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| Thursday, January 06, 2005 |
| Boxer to Challenge! |
Wow, this is big news. The F9/11 scene will indeed NOT be repeated this year... Boxer has signed the challenge to the election certification. I believe it happens at 1pm today... if you're near CSPAN, watch... this will be historic (2nd time in 130 years).
What it means: the House and Senate will each have to debate the election results for 2 hours. Nothing will change, Bush will still be president, but if we create enough noise and this event gets press, hopefully Senators will realize that voter disenfranchisement and partisan administration of elections are serious problems that we demand be dealt with before the next election.
Here's the AP story.
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posted by CB @ 10:48 AM   |
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Bliz,
You competently lay out the arguments. I just take the other side. I think, precisely because this is a momentous thing that rarely happens, that it will increase coverage of the issue and encourage Republicans to take up the issue. Because that's really what's at stake. Democrats can't introduce legislation, because it will never make it to the floor in a totally Republican-controlled DC. The only way they can make it an issue is to stir people up on the issue, which hopefully is somewhat accomplished today. Remains to be seen.
I'd also like to point out that, after listening to speakers in both the House and Senate on CSPAN today, that the motivation for the publicity is clearly NOT to diminish the mandate of Bush, or to hope to change Ohio, but to convince the Republicans that fairness is important.
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Bliz,
You competently lay out the arguments. I just take the other side. I think, precisely because this is a momentous thing that rarely happens, that it will increase coverage of the issue and encourage Republicans to take up the issue. Because that's really what's at stake. Democrats can't introduce legislation, because it will never make it to the floor in a totally Republican-controlled DC. The only way they can make it an issue is to stir people up on the issue, which hopefully is somewhat accomplished today. Remains to be seen.
I'd also like to point out that, after listening to speakers in both the House and Senate on CSPAN today, that the motivation for the publicity is clearly NOT to diminish the mandate of Bush, or to hope to change Ohio, but to convince the Republicans that fairness is important.