Yearly Archives: 2006

Why hillary Might Be The Next president

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Balko explains:

As for Hillary, I was puzzled by all the people who said in 2004 that they couldn’t cast the divided government vote for John Kerry because they too feared a Hillary Clinton presidency. I wrote at the time that if anything, a second Bush term would make a Hillary presidency more likely, not less, because by the time Bush had served two terms, conservatives and limited government advocates would be dispirited, the left would be hungry and motivated, and everyone in the middle would have Republicans-in-power fatigue. It’s really just about the only scenario under which Hillary could wriggle her way into the White House.
And it’s about to happen.

I can’t imagine that hillary could be a worse president than w but apparently many in the bush base fear a hillary presidency.
That folks of any ilk fear tweedle dee or tweedle dum in the white house shows that we, the people, have let things get far out of hand. Governments at all levels and in all parts of the world need to be eliminated or pared back to the most basic functions.

Heck, when we are done properly paring them back there really shouldn’t be anything left that resembles the monstrosities currently trampling folks.


Friday Ark #86

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Florida Recount Redux

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jennifer dunn sets the record straight on who katherine harris was serving during the recount:

Former Republican Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn of Washington was sticking up for Harris, whom she described as a friend. Among her talking points was that Harris had done “yeoman’s service for president Bush”* during the 2000 recount. Of course, the official GOP talking point has always been that Harris served no one but the law. “I was just doing my job,” Harris likes to say. Nice to hear someone finally say what we know they’re thinking.

Yep, it’s a little bit clearer now what her job was and it had nothing to do with being a public servant.

Via horsesass.org