Reply #4: you're absolutely right . . . after all the letters, phone calls . . . [View All]

[OneBlueSky]

e-mails, and faxes . . . after the thousands of hours of work by hundreds of people documenting uncountable instances of voter fraud and disenfranchisement . . . after all that, all we get is a pro forma objection, a few speeches, and just two senators voting not to accept the Ohio electors . . . and plenty of rhetoric to assure us that our Democratic senators do, indeed, believe that Bush won the election . . .

and people are getting all excited for this? . . . what we needed was for every Democratic senator, and a few Republicans, to stand up and contest not only Ohio, but Florida, New Mexico, and a few other states as well . . . and then refuse to accept the election results as reported by Republican corporations . . . no one even mentioned, to my recollection, that this is how the votes are tallied, and that there might just be a little something wrong with that . . .

both parties in Washington are sucking on the same corporate teats, and until that ends, we will never see any meaningful reform . . . you think this Congress is going to mandate auditable paper trails for the touchscreen machines that every state will be using next election? . . . no chance in hell . . . you think the Democrats will make an issue of this? . . . no chance in hell . . . you think a Democrat has any chance of winning the presidency in 2008? . . . no chance in hell . . .

the status quo sucks, but that's what we're stuck with . . . next stop is seeing how many Democrats will cave on Social Security and on tort reform . . . my guess would be enough to pass both, and quite comfortably . . .