In the meantime, Christine Gregoire already fought and won. Gregoire gets the Democrat of the Year award, while Kerry should count himself lucky if somebody leaves him a pair of balls in his stocking tonight. I bet Edwards wanted to fight (and heard a rumor he fought Kerry over conceding the day after, to his credit) . . . Meanwhile, where is legislation banning paperless voting machines?
Still, this victory (so far, the Repubs are still thinking of ways to steal it, although they don't have a legal leg to stand on) in Washington gives democracy-loving Americans a glimmer of hope that at least somewhere in this country there are people who care about all votes being counted. Three cheers for Gregoire!
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."