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calendar   Wednesday - May 19, 2010

Sunny Day

Well, at least the rain seems to have passed. So that means it’s back to work cleaning windows.

Consider this an open thread.

What new insanity is the left up to today? What impact is the tea party having already, and I don’t just mean the primary results. But, ah, the sweet taste of those primary results!

Personally, I’m loving the little bit of election news I’ve had the chance to see!

Angry Electorate Roars at Washington, Hands Setbacks to Establishment Candidates

If Tuesday’s primaries were any indication, incumbents and establishment-backed candidates in November should be shaking in their boots.

In Kentucky, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who was backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Vice President Dick Cheney, was soundly defeated by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul. In Pennsylvania, five-term Sen. Arlen Specter, who ditched the Republican Party last year to save his career, ended up being sent into retirement anyway by Rep. Joe Sestak in the Democratic primary.

And in Arkansas, Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter after she failed to win the majority of votes in the Democratic primary.

See ya Arlen. Better a Sleestak than a shit stack. But Twomey will beat him too.

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Rep. Joe Sestak sent Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter into retirement Tuesday with a stunning come-from-behind victory in the the Democratic primary.

Specter becomes the third incumbent member of Congress in two weeks to lose his job, after Republican Sen. Bob Bennett lost the GOP nomination at the party’s Utah convention and Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan lost a primary in West Virginia.



Tea Party favorite Rand Paul, who defeated Republican establishment candidate Trey Grayson in Tuesday’s GOP Senate primary in Kentucky, warned Washington to “watch out, here we come.”

After giving the anti-big government movement its most significant political victory yet, Paul said the Tea Party movement has a message, loud and clear.

“We have come to take our government back,” he said in his victory speech, drawing thunderous applause from his supporters.

“It’s just a tremendous mandate for the Tea Party,” he said. “It cannot be overstated that people want something new. They don’t want the same old, same old politicians and I think they think the system is broken and needs new blood.”

Paul was leading late Tuesday with 59 percent of the vote to Grayson’s 35 percent, with nearly all the precincts reporting.

“It cannot be overstated that people want something new,” Paul said, “They don’t want the same old, same old politicians and I think they think the system is broken and needs new blood.”

The same could be said in Pennsylvania after 80-year-old Specter lost his bid for a sixth term. His rival for the Democratic Senate nomination accused party leaders of trying to foist Specter on Pennsylvania voters.

“My party’s establishment got off track,” Sestak told USA Today before the election.

In Arkansas, Lincoln didn’t do well enough Tuesday to avoid a June 8 runoff against Halter. Her 17-year career in Congress is now at risk.

“Voters are so angry they are throwing plates,” said Democratic consultant Dane Strother.



It’s a start. 3 down, 532 more to go. We have not yet begun to fight!

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See? I told you it was a sunny day.


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