Two Words: Echo Chamber. Two More: Ha Ha.

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter spouts one logical fallacy after another in his synopsis of the mood of the electorate and its utter rejection of Democrats in 2010.

Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this time and an equally surprising number of McCain supporters said they would be backing Democratic candidates.

It's not that an equal number or even percentage of McCain supporters would vote Dem, its an equally surprising number. The formulation, as deceitful as it is, reveals the interior workings of this fool's mind. Because I'd be "surprised" if there were three McCain supporters who voted Dem in the entire country. But this guy so desperately wants to cling to the tantrum template that he's willing to overlook the unpleasant fact that for the landslide to have taken place as it did, down to the Registrar of Deeds level, a thundering horde of Obama voters had to have gone straight ticket Republican.



This wasn't a tantrum. This was 18-year-olds leaving home on their birthday.



Never to return.

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Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this time and an equally surprising number of McCain supporters said they would be backing Democratic candidates.

Man Up, America!

Well, anger certainly continues to be all the rage in the corridors of American politics. Not to mention American corridors in general. Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this time and an equally surprising number of McCain supporters said they would be backing Democratic candidates. What that is about, God knows. The general anti-Obama rage out there is palpable. But it’s no more virulent than the anti-Bush sentiment that has pervaded the country for much of the past decade—although this being America, there’s an attendant hatred for Obama that has more to do with race than anything else. What makes today’s fury more worrying is the fact that angry right-wing extremists tend to carry guns in disproportionate numbers to their liberal counterparts. Read more at www.vanityfair.com

 

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From @YidWithLid: the Quantitative Easing Scam. #bailout #tcot #teaparty

When the government wants to spend money to buy votes, it has to either print the money, borrow it, or tax the people. The people are in no mood to be taxed, and no one wants to loan us the money.



So what is a statist to do?



Pretend it into existence! Just type in the amount you need into your Magic Sliding Decimal Federal Reserve Account, and presto. $600 Billion.



Our government is still out of control, historic election or not.

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The Fed's $600 Billion Dollar Plan For Economic Suicide

Its called quantitative easing, which is just banker talk for devaluing the a currency. Today the Fed is about to work some "black magic." They are going to create $600 billion dollars out of nothing. It absolutely no different than a corporation vowing to improve its fiscal performance simply by printing a lot of new shares.Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com

 

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Three important stories at Redstate: one urgent, one fun, and a third to keep the #teaparty focused. #tcot

1. Bob "Who're You" Etheridge is attempting to get his hands all over Renee Ellmers
   
   
   
   -- or at least, her seat in Congress. Renee just beat Bob (aka, "The Choker") in North Carolina's 2nd District, and should be packing her bags for Washington, DC.
   
   
   
   Instead, she has an expensive recount ahead of her. Etheridge is a thoroughly dishonorable man, a creature of Washington and its ways. He will stop at nothing to retain what he sees as his rightful property, the seat in Congress to which Renee was just elected.
   
   
   
   If you can give, do so. If you can go down there, do so.
   
   
   
   Above all, pass the word, and keep watching Redstate for more details.
   
   
2. The Democratic knives come out in the House.
   
   
   
   When you design your movement as a competing group of factions, it doesn't take long for the mood to sour when you get your hat handed to you by the Other.
   
   



3. The fight didn’t stop yesterday. Take it to the state capitals
   
   
   
   Soren Dayton makes a great point. With Washington in a happy stalemate, we can continue to take back the country by taking back the States.
   
   

See these articles at the link below.

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Bob Etheridge Calling for a Recount Posted by Tabitha Hale (Profile) Wednesday, November 3rd at 6:19PM EDT 1 Comment The NC-2 Race, in which Renee Ellmers is poised to take down manhandling Bob “Who’re You” Etheridge, has gotten complicated. Last night, it looked like a clear victory for Ellmers and she claimed victory. The gap tightened, however, and now he wants a recount. Etheridge is a 6 term incumbent in what was considered a very safe seat for the Democrats. Unfortunately for Bob, it looks bad when you put a college student in a headlock for asking question, and his constituents suddenly became a lot less excited about supporting someone who might attack them. Help Renee. Recounts are expensive, and she’ll need everything she can to pull this thing off. She’s a fantastic conservative who ran a great race, and has earned this win. She knows where her priorities lie. Watch her speech, which starts at the 7 minute mark, and donate today. Read more at www.redstate.com

The Democratic knives come out in the House.

The ‘moderates’ blame the liberals for walking all over them; the liberals blame the moderates for going along with passing bad ideas like the stimulus, cap-and-trade, and Obamacare; the idiots (this may be a subgroup: there’s a bit of an overlap here with the first two groups) are claiming that this entire problem would have gone away with a little more marketing; and everybody blames the President.  Because really, why not?  It’s fairly clear by now that being on Barack Obama’s good side is not exactly inherently valuable.  They’re all right, of course: the Democratic debacle in the House represents a perfect storm of legislative cowardice, political greed, a grotesquely flawed group understanding of proper civic policy, and a White House that routinely demonstrates the organizational and administrative core competency that normally one associates with opium-raddled Victorian expatriate remittance men.  None of which helps them right now, of course; but it’s a lot of fun to point out.Read more at www.redstate.com

The fight didn’t stop yesterday. Take it to the state capitals

But bailouts from Washington should not happen again. House Republicans can stop it from even coming to the floor. We have to continue pressure to make that happen, but we can and will win that fight. The next step is the states. With Republican control of so many state legislatures, we can now force states to reform and their services while cutting government employees. Mitch Daniels did it in Indiana, and with both chambers of the state legislature, they are likely to do more. If our new conservative leaders do this, we can get better service, smaller government, and less union money fighting for more spending in the future. That’s a virtuous circle. Read more at www.redstate.com

 

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Join @HeartlandInst staff for Election predictions and results

The Heartland Institute is a free-market think tank based in Chicago. To help kick off their new blog, they're having a contest of skill and daring and no small risk to life and limb:

We’re having an Election Night prediction contest on our new blog, Somewhat Reasonable. We are giving away signed copies of P.J. O’Rourke’s new book, “Don’t Vote, It Only Encourages the Bastards” to those who most closely guess in the comments section of this blog post the makeup of the House and Senate.

There should be some amount of hilarity involved, from the sample so far.



They've got a highly ironic prize. P.J. O'Rourke came to Chicago a little while back for a book signing.



Clicky linky and let the bloodsport commence.

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Heartland’s Election Night Predictions

As they come in, I’ll be posting Election Night predictions from Heartland staffers. To get things started, here are mine:

Jim Lakely

Senate: GOP 51, Dem 49

Murkowski will not come close to stealing away Joe Miller’s victory in Alaska. She will concede on Election night.

House: GOP picks up 66 seats.

Other miscellany:

Keith Olbermann hides under his desk in the fetal position by 9 p.m. EDT.

Rachel Maddow calls the Tea Party racist, wonders on the air how America let the Klan take over the government.

Chris Matthews shockingly pins the blame for this electoral disaster squarely on Obama for over-reaching, and says, on the whole, it’s a good thing for Democrats that Nancy Pelosi has been de-fanged.

John Nothdurft

Senate: 51 Dems, GOP 49

House: GOP picks up 68 seats A woman will become Governor of California MSNBC will blame the election on George W. Bush Brady Quinn wins the Illinois Governorship in an unprecedented landslide Karl Rove will continue to be annoying in his analysis Paul Krugman will blame the Democrats election day losses on a “lack of spending and government intervention” Read more at somewhatreasonable.com

 

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Bahahaha: @ChristineOD FTW Coons Camp Expresses Turnout Worries @WSJ #Rush #tcot #DESen

URL:  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/11/02/coons-camp-exp...

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Shocker: NPR Spins Story Against Republican | RedState #tcot #teaparty #mi01 @benishek

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What a shock. NPR spins story against Republican #teaparty #tcot #mi01 @Benishek

NPR presents a heavily edited audio recording of an interview with the the former campaign manager for a splinter candidate in the Michigan 1 Congressional race. Republican Dan Benishek is narrowly leading the unionist Democrat in the race. Benishek has been endorsed by Sarah Palin, Redstate.com, and is a favorite of local Tea Parties.



But NPR and the Michigan Messenger want the Democrat elected. Since there is really no way to increase the support for the Democrat past the socialist base, they want to split the conservative and Tea Party vote, or at least suppress the Benishek vote with a last-minute attack.



And so this story about a Benishek campaign staffer "conspiring" with Rich Carlson. Carson quit as campaign manager for Wilson last month after there were strong differences of opinion.



An NPR reporter made a recording of a phone call in which Carlson notes that he hadn't been happy with the campaign, and the Benishek staffer offers to help spin the story to protect Carlson's reputation. Wilson unwisely claims to have fired his own campaign manager three weeks before an election, something no one with any sense would do.



Either Wilson has no sense, or he's smearing his former employee Carlson.



And oddly enough, what do we find the Michigan Messenger doing? Running ads for NPR using Sarah Palin as a prop.







Advertising for NPR, using Sarah Palin as a prop -- Sarah Palin, who endorsed Benishek. Hmm, could there be a connection?



And none of this has much to do with Dan Benishek himself, who is best understood here:

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NPR catches Benishek campaign spinning story on Wilson

It made big news last month when Rich Carlson, the campaign manager for independent candidate Glenn Wilson in the 1st Congressional District, announced that he had left the Wilson campaign because Wilson had pledged to pull out of the race if he had no chance of winning but might prevent Republican Dan Benishek from winning as well — a pledge Carlson claimed Wilson was now betraying. But NPR reports now that this was a story made up with help from the Benishek campaign. The reality, NPR reports, is that Carlson was fired from the Wilson campaign. And one of their reporters was with Carlson when he got a phone call from a Benishek staffer suggesting that Carlson could pretend to have quit on principle in order to make Wilson look bad and Benishek look good. Here is the audio of that call, along with a bit of talk from the reporter as well: rich-tony The staffer gave permission to NPR to play the audio of that phone conversation but only if they say that he was not representing the Benishek campaign in the call. That would be a lot more plausible if the staffer had not talked openly in the call about how the Benishek campaign was preparing two entirely different press releases about Carlson leaving the Wilson campaign, both designed to make Wilson look bad but with entirely different stories. Read more at michiganmessenger.com

 

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