Author: Moe_Lane

2010 aftermath: the Good.

While this is hardly an exhaustive list, the below represents my personal congratulations to last night’s winners in the election:

FL-08 Daniel Webster
FL-22 Allen West
FL-24 Sandy Adams
IL-17 Bobby Schilling
IN-08 Larry Bucshon
IN-09 Todd Young
MI-01 Dan Benishek
MO-04 Vicky Hartzler
MS-04 Steven Palazzo
NC-02 Renee Ellmers
NY-13 Michael Grimm
NY-19 Nan Hayworth
NY-29 Tom Reed
PA-08 Michael Fitzpatrick
SC-01 Tim Scott
SD-AL Kristi Noem
TX-17 Bill Flores
VA-02 Scott Rigell
WI-07 Sean Duffy
FL-SEN Marco Rubio
PA-SEN Pat Toomey
UT-SEN Mike Lee
ME-GOV Paul LePage
SC-GOV Nikki Haley
TX-GOV Rick Perry
WI-GOV Scott Walker

It was great fun to do these interviews, no matter how painfully obvious it was at the time that I was essentially learning how to do them on the fly; and I look forward to doing it again.

Starting next week.

Moe Lane

#rsrh Not a bad night.

The House is shaping up nicely as regards to a bloodbath; I see +6 GOP so far, with a good shot at CO, a we’ll-see on WA, and maybe a jumping-the-gun on CA*; and the governor’s races gave us more than we lost (especially when you look at a 2012 map).

And then there’s all the personal satisfactions. Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Pat Toomey; Alan Grayson, Bob Etheridge, Carol Shea-Porter, the goram ‘Blue Dog’ coalition; a lot of Family business got settled tonight.

*And all of our folks successfully defended.

So, I voted.

I was expecting the crawlspace filled with broken glass, and I was kind of expecting the timed lava eruptions (extra points to the technicians for programming them to the beat of ‘Ice Ice Baby’ instead of ‘Under Pressure;’ you almost got me). I will even stretch the point and concede that the inscribed riddle on the central plinth could have reasonably been taken as meaning ‘jump to the left when you reach the crystal walkway.’ But the cybernetic alligators with neurotoxin-tipped tails? That was going a bit far. I can’t be the only person in my district who had to bring my kids along.

Still, I did vote. No way was I missing this chance to make my disapproval known.

#rsrh QotD, Is He Feeling Well? Edition.

Greg Sargent actually writes something that’s moderately aware of objective reality. On President Obama’s upcoming rhetorical response to his upcoming thumping:

So look for [Obama] to seek the moral high ground by calling on Republicans to meet him on some sort of ideologically undefined but temperamentally soothing “common ground,” rather than calling on them to meet him in the “center.” Of course, what really matters is what Obama and Republicans actually do next year, not what they say they’re going to do. And they’re going to be at war.

Yup! It’s going to be a blast.

Moe Lane

For your amusement: an updated 2008 Obama ad.

It did not age well. Oh, my, did it not age well.

(Via Battle ’10) Although I suspect that the participants in said video would bitterly argue my observation, assuming that any of them are sober at this moment. No, wait, it’s 8 AM on the Left Coast; they won’t start the anticipatory heavy drinking until about 1 PM my time.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: Vote.

PPS: Hey! If politics is Hollywood for the ugly, does that mean that Hollywood is politics for the stupid? Continue reading For your amusement: an updated 2008 Obama ad.

The Day of DOOM.

What we could do, we have done; it’s up to the voters now.  That’s you, so make sure you vote.

Odd: I’ve been preparing for this day since November of 2006 – admittedly, I thought that it’d come in November of 2008 – and I find that the somewhat (melo)dramatic things that I had in mind to write aren’t really all that appropriate.  Even the national party is trying to keep things low-key tonight (which is smart of Rep. John Boehner).

So no drama.  Just go vote.

Moe Lane (crosspost)