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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 07:25 PM
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Common Dreams: Recount Countdown
by Juan Gonzalez

Congress will close the books on the bitterly fought November presidential election this Thursday, when the House and Senate meet in a joint session to officially ratify George W. Bush's Electoral College victory.

Such certification is almost always a routine process. To most Americans, it merely reaffirms the obvious about a contest that's already history.

Bush haters should get over it and move on, they say.

But a persistent and significant group of voters is not moving anywhere, not until some straight answers are forthcoming.

<snip, more to read>

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0104-37.htm

Like the codependent victim, we continue to take cruel and undeserved abuse. Instead of kicking the bastard out, we fall for "...sorry, next time will be different", a story we've definitely heard before.

Don't you think this story is getting a bit old?

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DCdem87 Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 07:27 PM
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1. Of course it is....
WE NEED NEW POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON WHO WILL GIVE THESE HORRIBLE REPUGS WHAT THEY DESERVE. Until we do, nothing will change.
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Pam-Moby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-05 08:47 PM
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2. Thanks for the post-depressing n/t
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