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Remember the crazy failed Republican state senate candidate who “conceded” to her Hindu opponent by demanding he become a Christian? Minnesota’s second-favorite Lunatic 4 Jesus, Rae Hart Anderson, paid a visit to a blog that mocked her and let loose with a long bunch of crazy. Here’s a sample:

Eggs are fragile creations, and a broken Humpty Dumpty hard to glue…but the Creator of all things takes an egg, and breaks it with superior life from the inside out…lets life form inside, and peck its way out and twin chicks set foot on earth with voices and purpose–with bodies and smallish minds that grasp little. Some fractured human ideas lead to more of life and more knowledge of the lack of knowledge, even in the talking heads found everywhere–that fragment into even less so easily.

It’s extra great because it’s a “desi” blog — South Asian people, many of them Hindu — so now she’s trying to convert all the Evil Hindus! Please, somebody elect this woman to national office. MORE »

* For those of you in a coma last week, guess what?! Nancy Pelosi was chosen as Speaker of the House, Steny Hoyer beat out John Murtha for Majority Leader. Blah, blah, news. Tom DeLay said he wants to give Nancy Pelosi “the shocker.” Murtha got jealous and said he wanted to give it to her, too, and that he wants what Nancy wants. Trent Lott is Minority Whip, and it has been a week of “whip minorities” jokes.
* Mel Martinez is the new head of the RNC. He’s straight, feels left out.
* Orientation Week created lots of fun for journalists, especially those at the Philadelphia Inquirer who believe being naive about the D.C. housing market is what Borat’s all about. It was a crazy week, in general, so join us after the jump for more filthy highlights.

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Outside of our not-really-a-state District of Columbia, Mississippi has the largest percentage of blacks of any state in the union — 37% of Trent Lott’s constituents are African American. MORE »

Add another culprit to the GOP’s pile of the guilty. Along with fiscal conservatives, evangelical Christians, military people, libertarians and independents, the November 7 bloodbath is also the fault of “white rednecks.” MORE »

A loopy Jesus Freak who lost a Minnesota state senate race graciously conceded by demanding the Hindu winner convert to Christianity.

Instead of the customary phone call, Rae Hart Anderson sent State Senator Satveer Chaudhary an e-mail. We know, classy! Better yet, the e-mail’s all about how winning elections is nothing compared to being a loopy Jesus Freak who got 36% of the vote. We’ve got the e-mail Christ Himself wants you to read, after the jump.

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Each week, the Comics Curmudgeon helps explain Today’s Cartoons.

Hey, everybody! Who wants to hear more about the mid-term elections?

Anyone?

Hello?

Fine. Fine. Be that way. We won’t feature any midterm-themed comics this week. Well, except for this one, because it features a canine-representation of Nancy Pelosi urinating on the Capitol, and I think it’s supposed to be sympathetic towards her:
OK, that’s it! Lots more talk to talk about: OJ, dorky jean jackets, and big black cocks. We’ll save our search for the most unflattering Pelosi caricature for next week, and the first cartoons about the 2008 presidential election for the week after that.

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Another lingering House race was finally settled today, when Connecticut Republican Rob Simmons conceded to Joe Courtney after a 2nd District recount gave it to the Dems by just 91 votes. Oh, and they both showed up for Orientation Week, which is kind of hilarious. MORE »

The noxious J.D. Hayworth — Republican, Arizona-American, More Jewish Than Jews — has finally conceded to Harry Mitchell, who’s already in town for Orientation Week. MORE »

How do you top the most graceless political loss in recent history? If you’re Crazy Conrad Burns, you emerge in Washington a week later muttering nonsense, making weird threats to Robert Byrd, yelling at reporters and chasing your soon-to-be unemployed staffers up the Capitol Dome like some Phantom of the Opera in an ill-fitting cowboy hat. MORE »

We missed this on Saturday, because who the hell actually listens to the President’s Radio Address, but it’s still worth a post because it’s insane. Here’s an actual quote from Bush on the radio:

One freedom that defines our way of life is the freedom to choose our leaders at the ballot box. We saw that freedom earlier this week, when millions of Americans went to the polls to cast their votes for a new Congress. Whatever your opinion of the outcome, all Americans can take pride in the example our democracy sets for the world by holding elections even in a time of war.

Yeah, because one thing the United States always does in a “time of war” is cancel elections. Well, okay, not really. We managed to have elections during World War I and World War II and the Korean War and the Cold War and the Vietnam War and the War On Drugs and the War On Christmas, among others. MORE »