First, I want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. Here’s to a great 2008.
Second, a quick scheduling note. Posting will probably be light today, though I will have some election-related news shortly. We’ll return to a normal posting schedule tomorrow.
And now, back to the news….
Happy New Year to yoou, Steve. You made the last one much happier — for us and for others — than it would have been, and I’m sure we all appreciate that.
I can’t wait for November!
great blog; glad i found you. happy new year
Thanks for the last year of posting at 247 blogs, Steve. For 2008, I wish you a little more sleep!
Amen to the first three comments. But to me one of the best things about this blog, and one of the reasons that I visit it so often, is the quality of the comments that Steve Benen attracts.
Happy New Year to all the smart, witty, insightful regular commenters. You know who you are.
Happy new year to CB, Mrs. CB and all the good folks in the CB community. In an election year, I count on this being by anchor to sanity. (And it was the last web site I looked at in 2007, and the first in 2008!)
But a Bush countdown clock would look nice somewhere on the page. . . 🙂
I wish I could be more cheerful. But with the “horse race mentality” of the news media (see the froth over the latest Des Moines Register poll), the people of Iowa (and New Hamphire) are bound to do a disservice to the nation as a whole. I could be wrong, but the fact that George W. Bush is a two-term president says it all!
Here’s a caution to you Obama fanatics: In my first presidential campaign, George McGovern got crushed; I vowed never again to let that kind of idealism lead me astray. Does history repeat itself? We will see.
Best of wishes to all in the New Year!
Steve, thanks for all the work you do; it’s going to be one wild year, I think, so please fortify yourself – as much as you can!
Happy New Years to all. And thanks to the CB crew for all they do.
Merry New Year, all.
And could everyone please stop typing so loud?
I’m wishing everyone here a “Happy BLUE Year”. That’s what we’re all working for, right?
Anne, I’d love to be in touch with you. If you read this, please contact me at jill.votedemocratic@gmail.com.
Thanks.
OK, you can have ONE day off. Just one.
Thanks for putting up a great blog! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, all! It’s odd…a couple winters ago, my city totally lost power for a couple of weeks due to unseasonable tornados. Toward the end of the first week, a very few people had gotten ahold of generators and were perking along, and just a few neighborhoods far from the damage were able to get the benefit of power purchased from other towns. The rest of us, nearer the storm’s path, huddled in the dark and cold and adjusted the best we could to the new paradigm. The early part of the third week, street by street and later, house by house the lights began to come back on. I got the same feeling just now over in the Paul thread, and found it fitting it should happen just now. Again, Happy New Year to ALL of us.
MY 2008 IN & OUT LIST:
IN: Russia, Greenland, HRC, Obama, consolidate, repair, walk, quiet
OUT: fly commercial, China, Gore-maniacs, Hannity, dispair, overreact
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IN: internet radio, LCD HDTV, fiber optics, farm land, the Conventions
OUT: terrestrial radio, plasma, copper cable, pharma-holic, liquidity
Happy 2008 to all. This is the only site I go to daily. Some days there is too much fighting at Daily Kos and DU for me to read. I am going to be so happy though when these primaries are over and all the constant polling stops. It seems that there is a poll out every day and it gets to be too much for some of us.
Steve, you have the best blog! And I enjoy reading the comments from the regulars, a group of very intelligent women and men. Best wishes for a great 2008.
Carpetbagger in ’08!!
You’ve picked an amazing time in this country’s history to become a source of insight and information Mr. CB. You pound on us daily with your blackjack posts filled with our dense, national dysfunction and we keep coming back for more. Maybe we just want a good, clear look at the truck that hit us.
Looking forward to further pummeling in the New Year. ugh………
Again I have to (gleefully) take my hat off to the hardest working man in the blogosphere! Here’s hoping that you, CB and Mrs. CB, have the best of all possible years (I know the mudslinging is gonna hit soon, but the sentiment is sincere)! First and last place I go every day, and though I don’t speak up much, I do read everything and what originally attracted me here –the quality of analysis, writing and comments– is still firmly in place. With very few exceptions, if I didn’t read it first on CBR, it’s probably not worth spending my time on reading. You’re that good!
And to all the commenters, a very happy New Year and let’s all fasten our seatbelts … it’s gonna be a very bumpy ride!!
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