It’s important to remember that the Democrats won in spite of the unprecedented number of dirty tricks by state Republicans. My prediction is that the Republican House will just refuse to play ball and take a blood bath in 2014.

Good morning again, pups! Here’s redux from downstairs, before Attaturk got here:

It would appear that Attaturk isn’t here this morning got tangled up in the server crash. Good morning, pups! Today we have Friedman flying solo. MoDo, praise God, is off today. Heaven only knows what she would have come up with… In “Hope and Change: Part Two” The Moustache of Wisdom says the people clearly told the president: We think you’re trying. Now try even harder. Which might be possible, Tommy, if there weren’t people like McConnell and Boehner stinking up the Congress…

Here he is.

The coffee and tea are ready, and before the servers died last night there were requests for French toast made with challah and a hint of cinnamon, with the best Vermont maple syrup. The rest of the brunch table is filled with your favorites. I can’t decide between that French toast or an omelet… Also, greenwarrior made a request for halvah, an idea from a friend who said it was great at brunch. Here’s hoping that the servers are all better. Have a great day.

Well, Obama won. We should celebrate. I guess. Hopefully, Mitt will board one of those planes and go live in the Caymens where he can be closer to his money.

Polling went pretty smoothly where I was. One poll watcher with a GOP pollwatchers guide on his clipboard, he seemed pretty well behaved. One table outside the 100ft line with GOP propaganda, another with Dem propaganda. Both well behaved and carefully legal. No lines at all when i was there, though there were lines right at opening I’m told. VERY heavy turnout for our precinct, we have maybe 800 registered voters and over 700 had already voted when I arrived mid afternoon.

When I got home, I had SIX calls on my answering machine reminding me to vote: 1 each from Mitt, Barry, Brown, Mandel, Ohio GOP, Ohio Dems. Well, at least they seem to agree that voting was important.

Looks like Nate called it more closely than anybody else. I await the apologies from his critics.

Boxturtle (but I only hear crickets)

More hopelessness.. nothing changed

I think you’re right. I dunno how much of a blood bath, most of the crazies are pretty secure in their districts.

Boxturtle (Ohio didn’t even run anyone against Boehner)

Oh, ignore me…I’m just here to dance on their grave…la de dah, la de dah…

All I gotta say is harry Reid is the biggest moron on the planet if he doesn’t insist on a change to the filibuster rule.

Also too, McConnell promises to make Obama only a two term president.

Gotta go to work.

I was really worried about Ohio after reading early yesterday morning about the patches put on voting machines that were untested and uncertified by your overbearing SOS Husted.
And then I understand the judge hearing the protest threw the challenge out.
When Mitt refused to concede because all Ohio results were not in and the major networks were scrambling to show why the called Ohio for Obama, I thought here we go again…

Looking for news of Jill Stein results: got no where with Google, but Yahoo’s search engine showed me “Jill Stein’s Best State is Maine.” Tried to search with exact quote and quotation marks on Google, still no go. I won’t be using Google Propoganda Arm as much anymore since it’s got some kind of bias, hmmmmph! (straightening my tinfoil hat)

Margaret,
Real cute about the two terms. I wonder how that creep is going to respond this time?
I agree with BoxTurtle, Reid HAS to fix the filibuster and shove it right in McConnell’s face about the deal that did not work last time.

Have a great day Margaret.

I await the apologies from his critics.

[snort] Thanks for the early morning laugh! Off to work — 16 days and counting.

We’ll see if he has the guts to ask for changes. I wonder if Obama will try to stop it, in the interests of bipartisanship.

Boxturtle (But I worry that we’ll need a filibuster to stop The Grand Bargain)

Do we all know that Alan West is almost undoubtedly (as of a couple hours ago, ’twas still the case) going to need a successful recount to survive?

That Heidi Heidtkamp (sp?) seems to have won in NORTH DAKOTA?

That loser Linda McMahon just finished spending $100 million dollars for her two consecutive Senate campaigns, in a state about the size and population of San Diego County CA?

That Alan Grayson smacked down his challenger and will soon compete for the new Barney Frank Memorial Acid Tongue Award?

That Mitch McConnell is googling ‘painless death?’

I wasn’t so worried about those patches. The code was available for inspection and other than the very poor installation procedures and controls it was harmless.

It’s goal was still evil. I think the idea was to Give the GOP SoS early results not available to others to tell them where to direct the Tea Party poll watchers.

Boxturtle (GOP voter suppression failed, at least in Ohio)

Good morning. It could have been much worse. And some legitimately good things happened.

The omnipresent wallpaper speaks truth to the “professional left” — their fight with us is not over. Prepare yourselves for “economic patriotism” as best you can.

Here’s what scares me: Obama doesn’t need voters anymore. I think the only thing that kept him anywhere close to the left was the knowledge that he needed our support.

Grand Bargain, here we come.

Boxturtle (We got the lesser of evils in this election. Now we must fight him)

More “balanced approach” and “shared sacrifice.”

May I please quote Eric the Red without getting a rotten tomato?

The GOP spent a ton of money through a bunch of organizations, including Super PACs, that was flat out wasted.

Truer words were never spoken. The polls have stayed in basically the same range since Mitt was selected, regardless of the amount of money crapped out. The Dems could crap out money too, though not as much it was enough to beat back the GOP money.

Perhaps that’s what Citizens United has bought us. Perhaps, much like nukes in the cold war, using money like this always results in a tie.

Boxturtle (lotta rich bastards on both sides spent a lotta money for nothing)

Thank you for the analysis.
You are much closer to the fight in that area and I appreciate your “take” on it.
My hope was that the FBI and U.S. Marshals would swoop in and seize all the suspect computers.

i am doing a round-up of sites before leaving to sub again today and one of the sites made me laugh out loud this early in the morning.
Seems the airport in Boston was having trouble parking all the private planes that were coming in to celebrate Mitt’s victory dance.

As for Ohio and the crooked software;

They’re not fools, they won’t attempt to steal an election unless it’s a ‘real’ toss-up.

They need the cover of plausibility.

BTW, the switch to exporting results data via text files instead of HTML is probably intended to make the job of editing/replacing the data much faster, and harder to detect.

It’s time to target the teabagging House and it’s past time to change the Senate rules vis a vis the filibuster. If the rules don’t change it’s going to be groundhog day all over again.

I wasn’t so worried about those patches. The code was available for inspection and other than the very poor installation procedures and controls it was harmless.

Sorry BT, but there is absolutely no way you can know that your assertion is true.

No body can be sure what those ‘patches’ contain.

Geez, the Kochs, Adelson, Petersen, Trump and assorted billionaire asses have got to be in a real funk this morning – all that money and — zippo~~~

A pundit on Bloomberg this morning says the first thing Obama needs to do is to extend an olive branch to Wall Street and kiss and make up!!! Huh? who won this election anyway? The best thing Obama can do for the next two months is——- nothing. Let the assholes squirm.

If they’re good enough to come up with alternate source code that matches the checksums of the inspected code, then given the installation procedures we couldn’t stop them or detect it.

But matching the checksums in that manner would be a MAJOR accomplishment. We don’t just add the bits across anymore.

That software should ALL be available for public inspection, much like a major crypto system. It should be secure, even if you’ve got the source code.

Boxturtle (They call it a “trade secret” *hrrumph*)

You’re talking millions to people who bank billions. I’m sure they’re upset, as they got nothing for their money. But it’s not going to cost them even a single magnum of Dom.

A LOT of superpac money went here in Ohio to support Mandel. He lost and the money never really moved the polls.

Boxturtle (perhaps, collectively, we ARE smart enough to realize we’re being bullshitted)

how about that shitbird george will – can he be banished to Fux Nuz now (although Krugman wouldn’t be able to shut him up with facts and intelligence anymore). What an embarrassment he is for himself and everyone associated with him.

Denial is going to be the first reaction. The white reactionaries are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they don’t run things anymore. After that violence born of deep frustration. We can expect some bombings in coming months. I hope to hell the Administration comes down hard on the fascists, but past experience does not encourage optimism.

Excepting no one likes to lose money, least of all those guys. And especially when they figured they had it in the bag and were making plans to dismantle the economy and make themselves the wealthiest evah.

Well tomorrow we can start our fretting about the coming “grand bargain” but at least for tonight there’s relief.

What a foolish statement. People in my family depend upon Medicare and Social Security, and America just lined up to re-elect someone who clearly wants to cut those programs. How should I find relief in that?

Disclaimer: I voted for Dr. Jill Stein.

In the end, I have to admit to a great deal of schadenfreude that Lord High Muckey Mitt LOST – har de har. I listened to his concession speech and was *amazed* that he didn’t send one of his servants staff to make the speech for him. Why bother to *pretend* to “make nice” with the constituents rubes now that he LOST??

A few happy dances today, but really I’m not expecting much except for the lunatic fringe to collectively explode the dumb heads. What a bunch of SORE losers.

I listened a bit to National Propoganda Radio last night. Someone made the comment that the Republican Party had a shrinking base that was mostly older and white, and the PTB just pandered to that diminishing base. The commenter didn’t use the terminology “Southern Strategy,” but that’s what they were referencing. And they basically said: Pssst, hey, KKKarl: It ain’t working so good anymore!

Yum ! Thanks Marion !

That look on Mitt’s face was cuz he had to give Sheldon Adelson one of many blowjobs, before his concession speech !

Just giving Margaret a big up for yeah, the filibuster, gotta freaking go. That is how we can get some shit done. Sending this to my new Senator now. And go Tom Udall!

Missed that cuz: no tv.

But hear-tell that Dame Lady High Refalca Dancey Annitha had demon eyes that shot out white-hot lasers & flaming arrows at the drek when the Full-Belted Earl of La Jolla of the Car Elevators didn’t win the “popular” vote by those people. Again: no teebee, so missed that, too.

Possibly Lady Muck was delegated to the blow job detail by Bishop Mitt??!!11?? It would be wrong not to speculate! After all, don’t Mormons believe in polygamy, so what’s a wifely blow job or 2 amongst two such good male pals like Sheldy & Mittsy???

It’s obvious the the Fox watching the coop was turned on it’s head. As Romney came on to concede and then the President came on to speak, it appears that Fox news went to regular crappy programming and ads. They simply weren’t interested in a huge national news event that was happening.

The so-called media giant sunk yet another notch by taking the TV ball home and refusing to show anything other than the Mittster accepting and the President conceding.

If the election had been the other way around, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, CSpan, etc would have covered it, as they are normal (somewhat anyway) and Fox would have done rerun after rerun of Mitt et al and their backers partying the night away and the Dems in shock. Repubs in shock…that’s too shocking for Americans to see.