Republicans Win Big in Wave Election, Dems Lose Senate Control and Governors' Races, What's Next for Rand Paul? A.M. Links

Robby Soave | 11.5.2014 9:00 AM

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Republicans performed about as well as possible in the 2014 midterm election yesterday. The GOP took control of the Senate and increased its margin in the House. It is the first time Republicans have been in charge of both chambers since 2006. Which means…
Gridlock! Sweet, beautiful gridlock!
Democrats had hoped to stave off total defeat in the myriad governors' races, but here they fared much worse than expected. Republican reformers Scott Walker (Wisconsin) and Rick Snyder (Michigan) defeated strong challengers backed by big labor. Even blue states like Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts went to the Republicans.
Libertarian and independent candidates had a "meh" election, however.
A small setback for Rand Paul: the Kentucky legislature remained under Democratic control. That's a problem, because Paul needs state legislators to change the law to allow him to pursue both the presidency and re-election to his U.S. Senate seat in 2016.
Speaking of the presidency, from now on all eyes will be on presumed candidates like Paul, Walker, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Rick Perry.
Speaking of Paul, his father tweeted some controversial statements suggesting that the Republican takeover is actually a bad thing—it will empower neoconservativism, Ron Paul claimed. Vox seized upon the tweets as evidence of how the father is a liability to the son.
In non-election news, Wayne Brady has been having a rough time.

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Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Democrats had hoped to stave off total defeat in the myriad governors’ races, but here they fared much worse than expected.
Their sweet, sweet tears will soon be our bitter ones as we come to grips with nothing changing.
1. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
  
  Hello.
  What did I miss?
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    From where I sit, nothing, NYC still abuses upstate.
    1. Ted S. 9 years ago
      
      I thought TEAM RED got an absolute majority in the State Senate.
      Not that that much is going to change.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        Is Skelos gone?
        If no, nothing will change.
        
        UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        * Dean ‘lefty’ Skelos is a Cuomo pawn, and with him still leading the senate caucus, it might as well have been a team blue victory there. At least I get the consolation prize of knowing Klein is insignificant again.
    2. waffles 9 years ago
      
      Is Canada really part of upstate NY?
      1. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
        
        No thanks. You can keep your soda and salt bans weirdos.
        
        UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        I want to cut off New Amsterdam at the Tappen Zee. Those bans are all from south of the Tappen Zee.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        Exactly. South of 287 should be it’s own state.
        
        Drake 9 years ago
        
        It would be a vast improvement for everything above.
    3. Restoras 9 years ago
      
      Yup. I really wish NYC would form it’s own city-state. It is a polity too radically unaligned with the rest of the state.
      1. BardMetal 9 years ago
        
        A return to city-states would be nice, sense most of the political divide in this country seems to be rural vs urban more then anything else.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        It is indeed. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen in the next 20 years or so, at least in the really egregious examples (NYC, Chicago, etc).
        
        BardMetal 9 years ago
        
        How? Why would progs settle for just a city when they can use the city to control the whole state?
        
        Zombie Jimbo 9 years ago
        
        See, for example Philadlephia.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        I don’t know how, all I know is that a lot of people north of 287 resent being ordered about by downstate liberal urban dwellers.
        
        Kool 9 years ago
        
        “No, you don’t get a gun! Now shut up and grow my food.”
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        What Kool did there, was hit the nail on the head.
      2. Clown Hunter 9 years ago
        
        Autonomous for purposes of state and local governance, but still part of the state for purposes of federal elections.
        Works for me.
        I don’t want to give the proggy hellholes a pair of Senators each by making them full have-their-own-star-on-the-flag States.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        A fair point but it does seem to me the urban/rural divide is widening with each election cycle. I just wonder how it will play out. It’s not like urban liberals are going to be reasonable and just want to be liberal in urban environments – they want to control everything – for your own good, you see. I think a lot of non-urban folks are growing increasingly resentful of that.
        
        Lord Humungus 9 years ago
        
        I often drive into little podunk towns located in the upper part of the mitten. These places are hard to get to – no major highways going through these old farming communities. I imagine Washington – heck, even Lansing – seem like a million miles away.
      3. Free Society 9 years ago
        
        I wish the world was composed soley of thousands of Monaco’s, Lichtensteins and San Marinos. Everyone would be freer and wealthier as a result.
        
        dave b. 9 years ago
        
        But for every Monaco, there is a Somalia with no ROADZZZZ!!!!
    4. Rhywun 9 years ago
      
      Don’t blame me – I don’t vote 🙂
      I am highly amused that in district after district here in the city the incumbent D got over 90% of the vote – and that so many of them are known criminals.
2. BardMetal 9 years ago
  
  But for now let us enjoy the taste of progressive tears…
  1. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
    
    I can’t hear you with my ears plugged in with orphan organs.
    1. pan fried wylie 9 years ago
      
      Orphan Organ: a pipe organ with notes low enough that orphans can climb into the pipes to clean them.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        With the softness of the metals used in organ pipes, you don’t want people going into them. They’d be hopelessly deformed (the pipes, not the people)
        
        pan fried wylie 9 years ago
        
        I did say orphans, not people, sheesh.
3. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
  
  Scott Walker won. I’m happy to see the government employee unions cry.
  Hickenlooper is winning. I’m not thrilled about it.
  1. Clown Hunter 9 years ago
    
    These Midwest governor elections might just be the turning point against unions as power centers.
    They’ve thrown everything at Walker twice now, and lost both times. The Union, I mean Democrat, party saw their representation in the legislature shrink as well. I think their place at the top of the political heap is history.
  2. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    Walker has now won three elections in four years. That’s some electability, right there, sir.
4. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
  
  Their sweet, sweet tears will soon be our bitter ones as we come to grips with nothing changing.
  +1 Bitch McConnell
5. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
  
  11/5/2014, the day that dissent became patriotic again.
6. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  I heard a guy on the radio this morning–a conservative guy–bitching about McConnell talking about working with Obama and Kevin McCarthy refusing to say he’d push to repeal Obamacare. Fucking GOP still doesn’t understand why they won.
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    I know, the Stupid Party thinks it’s because people want them to work with the Evil Party to GET THINGS DONE. Fucking morons.
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      Unbelievable. What I want done is more about things that need to be undone. And the godawful president isn’t on board with that.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Libertarian and independent candidates had a “meh” election, however.
NO SPOILERS.
1. hamilton 9 years ago
  
  Oh, clever, sir.
  1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
    
    Spoiler: You missed a pretty awesome game.
    1. hamilton 9 years ago
      
      Yeah yeah yeah. I’m deeply pissed and at the same time proud of what a devoted father I am. Or something.
Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago

Chrystia Freeland.
Elizabeth Warren North.
Enjoy.
https://vine.co/v/OOPUte3F06A
1. hamilton 9 years ago
  
  She’s an Inuit?
  1. KDN 9 years ago
    
    Those cheekbones are waaay too low.
  2. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
    
    No but this vapid chick was EDITOR OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES!
    And she uses vacuous terms like ‘living wage’.
    Sit on that for a second.
Mike M. 9 years ago

Libertarian and independent candidates had a “meh” election, however.
I’m still dying to know if Ann Coulter ever showed up at Ron Bailey’s house.
1. WTF 9 years ago
  
  Anyone seen anything from Bailey recently?
  1. Restoras 9 years ago
    
    Science!
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      *snort*
2. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  She did, he just hasn’t uttered the safe word yet..
  1. Doctor Whom 9 years ago
    
    What has been imagined can never be unimagined.
    1. Restoras 9 years ago
      
      Oh come on, that should be on pay-per-view!
      1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
        
        I would pay NOT to view.
        
        Clown Hunter 9 years ago
        
        [Calls minions, orders up new business plan.]
  2. Snark Plissken 9 years ago
    
    “oat bag”
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Republican reformers Scott Walker (Wisconsin) and Rick Snyder (Michigan) defeated strong challengers backed by big labor.
Damn you, Citizens United!
1. The DerpRider 9 years ago
  
  I hate my state. How can the R governor route the D challenger while the D senator absolutely crushes the R challenger. And I don’t even get to live in Amash’s district. My city voted down legalizing pot. Meh.
  1. Drake 9 years ago
    
    I have often wonder the same. Is a big election just random stupidity and popularity contests?
    1. CE 9 years ago
      
      Judging from the commercials and the signs, yes.
  2. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
    
    I don’t get it either… at least I live in Amash’s district.
    1. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
      
      You lucky guy. Amash is by far my favorite congressman
Bee Tagger 9 years ago

The good news: election day is over.
The bad news: analyze election day has started.
1. Doctor Whom 9 years ago
  
  The good news, in a way: My prog Facebook friends are going apeshit about how the country will become the Republic of Gilead by COB today.
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
    
    Mine are all silent. I feel like I should buy them all drinks.
    1. hamilton 9 years ago
      
      One of mine actually blacked out her profile picture, then changed it to a flag at half-mast.
      Today is going to be a great day. (The rest of the next two years is probably gonna suck though).
      1. The Laconic 9 years ago
        
        Christ, it’s exactly like their sports team lost, isn’t it?
    2. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
      
      I haven’t been on Derpbook yet, but I’m looking forward to it tonight. The sadist in me is going to enjoy the epic whining.
  2. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
    
    Didn’t they see this coming or were they deluded? I think it was fairly obvious the GOP was going to take the Senate.
    1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
      
      I saw someone on another forum blame this on the Democrats not running on Obamacare, so yes, I think they are that deluded.
      1. Rich 9 years ago
        
        Well, they can try running on Democratcare in 2016.
      2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
        
        There are candidates that won’t even mention the president’s name. Can you imagine if they had run on his policies, especially Obamacare?
        Given the extent of the Republican win, I wonder if it’s remotely possible that they could repeal that horrid law and get enough Democrats to join in to override a veto? You’d think not, but plenty of Democrats will be worried about their seats.
        
        WTF 9 years ago
        
        Look for progtard ‘analysts’ to explain that they lost by not running on Obama’s policies, because if they had embraced them they could have done much better.
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
        
        The trend at DU is that they were not progressive enough.
        
        Lord Humungus 9 years ago
        
        This sounds like the Republican’s cry – “We need to be more conservative”
        This election – beyond historic norms – was pretty much a “You Suck, Mr. President” result – much like ’06.
  3. Bee Tagger 9 years ago
    
    I’m just very tired of Internet smugness and at this point whether its gleeful or resigned doesn’t matter much.
    1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
      
      The stupid amount of “I voted” shit on Facebook was quite painful.
      1. See Double You 9 years ago
        
        No. Kidding.
      2. The DerpRider 9 years ago
        
        I happily announced I didn’t vote. Link to a few Reason articles about not voting. My mom chided me. Good day.
      3. Restoras 9 years ago
        
        That was retarded. I so wanted to post something but then I remembered – it’s facebook.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Donkey escapes from Swiss petting zoo, gets stuck in manhole
Fire crews had to free a donkey from a manhole in northern Switzerland on Saturday morning.

It is unclear how the donkey fell into the manhole in Pratteln, located 75 km northwest of Zurich, but fire officials said they thought it had been stuck throughout the night. A local man found the donkey around 8 a.m.

The donkey was lucky and only sustained some flesh wounds, police said.
1. sarcasmic 9 years ago
  
  Party pooper.
  I’ve made an ass of myself: Nilo the donkey rescued by firefighters after falling down a manhole
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..nhole.html
  1. Free Society 9 years ago
    
    Damn your dailymail link. Now I’m going to open 50 tabs of hot celebrity women in bikini’s after I read the article.
2. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
  
  Donkey stuck in a manhole? I thought that had something to with yesterday’s election.
  1. Pope Jimbo 9 years ago
    
    Manhole? Don’t you mean asshole?
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      *narrows gaze*
3. Libertarian 9 years ago
  
  It is unclear how the donkey fell into the manhole
  Apparently they can’t tell an ass from a hole in the ground.
  1. Frank Frankelson 9 years ago
    
    *Looks arounds and starts a slow clap*
4. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
  
  *Peers inscrutably at the story*
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    Did you know the jackass?
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      I have no knowledge of said animal!
SugarFree 9 years ago

Yummy tears: Slate edition
The comments are a petulant bonanza of rationalizations.
1. robc 9 years ago
  
  Any idea if Patterson set a record for an L in a KY senate race?
  I dont remember anyone breaking 3% before.
  1. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    No idea. The Lexington media is doing nothing but rending their clothes and gnashing their teeth at the Grimes lost.
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      Will Rand have to surrender his seat to run for president? I heard the legislature stayed Democrat.
      1. robc 9 years ago
        
        House did, which means it wont change. Not sure the Governor would have signed it anyway.
        
        Pro Libertate 9 years ago
        
        Oh, well. Bet Rand runs anyway.
        
        JEP 9 years ago
        
        That’s the perk of having an actual profession. If his political career doesn’t work out, he can always fix people’s eyes again.
        
        robc 9 years ago
        
        He has been doing it some anyway.
2. waffles 9 years ago
  
  I’m just here for the tears. I drink them up.
3. Rich 9 years ago
  
  Increase the size of the electorate by 20 million or so — likely what we’ll see in 2016 — and the Democrats will be just fine.
  Easily done.
  1. waffles 9 years ago
    
    Now that’s a fucking legacy!
    1. Rich 9 years ago
      
      It starts at O’s press conference this afternoon.
4. WTF 9 years ago
  
  The comments are especially delicious.
5. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
  
  This is a perfect day for trolling DU
  Fuck Republicans. And fuck the fuckers who fucking vote for those fucks.
  You’re priming us for what is to come in about 7 hours. I have no idea why people are so fucked up to vote for a Republican. Fuck Republicans. Fuck their fucking Corporate media, NPR too. Oh, and lets not forget the registered fuckers who vote Republican simply by not getting to the polls. The registered non-voting fuckers are the ones who yell the loudest about what is happening to our country!
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    And fuck those lazy idiot fuckers who can’t be bothered to fucking vote in a fucking midterm. They’ll reap what they sew, but unfortunately so will we!
    1. Bee Tagger 9 years ago
      
      I may reap what I sew but that’s my cross-stich to bear.
      1. Tonio 9 years ago
        
        Sigh. It’s “reap what you sow” (homophone with “sew” meaning to plant crops, not to be confused with a female pig).
        
        Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago
        
        He’s just tailoring his comments to the audience.
        
        hamilton 9 years ago
        
        You’re saying his words in this thread are not what they seam?
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
        
        Stop towing the lion for grammar nazis
        
        BiMonSciFiCon 9 years ago
        
        Woosh
    2. gaijin 9 years ago
      
      they’ll reap what they sew
      new socks?
      1. gaijin 9 years ago
        
        argh! refreshrefresh
        
        Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago
        
        Darn it!
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
        
        *narrows gaze, once again*
        
        Rhywun 9 years ago
        
        If you keep doing that, your face is going to freeze that way.
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
        
        I am going to end up looking like Clint Eastwood in a Spaghetti Western.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        I think you forgot a comma.
  2. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
    
    Fuck their fucking Corporate media, NPR too.
    Delicious.
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      I love that he thinks the media are Republican toadies. How delusional can someone be?
      1. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
        
        Not just the media, NPR in particular. That’s nuts on a whole new scale.
  3. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    And fuck the fuckers who refuse to fucking vote for Democrats.
  4. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
    
    You pick the one guy with the name ‘Drunken Irishman’?
  5. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
    
    needs more fucks.
  6. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    You just check out this political cartoon. The artist seems to be drawing half of his politics from 1983.
    1. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
      
      just = must
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        I don’t get the people who think government health inspectors actually make a difference with regards to food poisoning outbreaks. The liability and loss of future business that comes from making your customers sick makes it far cheaper to avoid doing so than to cut corners.
        
        NebulousFocus 9 years ago
        
        I don’t get people who can’t fathom that someone could actually have a different opinion than them. It’s insane.
        
        Frank Frankelson 9 years ago
        
        This.
        For reference, you don’t see any Jack In the Box franchises on the east coast, do you? You think that affected their bottom line?
  7. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    I just sent my employees home at noon and closed the shop
    
    Now, it’s just me and Jim Beam here. Not going home tonight, because I strongly suspect I’ll be in one damn rotten mood, and my wife and 3 kids don’t need that. DURec for your thread, sir.
    1. KDN 9 years ago
      
      Wife- and child-beating because his political party lost an election.
      What a model American. He should be the next governor of NJ.
      1. WTF 9 years ago
        
        NJ governors are known for beating their wives?
        
        Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
        
        NJ governors are known for beating their wives.
        Ever since Christie at least.
        
        KDN 9 years ago
        
        I’m just looking for a change from the usual criminality.
  8. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    KOCHSPIRACY
    Voting machines
    
    The Democratic side has almost two years to see what is wrong with the votingmachines How could McConnell, who had to PAY people to pretend to support him, win? Crist was way ahead in the pols, yet lost Forida? Wisconsin’s Walker is a dud, yet won re-election as gov? Rauner, who is Romney light, won governorship of Illinois? Something smells wrong, very wrong here. Koch money was put to good use for the repubs, the only question is HOW? The Not-So-Supreme Court should be disbanded, they are useless in helping working class people. I am devastated
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      HAHAHAHAHA
      Their tears are so sweet and yummy!
  9. The Laconic 9 years ago
    
    By not voting, I was voting Republican? I might have made an effort if I’d known that rule.
    1. cavalier973 9 years ago
      
      Expect the party registration form by the end of the week.
6. cavalier973 9 years ago
  
  The Republican Party had one strategy it followed in nearly every Senate race: run against the president. It paid off. (Next week, the president travels to Burma. Perhaps he should have scheduled the trip eight months ago?and stayed there.)
  Too bad they won’t actually work to undo the President’s agenda.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Republicans performed about as well as possible in the 2014 midterm election yesterday.
Enjoy as they perform as terrible as possible in legislating.
1. This Machine Implies Consent 9 years ago
  
  Ideally, they’d do a bunch of un-legislating, but I’ll settle for just not legislating.
  Of course, they’re not going to leave well enough alone anyway, but I can dream.
  1. Rhywun 9 years ago
    
    Even better if they stop some Democrats from legislating.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

or not…
Male Lingerie Is A Thing Now And It’s Kind Of Amazing
The HommeMystere company has just launched a new line of lingerie…but there’s a definite twist.
1. Rich 9 years ago
  
  Do NOT click that link.
  1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
    
    That only made me want to click it more. So I did.
    1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
      
      That is just cross-dressing.
2. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
  
  There’s some real denial going on in those photos
3. Juice 9 years ago
  
  None of that looked like male lingerie. It just looked like a man wearing women’s lingerie.
Citizen Nothing 9 years ago

The top story on Yahoo News appears to be “How Hillary Clinton Won the 2014 Election.”
Atanarjuat 9 years ago

Gridlock! Sweet, beautiful gridlock!
Seasoned with the fine tears of an Obama temper tantrum when he can’t get his way.
1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
  
  We’ve basically had gridlock for 4 years already, but now BO gets to be the bad guy who kills congressional bills through actively vetoing them, vice having WhoreHouseHarry just quietly sit on them while the sits quietly.
  A wholly different kind of gridlock. Now with more yummy tears.
  1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
    
    while the *media* sits quietly.
  2. WTF 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, things may look a little different for Obama without Harry Reid to protect him by shutting down the Senate.
2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  And with investigations, hearings, and removals from office of administration officials.
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    removals from office of administration officials
    Nah, the Stupid Party doesn’t have the balls for that. They will get all “reconciliation for the good of the American people” and “reach across the aisle”.
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      I agree as far as senior officials go, but they’re going to find some pretty nasty dirt in the investigations they do launch. Hard not to take action when those facts come to light.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

God Bless America!
Americans Spend 16 Times as Much on Beer as on 2014 Midterms
Americans spent billions on this year’s federal election, enough to spark increased worry about the influence of money in politics.

But when stacked up against what they spend annually on beer, gambling, dry cleaning or hairdressing, it’s small in comparison.
1. The DerpRider 9 years ago
  
  I did my part!
2. Every Cop is a Criminal 9 years ago
  
  The cost of dry cleaning is criminal.
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Vox seized upon the tweets as evidence of how the father is a liability to the son.
And the 2016 race begins.
1. CE 9 years ago
  
  Yeah, Ron Paul reminds us how much Rand Paul is compromising with the anti-liberty crowd.
sarcasmic 9 years ago

‘Drop that plate right now’: Florida charity worker, 90, is arrested for FEEDING the homeless under new law against sharing food publicly (which presumably includes loaves and fishes)
Arnold Abbott has fed homeless people since 1991 with a team of volunteers
He now says he intends to take the City of Fort Lauderdale to court
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..ublic.html
At one point an officers yelled at Mr Abbott to ‘drop that plate right now!’ as if it were a loaded weapon.
He’s got an assault plate! Shoot him!
1. Doctor Whom 9 years ago
  
  “Without government, who would feed the homeless?”
  “Me.”
  “You’re under arrest.”
Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago

The Rednecks walloped the Hippies! Yaaaayyy! We’re saved from the Kenyan Muslin now! Libertopia is upon us!
Glorious gridlock survived for real.
1. Restoras 9 years ago
  
  You’re drunk on your own Tears of Sorrow, aren’t you Weigel?
  1. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    He’s got to have something to hold on to. Boyfriend Barry got all beat up and he has to keep a brave face.
2. Jordan 9 years ago
  
  I came here looking for your tears. Now I can return to work satisfied.
  1. Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago
    
    Tears? I am a fucking cynic. I enjoy the goat rodeo political shitfest.
    1. Restoras 9 years ago
      
      Step away from that growler filled with your pent-up Tears of Sorrow, shitforbrains.
    2. antisocial-ist 9 years ago
      
      *sniffs* smell that, it smells like tears. Tears and DOOOOOM!!!!!
    3. Jordan 9 years ago
      
      Yummy yummy tears.
  2. Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago
    
    Why me? I am a liberal. If the GOP actually cuts spending (which they won’t) I will be happy.
    1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
      
      Liberal? I thought you were the only true free-market libertarian? Please keep your story straight, it makes for better trolling.
      1. Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago
        
        Classic liberal. Like Hayek I don’t like conservatives.
        
        Lord Humungus 9 years ago
        
        I don’t think you even know the meaning – since your words certainly don’t mirror those of a classic liberal. But if you want to continue to lie to us, have at it.
        
        WTF 9 years ago
        
        Well, he’s 8% classic liberal.
3. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  Wow. I guess that Obamacare thing was a non issue, huh. Plus, the stock market is at record highs, and we all know stock market equals economy. So….how did your team manage to fuck this election up so badly PB?
  1. Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago
    
    I was right again. This election followed recent statistical norms. For example the VA and NC races were almost identical results as when Jim Webb and Richard Burr won their races in those respective states.
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      After all, President Obama’s personal approval ratings are also in the toilet, and his signature policy?the Affordable Care Act?continues to evoke a mass gag reflex from the public and was specifically cited as a negative by almost half of voters in this election.
      J.D. Tuccille|November 5, 2014 1:24 am
      1. Palin's Buttplug 9 years ago
        
        Look at the numbers. Right in line with recent patterns.
        
        Mike M. 9 years ago
        
        Damn, you’re still alive.
        Also, you’re the world’s worst liar. You love Obamacare, the Crapulus, and all the other shit that passes when the democrats have total control.
        In the last month you got fired from the Washington Post for good, had to take a job with Bloomberg Politics which absolutely nobody reads, and now your beloved democrats got their asses kicked. We can only imagine how depressed you must be. It’s not too late for you to kill yourself.
        
        a better weapon 9 years ago
        
        Just make sure not to do it by stepping in front of a bus. We don’t want any little Weigel’s running around here too.
4. Tonio 9 years ago
  
  Oh, that’s delicious, ‘Plug. C’mon and cry enough so everyone can have a taste.
5. Elspeth Flashman 9 years ago
  
  Don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
6. a better weapon 9 years ago
  
  I think even Tarran could excuse the mocking responses to PB on a day like today.
sarcasmic 9 years ago

Kim Jong-Un ‘photobombed by soft toys having sex’ while visiting North Korean orphanage
Kim Jong-Un was photographed during a visit to a Pyongyang orphanage
Two soft toys were placed in a compromising position during Kim’s visit
It was the first time Kim had been pictured walking unaided since September
The dictator had been using a cane while recovering from ankle surgery
Kim went missing for six weeks prompting claims that he had been deposed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..anage.html
I bet someone got executed for that little embarrassment.
1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
  
  Or was turned into a “comfort girl”.
Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago

‘Painfully Awkward’ Rob Lowe Commercial Under Fire From Shy Bladder Support Group
The spot above centers around “Painfully Awkward Rob Lowe,” a fanny-pack wearing version of the actor who says he can’t “go” with other people around. But the International Paruresis Association says shy bladder is a real phobia, not something to mock.
“We don’t mind if people have a little fun with it,” Steve Soifer, the organization’s CEO, told The Associated Press. “It’s a situation that a lot of people don’t understand. In this particular case, the portrayal is making it look ridiculous, that this guy is a loser for having a problem.”
The organization says 21 million Americans suffer from the condition, which is more formally known as avoidant paruresis.
1. Restoras 9 years ago
  
  Jeez, cut the guy a break. That’s his best work since the pron video.
2. SugarFree 9 years ago
  
  “There are literally dozens of us!”
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, I’m not buying the 21 million figure.
  2. Pope Jimbo 9 years ago
    
    The next Lowe commercial should really be Rob Lowe vs Nevernude Rob Lowe.
    1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
      
      Rob vs. Tourette’s Rob?
      1. Rich 9 years ago
        
        “And I have cable. Bullshit! Fuck!”
3. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  We don’t mind if people have a little fun with it
  So it’s settled then, now kindly fuck off
4. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
  
  which is more formally commonly known as avoidant paruresis stage fright.
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
    
    “bashful kidney”
5. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  I always aim for center mass, it makes the most noise and asserts my alpha dominance.
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
    
    Are you one of those guys that seems to stand at the urinal longer than necessary, as if to say “yeah, I held ALL THAT in.”
    1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
      
      No, But I am the guy that stands impossibly far away from the urinal to piss.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        So that’s why the floor is always a mess.
        
        Idle Hands 9 years ago
        
        Heh I lift the seat man. I’m not an animal.
  2. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    I find myself doing the Superman pose at a urinal. It’s very satisfying.
    1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
      
      is that like a where you do a fully extended hand stand to simulate flying and piss upside down. I hear the ladies love it.
      1. SugarFree 9 years ago
        
        Well, the women in the men’s bathroom love it. I’m not sure that extends to all ladies.
6. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  shy bladder is a real phobia, not something to mock
  Why not both?
  1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
    
    Because FEELZ.
7. EDG reppin' LBC 9 years ago
  
  “We don’t mind if people have a little fun with it,”
  BUT STOP HAVING A LITTLE FUN WITH IT!!!!
8. Juice 9 years ago
  
  Why is it a “problem” to not want to pee while other people are standing around you? It doesn’t seem like any kind of malfunction to me.
sarcasmic 9 years ago

Bloody ‘goat heads’ are mysteriously found hanging from a New York City street light
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
What appeared to be skinned goat heads were spotted dangling on a street lamp in Park Slope
They were removed a few hours later by an employee at Continental Car Service nearby
‘Maybe it’s some of those wackos who go for Santeria or voodoo,’ said local resident Louis Katenzakes
Severed animal heads found in Prospect Park in 2010 were linked to Santeria
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new…..light.html
Goat’s head soup anyone?
1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
  
  Is voudou a hipster thing now (thus the hipster spelling)?
2. a better weapon 9 years ago
  
  Some stupid hipster will chime in shortly that this is supposed to be se edgy form of art, sure
Fist of Etiquette 9 years ago

Even blue states like Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts went to the Republicans.
Why would they want them?
1. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
  
  They never wanted them. It was Citizens United and EVUL koch money.
2. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  Because they are opportunistic politicians?
  Mass. has republican governors fairly often, which is kind of interesting.
  1. KDN 9 years ago
    
    So does NJ. We like to alternate somewhat competent Republicans with completely disastrous Democrats. I wonder what cataclysm will be inflicted on us in 2018 when Menendez’s latest pick reclaims the yoke.
gaijin 9 years ago

My fav cover so far…
Emperor has no clothes
1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
  
  Something tells me thats a pretty accurate depiction of his upper body, less the amount of chest hair.
  I suspect waxing is a wookie fetish.
sarcasmic 9 years ago

That’s some freak show! Bella Thorne dons lacy bikini while Sarah Hyland handles a six foot boa constrictor at costume party
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs…..party.html
Youth is wasted on the young.
1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  Rumor Willis looks like Bruce decided to cross dress.
  1. Redmanfms 9 years ago
    
    All of the Willis girls are, shall we say, unfortunate in the looks department.
    And Sarah Hyland looks like a retarded, totally not hot anime character.
2. Restoras 9 years ago
  
  Holy crap. I’ll be in my bunk, you bastard.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

this really cheers me up:
McCain could shake up U.S. defense in powerful new Senate role
McCain, a former Navy pilot and Vietnam War prisoner who lost to Obama in the 2008 election, has also criticized the administration on everything from fighting Islamic State militants to arming moderate Syrian rebels, while seeking a tougher U.S. response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. As committee chairman he could summon Pentagon officials to public hearings to explain their strategy on Syria.

He has challenged the U.S. Air Force to end a monopoly rocket launch program with Lockheed and Boeing Co, the Pentagon’s top two suppliers, and is pushing for development of a new U.S. rocket engine to end reliance on Russian-built engines that power one of the firm’s rockets.
1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
  
  They should take a clue from regular givernment employment. When a guy is too senile to be useful and refuses to retire, you stick them in the corner with no authority and no responsibilities to limit the damage they can do (it’s an adaptation over the fact that we can’t actually fire people)
  1. This Machine Implies Consent 9 years ago
    
    +1 “Promoted outta the job”
  2. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
    
    I took over a military position and had one of those guys. The entire organization was readying to move and he was going to retire.
    To be safe I sat down with him and investigated what he did. I found out 90% of it was make work, but there was a small part that two other organizations were completely dependent on, and was done using processes that he was the only one left who understood how they worked (old mainframe bullshit written in heiroglyphics).
    Good news for me was I was able to pass those processes to the two other orgs and make his old ass feel useful one last time. He got to travel for a little while.
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      Good on ya. One year off your time in Purgatory!
2. Ted S. 9 years ago
  
  You mean he’s resigning his Senate seat to go fight ISIS?
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
    
    “Here you go Senator, your own A-10!”
    1. Restoras 9 years ago
      
      One of the coolest planes ever made.
    2. trshmnster the terrible 9 years ago
      
      “my friends! Have some hot lead courtesy of Johnny boy! *growing evil laugh as he flies off into the sunset*”
  2. Sal Paradise 9 years ago
    
    If you fight ISIS, you will be entering a Zone of Danger.
  3. B.P. 9 years ago
    
    “You all can go to hell! I’m going to, um, where are these assholes based again?”
3. Atanarjuat 9 years ago
  
  He has challenged the U.S. Air Force to end a monopoly rocket launch program with Lockheed and Boeing Co, the Pentagon’s top two suppliers, and is pushing for development of a new U.S. rocket engine to end reliance on Russian-built engines that power one of the firm’s rockets.
  I guess Elon Musk’s check cleared.
4. WTF 9 years ago
  
  As committee chairman he could summon Pentagon officials to public hearings to explain their strategy on Syria.
  
  “Well, Senator, our strategy is to carry out the orders of the Commander in Chief. Which is what we have been doing.”
SugarFree 9 years ago

Yummy Tears: Salon Edition
The American republic didn’t end this week because conservative Republicans captured the Senate. Conservative Republicans captured the Senate because the republic has been ending, as liberal Democrats and libertarian Republicans surf four predatory new asymmetries in our national life ? in security, in speech, in investment, and in consumer marketing. These immense imbalances of power are submerging the elections, delegitimizing the liberal capitalist republic that promised to give security, speech, investment, and marketing deeply different meanings and consequences than the ones they’ve acquired.

Nothing less than a transformation of American citizenship worthy of Nathan Hale, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. (who learned a lot from Gandhi), Vaclav Havel, and, yes, Edward Snowden can free us from yet another spectacle of politicians who look like pinheads dancing on pins’ heads.
1. Atanarjuat 9 years ago
  
  I refuse to give them page clicks, but from that excerpt it seems they’re saying something positive about libertarian Republicans.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    It seems that way. But I’m still not too sure what they are trying to say.
    How does one “surf predatory new asymmetries”?
  2. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    something positive about libertarian Republicans
    Sure they are, Atty, because it doesn’t cost them anything to give us a throw-away compliment. Real love means saying it with policy.
  3. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    The only good thing you are missing is that in the best picture of Squaw Warren they could find to run, she looks like she just realized that she sharted in her spanx.
2. Doctor Whom 9 years ago
  
  Let us proclaim the mystery of progressive faith: No one could ever have a principled reason for disagreeing with us.
  1. Tonio 9 years ago
    
    ^This, but not just them.
3. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  Gandhi was an American?
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
    
    Vaclav Havel too?
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      I decided to go with the one most obviously not American. Havel is at least European.
      Gandhi was also a lawyer. Like Jesus.
4. The Laconic 9 years ago
  
  Um…. what?
  1. Rhywun 9 years ago
    
    Submit to our predatory consumer marketing, weaklings!
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

November 4, 2014: The Red Election
The 2008 and 2012 election results revealed an Obama coalition, not a Democratic coalition. The Democrats’ “coalition of the ascendant” ? African-Americans, Hispanics, young voters, unmarried women ? will NOT show up for just any Democrat. We saw this in 2009 and 2010, and then the Democrats went back to the lab and revised their get-out-the-vote tactics and terrified the heck out of Republicans.

The big story in the 2012 post-mortems was the Democrats’ fascinatingly ruthless micro-targeting, data-driven messaging and get-out-the-vote effort that changed the makeup of the electorate on Election Day from what Republicans expected. It was a nightmare scenario for the GOP; the opposition appeared to have effectively figured out a way to manufacture more voters when they needed them.
1. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  So are they saying minorities are racists?
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

It is all still about race: Obama hatred, the South and the truth about GOP wins
What all the above boils down to is that blaming blacks for being poor remains broadly popular in America today, and that taking note of continued discrimination is not. A modest majority of Democrats outside the white South disagree, and this creates a political fault line that Republicans have repeatedly exploited across the decades, with no end in sight. When conservatives get too crude ? as was the case with Cliven Bundy, for example ? this threatens to upset the apple cart, and appearances must quickly get restored. But it’s the crudity, not the underlying attitude of blaming blacks, that has fallen out of favor. This would hardly surprise a Southern gentleman of this or any other century. It’s just the way things are supposed to be. Always have been. Why ever change?
1. SugarFree 9 years ago
  
  This is why Lexington, a town that was a locus of slave trading, had a mayoral race between a black guy and an open gay white guy and nary a peep or rumble was heard about it.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    And that is why South Carolina re-elected a East Indian Governor and elected a black man senator. It is all of that Southern racism. Its also way Maryland wouldn’t elect a black man governor. Its just the racism man. All of those Monkey County liberals just can’t handle supporting a powerful black man.
    1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
      
      So much what John said.
    2. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
      
      And that is why South Carolina re-elected a East Indian Governor
      A woman no less!
      1. Injun, as in from India 9 years ago
        
        No she’s not a woman. A woman becoming a Republican is as good as a sex change operation.
    3. widget 9 years ago
      
      …a[n] East Indian Governor…
      If you follow UK politics at all these people are called Asians. Asians are from the land mass to the right of Albania on your atlas.
      1. seguin 9 years ago
        
        To the right of Albania? I wonder if the Serbs and Bulgarians know they’re Asian.
    4. Lord at War 9 years ago
      
      You missed 97% white Mormon Utah electing Mia Love.
  2. Restoras 9 years ago
    
    Cripple fight?
    1. SugarFree 9 years ago
      
      No, they are both pretty popular. Gray (the gay one who is a semi-closeted libertarian) was the first mayor to be reelected since the 90s, and Beatty was our former police chief who ran on a law and order (ie more cops) ticket.
      1. robc 9 years ago
        
        first mayor to be reelected since the 90s
        Weird. In Louisville we elected Abramson Mayor-for-life twice.
        “We” meaning not-me, of course.
        
        SugarFree 9 years ago
        
        We hate our mayors. It’s one of the best things about us.
        Especially this vile asshole. If Issacs runs for anything state-wide, figure out how you can vote against her more than once.
  3. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    The crying wolf shit is finally seeming to not work. Which is amazing, since it’s been almost 100% false alarms for decades now.
2. WTF 9 years ago
  
  So if the racism card is no longer effective, they just have to play it harder? Okay.
  1. Restoras 9 years ago
    
    This is the kind of denial that prompted the invention of Viagra.
3. Bones 9 years ago
  
  Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin all saw Republicans defeat Democrats because the South hates Obama. That makes perfect sense!
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

The system is broken: How the midterms expose our dying democracy
So it’s not the millions of Americans who are conservative that have me worried, it’s the millions who aren’t conservative but decided in 2010, and once again today, that they either wouldn’t or couldn’t manage to show up. If most Americans thought things were hunky-dory, this would be disappointing (people really did die for this, after all) but not truly alarming. Yet the reality, of course, is quite the opposite; most Americans think things are going terribly and that the bad times will just keep coming. All the same, a countless number have decided ? tragically but not necessarily unreasonably ? that voting for something better is either impossible or in vain.

In the last best hope of the human race, in our shining city upon a hill, the inheritors of government of the people, by the people and for the people have surveyed their options. They’ve decided to give up.
1. Tonio 9 years ago
  
  Oh, that is sooooo delicious.
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
    
    *burp!*
    No more! You can finish those tears, Tonio. I am full.
    1. trshmnster the terrible 9 years ago
      
      Moar! Moar tears! They’re so salty and good! I must have Moar tears!
  2. Restoras 9 years ago
    
    It’s only a democracy when I get what I want and everyone thinks the same way.
    Pathetic.
2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  There’s pretty good data showing that Romney would have won if Republicans hadn’t had a low turnout in 2012. So how does that jibe with this logic?
  The shining city on the hill was about the free society we had. Not about the authoritarian socialism advocated by the Democrats these days.
  I’d like to take from this election that American antithesis to government and common sense isn’t totally dead yet, but I don’t think that’s likely.
  1. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
    
    How can you make a city shiny without legions of laborers being conscripted to polish the buildings?
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      Not conscripted. Paid. That’s the problem here–we’re not fucking rich enough.
3. Juice 9 years ago
  
  They don’t show up to vote because you suck.
4. Sal Paradise 9 years ago
  
  Democracy only dies when Team Blue loses.
5. CE 9 years ago
  
  …the people have surveyed their options. They’ve decided to give up.
  So there is still hope for rationality making a comeback.
Libertarian 9 years ago

Racism on the editorial page of the NY Times today:
Should Black Voters Keep Their Faith in Obama?
By DARRYL PINCKNEY
President Obama may be a flawed politician, but he has guided the nation through troubled waters. Black voters should resist alienation.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  Resist wondering why Obama waited six years to take even modest steps against the drug war or why the first Black president has barely pardoned anyone despite the fact that there are tens of thousands of black people serving grossly unjust federal prison sentences. Blacks should also ignore Obama’s pending amnesty even though blacks as a group will be hurt more economically than any other by the action. And blacks should just ignore that they are in every measurable way worse off after six years of Obama than they were after eight years of Bush. None of that matters. All that matters is stopping the Republicans from bringing back slavery.
  1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    How any black thinks the Democrats are doing anything but trying to keep them permanently in underclass status is beyond me. If I were black, I wouldn’t vote for a Democrat if he were related to me.
    1. John 9 years ago
      
      If you can’t stomach voting Republican, start your own third party. But do anything but vote for that shit.
      1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
        
        Seriously. I can’t imagine voting for people who do the things the Democrats do and say the things they say. If there’s a more racist mainstream organization in America, fuck if I know what it is.
        
        ChrisO 9 years ago
        
        In this case, I think a lot of it is tied to local politics. Urban Democrats are a giant patronage machine. The previous D.C. mayoral election swung on the fact that Adrian Fenty was willing to fire everyone’s useless cousin from their patronage job with the school system, and Fenty paid for that, even though the schools were demonstrably better at the end of his term.
2. WTF 9 years ago
  
  Shorter NYT: “Stay on the fucking plantation!”
3. The Laconic 9 years ago
  
  Well, whatever they do, they should all think and vote the same way. They have similar skin color, after all.
4. MJGreen 9 years ago
  
  Why does it matter? They can’t vote for Obama again.
John 9 years ago

There is a lot of debate on here about how the free shit candidate will forever win. Maryland last night proved that maybe people can learn. Brown was a black liberal Democrat who ran for governor entirely on a free shit campaign. His whole campaign was nothing but “don’t you want the first black governor” and “universal Pre K and ore free shit for everyone”. If ever there was a state outside of California where such a campaign would work, it is Maryland. And he lost and lost pretty convincingly. I can’t believe it. I don’t know much about the guy that beat him and I doubt he is much of a small government guy. Whatever he is there is no way he was half the free shit candidate Brown was and there was no reason anyone who votes on free shit would have voted for anyone but Brown. And Brown still lost.
If the people have Maryland can figure out that at some point more taxes and more free shit isn’t the answer, there might be hope for humanity, because I never would have guessed they would.
1. robc 9 years ago
  
  Free shit voters only vote every four years.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    That is not true. Libertarians are foolish if they think everyone or the majority of people who vote Democrat are just bums wanting free shit. Most people who vote still work in this country. And many people who don’t work would like to. It is not that simple.
    Hard working and responsible people vote Democrat because they have convinced themselves that giving away free shit won’t hurt them personally and voting to do so makes them a good person who cares about the country and the less fortunate. That is why free shit candidates win not because all Americans except Libertarians are bums.
    1. robc 9 years ago
      
      I dont disagree…those people still showed up and voted for the Ds.
      Its not like the Democrats were getting 20% of the vote or something, they just lost their edge in close races.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        The Maryland results prove there is a limit to that. At some point things get bad enough that people start to realize that giving away all of that free shit isn’t so free.
        
        Restoras 9 years ago
        
        But what about the Maryland legislature – any Team Red pickups there? It’s one thing to vote for a figurehead out of frustration, but another to follow through on where the real power lies.
        
        TwB 9 years ago
        
        Not many that I am aware of. The MD legislature will still be very Blue so Larry Hogan has his work cut out for him. That being said, congrats to MD for shocking the hell out of me yesterday.
2. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  “don’t you want the first black governor”
  I still can’t believe the, uh shall we say ‘audacity’ of the first lady in those radio ads pimping for Brown purely on “making history”.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    If liberal black candidate can’t win in Maryland, the race card is officially maxed out.
  2. WTF 9 years ago
    
    Why not, it worked for her husband.
    1. Steve G 9 years ago
      
      Fool me once?
3. RG 9 years ago
  
  Yep, these results give me pause about my opinions yesterday.
  I still think if the economy weren’t so lousy, and this weren’t a midterm, that the FSA and idendity politics may have played better.
  Or Americans are simply tired of this nonsense.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    If the economy were better, Brown would have won. The lesson of that is that people who vote for free shit don’t vote for it because they want free shit. They vote for it because they don’t think it will cost them anything and doing so makes them feel like they are doing good.
    1. RG 9 years ago
      
      I hope you are right, although I believe there’s a sizable subsection who do truly want free stuff.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        There are. But there is never enough free shit to go around. So even those people get mad and stay home at some point.
    2. TwB 9 years ago
      
      I also want to throw this random opinion out there: Do you also think that some folks in Maryland took a look at Anthony Brown, read about his policy ideas and thought to themselves “Well shit, he looks and acts like a short Obama” and that swayed their vote? I imagine that did in fact happen a few times yesterday.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        I think there was some of that. People have had it with inexperienced black politicians running on “making history”.
        
        Juice 9 years ago
        
        But he wasn’t inexperienced. He was in the statehouse and he was Lt. Gov.
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        Okay.
  2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    I think the economy is finally getting to people, though that should’ve been the case in 2012. But I also think the practice of trying to culture war everything is getting a little tiresome, and I suspect it only works now (in most cases) with true believers.
4. Juice 9 years ago
  
  The campaign ads went like this: “Vote for me and get ‘free’ shit. Never mind about what it costs. That other guy won’t give you free shit like I will. Can you even believe that he would be against giving you free shit?”
  vs.
  “The other guy wants to raise taxes EVEN MORE. Are you tired of that shit yet? Vote for me and I’ll stop raising taxes and created new ones.”
  1. ChrisO 9 years ago
    
    The reality is that, for whatever reason, O’Malley actually raised some of the taxes necessary to pay for all that “free shit.” Suburban liberals want lots of free shit to be spread around, but they don’t to pay the taxes to support it.
    Hogan might be able to get tax reductions through the legislature, but good luck getting rid of the welfare and nanny state crapola.
  2. CE 9 years ago
    
    The campaign ads here in California went like this: “Candidate A voted against equal pay for women! He voted against raising the minimum wage! He even voted to deny women access to birth control! Protect women and minorities — vote for Candidate B!”
    And it worked.
5. MJGreen 9 years ago
  
  I recall in 2012 Bryan Caplan and others making pretty good arguments that “free shit” is not a common motive. People do generally vote their feelings, not what is perceived to be in their narrow self-interest.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Christian church offering beer to congregation during service
Last weekend, East Side Christian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, invited the public for “Beer and Hymns”, and its a decision thats turning heads.

First Christian Church member Michael Riggs said the event was designed to be an outreach event.

The church is one of four and a local seminary which hosted Portland author Christian Piatt. “It’s a chance to reach a wide demographic of people to ask the questions of what’s happening in our Christian world, what’s happening in our churches, and what’s happening in our community,” Riggs said.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  The Disciples of Christ are one of the better protestant denominations. They manage to not be a social club that meets to worship government while also not being holy rollers.
2. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
  
  When my Grandfather was starting his family out in Holstein, Iowa back in the 1930s, after a service at the United Methodist church, a friend loudly asked him if he wanted to come over for a beer afterward….SCANDALOUS!
  Fast forward to a month ago, I am sitting in a new tap room, not far from home, and in comes the entire Mission Committee from my United Methodist church and orders two flights of samples to see which beers they want to concentrate on…
  1. MJGreen 9 years ago
    
    That was the most scandalous thing about the German horde in the 19th century: they’d go to church and then drink beer for the rest of Sunday.
    Mencken was right about Puritans.
3. CE 9 years ago
  
  Beer on election day is a long standing American tradition:
  http://www.usnews.com/news/blo…..with-booze
  …the father of the nation lost his first campaign in 1755 to the House of Burgesses largely because he didn’t put on an alcohol-laden circus at the polls. That year, Washington got 40 votes. The winner, who plied voters with beer, whiskey, rum punch, and wine, got 271 votes.
  A quick learner, Washington won three years later with the help of alcohol. “What do you know, he was successful and got 331 votes
Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago

Heard Crowley on CNN say about Scott Brown ‘but he’s not even from there!’
No one said a word responding to the fact plenty of people are elected to places their not originally from.
Sure she didn’t try to fuck over Romney. Sure.
Stephanopoulos just did it too.
http://bit.ly/1uvD50T
Such professionalism.
1. Raven Nation 9 years ago
  
  I’m pretty sure they were all over Hilary representing NY in 2000, right?
2. Ted S. 9 years ago
  
  Hillary Clinton has always been from New York.
  1. Rich 9 years ago
    
    Well, she *is* half-Jewish.
    1. widget 9 years ago
      
      She’s half-Jewish, half-Arkanasan, half-married, and half-witted too.
      1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
        
        But she’s not part faux-indian, so maybe she needs to work on that.
3. John 9 years ago
  
  In fairness, I am sure Crowley though the same when Hillary Clinton ran for Senate in New York.
  How did Crowley get her job? I understand that she is a mindless Democratic Hack. But it is a TV job and she is homely and fat and not known to be a lesbian. I thought you had to be gay or hot to get on TV partisan hackery or not.
  1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
    
    She has pictures, that can be mailed at anytime.
    1. John 9 years ago
      
      She must. She is just an unpleasant looking woman.
      1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
        
        Also the sarlac pit.
        
        Atlas Slugged 9 years ago
        
        That’s Sarlacc Pit.
        /pedantic fanboy
4. Brian D 9 years ago
  
  She probably also didn’t mention Jeanne Shaheen was born in Missouri, was schooled in Pennsylvania, and didn’t move to NH until her mid-20s.
  1. Bo Cara Esq. 9 years ago
    
    Yes, but come on, Brown was much more recent
    1. Fluffy 9 years ago
      
      Hillary Clinton’s mail hadn’t caught up to her in NY before she ran for Senate there.
      I’m sure Crowley can provide us with a highlight film reel of all the times she accused Hillary of being a carpetbagger.
  2. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    It would be interesting to see how many office holders are natives of the state that elected them. I bet it’s a pretty low number.
    I think that the criticism of Brown for being an opportunist carpetbagger is somewhat legitimate. Though if I had any interest in voting for him, that wouldn’t affect my vote.
    1. Raven Nation 9 years ago
      
      I think that the criticism of Brown for being an opportunist carpetbagger is somewhat legitimate.
      Agree; but I think the comments are upthread are mostly, again, about the media double-standard.
5. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  Was discussing this with a coworker this morning. I’m amazed that out-of-state candidates aren’t laughed out of the room everytime.
  1. Pope Jimbo 9 years ago
    
    I wish it were so. Our senator Al Franken was born and raised here. Then moved away for decades.
    He only moved back to Sunny Minnesoda a year before his first run. Now we have elected him twice.
    1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
      
      Yeah, what the fuck is wrong with Minnesota?
      1. WTF 9 years ago
        
        Aw, jeez!
      2. trshmnster the terrible 9 years ago
        
        Dontcha know!
    2. Steve G 9 years ago
      
      Franken is at least explainable. I’ve been out of my home state for 2 decades, but one would hope I’d still be considered an Oregonian by prospective voters..esp since it was for military service.
      But it’s these freakin career politicians that literally shop around for positions to run for that just boggle the mind.
DEG 9 years ago

Unrelated to the election, a heart warming story about a journalist that made life miserable for the Stasi.
End Child Unemployment 9 years ago

I 594 passed in Washington 60/40
http://results.vote.wa.gov/res…..s-All.html
Want to go target shooting with a friend and let him shoot your gun? Think twice, you’d both be felons!
1. John 9 years ago
  
  So you are telling me that 60% of Washington voters are functionally retarded and incapable of basic reasoning. Well that is not encouraging.
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    So you are telling me that 60% of Washington voters are functionally retarded and incapable of basic reasoning.
    Well, it seems to have been dishonestly presented as just requiring background checks for ‘transfers’ of firearms, with being specific as to the actual content of the law.
    1. WTF 9 years ago
      
      without being specific
2. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  The State of Washington just had a school shooting about a week ago. This tends to create a lot of “do something” support for proposals like this.
3. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  Want to go target shooting with a friend and let him shoot your gun? Think twice, you’d both be felons!
  That doesn’t seem to be true. A little exploring at the link you provide indicates that there are specific exceptions for temporary transfers at shooting ranges, or to minors for hunting or target shooting or education as well as many transfers among family members.
  It’s still a terrible law, but not quite that bad. Of course most people will ignore it.
  1. End Child Unemployment 9 years ago
    
    Zeb I’m no lawyer, but I believe it is true. Here is a cutout from a wall o text I put up on the bookface:
    I demonstrated to my father in law, in his house, the proper handling and operation of a firearm I had that we were going to a range to shoot. Did we violate 594?
    Section 2, item 25: “Transfer” means the intended delivery of a firearm to
    another person without consideration of payment or promise of payment
    including, but not limited to, gifts and loans. (page 6, at the bottom)
    RCW 9.41 (governing crimes related to firearms) does not have a definition of delivery I could locate, but under 18.64.011 (controlled substances) it is defined as:
    “Deliver” or “delivery” means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of a drug or device, whether or not there is an agency relationship.
    By handing the firearm from myself to another person, I would have completed actual delivery under this definition.
  2. End Child Unemployment 9 years ago
    
    Section 3, item 4 (a) and 4(f) (ii). This section describes exceptions to the general requirement of every sale or transfer requiring a background check and FFL transfer to be completed before the sale or transfer.
    4 (a):
    A transfer between immediate family members, which for this
    subsection shall be limited to spouses, domestic partners, parents,
    children, siblings, grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews,
    first cousins, aunts, and uncles, that is a bona fide gift;
    This exception is not applicable because the transfer was a temporary transfer, not a gift, and a father in law is not included in the definition of immediate family.
    4 (f) (ii):
    if the temporary transfer occurs, and the
    firearm is kept at all times, at an established shooting range
    authorized by the governing body of the jurisdiction in which such
    range is located;
    This exception is not applicable because the temporary transfer for instruction occurred in the home, not at the range. Furthermore, the firearms are not kept at all times at the established shooting range, because they are my personal firearms.
    The exceptions outlined under Section 3 (4) begin in the middle of page 8 and go through the middle of page 9.
    Section 9 describes the classification of violations of the proposed law:
    Notwithstanding the penalty provisions in this chapter, any person
    knowingly violating section 3 of this act is guilty of a gross
    misdemeanor punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW
    1. Zeb 9 years ago
      
      I just read the summary here. . Maybe it isn’t completely accurate. Probably have to wait and see what courts make of it.
      I’m no lawyer either and I’m not even going to try to make sense of the actual text of the law right now.
      In any case, it sucks.
      1. End Child Unemployment 9 years ago
        
        From a plain text standpoint, the initiative clearly states any transfer, permanent or temporary, must have a background check. The only exceptions are:
        -Bona fide gifts to family.
        -Antique firearms
        -Transfers between a law enforcement agency and an LEO, but only while the LEO is acting in his professional capacity as an LEO.
        -Transfers to and from federally licensed gunsmiths for servicing or repairing firearms.
        -Temporary transfers:
        To prevent the imminent death of the person transferred to.
        Between spouses or domestic partners
        At the shooting range, if the transfer occurs at the range and the firearm is kept there at all times, and the range is established by the governing body of the jurisdiction the range is located in.
        At a lawfully organized firearms competition (transfer must occur only at the competition and)
        To a person under 18 for hunting, sporting, or educational purposes while under direct adult supervision
        While hunting, as long as the hunting is legal in the location it is performed and the recipient of the firearm holds all required licenses and training for such hunting.
        They basically created as many gotchas and requirements as they could for the temporary transfer stuff. The firing range one especially is very restrictive – basically shooting friend’s guns at the range or them shooting yours is outlawed now.
  3. End Child Unemployment 9 years ago
    
    . If a person
    previously has been found guilty under this section, then the person
    is guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW for
    each subsequent knowing violation of section 3 of this act.
    See the top of page 15 for this section. There were two subsequent transfers, and I am aware of the existence of the proposed law, so the violations would have been knowing. The first would be a gross misdemeanor, the second a class C felony. As a reminder, a convicted felon loses the right to vote or own firearms for the rest of their life. It will also be next to impossible for them to find employment.
    Here is a link to the text of the initiative:
    http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elec…..xt_483.pdf
    There are some other exceptions, but none that would work for the common scenario of “guy wants to demonstrate how to work a gun to friend he’s target shooting with”.
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Battle for the Senate: How the GOP did it
While Republicans were moving to address their problems, Democrats were trying to overcome problems of their own ? including difficulties with a White House suspicious of their leadership and protective of the president’s reputation, his political network and his biggest donors.

After years of tension between President Obama and his former Senate colleagues, trust between Democrats at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue had eroded. A fight between the White House and Senate Democrats over a relatively small sum of money had mushroomed into a major confrontation.

At a March 4 Oval Office meeting, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and other Senate leaders pleaded with Obama to transfer millions in party funds and to also help raise money for an outside group. “We were never going to get on the same page,” said David Krone, Reid’s chief of staff. “We were beating our heads against the wall.”
Rich 9 years ago

What part of “No Photography” don’t you understand?
1. Juice 9 years ago
  
  I don’t get why any westerner goes to the Middle East at all. The only reason I could see is to make fucktons of money and then bring it back to the west.
Bo Cara Esq. 9 years ago

I don’t think the results could be more pleasing for me. The Dems and Obama were finally rebuked, marijuana legalization advances (and in a Red state now too) and personhood amendments turned back.
1. DRM 9 years ago
  
  Fucking minimum wage initiatives all passed.
  1. Bo Cara Esq. 9 years ago
    
    Unfortunate, but the fact that Dems were defeated where they were passed makes me hope in the future Dems won’t push them under the idea they will bring Dem voters to the polls.
  2. Raven Nation 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, go figure. In NE, R governor & senate candidates got 60% of the vote…which is the same percentage of the vote that raising the min wage got.
2. DeOppressoLiber 9 years ago
  
  I find it rather interesting that Salon, so-called lefty rag, has no mention of pot being legalized on their front page. I thought liberals were all about personal choice and ending the drug war?
Raven Nation 9 years ago

Libertarian and independent candidates had a “meh” election, however.
Libertarian in NE-2 got 5+% of the vote which looks like it will be about double the margin by which the incumbent R lost.
Libertarian in NE governor race got 3.5%.
NE SecState where there were only 2 candidates (R & L), Libertarian got 24+%.
1. robc 9 years ago
  
  Answering my question from upthread, it looks like the previous record for the LP in a KY Senate race was 1.3% in 1992. So breaking 3% is a huge result.
  1. Raven Nation 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, there are some trends. The guy in NE-2 has always been the “not Democrat” but even held his seat in 2008. However, he supported the NDAA earlier this year and a lot of people went ape-shit over that. Many posted their dissatisfaction on his FB and his staff then wiped all the comments. He barely survived a four-way primary.
    The D is a local “lifer” politician so is no better. But, with the R majority in Congress he can’t do much damage.
2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  Wyllie didn’t quite crack 4%, but in a big state like Florida, that means nearly a quarter million votes. That’s significant.
  I’m starting to think the LP–which does some of this already–should go whole hog and run on not being the Democrats or Republicans. They have, by far, the best ballot access of any third party.
Trigger Warning 9 years ago

The Stupid Party is going to be blamed for everything and anything until 2016. If they weren’t the stupid party, they’d stop celebrating and concentrate on how to not fuck up between now and then, but they’re not called the Stupid Party for no reason. We’re in for two years of dick-waving and Rachel Maddow telling her drones that Obesus can’t do anything good for them because the ol’meanie Republicans won’t let Him. Unless he wants to drop some bombs. They’ll get behind that.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  So the stupid party is going to be blamed for all of the unpopular shit that Obama is going to do by executive order between now and 2016?
  That is going to be a pretty good trick.
  1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
    
    Well, if the president continues to act unilaterally, all that has to happen is for Republicans to speak against it, and PRESTO! they are obstructionist meanies, who are mean and stuff and don’t want the President to be able to help anybody, because KORPARASHUNZ. You know the drill.
    1. John 9 years ago
      
      You are only an “obstructionist” if you are speaking against something that is popular. And the things Obama is going to do are not popular. If they were, the Republicans would be happily selling out and helping him do them.
      1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
        
        They were obstructionists with Obamacare, and that pile of shit is and always has been unpopular.
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        And as a result they ended up retaking the House in 2010. Being obstructionists for Obamacare is the smartest thing they ever did. If they had sold out, the Democrats would still own the Congress.
        I don’t understand you people. It is one thing to figure that the Republicans are going to sell out and put in their own brand of big government. That is a reasonable guess based in past performance. It is quite another to think that Republicans are going to be unpopular for opposing Democratic policies the day after the Democrats just suffered a enormous election defeat because those policies are so unpopular. That is just nonsense.
        The Democrats have done what socialists always do, gotten in power and implemented their policies only to see them fail and the public hate them. This is what always happens. The only way socialists ever stay in power is if they are able to get so much power that they can fix elections and crush dissent such that it doesn’t matter that the public hates them. Indeed, this is what Obama tried to do but couldn’t thanks to Citizens’ United.
        
        Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
        
        When did I say that it was unpopular for them to oppose Obamacare, or that the public would buy the Dems’ upcoming spin?
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        Sorry AD. I misunderstood you.
        
        TwB 9 years ago
        
        Exactly
        
        Trigger Warning 9 years ago
        
        John, all I said was that Republicans will be portrayed as eeeeevvvviiillll for opposing anything the president does. That’s just status quo. Two continuous years of Republican control of Congress just ensures that narrative sticks all the better. And yes, the Republicans are going to be unpopular for opposing Democrat policies among people who vote Democrat, many of whom are low-info FEELZ voters who will unhesitatingly pull a lever for Hillary because TEAM, and who are more likely to turn out for another “historic” presidential election than a midterm.
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        Trigger Warning,
        Not everyone who voted for Obama even in 2012 was a partisan Democrat or a bum looking for free shit. I don’t understand why you guys all think that.
2. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  Which is no different than if Team Blue held the Senate.
3. CE 9 years ago
  
  They’re both Nationalist and Socialist parties. And you know who else was from a Nationalist Socialist party?
Mike M. 9 years ago

America now faces her most dangerous two years in the last 150 years.
There’s a guy who truly understand our vile president, but I would modify that to say the most dangerous two years since the height of the Cold War.
SugarFree 9 years ago

Yummy Tears: Jezebel Legitimate Edition
This is the first time I’ve actually been so upset that I legitimately cried. I knew it could happen but it always somehow surprises me how people constantly vote against their own interests and are stupid enough to buy into what the GOP sells them.
Or you could take a step back and seriously look at your life for once.
1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
  
  The first time she “legitimately” shed tears in her life was over goddam politics? Not art, not love, not laughter, not joy, not grief or loss, but fucking politics?
  SF, a person like has no life to examine. They are puppets with a hand connecting their asses to their mouths.
  1. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    Sadness is so elusive, you guys!
    1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
      
      Truly, it is scarce in this world.
  2. lap83 9 years ago
    
    This is what I was going to say. Does she not have a soul? Perhaps this isn’t the first time she’s cried, just the first time it came from genuine emotion and not just manipulation. Sociopath, perhaps.
  3. Idle Hands 9 years ago
    
    I feel.
  4. a better weapon 9 years ago
    
    for a variety of reasons (newborn, cutting cable, writing my first novel, and moving to a new area without knowledge of local politics) this was the first election cycle I was mostly tuned out of and didn’t participate in.
    the tears might make me come back for healthier doses though. This morning’s links are gold!
2. Idle Hands 9 years ago
  
  She’s not a true feminist if she doesn’t cry for rape.
3. Ted S. 9 years ago
  
  So all the other times you’ve cried in Jezebel, it’s been illegitimate?
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    Those were bastard tears.
4. Libertarian 9 years ago
  
  Nothing gets my blood boiling faster than the meme that republican voters vote against their own best interests. ARGH!!
  1. Raven Nation 9 years ago
    
    I hope you have never read, nor plan to read, What’s the Matter With Kansas?
    1. Libertarian 9 years ago
      
      Funny story: when that book first came out, I assumed the title was ironic and the book was written by a conservative. Rest easy, I’ll never read it.
      1. Raven Nation 9 years ago
        
        I was living in KS at the time and read the summary of it and couldn’t figure out how someone could be so lacking in self-awareness. Of course, my academic friends loved it as it confirmed their view that anyone who doesn’t vote D is either stupid or has been tricked, or both.
        
        Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
        
        ^^This
  2. F. Stupidity, Jr. 9 years ago
    
    Nothing gets my blood boiling faster than the meme that republican voters vote against their own best interests. ARGH!!
    I’m always super-impressed at how well they know what my interests are.
  3. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    I say it below, but I’ll repeat myself.
    These same people always say that Republicans are just serving the interests of the rich. So do they go around telling rich liberals that they are idiots for voting against their own interests when they vote Democrat?
5. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
  
  If you’re voting based on your own interests instead of principle, you’re evil.
  I would vote against a politician running on “Give Auric a billion dollars and a million redheads” because, despite being in my interests, it’s wrong.
  1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
    
    The billion dollars wouldn’t support the million redheads for long, you’ve have to put them to work.
    1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
      
      Well, I’d weed out all the ugly ones at the start, of course.
    2. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      He would comb through and keep the best 50.
      1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
        
        The remaining 999,950 can fight in a massive battle royale for the right to be the bonus 51st (who will be funded via advertising money from the televised fight).
  2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    I don’t know, would I vote against the billion dollars for me? I could repair the damage done by my moral wavering with substantially less than $1 billion dollars.
6. Spoonman. 9 years ago
  
  I have a pretty good life, but just in the past year I’ve wept when I first got to see my daughter in the NICU after she was born and at my grandfather’s funeral.
  If politics is what makes you cry, you really don’t have a life.
  1. a better weapon 9 years ago
    
    They’re the worst kind of people. I feel sorry that they’ve allowed politics ruin their lives. Like a heroin addict, you wonder what kind of lives they’d have led had they never been consumed.
  2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    That’s precisely what’s wrong with politics right now. It’s serving a quasi-religious function for a significant number of people. One of the reasons the country has slid into socialism and greater authoritarianism is because most of us just focus on our personal lives and responsibilities and don’t live for the government. Well, not willingly, anyway.
7. Rufus J. Firefly 9 years ago
  
  I keep saying. Sugar Free is made of a stronger constitution than this Canadian hobo-hoser. I don’t know how you could stand reading past one sentence of Jezebel.
8. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  Goddamn it. How is that “voting against their own interests” shit still around? Apparently voting on principle is not allowed among poor people.
  I wonder if these assholes go around telling rich liberals that they were stupid to vote for Democrats because it is against their own interests? I’m guessing not.
9. Juice 9 years ago
  
  The “vote against your own interests” thing just makes me shake my head. Are they really that clueless? Just because those are the interests that you think others should have for themselves doesn’t mean they do.
Bardas Phocas 9 years ago

Fear the Turtle.
http://sd.keepcalm-o-matic.co……rtle-4.png
1. Rich 9 years ago
  
  But, enough about McConnell’s victory.
creech 9 years ago

The only turd dropped in the pool was courtesy of Pennsylvania voters who handily kicked out the GOP incumbent governor and installed a novice who promises new progressive taxes on individuals, new corporate taxes (already highest in the U.S.) and throwing more money at dysfunctional urban schools. Welcome to Taxsylvania, where Santa manages to have someone else pay for all his goodies.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  You now have a worse governor than Maryland. Pennsylvania is so bad that people might migrate to Maryland to escape it. That is a staggering thought.
  1. mauricegirodias 9 years ago
    
    They already come down for booze.
    1. waffles 9 years ago
      
      So many Maryland state troopers humping every car on that border.
      1. cavalier973 9 years ago
        
        There’s a pleasant image.
2. waffles 9 years ago
  
  If you don’t want to tax the shit out of natural gas and give it to the children then you can got straight to hell. As a Pennsylvanian I have always put children and the environment first. Greedy corporations are exploiting the land beneath our feet and we should pinch them if they want to privilege to operate here. If we want to be an elite commonwealth on par with places like New York or California then we need elite taxes too!
  Thank you Governor Wolf!
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    Even New York is smart enough to realize that shale gas is a ticket to riches. So this guy is so stupid he makes the politicians in New York seem smart. Wow.
    1. Ted S. 9 years ago
      
      Not so fast. I live in the part of New York that might benefit by fracking, and pretty much all the candidates were running “My evil opponent is supported by frackers!” ads.
      1. Zeb 9 years ago
        
        Did the ads work?
    2. Bones 9 years ago
      
      Did Albany suddenly change her tune on fracking? I live here and missed that memo.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        My mistake. I thought they had for some reason.
3. RG 9 years ago
  
  Yep. The media and the teachers union won out on a blatant lie the education spending was cut.
  They’ve been crying poor for two decades now. We’re f’d.
4. Ted S. 9 years ago
  
  Santa hasn’t visited Pennsylvania since the Eagles fans booed him.
  1. creech 9 years ago
    
    That was a drunken and disheveled Santa. The real Santa keeps showing up (at least for teachers and public employees) with huge 80%+ pensions and other goodies. Chickens, roost, etc.
Florida Man 9 years ago

Congratulations Brett L on your bet.
Congratulations Pro Lib but Uncle Charlie will be back!
Congratulations to the Libertarians of Florida beating the spread on Governor.
My condolences to medpot.
1. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
  
  Did Kristen win the lottery?
  1. Florida Man 9 years ago
    
    Brett had a bet that Scott would stay in office and his wife bet he would get booted. Hundred bucks. Someone is going to get drunk tonight.
  2. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
    
    If she did, I am sending a resume in….for a spot as “minion” or maybe “henchman”.
2. Atanarjuat 9 years ago
  
  Yeah, Charlie Crist’s tears surpass any of the partisan idiots today, even.
  Somehow north Florida sent a republican incumbent home from the US House in favor of Bob Graham’s daughter. Apparently she had some “war on women” shit in her ads. Not sure how much that helped.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    And Crist losing is almost as sweet as Coakley losing. Just think of the tears he is shedding as he realizes this morning that his political career is over. He will never hold power again.
    1. Idle Hands 9 years ago
      
      he cries through his feet. His tear ducts are completely water tight due to the face lifts and repeated spray tanning.
    2. Florida Man 9 years ago
      
      You think Charlie is going anywhere? He is like Michael Myers. No matter how dead you think he is, he keeps coming back.
      1. UnCivilServant 9 years ago
        
        I know three people named Michael Myers. Only one of them is fictional.
        
        Florida Man 9 years ago
        
        I watched Halloween for the first time this year. It turned into a comedy at the end at how many times that guy got killed with no explanation of his immortality. How did this ever become a classic?
        
        Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
        
        How did this ever become a classic?
        It was the original unkillable slasher movie.
    3. Zeb 9 years ago
      
      Coakley losing may be the most gratifying result from yesterday. What an awful person. Mass. does have an interesting habit of electing R governors fairly regularly.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        Her losing and Walker winning are the most gratifying things yesterday. Think of all of the tears being cried by union hacks this morning.
      2. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
        
        I would put Walker’s win up there as well. As much as I would enjoy seeing Coakley tarred, feathered, and run out on a rail, it’s nice to see someone who’s accomplishing something win.
        
        Zeb 9 years ago
        
        Yeah, that’s pretty good too. Good to see that enough people aren’t buying the Public sector union bullshit. I don’t get how anyone not directly benefiting has any sympathy for public employee unions.
3. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
  
  Charlie Crist would like to announce that he will be running as the LP candidate for governor in 2018.
  1. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, he hasn’t lost as a Libertarian yet.
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      I figure he comes out of the closet, highlights his descent from Indians, slaves, and disabled people, then runs on MJ legalization.
widget 9 years ago

CA proposition 46 was rejected. You are still allowed to get jacked up on morphine on your way out, but wear a helmet in the meantime!
SugarFree 9 years ago

Yummy Tears: Gawker Edition
No, that’s not a link problem above. They haven’t published anything yet. The wound is still too fresh.
John 9 years ago

And lets not forget. Martha Coakley lost last night. My sister in law up in Mass was telling me that a woman she works with is a big Coakley backer and stood outside in the November cold with hundreds of supporters at the Coakley “victory rally”. The bitch didn’t even come out and speak last night. Hundreds of her supporters were waiting in the cold to hear her speak and she didn’t come out and say so much as thank you. Jesus, even Hitler came out of the Bunker and gave a few medals. What a vile nasty bitch that woman is. I hope she wallows in sorrow at being forever remembered as the biggest loser in Massachusetts political history.
1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
  
  What do you think she runs for in 2016?
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    I bet the Democrats won’t have her. She has now lost two state wide elections that were thought to be hers. She is officially a loser. She will never get nominated for state wide office again.
2. Slumbrew 9 years ago
  
  I stayed up until 1:30 watching the returns, with my default position of resigned acceptance of “Gov. Coakley” turning into barely restrained glee. Coakley ducking out the side door at 12:50 without conceding or even talking to her supporters was icing on the cake.
  She is a horrible person — I hope Gerald Amirault enjoyed a cold one in her honor last night, though I suspect he’d prefer to have those extra years he spent in prison back instead.
  1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
    
    Haven’t seen you around in forever. Thought you dropped off the board, actually.
    1. Slumbrew 9 years ago
      
      Been stupid-busy with work/life, rare that I have the time. As much as I love you all (I LOL’d at the bunker comment above), it’s just too much of a time-suck.
      This was a special occasion – tears of unfathomable sadness taste better when shared.
Clown Hunter 9 years ago

That’s a problem, because Paul needs state legislators to change the law to allow him to pursue both the presidency and re-election to his U.S. Senate seat in 2016.
No prob. Promise to allow the legislature to appoint his successor as Senator if he wins the Presidency.
Weigel's Tears 9 years ago

WHY? WHY? My team…
Citizen Nothing 9 years ago

even Hitler came out of the Bunker and gave a few medals.
I laughed.
1. SugarFree 9 years ago
  
  Me too.
  1. robc 9 years ago
    
    If you didnt laugh, you dont have a sense of humor.
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
      
      Ach…um, ja! I alzo laffed! Ja.
      1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
        
        I wonder how many votes Adolf Hitler gets as a write-in candidate? Probably second to Mickey Mouse.
        
        Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
        
        “he’s right you know!”
Lord Humungus 9 years ago

Jonah Goldberg: Vote Early and Ignorant
Extended voting periods have cranked up the demagoguery
The deeper problem is that we simultaneously expect too much and too little of casting a ballot. See, for instance, actress Lena Dunham’s “5 Reasons Why I Vote (and You Should Too)” on Planned Parenthood’s website. Reason No. 1: “When you vote, you feel so, so good.”

“You will have the best day just because you voted,” she writes. “I wore fishnets and a little black dress to vote, then walked around with a spring in my slinky step. It lasted for days. I can summon it when I’m blue. It’s more effective than exercise or ecstasy or cheesecake . . . “
1. Redmanfms 9 years ago
  
  I used to think that Dunham was some kind of brilliant performance art, but the more her character wears on and the more I learn about her past I’ve come to think she is just as vapid, vacuous, and idiotic as she appears to be.
  1. SugarFree 9 years ago
    
    Let her check your vagina. You might have pebbles in there.
    1. Every Cop is a Criminal 9 years ago
      
      Here’s the thing on that. I think what really happened is the Dunham put the pebbles in her sister’s vulva in order to freak out her mom. I mean, what are the odds that a one-year-old would just pappen to pebble-up at the very same time her older sister decides to have a peak. She says it was a prank pulled by her little sister, but always remember, progressives project.
  2. John 9 years ago
    
    She is all that. Her show is not meant to be some kind of ironic indictment of its characters. She is not holding a mirror up to women like her and saying “look how awful you are”. She is writing characters she sees as accurate reflections of who she is and doesn’t see anything wrong with them.
2. Zeb 9 years ago
  
  I decided not to vote. That feels pretty good. I want to make some “I Didn’t Vote” stickers for the next election.
  1. Certified Public Asskicker 9 years ago
    
    I voted, and felt pretty stupid the entire time.
  2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    I was thinking this morning that they should have two stickers: “I Voted” and “I Emoted.”
    1. Banjos 9 years ago
      
      I still prefer this one.
      1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
        
        Better still would be “I voided.”
3. The Laconic 9 years ago
  
  *looks around for Barfman*
  I guess it’s up to me.
  *BARF*
4. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
  
  “You will have the best day just because you voted,”
  WTF is this shit?
5. Suthenboy 9 years ago
  
  Frumpy, podgy girl thinks her step is slinky.
  Dunham is one creepy piece of work.
kinnath 9 years ago

I just want to take a moment to thank Bruce Braley (D) from Iowa for giving up his secure seat in the House to run for Harkin’s empty Senate seat. Not only did he manage to lose by a huge margin to a novice Republican woman (one-term state senator), but his House seat (in a securely D district) went to a novice Republican man (no prior elected positions).
Now this is killing two birds with one stone — Harkin & Braley both gone in January 2015!
1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago
  
  God Bless Iowa!
2. cavalier973 9 years ago
  
  The Pat Murphy campaign commercials against Blum on Monday talked about how he was a successful and shrewd businessman who made difficult choices that laid the foundation for astonishing success.
  ………………….
  Actually, they said he cheated people out of their overtime, laid off 70 people, moved the business out of state, and became a millionaire in the process. One just must learn how to properly interpret campaign commercials.
  1. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    He moved his business out of state “to avoid paying Iowa taxes.”
BardMetal 9 years ago

Yummy progressive tears all morning. Hmm progressive tears would be a good name for a brand of gun oil.
1. lap83 9 years ago
  
  http://www.guns.com/wp-content…..01/1_1.jpg
2. Brian D 9 years ago
  
  You can already get Liberal Tears.
3. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  Ask and ye shall receive. One of about 3 that came up in a quick search…
  http://www.article15clothing.c…..s-gun-oil/
4. Restoras 9 years ago
  
  Remington Brite Tears? I like it…
The Other Kevin 9 years ago

If I were a Democrat, I’d be pretty pissed right now. 6 years ago they had it all – Presidency, Senate, and House. They could have moved their agenda and passed anything short of making Obama emperor. But instead, in an epic display of arrogance and stupidity, they passed that dumb ass health care law, that negatively affected me and so many other people. They just had to die on that hill. Well, last night they lost it all. So while I’m not a fan of Republicans, it is nice to finally see the Democrats get their due. I hope Nancy “pass it to see what’s in it” Pelosi is passed out in a pool of her own vomit this morning.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  I would be too. It is worse than even that. The Republicans now own more state legislative seats and governorships than at anytime since before the Great Depression. Obama fucked up the party so badly, the Democrats couldn’t get a governor elected in Maryland and Massachusetts or defeat Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
  People wonder why Hillary at age 69 seems to be the only viable Democratic Presidential candidate. It is because the Democrats have been losing more and more at the state level since about 1994. State politics is for the national parties what the minor leagues are to major league baseball teams. It is where they develop their talent. And you can’t do that if you are constantly losing.
  1. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    I think Joe Biden should have his shot, after playing second fiddle to the President for six years, now.
    1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
      
      He had his shot…
      He fired both barrels off the back deck.
2. Scruffy Nerfherder 9 years ago
  
  I hope Nancy “pass it to see what’s in it” Pelosi is passed out in a pool of her own vomit this morning.
  Pelosi will never feel remorse. I think she’s incapable.
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    True, the undead do not feel.
3. BardMetal 9 years ago
  
  Please nobody roll Nancy over.
4. The Last American Hero 9 years ago
  
  So, kinda like the Team Red kids felt in November 2006?
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    The Republicans never had it all. They had a small majority in the house and a tiny one in the Senate and then not until 2002.
    Hell, Bush barely won in 2000 and won a decent but hardly landslide in 2004. The Democrats all thought 2008 was 1932 all over again and they would hold a permanent majority in both houses and the Senate and have the White House such that Republicans would never have any influence over policy again.
5. Banjos 9 years ago
  
  A year ago during the government shutdown I told a former prog friend of mine on Facebook that the Republicans will take the Senate because of the economy and Obamacare. He really was convinced that Dems would have control of the country for eternity because…women…and hispanics…and old people dying. I wish I could shove this in his face, but he defriended me awhile back.
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    Remember the political geniuses at Reason were convinced the shut down was going to destroy the Republican party. I think the shutdown more than anything is why they won yesterday. It showed that they had some back bone and it made the entire Democratic party put their lot in with Obama. Take away the shut down and things are not so clear and some of the Democrats who lost yesterday might have been able to distance themselves from Obama better.
    1. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
      
      It certainly strengthened their message when the Obamacare exchanges went to shit. “See – we were right!”
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        It was the lowest point in the history of Reason. The one time the Republicans grew a pair of balls and tried to do the right thing and Reason gets sand in their vaginas about how unreasonable the Republicans were being.
    2. Banjos 9 years ago
      
      There are so so so many conservative and libertarian leaning Independents who won’t vote because they they see no difference in the parties. And when the Republicans start differentiating themselves and show backbone the political pundits living in the beltway freak the fuck out and scream doom and gloom for them.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        Exactly.
    3. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      I was totally in favor of the shutdown. Not only did it show that the GOP had at least something vaguely resembling a principle–and that’s all I’ll give them that one time–it also demonstrated the shenanigans the president and the Democrats were willing to perform for political purposes. Libertarians weren’t the only ones that realized that the administration was shutting things down, and deciding on the more painful things to shut down, too.
      Couple that with the bad economy, the growing pile of scandals, Obamacare, the ineptitude, particularly more recently in foreign policy, etc., and it’s no wonder people are less enchanted with the Democrats.
robc 9 years ago

Local incumbent edition:
I dont know the local scene yet, so I voted against two incumbents (I didnt even know what party they were until I got to the booth) for odd reasons (also, they were incumbents). I mentioned the votes in PM links thread.
The County Clerk lost in a landslide. She is the one who ran an ad with the office staff photo and names endorsing her without asking them first. She may not have got a vote from inside her office.
The Sheriff won fairly handily, despite having a nickname of Peanuts. Like I said in the thread last night, Peanut would be okay, but the plural is just unacceptable.
1. waffles 9 years ago
  
  Local elections really are the most influential. I was in Lake County CA last weekend and saw some dread-head trying to get support for measure O. It was a reasonable loosening of pot-growing laws which I could get behind. However, it also created a county government agency to enforce the law and relied on taxing pot growers to pay for the new agency. How exactly is that going to work? With those taxes there is no incentive to go legit, so the measure failed handily. It seems CA pot growers are more than happy to remain off the books.
2. creech 9 years ago
  
  Heck, our Sheriff is named “Bunny” and she easily wins. Must be the four stars she wears on her shoulder strap!
Ted S. 9 years ago

Non-election news, and something you never thought you’d read about:
Icelandic Scrabble Society Rocked by Compound Words
Scrabble is very popular in Iceland as could be seen in the first National Competition in November 2013. Sixteen people braved the storm that hit Reykjav?k that weekend and sat for two full days over the board, filled with Icelandic words, all in the 2002 dictionary, ?slensk or?ab?k.

[…]

“Compound words were the root of the problem,” board member J?hannes Benediktsson explained to visir.is. “We wanted short and concise rules, whereas our colleague wanted very detailed guidelines.” Some compound words may not be in the Icelandic dictionary, such as unpopular, marble-floor, hairless. Examples of impermissible words not found in dictionaries: Song-easy, ox-maiden, cat-dress.
1. Citizen Nothing 9 years ago
  
  They banned “ox-maiden” and “cat-dress”?
  Mutha-fuckas!
  1. WTF 9 years ago
    
    But what about shield-maiden? Surely they allow that one!
    1. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
      
      Allow? They demand it!
Griffin3 9 years ago

Because sometimes a paid vacation for shooting a civilian just isn’t enough:
[NYC] City documents from fiscal 2013 show that several fatal shootings resulted in payouts related to PTSD, which is considered a full-body injury. City employees who are too injured to work receive temporary disability payments equal to 100 percent of their salaries, without taxes deducted. That can mean payments ranging from $167 to $749 a week, for up to 500 weeks. [Emphasis mine]
Read the whole article … if you want to barf up your breakfast.
It’s a great weight-loss opportunity.
1. Trigger Warning 9 years ago
  
  Holy fucking shit.
robc 9 years ago

KY GOP increases hold on state senate from 23-14-1 to 26-12.
State House stays at 54-46 for the Dems.
Kinda weird. But each house got to do their own redistricting, so maybe not.
1. Auric Demonocles 9 years ago
  
  The Senate and House have different districts (which are not predefined like a whole county)? Weird.
  1. robc 9 years ago
    
    They work exactly like US rep districts, only smaller.
    The state supremes have put antigerrymandering rules in place. The maps must minimize split counties, for example.
    For the Senate, it means my county is exactly one senate district, as it falls within the 5% population range. However there is one whole house district and parts of 4 others, as its only one county being split. So there is a safe D district and R areas are paired with surrounding R counties.
    So there is still gerrymandering, just avoids the worst abuses.
2. Hyperion 9 years ago
  
  It’s not good for Rand because he needs that rule change so that he can run for prez and still be a senator.
  1. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    It would probably be better for Paul to support a Cruz run in 2016 and then get picked for running mate.
PRX 9 years ago

for a nothingburger, there sure have been a lot of scalps of Obamacare supporters taken.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  The Republicans ran more Obamacare ads than anything else.
  1. cavalier973 9 years ago
    
    Joni Ernst billboards contrasted her with Braley using the terms “Individual Liberty” versus Braley’s “Government Control”.
a better weapon 9 years ago

Which one of you drives the blue Jetta TDI?
I saw the Reason sticker and got worried that having two visitors to this site in one apartment might make us a ripe target for a domestic drone strike.
1. Restoras 9 years ago
  
  Wasn’t me, but let me just say I love this place.
2. Lord Humungus 9 years ago
  
  I would never own a VW.
  (as he looks out on his driveway and sees a BMW and a Mini – jeezus, I am a glutton for punishment).
3. SRVolunteer 9 years ago
  
  I do.
  I don’t have a sticker of any kind on it, however, and I live in two houses, not an apartment.
Hyperion 9 years ago

I dunno if this can even be right, but I think my vote counted in MD last night. I heard, as of late yesterday evening that the D gov candidate was losing … now get this shit … in Baltimore city! Anything is possible now. If unicorns start flying I won’t be surprised.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  I can’t believe it either. Sure Brown is an idiot who has fucked up every job he has ever held. But this is the state that elected O’Malley twice. Being stupid and incompetent is no bar to holding office in Maryland and has in the past been considered a plus.
  I really would like to hear how it is that Brown lost. He was black, liberal and promising more free shit. Could it be that people hate Obama so much that even the liberals of Maryland won’t vote for someone just because he reminds them of Obama?
  1. Hyperion 9 years ago
    
    I think it’s a couple of things. One, the voters that Obama depended on, did not turn out for Brown because they are becoming disillusioned because Dem’s tax and spend policies are not working to make their lives better. So they stayed home, unable to force themselves to vote for either a GOP candidate or Brown. Now the voters that Brown did not want to get to the polls, got motivated because of being seriously pissed off ,and did vote. I think those are the 2 factors.
stephenansarinnov 9 years ago

my classmate’s half-sister makes $77 /hr on the laptop . She has been fired from work for ten months but last month her payment was $20145 just working on the laptop for a few hours. you could check here….
????? http://www.netjob70.com
1. Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme) 9 years ago
  
  So she was net-whoring for more than 60 hours a week?
  Her vagina must have calluses!
Andrew S. 9 years ago

A prog friend of mine has multiple rantings/pictures/shares up on Facebook talking about how the Koch Brothers “spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy the Senate”, and how Team Blue is going to take back both houses of Congress and win the Presidency in 2016.
The tears are so very delicious.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  They might take back the Senate. There are a lot of Republicans up in blue or purple states in 2016. No way are they taking back the House.
  And even their hopes in the Senate and the Presidential Race depend on either Obama finding a way to make himself less toxic or them finding a way not to be linked with him. Given Obama’s personality, I think the former is highly unlikely. The latter is possible but I don’t see how they do it without alienating the black vote.
  1. waffles 9 years ago
    
    The black vote that becomes all but irrelevant in a post immigration reform world.
    1. Free Society 9 years ago
      
      Multiculturalism is too important to the state’s mission to erode local identity to be reformed. Just sit back and learn to love the Somali refugee camp across the street.
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        I am pretty sure that the gentry liberals and union voters that have been voting Democrat all of these years are not going to like that or take it sitting down.
        The other problem is that the Hispanics who can vote are essentially natives. So, whatever damage open immigration does to natives also does to them. I am not buying that open borders gets Hispanics to all run and vote Democrat. The Hispanic doesn’t want low priced competition for his labor anymore than anyone else does.
        
        Free Society 9 years ago
        
        I have precisely zero problem with Hispanics or any other ‘3rd world’ immigration. It’s when the state promotes 3rd world immigration at the expense of European or otherwise ‘1st world’ immigration. Intended or not, it’s centrally planning the demographic makeup to be more conducive to the state’s goal of expanding it’s own power.
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        That is exactly what they are doing. And the Hispanics are kidding themselves if they don’t think the Democrats won’t move in Africans or Asians or anyone else they can find to replace Hispanics like they replaced blacks.
    2. John 9 years ago
      
      No it won’t. All Obama can do is not deport them. He can’t give them citizenship. And the Democrats are never going to get a 90% stranglehold on Hispanics they have on blacks. Moreover, Democrats are starting to have a white problem. I don’t care how many minority votes you put together, you can’t win if you are getting less than 40% of native whites.
      The Obama coalition was built of people whose interests are often completely opposed. It only held together because the country was rejecting Bush and he was able to make the 2012 election about culture war bullshit. But you can’t run on culture war and BOOOSH!! in 2016.
      1. creech 9 years ago
        
        “Democrats are starting to have a white problem”
        Not in Minnesota, apparently. There, the whites apparently have a problem with Republicans. Big Freaking Franken victory.
        
        John 9 years ago
        
        They have on in a lot of other places.
        
        lap83 9 years ago
        
        White liberals in MN have a bit of a complex about being afraid of black people and hating poor people. Voting Democrat makes them feel better about their deep-seated prejudices.
        
        lap83 9 years ago
        
        Minneapolis was where I grew up, and I have to love it, but you’d be surprised that a place so elitist could exist in the midwest.
        
        Every Cop is a Criminal 9 years ago
        
        No. As a nearly life-long Minnesotan, it is their Scandinavian heritage at work.
  2. Pro Libertate 9 years ago
    
    The House is likely in GOP hands for a while. It would take them opening up concentration camps at this point to lose control in 2016.
    Maybe it’s not so shocking that so few Democrats seem to want to run for president. They’ll get shit done with an opposition House.
2. Steve G 9 years ago
  
  The full measure of O’care hasn’t even hit yet. I won’t be holding my breath for a dem comeback in ’16
  1. John 9 years ago
    
    Exactly. People are clearly not happy with the Democratic performance over the last six years. What exactly are the Democrats going to do in the next two years to change that impression?
    1. Steve G 9 years ago
      
      The ‘GOP obstructionism’ card will get as maxed out as the race card..
      1. John 9 years ago
        
        Especially when Obama is vetoing popular bills that Democratic Senators have voted for.
Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 9 years ago

http://elections.chicagotribun…..nal/?st=IL
Chicago vs the rest of the state.
1. KDN 9 years ago
  
  New York is the model for all state governments.
  1. Rhywun 9 years ago
    
    Nah, NY has blue pockets outside of NYC.
Cdr Lytton 9 years ago

A week late-
http://www.oregonlive.com/comm…..ookin.html
Fuck you, Bob Poole. I hope they shove that GPS transponder so far up your backside, it has a clear unimpeded line of sight to the entire constellation, you statist piece of shit. Choke on your Surface Transportation “Innovations”.
1. John 9 years ago
  
  The Virginia “Libertarian” Sarvis that Ron Bailey and Reason are so in love with endorsed that bullshit. Anyone who endorses GPS tracking of cars is a piece of shit and unworthy of serious consideration, I don’t care what their other positions are.
  1. Zeb 9 years ago
    
    Yeah, what’s wrong with tolls? If electric cars take off, there will need to be something to replace the gas tax.
    Tracking is bad, but there are already lots of ways to track people already built into most new cars. And most people carry cell phones. I’d say the right time to freak out would have been when phones were mandated to have GPS and be trackable.
UnCivilServant 9 years ago

I don’t have any to give. 🙁
sarcasmic 9 years ago

My dad had that album when I was a kid.
During the 80s when the loopy Christians got all crazy about backward masking and such, my mom threw the thing in the trash claiming that the name was satanic.
UnCivilServant 9 years ago

Not from random goat parts found hanging from a street lamp. I don’t know where it’s been.
John 9 years ago

That is appalling. The only upside of that the only reason Franken got re-elected is that he shut his mouth and basically made himself an empty chair Democratic vote in the Senate. So there is an upside to him winning. He will have to spend the next six years doing the same thing even though he no doubt has delusions of grandeur. That has to piss him off.
John 9 years ago

It wasn’t close because Franken did absolutely nothing for six years.
Pope Jimbo 9 years ago

Tundra,
I had resigned myself to another six years of Franken a long time ago. The race that killed me was Dayton beating Johnson for governor.
I’m still scratching my head over that one.
Pope Jimbo 9 years ago

The weather. We stay for the weather.
Pope Jimbo 9 years ago

Remember, lead a good life and in the next you will go to a better place. Somewhere where there are FOUR months of warm weather.

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