Did Roy Blunt try to steal the Majority Leader position?
"Vote early, vote often." - Al Capone
From the bomb-throwing liberals at Roll Call:
How does something like that happen? Seriously. I know Republicans suffer amnesia every time a grand jury or Congressional oversight is involved, but is this really something that can be shrugged offf as an honest mistake? Are people really going to forget that they already voted? Ockham's Razor states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Q. Why would there be more ballots cast in an election than people to cast them?
A. Somebody's cheating!
Could it be that Abramoff-tainted Tom Delay protege Roy Blunt was rigging the vote?
Prior to the GOP leadership elections, Blunt proclaimed that he had the support of 117 Congressmen - the majority he would need to win the post. After they realized the ballot box had been stuffed, they redid the first round. Blunt had 110 votes. John Boehner had 79, John Shadegg had 40, and Jim Ryun had 2. Shadegg and Ryan dropped out and were eliminated, respectively. In the second round, Blunt's support dropped to 109 votes. Boehner won with 122.
Who would have the motivation to stuff the ballot box? Well, let's look at it rationally for a second. If you think you've got 80 votes, you'd need an awful lot of fake votes to get to 117. If you know you've got 110 votes - it'd be much easier to slip an extra handful in there.
Put another way: in 2000, it wasn't Ralph Nader trying to nibble around the margins of the Florida vote. It was the guy who knew he would lose any statewide recount. It doesn't make sense to game the system if you're already winning, or if you're getting blown out of the water. It only makes sense to cheat when it means the difference between victory and defeat. And which of the candidates was on the cusp?
Roy Fucking Blunt and his eyebrows of doom. Seriously. If there's a War on Terror, how come those horrifying face wraiths are still allowed in public? It's like an Edvard Munch painting threw up on the guy's forehead.
And just in case you think I'm implying that Boehner - legendary for handing out tobacco lobbyist checks on the House floor - is any kind of hope for reform or clean government - just Google K Street Cabinet.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. At least this way we get to make 2 years worth of erect penis jokes at the Majority Leader's expense.
Hehehe. Boehner.
From the bomb-throwing liberals at Roll Call:
House Republicans are taking a mulligan on the first ballot for Majority Leader. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting.Oopsie.
How does something like that happen? Seriously. I know Republicans suffer amnesia every time a grand jury or Congressional oversight is involved, but is this really something that can be shrugged offf as an honest mistake? Are people really going to forget that they already voted? Ockham's Razor states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Q. Why would there be more ballots cast in an election than people to cast them?
A. Somebody's cheating!
Could it be that Abramoff-tainted Tom Delay protege Roy Blunt was rigging the vote?
Prior to the GOP leadership elections, Blunt proclaimed that he had the support of 117 Congressmen - the majority he would need to win the post. After they realized the ballot box had been stuffed, they redid the first round. Blunt had 110 votes. John Boehner had 79, John Shadegg had 40, and Jim Ryun had 2. Shadegg and Ryan dropped out and were eliminated, respectively. In the second round, Blunt's support dropped to 109 votes. Boehner won with 122.
Who would have the motivation to stuff the ballot box? Well, let's look at it rationally for a second. If you think you've got 80 votes, you'd need an awful lot of fake votes to get to 117. If you know you've got 110 votes - it'd be much easier to slip an extra handful in there.
Put another way: in 2000, it wasn't Ralph Nader trying to nibble around the margins of the Florida vote. It was the guy who knew he would lose any statewide recount. It doesn't make sense to game the system if you're already winning, or if you're getting blown out of the water. It only makes sense to cheat when it means the difference between victory and defeat. And which of the candidates was on the cusp?
Roy Fucking Blunt and his eyebrows of doom. Seriously. If there's a War on Terror, how come those horrifying face wraiths are still allowed in public? It's like an Edvard Munch painting threw up on the guy's forehead.And just in case you think I'm implying that Boehner - legendary for handing out tobacco lobbyist checks on the House floor - is any kind of hope for reform or clean government - just Google K Street Cabinet.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. At least this way we get to make 2 years worth of erect penis jokes at the Majority Leader's expense.
Hehehe. Boehner.
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