Red Storm Rising

Now polling suggests Dems will gain House seats, Reps will gain Senate seats. 

Stark political divide points to a split decision in midterm elections

By Paul Kane The Washington Post   Oct 13, 2018

WASHINGTON — The divide in American politics is so stark that analysts are beginning to predict something that seldom happens: One party could make big gains in the House while the other adds seats in the Senate.

Not since 1970 has a midterm election provided such a split verdict, and only two other presidential elections, in 1996 and 1972, have demonstrated such division in congressional elections.

Now, particularly after the contentious Senate confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Democratic energy is up in the suburban districts that will determine the House majority — just as Republicans claim conservative voters have been jolted awake in rural states that will determine the Senate majority.

 Democrats could gain more than the 23 seats needed to take the House majority, which would normally be considered a “wave election” for Democrats up and down the ballot.

But Senate Republicans have gone from clinging to the narrowest of margins, a 51-to-49 majority, to believing they will gain seats, possibly three, the sort of result that would normally mean the national GOP had a very good night.

 

If I can spin the dial on election night and see tears in the eyes of both Rachel AND the Foxies it's a good night.

 

Comments

[narciso]

That later link was from jack engelhardt the Hollywood screen writer.

[Pinandpuller]

Steve Taylor-This Disco Used to Be a Cute Cathedral

https://youtu.be/BW15pwCnows

[JimNorCal]

Has anyone seen the Gosnel film?

[JimNorCal]

"Gosnell"

[boatbuilder]

I'm about 1/3 through "Chappaquidick"-I've been distracted by tedious baseball. I am intrigued--it does seem to move pretty slowly and I wonder how much of the recreation is speculation and how much is based on actual witness accounts. The acting is good and I'm surprised that some real B-list types would put their necks out. Also makes me miss the old Cape a little.

Also Jane--Don't give away how it ends!! ;^)

[Another Bob]

“The Leverage President”

http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=15302

[Miss Marple]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GodlessNZ/status/1051588824915050497

This is a thread from a gal I follow in New Zealand,who both is a big Trump fan and also follows the Royal Family.

She points out why Trump made a positive post about Princess Eugenie.

[narciso]

Even then nearly 60 years ago, the new yorker was taken in, in this case Hannah arendt who eichman played her like a guitar, pretending to show unawareness when he was meticulously dedicated to his task.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Hillary might be bi-polar but her behavior is a lot more consistent with a personality disorder like narcissism, though they often overlap and she has plenty of borderline traits as well.
Narcissists and sociopaths are very near cousins if not simply slightly different spots on the same spectrum.
She's entitled, parasitic, pathologically dishonest, grandiose, utterly lacks empathy and pretty much the rest of the nine traits of the narcissist.

[JM Hanes]

maryrose:

Thanks. I wasn't challenging your opinion on that, I had just never thought of bi-polar in connection with Hillary. I also wasn't aware that paranoia was associated with bi-polar often enough to make the list of possible symptoms (which I looked up after reading your explanation). For any thoughtful voter her plaint that, "They were never going to let me be President" should be a presidential disqualifier on its face.

Maybe we should draw up a symptom list for Hillary Dichotomous Disorder (starting with alternating fits of Hillaria and Hilligulation), along with Hillary Co-dependency, a nervous disorder exclusive to misguided feminists.

[Pinandpuller]

David Meece feat. JS Bach-You Can Go

https://youtu.be/2gdcFFBKjGs

[rich]

thanks Porchlight and Ex. still wondering ... oh yeah, the Saudi's liquidating a dissident over in Turkey is the final straw ... sure, sure, sure.

i'll go so far out on the limb that even if they did do so i still don't care.

probably someone's trading strategy ... buy the headlines, sell the news.

[Extraneus]

Nice link, Bob.

[rich]

Posted by: The Infamous Ignatz | October 14, 2018 at 07:41 PM

and thankfully, she will never be president.

[boatbuilder]

someone pointed out the bridge. The disconnect between the public myth spread by The Boston Globe and the reality was astonishing.

[narciso]

How is it Chris rock put it, in a different context, I don't agree with it but I understand.

But the audience is the likes of corked bat, and Lindsay who seems to have run put of vitaveta vegemin.

[Extraneus]

The ETF is KSA, rich. I'm thinking about it.

[GUS]

Ig and Rich, the cackling pig, is in a prison of her own demise. She is tortured far more than being water or vodka boarded. No husband, no love, no job, no future, no health, no real friends.
A lonely, bitter old bitch who could never be punished as much as she deserves.
And Benghazi is a joke to the FULL COMMIE LEFT. Just a few more dead in the STRUGGLE.

[rich]

good point earlier JM Hanes on sanctions.

[Miss Marple]

Recommend reading Another Bob's post at 7:37.

It's quite astute.

[narciso]

This is another trust worthy source, among a select few:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jenanmoussa/status/1048925781085310976?p=v

[rich]

Posted by: Extraneus | October 14, 2018 at 07:47 PM

better you than me. someone is going to get his arms ripped off if it is in fact a trading strategy.

[Extraneus]

Better to call it an opportunity, rich.

[boatbuilder]

"What this says is Trump is getting better at being president and better at using his brand as a weapon in Washington. I’ve said since the beginning that Trump is a very rare guy, who instinctively knows how others view him. He uses your perception of him as part of the sales pitch. It’s why many people find his boasting to be so amusing. When he does it, his supporters feel like they are in on the joke. They get that he knows it is boast and that it irritates the Left. He turns what his critics call a character flaw into an asset."

This.

From ABob's post.

[narciso]

There was a instance with a similar intent to drive a wedge between the us and the kingdom, in the first dewey andreas tale, the detAils were different.

[Jack is Back!]

You want 4D then take Trump calling out KSA on Khassogi. He knowcalles its not them but a Turk with help from Iran. He may not even be dead but Donald knew he needed to call them out whoever they are. Not KSA

Why would they risk all that for a nobody to them an MBA reforms?

[rich]

Posted by: Extraneus | October 14, 2018 at 07:55 PM

i'll buy a megamillions ticket and call it an opportunity ... safer at least.

[narciso]

Considering the gaslighting attwndent in the financial post, the villain then was a islamist Lebanese businessman.

[Janet 🚬]

((Has anyone seen the Gosnell film?))

I did just today. Got home just a bit ago. It was good.
Almost all the movies I go to nowadays are ones that I want to support...so I make myself go.
I've got a lousy attention span.
I've even bought tickets & NOT gone to some...
But Gosnell is good.

I'm so thankful to all the people involved. There was a real struggle to get it distributed (? not sure of the terminology)
Andrew Klavan was a screenwriter for it.

"I don’t imagine that there’s anybody that’s in favor of what Dr. Gosnell did."
“What we tried to do with the movie is make something that both sides of the issue could see and benefit from." - Director Nick Searcy

https://www.theepochtimes.com/gosnell-director-not-a-sermon-just-a-good-movie_2688805.html

It made me grateful for all us Deplorables out here that shared info about Gosnell on social media back when it was happening.
The evil criminality would have been totally hidden by the MFM otherwise.

[rich]

seems the gaslighting on it is global

ripped from the headlines

>>>Oil could hit $200 ‘or even double that figure’: Saudis threaten to retaliate against any sanctions …<<<

[narciso]

Based on what some anonymous source coming from where exactly I think this is a Goldman play way back.

[JM Hanes]

Another Bob:

Interesting article at the Z Blog. The description of Trumps' "leveraging" modus operandi makes sense, but I was particularly stuck by the idea that Trump is now making the Republican party his own, and idea that has also begun to break the surface elsewhere.

Beyond the unifying effect of his staunch support of Kavanaugh, one of the most obvious ways he is doing this has nothing to do declassifying FISA docs or shaking up Mueller and the DoJ or all the other things we've been impatiently awaiting here. It seems to me that he has decided that hanging onto Congress is his number 1 political job right now, a priority which is clearly reflected in the utterly unprecedented amount of campaigning he has undertaken for the mid-term elections. Have we ever seen anything like it? Obama spent an inordinate amount of time raising money, but I don't remember him turning out the base for folks other than himself much. GWB spent less time at it, but his appearances on the trail were largely focused on fund raisers and fund raising too. That's not what Trump is doing out there, and if by some miracle we keep the House, I think we, and the Republican party will owe it to Trump.

[boatbuilder]

'O'Rourke put [Joe] Kennedy [III] behind the wheel Saturday after he and his wife, Amy, went to pick up Kennedy and his wife, Lauren, at the Corpus Christi airport — an implicit rebuttal to a dig Cruz had taken the day before.

"By the way," Cruz "joked" while stumping in Houston, "he had Joe Kennedy down here campaigning with him. And Joe Kennedy was driving him around. I have to admit, it may be the first time in history anyone's ever asked a Kennedy to drive."

This is hilarious, and Beto and the Dems are all snitty about it. Ted seems to have gotten over being hurt about Trump and has learned a thing or two.

BTW did Beto need a driver because of license issues?

[Pinandpuller]

JimNorCal

I hadn't realized that Nick Searcey not only starred in it but directed it.

It's interesting that the same people who support HUAC FULL COMMIES and guys like Aykroyd who wanted to blackball Michael Chiklis are just as bad or worse than McCarthy. Unexpectedly.

[JM Hanes]

Thanks, rich. Nice to see you -- so early!

Very funny, boatbuilder!

[JimNorCal]

JMH 8:18
Excellent point. I'm also struck by the "two front" struggle.
PDJT has to fight the Dem/media/celebs/professoriate/bureaucracy complex of course.
But he also has to redesign the Repub Party In opposition to GOPe while keeping the Congress moving forward.
In this midterm he may have pulled it off, at least the heavy lifting. I thought it would be a MUCH more painful transition.

[rich]

it is inarguable that Florida has been hit by worse hurricanes than Michael.

Andrew comes to mind. Okeechobee. The Keys.

we're all gonna die from climate change.

[Janet 🚬]

Who is Beto?...Do you mean Robert Francis O'Rourke ?

[rich]

Posted by: JM Hanes | October 14, 2018 at 08:24 PM

brought to mind something i had written before.

[narciso]

Oh you betcha rich, how retarded is this going to get.

[rich]

Posted by: Janet 🚬 | October 14, 2018 at 08:28 PM

the fake name for the white dude running in Texas.

he's losing in the polls too.

[JimNorCal]

Mr PnP, not sure who Nick Searcy is. But when I clicked on "cast" the display started showing me row after row of faces. A whole ton of people.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Scientists didn't used to have a political agenda unless they were Soviets trying to escape and even then the only agenda was freedom.

Today, the research is sometimes crap because of expected outcomes baked into the DOE's. And unfortunately in academia, most are good Party members. We know how that plays out. The food pyramid is good. The food pyramid is bad. The food pyramid is toxic masculine propaganda.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Nick Searcy was Raylan Givens boss in Justified, if that helps any, JNC.

[rich]

Mother Earth is some 5 billion years old, old enough to take care of herself.

[narciso]

He was raylans boss on justified and if you go even farther back he was the security chief on the time travel series seven days.

[boatbuilder]

Janet--when the story about Beto's drunk-driving escapade came out some wag at Ace said : "Now he can run as a real Irishman instead of a fake Mexican."

[rich]

damn it a 3 run double.

[boatbuilder]

Apparently he was just burnishing his Kennedy bona-fides.

[Pinandpuller]

Michael W Smith-Agnus Dei

https://youtu.be/B2lhR2aBpo0

[Jack is Back!]

Mahomes fails first set of downs. I do not that kid is too concerned snout that. If O’Brady doesn’t score on their first possession then Mahomes is free. Watch out!

[Another Bob]

Pats didn’t score on their first possession JIB.

[narciso]

I went 20 years back for that last reference, where he starred with the younger lapaglia brother.

[boatbuilder]

The idea that a Texas politician in 2018 thinks that pretending to be a Kennedy is a campaign asset is both amusing and frightening to this Massachusetts boy.

[rich]

the only surprise will be the fake Mexican Beta losing by 17 points ... but the fundraising scam is A+.

[Jack is Back!]

AB,

I don’t think that FG was on their second possession.

[narciso]

Well creepy born lawyer stuck his snout into the whole mess.

[Jack is Back!]

Can’t stay awake. So, slaap lekker, tot morgen.

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

[boatbuilder]

Welcome to the NFL Mr. Mahomes.

[Pinandpuller]

Psalm 104 sung in ancient Hebrew

https://youtu.be/--UABwqW9Sg

Is there any other kind?-Greg Gutfeldt

[Pinandpuller]

In Shondaland 50% of the people are gay surgeons.

[narciso]

Tater has to keep up

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReliableSources/status/1051570992240189441

Qatar checks from brookings won't write themselves you know.

[Janet 🚬]

Try again....

I was jokin' about the name. I cross out Beto on any FB posts & put in Robert Francis O'Rourke.

[narciso]

Robertico, little bobby o'rourke Wendy Davis, hold my beer.

[Pinandpuller]

JimNorCal

Your new assignment is to binge watch Justified.

[boatbuilder]

Hmmm--Pink tennis shoes. Another fundraising idea for Beto.

[Pinandpuller]

Raylan Givens sizzle reel https://youtu.be/6vNRZCLgxng

[jimmyk]

Fapper stepping on a rake again, snarking on Trump for referring to Kentucky as a "state" instead of a "commonwealth." Of course he has the usual sycophantic replies, but a bunch like, "Jake, how many states are there in the US?" and showing his own network referring to Kentucky as the Bluegrass State.

[Janet 🚬]

I had a strike through link to use for FB but typepad won't let me post it.

It doesn't matter....

I don't care AT ALL about the Saudi/Turkish story.

Nobody cared about the Christians that had the 'nun' letter painted on their homes to mark them for killing.
That old priest murdered in France was a big yawn to the MFM.
I don't know...
It is an endless list of innocents being butchered by Middle Eastern kooks.

Just keep them out of America.

[narciso]

I think the is nasrani, nazarene, which is the Arab word for Christian.

[GUS]

Funny how a 70 year old clown, thinks he can post nonsense, and sway us.

Go to your parents graves Ward. And apologize for what you are.

[jim nj]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/fifth-century-childs-skeleton-shows-evidence-of-vampire-burial/

[The Infamous Ignatz]

Nine dead viruses on the Dhaulagiri massif; Ben rejoices.

[Jane#walkaway]

Boatbuilder, you know how it ends. I followed it very closely when it was going on, and I think it's pretty accurate. Joe however blew my mind.

[daddy]

Good Morning. Very nice to see Clarice's Piece getting excellent linkage!

Just read Hugh Hewitt's interview with John Bolton on the previous thread and I wondered if there was a single thing that Bolton could point to that he thought was a sensible or positive Foreign Policy move made by the Obama Administration. My guess is he would have to say "No." Maybe the taking out of Osama Bin Ladin, but I'd need to know what we did or intentionally did not do with the Intel we supposedly reaped from that Seal Team Mission to say if it was an unmitigated positive.

BoSox and Houston live on the lounge TV in our fancy new Hotel on the Bund in Shanghai. I found the remote control and swapped from the odious CNN to Channel 46, Star Sports-2. Catch-up begins. Cheerio.

BTW, Killfile on Firefox does not work over here, damn ChiComs@#$% They censor everybody who shouldn't be censored, and uncensor everybody who should be censored. Now I have to scroll past our resident morons:(

[narciso]

Well they seem to buried most of the Intel on boko and other al She's a affiliated, they got awlaki later in the year but that was probably because of Morten storm and perhaps the undeclared said I asset.

[Neo]

Vox:
So it’s perfectly reasonable to ask if we should abolish the Supreme Court, or at the very least strip the Court of its ability to overturn laws that it rules unconstitutional. If the Court is no longer a neutral arbiter of the law, if it’s gradually shape-shifting into a partisan weapon, then maybe it’s time to rethink its role in our constitutional system.

Elections have consequences

[rich]

ought to link some of the sweet liberal tears from 2016 in an attempt to find a clip of what Maguire was talking about up thread...

[Janet 🚬]

Things have gotten pretty simple:

Jobs Not Mobs!
**Vote Republican**

Vote Republican - We Don't Hate Men

Vote Republican - We Are For Due Process, Evidence, & the Presumption of Innocence

Vote Republican - We Oppose Vandalism & Assault

Vote Republican - Support LEGAL Immigration

Vote Republican - Fewer Taxes, Fewer Regulations, More Freedom

[rich]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTnpN2H34A

the end of the world!

[narciso]

So one musattribution:

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2018/10/15/Turkish-police-uncover-blatant-media-inaccuracy-in-Khashoggi-tweets-expert.html

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--If the Court is no longer a neutral arbiter of the law, if it’s gradually shape-shifting into a partisan weapon...--

How demented and dishonest, not unreasonable or confused or honorably wrong, does one have to be to not only write something that mendacious but to edit and print it?

Ben should love Trump; he is magically revealing that the entire Dem party, MSM and progressives in general have always been insane, totalitarian, lying anarcho-syndicalists just like him behind the mask all along.

[daddy]

From Michael's Goodwin's column on catch-up:

To my knowledge, no Democrat denounced the violent attack on Republican headquarters in Manhattan, complete with anarchist graffiti and broken windows.

Not Gov. Cuomo, not Mayor de Blasio, not Senators Chuck Schumer or Kirsten Gillibrand. Usually you can’t shut them up, but this time not a peep about the violence. Hillary Clinton’s lips are also sealed.

Their silence is their shame.

[rich]

watching them all cry ... hahahahahahaha.

[anonamom]

Ten year anniversary of William Jacobson's Legal Insurrection

https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/10/legal-insurrection-is-10-years-old/

[jimmyk]

This was the tweet that seemed to suggest Khashoggi's "fiancee" in that photoshop was a guy in drag, for what it's worth. Tom R had a link yesterday that led to it:

https://twitter.com/fahad_Binsaad_/status/1050372962686251009

[rich]

Obama put his entire administration to illegally spy and undermine the Trump Campaign ... and they still couldn't drag that drunk over the finish line.

[jimmyk]

How demented and dishonest, not unreasonable or confused or honorably wrong, does one have to be to not only write something that mendacious but to edit and print it?

It's right out of Orwell. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.

Case number 1,439 of the left accusing the right of what they themselves have done for decades. To support rescinding activist, unconstitutional rulings is--you guessed it--"judicial activism."

[Janet 🚬]

Hey rich...I got ya a bottle of Trump wine.
Next time we get together for coffee it's yours.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

--It's right out of Orwell. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.--

Except it's more like Animal Farm and "four legs good, two legs bad."
As long as the SCOTUS was partisan in a generally prog direction it was good and should survive. As soon as it looks like it might not serve party function, time to liquidate kulaks.

[narciso]

I've long since referred to a novel that the future mr stahl, wrote back in the 70s, about the company where he made a character much like jim angleton, if not the hero:

https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2018/10/trump-owns-60-minutes.html?spref=fb&m=1

[narciso]

Certainly the smartest person in the room, the protagonist was a,wet behind the years company analyst.

[Pinandpuller]

narciso

Yes, an insult from an Edgar Rice Burroughs'
Book was ,"Dog of a nasrani."

[Pinandpuller]

Barbecueing hot dogs at an animal rights protest

https://youtu.be/xgKCBnUJ4HU

[The Infamous Ignatz]

I think the climate change hysteria along with the nutso unending debt bubbles of the last few decades demonstrate Charles MacKay was wrong in asserting there is anything extraordinary about popular delusions. On the contrary; they seem to be the natural state of man.
The beasts of the field are positively rational compared to the mass of humanity.

[rich]

here are the most delusional takes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuvRh2Olhfw

lol.

never gets old.

[rich]

>>>Hey rich...I got ya a bottle of Trump wine.
Next time we get together for coffee it's yours.

Posted by: Janet 🚬 | October 14, 2018 at 09:55 PM<<<

thank you. unexpected and very nice. we'll have to get together soon.

[jimmyk]

No comments about Trump on 60 Minutes? I didn't watch, but here are a couple of video excerpts of Trump owning Lesley Stahl:

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brent-baker/2018/10/14/trump-talks-dishonest-media-stahl-cuts-him-trump-zings-im-president

She started off talking about hurricanes as evidence of "climate change." It evidently went downhill from there.

[The Infamous Ignatz]

New whiny Yankee baby thread. :p

[narciso]

I posted it at 10:10 in an aside.