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The events of the past day bring to mind the end of the Marx Brothers movie, “Duck Soup.” There aren’t any exact parallels, other than the absurdity of it all and the undeniable glee of seeing the other side get what it deserves.
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Rummy Good Riddance
Well, at last. Donald Rumsfeld resigns — and Bush accepts the resignation. It’s a good sign that Bush didn’t waste any time after the GOP loss of majority in the House of Representatives. Virginia is now all that stands between the Democrats and a slim majority in the Senate.
Rumsfeld should retire and go away quietly. Or maybe he can hang out at the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute. I certainly hope that Rumsfeld doesn’t secure any sort of academic position at a well-known university.
Mass. Appeal
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For the first time since Mike Dukakis left office 16 years ago, Massachusetts has a Democrat for a governor. And he isn’t a classic Boston-style pol, either. He’s Deval Patrick, our first black governor.
As the map shows, Patrick’s victory was by a wide margin, but not in our town. It’s hard to read, but Patrick had 46% to Republican Kerry Healey’s 45%.
I expected Healey to win, actually, because Hopkinton is mostly a GOP town. It’s home to EMC2 Corp. co-founder Richard Egan, who occasionally hosts Dick Cheney at his home.
Tiny Pieces From Some Cruddy Blog
“DEMS TAKE HOUSE!”
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Last night’s tag-team coverage of the mid-term elections by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central was fun. Here are the segments where these two top-of-their-game pundit comedians overlapped. An interesting bit in there where Stewart seems to be acknowledging that Colbert’s popularity is eclipsing his own.
Mid-Term Exams
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Here’s some of last night’s Colbert Report. Tonight is the big 1-hour election show, combined with Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show.
Wow
The day before the mid-term elections, The Army Times is publishing this editorial, calling for the removal of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense. It should be noted that although the paper is sold to military personnel, it is a private publication.
A recommendation of my own is that we return to calling the Defense Department the War Department. Invading Iraq had nothing to do with defending America.