Posted on 01/05/2005 5:14:11 PM PST by RWR8189
Sick Bed, New York— Nothing is in writing and daybreak is a long way away, but it appeared all but certain in early evening Wednesday that House Democrats had secured the support of up to half a dozen Senators to formally challenge the Electoral College slate from Ohio, when the votes are opened before a joint session of Congress tomorrow.
Congressional sources tell this reporter that the house half of the written objection — which has the declared support of more than a dozen Representatives — is expected to be signed by Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio. Republican leadership expects the Senate signatory to be Barbara Boxer of California, but this has not yet been formalized. The Majority is also worried about the possible absence of many of its members in both houses, and the prospect that a quorum might not be achieved, leading the process into uncharted, albeit not very threatening, constitutional grounds. There is a mathematical, if not practical, chance that the ratification of the Electoral College vote could be delayed past tomorrow.
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This cr@p has to end sometime....geez.
How ridiculous. No Senator challenged the Florida results in 2000 and they're gonna challenge the Ohio results in 2004?? What could they possibly hope to gain from this other than shredding their credibility?
I have been monitoring the DU (Time for another shower). Those losers are all in an uproar over Barbara Boxer....This will make the Dummies look stupider than usual. Call your Senators...Both of mine are (R) Cornyn and Hutchinson..Thank God
Senator Frist, Time to go Nuclear.
Keith "Tin Foil" Olbermann has been fantasizing about this for months now. Three words, Cowboy style: Ain't gonna happen.
I think the writing's on the wall for them, and they're in panic mode.. "do anything!" is running the show now.
They actually had a somewhat legit chance at contesting the last one.. At least nobody would've trashed them too hard for it. This time is totally different. There's no question that Bush won by a substantial margin.
This is political desperation at its finest.
In my uneducated opinion, this is an attempt to get the republicans to go "nuclear" outside of a judicial nominee.... This way it the issue can make it's way through the court and and possibly be rejected before it's used by a nominee.
This doesn't surprise me. Boxer wouldn't do this unless her fellow Democrats agreed.
The Democrats have been pure partisan bulldogs since 1992. If they can delay the confirmation of the vote with a filibuster or a quorum call, they will certainly do it, and then the media can talk about Republican cheating and partisanship for the next four years.
I hope so.
On the other hand, if it doesn't happen, we'll have the consolation of seeing Keith Olbermann look like even more of an ass than usual.
Maybe a few Congresscritters could get interested in the outrage of a gubernatorial election in the state of Washington.
Keith is toking some potent doobage in his "sick bed."
PING.
Your ant farm is probably dancing in orgasmic glee right about now.
Another member of the Black Congressional caucus.
Dont these people have anything better to do?
Another plague inflicted upon this country by the Clintonistas.
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