ThinkFast: November 3, 2009
ThinkFast: November 3, 2009
Buoyed by their success in New York’s 23rd congressional race, right-wing activists “are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.” “What you’re going to see,” said FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey, “is moderates and conservatives across the country in primaries.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has reportedly reached a “private understanding” with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) that would ensure the Connecticut senator does not block a final vote on health care reform. “Lieberman keeps assuring Reid that he’s OK,” said one source. “But he’s one of those characters — you never know with Joe.
“Maine could become the first state to endorse gay marriage by popular referendum” today “as voters head to the polls to decide whether to repeal a recently-passed law legalizing unions between people of the same gender.” Following the disappointment of Proposition 8’s success last year in California, “advocates of same-sex marriage are optimistic that ballot box history won’t repeat itself in Maine.”
The suicide rate in the Army has passed that of the general population for the first time. Sixteen American soldiers took their lives in October, and suicides have risen 36 percent since 2006.
The Senate voted 85-2 to cut off debate on a bill that would expand homebuyer and business tax credits and expand jobless benefits. This bill would add up to 20 more weeks of aid to unemployment benefits, extending them through Thanksgiving and Christmas.
A “record number of lobbyists have quit the business this year,” according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics and OMB Watch. “About 1,400 lobbyists, or 8% of the industry, left in the three-month period ending June 30.” The report’s authors say the drop may be a consequence of the Obama administration’s new ethics regulations.
Pentagon auditors have warned contractor KBR that it needs to “cut its workforce there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll.” Without “significant action,” KBR will have “one employee for every 3.6 troops in Iraq by August 2010.”
Media Matters Action Network is launching a new website today that aims to document the financial and political ties of conservative groups, called Conservative Transparency. Knowing the source of conservative funding will assist the entire progressive movement in responding to attacks from ‘astroturf’ organizations,” said Chris Harris, the group’s communications director.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iran to “stick to an agreement to ship low-enriched uranium abroad for processing.” “Acceptance of this proposal would be a good indication that Iran does not wish to be isolated,” Clinton said. Iran is seeking greater assurances that the fuel “would be enriched to a higher level and returned.”
And finally: Did actor Edward Norton “beat Sarah Palin like a rug” in the New York Marathon on Sunday? You betcha.
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A “record number of lobbyists have quit the business this year,” according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics and OMB Watch. “About 1,400 lobbyists, or 8% of the industry, left in the three-month period ending June 30.” The report’s authors say the drop may be a consequence of the Obama administration’s new ethics regulations.
Lobbyists are quitting because they have to have ethics?! LMAO, damn that’s funny!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:07 am“What you’re going to see,” said FreedomWorks’ Dick Armey, “is moderates and conservatives across the country in primaries.”
I hope they spend ALL their money working against each other. Where the moderate loses, the race will be easy for the Democrats in all but the most Rot-wing districts. Buy stock in Pops-Rite and Redenbacher now, before the rush!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 amKBR is there because we don’t have a military draft. They are doing the grunt work that grunts used to do. For a lot more money. Bring back the draft, draft everyone, including the spawn of the rich and let’s see how long we stay in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’d have an honest military policy,and we’d save money.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 amI agree house, The crazies will pull the moderates to the crazy and they’ll succeed in winning the races the dems wouldn’t have won to begin with, while further isolating themselves. It’s a win win.
I called my dad on Sunday (he lives in ny 23) and asked him what he thought about Saccafava endorsing the dem and he laughed at me and told me that didn’t happen, that she had endorsed hoffmann, according to the news he was watching. he called me last night and admitted he was wrong and wondered where I’d heard the news. I told him about TP and DailyKos…I didn’t need to ask him where he gets his news from…Faux…
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 amThis will be one close election day.
VA is a lost cause; the VA trend to pick a Gov of the opposite party of the current President aside, Deeds just sucks. No more eloquent way to phrase it, the guy sucks. Polling aggregates have Corzine and Christie tied at 42% a piece in NJ, with Dagget at 10% and 8% undecided. NJ is still a blue state, but anyone who claims to predict the outcome is full of shite. NYC is a wash, Bloomberg’s got his third term. John Garamendi will win in the CA-10. And there is something fundamentally flawed with our system of government if Yes wins in Maine.
Lieberman’s a coward. He just wanted the attention; he’ll fall in line and support the cloture vote when the time comes. Whether or not he votes for the bill is irrelevant, the Dems will have their 51 to pass the “reform”. (For as weak as it is, it’s still miles ahead of the rumoured GOP “plan”, which doesn’t prevent insurance companies from denying pre-existing conditions, doesn’t contain any price controls, and doesn’t mandate any employer of any size to provide coverage. It’s selling insurance across state lines, tort reform, and allowing small businesses to pool costs. Way to cover about 1% of the uninsured, jackasses).
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:13 am‘The Audacity of Nope’
History called Sen. Olympia Snowe…
and she hung up.
LIEberman claims he’ll ’stop the vote’ on health care reform.
Hatch opposes health care reform because Democrats will find it easier to be elected.
Inhofe is pouting, so he & others boycott committee meetings.
The American Taliban is trying to push a neonut into an upstate NY district so the Republican candidate is now urging voters to vote Democratic.
Bachmann is initiating a teabagger revival on the Washington Mall, urging people to distrust the government she represents.
Boner claims the Republic health plan he said was ready in July will ‘be ready soon’.
McCain keeps appearing on Sunday talk shows, but nobody understands anything he says.
Can’tor Can’t.
Republics are like those relatives you’re embarrassed to have over for dinner because of their bad behavior and loud talking, but you invite them anyway to not be rude.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:14 am“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has reportedly reached a “private understanding” with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) that would ensure the Connecticut senator does not block a final vote on health care reform.”
Can we believe that Harry has shown Joe the iron fist inside the velvet glove? If I don’t see the spanking in public, how do I know there was one? Until the bill comes up for the actual vote, I am skeptical on this one.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 amJoe Wilson is blaming Obama directly for the delay in producing sufficient H1N1 flu vaccines — no surprise there.
However, Joe Wilson also voted in June against funding for the H1N1 flu vaccine. No surprise there either.
You lie!
Democrats predicted that H1N1 could become a new line of attack on Obama from Republicans, and they were right.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 amWow — the crazies in the GOP have stepped up their efforts to kick everybody out of the tent who isn’t as crazy as they are.
Do they understand this is going to cause moderates to go RUNNING to the Democrats? Even if they’re not wild about liberals and progressives, they’d rather cast their lot with them than allow the lunatics to run the asylum.
Meanwhile, popcorn sales on our side of the fence are up…
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:20 ammissmolly says:
Meanwhile, popcorn sales on our side of the fence are up…
Since we’re sitting ringside to the circus, any chance we can have cotton candy too? :)
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 amany chance we can have cotton candy too?
Personally, I think we should lay off the cotton candy. It seems to me that’s what the republicans have been peddling for the past couple of decades . . . you know . . . a sweet little confection that has been spun up and is made mostly of air. If you eat it, your teeth will rot and you’ll get sick to your stomach.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 amright-wing activists,“are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.
Ahhh, this is the part where they start eating themselves to survive…
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 amIt’s about time. The far-left has basically taken over the Democratic Party, so the conservatives are certainly justified in taking back the GOP.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 amI don’t care what the reason. This is a good sign.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 amMarie says
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am
Democrats predicted that H1N1 could become a new line of attack on Obama from Republicans, and they were right.
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In the fall of 2004, Chiron Corp., one of two companies that supplied us our flu vaccines, announced that the British government suspended the manufacturing license at its major factory in Liverpool, due to contamination problems. As you can imagine, this created a great shortage of flu vaccine.
Also in the fall of 2004, Dubya was running for re-election.
Democrats attempted to hang the flu vaccine shortage on Dubya, but that never really gained any traction. Even when Dubya’s apparent solution to the problem was the very lame “don’t get a flu shot” — it really didn’t make a difference. The American people didn’t hold Bush responsible for a contamination problem in a British factory.
The Republicans are now going to try the same thing with President Obama. It’s not going to work. In the first place, Obama didn’t unleash H1N1 on the world. Second, there will be enough vaccine available for everyone. Third, the vaccine is manufactured along the same protocols as seasonal flu vaccine, and is safe.
All the Republicans will have are the rare individuals who will have bad reactions to the vaccine (there are always some), and they will get highlighted and broadcast to the world in a “see, we told you so!” fashion.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 amI believe we better not sit on the sidelines. From what happened over the last decade, if the lies are hollered loud and long enough and the truth is shouted down people start to believe the lies. The Democrats will not attract the shunned Moderates unless they grow a backbone and start working together. And a good start would be to heave Senator Lieberman out the door.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:38 ammissmolly, you are a sane and rational person but not the ones the message will be aimed at. The weak minded ones that watch Faux Noise believe what they are told and others will be pounded with the message so much they will fold. The Republicans are very good at pushing ‘the message’ and facts and truth be damned.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:42 amBuoyed by their success in New York’s 23rd congressional race
What success? Now all the Scozzafava voters are going to throw their weight behind the Democrat with the endorsement. Hoffman’s going to lose Watertown and Oswego, and hence will likely lose.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 amHoping the marriage equality thing passes in Maine.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 amLieberman is a sneaky dog.
Thank God, they will extend the unemployment benefits. Ohio needs that, Michigan needs it even more, and so does the rest of the country.
A “record number of lobbyists have quit the business this year,”
Bad economy for throwing money at problems IMO.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 amI agree. I was behind Deeds fully in the primary, but he has just been awful in the general election. McDonnell’s transportation plan is all smoke-and-mirrors, and Deeds had a great opportunity to blast him on that and failed miserably. McDonnell’s voting record when he was in the General Assembly completely was at odds with how he was portraying himself as a gubernatorial candidate, yet Deeds focused on that 20 year-old thesis as the backbone of his campaign. There was no real energy.
Hindsight being 20/20, I wish it was Terry McAuliffe as the “D” candidate now.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 amtom says: @11
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 amOk, Good point there, I hadn’t thought of it that way.
Dave N and ED: I’m another Virginian who’s right there with you. I didn’t support Deeds in the primary (I was a Moran guy), but thought that if Deeds could beat Moran and McAuliffe in the primary, maybe he had something. Man, was I ever wrong. McDonnell should have been an easy one to defeat — extreme right-winger, former executive of a health care company, anti-woman, etc., but I think Deeds may have run one of the worst campaigns in modern political history.
So, I cast my vote for Deeds/Wagner/Shannon this morning, but I ain’t holding my breath…
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 amDogfather,
I’m in NJ myself…and do not look forward to casting my vote for Corzine. Didn’t vote for him in ‘05 (supported Edward Forchion, the NJ Weedman. There wasn’t a shot in hell Corzine would lose the election, anyway). Didn’t vote for him in the primary (supported Carl Bergamanson, who garnered a whopping 9% of the vote). And will only be voting Corzine because the race is too close to risk backing Daggett or another 3rd party.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 amPapirini says:
You’re assuming that the leaders of the teabag movement actually want to govern. As Sarah Palin showed us, their primary goal is to make a lot of noise and get the rubes to give them money.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 amJust what we need. A whole Dawg Pound of “You lie!” frootloops in Congress.
But at least that will lay out for the American public (and the comatose media) exactly where the fault lines in the American political landscape are.
Cheers,
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 amraynman says:
right-wing activists,“are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.
Ahhh, this is the part where they start eating themselves to survive…
Ah, yes! And in honor of their new strategy, I hereby rename the Republican Party the…
DONNER PARTY.
Heheheh!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 amThe repiggies can tear each other’s throats out for all I care.
They will be severely weakened by this internecine struggle.
I hope and pray for a permanent progressive majority.
Screw the repiggies, and screw the teabagger trash.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 amI am having trouble caring anymore.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 amOur country is a sea of insanity.
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I started feeling that way under bush but I’m much better now.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 amLet’s see, do I believe Al Gore or storm…….
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 amFred
If republicans can still win reason has lost.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 am“Moderates by definition have no principles,” Limbaugh huffed
I’ve come to the conclusion that Limbaugh is basically a very large troll.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:25 am#14 missmolly:
You make an elemental misteak here. You assume that facts are relevant. What matters is what Beck and Hannity say, and what the RW “Mighty Wurlitzer” echoes. See above comment #4, for instance.
Cheers,
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 amnellre, they are bragging about a win that has always been in republican control. Everything else is propaganda.
Just keep watching and you will recognize when they understand how badly they have lost the American people.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 amnellre,
Don’t give up hope.
Republics want you feeling that way.
If America’s voters become apathetic & listless, Republics can win elections by yelling the loudest & spending the most money.
Look at upstate NY today. The candidate, (R), who knows the actual issues in the district is supporting the (D) candidate rather than rolling over & playing dead so a neonut can do The Drugster’s bidding.
Yes, it getting crazy, but being apathetic only benefits fruitcakes.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 amstorm voted me down because I called him a liar. heh.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 amAnd DRIZZLE continues to post biased, worthless crap.
Hey, DRIZZLE, care to explain how the NY-23rd is a “gain” for the GOP?
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:32 amprofessional words of advice for home-made political sign makers:
thumbnail sketches.
see above photo.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 amAs teabagging hick terrorists continue to move further to the reich, the GOPigs will become the smallest tent party in the history of the country. Dissent and moderates are not welcome in the reich-wing GOPigs. This is good news. This will divide and shrink the already weakened GOPigs. Thank you OSarah bin Palin and Glenda! You destroyed your party and perverse movement!!! AMEN!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:39 amRegarding the GOP fight against health care reform:
“Our women leaders will take the premiere role” in a multi-pronged attack on the bill this week, House GOP conference chair Mike Pence said
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Pence said his party intends to make sure the GOP reading of the bill is heard.
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To that end, they plan to open a public “reading room” on Capitol Hill for members of Congress, the public and the media to review the bill under the guidance of “experts in the field.”
That’d probably be comical if the issue wasn’t so important.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:43 am#41, mary lacewing says:
Mary, does Pence plan to have the Republic health plan read, too?
Oh, wait! It doesn’t exist…
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 amOops, I forgot to include the link to TPM’s story:
House GOP Aim To Fight Pelosi Bill With Women
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 amZimzone,
According to TPM’s article:
House Republicans plan a full court press on health care this week, including the release of their own version of a health care reform bill.
Will they give time for the Democrats to review THEIR bill ‘under the guidance of experts in the field’? What am I saying? The question is, as you suggested, will their actually be anything to read?!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:49 ammary lacewing says:
“Moderates by definition have no principles,” Limbaugh huffed
I’ve come to the conclusion that Limbaugh is basically a very large troll.
it’s the robin eggs… or today’s equivalent…
they were fun… but in excess, speed does kill – all sense of reality…
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 am‘will there actually be anything to read?’ is what I meant to say of course. Use the Preview button Mary!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:51 amAppropriating mary lacewing’s edit:
Pence said his party intends to make sure the GOP reading of the bill is heard.
snip
To that end, they plan to open a public “reading room” on Capitol Hill for members of Congress, the public and the media to review the bill under the guidance of “experts in the field.”
I expect this public “reading room” will be located in the basement. After all, that’s where the minority party has to go to conduct business outside the House floor, right? At least that’s the way it was when Republics ran things.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 amkaty – robin eggs? The diet pills? I had to look that up! Man oh man, the way that guy has abused his body I doubt he has too much time left on this planet. He’s up, he’s down, he’s all around.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 amyes, mary, the diet pill…
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:06 amthat’s the only way he could have lost as much weight as he did
in such a short time… and the way he talks/rambles – a real “tell”
He’s up, he’s down, he’s all around. – another tell…
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:09 ambut he is used to the downers, maybe the speed keeps him “level”…
katy says:
yes, mary, the diet pill…
that’s the only way he could have lost as much weight as he did in such a short time
I’m not familiar with diet pills myself. But, that might explain this quote from Aug. 21st:
Rush just said on his radio show seconds ago:
“This is the first diet I’ve ever been on that I don’t want to get off of!”
Rush would also be somewhat comical if he wasn’t warping this country so much!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:11 amI mean, really, ‘Moderates by definition don’t have principles’? And people buy that?
Moderates, the new threat to America’s future!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 amKnowing the repub history.
How come the conservatives aren’t screaming that Scozzafava is a difficult name to remember ? and that she needs to change it to a good ole Amerikun name ?
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 amSo let’s see… that makes liberals, socialists, communists, muslims, atheists, scientists and moderates, all threats to America’s future.
But which one is the biggest threat?
I smell a reality show!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 amWhy are the media and conservatives pretending that New York District 23 is an important contest? Democrats have never held the seat. If Hoffman wins, all that means is that the conservatives who have always held the seat got more conservative. That’s all.
The only race I see that’s the slightest bit interesting is the New Jersey Governor, but even that’s not as important as the media is making it out to be. New Jersey will continue to be a blue state – a moderate Republican governor doesn’t change that. Did it turn California Red to have a moderate Republican governor? No.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 amI suspect Rush had gastric bybass. I’m sure he’s using diet pills too but with his addictive personality neither one alone would be enough.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 amralph the wonder llama says:
So let’s see… that makes liberals, socialists, communists, muslims, atheists, scientists and moderates, all threats to America’s future.
But which one is the biggest threat?
I smell a reality show!
lol – thanks for the laugh Ralph! You may have something there.
We could pick a 2010 race and show all of the down and dirty backroom machinations leading up to the election! Politics certainly has enough drama (melodrama?), money and wheeling and dealing for a reality show. And it’s certainly more ‘reality’ than most reality shows.
I can see it now, attack ads, defections, accusations, lies, big-money interests, talk show clowns – drama to give away!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:32 amTom Tomorrow gives us his take on Lieberman:
This Modern World
Starring the most important politician in all of human history, Joe Lieberman
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:38 amShayne says:
I suspect Rush had gastric bybass.
Maybe the surgeon screwed the procedure up, thereby causing all the shit to spew out of his mouth.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:41 amDoes that little hick in the 10-gallon hat really believe his taxes are being raised? I would bet $100 that there isn’t one person in that entire crowd who makes over $250K a year.
And, if people would just think about it, they might realize that the tax increase they’re angry about isn’t as taxing as the fear-mongers say it is. Let’s say you earn $350K a year. You’re doing very well. A 3% increase on the top marginal rate, everything over $250 would mean you would pay an additional $3,000 in taxes which is a .8% increase in your entire tax bill. Come on, people. Wise up!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:42 amshayne – i’d forgotten about the gastric bypass…
it doesn’t work so fast, so in combo with the diet pills,
that makes sense…
i mean, we see him bobbing his huge self up and down and only a few months later he’s all svelte… and sockless! oooh!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 amNinerFan, someone should tell him it’s wrong to inbreed, and try to get him to use a condom.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:50 amI suspect the same thing. He just seems to have that look.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:06 pmNinerfan says:
Why are the media and conservatives pretending that New York District 23 is an important contest? Democrats have never held the seat. If Hoffman wins, all that means is that the conservatives who have always held the seat got more conservative. That’s all.
Of course, you’re right — but the media want to make this all about Obama, particularly if they can poke him in the eye with it, so we will have to endure the next weeks of their pontificating, prognosticating, and extrapolating something from what truly is insignificant.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:41 pmMarie, imagine the media in 2002 trying to make the case that because San Francisco elected a liberal representative, this meant a nation-wide repudiation of GW Bush. That would be pretty silly. This is even sillier since Obama won with a large mandate whereas Bush snuck in there with less votes than his opponent. But, that’s our mainstream media for you. They’re much more comfortable making things uncomfortable for a Democrat than for a Repub.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm…sigh…
That’s true — Ninerfan, they prefer to poke at Dems than report truths about repugs. I must have been incredibly naive to think it would be any different.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:05 pmBuoyed by their success in New York’s 23rd congressional race, right-wing activists “are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.
Each day I wake up.. the sun is even brighter – So after the debacle that was NY-23 the Conservative Party is geared up to oust or divide the votes for every other race they participate in. In most cases this will likely just lead them to lose the few races they could have taken..
They’re dividing up into Wingnut and Wingnut lite. Honestly, given their situation I can understand a move of ‘all in’ for a new party.. but it’s also a huge example of switching horses mid stream.. It’s going to be very messy – they’re competing against themselves.
This may leave us with a few elected extremists.. but overall this looks very promising for the Democrats.
On a side note – I’ve for a long time hoped for a third party in politics.. but this isn’t exactly what I was hoping for.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 pmMarie: “I must have been incredibly naive to think it would be any different.”
Not at all, in my opinion. Americans have a right to expect a properly functioning press. We deserve a free press. What we have is a corporate press. NBC is not going to report things embarrassing to GE. FOX will try very hard not to report things embarrassing to republicans. ABC will not report stories that hurt Viacom’s profits. This is because their news departments reflect the interest and goals of the owners and corporate boards who sign the checks (and the checks are much bigger than most Americans imagine.) The fundamental problem is that we have a millionaire press corp supposedly speaking for a middle-class democracy.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pmLook at the idiot teabagger holding a sign stating “let me have kids before you tax them.” How much sense does this make since taxtation happens anyway.
The damn fool.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pmGame of Life, anyone who would hold up a sign like that shouldn’t be having kids anyway. Children make lousy parents.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:34 pmGame of Life: “The damn fool.”
That is a very snappy, manly cowboy costume, though. Even nicer than what the guys wore in Brokeback Mountain.
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 pm“Maine could become the first state to endorse gay marriage by popular referendum” today “as voters head to the polls to decide whether to repeal a recently-passed law legalizing unions between people of the same gender.” Following the disappointment of Proposition 8’s success last year in California, “advocates of same-sex marriage are optimistic that ballot box history won’t repeat itself in Maine.”
Isn’t Maine already an “alternative lifestyle?”
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:16 pm——————————————————————————–
MapleStreet says:
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Knowing the repub history.
How come the conservatives aren’t screaming that Scozzafava is a difficult name to remember ? and that she needs to change it to a good ole Amerikun name ?
I don’t know why, but one would think that they would be saying that about her…
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:49 pmMeanwhile:
Hoffman is a German compound noun. Hof = large farming estate. Mann = man.
Apparently most Hoffmans hail from Prussia.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:03 pmlinzloo08 says:
How come the conservatives aren’t screaming that Scozzafava is a difficult name to remember ?
it seems that the Conservative Party was right to run Doug Hoffman against RINO Dede Scuzafavor (or whatever her name is) and Democrat Bill Owens, which was clearly revealed when Scuzzy threw her support behind the Democratic candidate despite receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars (and perhaps as much a sa cool $1 million) in financial support from the Republican Party.
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/294274.php
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm——————————————————————————–
mary lacewing says:
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linzloo08 says:
How come the conservatives aren’t screaming that Scozzafava is a difficult name to remember ?
it seems that the Conservative Party was right to run Doug Hoffman against RINO Dede Scuzafavor (or whatever her name is) and Democrat Bill Owens, which was clearly revealed when Scuzzy threw her support behind the Democratic candidate despite receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars (and perhaps as much as a cool $1 million) in financial support from the Republican Party.
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/294274.php
Yeah, but that really doesn’t answer my question: why aren’t they going around and saying that scozzafava is hard to remember and it isn’t an ‘Merican last name, and she should change it.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:33 am