"Now we're even"

[jor_mama]

Of course the water-cooler conversation already includes the CA recall delay. And one response was "well, now we're even right? I mean, the Democrats have been whining for three years about the presidential election and how the courts decided it, and now the courts have decided one in their favor. So we're even, right?"

I like my job, so I didn't respond as I wished. I said something like "yeah, if that's what you want to believe" with a superficial laugh before returning to my desk.

[fob]

1. You mean your coworker was willing to admit to the illegitimacy

of shrubdubya*? That's great news! Be sure to shake his/her hand and welcome them to reality.

[Raven]

2. The California Court didn't decide this election,

the Court merely rescheduled it...a big difference!

[Mz Pip]

3. I would have responded

"You call this even?? This is just a postponement. The recount was flat-out stopped in FL."

Geez, it's not even over as far as the courts go. It could go to the full panel of the 9th circuit. It could end up in SCOTUS. Watch them rule in favor of the Repukes again. :crazy:

MzPip
:dem:

[charlie]

6. Really?!

This could wind up under the purview of the "God in the Pledge is unconstitutional" 9th Circuit? Excellent! Let them rule. No doubt some Scaife-funded knuckledragger will challenge it before SCOTUS. I doubt Davis' fortunes will be much affected either way. But getting Scalia and Rehnquist's ugly visages in the media once again twisting a situation of national import to their own ends will add to peoples' unease with Dubya's and Ashcroft's America.

[charlie]

4. Trade you an Al Gore

for a Gray Davis, then we'll call it even, is what I would've said. In any case, Scalia and Crew didn't postpone the election, they called it for their homeboy. Huge f**kin' difference.

[rucky]

5. Hey, if politics come up in the workplace...

...what's keeping you from expressing your views? Obviously that idiot wasn't worried about losing his/her job, so why should you? You didn't open the door, so that was a nice opportunity to set someone straight...

We've been timid for way too long.