The voting booth

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:45 pm

Here in Oregon we vote by mail. We can't even pull a Florida and claim that some hanging chads messed up our tally. About two weeks ago I drove the 'bubble down to the voting office in Gladstone (a couple of minutes drive). I had my ballot and I stuffed it in the "night drop deposit" chute by their front door. No ink dipped finger for me.

But as the pundits go over the returns later this evening, I'll probably think that some Republican families need a hug-n-a-slap. Hug them for just taking the time to vote and a slap to make them wake up. I already got my slap by reading this forum. I got my slap by listening to Hannity.

I remember when President Bush told us that we'll be fighting the forces of terror/evil/ for many years. Many years isn't 4 years. Yeah, yeah...you can argue that Iraq isn't in the equation of terror, but we all know some of the same fuckers we are killing over there are the ones we want to kill anyway. I knew back when Bush talked about the resolve of fighting a long war, that we'd mess it up. The U.S. citizens would all but forget 9-1-1...they'd prefer to just be one large Ostrich. So now the voters are going to shove a lot of this stuff right down the gullets of all us republicans.

I know I'm going to see many migraines worth of Nancy Pelosi on the evening tube. I'm going to be sitting in my comfortable chair in January going, "Oh great, honey. Pelosi has joined forces with m2 and San Francisco is going to host a "Windchimes around the World". Proceeds will go toward providing every country with a peace chime, a compilation of encouraging sayings from the Dixie Chicks, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, Rosie, and Cindy Sheehan."

And then here, on our forum, I know Bsmack will be back in his comfortable role of democratic defender. The roles all get reversed and Bri starts to sharpen his sword for when the democratic president comes rolling around in '08. How will it look around T1B for the next six years? mvscal will actually use cuss words, with hyphens, on the new Senate/Congress/President. mvscal will do what Bsmack, Sudden Sam, Bushice, Bacefelice have done for the last few years, but he'll ratchet that up by about 200 %. The only good thing that could possible occur with a new democratic president will be the wytching. Democratic posters here at T!B don't like to wytch pictures. They prefer the day in and day out, grind out the same talking points as their heroes in Hollywood do.

So, what can a Republican do now that we've had our asses beat like a Baghdad rug?

* Try to blend in for a few years. Open up that old foot locker and bring out the old birkenstocks, and tied dyed T-shirts.

* Vegetarian foods will be even more HUGE than it already is. Stock up on granola and grains. Practice eating granola snacks from those ziplock bags at work. Buy a juicer and take it to work. When the time comes, break out that brown paper bag full of carrots, beets, oranges etc. and blend them up for a energy shake.

* Learn to turn the other cheek.

* Get ready to pay a buttload more in taxes. You'll see more welfare type offices than gas stations.

* Be able to handle fags dancing with other fags (In your workplace)...granny glasses are coming back for women, marijuana use will soar, you'll see more self-help classes at the local J.C.'s, and sports (whether it is participating in or just watching) is for stupid jocks.

I knew it was coming...we deserved it. I'm personally going to take a small 81 mg dose of aspirin every morning, just to keep my heart from plugging up, or so they say. I'll probably go out on cold, daily walks...alone. I'll wytch more political things.

That is how I'm going to deal with it. How are you going to deal with it?

Rip City

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 4:53 pm

The U.S. citizens would all but forget 9-1-1...they'd prefer to just be one large Ostrich.

Not me. I'm for the idea of taking the fight to those who would attack us. I'm against doing so foolishly. That's what we did in Iraq. We should have planned better, and kept the agenda of the American People as our Primary Agenda.

Rumsfeld's agenda was to exercise his own vision of War and Military Operations. This agenda didn't square with reality before he moved forward with it, and it doesn't today. He pursued his own agenda at great cost to America..cost in lives, and cost in resources.

Don't let Hannity confuse you - because he's trying hard to do just that. He's a spinning hack - just as Pelosi is, just as others are. Democrats should ignore hacks, so should Republicans.

Eaglebauer · Post by **Eaglebauer** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:00 pm

Hey old fart, might want to up your insurance premiums on your 'Robot Attack' coverage, too. Those damn things are going to run wild if the Democrats get their way.' Believe me, none of us will be safe.

Uncle Fester · Post by **Uncle Fester** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:03 pm

Are Sean Hannity and Nathan Lane the same guy?

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:10 pm

Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly in...The Danger Cage

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:51 pm

Hannity reminds me of Dr.Detroit. He hammers his talking points so much that I'd like to pull him through the tube. Having him whine for the next six years is going to be punishment for all of us.

I wonder how many people here have ate government cheese. Is it real cheese or is it that velveeta shit? I would suspect m2 has had a cheese voucher in his back pocket, along with his food stamps. You know JSC hasn't had either of those democratic ideals in his pants. JSC's dad had Lee Majors stay at their house for crissakes. No friend of Lee Majors is going to get any free cheese. JSC also knows Paul Pruhomme, man. JSC is a closet Dem, not a flaming dem. JSC is the type to save a doper friend of his from committing suicide, and then can drive home in his BMW and enjoy some lobster thermidor with his wife.

Wolfman has both volunteered at a soup kitchen, and ate at one. Wolfman's house is paid off, his kids are grown, and all he has to do is wait to join Ronnie Reagan in heaven. Wolfie drinks cheap ass beer, saves coupons for Domino's, has a head of mangy silver-blue-gray hair. Of course he's a Republican.

Rip City

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:05 pm

Thanks for the compliments !!
I just got back from voting with MrsO--
love the touch screens--kinda like "Joker Poker"
with no payouts.
At least I can live with Charlie Crist as the
new "Guv" of Florida.
FYI--Jeb couldn't run again because we have
term limits here---something NY should look into
(George Pataki still running there ??)

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:09 pm

Wolfman wrote:Thanks for the compliments !!
I just got back from voting with MrsO--
love the touch screens--kinda like "Joker Poker"
with no payouts.
At least I can live with Charlie Crist as the
new "Guv" of Florida.
FYI--Jeb couldn't run again because we have
term limits here---something NY should look into
(George Pataki still running there ??)

Pataki knew better than to try for a 4th term. Elliot Spitzer is going to be the next governor in a landslide.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:19 pm

Wasn't Pataki term limited?

At any rate, anybody who has ever been a prosecutor should be barred from seeking any other public office for a minumum of 10 years after quitting the prosecutor's office. Too easy for them to abuse their office to generate publicity for their next ambition.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:30 pm

Cuda wrote:Wasn't Pataki term limited?

Nope, no term limits on the state level in NY. We have them here in Monroe County for the County Legislature, but there's no way in hell you will ever see them at the state level.

bbqjones · Post by **bbqjones** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:27 pm

i voted. i voted wqasted. i waited until almost ten am in the morning before i went to the beer store. iu took the day off and had a sack full o0f leftovers from the weekend. i walked proudly in the voting booth with my bush/cheney hat and bush america t shirt., i was a badass and i was ready for a fight. unfortunately , everybdoy in my neighborhood votet correcttrly. i was masturbating to som roberta perdon pictures earlier aqnd i came back and fournd that therer is incredible democat turnout. . i cant figureou out whethe3r to loloolloolbwnanananahahahaha or jujust get another paper towel prepared for my own self gratification.l

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:33 pm

...summabitch...I would have never guessed... Hillary doubles other candidates in spending

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:37 pm

bbqjones wrote:i voted. i voted wqasted. i waited until almost ten am in the morning before i went to the beer store.

you're lucky.

here, they close the beer stores all day on election day so the democRats don't load up a bus full of winos and drive them around to the polls to vote

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:43 pm

ChargerMike wrote:...summabitch...I would have never guessed... Hillary doubles other candidates in spending

I guess the Dems are finally learning from the other party.

Double

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:49 pm

ChargerMike wrote:...summabitch...I would have never guessed... Hillary doubles other candidates in spending

Good God, you're a whiny bitch.

The White House may be the most expensive piece of real estate in Washington. Its current occupant, George Bush, paid $350 million last year for a four-year lease, according to Federal Election Commission figures compiled by FECInfo. He outbid his closest rival by $20 million. (There is no word on whether he waived the inspection clause.)

Like all real estate in the Washington area, the property at 16th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue has shot up in price in recent years. Bush, spent only around $165 million for his first four-year lease, outbidding his 2000 rival by about $50 million. The pikers in 1996 managed only $232 million combined.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:00 pm

Gobbles ManCock wrote:
Good God, you're a whiny bitch.

Irony much?

Pot/Kettle much?

:Meds: much?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:06 pm

Cuda wrote:
Gobbles ManCock wrote:
Good God, you're a whiny bitch.
Irony much?

Pot/Kettle much?

:Meds: much?

What did I whine about? I just pointed out how senseless it is to criticize one side over the other.

Stupidity much?

Head up your ass much?

Shit for brains much?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:08 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:
Stupidity much?

Head up your ass much?

Shit for brains much?

I think you've pretty much defined cuda right there.
Nothing we didn't already know, though.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:08 pm

Mikey wrote:
ChargerMike wrote:...summabitch...I would have never guessed... Hillary doubles other candidates in spending
I guess the Dems are finally learning from the other party.

Double

...yep, you nailed it Mikey..Double

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent more money in the midterm election cycle than any other politician running for office this year, campaign finance records show, investing more than twice as much as most candidates in tight races across the country.

To secure her Democratic re-election bid in New York, Mrs. Clinton spent $29.5 million through the middle of October, according to the Federal Election Commission, suggesting that she may have her sights on a future national campaign.

While much of the amount is devoted to television advertising, it is the bills for catering, flowers and photography that elevated her tally far above other Senate candidates’.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:11 pm

If Hillary went away, would you cease to have any reason at all to live?

(outside the NFL forum of course)

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:27 pm

Mikey wrote:If Hillary went away, would you cease to have any reason at all to live?

(outside the NFL forum of course)

...well the Chargers are having a good season, I'd like to stick around to see if it leads to a Super Bowl :D

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:31 pm

...damn, I didn't see that postscript regarding the NFL

that in mind, the chances of Hillary going away are about the same as Hezbollah disbanding tomorrow.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:32 pm

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:36 pm

Hey CM, weren't you the one talking about "pot and kettle" somewhere fairly recently?

National committees for the Republicans and Democrats have spent about $225 million for or against candidates, concentrating their resources in 10 Senate races and 66 House contests that could determine who controls Congress.

The data is based on a review of independent spending reports filed with the Federal Election Commission as of Monday. Republicans spent about $81 million in 53 congressional districts, mostly on television advertising opposing Democratic challengers. Democrats spent $64 million in 56 congressional districts, most of them represented by a Republican

Terry in Crapchester · Wed Nov 08, 2006 1:44 pm

Wolfman wrote:At least I can live with Charlie Crist as the
new "Guv" of Florida.

Charlie Crist --
Has a "live and let live"
policy about gays.
Wants to change minds
about abortion,
not abortion laws.
Snubbed W when he
visited Florida.
Jeez, Wolfie --
he sounds like a Democrat!!!!
You getting soft
in your old age???

Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:18 pm

Crist is just a suit but he is light years better than Jim Davis.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:23 pm

Cicero wrote:Crist is just a suit but he is light years better than Jim Davis.

Come on man, Garfield was da bomb.

Terry in Crapchester · Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:24 pm

Cicero wrote:Crist is just a suit but he is light years better than Bush.

FTFY.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:32 pm

Mikey wrote:Hey CM, weren't you the one talking about "pot and kettle" somewhere fairly recently?

National committees for the Republicans and Democrats have spent about $225 million for or against candidates, concentrating their resources in 10 Senate races and 66 House contests that could determine who controls Congress.

The data is based on a review of independent spending reports filed with the Federal Election Commission as of Monday. Republicans spent about $81 million in 53 congressional districts, mostly on television advertising opposing Democratic challengers. Democrats spent $64 million in 56 congressional districts, most of them represented by a Republican

......just goes to prove, you can find stats to back any position! Both parties are insane as well as their billionaire supporters who shovel truck loads of cache into the coffers.