Political Bloviation

Could we get an lazier? Setup a beer IV and America may never get of it’s collective fat ass ever again.
Signs of the Apocalypse, volume one: TiVo meets Domino’s : Boy Genius Report
TiVo has officially announced the Domino’s widget - a fast food ordering service that allows TiVo subscribers to order from Domino’s [...]

I got out of the Army in 1987, so I missed the Gulf War entirely. I have some old friends from back in the day at 56th Field Artillery Brigade in Germany and from the Field Artillery Training Center at Ft, SIll, OK where I was on staff for a few years. I was glad [...]

Jane over at Firedoglake makes the salient point about why the GOP doesn’t support bailing out GM (Chrysler and Ford too), while it’s OK to bailout Wall Street:
Firedoglake » Zapping the Volt
All this screaming about bankrupting GM has everything to do with a conservative philosophical imperative that the free market will set all these things [...]

This works better for democratic control of the Senate. It also has the happy side effect of preventing Palin from seeking the senate seat. If Stevens were removed from office in the aftermath of his multiple felony convictions, Plain would probably want to throw her hat into the ring. Listening to her speak is like [...]

John Cole gets all uppity about the latest example of bad faith, lack of transparency and stonewalling around the bailout package handed to the Dept. of the Treasury:
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » More Patriotism
Patriotism is sheltering your income to avoid paying taxes while receiving $700 billion in handouts from the middle class. Mind you, [...]

I translate this to mean “we didn’t trust Bush to keep a timetable, but we do trust Obama”.
Obama Victory Alters the Tenor of Iraqi Politics - NYTimes.com
Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could [...]

This is interesting map from the NY Times Politics page showing the change in voting by county. The areas of growth for the GOP are limited to 22% of counties. The GOP is busy turning themselves into a regional party of Appalachia, parts of the Sunbelt and a few pockets scattered through the high plains [...]

And it get uglier:
Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com
NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle [...]

Leonard at Sadly No! pledges:
Sadly, No » Hands Across the Aisle
My pledge to you, in the spirit of President Obama’s desire that we be well and truly one nation, is this. Should any of the following things take place during the Obama administration:
1. The institution, at a federal level, of sharia law throughout the country
2. [...]

Can we have moment of silence? This was the bane of my existence back when dinosaurs ruled the land and used Win 3.11 and trumpet winsock to connect to Unix shell accounts on a server I supported. Lynx and Gopher were the tools of choice to browse text information. E-mail wasn’t very useful because so [...]

The funny thing about this election is that sources like The Onion and the Daily Show have been more honest and perceptive than the main stream media by leaps and bounds. Here’s an example
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Carrying a majority of the popular vote, [...]

Sully runs down the blogospheric reactions:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 05, 2008) - Election Reax

NY Times notes the utter failure of the federal government as a prime cause of republicans’ defeat across the board. Has Bush said, it was an accountability moment. Never put someone in charge of government when they’re ideologically committed to it’s failure:
Editorial - The Next President - NYTimes.com
An American with the name Barack Hussein Obama, [...]

America wins. The politics of hate lose.
Obama’s victory, and America’s - St. Petersburg Times
The 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois tapped into the hunger for change and for candidates who unite rather than divide. Obama won Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, Ohio and Virginia, states President Bush won four years ago. He won the battleground state of [...]

Let us ponder on this election day what a train wreck of a god awful leader we have now.
EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
As a president, he has been monstrous, responsible for the needless deaths of, at least, tens of thousands. As one of those rare individuals who had the opportunity — indeed, the power [...]

And perhaps then Palin can fade into the obscurity of speaking at prayer breakfasts for like minded wingnuts. Maybe after they’re dealt a sharp rebuke at the ballot box we won’t have to listen to her bullshit anymore:
TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Palin On Democrats: “Do They Think The Terrorists … Are [...]

I’m in line to vote. I stopped by the north Tampa location 3 times. It was always 1:30 wait there each time. I also stopped by the West Chase library and finally ended up at the west Tampa library on Union St. So far I’ve been in line for more than an hour.
While cooking in [...]

File this under “reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
Why McCain is getting hosed in the press - John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei - Politico.com
…Obama had more than twice as many positive stories (36 percent) as McCain — and just half the percentage of negative (29 percent).
You call that balanced?
…There have been moments in the [...]

Glenn frets about the denial/spin from Fox News commentator/GOP strategist/party shill, Dick Morris:
Dick Morris: Obama might still have a small chance to win - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Still, it’s just staggering to ponder the amount of reality-denial (or deliberate reality-distortion) needed to urge that Obama, though a real long shot, shouldn’t be “written off,” because [...]

Trying to call Obama a socialists is a desperation move almost 20 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, particularly coming from our favorite pinko hockey mom:
Like, Socialism: Comment: The New Yorker
Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She [...]