Martin Dyckman: Americans in danger are vulnerable to dictatorship

[Dudley_DUright]

from the St. Pete Times:

A thousand dead in Iraq. For what? History's highest budget deficit. For what? George W. Bush has been so reckless with America's lives, wealth and reputation and so stupendously incompetent and untrustworthy overall as to defy belief that anyone but Halliburton and the House of Saud would want him to be elected.

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Dictatorship has struck even in the absence of danger. Right here, in Florida.

In December 2000, the Florida House of Representatives, in broad daylight, voted 79 to 41 to steal the 2000 presidential election by formally appointing the Republican slate of electors regardless of what a recount might show. Though presumptively legal under the Constitution, that was a dictatorial act in light of the modern expectation that the people, not the politicians, elect the president.

Florida rewarded the perpetrators by sending Tom Feeney to Congress and re-electing nearly everyone who followed his orders. If that disgraceful vote ever became even an issue in any of their campaigns, I am unaware of it.

The Senate did not follow suit, but only because of President John McKay's shrewd strategy of waiting to see what the Supreme Court would do. Nonetheless, a precedent was set for use in the next state where one party controls both houses and opportunity knocks.

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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/09/12/Columns/Americans_in_danger_a.shtml

[teryang]

1. Thanks for posting this

The St. Pete Times is a great newspaper.

[mazzarro]

2. A good article that I agree with!

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[AndyTiedye]

3. This is Why We Must Not Count on Florida or Ohio

Both states can be, and probably will be, awarded to Boosh by
legislative fiat if nothing else works for them. We need to
focus on states that are not completely taken over by Republicans.