This is becoming a sordid tradition, my election day antics. I just hope this election doesn\u2019t turn into a bender like the 2000 elections. I\u2019m still feeling ill from that one.<\/p>\n
I was sitting at the counter of a bar in Vancouver during the provincial elections when the Liberal Party slaughtered the New Democratic Party, turning the Government into a super-minority so small it didn\u2019t even legally qualify as the Loyal Opposition. I was sitting at the counter of another bar in Vancouver during the US presidential Elections when two different channels were simultaniously declaring different winners (things only got worse from there). I wasn\u2019t allowed to vote in that election, but that\u2019s not the point. I was sitting at a bar during the California Primaries when Bill Simon (the Gray Davis favorite) won out against Richard Riordan for the GOP nomination for Governor. And so, I was sitting in a bar during the California Recall of 2003.<\/p>\n
It was the bottom of the 9th in the National League Playoffs and the Cubs were trailing the Mariners 6-8. One runner on base with two outs when Sammy Sosa steps up to the plate, swings, hits, hops and sends the ball over the wall to keep the dream alive. The ticker at the bottom of the screen announces \u201cDAVIS RECALLED\u2026 SCHWARZENEGER GOVERNOR\u2026\u201d Well, shit.<\/p>\n
The Cubs lost in the eleventh inning.<\/p>\n
That White Power freak Pete Wilson\u2019s back in the Big House and I can already see the Prop 187 brigades creeping out of the shaddows. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do if they start climbing into the limelight.<\/p>\n
The liberals are confused and amused, the conservatives pleased. The is GOP ecstatic and the DNC is royally<\/i> pissed off. The media is curious how Arnie\u2019s going pull off any of the things he\u2019s promised and the magic number seems to be \u201c100\u201d.<\/p>\n
As in \u201chomeboy\u2019s got 100 days to make good\u201d. He\u2019s got to find 30-odd billion dollars and make progress before he gets racked over the coals too. The GOP says another recall won\u2019t fly but the DNC hasn\u2019t decided yet. If there is another, the DNC activists have decided not to turn in the petitions more than 80 days before the next election\u2026 in March. That means they\u2019re not making a move until Arnie rolls out his new budget in January. I\u2019m expecting a Enron-Karl Rove-Ken Lay-Gov Arnold scandal in the next 100 days, probably when he lets $9 billion slip through his fingers in return for a few million in campaign contributions\u2026 in the next 100 days.<\/p>\n
Anyway, it\u2019s all a classic Californian clusterfunk and I take no responsibility for any of it. I voted for one of the 300-and-something \u201cOther Guys\u201d.<\/p>\n
Democracy is the idea that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.<\/i>
\n\u2014HL Menken<\/p><\/blockquote>\nGood luck Guv\u2019nar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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