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Barbara Boxer - fuck you. I think that about sums up how I feel. I wish she were a Roman Senator, so that someone would just "nail" down the problem. Unfortunately, we have all of these laws that prevent us from raising the bar for the rest of us by ridding the world of this embarrassment to politics.
She typifies the term "sore loser". She, and the other Michael Moore Kool-Aid drinkers have to realize that they lost. Not only did they lose, but their current attitude is turning more voters away from them. They are a laughing-stock to the "old school" Democrats (such as Zell Miller), who represent a philosophy and a moral base. With Boxer et. al., it's more of amoral and base philosophy. They know no low that they cannot crawl beneath, in order to embarrass their party.
Have you ever lost something? Did you take the loss like an adult, and try again another day? Did you go home and cry to mommy that you lost? Did your parents go to court to try to overthrow an election, because they didn't like the outcome?
That's what today's Democrats are doing. They can't just take a loss. If you don't have enough voted in Washington state, just manufacture some votes after the election, and then as soon the total swings in your favor, just stop counting! Who cares about laws and rules? After all, the only important thing is winning to these fools.
The irony of the situation is that the people who are ignoring the rules are the very people who we've entrusted to make the rules for us. They've forgotten WHY we've had the election, and what the purpose of their job is.
So, as we go to the rest of the world and talk about free and fair elections, what moral base do the Democrats have to stand on? And it's not just them - the far right-wing idiots are just as bad. Remember the judge in Alabama who defied a court order to remove the Ten Commandments from a building?
We have to remember that we're only as good as the rules (laws) that we have, and our ability to follow those rules (laws). That is what a society is. If you have laws that you don't follow, you become Columbia, or Venezuela. If you have too many laws, and everyone has to follow them, you become Cuba or North Korea. Is that what we want for our future?
I am seriously considering writing The New Federalist Papers, about how we need to change our society (and the people supposedly in charge) to prevent chaos and anarchy in our time. It would be a series of essays and thoughts on what is wrong in today's political arena. The sad thing is that it has become an arena - made up more of talking heads and sound-bytes, than of real men (and women) of conviction to ideals, not just felony convictions.
What we need are leaders, not politicians. Men (in the collective sense) who are capable of putting aside their ego, their greed, their lust, and doing something proper for their Country. Where have these men gone? Would George Washington lead a filibuster of a judicial candidate? Would Abraham Lincoln allow the Country to become "Red States" and "Blue States"?
I remember a time when people maintained political ideas, and sometimes their ideas lost. They resigned themselves to conducting themselves to polite discourse, and they didn't let their personal egos get in the way of running the Country. Do we let their memory be tarnished by the likes of Barbara Boxer, Tubbs, Jackson-Lee, McKinney, and others who are so far over the line that in another age they'd be run out of town by their own electorate?
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