A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words, But Why Choose?

Wow.  Five progressive bloggers were invited to the White House in a late attempt to rally the troops.  The White House photo of Team Progressive is, well, it is what it is.

But the transcript reveals that the questions were generally just as weak.  Here is the opening question:

Q Thanks for having us here, Mr. President. Just to start off, because the news of the day is obviously what just happened in Kentucky. What’s your feelings on the thought of a Rand Paul supporter actually stepping on the neck of a female MoveOn supporter?

For heaven's sake - one would hope that, in preparation for a meeting with the President, these people would attempt to distinguish between actual news and the latest partisan laundry to emerge from the spin cycle.

The gay marriage and DADT questions were better [Ann Althouse dissects here].  Nothing about the December review of Afghanistan, nothing about closing Gitmo, and here is a question that gives softballs a bad name:

Q Mine is an easy question. Will you rule out raising the retirement age to 70?

Well, Obama ruled out nothing, including raising the retirement age to 69 or 68.  Jiminy.

One last lamer:

Q I want to go back to the idea of working with Republicans. And given the comments from McConnell and — well, all of them — I think that what a lot of people find frustrating is that our side compromises and continues to compromise just to get that one Republican on. We’re going to get one of the Maine twins — whatever. And it doesn’t happen, and then by the time health care or whatever goes through we’ve compromised; we still don’t get any Republicans.

I don’t anticipate this changing in the next two years. I think it’s going to get worse. How are you going to get Democrats to understand that compromise means the other side has to give something sometimes, one day?

It's a bit late to look for a pre-emptive Republican surrender.

OH MAN:  Who knew that Iowahawk had access to the double-top secret White House tapes of the meeting?

Comments

[Captain Hate]

AoS now has a thread about Operation Alaskan Chaos. Go daddy go!!

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if daddy provided just enough chaos to sink Madcowski and put Miller over the top?

[caro]

What a great American story,daddy.You are a hero for getting that going yesterday.

Write in "daddy" for US Senator from Alaska! Oh,wait.

[Threadkiller]

Daddy, I sit here so inspired by what is taking place. I am proud to comment among "you people."

--“...except the damn dog ate the back cover and last Chapter of my "History of Cook Inlet" while I was in trying to give Fagan his paperwork---rotten dog.”--

Go nice on the pooch. When he is done digesting, he will be making history, just like his "Daddy."

:-)

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

Send me your address & I'll buy ya a new copy of "History of Cook Inlet"...heck, I'll get ya 2. One you can read & your dog can eat the other one!
theshagams at gmail dot com

[Porchlight]

The only thing I worry about, and I hate to be a buzzkill, is that Operation Alaskan Chaos might draw votes away from Miller as well.

Please disabuse me of this wretched and ridiculous concern, someone! I'm running out to a meeting but will be back shortly.

[Porchlight]

Eh, never mind, I apologize. The Miller people are smart enough not to waste their vote on a write-in. Let's hope the Murkodoodledoo and the McAdams folks aren't.

[That buzz is an angry hive.]

Awareness of the chicanery can't hurt Miller, P.
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[DebinNC]

The updated ADN story says "at least 100" write-ins signed up before the deadline yesterday. I bet many of those were less for a particular candidate than they were for the rule of law. I know they're venal enough, but I wonder if the Dems and Mooskeester are stupid enough to sic their "find the dirt" brigades on those brave 100?

[hit and run]

Dan Riehl,the originator of the idea for Cold Chaos,has http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/10/how-alaskas-elections-division-became-swamped-with-write-in-candidates.html>put up a post covering the events.

[Old Lurker]

Too bad there was not enough time to get every "Lisa" and every last name starting "Mur..." to register...

[Lisa Merdooski]

Goddamn you assholes, confusing all my crackhead constituents who can barely remember their own names.

[hit and run]

http://www.elections.alaska.gov/ci_pg_cl_2010_genr.php#uss>Here's the list of write-in candidates that filed. Three Lisas and one Lisa M to go with our Daddy.

[Jim Ryan]

Zero will be here in a few hours to campaign for Perriello. It will cost Perriello a few votes from Dems who will be offended by the stink. It will gain him a few GOTV votes from infrequently voting Dems who don't follow the news. Perriello will pick up two points as a result.

The Dems have had nothing but smear to run on here. Can't run on Perriello's record of Cap and Trade, porkulus, and Obamacare, especially after he caved along with the Stupak pseudo-prolife dozen on abortion.

Hurt will win 52 to 46. The other two points go to the independent dork who has tanked and who promised he'd get out of the race and not be a spoiler if he tanked.

There are two Tea Parties downtown today. One's a rally. The other's a policy seminar given by a panel of good speakers. On Sunday, Governor McDonnell and AG Cuccinelli will be in town with Robert Hurt for a rally.

[Captain Hate]

O/T Moochelle on Ellen yesterday should really get out the vote::rolleyes::

[Clarice]

I read that Lisa was handing out temporary tattoos with her name on them --now we need to do that for the other Lisa M

[Old Lurker]

Hit...that list is wonderful. JOM rocks.

[Clarice]

daddy, I am sure it's unrelated but 2 UPS planes from Paris are isolated on the Phila airport field and another in New Jersey is upon a tip from French authorities about radioactive material in a package. Be careful.

[rse]

On the issue of Tribe's letter to Obama on the SCOTUS vacancy, LUN is a nice analysis of the significance of Tribe's use of the term "progressive pragmatism" in describing the desired judicial philosophy.

Boy does that remind me of all the stealth socialism and use of the term communitarian to obfuscate how the desired change to a system utterly corrupts it.

[Jim Ryan]

Ask yourself why Laura Mikleczevsi is doing so well in the polls. It's Dems who are bouying her. They are voting for her instead of their own because, as bgates intimated, they hate conservatives. The term "nihilism" could be applied correctly here.

[Clarice]

The plane held at newark originated in Yemen. It, too, reportedly has a suspicious package onboard.

[centralcal]

Thanks for the link to the list, Hit. Loved this name: Lee Hamerski!

[Clarice]

Ras:

With only a few days until Election Day, Democrat Jerry Brown holds a slightly smaller lead over Republican Meg Whitman in California’s gubernatorial race. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brown picking up 49% support, while Whitman draws the vote from 45%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are still undecided.

[DebinNC]

From the Freeper Alaska Chaos thread, ">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2616750/posts?q=1&;page=51#54">
a list of possible write-in names..

I wonder if daddy and other write-ins yesterday had to give their real names? Will the actual ballot have added info (website/address) as hit's list of 100 shows, or just the names of party candidates and a blank line for a write-in?

[centralcal]

Yep, Clarice, saw Rasmussen post that on Twitter this morning. Keeping fingers crossed.

[centralcal]

Deb - your link is wrong. Can you fix it?

[DebinNC]

Trying again: Freeper AK Chaos thread

[Clarice]

ABC:

Fox News·DHS investigating suspicious packages reported
in cargo flights at Newark, N.J., and Philadelphia airports;
explosive device reportedly found aboard UPS flight in London

[Clarice]

CNN:CNN, by Staff Original Article

Investigators in the United Kingdom found a bomb disguised as a toner cartridge aboard a plane flying from Yemen to Chicago when it stopped in London on Thursday night - one reason for heightened concern at U.S. airports on Friday, a law-enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation said. Two UPS cargo planes at Philadelphia International Airport and another at Newark International Airport are being examined for questionable shipments, the company said

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

It feels like we are starting to rumble.

[hit and run]

Wow. The person who runs UPS out of Philly is a former neighbor. Yike.

[Threadkiller]

From rse's link:

"The importance of this letter goes beyond what it says about the personalities involved. It reveals that when they think we are not paying attention, liberal jurists and their political allies are quite frank with each other about their view of the Supreme Court as just another political institution, and the Constitution as a document that does not shape the Court’s behavior but is instead shaped by it. This is actually just the way many legal scholars talk and write among themselves, but they usually take pains to conceal this instrumentally political view of judging when they enter the political arena, such as in testimony during Supreme Court nominations. The Tribe letter shows that in the back channels of political maneuvering, they revert to type."

Ol' Larry Tribe was instrumental in the warping of the constitution for McCain, and thereby placing Obama in as POTUS against a week opponent.

">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r110:4:./temp/~r110u1NnMQ::"> SR511 text

I was "paying attention".

[centralcal]

CNN has updated:

[Update 11:31 a.m.] Investigators in the United Kingdom found a suspicious device containing a "manipulated" toner cartridge aboard a plane flying from Yemen to Chicago when it stopped in London on Thursday night - one reason for heightened concern at U.S. airports on Friday, a law-enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation said. The device tested negative for explosive material.

[bgates]

I like Hit's list. I love Lee Hamerski.

I'm less impressed by how many write-ins listed their party affiliation as Republican. That seems to be missing the point, unless it's some kind of Democrat chaos.

[Clarice]

cc, sounds like a series of probes.

[Jim Ryan]

"Looks like it was designed by utter nincompoops" will be uttered by investigators describing the bomb.

[Dave (in MA)]

Jane, Rasmussen has Cadillac & Baker statistically tied. The Suffolk Univ. poll has Baker down 7 points.

[matt]

Has Leeza Macacaski made any statements about this state of affairs yet? Is she "outraged", "disappointed" or "deeply offended"? Are her antennae completely turned off?

Perhaps we should send Bill Clinton up there to convince her to drop out.Besides, Hillary's out of town and if you turn the lights way down low, Leeza looks okay after half a dozen scotch and sodas.....

[Threadkiller]

DebinNC, I did not see Lisa ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meconium"> Meconium on the list.

[centralcal]

Clarice: I agree.

[Clarice]

Yeah, Jim,some amateurs, not the usual Moslem Nobel prize winning physicists.

[Pagar]

Clarice, I can't get it to link but the Gay Patriot site is reporting that the Calif public employees union has spent 300 million in the past 5 years to keep Democats in power. Than they complain about how much Whitman is spending. With what the Unions spend, Democrats don't have to spend anything.

Another site reports the Democrats are spending 45,000 dollars plus to tell people to vote for a candidate that died last week.

The money spent by public employee unions dwarfs all other spending in the 2010 elections. It can not be allowed to go unchallenged.

[hit and run]

matt:
Besides, Hillary's out of town and if you turn the lights way down low, Leeza looks okay after half a dozen scotch and sodas.....

YIKE!

[Jim Ryan]

ELIZA MULROONEY: As a practical matter, judges put me back on the ballot. Their judgment can be trusted over rule of law. That's why they're called "judges."

KATIE: Makes sense to me! So what about how everyone's saying you're going to do Dem after you win?

ELIZA MULROONEY: Well, [GIGGLES]...um [GIGGLES]...I...

KATIE: [GIGGLES, DOES BROAD AND CAMPY WINK TO CAMERA].

[Jim Ryan]

Dollars to donuts there will be three or four odd cases of radioactivity poisoning in a Yemen hospital this week. Fingers, mostly, but also lips and intestines (thanks to lunch break) and wherever people normally scratch with said fingers.

[Too many have died already.]

I believe Peter died on Sunday evening. His comments ceased about the middle of the day here.
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[Rick Ballard]

Jim Ryan,

Do you think President Wassupdude Bowser will bestow the full Fredo on Perriello today or will it just be a light peck on both cheeks?

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

Dave,

Did you see where they named Kerry the most vain person in the senate?

[Jim Ryan]

It will be a fist-bro bear hug, Rick. But after Zero's riveting lecture, the air will go out of the room as Perriello begins to drone on in a series of rambling thoughts, as usual.

[hit and run]

"kim"
I believe Peter died on Sunday evening. His comments ceased about the middle of the day here.

His last comment (that I could find):

Did you know that if you put a wick in Al Gore's head it would provide enough light for a small town?

Posted by: PeterUK | October 25, 2009 at 02:17 PM

Porchlight said at the time:

I think, at minimum, we should fashion candles shaped like Al Gore and light them every year on PeterUK's birthday (Halloween). It would be symbolic on so many levels and I think he'd enjoy it. :)

Indeed! I may not be able to do any better than lighting some candle on some pumpkin -- but is there anything more Gore-shaped than a nice round pumpkin?

And only several posts after that one,we had this:

I love you PUK and will miss you terribly. Your ability to make me LOL was uncanny. I had to learn not to post "LOL" after every one of your comments.

Til we meet again, rest in peace, my dear friend.

Posted by: bad | November 01, 2009 at 02:44 PM

Man the pollen is bad here right now. And onions. Who the hell is cutting all those damn onions. ::sniff::

[Dave (in MA)]

Did you see where they named Kerry the most vain person in the senate?

So he won another election?

[matt]

In a press conference held 15 minutes ago, Reichsleiter "Big Sis" Napolitano announced that the Transportation Security Agency will immediately be expanded by 200,000 unterbluesuitfuehers in order to inspect every copier cartridge in the land on site before use.

Reichsleiter Napolitano stated "really, it's for your own good" before jetting off with Barbara Mikulski for a long conference in the Hamptons.

When queried about the new changes, Driver's Licence Checker Unteroffizier Zelda Wachowski said "may I see your boarding pass and identification, please."

[Clarice]

rasThe Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-five percent (45%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19 (see trends).
Rand Paul now has a double digit lead in Kentucky.
Overall, the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Balance of Power summary shows Democrats likely to end up with 48 seats and Republicans with 45. Seven Senate races remain Toss-Ups (California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington, and West Virginia). Republicans need to win six of the seven Toss-Ups to win control. Currently, Republicans have a slight edge in five of the Toss-up states while Democrats have the edge in two.
In the California Governor’s race, Democrat Jerry Brown leads by four points moving that race back to Toss-Up status in the Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 Gubernatorial Scorecard. Republicans are projected to hold 28 Governorships after Tuesday, Democrats 12, and there are 9 Toss-Ups (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, and Vermont). If projections hold, Rhode Island would be the only state with an Independent Governor.

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

Did you know that if you put a wick in Al Gore's head it would provide enough light for a small town?

Posted by: PeterUK | October 25, 2009 at 02:17 PM

On a recent thread, Ann posted a picture of the algore Halloween candle she made in honor of PUK. It is wonderful.

[Clarice]

UPS bomb story

Update 12:36 p.m.] Police determined a suspicious package found on a UPS truck at Metro Tech Center, a business center in Brooklyn, did not contain anything harmful, a law enforcement official said.

A package in London, England, that has sparked alarm about cargo arriving into the United States had white powder all over it as well as wires and a circuit card attached, a law-enforcement source said. The package came from Sana, Yemen and was bound for Chicago, Illinois, the source said. Investigators are examining two similar packages - one on a plane in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, and another in East Midlands, in the United Kingdom.

[Update 11:53 a.m.] A suspicious package was found Friday morning at East Midlands Airport in England, authorities said. They did not connect the discovery to the discovery of a suspicious device aboard a plane at London's airport.

[Update 11:38 a.m.] A bomb squad in New York City is responding to a report of a suspected explosive device inside a package aboard a UPS truck in Queens, the deputy police commissioner said Friday. Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne declined to say whether the discovery is connected to the incidents at the Newark and Philadelphia airports.

[hit and run]

Janet:
On a recent thread, Ann posted a picture of the algore Halloween candle she made in honor of PUK. It is wonderful.

I missed it. Do you remember which thread? I'm pretty trigger happy on closing old threads -- I'm not much of a multi(thread)tasker. If you know my history (of sock puppeting) here,that'd be no surprise.

[macphisto]

East Midlands Airport is near Sheffield (it used to be called "Sheffield/Nottingham"), and is one of the main UPS shipping hubs in the UK outside of the London metropolitan area; i only know this because i bought a guitar from a shop in Sheffield earlier this year and it was shipped via UPS through EMA.

[bgates]

Driver's Licence Checker Unteroffizier Zelda Wachowski

She resigned from the Senate already?

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

Hoping I did this right - It is the Sunday Giant Ranger Open Thread

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

How about this - Ann at 9:02pm

[Thomas Collins]

More bad news for progs: University of Virginia has repealed its speech code.

With speech codes being repealed and the electorate getting ready to say "yes, we can and will turn back progism," I hope there are counselors ready next Wednesday to talk progs through their concerns.

[rse]

TC-

Went to an admissions program for a well-known lib arts college recently and they bragged about having a full-time staff to arrange students' community service.

There was no hint of irony in the presentation.

Higher ed implosion ahead!

[Army of Davids]

Dude

[hit and run]

Thank you Janet. I was traveling and missed Ann's comments....if not for you I would have never seen them.

Hit: If you are around today, help me remember. One minute I am so sad and the next I am laughing at the pleasure that PUK contributed here at JOM.

Posted by: Ann | October 25, 2010 at 12:35 AM

Alas,I wasn't dear Ann. But your pic deserves re-posting:

http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp54/annatjom/Halloween%202010/-3.jpg>

Prick with a Wick.

[centralcal]

Washington Examiner has posted the list of write in candidates in AK - it is up to 150 names. GOOD JOB, DADDY!!!!!

[Thomas Collins]

Rse, when my youngest was going off to Northwestern for her freshman year (she's now a senior), she took a look at the green propaganda materials and said she was going to have to carry around a windmill in her backpack.

PCness has even affected schools that have a reputation for being unPC. For example, although University of Virginia and William & Mary have repealed their speech codes, George Mason, which I thought had a reputation for being less PC than UVA and William & Mary, still has a speech code.

[Melinda Romanoff]

Hearing Coons has cancelled all remaining debates (2) with O'Donnell.

And Obama's heading to DE to campaign.

I smell blood.

[macphisto]

the Gawker hit may have been the Bridge Too Far.

[rse]

TC-

If she's as tired of the "Sustainability" focus or just a bit skeptical, Peter Wood at nas.org and Ashley Thorne have done great work showing what is really going on.

I think the administrators at most of these name schools think their current mission is political, not academic although I'm not sure they appreciate that's their actual focus.

[mikey]

My daughter is a freshman at Northwestern. I have told her of all the famous/infamous politicians that went there starting with Rahm and Blago. I hope her conservative roots are deeply planted

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

The Gawker hit may have been the Bridge Too Far.

I think you're right macphisto....and someone here at JOM posted how well O'Donnell has been doing in interviews.

[Porchlight]

Thanks so much, hit, for the PUK remembrances, and Ann for the reposting of the Gore candle wick head. LOL.

I'll be busy with kid stuff on Sunday evening but I should make it onto the computer by 10 pm Central, I hope, to celebrate Peter's birthday with all of you.

[Porchlight]

daddy, this is all so great. I hope you're enjoying every minute of it! Just wish I wasn't so busy at work so I could keep up with all the Alaska reports...

I think that is supremely interesting, about Coons canceling the remaining debates and Obama heading back to campaign. Palin is going there this weekend with the Tea Party Express, isn't she?

An O'Donnell victory would be the sweetest of all takedowns for me this election. I wish her all the best.

[Frau Dinkelbrot]

For daddy's prospective protocol manager:If not curtsy or bow,how about salute and/or throw kisses?

Clarice,I read elsewhere that the Mercowshitz campaign is handing out bracelets.

[Thomas Collins]

Thanks for the heads-up on nas.org, rse. That's a great site.

Mikey, my youngest sometimes tends to the PC side of things, but she has worked throughout high school and college including a stint cleaning rooms at an inn at the end of the Dalton Highway in Alaska. And she is known to use her considerable wit against campus PCness.

By the way, when my youngest was in Alaska, daddy and one of his kids sent my youngest a care package, which she really appreciated. So daddy not only leads political uprisings in Alaska, he also takes care of wayward eastern suburbanites who finds themselves near the Arctic Ocean and the caribou!

[Porchlight]

The Dan Riehl story on daddy's inspirational call to Fagan is great. Nice to see that a certain tipster gave him the heads up. :)

daddy, after all your careful monitoring of the race (and especially of Fagan's commentary), and coverage of it here at JOM, who knew that everything would have come together in this way?

[hit and run]

I miss you Porchlight -- and while I generally keep my travels secret until after I've pulled off a visit with a JOMer -- I will just have to confess to everyone else that I am in Texas,not far from Porchlight,but that my agenda did not make if feasible for us to get together,despite Porchlight's gracious flexibility.

I was **this** close to meeting little Robert. Arrgh.

Now I'm shooting for Christmas. Don't worry little Robert,uncle hit will meet you soon!

[Melinda Romanoff]

That's probably going to leave a scar on you Holder.

HAH!

[Old Lurker]

RSE and TC regarding the speech codes etc at top schools...

When my SIL (that would be Capt YL, ret to JOMers) was engineering his exit from the Marines and into B School, we had a grand time laughing at the catalogs from top B Schools falling all over themselves pushing their Green-ness and their "sensitivities" and their global citizen-ness. My own was as guilty as the others, sad to say. Now two months into the program he selected, his biggest surprise was how low the testosterone levels are among his classmates. He says he has to go play at a rugby club just to be around men.

So the cancer spreads and spreads.

[centralcal]

Rush just said on air that he was contacted by Mike Allen of Politico last night about a story they are working on. The premise is that someone in the Republican leadership has told Politico that Republicans are meeting to find someone to pit against Sarah Palin as a Presidential candidate.

Rove?

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

Why would they contact Rush?

[Ranger]

Hearing Coons has cancelled all remaining debates (2) with O'Donnell.

And Obama's heading to DE to campaign.

I smell blood.

Posted by: Melinda Romanoff | October 29, 2010 at 01:29 PM

Yes, the indicators keep piling up. Coons reverses and says he will vote to extend all of the Bush tax cuts. Then word that Coons is running negative adds against O'Donnell. The post earlier this week that Dems were going into DefCon1 looking for more money for Coons. Now backing out of debates with the race tightening makes him look like he is running and hiding.

The Gawker hit sounds like something set up a couple weeks ago to be used only as a last resort. Coons' internals must be very scary indeed.

[Porchlight]

Don't worry little Robert,uncle hit will meet you soon!

Absolutely, hit, and I miss you, too. Christmas for sure. It will be a special one!

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

Boy the administration is having a really bad day.

[centralcal]

Jane: I don't know. I think Mike Allen contacted him via email and wanted to know if he would "tape" his response. I think Rush said he hadn't answered yet because he was busy.

I am at work and trying to listen and answer phones, so I may have it botched.

Anyone else listening in?

[matt]

OL;

It must be in the water. We are living in an emasculated society. The flip side is that a lot of those who would seem to be Alphas are really narcissistic boobs.

[Old Lurker]

True that, Matt.

[Alaska Senate Candidate Daddy's prospective Protocol Manager]

Salute or throw kisses?

Once again, I call upon us all to reject those divisive voices calling us to choose between greater and greatest; better and best; good and gooder; &tc...

One should approach my future employer with bows and curtseys (proper posture is aided by extending a case of Guinness in supplication). Kisses and salutes are appropriate--but ensure that they are performed sequentially rather than consecutively.

[Porchlight]

I detest John Kerry so much:

“It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds,” Kerry said. “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in. It’s all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics.”

[Alaska Senate Candidate Daddy's one-time prospective Protocol Director]

Concurrently.

Rats! Back to the unemployment line again, I suppose.

[Janet the tea-vangelist!]

Shut up & sit down John.

[Melinda Romanoff]

OL-

I'm aiming to fix that.

Bad timing on the 'Skins game.

There are more.

[centralcal]

Rush is talking about Alaska Chaos now.

[Melinda Romanoff]

DNC chair says "no sign of GOP wave in early voting".

Well Tim, if you took your nose out of the playbook, you just might be able to make it to higher ground, in time.

Heh-heh-heh.

(AJ Strata breaks down the early PA vote.)

[Dave (in MA)]

We Have to Pass the Bill So You Can Find out What's In It: http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2010/102010/10292010/584616>No more using your Flexible Spending Account for OTC meds, thanks to ObamaCare.

[Jack is Back!]

JOMOs - What a coup! Played my regular Friday golf outing and came back to see that all hell has broke out in Alaska due to the all the tribes communicating and successfully launching an attack against that lonely wagon out there with the Leeza Moocowski bumper sticker on it. Congratulations!

And it was ROTFLMAO time when I saw the list of write-ins. We the people will not be denied and I smell blood - big time -even in Deleware. Well done, Hit, Daddy and Dan Reihl as well as Big Government. Ya, think the republican establishment in Washington and around the country are shaking in their Florsheims?

[Captain Hate]

An O'Donnell victory would be the sweetest of all takedowns for me this election. I wish her all the best.

For a variety of reasons, this is the one I want victory in the most.

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

JIB,

Are you ever going to tell me what the second "o" in JOMO stands for? I feel so out of touch.

[Porchlight]

Wow, the graph (too large to post here) at Mel's AJ Strata link sure is purty.

I also noticed (maybe AJ mentioned it) that the differential in early voting turnout by party in PA (55R/39D) almost exactly mirrors the Gallup generic ballot (55R/40D). Pretty cool.

[maryrose]

Captain Hate:
Ann Coulter agrees with you re: O"Donnell as do I. Last pioll has her down 10 but wasn't that similar to her standing against Mike Castle and then she surged at the end. I am hopeful that she has enough time this weekend to pull it out. She sounded great on Hannity. When you talk the issues Coons doesn't know jack and I was suspicious of his flip-flop on the raising taxes issue. Manchin In wV is the same thing. Don't be fooled, just like Webb and Warner these guys are O'bama's minions. Remember Reid called Coons his little pet...