Sandra Day O'Connor Doubts Decision To Take Bush V. Gore

Eric Alterman summarized it well:

"[T]he inescapabl­e fact is that Gore was the genuine choice of a plurality of Florida’s voters as well as America’s. As the Associated Press reported in its examinatio­n of the NORC report, “In the review of all the state’s disputed ballots, Gore edged ahead under all six scenarios for counting all undervotes and overvotes statewide.­”

Gore beat Bush by almost every conceivabl­e counting standard.

Gore won under a strict-cou­nting scenario and he won under a loose-coun­ting scenario. He won if you counted “hanging chads” and he won if you counted “dimpled chads.” He won if you counted a dimpled chad only in the presence of another dimpled chad on the same ballot—the so-called Palm Beach standard. He even won if you counted only a fully punched chad. He won if you counted partially filled oval on an optical scan and he won if you counted only a fully filled optical scan. He won if you fairly counted the absentee ballots. No matter what, if everyone who legally voted in Florida had had a chance to see their vote counted, then Al Gore not George W. Bush, was elected president.­" 

http://www­.thedailyb­east.com/b­logs-and-s­tories/201­0-12-04/bu­sh-v-gore-­decision-l­ooks-even-­more-disgr­aceful-10-­years-late­r/
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This FAA Sequester Vote Doesn't Smell Right

I'm an old OLD liberal DEMOCRAT.  I've never voted for a Republican in my life, never will, and the way things are going I'll never be voting for another Democrat again.  

No offense, but Democratic supporters like you are no different than (and just as ignorant on the issues as) Bushies.  Obama's 'most ardent supporters' aren't following the day-to-day intricacies that have taken place over these past years in Washington (and Obama's participation) - It seems as if they go to HuffPo as they would the sports page (or as Republican supporters watch only Fox).  Those of us who read the legislation and follow the day-to-day details of sausage-making know that these two parties work together to deliver to the 1%, and their only real conflict is over who is to get the credit/blame (with both their corporate masters and their party's base).  

How does "extreme Republican partisanship" cause a Democratic president to offer Social Security and Medicare benefits' cuts?  

How does "extreme Republican partisanship" cause a Democratic president to offer across-the-board sequestration that cuts off cancer patients from treatment and kids from Headstart?  

How does "extreme Republican partisanship" get a Democratic president to sign off on easing sequestration pain on the upper and corporate classes without (again) lifting sequestration pain also on those most vulnerable (children, the poor and the infirm)?  

Obama's either the worst negotiator in the history of the world (in which case he can't be "the smartest/the most adult/the greatest") or he's a DINO (Democrat in name only), a skillful conniving Trojan Horse put into office having tricked voters like you who think he's a populist working on behalf of the 98%.  

NEWSFLASH for you - In Obama's own words, he's a Reagan Republican: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r-emodk73w
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Bombing Suspect, Listed On Classified Government Watch List

There's no reason that the FBI can't or shouldn't be involved with economic meltdown.   We're talking about TRILLIONS have been stolen and the complete and permanent breakdown of the social class structure of this nation, the world in fact.  

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/lanny-breuer-task-force-leader-doesnt-bother-showing-up-for-mortgage-fraud-press-conference.html
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U.S. Tortured Detainees And Top Officials Are Responsible: Report

When you "look forward, not back".

When you refuse to impeach BushCheney because "Republica­ns will say it's just because they impeached Clinton".

When you refuse to prosecute neocons who lied to Congress so that they could attack Iraq.

When you don't uphold the laws of the land, when you don't drive discredite­d offenders out of the halls of power, they return to the public stage, only to raise the ante on the destructio­n they're willing to do to their opponents.

You can't go forward unless and until you've looked back, assessed and corrected what went wrong.

What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the RuleOfLaw.  Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see.  And it begins and ends with the RuleofLaw.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government­.

BushCo broke federal US laws; the RuleOfLaw applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officialsespecially­.

The UnitedStat­es works, or it did, because of a covenant WeThePeopl­e make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that'll be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who'll be making the laws.  It's under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa­tives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.  And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the UnitedStat­es not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over.  

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that'll only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama's already built upon Bush's claims of 'UnitaryEx­ecutive', asserting that presidents have the right to kill American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review. Obama's already imposed a policy of 'indefinit­e preventive detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever, if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that is beyond my understand­ing.
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U.S. Tortured Detainees And Top Officials Are Responsible: Report

The purpose of torture was not to get real or accurate information. It was to get false information.

Among the tasks it was used for (none about getting real intel, none for the "ticking time bomb"-scenario) was to set up a justification to attack Iraq. To link 9/11 and Iraq. To link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.

The tapes would have shown that, and that's why they were destroyed.
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Background Checks Beat Apple Pie, Baseball, Kittens In Americans' Hearts: Poll

 http://blog.seattlepi.com/marijuana/2013/04/11/feds-scoop-up-medical-marijuana-patient-records-in-oregon-investigation/
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Sequestration Effects: Cuts Sting Communities Nationwide

No sane person would have actually used the sequester.  That was Obama's error, he overestimated GOP humanity

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I think it's you who overestimates Obama's "humanity".  

How many terms would it take over Obama doing the same thing, selling out the poor and middle classes, before voters like you realize that it's exactly what Obama's intended?  You do realize, don't you, that it's Obama who has put cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits on the table?  

You can't have it both ways.  You can't have "Obama's the smartest", "The only adult in the room", "He's playing 11th dimensional chess" and still have him being duped by Republicans.   
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