Rumsfeld was their ONLY problem. Riiiiiiiight.

Rumsfeld didn't cost the Republicans the elction by himself. All too quickly the phrase "The PARTY of Corruption" has been forgotten. "Page" Foley, "Grease-the-wheel" Abramoff, "Flip-flop Schwarzenegger", "Fetus" Santorum, "Video Diagnosis" Frist, Katherine "Cruela" "Steal an Election" Harris, Dick "Shooter" Cheney, George "Macaca" Allen, Michael "Misinformation" Steele, "Stay the Course, Adapt and Change" Rove and Dumb Dubya among many others were responsible for the change in course in this country. Getting rid of Rumsfeld would not have gotten rid of the larger cancer evident in the Republican party.

Furthermore, Ed Shultz brough up a good point about the Republican party's stance on Rumsfeld. No one spoke out July, August, September or even early November against Rumsfeld. Not until after the stunning loss in the election did the Republican party start grasping for straws and playing the blame game.

So you know Rush Limpbag?

That 3 hour commercial for the GOP that came on every day? He somehow "wised up" somewhere between November 7, 2006 and November 8, 2006. He says his party never deserved his propping them up. *blink, blink* He now says he isn't going to "carry the water" for the Republicans any more *blink, blink*

Rush Limpbag. GOP criticizer? Rush Limpbag. Apologist? Rush Limpbag. Hypocritical lying scumbag having a mental breakdown... no point in trying to understand drugged up lunatics. Whatever.

Jim Webb wrote me a letter

Dear (Jay_MMS), Thank you for your incredible support! Thank you. When we started this general election campaign, we were facing an opponent with tens of millions of dollars. He had won two statewide races already. He had the power of incumbency on his side, and also the awesome power that comes with the backing of an incumbent President. We had, at the moment, not a lot of money, a candidate who had never run for office, and 2,500 rag-tag rebels who had volunteered for what many thought was a hopeless, quixotic journey. At that time, I said: I like those odds, actually. It'll make us all work a little harder. It fits with one of my favorite films, Cool Hand Luke -- one of the great lines in that movie: "Sometimes nothing is a pretty cool hand!" On Tuesday, against huge odds, you carried our campaign to victory, and I cannot express how grateful I am to you for helping us make history in this election. As you know, I made two promises to myself when I started this campaign. The first was that I was not going to trade anything I believed in order to get a vote or a dollar, and I did that. I’m walking into the U.S. Senate with the independence to represent the people who have no voice in the corridors of power, and I intend to do that. The second promise that I made was that as much as humanly possible, we were not going to run a negative campaign. And I thank all of you for helping me to make sure that we did that. We have a situation in Virginia where Mark Warner began a journey. Tim Kaine has added on to it. We are going to add onto it even more. We’re going to work hard to bring a sense of responsibility to our foreign policy that will, in my view, result soon in a diplomatic solution in Iraq. We’re going to work very hard on issues of economic fairness in a country that has become divided too much by class in an age of the internationalization of corporate America, where corporate profits are at an all time high while wages and salaries are at an all time low. I look forward to joining my fellow Senators in voting very soon to increase the minimum wage. And finally, we’ve had a situation where, as a result of this Administration’s policies post-9/11, we’ve had far too much power gravitate to the Presidency at the expense of the power of the Legislature. With your help, we now have the opportunity to put this country back on the track where it needs to be. Thank you for everything you have done for our campaign and our country. Remember, folks: the Revolution started here... Sincerely, Jim Webb

Look at that. Isn't that freakin sweet. I get his signature and he sent me a picture and everything. I feel special and all warm inside. (And not in a Mark Foley/Page kinda way.) It looks even better in my Yahoo! inbox.

Subpoena Power Won't Be Used To Witchhunt :-(

I must admit I was feeling pretty bloodthirsty on the morning of November 8, 2006. I was thinking about all the investigations that would be taking place. I was thinking about the resignation of Rumsfeld and about all the others that might fall afterward. Then I read an article from the November 6 issue of The New Republic by Michael Crowley called "Subpoena Envy".

In the article Crowley claims House Democrats John Dingell (MI) and Henry Waxman, while respectively poised and giddy, are not going to target people or behave in a vengeful manner. They contrast this to the Newt Gingrich, Dan Burton and company who sought investigations during the Clinton years.

Dan Burton "issued more than 1,000 subpoenas to 141 different Clintonites." He asked whether Christmas cards were used for political purposes and "in one case, Burton's investigators managed to subpoena the wrong man. In his low point in 1998 "Burton released misleadingly edited transcripts of secretly recorded phone conversations conducted in prison by former Clinton associate Webb Hubbell."

In 1997 Republican Representative Gerald Solomon of New York notified the FBI that Democratic National Committee fund-raiser John Huang may have sold U.S secrets to the Chinese, prompting an FBI investigation and wide press coverage. Two years later, FBI files released to Congress showed that Solomon's charge had been based on a cocktail-party conversation with a Senate staffer who claimed to have heard the scoop from an unnamed employee of the Commerce Department , where Huang had worked. Solomon couldn't remember his name --- only that he was "a male in his thirties or early forties, approximately five feet ten inches tall with brownish hair." (That narrowed things down to roughly half the federal government's employees) - Subpoena Envy, Michael Crowley

Yes, this is what Nancy Pelosi wants to avoid. She doesn't want to be a "Left-Wing Gingrich". I kinda understand. I still want to remind everyone the jugular vein of the Republican Party is wide open. *whistle's innocently*

In Less than One Hour, George Allen will concede

It's not like it would matter anyway. Most of the votes cannot change because of a lack of a paper trail. Maybe there should have been more bipartisan complaining about this new dang-fangled technology. If there was a recount it would be nearly impossible for George "Macaca" Allen to find all the votes he needs to steal the seat.

In one hour we will officially see the concession of Felix.

Everyone, dance.

One Word. One Congress. I <3 America

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New Beginnings. Welcome 109th Congress

Remember Derek Fisher's 0.4 second game winner in game 5 of the 03-04 Western Conference Semifinals? Fisher caught an inbound pass, turned 180 and made the clencher. Immediately, he ran off the court in celebration followed by ecstatic teammates. "I just wanted to get out of there and not give them an opportunity to think that we didn't believe it went in," Fisher said. Just as a boxer raises his hands in victory at the end of 12 rounds the victorious show confidence in the outcome even before it's called.Last night, McCaskill raised her arm in victory at the end of the 12th hour even though the votes were not finalized.

This is the new democrat. They are sure of victory despite Rove's "fuzzy math", Bush's baseless rhetoric and having to fight the party of corruption and scandal. McCaskill, Clinton, Kerry, Gore, Dean and Pelosi are leading America in a new direction.

p.s. Nah-nah, nah nah nah nah . Hey-ey-ey. Goo-ood bye.
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Nah-nah, nah nah nah nah . Hey-ey-ey. Goo-ood bye.