Jane Hamsher

Look, for people who convinced themselves that Obama was the second coming of Saul Alinsky -- wake up. He never was. He may, however, be the most progressive person we could have possibly hoped to elect as President of the United States.

Markos did a great job on MSNBC talking about Lieberman's failure to do anything more than cover for the Bushies as Homeland Security Chair. It's great that everyone wants to have a biparsian drum circle, but keeping anyone from the Bush/Cheney/Lieberman nexus is hardly meaningful "change."

From Bob Geiger's Saturday Cartoons

The equivalent of Harry Whittington apologizing for the embarrassment he caused Cheney by getting shot in the face.

Nate Silver is saying the ballots yet to be counted could see Alaska going to Begich.

.  JMM thinks that Coleman's response to the Minnesota recount means that Franken could pull it out there, too.  AP:

An Associated Press analysis of the nearly 25,000-vote difference in Minnesota presidential and U.S. Senate race tallies shows that most ballots lacking a recorded Senate vote were cast in counties won by Democrat Barack Obama.

Turnout could be a problem in the Martin/Chambliss runoff.  Olbermann and Crawford discuss it in our YouTube.

You can draw a straight line through the campaigns of Howard Dean, Ned Lamont and Barack Obama and see how liberal blogging created the culture and the architecture of modern campaigns that has forever changed the way that elections will be run, and how many liberal bloggers do you see on televison?

Zero.

oe now goes to see if he can get a better deal from the GOP, knowing his chances of winning in Connecticut as a Republican in 2012 are about "zero."

Please sign the petition to the Steering and Outreach Committee, telling them it's time for Joe to go.