And Now For The Entertainment

Done working... must hurry for provisions (well, ok, just beer) and get home before the whole show is over...

UPDATE: OK, the supplies are all in: A half-rack of Bud, a bag of beef jerky, a totinos party pizza (ummm, cardboardy...), an order of smoked salmon sushi rolls, and a pack of marb lights. Oh, and a fine bottle of Woodward Reserve bourbin I got as a birthday present, which should be quite delicious. Then there's the shotgun and barricade, just in case. As an added bonus, I I feel an "episode" coming on. Yes, let the electioneering begin...

Watching MSNBC's broadcast of Jeb Bush's victory speech. Does he remind anyone else of John Boy from the The Waltons?

Ehrlich beat Kennedy-Townsend for Maryland Governer. Sweet. Any defeat for the vile Kennedys sounds like sweet justice to me. And what the hell kinda name is Posthumus? I mean, how are you supposed to win with a name like that...

Is Peggy Noonan drunk, high, or both? ...Man I love Norah O'Donnell. Those eyes are just fantastic...

As you might have guessed, I'm mostly watching MSNBC's coverage. CNN keeps showing Paul Begala and Robert Novak, which I find unacceptable, and FOX's Brit Hume is a little too much of a pretentious bastard for my current mood. So I'm left with Chris Matthews, who I actually rather like. Accompanying him is Howard Fineman, who I also view favorably, and democratic pollster Pat Cadell, who I found very good in the 2000 election and again find enjoyable to watch today. Cadell is really pissed off at his party, as he well should be. Peggy Noonan is a ditz, although somewhat entertaining. Donna Brazile seems to be some sort of stubborn Democrat answering machine, “I’m not willing to concede the senate yet,” ad nauseum, is all she says. Although it looks really bad at the moment for the Dems, I can’t really blame her. There are several senate races left, and that’s the game. One more senate seat for the GOP and it’s over with.

On the local front, the Seattle Monorail plan is down by two points, with a quarter of the vote in. In a city election, this could break either way. More importantly, the new gas tax, Referendum 51, is DOA. Even my native Seattle, whose voters have long lived by the “I’ve never seen a tax I didn’t like” motto, has voted this puppy down. Good.

  
Jesus, MSNBC just interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's obviously not the idiot he seems, even if you hate his proposition, but goddamn, that guy needs to modulate his voice.

The California governer's race is fascinating to watch. Davis is getting punished for his electoral hubris, as the Rep voters have come out in force, while Davis supporters (?) have stayed at home. It looks like Davis might still squeek it out, but it's tight.

With 62% of the vote in, the Monorail is up by 4 points. The gas tax is dead, and the reduction in car taxes is also passing. Muhahaha, Excellent!

Oh, and Carnahan is admitting defeat in Missouri. I think it's time for that sushi...

    
Do smoked salmon rolls really count as sushi? I mean, they’re not really cooked, but the fish isn’t really raw, now is it? Certainly more sushi-like than the vegi rolls all those fruit-balls eat. But I’m no expert on sushi. I only know I really like those delicious s-s rolls with a dash of wasabi. But they’re all gone now, as is the beef jerky and most of the beer. That, and the end of the cable news stations’ top-line reporting, must mean the night is over.

The GOP got control of the senate, but that control is still narrow, and Democrats can still filibuster anything they please. This by no means displeases, nor particularly surprises, me. What I’m more surprised with, however, is the Dems complete failure to make any gains in either the House, or the Governer’s tally. This is a complete failure of the Donkey party, at all levels, and we’re gonna see some major shakeups in the Dem’s leadership between now and ‘04.

The polls said this was tight, but I knew it would slip one way or the other. I was, in my dark, pessimistic, heart, actually expecting the opposite of what happened. But I live in Seattle, so I’m used to the victory dances of nanny-state freaks. The election was tight, as the polls suggested, but the polls were erroring on the wrong side in every close election, which indicates there was something seriously wrong with their sampling methods. Whether this is solely due to the problems with telephone polling as many suggest, or whether it points to deeper problems in methodology, remains to be seen.

On the local scene, the three issues I found most interesting, the gas tax, the Monorail, and the car tax repeal, all went as I desired (and voted for). A unique experience for me in this city, I assure you...

The Republican sweep is by no means a reason to lambada in the streets. The GOP is filled with as many evil totalitarian fucks as the Dems. However, the Pack’s control freak nature is cultural and social in nature, and you just can’t legislate morality, as much as you try. You can, however, legislate a destructive socialized medicine scheme, or some such regulatory scheme, as Dems are so gung-ho to do, and that would be horribly destructive. And then there’s the Dem’s blame America crowd, which has no sibling in the GOP (Pat Buchanan doesn’t have a voice in the party anymore). Which is why I find the Republicans slightly less repugnant than the Democrats. But only by a hair.

But, it was an entertaining night, all considered, and I want to send a homey-g shout out to Stephen Green for feeding me my national results in an easy to swallow format. The Vodkaman rocks. Now I’m gonna finish this last beer, listen to the latest Donnas CD (which seems strangely appropriate tonight), and then, being somewhat drunk, pass out...

Oh, and I know what the Kanji underneath the fish represents, or at least I think I do. Do you?

 

Posted by Captain Mojo at November 06, 2002 01:19 AM | TrackBack