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i’m glad it was close

Jeff — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:14:29 +0000

in light of the conservative-noise-machine’s misrepresentation of the health care reform bill, consider the following from rc3.org:

I’ve seen a somewhat common piece of bad analysis I’ve seen over the past week, and have been surprised to see people correct it. As you may know, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill last night, 220 to 215. 39 Democrats voted against it. The fact that the Democrats couldn’t get everyone on board is being treated as a flaw in their strategy when in fact I’m sure their leadership sees it as the key. The bill passed in the House will be merged with whatever bill is passed in the Senate, and that’s the bill both the House and Senate will vote on again to be sent to the President for signature.

Every vote over the minimum necessary to secure passage represents compromises that the Democrats as a group would prefer not to make. It’s not that Nancy Pelosi was lucky to pass the bill, it’s that the Democrats wrote the strongest bill they could that would get enough votes to pass. That’s good strategy.

sounds like a solid plan to me. i’ll expand on this theory with regards to the fact that republicans continually produce votes with nearly 100% party support. this either speaks to the inclusive nature and variance of thought among the democratic party…or the republicans are just too short-sighted to employ a similar tactic.

OMG

Jeff — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:23:00 +0000

been saying “president-elect” obama all day…

Official Projection

Jeff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:49:59 +0000

At 6:45pm PST, we here at onelonelysuccess.com are prepared to make a call in the 2008 Presidential Election: Senator Barack Obama (D) from Illinois has won the presidential election over John McCain (R) of Arizona and will become the 44th … Continue reading →

Only in America

Jeff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:21:09 +0000

Dressed In Style

Jeff — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:33 +0000

today I wore my Obama shirt and my lucky boxers…ladies?

For The Record

Jeff — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:17:46 +0000

for the record…Obama for President…NO on Prop 8…YES on Prop 2

i suffer from Florida-Induced-PTSD

Jeff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:53:23 +0000

so one of my prankster friends sent me this b/c my friends are a bunch of jokers who think that they are comedians who deserve their own fuck HBO special.

*love you*

anyway, when I saw it I couldnt help but think of the great-fuck-state of FLORIDA!

now i know that according to all the polls, even a backward-fuck-state like FL couldnt dick up this election for the rest of us (AGAINx2) but it’s hard to forget the past when you’ve been burned.

the rude pundit

Jeff — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:41:13 +0000

the rude pundit sums up perfectly the impact of Obama’s infomercial to racist-white-conservative-america:

If you still thought prior to it that Barack Obama was going to rape your white wife and kill your white children, there’s no amount of ad time that would change your mind.

the “rest” of us watched it and were—once again—amazingly proud to have supported Obama for the past 20months.

next tuesday cannot come soon enough.

are you better off?

Jeff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:47:32 +0000

whom better to deliver this message than Reagan himself?

one week to go

Jeff — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:59:51 +0000

wonderfully timely video…

one week to go kids.