Go West, West
Rep. Allen West will not go softly into that good night.
He’s still scrapping long after he’s lost the fight.
But though he remains frantic,
We’re bored with his antics,
And we’re ready for him to fade swiftly out of sight.
Month: November 2012
Billy Crystal, er, that Other Comedian, Bill Kristol, Suggests GOP Raise Taxes on Rich
It won’t kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. It really won’t, I don’t think. I don’t really understand why Republicans don’t take Obama’s offer. … Really? The Republican Party is going to fall on its sword to defend a bunch of millionaires, half of whom voted Democratic and half of whom live in Hollywood and are hostile?
— Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, urging the Republican Party to accept new ideas, “including the much-criticized suggestion by Democrats that taxes be allowed to go up on the wealthy,” the Huffington Post reports.
Hughes Vows to Hew Tongue of Next Republican Male Who Misspeaks About Rape
If another Republican man says anything about rape other than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the suggestion of ‘legitimate rape.’
— Former Bush adviser Karen Hughes, quoted by Politico.
Independent Voters Are Overrated
50% to 45%
Spread by which Mitt Romney won the independent vote. So now twice in the last three elections — in 2004 and 2012 — the winner has lost the indie vote, according to NBC’s First Read.
Mega-Church Pastor Says Obama Paving Way for Antichrist
I want you to hear me tonight, I am not saying that President Obama is the Antichrist, I am not saying that at all. One reason I know he’s not the Antichrist is the Antichrist is going to have much higher poll numbers when he comes. … But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.
— Robert Jeffress, a Texas mega-church pastor, saying that President Obama’s re-election victory would lead to the rise of the Antichrist, the Christian Post reports.
Florida Finally Calls Presidential Race
Florida election officials now able to confirm that Obama defeated McCain
— William Easterly (@bill_easterly) November 8, 2012
U.S. to Be No. 1 in Oil Production by 2020
No. 1
Position of the United States in world oil production in eight years in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The agency also projects America will be fully energy-independent by 2030. We blame Obama for this.
Mitt’s Losing It On Social Media
847
Number of social media followers Mitt Romney has lost per hour since he conceded the election at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6.
You Almost Feel Sorry for the Tea Party. But Not Quite
This is hard for me to process. With all the debt, all the unemployment and the bad economic indicators, how is it that Obama is only 2.5 percentage points down from where he was in 2008?
— Soon to be former state Rep. Scott Plakon (Longwood), who lost his seat in the Florida House on Tuesday. Plakon was author of the first of 12 tea party inspired state constitutional amendments — the one that would have exempted Florida from healthcare reform, aka Obamacare. Only the three most innocuous amendments were accepted by voters, who turned down Plakon’s along with restrictions on abortion and more tax cuts for industry. Plakon and other tea party members are struggling to understand why sentiment in the country isn’t as portrayed on FOX News. They might start by taking another look at those “bad economic indicators,” which have been steadily improving for about two years.
Really Final Tally
About Florida elections, people like to generalize.
They say we can’t be trusted with hanging chads and butterflies.
They accuse us of suppression
And chicanery and corruption —
Just because we’re one of two states that elected dead guys?
