The short goodbye to Chris Shays

After 21 years, tomorrow is Christopher Shays’ last day in Congress.

He’s not planning on writing a book. He won’t miss the press. He has too many great stories from being a …

… of which we agree:

"The dream is dead. I was dreaming of Sarah Palin and Al Franken in the Senate together."
–Chuck Todd, sharing.

RedState.com picked up on a Politico story about Al Franken saying he’s "cautiously optismistic."

But RedState points out:

In Al Franken’s 2005 book, "The Truth (With Jokes)", Franken aptly defines the term "cautiously optimistic" with this blurb:

Cautiously optimistic? …

"A campaign is time to stab your enemies. A transition is a time to stab your friends."

–James Carville.

He’s a blowhard but he’s right.

In the "Washington Read" — aka the index — of Mike Huckabee’s book, Jonathan Martin points out the following fabulous index under the hedder Mitt Romney.

                              "Disrespectful attitude of….. "

The mood at the Republican Capitol Hill Club last night was low.

Very low.

People were depressed about the elections, we’re told, including recently defeated Reps. Robin Hayes and Ric Keller. Also there was former Rep. Pombo, defeated in 2006, along with his …

• Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s book, "Making Your Case" "went like gangbusters."
• There was a line 20 people deep to see/meet Gary Hart, the wrestler not the pol.
• Rob Schlessinger was the …

Mike Huckabee and Spike Lee? Politics does brew strange bedfellows but this is ridiuclous. The Huck has a book and a new tTVshow to shill. Today on C-Span, Extreme Mortman’s ears perked up when  a caller asked about how Huck’s book, "Do …

You know what time of year it is: it’s bettin’ time!

Or rather, pay-up time.

It’s too early for the Superbowl and anything basketball related which leaves…..remnants of the World Series.

According to a release, “U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Arlen Specter …

The secret vote of the Senate Dem Caucus’s Can Lieberman Keep His Chairmanship Vote is rumored/gossiped/chatterboxed to be…

42-12 in favor of Sen. Lorax.* 

And then? They all went to lunch. Just imagine that lunch.

*“I’m the Lorax. I’m saving that one tree.”

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