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A Lovely Note on Which to Start Your Weekend
The runoff race for the last seat in the U.S. Senate to be decided this year will take place in Louisiana tomorrow. How’s Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu expected to fare against her Republican challenger, Bill Cassidy?
Since it can afford people like us — well, like me, anyway — particular pleasure when the news is so very bad for them that even the other side has to admit it, let’s simply excerpt an item from the Huffington Post:
EARLY RUNOFF TURNOUT IN LOUISIANA FAVORS CASSIDY — Scott Bland: “Louisiana’s Senate runoff is Saturday, but voters have already been casting ballots, and the early returns look ugly for Mary Landrieu…. Four automated, recorded voice telephone polls…all give Cassidy double digit leads over Landrieu. The HuffPost Pollster poll tracking model rates the probability of a Cassidy victory in the runoff as a near certainty.
Landrieu’s defeat tomorrow will bring the number of Senate seats the GOP picked up this year to nine — nine! — giving them a majority of 54 to 46.
Forget Vicryl’s Scotch. This calls for champagne.
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Or at least a light beer from Miller!
While I’m wary of triumphalism (winning isn’t really everything… it’s just a good start), I do find it delicious that Landrieu is the last of the Southern Democrats in addition to the 54th Senate seat. To that, I raise my glass. Happy retirement, Mary.
Despite McConnell’s protestations to the contrary about immigration “reform,” I think a Boehner/McConnell team running the Congressional show will be a sad mess for the future of the conservative vote. I think sticking to Scotch might be a good idea. Make mine a double!
No sirs. If you’re celebrating a victory in Louisiana, you should be drinking Bayou Rum.
Forget Scotch? Perish the thought!
Good news indeed Peter – I’ll raise a glass of champagne in celebration with you.
But, to spin off the rails a bit, I’ll pose a question to you: Is it champagne you prefer or one of your lovely California sparkling wines?
Back in the day (early 1990’s), when we (XOM) were heavily into deepwater exploration in Nigeria and Angola I was the Operations Geologist rotating into Lagos and Luanda. We were living high on the hog and traveled first class on BA and AF. For about a year, on my 28 days on / 28 days off schedule in Luanda, I would leave Luanda bound for Paris and would almost always sit next to the TFE (Total Fina Elf) country manager. Being a good Frenchman, he would school me on French wines (of which there were some beauties served on board). My best memory though is my first flight with him and when we were offered champagne on boarding – with a choice of two – he said to get the rose; and it was incredible. This beer drinker from Texas was converted! I wish I could remember the name of that wine, for it was the best champagne I have ever had and is what I would toast you with. Forget the scotch indeed.
Cheers.
Champagne always gives me a headache. Scott Wilmot, Is that me or grade of Champagne I’m drinking?
I never forget Scotch, but it always forgets me.
Cheers.
Cheap champagne can be brutal, but so can the 10th glass of the good stuff. Man up, hoss!
Cheers.
Who knew HuffPost could bring such cheer? Bless you Arianna….
To be honest, the last time I took instruction in champagnes was when I was studying in England about three decades ago. The champagne all my friends in Oxford agree represented the best intersection of price and quality: Bollinger, or, as we invariably called it, “Bollie,” as in, “Chaps, has the moment arrived to pop another bottle of Bollie?” That’s not a particularly defensible reason, I’ll grant you, but I remain a Bollie man to this day.
I’m good with champagne too!
I heard an NPR piece yesterday on the topic. They praised Landrieu’s ability to “win tight races” though they never mentioned that Cassidy is up over ten points. So it seems HuffPo is more responsible than NPR. Not surprising. I reckon.
Looks like Cassidy will win by about 14 points, though not all the ballots have been counted. Not bad in an historically blue state.