Random Nuclear Strikes

Yes, I’d been reading and watching the MSM reports about how bad it was going to be, but you didn’t expect me to think they were going to be right, did you?

I mean, even those of us here in the deep, deep socialist blue of Washington State were able to hold off the Nutroots candidates Darcy Burner in the 8th, Goldmark in the 5th and Wright in the 4th. Granted, we didn’t get any new Repubs into the House, but holding back “The Three (D) Stooges” is damn commendable.

Especially with the weather problems.

The name of the town they “R Stuk N” is Carnation. I knew they got it pretty bad, even compared to what my end of town got, but not quite that bad. Pic found at SoundPolitics. They said they got it from Hugh Hewitt.

And I don’t understand what kind of one-eyed, ejaculating monkey with a #2 pencil could vote for any of the House incumbents and not for Senate incumbent Maria Cantwell’s (R) opponent, Mike McGavick, but I guess that there are certain things in the universe we are not supposed to understand.

On the upside, what with the national results the way they are, the Nutroots don’t seem too miffed about their weeinies losing.

The Dems have taken the House, and most likely the Senate. I’m at the Dem party at the Sheraton, and everbody is hopped, but I’m heading out to Bellevue where Darcy is currently behind in a tight race. I’ve got no idea where any of the numbers are coming from, so I don’t know what her prospects are, but as always, I’d rather be ahead than behind. Cantwell won, the bad initiatives lost, and we’re picking up a bunch of seats in the state legislature. Darcy would be the icing on the cake… but the cake’s pretty damn tasty on its own.

Ain’t it nice how the left just sort of forgets about the candidates they supported so hard when they don’t win? Makes people want to be part of the team!

So far as I can tell, the Senate is still a tossup. Webb keeps declaring victory in VA, but there is a high probability of a recount. Tester in MT looks to be the winner, but as Craig at MT Policits lays out, there are a few places left to count.

For your convenience, and so that Montanians won’t have to listen to the names of places in the state be butchered by the MSM, Craig has been ever so kind as to whip up a pronunciation guide. Locals will find it hilarious. Folks who’ve visited will get a chuckle.

If you click the Webb link above, it will take you to The Lovers of Lamont homeblog, FireDogLake. For them, in rememberance of their loss to Lieberman last night, I would like to just post this pic that they expected to be able to show to Lieberman supporters.

I just don’t want them to forget their intentions.

If you do actually click the Webb link above though, and then scroll down, you will see poster Parachutec trying to play off that not only was it a Democrat sweep, but that they “Pitched a Shutout”. He does it in this McCaskill post as well.

Do not believe it! Do not let them spread this bullshit line!

The (R)’s were able to eek out two new House seat pick-ups (IN-7 and GA-1). Yeah, two versus twenty-two isn’t shit, but I’m not going to have these freaks try and claim a mandate, which you can see Parachutec also do in the McCaskill link above. TRex of FireDogLake tries to claim a mandate as well in his post titled “Subpeonea Powers: Activate!”

Let us not forget that since WWII, a normal loss of Seats in the House for a second term executive in his sixth year is nearly twice the 22 seats the Dems won this week, AND they still haven’t taken the Senate.

The only mandate going on that I can see is a self-love man-date in Charlie Rangel’s bedroom as he pulls his box of tissues under the covers and tries to not wake his wife up while he thinks about holding the government’s purse strings for a couple years.

Sorry for that mental picture.

On the bright side, a government divided is one that doesn’t usually spend a whole lot. Maybe we’ll see Bush finally become “VetoMan”, though I’m not getting my hopes set too high on that one.

I guess all I have left to say now is: You have made a recent large quantity ammo purchase lately, haven’t you?

Yes, I realized that taking the week before the election off kind of held me back in posting election items. But better late than never!

First up, Sharkansky at Sound Politics posts to let us know that there are new guidelines from Washington Secretary of State, Sam Reed, as to how to “divine voter intent”.

Myself, I don’t believe in voter intent. If it isn’t clear to a 1st grader who was selected then the voter has no intent, is quite possibly too stupid to vote and deserves to have that portion of their ballot thrown out.

Eric Earling at Sound Politics decided to frighten folks (I guess he didn’t get enough out of Halloween) by posing a scary scenario:

More seriously, the story closes with a reference to the possibility of all eyes in the nation turning to the 8th Congressional District if the race is close, AND if control of the House of Representatives hangs in the balance.

What?!?

King County counting ballots for control of the House? Oh, [insert profanity of choice here]! We’d make Florida in 2000 look like kindergarten.

The chance of such events is small, but the thought, terrifying.

I don’t quake in my boots very often, but I was when I read that!

John at Some Poor Schmuck lets us know that the Democrats, defenders of illegal alien voter rights, proponents of “Mail Only” voting and thinkers of positive thoughts on the subject of a “Vote-By-Phone” system, don’t think that the military can be trusted to help deployed service members vote by e-mail.

I am in the 9th Congressional District of Washington and will be voting for Steven Cofchin (R). However, if I lived in the 6th Congressional District, I’d be voting for Doug Cloud (R).

Friend and co-worker, Paul, sent me a link to Cloud’s website when he found that Cloud promises to follow former US Senator Harry P. Cain’s 10 Commandments

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
3. You cannot help small men by tearing big men down.
4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
5. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative.
10. You cannot really help men by having the government tax them to do for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Sounds like a good man to me. I dare any Democrat anywhere in the nation make the same promise.

For a quick look into the history of Harry P. Cain, here is a Wiki page that I found to be quite accurate. Let me just add that he served alongside Warren G. Magnuson (D) and was succeeded by Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D).

Of course, this was back when the (D) stood for “Strong on (D)efense”. Unlike today, when it stands for “(D)ipshit”.

Bumped 

And no less a Democrat than Orson Scott Card. Yes, that Orson Scott Card, he of Ender’s Game fame (and a lot of other books, too; Songmaster was one of my mentor David Pool’s favorites — it has a lot of “inside baseball” about vocal technique and what it takes to be a master-class singer). Card writes:

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

Read the whole thing.

Oh yeah, his new book Empire looks like it might be worth checking out. Sounds similar to what Rivrdog‘s been warning us to preparing for.