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January 6, 2005

The Objection

The debate over the objection to count the votes of the electoral collge is underway. It's rapid fire debate, and it's just great. So far my favorite is from

Rep Keller - Fl. "Get over it."

I can't wait until "Thomas" has all the comments posted.

It's over, and I'm really looking forward to reading through the "official" remarks.

Nothing important was really said; there were complaints that people had to stand in the rain; there were complaints that people had to take time off work. Of course there were the claims that "people were disenfranchised" but no real evidence was presented.

In the end, 31 House Dems objected to the Ohio count, and 1 yep, 1 Senator objected. What's this tell me? That Barbara Boxer is a political HACK!!!! She knew she had NO support, but rather it was a good opprotunity for her to get some camera time, get her name in the news, but in the end she couldn't convince 1 other Senator to stand up with her. Even in principle, she should have been able to get ONE more to stand up, but she didn't really try. This was a dog and pony show for some of the House Dems that wanted to get up and make statements like "I came to this country a slave. . . " (I missed who said it, but I damn near broke my neck trying to get to the tube to see who did, I'll get it from Thomas tomorrow.)

It was a worthless debate, for a worthless cause and just another example of any little thing the "opposition party" can do to try and throw some semblance of illegitimacy to the Administration. In the end, it was a slam dunk, done deal and over before it began.

Total waste of time. Maybe now we can move forward. There was however, a great moment when another Representative from Ohio asked why it wasn't Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Wisconsin or Michigan that were challenged. I know! I know! Because those states went to Kerry.

It should be noted that 25 Senators didn't bother to show up, and over 100 House Representatives didn't bother either.

I wonder what ever happened to the big DemocraticUnderground protest where tens of thousands of people were supposed to descend on Washington to disrupt the proceedings.

--Jason

PS, Sometimes the Google Adsense Box can be so much fun, look, it's showing an ad for a Democrat matchmaking service now. Funny stuff.

Posted by JasonColeman at January 6, 2005 12:53 PM