Contumelious liberal columnist Joel Connelly writes today that Mrs. Gregoire is a force to be reckoned with. Connelly, whose own contributions to voter fraud probably account for 2 votes of Gregoire's 133-vote margin of "victory", issues a predictable column: he equates Gregoire's unrestrained spending with good governance and he only gives a passing nod to Gregoire's critics:
[Mrs. Gregoire] is pointedly called "Mrs. Gregoire" by conservative Seattle blogger Stefan Sharkansky, informal pet Rottweiler of the state GOP.No, Connelly isn't a very interesting columnist, but at least he's above name-calling! Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at June 29, 2007 09:59 AM | Email This
Besides, when you don't have logic on your side, the only debating tool available is often name calling.
To expand Connelly's analogy, if Stefan is a GOP rottweiler, Connelly would be Gregoire's lap poodle.
Posted by: Dan on June 29, 2007 10:01 AM
I'm not sure though that the Lawsky's really are as fraudulent as your earlier post implies.
Washington DC is bit different than a state. You can't vote for Governor, Congressman (not a real one anyway), or Senator. Sure you get to vote for city council, but I'm not sure if that really counts as voting in DC.
It then makes sense for someone who lives there for convenience (Fedeal or related job, for instance) to keep an active registration in their State of origin. I cetainly would!
133 votes, 3 tries!
Still pisses me off that Gregoire/Kerry decided to break the gentlemen's agreement and push the count into unrequired overtime. It gaming the system and everybody knows it.
All in all though, it has hurt her chances of re-election greatly. People aren't as forgetful as the D's assumed in 2006 (Well I'm not anyway).
Posted by: deadwood on June 29, 2007 10:57 AMVirgil, what does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Ever heard of the Electoral College? It has nothing to do with the popular vote over the entire nation.
BTW, Bush's 2000 vote total (as a percentage) was larger than either of B.J. Clinton's victories. Does that make Clinton illegitimate?
Posted by: ItTakesAVillageToConveneAGrandJury on June 29, 2007 02:20 PMBesides, this is a dishonest argument. Raise your hand, everybody here who thinks Virgil would have said Bush should have been President in 2004 if Kerry had won Ohio. If that had happened, Kerry would have won the electoral college, and Bush would have still won the popular vote. And Virgil would have said Kerry deserved to win.
Further, besquared is also correct about the SCOTUS vote: in fact, it was a 7-2 vote to throw out the existing recount attempt. So even if the 5-4 vote to prevent additional recounts had failed, there was still not enough time to do a recount that would have met the criteria of the 7-2 vote, so it wouldn't have changed anything. Even Souter, in his dissent, said that it was not likely that such a recount was possible, though he thought they should be allowed to try.
So the fact is, the last legal recount of Florida selected Bush as the winner, and SEVEN members of the Supreme Court threw out the current recount attempt as unconstitutional, making it all but impossible for a new recount to be done before the federal deadline. So the people of Florida picked Bush as the winner, and in a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court upheld that count as the last legal one (though two of those four thought they should have a chance to try again, though conceding it was nearly impossible).
ItTakesAVillage: yes, Bush 43 in 2004 became the first President to win a majority of the popular vote since Bush 41 in 1988. Clinton is one of the few Presidents, and the only two-termer I believe, to never win a majority.
Posted by: pudge on June 29, 2007 02:33 PMFolks have to sometimes check in here sometimes to see what you true believers are up to. All of your bullshit ensures that you will sink further into minority status.
But Joel shouldn't be name-calling, as I have some friends with Rottweilers . . . .
Posted by: Amused on June 29, 2007 04:36 PMHow's that 24% for the Democrat Congress feelin? How's old Mr. Nineteen Percent workin out as the Senate Majority Leader?
Seems people don't like President Bush, but dislike the Democrats even more...
Posted by: Edmonds Dan on June 29, 2007 05:18 PMOh wait, no, never mind, all you did was make a baseless attack.
Maybe because you have no actual arguments?
Naaaaaaaaah.
Posted by: pudge on June 29, 2007 06:25 PMGulp Gulp Gulp Gulp Gulp
While she gets an 18k raise and travels all over the world on your $$$$$
Stay tuned, you will soon get your car tab bill, up $20 by this B plus a few hundred (thousands per family) coming your way come November.
Gulp Gulp Gulp Gulp
i recall i used to barf every time he was on one of those pbs shows/kcts whatever.... was him, joni, mindy cameron....gosh....that's what drove me to Tivo and Netflix.
and i've never subscribed to the PI, maybe spent $20 on newstand copies over my lifetime.
I wish i could figure out a boycott of their advertisers; would be a waste of time but nonethesless fun to make him squeal.
Posted by: righton on June 29, 2007 10:00 PMI had an analogy to put in here but it's too crass so I'll move on.
Posted by: pudge on June 29, 2007 10:05 PMI was recently reading about Joel's bros, Clops Connelly and Baboon Connelly, in Asbury's Gangs of New York. Better find out if Clops and Baboon aren't voting from Joel's little cabin, particularly since the gangstas have met all Democrat requirements for being eligible voters: They're from somewhere else, they're dead, and one of them must be an animal. Pull Baboon's registration card to see if he signed in with a paw print, like Connelly's other left-wing poodles.
Posted by: Animal House on July 2, 2007 11:31 AMI was recently reading about Joel's bros, Clops Connelly and Baboon Connelly, in Asbury's Gangs of New York. Better find out if Clops and Baboon aren't voting from big Joel's little cabin, particularly since the gangstas have met all Democrat requirements for being eligible voters: They're from somewhere else, they're dead, and one of them must be an animal.
Pull Baboon's registration card to see if he signed in with a paw print, like Connelly's other left-wing poodles.
Posted by: animal house @ animal farm on July 2, 2007 11:32 AM