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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lawdog who wrote (95648)	11/30/2000 12:53:43 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769669

By Paul Begala MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 — The Bush operation reminds me of North Korea. You have a group of insanely loyal, fiercely committed lunatics, devoting their lives to slavish devotion of a moron whose only claim to power is that his father used to run the country. George W. Bush is Kim Jong Il with better hair. We know W. was born on third base. The question now is, can he steal home? NO ONE IN THE Bush camp dares convey bad news to the Beloved Leader. So spokesrobot Karen Hughes fails to tell Bush that Cheney had had a heart attack-even though she briefed him before he spoke to the press about Cheney’s medical condition. You’d think a minor detail like that would be included in her briefing of the Great Master. And why is Junior so comfortable with being so ignorant? If I had omitted that kind of information from a briefing of President Clinton, my butt would have been bounced down Pennsylvania Avenue faster than you could say, “subliminable.” As junior retreats to think Great Thoughts under the big skies of Crawford, there has been a stunning generational shift in the Bush camp. Poppy’s taken over. Exiled are Junior’s geniuses — my friends Karl Rove and Mark McKinnon and Matthew Dowd. Poppy’s pals — Cheney and Baker and Card and Powell — are running things now. You can just hear Jim Baker screaming at Austin: “Just lock that idiot kid up on the ranch somewhere, we’ll tell him what to say and when to say it. Every time he speaks it looks like a damn hostage video Ollie North smuggled out of Tehran, and every time he’s under stress he breaks out in a boil. He lost the election. We’ll deliver him the White House.” WHAT A TEAM What a team Bush and Cheney make. Not exactly the team you want under a lot of stress, is it? If they think this has been stressful, they ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Ponder these upcoming events: There’s a very real chance that a judge will order the counting of the 10,750 votes the machines could not count in Miami-Dade County. Now, it’s entirely possible that Gore won’t garner enough votes from those ballots. I can live with that. I just can’t accept Bush’s rent-a-rioters using thug tactics to keep those votes from being fairly and accurately counted. A judge is hearing a request that all 15,000 absentee ballots be thrown out in Seminole County. Gore has not joined the lawsuit, but a local Democratic attorney is alleging that the Seminole County election officials unfairly and illegally allowed GOP aparatchiks to correct incomplete applications for absentee ballots. Those ballots went overwhelmingly for Bush, so if they’re thrown out, Bush loses. One of the things I’m learning about election law is that is easier for a court to throw votes out than to count them in. It is conceivable that a court could declare all of Seminole County’s absentee votes void. FAR FROM OVER And check out this report from the New York Times: “A second heavily Republican county in Florida allowed party officials to fix hundreds of flawed absentee ballot applications that had been submitted by voters but rejected by the elections office, officials said yesterday. The Martin County supervisor of elections, a Republican, let Republican Party workers take away the ballot requests on a daily basis, add missing voter identification numbers and resubmit them, a deputy elections supervisor said. At the same time, the elections office allowed other incomplete applications submitted by voters, some of them Democrats and independents, to stack up without being corrected, the official said.” Bush won the Martin County absentees by a two-to-one margin. Tossing those ballots out would cost Bush a net of nearly 3,000 more votes. This thing is far from over. So let Junior continue to appoint people to his imaginary cabinet. Let Cheney and Baker and Card and Powell and Rice and Lindsey continue to dream about restoring those glory days of recession and deficit they brought us under Poppy. But let the vote-counting and the careful judicial review continue. We know W. was born on third base. The question now is, can he steal home?