Of the Day

Headline of the day: Two Generals, Two Women and the FBI: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Epic Fail: Lakers hire D'Antoni over Phil Jackson.  They will now lose their season, and Dwight Howard after it.

Wonder which Mitt was the real one?  Wonder no more.  In yet another confidential conversation with big money donors on Wednesday, Mitt Romney blamed his loss on President Obama "giving gifts" to blacks, Latinos and young voters.  You know, the ones who just want stuff from the government and won't take personal responsibility for their own lives.  So yeah, it's this one:

Smackdown of the day: President Obama defends UN Ambassador Susan Rice against cynical and baseless attacks by John McCain and the Senate's prick-in-chief, Lindsay Graham.  "If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me."  I know who my money's on.

Insanity of the day (if insanity is repeating something and expecting a different result):  As Rachel pointed out, while the NRA spent millions of dollars this election and won essentially nothing, Planned Parenthood won essentially everything--every candidate they supported, every candidate they opposed, every ballot measure--for their contributions. 

So Ohio Republican legislators decided to repair their problem with women by...voting to defund Planned Parenthood.

Virtue of the day: Perseverance.  Instead of being exhausted by the election campaign, and depressed because every though they won so much, there is still so much opposition, supporters of Planned Parenthood in Ohio came out in strength to fill the halls and adjacent rooms of the Ohio legislature, to demonstrate their support in no uncertain terms.

Perseverance also for the high school activists in Arizona who protested that state's restrictive and prejudicial (anti-Latino) voter registration process by going out and registering thousands of voters.  When election day came, suddenly election officials didn't have those voters on the rolls, so they had to file provisional ballots.  Most of those ballots in Arizona are routinely thrown out, but those high school kids are on the case, demonstrating publicly to hold those election officials accountable and get those votes counted.

For it turns out that there's actually a state worse at elections than Florida.  It's Arizona.  The counting isn't over there.  Several late-breaking House races have flipped to Democrats.  The Senate seat may still be in play, and Gabby Giffords old seat definitely is.