1. Does anyone have a copy or video of Harold Ford Jr.'s concession speech? It was stunning. I was flipping channels last night, especially when they had candidates giving speeches, but I couldn't click away from his. Chris Matthews on MSNBC was clearly smitten, and with good reason. Magnanimous after perhaps the nastiest race in the nation; poetic; and appropriately upbeat - the man is 36 and clearly knows he'll be back.
Update:Here it is, (H/T Feddie)
2. I like Pat Buchannan. Not his politics (at all), but out of all the talking heads, he is the most honest. He doesn't say what you want to hear or what he thinks advances his interests, he serves it up straight, no chaser. And the rest of the blabbermouths couldn't deal with this. He alone avoids the Pundit's Fallacy. Part of the problem our politics has is that the discussion of it is often too meta - the thinking taking on additional layers of complexity like a Russian nesting doll.
3. Bye Rummy. Good riddance. Not entirely sure if this, in itself, means much in the way of 'change of course,' but combined with the realigned congress and the fact that Gates seems to be at the very least, a reality-based grownup (and thank goodness, not a fleepin' neocon), this strikes me as good news.
4. How does a state dependent on oil and gas (aka fossil fuels) elect a governor who doesn't believe in dinosaurs? FWIW, mom, I called both the governor and house race right to within 1 percentage point of the final margin. Diane Benson did well to get 40% (a female, Native, democratic candidate who favors subsistence over game hunting running against a billion term incumbent anti-intellectual redneck who refused to debate her...)
5. George Allen's quest to be Mini-Bush is getting a little creepy. Recount yasay?
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I was wondering how I should know who to vote for in the judicial and (some other) courts?
Did you vote?
Here's my take:
www.entermindysworld.blogspot.com
I understand your affinity for Buchannan's candor- there's a certain charm about it. And I know you well enough to know that don't subscribe to PB's politics in any fashion. When I see Buchannan, I can't rid myself of the memory of his flame-throwing 1992 cultural war address at the Republican National Convention. I tend to dilute what he's presently saying vis-a-vis that memory.
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