First results are in on the election. NPR has called Kentucky for Rand Paul, by a landslide.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 02, 2010, 11:09:00 PM
First results are in on the election. NPR has called Kentucky for Rand Paul, by a landslide.
That was a given. Even his enemies gave him a 55% - 40% lead.
The woman-beater's vote has spoken.
Woman beating pro-racist voice. Don't forget the bit where he thinks the civil rights act was a bad idea.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 02, 2010, 11:12:47 PM
Woman beating pro-racist voice. Don't forget the bit where he thinks the civil rights act was a bad idea.
And don't forget that his victory has taught the rubes that they can get away with brownshirt bullshit.
:lulz:
Fun times, come soon.
Christine O'Donnel has lost, (also not much of a surprise) killing CSPAN's chance of winning numerous awards for best comedy on television in 2011.
Also from NPR: "Washington D.C. always wins."
Marco Rubio, who seems relatively sane by Tea Party standards, has taken Florida.
Awww shit.
Well, CA's still got half an hour before polling ends.
Feingold has officially lost.
There are no longer going to be any opponents of the PATRIOT act in the Senate. Fuck this country, I can't even laugh at this shit anymore.
We'll see. Boxer voted against it, iirc, and polls here literally just closed.
His replacement is a total White House suckup as well...Salon had an article on him where he said basically that serving Obama was more important to him than serving his constituents. Which is refreshingly honest, at least.
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 03:00:46 AM
We'll see. Boxer voted against it, iirc, and polls here literally just closed.
According to ontheissues.com she voted yes on reauthorizing it in 2006.
You know, this is the first time I've actually thought about the PATRIOT act in a while. Its been buried under a pile of even worse shit.
Mike Lee has officially won the senate seat here in Utah. In other news water is wet.
Hm. Was unaware of that. Nevertheless, better her than iCarly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina).
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 03, 2010, 02:58:37 AM
Feingold has officially lost.
There are no longer going to be any opponents of the PATRIOT act in the Senate. Fuck this country, I can't even laugh at this shit anymore.
Officially?
Only 48% of precincts have reported.
But yeah, he's done.
Fucking house of reps is a slaughter. It's currently at 166 Dem/212 GOP, with 218 needed for a majority.
My state legislature (NC) now has its first Republican majority since Reconstruction, and they'll get to redraw our district maps. I wonder how many Tea Partiers listened to Glenn Beck and refused to participate in that bit of socialism known as the census.
216 GOP now. :x I'm thinking the Democrats might get to keep the Senate, but I don't suppose it'll matter one way or another since Democrats crumble if the GOP looks at them funny.
220! GOP has a majority now! :x
:x urrgh...
WHAT THE FUCK, ARIZONA! WHAT THE FUCK!
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 03, 2010, 01:29:34 AM
Christine O'Donnel has lost, (also not much of a surprise) killing CSPAN's chance of winning numerous awards for best comedy on television in 2011.
Also from NPR: "Washington D.C. always wins."
Damn, can I use this?
Sure.
Silver lining, NPR is saying that if Harry Reid wins he'll probably lose his job as Democrat leader in the Senate.
In a surprising upset, Massachusetts managed to re-elect every fucking incumbent on the ballot. :lulz:
FUCK YOU, WE'RE PURITANS.
WOOWOO! ALL BUT ONE OF MY WAGERS IN ARIZONA ARE GOING MY WAY!
I'M GONNA BE ROLLING IN FILTHY LUCRE! :banana:
AND LED BY TEABAGGERS! :sadbanana:
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S ASSHOLE OR BREAKFAST TIME!
Quote from: Eater of Clowns on November 03, 2010, 03:37:11 AM
In a surprising upset, Massachusetts managed to re-elect every fucking incumbent on the ballot. :lulz:
FUCK YOU, WE'RE PURITANS.
Massholes love the devil we know. Some friends of mine who moved in from Chicago projected a Menino loss in the last mayoral election, citing it on their extensive knowledge from having lived in Boston for a short period of time. :lulz:
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 03, 2010, 03:41:46 AM
WOOWOO! ALL BUT ONE OF MY WAGERS IN ARIZONA ARE GOING MY WAY!
I'M GONNA BE ROLLING IN FILTHY LUCRE! :banana:
AND LED BY TEABAGGERS! :sadbanana:
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S ASSHOLE OR BREAKFAST TIME!
People actually bet against your picks?
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 03, 2010, 03:47:53 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 03, 2010, 03:41:46 AM
WOOWOO! ALL BUT ONE OF MY WAGERS IN ARIZONA ARE GOING MY WAY!
I'M GONNA BE ROLLING IN FILTHY LUCRE! :banana:
AND LED BY TEABAGGERS! :sadbanana:
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT'S ASSHOLE OR BREAKFAST TIME!
People actually bet against your picks?
I spent 4 months dredging up idiots that bet like fans.
Dok,
Used to pay his bills this way.
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 03, 2010, 03:35:21 AM
Silver lining, NPR is saying that if Harry Reid wins he'll probably lose his job as Democrat leader in the Senate.
Good. Fuck that spineless piece of shit.
So far, I'm good except for district 1, which nobody cares about.
District 7 & 8 are really close though. I don't stand to lose much cash if they flip, but my gambling cred could suffer a bit. This is a real knuckle biter.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on November 03, 2010, 04:24:10 AM
Quote from: Requia ☣ on November 03, 2010, 03:35:21 AM
Silver lining, NPR is saying that if Harry Reid wins he'll probably lose his job as Democrat leader in the Senate.
Good. Fuck that spineless piece of shit.
But he beat the shit out of Angle, which is all that matters.
Holy fuck. They'll be wiping blood off the house walls for weeks. Repubs are at 230 seats with a bullet.
Dems only hold 178.
Alas, our beloved moral leader was wrong. Get fooled once, you can get fooled again!
Quote from: Pariah on November 03, 2010, 04:50:43 AM
Alas, our beloved moral leader was wrong. Get fooled once, you can get fooled again!
Yeah. We're dumb. :lulz:
i know there wasn't much hope, but Alvin Greene in the Senate for SC would have been fucking hilarious.
A little sad we couldn't get rid of Corrine Brown or Ander Crenshaw here in FL.
Someone has been slipping John Kerry LSD again:
Quote from: John Kerry"Harry Reid isn't just Dracula, he isn't just Lazarus, he's our leader and our whole caucus is thrilled that he's unbreakable and unbeatable."
In other news, LOL. Dems, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory yet again! I seem to remember, two years ago, something certain excitable partisan types were passing around, about a "Liberal Awakening", 20 years of permament liberal government, the Republicans exiled to the wilderness, etc etc.
And they threw it all away! In all pursuit of some imaginary "bi-partisanship" agenda with people who think they're radical Marxists and Islamist sympathisers and should be strung up as traitors! As if pounding on teh gheys and the liberal wing of the Dems is going to make the Teabaggers suddenly love the Kenyan usurper.
They deserved this. A shame they're not actually goint to feel the negative effects of this, but that's par for the course when it comes to the political class. I mean, many major Dems got rich off Bush's wars. Little people, on the other hand, are pawns in the game, and no-one cries if a pawn or two gets wiped out in the larger game.
Quote from: Cain on November 03, 2010, 02:23:44 PM
And they threw it all away! In all pursuit of some imaginary "bi-partisanship" agenda with people who think they're radical Marxists and Islamist sympathisers and should be strung up as traitors!
This.
I am feeling so fucking vindicated right now it's not funny.
You know, it occurs to me that I may hate Democrats more than Republicans. I expect Republicans to be fetal-alcohol babies, full of malice and believing in retarded shit. But Democrats supposedly know better. They're the smart guys, the ones who haven't bought into a pack of total lies and instead believe in things with a passing resemblance to reality. Yet they're getting their asses handed to them by said bunch of fetal-alcohol babies. Took less than a year for a turnaround to happen, and this was after two terrible wars, a destroyed city and the collapse of the economy which barely bought the Dems to power in the first place.
You really have to be a special kind of stupid to be as dumb as the Democrats are currently.
Grayson has lost, by the way.
Quote from: Cain on November 03, 2010, 02:38:13 PM
I am feeling so fucking vindicated right now it's not funny.
You know, it occurs to me that I may hate Democrats more than Republicans. I expect Republicans to be fetal-alcohol babies, full of malice and believing in retarded shit. But Democrats supposedly know better. They're the smart guys, the ones who haven't bought into a pack of total lies and instead believe in things with a passing resemblance to reality. Yet they're getting their asses handed to them by said bunch of fetal-alcohol babies. Took less than a year for a turnaround to happen, and this was after two terrible wars, a destroyed city and the collapse of the economy which barely bought the Dems to power in the first place.
You really have to be a special kind of stupid to be as dumb as the Democrats are currently.
I am sickened, and yet I am nodding along with you
the week before the election, the Dems played a desperate gambit - there were really brutal attack ads all over the country. And they totally backfired, polls show that it did not help people identify with the dems, it made them more pissed off and disenfranchised with the whole enchilada. And they lost bad, because shit, why the fuck should anybody vote for them when they haven't done SHIT?
Is Rhode Island the only state where something went RIGHT?!
Well, looks like Maine got caught up in the National Hissy Fit. crazypants LePage, the tea party darling, is our next Governor. How sad is that? Our next Governor only received 38% of the vote. The other 62% wants nothing to do with him but too bad. The DEMs screwed this up bad.
Quote from: Suu Cool for School. on November 03, 2010, 03:31:13 PM
Is Rhode Island the only state where something went RIGHT?!
I think we're gonna be a bit bluer. Brown looks like he'll win. Boxer is STILL neck and neck - 47% to 47% - with iCarly with 25% of the precincts in, however, so we shall see.
Mass is solid blue, not like that really means anything other than people were probably wary of the Republican Party.
It should also be pointed out that, given the past 4 years, "solid blue" is in no way indictative of a good result.
Solid "no-one voted, except 10 people who did a write-in ballot for Lady Gaga as a joke, now she is a Senator" is the only possible good result. Especially if she ends up forming a majority.
Quote from: Cain on November 03, 2010, 05:10:10 PM
It should also be pointed out that, given the past 4 years, "solid blue" is in no way indictative of a good result.
Solid "no-one voted, except 10 people who did a write-in ballot for Lady Gaga as a joke, now she is a Senator" is the only possible good result. Especially if she ends up forming a majority.
Oh, I know. It's just more indicative of Bay Staters' political attitudes. Our Republicans are usually just all about the money aspect, since social conservativism makes us uncomfortable as a rule (prime example, former Republican Governor Weld was instrumental in setting up Boston's annual Youth Pride March). We also like that which is familiar and we tend to vote in incumbents or new candidates associated with incumbents. The Tea Party movement basically killed any hope for a Republican win here. It looked like crazy people were hijacking the party nationwide and there was no way we were going to let them have any more power than they were going to get from other states.
At least, that's my take on what happened.
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, the East Coast Republicans for the most part seem sensible, if disagreeable in their economics (well, disagreeable to me, as I'm not rich). And I would expect the NY-23 results to hold for pretty much most of the area, if the Tea Partier's attempted to challenge as third party candidates or run in the primaries.
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 03:59:53 PM
Quote from: Suu Cool for School. on November 03, 2010, 03:31:13 PM
Is Rhode Island the only state where something went RIGHT?!
I think we're gonna be a bit bluer. Brown looks like he'll win. Boxer is STILL neck and neck - 47% to 47% - with iCarly with 25% of the precincts in, however, so we shall see.
97% of precincts in. Boxer and Brown. iCarly and Whitman have lost.
The local talk radio stations are whining already. :lulz:
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 05:44:05 PM
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 03:59:53 PM
Quote from: Suu Cool for School. on November 03, 2010, 03:31:13 PM
Is Rhode Island the only state where something went RIGHT?!
I think we're gonna be a bit bluer. Brown looks like he'll win. Boxer is STILL neck and neck - 47% to 47% - with iCarly with 25% of the precincts in, however, so we shall see.
97% of precincts in. Boxer and Brown. iCarly and Whitman have lost.
The local talk radio stations are whining already. :lulz:
Any particularly good whimpering?
This really has been a craptacular day.
It's kind of like I want to just skip the laughing part and go right to the screaming blood.
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 03, 2010, 08:29:05 PM
This really has been a craptacular day.
It's kind of like I want to just skip the laughing part and go right to the screaming blood.
You're just looking at this all wrong, RWHN.
^ This.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 03, 2010, 05:44:52 PM
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 05:44:05 PM
Quote from: Hover Cat on November 03, 2010, 03:59:53 PM
Quote from: Suu Cool for School. on November 03, 2010, 03:31:13 PM
Is Rhode Island the only state where something went RIGHT?!
I think we're gonna be a bit bluer. Brown looks like he'll win. Boxer is STILL neck and neck - 47% to 47% - with iCarly with 25% of the precincts in, however, so we shall see.
97% of precincts in. Boxer and Brown. iCarly and Whitman have lost.
The local talk radio stations are whining already. :lulz:
Any particularly good whimpering?
I only caught half a sentence before I changed the radio station. But what I caught sounded pouty, hurt, and like he was gonna cry when he said "Democrats".
http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
:lulz:
Some of those are technically incorrect. Guantanamo hasn't closed and he may have "ended" the torture program, but he hasn't shut down the black sites, practice of extraordinary rendition or prosecuted those guilty of doing such things. It also fails to mention the other things he has done, like increase immigration deportations (widely recognized as an inefficient and corrupt system) and reduce funding for abortion. You know, things liberals supposedly cared about, at least when Bush was in office and they could pick off some Latino and female voters.
Basically, naive white liberals guys baaawing that not everyone recognizes the true genius of Obama.
"what has he done?" is a valid question
these are some valid answers
I don't fault the site for not mentioning increased immigration deportations, as its point is to shut up right wingers who think he's been on vacation except for bailing out banks and socializing healthcare.
I mean the guy has been a huge disappointment so far, but it's not like he's been completely idle.
FUCK my state and its choices on propositions. Selfish fucks.
But least Meg and Carly lost.
Not that I think Boxhead and Ol' Uncle Tom Jerry are improvements. More like the devils ye know...
Quote from: Cramulus on November 03, 2010, 10:08:10 PM
"what has he done?" is a valid question
these are some valid answers
He begged the courts to put a stay on the DADT decision.
So, yeah, he's done
something.
I second the OP. Fuck this country.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/blue-dog-coalition-gop-wave-elections_n_778087.html
QuoteBlue Dog Coalition Crushed By GOP Wave Election
Tuesday was a tough night for Democrats, as they watched Republicans win enough seats to take back the House in the next Congress and began to ponder life under a likely House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). But one group hit especially hard was the Blue Dog Coalition, with half of its members losing their seats.
According to an analysis by The Huffington Post, 23 of the 46 Blue Dogs up for re-election went down on Tuesday. Notable losses included Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-S.D.), the coalition's co-chair for administration, and Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.), the co-chair for policy. Two members were running for higher office (both lost), three were retiring and three races were still too close to call.
The Blue Dogs, a coalition of moderate to conservative Democrats in the House, have consistently frustrated their more progressive colleagues and activists within the party . . . .
So yeah.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on November 03, 2010, 08:30:59 PM
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on November 03, 2010, 08:29:05 PM
This really has been a craptacular day.
It's kind of like I want to just skip the laughing part and go right to the screaming blood.
You're just looking at this all wrong, RWHN.
Point!
Do you have any extra gasoline? Might as well speed this fucker up.