Told you so....

from TPM:

"Republicans may want nothing more than to go home and nurse their election wounds, but the lame-duck Congress has lots of work ahead.

"Items at the top of the list are reviving several popular but expired tax cuts, confirming a new defense secretary and keeping most federal agencies in operating funds....

"President Bush met on Thursday with GOP congressional leaders and came up with a similar to-do list. He added a Vietnam trade bill and legislation giving legal status to his warrantless domestic eavesdropping program....

"The eavesdropping measure has stalled in the Senate because of a Democratic filibuster threat." (AP, NYTimes)

Yep, we can "work" with these assholes. Sure we can.....

Right Back To You Rummie!

from Crooks & Liars via Good Nonsense:

Rumsfeld responds to a pointed question during an appearance at the University of Kansas.

Of course it's not the first time, as this photo clearly shows.

Thank You, Dr. Dean.

Many thanks Dr. Dean. You were right about the 50 states strategy and you held to your guns to implement it. We are lucky to have you chairing the party. Now, lean on those we elected and help them do their jobs investigating these Neocon pukes.

(Tho, to be honest, I'd rather be thanking you for your actions as President. The country really lost out in that decision.)

UPDATE: Reports are coming in that James Carville and some others of the ball-less wonders at the DLC are calling for Dr. Dean's replacement. They do so at their peril. I suspect that if they try, Dr. Dean will grind them beneath his heel like the bugs they are, but should they succeed, the Democratic Party would be toast. I know I'd leave my 40 year membership behind in a heartbeat if they did this. So would a good many others.

The Right Was Right

Well, having nefariously gained power in Congress through the deceptive lawful tactic of using the Constitutionally protected liberal power to vote, we on the left can at last reveal our secret hidden agenda to enslave the rich, indoctrinate the young in our progressive reeducation camps and feminize all macho men in America by stealing their guns and forcing them to wear pink tutus in the workplace.

Read on, you great Neocon unwashed , and tremble before the wrath of the Unitarian Jehad.

Now that the election is behind us, and the Democrats control both houses of Congress, there's no reason not to admit it: the Right was right about us all along. Here is our 25-point manifesto for the new Congress:

Add your own post: http://right-was-right.blogspot.com/

1. Mandatory homosexuality

2. Drug-filled condoms in schools

3. Introduce the new Destruction of Marriage Act

4. Border fence replaced with free shuttle buses

5. Osama Bin Laden to be Secretary of State

6. Withdraw from Iraq, apologize, reinstate Hussein

7. English language banned from all Federal buildings

8. Math classes replaced by encounter groups

9. All taxes to be tripled

10. All fortunes over $250,000 to be confiscated

11. On-demand welfare

12. Tofurkey to be named official Thanksgiving dish

13. Freeways to be removed, replaced with light rail systems

14. Pledge of Allegiance in schools replaced with morning flag-burning

15. Stem cells allowed to be harvested from any child under the age of 8

16. Comatose people to be ground up and fed to poor

17. Quarterly mandatory abortion lottery

18. God to be mocked roundly

19. Dissolve Executive Branch: reassign responsibilities to UN

20. Jane Fonda to be appointed Secretary of Appeasement

21. Outlaw all firearms: previous owners assigned to anger management therapy

22. Texas returned to Mexico

23. Ban Christmas: replace with Celebrate our Monkey Ancestors Day

24. Carter added to Mount Rushmore

25. Modify USA's motto to "Land of the French and the home of the brave"

Election 2006, the Aftermath

Most of the rhetoric since the election has been about being nice and insuring co-operation. Already, the posts, press and pundits have begun about how ungracious we are in victory. UNGRACIOUS! Fuck them and the spavined horse they rode in on. Friends, these people called us traitors. They claimed we were terror enablers. They lied us into a quagmire. They mocked us at every turn for questioning their Dear Leader.

These pukes don't play nice and we'd be fools if we did so ourselves.

I'm glad that we managed to build at least a partial roadblock to the worst Bush excesses. But even that depends on the remarkably inept in opposition Dems remembering how to be in the majority once again. Frankly, we've seen little evidence of that happening in the couple of days since the election.

I say we need to investigate like demons from Hell. Find every scrap of dirt and swill that passes for policy in this administration. Subpoena everything they have. E-mails, official records, meeting notes, phone conversation tapes, car rental records, travel docs, hooker receipts, cocktail napkins, even their children's report cards. Make their eyes, ears and fingers bleed from effort of responding. Investigate them to the point of stagnation. It's the only way we can stop the ongoing dismantling of the regulatory apparatus that protects us.

It's all nice and warm and fuzzy to win the election. But if we play the game the way the Neo-pukes and their media lackeys are trying to dictate we do, WE WILL LOSE!

We have to stand tall, haul back and kick these fools in the balls. And kick them again. And again until they never dare to trample on our Constitution again. Punish them so the next time some lying sack of shit tries to send young brave Americans into battle on fabricated data, the whole country rises as one and spanks their asses raw.

So it is written. So should it be.

What He Said.....

Mark over at Spittle and Ink nails my feelings about the election results pretty well.

As we see, the Democratic seats gained in the Senate do little for people needing a truly progressive, Liberal approach to government. The majority of Dem pickups are hard-right leaning DINO's. Not an unbleak picture.

The House shows better results, but still not great. Of the 28 seats picked up, nine of those have gone to conservative Democrats who would look right at home in a Reagan or Bush 41 GOP. But there are enough "true" Liberals in the pack to make me a bit happier about the House results over those in the Senate.

In short, however, a review by positions instead of Party affiliation reveals to us what won't be happening any time soon, under this "Nude Erection" brought in by voters:

• There will be no living wage. You might get a symbolic minimum raise hike, but nothing to break the poverty level.
• Immigrants will still be shit on and labeled a "threat."
• There will be no movement whatsoever to crack down on corporate fraud, or corporate control of government.
• There will be no change in the country's hardline position supporting Israel at all costs.
• There will be no change in the country's treatment of Islamic nations as threats by default.
• Abortion rights will still be very much at risk.
• Race relations will not improve at all.
• Education will not improve significantly, if at all.
• Poverty -- which was addressed by virtually no candidate listed above! -- will not be reversed.
• Veterans services will not improve significantly, if at all.
• Labor union rights will continue to be trampled.
• Third parties will continue to be effectively illegal.
• Rhetorical patriotism will continue to trump logic and discussion.

Bye, Bye Little Rickie!

Rick Santorum (R, Sanctimonious Little Prick)

GLOAT!
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GLOAT!
GLOAT!
GLOAT!
GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE!
GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE! GONE!
GLOAT!
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Bye Bye Dickie!

Richard Pombo, (R, Exxon) goes down to defeat.

Endangered species and persons sensitive to air pollution across the country can breathe a little easier tonight. Pombo's all out assault on environmental protection regulation, federal land stewardship, and global warming mitigation will continue to damage this country for decades to come.

Asshole.

How did I do?

Election Eve Predictions:

PA Governor: Rendell(D) over Swann(R) by 15%
(Actual: 20%)

PA US Senate: Casey(D) over Santorum(R) by 8%
(Actual: 18%)

Democratic US House pickup in PA: 4 seats
(Actual: 3 with 1 additional probable after recount)
Update: Fitzpatrick just made his concession.
That makes 4 pick ups in PA.


Democratic pick up in US House nationally: 37 seats
(Actual: 29 with 7 additional races too close to call)
Update: NBC projects a pickup of 33 seats with 4 other seats still too close to call

Democratic pickup US Senate: 6
(Missouri, Montana, Ohio, PA, RI, Virginia)
(Right)

Republican pickup US Senate: 1
( Maryland)
(Wrong)

50/50 tie US Senate
(Actual: D 51, R 49)

Local Races:

PA House: Conklin(D) over Spencer(R) by 8%
(Actual: 18%)

PA Senate: Corman(R) over Eich(D) by 3%
(Actual: 12%)

PA US House: Peterson(R) over Hilliard(D) by 14%
(Actual: 20%)

Democratic pick-up PA House: 5

(Actual: 5 with 2 additional possibles after recounts)

Election Eve Predictions:

PA Governor: Rendell(D) over Swann(R) by 15%

PA US Senate: Casey(D) over Santorum(R) by 8%

Democratic US House pickup in PA: 4 seats

Democratic pick up in US House nationally: 37 seats

Democratic pickup US Senate: 6
(Missouri, Montana, Ohio, PA, RI, Virginia)

Republican pickup US Senate: 1
( Maryland)

50/50 tie US Senate

Local Races:

PA House: Conklin(D) over Spencer(R) by 8%

PA Senate: Corman(R) over Eich(D) by 3%

PA US House: Peterson(R) over Hilliard(D) by 14%

Democratic pick-up PA House: 5