that zinger’d be a little more potent had barack not just been robbed in eliot spitzer/hillary clinton’s harlem…

Three in a f*cking row!!!!!!!!!!!!

You hear that sound?

It’s the entire GOP having a heart attack as they realize Obama can win.

Ha! The repugs are “re-branding” themselves as LOSERS. How’s Rash Limpnuts going to spin this one?

Take that GOP.

Dumb shit Repugs forgot to rig their own districts. Too late now! Looks like a lot
ex-Congressmen will be going to jail next year!

Funny how Drudge does not have this election listed anywhere on its web site yet.

StirFry @ 3:

Ha! The repugs are “re-branding” themselves as LOSERS. How’s Rash Limpnuts going to spin this one?

What was it that Rushbo used to say…. oh, yeah. “Elections have consequences.”

Thank God Howard Dean and the Obama campaign team is using a 50 state strategy to win win win.

Yes Dems can win in heavily “red districts” and “states”.

Guess the Hillary team didn’t get the memo!!

An R+10 District.

By the time we have a Democrat in the White House the GOP will be on it’s death bed.

CD @ 9:

An R+10 District.

By the time we have a Democrat in the White House the GOP will be on it’s death bed.

RIP if they can.

Russert says he has never seen anything like this in his life.

Maybe, but go back a little farther. To 1932. That’s what this looks like to me.

if i am holy joe, i start praying to god really hard about now, because his time with any power in the senate is almost up

This is heartening news. Now lets just hope that all of these progressives we are helping to put in office stay true to their word and convictions. I seem to remember some of our favorite progressive winners of 2006 doing some pretty shady Blue-dog shit.

here’s one for all the repuglitards out there

Na Na Na Na

Na Na Na Na

Hey Hey Hey

GOODBYE

Hey where was chuckie ( norris ) baby ,

Should mcCroake ( yes , yes ) have the big one , is there still a person running who has the best voting record in congress of ANYONE , of no flip floping ever , EVER . Na why start now .

McCroake , you are a hero in your own mind , and just what do Viet Namn vets against McCain have to say , oh SONGBIRD we hear you .

I can’t chortle yet. The Dems can still wrench defeat from the jaws of victory.

Nevertheless, it’s another fascinating turn of events. Despite the fact that Obama is an extremely attractive and exciting candidate, the main reason for these seismic shifts is America’s disgust over the spectacular failures of Bush and the Republican Congress. The astounding thing is that Bush, et als could have controlled Congress and the Presidency for decades but for their intransigent and arrogant partisanship.

Dems can learn the clear lesson from the Republican implosion: When they trounce the Republicans this fall, remember it won’t be a mandate for the Democratic Party brand of politics as usual, but rather a mandate for good government.

Ah, who am I trying to kid… what’s that saying about absolute power corrupting?

How progressive are these 3 new congressmen? Does it really help our cause electing 3 blue-dogs? Will they win again in November?

Wow, even Huckabee admitted it was bad news.

Also, isn’t this proof positive that Dr. Dean’s 50-State-Strategy is a real winner? I hope the DNC keeps him on for another term. He’s done worlds of good for our party on the state and local levels, and seems to really understand that hiding in New England, New York and California isn’t the way to win the whole of America.

Ron @ 10:

CD @ 9:

An R+10 District.

By the time we have a Democrat in the White House the GOP will be on it’s death bed.

RIP if they can.

I picture them haunting politicians the way Jacob Marley haunted scrooge.

GOP=Going Out Party

LOL! The repubs are gonna be up all night, calling each other in a panic. This is very scary stuff for them. Imagine the cursing and finger-pointing going on at this very minute…

Party on!

Even JOHN KING at CNN got caught up in the silly notion that the Red State election map from 2004 had ANYTHING to do with the mood of the country this year.

Hey John, can you spell BLOW-OUT?

huckabyebye, just had to get his gop pundit
keywords in and speak for a man mcnobrain, he
knows is definitely NOT qualified to be president.
six months in a pow camp does not make a president.
years with lobbyists working for terrorist dictators
does NOT make a president.
flipflopping does NOT make a president.
mcnobrain is NOT presidential material.

Is it me or does that guy look a little bit like Robert DeNiro.
A little bit.

What did the democraic victor run on?? lowered taxes? decreasing the welfare state?? Howd he win in a red district?

Maybe people finally realize republicans are liars and cannot be trusted.

I don’t know about “blue dog,” you can judge for yourself. He says he opposes social security privatization, supports expanding S-ChiP, and only mentions once, very subtly that he goes to church.

He doesn’t sound like Harry Ford.

It wasn’t so long ago that someone (I forget who — Rahm Emmanuel?) was complaining that Dean’s 50-state strategy had Democratic organizers “walking around Mississippi picking their noses.” Uh-huh.

BobbyFlay @ 24:

Is it me or does that guy look a little bit like Robert DeNiro.
A little bit.

lol…funny.

Real funny.

if all three are pretty progressive, this is evidence of why the dlc is such a fcuking failure- when given a choice between republican and republican lite, people will always choose the genuine article over the fake. i have seen firsthand evidence of that:

in 2006 in kentucky there were 5 of 6 districts held by republicans. 4 of the 5 ran as republican lite. one ran as a liberal democrat. guess what happened- the liberal democrat won, the republican lites didn’t put up much of a contest. the midterms were about change, this election upcoming is about change. and the republicans (and i think the conservative blue dogs) are taking notice.

Democrats aren’t 3/3 this year.

In LA-1, Stephen Joseph “Steve” Scalise (R) held the US House seat for the Republicans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Scalise

Republicans held LA-1.

So Democrats aren’t 3/3 in Republican US House districts since 2006.

Not to rain on everybody’s parade, but since these are ’special elections’, do these winners have to re-contest these elections in November?

ctk hussein ky3 @ 30:

…the midterms were about change, this election upcoming is about change. and the republicans (and i think the conservative blue dogs) are taking notice.

Agreed. People are going to get up off their asses this time.

Well, the Washington Post thinks Childers is “socially conservative,” but I can’t find any primary source on it.

And although the Blue Dogs endorsed Childers, they didn’t put any money behind it. Some friends, I guess.

But this is the guy that the NRCC was trying to tie to Obama in the hopes that it would be a negative (nice touch by human events, trying to double down on bigotry, pulling in some sexual-orientation bashing with their race-bating.)

I guess Obama does have some coat-tails - even in Mississippi.

Do not underestimate the HUNS, they are dangerous.

Bush may turn out to be the best gift the Democrats ever had. The Republican “brand” should have been rejected years ago. I’m sensing another trouncing this November…

info@gregdavisforcongress.com

Whats up loser? Change is coming to America. We the people have firmly rejected the failed policies of the Bush/Cheney maladministration. You might have picked up on that before you had them working on your campaign. Get a clue!

xtien -

Yes, the winners of US House special elections are candidates again in November, and might lose.

Here in Oklahoma, the democrat running against Sen Jim Inhofe, a young state representative named Andrew Rice, is running radio ads that are highly impressive. This young man is sharp, he my have a shot at knocking Inhofe off if he can raise the campaign cash. Here’e to hoping…..

Timmeh said ’seismic’.
Heh!

Huckabee is actually doing himself a favor by being honest and not spinning. But he’s wrong that people ‘don’t buy the brand’; they do.

Looking forward to Timmeh using that word ’seismic’ a whole lot more in coming months.

bethy @ 18:

Wow, even Huckabee admitted it was bad news.

Also, isn’t this proof positive that Dr. Dean’s 50-State-Strategy is a real winner? I hope the DNC keeps him on for another term. He’s done worlds of good for our party on the state and local levels, and seems to really understand that hiding in New England, New York and California isn’t the way to win the whole of America.

I totally agree with you. Demos must never fall victim of DLC swing state fixation.

Remember, the only good Republican is one that’s out of office.

Eric Jaffa @ 38:

xtien -
Yes, the winners of US House special elections are candidates again in November, and might lose.

But for now, they get to prove themselves. Barring a sex scandal, it’s pretty hard for an incumbent to lose a seat.

In the meantime, even from overseas I can hear the NRCC yelling at Karl Rove.
NRCC: Damnit Rove! Your “use Obama as a smear” tactic didn’t work! The voters didn’t fall for it!
Rove: How was I supposed to know that it wouldn’t work?! It worked in 2000!
NRCC: This isn’t 2000 anymore! The voters are mad! At us! At YOU!
Rove: Don’t talk to me right now. Congress is on my ass about Siegelmann. Solve your own damn problems.
NRCC: YOU got us into this mess Karl! You better get us outta it!
Rove: that’s not my job anymore. It’s every man for himself. Bu-Bye.

This is a great night for Democrats. I am very, very, heartened by the failure of Jeremiah Wright ads failing to sway a close election, especially in Mississippi.

I’m not celebrating yet. Let’s all take a deep breath, sleep easy tonight and get up ready to renew the fight like we were still behind tomorrow. DEMOCRATS CAN STILL LOSE THE WHITE HOUSE. Bubba stills rules the land, and Obama’s failure to sway white lower-income votes is very, very serious. And Huckabee is right; the person matters more than the brand come November, and this election not withstanding; grandfatherly, trusted, vietnam war hero versus big-word-talkin’, I-heard-he-was-a-moslem “God Damn America” is still a very, very tough sell.

Let’s stay on target, people.

-Scott

P.S. Heck yeah, kudos to Dean for his 50-state strategy.

StirFry @ 3:

Ha! The repugs are “re-branding” themselves as LOSERS. How’s Rash Limpnuts going to spin this one?

“We have them right where we want them my friends. They will get cocky and Barack Bin Lauden will screw it up “, or something like that.

towntalk @ 16:

I can’t chortle yet. The Dems can still wrench defeat from the jaws of victory.

Nevertheless, it’s another fascinating turn of events. Despite the fact that Obama is an extremely attractive and exciting candidate, the main reason for these seismic shifts is America’s disgust over the spectacular failures of Bush and the Republican Congress. The astounding thing is that Bush, et als could have controlled Congress and the Presidency for decades but for their intransigent and arrogant partisanship.

Dems can learn the clear lesson from the Republican implosion: When they trounce the Republicans this fall, remember it won’t be a mandate for the Democratic Party brand of politics as usual, but rather a mandate for good government.

Ah, who am I trying to kid… what’s that saying about absolute power corrupting?

That it corrupts absolutely. That’s damn right.

Let’s just say at this point I’m filled with cautious optimism; I only hope the Dems won’t become overwrought with the same hubris that infected the GOP. But human nature being what it is, I, too, tend to view this victory will be taken more as a mandate for an agenda instead of a desperate cry for plain old leadership.

Not that I believe an agenda is necessarily a bad thing, but it’s no substitute for leadership. That, IMHO, is the lesson that should be learned from the collapse of the ‘permanent’ Republican majority. And the leadership vacuum is why I believe Republican support for a candidate has splintered in the ‘Solid South’ 1st district of Mississippi.

Huckabee gives McCain his best nickname so far.

This is the math that Americans (of BOTH parties) are FINALLY figuring out:

REPUBLICANS + LIES +
REPUBLICANS + WAR +
REPUBLICANS + CORRUPTION +
REPUBLICANS + GREED +
REPUBLICANS + BIGOTS +
REPUBLICANS + HYPOCRITES +
REPUBLICANS + FALSE VALUES =

REPLUBLICANS = POISON

WASH, RINSE, AND REPEAT!!!!

This is what The Bush Crime Family (TM) and all his enablers
with an R next to their name have wrought. And they’re
all getting what they deserve now.

It’s like a “seismic” Scarlet Letter alright!

REPUBLICANS = POISON

(Sorry - I had to spell it right…and it just felt good saying it TWICE!) :)

Eric Jaffa:

Thanks for answering my question. I asked it not simply because I fear that they “might lose” the seats they just won, but rather because the conspiracy theorist in me can’t help but be suspicious, and wonder if this isn’t a part of some nefarious strategy. Give the Dems a couple of surprise seats the Republicans can easily win back in November. The Democrats can’t do anything substantive with Bush in office anyway, especially during a presidential election year, so what’s two or three seats in the scheme of things? Proceed to hammer the Democrats on how little they are accomplishing, even with more seats. Then tie in winning those seats back–as well as others–to creating a brand called “Obama Values” and market that brand as anti-Christian/anti-American.

I know. I know. I’m giving them too much credit. But just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean I’m wrong.

Well the republicans brought Sen. Obama into the race thinking it would hurt the Democrat but it back fired, Sen. Obama is beginning to grow long coattails.

OBAMA 08

Republicans are learning the hard way that people in the United States want good responsible government. Not slogans, not flag pins, not corruption, not lies, not filibusters, not Karl Rove’s divide and conquer political tactics, but good government. If the GOP wants to govern like children then vote the Bums out! I am happy to see that the US electorate is finally seeing the GOP as the party that produces rotten government.
Until the GOP grows up and start to act and vote on issues in a mature manner they all should and need to be voted out of office.