Friday Open Thread
It’s your TGIF version of your open thread. Let’s roll.
I obviously picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue:
During an interview with Mike Huckabee last night on Fox News, host Greta Van Susteren said that Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts’ U.S. Senate special election this week “has awakened people there might be some discontent.” But Huckabee warned the GOP to not “get too giddy” because now Obama will probably be re-elected:
HUCKABEE: I want to be careful to not let Republicans get a little too giddy about this. Here’s the fact. I think that this was the beginning of the end of the Democratic domination of Congress. But let me go out on a limb tonight, Greta, and tell you that this is probably the beginning of the reelection of Barack Obama because he’s going to have to make course corrections that will likely put him in a much better position in his reelection bid than he would have been had he continued on this Pelosi/Reid-led disastrous trip off the cliff.
He obviously thinks Obama will move right. I think Obama may find his groove by moving populist (see the bank regulations). The recent SCOTUS decision making our elections corporately owned may actually benefit Obama in public perception if he’s seen as fighting against it.
Republicans aren’t really gaining from Democrats’ woes.
A new Public Policy Polling poll found that only 19% of voters nationally are happy with the direction of the Republican Party, compared to 56% who are unhappy with it. Even GOP voters are displeased with where the party’s going: Just 38% say they are unhappy with the current direction to 35% who support it.
Analysis: “This much seems clear: if the Republicans keep winning even with a heavily damaged national brand it’s an indication voters are choosing much more by what they’re against right now than what they’re for. I think a GOP controlled Congress for next year is still unlikely but it could be the best thing that ever happened to Barack Obama’s reelection hopes.”
The choice is clear. Democrats can win if they give people something to vote for.
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If you haven’t been watching Conan this week you are missing one hell of a show. There are towering flames from the bridges he is burning. The last show is tonight.
I really hope he does the show drunk. I have a good friend who is a COCO fanatic. He’s convinced Conan will be bombed out of his mind. I really hope everyone boycotts Jay’s return. That big chinned idiot has never even made me crack a smile accept then he is being mocked on MAD TV.
Leno was really funny before he became host of the Tonight Show. He had to tame his act in order to appeal to the Carson audience. The stuff he did on college campuses would not have worked with a national audience that was considerably older. I never really watched him on Tonight. When I watched late night it was Letterman, but now I mostly catch Dirty Jobs or Mythbusters or Hot Stove on the MLB Network.
Astronauts have the Internets now! And one of them is on Twitter too, tweeting as Astro_TJ.
Tip of the lid to Loretta Walsh, Bud Freel, Kevin Kelley, Charles Potter, Steve Martelli, Hanifa Shabazz, Trippi Congo and Norman Griffiths for withstanding anti-choice pressure last night by approving an ordinance to protect those using facilities at Planned Parenthood and similar women’s health providers in Wilmington.
RIP Air America
Conan has been crazy good. I’m surprised NBC didn’t put up a test pattern, or at least reruns of the “A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story”
AA gave me some hope in the darkest of the Bush days, but they made some really stupid programing choices and as a result I stopped listening two years ago.
Anybody feel like vomiting? Celia Cohen sucks Copeland’s dick. Notice the story is all about personalities and celebrity worship, with no mention of policies, accomplishments, or public service.
Oh my, J.
One of the best reasons I’ve heard given for Scott Brown came from a D in Boston – Better to have two years of Brown, then a lifetime of Coakley. Who knows, but it made me laugh.
jason, NBC’s ratings are thru the roof. they are being insulted by Conan all the way to the bank
Fixed news
is the only news channel and one of a small amount of cable channels NOT carrying Hope For Haiti. the REAL america. those haitians should stop asking for bailouts and pull themselves up by their bootstraps…. as soon as they find the boostraps in the rubble
Madonna looks like Betty Davis in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”
Barack Obama to hold 50 Guantánamo detainees without trial
Telegraph.uk.co ^ | 22 Jan 2010 | Alex Spillius
As the anniversary of the deadline set by President Barack Obama to close the controversial prison passed, a task force led by the US justice department reached a decision that infuriated civil liberties groups and will bring accusations that the president is aping George W Bush’s war on terror policies. The administration believes their continued detention – justified because they are too dangerous to be released though the evidence against them is too weak to secure a conviction – is legal because Congress authorised the use of force against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.