remphish1 Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Sore loser, eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
caliber66 Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Wow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Chaney next? (wishful thinking, I know.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jimmyjimmy Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 YAY! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 That's just the cherry on top of the sundae. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 To anyone that said that the Dems taking the house or the senate or both wouldn't accomplish anything other than gridlock, I give you: Don Rumsfeld's head. Its nice to see the system finally working after being broken for so long. The people have spoken and those elected are listening. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
embiggen Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 jeez, this must have JUST happened because I was in the gym for 30 minutes watching CNN about 1/2 an hour ago. HUZZAH! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deepseacatfish Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Â Sweet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mchchef1 Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Man you guys are fast, I just heard the news, and Dems won Montana, only virgina left! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atticus Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 I wonder why Bush would do this the day after the election? Wouldn't they have thought that this could have given the Republicans a bump? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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MattZ Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 I wonder why Bush would do this the day after the election? Wouldn't they have thought that this could have given the Republicans a bump? I think this was in direct response the overwhelming dem victory. Rummy wouldnt have resigned otherwise, I bet. And doing it befofe the election would have been an admission that things aren't going well in Iraq. Something the repubs seem to continue to try to downplay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MattZ Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Man you guys are fast, I just heard the news, and Dems won Montana, only virgina left! Where do you see this? Everywhere I go says its too close to call... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 My mother has known him well since high school (I went to the same one BTW) and while she "likes" him, she CANNOT stand his politics. I can hear her screams of joy from here. Good riddance x2.  When jake asked me the other day who I would vote for if I had to choose between GHWB and GWB. I had to think about it for a minute; and I responded the former 'cause he did far less damage than his son has to all aspects of our lives. Two years seems a lot closer today than it did yesterday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
owl Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 AH HA!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
explodo Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Where do you see this? Everywhere I go says its too close to call...AP has predicted dem wins. Other places are all saying too close to call. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Where do you see this? Everywhere I go says its too close to call...CNN.com and Yahoo had reported it, but I can't find it now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Edie Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Where do you see this? Everywhere I go says its too close to call... I see the story on Yahoo: Linky WASHINGTON - Democrats won a cliffhanger race in Montana on Wednesday that brought them to the brink of control of the Senate, after Americans sick of scandal and weary of war ended the Republican majority in the House.  With Democrats now assured of 50 Senate seats, the battle for outright control came down to Virginia, where the party's candidate, Jim Webb, held a small lead. For Republicans, it was an election that started out grim and got only grimmer with the new day. First, voters brought down the Republican House majority after 12 years in power, and gave Democrats a majority of governorships for the first time in just as long. Then Senate control began slipping away, the narrow GOP majority ground down to nothing, protected only by Vice President Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote if the contest ended at 50-50. Democrats hoped to shape a 51-49 majority with a Virginia victory for Webb, a former Navy secretary under Ronald Reagan. Webb led by fewer than 9,000 votes out of more than 2.3 million cast, and with the margin so small and so much on the line, GOP Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) was not conceding. If a recount is held it could take weeks to be conducted by a panel of judges. Electoral officials were canvassing the unofficial results Wednesday, and both parties had teams ready to monitor and intervene in the event of a recount, anticipating the process could stretch into next month. In Montana, Democrat Jon Tester, an organic grain farmer who lost three fingers in a meat grinder, prevailed in a protracted contest with three-term Sen. Conrad Burns (news, bio, voting record), who was weakened politically by his ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Tester held a 3,128-vote lead over Burns with only one county left to count its votes. That county had fewer than 1,000 votes to report. An AP canvass of Montana counties estimated there were not enough provisional ballots still to be counted for Burns to overcome his deficit. That meant the election of 48 Democratic senators as well as two Democratic-voting independents Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 I wonder why Bush would do this the day after the election? Wouldn't they have thought that this could have given the Republicans a bump?Two things: 1. Bush wouldn't have wanted to appear weak before the election. Jettisoning Rumsfeld would have been seen as weak by the wingnut core. 2. I saw speculation a week or two ago that under just these circumstances, Bush might deep-six Rumsfeld and then offer the Secretary of Defense position to Joe Lieberman, in an attempt to regain one senate seat. As for # 2 ... does anyone know how Lieberman's replacement would be selected if this scenario actually happened? Does the governor choose someone? Who's the governor? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 I dunno, but Bush already nominated Robert Gates, former head of the CIA, as Defense Secretary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Does Bush seem a little off? These weird asides are kinda disturbing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 seconded. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
danelectro Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Does Bush seem a little off? These weird asides are kinda disturbing. If you're referring to his news conference, yeah he looks freked out. Like he just got kicked in the jimmy. It's freakin' amazing that less than 24 hrs after the polls close Rummy bails. I really wasn't expecting this but I feel from watching President Bush on TV that he took the message the public sent yesterday to heart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Howcome I can't watch any freakin clips on any news friggin sites. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 Reaction from the Bunch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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