Sane Republicans have no more love for Palin than you, Teppy. Unless someone out of left field--or, I guess, right field--shows up, the Repubs biggest names for president are Palin and Mitt Romney. Romney cannot win because too many people think he's a flip-flopper, and the rest go "Mormon? Of the devil!" No hard-core evangelical will vote for a Mormon, despite the glowing visions that hold in Utah. Mormons really don't understand how much the rest of the right-wing world dislike them.
The next two years are going to be bad, but the Tea Partiers are now sitting at a poker table when Call has been declared. It's time to actually come up with specifics and see what they can accomplish in the real world. Obama's Ship of Change bashed up against the rocks of reality, the Tea Partiers are about to see that same shipwreck coming.
the deficit which Obama hasn't addressed, TARP, the auto bailouts
The sad thing is that these three points are actually pluses for the Dems--the deficit is actually lower than it was, TARP was a success according to all nonpartisan economists, and both it and the auto bailouts not only did what they were supposed to do, but the money is either now being or has already been paid back, with interest.
Whomever is in charge of putting in the Daily Extra on the pages of my New Yorker cartoon daily calendar has an interesting sense of humor. On the back of the sheet for yesterday, Election Day: "Rearrange the phrase to discover the related word or phrase: Lies--let's recount"
I feel bad for TARP, flawed though it was, it accomplished its goal and did so for less net cost than anyone every thought. If you consider what could have happened if the commercial paper market had frozen, then it probably saved a lot more money that it cost. I think it was really one of the Bush administration's finer moments.
My disdain for politics this morning has been overwhelmed by rage at a coworker underling who changed my numbered list to bullets because she thought it looked better. I am a tech writer! There are rules! Do not undermine my authority with this Word document!
Looks like Buck lost in Colorado. There are still some counties to be counted, but they're heavily Democratic.
Tech writers are the engineers of the writing world -- they're about structure, not pretty.
Awww, shit. People are already lining the parade route for the Giants. It's going to be nuts.
But I'm going to be there with Emmett, and EM. (Yeah, we pulled him from school for this.)
Of course you pulled him from school. C'mon!
All my candidates lost except my four republicans, and none of the races were close. Healthcare and affirmative action both went down, but surprisingly, constitutional right to hunting did too. Thankfully both of the move moneys failed, although I'm sure that just means our local guys will cut like crazy and be able to blame the voters. The only surprising bit was that pot was really close. I guess it could still go through, but I don't think it will.
