Sunday, November 26, 2000 -- NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (AmpolNS) -- The Pundit Pap seemed to be waiting with breathless anticipation for a parade of GOP spinners to say one after the other, "Gore stole the election!"

And yes, there was a little of that.  But there was a whiff of weirdness as the Florida election deadlock story continued to develop and Gore continued to close the gap with Bush.

Here's how it went down: 

FAUX News Sunday
"Election Held Hostage -- Day 19!"

That's how Tony opened FNS this week -- but somehow, he failed to mention that the cause was a corrupt Florida election mechanism, not that bete noire of the hard right, Al Gore. 

Tony gave his preview of the day's pap, outlining events to come: "Will it ever end?"

We get the feeling Tony hopes not -- the more moves to spin, the better!

Tony was winging it before the news and guests, detailing the rapid-fire events of the last 24 hours and the shrinking Bush lead.  One reporter made much of Team Bush suing a handful of counties over military votes before giving favorable coverage to the protests by Bush "supporters" -- but Angle said nary a word about the racist Stormfront or neofascist Free Republic web sites having been key organizers of these faux "protests."  Jim Angle ominously reported on a possible move by Gore's lawyers to contest the results of the entire state of Florida -- but didn't make one comment on the entrenched corruption and cronyism in the Florida election process.

The "super-panel" began with Tony calling Broward County's recount "a total zoo."  We know -- all those minorities, they're no better than animals.  Fred "The Weasel" Barnes cited a QUESTIONABLE poll that "proved" that 2% of voters did not vote for President.  Mort Kondracke, sounding slightly more sane, made a comment about Texas's recount system and dimpled chads.  Tony tried to "clarify" the Texas law, but only confused the situation more (shades of Ben Ginsburg).  Brit Hume called the counting of dimples "ri-DIC-u-lous" -- only because the dimples favor Gore over Bush.  Ceci Connelly, the goofy Washington Post reporter, said dimples were cute.  Juan Williams derided accepting military ballots with mistakes (no signatures, bad registration numbers) -- Hume thought he was talking about missing postmarks.  Both were wrong -- Hume in making an issue out of something the GOP had opposed (accepting unpostmarked ballots) and Juan in not saying that giving the questionable ballots -- meaning the ones with mismatching signatures

Fred "The Weasel" tried to spin the PAID GOP "home invasion" of the Miami-Dade canvassing board as nothing to get upset about.  Hume joked about the "frightening" mob of Young Republicans, trying unsuccessfully to deride accurate assertions that these little Nazis were threatening to assault election officials and members of the press -- as local law enforcement let them go at it.  Ceci Connelly called Charles Rangel's "whiff of Fascism" comment "ridiculous" -- but what more would you expect from a proven press liar?  Juan Williams predicted that Katherine Harris's certification this evening will give a morale boost for Team Bush -- and trigger more cries of their latest (and we would add stupid) mantra, "Gore's a sore loser."

What a joke.  Gore has not lost, politics fans -- in fact, once you add in about ten thousand ballots that were stolen through corruption, Gore would have won, yet Bush, through his criminal surrogates in Florida, stole the election -- and the press is letting him get away with it.  Someone cue "Hail to the Thief" -- or, better yet, "Jail to the Thief!"

Following the break, Gov. Frank Keating (R-OK) was asked by Tony why HE was not a sore loser because Bush is losing ground.  Keating, naturally, screamed that Hume and Barnes are right.

Right of Reagan, we say.

Keating talked laughably about a "schizophrenic" people who, in Missouri, for example, went for Bush but defeated Ashcroft.

Tony's question to Sen. Bob Graham: "Have you ever dimpled a chad?"  Cute, Tony!  Graham said that the people want a reliable and transparent election process -- but should have been faster to say that dimpled chads should be counted!  He did say that the voting machine inventor has already said that the system is flawed and invites error!  In one out of six instances, said Graham, sufficient evidence was found to allow a disputed vote to be recounted.  Tony asked why there were not more recounts, and Graham said that in most cases there was not sufficient cause.

Tony asked Keating what event should signal "That's that."  Keating, implying Gore should do so, said "Someone should cry uncle." Tony then asked Keating if the Wednesday demonstrations were not "a little over the top."  Keating slammed the Democrats for wanting a recount as well as the Florida Supreme Court -- and said that Daley had brought in "Boss Tweed" types from Chicago -- AN OUTRIGHT LIE.  Graham did not dispute this as he should have; instead, he called for a "de-escalation of the rhetoric," comparing the present situation to calls for Earl Warren to be impeached.  Graham, sounding like a GOPer during the Lewinsky flap, called for the "rule of law" -- which only served to remind us of how GOPers loved the courts when they could attack Clinton but now loathe them.  Graham also said that Americans got to see the Florida Supreme Court in action -- and were impressed.

The next guest -- unctuous "constitutional law expert" Jonathan Turley, who was arguing that the matter was more suited to the Florida state legislature (one of the most powerful assemblages of bigoted right-wing crackers in the U.S.).  You remember him -- the boy genius whose misinterpretation of the Constitution during the Lewinsky flap was so laughably on display on MSNBC.  Hume asked Turley if he "detected" any law on which the Florida Supreme Court based its decision and Turley replied that the decision was made in equity.  Turley said that there is one (goofy) possibility that keeps the Gore lawyers awake at night -- the U.S. Supreme Court finding an inequity but kicking it back to the Florida legislature, not the Supreme Court.  He also added that the framers (or as we call them, the "founding misogynist slaveholders") had little faith in the courts -- which is not entirely true, as Turley would realize if he actually paid attention to the Federalist Papers.  Turley also claimed that the Gore campaign was shifting in its strategy concerning county officials -- and nearly (but not quite) ignored that fact that Team Bush is doing the same thing.

The entire segment was nothing more than a "pep talk" for Bush-leaguers once Katherine Harris certifies the election and the Gore camp challenges it.  Turley left out the most obvious scenarios -- including that of not acting at all by ruling that this is a state, not a federal matter.  

Following the break, Tony ran footage of David Boies (a Gore attorney) doubting that the Supreme Court would take the Gore case -- then saying that's what the Supreme Court does.  This was a set-up for Hume to proclaim Boies a "spinner" --  as if he weren't the lawyer that nailed Microsoft on antitrust violations. Ceci said the Gore people are putting out spin that it isn't over.  Well, duuuh, Ceci -- it WON'T be over even if Gore WINS!  Juan said that the U.S. Supreme Court could take a hands-off approach to the fiasco, and that the Florida Supreme Court could say that honoring the will of the people TRUMPS whining about "changing the rules" on vote-counting after election Day.  Fred Barnes actually said Gore is RIGHT to pursue this issue -- and Nixon should have done the same in 1960 following evidence of election corruption!  Mort said that Fred endorsed a manual recount -- and The Weasel weaseled out.  Mort said Gore believes he has votes in Miami-Dade that he is entitled to -- and he will fight it.  Hume bashed Souter and Ginsburg -- and a little later was accurate when he said that proving election fraud to a Florida Court would require a high standard of proof.  Ceci was also right when she said that Gore's people had set up a recount committee because Florida was too close to count -- but was WRONG when she said that they had a leg up on Bush.

Here's the truth, Ceci -- Team Bush decided to make their moves BEFORE the election, to rig it in favor of Bush.  And the facts about the sweeping, mostly-GOP corruption in Florida are beginning to come out.  They will, inevitably.

The McLaugh-In Group
Wacky political encounter group reactionaries: Democrats stole the election! 

Issue One: 

Pope John McLaugh-In hates the courts like a typical Bush stooge!  He lambasted the Florida Supreme Court for a "judicial coup d'état" and claimed they were "changing the rules" and rewrote Florida election law.  Did they change the rules?  Michael Barone claimed tat the Florida judges were "conniving with the Gore campaign to throw out military ballots. Mikey, that's a pretty inflammatory claim: WHERE'S YOUR PROOF?  He considered the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to take the Bush case "very significant."  Eleanor said that the court did not force Miami-Dade to recount -- and compared Dubya's whining about "changing the law" to his soul-mate George Wallace.  Tony Blankley perpetuated the Rush Limbaugh LIE that the Florida Court was "misinformed" by the Gore team concerning Illinois case law on chads.  John said that Bush's litigation challenge is in play in the U.S. Supreme Court and that the Atlanta 11th Circuit Court is reviewing the Florida ruling.

Our man David Corn shook things up as he attacked Bush for using "judicial activism" -- and the double standard of giving military ballots special privilege while dismissing the ballots of firemen and policemen in Florida.  Corn should've also said that Bush is out to steal the election!  C'MON!  GO FOR THE THROAT, DAVID!  These McLaugh-In morons are easy meat!

John praised Sen. John Warner (R-VA) for holding hearings into military6 ballots.  Barone said that if Gore wins on dimpled ballots and exclusion of military ballots, DEMOCRATS will protest!  He also said that Gore is "trumped" by Jeb Bush and a GOP-dominated legislature in Florida -- and has to rely on "changing rules" in counting.  The hard-righters shouted down Corn as he tried to make the point that if you read the Florida Supreme Court ruling, NOBODY has to count dimpled votes.  Also, Miami-Dade DID rule that mechanical inaccuracies mandated a recount.  John brought up the "Bob Beckel" strategy (turn three electoral votes to Gore) and Corn said that Bush had slandered the courts.  a round of screaming preceded the exit question -- a bizarre one on the "OJ Simpsonization" of the election process.  This gave Barone an opening to make a stealth RACIST slam of Jesse Jackson.  Eleanor saw no problem with the litigation.  Tony Blankley played to John's spin about "out of courtroom" antics that swung the OJ jury against the prosecution.  Corn tried to get his point in as John said that ore had a dream team of lawyers and was out to destroy the credibility of the Bush team -- and was SPINNING THE PRESS!

What a laugh -- the press has done nothing but kowtow to the Bush Team.

Issue two: "Absentee ambush!" What a laugh -- John is pushing the PHONY proposition that "disqualified" overseas ballots disenfranchise servicemen. John cited a Gore memo on "how to invalidate military ballots" -- but FAILED to mention that the reason for this memo is that Gore's team learned that GOP members of the military were sent TWO ballots, some with ILLEGAL numbers already written in! That, John, is called BREAKING the law. Why has the challenge by Democrats being perceived as anti-military? Corn cited the Bush spin machine -- and said that there's pressure not to follow the rules. Tony tried to claim the ballots were LEGAL -- which was a LIE, and Corn said so, going for the throat. We noticed that John seemed to avoid giving Corn too much face time -- a little scared of a liberal with brainss, John? Barone shouted about postmarks -- but Eleanor pointed out that Katherine Harris put out a memo instructing county officials NOT to count unpostmarked ballots. John brought up -- catch this -- Bill Clinton's sexual history!

You just have to feel pity for the demented Pope John, who somehow thinks that Bill Clinton is still running for office -- and tries to spin Clinton's sex appeal and OJ's history in an attempt to demean Al Gore.

So who will be certified?

Barone: Bush with 225
Eleanor: Bush with under 200
Tony: could be either guy, but he favors Bush
Corn: Harris will find a way to certify Bush, and it will end like James Bond with "007" votes!
John: Bush with 112

Our staff: John should be certified -- delusional and schizophrenic!

Face the Nation
Who will be the next president, week two?

Bob Schieffer got a near-A-list of guests: House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, New York Governor George Pataki, Leon Panetta, and Senator Chuck Hagel.

Bob asked Gephardt if Bush would declare himself president if he is certified. Gephardt said no -- the election is entering a new phase, and also raised that issue of a three-vote electoral difference could give Gore a win even if Bush takes Florida.  Schieffer brought up the issue of legislation that Neonazis Tom DeLay and Dick Armey are scheming to legislate to throw out Florida's electoral votes if Gore wins Florida. Gephardt said that it's not right for this sort of legislation to go forward -- the people elect the President through the Electors, and "the House should not be sticking its nose into this in any way." Gephardt mentioned that Bush has yet to be heard in the Supreme Court and that America should wait for the process to play out to find out who won the electoral vote.  Borger asked what has happened within the Democrat camp that has so united people behind Gore? Gephardt said that Gore has won the popular vote and the electoral race is close.  There was also the matter of intimidation in Miami-Dade, he added -- and Gephardt thinks there should be a hand recount there.

Schieffer asked if Gore will abide by a Supreme Court ruling. Gephardt said we are a nation of laws -- and that he's sure Gore will abide by the laws and the rulings of the court.

Pataki said that Bush won on November 7th and Democrats are hunting for Gore votes and ignoring military ballots "on hypertechnicalities."  What a hypocrite -- he wants INTENT for the military but NOT for civilians in Florida.  Can you say "some people are MORE equal than others?"  He kept reiterating the other GOP mantra: "I believe Bush won the race."  He mocked the county officials for "playing Karnak" by holding up votes and "divining" their meaning.  Borger asked if  the issue of what the Supreme Court decides is a factor -- and  Pataki tried to steamroll past this key question, saying Bush won.  Pataki, who actually has some smarts, was disappointing today -- all spin, no substance.  Does the Bush team associate itself with efforts in the House to throw out Florida's electors if Gore wins?  Pataki refused to answer, claiming in essence he did not know.

Pataki, we can tell you, was lying -- he is privy to Bush strategy.

Schieffer then turned to Stuart "Stinky" Taylor and asked him if Bush would drop his Supreme Court appeal if he wins in Florida.  Taylor doubts it -- and implied that Florida's supreme Court would pressure Miami-Dade to recount their ballots.  Panetta said that there is a possibility of a "scorched earth" litigation.  Schieffer asked if the American people will accept the certification of Bush, and Hagel said his "elections are about governing" pap before he said it's in the best interest of the nation to accept the certification.  in other words, Gore should lay down in the face of massive election fraud.  Schieffer asked Hagel about the DeLay-Armey movement to throw out Florida's votes, and Hagel stammered an answer about the "validity" of the election results.

Borger asked about the issue of election legitimacy and court rulings.  Taylor assumes that the Supreme Court is hoping that the case goes away -- and that a decision seen as partisan will devastate the Supreme Court.  Schieffer asked Panetta to elaborate on his position that Gore will not drop efforts to contest the Florida elections -- and Panetta said neither side benefits from backing down now at the Supreme Court level, and the nation benefits from a firm ruling.

 Schieffer's final word had some quips about the "states' rights" Democrats and Dick Cheney's heart attack -- and John McCain's popularity.  Schieffer called him the most powerful GOPer in the Senate -- McCain, he said, will be the swing vote -- especially within the GOP.

Meet the Puppet
Starring Charlie McRussert, ventriloquist dummy for the GOP

Russert began the most confusing and misleading show he's ever hosted with guests Sen. Tom Daschle (D-MO) and Governor Marc "ROSCOE" Racicot (who tries to lose the ethnicity of his name by mispronouncing it). They were arguing about who will be the next president of the United States. It was the same thing you've been hearing "Time and Again" for the past two weeks. Russert is simply bursting at the seams to help get Bush elected, because he knows he is now persona non grata at the Clinton White House and is petrified that he will be frozen out of a successful Gore White House because of the accusatory Beat the Vice-Prez attack "interview" of Gore Russert bungled a few months back.

We won't bore you with the details of the Daschle/"Roscoe" segment -- and believe us, we mean bore, because Tim Russert has become the most monotonous and predictable of all the Sunday political pundits -- except to say that as usual, Tim the GOP mouthpiece basically said, "Hey, we Bush boosters don't have the votes, so we want the old counts to be used so Bush can win Florida and the White House."

Toward this end, the thoroughly corrupt Florida legislature will move next week to make sure that Bush is elected by attempting to pass laws or concurrent resolutions which "repair" what the Florida Supreme Court found wrong with their ill-conceived election laws that seem to have been written by a high-school dropout (the seeming average educational level of the Florida legislature's staff).

E.J. Dionne was one of Tim's next guests. Dionne wrote last week that the Bush people are willing to do ANYTHING -- any slimy thing -- to win, although they have lost. Dionne, alone on the Russert panel of Bush-lovers today, repeated this charge.

Bill Kristol said he doesn't know why the recount matters at all -- and that the election had been settled -- last week! We were a little surprised at Bill -- he is not usually such a whore for the right wing although he tries to run it. Kristol said he thinks that Bush should fight on the ground that the recounts are no good "for the country" -- ha, ha, ha, ha! We bet Bush actually CALLED the lately-ignored Kristol and this is Bush's payback.

The fact is that the American people are getting a glimpse -- only a glimpse -- of the horror of their county, state and national governments.

The truth that we now see is that our votes DO NOT count and that the forces behind each candidate -- behind EVERY candidate -- determine the winner.

The old fool, the man whom the others call "the Dean" -- crotchety David Broder -- began by parroting the Bush line: "...the votes have been counted three times" and Bush won each time. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Yeah, right, old man -- Broder is saying without pause that even though the people elected Gore, which they clearly did nationwide and in Florida, that Bush should win even though the Florida voting scheme is crooked, racist, and rigged to deprive tens of thousands of their constitutionally "guaranteed" right to vote.

Kristol said that Secretary of State Kathleen should tell the Florida Supreme Court to go to hell and certify the original election results tonight.

What is clear, is that everyone -- every paid political pundit in this mess -- is out of the their mind. Even E.J. Dionne began to waffle under pressure from Russert, Kristol and "Dean" Broder.

What we believe is that this issue will go to the Supreme Court, perhaps more than once, and that in the end it will be the Congress that decides that Al Gore -- that's right, Al Gore -- will be our new president, just as they quietly but decisively decided that the Blackshirts of the New[t] GOP that persecuted, lynched and tortured the Clintons were simply that: unapologetic Neonazis. You saw the next generation of these same 21st Century Neofascists pressed against the glass wall of the Miami-Dade canvassing board building on Wednesday -- bought-and-paid-for plainclothes Gestapo preppies kicking to the floor a Democrat because they "thought" or were "told" he had a single ballot in his jacket (it turned out to be a demonstration reference ballot). They were bent on killing him and making certain that Miami-Dade did not finish its count.

Just as Jews did not ruin the German economy 70-odd years ago, Congress will realize that it does not want Hitler youth running this nation.

This Week
The Near-Last Temptation of "Scam" and "Cocky"

Cokie started This Weak showing the latest vote count in Florida: W with 930 lead. Now Al Gore got 615 additional votes over Bush's 92 -- so now Bush leads unofficially by 407 votes in Florida -- easily eclipsed by Gore from the Palm Bach County vote alone.

As usual, Sam and Cokie killed time by putting old ABC news clips into "reruns" to bring viewers "up to date" -- as if people watching their show were not already up to date. They showed a clip of the terrific judge in Broward County ejecting a Bushite "new age Blackshirt" who had been rudely harassing everyone including GOPers from the counting room. They then talked about phony military ballots -- and the GOP wheeling out medal of honor winners to say that phony military votes should count. The time of the certification, they said, might be at 5 PM. But don't count on it. We would guess perhaps that the vote will be certified the first week of January 2001 as this proceeds to the U.S. Supreme Court, back to the Florida Supreme Court, then to the Florida Legislature, back to the Supreme Court, and then finally to Congress.

Gore has now been forced to sue in Miami-Dade, Nassau and Palm Beach County where the standard for determining the admissibility of a ballot into the count is less than the District Court Judge ruled. Now there is talk that Gore will address the nation tomorrow night.

We agree that he should -- but it had better be good, and it had better outline exactly what the GOP is up to -- the Neonazi propaganda tactics of Ms. Hughes and Mr. Rove, who are attempting to buy themselves cushy White House jobs -- and more importantly the million-a-year positions they will be offered once they leave a would-be Bush White House.

Make no mistake: this fight is about money. Forget power! That is a given. The baseline here is MONEY. To be controlled by it, to make it, to use it and to suppress the people using it.

Bush will not win tonight in Florida. However, the Secretary of State -- because she is a felon to our minds -- will call the race for Bush no matter what happens. The first This Weak guest, Bob Dole, said that Gore should give up tonight -- and that Lieberman should apologize for calling the Neonazis in Florida just what they were -- a mob!

"I don't know whether it is petty theft of grand larceny," sputtered Dole. Then he said that Democrats just can't help have a bias! What a riot.

Dole went into his "its above my pay grade" spiel about how he doesn't understand the law at the Supreme Court level. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- he doesn't understand the law at all -- being the paid whore of Dwayne Andreas who cost the American taxpayers through collusion tens of billions of dollars, the entire bottom line of ADM. Dole wanted camera too. "They're bringin' their children down to Ft. Lauderdale to witness this histry." Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

After less than 25 minutes of his weak, we are already overwhelmed with boredom.

Mario Cuomo was next. He said both sides will go to the courts. Wow -- how insightful. It seems Miami-Dade was right not to bother, it will be the courts that decide the LAW -- and the LAW is the root of the word LEGIT-imacy. Cokie said that the GOP will argue that the Florida Supremes changed the rules AFTER the election. She said this sounds "COMPELLING." Of course this was a leading statement. Cuomo explained that courts do this all the time. Then the legislature goes into action and changes the law -- BUT NOT RETROSPECTIVELY!

Cokie slammed Mario -- BUT THE SUPREME COURT HAS CHOSEN TO TAKE THIS CASE! Cuomo reminded her that only FOUR Justices agreed to take the case. "We are the highest court -- and we want to help out" is one interpretation. If the court does the right thing, Al Gore will win -- and he will win by a huge margin.

Cokie claimed that the country will not have time to finish the count. Cuomo said in so many words that that's bullshit -- the Court will take charge with special masters. They will not send the ballots back to the locals, they will do it themselves.

Cokie asked whether the "political forces" will allow Gore to press on. Cuomo asked, in so many words, what the hell are you talking about? Cuomo reminded the fact-challenged Cokie that Gore won the popular vote. He will win the Florida Vote. If George Bush asked Cuomo, the former governor added, he would say, "You have no right to step out of this race -- if you believe you won -- commit yourself to the courts, that is the way to wrap this thing up." Cuomo also said that the Supreme Court should allow television camera into the court for this case.

We agree completely.

Bob Dole, Dwayne Andreas's personal hand puppet, stepped up to the plate to defend George "Dumbya." The irony is Orwellian: two losers and two criminals -- one defending the other, one choosing the other as a spokesman. This should be sufficient evidence that not only is the Bush Baby relying on fertile octogenarians who think that the only honor is in foxholes and not on the protest line -- and that he will rely on his Daddy Bush to make his administration more criminal and felonious as his father's.

Can you imagine? Dole is speaking from his CONDO -- bought and paid for by DWAYNE ANDREAS -- in Bal Harbour Florida. Dole stupidly said that Bush will win in Florida. "Dimples shouldn't count as well. Gore didn't carry his home state. I thought the people decided..."

What an imbecile -- Gore is leading in the popular race.

Dole is so senile now that he can't mutter a coherent sentence.

It's John Breaux and David Bonior vs. Dick "Triple Martini" Armey this morning. Armey said that he won't disagree that Dems are stealing the election -- but then, what else is new? Bonior claimed there are 70,000 disenfranchised voters in Florida and that they will get their due from the Supreme Court. He said, rightfully, that Gore is leading a courageous battle.

Breaux said that the law must be followed and hand counts are part of the law. People who say we should not be in the courts are people denying the American system itself -- the three-legged stool of checks and balances is what Breaux means.

Armey said it is the Democrats who first brought up the issue that Florida should lose its place in the electoral college.

And that is right. They should -- because the state is run by fools and rich criminals like Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris.

Armey attacked Bonior for asking that every vote be counted THE WAY HE WANTS them to be counted.

Armey is lying, of course. Bonior and all Democrats want EVERY count for BUSH and GORE counted -- and counted with the same standards!

Armey launched into his serviceman crap -- screaming. Bonior said he served four years in the Air Force -- and where were YOU four years ago when the same ratio of overseas ballots were rejected?

Breaux said that somewhere this has to end -- but he believes that since Bush asked for the Supreme Court that he will have to live with it.

ABC cut to commercials, so we channel-surfed [note to readers: see "K-Flex the American People's Pimp" in the nation's capital for a riot on Michael Moore's hilarious TV show The Awful Truth!!!!] and checked the Ampol E-mail-bag. A reader suggests that ABC should change the title of its local flagship news program to "Eye-shitness News." Our staff loved it!

Oh, no! It was time again for the ROUND TABLE -- today SQUARE because only George Will and George Staphylococcus are thrown in with Sam and Cokie. You don't need a round table with four people, Cokie!

George Staphylococcus was looking and sounding ill. Sam said the Florida Secretary of Sex with Jeb Bush and his Son, Katherine Harris, will certify the election today. George Staph said he thinks Gore will still be behind when she does.

We KNOW that GORE will be ahead -- but that she will ignore this.

Cokie said -- wow -- this is weird. Now the Supremes are here -- so what will Harris's statement mean?

Staph said that they could request the GSA to give them money to start forming an Administration! Ha, ha, ha, ha, hah. Good one Staph. The GSA would tell them to go screw themselves.

Will, wishfully, said that contesting the butterfly ballot, will take forever.

The entire discussion was adolescent, unknowing, and, of course, there was no lawyer present. So who cares?

Will defended Florida's cracker legislature -- first saying they should not intervene, but electors chosen by the legislature would not be MORE illegitimate! What a joke.

Staph agreed. Both houses of congress will have to reject Jeb's electors.

Will, stupidly, said that whoever is selected by the whore Harris will win. We were laughing again -- talk about sticking your stupid neck out.

Too radioactive to focus on...

The low point of the week was, of course, the invasion of Miami-Dade's counting facilities by modern-day reactionary thugs paid for by Friends of Bush.  Yesterday, the major cities of Florida were swamped with pro-Bush protesters, most bussed in to create a manufactured stink.

None of the pundit shows delved into how this came to be -- or asked the questions that count: who was financing the transportation for the carpetbagging mob? Where was the mention that these "spontaneous" protests were orchestrated by Team Bush in concert with right-wing web sites and emailing lists?  Is this in violation of campaign laws?

Similarly, the deteriorating situation in the Middle East -- being fueled in part by the pageant of political chaos in Florida -- was not even mentioned in passing.

And where was the talk about the Senate?  It looks as if the chamber will be split down the middle 50-50.  Now stop and think: you've got a couple of ailing , aged Republicans in that body.  If Strom Thurmond should not be able to serve, that means that the South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges appoints a replacement -- a Democrat replacement.  Same goes for Jesse Helms -- North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt is a Democrat.  In either scenario, Trent Lott is relegated to ironing his shirts.

Finally, there has been plenty of mention of a couple thousand overseas military ballots -- but NO mention of questions that remain concerning the handling of tens of thousands of ballots throughout Florida, missing ballot boxes, compromised ballot bags, deceptive voter cards that caused Gore supporters to vote for Bush -- in other words, a real pattern of election fraud in the state of Florida.

And some people wonder why we call the pundits names...