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Home Front: Politix
Sen. Boxer may challenge results of presidential election
2005-01-06
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is considering launching a challenge to Ohio's electoral votes when the Senate meets tomorrow to certify the votes of the Electoral College. The challenge -- should Boxer decide to offer it -- would force a debate in the House and Senate over whether President Bush's electoral victory will stand. Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) is planning to issue a challenge in the House. Conyers and 23 other House members today outlined their reasons for opposing the certification of Ohio's electors, claiming there were "numerous, serious election irregularities" in Ohio. Bush carried Ohio by more than 100,000 votes. The state handed him an Electoral College victory over Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass).

Meanwhile, Rev. Jesse Jackson made an 11th hour appeal today to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), urging him to object to the Ohio vote. "The anomalies in Ohio are greater than the anomalies in Florida" in 2000, Jackson told The Hill. Jackson pointed to problems with new voting machines, and noted that many black voters stood in line for several hours in some precincts. He said the Senate had an "obligation" to debate problems that occurred in Ohio voting.
Yeah, Jesse. The anomalies in Ohio are greater than anything ever seen before, anywhere, under any circumstances...
Posted by:Fred

#19  Oh, yeah, its HAIL HILLARY - unless the various International Rogues crisies are resolved, I strongly believe Hillary will be at best a VPOTUS candidate in 2008! Rest assured the Commie Betty Crocker-crats will do their best to ensure JEB BUSH serves only one term ala the BUSH FAMILY CURSE. Hillary's next and likely last window to be POTUS will be 2012/2014, where she will run for POTUS but with a woman VPOTUS, her and the Failed Left still doing their best to disguise anti-US Communism as pro-America or Saving America Liberalism!? As for Kerry, IRAN-SYRIA-NORTH KOREA, etal. are still out there, as is the Clintons' "THIRD WAY", aka THIRD-PARTY/TERTIARY ALIBISTS, which could be anyone or any scenario or event(s) from anti-Dubya "LONE NUT" ASSASSINS and MISC. CRAZIES TO LEGAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO ALLEGED BUSH/BUSH-CHENEY-GOP "CRIMES" AGAINST AMERICA, ANY ANDOR EACH, ONE ANDOR ALL! THe DemsLeft is promo itself as the Party of Propriety, Prudence, and Protection, where Regulation, Big Government, and Global Govt., etc. has a well-meaning and "justified" puprose or utility. You can tell because the anti-American and anti-GOP-Right, but PC, HISTORY CHANNEL, this week is exploring the need and dev of OSHA, i.e. Regulation is good for babies, old Yeller, the USMC and apple pie!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-01-06 9:56:26 PM  

#18  All is well the yapping dogs are silenced and the vote was certified by both houses. I wrote an especially seething email Babs. I told her the 'sore loser' had become synonymous with 'Democrat'. I doubt her staff will show it to her or if she can understand the word 'synonymous'. Big Ed, is it too early to talk recall of this idiot in the Senate? I am willing to open my wallet for that purpose.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-01-06 6:55:12 PM  

#17  Seafarious, thanks loads for checking the DU filth, so that we don't have to. Now go take a long, hot shower!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-06 5:38:29 PM  

#16  Report from DU...much seething, along with vows of never voting again...ever.

:: shrug ::
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-01-06 5:10:16 PM  

#15  Ahhh.. at least Babs got to see where she stands.
Posted by: Dishman   2005-01-06 5:05:28 PM  

#14  Linus said, "Gee, he must be highly skilled".

Took me a minute..... ah faith.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-01-06 3:43:39 PM  

#13  Babsy was the only Senator to vote to uphold the challenge.

1 Yes
74 No
25 Not Voting

Waiting on the House. Mad Maxine is yapping now...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-01-06 3:11:50 PM  

#12  You are correct Jackal, but I was just brainstorming.

A congresswoman from Michigan named Miller who was the ex-SOS of MI said part of the complaint filed suggested that Carl Rove had a secret computer in the basement of the White House and was hacking into the Ohio voting machines to change votes.

Lemee see hack to change votes to a 118,000 majority for "W". This means Rove had to change 59,000 votes AT LEAST!

Some years ago a Christmas comic strip of "Peanuts", by Charles M Schulz, had Linus getting an explanation of Santa Claus' task on Christmas eve to deliver gifts to millions of little boys & girls around the world in one night.

Linus said, "Gee, he must be highly skilled".

Now we all know who Karl Rove trained with!
Posted by: BigEd   2005-01-06 2:44:57 PM  

#11  Actually, BigEd, I think Congress has to agree on the electoral slate. So, if the House says the GOP slate is right and the Senate says the Dem slate is right, that doesn't mean a Bush/Lieberman administration.

I think if Congress doesn't agree, the result is returned to the state and the Governor (aka Bush's brother) decides which set is correct.
Posted by: jackal   2005-01-06 2:32:48 PM  

#10  Can the New York state votes be counted for Kerry since they were certified for John L. Kerry? I wonder what the legal ramifications of this are. If Kerry can't legally get the votes from New York, what's the deal on Ohio?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-01-06 1:16:54 PM  

#9  CSPAN is Broadcasting Babsey's Flatulance right now!

She need a little ritalin. She'll feel better.
Posted by: BigEd   2005-01-06 12:54:45 PM  

#8  It's official: Boxer signed up with the other idiots.
Posted by: growler   2005-01-06 12:31:00 PM  

#7  BigEd - Hmm, that might not have been so bad. Cuz then we might have gotten Cheney as SecDef, and Rummie as SecState... *grin*
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-01-06 11:53:05 AM  

#6  Our own Babsey, certifiably a whacko.

Kerry won comfortably, Babsey by a bigger margin here in Leftyland-by-the-sea.

All you lurking trolls who voted properly for the "W" and then had a brain cloud when you split your ticket, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET!

Enjoy the waste of time let Babsey expell some flatulance, and then get it over with.

Seafarious : Ms. I. may be correct, but it is annoying, and the objectors look like idiots.

Consider the what-if scenario in 2000.

If Florida was objected to by BOTH a House member and a Senator. All I saw was members of the Congressional Black Caucus led my Mad Maxine Waters bloviating. No Senator joining in the objection.

The senate was split 50-50 until jumpin Jim jumped. SO, The house votes Bush, the senate is tied. Since Algore was still VP, and Pres of the Seante for two weeks, he votes to reject the Florida VP votes, and Colleague Lieberman becomes VP. Unless Lieberman was too embarassed under the circumstances, and did the right thing.

Eerie...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-01-06 11:49:05 AM  

#5  Laura Ingraham likes it cos it takes the attention away from Alberto Gonzales...
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-01-06 11:26:27 AM  

#4  Oh, good, Jesse weighs in too!
A little louder, Jesse please? I can't hear you too good from way back there in the oblivian line.
Posted by: tu3031   2005-01-06 11:23:29 AM  

#3  Oh, Babs. You're such a tool!
Posted by: mojo   2005-01-06 11:15:31 AM  

#2  Perhaps the Republicans should scrounge up a "special" review committee for Pennsylvania (a closer vote) and for the outright fraud circus that is the Washington State governor race.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-01-06 10:36:43 AM  

#1  Minor road bumb that should delay the vote by 30 seconds if Boxer actually follows through. Once the "Debate" goes to the separate houses it will be over. I would be surprised if the House/Senate leaders didn't have plans in place for this kind of nonsense.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2005-01-06 10:36:02 AM  

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