Didn’t see this coming: Eric Cantor is losing 56-44 in his primary tonight with 75% of precincts in.
Unless there's a Chicago style vote dump (or a screw up by the vote counters), Cantor is… well… done.
— Harry Enten (@ForecasterEnten) June 10, 2014
Update. Still 56-44 with 86% in. Looks like he’s done.
The Watcher
No Compromise! No Peace with the Kenyan Mooslim Usurper!
Now on to victory!
/teabagger
Cckids
Ha!
That’s all.
Hunter Gathers
He won’t be missed. He’s easily one of the most loathsome politicians I’ve ever seen.
Mustang Bobby
Rachel Maddow just broke in to “All In” with the live report that yes, Cantor is out.
Happy dance, happy dance.
srv
Benghazi Was The Wingularity Moment.
Betty Cracker
Maddow called it just now. Wow.
Violet
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Wasn’t he one of the Republican “Young Guns” a few years ago? Could he pull a Lisa Murkowski and run as an Independent?
Baud
Ha ha! How do you like your monster now, Congressman Frankenstein?
JPL
@Mustang Bobby: I’m listening. .haha…
Baud
Tonight, Boehner drinks in celebration rather than in misery!
Hill Dweller
The House leadership reportedly held off on allowing a vote on immigration reform in order to save Cantor. Oops…
PsiFighter37
He should’ve shivved Orange Julius when he had the chance.
Hahahahahaha
Hunter Gathers
In a sane world, Cantor’s beatdown would kill the whole ‘GOP establishment > Teabagger’ meme, but we don’t live in a sane world, do we?
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Ain’t that the truth. You can see the hate in Weepin’ Cheetoh’s eyes every time Cantor opens his yap…
Debbie
Glenn Beck’s been praying for this. I think this points to real division in the GOP and can only be good news for the fall elections.
Turgidson
I wish I could be there right now to personally laugh in Eric Cantor’s dimwitted yet somehow obnoxiously smug and extreeeeeemely punchable face.
I wonder what the Weeping Orange thinks. Is he cackling with glee, or afraid he’ll be next?
Iowa Old Lady
Holy crap, it wasn’t even close.
Hill Dweller
@Hunter Gathers: The plutocrats want that narrative(establishment > tea party). Consequently, the Village will mindlessly parrot it.
RoonieRoo
Holy cow! So the guy who beat him must be a unbelievable nutbar to beat Cantor in that district.
On the running as an Independent, I’m pretty sure that ship has sailed for the election.
WOW!
Baud
The GOP’s only Jewish Congresscritter .
Just Some Fuckhead
Pretty easy to see the real teabagger in this race: the not Jew.
Pogonip
If I may interrupt, my family has an urgent problem. My mom is senile but can still go to the bathroom by herself. My dad would like to keep her at home but she keeps trying to flush washcloths and underwear down the toilet, and it’s getting expensive. We can hide the washcloths but can’t figure out what to do about the undies. Any suggestions?
Comrade Mary
Extra! Extra!: Brat Smacks Down Prat!
Davis X. Machina
That’s Eric “First Jewish Speaker of the House” Cantor to you, bub.
PsiFighter37
EW Jackson barely lost this district in VA-LG last year, so apparently that’s the barometer for peak wingnut in this district.
srv
Fox calls it, Cantor defeated!
Mustang Bobby
@Hunter Gathers: Yeah, so much for the “demise of the Tea Party” meme the Villagers have been telling us about.
RSA
Wow. A Washington Post article from about 8 hours ago was talking about whether a 20-point Cantor win would be enough to quell questions about his leadership. How the mighty have fallen…
beth
My husband and I voted today in SC – he took the Republican ballot and I voted Democratic. His ballot questions were about abolishing the income tax and conferring personhood at conception. Mine were about legalizing online gambling and medical marijuana. Hubby says we Dems are much more fun.
Just Some Fuckhead
I had a close friend who swore Cantor was going to be the first Jewish president. This prolly woulda killed him but he died in December from a heart attack.
Comrade Mary
And what is up with these ridonkulous internal polls?
Pooh
@Violet: have to think that’s on the cards.
Baud
PRESIDENT OBAMA YOU CALL ERIC CANTOR RIGHT NOW AND RUB IT IN HIS FACE!
Anoniminous
Repeated from last thread:
Sitting here laughing my ass off. Cantor has not only lost the primary he’s lost any power he had in the GOP caucus, nobody is going to give a damn what a lame duck says.
ETA: Brat: 56% Cantor 44%. Cantor not only lost he done got drubbed. (he-he-he)
Baud
Go Cole!
El Caganer
@Comrade Mary: He’s running to Cantor’s right? Who the fuck is this guy?
Pooh
@Comrade Mary: seems like the unlikely voters showed up?
Patricia Kayden
Cantor is so smarmy that he won’t be missed. Hope the Dems can knock off the TBagger candidate in November.
J
One of the most hateful and loathsome figures in public life today defeated because his party didn’t think he was loathsome enough.
PsiFighter37
@Baud: Gergen doing his best Broderite impression
shelley
So..tried going to his website to see just what this guy stands for…and the page won’t load. Guess there’s a lot of people trying to do the same. Thing is, tea party candidate. Why is it a good thing that somebody worse than Cantor won?
Joel
♪ You’re going to reap just what you sow ♪
Patricia Kayden
@Comrade Mary: Unskewed!
muddy
@Pogonip: Turn the water off the toilet in between trips so she can’t flush?
hildebrand
Brat is an economics professor who thinks that Cantor is far too liberal on immigration.
Comrade Mary
@Pooh: We’re looking at an Ontario election this Thursday. I have no trust in the polls right now, and we run the risk of Tea Party North getting in this time.
Elizabelle
Holy f*ck! Wow.
My sister’s in his district. She’s not a Republican. She’s elated. She promised to send me a pic of a Tea Party anti-Cantor sign — will follow up on that.
Davis X. Machina
@El Caganer:
Damn skinny. That’s not a big gap to run through.
elmo
C’mon. Nobody yet has the definitive graphic?
SiubhanDuinne
Awe to the fucking some.
Betty Cracker
Concession speech, and me without my popcorn!
piratedan
good riddance to bad rubbish…..
MattF
This is what Cantor gets for showing signs of rationality on immigration. Here’s a hint of where the GOP is headed: Hispanics ain’t stupid. They’re well aware of what’s going on here.
Patricia Kayden
@shelley: Perhaps a Democrat can beat him.
Schlemizel
@Pogonip:
I have no clue, sorry, that sounds horrible for your family. I would try the county welfare people first, they may have some home nursing help with experience. My sister was a Nurse with a local county, had an MS in geriatric Psych and helped a lot of people stay in their homes. I will give her a call and see if she has an idea for something you could do.
David Koch
BWHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA
The TeeOP must have found out he doesn’t pray to Jebus
Hill Dweller
Am I imagining things, or did Cantor’s wife look repulsed when he leaned in to kiss her?
JMT
@Pogonip: Is your family working with the local Area Agency on Aging? In my area they have staff to come in and consult, to help figure out how to make your home work for someone with memory deficits, and they can assess whether home health aides would be appropriate to help with the personal care chores (and to give the main caregivers a break from constant vigilance).
Anoniminous
@Patricia Kayden:
Democrats don’t have a declared candidate.
Pogonip
@Hill Dweller: Wouldn’t you?
Mustang Bobby
Watching Cantor’s concession speech. Oh, sh*t, I think I just pegged my schadenfreude meter.
Elizabelle
Talk about Eric Cantor’s bitch face.
Elizabelle
I want to be a fly on John Boehner’s wall. I would spot the man a drink.
Turgidson
This is hilarious, and it pretty much bakes into the cake that most GOPers will feel compelled for the foreseeable future to sound as hateful and batshit about immigration as Steve King and nutbar emeritus Tom Tancredo. All the Dems need to do is stand aside and let them step on rakes and that’ll do as much for Hispanic turnout as the ground game, maybe more.
David Koch
First Majority Leader to EVAH to be ousted in a primary
HA!
bemused
Eric, you guys never had any “conservative solutions” except for obstructionism and siccing the teaparty dogs on the country. Unfortunately, they turned on ya.
Hill Dweller
That smarmy fucker couldn’t stop lying in his concession speech. If he gave a shit about sick people they wouldn’t have made massive cuts to medical research in the sequester.
SarahT
@Pogonip: Disposable panties and /or a commode by the bedso she won’t have to worry about making it to the bathroom. I feel for you – getting there with my Mom. Good luck.
Elizabelle
@Pogonip:
Check if your local hospice program has a comfort care component (for those who need services, but are not terminally ill). Maybe you could get them in, even if your mom does not formally meet hospice requirements.
Good luck.
MikeBoyScout
In Which We Continue To Despair Of The Rebranding (h/t Pierce)
NotMax
Glad to see him lose his position as Speaker-in-waiting.
Leery that he will re-emerge as Santorum 2.0.
shelley
And the champagne corks are a-popping over at Free Republic. Memo to Chris Christie who’s been trying to rehabilitate his image for 2016. Don’t bother. The rabid Tea Party base hates your guts as much as Cantor and Boehner and McCain. It’s hard to think who isn’t a RINO in their eyes, beyond Cruz.
mouse tolliver
Listening to his concessions speech. Sounds like he’s been crying . Whah-whah-whah-whaaaaaan!
pseudonymous in nc
The Year Of The GOP Establishment make it past June.
SiubhanDuinne
Weren’t there some people just recently predicting that Cantor would be the next Speaker?
Hahahahahahaha!
Comrade Mary
Oh my God, Cantor seriously outspent Brat ($5.4 million versus $200k) and still lost.
$2 million of that $5.4 million was PAC money. Brat had no PAC bucks at all.
Chyron HR
I guess Cantor was less of a Disraeli and more of a Dismally.
Anoniminous
A little musical rift to brighten the thread.
RandomMonster
LOL. Bring it on!
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary:
I love this so hard. So very hard.
Suffern ACE
@Anoniminous: yes they do have a candidate.
David Koch
a combined 278 elected Republicans in the House and Senate and there are now ZERO Jews in their caucus.
That’s a Big WHITE Tent.
Fair Economist
@Pogonip:
Disconnect the chain from the flapper valve, and flush it manually by opening the tank and flipping the valve yourself.
Southern Beale
Just went over to Twitter to check out Mike Dickinson, the Democratic candidate for VA-07. Massive celebrating on his Twitter feed.
MikeBoyScout
Louie Gohmert for Majority Leader!
PhoenixRising
Is there a Dem candidate on the ballot for the general, or is this whackaloon who is apparently just right for this district’s registered Rs going all the way to DC?
Fun times ahead either way.
SiubhanDuinne
@mouse tolliver:
Thought that was Boehner’s job.
Pogonip
Thank you, Schelimizel and JMT! We did not know about commissions on aging, we’ll see what they have to say.
She was a loyal Fox Geezer, it was on nonstop whenever she was home. I honestly don’t know if Fox contributed to her senility or if it was a symptom, but I can’t see where having poison poured into your mind 12 hours a day is going to do you any good, one way or the other.
Regarding the actual topic, don’t rejoice yet; Cantor’s replacement may be a change for the worse.
RSA
@Pogonip: I’m sorry to hear about your situation, Pogonip. Here are a few thoughts. Some older people use bedside commodes, when it’s too difficult to reach the bathroom in the night. Even though it doesn’t sound as if that’s the case with your mother, you might be able to convince her that this would be better than the regular toilet. (True for you, and maybe a white lie for her–it could become out of order.) Cheaper than a plumber call over time, I’m guessing. Another possibility is direct supervision in the bathroom. That’s a trickier issue, of course, but it might eventually become necessary. (It might help if it were treated as a medical issue, if you could swing that.) My last thought is that you might visit care.com, a set of online communities for caregivers; they’re nice people and may have better ideas.
Roger Moore
@Comrade Mary:
My guess would be that their likely voter models for primaries suck. Likely voter rather than registered voter seems like a great idea, but it’s only helpful if your idea of who’s likely to vote is correct. If you overestimate how likely casual voters are to vote or underestimate the importance of crossover voters in an open primary, you’ll get epically wrong answers.
lukeallen1
..and who’s the other guy? My guess is an even bigger a$$h0le. That’s all GOP primaries are now a days. A$$h0le fesitivals where the biggest a$$h0le wins.
Baud
OT: Congrats, Canada!
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Mary:
25:1 ??
LOL.
David Koch
Hey Bohener,
Keep fucking that Ben Gazzara chicken!
Comrade Mary
Jamelle Bouie: “Any Republican thinking of working with Obama has just completely changed their mind. @ron_fournier, take note.”
rikyrah
BWA HA HAHA HA HAHA HA HAHA
This is too precious.
Pogonip
@Fair Economist: Bless you, Fair Economist!
MattF
@shelley: Good question. One should be skeptical of any ‘worse is better’ argument. In this case, the Teepers had already made Cantor a liar, now it’s just out there for everyone to see.
Anoniminous
@Suffern ACE:
Oops. My bad. Thanks for the correction.
A loath as I am to put another Southern Blue Dawg shithead in the House, flipping Cantor’s seat would be delicious.I shouldn’t say that since I know nothing about the Dem.Talking strawberry shortcake with whipped cream and amaretto sauce.
Ethan's Mom
@Pogonip: What about a toilet lock? We had one when my son was a toddler and I had the hardest time getting it undone sometimes.
dmsilev
@Baud: No no, Gergen is perfectly correct. Eric Cantor _is_ one of the intellectual leading lights of the GOP. Compared to Louis Gohmert, for instance…
It’s just grading on a curve, that’s all.
Villago Delenda Est
Good. Cantor is a despicable human being. Not that it couldn’t happen to someone more deserving, like the utter shitstain Ryan, or the gormless Gohmert.
Another glorious victory for the teahadis. Kick that Jewboy out of Congress, stat!
Gravenstone
Looking for a VA resident to chime in, but apparently they have a “sore loser” provision on the books. So the smarmy little fuck couldn’t even run as an Independent if he wanted to. Not sure whether that precludes him from going the write in route, or not.
Litlebritdifrnt
I cannot stop laughing.
Southern Beale
Remembering Chuck Toad this morning basically patting Brat on the head and telling him to run along and come back when he’s grown up a bit. Hilarious. HILL-fucking-arious.
tavella
Pogonip, maybe one of those toilet seat locks for children? I don’t know if you can find one she can’t open, but it might be worth looking into.
brendancalling
@shelley: because he may be so crazy we win a formerly unwinnable seat. See: Angle, Sharon; O’Donnell, Christine; Akin, Todd; and Mourdock, Richard.
David Koch
To mark this glorious occasion, a special message from the late-great Rodney Dangerfield
Ken
@PsiFighter37:
He’s still got seven months, and no particular reason to hold back, so we can still root for injuries.
geg6
Holee shit. Just…holee shit.
gf120581
Immigration reform is now utterly dead. The GOP will not only renounce it, they’ll be trying to top each other to bash Hispanics for fear of ending up like Cantor.
Cantor’s loss may have just made the GOP’s future much more bleaker.
elmo
Front pagers: Can we put up a fundraiser for the Dem candidate?
Fair Economist
It *is* kind of surprising that the leadership guy who played “conservative cop” was the one who got teabagged. I always thought the hardline Cantor-negotiator Boehner show was an act and maybe the primary voters thought the same, but it’s still a surprise.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Pogonip: Can you somehow get her to start using a commode chair instead? Maybe something like this?
Best of luck.
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
OK, who at The Onion put up a guy named “David Brat” to run against Cantor in the GOP primary? Someone needs to ‘fess up!
J.D. Rhoades
@Anoniminous:
Democrats don’t have a declared candidate.
And one would be unlikely to win in Cantor’s district.
It reminds me of the old thought experiment: if you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you put someone worse in his place?
pseudonymous in nc
@efgoldman:
There isn’t a Dem candidate.
Urgh, as Howard Dean said, you gotta buy a ticket. The DCCC ought to be spending its money on making sure that someone files for every damn district, because politics can always spring surprises.
helping hand
@shelley:
I dislike Cantor more than most, and I can articulate why this is a positive development: Cantor, for all of his odious qualities, is actually pretty smart. Replacing him with a anti-intellectual neophyte xenophobe isn’t likely to change the abysmal dynamics of the house but it is another lurch to the right for the GOP that is out of step with most of the population. Oh, and if there’s any truth that Ben Jones share some responsibility for this then it is probably the best story of the 2014 primaries:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/06/ben-cooter-jones_n_5463196.html
srv
So we have to support an independent run by Cantor to split the vote enough for a Demoncrat write-in.
Villago Delenda Est
@gf120581:
GOP outreach to the Hispanic community continues on is path of glory!
James E. Powell
@Turgidson:
All the Dems need to do is stand aside and let them step on rakes and that’ll do as much for Hispanic turnout as the ground game, maybe more.
I think the Dems need to do more than stand aside. They need to make a reasonable proposal with DREAM act provisions for children and path to citizenship for adults. Most of the country agrees with it; Republicans will go crazy over it. Make the proposal, make them respond to it in public. Lather rinse repeat.
RandomMonster
Cantor can wipe his tears with a Gadsden Flag. You made your bed, now it eat it! (Mixed metaphors now seem appropriate.)
shelley
Just saw his campaign website, and two photos stand out. One of Cantor talking calmly to Obama; obviously an impeachable event. And a nice big one of St Ronnie.
Elizabelle
Only time I’ve ever happily clicked on Politico.
Banner headline.
CANTOR LOSES
Tell it, journamalists.
Bokonon
Ahh … Eric Cantor, the Snidely Whiplash of American politics. Stabbed in the back by the Tea Party that he helped promote and grow, and introduce to power.
Man, what an epic tragedy. Gosh. As a former Virginia resident, let me tell you … I am really choked up. NOT!
Fair Economist
@helping hand:
OK, that’s making more sense. Jones was pushing Dems to vote against Cantor in the open primary.
sdhays
@efgoldman: Also, there’s not much difference between “Cantor” and “worse than Cantor”. Cantor would sacrifice his own mother to the Tea Party gods if it would give him power; how is that any different from having a “real” Tea Partier? If the Tea Partier wins, he will have 0 power and be another 1 of 435 whining farm animals, not the House Majority Leader (or, if we’re allowed to dream, House Minority Whip).
Cantor’s district is propped up by a lot of government spending (as is my district). Losing someone with juice and replacing him with another Gohmert might make certain people there very unhappy…
Ah, this just made my night!
MattF
@shelley: Well, I’m shocked. He had a big picture of St. Ron, and that wasn’t enough to get elected?
Villago Delenda Est
@Southern Beale: Oh, this is good. Bitch slapping the execrable Chuckles the Toddler is just icing on the cake.
Hal
So how’s Lindsey Graham doing?
Also, didn’t the cooch lose because he was too far right for Virginia. I wonder how Da Brat’s going to do if he proves to be super far right, which I assume he is.
Mandalay
@Comrade Mary:
Only having a sample of 400 may be one reason they went off the rails. That seems like a very small sample to obtain any meaningful conclusions.
The company doing the polling have savaged their reputation by being so absurdly inaccurate.
Southern Beale
So Mike Dickinson, the Democrat, is apparently not endorsed by the party and is basically a troll. What a fucking wasted opportunity.
Baud
@Hal:
MSNBC says he’s cruising to a win.
MattF
@Hal: Cooch had that extra zing of sexual weirdness. Brat may too, but we shall see.
Pogonip
THANK YOU for all your suggestions!
TF79
Brat is the chair of the econ department at Randolph-Macon College apparently
DougJ
@Hunter Gathers:
I don’t love him but he’s nowhere my top of most loathsome politicians.
maeve
@Violet:
Don’t know the laws in Virginia, but in Alaska when you lose a primary you have to run as a write-in – so you can’t be on the ballot.
Lisa Murkowski won as a write-in in Alaska after she lost the primary basically because she took the primary for granted and didn’t pay attention. or actually campaign. The Republican primary in Alaska is closed – you have to be registered R to vote in it – but more than 50% of voters in Alaska are unaffiliated. I disagree with Lisa but she is good at making personal connections with people (which is not my impression of Cantor) and that is important in a small population state. For the write-in campaign she pulled out all the stops including a campaign to get people to spell her name right!
schrodinger's cat
@DougJ: Who is on top of your list?
schrodinger's cat
@TF79: Never heard of it.
raven
Xin Loi mofo.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Baud:
Simplified it for you.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Comrade Mary: He unskewed himself to his political death.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Suffern ACE: No, there is no Democratic candidate on the ballot. At least according to Mediaite:
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Penus
@pseudonymous in nc: There’s a Dem running. Jack Trammell, who’s a professor at the same college as Brat. He appears not to have a website.
TF79
@schrodinger’s cat: LGM posted his faculty page – CV pretty much what you’d expect for a small regional liberal arts college.
helping hand
Anyone outside the village shedding tears over this? Looks like both democrat and republican websites are happy with this outcome…
Emma
@Pogonip: Keeping her at home will be very difficult, Pogo. But your Dad might try to put locks on drawers and make sure he moves the laundry basket out of reach. Best of luck. My heart goes out to your family.
(edit): it might come to direct supervision in the bathroom, I’m sorry to say.
Mandalay
@Hal:
I don’t know about that, but I’ve been watching him on YouTube. He’s confident, a good speaker, and likeable. It’s easy to understand how he thrashed someone who is a clueless, a poor speaker and not likeable.
Comrade Mary
@Penus: Trammell has a RateMyProf profile. Just two ratings, though, from 2008.
Brat’s profile. Seems to be unprepared but charming.
Mandalay
@helping hand:
AIPAC?
Lyrebird
@Southern Beale: I like this part especially, for all that he could use a media consultant maybe for his campaign page:
ETA: Apparently he’s also an HRC style “needs improvement in the campaign management dept” Democrat. But here’s hoping for some serious write-in action!
Southern Beale
So, latest I’ve heard is that Mike Dickinson missed the filing deadline and won’t be on the ballot as a Democrat. And apparently the Dem challenger will be Jack Trammel but who the fuck is that?
Ken
@TF79:
Dear Penthouse Letters, … ?
Penus
@Comrade Mary: He’s worked with my employer on a couple of projects I’ve been involved with. As a person, I like him a lot. Very friendly, very funny.
Elizabelle
Check out the Richmond Times Dispatch (aka Disgrace) website.
DAVID BRAT STUNS HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER ERIC CANTOR
Tra la la la.
JoyfulA
@Schlemizel: A free-standing bedside commode that can be emptied (after anything unflushable is removed).
Wire or plastic mesh draped under the toilet seat.
Comrade Mary
@Penus: Brat or Trammell?
EDIT: OK, you probably mean Brat. Greeeeeeat. /sigh
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Southern Beale: His Facebook-thingy has some information (scroll down). Dunno how reliable it is.
Cheers,
Scott.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Southern Beale: The deadline to file their papers is 7 PM, June 10th, if the candidate won’t be decided by a primary. This seems to be the guy.
schrodinger's cat
@Penus: Tramell or Brat?
sdhays
Mike Dickinson is an “unapologetic liberal”, but he uses the Republican framing of “job creators” on his home page. And, apparently, he had some difference with the local Democratic committee, which is why he didn’t bother to file (I don’t really understand that logic, but there you are). I’m not sure this guy can swing this district. As others have said, THIS is why Howard Dean and his true commitment to a 50-state strategy was one of the main architects of the 2006 Democratic wave. While everyone was saying it was hopeless and he was bankrupting the party, he laid the groundwork to take maximal advantage of a change in the wind. How quickly the Democratic establishment went right back to forgetting that lesson.
Lyrebird
@Comrade Mary: Oh but Trammell’s better than your average Some Professor Dude… Quoting below from that book link (thanks Sister Rail Gun), seems like he’ll rile up anyone whose head explodes when they hear/read the word “reparations”… Could be fun! Can’t be too shy to teach this subject in VA*.
*Many non-Virginians also like to avoid learning any truths about slavery, but Virginia was (arguably) the epicenter.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Trammell has an ActBlue Donation Page for those interested.
Cheers,
Scott.
some guy
Amnesty for brown people. Abortion for Constitutional Conservatism. Acid for real Americans.
Cantor was Not Right for us.
Dolly Llama
@Anoniminous: They need another one other than this guy. ETA: The fucking golden moment comes, unexpected, and we’re not ready. God damn it. It’s hard being a fucking Democrat sometimes.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Dolly Llama: Someone other than Trammell?
SiubhanDuinne
@gf120581:
Awwwww. Heartbre… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
SiubhanDuinne
@RandomMonster:
Snake on Gadsden Flag just turned into an ouroboros.
sdhays
I just got a DCCC email with subject “BREAKING: Eric Cantor LOSES!!!” complete with link to a “If you’re also glad to see Cantor go, let him know!” farewell card. As if they had anything to do with this. They clearly didn’t, otherwise they wouldn’t be so caught with their pants down!
Trammell isn’t mentioned anywhere. No talk of “flipping the district”. Just “sign a farewell card” (and send us money). Why should anyone donate to these idiots? WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO PAY FOR??? Morons.
I think President Obama is the best President in my lifetime (an unfortunately low bar), and I never went starry-eyed for the guy (although I always liked him), but my biggest disappointment has been how little he has chipped away at the stranglehold of our awful elite establishment, both in DC and in the Party as a whole. I never expected him to revolutionize things, but I had hoped for a bit more rebalancing. Unlike other things, he has pretty much complete control over who runs the DNC; he should have left Howard Dean in charge, or one of his proteges. 2010 may have turned out quite differently if he had.
Comrade Mary
Why, oh why, did I not stock up on popcorn tonight?
Schlemizel
@Pogonip:
Talked to sis & she strong suggested you see what the county can do for you, some of them do a good job. She said it might take a professional evaluation to see if they can understand why she is doing this. Other than that she didn’t know much about what you can do.
She did say that you might want to get a ‘cap’ which is sort of like commod that hangs inside the toilet. The down side is someone will have to dump it after it gets used but it would save the plumbing.
Good luck.
agorabum
@shelley: because it gives the Dems a chance to pick up the seat, because this rando isn’t going to be the #2 in the GOP Congress, and because the votes all end up the same anyway (Rs vote for R priorities). And it helps the Village realize the GOP base is crazytown.
NickM
Reminds me of a song (not to be taken literally, of course)
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@NickM: I fixed your link.
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@Violet:
Not in Virginia.
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@efgoldman:
Extremely unlikely.
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@Penus: