I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Dick Durbin is beginning to look like a national treasure.
If only we could find a way to raise our Durbin Quotient, and ditch a few Zell Millers and Evan Bayhs.
well, i don't think you'll get much better outta Indiana or georgia. and i think he's dropped the Dick, well, i hope he has.
This is maybe a belssing in disquise. We can get people in Texas or Florida to recall their governors along the same lines. I'm sure there are plenty of Dems and neutrals who would love to see Bush removed.
What goes around comes around.
I honestly think we could pull it offin those two states if they tried.
So why not?
Doing it would prompt calls for reform of those rules. But it won't happen until the GOP get's bitten in the ass. Rove will realize that a minority could overturn all the efforts their ten's of millions of dollars went getting their stooges elected.
let's start the recall efforts now in Texas, Florida and every other state where some idiot fascist/racists GOP bastard is running things.
MYOB'
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Ok, OT here, but we really need to get over to pandagon and support Jesse through the Blogathon.
Even if we didn't contribute a cent (guilty!) we can at least enliven his night enough to get him thru 24 hours.
I'd actually say that was a fairly anti-democratic post. Why is the author of the article complaining about people being able to register up to 15 days before the recall? This serves two wonderful purposes:
1. People who turn 18 in that time can vote.
2. People become politically involved as a result of the recall. The public is so apathetic. Getting more invovled and voting is positive.
Everyone has a right to vote. It doesn't matter when you register. Such talk of being a political junkie somehow giving you a greater right is just elitist tripe from a geeky blogger. (i use the term geeky in jest!)
We can get people in Texas or Florida to recall their governors along the same lines.
I don't know about Florida, but such a thing could never happen here in Texas. We don't really have anything at all in the way of the initiative or the referendum like they do in California.
Nice thought, though. Rick Perry really, really sucks bigtime. Jeb Bush, too...
This Findlaw article looks at constitutionality questions regarding the recall process. It suggests that the requirement that you have to vote on the recall question in order to vote for a replacement may be unconstitutional.
Ekim,
What bothers Digby is that "somebody who didn't even bother to register, much less vote, can come in and overturn the results less than a year later." I can understand his annoyance. If someone chooses not to be involved in a making decision, it doesn't seem right for them to try to undo the decision later, especially if that would mean a lot of trouble and expense for everyone.
I think the whole process smacks of being unconstitutional.
Expect Davis to lose this by 1 or 2% such as a 48 or 49% of the totals, file an immediate challenge to the state supreme court, then eventually the US Supreme court a few months later where the court's resident religious whacko will make damned sure it happens all over again.
The irony of the court deciding on two major elections will be sickening.
Be well.
MYOB'
"Maybe we should thank the Democrats for shedding their moderate clothing to reveal their true Swinging-Seventies selves."
http://www.majorityleader.gov/news.asp?
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Yeah, check out Jesse at Pandagon... great parodies of Nooner, Silly Sully, and the Virgin Ben on MNF, with an appearance of Captain USS Clueless still to come.
But best of all, he's starting to reach that point Rob Petrie did in hour 97 of his "Stay-Awake-a-thon"... he's gonna start blubbering incoherently about that poor l'il pussycat caught in the tree soon, and you won't want to miss that!
And you can *still* pledge...
It's refreshing to see Tom Delay has nothing but ad hominem attacks and misrepresentation (Democrats want to tax like Mondale and spend like Carter? Somebody remind him which side is slamming the Congressional credit card and only making the minimum payment)
Thanks for the link, Troll. I've been restored hope that the Dems are right on track, when exemplary Republicans like Delay resort to name-calling.
Sticks and stones.
isn't the whole recall problem actually due to a weak davis? If he were more likeable, this would fall flat on it's face. Even Arriana was dissing him and pelosi called him toast.
So, yes, the repubs are slimey for doing it, Davis is still a major liability.
On the plus side, you could wind up with a STRONGER dem in his place.
Truly, no matter how unfairly he's been accused of being responsible for our state's energy and fisical disasters, and no matter how loathsome the people behind this recall are, still no one is shedding a tear here in CA for Davis. And doesn't that tell us just how unpopular this man really is.
David Brooks, who is otherwise a contemptible neo-con shill, summed it up well this way, "Davis is the only politician I know who is both dull and obnoxious."
News is the Dems are giving him two weeks to prove he can prevail in the recall.
But I think that will change when Arnold announces he's in. (And while he's waiting for the right moment, every nut with $3,500 and 65 friends is jumping in feet first.)
Look for the Dems to run someone like Diane Fienstein.
Personally, I am very pessimistic. I think CA, which is spending over $35M on this circus while laying off teachers and firemen because the state can't find the money to pay them, will most definitely end up with someone worse than Davis.
And still we wonder out here why the rest of the country takes pleasure in regarding this state as the very embodiment of self-centerness, immaturity, waste and profilgacy - fully deserving of its miseries. The ultimate joke.
With her hold on the National Security top spot looking a bit shaky, is it too late for Condi to get her name on the recall ballot?
"Look for the Dems to run someone like Diane Fienstein."
I hope not. Sure she does some good things every now and then but she sure seems hyper aware of which way the wind is blowing when she does.
This Davis recall has the stink of Bush and Cheney all over it.
First previous Republican Pete Wilson creates the disaster in his zest for deregulation.
Then Texas Oil with close links to Bush and Cheney begin manipulating the California energy market resulting in the overcharging of the state by about $45 Billion (or approximately the entire state GNP for a year). Everyone pays skyrocketing rates for gas.
Then when Davis appeals to the Bush White House for relief Cheney gives him the finger.
Then the Gop has the rank audacity to blame the crisis on Davis is a concerted anti-Davis blitz.
Then trying to capitalize on his declining polls they run "superman" Bill Simon. Bush evens comes to the state to pitch for Simon.
Then when the people refuse to buy into the obvious smear and vote to keep Davis anyway the Republicans, sore losers that they are start up this recall farce.
No doubt that I'd like to see someone in there with less questionable history but let's call this recall what it is, a scam.
"First previous Republican Pete Wilson creates the disaster in his zest for deregulation."
I meant previous governor Pete Wilson.
God, can't get it right.
Previous Republican Governor Pete Wilson.
But you knew that already.
Some articles about the Bush/Cheney ties to the California energy mess.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002...0406/
62401.html
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002...0131/
53224.html
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002...0201/
52640.html
The San Francisco Chronicle has been very good at keeping track of the stealthy path the oil firms have taken but I'm having trouble accessing them. Maybe someone else?
More:
http://boxer.senate.gov/
newsroom...0205_enron.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/
...Manipulated.htm
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/
....Boxer.FERC.htm
Why haven't we seen more mention of the "energy crisis" thing when people discuss this recall nonsense?
It's one of the central issues and we have people from Enron on record saying it was their fault.
Them goddang whackos is sendin me hate mail from thet durn pinko Frenchie website. Git the shotgun!
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And to think Nixon was so arrogant at one time and thought himself invincible.!
Wait a minute.....
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