James Clyburn (D, SC-06) dangles potential public option carrot.

(Via AoSHQ) Rep. James Clyburn went out there today to promise that, if only Democratic voters come out and keep their feckless legislators in control of Congress, said feckless legislators will maybe get a public option going next year. Although one suspects that if Democratic voters just elect Clyburn he’ll hold up under the strain somehow.

“Reelect me, keep Democrats on the field. And when we come back next year, maybe we will get to the public option,” Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) said during an appearance on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

Maybe.” Some thoughts on this: Continue reading James Clyburn (D, SC-06) dangles potential public option carrot.

Well, *that* was unpleasant.

I’m glad to see that I didn’t actually type out “not feeling so good right now” and go all silent for most of the afternoon; that might have freaked out some people.

Sorry: it was that kind of afternoon.  With occasional bouts of unwellness.  Yes, yes…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt2sld-iUqg

ladies are unwell, Lane: gentlemen vomit.

That movie never gets old.

QotD, I Have No Idea What He’s Talking About edition.

Tycho of Penny Arcade:

Having sons means (among other things) that we can buy things “for” those sons that we might not purchase for ourselves.

This is, of course, self-evident nonsens…  oops, just remembered: I need to check the batteries for the Nerf VMG.  And see whether there’s any new Matchbox sets when I hit the Target tonight.

Democratic Death Panel Watch: October 15, 2010.

The DCCC confirmed to Politico that WI-08’s Steve Kagen had his ad buys canceled; the usual face-saving excuses were made, but the two-term Congressman is a dead man walking (with some help from Reid Ribble).  Also, it looks like AR-02’s Joyce Elliott has been likewise abandoned: I don’t think that that one’s really hit the radar yet, probably because it was an open seat and heavily favoring Republican Tim Griffin anyway.

Continue reading Democratic Death Panel Watch: October 15, 2010.

You know, I’d be a heckuva lot more worried…

…about the events in this Girl Genius comic if it weren’t for the fact that it almost certainly happened before the events in this Girl Genius comic.

And, yes, if I am ignorant of any way that this potential temporal paradox can be reconciled with the loss of one of my favorite Girl Genius characters… well, I treasure that ignorance, thanks.

#rsrh Am I a bad person…

for finding this funny?

SPRINGFIELD — The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and election officials said Wednesday the problem cannot be corrected by Election Day.

If you read the article, it indicates that the misspelling doesn’t show up on the main screen (just the review), doesn’t show up on every touch-screen ballot machine, and that 90% of the ballots will be paper anyway and the guy’s name is spelled right on those.  So, probably not organized shenanigans – the Illinois Democratic party would have done an infinitely better job if they were really trying to muck up Mr. Whitey* – which means that I can default back to my standard position of ‘the Greens can kiss my whitey**, Irish tuchis,’ which means that I’m probably a bad person.

That being said, obviously the new Governor should put in place a full investigation of the situation next year anyway.  It might have been a lone wolf who did this.  Or, heck, maybe the Illinois Democratic party is slipping.  Have you seen the idiots that they’ve been running for higher office lately?

Via Glenn Reynolds and Ann Althouse.

*Excuse me: “Whitney.”

**Excuse me: “whitney.”

Ruth McClung (R CAND, AZ-07) Moneybomb.

I’m in the process of processing for tomorrow morning the interview I had with Ruth McClung a couple of hours ago, but (via Instapundit) she’s doing a moneybomb right now: she’s aiming for $100K and has gotten $77K so far.  The theme is “Goodbye. Grijalva” – and goodness knows that such a thing would be absolutely swell.  Raul Grijalva, of course, is the legislator so out of touch with his district that he begged people to boycott his own state for its temerity in wanting to enforce federal immigration law.  She’s on the radar now and this is the sort of race that can suddenly come within reach under precisely these conditions, so check her out, and look to see the interview tomorrow.

And there’s still time on the moneybomb.

Moe Lane (crosspost)