posted on January 6, 2005 11:15:30 AM new
Some liberals just won't/can't accept this President's re-election and are continuing to fight his re-election to the bitter end. Ultra-Liberal, CA, Barbara Boxer being one of them.
Oh...they state all the right reasons for doing this....but it's really that they just can't accept that they've once again lost the power they worked so hard, and at such great expense, to gain.
posted on January 6, 2005 05:12:16 PM new
The outcome of Barbara Boxers attempt to change the election results. With a bit of James Taranto's humor.
Best of the Web Today - January 6, 2005
Best of the Web Today - WSJ - January 6, 2005
By JAMES TARANTO
May the Farce Be With You
In an apparent effort to impress porcine propagandist Michael Moore, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California joined Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio in objecting to the counting of Ohio's 20 electoral votes for President Bush.
The result?
The joint session of Congress that certifies the presidential election adjourned for two hours, and the House and Senate each convened separately to debate, then reject, the objection. The tally in the Senate was 74-1, with only batty Boxer voting to sustain it, and as we write, the House vote stands at 263-32, with 135 members not voting.
This didn't happen even in 2000, when senators sensibly decided not to join various far-left House members in objecting to the counting of Florida's votes. Today, it's clear, the Democrats are in such desperate shape that they are resorting to crying that American democracy is illegitimate--a sure sign that they don't expect to win anytime soon.
John Kerry, typically, is trying to have it both ways. He's traveling overseas and so isn't in attendance (what else is new?), but yesterday he sent an e-mail to supporters saying:
Despite widespread reports of irregularities, questionable practices by some election officials and instances of lawful voters being denied the right to vote, our legal teams on the ground have found no evidence that would change the outcome of the election.
But, that does not mean we should abandon our commitment to addressing those problems that happened in Ohio. We must act today to make sure they never happen again.
So according to Kerry, Bush won fair and square, but it was an illegitimate election anyway. This is the "moderate" Democratic position. The extreme position is that Bush "stole" the election by getting three million more votes than Kerry.
An outfit called United for Peace and Justice is actually planning an Inauguration Day protest. And if you can't make it to Washington, you can still join in:
UFPJ also encourages everyone to wear a white ribbon on January 20, no matter where you are or what you are doing. In many cultures, white is the traditional color of mourning.
Of course, the joke is on these losers, who apparently are unaware that in our culture, white is the traditional color of surrender.
Actually, there's an even more extreme position than "Bush stole the election": A group called Patriots for Gore is still trying to overturn the 2000 election, as it outlines in a press release dated Jan. 3, 2005:
As the rightful President of 2000, Al Gore should have been allowed to serve the term the people and electorate of America elected him to serve for them. We then also have been working to investigate if there is a legal and constitutional way to restore that term to Vice President Gore, and a petition to that effect is on our site. The petition will remain there as long as it takes to see justice, if that day ever comes.
We were thinking about starting a group called Patriots for Dewey--hey, the Chicago Tribune couldn't have been wrong--until the New York Sun reminded us that the Truman administration is over.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four More Years....YES!!!
posted on January 7, 2005 04:31:38 PM new
Yep the Republicans still whining about the elections. I guess they don't care that voters want election results that the can believe are honest and true without any possibility of fraud.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- "Give it up for George W. Bush, the best friend international jihad ever had."
posted on January 7, 2005 06:14:18 PM new
Ya, the last thing the neonazi's, like linduh, want is fair and equal voting rights in the United States of America.
HA! Those Republicans in Washington state are sure whining NOW! Hahahahahaheee what cry babies... can't they get over the fact that they lost the governorship....what's wrong with those anti-American Republicans? What cry babies!
posted on January 7, 2005 07:32:59 PM new
LOL, logansdad - The Republicans whining?
More like the ultra-liberal dems who are still going down fighting the voters decision and outcome of the past TWO elections.
"The tally in the Senate was 74-1, with only batty Boxer voting to sustain it, and as we write, the House vote stands at 263-32, with 135 members not voting."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four More Years....YES!!!
posted on January 8, 2005 05:26:04 AM new
fighting the voters decision and outcome of the past TWO elections.
You may need to jog your memory a little Linda, the voters chose Gore in 2000, not Bush. So your statement above is incorrect. It was the electoral college that chose Bush in 2000.
I am glad they are fighting the election results. Given the circumstances that occurred in the past two elections I do not think Americans have confidence in our voting system especially when it comes to touch screen voting. These machines do not leave a paper trail and are subject to tampering in my opinion. While I do not believe any of this will change the election results, I do hope it brings about some election reform.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- "Give it up for George W. Bush, the best friend international jihad ever had."
posted on January 8, 2005 06:34:40 AM new
So Linda why are you against the challenge brought up in Ohio? Why are you against letting people find out if there were any voting irregularities? I suppose you would rather have a situation like what happened in the Ukraine?
Furthermore why to focus on the dispute brought up in Ohio but failed to mention this story. Is it because you dont want to mention anything about the whinny Republicans that can't face the fact they lost even after a recount. It is the Republicans calling for another election for the governor of Washington.
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Republican Dino Rossi and the state GOP announced Friday they will contest the gubernatorial election that gave Rossi's Democratic foe, Christine Gregoire, a 129-vote victory.
Republicans have been building a case over the last few weeks, gathering evidence of voting irregularities, including illegal provisional ballots and a handful of votes cast by dead people. They are pushing for a revote, an unprecedented step in a statewide election.
"There are so many improperly cast and counted ballots that this election is invalid," Rossi said. "You cannot tell who won. The only way for us to get out of this problem is for us to have a revote."
Gregoire, a three-term attorney general, lost the first count by 261 votes to Rossi, a real estate agent and former state senator. Rossi won a machine recount by 42 votes but lost a hand recount of 2.9 million ballots.
Gregoire, whose inauguration is scheduled for Wednesday, has called the idea of another election "absolutely ludicrous" but acknowledged Rossi's right to contest the election.
"I respect the right of others to file an action in the courts," she said at a news conference in Olympia.
GOP attorney Harry Korrell said Republicans would not seek to block Gregoire's inauguration, but the party planned to immediately file a suit contesting the election in Chelan County, in north-central Washington.
Democratic lawyers said an election challenge is unfounded and the state constitution will not allow a revote.
"No court will find this election should be set aside," Democratic Party attorney Jenny Durkan said.
Durkan said the constitution requires that the governor be chosen in the same election as state legislators and only in a November general election. She said a revote would first require a statewide vote on changing the constitution next November and then an election in November 2006.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- "Give it up for George W. Bush, the best friend international jihad ever had."
posted on January 8, 2005 07:03:44 AM new
logansdad - No need for my memory to be 'jogged'. lol The electoral college is how our Presidents are elected. And the Gore group is STILL fighting those 2000 results...that was one point I made.
However the main reason that I find Boxer's protest funny is that President Bush won by more than 3 million votes....compared to approx. 129 of the WA votes.
I continue to be amused at how you continue to make assumptions about what I think and believe....you haven't been correct yet.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Four More Years....YES!!!
posted on January 8, 2005 10:49:12 AM new
that President Bush won by more than 3 million votes....compared to approx. 129 of the WA votes.
Then why even bring it up Linda. It is not like Kerry is going to be declared the winner. It is not Kerry that is pushing for this. You just have nothing better to talk about so you want to keep living in the past. However instead of trying to move forward and improve on the election problems that occurred during the past two elections you want to keep bringing up the election results.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- "Give it up for George W. Bush, the best friend international jihad ever had."
