That's more than worth skipping a lousy political convention.

Best wishes to all three of you.

Mazel tov! What could be better?

Congrats!!!

Congratulations to all of you. Just think, this time around will be easier because you will get additional "help" from Sam, who I am sure is excited about having a sister. Best wishes to all of you.

Being a Dad is the best job I have ever had (I have two domestic sons, and two sons imported from Romania). I wish you every joy. My advice is that you front-load the attention, shaping, and education.

Oh, and get rid of your television set.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! When do we get pictures?

Congrats Dan.

Great news! However, I strongly suspect strategic timing was involved in this process, designed to ensure you would not have to buy any of your own drinks after the APSA panel on Friday. :-)

Wow! Congratulations! My thoughts and prayers are with you and the rest of the (now-extended) family!

Congratulations.

Congratulations!

Wow, this was very unexpectedly good news.

Congratulations, Dan!

So how long 'til she starts blogging?

Congrats!

Congratulation on this wonderful blessing.

All I can say is Mazel tov, Dan!

I'm not sure why you didn't blog the delivery, but that's great news, anyway.

Congratulations Dan. From experience I can tell you that more kids eventually means less blogging.

Best from Bermuda!

Great! God bless you and your family.

Now, try to get the last sleep you'll get for months.

So how long 'til she starts blogging?

Are you suggesting Dan go the "group-blog" route?

(Hey, if Eugene Volokh can add his son to the Volokh Conspiracy...) :-)

Omedetou gozaimasu!

congrats -- I'm sure she'll be way more entertaining than the rnc :)

Woohoo! Congrats to you & yours!

Oo! A baby! Congrats to you!

Is there much of anything neater than babies? Good news.

Outstanding. Mazel tov.

Oh, good work, Dan! You better not be reading these comments. Go play with the babies!

Congrats, Dan.

A girl? Great.

This should be the deathblow to that moderate Republican stuff from you from now on. True blue conservatism is in order.

Pitchfork Dan? Sounds good.

SMG

A far more important event, congratulations.

Congratulations, Dan...

Wish you and your family the best...

Congratulations!!!

Nothing better than a baby.

Enjoy!

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Dan. I wouldn't be too quick to announce a cutback in the blogging, though. I am told there may be nights when you won't be sleeping very much. Good luck!

See you guys - I told you so.

Looks like our intrepid hero did some "backing away from the monitor" 'bout 9 months ago, eh TexasToast?

COngrats

Hah! You got *that* right, SteveMG...

Congratulations!

ps, You can get away with screwing up a lecture by telling the kids that you were up all night with a cranky baby. I suggest saving the line for the days when it happens to be true, which will come soon enough.

The first days are the hardest days...

Keep up te good work.

Simon

Congratulations!

Are you suggesting Dan go the "group-blog" route?

(Hey, if Eugene Volokh can add his son to the Volokh Conspiracy...) :-)

"Drezner Conspiracy" would be too obvious. One of these:

"Drezner Cabal"
"Drezner Bloc"
"Drezner League"
"Drezner Union"

might be better.

Congratulations!

Congratulations! It will be an adjustment. But I personally found the early mornings with Noah very conducive to blogging--at least, until he became mobile.

Congratulations. I would never have guessed. When I read about the "professional and personal reasons" last week, I was convinced it was some earth-shattering career thing.

Congrats to you and yours!

No need to blog the convention and the waste of all that money.

Hearty congratulations, and best wishes for tranquil nights in the months ahead.

It's different once you are outnumbered . . .

Nothing in your life will exceed the joy of watching your daughter grow up. Girls are special, I know, mine is 27 now and still the joy of our lives. Congratulations!

Mazal tov, Dan!

Just think, in six years, when you're working for the Kerry administration, you can regail your daughter with tales of how you were once an undecided voter. ;)

Congratulations.

Congratulations, Daniel! I'm sure Henry's feelings won't be too hurt. May Lauren grow up to be as sharp as her father!

Pedro
(A liberal & silent reader of your informative and thoughtful blog)

Well done! And you probably deserve some credit too.

Welcome to the next level of love and affection!

Congratulations, Dan!

Excellent.

Congratulations, Dan!

Yaknow, this might end up in INCREASED blogging... the late nights, no sleep, odd hours... I predict more frequent but markedly less coherent blogging from the Drezner home for the next month or so.

;)

Congratulations! May God's Grace fill your life, and hers through yours.

You have begun a journey that my wife and I began 20 years ago. I wish you all the joy and satisfaction that we have enjoyed. Be prepared for a range and intensity of emotions that you have never experienced before and that arrive when you least expect them.

Congratulations!

Hurray! Welcome Lauren Claire Drezner to a wonderful family!

(sheesh, Drezners ALL OVER the place)

Congrats - big time!

Just you wait - the fun has just started.

Congratulations to you and your bride.

My congratulations to you and to your wife. All the best.

Congratulations! I'm no expert, but I understand the first eighteen years are the hardest.

Warmest congratulations to you and Erika, Dan! You all are a good tribe, and the more Drezners the better.

Best wishes from the People's Republic of Austin for your new bundle of joy, comrade.

Congrats! Enjoy the lil one.

Hey - where is the real DT - I am assuming the above is a joke.

But now the important question...Is the beagle jealous?

Congratulations!

“Congrats! Enjoy the lil one.

Hey - where is the real DT - I am assuming the above is a joke.
posted by: mickslam on 08.31.04 at 09:48 AM [permalink”

Dan Drezner should strongly consider having a sign in policy for posters similar to Roger L. Simon’s. This would prevent another occurrence of somebody pretending to be another person. I will also not hesitate to take legal action against anyone who commits such immoral behavior.

A baby?
Cool... congrats!

You know, after many years of experimentation, and hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the investigation, we now know what causes those.... Beer.

Yes, beer. we've found that beer, when consumed by a female...and aged about another 9 months, becomes a baby. We're quite unsure of the chemical processes involved.... certainly it sounds an unlikely transition.

Sam Adams is particularly potent in this regard, for reasons we've not determined, as yet. We're still investigating this aspect, of course, and may have a better picture of all of this in a few years... assuming we can ever get all these kids to shut up at night long enough for us to continue with our experiments.

Know anyplace we can get diapers, cheap, by the truckload?

Congrats!

Mazel Tov!

Enjoy her while she is a baby. They grow in the wink of an eye. Yesterday they were babies. Now we are attending college graduations.

Congratulations from one new dad to another!

Congratulations Dan!

That is excellent news.

The best of luck to all of you.

Wow! A little girl! Mazel Tov indeed!!! Hope mom and daughter are doing well, and that dad is aware he is *supposed* to be wrapped around his daughters little finger at her earliest opportunity!

Mazel tov, Dan. We're expecting a little girl, ourselves, in about 8 weeks.

Congrats!

Congratulations on this fine day for you Dan.

Dan:
Okay, with the arrival of a girl - which should change your political views accordingly - these are the posts we want to see from you in the near future:

"Jesse Helms in 2008: He's Tanned, Rested, Ready and He's Got Two News Hips"

"Tom Delay: Our Generation's Lincoln?"

"Father Coughlin: Misunderstood Prophet?"
(This one can wait until she's 16)

"Pat Buchanan: A Man For All Seasons"

SMG

Congratulations! I will miss your wit and insight, but it's for a very good cause!

Congratulations!

Dan:
I forgot to ask:

She's not wanting any tatoos or body piercings yet, I hope?

With luck, by the time she's 16, those fads will be long gone.

Probably only to be replaced by Lord knows what new body mutilation procedure. Arrows through the head?

Good luck.

I'm out of one liners for now.

SMG

Congratulations, Dan! Great news!

Congratulations! I hope that your daughter only has to live five months of her life with Dubya in the White House (but even then, she'll have over a trillion dollars in national debt to remember him by).

Frederick:
Hah. As if she cares about $1 trillion all done by that evil Dubya (I guess Democrats in Congress haven't voted for any appopriation bills these past three years?).

When she's an adult, she'll face more than $40 trillion in unfunded obligations on Social Security and Medicaid alone.

Using your simplistic explanation, I guess she can blame FDR and LBJ for those debts.

Wow, take a great event like a baby's birth and cheapen it with politics.

SMG

Congratulations!!!!

Enjoy the experience. You'll be amazed at how quickly she changes.

Our own son is 11 months old and it's hard to believe how much he has changed in less than a year.

Wonderful news. I only hope that, when she hits the job market, all the decent jobs haven't been off-shored or become monopolized by keep-it-in-the-family South Asian immigrants. And I hope she won't want to settle in California, which will have 50 million people and and average speed on the 'freeways' of 10 mph.

Congratulations!

WOOOOOO! Congrats!

Congrats! Sleep will now become an afterthought! Best of luck!

Congratulations!!

Frederick:

. . . .

Wow, take a great event like a baby's birth and cheapen it with politics.

SMG

Posted by SteveMG at August 31, 2004 07:32 PM

SteveMG, I'm puzzled by your criticism of me in light of your own earlier comment:

Congrats, Dan.

A girl? Great.

This should be the deathblow to that moderate Republican stuff from you from now on. True blue conservatism is in order.

Pitchfork Dan? Sounds good.

SMG

Posted by SteveMG at August 30, 2004 09:21 PM

Oh, I see, I took a great event like a baby's birth and cheapened it by referring to non-right-wing politics. My bad.

Oh, and to respond to your substantive remarks, Steve MG: Dubya's disastrous war in Iraq and repeated tax cuts are responsible for a large proportion of his record budget deficits. No responsible president (and certainly not one who in 2000 advocated a constitutional amendment mandating balanced budgets, as Bush did) would keep increasing spending and cutting taxes. (As you'll recall, Bush wanted even larger tax cuts than he was able to get from Congress, and still wants to "make the tax cuts permanent," which would produce even more obscene budget deficits.) Equating Bush's responsibility for budget deficits with FDR and LBJ's responsibility for the condition of Social Security and Medicaid many decades after their deaths, as you do, is goofy.