Concession Speech

"I am Martha Coakley. And while this might ring nearly as hollow to you as when my plastic surgeon Carlos first said it to me, I'd like to say I'm sorry for totally failing you. I don't know all of what you've done for me during this campaign. Whatever those things are that one does when campaigning. I don't know most of you at all, actually. Or any of you now that I am actually looking out into the crowd at you. Boy, there sure are a lot of you. Are you sure you all voted? If you each drove here, that's a good 500 ballots per trunk, right? No I will not get of the stage."

Sobering Thoughts

Does the election tonight indicate in any way that people are starting to hold Congress responsible for the economy? Spending has been rising since 2006, the economy has been tanking since 2007, the Democrats didn't come to power in 2008.

Dear Blue Dogs

Scared yet? You don't need to be as incompetent as good old Martha to lose in November. Massachusetts just elected a Republican Senator. You could still be looking at Senator Brown (R) from Massachusetts in 2012, though it won't be from across the Senate floor!

All that money you were promised for ads and help and GOTV just got spent and wasted in Massachusetts. It's gone. And you're next.

Marcia Chokely

Her concession speech is as pathetic as her campaign. Good job thanking V Kennedy for campaigning with you for an entire weekend.

HAHA!

No word on whether the one next to it said, "His Wyfe."

I am Sold!

How many of these could I get for the $2,500,000,000,000 price tag of Obamacare?

The drugs look like a "vitamin for kids," police spokesman Lenny Sanchez said.

Yes, yes they do. How many of these Flintstones Vitamins would it take for you to sing Obama's praises in your local elementary school's Holiday spectacular?

Copenhagen Update

Throw another socialist on the barbie!

I don't like Australians, and you still owe us for the Battle of the Coral Sea, but I'll take what I can get.

Where Can I Get My Cheney '12 Bumper Sticker?

I love all of these.

If I have to pick a favorite I'll go with:

Want to see world leaders bowing? Oh, they'll bow alright.

Fuck You, Sheik

And the age demographic most opposed to the decision? 18-29 year olds, 62/11.

This shouldn't be too surprising. We ranged in age from 10 to 21 years old on September 11th, 2001. What age group could have been more emotionally affected by the attack? What age group could have been more consumed by rage and fear and the passion of youth?

And who are these lunatic 11% anyway?

Really Real Jobs

Via Baseball Crank

This has been written about elsewhere, everywhere else, actually. I don't have too much to add except that the whole jobs or created mythology reminds me of nothing so much as the old joke: "Did you get a haircut? No, I got all of them cut!"

I saved or created all of the jobs!

Anthony

That voice you hear...

From a speech on the Senate floor from Paul G. Kirk, interim senator from Massachusetts in support of national health insurance and a public option: "I hope we will pause for a moment - to hear Ted Kennedy's voice in the quiet of our hearts."

Good to know where he stands and that he is certainly doing what he was appointed to do.

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