being not doing

Here’s the thing about Joe Lieberman that I keep coming back to. Well, there are a few things about Joe Lieberman, and I will do my best to say them, be done, and never mention them again.
Joe Lieberman did not ‘earn’ the committee chair position he currently holds, he bargained for it. Joe […]

Yesterday was like electoral Christmas. Early in the day Indiana’s vote count was finalized, and a 22 point shift led to an Obama win in the state where I grew up! Every state I’ve ever lived in — Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, DC, and Maryland — went for […]

8:05pm Holy god, they aren’t calling Mississippi and Alabama right away? I might yet get my BLOODBATH! In other news, of course Pennsylvania went to Obama, it was polling nearly the same as Michigan and Wisconsin. Thank you for acknowledging that, NBC.
8:13pm THANK YOU, KAY HAGAN! BOOYAH, LIDDY DOLE! BITE […]

Obviously the presidential race is the big ticket item, and a future senate majority is the icing on the cake. I’m sure each of you also has our own personal small hope and dream for tonight’s results, and I’m no different.
First, my hope is that Kay Hagan’s race to unseat Senator Liddy Dole in […]

7:30am First pot of coffee of the day brewed! We are checking out the morning TV news, for the first time in memory, to see how long the lines are in Virginia. Not too long, and we catch one really happy looking black guy about our age coming out of the polls […]

Door hanger hung by the pumpkin for change!
The scene where I picked up my marching orders.
Today I spent a couple of hours hoofing it around Alexandria, leaving hangers on doors. Today’s hangers were all about letting people know where their polling place will be and what to do in the event that you’re not […]

Obama’s shot over the stern: fire those execs!
John’s plan: I would completely cripple the government’s ability to do anything by not collecting any taxes!
No, actually, I don’t think there are a lot of Americans qualified to be the Secretary of the Treasury. Really, I don’t. And that’s okay, let’s just be honest about […]

Nicetameetcha! Here we go.
Stop voting with your party! Support a platform that goes against your principles and the people that you represent!
Did she just say ‘Joe Six-Pack’? And the ubiquitous ‘band together,’ gah, she sounds like one of my students. [Not that there’s anything wrong with them, they’re just, you know, […]

Dude: use The Google! Senator Kennedy was home by the time the pre-game chatter ended.
Dude: your running mate suspended them NEVER! I wonder if Obama has been told by his handlers (1) do not mention the hockey mom and (2) do not call McCain on outright lies.
Jim: I hope you are not personally […]

Here’s what I’m thinking: let’s sort out the questions of who defrauded whom of what before we start buying up worthless stocks willy nilly, shall we? The administration surely couldn’t want us to approve this enormous allocation of funds for liars and crooks. As several Senators posited yesterday, it’s not like the entire […]