Truth in Comics

If it's Sunday, it's Truth in Comics.

Rachel on Keith

Brilliant.

Friday Cat: TIMMY!

Pelosi to run for Minority Leader

And I'm thrilled. First, because she kicks ass. Second, because it'll piss of what's left off those damn Blue Dogs.

Quote of the Day

"We the people abandoned Barack Obama yesterday. Hate what you will about him and about how he approached governing. The awful frustration of watching him compromise with a majority will seem like a happy vacation compared to what's coming. No, too many people who supported him in 2008 voted against him through their congressional races this year. And it was for the promise of a couple of extra bucks in their shrinking pay checks each week. Hope dies cheaply in this dirty, dead century." -- The Rude Pundit.

Election hangover

I'll take my happy in small doses this morning. I'm more than pleased that O’Donnell and Angle lost (and that Buck and Miller will most likely join them). I'm pleased that half the Blue Dog Dems are gone. Good riddance. And finally, that Andrew Cuomo will be my governor.

The sad, of course, is plentiful. The House led by Boehner. Ugh. No Feingold. Ugh. And, no Grayson. Ugh.

Overall I think letting the GOP/Fox etc. control the narrative, from day one, was a big problem. I think the optics around the passage of health care, not the actual bill, was a fatal wound as well. And, sure, an economy in the tank didn't help. That said, Dems still control the White House and the Senate so all hope is not lost.

The next few years will be interesting, for sure.

Voted

Carl Paladino can suck it. Here's hoping he disappears from our political conversations forever.

Election day

Of course, go vote.

I really doubt the day will be the tsunami the GOP and the media are predicting. Until it's over I'll stay hopeful that all those registered voters who state their preference for Democrats on almost all issues will show up at the polls. It's hard to imagine otherwise.

On false equivalency

Almost nothing makes me crazier than the "both sides do it" meme. Here's Keith's reasonable answer to Jon Stewart.