A frankly boring candidate in Virginia loses to a Republican that isn’t

McDonnell ran as about as far left as Creigh Deeds did, attaturk, so I really think that boring is not the right (pun intended) word. ymmv

Virginia voters have a history of being suckered by promises not to raise their taxes – in the face of inevitable tax raises.

Good morning, pups. It’s MoDo and The Moustache of Wisdom today. In “Who Are You Calling a Narcissist, Rush?” MoDo says Rush Limbaugh is more than ever the face of the Republican Party. He’s also the mouth. The Moustache of Wisdom, in “The Best Allies Money Can Buy,” says America has been able to fight two wars with few allies because we’ve hired the help.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got Thomas’ English muffins with your favorite jam. It’s surprising how everyone on Morning Joe is saying the results mean a resurgence and new momentum for the Republican party without saying a word about NY23…

Heh! Yeah, we put lots and lots of canvassing effort into our little district because our state is very closely divided on State Representatives and my town district got about the same percentage of voters voting (Around 15%) that we got in our last off-year election.

NJ had to determine which particular barrel of foul swill would become the next governor of the great state of En Jay. Not a task that is very pleasant. The question was do you prefer (very) rich and corrupt or “poor” and (very) corrupt? In NY 23 the contest was to see just how many nut fucks still live in and around camp Drum… and the answer is not as many as there used to be.

Maine, my neighbour state, obviously has more than their fair share of homophobes but then the more important question there was should there be referenda at all or should lawmaking be decided by elected officials? And, another question, should churches be allowed to be doing anything else other than performing their various rites inside their tax free edifices.

PS As we are so bloody fond of ballot referendums should we not have a national referendum on Health care?

The Scar is another transcriber of the wingnut talking points. Not worth my while, but thanks for another confirmation of his role.

Maine 1 is what hurts.

I agree. In my mind it is time to start challenging the catholic and mormon churches.

Liz had better look over her shoulder – another AP hack is gunning for her job.
Concerning NY-23, from my local dead tree:

The race has been getting national attention, with some calling it a referendum on President Barack Obama and others saying it could help Republicans focus their message to attract more people to the party.

…But the media just has to find reason to see trends that aren’t there and extrapolate them to ever more wide-sweeping generalizations…

After wandering for only just a wee bit in their mulitiple year sojourn in the desert, Repugs are found pissing on each others’ shoes.

TradMed observes and decides to report “It’s raining!”

As winter approaches, we’ll probably have to warn TradMed unsuccessfully yet again, “Don’t eat the yellow snow!”

I agree, ME 1 is a real punch in the gut. Both Dem gubernatorial candidates sucked and I can’t wait to hear all the bloviating about NJ and VA being a repudiation of Obama and his “Liberal agenda” all the while ignoring the significant blow the baggers took from NY 23.

. . . and a former Goldman Sachs senior partner and speeding enthusiast loses his gubernatorial chair in New Jersey.

Hope that’s a sturdy chair.

Thought I heard this a.mm (NPR??? Don’t know) that Obama polls higher in VA tody than he did on election day last year. Anyone else hear that or did I hear wrong?

Want a real punch in the gut? Just heard that Reid is saying ‘no healthcare vote this year’.

Kidding me. ‘memeber when… seems laughable now… they were going to have a vote before the recess in August.

BTW, i don’t remember CBO ever having to do so much scoring. In fact, “scoring” didn’t used to even be news.

This is pathetic. These bills won’t get better with time.

Unbelievable, what the hell is wrong with the Dems !?! The Repugs would have shoved this down our throats without a second guess.

There is a message in yesterdays vote and that is very, very low turnout. The lackluster leadership in the senate is definitely not going to inspire any thing other than low turnout in 2010. Time to push Reid out is now and kick out Lieberman now too. Is the ubber reich wing going to accept Lieberman?

Gotta share this tweet I just ran across:

barryeisler RT @shannynmoore: Is resisting using this headline: “Palin’s Boob A Fake: Hoffman Lost! Owens Won”…what do you think?

And if Obama doesn’t turn up the heat and get healthcare done with a robust po and start to heed to the will of those that got him there, 2010 will be a loss as his presidency

Democrats think just because they have a “D” after their name the votes will be there. Weak leadership and no “balls” will always result in low voter turnout for Dems.

Yup, BFL, I just heard that on NPR also.

EDIT: I’ve been in and out of the room as I get ready for work, but coverage seems focused on the two governors races and very little coverage of the CA and NY congressional races. And Bloomberg, of course.

Heard that yesterday and was not at all surprised. The Insurance/Pharma/AMA lobbies are very strong and very rich. When the Israeli senator said yesterday that he may not filibuster it was pretty obvious that a dirty deal was in the works.

As for the votes yesterday they, I think, reflected the Independent’s disgust with the WH and the Dem “leadership”. BO got the Independent/Progressive vote in the General by sticking to the mantra of “no substance” in any of his speeches but a promise of changing the way gummint is run while , at the same time, he was hoping to do business in exactly the same way that it has been done for years. He wanted the money and power and to hell with the people. He is a whore like the rest of them.

Deeds ran against “Cap and Trade” and said that he would opt-out of the health care public option. Then he received low turnout of Democratic base. There is a message for the Democrats in this election. Conservadems are not going to get the base excited enough to overpower the polls. You put a trigger on the public option and that same trigger may be on your support at the polls. Why would anyone rush to the polls to put another Lieberman in office. If you want to do well in 2010, then you need to demonstrate that you can govern. A trigger means that you are not governing just using smoke and mirrors.

Co-signed.

Young voters, especially, are turned off by the Prez’s lack of follow thru on his promises — it’s hard to preach patience to a sufferer — but it’s a lesson the WH and the Dems better not brush off lightly, otherwise it will come back to bite ‘em in the ass.

Meanwhile, the MSM has been totally co-opted into the Fauxnewz bullpoopoo spinning game . . . Morning Joke is tsk-tsking the lack of influence Obama’s agenda has had as evidenced by 2 — count ‘em, 2! elections and ignoring the teabagger fiasco in NY’s 23rd . . .

Which begs the question — why isn’t FDL going after the MSM as vigorously as it seems to be doing to DKos? Why is the left attacking the left?

What is so disgusting and irritating is the medias handling of the win in New York.
CNN headlines Palins book tour, with no mention that the Democrats won in an area that has been republican for years. This station is becoming as bad as Fox, actually worse, as more people are tempted to believe them
when they say news you can trust.
Cafferty used to be the shining light at CNN but now he is as bad, if not worse than Blitzer and the rest of their biased commentators.
NYTs headlines the two wins by the republicans.
I do not know what we can do about such bias by the media except continue to attack them with our blogs.