WTF?
The fact that he’s a Democrat surpises the hell out of me, but it’s a free country, so whatev.
The real question is whether he’ll get the same sort of backlash that the Dixie Chicks got for criticizing Preznit Bush. I’m going out on a limb here, but I think that a lot of country music fans are, by now, pretty sick of Bush’s shit, and they’ll cut Toby some slack.
What say you, Internets?
I idolized John Edwards, and I was really pulling for him to be prez’nit because I thought he was different. Turns out he’s just another lying, cheating schmuck.
Edwards exits the presidential race
He had my vote. There was so much I liked about him as a candidate.
Oh well; life goes on. Back to candidate evaluation.
John Hodgman gives us a history of the presidential primary in this country (click image for video):
O’Reilly and Colbert to appear on each other’s shows on January 18th.
Get your TiVos ready. This is going to be epic.
Let’s see… Prices dropped all the way up until election day, after which they magically started rising again. The timing is uncanny.
(Am I being too cynical?)
The Democrats certainly had a good night last night. They took control of the House, and it’s looking increasingly likely that they’ll have a slim majority in the Senate, too. Both Democratic Senate candidates in Montana and Virginia, the two undecided states, have 4-digit leads, so their chances in a recount are very good.
I’m very excited about this. If you have been reading this blog (or any of its predecessors) for any time at all, you know that I’m not a fan of the Bush administration and his rubber-stamp Congress. Just having control of the House would have been fine by me, so gaining control of the Senate is icing on the cake (and fairly remarkable, since the probability of them doing so was small).
So the easy part is done. We won control of the House and (presumably) the Senate. Now comes the hard part of fixing what has been broken and getting our country back on the right track. Are the newly-elected Democratic majorities up to the task? Can they take on the Most Stubborn President Ever and win?
Remember my earlier post about election candidates who died prior to their election, yet still won anyway? Well, it has happened again:
PIERRE, S.D. – A woman who died two months ago won a county commissioner’s race in Jerauld County on Tuesday.
Democrat Marie Steichen, of Woonsocket, got 100 votes, defeating incumbent Republican Merlin Feistner, of Woonsocket, who had 64 votes. [...]
Peterson said voters knew Steichen had died.
“They just had a chance to make a change, and we respect their opinion.”
You have to be extremely incompetent or corrupt in order to lose to a two month-old corpse. I applaud the voters for doing the right thing. If Feistner wasn’t being an effective and fair public servant, I’m glad they booted him out of office, even if it means the position is vacant for the time being.
Please take the time to go vote today. If you don’t kwow where your polling place is, check here. (It is a Democratic Web site, but it takes you to your state’s SoS Web site, or to a list of your local officials who can get you more information.)
Click here for a little election day motivation.
Nice.
I think that it is time that we ask that all Evangelicals supporting anti-gay marriage provisions to pledge that they themselves are not having gay sex or doing meth.
We’ll call it the Hypocritic Oath.
(If you haven’t been following the news lately, it’s in reference to this whack job.)