Mostly premiers.  Not much to pick from and nothing worth writing about.  A good night for a nap.

• AMC– Cujo, Sleepwalkers
• Bravo– Real Housewives marathon (with premier)
• Disney– Princess Protection Program
• Discovery– Oddities (Series Premier)
• ESPN– College Throwball, Georgia Tech @ Virginia Tech
• Food– Food Feuds (premier)
• FX– It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The League x 3 (premiers)
• History– Aliens! (one a premier)
• TBS– Hitch
• Turner Classic– The Killers, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (Ava Gardner night)
• TNT– Hoopies, Knicks @ Bulls, Thunder @ Trail Blazers
• Toon– Total Drama World Tour, Regular Show, MAD (this week’s)
• Travel– First Ascent marathon (Series Premier)

Later-

• AMC– Mad Men (10/17), Virus
• Turner Classic– Showboat (more Ava, not the good 1936 version)
• Toon– Delocated (Season Finale)

Dave hosts Edison Peña and Tracy Morgan.  Jon has David Sedaris, Stephen Elvis Costello.

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Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 ECB, Britain hold rates steady as Fed pumps up funds

by William Ickes, AFP

Thu Nov 4, 1:15 pm ET

My particular family is the Corleones, not as big and powerful as the Barzinis, but respected because we believe and practice the old ways.

Not that we don’t have our problems.  A while back we had 2 consecutive bad leaders.  The first one stopped running the business and played favorites so we threatened them with impeachment and they had the good grace to resign.

The second one ran the business but stole from it, which is not acceptable, so we had Tom Hagen explain to them just what would happen in prison.

After this we took a long hard look at our procedures for changing leadership and decided on some new ones.

The Don can be voted out at any meeting of the capos by a simple majority.  The reasoning behind that is if you’re so unpopular that people want to get rid of you, and you’re too stupid to realize that and make sure you have a majority at the meeting…

Well, then you’re just too stupid to be Don.

Consider this a parable.

(inspired by paradox @ The Left Coaster)

H/T lambert @ Corrente

Why Democrats Lost the House to Republicans

Posted by Samuel J. Best, CBS News

November 3, 2010 2:38 AM

Preliminary CBS News exit polls show that these results were fueled primarily by a depressed turnout among Democratic base groups…

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Core Democratic groups stayed away in droves Tuesday, costing Democratic House candidates dearly at the polls.

Hispanics, African Americans, union members and young people were among the many core Democratic groups that turned out in large numbers in the 2008 elections, propelling Mr. Obama and Democratic House candidates to sizable victories. In 2010, turnout among these groups dropped off substantially, even below their previous midterm levels.

Group	2010	2006	2008
Under 30	11%	13% (-2)	18% (-7)
Union Households	17%	23% (-6)	21% (-4)
African Americans	10%	–	13% (-3)

You should really click on lambert’s link because while some of it is stuff you’ve already seen here, he also links many commentaries I haven’t highlighted.

Premiers (except for Faux).  Looks like I’ll be watching Mythbusters and Man v. Food.  Phineas and Ferb has an air date 3 days from now.  Amazingly enough the NHL LA Kings google higher than their NBA namesakes.

Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on you’re wearing a giant P on your blouse EVERY DAY to school so that the whole world knows that Penny Pingleton is permanently, positively, punished.

• Bravo– Top Chef (premier)
• Disney– Phineas and Ferb (11/06/10 premier)
• Discovery– Mythbusters (last week’s and new), Storm Chasers (premier)
• ESPN– Hoopies, Bucks @ Celtics, Lakers @ Kings
• ESPN2– College Throwball, Rutgers @ South Florida
• Food– Tailgate Warriors With Guy Fieri (premier)
• FX– S.W.A.T., Terriers x 3 (premier)
• History– Weed (premier)
• Lifetime– 9 1/2 Weeks
• Oxygen– Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous x 2
• Sci Fi– Hollywood Treasure x 2 (premiers)
• Turner Classic– The Magic Box (film history night)
• TNT– Bones marathon
• Travel– Man v. Food marathon (with premier)
• USA– NCIS marathon

Later-

• Turner Classic– Nickelodeon, When Comedy Was King
• USA– Hairspray x 2 (not the good 1988 version)

Dave hosts Tina Fey and Brad Paisley.  Jon has Chris Wallace (ugh, his father must be very proud), Stephen Doris Kearns Goodwin (not much of a historian actually, and a plagiarist).

Boondocks– Tom, Sarah and Usher.

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Evening Edition is an Open Thread

1 Obama rues election ‘shellacking’

by Stephen Collinson, AFP

44 mins ago

Dear Barack Obama: Word Salads Aren’t Enough

by Taylor Marsh

03 November 2010 9:31 am

Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Democratic legislators, and Obama loyalists thought they could pass health care legislation by throwing the American people into a corporate monopoly system against their will, while using seniors’ money to pay for it, sacrificing women, while lying to the people that it wouldn’t cost more, as you push so called “benefits” off into the future. In fact, Obama and his loyalists actually thought they’d even get rewarded. The political malpractice is epic.

Today Pres. Obama will come out and say something to the effect that “we get the message,” people don’t want obstruction or partisanship they want us to work together. The man is clueless. Following tested partisan and Democratic principles going back to F.D.R. might have saved some of last night. But Obama’s Monty Hall, “let’s make a corporate deal,” screw the policy principles mentality was always doomed to take Dems down. It was just a matter of waiting for the moment to manifest.

What voters want is for their lives to get better or at the very least to believe that the people in charge making policies understand their plight and know what they’re doing. Pres. Obama does not and, unfortunately, too many elected Dems thought their job was to walk in lock-step with a president who couldn’t find a democratic policy answer with F.D.R.’s road map.

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The election results of 2010 are a result of Mr. Obama’s philosophy of cutting a deal for the sake of an “accomplishment” and in order to further your own political marketing. This craven self-serving political egotism means political catastrophe if what you’re doing doesn’t actually make the lives of people better or at the very least doesn’t make them feel as if you’re making it worse.

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It’s the third turn out the bums election in as many cycles. It’s going to happen again in 2012 and if Pres. Obama doesn’t get his act together he will be turned out too.

The Primary Obama Movement Begins Today

Ian Welsh, 11/3/10

Let me put it simply, what went wrong went wrong from the very top of the party.  In both political and policy terms, the President of the United States, the head of the Democratic party, created this disaster.

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Barack Obama took pains to let down or gratuitously harm virtually every major Democratic constituency. Whether it was increasing deportations of Hispanics, whether it was putting in a Presidential order against Federal money being used for abortions which was more restrictive than Rep. Stupak had demanded, whether it was wholesale violation of civil rights climaxing with the claim that he had the right to assassinate American citizens, whether it was trading away the public option to corporate interests then insisting for months he hadn’t, whether it was not moving aggressively on card check (EFCA) for unions, or whether it was constantly stymying attempts to end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Barack Obama was there making sure that whatever could be done to demoralize the base was done.

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The status quo of Democrats coming in after Republicans and accepting Republican policies as a fait accomplit must end.  If it does not, the US will experience a full-on meltdown.  Not a great depression like in the ’30s (though the US is in a Depression) but a meltdown like that which occurred in Russia after the collapse of the USSR, where the population actually declined, food was hard to find, brown outs were common, medicine was in short supply, and so on.

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The left must be seen to repudiate Obama, and they must be seen to take him down.  If the left does not do this, left wing politics and policies will be discredited with Obama.  This is important not as a matter of partisan or ideological preference, it is important because left wing policies work.  It is necessary to move back to strongly progressive taxation, it is necessary to force the rich to take their losses, it is necessary to deal with global warming, it is necessary to deal with the fact that the era of cheap oil is over, it is necessary to stop the offshoring engine which is destroyin the American middle class.

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The first step to fixing America is fixing the Democratic party, and the first step in fixing the Democratic party is fixing Barack Obama and destroying, forever, publicly and in the most high profile way possible, the idea that Democrats can ignore and abuse their own base.  The lies spewed by corporate media figures who earn millions of dollars a year, that every time the Democrats lose, it is because they were too left wing, so more tax cuts are necessary, must end.

Blue Dog Coalition Crushed By GOP Wave Election

by Amanda Terkel, The Huffington Post

Posted: 11-3-10, 05:52 AM

According to an analysis by The Huffington Post, 23 of the 46 Blue Dogs up for re-election went down on Tuesday. Notable losses included Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-S.D.), the coalition’s co-chair for administration, and Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.), the co-chair for policy. Two members were running for higher office (both lost), three were retiring and three races were still too close to call.

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In fact, some progressives blamed the Blue Dogs for losses on Tuesday across the ideological spectrum within the Democratic Party.

“From our perspective, our members did all that they could do and really left everything on the field,” said Levana Layendecker, communications director of the progressive grassroots organization Democracy for America. “Of course we are disappointed with the results tonight, but not surprised. Unfortunately, progressive champions became collateral damage tonight in a toxic environment created by Blue Dogs who refused to stand up for real change.”

23 is still 23 too many.

Good morning campers.  I’m your Uncle Ernie and I welcome you to Tommy’s Holiday Camp.  The camp with a difference, never mind the weather.  When you come to Tommy’s, the holiday’s forever!

BP’s Dudley Embraces Deepwater Risk in U.S., Brazil After Spill

By Brian Swint and Stanley Reed, Bloomberg News

Nov 3, 2010 4:33 AM ET

BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Robert Dudley expects to drill in the U.S. Gulf for 20 years as the company exploits its experience searching for oil miles below the sea.

“Companies like BP, one of the roles they play in the industry is working in riskier areas,” Dudley, 55, said in an interview at BP’s worldwide London headquarters yesterday. BP “is now going to become incredibly focused on managing the risks, for example, of deep-water. It’s not going to shy away from the risk, it’s going to get even better at it.”

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“We certainly have a great set of production assets and we have opened up the lower tertiary play in the Gulf of Mexico, which is a two-decade play,” said Dudley. “That’s an important piece of exploration for BP we’re very good at. You’ll see us continue to participate in that.”

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Deep-water production accounts for about 18 percent of BP’s global output. The company is the top deep-water explorer in the Gulf and has taken part in more than 40 percent of the area’s large field discoveries in the past decade, according to its website. It also drills from deep-water fields in Angola. In March, BP bought assets in Brazil as part of a $7 billion deal with Devon Energy Corp.