HELEN:
Margaret, it appears that rape remains unpopular among likely voters, gays are people too, and Rocky Mountain High isn’t just a song. It isn’t final yet, but at the time that I am writing this, Michele Bachmann, bless her heart, might not be too popular with voters either. And while he wasn’t actually running for anything, Donald Trump proved to be unpopular with just about everyone.
Once the real news called the race for Obama, I tuned into Fox News to see if Karl Rove was giving refunds. I had to laugh at the meltdown that was happening. Karl wanted a recount in Ohio and some blonde woman with too much make-up lamented about the inconvenient truth of Hurricane Sandy. Evidently Sandy and fraudulent voters had given the election unfairly to Obama. Honey, Hurricane Sandy reminded us that we had a good man in the White House much the same way Hurricane Katrina reminded us that we had an idiot in the White House. And fraudulent voters are about as common as unbiased reporting on Fox News. I had to turn the channel back to the more civil CNN coverage with that lovely Anderson Cooper. Too much Fox makes me itch.
After running for President for nine hundred years, Mitt Romney accepted defeat and gave a surprisingly short and genuinely gracious concession speech. I was touched, truly touched, when he called for unity and wished the President success. President Obama too gave a lovely speech. He always gives lovely speeches. It was a tad bit long and I must admit I drifted off a couple of times. I am old and it was getting late.
But back to Mitt… you had me there, sir. You had me ready to put aside my partisan ways in hopes that our elected officials could come together and find common ground. I was all ready to write my letter to the President asking him to govern to the middle and bring us together. I would get a good night’s sleep and then write the letter in the morning and send it off to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But just before I headed to bed, this flashed across my television screen:
“The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives. The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president’s first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control. Now it’s time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely-divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office.”
– Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader
Well Margaret, so much for me giving up my partisan ways. Mitch McConnell is a jackass and the Republican Party can kiss my ass. I mean it. Really.
MARGARET:
Well, here we go again. Honey, why don’t you just move to Kentucky and run against McConnell? I would vote for you. I mean it. Really.
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Chief Justice Burger further stated that executive privilege would most effectively apply when the oversight of the executive would impair that branch’s national security concerns.
i’m confused…explain what that means, please.
By: penny abrams on April 20, 2013
at 10:51 AM
“Democrats in America were put on Earth to do one thing: Drag the ignorant, hillbilly half of this country into the next century…”
And when we “hillbillies” arrive, we’ll be broke, job-less, defense-less, heart-less, child-less, indebted, sick, and completely dependent on a God-less, green-worshipping, elitist, socialist government. Why didn’t we follow the ‘light’ of the democrats sooner?
By: Anonymous on April 20, 2013
at 3:41 AM
AND NOW, as Hollywood’s made BILLIONS upon BILLIONScatering to the mass market dienal needs of history’s MOST awesomely genocidal regime ACROSS the Pacific-AND as millions are suffering and dying FOR REAL how about an homage to those who served and sacrificedon this, the once again mysteriously overlooked’ 60thAnniversary of the staggeringly relevant indeed, STILLunfolding KOREAN WAR!?NOT LOOOKIN’ GOOD AMERICA NOT LOOOOOKIN’ GOOD
By: Nusrat on December 16, 2012
at 7:05 AM
I enjoyed reading this election and post-election reverie from this spirited team of fine ladies. Because I have to wake up at 4 to go to work on Wednesdays, I couldn’t wait for the vote counts to come in from the West Coast. As I headed off to bed, Mr. Romney was leading.
As so many singers have crooned, “What a difference a day makes.” I had to coach a team who reads the local papers to the blind. What headlines these were!! Most voters here in Georgia were not happy to learn the news. Only urbanites in a few metropolitan counties opted for Mr. O’bama (that is Irish for Dukakis, right?). The rest of the state’s voters chose Mitt.
Thanks Helen for staying up late to catch the returns.
By: decaturkev on November 21, 2012
at 4:34 PM
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Rachel Maddow:
Take Me to Your Leader.
PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on November 10, 2012
at 12:09 PM
noah has, as have so many, swallowed in its entirety, the repuglican line. there is no reasoning with people like noah. they ‘quote’ falsehoods, resist science, refuse to see facts, and make up their own. they do this over and over and over again. this is the prime example of how cognitive dissonance works. i have a nephew who automatically spouts the same—the very same—words. he hears nothing else. it is, truly, beyond my ken.
By: penny abrams on November 9, 2012
at 9:51 AM
Hi, Whirled – I JUST LOVE THIS!!! Thanks!
Gato
By: gatodicima on November 9, 2012
at 8:10 AM
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Republicons meet nutshell:
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You know your party is in trouble if someone asks ‘If the rape guy won’, and you say…‘Which one?‘
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PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on November 9, 2012
at 1:13 AM
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No truer words were ever spoken.
Bill Maher: Very NFSW! Totally Hilarious.
Democrats in America were put on Earth to do one thing: Drag the ignorant, hillbilly half of this country into the next century…
More meaningful than when he first said it in 2010.
PEACE ~ Δ
By: Whirled Peas Δ on November 9, 2012
at 12:13 AM
Noah dear, YOU are the one with a blatant disregard for the Constitution! YOU are the petty dictator who demands that we all get with your religious program lockstep and in a hurry! The Constitution is a living document; it is a masterpiece of restraint, and preserves the right of the minority, or dissenting groups against coercion or abuse. It does NOT allow the minority to dun the show, or act as an autonomous and completely separate group. You’re in the minority now Noah, so get used to it!
By: JC on November 8, 2012
at 9:46 PM
In the United States government, executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government. The concept of executive privilege is not mentioned explicitly in the United States Constitution, but the Supreme Court of the United States ruled it to be an element of the separation of powers doctrine, and/or derived from the supremacy of executive branch in its own area of Constitutional activity.[1]
The Supreme Court confirmed the legitimacy of this doctrine in United States v. Nixon, but only to the extent of confirming that there is a qualified privilege. Once invoked, a presumption of privilege is established, requiring the Prosecutor to make a “sufficient showing” that the “Presidential material” is “essential to the justice of the case.”(418 U.S. at 713-14). Chief Justice Burger further stated that executive privilege would most effectively apply when the oversight of the executive would impair that branch’s national security concerns.
If this faux outrage was really about executive privilege, Noahwestmichigan would have been so outraged at Bush that he’d have left his right wing perch.
By: Anonymous on November 8, 2012
at 9:38 PM