Do your duty. VOTE!
This should could might be interesting…CNN is featuring bloggers on election night. From Wizbang:
The cable news network plans to host more than two dozen bloggers from across the political spectrum - including sites like RedState and Daily Kos - at a Washington Internet lounge where they can monitor the election returns on a slew of flat-screen televisions. (Each blogger will get his or her own monitor, which can be tuned to any channel.) There will be free wireless access - and plenty of food and beverages, natch.
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Beltway Blogroll notes some of those represented include (with links to their announcement posts): Althouse, Americablog, Ankle Biting Pundits, Betsy's Page, Captain's Quarters, Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Eschaton, FireDogLake, La Shawn Barber's Corner, Pam's House Blend, Redstate, TalkLeft, Townhall (Mary Katharine Ham), Wizbang. and others.
Some bloggers (and their commenters) at the links above speculate that the most interesting scenario is what happens if the anticipated Democrat tsunami fails to materialize. Will there be fist-fights? Much gnashing and thrashing? Or just profanity-laced tirades from the Left, as is their wont? I’m not a CNN fan, but I just might channel-surf on by this evening to see how the bloggers are interacting.
But…before I leave this subject, I just have to include this bit from the Lefty FireDogLake announcement (from that same internet café that will host tonight’s “event”):
Christy: We just finished a fun nosh — Pach and I split a cheese and fruit tray, with some brie, gorgonzola, goat cheese rolled in freshly chopped parsley, fig jam, toasted walnuts, smoked gouda, fresh grapes and pear slices and baguette, and a dish of a tasty warm shrimp and crab dip with more baguette. I had a great glass of chenin blanc, and some much-needed water. (Flying makes me very thirsty.) We've got a lovely slice of double chocolate cheesecake to take back to John Amato.
Make of that what you will. Personally, I find the entry just SO “in-touch” with the common man. And that’s what the Left is all about, right correct?
And one more thing. My absolute favorite television moment during the 2004 election night telecasts was when
Über-Lib Michael Kinsley, writing in The Guardian (
What will a Democratic House of Representatives be like? The Republicans have been painting a portrait of Democrats roasting children on a spit in the Capitol Rotunda. Hoping for a more encouraging view, I picked up A New Direction for
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Fairness is one of three qualities that need to be restored to American public life after six years of George Bush. The other two are honesty and competence.
Honesty is not just therapeutic. Fiscal honesty is a practical necessity. A New Direction for
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Competence, of course, brings us back to
Older readers may recognise this formula. It's Vietnamisation - the Nixon-Kissinger plan for extracting us from a mistake. But Vietnamisation was not a plan for victory. It was a plan for what was called "peace with honour" and is now known as "defeat".
Sounds a lot like buyer’s remorse to me. The only thing Kinsley doesn’t say (explicitly) is “I f*cked up.” He should have.
And finally…Bill Whittle has a new essay up at Eject! Eject! Eject! As another blogger noted, Whittle doesn’t write often, but when he does…home run. An excerpt:
Are we beating these terrorist scumbags and child-targeting insurgent bastards? Are we winning?
Well, let’s see if we want to switch sides with them. Let’s imagine the war where the insurgents have our cards and we hold theirs.
Imagine the
Now imagine that a year into the occupation of
Everywhere you turn – in every street and every city in
Does that feel like winning to you? Me neither. Welcome to the insurgency.
Tip of the ice berg, that. Whittle takes apart almost all of the current Leftie memes, and he does it with class and facts. It’s a keeper.
Today’s Pic: Another, longer shot of the British train layout from the Clovis Depot, since all y’all seemed to like yesterday’s pic. April, 2004.
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