Surveying the political landscape this morning we spy a few flowers in the ashes. Colorado elected John Hickenlooper governor by a wide margin — though Bibleburg went big for racist asshat Tom Tancredo — and it appears that Sen. Michael Bennet has won a squeaker over the Weld County Whacko, Ken “Aw, She Was Beggin’ for It” Buck.
It’s not yet clear whether the Repuglicans will slide to minority-party status here — the jabbering incompetent Dan Maes, who came in a very distant third in the gubernatorial race, needs to poll 10 percent for that to happen, and The Post pegs him at 10.6 percent with the Boulder County returns yet to come in.
Here in scenic whackopolitan Bibleburg, the intelligent, hard-working Michael Merrifield naturally got beaten like a rented mule in his race for the county commission, and fuckwit Doug Lamborn easily kept his gig in the House. But it looks like Donk Pete Lee will be going to the Colorado House, and likewise John Morse to the Colorado Senate.
Nationwide, of course, we’re looking at a train wreck, with the Elefinks picking up more than 60 seats in the House, defying the usual statistical models in historical fashion. In short, the Donks got stomped like the floor at an Arthur Murray Dance studio on flamenco night, which Kevin Drum says may be attributed to “both tactical and policy missteps,” noting that things might look even worse today had the Pachyderms not bet on so many clearly unhinged teabaggers instead of the usual moderately deranged candidates.
This is not to say that reasonableness prevailed, of course. Steve Benen flags a glimpse of what Salon called “the 10 most terrifying would-be congressmen,” adding that half of them won on Tuesday.
The good news is that it’s Hump Day. The bad news is, we got humped last night.
• Late update: We’ve been having technical difficulties with the DogS(h)ite again today, so two quick announcements while I still have the microphone: First, Rep. Jim Oberstar got the hook in Minnesota, and thus we have lost a powerful cycling advocate in DeeCee. Second, if you don’t see any updates here in the next 24 hours, come see me at https://maddogmedia.wordpress.com. The fartblossoms at Hostcentric must be Republicans.
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Dems need to seriously grow a pair and go back to the drawing board or its gonna be even worse in 2012. In a long NPR piece last weekend, someone blasted them for hiding under the proverbial desk whenever challenged on union or class issues by the Elefinks. Um…who the hell has actually been guilty of class warfare for the last twenty or thirty years?
Not to mention, get rid of that stupid, insipid symbol for the Dem party. It reminds me all too much of my first semester Organic Chemistry grade during my sophomore year of college. Not to mention, the grade the American people gave to the Donks last night.
Its working right now, Patrick. Or, as we old farts like to say, anything can get it up once in a while.
Don’t feel so bad, Padraig, mi amigo. Wait’ll you see what the good folks in Pennsyltucky sent to the “Most Exclusive Club In The World,” aka the U.S. Senate. Our man Pat Toomey, from right here Veloville, Lehigh Valley, literally just up the hill from the nation’s best outdoor track, managed to slip under the radar of some of the most astute BS detectors in the nation for the simple fact that he managed to keep his batshit ravings to a minimum while the rest of the Tea Party crowd couldn’t keep their pieholes shut if Wicked Witch Christine O’Donnell had joined Lord Voldemort for a Petricifuck-us Totalus spell that would have rendered Hubert Horatio Humphrey speechless.
Oh, but just wait until January. The whole nation is gonna see that this crazy sonovabitch makes Jim Bunning look like Teddy Kennedy. Yep, just send yer thank-you notes straight to the Keystone State — best described by Ragin’ Cajun Jimmy Carville as “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh separated by Alabama.” And then throw away the key, because the inmates have truly taken over the asylum.
Bill Clinton got whacked in a similar fashion but for “Slick Willie” things turned out OK…can Obama be as smart and/or lucky? At least this contest proved you must be more than just a kook or rich to get elected as Meg “Ebay” Whitman, Carly “HP” Fiorina or Christine “I’m not a witch, just a ditz” O’Donnell demonstrated by losing…it seemed to take a combination of whacky, right-wing rhetoric and boatloads of cash to get enough votes.
Speaking of cash — Benny Bernanke’s announced he’s gonna print up 600 billion fresh greenbacks and toss ’em up in the air in a last- ditch effort to jump-start the US economy! And if it doesn’t work? Anybody who still has a job and/or cash could find those greenbacks getting close to worthless.
We’re going to Italy in a few weeks….maybe we’ll just stay there!
Printing money on this scale is almost as scary a thought as “Senator O’Donnell”. In inflation-ridden Weimar Germany, it took a wheelbarrow full of worthless marks to buy a few groceries. I doubt Benny “the Printing Press” Bernanke is planning on hyperinflation, but I fail to see how the Government can “create” wealth out of thin air. If I tried that, they would call it counterfeiting.
Small wonder no one trusts government.
Hey, Teabaggers, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. What are they going to do once they actually have to put forth some ideas for legislation, serve on committees, hire staff, and all the other things elected officials have to do. I can see one of these bone heads submit a bill to his/her/its committee to “take back our country” or the ever popular “reduce the size of government”. What do you mean by “how”? This should be fun times, instead, it will probably end up like a brawl on the senate floor of some third world country. Well, that’s where we might be headed anyhow.
Yeah… I like the whole print up $600 Billion and buy up government debt bit, beats working. I guess the purchased debt just evaporates. Cool… If I could only print money.
re: Private Economic Stimulus Packages – I’m really liking the folks that spent serious cash-ola to lose and election. Ms. McMahon dropped $50 million and got approximately 500k votes – $100/per vote. Ms. Whitman dropped $142 million and got 3.1 million votes. She is obviously a much better shopper since each vote only cost her $46.
First Holland, then Spain followed by The British empire, and now the good old USA; all down the shitter!
So far ol’ Benny’s got the world stock markets juiced up…how long will this bubble last before bursting? And of course those 600 BILLION freshly printed greenbacks are now worth a LOT less when it comes time to buy euros (back in June we could buy ’em for $1.22 and today they’re $1.42) so THANKS BENNY! Our fake wealth in the stock market’s way up while our real assets in the bank get ever more worthless. I’m sure Benny’s got his loot in other currency stashed in Switzerland or somewhere similar.