No More Mr. Nice Guy!

I'll be baaaack...

Junior has kept one promise from his presidential campaign - he's a uniter, not a divider. He has united people from all segments of the political spectrum in opposition to the totalitarian "Patriot Act". Even ultra-conservative states like Idaho and Utah are coming out against it. More and more people are realizing that Ash-hole's legislation has stripped us of our rights and dignity while doing nothing to make us safer. After accusing critics of the "Traitor Act" of fearmongering and supporting terrorism, Ash-hole is now being forced to eat crow.

John Ash-hole is increasingly being seen as a liability to Junior. Will the RRR ditch him in a desperate attempt to win the next election? But nothing will save Junior's hide if enough people become aware of his abysmal record.

Meanwhile in California, the recall circus keeps rolling on. But after the novelty factor wears off, voters are having second thoughts about the can of worms that has been opened. Even some conservative columnists are starting to realize that what goes around, comes around. If the Supreme Court's bizarre decision in Bush vs. Gore  can stop the vote counting in a presidential election, why can't it stop a bogus recall which was rammed through by a millionaire who didn't like the result of a valid election? Call it psephological karma.

However, one very worrying development is the rise of the machines - computerized voting machines, that is. The RRR is pushing these machines on counties across the nation, lining the pockets of companies like Diebold which just happen to be major repug party contributors. But these machines make it possible to commit fraud and tampering on a massive scale, with no paper trail.  Greg Palast reports: "In 2002, Comal County, Texas, tried out new computer voting machines - and three Republican candidates each won their respective offices with exactly 18,181 votes... Just down the road in Scurry County, Texas, two unexpected landslide wins for Republican candidates struck election clerks as just one coincidence too many. That county's clerk, Joan Bunch, investigated and found that a 'faulty' computer chip had caused the county's optical scanner to record Democratic votes as Republican instead."

Remember the bumper sticker, "If voting could change the system, it wouldn't be legal"? The RRR has made it abundantly clear that they will stop at nothing to seize power and hold on to it. What will it take to get rid of them?