Thank goodness the Democrats keep ignoring Harold Ford:
I think that my party has to get
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Mandate
Please cut the nonsense, Democrats:
A New York Times reporter actually wrote “Mr. Bush no longer has to pretend that he possesses a clear electoral mandate. Because for the first time in his presidency, he can argue that he has the real thing.”
Wow. 51-48=mandate. They sure do lower the bar for jr.
First off, the vote is now 52-47%, so you could start by getting your facts straight. 52-47% of the vote is not a whopping majority by any sense of the imagination. However, taken in context, Bush has a clear mandate. he is the first President to win a clear majority of the popular vote since 1988. He gained 5 seats in the Senate. He gained seats in the house. The Republicans, once again, control the Executive and Legislative branches.
This is as clear a mandate as possible, particularly when you compare the majority vote and control of both houses to the plurality and loss of control of the Senate and House during the Clinton years.
*** Update ***
The numbers changed again. It is back to 51-48.
Kerry Equals Courage
I ahd to read this three times:
John Kerry didn’t want to get on his own campaign bus. It was just after Labor Day 2003, and the day before, Kerry had formally launched his candidacy with a forgettable speech, delivered while standing in front of an aircraft carrier in Charleston, S.C. Now, as he was preparing to leave a rally in Manchester, N.H., Kerry strongly objected to the slogan plastered on the side of the bus: COURAGE EQUALS KERRY. He was traveling with his Vietnam buddies, and combat veterans didn’t like advertising themselves that way, he protested. Real warriors
Attorney General
Ashcroft resigning? TalkLeft has details.
Exactly
They don’t call it Reason magazine for nothing:
Why Every Vote Should Not Be Counted
Look, this is not very hard. In Ohio, you have a certain Bush lead and certain number of provisional ballots. Once you determine how many of those p-ballots are, in fact, valid ballots per the laws of the state, you look at that number. If that number is smaller that the amount of the Bush lead, you do not have to count any of them…
This is what happens routinely in recounts for dog catcher or city councilman around the country. The goal is to put the right person in office, not make some fetish out of counting things.
I am not going to link to any of the lefty blogs that demanded that Kerry not concede until ‘every vote had been counted,’ as they have had a bad enough couple of days and don’t need taunted further. However, I would suggest that demanding that the Secretary of State in Ohio and his staff physically tabulate each vote for the benefit of democracy is idiotic. The only reason for such a demand is to serve to delay the inevitable- that having been the Kerry concession.
When it is said that every vote should be counted, what is meant that every vote should be equal in value and mean something. They don’t mean every vote has to be individually tabulated for no reason whatsoever. Slowing down the forward progress of the body politic for a pedantic and meaningless count of every vote, regardless of the fact that has no impact on the election, is so stupid it is offensive. Besides, that will be done eventually.
BTW: As a side note, if it is known that there are 160,000 provisional votes, then technically, they votes have already been ‘counted,’ at least in the base sense of the term as it was employed rhetorically as of late.
Joe Scarborough
Does anyone know if former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough, host of Scarborough Country, is sick or suffering from some sort of illness? He has missed a lot of shows lately, and he appears puffy in the face and looking unhealthy lately.
Anyone?
Election
One good thing about the election is that there were no real hijinks at the polls. One thing, however, that is simply an outrage, regardless of whic party you belong to, isthe fact that people had to wait in lineup to 8 and 9 hours. This is simply unacceptable, regardless of the cause, and it needs to be addressed.
Now, before a problem becomes an outright disaster.