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Thursday, January 06, 2005

Harry Reid is on board
Posted by Jill | 12:35 PM

According to Will Pitt, Harry Reid is on board in the challenge to the Ohio electors. 38 more, and the Democratic Party keeps me. Any less, and I know that they don't represent me and that they're owned by the same corporations who own the Republicans.

It's up to them now. This is their chance to show what they're made of; whether they're planning to be a true opposition party, or if they're going to lay down and allow George W. Bush and his Congressional lapdogs to dismantle the entire New Deal and the entire Great Society in favor of an "I got mine and fuck you" nation.

Regardless of how many senators find their balls in the next twenty-five minutes, what's mind-blowing about what's going to happen today is that it would not have happened without Michael Moore. You can talk all you want about Moore's use of innuendo and making leaps of logic in Fahrenheit 9/11, but you can't argue that without his use of the appalling footage of one after another African-American representative getting up and begging a Senator to sign their protest of the Florida electors in 2000, none of the light that is currently being shone on Republican thuggish tactics in the days leading up to the election and on November 2nd itself would ever have occurred.

We are going to get another four years of George W. Bush no matter what happens. But Republicans cannot escape this fact: They don't want Americans to vote. They are about suppression of the vote, not encouragement of the vote. The fact of the matter is that throughout this country, but especially in Florida and Ohio, where the instances are documented, people associated with the Bush/Cheney campaign did whatever they could to keep black Americans from voting. In the year 2004. People died forty years ago trying to make sure that black Americans could vote, and forty years later, people who call themselves patriots because they support a war are trying to keep people from exercising their rights as citizens to vote.

Think about it.
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