Moe Lane

…at least, I would be if I was daft enough to take seriously Speaker Pelosi’s suggestion that you can take a 1,900 page bill and understand it in 72 hours. Fortunately, neither did the NRCC – which is why they’ve come up with this handy pacing clock. a page every two minutes, folks. Every page of which references/rescinds/alters a bunch of other laws, which probably themselves reference/rescind/alter a bunch of laws in their turn. With no breaks for three days.

Excuse me: it’s now page 603. By the time I get this published, page 604. And I’m reasonably certain that most of the Democratic legislators that put this monstrosity together haven’t made it past the table of contents, at that.

Moe Lane

PS: And it’s not even as if Reid’s eager to go with health care rationing this year, at this rate.

PPS: Reminder: the GOP is having a twelve-hour online town hall on health care tomorrow, starting at 1 EST.

PPPS: 606 pages. And counting. Goes quicker than you thought, doesn’t it?

Crossposted to RedState.

In fact, I’d like to just be able to show up under my own power, and not hungry for brains:

A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, local media report.

Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer, had identified him as the victim of a car crash in southern Parana state the previous day.

[snip]

It emerged that Mr Goncalves had spent the night drinking a rum-like liquor called “pinga” with his friends.

‘Rum-like.’ Amazing how much information you can back into two syllables and eight characters, isn’t it? It’s like I know everything about that evening, now. There are vistas of strange and terrifying truths lurking behind the deceptively-innocent phrase ‘rum-like;’ and about the only thing that you can say about a drink named ‘pinga’ is that at least it’s not Australian booze.

Probably.

So Rep. Anthony Weiner of NY – who is understandably upset that the Democrats were not able to take advantage of Mayor Bloomberg’s revealed weakness in yesterday’s election – made a somewhat passive-aggressive suggestion that the administration spent too much time on Jon Corzine and pretty much no time at all on Bill Thompson. Such things are inevitable in the aftermath of a lost election, particularly when it’s actually the aftermath of lost elections. The double hammer-blow of losing both Virginia and New Jersey’s governors’ seats is going to make a number of Democrats say some unfortunate things for a while. A prudent or experienced administration will let those things slide.

Fortunately for the GOP, the current one is neither.

“Maybe Anthony Weiner should have manned-up and run against Michael Bloomberg,” shot back a White House official, who attributed the night’s results across the board to anti-incumbent fervor.

…which apparently was not enough to actually eliminate the incumbent in NYC*, but never mind that right now. Anyway, if one is going to trade ‘maybes,’ here’s one: maybe the White House should stop letting people willing to act and talk like a thirteen-year-old speak for it? Even if it’s off the record.

Moe Lane

PS: See also Hot Air and JammieWearingFool.

*Including NYC’s – which I wasn’t, until this came up – there were five major races yesterday. Two had incumbents. One won, one lost.

Crossposted to RedState.

I wasn’t going to spend twenty bucks to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra – fairly or unfairly, the movie struck me as the director’s desire to make a movie about his three or four favorite action figures as a kid – but a buck rental was doable, and done.

Besides, today’s the aftermath.

Now that the elections in NJ and VA are over – and now that there’s going to be some really critical votes coming up on both cap-and-trade and health care rationing – I just wanted to greet some members of the two states’ Congressional delegations.

• Robert Andrews, NJ-01 (Burlington/Camden/Gloucester)
• John Adler, NJ-03 (Burlington/Camden/Ocean)
• Frank Pallone, NJ-06 (Middlesex/Monmouth/Somerset/Union)
• William Pascrell, NJ-08 (Essex/Passaic)
• Steven Rothman, NJ-09 (Bergen/Hudson/Passaic)
• Donald Payne, NJ-10 (Essex/Hudson/Union)
• Rush Holt, NJ-12 (Hunterdon/Mercer/Middlesex/Monmouth/Somerset)
• Albio Sires, NJ-13 (Essex/Hudson/Middlesex/Union)

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• Glenn Nye, VA-02 (Accomack/Northampton)
• Robert C Scott, VA-03 (Charles City/New Kent/Surry/Henrico/Prince George/Hampton/Newport News/Norfolk/Richmond)
• Tom Perriello, VA-05 (Greene/Campbell/Bedford/Albemarle/Nelson/Fluvanna/Buckingham/Cumberland/Appomattox/Prince Edward/Charlotte/Lunenberg/Franklin/Henry/Pittsylvania/Halifax/Mecklenberg/Brunswick)
• Jim Moran, VA-08 (Arlington/Alexandria/Fairfax)
• Rick Boucher, VA-09 (Lee/Wise/Dickenson/Buchanan/Scott/Russell/Tazewell/Washington/Smyth/Bland/Giles/Grayson/Wythe/Pulaski/Montgomery/Carroll/Craig/Floyd/Patrick/Allegheny/Roanoke/Henry)
• Gerry Connolly, VA-11 (Fairfax/Fairfax/Prince William)

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Hi!

WE SEE YOU.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Unfortunately*.

Voters in Maine on Tuesday overturned a law allowing same-sex couples to wed, dealing a fresh setback to the U.S. gay marriage movement in a race that attracted national attention.

The law was approved by Maine’s Legislature in May but was not implemented after opponents gathered enough signatures to put the issue to a “people’s veto.”

With 87 percent of precincts reporting, votes to reject the law were running at 52.75 percent to 47.25 percent, according to unofficial tallies from the Bangor Daily News.

Owing to the lack of convenient Mormons to demonize, John Aravosis is actually off complaining about OFA and the DNC for not supporting efforts to defeat Proposition 1. He even says he wants an explanation, which is something that I frankly doubt. I think that Aravosis knows why the two groups in question – both of which are fully-own subsidiaries of POTUS, Inc these days – didn’t help; he just doesn’t want to think about the implications, or the way that the current leaders of the SSM movement have more or less permanently made enemies of mainstream conservatives for the ultimate benefit of the Democratic party.

Moe Lane

*I wish that they hadn’t succeeded, but it’s their state.

Crossposted to RedState.

Although I’ll readily give PPP this: they could have easily have fudged their results, and they didn’t. I don’t think that Tom Jensen should beat himself up too much for the NY-23 thing: admittedly, the poll conditions changed too often to give good results, but now we know.

And knowing, of course, is half the battle.

Thanks to @EdDriscoll for the reminder, although I like this song anyway.

Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad, Meat Loaf

Moe Lane

PS: Yes, today was politics-heavy. It was a surprisingly important Election Day, you know.

I can’t help but notice that the number of votes he got was more than the margin of victory.

Oops?

Crossposted to RedState.

The man who thought that he could take over the Corzine campaign and drive it to victory.

Have a nice night.

Moe Lane

PS: Some theme music: http://blip.fm/profile/MoeLane/blip/26597007/Berliner_Philharmoniker_Orchestra-Mars_the_Bringer_of_War

Crossposted to RedState.

I don’t have cable, and my digital converter can’t find ABC. And it’s apparently not being simulcast, or whatever the term is. Dammit, I’ll happily sit through the commercials if I could just watch the blessed thing.

Grrr.

That’s what I’m betting, at least.

A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.

Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.

The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise – police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.

Bears like pudding.

(pause)

Well, I like pudding, and I think that it was Rita Rudner who famously mentioned that men live like bears with furniture, so I think that it follows from there that bears like pudding.

Moe Lane