Too perfect…
The headline at RAW STORY right now:
First vote to replace DeLay flops; More votes than voters
Yes. Not kidding!
UPDATE: This just in from AP, perhaps explaining the voting irregularities [emphasis added]…
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican officials say Rep. John Boehner of Ohio chosen House majority leader.
Seriously.
FURTHER UPDATE: Even Kos (who won’t talk about Election Fraud in 2004) gets the irony here. Says, “House GOP conducts elections like Florida 2000”
LATE UPDATE: Josh Marshall has a few more deets…
Who was in charge of counting? Could it have been Katherine Harris using the latest software from Tom Feeneys favorite software company and Diebold voting machines?
New house leader = Walden O’Dell?
Oh…sh**
That’s what’s so funny about all this.. These morons are busy screwing each other over in plain view, and the masses/media/officials sleep.. let this kind of crap continue, and not just in "this instance", but across the country.
I still can’t get my head around how patently ignorant you have to be to say "there’s no problem" or "it’s democrats who rig elections by having dead black slangs vote"..
…..morons….
So has there been any attempt at explanation of where the votes came from?
The story said there were more votes than congress members who were eligble to vote. Does that mean some congress members were ineligible, but voted anyway? Or that all members were eligible, but there were more votes than voters present?
I’d like to see that statement clarified.
It’s funny as hell, but something feels weird. (Okay, weirder than USUAL, even where someone from OHIO is involved.)
On a side note – what do we know about Boehner? Is he buds with Blackwell?
I have it on good authority that Rep. Shadegg said that the vote count was flawed, after which Rep. Boehner replied that Shadegg was a conspiracy theorist who hated America. Rep. Blunt said he’d accept the results, but that the system should be improved in time for the 2042 leadership race.
Geez, Louise. This is fricking hysterical.
Okay, according to THIS article, last year he voted WITH BUSH 100% of the time on every issue, he was given a 100% approval rating by the Christian Coalition, and he’s a big fan of lobbyists and has financial ties to Abramoff.
Meet John Boehner
In other words, different dog, same tricks.
Anybody else got anything?
KestrelBrighteyes #7 said:
"In other words, different dog, same tricks."
When will they all roll over and play dead?!
Kestrel says,"On a side note – what do we know about Boehner?"
boehn·er2 Audio pronunciation of "boner" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (bnr)
n. Vulgar Slang
An erection of the penis.
Sorry, had an opening… no matter how "they" pronounce it, it’s boner
These guys will cheat on themselves
What a bunch of hoodlums
It’s pronounced "BAY-ner"
Robert: Nope, it’s definitely boner 😉
A boner isn’t necessarily a bad thing…
Oops – that was out loud, wasn’t it?
Sorry *blush*
You say Bayner, I’ll say Boner
Lets quit beating around the Bush 😉
Any idea how often this kind of thing happens?
I…can’t…must…stop!…with…bad…puns!
Okay, usually every morning
beating around the Bush? you need more practice 😀
I, for one, am not unhappy about this horrid debacle… it is rather telling, actually!
In the words of Mark Twain:
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
– Mark Twain’s Autobiography
Heres a Little Boehner from TPM Cafe
He sounds like a typical puke
makes u wonder what they’re going to rename this country after the revolution.
OT – Check this out!
Ex US official admits guilt in huge Iraq kickback scheme
Oh My – LOL
Just read the posts that came in while I was typing my #21 – had the comment box open for a while while I was away. #s 9-17 your killing me!
KOS won’t talk about ’04 voter fraud because he took money from diebold. Try discussing it with him if you don’t believe me. Took money from Dean too That’s troubling to me. I like Dean and KOS. Might be time for a third party, however.
We need a candidate who will win against unmeasurable odds of rigged machines. We need a candidate who will win against a stacked deck. I want our country back to the people instead of corporations.
Catherine
I’m not sure how often it happens…but the machines on the house floor have been known to ‘malfunction’
I’d say that area needs to be inspected. File public record requests?
There’s several court cases, lawsuits etc going on in Pennsylvania and Texas now, and I think finally we will get real traction on HR 550.
If they pass and mandate HR 550 and the congress finishes that bill, the ridiculous machines will be randomly audited that are left. I think its going to take down some crooks also, as the only way to deal with it as I have said since the beginning….
Is criminal convictions.
It may even snare Tom Feeney finally and get rid of these crooks from both parties.
Doug E
You say "Boner," and I say "Bayner"
You say "atonement," and I say "arraignment"
"Boner", "atonement"—"Bayner," "arraignment"
"Let’s call ’em Abramoff"
You say it’s "tribing," and I say it’s "bribing"
You say "it’s kosher," and I say "Oh no, sir"
"Tribing, bribing, kosher, no sir"
Let’s call it Abramoff
RLM,
Is that to the tune, Lets call the whole thing off ?
Beautiful
ROBERT!!! *LMAO*
Oh man that’s funny!!!
I was going to apologize for my earlier comment, and blame it on my evil twin.
However, it seems everyone here is just as warped as I am today!
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don’t they?
#27
Haha, I had a feeling you’d come through for us, Robert!
Nicely done!
I’ll admit I laughed pretty hard when I learned his name, which I assumed was pronounced ‘boner’. Considering they are screwing the country it seemed a perfect choice.
Oh man!
OFF TOPIC ALERT!
Hi, this is KestrelBrighteyes’ evil twin again.
VIDEO
Turn your speakers on.
Voting Systems Lawsuit Reaches U.S. Supreme Court
#32 Cool Video !
There are some great pics at Al’s site for the photoshop contest. Take a peek
http://shows.airamericaradio.com/alfrankenshow/
KestrelBrighteyes #32
Too Cool!
I don’t know what’s so unusual about Boehner…I mean working with Dick and Bush for five years, you’d figure he’d pop up sooner or later. And they call the Dems the "big tent" party…
The most prominent Republicans have become parodies of themselves. Just imagine a first-ballot total of more votes than eligible voters, followed by a second ballot where a guy from Ohio, who was in second place originally, suddenly wins!
It hasn’t been featured prominently here, but the three-way race to replace DeLay became a contest to see which of the three was least tarnished by Abramoff. Shadegg from Arizona actually said publicly, "I’m the best choice because I have less taint than my two opponents." That’s now the standard for a Republican leader…not being as corrupt as another Republican leader with whom he’ll continue to cooperate.
Any other information or records on the vote or how they ‘voted’?
Doug E
Robert re:#38 – Did you see the Daily Show bit on "taint" a few days ago?
With this group especially, sometimes the jokes just write themselves…
Judge of Judges #34 and Bluebear#36 – Looks like Brad liked it too, it made it to the front page *grinz*
Doug E – I’d like to know more too, particularly what method they used for voting, and if a Diebold machine was involved. I’m surprised we were even able to find out about the "ghost voters", this has GOT to be embarrassing.
Didn’t see anything more on the voting irregularities, but I found more info about Boehner:
A Boehner In The Henhouse
I stand by my earlier comment, with a twist:
Same tricks, sneakier dog.
MMIIXX #33
She has petitioned for a Writ of Certiorari, which is very, very difficult to get.
Out of many thousands of requests only a handful are granted.
It would be nice if that case got in, and great if the Supremes reversed the lower courts.
Speaking of voting irregularities, I noticed that the republicans have much, much more money for campaigning than the democrats do.
There may be a reason for this in conjuction with an article about DoD fraud (link here).
Isn’t it possible that Iraq cash numbering in the billions, which was "lost", or pentagon trillions which is "not accurately accounted for", has been remapped and has made it into republican coffers for elections?
With all the neoCons being turned into neoConvicts these days, I would not be surprised.
I have watched many votes on C-Span. Was this one on C-Span? If this was a ‘closed’ vote, done my ‘electronic’ machines, as often done, well….wonder how much legislation has been passed because of faulty machines. Who is to the wiser, certainly not us. M4
#37
Oh jeez, I guess I just have a dirty mind, Soul Rebel, but nice juxtaposition of ‘working with dick and bush’ & how ‘you’d figure he [the ‘boner’] would pop up sooner or later.’
Thanks, I really needed a laugh this morning!
Any word on whether the FBI has subpoenaed the ‘ballots’ from that vote Boehner won?
Actually, what I read indicated the number of votes first cast tallied to the number of members, but all the members weren’t there — more votes than present members. Later they all showed up (dunno why they weren’t there at the start) and the tally of that vote remained the same, but were cast differently.
Nice people, eh? Honor among thieves and all that…
Democracy Now! reported that Boehner actually went around handing out $500 checks from a tobacco company before the vote.
If the people in this country don’t get off their collective butts & get involved in their government– we are going to get more of the same & worse—which is why we are reaping the fruits of the best government money can buy now: the Royal Shaft.
The big mega-corporations that run this country WANT you to keep on whining & DO nothing. That’s how they’ve managed to take over. They WANT you to think citizens can’t change anything.
Stop being suckers.
Democracy is a verb.
It’s awe-inspiring to think that a sleaze bucket like Boehner was actually chosen over Blunt (assuming the second-ballot vote was legitimate) to distance the party from the Abramoff scandals.
That has to mean that Blunt is in really, really deep.
Yet he’s remaining as the #3 guy. It’s almost beyond parody, really.
Blunt is in so deep he’s been submerged. Boehner is involved in the Abramoff scandal only passively, while Blunt and his ilk are right hands!
Doug
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