Author: Matthew G. Saroff

A Critique of the No on Prop 8 Effort

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Quoting John Aravosis:

I’d like someone to explain to me why the leaders of our side of the campaign shouldn’t be metaphorically beaten to within an inch of their lives. We should have hired political professionals, even – eeks! – straight ones, to do this. But we relied on the usual gay names and faces because, cumbaya my lord, a PC group hug is far more important than actually winning. I’m disgusted. And I want to see some heads rolling.

I would note that this problem is not unique to the Gay community…In fact it appears to be endemic to the Democratic party. (Brazile, Shrum, Penn, etc.)

Quote of the Day: Alan Greenspan’s Woman

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Dean Baker on Andrea Mitchell on Obama cabinet appointments:

I usually don’t watch much television news. When I do, I realize why. I saw Andrea Mitchell tonight talking about who President Obama will turn to for help in dealing with the financial crisis. The first two names were at the top of the list of people who gave us the financial crisis: Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. This would be a bit like turning to Osama Bin Laden for aid in the war on terrorism.

(emphasis mine)

On a deeper note, Andrea Mitchell is about as close to ground zero on conventional wisdom as one could get, and so the general level of clueless of the Beltway Boyz™ is just a complete mind f^%$.

While I Slept

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Minnesota: Coleman-Franken still too close to call, and Bachmann wins.

Alaska: It looks like both current felon, Stevens, and felon to be, Young, are going to be reelected. What is wrong with that state?

Washington State: Reichert-Burner still close to call.

California: It looks like the hate amendment wins, though they are still calling it close.

Going to Sleep Now

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Some updates on races of interest:

Franken-Coleman: Too close to call, but the exit polls show a slight lead for Franken.

Bachmann-Tinklenberg: It looks like the evil crazy lady will win…Damn.

The hate ammendment in California (Proposition 8) Leading, with 54%, but it’s early and SF and Santa Cruz county have not yet come in….It will be a nail biter.

Darcey Burner-Dave Richert: Looks, OK, she has a double digit lead, but only about 11% votes have been counted, and I do not know the geographic breakdown.

0.11¢ on the Dollar?????

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot????

In any case, this is what an an acquantance of Mr. Mortgage related to him that he, “Bought 27 second mortgages with a face value of $2,153,400 for $2400.”

It’s part of a whole package, but this is remarkably grim, though the friend in question notes that it was a, “very small pool and not typical,” (scroll down in the comments) but still…..