WINNERS!

Great night for the Democrats....

Nationally, we took control of the house and we're "teetering" on controlling the US Senate.

In Wisconsin, we took control of the State Senate and some of the worst of the worst of the neocons have been defeated in the Assembly.

Let's salute the new CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE"

DAVE OBEY

and a "walk-away winner" in our home districts

AMY-SUE

and two more walk away winners locally

Sheriff Tom and Marlin

WOOD COUNTY WENT DEMOCRATIC IN A BIG, BIG WAY and we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to:

Chairman Dave Wille who worked tirelessly to organize, lead and actually work on phones, doors, delivery and ....and...EVERYTHING. Great Job Dave! Thanks so much.

But we also know that Lois and DeDe were the workhorses in this effort. I don't know how many hours they put in each but I surmise that they were substantial....I have personal knowledge that Lois worked herself hard during this campaign and have heard that DeDe did also. Thanks Lois! thanks DeDe!

on edit: OOOPS....I forgot that I had a pic of one of our local heros...Lois....

here shie is with ANOTHER GREAT WOOD COUNTY DEM, Linda Melski, and their very best friend, Lt. Governor Barb Lawton.

Just One Word!

VOTE

VOTE

VOTE

VOTE

VOTE

snark, snark, snark...relieves the tension

Thanks to watertiger posting on firedoglake

Yes, this is the great nation of Kakistan, home to such luminaries as Ann Coulter, the bowsprit of the wingnut ship of fools, the shrieking harpy with a law degree who doesn't see anything wrong with committing voter fraud.

Incidentially, live blogging in the firedoglake book salon tonight is KEITH OLBERMANN....

He's blogging on his new book THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD. I tried to join in but the pc won't even open the comment section because of the heavy traffic....His book is currently #4 on the NYT best sellers list....thanks mostly to the denizens of Left Blogsylvania...remember, his book will make a GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT to your liberal/progressive friends.

Man...it's getting NASTY out there

I did a lot of traveling yesterday into the northeastern part of the state...listened to local radio ads...nasty stuff...mostly coming from the Repub side...Kagen seems to be taking the worst of it from Gard (same crap from the TV ads.."rich Dr. Kagen..sues his patients...etc., etc). Heard one radio ad FOR the Marriage amendment saying "don't believe those TV ads against the amendment". I've never seen anything like it.

I've seen some pretty ugly tv ads against Doyle and also against Faulk...also got a robo call about Falk supporting "illegal immigrants" this morning.

Locally, the Zein ads against Kreitlow are just disgusting....

I'm not buying this crap that "both sides do it". I think we hold ourselves to a higher standard.

On the more paranoid side of the ledger, there was the Sadam death sentence announced this morning . I wonder about what effect (if any) it will have on the election....then there's the crap from the Sunday morning talking heads that seem to be revolving around the theme, "The Republicans are closing the gap!" I this being done to create a cover story for stealing the election again?.....yeah, I know, it's paranoid as hell but who would have ever thought that Diebold voting machines could be hacked? Who would have ever thought that our own Presidennt would lie us into a war? Who would have ever thought Bush could be so breathtakingly incompetent?

Paranoid or rightously cautious?

I think cautious...

Calling All Wood County Dems!

It's time for "all hands on deck"......it's time for the big, final push to begin

Can you?

Walk Princincts?
Make GET-OUT-THE-VOTE CALLS?
Donate time?
Donate money?

Let's all do JUST ONE MORE THING! to assure a Democratic Victory...some races are close..too close...We don't want to wake on November 8 and find that we fell just short....

Got that?

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do not vote"

I'll have to admit that I've been one of these who has been warning not to get over confident; not to believe all that you hear in the (national) polls. But our good buddy from Last Chance Democracy Cafe, Stephen C. Day, has a totally different take on the situation.

“Oh no, don’t say that,” tends to be the response of many of the Democrats who post comments on the web. “We can’t afford to get overconfident,” they insist.
But I can’t see overconfidence as a realistic worry here. What I feel in the air isn’t complacency; it’s enthusiasm. And we shouldn’t fear it.
It may be just the fuel we need to carry the wave all the way across the country.

Let's get out there and make this victory happen.....it could be one of historic proportions.

You GO Digby!

I don't usually print in full but.........wow....I love this:

by digby9Bush on Limbaugh's show):

'Give me a second here, Rush, because I want to share something with you. I am deeply concerned about a country, the United States, leaving the Middle East. I am worried that rival forms of extremists will battle for power, obviously creating incredible damage if they do so; that they will topple modern governments, that they will be in a position to use oil as a tool to blackmail the West. People say, "What do you mean by that?" I say, "If they control oil resources, then they pull oil off the market in order to run the price up, and they will do so unless we abandon Israel, for example, or unless we abandon allies."

Digby commentary:

Huh?

So he's saying that oil prices will go up unless we abandon Israel and our allies? What the hell is he saying?

I have to give the Republicans credit, I really do. The head of their party, the president of the United States, the leader of the free world is virtually unintelligible when he speaks, he insults people, he creates international incidents and when not making gaffe after gaffe he is almost entirely incoherent. Yet they just got away with two days of wall-to-wall pearl clutching and hanky wringing over an irrelevant Democrats' blown punchline. They may not be able to keep their majority after this disasterous experiment in Tinkerbell governance, but they continue to impress with their gigantic brass... impudence.

Gentlemen, I salute you.

A few images to ponder.....