Hunker in the Bunker
It’s tough waiting for a resolution of the election to make intelligent observations on the process. First, because it doesn’t seem like it will ever be resolved, and second, because there’s so little intelligence in the people involved. Given that Herculean challenge, some tentative thoughts on the bizarre little event we will always fondly refer to as the 2000 elections.
No, it’s not over, certainly, but unless the courts reverse things, Gore is gone and Bush is in. Neither has covered himself in glory during the counting. Both yahoos, flanked so would-be presidentially before the two American flags -- gimme a break -- and neither says anything. Wouldn’t it have been nice if the donkey had conceded, again. Or if the other ass had gone on just to tell his supporters to overcome their natural rabble-ous instincts and act with dignity?
As of this writing, though the final pinky-to-the-sky-no-lie decision is still up in the air, Bush-Lite is starting up the transition process, and The Wooden One is pleading over the airwaves for the public not to give up on his campaign. They are both also active in the courts, to where all eyes have now turned since the Harpy of State smeared her imprimatur on the crippled Florida ballot count.
Meanwhile, the self-evident president-elect is going to get White House security briefings to bring him up to speed on world affairs. Let’s hope The Bush Boy gets to bring his long-hyped circle of advisors with him, otherwise the tutorial could take years. If there’s a test, paw once for yes, Millie, twice for no.
It’s hard to say whose visage would be more difficult to take for four years. The pasty pedantry of Gore would have done wonders for the bulimic community. While the smarmy smirking Bush should close the knees of every mother’s daughter. No wonder neither of them was a clear winner. Few of those who cast ballots did so for their candidate, but mostly in opposition to the opposition.
While I think that Gore would have won the electoral vote had the Florida ballots been properly counted, he certainly can’t lay a resounding claim to the presidency. Even though he captured the majority of the popular vote. That half of the eligibles nationwide stayed home is a repudiation of his candidacy, as well as Bush’s.
The two of them define the failure of our political system, now thoroughly corrupted by special interest funding. The two spent some $300 million dollars -- not including hundreds of millions more in soft money -- forcing upon us this unpalatable choice between tweedle-dit and tweedle-dum. They were the chosen candidates of the big money players; the corporate and political entities who prefer manipulable wusses to leaders who might restore America to its former and potential greatness.
They are the petroleum industry, the drug manufacturers, and the war-makers who control our government to protect their financial interests. They are comfortable with an impoverished national school system because the blissfully ignorant tend to be followers, who are programmed to eschew political involvement through the cheesy banality of "entertainment" television, unmitigated by sterilized "news".
Personally, I think Gore would have done less damage than Bush will. A couple of bad Supreme Court nominees -- the Nader Court -- along with hundreds of neanderthals appointed to the lower courts, will create obstacles to healthy progress for decades to come. Even if the anticipated massive failure by the Republican president and Congress — abetted by the equally scum-sucking Democrats — lays the groundwork for an upwelling of public disgust that reaches a level high enough to get enough people adequately involved to select and elect quality leadership in 2005.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.