Category: General

Bed soon. Things look very bad.

Things are sounding pretty grim from the exit polls and results that are in, though it’s still a toss-up. It’s looking a lot more like Bush has indeed given us the finger. May be a while before we’re sure, unless Rehnquist’s zombie corpse rises from the grave and pronounces Bush Dark Lord Evil Dictator-For-Life and makes it legal to shoot anyone who tries to do a recount.

But it looks like things are going to go from bad to worse.

I’m chatting with someone who is in complete despair about how rotten people must be to vote for a murderer and torturer like Bush, but you know, this is nothing we didn’t know before. About half of America wants badly to reelect this monster. A tiny deviation well within the statistical margin of error determines whether or not he is in fact elected. It’s a coin toss, with global consequences, and it’s starting to look like most of us are the big losers.

UPDATE: Everybody’s calling Florida for Bush. Thanks, Jeb.

UPDATE: (hour later. couldn’t sleep.) I can’t believe this. I am going to walk around tomorrow and look at everyone I see and think “there’s about a 51% chance that this is your fault. There’s about a 51% chance that you are one of the people who ruined America.”

“Don’t Blame Me, I Voted Kotos”

I wish I lived where I could vote for this guy. He’s challenging Pete Hoekstra, who according to people I know who know a lot about him is a complete and total jerkass. (He ousted the former Republican Representative in my home town of Holland, Guy Vander Jagt, by portraying him as too liberal…) (Oh, also, he vowed not to server more than 12 years when he first ran for congress, and he’s breaking that promise, running again this year…)

Mlive.com tells us:

Kimon Kotos, a first-time candidate for the U.S. House, has one of the more unusual resumes in this year’s congressional races.

From 1991 to 2001, he played drums in a California punk band called The Rotters. Kotos said Democratic officials have advised him to keep his punk background to himself as he runs in the conservative 2nd District, which has been represented by Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra since 1992.

Kotos returned to Michigan two years ago after several decades in California, where he chaired the Democratic Party in the San Fernando Valley. He was a national field director for Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign from 2003 and 2004 and campaign manager for unsuccessful Michigan state Senate candidate Bob Schrauger.

Kucinich supporter and punk rocker. How can you beat that combo?

Doubt he has a chance against Pete though. Republican jerkasses are popular in these parts.

voted.

First thing this morning. Democrats everywhere I could. There was no candidate for prosecuting attorney except a republican so I left that blank. I was stymied to realize I had no idea what the relative merits of the various judges were so I sadly left those blank. Voted against proposals 1 and 2.

Go vote, please, if you haven’t. We need you.