Waldo Lydecker's Journal.

• 97-1

  That was the vote today on extending unemployment benefits. Senator Jim DeMint was the one.
  
  The unemployment rate in South Carolina  is 11.6%.
  
  Fifth highest in the nation, Senator.
  
  Feel like tweeting an explanation? [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:47pm EST
  

• Show's been over for years, Willie

  More indications Anaconda's afraid The Discust is going to knock him out of the fake news niche: He's arguing what the Obama Administration needs to do is hire a blonde female Republican ideologue from North Carolina as assistant counsel to the President, treat her like shit, and install her [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:52pm EST
  

• As Zhou En Lai said of the meaning of the French Revolution, "It's too soon to tell."

   Waldo is not typing furiously in his bath today. He's watching the ducks float through clouds of bubbles and considering all the data points the media have relegated to page 43. Let the premature bloggers explain it all first. We'll be back with some thoughts- well, when we' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:33pm EST
  

• Somewhere, Massa Dawson is thinking, "We need to find a place for that boy."

  h/t Pandagon: Having first named their Chair Toby, the Lawn Jockey Party now has a Chaplain. Explaining why it's mean to attack Rush Limbaugh's racist, homophobic views- which he shares, Rev. Ken Hutcherson stands up for the White Man's America (never mind that the Warren Court struck down antimiscegenation [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:56am EST
  

• Senator BFF

  DeMint wants to data-mine you. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

• It's important because, in these parts Republicans believe you should really deserve water

  Democrats held onto a Greenville city council seat last night, and won a water board seat as well. In these parts, such things matter. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:00am EST
  

• Somewhere, Doctor Pangloss is laughing.

  Congratulations, Irmo. Now you can be drunk and homophobic. Hat Tip to Wolfe Reports. [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:51am EST
  

• She was probably as thrilled as when President Bush gave her that neck rub.

  If there's anything refreshing about Boy Fogle's posts, it's that he offers his hypocrisies straight up, no chaser.  Here he fluffs Congressman Joe Wilson for being part of a congressional escort for German Chancellor Angela Merkel into a joint session of Congress, not an event for which Wilson has [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:45am EST
  

• The high thread count lets him sleep all the more soundly.

  
  
  While his minions close parishes he stewards for want of money, alone in his million-dollar mansion in Portland, Bishop Richard Malone  is surely counting red caps in his sleep: with the aid of the secretively-funded National Organization for Marriage, he has made the State of [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:30am EST