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God is getting California for re-electing Grayout Davis.
Tellingly, 353,000 SF area residents lost electricity during the storm. A reminder of the summer of 2001, perhaps? Kinda makes ya go, “Hmmm…”

I guess for the next two years we’ll be making Alabama jokes instead of Florida jokes. The sitting Dem Guv of Alabama is challenging the election he lost to his GOP opponent.

Counterfeiting is on the rise again. Big surprise. All that high-tech reworking of the currency is meaningless when people don’t pay attention to their money.
The penalty for being found with counterfeiting materials should be death; it’s too easy to get out of a 20-year term in the slammer (first offense, time off for good behaviour, etc). If you can’t give them death, then loss of citizenship and lifetime banishment to Antarctica might suffice.
No country should tolerate people screwing around with its money.
(In particular, I can’t believe this chick in NYC who passed the counterfeit $5 bill she got from someone else because she “[did]n’t want to lose it [the money]”. How patriotic of you, Miss. Think about that five bucks the next time a defense appropriations bill comes up and gets trimmed because there’s not enough money to go around. And then think about that again in the millisecond or so you’ll have when a nuke goes off in NYC because it wasn’t detected or interdicted.)

Well, enough blogging fun for today. Got to go tux it up and go raise a Master Mason tonight. No matter what the Democrats think, life does go on. And yes, all you free-thinking Democrats out there, there is a God. And according to P.J. O’Rourke, he’s a Republican:

I have only one firm belief about the American political system, and that is this: God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
God is an elderly or, at any rate, middle-aged male, a stern fellow, patriarchal rather than paternal and a great believer in rules and regulations. He holds men strictly accountable for their actions. He has little apparent concern for the material well-being of the disadvantaged. He is politically connected, socially powerful, and holds the mortgage on literally everything in the world. God is difficult. God is unsentimental. It is very hard to get into God’s heavenly country club.
Santa Claus is a different matter. He’s cute. He’s nonthreatening. He’s always cheerful. And he loves animals. He may know who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, but he never does anything about it. He gives everyone everything they want without thought of a quid pro quo. He works hard for charities, and he’s famously generous to the poor. Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus.
Parliament of Whores, p.xx.

See ya on the flip side.

Over at Best of the Web, Taranto’s lede today (spotlighting Eugene Volokh’s item on Stanford U. inviting Lynne Stewart to be a Visiting Public Interest Mentor) ends with:

One wonders how long it will be before some university invites Osama bin Laden himself to be a guest speaker.

Hell, if I were president of a university, I’d invite him myself. And then make sure if he accepted that there were nothing but armed Special Forces in the audience.
Not that he’s alive to accept the invitation.

As Rush always says: Democrats are much funnier out of power than they are in power. Ain’t it the truth.

From ArgusLeader.Com:

“The president ought to feel good this morning, and I congratulate him. We had a president who talked a lot about 9-11, the war in Iraq, and North Korea. It precluded us from breaking through, talking about issues like the economy, education and health care,” he said.

But you didn’t have any solutions of your own, so why would this have made a difference?
Silly Senator.

If Terry McAuliffe now believes that “the responsibility for this sputtering economy is now [Bush’s]”…does that mean he agrees that the responsibility for it up to now has been Bill Clinton’s?
Terry, sometimes you make a guy just bust out smilin’.

I thought this country was ruled by its people. Joe Conason apparently didn’t get that memo back in high school civics class:

Now the Democratic voters who chose not to show up Tuesday are going to find out what their decision meant, in a country ruled by President Bush, Trent Lott and Tom DeLay.

Maybe your Democratic talking heads talked up the fact that you were going to blow the Republicans out a bit too much. Idiots like your DNC chairman quite possibly made a lot of your voters think it was a shoo-in, so why go to the polls?

In this historic election, Bush overcame his weaknesses as a statesman with his skills as a politician.

Mr. Bush is more of a statesman in his little finger than Bill Clinton and Algore are in their entire bodies combined. Statesmanship doesn’t mean rolling over for anyone who doesn’t necessarily like the fact that the US is the predominant nation in the world today.
The rest of the article is more of the same and isn’t worth Fisking, but he goes on to allude to Republican efforts to intimidate voters, etc. I’ve never been impressed with Conason and there’s nothing in this article to change my mind about him. However, one more of his points is worth highlighting:

Moving forward onto this hostile political terrain, the Democrats would do well to recall the combative stance adopted by the Republicans after losing both houses of Congress and the presidency in 1992.

Joe, Joe, Joe. That’s why you lost this time. People are sick and tired of Democrats making loud noises but not providing any solutions to the problems they claim the Republicans are responsible for. When you work up some real honest solutions to the economy, the drug problem, election fraud (most of it perpatrated by your own party), and terrorism, feel free to write another column about it, but until then…why don’t you just shut the fuck up.

Terry McAuliffe is on Fox, blaming the losses on everything but himself.
UPDATE: David Asman just suggested that the first thing that came to mind about McAuliffe’s speech was “sore loser”. No kidding. McAuliffe had nothing to say except bluster. The economic problems we face aren’t Bush’s fault; they started in your boy’s reign, Mr. McAuliffe (remember that guy who said, “It’s the economy, stupid”?). And I’m not so sure I want the economy of the ’90’s again, given that it was all on paper.
You’re goin’ down in flames, fuckwad. And it’s about time.