Arianna Huffington

The answer to HH's question is, of course, yes.

 

I had people in relative stiches here tonight, imitating Larry King:

"C'mon Arianna, sing along with me ...
'Greeeeen Acres is the place to beeeeee ...' "

 

HH, I'm curious as to your thoughts on this evening (seriously, that's not a passive-aggressive tact).

 

Trying to make Angelina jealous, are you?

 

She needs to know she'll lose me if she keeps hanging out with that looser, Mr. Pitt

 

Tell her you adopted a cat. She likes those adoptions.

 

Ooooo. I should. Great idea, Dools!

 

I'd rather fuck the new gov in Alaska....

 

Pull her hair down and stick a scar on her face, and she's Tina Fey.

 

As long as I can put her on her new desk and keep her legs in the air, I don't care if her hair is down or she has a scar

 

I'm happy. I hired a new desk guy who started tonight and he did a good job. Pulls a major fucking thorn out of my paw.

The elections? Eh, not so much.

Personally, I think two years of Speaker Pelosi will be energizing for the Republican Party. I think it will be relatively easy to take back the House in two years -- Do you really think Tom Delay and Mark Foley's old districts suddenly got all blue? Nah, just a punishment thing. I can understand that.

Glad Chaffee is gone -- if this had been a 50-50 Senate, he would have probably gone all Jeffords on us.

Disappointed, really, that Harold Ford Jr. (and Michael Steele, too) lost.

Glad to see that, at best, the Kos Kids went 1-for-3 -- losing the one that really mattered to them, in Connecticut.

Glad to see George Allen off the table as a national candidate. Knucklehead.

(BTW, if you had told me before this fall that I could take Mark Warner off the table as a Democratic national candidate and all it was going to cost me was taking Allen off the table, I would have made that deal in a second. And you'll throw in John Kerry for free? Hmmmm, I'll have to think about that.)

The Big Picture item, from my standpoint, is that the Democrats had to run more conservative-sounding candidates in order to win in most situations. Actually more conservative? We'll see. That had to be the first step in becoming a mainstream party again. And one night, as much fun as it has been for them, doesn't accomplish that.

To the contrary, the election of these more moderate Democrats has the effect of pushing to the forefront some of the most liberal Dems who are in leadership positions. There's a disconnect there that will have to be reconciled at some point. Probably in the 2008 primary smackdown.

Folks are tired of the war. The English were exhausted at the end of World War II -- voted out Churchill. Truman, who won the freaking war, was largely reviled by the end of his full term.

Folks are tired of the war, but the real war has barely begun.

The surrender monkeys are ascendant for a brief moment. We'll hope for the best.