Guess which one today?

Cry.

Thanks to NickS.

Posted by: Ace at 09:21 AM | Comments (4)
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Cry.

Thanks to Matt H.

By the Way: Some of you guys are linking this post. Thanks. But I think this is one of those times where the normal rule of blogging-the-site-you-got-it-from just doesn't apply. There's nothing to this post, except a link.

Posted by: Ace at 09:09 AM | Comments (3)
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The McAuliffe reign has ended in disaster, with the Democratic Party in worse position electorally than when he came in as Chair in February 2001. We have lost seats in the House and Senate, and failed to cleanly take out the Worst President Ever.
While McAuliffe was an artful fundraiser, the party continued to lack the ability to develop a clear message or properly frame the political debate. And it's been killing us.

Even if Kerry can pull off the victory, it's clear the Democratic Party as currently constituted is on its deathbed. It needs reforms, and it needs them now. Quite frankly, the status quo simply won't cut it.

Howard Dean for DNC Chair.

Excellent.

Two quotes from William Kristol, said after the 2002 Democratic Debacle, are apropos:

1. They're driving themselves crazy convincing themselves they need to be more liberal.

And my all-time favorite, bestest political quote ever:

2. The election is over. Now comes the fun part: The recriminations.

Thanks to Demure Thoughts/Temple of Jennifer, who for some crazy reason tips me to this before she posts it on her own blog.

That's both generous and selfless, but hey, I can't link to you if you don't post it, right?

But she does have Zogby trying to explain why he's such a partisan jagoff, so that's pretty darn good too.

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Dear Mainstream Media,

Is that all you got, punk?

Never laid a glove on us.

Sincerely,

"The Blogging Machine"/the American voters

PS: Eat our shorts. And/or pyjama bottoms.

Request of Readers: If anyone knows the "cry" speech from The Great Santini, whoo doggies, I sure would appreciate you passing it on to me.

Forget It Update: Son of a bitch, Jonah Goldberg's already doing the Great Santini schtick, and even more funny, he's taking the quotes from the place I was just about to take them from, a lefty ("The Smirking Chimp") who did the schtick in early October.

For such a famous quote, it's, like, nowhere at all on the Internet.

Okay. He beat me. Fine.

It's not a day upon which one can too annoyed by anything.

Thanks to Joe Mama, if that is your real name.*

*Where's this from? Just remembered which movie, and which actors. Great effin' movie, too.

Posted by: Ace at 08:37 AM | Comments (13)
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Bbeck wants to know. Other sites have banned gloating.

So: Is it cool to do here?

Let me answer that question with another question:

Are you fucking kidding me?!

I don't plan on doing anything except gloat until Thanksgiving.

Update: WindyCity offers this quote from Dumb and Dumber, re: Dan Rather's insistence that John Kerry could make up a 145,000 vote deficit via some 175,000 provisional ballots, many of which would be disallowed as illegal:

Lloyd: "So what is the chance of a guy like you and a girl like me getting together?"

Mary : "Not good."

Llyod: "Not good, as in 100 to 1?"

Mary: "More like.... a million to 1."

Lloyd (ecstatic): "So you're telling me there is a chance!!!"

Posted by: Ace at 07:53 AM | Comments (41)
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No, I was just talking about the Dow soaring on Bush's win.

One of the last times (sniff, sniff) he'll make an appearance. Gene Frenkle, you served the cause well. But, as liberals are wont to say, it's time to Move On (TM).

Come on, every one join me in singing Lionel Ritchie's Say You, Say Me as we reflect on all the good times we've had with Gene.

I had a dream
I had an awful dream....

Posted by: Ace at 07:34 AM | Comments (16)
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Our brief national nightmare is over.

Thanks to Chickpea for the head's up.

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It's a serious charge-- and it needs to be investigated:

So why were the exit polls wrong?

That an exit poll is always right is an axiom of politics. It is easier to assume that a compass is not pointing north than to assume that an exit poll is incorrect. It takes a deliberate act of fraud and bias to get an exit poll wrong. Since the variables of whether or not a person will actually vote are eliminated in exit polling, it is like peeking at the answer before taking the test.

But these exit polls were wrong. And the fact that they were so totally, disastrously wrong is a national scandal. There should be a national investigation to unearth the story behind the bias.

In this election, we have seen CBS go with a story on Bush's National Guard service based on forged documents. We have seen the New York Times and CBS report 377 missing tons of explosives that were not missing, not that many tons and confiscated by American troops. And now we have seen exit polls that were wrong, quite possibly deliberately biased.

Emphasis mine.

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Gone.

It just doesn't get any better than this, guys.

Really. I mean, really.

Update! Well, okay, it gets a little better.

Via Field Director Alarming News, a tidbit from Drudge:

BUSH BREAKS ALL-TIME POPULAR VOTE TOTAL, SURPASSING REAGAN...

Alarming News has a question: Who's the only president to capture an absolute majority of the vote in the past 16 years?

Posted by: Ace at 01:06 AM | Comments (12)
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Rather's commentary is both infuriating and hysterical. The White House, understandably, wants Kerry to knock it off with fantasies about litigating his way to victory, but Rather characterizes this as some sort of nefarious strategy. Meanwhile, as the Democrats talk of spending one or two weeks in Florida style recounts, Dan Rather assures us that "we'll just have to wait."

He's telling us that we need to go through with this bullshit, and that we should all be happy to do so. Is news or opinion, Document Dan?

But it turns out the White House won't be making these crazy demands alone. Oh, no. It will be employing its propgaganda organ, something called "The Blogging Machine," to agitate for an unconstitutional end to the election.

After Ed Bradley explains to Dan that if there are only 175,000 votes outstanding, but John Kerry is behind by about 175,000, then there's no realistic chance Kerry could win (which difficult math Dan seemed perfectly baffled by, incidentally), Dan the Document Man offers us all a new reason to hate his partisan guts:

DAN RATHER: One would expect that the blogging machine which the White House and the Bush-Cheney campaign has used for any number of purposes over their four years will start now, if it hasn't started already, to say, listen, Kerry-Edwards, for the good of the country, need to concede.

ED BRADLEY: I'm sure it's started already. If we could tune into the Internet [ummm.. can't they? -- Ace] we'd see that people are already saying that now. That's certainly the drum the White House is beating.

Emphasis mine.

We're the ones coordinating with political parties, you asshole? I'm sorry, did I rush on a story backed by transparent forgeries delivered to you by a seethingly partisan Texas Democrat?

Now, Dan: When you malign thousands of amateur analysts and writers, each of whom acts independently and without pay, as being in the service of the White House and under its control ("used... for any number of purposes," you say), and without any evidence whatsoever to prove that:

Would that be fact or opinion, Dan?

I know you want to believe it's a fact, because we embarassed your tired, senile partisan ass so badly and so thoroughly. But is this "fact" backed up by any, you know, facts?

Or perhaps it's just something Bill Burkett told you, dear?

Say it about me, personally, Danny, and I'll slap you with a libel suit.

I don't know anyone at the White House, and they don't "use" me. I have political opinions, Danny, just like you do, and also like you do, I use the means at my disposal to convey them. Of course, I merely have a keyboard and an internet connection, whereas you have a major news organization with which to push your leftist bias down our throats.

I think of this stupid shit all on my own. (Well, okay, I get a lot of it from Drudge and Instapundit, and they get it directly from the White House, but still.)*

Unbelievable.

They still don't get it. They never will.

By the way, Dan Rather actually says "the Bush-KERRY campaign has used [the blogging machine] for any number of purposes," but that was clearly just a verbal typo; in context, he clearly meant Bush-Cheney, and said Bush-Kerry accidentally. After all, the Bush-Kerry campaign doesn't exist, and it certainly hasn't existed for four years, as Rather specified.

* Just kidding about that, of course.

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