The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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3 pm EST

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, he's done - 3pm. I almost feel sorry for the poor guy.
his constituents did him a favor, otherwise he'd have continued to go through life thinking it was a-ok and sort of funny to be a racist thug

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost feel sorry for the poor guy.

Lord, I don't. I hope he and Santorum show up in the Senate smashed out of their minds sometime over the next couple of months.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't work up too much sympathy for racist frat boys. Buh-bye, macaca.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

macaca's lost weekend: from senate shoe-in and presidential hopeful to unemployed in a season.

yay!

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

and he managed to pick up an nickname that exemplified his failure!

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

But now I can't stop saying macaca, it's worrisome.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Allen prob about to crawl into a bottle of Jack Daniels, true.

Allen, who once famously advocated beating Democrats by "knocking their soft teeth down their whining throats,"

Oh well. Toughski shitski, macaca..

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Yeah, I can't stop either. that is some serious karma right there - calling some dude a racist slur and guess who gets to wear it for the rest of his life, eh?

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Artur Davis may challenge Jeff Sessions in '08

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Big D

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to Mr. DLC

The landscape I "knew" was one where the Ford Administration actually increased the non-Defense budget in real dollars, the government funded the arts at more than piddling levels, Republican presidents didn't see anything wrong with taxing the richest at a mega rate, etc.

(also I have no problem w/ your A & B conditions, I'll take what I can get)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, who is watching the pelosi/Bush press conference, those boom mikes are fighting with each other. It's like a herd of muppets at the bottom of the picture.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe time for a new thread but C4 news is saying the US is going to talk directly to Syria and Iran about sorting Iraq out.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

rundown of the still uncalled house races

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Allen concession on now.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

did W reveal his Pelosi nickname?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't catch it all.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

He's playing pass the football.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

What could it be - Pellet?

(xxpost)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

pfff

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hot Lips

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.viralmemes.com/images/midtermposter.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Li'l Bitchy

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

finally some sweet electronic voting snafu action!

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001972.php

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

florida will always be there for us

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

from another board:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/820/santorumph7.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

you see other boards? *sniff*

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

From now on, you're only allowed to post here with a condom over your keyboard. If we can't trust you, then, well, you forced us into this.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh my word at Lord of the Rings, can't you squeeze a Bush/Gollum in there somewhere?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

other board == fark!

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe time for a new thread but C4 news is saying the US is going to talk directly to Syria and Iran about sorting Iraq out.

No real shocker there - feeling I'm gettting is that Bush II has been under heavy pressure from Bush I and other Republican big wigs to get with the program and a) replace Rumsfeld, and b) implement the Baker commission's recommendations, e.g. start dealing direct with Iran & Syria. They've got to arrange major changes before the Democrats force it on them.

Next thing you know, Condi will be out and Baker will be warming the assdent in her office chair.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

eh Condi getting pushed out seems unlikely

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, she ain't going anywhere. she's one of dubya's few support posts left

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

not 2 mention they fuckin'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

my guess is less of the fuckin and more of the b&d

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(gotta remember to ask my Condi-bodyguardin' in-law about that)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Just finished reading that article about Florida's voting problems. I don't understand how voting machines that don't leave a paper record behind were ever allowed in the first place.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

And everytime i read about a party sending "teams of lawyers" somewhere I picture a 1920's paddy wagon weaving it's way down a dirt road at high speeds with a crew of loose-cannon lawyers hanging off the sides waving pitch forks and brief cases.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

thank God

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

also the boonies

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'know, i do feel a little better this week. After years of fearing that we were fucked forever, it seems like we have at least a small way out of it.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I finally saw/heard this press conference and don't really see what everyone else did beyond the sorta awkward sourness (and Rove's Mr. Death act). He actually seemed more human/in-touch than he's been in years, though clearly still very much the same poliical/ideological animal.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link

He actually seemed more human/in-touch than he's been in years

Oh, on this point I'll fully agree.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

if you want some feel-good material, check out the briefing by Dean (who makes clear upfront that he's read and internalized The Way to Win) and a DNC pollster on this page

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

oh garsh, maybe Bush is just a closet moderate... he triggers hate in the world only because he hates himself. poor guy.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

C'mon, somebody put crying Santorum daughter with crying emo kid on chair at concert.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:21 (seventeen years ago) link

if you want to know how we won, click on the Rahm presser on that page

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Affluent_men_showed_greatest_disill_11092006.html

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link

we did well this cycle in no small part because we ran some very non-'elite' candidates.

I'd ask for your definition of "elite," but who am I kidding. (The non-elites obv include the legless female Iraq vet who IS STILL PROWAR, but I guess her non-elite potential constituents found the Republican winner not quite that fucking stupid, which is plausible.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

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