Election night fun and games
CNN just projected the Dems will have control of the House. Let’s just practice: Speaker Pelosi. Rolls off the tongue.
NBC also predicting a Dem pickup. According to MSNBC Dems will have 231 seats, R’s 204 seats.
November 7th, 2006 by Glenden Brown 
Glenden Brown
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Katie Couric called it a half hour ago.
November 7th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
pah pah pah — Lo oh oh oh uh oh ya f–’in Looooooosii!
November 7th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I just heard (NOT HIS FATHER) Matheson’s acceptance speech on KCPW.
Funny to think of him standing there talkinig to the Dems at the Marriot, thinking, “you people didn’t elect me?…The republicans did.”
If he’s smart, he’ll head over to where ever James Evans is partying, and shake his greeeasey hand.
Pay close attention Evans “friend” is there.
November 7th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
It wasn’t conservatism that lost tonight. What lost for the Republicans was an abandonment of conservative principles with out of control spending and failing to secure our borders. Ok so the Dems take the House, but if there is any silver lining it will be that Republicans may get their souls and their backbones back.
My guess is that the American people will experience a bad case of buyers remorse and quickly get a memory jolt to why Democrats were thrown out of power in the first place.
The Democrat inquisition has begun. God help us all.
November 7th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Hey Ken,
Welcome back buddy. Stick around. There’s still some “schoolin” to be done.
I Love you!
November 7th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
Ken is right. It took the Bush nightmare disaster to allow the dems back in— by default. The inquisiton has begun, and a good thing too. I’m not sure i see bush in the dock at the hague right away (like this week), but i guess for rice, rumsfeld and perle that would be okay.
Principled repubs are already at work. They will be lopping off heads right and left. The current players, local and national, must be purged. They appear as corrupters and criminals.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
When you say “inquisition”, do you mean congressional investigations or public/media/republican inquisition of democrats?
At first I though Ken meant the latter. Now I’m thinking Anne might mean the former.
Pls advise
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
OK, nation. Look at all that BLLUE. From sea to shining sea…….THEN look at the Independent Republic of Utah. Where, once again, with a few exceptions, the anti-Darwinian law holds firm: the survival of the dim-wits, the half-wits, the morons, the oxymorons……..and those Democrats who voted for torture, war, an unbalanced budget to match their midget minds, the OxyMormons. I know. I honked and waived with a winner, and the next governor of Utah. Cliff will show you the proof. Scott McCoy for Governor!!!!!Let’ start now, Scott. Let’s clean house, kick butt.
And for the rest of the nation. If you like the Islamic state of Utah (and I love Islam. And I read the Koran. Mine was burned along with all I own in my home. By real killers), vote for Romney. And decisions can be made for you, no questions asked, or for that matter, answered. Just raise your arm (the right arm, naturally) to the square, bow your head, and say…..well, whatever the Brethren tell you to say. I’m not Mormon-bashing. I am one of them. Ask anyone who really knows me. But that doesn’t mean my brain, my arms and legs, and my heart are for sale. Why do you all think that the Non-gay marriage amendment, and the We hate polygamists, amendment to the Constitution, was presented? A loser from the beginning. But what a way to clear the decks for the new Master and Commander, President Mitt Romney. And I ain’t foolin’. Ed Firmage
November 7th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
The Thorn in our side Lincoln Chaffee is no more. The RINO’s in our party took over thinking it was the conservatives that where the danger to the party. Now the RINO’s have ran the party into the gutter. Republicans have always won when they stood up for honest conservative values. The Party of Reagan is dead. It’s time to resurrect it again. After that the Party will deserve to be in power again. Democrats didn’t win tonight. Yes they will get their much coveted power back but it wasn’t Democrat or liberal principles that won it for them. It was Republicans lack of vision and their inability to fight the minority Democrats for the Agenda.
I lay the blame on losing the House on one man. Ex-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. He was a charismatic black hole. He was never a spokesman for the party like past speakers have been. Another lead weight dragging the party down is the e politically correct way we are fighting the War in Iraq. Like you all know I am for our involvement in Iraq and believe it is crucial for our success in beating terrorism, but we are like the Red Coats fighting in the straight lines while our enemy is fighting a gorilla war. It’s time to stop fighting a gentlemen’s war and start fighting like we are there to win. The gentlemen’s war has only prolonged it and cost more lives. War is Hell and trying to make it any different only ends up costing more lives.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:16 am
Here’s hoping that when they (the repubs) again deserve to be in power they’re represented by people that are at least sane. Not being psychopaths wouldn’t hurt either. Good luck with that Ken.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Ken and I must not be watching the same war in Iraq. Far from “fighting a gentleman’s war,” our soldiers have torn Iraq to shreds. Force protection is the number one priority. Lacking a real mission, commanders focus on getting their units home with minimum casualties, and this means shoot first and ask questions later. I don’t blame the commanders, but the result is a lot of innocent Iraqis killed and homes destroyed. It’s Vietnam all over again.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Ken, exactly which conservative values did the Republicans abandon? They promoted a muscular, hawkish foreign policy (which ALWAYS necessitates an enormous debt). They cut taxes. They supported the interests of commerce and business. They tried to privatize social security and moved in that direction with Medicare (the Health Savings Accounts). They sought to promote the conservative version of morality through the attempted Defense of Marriage and Flag Desecration Amendments. They even derided the French with their “Freedom Fries†nonsense. With the possible exception of Michael Savage, the right-wing talking heads were all pretty pleased with this congress. Nobody has been saying “Oh, international and domestic affairs would be going so well right now if it weren’t for that wussy Lincoln Chaffee!†What, you think the people decided that the Republican party wasn’t conservative enough, and so they turned to the Democrats? Please. Conservatives should stop scapegoating and making excuses.
No, the nation has seen what happens when conservatives have the edge in all three branches of the federal government, and has thankfully decided to step back from that brink. I do indeed believe that in making it happen, God has helped us all.
So Democratic investigations are an inquisition? Tell me, what was it when Republicans, hell-bent on disgracing Clinton and unable to dig up any evidence of illegal activity, pryed into Clinton’s personal life and dug up his tawdry affair?
I thought conservatives believed in personal responsibility. Personal responsibility means taking responsibility for the consequences of your actions, answering to others for your decisions–particularly when your decisions relate to the security of the nation, the expenditure of billions of taxpayer dollars, and hundreds of thousands of lives (both U.S. and Iraqi).
But I suppose that Republican talk about personal responsibility must just have been lip service if they are going to consider congressional checks and balances on the executive branch to be an inquisition.
But you are right about the war, Ken. We are like the redcoats of the Revolutionary War. Not because we are in any way fighting a “gentleman’s war,†but because we are there on a fool’s errand with no legitimate ethical reason for invading.
November 16th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Well James, sorry to dissapoint you by Congressman Matheson won with 94% of the Democratic vote. Every single prominant Democrat in this state supports Matheson (and no, Rocky Anderson is NOT a Democrat. He hasn’t attended a Democratic Party event in years). Every single Democrat in the 2nd District can thank Matheson for their good turnout. Practically every peice of political mail I saw from Democratic candidates in the 2nd District and Salt Lake County (Trisha Beck, Jay Seegmiller, Laura Black, Phil Reisen, Roz McGee, Sim Gill, Jim Winder, Leslie Reberg, Gene Davis, Jim Bradley, Sherrie Swenson, Karen Morgan, ect…) had either quotes or pictures from Matheson. He is a died in the wool Democrat and is proud of it- or you obviously have never met him. Just because you are not a liberal- doesn’t mean you are not a Democrat. Ever heard of President Clinton? He was as conservative a Democrat as you get- and would you ever call him, not a ‘real’ Democrat? Grow up, dumbass.
November 16th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Wow Bernie. I can feel the love. But I must remind you, the democratic party is a big tent. neverthe less, you must admit, as far as the elected democrats currently serving in the congress go, Rocky is more mainstream than Matheson.
Your argument - holding out Utah democrats as the parameter of democrats - is pretty week.
Lets agree on reality; Jim Matheson is to the right of MANY republicans. He’s pro war, pro life, and pro torture. Smells like a republican to me.
November 16th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
That’s guerrilla Ken, and I agree, and BTW wasn’t hastert a large offensive man?
Aye, in my Day, I would have whipped him into next week, fat bastard that he is…
then I would build my nation around the Freedom of Investment based on the
US Treasury, not some foreign bastards trying to increase. Who’d blame ‘em? I’m just here to save you!! Dumb bunnies, I say, that chy’are. love Andy.
April 7th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
ringtones…
news…
April 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I think Dallas is gonna win it all in the NBA
Nobody’s gonna stop them this year. Look out for BigDirk!
April 26th, 2007 at 9:49 am
I’m not quite understanding what all
this is supposed to be about?
Must be me or something…