

Given his legal problems, I think a Flat Earther could have beaten Jefferson and this guy is apparently a moderate Republican and an emigration attorney.

The last 8 years has been great for newspapers so there no reason why newpaper shareholders, executives, and workers wouldn’t want more of the same. /s

Watertiger, evidently you aren’t yet creating the correct reality for yourself.
You’ll want to work on that ;-))

emigration attorney

Heh. He helps Americans get out of the country! He should have stayed in business. It’ll be booming in the next few years.

CTuttle, I think Jefferson’s loss is a rejection of him, not the party.

That is what I get from reading too many seminar papers. Immigration Attorney.

Watertiger, are you trying to be reality-based again???

Evening pups.

hard to feel kinship with a dood that keeps $90k in his freezer when you just got laid off and are losing your house.

I liked it better the other way. *g*

I think that even in NO there is a limit to the amount of public corruption (especially if you are incompetent enough to get caught like that) that the public will accept.

Might be a more lucrative practice.

The repugs are all about spin ,they have nothing else to offer!
Unfortunately people believe the shit,and once someone decides something is true you can’t convince them otherwise.
There are still people out there that believe Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11!!
This is just nothing more than the last gasp of a dying party ,let them spin away!!

yeap

Clients would certainly be richer.

This reminds me of a recent op-ed in the NYT: Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the G.O.P

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12…..uthat.html

by Ross Douthat, “a senior editor at The Atlantic, is a co-author of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream”

There seems a lot of this out there right now. It’s part of the “nothing is ever good for the Democrats and everything is always good for the Republicans” meme. If the Republicans get their ass handed to them in the election or they went with the fundies, well this just means they are ready to make a startling comeback. The MSM was selling the same line after the 2006 election, how losing was actually good for the Republicans because it would cause them to go back to their roots and sharpen their message, and we all saw how that turned out in this time around. Really all these guys like Cillizza and Douthat show is just how in the bag the MSM is for the Republicans.

No doubt. Does this mean a run on Cayman Island real estate?

I think that the Rethugs need to listen to a lot more people like Mr. DoucheHat. Nothing like full bore, no brakes batshit crazy, pig ignorant, and stump stupid to win over the American people. I mean to old milder version only scared off 54% of America. The new improved version ough to be good for 60%.

Wasn’t disagreeing with ya, just pointing out how much they despised Jefferson…! ;-)

Remember, the U.S. is a center-right country.

Actually by international standards of developed countries, that is sadly too true.

Douthat is widely viewed (by Republicans like Vin Weber) as one of the better minds of the Republican party.
So be it.

The Times btw also has this article: Liberals Wonder When Obama’s Team Will Reflect Them

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12……html?_r=1

It isn’t bad, quotes a lot of people we know, but still sells the message that progressives are taking a wait and see approach to Obama and have a lot of hope in him. I don’t think the author Peter Baker reads fdl.

maybe this will get him reading fdl

A mind is a terrible thing to waste (on Republicans).

Brahmas Lullaby is playing on the overhead speaker…. a new baby has joined the world…..

Republican comeback: what about Mary Jo Kilroy in Ohio? And Franken in MN, assuming they actually count the votes? Well I guess facts aren’t so important when you’re trying to catapult the propaganda.

This, and Palin, are all they’ve got. Pretty pathetic.

At least David Shuster and Rachel do…! Btw, did I hear David correctly, and Jane is gonna be on Tomorrow…? ;-)

facts not in evidence

They are busy creating their own reality.

Dang, I owe ya a cold one…!

bush has been giving cheerleading lessons?

It is about all he has left. Even the Bush Rehabilitation Project seems pretty tepid and half-hearted.

make it a hot one ct – possibility of snow by this weekend.

and here i thought bush was busy trying to bust the uaw. guess he has his minions working on that one.

I liked how Froomkin startd today:

The public has rejected him. The nation is in crisis — and eager for the massive course corrections promised by an Obama presidency. But none of this appears to have penetrated President Bush’s well-defended brainpan.

Ouch.

Yeah, that is Paulson and his boys pulling the Shock Doc levers. Dubya is even more disengaged than ever.

Brrr… A hot Toddy? Friday, Sunday, Tuesday, and, Thursday, I’ll be up the Mtn…! ;-)

Now, now, first things and cute costumes first.

i thank you and will be thinking wonder if ct is wearing doubles for ya

Off to bed for me. Stupid seminar papers just will not grade themselves.

I don’t have two sets to begin with… Monday and Friday I’m gonna have to wash’em…! ;-)

i think froomkin should be studied in an attempt to discover the mechanism of his resistance to the deecee kool aid. perhaps a treatment or even a cure could be found?

Aloha, Dr. D!

Good night DrDick.

g’nite dr dick

Or a vaccination required for anyone entering the Beltway.

Way OT but if you are not watching Boston Legal you are missing a great Finale… The very last show ever! Denny just open fire with paint guns on the Chinese firm that is/was going to merge with the firm…. Too funny!

the vote has the power of the cure – but the beltway types are too busy selling out for the money to fund campaigns they forget to worry about the vote.

tis our job to remind em

If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

if they truly thought that, they would not be rigging electronic voting machines nor sending in the lawyers for brooks brothers riots

prevention would be even better. *g*

Genetic engineering?

Well he has been very resistant to Bush-style BS. So far he has been quite positive about Obama’s version of it.

If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.

Great line. I’ll have to remember it.

The Republicans are dead meat,,, They just can’t read the writing on the wall. Bush is going to make sure the average Joe is going to forever never Trust them again. His Car Tzar will break the UAW as a condition of them getting the “Loan” from the Feds! That will be the final Straw for average Joe!
Average Joe is not going to let what happened under Ronnie Raygun become the norm, without Unions the working man/women will never ahve any bargaining power with management. Unions were paid for in blood and the right to Unionize must never be revoked!

It has a tradition here. Someone here sez he saw such a sign on the bank of the Charles River in Cambridge. Then another night someone claimed to know the history of it. Here’s a site that pins it on Mark Twain, but that’s not what I remember for the prior time.
http://swiftspeech.blogspot.co…..-they.html

Here’s a variation on the theme
http://digg.com/political_opin…..it_illegal

even after the election? that’s too bad.

I Dugg this post, and I Dugg your Digg comment, nahant.

at the superbowl both teams play very hard to win. but they are still playing football.

OK. Bed time for me. Good night everyone.

when winning means more than leading does, they need to do neither.

g’nite ecahn

Evening Neuro how goes it??

In the wake of an election cycle dominated by bad news for Republicans, the last five days have been a welcome relief.

bless their hearts..

good night….

The Repubs won in Georgia and Louisiana?
Gimme a B, gimme an A, gimme a LLS
BALLS!

Cute go-go boots, Cillizza.

Thanks for the links. I went looking for other Twain quotes:

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I’ve never killed a man, but I’ve read many an obituary with a great deal of satisfaction.

brilliant!

ha – love that last one.

who is the twain of our time?

Love Mark Twain. I wonder what kinds of things he’d have had to say about the past eight years?

And there is also this one:

The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ”It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.” Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it … Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

My personal fave…! ;-)

Twain, always something so satisfying about his wit. *sighs* I’m not really sure who would be the heir to that mantle right now, he’s damned hard to beat.

I could name an english satirist, but that doesn’t quite work with Twain’s home grown snark.

a writer or a comedian or songwriter or all 3?

I think Vonnegut is as close as we will come for the foreseeable future.

Wait. There’s one but he’s no longer living. George Carlin. I still miss him so much after his passing earlier this year. That was an honest shock, last i’d seen him on a special he was ornery and amused as ever while dropping all the snark bombs he could in the midst of a single tv special. Reminds me i need to pick up some of the books he put out in the last 8 or so years.

Vonnegut i need to experience. *grin* I’ll take your word for it. It’s insane that we’ve lost so many singular wits this year.

twain had great snark

” It is simply asinine to consider that two completely predictable wins in the “R” column so soon after a Democratic sweep translates into a Republican rebound for 2010.”

but…but…but…Sarah Palin!

My favorite and current satirist follows more in Jonathan Swift’s footsteps, which is Terry Pratchett. He never fails to bring something incredible to his latest additions to his worlds. I still break out laughing when i read his books for the first time. UK satirist, but he’s made no end of little nudges and quite blatant thwacks at the US (and anyone else being stupid while he was writing whatever it was at the time.)

I still need to explore a bit more of the US ones, if only to see if Twain has any living heirs. We’re going to need them badly for the next few generations. If only to keep us laughing while we shoulder the load, and keep us honest.

My guilty pleasure is “Jailbird.”
Many disagree, but it’s a very good window into the authors mind.
Very, very strange sort of irony.

es is playing some music upstairs

that’s got to be my favorite. between it and your previous list, twain seems to be writing about the last 8 years.

I love the smell of Rove’s balls in the morning.

-Chris Cilliza