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“ Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the ‘Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?’

— Barney Frank, being awesome

» We’ll always have Paris

Better late than never? I went to Paris hoping to get drunk and write something brilliant. It never quite worked out. I came up with this basic idea a few days in, and tried to write shortly before leaving. Turns out I hate to be watched when I write; one thing led to another, and a bit of a blow-up followed. I think the recovery reaffirmed the power of the metaphor.

hah!

“ These people that are trying to force this healthcare bill upon us are not the philosophical descendants of John Kennedy and Tip O’Neill. They’re the philosophical descendants of Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinsky and Wavy Gravy. These are Woodstock Democrats.

— Actor John Ratzenberger, best known as postman Cliff Claven on “Cheers,” condemning the House Democrats’ healthcare bill Thursday at the conservative protest on Capitol Hill.

Fav/Unfav

-             Now     10/29   10/22   10/15   10/8    10/1
B. Obama      55%/38% 56%/36% 56%/37% 55%/37% 54%/38% 53%/39%
N. Pelosi     38 /53  39 /53  38 /54  37 /55  36 /56  35 /57
H. Reid       33 /56  33 /55  32 /56  33 /57  32 /57  32 /58
M. McConnell  16 /66  15 /67  16 /66  17 /64  18 /64  19 /63
J. Boehner    15 /63  13 /64  13 /63  13 /62  14 /61  13 /61
Dem Party     42 /50  43 /49  42 /50  41 /51  40 /50  41 /49
The GOP       23 /66  21 /68  20 /67  21 /67  22 /66  23 /66
Cong. Dems    40 /53  41 /52  40 /53  39 /55  38 /56  39 /55
Cong. GOPers  15 /70  14 /71  15 /70  16 /69  17 /69  18 /69

In Your View, Is Obama Doing Enough To Cooperate With Cong. GOPers?

-       Now 8/31 4/5 2/8
Yes     49% 51%  62% 74%
No      49  46   36  25

In Your View, Are Cong. GOPers Doing Enough To Cooperate With Obama?

-       Now 8/31 4/5 2/8
Yes     31  36%  37% 39%
No      67  60   61  60

“ He’s trying to find candidates who can win.I’m trying to find people who can help me change the Senate.

— Jim DeMint (R-SC), on why he differs from NRSC Chairman John Cornyn (R-TX) on recruiting

Turns out, Hasan graduated in 1997 from Virginia Tech

Nishad: look that guy
still didn't top v-tech
and he was army trained
i think that speaks volumes about v-tech
and the caliber school it is
me: hahahaha
Nishad: i should make commercials for v-tech

“ Do you know who I am?

— Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), to a TSA supervisor, after an airport scuffle with a TSA officer. The supervisor said: “No”

“Nearly” everyone in the audience at today’s WH Tribal Nations Conference “wore conventional business attire, but there were at least five elaborate feather headdresses” or “war bonnets” (pool report).

“ We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, it was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War and we won that seat, so from our standpoint, no, a candidate was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people.

— Nancy Pelosi, putting it in perspective

“ I actually had to look up ‘dithering,’ and it means ‘indecisive,’ and that’s exactly what [Obama]’s being.

— Joe Wilson, agreeing “with Vice President Cheney that the president is dithering.”

ELECTION DAY

Ahhh, lost New JERSEY. What’s funny about this is that it’s being painted as a huge repudiation of Obama’s policies, but in the only national race we ran, we won? There is one more Democrat in the House ready to vote for socialized medicine today than there was yesterday, and that’s hard to see as repudiation.

» http://www.georgehutchins.com/

ELECTION DAY

New Jersey we win, Virginia we lose, and New York………we win? I think? EXCITING.