Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

• Said with a straight face.

  Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to each pastor on how to make clear to [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:48pm EST
  

• Republican Priorities: give God health care first

  You haven't lived until you've sat through hours of House debate on anything. Waldo sat through the health care debate today and was struck by how overwhelmingly, on the GOP side, it was just an endless succession of old, paunchy white guys saying, "no, no, no no, no, and "hell [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:53pm EST
  

• History, schmistory

  Here's a sample of the Big New Ideas members of the Big Bachmann White People's Party brought to Congress. The other side of the banner calls Speaker Pelosi a "McCarthyite."
  
  Never mind that it was the McCarthyites who were trying to root out the un-Americans. Click here to [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:39pm EST
  

• SC's congressional members are pretty much no smarter than anyone else here when it come to making money

  The Center for Responsive Politics has mined the Congresscritters' financial statements for 2008. Of course you can't read too much into them because members can estimate their vastness on scales ranging from pocket change to eleventy kabillion dollars.
  
  
  But within their closed world, you can still make some [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  

• It's the content that counts

  The UK's version of the South Carolina Republican Party has pulled off a nice trick: copping Obama's whole campaign website. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

• Burning the village, not to save it, but just because it looked pretty aflame.

  Anaconda's jumping up and down over job losses at The Post & Courier.
  
  We thought only RINOs and Nazi Liberal Socialist Fascists Obamamanians wanted to crash the economy.
  
  So far, it's hard to see how Anaconda and his imaginary friend Mande can take the place of [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:52am EST
  

• Magical Thinking: complaining that people the majority have barred from marriage won't marry.

  A Facebook pal notes the predictable blowback in Washington State, where voters broke the "NO, you can't marry, NO, you can't have civil unions, NO, you can't have domestic partnerships, NO, you can't have anything, ever" lobby: straight, unmarried people complaining, on blogs and in letters to newspapers, that they [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:42am EST
  

• It's my party and I'll lie if I want to.

  Iowa congressman Steve King, apparently fearing he is losing place in the House Republican Lunatic Caucus to Michelle Bachmann, has called his own Tea Party Day on Capitol Hill this weekend. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 8:18am EST
  

• Addison Graves Wilson, populist.

  Congressman Joe Wilson slums with the wetbacks. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:35am EST