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Sure seems to me like forcing a debate on voting irregularities in Ohio could at least temporarily replace the hard-hitting piece about Governor Erlich's home life that's currently taking up lots of real estate on the front page of washingtonpost.com. But maybe that's just my screwed-up priorities again.

(You can watch the House debate on C-SPAN and the Senate debate on C-SPAN2.)

Edit: You're right, Ric Keller (R-Florida)! The only reason anyone in the Senate would possibly want to make you discuss seeming irregularities in Ohio is because Michael Moore told them to. Uh. Huh.
And yes, Rep. Boehner (R-Ohio) (huh huh, you said "Boehner"), they all hate the poll workers and want to make them cry. [And hey, look, it worked! Poll worker calls up to whine that the mean ol' Democrats are calling them all liars and cheaters across the board.] Oooh, and Tom "Lemme check with the FAA" DeLay talking about the Democrats "replacing statecraft with stagecraft" and their attack on the institution of our representative democracy. What a tool.

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But there's a picture of a cute kid, and that obviously makes it the biggest news story! What are you, some kind of communist? Jeez... :)

There's a cute kid? Last I looked it was a giant inflatable pumpkin on the lawn. Well, if there's a cute kid then obviously it's the more important of the two. What was I thinking? =)

They seem to be running a random selection of pictures. I just checked in two different browser windows, and one picture showed "Josh Ehrlich, 9 months, pulls himself up in one of the public rooms", and the other one shows the big ol' inflatab;e pumpkin.

I have fond memories of wandering around downtown Annapolis, too. Dammit. I guess they probably won't let us pee on the lawn of the Governor's Mansion, you think? Lord knows, the Maryland Legislature takes every opportunity they can get to pee on the Governor. :)

I was just thinking the other day we should do that again sometime. Sometime warmer, at the very least.

I guess they probably won't let us pee on the lawn of the Governor's Mansion, you think?

Well, it would only become an issue if we get caught, I suppose. =) Not that I'm *advocating* such activities, naturally.

Tom Delay even knows how to spell statecraft?

Well, he did say it, but I have no actual evidence to show that knows how to spell it or what it means though. ;)

Delay saying, well, anything about anything is mind-boggling.

The House is going to RELAX ITS ETHICAL RULES FOR YOU, DELAY. Just... why does ANYONE trust this guy?

The House is going to RELAX ITS ETHICAL RULES FOR YOU, DELAY.

Ah, the sweet sound of partisanship coming back around to bite you on the ass. (Er. Republicans, not *you*, but I'm sure you knew that.) I thought I saw an article the other day that said they were going to back off on that because a bunch of Republicans realized that "hey, this makes us look really, REALLY bad".