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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay the Obscure: [QB] And this from a conservative. [QUOTE]A Conservative Travesty California's recall -- a riot of millionaires masquerading as a "revolt of the people" -- began with a rich conservative Republican congressman, who could think of no other way he might become governor, financing the gathering of the necessary signatures. Now this exercise in "direct democracy" -- precisely what America's Founders devised institutions to prevent -- has ended with voters full of self-pity and indignation removing an obviously incompetent governor. They have removed him from the office to which they reelected him after he had made his incompetence obvious by making most of the decisions that brought the voters to a boil. The odor of what some so-called conservatives were indispensable to producing will eventually arouse them from their swoons over Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then they can inventory the damage they have done by seizing an office that just 11 months ago they proved incapable of winning in a proper election under ideal conditions. These Schwarzenegger conservatives -- now, there is an oxymoron for these times -- have embraced a man who is, politically, Hollywood's culture leavened by a few paragraphs of Milton Friedman. They have given spurious plausibility to a meretricious accusation that Democrats are using to poison American politics, the charge that Florida 2000 was part of a pattern of Republican power grabs outside the regular election process. George F. Will, [URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A224-2003Oct8.html]The Washington Post[/URL] [/QUOTE]Want to read another aricle about why this election might have been gone forward? Good. Read [URL=http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=284&row=0]this[/URL]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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