The Dem’s Agenda 22

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1) Allow all the Bush tax cuts to expire. 2) Reinstate the middle class tax cuts separately as the "Obama tax cuts" 3) If blocked by GOP house, vote them out in 2014. 4) If not blocked by GOP house members, vote them out in 2014 anyway.

Thursday Open Thread [11.8.12]

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I do kinda feel sorry for Mitt Romney, for you see I am a liberal and we liberals feel human emotions like sympathy. But this description from the Washington Post seemed sad, and I don't know why.
Late Wednesday afternoon, as sleet fell in Boston's North End, Romney visited his campaign headquarters for one final staff meeting. He thanked his aides and said goodbye. His Secret Service detail gone -- and with it his code name, Javelin, after a car once made by his father's company -- Romney was spotted driving off in the backseat of his son Tagg's car. His wife, Ann, was riding shotgun.

Republicans Have A BIG Problem

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Right now Republicans are blaming Chris Christie, Hurricane Sandy, Mitt Romney, unreasonable gay people, slutty women, "biased" Hispanics, effeminate, urban, highly educated white guys, Evangelicals who didn't show up, people who voted 3rd party and, of course, African Americans who should vote Republican, because, you know... Lincoln! But the "Because I Said So!" party has a big problem, and I don't see how they solve it.  Yes, there have been mumblings about how the GOP has to tap into the groups I've listed about, but the question is how? 

When You’ve Lost Rowdy Roddy Piper…

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you've lost the rasslin' universe.  Especially all the Little Hulksters who said their prayers and took their 'vitamins'. I'm a proud subscriber to Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly. Make of that what you will, armchair psychoanalysts. Which is where I got this tidbit:
Roddy Piper was not happy about hearing about what Linda McMahon spent: "Can spend 90 million on losing elections but won't give the people that earned that money for them medical or retirement help of any kind." (You see, one way that Vince and Linda 'built this' was to designate their superstars as 'independent contractors', not employees. Hence, no pensions or health insurance. Oh, and WWE owns the monickers for the characters, so the wrestlers get screwed out of royalty money as well.) The election was not even as close as it appeared last night.  As of a few hours ago, Chris Murphy was ahead 55% to 43% or more than any of the polls indicated.  A key difference according to analysts in Connecticut is that women voters did not trust her. Male voters were split on whether she was intentionally misleading people in advertising, while women voters overwhelmingly believed that to be the case. So, her own ads helped do her in.

Now this is a strong shot of Schadenfreude (Updated with Embedded Video)

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Update--Thanks to John Young, we now have the embedded video! I can't embed the video, but please go watch it over at Gawker. It will become an instant viral classic. It contains very NSFW language, so be forewarned. And it is long, but you need to listen to the whole thing. It is a master piece. It was posted by a conservative activist named Shelly Dankert who is ranting and raving at her fellow conservative and libertarians who did not vote for or support Mitt Romney due to their ideological purity, and at other conservatives who would not share her other conservative links and videos on Facebook and Twitter, which Shelly is convinced would have somehow singlehandedly defeated Obama last night. LOL. I do have some sympathy for her. I remember feeling much like her on November 6, 2004 after Kerry lost, railing against similar liberal purists who loved Dean and would not vote for Kerry because he was not pure enough. Indeed, old Daily Kos readers back then will remember my infamous "F*ck Ohio" post concerning those same purists being upset that Kerry did not contest Ohio. My oh my have the tables have turned. It is quite ironic, since Ohio is the state that clinched it last night for the President (although the landslide was so vast that he did not need it). And now Shelly is pissed. Very pissed. And very drunk.