The impending death of the Republican Party:

BWAHAHAHA.

It's Lucy with the football all over again. FDR has finally given up the ghost.
This is what America wants.
Oh well, gotta get up and go to work, raise my family, enjoy my life best I can.

Al Franken Wins Again!

Remember the last time…they were counting votes one at a time by the end of the recount.

WTF? How is Hagan ahead 101000 votes with 45% in and it's too close to call?

Again, WTF?

Breaking News: Scott Brown moving to Vermont. nt

Oh Horseshit...

Senator Manchin lecturing us on how no matter who's in charge of the Senate we are all going to have to work together,

Note carefully that you never hear Republicans making statements like these: they say, we're in charge no get the fuck out of the way or we're gonna run you the fuck over. Make no mistake about it: you lost now you are gonna die. And Democrats do just that...

Democrats…all the way back to Coolidge, continuous political masturbation…pissed away the whole 2008 victory.

On nights like this, I'm reminded of the wonderful story

from 2000 when the lady from New York City asked, "How could Bush win? I don't know a single person who voted for him."

I will need a stiff drink and perhaps to go to bed earlier than I thought I would...

WOLF WINS IN PA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waiting for 8 PM. Hopefully, this will be called by 8:01 PM.

On the eve of every election I harken back to what my father of blessed memory

used to say. He was a pragmatic progressive Democrat who was a four-year combat veteran of WWII, worked two full-time jobs his entire career, and held seven masters degrees in subjects from linguistics to Western History to Hebrew Literature. He obviously never slept but he was brilliant in ways which can only be imagined these days what with narrow, specialized learning tracks and generally poorly selected reading lists in schools including, but not limited to, most universities.

He had a few words of wisdom to impart. One was: there is rampant lying in the news organizations and at best, the truth is shaded. However, there is one publication which never intentionally lies to its readers, ever. And that publication is: The Racing Form. you cannot lie to gamblers - they will cut the ties forever. Whatever is printed within is the best knowledge available to the reporter. My Dad's assumption was that if a media member reported something as fact, that that fact was viewed through a specially colored lens and for whatever reason which might be utterly unknown to the masses, it was advantageous to report, or not report in a certain fashion. This policy was generally decided a priori way up in the editorial chain. If something were reported which should not have been, in the opinion of the powers-that-be, careful retrenchment was then executed to minimize the fallout.

The second consideration was that the Nation was headed in some direction, inexorably and inevitably. He used to say this before the Kennedy Assassination and afterwards he just shook his head and said that this was all a course-correction with respect to what Eisenhower had referred to as the military-industrial complex. My father respected Eisenhower for making the speech but knew that it would have little or no effect upon the March of Time. I've written about this before, but I will again share the anecdote when Goldwater was nominated, Eisenhower was interviewed on TV by two reporters. Ike was not happy about Goldwater's candidacy, but these two reporters kept interrupting and changing the topic, thus confusing the situation with respect to the viewer. I was 11 at the time. My father turned to me and stated words which I have never forgotten: "In America there is nothing worse than being a "former" anything. This man was a Five-Star General, led the Allied Forces against the most horrifying villains in history successfully, was a two-term President of the United States, and these two won't let him finish a sentence. Imagine how they'll treat you after you're retired if this is how they treat this man. I hold no briefs for his politics, I certainly didn't vote for him, but these idiots have no respect for the man; none." To this day, I recall that moment vividly.

The third occurrence was in 1980 on Election night. I called my father and said, "Dad, what are we gonna do?" His reply: "What you're gonna do is get up and go to work tomorrow morning and work hard, do the best you can, try to improve the lives of those within your sphere the best you can. Carter thought that he could lead Americans by sitting in the White House with a sweater on with the heat turned down and attempt to commiserate with them. Americans, for good or ill, don't want to hear that. They require the preacher's intensity and verve for better or worse. Reagan and Republicans know how, always knew how, to give this to them. they prey upon their weaknesses, their fears, and get them to vote against their own economic and life-lengthening issues by doing so. Democrats will only sporadically learn how to do this and then they forget. Republicans never forget the necessity of doing this.

The fourth and final statement he made in this regard was that the Fundamental Principle of Republicanism was for rich people to be able to hold onto their money; that in America it is extremely difficult to make a lot of money but even harder to hold onto it once it has been squirreled away. Every decision a Republican makes is with an eye towards this Principle. It is virtually inviolate.

We have found that nothing has changed. We need to win on Tuesday to allow the status quo, which admittedly isn't great, to continue. We know that losing will throw us into some, but not complete, turmoil. Some will suffer needlessly, but the narcissism of many of the electorate precludes them caring enough to think of the plight of others, even if they do attend the religious service of their choice on Sundays. I wish us the best luck and to GOTV.

Just in case you need to throw up...

and just when you thought things couldn't get any worse:


http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Feds_Mom_took_explicit_photos_of_children_offered_them_for_sex.html




An Oxford Circle woman has been indicted for allegedly taking sexually explicit photographs of her two children, aged 6 and 16 months, and, in some cases, offering them to men online.

Prosecutors said Christine Yoder, 32, began sending pornographic photos of the 6-year-old to a Michigan man in May.

Communicating via Kik Messenger, she allegedly offered to fly the child to Detroit and give her to the man for sexual purposes, according to an indictment filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Prosecutors said Yoder told the man she was “very serious” about handing her daughter over and made it clear she did not want the child returned.

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DIS-gusting...the article actually gets more revolting beyond the allowed 4 paragraphs...

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Feds_Mom_took_explicit_photos_of_children_offered_them_for_sex.html#7iBHHLHWiFCTD1sb.99

Well, I can be accused of saying "I toldja so..."

but in a good way...note the date of the post. At that time he was a virtual unknown...



http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024140848