Posted on 01/06/2005 6:47:49 AM PST by TennLawyer
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., signed a challenge mounted by House Democrats to Ohio's 20 electoral votes, which put Bush over the top. By law, a challenge signed by members of the House and Senate requires both chambers to meet separately for up to two hours to consider it. Lawmakers are allowed to speak for no more than five minutes each.
I am not sure how to defend myself here. I am a lawyer in Tennessee and there are lots of us, probably too many.
Splitting hairs, there were stories yesterday that she actually had done it then. But whatever!
Awaiting Events
I write this at 11PM Pacific time on Wednesday, January 5th 2005. Much rumor and counter-rumor has floated this past 24 hours about the coming Democratic challenge to the Ohio electors during the tally of the electoral vote. That a challenge will be issued is beyond doubt - the question remains as to whether or not a Democratic Senator will join Democratic House members in such a challenge and make it official. As of this time, the balance of rumor-mongering is that Senator Boxer, earlier thought to have decided to challenge, has now retreated a bit and is only studying the issue. This might seem like an improvement, but that anyone not clinically insane would study such an issue shows just how bad it has become in American politics.
To recap a bit, President Bush on November 2nd, 2004 won a bit more than 62 million votes beating his main rival by about 2.5 million votes; this worked out to a 51% to 48% victory in the popular vote, making President Bush the first man to win a majority of the popular vote in a Presidential contest since his father managed the same feat in 1988. Added to this remarkable fact is that in no way did the President's electoral vote majority come about through a close contest - even subtracting those States where the President did win narrowly, he still won more than 270 electoral votes State by State by a substantial margin - margins wide enough to preclude any thought of chicanery in the election process. We're not talking about a 130 vote win like in the recent Washington State governors race here - the main point of Democratic contention, Ohio, was won by the President by more than 118,000 votes. In all of the past two months of Democratic attempts to foster a scandal, not one iota of actual evidence of election fraud has been produced - all of the "evidence" is anecdotal and none of it supported by known facts. And yet several Democratic House members will issue a challenge, and they may be joined by at least one Democratic Senator.
We are awaiting events right now - we are waiting to see if a Democratic Senator will join into the lunacy of a challenge to the crystal-clear victory by President Bush. If such a challenge is issued, then it is a very sad day for the United States - it will be, I fear, merely the first page in a long and bloody story to be written. I base this fear upon the understanding that if a free and fair election is to be held illegitimate by a substantial majority of the citizenry then we are not a united people by any stretch of the imagination - that a segment of our population has essentially renounced the United States and holds it illegitimate. Of such emotions civil wars are made - and if the Democrats take this fateful step, then a river of blood may eventually flow from their actions.
Make no mistake about it - the fundamental issue of our Civil War in the 19th century was whether or not a minority of the population could reject the verdict of the majority in a fair election. Oddly enough, it was the Democrats who opened up that wound in 1861 and they are only a hair away from opening it up again in 2005 - let us hope that history doesn't actually repeat itself. Much as the political suicide of the Democrats would increase the power of my GOP, I also recognise that people who hate and who feel themselves removed from the established political order can, and often do, resort to violence.
January 6th, 2005 is the final testing moment of the Democratic Party - if they believe in America, no challenge will be issued or, if issued by renegades, will be soundly rejected by the overwhelming mass of the Democratic Party up to and including a recall of the offending Congresspersons who issue the challenge. Anything less would be an abdication of duty, an act of political treason.
It is also going to help Ken Blackwell to be the next Govenor of Ohio also..
Whats his DU name?
No need to defend yourself. Sometimes FReepers get a little too anxious to participate in a ZOT.
Certifiable. And I'm not talking about the election.
"I am absolutely sure that Boxer will be the only Democrat signing on it."
Would not be suprised to see Kennedy and maybe Mccain sign on, but it only takes 1. This is payback for 2000.
Let them have their fun; as with the premature exit polls, it will all be over in a few hours, and they can go and cry in their soup or open up their wrists or whatever it is they do when things don't turn out their way.
this is great news for the repubs let the rats keep lining up with fat mike and 2006 60 senators are in the bag
only day that counts 1-20
Don't sweat it , man. I get hassled sometimes for dumb things too and I have been here for a couple of yrs. Some folks here are avid hunters and trolls are their fovorite quarry. They get a little trigger happy sometimes.
In my opinion, that would be a huge mistake for McCain and a part of me hopes he does it.
Why do you feel the need to console this poster?
But she hadn't.
Whatever, though. :D
What is this crap. Which substantial majority of Americans consider this election illegitimate? This guys is an idiot.
Splitting even further. She still hasn't as of yet actually done the deed.
DU is having a collective orgasm........
If he is a troll, he will show his true colors soon enough. You know they can't post in a civilized, non vulgar way for very long. They have no self control.
Just think of it as being hazed into the fraternity.
Unless you're a troll, in which case we'll humiliate you before we kill you.
As a tax payer, I have no reservations about contributing to more humiliation for our friends on the other side of the isle. Frankly, I was a bit worried that wouldn't have a senator kooky enough to sign on. I apologize for not giving them the benifit of the kooky doubt.
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