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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Irrational Exuberance

Tuesday, the state of Michigan voted to end affirmative action on top of the Democratic wave that happened everywhere else.

Atrios says he doesn't want to hear about stolen elections.

Somewhere did I hear something about being "reality-based"?

Chicago Dyke points out a stolen one in Florida nonetheless. 18,000 votes vaporized into the Diebold ether. I wonder what the real margin of victory of the Democrats would have been without Diebold? Did we simply witness a miscalculation in the program?

Can we afford to let this go?

Tom Englehardt asks: ...What Will Happen When the Commander-in-Chief Presidency and the Unitary Executive Theory Meets What's Left of the Republic? The answer on this one is relatively uncomplicated and less than three months away from being in our faces; it's the Mother of All Constitutional Crises. But writing that now, and living with the reality then, are two quite different things. So when the new Congress arrives in January, buckle your seatbelts and wait for the first requests for oversight information from some investigative committee; wait for the first subpoenas to meet Cheney's men in some dark hallway. Wait for this crew to feel the "shackles" and react. Wait for this to hit the courts -- even a Supreme Court that, despite the President's best efforts, is probably still at least one justice short when it comes to unitary-executive-theory supporters. I wouldn't even want to offer a prediction on this one. But a year down the line, anything is possible.

So we've finally had our plebiscite, however covert, on the failing Outlaw Empire of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But what about their autocratic inclinations at home. How will that play out?

Will it be: All hail, Caesar, we who are about to dive back into prime-time programming.

Or will it be: All the political hail is about to pelt our junior caesars as we dive back into prime-time programming? Stay tuned.


Sounds like they want to give you the programming either way.

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