Posted on 01/06/2005 6:58:02 AM PST by crushkerry
It hardly seems fathomable, but John Kerry is actually less gracious in admitting defeat than was Al Gore in his bitter-end insistence that he won. Last night I received an e-mail from John Kerry which said, essentially, “Hey, we both know the Republicans stole the election in Ohio. I’m not going to do anything about it. But you should be pissed!”
”Dear Patrick,” the letter reads …
No American citizen should wake up the morning after the election and worry their vote wasn't counted. No citizen should be denied at the polls if they are eligible to vote. And, as the greatest, wealthiest nation on earth, our citizens should never be forced to vote on old, unaccountable and non transparent voting machines from companies controlled by partisan activists.
Tomorrow, members of Congress will meet to certify the results of the 2004 presidential election. I will not be taking part in a formal protest of the Ohio Electors.
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.
I urge you to join me in using this occasion to highlight our demand that Congress commit itself this year to reforming the electoral system. A Presidential election is a national federal election but we have different standards in different states for casting and counting votes. We need a national federal standard to solve the problems that occurred in the 2004 election. I will propose legislation to help achieve this.
Florida 2000 was a wake up call. But the Republicans who control Congress ignored it. Will they now ignore what happened in 2004?
Kerry is attempting to convert his much ballyhooed e-mail list of 2.9 million into a grassroots whining machine. He urges recipients of the e-mail to call Congress. Well, actually to harass House Speaker Denny Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, exclusively.
Voters need not fear, though, because John Conyers and the DNC are on the case:
A recent report from Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan) reveals very troubling questions that have not yet been answered by Ohio election officials. I commend the Democratic National Committee for its announcement this week that the DNC will be investing resources and reaching out to non-partisan academics in a long term study of Ohio voting irregularities. I am only sorry that we haven't seen the same from Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell and GOP officials.
And today, shriveled up California raisinette Barbara Boxer will …
sign a letter of complaint claiming that the 2004 presidential electoral vote, which was recently certified by the Electoral College, should not be given final certification by the House and Senate.
In the House, members of the Congressional Black Caucus intend to sign on to a similar letter. At least one member of each congressional house must sign a letter of complaint to block final certification. In this case, both Boxer and the CBC will claim that the votes of Ohio should be reexamined.
This is the price of having to appease wackos in your caucus. Looks like they Re-Defeated Bush after all.
Ping
"our legal teams on the ground have found no evidence that would change the outcome of the election."
While we, up here in our lofty position on Mount Olympus, cannot descend to enter the fray, for fear that we might appear merely a petty pedestrian amid the rif-raff that should have recognized our moral and intellectual superiority and moreover that we might once again get our pompous nose bloodied.
While he's got all these egg-heads together think they'll cast a non-partisan eye on Washington?
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