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Jim Tedisco, Republican of New York, has apparently lost New York’s 20th congressional district special election to Scott Murphy. But, as it was pretty close, Tedisco and the Republicans contested some ballots and blah blah, the usual thing, and today — after such embarrassments as challenging the residency of Air America liberal radio host Sam Seder, who not only has his permanent residence in the district but served as a jury foreman there the week of the election — Tedisco is probably going to concede.
How did this race get so boring? Maybe because all congressional races are ultimately boring, unless there’s some incredible douche-sack who stands to lose, an epic jackass on the Tom DeLay/Michele Bachmann/Don Sherwood level.
But, this race was allegedly the Supreme Test for hip-hop street thug Michael Steele’s new GOP. If he couldn’t get a Republican to win this little House race in a traditionally backwoods/conservative area, then he would be ousted. And if Steele did manage to grab this congressional seat for the Republicans, he would also be fired. This is because his skin is of a darker complexion than his rival, the slaveholder from South Carolina, Katon Dawson.
Had Tedisco won, CNN and the Washington Post and “First Read” and, of course, The Politico would begin a hysterical orgy of BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA and THE TIDE HAS TURNED and REPUBLICANS ARE BACK nonsense. As it looks like Murphy has won the race with a lead of about 400 votes, you can pretty much expect to hear nothing at all.
Teabagging! It’s a lifestyle.
Sources say Tedisco concession likely [Capital 9 News]
Or perhaps we could let Coleman and Tedisco fight to the death in an epic cage match, and the winner gets to win his election because christ why not. Also, Violence!
Conceding? What a RINO.
And I’m sure there’s a way to say this looks bad for Obama anyway — the fact that it was even close blah blah blah, etc.
“Sometimes a congressional seat is just a congressional seat.”
It’s all because Steele wouldn’t say the “S-word”*.
* I forget what the S-word is. Something with “pejorative punch”.
RNC Chairman for Life Michael Steele reports that Tedisco won in a landslide. Because who would ever notice, one way or the other?
That’s it. The USA is now officially a Socialist country. Pass the Vodka comrade!
Thank you for reminding me why I hate the fucking media so much. Except for Shep Smith. He can teabag me any day of the week and twice on Sunday, as long as I don’t have to look at his crazy eyes.
Probably because Tedisco expects to have a life and career after this election is settled, unlike Coleman.
Serolf Divad: Hot damn! An excuse to start drinking early today!
I think Coleman and Tedisco should have a teabagging competition…or Jim should open up a new club called Teh Disco
“Teabagging! It’s a lifestyle.”
That’s a t-shirt waiting to happen…
StephanieInCA: Your blog could do well with this, my friend…
Oh noes, Michael Steele can’t go- we need him for the LOLZ. Won’t somebody think of Wonkette?
Yay for grown ups!
I personally can’t wait until they DO fire Steele, and MSNBC runs the story “RNC Ousts Amiable African-American Chairman in favor of Southern Segregationist!”
A horribly biased and sensationalist way of telling the story, of course. But it has the benefit of being completely fucking true in every respect.
Great success GOP turning an initial 12 point lead into a loss in what was once a safe GOP district.
The Mets Bullpen of US America politics.
SmutBoffin: Alex, I’ll take “swords” for 3000.
Deep in the halls of the RNC, the following conversation is taking place about Michael Steele:
Rove: Told you I did. Reckless is he. Now, matters are worse.
Cheney: That boy is our last hope.
Rove: No. There is another.
There’s no way Tedisco is a Republican. Otherwise he would say something negative about Rush Limbaugh one day and be blowing him the next day.
Signs of the trend! Everyone hates Republicans!
Al Franken has yet to learn that the only way to claim a senate seat is to behead your opponent.
There can be only one!
The NY Assembly GOP leadership forced Tedisco to give up his leadership roll the day after the election even when the outcome was unknown. This tells you how little regard his own party had for him. His career is all but over unless sitting in a chair as part of a small minority party is considered a career. He has coasted for years with name recognition his primary asset. Now that the voters know him thru a high profile campaign, it is doubtful he will even be able to retain his own seat.
I paid attention to this campaign only because Tedisco tore a page out of the old Republican playbook and acted like a cross between Rush, Newt and Cheney, not the kind of guy you want to have a drink with, more like the drunk you want thrown out of the bar.
He took a 30 point lead and saw that evaporate, the more voters heard him the more they disliked him.
In a district where GOP registration out numbers Democrats, the GOP could not turn out the vote. The just say NO message of the House was adopted by the voters who just said no to this GOP relic.
if steele had just come out and called obama a nigger like all republicans are dying to do, tedisco would have won a landslide.
LOL WAT @ the Ann Coulter ad on the left side of this page!
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Cheney as Obiwan? No way! Nerds everywhere will kill you for saying that! Lucas himself said on NPR last week that Cheney is definitely the emperor, on account of him being a bigger shitsack than Darth Vader, who’s really just a twisted but sad hick kid from the southwest. Or something.
Maybe Norman should petition to have the recount moved to Florida.
Conceding is a valuable thing - you don’t just give that away.
Dang Socialists won another election? After the teabagging and 100 days of wingnut radio browbeating of Hopey’s epic fail? WTF? Ain’t anybody listening?
arclight:
Tip her head back (not to waterboard), and Pez comes out.
Maybe now Steele will see the wisdom of renaming the Democrats to “Democrat Socialist Party”
I propose that the loser in these extended contests pay all the bills involved. And walk naked down the state capitol’s main street.
AnnieGetYourFun: If Shep is going to be teabagging you, you’ll only have to look at his one eye.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: I sense… I sense certain racial entendres around “the boy”.
Also, this is an interesting rewrite of Star Wars in that I am now wishing for the Empire to completely fuck over the Rebellion, and win forever. Maybe we can have a more principled, sane, and practical rebellion next time.
SmutBoffin: A punchy word that will resonate with the Repub base? Hmmm….. How about “stinky-poop”?
chascates: And get waterboarded by Keith Olbermann.
AnnieGetYourFun: you’re better than that. At least make him wear sunglasses.
AnnieGetYourFun: From what I hear, I’m pretty sure ole Shep prefers to BE teabagged. By men’s balls. In his mouth. Preferably in a piano bar. Wearing leather. With a shaved nutsack. And meth in his pocket and a string around his dick.
*whispers*
Because I thinks he haz teh ghey.
Okay, a little OT, but how come Ann Coulter’s Adam’s Apple is bigger than her tits? Oh wait, I know this . . . .
ManchuCandidate: Win! Best description of the Republican party I have heard.
Zadig:”All those innocent contractors brought in to do the job were killed — casualties of a war they had nothing to do with. All right, look: you’re a roofer, some juicy government contract comes your way. You got a wife and kids, the two-story in suburbia. This is a government contract, which means all sorts of benefits. Along come these left-wing militants that blast everything within a three-mile radius with their lasers. You didn’t ask for that. You have no personal politics. You’re just trying to scrape out a living.”
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/03/clerks-death-st.html
Joey Ratz:
Republican P.R. Creep: Mike. Mike-o. Man of Steele. What’s up, brutha?
Steele: What is it, honky? I’m busy trying to save your idiotic, racist party from obsolescence without flushing the last vestiges of my Afro-Am. identity down the shitter.
R.P.R.C.: Then I’ve got great news. New talking points are in; we want you to refer to the Administration’s policies as “stinky-poop” whenever possible.
Steele: Like “Obama’s bailout plan reflects a radical shift toward failed, ’stinky-poop’ policies.”?
R.P.R.C.: you got it, bro.
Steele: No offense, man, but is everyone that works here retarded?
SmutBoffin: Isn’t “pejorative punch” our drink of choice here at Wonkette?
So, the kid’s can keep Bobama?
What’s the difference between a newborn puppy and a Republican loser?
Wait for it….
After six weeks the puppy stops whining.
Hooray For Anything: I always thought that discussion was kinda unfair. Let’s be honest: the contractors would have been given “shore leave” on the DS2’s first target. They were already history. Plus, the rebels had Harrison Ford. They can’t NOT be the good guys.
The alternate version envisioned by Lionel Hutz Esq. has the advantage of probably casting Dubya in the role of Han Solo. Where do we cast Joe Biden? Darth Maul? Or is that Kerry? Or is Kerry Dooku? My brain aches.
GLINDA: Begone, Tedisco! Before someone drops their primary domicile on you too!
when YOU PEOPLE make these “star wars” allusions and i have no idea what you’re talking about am i to be proud or ashamed?
goodbye Tedisco
it was nice laughing at your stupid incompetance
hello new guy
just do what Hopey tells you to
AnnieGetYourFun: You know, when anonymous commenters say things like that I laugh, but as you are officially a “real person wot I’ve met”, I actually now have a mental image of that. It’s a tad disturbing. I agree with Kevo - you’re better than that.
SmutBoffin: Or, to paraphrase GOP talking head Saulius “Saul” Anuzis, “Americans are no longer scared by ’socialism’, but they still recognize that ’stinky-poop’ is bad”.
Put a fork in him, he’s done: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=793686
geek: Seriously, outside of Rhinebeck, it’s all Lee Greenwood and Trucknutz up there. So the GOP can try to spin this however they like, but the fact that Tedisco not only didn’t win by a landslide but LOST = epic Republican fail. The idea that they’ll try to sell this as a vote of no confidence for Obama because the Dems didn’t run away with the election only works if you ignore, oh, I don’t know, everything about the district?