Pre-Tsunami Live Blog
A lot of pundits are going to live-blog election day.
But can we wait that long? NO! That’s 24 whole hours in the future.
We need some live-bloggin’ now.
If you can’t wait for tomorrow, and are itching for an open thread today, this is the place to be.
I’ll be updating this post throughout the day with election-related news and snippets (plus some original content, as always). The comments section is a free-for-all — any topic you want, including and especially breaking news and tips for updates. When you vote tomorrow (and you will vote tomorrow) you’ll be part of the hoped-for electoral tsunami; but you can now be part of the pre-tsunami too.
12:57pm:
Looks like the Republican wave is cresting at maximum height as it reaches the rocky shores of November 2:
Republicans up by 12 in final generic ballot poll before election day.
If you look at Rasmussen’s day-by-day historical chart on the sidebar in the link, this appears to be the highest predicted margin of victory so far this year.
(Note: All update times are in Pacific Standard Time)
1:18pm:
Bay Area blog Bookworm Room recently featured a very convincing campaign sign spotted hanging over Enrico’s, a landmark Italian restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach:
(Full photo here.)
Update:
Enrico’s disavows the banner, saying it belongs to a radical lawyer who occupies an office directly above their restaurant.
1:38pm:
Just a thought:
“Shooting bullets at a cloud of gnats.”
That seems to be the best way to characterize the Democrats’ attempts at following Alinsky’s directive to “Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.” How can you do that if your opponents have no leader?
First they tried to “freeze, personalize and polarize” Rush Limbaugh, then Sarah Palin, then Glenn Beck, then John Boehner, then Karl Rove, then Glenn Beck again, then Christine O’Donnell, then Rand Paul, then Bill O’Reilly, then Sarah Palin Again, then Glenn Beck again…but it just isn’t working. Because the Tea Party is not a political party and it has no identifiable leader. Must be frustrating for the Alinskyites! In a pinch, they can always fall back on “You’re all racists!”
But the gnats keep swarming, unfazed.
2:03pm:
Back in the news once again:
Gary Condit denies killing Chandra Levy
Chandra Levy always holds a special place in my heart, because her murder was the very last major news story before the 9/11 era. Her killing dominated the headlines until 9am, September 11, 2001, when the world suddenly changed, in an instant and forever. And she was (for many years) wiped from our collective memory.
Aside from the poignancy and tragedy her story would hold even under normal historical circumstances, it somehow has became a landmark in American history, the last moment of the “Era of Innocence.”
2:15pm:
Vote Bruce Lee!
One of the most peculiar curiosities of this election season has pretty much eluded media detection until now: Bruce Lee is running for office! Yes, that Bruce Lee. You’d think he’d be a shoo-in, but he’s got some heavy-duty competition in his race: Eleanor Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, Diego Rivera, and Arthur Miller:
As much as we’d all love to vote for Bruce Lee for anything, he’s dead, as are all of his opponents.
This exciting race is not an actual election slate, but rather an illustrative sample ballot produced by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters (the California district represented by far-left Democrat Barbara Lee), explaining how to use the “ranked choice” option in local elections.
A local resident notified me that ads for Bruce Lee and his opponents were cropping up all over Oakland and Berkeley, so I made a trip to snap the photo you see above, showing a public advertisement in Oakland.
This being Barbara Lee’s district, the candidates are almost all left-wing icons:
Eleanor Roosevelt — Grande Dame of the progressive movement
Booker T. Washington — Civil rights pioneer
Diego Rivera — communist artist
Arthur Miller — award-winning playwright and one-time communist
Rounding off the list are two strange choices: sultry-voiced beloved jazz vocalist Shirley Horn, who seemed to be entirely apolitical; and kung fu maestro Bruce Lee, whose opinions about American politics are similarly unknown. But that’s why we love him: we don’t know his politics, so there’s nothing to disagree with!
I had thought at first that this offbeat selection of sample candidates was confined to Alameda County, perhaps the result of a bored county employee entering in his or her personal heroes, knowing they would be uncontroversial in this “progressive” district. But a bit of research turned up something unexpected: The exact same slate of sample candidates is also running in Pierce County, Washington (the area south of Seattle, including Tacoma):
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| Vote Bruce! |
What exactly is going on here? Who came up with these voting choices? And why are they being used in counties three states away from each other?
A mystery we may likely never resolve.
That said, I think it’s a travesty that we don’t actually have the chance to vote for Bruce Lee, for real. So, to correct this obvious deficiency in the 2010 election season, I have created my own online poll, featuring all the candidates in the Alameda and Pierce County sample ballots.
Since I don’t want to commit pre-emptive voter fraud by declaring Bruce the winner ahead of time, I will let the people speak!
But before we do so, here is a word of wisdom from Bruce himself, which we can consider his political philosophy:
“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there”.
In case you need help deciding, here are the campaign sites for each candidate:
Eleanor Roosevelt, Democratic Party
Booker T. Washington, Civil Rights Party
Diego Rivera, Communist Party
Arthur Miller, Theater Party
Shirley Horn, Jazz Party
Bruce Lee, Kung Fu Party
Ready? The polls are open!
2:34pm:
This thread at Huffington Post is already closing in on 2,000 comments:
President Obama To Do Interview With Ryan Seacrest
The amazing part? The comments are running about 5-to-1 against Obama. On HuffPo.
My my my, how times have changed.
2:53pm:
Political theory of the day:
Is “forgetting” to hang up your cell phone and thereby allowing Republican opponents to hear your insults and schemes now an intentional strategy of the Left?
Why else would it be happening so often?
Discuss.
3:11pm:
“Obama Notes” to replace Federal Reserve Notes as U.S. Currency
As the value of Federal Reserve Notes (commonly known as “the United States Dollar”) continues to fall, some Americans have abandoned the currency in favor of “Obama Notes”—scraps of paper signed by President Obama. In a recent exhange, a Michigan woman traded one Obama Note for enough monetary value to partially pay for her house.
At this early stage, it is unknown at what level the exchange rate between Obama Notes and Federal Reserve Notes will initially settle on, but current estimates are around 7,000 US dollars for one Obama Note.
(Read link for full explanation.)
3:31pm:
I’ve never thought the Republicans had much of a chance to gain a majority in the Senate this year, but this headline tells a different story:
Likelihood That Dems Will Retain Control of Senate Sinks to 43% on Intrade
Could it be?
4:05pm:
Ishmael Reed is an award-winning author, poet and essayist. He has won numerous literary prizes and is considered a pre-eminent figure in contemporary African-American literature.
To quote from his wikipedia entry:
Among Ishmael Reed’s other honors are writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. In 1995, he received the Langston Hughes Medal, awarded by City College of New York; in 1997, the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award, establishing a 3-year collaboration with the Oakland based Second Start Literacy Project in 1998. In 1998, he also received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award. In 1999, he received a Fred Cody Award from the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association, and was inducted into Chicago State University’s National Literary Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent. Other awards include a Rene Castillo OTTO Award for Political Theatre (2002); a Phillis Wheatley Award from the Harlem Book Fair (2003); and in 2004, a Robert Kirsch Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, besides the D.C. Area Writing Project’s 2nd Annual Exemplary Writer’s Award and the Martin Millennial Writers, Inc. Contribution to Southern Arts Award, in Memphis, Tennessee….
Etc.
The San Francisco Chronicle features on its Web site several blogs authored by leading Bay Area citizens. These blogs, known as “City Brights,” allows these pillars of the intellectual community to speak directly to the public.
Ishmael Reed is one of those San Francisco Chronicle bloggers. And yesterday, on the Chronicle‘s Web site, he unveiled his commentary on tomorrow’s election.
Considering his stature, his statement needs no editing or analysis; when someone in his position has something to say, it stands on its own, and requires no further commentary.
And so, without further ado, I give you Ishmael Reed’s statement about the 2010 elections, which he titled “The Exorcist”:
(For real. This is not a joke.)
4:29pm:
In any other political climate, and on any day other than today, this would be (and should be) world-shattering news:
Unimaginable horror in anti-Christian atrocity as 58 churchgoers massacred by Muslim militants.
Instead: Complete impotence and total inaction on the part of the U.S. government.
Meanwhile, if someone threatens to contest a buiding permit in New York, the White House swings into action!
Priorities, priorities.
5:16pm:
Note: I’ve just spent 20 minutes skimming through every single left-leaning site out there, searching for irrational Democratic optimism to contrast with the latest prediction saying that the Republicans will destroy the Democrats with a pick up of at least 70 seats. And you know what? I couldn’t find a single progressive article to rebut it! Every single leftist site is filled with gloom that the Rethuglicans have a lock on the House and will likely go way beyond that.
If the electoral climate is so bad that it quashes the irrational exuberance of even the most irrationally exuberant leftists, you know it’s going to be a day for the history books.
5:29pm:
Headline I’d like to see tomorrow night:
Mayan priests: “Did we say 2012? Sorry about that — we meant 2010.”
5:37pm:
Pro Mosque, Pro Masturbation
Reader Carl Hoffman attended Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Whatever” event on Saturday and came back with a photo of what I consider the one sign which perfectly encapsulates the self-defeating cognitive dissonance of unthinking “progressives”:
“Pro Mosque, Pro Masturbation”
Extra credit study question: Spot the logical fallacy in this picture.
For a deeper investigation into this exact topic, see this excellent new essay at American Thinker about the intellectual dysfunction in American academia: Where ‘Queer Studies’ and Middle East Studies Meet:
On one hand, the professors take hard-left stances on sexuality and gender issues, claiming to staunchly support the rights of gays and women. Yet they also worship at the altar of radical Middle East studies professors who act as apologists for Sharia law and other policies completely at odds with Western “liberalism.”
6:26pm:
Top Ten Candidates I’d Most Like to Vote for in 2010:
10. basilmarceaux.com
9. The guy with the Slurpee laughing at Obama in the ditch
8. Alvin Green
7. Bruce Lee
6. Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High” McMillan
5. Carl Paladino (Baseball bat to the state house? Hell yeah!)
4. Christine O’Donnell (just for the pure head-explosion-osity of it)
3. Miza Lurk-o-sky as a write-in for Alaska Senate (just to ensure the recount lasts til December at least)
2. Allen West (for real)
1. Aqua Buddha
6:49pm:
7:09pm:
In case you missed it, yesterday’s poem “The Department of Free,” (which someone piquantly described as “Dr. Seuss meets Ayn Rand”) was given a glorious dramatic reading treatment by Scott Baker and Liz Stephans of The Blaze and B-Cast:
8:05pm:
Liberal media spin on the World Series outcome, to bring solace to the Democrats:
Nancy Pelosi’s district defeats George Bush’s state
9:27pm:
Well, it’s already election day on the East Coast. So it’s time to wrap this up.
Need I say what the next step is for everyone reading this? You know already:
VOTE.
‘TSUNAMI’, INDEED.
Two items necessary for a good tsunami are ‘fetch’ and ‘depth’; The ‘fetch’ beginning about 24 hours ahead of time, will help propel the wave for a greater distance. The ‘depth’, in this instance, will depend on the ‘depth’ of the voters against the Soetero Regime. And the Democrat Party is so shallow, the wave will wipe out most of their agenda.
It just feels like it shall be so sweet.
I voted early so I could stay home and have a beer for every victory, but, I know I’ll run out of beer early.
Those of us from the Great Lakes area aren’t waiting for a tsunami but a seiche. They come out of nowhere, with little to no warning–kind of like the Tea Party did.
YAY Tuesday! Have a beer for me….
I’m first. Did early voting Thursday. In heavy blue state Maryland. My vote of course wont matter here but I cast it anyway!
Thanks for your contribution. I kinda liked it when I got to vote early even though the lines were immense!
Now I can stay tuned to the television, the internet and my smart phone to see what is happening next! I believe we will see another 1894 where the Republicans wiped out the Democrats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1894
Long live the fighters !!!!!!
Long live freedom !!!!!!!!!!!
We charge at dawn…keep moving….”TAKE THAT HILL”….
“Let’s Roll”
“No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“NUTS”
Forget the beer and staying home, man the barricades and push this turnout to unprecedented heights.
I’m in California and leaving to work on GOTV for Meg, Carly and Dan Lungen. We need all the extra
bodies and votes we can find. It’s going to very tight here in Calif., so every vote will count.
No beer drinking couch potatoes until Wednesday!!!!
I’m voting early tomorrow so I can pick up my Slurpy on the way home and it will go straight into the freezer until the magic moment when we again have divided government and the Obama no limit credit card (aka the Pelosi House) has been CANCELED. I may be sitting in the back of the car he drove into the ditch, with lots of other voters who pulled the “R” lever for the first time in a looonnnggg time and we will party. We are taking our country back from the post-American Precedent, The One we have been waiting for–to leave.
We agreed Stoly goes in the Slurpy and not Grey Goose, right?
You mixed it all up again!!!
Grey Goose with oysters! Stoly before AND after the Slurpy.
Well I for one am looking forward to tomorrow. My normal weekends on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so I get to see it all. My ballet is already mailed in and I’m ready to help out where I can. I’m already helping my friends sort out all the friggin ballot initatives and such in here in California. Here goes everything!
Right On! I don’t think people know how hard it is to not just give up on politics in California…good job! You are a Patriot!
Tsunami tsandwiches all around!
Very nice to see how the left is leading by example regarding the ‘return to civility’ that is so badly needed in this country.
I’m sure they mean that we should F#%$ Whitman and Fiornia in only the most civil way!
They are indeed a sad bunch of folks now aren’t they! That is all they have in a nutshell, just another vulgar bumpersticker! Why vote for anything these people are for?
These two women were D.O.A. since day one.
Californians are getting smarter. They don’t trust big companies anymore after the moronic way they have been treated by employers and politicians. They elect the lesser of two evils these days.
That’s why you are in the gutter. I’m just hoping that the trashing democrats will get is sufficient to beat them back from my home state, and maybe from OTHER 49 states. Let’s hope you are the only one to go down.
I did the early voting thing for the first time after I found out where and when I could. I took my 86 year old mother with me and we both voted strictly Republican. The first day for where I was was on Monday and I was wrong thinking that it started at 9 a.m. but instead it was at 1 p.m. so at 12:58 I pulled into an already crowded parking lot and let my mother out to park my SUV.
There were at best estimates already over 100 people in front of me and my mother who was 20 ahead due to me parking the vehicle. Before I got into the main door the parking lot was filled as well as a sea of people behind me and cars were parking off the highway and also filling up adjoining lots with even more people.
At 1:48 I had gone through the line and presented my registration card along with my drivers license and said yes as to where I lived!
Now in the area where I live it is considered well to do and highly conservative so I suspect that is the reason for the huge turn out that first day of early voting. But overall in the state the turnout was quite heavy and I think with that along with absentee voting being also high we will see some good come from the Tea Parties and new media (talk radio and Fox). Can’t wait until tomorrow night to see the results, but am also cleaning all my guns just in case!
“…and presented my registration card along with my drivers license and said yes as to where I lived!”
Wow. Different universe. Where I live (hyper-liberal California neighborhood), not only do they not require photo I.D. of any kind, but they actually refuse to look at it if offered!
In 2008, I went to vote at my local polling place, and absentmindedly pulled out my I.D., and the gray-haired ex-radical polling place lady swatted it away and said “No IDs! This is a community!”
In parts of California (and Minnesota and elsewhere, I’m sure), it’s borderline illegal to even ask for ID in a polling place.
The goal, of course, is to facilitate as much voter fraud as possible, but we’re not supposed to say that out loud.
Thank God we still cling to that old fashioned idea of strictly checking ID against voter rolls. (At least where I vote, has been for years)
A bit hard to believe, but I guess it’s SF or Berkeley or Oakland. As far as I know, on the Peninsula and in the S Bay they still check for ID. But maybe not.
Where I live, this is the process:
1. Hand a photo ID to a Poll Judge, who gives us a voter number slip.
2. Hand photo ID and voter slip to second poll judge who checks your ID against a printed voter registration record book. Answer questions about address, initial address and sign the book under your name.
3. Hand photo ID and voter slip to a poll judge and request a ballot, by party affiliation. Obtain a colored ballot slip (pink = Republican, blue = Democrat), which is hand-numbered thge same as your voter slip.
4. Hand photo ID, voter slip and ballot slip to first a Republican then a Democrat poll judge, who each verify and initial both slips.
5. Trade in all paper for an actual punch-card ballot (or if you are feeling frisky, another poll judge will escort you to an electronic voting booth prime the booth for you).
6 Punch your ballot, slip the card back in the little jacket and drop it in a slot in the top of an enormous metal box. The box is so tall there is a step stool next to it for people shorter than 5′.
I can’t see how it would be possible to double-vote this system.
Here in our very small polling place (we usually average less than 100 voters) – the Fire Chief (he’s also some voting official) personally checks everyone’s ID. I’m a volunteer on the fire department and teased him about needing to require a photo ID from me – he personally knows every single person on the voting list — his wife was nearby and said he’d made her show him a photo ID.
You want some tsimes with that order, Buzz?
Mmmm, tsimmes! (smacks lips)
But let’s watch out for excessive confidence: “Confidence is what you feel when you don’t understand the situation.” (James Hogan) “A strong sense of confidence is always misplaced.” (Can’t remember.) “If everything appears to be working perfectly, you have obviously overlooked a test case.” (Software axiom)
Vote, and bring all your relatives, friends, neighbors, and people who owe you money to vote as well.
I’m clinging to my guns … just in case.
The term should be cleaning them not clinging to them, make sure your guns are operable and sighted in, and you have plenty of ammunition!
And don’t forget to vote for Bruce Lee!
(See latest update [at 2:15pm] for explanation.)
Do you mean Jet Li? Bruce is gone even as great as he was. I am the same size as Bruce 140 lbs but unlike him am not near the unreal fighter he was, but I can shoot my gun pretty damned good which I will be doing tomorrow at the range!
I voted for Booker T. Washington. Nothing against Bruce Lee, but Booker was a hard-core Republican and free-enterprise man who has been demonized by the Left ever since. Woodrow Wilson reportedly had a fit when Teddy Roosevelt had Booker over for dinner at the White House. In fact, I’m amazed that he got on to that ballot.
Me Too! Booker T.
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs….There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. – Booker T. Washington
My absolute favorite Booker T. quote. He really nailed the race hustlers.
Technical note:
Some of the updates to this post have the phrase “(Link directly to this entry)” at the top. If you click on any of those links, the page will jump to have that entry at the top, and if you check you’ll see that the URL in the address bar has changed to be the URL of a link directly to that one entry, as opposed to the “live blog” page in general. Thus, for example, if you click on “(Link directly to this entry)” at the top of the Vote Bruce Lee section, the URL will change to http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/11/01/pre-tsunami-live-blog/#bruce, which you can then (if you are so inclined) use to link directly to that particularly entry on this page. Try it — it works!
Eleanor Roosevelt? No way. She use to have imaginary conversations with Hilary Clinton.
This just in . . .
You are not my sensi:
Vous n’êtes pas mon sensibles:
Du bist nicht mein Sensi:
Ju nuk jeni SENSI e mia:
No és la meva sensibilitat:
:אתה לא מפקח עליון שלי
Et ole minun sensi:
Now go back under your rock or stay in the basement you idiot your comments are not welcome here!
Bravo, mon petite fleur. Such truculence with your sensei bodes well for your short-term progress, but deadly for your preferred evolution toward wisdom. Be patient.
Even your French sucks.
Loved the Hebrew; it was quite correct too.
70+ House seats, 10 Senate seats. I think the Dems will stay home in droves and Republicans and anti-Obama independents will have a record turnout.
Isn’t it obvious why they chose those particular people for the sample ballot? You have to merely think like Diverso-crats. One white woman (Eleanor Roosevelt), one what man (Arthur Miller), one black woman (Shirley Horn), one black man (Booker T. Washington), one hispanic (Diego Rivera) and one asian (Bruce Lee). I guess hispanics and asians get short-changed in not having a representative from each gender.
So Lucianne.com has the best preview of tomorrow:
http://lucianne.com/article/?pageid=dempolosion
This is the best ten seconds you’ll spend tonight –
Try it full screen it is even better!
Watch Power and Control in about 13 minutes for some of the best election day music on the ‘net.
I guarantee it will get you fired up.
And why 15 minutes? I keep GMT. It will all be obvious at the time. i.e. 12:01z 2 Nov 2010.
!! I’m looking for ideas for the Election Night 2010 Drinking Game:
Examples:
A member of the Main Stream Media says that Republicans need to beware of tonight’s victory because ‘they now have a stake in responsibility for the country’s direction.’ … TAKE ONE DRINK.
A member of the MSM characterizes the GOP victory as not as impressive as it seems … TAKE ONE DRINK
That geezer Reid is sent packing and we don’t have to hear that whiny, older-than-dirt, bastard whine about anything again … ever!!! …TAKE TWO DRINKS
The House falls to the GOP!! Ding-dong THE WITCH IS DEAD! (which old which?) THE SAN FRAN WITCH!!!! … SHOT-GUN A BEER
DEMOCRATS LOSE SENATE MAJORITY … TEQUILA BODY SHOTS OFF OF Ann Coulter, Monica Crowley, Laura Ingraham, Liz Cheney, or the nearest Conservative hottie (we DO have some absolute hotties on this side, I must admit!!!)
Looking for more ideas, guys!! AND GET OUT THE VOTE TOMORROW!!!!!!!
“we DO have some absolute hotties on this side, I must admit!!”
Maybe you should have picked somebody under 50.
I guess it’s an ‘experience’ over ‘youth’ preference
That’s not a preference. It’s a captulation.
I voted early Friday morning. We do not have the lack of conservatism found in large cities here in North Texas.
We do have a lot of white/black trash on the sugar tit, as well as illegal aliens costing a lot of tax payer money in health care, traffic, crime/court costs, and getting food stamps with anchor babies.
When Christ said the poor will always be with you, was that an understatement? It is to bad he was not more clear on you do not work, you do not eat.
Ishmael Reed was always a sort of oddball writer and a loudmouthed liberal but not a bad fellow if you knew him. He must be getting senile. Even an 8 year old could do better than that. If it’s senility, then it’s sad.
Hey, thanks for this, zombie! I can’t stand to wait for the suit-and-tie media coverage. I’m internetically smoking a cig, pacing my room, and checking my watch every three minutes.
Humorous cartoon on “10 Reasons to Vote Republican in 2010″ at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/10-reasons-to-vote-republican-2010/
Nobody live-blogs like the un-dead.
/it begins.
I’m doing a write in for Ming-ming (this could be sewious!)
Let us not forget Bush was left of center. I sure hope the Republicans, and Tea Party folks remember not to sell out to special interests. We have to get away from spending more than we bring in.
We’ll see.
My doctor told me that I shouldn’t take Preparation H orally. But I knew better.
In my neighborhood, tomorrow is trash collection day.
HOW APROPOS!
/But, Zombie, you are a traitor to your kind! How can you NOT support the party that labors for voting rights for undead Americans, in Chicago and everywhere?
if hope and change
have left you dry
give the consti
tution a try
aqua buddha
If this election
You’ve survived,
You are strong,
And you are brave,
And now’s the time for –
BURMA-SHAVE!
Awesome, Zombie! I’m especially thrilled about it since I’m in charge of a polling place tomorrow so won’t be able to catch the live-blogging then.
I can see November 2nd all the way from my house in Markham Ontario Canada. Can’t wait until tomorrow, will be watching with all of my fellow commenters above. It’s been a long two years searching and looking for those articles that would reveal the Obama agenda. My father who lived in a former European communist country, recognized Obama as a communist after hearing one of his first speeches.I never doubted him, he recently passed away and would have loved to see November 2nd when the true American spirit came through. He was a real free marketeer and believed a society could only survive with good and decent people and a very disciplined work ethic.
Awesome, Zombie, so looking forward to the live blogging tonight. Tomorrow I’ll be working the polls.
Heh. Ace: “make sure the vote is outside the MoF (Margin of Fraud) ”
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/307698.php
70 seats?
Let’s not get carried away and look at gaining the necessary 40 as some sort of let-down.
We need 39 to wrest control of the taxation power from the Alleged Hawaiian’s quiver and begin impeachment hearings against AG Holder for his malfeasance of duty over the NBPP case.
Eyes on the prize, people. Get to bed and get some sleep so that you can get your asses out tomorrow and vote.
And if we hit north of 50…well, then, that will just mean that we can spend the long dark winter evenings wondering which of the few surviving Blue Dog DemocRats will be the one to take the floor and call for Pelosi to resign her Speakership immediately…
If we ring the gong in the 60′s, we can speculate on how many surviving Blue Dogs “take the cure” and come out of the closet to become Republicans.
But the Magic Number is a net 39 seats.
Sink one ball and then move on to the next.
I quite agree, 39 is the magic number,,, anything more is gravy. However, I suspect any impeachment hopes at this time would be misplaced. I don’t know if the term I’m searching for is; “Politically Incorrect”, or; “Politically Impossible”. A black man in a high office, especially a political appointment, is a hard to hit target, you have to catch him with his hand actually in the cookie jar and even then he has a lot of wiggle room. However, the level of corruption displayed so far surely warrants impeachment.
Sorry for the similar posts. I didn’t think the first one was going to show up.
Any chance that the Giants World Series win will lead to thousands of NoCal leftards to forget to vote due to their hangovers? Maybe Boxer goes down as a result.
My phone is ringing off the hook (do phones have hooks anymore?), everyone in Hollywood wants to tell me how to vote. Susan Saranwrap wants me to legalize marihuana.
Didn’t they outlaw these robocalls?
I am going to be watching returns with my Slurpee in hand. Just sipping away.
On the dawn, I looked out to sea
I beheld a mighty fleet
headed for our shores
The rays of the rising sun behind
had painted their sails
A blazing scarlet hue.
And straight at the helm
a man steeled by fire
all true, all Tillman.
Nice Post! I sure hope that you keep it open right through to the last count.
Looking forward to this, Zom. Will check in regularly this eve.
Over 50 house seats so far and most of the Governors and Russ Fiengold (for his Senate Seat) was just beaten by his opponent and Niki Haley just won in South Carolina as Governor!
how, I mean seriously, somebody tell me pleeze how can California vote for Jerry Brown and against legalizing marijuana? waitaminute, I think it’s giving me a headache … a chronic headache, …
And at the dusk
the freshening tradewinds
filled our sails
and we steered a course
into the warm red crimson sunset
zombie … hello, anyone home?
lol love the banner above enricos