Letters to the Editor
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Hooray
I'm so happy about this result that I could just macaca.
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Observations on the 2006 elections
In the aftermath of the 2006 election, I've been waiting to see reports or comments somewhere on the topic of electronic voting, the great potential for fraud, etc., but have seen next to nothing, either nationally or locally.
Along with many others who suffered through the trauma of the 2000 and 2004 elections (in my case, from the vantage point of Ohio, where 2004 was especially horrible), and as a person who watched last week's frightening HBO documentary on electronic voting problems, I can only say this:
WHEW!
There really didn't appear to have been any effort to tamper with voting results, did there? I was as paranoid as the next person, fearing that someone (Ken Blackwell? Diebold? Name your suspects here!) would manipulate something, somewhere to tip the election to the Republicans.
Let me be among the first to say this: My worst, most paranoid fantasies were WRONG. The system WORKED. No, it may not have been perfect -- people did have unnecessary difficulty voting in various regions, and more traditional dirty tricks were attempted -- but by and large, NOTHING BAD HAPPENED!
Let's all celebrate this fact. It MUST be a fact, or there is no way that Democrats would have surged into majorities in both houses of Congress, and Ohio wouldn't have seen a near-sweep of all statewide offices.
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hubris
I would be surprised frankly if Allen gives in so easily considering the amount of hubris and pride that the man has in himself regardless of the pressures put upon him by the Republicans to do so.
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He should
But Allen likely won't concede quite that easily. However, according to CNN, the canvassing of votes is almost completed with no real change. To ask for a full recount at this point would seem a desparate move, somehwere on par with a junkie sifting through carpet fibers for one last remnant of the good stuff.
I honestly didn't anticpate this--I was fully prepared for an even-split or a slight Republican majority in the Senate. This is better. It's the sound of a door closing firmly against what has been a terrifying 6 years of bad choices from the federal government. All that smack about family/moral values and yellow magnetic car ribbons and God bless everything that lives and breathes as long as it's not a Democrat had me pretty worn down.
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The final indignation
Please, Allen. Draw out the pain. Yours and your supporters in one of the reddest of the red. Let's not forget the pain of the national GOP leadership and Republicans everywhere cause YOU are the one who tipped it to the Dems. Wallow in your disbelief of the collapse of the "invincible" Greedy Obscene Pillagers. Be the last man standing refusing to accept it as everyone else cheers in jubilation and steps around you to move this country forward to a better tomorrow. The sight of that might make up for the past 6 years. The penning of the protestors. The slandering of those who spoke up against your kind. The do-nothing government which shrugged while Katrina victims drowned and the corpses of their relatives floated in the streets of a major U.S. city. The loss of civil liberties, the year after year retention of innocent men without trials or judgment or hope, the bombing of tens of thousands of "liberated" Iraqis from a war based on a lie. The torture. The suppression of science that cried out the world is melting. The hypocrisy. The filthy dirty tricks. The corruption. The smoke and mirrors. I could go on and on and on, but the fact is nothing will make up for all that. Not your patheticness. Not even Bush and Cheney and the rest rotting in prison for the rest of their lives. The only thing we can do now is move on and try to make it all better. You could do the same but instead you'll eventually go slinking off to a dark dank corner somewhere with the rest of your ilk to plot your comeback. We'll see ya in 2. For the rest of us, celebrate today then get on your guard again. They'll be back.
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It's Morning in America!
It's mourning in Republica.
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Just one "dead-ender" left standing, but he's in his "last throes"
Is Allen stubbornly clinging to the last straw of desperate hope? Or is it something else? Could it be that he is hiding in shame? Is that even possible with this larger-than-life egotistical clown with all of his home-spun affectations? He's got cowboy boots. He dips Copenhagen. Although he was brought up in California he studied and mastered the dialect of semi-literate backwoods goons. He proudly wore the Confederate flag, the symbol of treason and racial hatred.
Maybe it's not the recount he's holding out for now. Maybe he's embarrassed and trying to buy some time to figure out what he's going to say. He has been humiliated and betrayed in the worst possible way - by his own mouth.
Come out now, Macaca Man! Come out and try on your new phony persona - contrite humility. Let's see if that sells any more than your bogus hillbilly/cowboy routine.
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Agreed, Ebonious!
Normally I believe that it is an uncomfortable thing to see anybody lose his pride. But I was thinking this morning that we are talking here about the guy who said of liberals that he was "going to kick their soft teeth down their whiny throats." That is the braggadacio of a bully who desperately needs some humiliation.
By the way, this seesm to be a common trait of those who avoided military service (like Newt Gingrich or Dick Cheney) or any other kind of strenuous service, such as being a paramedic or a firefighter, or battling forest fires. They make up for it with increased bluster and bullying. When they finally get called on it, they play victim. We have been seeing some very weird pathology at work these last six years.
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who cares
Allen loses weather or not he utters another word--he doesn't certify the results of the election, so why give him even the appearance of any power over the results.