Blue Person Votes In Red State
Published: June 11, 2010
I love Election Day. Not so much because of the whole democracy in action hooha, but because it means the TV ads will stop for a few days, weeks, maybe months if I’m lucky. For the past few weeks, I’ve been bombarded with ads from Bill Halter and Blanche Lincoln, or from unions or companies or people with lots of money who couldn’t locate a match to set said money on fire and decided to air endless political ads instead. Blanche Lincoln votes in Virginia, not Arkansas! Did you know that means she’s a witch, and the only proper punishment is burning at the stake? Bill Halter sent jobs to India, or maybe Indiana, or somewhere, but look, scary brown people thanking him! Bill Halter hangs out with brown people! Let’s deport him!

Were you up late on Friday? And were you reading
You’ve probably heard by now that
You might have heard, if you strained your ears and got them as close to your laptop speakers as possible and turned up the volume to max and had someone else point out what Mr. Biden said or saw a video who’s audio was enhanced and played it again and again like the following clip:
If you watch MSNBC or follow DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas (Markos) on 
Yes, Rachel Maddow has apparently already used my hed (it was “coined” (as if such an extraordinarily clever mashup of politics and Internet memes wouldn’t have been spouted by some Twittering dick sooner or later) by
Have you heard about
I like to keep my nose to the grindstone, my ass to the wall and my ear to the ground. This behavior provides me with keen political insight and severe back pain. Because of my nose, ass and ear connected to varied locations, I sense things. What I sense these days is hatred. I sense this hatred directed at one fellow in particular.
We keep hearing how the threat of filibuster from some senators is forcing Democrats to gut the healthcare bill of any meaningful reform. First the public option bit the dust. Then, Senator Joe Lieberman refused to back a Medicare-expansion compromise he once supported. Democrats who support the original bill have a majority, but they are “powerless” (we are told) to stand up to moderates like Lieberman because he might … filibuster! Oh no! And we couldn’t have that, could we?
Enough of this
“America – we are passing through a time of great trial. And the message that we send in the midst of these storms must be clear: that our cause is just, our resolve unwavering. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might, and with the commitment to forge an America that is safer, a world that is more secure, and a future that represents not the deepest of fears but the highest of hopes.”
Mike Dukakis is probably having a good chuckle, right about now.
Brilliant news from upper New York state, where the losingest loser in the short history of loserish Tea Party patriotism has declared himself perhaps not such a loser after all, pending the counting of actual, you know, votes.
