Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

The offer still stands...if you're a GWB supporter, send me what you like about him (if you want it posted, anonymously) or post a comment. One guy I know (who's a Stanford alum, so take it w/a grain of salt) says it's because GWB had a plan, which you migh like or dislike, but it was a plan of new ideas. This puzzles me (that people like a "new" idea, even if it's proven to be a failure....)

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Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

From the ex-Mr. Sarcasmo:
Waking up to discover that half this country is obviously stupid is the coldest shower, the hottest coffee, the loudest alarm clock. I slam at the political snooze button over and over and over again, doing my best to miss the train. I pull my blanket of intellectualism over my head, trying to keep the harsh, harsh light of manic-depressive punditry out of my eyes.

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Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

MSNBC editorial: Slightly more than half of the citizens of this country simply do not care about what those of us in the “reality-based community” say or believe about anything. They don’t care that Iraq is turning into murderous quicksand and a killing field for our children. They don’t care that the Bush presidency has made us less safe by creating more terrorists, inspiring more anti-American hatred and refusing to engage in the hard work that would be necessary to make a meaningful dent in our myriad vulnerabilities at home. They don’t care that he has mortgaged our children’s future to give trillions to the wealthiest among us. They don’t care that the economy continues to hemorrhage well-paying jobs and replace them with Wal-Mart; that the number without health insurance is over forty million and rising. They don’t care that Medicare premiums are rising to fund the coffers of pharmaceutical companies. They don’t care that the air they breathe and the water they drink is being slowly poisoned and though they call themselves conservatives, they even don’t care that the size of the government and its share of our national income has increased by roughly a quarter in just four years. This is not a world of rational debate and issue preference.

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Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers.
Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors.
Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment.
Voters in 11 states voted to ban same-sex marriage. The lowest margin was 57%-43%. The highest (Mississippi) was 86%-14%. Kentucky's also bans civil unions. That one was 75%-25%.
The Senate will likely be split 55-45 in favor of Republicans, creeping closer to a filibuster-proof supermajority. Meanwhile, 89% of these guys (SC Justices) are older than 65.
Enjoy your tax cut, America. You're going to need it.

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Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

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Authored by: dbsmall on Wednesday, November 03 2004

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Authored by: Sarcasmo on Wednesday, November 03 2004

I'd like to say I'm staggered by the results - but frankly I'm not.

Disappointed, frightened, and a little sick, but not staggered.

I do wonder about this country's values.

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Authored by: dbsmall on Friday, November 05 2004

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Authored by: dbsmall on Monday, November 08 2004

Quotes from Dan Rather on election night. Who knew Dan Rather was H. Ross Perot?

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Authored by: dbsmall on Monday, November 08 2004

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Authored by: dbsmall on Monday, November 08 2004

This should have been Kerry's concession speech:
"We in blue states produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes while complaining about 'em. We in the blue states are the only ones who've been attacked by foreign terrorists, yet you in the red states are gung ho to fight a war in our name. We in the blue states produce the entertainment that you consume so greedily each day, while you in the red states show open disdain for us and our values. Blue state civilians are the actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling "Oh, yeah!? Bring it on!""

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Authored by: dbsmall on Friday, November 12 2004

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Authored by: dbsmall on Friday, December 03 2004

How is it that all the major grocery chains (except Costco) and telecommunications companies and fast food and....are Red, and yet the Blue states generate more money for the economy?

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Authored by: dbsmall on Tuesday, December 07 2004

"Bush won because the Republicans were good at doing what they do, which is to be dishonest. He made a fundamental mistake going into Iraq, but he was somehow able to tie Iraq with 9/11 in the minds of the people who voted for him. When you ask most people, "Who's going to keep us safer?" they'll say Bush. Even though, leading up to 9/11, he totally *censored*ed up. And leading up to the war, he totally *censored*ed up. The decision was between a guy who was resolute but wrong and a guy who was not as resolute-seeming but kind of right. And evidently America is more comfortable in a time of war with a guy who is resolute, even if he is demonstrably wrong."

-Al Franken

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Authored by: dbsmall on Thursday, January 26 2006

Atrios says we ought to reframe Bush's behavior/leadership post-9/11 (Yeah, I know I"m supposed to be posting conservitive stories...and I will. But I will also be posting lib comments.)

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