Oh, Rats!
My friend Carol was quick to remind me this morning of the words of Molly Ivins.
First rule: No gloating. Actually, there is gloating allowed, but only in the exclusive presence of other Democrats. Gloating in the face of Republicans is rude and unsportsmanlike, and just gives them one more thing to complain about. Also, remember there is a possibility there may be some Republicans on the civil service staff—I have seen this when the R’s win—and it is really not good manners to watch them wailing around with their eyes brimming with tears.
Does this mean that I have to take my life-sized Obama off the front porch so that when my Republican neighbor across the street pulled out of his driveway this morning, that’s the first thing he saw? Forgive me, Molly, I just can’t help myself. It has to stay a couple more days.
My coffee this morning tasted so much better drank from a new celebratory mug. (Thank you, Bubba.)
And last night when my rowdy friends heard that Colorado passed legalization of marijuana, we all immediate stood up and shouted, “Road trip!” We probably would have left last night if we could have found a van with daisies painted on it.
It was glorious to awaken this morning knowing that my United States Senate has binders full of women in it. And, it was such fun to see Todd Akin get “legitimately raped” by Claire McCaskill.
I’m gonna gloat, dammit.
P.S. I forget to mention that Republicans lost their super-majority hold on the Texas House. That there is what we call hard down excellent news.
Thanks to Bryan, Aggieland Liz, and Carol for the assorted heads up.
I’m with you all the way. Can I join the road trip? none of my clothes from the old days fit but I still have some beads and such.
1Gloat for me too.
2I was going to go to the Huffington Post and engage in a little gloating with the RW trolls (who seem to be burrowing somewhere). But after I got out of bed and stood up, I realized I was too groggy from the gloating last night.
3Sometimes the mean-minded lying SOBs get what they deserve. So long, Mittens. So long, baby-faced AynRand bootlicker.
I will be good about gloating in Republican places. Really. I will. Mostly.
4My gloating will be done via a big smile on my old face and an extra skip in my walk while carrying my Obama bag to the grocery. I better take some Aleve before I leave the house.
5I’m going to drive by that “Better Mormon than Muslim” sign in our town and gloat my frickin’ head off. Ha!
6Supposedly there is an old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. The Republicans are cursed because politics is going to get even more interesting. They have not figured out how to deal with their frothing at the mouth crazies who dominate their primaries and conventions. To win nomination a Republican must swear allegiance to an old white guy agenda. Unfortunately for them, and us, we old white guys have a bad habit of dying. And the folks that replace us vote a lot more like me than they do most other old white guys apparently vote.
7It was kind of fun to watch the stunned expressions on the faces of the repubs who were set to party all night after a big win.
8I’m going to gloat if Mary Bono Mack loses to Raul Ruiz in CA.
9She ran the most vicious ad hominem campaign I, personally, have ever heard and right now she’s down 40K votes.
(And her husband lost his FL seat; a twofer!)
As good as I feel today I won’t gloat, though my personal weather forecast includes a heavy, persistent layer of smug which will last at least through next week
10It was fun to see the video of Steve Doocey (I won’t use his generic name here) spew, sputter, whine, and bloviate on “Obama’s negative, full of lies, where-were-the-fact-checkers campaign ads.” THIS from a FOXer……priceless.
11Am I allowed to gloat…… just a little bit?
I’m about the only Democrat in a family full of folks who vote the (R)…..
My one vote…… cancelled out all of theirs.
I’m going to gloat…… just a tad.:>)
12Awesome! Of course, Molly Ivens was totally right….but I am sure shewould make an exception in this case!
13Frankly, I don’t care if we gloat and they complain. I mean, for pity’s sake the Rethuglicans BOO’d their own man last night when he tried to be well mannered in his concession speech.
They deserve some gloating. Hell, they deserve a bitch slap.
14Somebody mentioned a California race, so I went to the L.A. Times to find some results.
Didn’t find what I was looking for, but what I did find out….. is that Florida still doesn’t know who won their state.
Election officials in Florida are totally incompetent.
Sad for the people who live there.
15So has the invasion of Lubbock started?
16I’ll do the fake sympathy bit, “I’m so sorry things didn’t work out for your candidate. Better luck the next time we hold an election in the 14th Century”.
17I believe that this here beauty shop qualifies as the “exclusive presence of other Democrats.” So Ima gloat like a sonuvagun:
GloatGloatGloatGloatGloatGloat
18HaHaHeeHeeHoHo
We win we win nana nana NA naaaah
Gloat? Dang right I’m gonna gloat.
19My Filipino bride called our Republican relatives at 1:30AM and asked them who won.
Gloat!!!
Just came back from the grocery store and there was a little group of older folks talking about the election.
20They were so glad that POTUS Obama won and so were most people in the store.
I am so happy this am and I still have 2 bathrooms to clean and I don’t care!!!!!!!
It’s OK to gloat as long as we’re at the WMDBS, right? Romney and Ann will be praying for our President, bless their hearts. They should also add Mitch and Boner to the prayer list.
21Oh, Molly, I gotta gloat!
I closed my eyes and imagined REM singing:
That’s Mitt in the corner,
That’s Mitt in the spot-light,
Losing this election…
Gloat over.
Congratulations, President Obama!
22Heavens no, I wouldn’t gloat. But, this morning, I did see the pastor of our church who has been spouting ” pray, vote, pray” (translated vote for Romney). I smiled quite spiritually and said, “Well, Reverend, our prayers have paid off.”
23Could’ve been better… I didn’t want Romney just beaten. I wanted him held down and his hair cut. I wanted him to be strapped to the roof of a car and driven to Canada. I wanted him pantsed.
But this’ll do.
24Gloat all you want, but keep organizing like hell! Obama is still embedded in the energy corporations and finance capital’s back pocket. I’m sure that all the old and young hippies in jail for growing, possessing and using marijuana are thrilled about Colorado’s sane stance on marijuana, but I’m also sure that they, and I, want to know when President Obama is going to use his bully pulpit to get Congress to reschedule pot down from Schedule 1. It was put there by Nixon as a form of Electoral manipulation. Question: Has the War on Drugs been more or less effective than Voter ID laws in disenfranchising people who given the choice would vote Democrat? I’m glad President Obama mentioned global warming in his victory speech (barely, “a warming planet”), but he’s hell-bent on completing the XL Pipeline. Obviously our politicians are not going to lead the way to mitigate global warming or establish greater social justice. So I give a big shout out to us the people for working together to defeat the ‘greater evil’. After all, it is we the people, not politicians or corporations or the Pentagon are who are the decisive force in history. Representative democracy is as good as it goes (better than feudalism); what we need now is participatory democracy. When the leaders don’t, then the people must.
25Is it okay if I just go around humming I Am Woman Hear Me Roar everywhere I go?
26And, Alan Grayson is returning to the House! He got SIXTY-TWO (62!) percent of the vote!
Gloat, Gloat, Gloat!
27I am enjoying my Lubbock and surrounding area cousins and friends talking about moving to Mexico as they peruse last night’s election results. Then I explain to them that their weapons will be confiscated by military checkpoints in full body armour about every hour as they travel down the highways in Mexico, and that WallyWorld doesn’t sell shotguns and shells in Mexico because of gun control laws, then stand back and giggle as they go into a major dither. Guess they’ll all be lined up protecting the courthouse when the UN troops arrive in Lubbock. LMFAO.
I also have told them that there are plenty of women in this 2012 freshman class of Congress and Senate that they can take turns holding Ted Cruz’s choke chain….. that really gets their goat. The coup de gras comes when I explain that white Republicans are becoming an endangered species politically, and that as of the 2010 Census, Texas has a minority/majority so get used to losing lots of elections because we’re all taking a deep breath and thinking about 2014, and how we’re gonna storm the State House in Austin. Yeah… I’m gloating.
I had posted on my status on Facebook about two weeks ago how I didn’t understand how any woman could vote Republican. The abuse I took was interesting. I deserve a good, full frontal gloat this morning. All those poor little souls who never ventured more than 500 miles from home can sure get mouthy when it comes to defending their moral obligations to vote Repugnican. Amazing to me how many Texans are using the S word this morning…. Secede! hahahahaha Go for it! It will keep them busy while we organize for 2014.
28When I looked out my window this morning, on my neighbor’s side of the house, I realized their Romney/Ryan yard sign had gone bye-bye! I smiled … yes I did!! I was reluctant to remove my OBAMA 2012 sign from my front bedroom window but figured I shouldn’t rub their noses in it … however, I really wanted to tape signs above that sign that would have read: YES, WE DID … YES, WE DID!!! But I restrained myself and my glee because I know … YES, WE DID!! And when I go to church on Sunday, I will have a bigger smile on my smug mug then usual ’cause the majority of the folks there will be looking so glum! Awwww, too bad! I will NEVER say to any of them … Awww … sorry your guy lost!!!
Gloat … oh you bet your sweet blue behind I will be inwardly gloating!!!
29Yes Mary Bono Mack did lose her job. VBG
30@Mz Patti, I am tempted to say, let the GOP secede. The rest of us would enjoy the break and could have a country run by sane people. And they’d find out which states are really paying the bulk of the taxes they keep b****ing about when their $$$ from Washington dries up.
There’s nothing uglier than a smug Republican, and I’m trying to keep it down myself, but man, it does feel good. And I’m proud to be from Maryland, one of the first states to have voter-approved same-sex marriage and the new state Dream Act.
Unfortunately MD voters also approved the ridiculously gerrymandered new congressional districts. I know the lines were drawn to benefit Dems, but they’re just embarrassing, and it makes it harder to point accusing fingers at the GOP gerrymanders in Texas.
31Beginning December 1, I’ll be officially retired. May I tag along on the road trip?
32Oh, drat! Have rehearsals the first week for two Messiah performances. Raincheck?
I’m with Miemaw – whole dang family of R’s and its killing me not to gloat, but I won’t. They’d take it personal like, if ya know what I mean. 4 more years!!!
33@Bananas:
34Yep! Saw it an hour ago. Yeehaw!
I can say this here and no where else – I am a very disenfranchized old school republican (think Eisenhower -type) who would not vote republican in this current state to safe his life – i will gloat!
35Republican radio figure Rush Limbaugh announced Wednesday that, far from the Republican Party simply failing to turn out its base on Tuesday night, “we are outnumbered” now in the country, calling President Barack Obama’s overwhelming reelection victory “the trend” from now on.
“We have to face some truths, we have to face some reality,” he said. “We are outnumbered and we are losing ground. This was not a glitch. This is the trend. That happened last night. This is the trend. We are outnumbered. Whether you want to put it in terms of, ‘Have we lost the country or not?’ There’s no other explanation.”
GLOAT?
36Bwahahahahaha!!!!!
First true thing he’s said all year.
Love giggling with my D friends and I’m holding my tongue with the Rs. We need to start thinking about Texas in 2014, and shave that R Lege down a bit more. Glad that the Super majority did not survive in the Tx House.
37On another note, my son found out today that the company he works for will be closing their plant near the D/FW airport and sending the jobs to the UK. Coincidence? I think not!
38We should all gloat, tease, ridicule and otherwise harass the GOP. It will simply make then even crazier than they already are and I suspect their craziness cost them a lot of votes. We can drive them to even more extreme positions with a bit of effort. Go for it!
39love ya’ girl. you keep me laughin.
40Shortly after 8:00 Pacific Standard Time, MSNBC had already called the election for President Obama. It took all the will power I had and a glass of wine not to call our best friends and some relatives (who, sadly, always vote Republican). But I didn’t do that! Friends stopped by tonight for a glass of wine (and on their side, whine), and I just had to gloat a little. Just a little, really. I’ll ask the Lord for forgiveness tomorrow,
JJ, I don’t think I’m a bad person, but this has been the worst election season I’ve ever witnessed, and I gotta gloat just a bit. Neener, neener, neener.
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