After I pitched my fit, mixed another martini, and calmed down, I've thought of one bright spot to Scott Brown winning tonight, and that is that Joe Liebermann has suddenly become invisible. He's no longer the 60th vote, and Reid can stop handing him the keys to the Senate chamber and following him around like a stray dog. Maybe it's a good time to strip him of all his committee seats? Eh? How about censuring him for campaigning for McCain and appearing at the Republican convention? Since he's going to vote like a Repub anyway, who cares? Rumbllings are he's going to jump before his next election anyway, so how about we just shove him overboard now? It could be a whole new episode of Droopy Goes to Washington.
It's a thought.
Laurence O'Donnell also had a thought. He says that the Repubs were going to base their whole 2010 strategy on repealing the health care bill. If Brown kills it, there would be nothing to repeal and it could really screw up their whole year. That's wishful thinking. They'll just make up some fake issue to run on.
Another thought.
It's a thought.
Laurence O'Donnell also had a thought. He says that the Repubs were going to base their whole 2010 strategy on repealing the health care bill. If Brown kills it, there would be nothing to repeal and it could really screw up their whole year. That's wishful thinking. They'll just make up some fake issue to run on.
Another thought.
Here's the gem of Wisdom from Liebermann,
"This shows that Obama has to move to the center and try bi-partisanship" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! oh my goodness, I'm sorry, I just lost it!
Cue the Photoshop talent for a "Throw Lieberman from the Train" movie poster.
Bob wrote: Since he's going to vote like a Repub anyway, who cares? Rumbllings are he's going to jump before his next election anyway, so how about we just shove him overboard now?
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I got a leg.
Thanks, Bob, for the happy thought re Lieberman. That's something to look forward to.
I pretty much figure Industrial Strength Ripple. $5. for a 750 ml bottle. But they probably don't like them type furrin' measurements so they may buy it by the good ole Amurrican gallon jug.
You're giving the teabaggers too much sophistication, I think. Closer to the truth would be iced PBR in a dirty commemorative Dale Earnhart glass from Arby's.
Oh, vodka. The teabagger martini? One part sugared Red Bull, one part Boone's Farm Apple Wine, one part racist ignorance. Pour over crushed ice, shake well, throw over your right shoulder, chug the Boone's Farm straight from the bottle.
Repeat.
The question remains: vodka or gin in the martini? These are serious times that call for serious answers, bob.
Do you think a Teabagger Martini would consist of only vermouth, for that super bitter effect?
A voice of reason ...... in the midst of all the hyper-ventilating.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/01/democrats_stop_blaming_each_ot.html
Brown has to run again in 2012.
Maybe the Dems CAN get it all together between now and then.
I watched "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy and Frederic March on "Turner Classic Movies" last night.
History does repeat itself. And, it did in MA. Romney did it, (defeated a female Democrat who ran a lackluster campaign) and now so has Brown.
The problem is this: We obviously don't learn from the past.
People in Massachusetts have state government provided health care. What is proposed at the federal level would (a) cost them more and (b) not benefit them at all.
So.. health care (in MA) was a non-issue.
Coakley didn't run like she was always 10 points down in the polls (as did Ted Kennedy ....always). She ran as if she had been "crowned or anointed" when she won the primary.
The Democrats have turned their back on their base. People have finally waked up to the fact that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between the way the two political parties govern.
Both are going to put special interests and big corporations ahead of the working class.
So, most folks are saying "why bother."
Democrats outnumber Republicans in MA. 3-1. And, the Democratic candidate lost.
The irony that it was Ted Kennedy's seat that was lost is overwhelming.