Month: November 2006

Here’s something that pisses me off:

In the Viriginia Senate race, Webb’s lead over Allen is more than 10x the margin that Bush had over Gore in Florida when the 2000 presidential race was called for Bush by FOX News president Roger Ailes in 2000.

In the Montana Senate race, Tester’s lead over Burns is more than double Bush’s eventual victory margin in Florida in 2000.

When will the media stop repeating the whole “too close to call” thing and simply start acknowledging that the Democrats have taken the Senate as well as the House?

There’s the difference between Republicans and Democrats, right there. Karl Rove would have had the spinners all over the media, painting the races as a done deal, and the trailing candidates as sore losers. He would have had every Republican on television talking about the races in the past tense, and already making announcements about the plans of the new Congress.

….and he would have done it 12 hours ago.

Why the hell do the Dems have to be so goddamned polite about this? Every hour that passes that they don’t claim the mental real estate of total victory in the minds of the American people, the easier it will be for post-election shenanigans to be pulled off. The Democrats need to get on the “we won” Meme, and spread it. NOW.

For a couple of years around the turn of the century, I was the managing editor of Fisher House Magazine, an internal publication of the foundation that owns, among other things, the USS Intrepid Sea*Air*Space museum in NYC. My office was on board an aircraft carrier, which, by most scales of measurement, is a pretty frickin’ cool thing to be able to say.

The Intrepid is being given a much-needed 60 million dollar overhaul — she really was in bad shape, and most of the carrier was off-limits to the public.

However, yesterday The Intrepid got stuck in Hudson river mud as they tried to tow her with tugs downriver to the yard where she’ll will undergo the overhaul. They only managed to move her 15 feet or so from where she’s sat for the past 24 years.

It makes me kinda sad.

I’m sure they’ll eventually get her free, and she’ll be spruced up and back in her berth in a couple of years, open for business.

Godspeed, Fighting I.

….for your presents, I’m going to do my level best to vote the bastards out.