Don't get your hopes up. These power junkies wouldn't have empowered the "unitary executive" with dictatorial powers if they were not sure that one party rule was guaranteed.
A sixteen per cent approval rating for CONgress should ensure a tough time for incumbants. What a surprise is will be when the Republicans manage to hold on to majorities in the House and Senate. I am expecting the fix to be in. With near 80% of our votes passing through Diebolt or ES&S proprietary software, the opportunity for tampering will likely be seized upon.
Posted by brisa at October 23, 2006 04:37 PMWe need poll watchers everywhere. As one who has done it before, I urge any Democrats who can work even a few hours on election day to volenteer. We need to create our own paper trail. More importiantly, they need to know that we have our own paper trail.
Posted by herbal tee at October 23, 2006 04:40 PMWhat we need to know now is:
WHERE do these Americans vote, and
Do they constitute a Democratic majority in any state or legislative district?
The state of New York, yes.
Tennessee, I don't know.
We will know after Nov 7.
And 93% of the respondents in this pole had the first name Osama and were registered Leftists.
Posted by Bagley at October 23, 2006 06:53 PMBagley,
Have run into peter in the breakroom recently?
I've been waiting for him to come back and tell us what are the limits of normal dialogue on foreign policy.
If you see him let him know.
Thanks.
Posted by snark at October 23, 2006 07:13 PMThe poll shows that 51% of those polled say that impeaching Bush should be a priority of the new Congress.
That's not exactly what it says. 28% said it should be a high priority. 23% said it should be a lower priority and 44% said it should not be done at all. Now call me crazy but if someone asks you if you think the president should be impeached and you say it should be a lower priority it indicates to me that those 23% think there are a lot more important things they'd like to see the Congress take care of than trying to remove the president from office. And if there are a lot of other things you think take greater priority than removing the president from office you've got to figure those people aren't feeling to strongly about it. I think the adjectives high and lower are important to those figures.
But ya know I'm just a neo-con sympathizer who sometimes questions his own fitness to be considered an American.
Posted by snark at October 23, 2006 07:31 PMThat's not exactly what it says. 28% said it should be a high priority. 23% said it should be a lower priority
Okay, so 51% said it was a priority in some fashion along a continuum from high to lower. I assume lower than something. Maybe these people think investigations should occur first? Maybe they think the cluster fuck in Iraq deserves attention first? And does the 28% think impeachment should occur the first day of session without investigations, or wait a week? We don't know. We do know that 51% think it's a priority of some sort. We do know 44% said it shouldn't be done. I assume those were primarily republi-cons and a few Democrats who think it exercises too much power, influence, satanic devil worship, or indicates incredible strength that shows enough resolve to lead Americans, showing the remainingg 51% the errors of their ways as we wave goodbye to decency and wave in the republi-con lunatics in 08.
And 93% of the respondents in this pole had the first name Osama and were registered Leftists.
Oh fucking please. Even you can do better than that. You make yourself seem like a knuckle-dragging sympathizer to a war criminal who even Democrats refuse to impeach. You people should have built ovens and treated us liberals to "showers." Just shredding the Constitution and unlimited death and destruction didn't raise an eyebrow around here. Lookout! We're gonna talk you republi-cons and neo-cons to death.
Posted by phidipides at October 23, 2006 08:54 PMlet's talk about the DNC and poll watching for a moment.
if you go to maria gillardin's site, tucradio.org, you can find an address by mark crispin miller concerning vote fraud. in that address, you can hear prof. miller reveal that john kerry preferred to denounce that evidence. you can hear how amy goodman, daily kos prefer to ignore that evidence.
if you go to projectcensored.org, you can find a similar analysis of republican vote fraud. and you can hear another professor being puzzled why the dnc refrains from doing anything about this monstrous vote theft.
i am pretty certain that the evidence is clear that absentee ballots are not counted.
what about early voting where the citizen votes in advance of 7/11/06? are these ballots counted? or are they dealt with as if they are absentee ballots?
here is why is ask. i am going to be out of the country on 7/11/06. i can vote early starting today. but will my vote be counted?
it is my understanding that the only votes that will be tabulated are those physically made on 7/11/06. early votes[aka absentee votes] are not counted...that early voting, absentee voting, is a masturbatory exercise[i.e., you might feel better, but there will be no record kept of that effort].
true or false?
Okay, so 51% said it was a priority in some fashion along a continuum from high to lower. I assume lower than something.
You are a smart one.
Maybe these people think investigations should occur first?
As do I and many other people I know.
Maybe they think the cluster fuck in Iraq deserves attention first?
As do I and many other people I know.
And does the 28% think impeachment should occur the first day of session without investigations, or wait a week? We don't know.
That would depend somewhat on how the question was asked. Clearly the result was not given as 'the highest priority' so I think that rules out the first day and most likely the first couple of weeks.
We don't know. We do know that 51% think it's a priority of some sort.
True. Let me just say that visiting the Middle East is a lower priority for me. I won't say that I don't ever want to go but I'm not in any hurry to start planning a trip. Because it's a lower priority than a lot of other places I'd like to visit first.
We do know 44% said it shouldn't be done. I assume those were primarily republi-cons and a few Democrats who think it exercises too much power, influence, satanic devil worship, or indicates incredible strength that shows enough resolve to lead Americans, showing the remainingg 51% the errors of their ways as we wave goodbye to decency and wave in the republi-con lunatics in 08.
I think you're partially correct. The majority of those people are surely Republicans.
Posted by snark at October 24, 2006 05:59 AMFirst, don't get your hopes up, because polls are so very misleading. It depends on who asks, what they ask, and who they ask it to.
But secondly ... I FEAR the first 100 hours of Democrat rule ... here's why
raising the minimum wage will destroy small businesses and kill the already thriving economy
they're beating a dead horse when it comes to Iraq. We're there because Iraq could've become the next North Korea. We're there because we'd rather fight the terrorists abroad than on our home soil. Leaving now just increases our chances of another homeland attack.
they will open the door to cloning by approving more stem cell research
they will roll back the middle class tax cuts which will destroy the thriving economy
in the first 100 hours of democratic rule, they will tank the economy and also make America prone to terrorist attacks by rolling back our national security
Posted by Justin at October 24, 2006 10:16 PM